A resolution seeking inquiry into the preparedness of basic education sector for the School Year 2021-2022 has been filed in the Senate, focusing on the capability of schools to deliver quality teaching and learning.
Senator Joel Villanueva on Sunday called out the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) and asked that it reconsider its decision to postpone the licensure board examinations for psychologists, psychometricians and other professions scheduled this year to next year. Villanueva said the PRC sh
Published June 3, 2021, 11:18 AM
The Senate Committee on Energy has vowed to look into the recent spate of rotational power outages in Luzon in a bid to find a long-term solution to the electricity supply problems hounding the country especially during the summer.
During the plenary debates on Wednesday, senators turned critical of the Department of Energy (DOE) whose chief, Alfonso Cusi, spearheaded the Partido Demokratikong Pilipino (PDP)-Laban council meeting in Cebu City in the midst of the sudden brownouts.
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, who chairs the Senate energy committee, had expressed alarm over the apparent power shortage, saying the Philippines cannot afford to have rotational brownouts in the midst of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and to prevent the spoilage of the vaccines that need to be stored carefully at room temperature.
Published June 1, 2021, 4:53 PM
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Tuesday vowed to oppose next year’s budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), reiterating his belief the budget would be used as a huge “campaign kitty” of the Duterte administration for the 2022 elections.
“We should be more vigilant. The 2022 budget is an election budget. We must not allow the budget to be used for election or partisan political activities,” Drilon said in a statement.
Drilon said he believes that the NTF-ELCAC will seek an increase to its budget in the upcoming budget deliberations to give away more funds to different barangays across the country “in an election year.”
The Senate on Tuesday passed a resolution thanking the United States for the return of Balangiga Bells after more than a century since the American soldiers took the three bells from Balangiga town, Eastern Samar. Adopted was Senate Resolution No. (SRN) 653 which expressed ‘’the profound gratitude