Before the country will be barreled anew by super typhoons or stricken by other disasters, the National Electrification Administration (NEA) has mandated the country’s electric cooperatives (ECs) to submit their respective contingency plans as well as emergency response strategies as part of their r
Next year's proposed P5.268-trillion national budget has social safety nets that seek to support economic recovery amid the uncertainties brought mainly by the
Russia-Ukraine conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said on Friday, November 18.
Gatchalian made the stat
SENATORS ended plenary debates on the Palace-proposed 2023 budget bill, inching closer to a final vote on the P5.268-trillion annual money measure endorsed by Malacañang to bankroll government operations next year. Adjourning their marathon deliberations past 1 a.m. Friday, the lawmakers concluded the extended session after tackling the proposed budget…
The Senate will try to approve next week the proposed P5.268-trillion General Appropriations Bill for 2023 after senators ended plenary deliberations on the Marcos administration’s first spending program after midnight Friday with some proposed amendments.
SEN. Sherwin T. Gatchalian guided the National Electrification Administration (NEA) to promptly tap an available P200-million funding source to extend timely assistance to electric cooperatives hit by Typhoon Odette. The senator suggested that the NEA can draw the needed assistance fund to readily activate affected power providers from the Electric…