Senator Mark Villar on Thursday, June 8 said there are about 97 high-impact projects that the proposed Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) can finance once the bill is approved into law by President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. ...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday, June 7 criticized anew attempts to delay the passage of the proposed Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) bill. Hontiveros made the remark after Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva announced that the measure is...
Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva on Tuesday, June 6 said he sees no urgency in passing the proposed Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) bill. The controversial SOGIESC bill, Villanueva said, is not part of the list of measures certified...
Congress is prepared to exercise its oversight role should state economic managers “deviate” from the original intention and “spirit” of the proposed Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) Act. Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva stressed this point in a press briefing at the Senate, saying...
The Executive Department is not allowed to alter the final version of the proposed Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) bill, Sen. Risa Hontiveros said on Tuesday, June 6. Hontiveros pointed this out following Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno’s statement that the Government Service Insurance System...
Senator Manuel “Lito” Lapid has called for the passage of a bill seeking to further provide discounts to senior citizens, by giving them the five percent discount on water and electricity bills. Lapid, in filing Senate Bill No. 2169, also proposed that senior citizens be exempted from the 12...
ILOILO CITY – The Razon-owned MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) has started refunding bill deposits of good-paying customers since it took over as the sole power distributor here in 2020. MORE Power President and CEO Roel Castro and Commissioner Alexis Lumbatan of the Energy Regulatory...
Senate Committee on Banks, Financial Institutions and Currencies chairman Senator Mark Villar projected that a possible 8.6 percent return on equity every year in the next 10 years can be generated by the MIF. Senator Mark Villar...
State economic managers should make sure that the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) would be well-accounted for by making sure that all safeguards under the bill would be enforced thoroughly. Go made the call following Congress' approval of the MIF bill. The bill is now up President Ferdinand...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III called on President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. to veto the recently passed Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) bill and return it to Congress for rectification. “The bill, in its current form, is not acceptable. I am calling on the...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. cannot veto portions of the proposed Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) Act that he doesn’t approve of, Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian said on Thursday, June 1. Gatchalian said the right course would be for the President to remand the bill back to...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said the government has no intention of using state pension funds as seed fund for the proposed Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF). President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel B. Pabalate) Marcos expressed agreement on one of the amendments to the bill that...
