Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo, a solon who works closely with overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), says thousands of skilled construction workers are currently needed in Guam. And the best part is, this United States (US) territory just happens to prefer to hire Filipino workers. (Shivendu Shukla/...
No farmer from the Visayas will be left behind. Magsasaka Party-list nominee Robert Nazal Jr. Magsasaka Party-list nominee Robert Nazal Jr. made this guarantee to farmers as he led a Visayas-wide territorial and sectoral leaders' strategy planning held recently in Bacolod City. “We support the...
The more "pasalubongs" brought here at home, the better. (Denny Muller/ Unsplash) House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan has moved to increase to $6,000 the aggregate tax-exempt purchase that returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and other balikbayans (returnees) may...
Bagong Henerasyon Partylist Representative Bernadette Herrera Dy (House of Representative) Now on her third term, lawmaker, and women and children’s welfare advocate Bernadette Herrera Dy, 46, is Bagong Henerasyon (BH) Partylist representative in the 19th Congress. Dy established Bagong...
COOP-NATCCO Partylist Representative Felimon Espares (House of Representatives) Felimon Espares, an educator and the voice of cooperatives nationwide, brings to the 19th Congress his 31 years of cooperative movement experience as COOP-NATCCO Partylist representative. The National Confederation of...
AnaKalusugan Party-list Representative Ray Florence Reyes (House of Representatives) Ray Florence Reyes is a healthcare advocate and a business executive that brings his 18 years of experience in various industries to the 19th Congress as Alagaan Natin Ating Kalusugan (AnaKalusugan) Party-list...
Rep. Allan Ty, LPGMA Partylist (House of Representatives website) Allan U. Ty is the representative of the LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) Marketers Association (LPGMA) Partylist in the 18th and 19th Congress. Ty co-founded the LPGMA Party-list in 2003 to protect the welfare of LPG consumers and...
A good development. ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (House of Representatives website) That's how Deputy Minority leader and ACT Teachers party-list Rep. France Castro described the developments in the stateside cases against Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name (KOJC)...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has assured congressmen that using the central bank's dividends on the proposed Maharlika Wealth Fund (MWF) would not have any adverse effects on its gross international reserves (GIR). (Giorgio Trovato/ Unsplash) BSP Deputy Governor Francisco Dakila Jr., made...
P3PWD Party-list nominee Rowena Guanzon was among the first to claim victory for the anti-Maharlika fund movement after the House of Representatives announced that it would no longer tap the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and Social Security System (SSS) as contributors to the planned...
The House of Representatives has passed on second reading a measure granting free legal assistance to uniformed personnel of the government facing charges arising from an incident related to the performance of official duty. The House plenary (PPAB) Through a simple voice vote (ayes vs. nayes),...
The proposed P275-billion Maharlika Wealth Fund (MWF) should be patterned after the tried and tested features of other countries' sovereign wealth funds (SWF). Bagong Henerasyon (BH) Party-List Rep. Bernadette Herrera House Deputy Minority Leader and Bagong Henerasyon (BH) Party-List Rep....
