A trio of pro-digital transformation bills will all be on Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte's mind once sessions resume in the House of Representatives after the May 9 polls. (Sergey Zolkin/ Unsplash) Villafuerte said further digitalization should preoccupy lawmakers in the remaining...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. Luis “LRay” Villafuerte has called on recently-appointed Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Secretary Abdullah Mama-o to focus the body’s efforts on offering legal assistance and welfare to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and on targeting illegal recruiters....
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte remains hopeful that the government's planned strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) would get off the ground before President Duterte ends his term on June 30, 2022. (Photo from LRay Villafuerte's Facebook) This, after the Chief Executive tapped a touted...
A congressman from the supposed opposition bailiwick of Bicol has praised President Duterte for all he has done for the protection of women and children during his six-year term in Malacañang. (Unsplash) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte said the President has approved various...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. Luis “Lray” Villafuerte says that the full implementation of Alert Level 1 in the entire country can cushion the economy from the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war. Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte (FILE PHOTO) “The full reopening alone of the...
Who should take the heat from the apparent non-usage of some P4.9 billion worth of financial aid that Congress had set aside last year for the Covid-19 pandemic-stricken tourism sector? Photo from LRay Villafuerte’s Facebook page) That's essentially what former deputy speaker, Camarines Sur 2nd...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte is putting more pressure on the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish the long-sought strategic petroleum reserve (SPR). (Photo from LRay Villafuerte's Facebook page) In a statement Saturday, March 5, the former House deputy speaker said the energy...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay said he is "disgusted" by the Department of Energy (DOE) officials' lack of urgency with their proposed strategic petroleum reserve (SPR), which could have eased Filipinos' worries over the raging Russia-Ukraine conflict. Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay...
So what has the Department of Energy (DOE) been doing amid the successive and hefty price hikes on fuel? Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte (Photo from LRay Villafuerte's Facebook page) For former House Deputy Speaker LRay Villafuerte, the agency simply isn't doing enough to give the...
The House Committees on Ways and Means and Heath has approved the measure which seeks to forbid the use of trans fatty acids in the country's food supply. Camarines Sur 2nd District Rep. Luis Raymund "LRay" Villafuerte, Jr., welcomed the House panels' approval of House Bill No. 8093 or the proposed...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte has underscored the importance of the legislative measure pushing for the expansion of the Philippine Medical Reserve Corps or MRC. (Martin Sanchez/ Unsplash) "With global health experts confirming that this won't be our last pandemic, we must...
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte is calling on his fellow lawmakers to act swiftly on the measure he partly proposed, which aims to add more teeth to the efforts of regulatory agencies to combat cybercrimes by penalizing social engineering schemes or "phishing." Villafuerte said the...