Senator Francis Pangilinan on Tuesday, June 22, maintained that the executive department should release and spend the COVID-19 funds under the Bayanihan 2 law. Senator Francis 'Kiko' Pangilinan (Senate of the Philippines) Pangilinan saw no need for a special Congress session to extend anew the...
House Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez is asking the Department of Health (DOH) to immediately send 24 ventilators to hospitals in Cagayan de Oro City amid the surge in COVID-19 cases. (JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) Rodriguez on Tuesday, June 22, disclosed that he wrote to DOH Secretary...
Senator Nancy Binay on Tuesday, June 22 said government should tell the public what is keeping it from disbursing available funds that are supposed to be used to effectively combat the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. Binay pointed out that the government has at least three sources of...
Senate President Vicente Sotto III slammed President Duterte's decision to retain the mandatory use of face shields, saying health experts, who recommended it, have yet to prove its effectiveness in lessening COVID-19 infection. Senate President Vicente 'Tito' Sotto III "Health experts? They have...
Senator Grace Poe prodded on Monday, June 21, the government's pandemic task force to heed calls of Iloilo province and other local government units for vaccines and more resources amid the surge of COVID-19 cases in their areas. Residents go about their business in Iloilo City despite the...
The government should not delay the release of a unified quarantine protocol for vaccinated Filipino travelers for the sake of the Philippine economy, Senator Panfilo Lacson said on Saturday, June 19. Passengers show their travel documents to authorities at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport...
Senator Joel Villanueva has asked the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and other concerned government agencies to release the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the law granting scholarship for qualified medical students. (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) The chairman of the...
Who's really calling the shots now? Senate President Vicente Sotto III raised this question as he slammed on Friday, June 18, the Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases for refusing to ease the rules on the use of face shields amid the pandemic. Senate...
The money used by ordinary Filipinos to purchase face shields could have been used to buy food and other essential items they need during the COVID-19 pandemic, former vice president Jejomar “Jojo” Binay said on Friday (June 18). (Jojo Binay Facebook/Manila Bulletin) “Buti sana kung libre ang...
The Senate Committee on Urban Planning, Housing, and Resettlement has approved proposals for the grant of monthly rental subsidies to informal settler families (ISFs) and other eligible beneficiaries displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as evictions and demolitions. In this file photo taken...
President Duterte has agreed that face shields should only be worn in hospitals. In this photo taken on September 19, 2020, people wearing face shields queue up at a public market in Manila. (TED ALJIBE/AFP) Senate President Vicente Sotto III said this came up during their meeting in Malacañang on...
Senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan on Tuesday, June 15, appealed to the executive department to decide on whether or not to consider the proposed Bayanihan 3 law as an urgent piece of legislation so the Senate can take prompt action. Senator Francis 'Kiko' Pangilinan asks Cabinet officials on their...
