tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-313296482024-03-13T21:03:13.145+08:00mga ibinalita ni terenciusa caboodle of writings, articles, news, musings and whathaveyou (whatever) that mr. terence mordeno grana wrote and collected in his stint as a journalistUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2291125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-15549883345536834252022-09-23T21:20:00.005+08:002022-09-23T21:20:37.637+08:00PANUKALANG FREE COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMS, PASADO SA IKALAWANG PAGBASA<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Inaprubahan ngayong Biyernes sa ikalawang pagbasa ng Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan, sa pamumuno ni Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, ang House Bill 5001, o ang panukalang “Free College Entrance Examinations Act.”</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ayon sa panukala, imamandato sa mga pribadong higher education institutions (HEIs) na talikdan ang mga babayarin sa pagsusulit para makapasok sa kolehiyo, para sa mga maralitang graduate at gagraduate ng high school, na nabibilang sa top 10 percent ng kanilang graduating class. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Isinasaad sa panukala na ang mga benepisaryo ay ang mga magulang na may pinagsamang kita na mababa sa poverty threshold, na tinutukoy ng National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) at ng Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Bukod pa rito, isinasaad rin na ang Commission on Higher Education (CHED) na paparusahan ang mga opisyal at kawani ng mga pribadong HEIs na mabibigong talikdan ang nasabing kabayaran. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Layon ng panukala na palawakin ang akses ng mga maralitang mag-aaral sa kalidad na higher education. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Kapag naisabatas, titiyakin nito na pakikinabangan ito ng mga maralita at karapat-dapat na graduating high school students at high school graduates na mabigyan ng sapat na ayuda, kabilang na ang pantay na oportunidad na maipagpatuloy ang kanilang edukasyon sa kolehiyo at ang kanilang piniling direksyon sa karera. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Pinangunahan ni Deputy Speaker Roberto Puno ang hybrid na sesyon sa plenaryo.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-17389397682523016552022-09-23T20:26:00.005+08:002022-09-23T20:26:49.279+08:00SEPTEMBER 23 EPISODE: ETHICAL BEHAVIOR SA PHARMA INDUSTRY DAPAT SUNDIN<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Mga KaTropa, Ito na po ang ating huling araw ng kwentuhan tungkol sa pyramiding scam ng mga doktor na maaring nakakalagay sa mapanganib na sitwasyon sa kanilang mga pasyente.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Alam na natin ang kanilang estilo at modus pero ngayon ating hihilingin sa pharma company na gumagawa nito na tigilan na at sumunod sa ethical standards na inilaan para sa industriya.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Itong bahagi ng ating programa ay ihahango natin sa column ni Ginoong Teodoro Padilla ng Business World. Sa kaniyang isinulat noong August 31 na may pamagat na Promoting ethical behavior in the pharma industry, kaniyang ipinunto na makaka apekto ang mga masasamang modus ng mga kompanya na hindi sumusunod sa alituntunin ng ethical standards.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Kaniyang ipinunto na ang mga masasamang pharma companies na ang habol ay short term profits ay mas napapagastos ng long term dahil sa pangkalahatan, mas malaki ang kanilang kailangan na gastusin.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ang pinapangalagaan na reputasyon ng mga doktor ay ilalagay sa alanganin at ang pinaka lugi at talo sa mga modus ay ang pasyente na kanilang dapat prino protektahan.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Babasahin natin ang sinabi ni Ginoong Padilla tungkol sa ethical standards mula sa Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association of the Philippines (PHAP).</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ito rin ang buod ng Mexico City Principles na kailangan gawin ng Pharmaceutical industry.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">The first principle is healthcare and patient focus which means that everything we do is intended to benefit patients.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">The second principle is integrity which means dealing ethically, honestly and respectfully in everything we do.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Third is independence which means to respect the need for autonomous decision-making of all parties, free from improper influence.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Fourth is legitimate intent which means everything we do is for the right reasons, is lawful, and aligns with the spirit and the values of these Principles.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Fifth is transparency which means a general willingness to be open about our actions while respecting legitimate commercial sensitivities and intellectual property rights.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Finally, accountability means a willingness to be responsible for our actions and interactions.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Samakatuwid mga KaTropa, ang mga doktor na naghahabol ng quota para makuha ang cash incentives ay delikado at mali. Nakakamatay ang sobra at dapat bigyan na ng pansin ng Department of Health, Professional Regulations Commission, at ng Bureau of Internal Revenue.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-92174460506531543502022-09-23T17:19:00.005+08:002022-09-23T17:19:38.526+08:00UGNAYANG PILPINAS-US NANANATILING MATATAG SA PULONG NINA BIDEN-MARCOS – SPEAKER ROMUALDEZ<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Sinabi ni Speaker Martin G. Romualdez noong Huwebes ng hapon (oras sa US), na ang ugnayan at pagkakaibigan ng Pilipinas at Estados Unidos ay magpapatuloy na matatag, matapos ang pagkikita nina US President Joe Biden at Pangulong Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“The productive meeting augurs well for the overall relations between our two countries,” ani Romualdez, na kasama ni Pangulong Marcos sa kanyang pulong kay President Biden Huwebes ng umaga (Huwebes ng gabi sa Manila).