In what can be described as his last-minute appeal before the polls, Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda asked Filipinos on Thursday, May 5 to pick leaders who can "competently handle" the country’s upcoming fiscal and economic challenges.
Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda (File photo/ MAN
The final draft of the Strategic Investment Priorities Plan (SIPP) under the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) law has been completed and will soon be presented to President Rodrigo Duterte, said House Ways and Means chair and Albay 2nd District Rep. Joey Salceda.
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Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda has called for a shift of national focus from a land-based security to maritime security.
(Photo from Joey Salceda's Facebook) “The Philippines is a maritime state. Our domestic insurgency has forced us to focus much of our energies on land-based security
House Committee on Ways and Means chairman, Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda says the 2020s could become the best decade ever for the Philippines in terms of foreign direct investment (FDIs).
(Photo from Joey Salceda's Facebook) This, after it was reported Monday, March 21 that President
Ang Probinsyano partylist Rep. Ronnie Ong
(Cong. Joey Salceda Facebook page / MANILA BULLETIN)
In preparation for this, Ang Probinsyano Party-list Rep. Ronnie Ong has filed House Bill (HB) No.8280, also known as the Vaccination Passport Act.
The bill mandates the InterAgency Task Force (IATF) on COVID-19, particularly the Department of Health (DoH),Department of Tourism (DoT), the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Department of Transportation (DoTr), to “coordinate and provide for a single internationally-recognized vaccine passport to serve as proof that a person has been vaccinated against COVID-19.”
Ong said the vaccination passport “shall be issued as a matter of right whether or not the person availed of the free vaccination program of the government or was vaccinated through personal and other means.”