The Regional Development Council-Western Visayas (RDC-6), headed by chairperson, Bacolod City Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez, convened here Monday to discuss preparations ahead of the creation of the Negros Island Region (NIR).
Zubiri, Romualdez sign the first two enrolled bills of the 19th Congress
Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri and House Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez today (Oct., 4) led the ceremonial signing of the first two enrolled bills of the 19th Congress.
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The ceremonial signing of the General Appropriations Bill (GAB) containing the P5-trillion budget for 2022 has been postponed, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said Monday.
Published April 27, 2021, 4:55 PM
Senator Cynthia A. Villar on Tuesday, April 27, sought a Senate-Malacañang compromise on a controversial presidential order increasing a minimum access value (MAV) of and reducing tariff rates on pork imports.
Senator Cynthia Villar during the hybrid hearing of the Senate Committee of the Whole on the government’s decision to open up the importation of pork amid the impacts of the African swine fever (ASF) outbreak on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (Senate of the Philippines)
‘’We shall meet halfway. We shall find a common ground that is not tilted on one side. We do it without sacrificing our farmers,’’ Villar, chairwoman of the Senate agriculture and food committee, said during a hybrid hearing by the Senate Committee of the Whole on high prices of pork brought about by African swine fever (ASF) that hit the Luzon swine industry.