Senate Finance Committee chief Senator Sonny Angara on Friday said it is still too early to say whether or not the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) should be abolished. “I think it’s way too early to make that judgment for the NTF-ELCAC. (It) only started to...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Friday urged newly-appointed Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Lt. Gen. Dionardo Carlos to review the PNP’s use of its anti-insurgency funds. Drilon challenged the incoming PNP leadership as he finds it suspicious that the PNP conducted about 13...
Senator Sonny Angara on Thursday, Nov. 11 rejected insinuations made by a colleague that the Senate could be seen as a supporter of the New Peoples’ Army (NPA) if the funding for the government’s anti-insurgency task force would suffer drastic cuts. Angara, during the continuation of the...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Wednesday, Nov. 10 proposed incentivizing the opening of face-to-face classes by giving state universities and colleges (SUCs) and public schools access to the P3.5-billion fund allocated for the retrofitting of education institutions under the proposed...
The Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Senator Sonny Angara, has endorsed for plenary approval Committee Report No. 332 which contains the P5.024-trillion national budget for 2022. This marks the start of lengthy plenary deliberations on the budgets of various government agencies and their...
The Senate Committee on Finance has introduced a special provision under the proposed General Appropriations Act of 2022 that seeks to revert to the National Treasury funds lodged with the Department of Budget and Management’s Procurement Service (DBM-PS) if it remains unspent by the end of 2023....
Some senators on Monday, Nov. 8 expressed readiness to tackle the amendments to the proposed P5-trillion national budget. Senator Sonny Angara, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, said the many of the committee report amendments are focused on boosting the government’s COVID-19 response,...
Better Days Senator Sonny Angara During our recent hearing on the 2022 budget of the Department of Trade and Industry, Sec. Mon Lopez noted that 16 percent of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) were closed due to the pandemic — a significant portion coming from the National Capital...
Senator Sonny Angara has urged the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to fast track the reimbursment claims of private hospitals, saying the country could not afford to have its healthcare system plunging into another crisis. Angara made the call after some private hospitals in Metro...
Senator Sonny Angara on Sunday urged authorities and the general public not to be complacent despite the reported decline in the number of COVID-19 cases over the week, saying the minimum safety protocols should still be observed. “It is encouraging to see a steady decline in the number of people...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara This Oct. 23 marks the 4 th year since Marawi City was freed from the lawless elements who sought to turn the locality into a wilayat or an “administrative division” of the ISIS caliphate. On that day, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana declared the...
Senator Sonny Angara on Friday, Oct. 21 urged authorities and local governement officials to go the extra mile and accelerate efforts to reach out to the elder population, of which a significant portion of them remains unvaccinated to this day. Citing World Health Organization (WHO) report, Angara...
