ZAMBOANGA CITY – Senator Rissa Hontiveros said there is a need to strengthen the National Risk Reduction Management Office for better disaster response. Senator Rissa Hontiveros announces her P5-million donation to victims of Tropical Storm Paeng in Zamboanga City. The senator made the statement...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Friday, November 11 maintained that safety issues surrounding the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), remain unanswered, and thus, funds for its maintenance should be realigned to fund the government’s economic recovery programs. Among the issued hounding the BNPP is its...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Friday, November 11, called on President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. not to imitate the Duterte administration’s “over-borrowing” tendencies, saying the government should be wise in handling the public funds. “Wag sanang tularan ni President Marcos si...
The conviction of Peter Gerard Scully, an Australian sex offender, along with his cohorts, is a victory for the many child victims and victim-survivors of sexual abuse and exploitation, Senator Risa Hontiveros said. “We also laud our brave law enforcers who first captured Scully and his...
In order to help Filipinos cope with “runaway” inflation, Senator Risa Hontiveros said Malacañang should work more closely with lawmakers for new laws and policies aimed at increasing workers’ earnings and accelerating job creation across the country. Hontiveros said that while she welcomes...
Opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros has formally asked the Senate to immediately look into improving seafarer’s training after the European Union (EU) threatened to ban an estimated 50,000 Filipino seafarers for failure to comply with international standards for training. In her Senate Resolution...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, November 8 commended delivery service company Lalamove for responding to the family of one of their riders who died while he was on duty last November 1. But Hontiveros said she laments the company’s statement that rider Noel Escote was “not fulfilling orders...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III reiterated his call for President Marcos to leave his concurrent post as Department of Agriculture (DA) secretary and appoint a a replacement. ‘’Napaka lawak ng activities ng DA (The activities at DA is so wide). It is like a mini-Philippines...
Senator Risa Hontiveros said Wednesday, Aug. 24 that her "conscience" will not allow her to work with her colleague, Alan Peter Cayetano, as leader of the minority in the Commission on Appointments (CA). While she did not object to Tuesday's appointment of Cayetano as CA minority leader, Hontiveros...
Senator Risa Hontiveros has questioned the supposed involvement of the Office of the Executive Secretary (OES) headed by Vic Rodriguez in the attempted and unauthorized importation of 300,000 metric tons (MTs) of sugar. Hontiveros was particularly curious as to why Rodriguez did not spare President...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Friday, Aug. 19 called out the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for supposedly dismissing the controversy surrounding its Unified Student Financial Assistance System for Tertiary Education (UniFAST) program, which she said is gaslighting the students in their bid to...
Appoint an Agriculture chief to fix leadership issues. That was what Senator Risa Hontiveros told President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. on Thursday to prevent an impending crisis in the sugar industry and other essential products. Hontiveros described the leadership in the Department of...
