BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Mental health has historically been a difficult subject to talk about in Philippine society. Many of us, no doubt, have our own stories, personal or otherwise, of how difficult it is to seek help. In fact, in the journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric...
The Senate committee on energy is filing a legislative measure that will re-frame the investment function of state-run Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC), so it can concentrate its activities on oil and gas exploration ventures. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) “We’re...
MB file Senators have crossed party lines to commend the Department of Finance (DOF) for its competent and efficient management of state finances in the face of the massive public spending needed to mitigate the health and economic effects of the pandemic. Senate Minority Franklin Drilon...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara The Senate’s Finance Committee recently had a hearing on the 2021 budgets of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), and its attached agencies. There, I encouraged the NCCA to coordinate with the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on...
As Senate continues to debate on the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) bill emotionally, two big electronics companies are shutting down operations because of uncompetitive business environment, according to the Semiconductor and Electronics Industries in the...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina That one in every three Filipinos went hungry last month—and is probably experiencing hunger up to this time—is horrifying, to say the least. The alarming hunger rate of 30.7 percent, affecting 7.6 million families in the country, has...
Getting helpless over the Senate version of the proposed Coco Levy Act, coconut farmers will attempt to seek for the intervention of Senator Bong Go, the longtime aide of President Rodrigo Duterte, about the “unfavorable” provisions of the proposed bill that sought to release the P100-billion...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara The Philippine’s performance in the recently released 2020 Global Innovation Index (GII) is encouraging, as we ranked 50 th out of 131 economies — our best showing ever, in this regard. This ranking also marks the second year that we have been identified as...
Farmers are seeking the intervention of lawmakers for the declining prices of palay, which was triggered by several factors including the National Food Authority’s (NFA) limited capacity to procure rice as well as traders’ decision to delay their purchase in anticipation of more imported rice...
Senator Francis N. Tolentino (Privilege Speech “Law vs. IRR - The Spring Cannot Rise Higher than the Source” delivered in the Senate on September 14, 2020.) For the last several weeks, we’ve witnessed investigations, after investigations showing the lack of respect of some department...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina If anything can go wrong, it will. The essence of Murphy’s Law might seem all too real with just a few days to go before basic education classes in our public school system are set to open amid the swirling perfect storm of the coronavirus pandemic....
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara People are a nation’s key resource. The healthier, better-educated, and empowered a population is, the more likely a nation will be prosperous and developed. This is what the Human Capital Index (HCI) is about. The HCI is a regular World Bank report...
