In order to help Filipinos cope with “runaway” inflation, Senator Risa Hontiveros said Malacañang should work more closely with lawmakers for new laws and policies aimed at increasing workers’ earnings and accelerating job creation across the country. Hontiveros said that while she welcomes...
Opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros has formally asked the Senate to immediately look into improving seafarer’s training after the European Union (EU) threatened to ban an estimated 50,000 Filipino seafarers for failure to comply with international standards for training. In her Senate Resolution...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, November 8 commended delivery service company Lalamove for responding to the family of one of their riders who died while he was on duty last November 1. But Hontiveros said she laments the company’s statement that rider Noel Escote was “not fulfilling orders...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III reiterated his call for President Marcos to leave his concurrent post as Department of Agriculture (DA) secretary and appoint a a replacement. ‘’Napaka lawak ng activities ng DA (The activities at DA is so wide). It is like a mini-Philippines...
Senator Risa Hontiveros said Wednesday, Aug. 24 that her "conscience" will not allow her to work with her colleague, Alan Peter Cayetano, as leader of the minority in the Commission on Appointments (CA). While she did not object to Tuesday's appointment of Cayetano as CA minority leader, Hontiveros...
Senator Risa Hontiveros has questioned the supposed involvement of the Office of the Executive Secretary (OES) headed by Vic Rodriguez in the attempted and unauthorized importation of 300,000 metric tons (MTs) of sugar. Hontiveros was particularly curious as to why Rodriguez did not spare President...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Friday, Aug. 19 called out the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for supposedly dismissing the controversy surrounding its Unified Student Financial Assistance System for Tertiary Education (UniFAST) program, which she said is gaslighting the students in their bid to...
Appoint an Agriculture chief to fix leadership issues. That was what Senator Risa Hontiveros told President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. on Thursday to prevent an impending crisis in the sugar industry and other essential products. Hontiveros described the leadership in the Department of...
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) maintained that there were “no questionable releases” under its scholarship program. (MARK BALMORES / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) CHED Chairman J. Prospero De Vera III, in a statement issued Aug. 11, said that the Commission has “always been fully...
Senator Risa Hontiveros vowed to prioritize the passing of any measures in the Senate that will seek to end gender-based discrimination. (Daniel James/ Unsplash) In a statement, Hontiveros, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Quality, said, “The...
Senator Risa Hontiveros is seeking a Senate investigation into the "questionable releases" of a program under the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) that are worth a whooping P7 billion. Hontiveros filed Senate Resolution No. 128 to probe the implementation of the Unified Student Financial...
Senator Risa Hontiveros said Wednesday, Aug. 10, that she wants power suppliers and government agencies summoned for the upcoming Senate hearing on the power crisis in Oriental Mindoro. Aside from the Oriental Mindoro Electric Cooperative (Ormeco), Hontiveros also wants representatives from...
