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(Eagle News) — To minimize hazards to health workers, Taguig City has come up with a perfect solution for a nurse to assist COVID-19 patients — a robot nurse or simply called a “Robonurse.” “These robots will physically carry medications and other supplies to Covid-19 patients while the nurses look on from the monitor at the head of the robot,” explained Taguig City mayor Lino Cayetano. “Amid the pandemic, Taguig has also shown that it […]
(Eagle News) – House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano opened the 18th session of Congress on Monday, July 27, in preparation for the fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) later in the afternoon by President Rodrigo Duterte. Cayetano spoke about an “unprecedented crisis” that the country and the whole world is facing with the COVID-19 pandemic which still has no vaccine to prevent it from further spreading. -Accepting the “new reality”- “We cannot sugar-coat the […]
(Eagle News) – The House of Representatives approved on second reading a bill allowing ABS-CBN to operate under a provisional franchise that will be valid until October 31, 2020. House Bill 6732, which was sponsored by House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano, provides for a provisional franchise for ABS-CBN until Oct. 31, 2020 within which time both houses of Congress hopes to finish hearings on the various bills filed on the renewal of its legislative […]
(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives will start on March 10 its hearings on the pending bills seeking to renew the legislative franchise of ABS-CBN Corporation, according to House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano. Cayetano, on Wednesday, March 4, said that the first hearing to be conducted by the House Committee on Legislative Franchises next Tuesday, will set ground rules on the proceedings. The ABS-CBN legislative franchise is set to expire on May 4, 2020. […]
(Eagle News) – The country bidding for the next 2030 Asian Games is now a possibility after the Olympic Council of Asia said it was impressed with how the Philippines had handled so far the 30th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games). House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano, who chairs the Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee (PHISGOC), said he would write a long memo to President Rodrigo Duterte asking him if the country can submit a […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee (Phisgoc) has been recognized as the best organizer of the Southeast Asian Games after the staging world-class opening ceremonies at the 55,000 seater Philippine Arena that has gained the admiration of viewers all over the world, as well as for organizing the biggest SEA Games so far, with 56 sports comprising 530 events. The recognition comes from the Sports Industry Awards (SPIA) Asia, considered as […]
(Eagle News – Work at the House of Representatives was suspended today, Tuesday, December 3, due to the expected onslaught of Typhoon Kammuri (TisoyPH) in Metro Manila. A skeletal force from the engineering and security bureaus will report for work today, according to the Office of the Secretary General of the Lower House. The suspension of work has been cleared with the Office of House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano. Signal number 2 is currently hoisted […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is extremely displeased with the various snafus and inconveniences so far encountered and reported by both foreign and local athletes in the 30th Southeast Asian games due to the lack of foresight of SEA Games organizers. This was according to his spokesperson Salvador Panelo who stressed that those “failures” could have been prevented had the SEA Games organizers made alternative plans. Panelo said that the President, who learned of […]
(Eagle News) — For the first time, House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano faced the Senate budget hearing and defended the P50-million cost of the so-called “golden cauldron” built for the 30th Southeast Asian Games. Cayetano, co-chairman of the Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee (PHISGOC), the private group which is handling preparations Philippine hosting of the SEA Games this year, insisted that the SEA Games cauldron which was designed by the late National Artist […]
(Eagle News) – The official theme song of the Southeast Asian Games 2019 was finally revealed during the press launch on Tuesday, Sept. 3. Noted Filipina singer and actress Lea Salonga, who is also best known for her roles in musical theaters and plays, sang the 2019 SEA Games official theme song, “We Win as One” which was composed by Philippine National Artist for Music maestro Ryan Cayabyab and written by Palanca awardee Floy […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rypFxQLgCCY (Eagle News) – Both the House of Representatives and the Senate have assured that the proposed 2020 national budget will be passed on time. The newly-designated Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance Senator Sonny Angara said his panel’s scrutiny of the proposed 2020 national budget will be “thorough, transparent, truthful. “And we will pass it on time,” he said. The senator said that he expects Malacanang will be sending over the proposed […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has made a choice for the next House Speaker, endorsing Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano under a term-sharing arrangement with Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco “to end the impasse” in the Lower House. In a talk with reporters in Malacanang on Monday night, July 8, Duterte said he had tried to distance himself from the issue, but was forced to make a choice after he observed the “uncertainties” in […]
