Senator Mark A. Villar, author of Senate Bill 2020, also known as the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) bill, is confident that the measure would be approved on third reading this week. “We have carefully studied and analyzed the MIF bill. We made revisions and added more safeguards to ensure that...
The Senate started on Tuesday, May 30, committee hearings on a House of Representatives bill seeking to complete 41 local marine hatcheries of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR). Senator Cynthia A. Villar, chairperson of the Senate agriculture and food committee, stressed that the...
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...
(MANILA BULLETIN) The Senate Agriculture and Food Committee chaired by Senator Cynthia Villar has assured anew to assist the mango industry, which she said produces the “best tasting mangoes” in the world. Speaking during the AANI Mango Industry Association Inc. two-day 19th National Mango...
Surigao del Norte 2nd district Rep. Robert Ace Barbers (left), and House Deputy Speaker and Las Piñas City lone district Rep. Camille Villar (MANILA BULLETIN/ Facebook) Two senior members of the Nacionalista Party (NP) reiterated on Thursday afternoon, May 18, their support for House Speaker...
Senators sought stricter sanctions, including the re-imposition of the death death penalty, against persons who have a hand in the multi-billion-peso smuggling operations at the country’s air and sea ports. Their proposed iron-fist penalties followed a three-hour public hearing by the Senate...
The Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) has entered the period of interpellation in the Senate. "Maganda po na madiscuss natin ang mga concerns ng ating mga kapwa senador (The discussion with my colleagues’ concerns were lively). From the start, we always wanted to scrutinize this bill. No better way...
OF TREES AND FOREST It was such an emphatic word to describe the relationship between the Philippines and the United States especially given the tensions in the region and the complicated past of the two nations’ bilateral relations. But this was how President Joseph Biden described his...
Ask any mom what truly makes them happy, and most will answer that it’s witnessing their children grow up to be good stewards of our world. And this doesn’t happen overnight, with moms investing a lot of time and effort in being one of the best role models to their children. ` Deputy Speaker...
Senator Mark A. Villar on Wednesday May 10, sought a Senate inquiry into alleged continued proliferation of bank-related scams and frauds. This followed the filing by Villar of Senate Resolution 589 which asked the Senate leadership to direct the appropriate committee to conduct the hearing "with...
OF TREES AND FOREST The changes around us are simply dizzying. We have restaurants using robots to serve food. We can now pay with our smart phones instead of physical, tangible money. Some supermarkets, including ours, have automated check-out counters. I just read about the wonderful...
Senator Cynthia Villar (Senate PRIB) Senator Cynthia Villar has linked up with an Australian medical mission to address the condition of cleft lip and palate, which remain common birth defects in the Philippines, affecting one in every 1,000 children. She specifically acknowledged the "Operation...
