The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) batted for the swift passage of House Bill No. 10159, the proposed Magna Carta of Children bill, as it pointed out that strengthening the monitoring mechanisms for the protection of children will translate to the effective enforcement of the United Nations...
(Unsplash) Even after the recent passage of the absolute divorce bill on second reading, members of the House of Representatives are still passionately arguing both for and against the historic measure. On Wednesday night, May 15, the lower chamber approved...
The Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) issued a warning regarding the popular trend known as the "bill reveal challenge" circulating on social media. In a statement, Meralco emphasized the potential risks associated with sharing electric bills on social media platforms, as it could expose the personal...
Benchmark interest rates returned their slide after the recent downward correction in US Treasury yields. At Monday's auction, May 6, the 91-day Treasury bill rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, went down to 5.780 percent from 5.869 percent in the last auction. Likewise, the yield for the...
Consumers will still feel the deepest financial pain triggered by surging electricity rates due to simultaneous plant outages in the past two weeks, but the Department of Energy (DOE) is urging the distribution utilities (DUs) to tap palliative interest-bearing loan from the Land Bank of the...
President Marcos has urged electricity distribution utilities to tap the Anti Bill Shock Lending Program of the Land Bank of the Philippines to ensure that electricity rates are affordable. Marcos made the directive to the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC)....
With high anticipation that electric bills will drastically spike during the summer months, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) sounded off this early that it will prod the private distribution utilities (DUs) and electric cooperatives (ECs) on staggered billing on the resulting radical rate...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has ordered suspension of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) - but only after two weeks from the incursion of yellow and red alerts in the Luzon and Visayas grids, hence, consumers are being warned of forthcoming bill shocks. Referencing on data...
Short-term benchmark interest rates rose at the auction on Monday due to the expected delay in rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve, given the persistent inflation. The rate for the 91-day Treasury bill (T-bills) increased to 5.888 percent from 5.870 percent during the last week’s auction....
EMBARGOED SUNDAY FOR MONDAY ISSUE Tobacco farmers are pushing for the enactment of stricter vape regulations to combat the surge in illegal and disposable products that are harming their livelihoods. Nearly a hundred thousand members of the Philippine Tobacco Growers Association (PTGA) and the...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has lauded Congress for taking "proactive steps" in improving the functionality of the country's public and private higher education institutions (HEIs) through House Bill (HB) 9982. The bill defines the supervisory and regulatory role of the government,...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) expressed its full support to the filing of various bills in Congress to set up a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) that would comply with the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment...
