Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Wilkins Villanueva insisted on Tuesday, May 31, that the thousands of death in the government's drug war was because those who died put up a fight against anti-narcotics operatives. “To the persistent critics (of the government’s drug...
The Senate has approved on third and final reading Senate Bill No. 1834, or the Philippine Digital Workforce Competitiveness Act, which aims to prepare the Filipino workforce for the jobs of the future through education and training on digital skills. Senator Joel Villanueva, principal author and...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) destroyed 99.9 million worth of dangerous drugs through thermal destruction on Monday, May 30, in Cebu City. Thermal destruction or thermolysis is a method of decomposition or breaking down of chemicals by heat. At 1,000 degrees centigrade, all...
Re-elected Senator Joel Villanueva fulfills one of his campaign promises after the Upper House passed on third and final reading Senate Bill 2506 which proposes a P500 increase in the monthly social pension for indigent senior citizens. “This is a huge blessing as we have already fulfilled one of...
An official of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) allayed doubts surrounding the results of the recently concluded May 9 polls, saying that the transmission of poll results in 2019 was actually faster than this year. PPCRV command center at the Quadricentennial Pavilion of...
The 1.61 percent mismatch recorded by Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) in the election returns over the weekend could be due to volunteers' typographical error, an official of the poll watchdog said. PPCRV Command Center (Image courtesy of PPCRV) "I wanted to caution on the...
Re-electionist Senator Joel Villanueva on Thursday, May 12 said it is the prerogative of the presumptive president to choose his Cabinet. Villanueva, who is in the winning column of the May 9 senatorial race, issued the statement after presumptive President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. announced that...
Poll watchdog Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) said the experts they invited have yet to see irregularities in the partial, unofficial count of election results. Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting command center at the Quadricentennial Pavilion in the University of...
Poll watchdog Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) will start matching election returns received from various places to the digitally transmitted results from the transparency server on Thursday, May 12. Volunteers work on the physical election returns brought to the Parish...
The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) told voters not to sign waivers if they have yet to accomplish their ballots. This developed as reports on issues like malfunctioning vote-counting machines (VCMs) have been reported to PPCRV in the morning of election day. PPCRV command...
Re-electionist Senator Joel Villanueva on Friday, May 6 urged the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to answer unresolved issues and controversies as the agency is set to increase contributions this June. “Ngayong magtataas sila ng singil, dapat rin nating singilin ang...
DAVAO CITY -- Senator Joel Villanueva’s planned sorties in several Mindanao provinces had been cut short last week due to bad weather in Bukidnon. Villanueva said in a statement that his team made an emergency landing in an undisclosed place in Cagayan de Oro City, instead of Butuan City, on...
