Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Wilkins Villanueva claimed that a member of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) did not follow standard procedures when they were supposedly conducting a buy-bust operation prior to the deadly encounter last February 24.
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Villar, Binay argue over allowing vaccinated seniors to leave their homes
May 25, 2021 5:20 PM PHT
Senators Cynthia Villar and Nancy Binay tussled over the proposal to lift the rule stopping senior citizens from leaving their homes even if they have completed both doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
As the Senate committee on economic affairs resumed its hearing on industries affected by the pandemic on Tuesday, May 25, Villar questioned the strict stay-at-home policy for senior citizens aged 65 years old and above.
Villar, 70, said the elderly should be allowed to leave their homes and dine at restaurants if they have completed their COVID-19 vaccination.
Bill creating OFW department reaches Senate plenary
May 25, 2021 5:42 PM PHT
The bill creating the Department of Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos (DMWOF) is now up for plenary debates at the Senate.
This comes after Senator Joel Villanueva, chair of the Senate committee on labor, employment, and human resources development, sponsored Senate Bill (SB) No. 2234 during the session on Tuesday, May 25.
Senators initially questioned the need to consolidate all government offices related to the concerns of overseas Filipinos (OFs) and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
But the legislators finally found consensus on the proposed new agency during a closed-door meeting on Monday, May 24. A total of 19 senators signed the committee report.
Unable to defend renationalizing hospitals, Go tries but fails to end Senate debates
May 20, 2021 10:46 PM PHT
Senator Bong Go tried to take the easy way out by moving to end plenary debates after his colleagues exposed a fundamental fiscal issue in the bills renationalizing two hospitals that he was sponsoring on Thursday, May 20.
Senators refused to accept Go’s attempt to end the deliberations, as the neophyte legislator has yet to sufficiently answer the questions thrown at him by the veteran Senate minority leader Franklin Drilon.
Go – as chair of the Senate committee on health and demography – initially made it appear as if the 15 bills he was sponsoring were merely increasing the bed capacities of several hospitals nationwide. Bills like these usually breeze through Congress.