</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sinabi ni Romualdez na ang US ay isang “major partner and ally” ng Pilipinas, sa usaping pang-ekonomiya, depensa, kultura, at kooperasyon sa pamuhunan.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“I can see the meeting fostering an improved bilateral partnership in those areas,” aniya.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Muling inulit ni Speaker ang panawagan ng Pangulo sa mga Amerikanong mamumuhunan na maglagak ng kanilang mga negosyo sa Pilipinas.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“We need more investments to create jobs and income and improve the lives of our people,” ani Romualdez.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sinabi niya na may ilang lugar kung saan ang mga kompanya sa US ay maaaring mamuhunan, tulad ng pagmamanupaktura, riles, at iba pang imprastraktura, kuryente, at mga proyektong private-public partnership.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“As President Bongbong Marcos has said, we now have an improved investment climate in the Philippines,” giit niya.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ayon sa Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, ang mga pangunahing pinagkukunan ng foreign direct investments (FDIs) ng bansa ay ang mga bansang Singapore, Japan, Estados Unidos at ang Netherlands.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Iniulat ng BSP ang mataas na tala ng FDI inflows na nagkakahalaga ng $10.518-bilyon noong 2021, na sinabing naglalarawan ito ng pag-unlad sa pamumuhunan, habang ang bansa ay nagsisimulang bumawi mula sa pandemyang dulot ng coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19).</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sinabi ng BSP na nilampasan ng 2021 inflows ang sinundang mataas na $10.3-bilyon noong 2017.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Iniulat rin ng banko sentral na ang FDIs sa pagitan ng Enero at Mayo ngayong taon ay umabot sa $4.2-bilyon, 18.8 porsyentong mas mataas sa nakatalang antas sa parehong panahon noong nakaraang taon.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa kabila ng mga kaunlaran sa FDI inflows, sinabi ni Romualdez na higit pang kailangan ng Pilipinas ang marami pang pamuhunan mula sa Estador Unidos, at iba pang mga partner sa ekonomiya nito. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“We have to attract more foreign capital because we are a bigger market than other smaller nations in our region,” aniya.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sinabi ni Pangulong Marcos sa mga negosyante sa US na hindi niya lubos maisip ang kinabukasan ng Pilipinas kung wala ang Estados Unidos bilang ating partner.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-67468263669580684912022-09-23T15:55:00.006+08:002022-09-23T15:55:50.494+08:00Palace: Gov't To Appeal Court Ruling On CPP-NPA<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">The Philippine government will appeal a Manila court’s move to dismiss the petition to declare the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), as a terror organization, Malacañang said Friday (Manila time).</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">In a press briefing in New York City, Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles said the government still has available remedies to overturn the decision of Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 19 to junk the bid to classify the CPP-NPA as a terror group.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“Actually, since the decision is not yet final and this is an RTC decision, marami pang available remedies ang ating gobyerno (the government still has available remedies),” Cruz-Angeles said.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Cruz-Angeles said it would be “improper” to comment further, stressing that she wants to identify the parameters since “details are still not available to us.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">She, nevertheless, ensured that the legal battle is not yet over.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“I understand this might have been filed under the Human Security Act rather than the (Anti-)Terrorism Act,” Cruz-Angeles said.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“Malayo pa ‘to, malayo pa (It will take time). And you know, we don’t even know what parameters are here. By then, we’ll understand what remedies will be available if remedies are even necessary,” she added.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">The court dismissed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) petition for proscription filed in 2018 to label the CPP-NPA as a terror organization.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">The DOJ’s petition was filed based on Section 17 of Republic Act (RA) 9372 or the repealed Human Security Act of 2007 which mandates the RTC’s ruling before an organization can be formally declared as a terrorist.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">In its ruling, the court noted that “none” of the alleged terrorist acts of the CPP-NPA cited by the DOJ caused “widespread and extraordinary fear and panic among the Philippine populace.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla on Thursday said the DOJ would file a motion for reconsideration. (PNA)</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-26994321919252852202022-09-23T13:54:00.004+08:002022-09-23T17:16:38.550+08:00GARIN, UMAAPELA SA DSWD NA MABAYARAN ANG ₱4 MILYONG NA UTANG NG MGA ESTUDYANTE SA CHED<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Hiniling ni House Deputy Majority Leader at Iloilo Rep. Janette Garin kay Social Welfare Secretary Erwin Tulfo na tulungan ang may 338 mahihirap na estudyante upang mabayaran ang P4.4M na utang sa Commission on Higher Education (CHED).</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ang nasabing utang ay reimbursement o ang dapat na ibalik ng mga estudyante sa CHED dahil sumobra ang kanilang nakuhang financial aid sa ilalim ng scholarship program ng gobyerno.