ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (PPAB) The House of Representatives is ready and willing to provide additional security personnel for ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro. Thus, said House Secretary General Reginald Velasco in an interview Monday, Oct. 16 even...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has increased the maternity and death benefits for workers in the sugar industry under the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) fund. This, after Labor Secretary Bienvenido E. Laguesma signed DOLE Administrative Order No. 318, expanding the workers’...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro, former president Rodrigo Duterte (PPAB, Malacañang photo) Makabayan bloc member ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro thanked on Monday, Oct. 16 the House leadership for siding with her amid the "death...
Full payment of compensation and benefits to the families of community disaster personnel who lost their lives in the performance of their duties must be implemented, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said. Thus, the CHR declared its full support to the enactment into law of Senate Bill...
(Unsplash) House Committee on Dangerous Drugs Chairman Surigao del Norte 1st district Rep. Robert Ace Barbers says the death penalty "could be a deterrent" against the entry of huge hauls of illegal drugs in the country. "I guess it could be a deterrent,...
Super typhoon “Egay” may have left the country last week but the devastation it left was continuously felt as two more fatalities were reported by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), which brought the death toll to 29 as of Friday, August 4. The NDRRMC said 14...
The Philippines will use the upcoming joint commission meeting with Malaysia to further raise the issue of Filipinos serving death sentences in the foreign land as it attempts to repatriate them to the country. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Ali Vicoy) President Ferdinand "Bongbong"...
KORONADAL CITY (PNA) – The City Veterinary Office (CVO) has launched an investigation into the mysterious death of more than 100 ducks in a remote barangay here that made its owner suspect they were poisoned. Jose Gaje, a duck farm owner in Barangay General Paulino Santos, said on Friday, July 7,...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. joined other officials in mourning the death of Negros Oriental Governor Carlo Jorge Joan “Guido” Reyes, whom he said served the people of the province “so faithfully.” (Photo courtesy of Negros Oriental Gov. Guido Reyes via Facebook) Marcos...
Senator Robinhood "Robin" C. Padilla wants the death penalty for law enforcers and elective officials involved in the illegal drug trade through Senate Bill 2217. Sen. Robinhood “Robin” Padilla (Senate PRIB Photo) Padilla said the leniency of current laws has caused a "sorry...
Senators sought stricter sanctions, including the re-imposition of the death death penalty, against persons who have a hand in the multi-billion-peso smuggling operations at the country’s air and sea ports. Their proposed iron-fist penalties followed a three-hour public hearing by the Senate...
The remains of late and former Foreign Affairs chief Albert del Rosario arrived in the Philippines on Saturday, his family said. The plane carrying his casket landed at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) at around 5:30 a.m., his daughter Inge said in a statement. On the same aircraft were...
