BETTER DAYS In a recent briefing of the Development Budget Coordination Committee on the ₱5.768 trillion national budget for 2024, our colleague and good friend Senator Nancy Binay narrated an interesting anecdote about her office’s toilet paper. Sen. Nancy noted that the quality of the toilet...
The Senate Committee on Finance will strive hard to increase the budgets for education and health in the final version of the proposed P5.768-trillion national budget for 2024. Sen. Sonny Angara, Senate finance committee chairman, during deliberations on the proposed 2023 national budget in...
BETTER DAYS The Senate has officially started its deliberations on the proposed ₱5.768 trillion national budget for 2024 with the briefing of the Development Budget Coordination Committee on the macroeconomic assumptions and key data for the all-important measure. By rule, it is the House of...
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) should give the Department of Education (DepEd) funds for the printing and issuance of certificates for students who have finished technical-vocational courses in senior high school so they can actually find work after graduation. Senator Alan...
BETTER DAYS Every year in August we observe the Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa or National Language Month. By virtue of Proklamasyon Blg. 1041, s. 1997 issued by the late former President Fidel Ramos, the nationwide observation of the Buwan ng Wika recognizes the linguistic diversity of the Philippines...
Senator Juan Edgardo “Sonny Angara expressed his support to the proposal of his colleagues to push for a measure that would provide an integrated master plan to address the flooding in Central Luzon and other parts of the country. Angara, Senate Committee on Finance chief, is...
BETTER DAYS On Aug. 9, 2023 we commemorate the 29th International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. The date was chosen by the United Nations General Assembly to mark the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations in 1982. There are at least 110 indigenous cultural...
Senator Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara on Monday, July 31 hailed the Philippine women’s national football team or the Filipinas for their historic victory at the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Sen. Juan Edgardo "Sonny" Angara (Senate PRIB Photo) “Expectations...
BETTER DAYS Listening to the one hour and a half second State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., we looked back at what the administration has done in its first full year in office and its plans for the coming year. Emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic, the start of the...
Senator Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara on Tuesday, July 25 commended President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. for including the “Tatak Pinoy” bill in his list of priority measures that he asked for Congress to support. Sen....
BETTER DAYS In 2018, a Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) study entitled “Obstacles and Enablers of Internationalization of Philippine SMEs Through Participation in Global Value Chains” identified the challenges that hinder our small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from becoming...
BETTER DAYS There was a lot of brouhaha over the launch of the Department of Tourism’s (DOT) new slogan “Love the Philippines,” which replaces the 12-year-old It’s More Fun in the Philippines campaign conceptualized during the administration of the late former President Benigno Aquino III....