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Inisyuhan ng Commisison on Audit(COA) ng Notice of Disallowance ang CHED matapos lumabas sa kanilang audit na ilang mga estudyante ang nakakukuha ng dalawang magkaibang klase ng scholasrship grant gayong ipinagbabawal ito, bunga nito, kinumpirma ni CHED Chairperson Prospero de Vera na kamakailan lang ay nakapagpadala na sila ng notice of payment sa mga estudyante na karamihan ay mula sa Regions 2 at 5 at sinisingil nila itong ibalik ang nakuhang double scholarship na aabot sa halos P15,000.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“we are humbly asking Social Welfare Secretary Ewin Tulfo, may mga programa sila gaya ng Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation(AICS) na maaaring paghugutan para makabayad na ang ating mga estudyante sa CHED. This is to free them from debt at wala na silang alalahanin na may utang silang dapat na bayaran, malaki ang halaga na ito na baka ipangutang pa din ng mga estudyante o ng kanilang magulang,”pahayag ni Garin.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ayon kay Garin naniniwala sya na karamihan sa mga nakakuha ng double scholarship ang hindi alam ang patakaran ng COA kaya naman kung sisingilin ang mga ito ay tiyak na dagdag pasanin pa.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“gustuhin man ng CHED to allow double scholarship dahil may ilang estudyante na kailangan naman talaga ng dagdag na pinansyal na tulong ay tali ang kanilang kamay dahil sa patakaran ng COA na sa isa programa lang pwede mag-avail ng scholarship. Kung nakapag-avail na ng scholarship under CHED Scholarship Program(CSP) ay hindi na pwedeng maging scholar ng Department of Science and Technology(DOST) or sa ibang pang government scholarship programs”dagdag pa ng lady solon.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ayon kay Garin ang disallowance ay nakita noon pang 2018 at sa ngayon ay wala nang kahalintulad na insidente dahil mayroon nang nailatag na mekanismo para matiyak na hindi magdodoble ang scholadsrhip grant.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“this have not been repeated because safeguards have been installed which includes an updated system for Local Universities and Colleges(LUCs) and State Universities and Colleges(SUCs) where they can check the list of students who have availed of the scholarship programs. The CHED have also assured us that they will be more aggressive in informing the general public not to avail duplicate scholarships since the risks of reimbursing is really there” paliwanag pa ni Garin.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa panig ng CHED sinabi ni Executive Director Cindy Jaro na sinusuportahan nila ang panawagan ni Garin sa DSWD, aniya, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>sa ilalim ng kanilang patakaran, ang mga nakaenrol na estudyante ay hindi pinapayagan na makakuha ng educational aid hanggang hindi nakakabayad sa reimbursement habang ang mga nag-graduate na ay kanila ding hinahabol para magbayad.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ang CHED ay may mandato na magbigay ng financial assistance sa pamamagitan ng scholarships sa mga kuwalipikado na mahihirap at walang tirahang estudyante sa ilalim ng RA 7279, persons with disability sa ilalim ng RA 7277, solo parents at kanilang dependents sa ilalim ng RA8972 at Indigenous people sa ilalim ng RA 8371.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-26138685987209448602022-09-23T08:25:00.005+08:002022-09-23T08:25:31.020+08:00RP-US RELATIONS, LALONG TATAYAG MATAPOS ANG PULONG NINA PBBM AT US PRESIDENT BIDEN<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Lalo pang pinalakas at pinatatag ang relasyon ng Pilipinas at aLAmerika matapos ang pulong nina Pangulong Bongbong Marcos at U.S. President Joe Biden.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ito ang reaksiyon ni House Speaker Martin Romualdez na kasama sa delegasyon ni Pangulong Marcos sa kanyang working <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>visit sa Amerika.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ayon kay Romualdez, higit pang tatatag ang bilateral partnership ng dalawang bansa lalo na sa aspeto ng economic, defense, cultural and investment cooperation lalo na’t ang amerika ang “major partner and ally” ng Pilipinas.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Muli rin inulit ni Romualdez ang panawagan sa mga American businessmen na maglagak ng negosyo sa ating bansa.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sabi ni Romualdez, pwedeng mag-invest ang mga American companies sa manufacturing, railways, power generation at private-public partnership projects.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa datos ng Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas,ang Amerika ang major sources ng foreign direct investments ng ating bansa bukod sa Singapore, Japan at the Netherlands.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ang pahayag ni Speaker Romualdez ay kaugnay din ng sinabi ni Pangulong Marcos sa harap ng mga American businessmen na ang Pilipinas ngayon ay mayroon nang “improved investment climate.”</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-38477573967019684322022-09-22T15:44:00.005+08:002022-09-22T15:44:59.914+08:00SUMAKAY NA LAMANG NA SUBWAY SI SPEAKER ROMUALDEZ DAHIL SA SAMÂ NG LOCAL TRAFFIC SA NEW YORK<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Dahil mali-late na dahil sa samâ ng traffic si House Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez at si Special Assistant</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;"> </span> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Anton Lagdameo patungo sa isang meeting sa New York City sa Estados Unidos, sumakay na lamang ang dalawang mga matataas na opisyal ng Pilipinas sa subway.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ito ay napag-alaman sa isang facebook post ni Juan Xavier Tengco kaninang umaga (Huwebes ng umaga sa Pilipinas) ng kanyang nasaksihan ang nabanggit na panyayari.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Si Romualdez at si Lagdamedo ay bahahi sa opisyal na deligasyon ni Pangulong Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos Jr. sa kanyang kasalilukuyang pagbisita sa Amerika.