A resolution seeking a Senate inquiry into the Philippine government’s efforts to strengthen the country’s anti-trafficking in persons program has been filed in the Senate. In filing Senate Resolution No. 762, Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva said there is a need to also look into...
Voting 21-0, the Senate approved the proposed bill that seeks to recognize the role of caregivers in national development. Approved on third and final reading is Senate Bill No. 2019 or the proposed Caregivers’ Welfare Act, which ensures that caregivers’ rights to decent employment...
Staff Sgt. Gerry Maliban, one of the six suspects involved in the killing of 17-year-old Jerhode “Jemboy” Baltazar told a Senate panel on Tuesday, Aug. 29, that while he was the first to fire, he said that he "heard a gunshot" first. During a hearing of the Senate Committee on Public Order and...
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...
Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri on Monday, August 28 lauded President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. for signing into law four significant measures that will have a positive impact on Filipinos socially, economically and culturally. Zubiri is referring to An Act...
Some senators have expressed their committment to continuously pursue creating a special budget for the treatment of indigent cancer patients. The late Secretary Susan "Toots" Ople of the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW). (MB file photo) Senate...
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 Risa Hontiveros on Thursday, August 24 welcomed the filing of graft charges against former Undersecretary Lloyd Christopher Lao and two other executives of the Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation who were involved in the controversial overpriced Covid-19 supplies. The Office...
The Senate on Wednesday, August 23 adopted the resolution seeking to honor the life and advocacy of Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) chief Susan “Toots” Ople who died on Tuesday, August 22 at 61 years old. Senate Resolution No. 83 recognizes Ople’s legacy as a dedicated and lifelong...
OF TREES AND FOREST The country received some sobering economic news last week. During the first quarter of the current year, the Philippines was able to sustain its economic recovery and expansion with a GDP growth of 6.4 percent, a growth rate that actually exceeded forecasts. But the second...
A Senate panel on Tuesday, August 22, has cited in contempt two policemen involved in the killing of 17-year old Jerhode “Jemboy” Baltazar and ordered their detention at the Senate. The Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs, chaired by Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela...
