The Philippine Amusement Gaming Corp. (PAGCOR) earned the ire of some senators on Tuesday, May 30 after it admitted responsibility for the glaring lapses in the implementation of their regulations on Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs). Sen. Risa Hontiveros presides over Senate Committee on...
The Senate minority bloc is pushing for an “iron-clad” provision in the Senate’s version of the proposed Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) Act to guarantee that pension funds in the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and the Social Security System (SSS) would not be compromised in the...
FINDING ANSWERS The appalling data cannot be ignored: 95 Filipino children die daily from malnutrition, 27 out of every 1,000 children do not get past their fifth birthday, one-third of all children here are stunted or short for their age, and stunting after age two can be permanent, irreversible...
The Senate has approved Senate Bill No. 2212 or the bill establishing regional specialty centers on third and final reading. The proposed Regional Specialty Centers Act is one of the priority measures in the Common Legislative Agenda of the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory...
The Senate has approved on third and final reading Senate Bill (SB) No. 2219 extending the period of availment of estate tax amnesty. "Narinig po natin ang panawagan ng ating mga taxpayers, at ito na po ang ating sagot sa kanila (We heard the call of our taxpayers and this is our answer to...
The Senate on Monday, May 29 approved on third and final reading the bill that would establish a national employment generation and recovery master plan. Sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva, Senate Bill No. 2035, or the proposed "Trabaho Para sa Bayan Act," hurdled the Upper Chamber...
Senate President Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri on Monday, May 29 joined his colleagues in expressing outrage at how people lie or perjure themselves before the Senate and government bodies. The crime of perjury crosses political lines, Zubiri said as Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva referred to...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, May 29 filed a resolution calling for a Senate investigation into the abrupt transfer of orphans from an orphanage in Quezon City to state-run facilities by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Hontiveros in filing Senate Resolution No. 643,...
Passage of the controversial Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) bill before the July State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" R. Marcos Jr. is the ideal. But the "ideal" might not happen because there are still a lot of questions that senators wanted answered by Senator...
Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada is now seeking passage of the bill that seeks to impose heftier fines and imprisonment of up to 20 years for any person who would be found illegally wearing, selling and manufacturing uniforms of the Philippine National Police (PNP), the Armed Forces of the...
Senators are now seeking a refund of all the charges collected by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) for its uncompleted transmission projects. Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian made the suggestion noting that the government has been looking for ways to lower the prices of electricity in...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday, May 28 said he is keen on proposing a provision in the estate tax amnesty extension bill that would allow an installment payment feature to help more taxpayers avail of a tax reprieve. The suggestion, he said, stemmed from comments made by Tax Management...