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-73518807954408854072022-09-22T08:54:00.002+08:002022-09-22T08:54:09.172+08:00SINAMAHAN NI SPEAKER ROMUALDEZ SI PBBM SA PAKIKI-PAGPULONG NITO SA MGA OPISYAL NG WORLD BANK SA NEW YORK CITY<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Nakipagpulong si Pangulong Ferdinand "Bongbong" R. Marcos Jr., sa mga opisyal ng World Bank (WB) sa New York City Miyerkules ng hapon, na sina Mr. Erivaldo A. Gomes, WB Executive Director for the Philippines; at Ms. Manuela Ferro, WB Regional Vice President on East Asia and the Pacific.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Si Pangulong Marcos ay sinamahan nina Speaker Martin G. Romualdez, House Senior Deputy Majority Leader at Ilocos Norte Rep. Ferdinand Alexander A. "Sandro" Marcos III, Special Assistant to the President Sec. Antonio F. Lagdameo, Trade and Industry Sec. Alfredo E. Pascual, Philippine Ambassador to the Philippines Jose Manuel Romualdez, at Finance Sec. Benjamin E. Diokno, National Economic and Development Authority Sec. Arsenio Balisacan, at Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Gov. Felipe Medalla.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Samantala, sinamahan din ni Speaker Romualdez si Pangulong Marcos at Unang Ginang Liza Araneta Marcos sa isang pagpupulong kay dating British Prime Minister Tony Blair Miyerkules ng umaga, matapos dumalo ang Punong Ehekutibo bilang panauhing pandangal sa 77th United Nations (UN) General Assembly sa New York. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Nagpaabot si Romualdez ng taos-pusong pakikidalamhati kay Blair sa pagpanaw ni Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Nauna nang nagpahayag ang Kamara de Representantes sa pamumuno ni Romualdez ng pakikiramay kay His Majesty, King Charles III, sa royal family, sa mga mamamayan ng United Kingdom ng Great Britain at ng Northern Ireland, sa pagpanaw ni Queen Elizabeth II.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-42455725139413458372022-09-21T18:17:00.004+08:002022-09-21T18:17:40.709+08:00SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON SENIOR CITIZENS, NAGDAOS NG PAGPUPULONG PANG-ORGANISASYON<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Nagsagawa ngayong Miyerkules ng pagpupulong pang-organisasyon ang Espesyal na Komite ng Senior Citizens sa Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan, na pinamumunuan ni SENIOR CITIZENS Rep. Rodolfo Ordanes at inaprubahan ang Internal Rules of Procedure nito. Sinabi ni Ordanes na aasahan niya ang karaniwang suporta at kooperasyon ng mga kasapi ng espesyal na Komite, tungo sa katuparan ng mandato nito na pag-aralan at aksyunan ang lahat ng bagay, pangunahin man at direktang may kinalaman sa mga pangangailangan at kapakanan ng mga senior citizen, gayundin ang mga polisiya at mga programa na magpapahusay sa kanilang aktibong pakikilahok sa lipunan. “We have much to learn from each other. And with our collective knowledge, dedication and enthusiasm, and efforts, we will be able to create the best and update laws that would cater to address the needs of our elderly citizens,” ani Ordanes sa Komite. Ipinaliwanag naman ni Special Committee on Senior Citizens Committee Secretary Chona Del Valle sa pamamagitan ng powerpoint na presentasyon ang mandato, hurisdiksyon, pagiging kasapi, kapangyarihan at mga tungkulin ng Komite na nakapaloob sa panukalang Committee Rules. Samantala, inimbitahan ng Komite ang mga ahensya ng pamahalaan na magbigay sila ng briefing hinggil sa mga mandato, programa, at panukalang batas para sa mga matatanda. Ito ay ang Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD); ang Office for Senior Citizens Affairs (OSCA); at ang National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC). Tinalakay naman ni DSWD Director Maricel Deloria ang mga programa ng DSWD para sa mga matatanda. Ito ay ang Social Pension para sa Indigent Senior Citizens; Centenarian; at Assistance to Older Persons. Nagbigay din siya ng update sa plano ng paglipat ng mga programa para sa mga matatanda, mula sa DSWD patungo sa National Commission of Senior Citizens (NCSC).</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-11045290805678883532022-09-21T18:15:00.005+08:002022-09-21T18:15:50.444+08:00MATAPOS ANG MAKASAYSAYANG PAGDALO SA UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY - SPEAKER ROMUALDEZ: ‘NEVER BEEN PROUDER TO BE A FILIPINO’<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Ipinahayag ni House Speaker Martin G. Romualdez, Martes ng hapon (oras sa US) na, “he has never been prouder" na maging Pilipino, matapos na mapakinggan ang makasaysayang talumpati ni Pangulong Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. sa 77th United Nations (UN) General Assembly sa New York</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">"I have never been prouder to stand as a Filipino in the company of world leaders. It was a great experience to see and hear our President spell out, in clear terms, what we as a people expect from the parliament of nations," ani Romualdez, na tumutukoy sa muling pagkumpirma na ginawa ni Pangulong Marcos, sa mga mithiin na pinaninindigan at isinusulong ng UN.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sinabi ni Romualdez na ang paglahok ng pinakamataas na Pilipinong pinuno sa naturang kaganapan, ay isang makahalugang hakbang na magiging mahalagang papel sa pagsusulong ng kapayapaan at katatagan, hindi lamang sa rehiyon ng Timog-Silangang Asya, kungdi maging sa saklaw ng impluwensya ng Pilipinas.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ayon sa kanya, ang mensahe ni Marcos – sa kanyang kauna-unahan sa entablado ng mundo – ay nagpapakita ng, "how we all need to work together to address the urgent problems plaguing the globe in this generation...That we need to act fast if want humanity to survive."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“The UN has long been an independent arbiter and an effective facilitator of the international dialogue between and among nations. It continues to be our country’s honor to be part of this global family of nations that has continued to remain faithful to its mission of fostering world peace,” ani Romualdez, na sinamahan si Pangulong Marcos sa kanyang pagbisita sa Estados Unidos.