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BY Cyrill Quilo

BY Cyrill Quilo

A LEGISLATIVE tandem from the Solid North has filed a measure seeking to mandate health maintenance organization...

INTERIOR and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla on Thursday assured the public that Sarah Discaya faces no...

PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. welcomed the newly designated ambassadors of Chile and China in a formal...

NEGROS Occidental Third District Representative Javier Miguel Benitez has filed House Bill No. 6761, which seeks to...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) has raised the maximum suggested retail price (SRP) of red onions to...

file photo THE Department of the Interior and Local Government expresses full support for the action taken...

THE House of Representatives has approved on Second Reading today the measure extending the period of availment...

House of Representatives — Kamanggagawa Partylist Rep. Elijah “Eli” San Fernando on Wednesday welcomed the historic approval...

BY Cyrill Quilo

THE House Committee on Higher and Technical Education, chaired by TINGOG Party-list Rep. Jude Acidre, convened on...

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered the immediate rehabilitation of the Maharlika Highway, tapping billions in projected...

THE House of Representatives, under the leadership of Speaker Faustino “Bojie” G. Dy III, has always been...

THE House committee on transportation has given its nod to a measure that would create a new...

THE Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) welcomes the signing of Executive Order No. 107,...

QUEZON CITY — THE Partylist Coalition Foundation, Inc. (PCFI) reaffirmed its commitment to community-centered public service through...

THE 70-member House committee on higher and technical education has approved two priority measures seeking to establish...

BY Cyrill Quilo

NAGDAGDAG  ang Senate Committee on Finance ng pondo para palawakin pa ang School Based-Feeding Program ng Department of Education (DepEd) at ang Supplementary Feeding Program ng Department of Social Welfare and Development, ayon kay Senador Win Gatchalian. Sa ilalim ng Senate committee report sa panukalang 2026 national budget, dinagdagan pa ng P15.06 bilyon ang P13.61 bilyon na nakalaan na sa ilalim ng General Appropriations (GAB) Bill (House Bill No. 4058). Gamit ang halos P28.67 bilyong pondo, maipapatupad ng DepEd ang feeding program sa loob ng 200 araw o katumbas ng isang buong school year. Inaasahan ding 4.8 milyong mga mag-aaral ang makikinabang sa naturang programa. Sasaklawin ng programa ang lahat ng mga mag-aaral sa Kindergarten at Grade 1. Magpapatuloy ang suporta ng programa sa mga ‘wasted’ at ‘severely wasted learners’ mula Grade 2 hanggang Grade 6.  Makakatanggap naman ang Supplementary Feeding Program ng dagdag na P3.3 bilyon maliban sa P3.32 bilyon na inilaan sa ilalim ng GAB. Mapapalawak ng naturang pondo ang bilang ng feeding days ng programa mula 120 hanggang 180. Mahigit 1.8 milyong mga batang wala pang limang taong gulang na naka-enroll sa mga Child Development Centers (CDCs) ang inaasahang makikinabang sa naturang programa. 

KAMANGGAGAWA Party-list Rep. Elijah “Eli” San Fernando on Wednesday raised concern over the apparent exemption of elected...

DAVAO City 1st District Rep. Paolo Z. Duterte has formally declined the Independent Commission for Infrastructure’s (ICI)...

DEPARTMENT of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jonvic Remulla expressed confidence that former Congressman Zaldy...

IN  a show of unity across major political centers of the country, a combined 97 lawmakers from...

SENATORFrancis “Kiko” Pangilinan cited in contempt a Bureau of Customs (BOC) official connected to the smuggling operations at the Port of Subic during the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Food, and Agrarian Reform’s public hearing on Wednesday, December 3.  BOC-Port of Subic Acting Chief of Assessment Juan San Andres was cited in contempt after inconsistencies in his statements regarding the release of three containers with smuggled agricultural products from the Port of Subic.  “On the basis of the motion as well as the explanation of Mr. San Andres, together with clarification from Usec. Carlos Carag, we second the motion: you are cited in contempt by this committee,” the senator and chairman of the agricultural committee said.  This comes after a motion from Senator Erwin Tulfo, who flagged San Andres for lying to the committee after Department of Agriculture (DA) Undersecretary Carlos Carag confirmed the attempt to bring the three containers of shipment consigned to Berches Consumer Goods Trading to a non-existent warehouse in Angat, Bulacan.  San Andres claimed that the operation to bring the containers out of the Port of Subic for a 100% physical examination in the supposed Berches’ warehouse was done in coordination with the DA’s Inspectorate and Enforcement (DAIE) unit.  But Carag belied this claim and said that the DAIE went after several BOC personnel after finding out that the containers were released from the port.  While the containers were eventually returned to the Port of Subic, Pangilinan questioned San Andres’ recollection of events, particularly for the issuance of the mission order after he gave instructions to one of the BOC staff to join the underguarding. San Andres denied this, while also failing to justify why the containers were released in the first place despite having possible smuggled agricultural products. 

CAVITE Representative Lani Mercado-Revilla has urged Congress to adopt a comprehensive slate of reforms aimed at easing...

HINIMOK ni FPJ Panday Bayanihan Partylist Rep. Brian Poe ang mga kapwa mambabatas na ipasa ang panukalang...