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JUL
11
2020

On the proposed motorcycle rider barriers

What’s the use of a barrier when couples hold hands in going to the motorcycle, and kiss each other goodbye after the ride?  As a virus shield, it is as effective as installing a concrete road divider on the matrimonial bed. Isn’t the protection offered them by the
JUL
07
2020

SBN-1652: The Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) Act of 2020

An Actgranting Tax Exemptions And Fee Privileges To Special Purpose Vehicleswhich Acquire Or Invest In Non-Performing Assets, Setting The Regulatory Framework Therefor, And For Other Purposes  In anticipation of the increase in bad loans to an unprecedented level and to help
JUL
01
2020

SBN-1753: Social Workers’ Pay Hike Act of 2020

An Act Increasing The Minimum Salary Grade Level Of Social Worker Position From Salary Grade 11 To Salary Grade 15 And Providing Funds Therefor Despite the social workers’ invaluable contributions, their salaries lag behind those of other helping professions such as nurses and
JUL
01
2020

SBN-1750: E-Government Services Act of 2020

An Act Requiring The Digitalization Of Frontline Services Of All Government Agencies And Appropriating Funds Therefor Coverage: National Government Agencies, Local Government Units, and Government-Owned or Controlled Corporations and other government instrumentalities that
JUL
01
2020

Hit by pandemic, NAIA may soon become ‘Need Assistance International Airport’

NAIA’s immediate problem is not its signage, but its bottomline, as travel lockdown may cut its 2020 revenues by as much as P10 billion—barely enough for the country’s gateway to keep payroll and the lights on, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said.  “NAIA is a
JUN
29
2020

On the stranded ship passengers

Sending them home by boat was no Dunkirk-like evacuation, and yet it failed. The huddled, hungry, drenched stranded travellers painstakingly complied with all the health and police requirements, only to be denied boarding because of a new requirement. Their dreams of going home
JUN
29
2020

On the Pride March arrest

Pride marches celebrate equality so only the tone-deaf will respond to its commemoration with violence and intolerance. It is an internationally celebrated activity and it is only in lands ruled by bigotry that a Pride march and all the ideas it espouses are repressed – by
JUN
29
2020

On the Death of Rep. Tony Cuenco

Never were brilliant ideas articulated by a beautiful voice. Ask any old timer in Batasan, and Tony Cuenco’s voice was the most beautiful to ever reverberate in the halls of the House. His was also one of the most brave. It was heard loud and clear during the era when contrarian
JUN
25
2020

RA 11476: Comprehensive Values Education Act

Republic of the PhilippinesCongress of the PhilippinesMetro ManilaEighteenth CongressFirst Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of July, two thousand nineteen. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11476] AN ACT ESTABLISHING A MEDICAL SCHOLARSHIP AND
JUN
19
2020

‘Visa center na, pera padala force pa,’ Recto on unburdening PNP of travel pass job

The police should be “unburdened” of the duty to issue travel passes, “a clerical job which draws them away from their far more important responsibilities,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. “The most important requirement is the medical certificate issued by a