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">"President Marcos’ call for global unity resonates with each one of us who fear what the tectonic shifts in the world today may bring in the coming century. The President’s words struck a chord in every Filipino household. He verbalized what an average Filipino family would want to tell world leaders: please get your acts together so that we keep families all over the world feeling safe and secure for generations to come," ani Romualdez.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“Reaffirming the principles that the UN stands for means we also reaffirm our commitment to pursue dialogue and cooperation as a peaceful means to settle conflict and disputes. And this is crucial to the peace and stability in our region,” dagdag pa niya.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Nagtalumpati si Pangulong Marcos ng kanyang pambansang pahayag sa harap ng mga miyembro ng UN, sa kanilang 77th General Assembly na idinaos sa kanilang global headquarters dito.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Binigyang-diin ng Punong Ehekutibo, bukod sa iba pa, ang kahalagahan ng UN sa pagpapatupad at pagsusulong ng pandaigdigang batas, kabilang na ang pagiging kampeon sa pandaigdigang ugnayan at kooperasyon.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sinabi ni Romualdez na ang madamdaming talumpati ni Pangulong Marcos sa UN ay nagkukumpirma sa layunin ng bansa na igalang ang mga obligasyon sa ilalim ng pandaigdigang batas.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“By reaffirming the ideals of the UN, we also recognize that the Philippines is a part of a bigger world community and, as such, must adhere to the principles mutually agreed upon by members of the UN,” ani Romualdez.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa pagtatapos, pinasalamatan ni Romualdez ang Pangulo "for emphasizing to the community of nations what to expect from the Filipino nation...That we are a friend to all, and enemy of none."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ang katatapos na pagbisita ni Pangulong Marcos sa Estados Unidos ay bahagi lamang ng serye ng pandaigdigang biyahe, na naglalayong dalhin sa Pilipinas ang mga kinakailangang pamuhunan, matapos na maranasan ng bansa ang masamang epekto ng pandemya. </span><span class="s2" style="color: #ebebf5; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">#</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-54355566985432552102022-09-21T09:02:00.003+08:002022-09-21T09:02:41.401+08:00GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS BILL (GAB) PARA SA FY 2023, DETERMINADONG IPASA NG KAPULUNGAN BAGO MAGBAKASYON ANG KONGRESO T<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Tinalakay ngayong Martes ni House Committee on Appropriations Vice Chair at lloilo Rep. Janette Garin sa ginanap na pulong balitaan sa Kapulungan, ang kasalukuyang deliberasyon sa plenaryo ng House Bill 4488, o ang 2023 General Appropriations Bill (GAB), para sa taong 2023.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sinabi niya sa Ugnayan sa Batasan News Majority Forum na nilalayon ng Kapulungan na tapusin ngayong araw ang mga debate sa plenaryo ng badyet ng Department of Finance (DOF), at sa mga sangay na ahensya at korporasyon nito, National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), Office of the Ombudsman, Commission on Human Rights (CHR), Commission on Elections (COMELEC), Department of Science and Technology (DOST) at mga sangay nitong ahensya, Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) at Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA). </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ipinahayag din niya na layon ng Kapulungan na tapusin ang deliberasyon sa plenaryo sa ika-28 ng Setyembre, at ipasa ang panukalang batas sa Ikalawa at Ikatlong pagbasa bago ang nakatakdang bakasyon ng Kapulungan sa ika-1 ng Oktubre. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa usapin naman ng abolisyon ng ARTA, sinabi ni Garin na hindi pa nila opisyal na napag-usapan ang usapin, dahil ito ay mangangailangan ng ekstensibong talakayan. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“It will be best in the interest of the Filipino people na patuloy muna iyong ahensya na ito. Because while the Office of Ombudsman is there working based on its mandate, the Anti-Red Tape Authority was also created by law” aniya. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ang abolisyon ng ARTA ay nabanggit ni Ombudsman Samuel Martires sa kanilang mga panukala sa pagdinig noong nakaraang linggo ng Komite ng Katarungan. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Aniya, inaagaw ng pagkakatatag ng ARTA ang kapangyarihan ng Ombudsman. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa naturang pulong balitaan, ipinahayag ni Garin na handa na ang Kapulungan na aprubahan ang HB 4125, o ang “Ease of Paying Taxes Act” sa huling pagbasa sa susunod na linggo. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sinabi niya na hiniling ng Administrasyong Marcos sa Kongreso na magpasa ng mga panukala sa mahusay na koleksyon ng buwis. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Kaugnay nito, sinabi ni Garin na ang abolisyon o mahigpit na regulasyon ng Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations (POGOs) ay magpapalakas sa koleksyon ng buwis, at paglikha ng mga trabaho sa pamamagitan ng pag-hikayat ng mas maraming mamumuhunan. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Idinagdag din niya na ang mga negatibong epekto ng mga iligal na operasyon ng POGO sa bansa ay nag-iiwan ng negatibong impresyon sa iba pang mamumuhunan.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-57376752524580030682022-09-21T08:58:00.005+08:002022-09-21T08:58:37.776+08:00DELIBERASYON SA PANUKALANG BADYET NG COMELEC SA 2023, TINAPOS NA NG KAPULUNGAN<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Tinapos na ngayong Martes ng Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan ang deliberasyon sa panukalang badyet ng Commission on Elections (COMELEC) sa taong 2023, na nagkakahalaga ng P5.22-bilyon, kabilang ang mga otomatikong apropriasyon.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Nagsilbing isponsor ng badyet si Rep. Francisco Jose “Bingo” Matugas II, sa idinaos na deliberasyon sa plenaryo ng House Bill 4488, o ang 2023 General Appropriations Bill. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa kanyang sponsorship speech, binanggit ni Matugas na ang panukala ng COMELEC ay 81 porsyento, o P21.7-bilyon na mababa kaysa kanilang 2022 badyet. