The National Commission on Senior Citizens (NCSC) still needs to fill up 165 positions in order to carry out its mandate properly, the Commission on Audit (COA) has said. Only 43 or 19 percent out of 224 positions in the National Commission for Senior Citizens (NCSC) have been filled up since its...
Mass attendees on Sunday, July 23, which will be observed as World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly, will receive a plenary indulgence. World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly (Catholic Grandparents Association) The Vatican said Pope Francis granted the indulgence following the request of...
BACOLOD CITY – Four drug personalities, including a senior citizen, were arrested as authorities raided an alleged drug den at Purok Kagaykay, Barangay 2 here on Friday, Feb. 17. Capt. Joven Mogato, head of City Drug Enforcement Unit (CDEU), identified the subject as Rogelio Climaco, 64, a street...
Calling age a "constant barrier" for otherwise very capable senior citizens, Davao City 1st district Rep. Paolo Duterte is prodding the private sector to broaden job opportunities for elderly Filipinos. Eduardo Barrios/ Unsplash For this purpose, Duterte penned and filed House Bill (HB) No.2384, or...
Quezon City 5th district Rep. PM Vargas has filed a measure that would grant a "Christmas bonus" worth P1,000 to indigent senior citizens. (Thomas Kelley/ Unsplash) Vargas has dubbed the measure, embodied in House Bill (HB) No.6693, as the “Paskong Maligaya para kay Lolo’t Lola Bill”, which...
Rep. Sam Verzosa, Tutok To Win Partylist Representative (Tutok To Win Partylist photo) A neophyte in the partylist setup in the House of Representatives, Tutok to Win, is one among 55 proclaimed winners in the May 2022 elections with 685,578 votes. As ninth of 178 partylist candidates, it has...
“Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone.” Citing this biblical passage from Psalm 71:9, Manila Rep. Bienvenido Abante Jr. called for the establishment of a geriatric hospital and more benefits for senior citizens. In pushing for measures to care for the...
MABINI, Batangas -- A 66-year-old man who was awakened by the loud noise of a drunk neighbor hacked the latter on Friday evening, Nov. 11, at Sitio Bagong Silang, Barangay Solo in this town. The victim, drunk and making trouble in the neighborhood, was identified as Roberto Frigo, 50, single, and...
Senator Lito Lapid has filed a measure that seeks to establish nursing homes for the neglected and abandoned elderly in every city and municipality. Lapid filed Senate Bill (SB) No. 1201, or the proposed Homes for Abandoned Seniors Act, as he recognized the contributions of senior citizens to the...
BACOLOD CITY – A heated argument led an elderly man to kill his younger brother on Sunday, August 14, at Purok Kalubihan in Barangay Bacong, Bago City, Negros Occidental. A police officer talks to an elderly man after stabbing his younger brother in Barangay Bacong, Bago City, Negros...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Recently, we received some good news that among several bills that recently lapsed into law was the increase in the social pension for indigent senior citizens from the present ₱500 to ₱1,000 per month or from ₱6,000 to ₱12,000 annually. We filed this bill...
CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga – A 64-year-old man facing charges of six counts of rape was arrested by authorities in Masinloc, Zambales on Thursday, August 11. According to reports from the Police Regional Office 3 (PRO3), elements of Masinloc Police together with the...
