Senator Christopher “Bong” Go has reiterated his call for Congress to expedite the passage of the proposed Caregivers’ Welfare Act or Senate Bill no. 2261, as he stressed the need to provide caregivers better wages and benefits. Go, who co-sponsored the bill, cited the fact Filipino...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Several religious groups in Mindanao have asked senators to junk Senate Bill (SB) No. 1869, also known as the Philippine Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) Act, due to provisions that allegedly violate human rights. Pastor Alcherie Patino, spokesperson of...
The House Committee on Public Works and Highways on Wednesday, March 22, approved the committee reports on the proposed measure for the new Philippine Building Act (PBA) and the proposed 30-year National Infrastructure Program (NIP). Surigao del Sur 1st District Rep. Romeo Momo Sr. called the PBA a...
Citing the latest statistics released by the country's major Public Telecommunication Entities (PTEs), the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said that there are over 49 million subscribers who have completed their SIM registration. As of March 21, DICT noted that a total...
Senator Grace Poe, on Sunday, March 19 called on authorities to clamp down on mobile phone scammers without providing any letup on the ongoing Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) registration. Poe, principal author of the SIM Registration Act, said scam messages through text still appear in...
House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro believes that there's "high possibility" that the International Criminal Court (ICC) will issue a warrant of arrest against former president Rodrigo Duterte in connection with his bloody war on drugs. This, after the ICC's...
Food waste and hunger are problems around the world, including the Philippines. A Food Consumption Survey of the Department of Science and Technology–Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI) states: 1,717 metric tons of food are wasted every day in the Philippines. Every Filipino wastes...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is eyeing the acceleration of electric vehicles (EVs) rollout that will top 6.3 million by 2040; and that shall account for half of all vehicles plying Philippine thoroughfares by then, versus those powered by internal combustion engines. The advancement of electric...
Allocate the equivalent of at least 6 percent of the Philippines' gross domestic product (GDP) to education. This, according to House Deputy Minority leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro, will help the Marcos administration address the severe classroom backlog and learning crisis...
EDITORS DESK Republic Act No. 11698, also known as the Vintage Vehicle Regulation Act, principally sponsored by Senate President Miguel Zubiri, lapsed into law on April 15, 2022. Just last Sunday, its implementing rules and regulations (IRR) were signed by the Land Transportation Office at the...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is scheduling another round of consultation this month on the expected acceleration in the electric vehicles (EV) market, primarily increasing the mandatory EV fleet adoption to 10 percent from an earlier prescription of 5.0-percent. According to DOE Director Patrick...
Vintage car enthusiasts, industry stakeholders, and various government agencies gathered at the historic Presidential Car Museum at the Quezon City Memorial Circle, as the Land Transportation Office (LTO) officially signed the Implementing Rules and Regulations of RA 11698, also known as the...
