The fight between Senator Cynthia A. Villar and the BF Resort Village Homeowners Association in Las Pinas City may go into its second round. Villar said she would talk with her lawyer on filing a suit over several issues such as the construction by BFRV of a gate barring entry into her composting...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go has called on subscribers to avail of the mandatory subscriber identity module (SIM) registration for their own benefit and protection. Go made the call as he expressed his support over the government’s decision to extend the deadline for mandatory SIM card...
Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada on Tuesday, April 25 said telecommunication companies (telcos) should undertake the necessary steps to make the procedure for the registration of SIM (subscriber identity module) cards easier for prepaid subscribers. Estrada made the call after the...
Senator Grace Poe on Tuesday, April 25, welcomed the decision of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) to extend the period for registering Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards for 90 days. The deadline for SIM card registration is tomorrow, April 26. Poe, head of the...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Tuesday, April 25 called on the Departments of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Migrant Workers (DMW) to exert all efforts in repatriating all Filipinos trapped in Sudan amid the heightened hostilities in the African nation. At the same time, the senator urged...
FINDING ANSWERS RA 7277, officially known as the Magna Carta for Disabled Persons, became law in 1992 during my first term as senator. The law we crafted to improve the total well-being of Persons with Disability (PWD) defined disability as “a physical or mental impairment that substantially...
*Former Senator Panfilo Lacson (Arnold Quizol)* Former Senator Panfilo Lacson, who for many months we saw and heard every day in various forms of media until after the May 2022 elections, went farming, running, biking, and breathing the fresh air – doing things that did not interest social...
BETTER DAYS Respect for elders is one of the well-known attributes of Filipino culture and heritage. In fact, our Constitution contains several provisions that deal with the protection of our lolos and lolas. It is the duty of the family and the State to take care of the elderly members of society....
Senator Grace Poe (Senate PRIB) Senator Grace Poe on Friday, April 21, said the shortage in driver’s license plastic cards should be nipped in the bud before it could create another gargantuan backlog for the Land Transportation Office (LTO). Issuing a license printed on paper is prone to wear...
Former senator Leila de Lima told Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla that she would rather be granted bail based on the merits in her two remaining drug cases pending in Muntinlupa courts rather than on humanitarian grounds. De Lima issued a statement from her detention cell in Camp Crame in...
'TOL VIEWS Tension between China and Taiwan continues to escalate as the United States warship USS Milius sailed through the Taiwan Strait last Sunday, in what may be perceived as an affirmation of the United States’ readiness to defend Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region amid China’s efforts to...
Senator Jinggoy Estrada (Senate PRIB) Claims that there are trafficked foreigners being forced to work in cryptocurrency scam operations in the Philippines are very serious allegations that merit investigation by concerned agencies, Senator Jinggoy Ejerecito Estrada said on Thursday, April 20. It...
