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(Eagle News)–The House Committee of the Whole approved on Wednesday night the proposed Bayanihan to Recover As One Act. With the approval of House Bill 6953, lawmakers came closer to virtually enhancing and extending the Bayanihan to Heal As One Act or Republic Act 11469, which had granted President Rodrigo Duterte additional powers to address the COVID19 crisis, to September. The Bayanihan to Heal As One Act which was passed by both chambers of Congress […]
(Eagle News)–The Civil Aeronautics Board has ordered airlines to cancel their domestic flights scheduled for June 1. In an advisory, CAB executive director Carmelo Arcilla also ordered the airlines to stop their sale of tickets for flights on that date. He said the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has yet to, after all, approve the routes for domestic air services proposed by airlines for the first week of June. “Trusting […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The experimental drug remdesivir has been authorized by US regulators for emergency use against COVID-19, President Donald Trump announced Friday. It comes after the antiviral made by Gilead Sciences was shown in a major clinical trial to shorten the time to recovery in some coronavirus patients, the first time any medicine has had a proven benefit against the disease. “It is really a really promising situation,” Trump said at […]
(Eagle News)—The Senate on Monday, Feb. 4, passed on third and final reading a bill that would institutionalize the 4Ps poverty reduction program of the government. Senate Bill No. 2117, authored by Senator Leila de Lima, was approved with 18 votes, zero votes against it and zero abstentions. The 4Ps is an existing national poverty reduction strategy and a human capital investment program under which poor households are given conditional cash for a maximum period […]
(Eagle News) — The bicameral conference committee approved on Tuesday night a bill seeking to put in place a national ID system. Senator Panfilo Lacson, chair of the Senate committee on public order, expressed hopes the reconciled version would be ratified by both the House of Representatives and the Senate before Monday, May 28. This will hopefully then be transmitted to President Rodrigo Duterte for signing into law. According to Lacson, a national ID will […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — In spite of his various controversial pronouncements, President Rodrigo Duterte still got the highest performance and trust ratings among the top five national government officials, according to latest Pulse Asia nationwide survey. The President got an 86 percent approval rating, compared to Vice-President Leni Robredo who had a 66 percent approval rating. Duterte also got the highest consistent “big trust” ratings across the country, and across all classes, […]