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ipinaliwanag niya na ang badyet ngayong taon ay mas malaki dahil sa itinakdang halalang nasyunal at lokal noong Mayo 2022, at nakatakdang halalang Barangay at Sangguniang Kabataan sa Disyembre 2022. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Samantala, hiniling niya ang karagdagang pondo na P2-bilyon na gagamitin ng COMELEC sa kanilang itatayong bagong gusali, na magsisilbing kanilang bagong tanggapan, bodega para sa mga makina at kagamitan, at ang COMELEC Academy. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa isinulong na pagpapaliban ng Kapulungan ng halalan sa Disyembre 2022 sa susunod na taon, binanggit ni Matugas na ang kanilang alokasyon ay magiging depende sa pinal na petsa na aaprubahan matapos na ito ay maisabatas. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Binanggit rin niya na itutuloy pa rin ng COMELEC ang kanilang mga paghahanda, habang hinihintay nila na maisabatas ang panukala. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Kapag ang halalan ay ipinagpaliban, tiniyak ni Matugas na isusulong ni COMELEC Chairperson George Erwin Garcia ang pagtataas ng honoraria ng mga guro, at ang pagtatanggal ng buwis nito na magiging epektibo sa susunod na taon. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Samantala, sinabi ni Rep. France Castro (Party-list, ACT TEACHERS) na magbabalangkas siya ng panukala para sa salary upgrading ng mga kawani ng COMELEC. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Tumanggap siya ng suporta mula kay Matugas at COMELEC upang maipasa ang isusulong na panukala.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-44541267963917969892022-09-21T08:56:00.005+08:002022-09-21T08:56:44.782+08:00DEBATE SA PLENARYO NG 2023 BADYET NG CHR, TINAPOS NA NG KAPULUNGAN<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Tinapos ngayong Martes ng Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan ang panahon ng interpelasyon at debate sa plenaryo, ng panukalang badyet ng Commission on Human Rights (CHR) at kalakip na ahensya nito na Human Rights Violations Victims Memorial Commission (HRVVMC).</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa kanyang sponsorship speech, sinabi ni Rep. Jocelyn Limkaichong (1st District, Negros Oriental) na para sa susunod na taon, ang CHR ay may badyet na P846.3-milyon sa ilalim ng National Expenditure Program (NEP), samantalang ang HRVVMC ay may P31.8-milyon sa ilalim ng NEP. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“For 2023, the CHR’s budget decreased by P118 million or 12.27 percent lower from their budget for the current year,” ayon sa kanya. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Dahil sa binawasang badyet, sinabi ni Limkaichong na maaaring hindi masuportahan ng CHR ang kanilang mga bago at pinaigting na mga inisyatiba, kabilang na ang kanilang planong Human Rights Institute, at mga programa nito sa climate change. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Idinagdag niya na bukod sa iba pa, ang kabawasan sa badyet ay makakaapekto sa kanilang programa sa pinansyal na ayuda. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Nagpahayag naman ng suporta para sa karagdagang pondo sa CHR sina Reps. Arlene Brosas (Party-list, GABRIELA) at France Castro (Party-list, ACT TEACHERS).</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-21838576163644343552022-09-21T08:53:00.004+08:002022-09-21T08:53:32.460+08:00PAGTATATAG NG MGA DENGUE VIRUS TESTING AND SCREENING CENTER SA BAWAT SIYUDAD, IPINANUKALA<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Inihain ni Cebu City Rep. Eduardo Roa Rama ngayong 19th Congress ang panukalang batas para sa pagpapatayo ng “Dengue Virus Testing and Screening Center” sa bawat siyudad at munisipalidad sa buong bansa.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa kanyang House Bill 4607, binanggit sa explanatory note na naitala ang higit 64,000 na mga kaso ng dengue sa ating bansa mula noong Enero hanggang Hunyo 2022, kung saan higit 270 ang nasawi.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">(Habang base sa huling datos ng Department of Health o DOH, lagpas 100,000 na ang dengue cases mula Enero hanggang Agosto ngayong taon).</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ayon kay Rama, nakakaalarma ang numero, at ang sitwasyon ay nangangailangan ng tamang pagtugon mula sa gobyerno.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sinabi ni Rama na sa kasalukuyan ay wala pang gamot para sa dengue, pero maaaring ma-manage o maagapan ito sa pamamagitan ng “early diagnosis” at tamang pamamahala.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Makakatulong aniya ang “rapid diagnostic test” o RDT para sa mga may sintomas ng dengue, upang mabawasan ang “morbidity at mortality.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Bagama’t ang DOH ay naglunsad ng National Dengue Prevention and Control Program, hindi pa umano “institutionalized” o batas ang pagte-test para sa dengue. Marami ring lokal na pamahalaan ang walang dengue diagnostic test centers para matugunan ang mga residente.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Kaya kapag naging ganap na batas ang House Bill ni Rama, ang mga itatayong Dengue Virus Testing and Screening Center ay mag-aalok ng libreng RDT sa mga indibwal na “suspected dengue case” o mga taong nagmula sa lugar na may malaking banta o kaso ng dengue, base sa DOH.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ang naturang center din ang magpapakalat ng mga tamang impormasyon ukol sa dengue, at magtuturo rin ng “detection, control at management” laban sa sakit.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-54654274366022133792022-09-21T08:50:00.000+08:002022-09-21T08:50:01.746+08:00MGA NEGOSYANTE SA AMERIKA, HINIKAYAT NI SPEAKER ROMUALDEZ NA MAMUHUNAN SA PILIPINAS<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Humiling ng suporta si House Speaker Martin Romualdez sa mga negosyante sa Amerika na mag invest sa Pilipinas para suportahan ang mga programa ni Pangulong Ferdinand</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“Bongbong” Marcos Jr., ang palaguin ang ekonomiya ng bansa. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Binigyang-diin ni Romualdez na hinog na ang Pilipinas para tumanggap ng mga investments.