OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar I was a member of the House of Representatives for nine years, from 1992 to 2001. I was always been a proud member of the lower chamber especially during the 11th Congress which I had the honor of leading as speaker from July 27, 1998 to...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar It has been almost 7 months since government imposed a lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was March 15 when a General Community Quarantine (GCQ) was first implemented. Since then we have experienced ECQ (Enhanced Community Quarantine),...
AllHome Corporation, the Villar group’s chain of one-stop shops for home needs, is spearheading a project to donate school tablets to the Department of Education to be used by teachers of Las Pinas Science Highschool who would be facilitating online classes. The firm said this project...
Farmers are seeking the intervention of lawmakers for the declining prices of palay, which was triggered by several factors including the National Food Authority’s (NFA) limited capacity to procure rice as well as traders’ decision to delay their purchase in anticipation of more imported rice...
Vista Land & Lifescapes, Inc., one of the Philippines’ leading integrated property developers and the country’s largest homebuilder, took home bagged the Most Innovative Community Developer award at The Global Economics Awards 2020. “We are delighted to be conferred with this Most...
Former Senate President Manny Villar Of Trees And Forest Another casualty in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is our formal education system. The month of June every year is usually the time when millions of Filipino students troop back to their schools and learn. But because COVID-19 prevents any...
Former Senate President Manny Villar OF TREES AND FOREST One of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown is the disruption in terms of employment. A July, 2020, National Mobile Phone Survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) revealed some depressing numbers as adult unemployment reached...
Villar SIPAG farm school located in the boundary of Las Piñas City and Bacoor city. Aside from this farm school, there are 18 farm schools in NCR; 244 in Region 4-A; 124 in Region 4-B; and 133 in Region 5. These farm schools cater to farmers in NCR, Southern Luzon, and Bicol. To date, there are...
Villar SIPAG Plastic Waste Recycling Factory at Barangay Ilaya, C-5 Extension, Las Piñas City About 1,056,000 kilos of plastic wastes have been collected and turned into armchairs in the plastic recycling program spearheaded by Senator Cynthia Villar. Established in Barangay Ilaya, Las...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a sobering assessment last week on the development of a vaccine against COVID-19. WHO officials said that “it did not expect widespread immunization against the novel coronavirus until mid-2021”....
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar Ironically, the piece of legislation providing for the celebration of National Heroes Day — Republic Act No. 3827, passed by the Philippine Legislature on October 28, 1931 — did not specify any particular hero. And so while we have days...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar It is the nature of great men and women that, long after they have died, their footprints remain embedded in the memories of their nation. Such is the case of Manuel L. Quezon whose 142nd birth anniversary we observed just last week. In fact,...
