Speaker Lord Allan Velasco’s name surfaced as the next president of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino -Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) as a faction emerged and threatened to wrest the leadership of the Malacanang-backed political party from its current head, Senator Manny Pacquiao. Velasco’s Lower...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Our wife Gina and we have been spending most of our time in our Dagupan City home by the Lingayen Gulf and the South China Sea since the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic in February last year. Before the global plague, we would fly to...
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco lauded the decision of the Professional Regulations Commission to push through with the 2021 Nursing Licensure Examination in July, saying that the move will help address the shortage of health care workers faced by medical facilities and health centers as a result of the...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House The United States and other world powers as well as the United Nations have called for “de-escalation” of deadly confrontation between the Israeli military and Palestinian forces in a bid to avoid a “full-scale war” between the two...
The House Committee on Ways and Means approved on Monday, May 10, the grant of hazard pay to members of the government prosecution service even as it rejected a Department of Finance bid to subject the allowance to outright income tax deduction. Instead, the ways and means panel chaired by Albay...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Images of Indian people gasping for breath and dying in cramped hospital rooms, screams of parents and children beseeching emergency medical care for a family member or who lost a loved one, and widespread cremations and burials are deeply...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House (Opening statement of Hon. Jose de Venecia, founding chairman and chairman of Standing Committee, International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP); former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republic of the Philippines;...
(Labor day statement of Former Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Jr.) The paramount concern this labor day is for our leaders to ensure existing jobs are preserved and new employment is created. 4.2 million Filipinos are now unemployed nationwide, with 1 million workers losing their jobs in the NCR-PLUS...
Filipinos continue to survive and thrive through this public health crisis mainly because of workers, Speaker Lord Allan Velasco on Saturday, May 1, said. VELASCO1234 ‘’One of the things that makes the Philippines truly unique is our workers. Tireless, dedicated and reliable; they are the...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House We are delighted that our son, Congressman Christopher de Venecia, spearheaded the restoration of the home economics building of our old school, the Dagupan Elementary School, now West Central Elementary School, which served as the brief...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Three days from now, on April 21, we will preside at the meeting of the 39-member standing committee of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), which we will do so from our respective homes or offices in different...
National government agencies (NGAs) as well as local government units (LGUs) have been prodded to lead the way in complying with the mandated energy efficiency and conservation (EE&C) roadmap and standards being cast for the country....