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ginawa ni Romualdez ang pahayag matapos dumalo ang Pangulo at nagbigay ng talumpati sa New York Stock Exchange economic</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">forum na dinaluhan ng Philippines and US-based business leaders.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Siniguro naman ng Chief Executive ang malaking oportunidad at isang masiglang ekonomiya para sa mga investors na mag-invest sa Pilipinas.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Nagpasalamat naman si Romualdez sa pagkakataon na ibinigay ng mga US businessmen sa Marcos administration at sa pagkunsidera nila sa agenda at vision ng Pangulo.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Siniguro ni Speaker na lalo pang palalawakin ng Pilipinas ang economic partnership nito sa mga negosyante at lalo pang lalakas ang ugnayan ng Pilipinas at Amerika.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Tiniyak naman ni Speaker sa mga mamumuhunan na ang House of Representatives ay patuloy na nagsusumikap upang mapagaan ang pagnenegosyo sa Pilipinas at magiging conducive ang kapaligiran sa negosyo at magpapaunlad ng ekonomiya.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ibinunyag din ni Speaker na nagkaroon ng mga series of meetings ang Pangulo sa mga malalaking business firms sa Amerika.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Binigyang-diin naman ni Romualdez na kailangan ng maraming trading partners ang bansa para maisakatuparan ang ang infrastructure modernization program ng Pangulong Marcos na siyang pinaka susi sa paglago ng ekonomiya.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Una ng inihayag ni Speaker na mataas ang kaniyang inaasahan sa pagbisita ng Pangulo sa Amerika.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-45422790521580175832022-09-21T08:45:00.003+08:002022-09-21T08:45:20.029+08:00PANUKALANG PAGPAPALIBAN NG BARANGAY AT SK ELECTIONS, APRUBADO NA<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Aprubado na sa Mababang Kapulungan sa third and final reading ang panukalang batas House Bill No.4673 ang pagpapaliban sa 2022 Barangay at Sangguniang Kabataan Elections.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Itinakda ang synchonized Barangay at SK Elections sa unang Lunes ng December 2023.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ayon sa pamunuan ng Kamara ang pag apruba sa naturang panukala ngayong araw ay patunay na on track sila sa kanilang agenda na aprubahan ang House Bill 4673 bago mag October 1,2022 at para mapirmahan na rin ito ng Pangulong Bongbong Marcos bago ang December 5,2022 barangay and SK elections.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa sesyon ngayong araw, 264 lawmakers ang bumoto pabor, anim ang hindi pabor at tatlo ang nag abstained sa House Bill No. 4673 or An Act Postponing the 2022 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections kung saan inamyendahan ang RA No. 9164 kung saan inaatrasan na gawing every three years ang halalan.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ang nasabing panukalang batas ay consolidated version na ng mahigit 30 bills.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Kabilang sa mga bumoto na hindi pabor ay mga lawmakers mula sa Makabayan bloc na naniniwala na ang pag delay sa barangay elections ay paghadlang sa right to suffrage ng mga mamamayan.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Hindi rin pabor si Albay 1st District Rep. Edcel Lagman, na ipagpaliban pa ang halalan kaya bumoto ito ng no dahil wala siyang nakikitang credible reason na idelay ang barangay and SK <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>elections.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-86258328302653591292022-09-21T08:42:00.001+08:002022-09-21T08:42:17.806+08:00PHYSICAL PRESENCE NG ECONOMIC TEAM SA DELIBERASYON NG BUDGET 2023, IMINUNGKAHI SA KAMARA<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Nagtakda ng kundisyon ang Kamara na dapat physically</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;"> </span> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">present ang mga miembro ng economic team ng Malakanyang sa plenary deliberations ng 2023 General Appropriations Bill na nagkakahalaga ng 5.268-trillion pesos.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa Ugnayan sa Batasan Majority forum, sinabi ni Congresswoman Janet Garin, Vice Chairman ng House Committee on Appropriations, mahalaga ang presensiya ng mga ito para maipaliwanag at masagot ng maayos ang mga tanong at interpellation ng mga kongresista sa <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>budget ng mga government agencies.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Karamihan sa mga miembro ng economic team ng malakanyang ay kasama sa working visit <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>ni Pangulong Bongbong Marcos sa Amerika sa pagdalo sa United Nations General Assembly.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ang economic team ang bumubuo din sa Development and Budget Coordination Committee na magpi-prisinta sa dalawang kapulungan ng Kongreso sa mga probisyon ng 2023 General Appropriations Bill.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa kabila nito, tiniyak ni Garin, uusad ang pagtalakay sa 2023 proposed national budget at inaasahan na makakahabol sa plenary deliberations ang mga miembro ng economic team.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Inaasahan na darating sa September 24 si Pangulong Marcos at kanyang delegasyon mula sa working visit sa Amerika.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-35905811697850911122022-09-21T08:38:00.005+08:002022-09-21T08:38:59.703+08:00PANUKALANG RICE SUBSIDY PARA SA MGA PRIVATE SECTOR EMPLOYEES, ISINUSULONG SA KAMARA <p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Panahon na para aksiyunan ng Kongreso ang mga panukala para mabigyan din ng allowance ang mga empleyado sa pribadong sektor.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa House Bill 1296, isinusulong ni Congressman Wilbert Lee ng AGRI Partylist na mabigyan ng rice allowance ang mga private sector employees at pwedeng pagtibayin ang partnership sa pagitan ng mga magsasaka.