PEACE-MAKER In October 2010, we travelled to San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, following our trip to Buenos Aires two years earlier, where we explored ways and means of cooperation between our Asia-wide organization, ICAPP, the International Conference of Asian Political Parties, and...
(Unsplash) The House bill creating an inter-agency body that will propose, formulate, draft, and direct the implementation of a comprehensive master plan to address the looming water crisis has hurdled the committee level. Gaining the approval of the House Committee on Public Works and Highways was...
Former senator Franklin Drilon on Wednesday, June 14 warned that the proposed Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) Act clearly and explicitly prohibits state-run pension and insurance funds from investing in the MIF, as stated by Congress. Former senator...
LIGAO CITY, Albay – Eight-hundred sixty-nine families affected by Mayon Volcano in the town of Guinobatan and Ligao City in Albay are beneficiaries of P5,000 cash assistance each from House Speaker Martin Romualdez. MYRNA Bobis, 53, a Person with Disability and an evacuee from Barangay Baligang,...
House Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez on Monday, June 12, joined the millions of Filipinos who gave their final salute to the late Sen. Rodolfo "Pong" Biazon, who passed away on Independence Day. Aside from being a former senator, Biazon was also a former House of Representatives...
Quezon 1st district Rep. Wilfrido Mark Enverga (left) and House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Contributed photo, Speaker's office) House Speaker and Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez is taking the "high road" amid potentially disruptive "diversions". Thus, said Nationalist People's Coalition...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA) Much has been said about the House of Representatives' output during the first regular session, and Surigao del Norte 2nd district Rep. Robert Ace Barbers believes it has both quantity and quality. Barbers said Sunday, June 11 that it was through...
PEACE-MAKER As the whole world celebrates Father’s Day next Sunday, June 18, we wish to pay tribute to our beloved father, the late Jose Ravago de Venecia Sr. After World War II, our father served as Judge at Large for the entire Bicol region, appointed by the late President Manuel Roxas, first...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) Ranking congressmen continued to speak positively of Speaker Martin Romualdez's ability to lead the House of Representatives on Friday, June 9 amid what they described as "political noise and distractions". Camiguin lone district Rep. Jurdin Jesus...
(MANILA BULLETIN) An appeal to block the granting of a new legislative franchise to First Laguna Electric Cooperative Inc. (FLECO) has reached the House of Representatives. The appeal came from a group of mayors from ten 10 of the 11 municipalities being served by FLECO. The local officials have...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (center) (Speaker’s office) Speaker Martin Romualdez refuses to let any "distraction" get the better of the House of Representatives when it comes to its task of legislating solutions to the country’s problems. Romualdez had this to say Thursday, June 8 amid the...
House Majority Leader and Zamboanga City 2nd district Rep. Mannix Dalipe (Contributed photo) "Premature partisanship" won't be enough to derail the work of the House of Representatives. Majority Leader and Zamboanga City 2nd district Rep. Mannix Dalipe made this declaration Thursday, June 8 even...
