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(Eagle News)–Senate President Tito Sotto has filed a resolution honoring health workers and other frontliners for their sacrifice, bravery and heroism amid the coronavirus disease 2019 crisis. In honoring the men and women of the healthcare profession and the others in the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19 in Senate Resolution No. 351, Sotto noted the “supreme sacrifice” of the country’s doctors, nurses and other frontliners “in order to protect this country against the COVID-19 […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Sonny Angara is set to file a resolution honoring the policeman who was killed while trying to shield students from a grenade hurled by an assailant in a Misamis Oriental campus on Nov. 28. In a statement, Angara said it was only “proper” the Senate recognized Police Master Sergeant Jason Magno for his heroism, having made the ultimate sacrifice when he used his body to cover a grenade thrown by the man who […]
(Eagle News)–The Senate has approved on third and final reading a resolution that allows the government to distribute rice instead of cash under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps. Twenty-one senators voted in favor of Senate joint resolution no. 8. No one dissented or abstained. According to the resolution, under the 4P’s rice subsidy component, actual rice instead of cash should be distributed to beneficiaries. Senator Cynthia Villar, chair of the Senate committee on […]
(Eagle News)–A resolution rebuking two US resolutions calling for the release of Senator Leila de Lima has been filed before the Philippine Senate. The resolution, which also calls out US Senators Marco Rubio of Florida, Richard Durbin of Illinois, Edward Markey of Massachusetts, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and Christopher Coons of Delaware who were behind the April 4 US resolution, was initiated by Philippine Senate President Tito Sotto and Senators Panfilo Lacson and Gringo Honasan, […]
(Eagle News) — Fourteen senators on Thursday, May 16, filed a resolution urging the Supreme Court to review its decision nullifying the appointment of Maria Lourdes Sereno as Chief Justice. The opposition senators who signed the draft resolution as of Wednesday, May 16, were Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, Senators Antonio Trillanes IV, Risa Hontiveros, Bam Aquino, Francis Pangilinan and Leila de Lima. Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III, Senators Francis Escudero, Sherwin Gatchalian, Grace Poe, Juan […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima on Monday, April 23, urged the Senate justice and human rights committee anew to act on her resolutions aimed at addressing “congestion and poor living conditions” inside jails and penitentiaries across the country. De Lima reiterated the statement following the release of records from the Philippine National Police (PNP) that showed that most regional police offices have congested detention facilities. De Lima’s statement also comes days after an inmate at […]
