Sen. Raffy Tulfo on Thursday, September 21, criticized the Social Security System (SSS), the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), and the Home Development Mutual Fund or Pag-IBIG for not doing enough to ensure that employers have enrolled their "kasambahays" and are paying their...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has lauded the proposed amendments to two laws that would strengthen the protection of the rights, dignity, and welfare of the country's domestic workers or kasambahay. In a statement, the CHR referred to the amendments to Republic Act No. 10361, the Domestic...
Senators on Wednesday, Sept. 13 expressed dismay at the quality of employment that graduates from the Technical Education Skills Development Authority (TESDA) are getting after they found out that there are some who are landing below minimum-wage jobs. Senate Majority Leader Joel...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) expressed its full support to the enactment into law of Senate Bill (SB) No. 2031 on Jails and Prisons Monitoring Act of 2023 that would help ensure the safety and security of persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) inside detention centers. Filed by Sen. Raffy...
Sen. Raffy Tulfo has filed a Senate resolution seeking to investigate the Philippine National Police's (PNP) "persistent failure" to follow police operational procedures. In a statement, he said that this was in relation to the alleged abuse, killings, and human rights violations involving police...
Sen. Raffy Tulfo said on Wednesday, Sept. 6 that he supports the idea of increasing the confidential funds of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), stating that P1 million is not enough for the agency. Sen. Raffy T. Tulfo speaks with the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) during the hearing of the...
The companion of slain teenager 17-year-old Jerhode “Jemboy” Baltazar told a Senate panel on Wednesday, Aug. 30, that the police investigator formerly handling the case altered the statement that he gave regarding the incident. Sonny Boy Aguistilo (Screenshot from the YouTube Live of the Senate...
Amid the ongoing investigation on the killing of 17-year-old Jerhode “Jemboy” Baltazar, a Senate panel on Tuesday, August 29 cited in contempt the former head of Navotas City Police's Station Investigation and Detective Management Section (SIDMS), after lengthy questioning about skipping the...
Senator Raffy Tulfo on Tuesday, August 29 pushed for better benefits for media workers saying it is high-time media networks and related companies provide journalists, photojournalists, cameramen and other media workers a good working environment. Sen. Raffy Tulfo takes the cudgels for media...
National Irrigation Administration (NIA) acting chief Eduardo Guillen has admitted to senators that there was indeed corruption within the agency. This as the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, on Thursday, August 24 grilled the NIA over the hundreds of unfinished and substandard irrigation...
Senator Raffy Tulfo (Senate PRIB) Senator Raffy Tulfo hailed on Saturday, Aug. 12, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) for heeding his call to suspend the three percent National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) franchise tax being passed on to consumers. In...
Senator Raffy T. Tulfo is angry about a government program sending high-ranking officials of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in China to study and train at its military academy with the Chinese government paying all expenses. This program was divulged by Senator Francis...