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ayon kay Lee, kapag naisabatas ang panukala, malaking bagay ang rice allowance sa mga private sector employees habang matutulungan ang kabuhayan ng mga magsasaka dahil maibebenta ang kanilang ani.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa ilalim ng bill, sasailalim sa “corporate farming agreements” ang mga <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>korporasyon para makapaglaan ng 600-kilograms ng bigas o mais sa bawat empleyado o katumbas ng 50-kilos kada empelyado bawat buwan.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Una rito, sinabi ni Pangulong Bongbong Marcos na hahanapan ng gobyerno ng alokasyon para mabigyan ng rice allowance ang mga government employees at makatulong sa kanilang gastusin.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Katuwiran ni Lee, “sana all…kung meron rice allowance sa mga empleyado ng gobyerno, dapat meron din sa mga private sector employees.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-62954062432303484742022-09-21T08:36:00.003+08:002022-09-21T08:36:32.508+08:00MGA PANUKALANG SUMUSUPORTA SA KAPAKANAN AT PROTEKYON NG MGA MANGGAGAWA, APRUBADO NG KOMITE SA KAPULUNGAN<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Inaprubahan ngayong Lunes ng Komite ng Labor at Employment sa Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan, na pinamumunuan ni Rizal Rep. Juan Fidel Felipe Nograles ang ilang mga hakbang, na naglalayong mapabuti ang kapakanan at proteksyon ng mga manggagawa sa iba't ibang industriya at sektor.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Inilapat ang Section 48 ng House Rules para aprubahan ang muling inihain na House bills, na nauna nang naipasa sa ikatlo at huling pagbasa sa mga nakaraang Kongreso. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Aprubado ng Komite ang HB 615, o ang panukalang "Freelance Workers Protection Act." Ang panukala ay kaisa ng HBs 593, 1087, 2212, 2812, 3738, at 4557. Sinabi ni Rep. Christopher de Venecia (4th District, Pangasinan), naghain ng HB 615, na sa pagsasabatas ng Republic Act 11904, o ang "Philippine Development Industries Act," oras na rin para magpasa ng batas na magpoprotekta sa mga manggagawang malayang trabahador na bumubuo sa gulugod ng mga malikhaing industriya. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Aprubado din ng Komite ang panukalang "Media Workers Welfare Act," na HB 454, kasabay ng HBs 304, 1924, 2487, at 2801. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sinabi ni ACT-CIS Rep. Jeffrey Soriano na ang panukalang batas ay naglalayong matiyak na ang mga manggagawa sa media ay mayroon makataong kondisyon sa pagtatrabaho, maayos na sahod, at mga komprehensibong benepisyo na katumbas ng mga manggagawa ng gobyerno at pribadong sektor. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Inaprubahan din ang: 1) HB 637, o ang panukalang "Enterprise Productivity Act," at kasama ang HBs 884 at 985; 2) HB 924, o ang panukalang "Barangay Skilled Workers Registry Act," at kasama sa HBs 1953, 2282 at 4549; 3) HB 988, kasabay ng HB 1274, na naglalayong dagdagan ang service incentive leave ng mga empleyado; 4) HB 2859, kasama ng HBs 227, 2791 at 3694, ang panukalang "Caregivers Welfare Act"; 5) HB 4477, na naglalayong magtatag ng higit na responsibilidad at pananagutan mula sa mga pribadong employment agencies, na inaamyendahan ang Seksyon 36 ng RA 10361, o ang "Batas Kasambahay"; 6) HB 4479, na naglalayong palawakin ang mga ipinagbabawal sa diskriminasyon laban sa mga kababaihan dahil sa kasarian, at mag-aamyenda sa "Labor Code of the Philippines," gaya ng sinusugan; 7) HB 1270, o ang panukalang "Eddie Garcia Act," kasama ng HBs 459, 1760, 3856, 4169 at 4652; at 8) HB 1509, na naglalayong ideklara ang San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan bilang "Human Resource Capital" ng bansa.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-49415204538179501252022-09-21T08:33:00.000+08:002022-09-21T08:33:02.070+08:00PANUKALANG MAGPAPADALI SA PAGBABAYAD NG MGA BUWIS, PASADO NA SA KAMARA<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Lusot na sa ikalawang pagbasa sa Kamara ang House Bill 4125 o panukalang “Ease of Paying Taxes Act.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa viva voce na botohan, nanaig ang boses ng mga kongesista na pabor sa pagpasa sa panukala na ang hangad ay maging moderno na ang tax administration at gawing simple at mapadali ang proseso ng pagbabayad ng buwis ng maliliit tax-payers.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Nakasaad sa House Bill na magkakaron ng Bureau of Internal Revenue o BIR special unit para sa mas maayos na serbisyo, habang bubuo naman ng “medium taxpayer classification.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa ilalim pa nito, tatanggalin na ang mga restriksyon sa paghahain ng “returns” at pagbabayad ng buwis, na uubrang gawin sa mga otorisadong bangko o opisina na nasa hurisdiksyon ng Revenue District Office o RDO (sa oras na maging ganap na batas ang panukala).</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Nauna nang sinabi ni House Committee on Ways and Means chair Joey Salceda na kapag naging batas ang House Bill, aabot sa higit P73 billion ang dagdag-kita ng pamahalaan sa loob ng limang taon, na magagamit sa mga programa o proyekto.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Pero maliban dito, inaasaahang mapupuksa ang katiwalian at “red-tape” at mapalakas ang tiwala ng taxpayers, kapag naisabatas ang panukala.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-59168483676052113192022-09-21T08:30:00.002+08:002022-09-21T08:30:11.464+08:00PANUKALANG SUSUPORTA SA MGA MANGINGISDANG APEKTADO TUWING MAY MGA KALAMIDAD, ISINUSULONG<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Itinutulak ni Quezon Rep. Kieth Micah Tan ang isang panukalang batas na layong magkaroon ng programa para masuportahan ang mga mangingisdang apektado tuwing “closed fishing season” at sa panahon ng mga kalamidad.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ito ang House Bill 4554 o ang panukalang “Tulong Pangkabuhayan para sa mga Mangingisda Program Act.” </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Paliwanag ni Tan, ang mga mangingisda pati mga magsasaka ay kabilang sa pinaka-mahirap na sektor sa ating bansa, batay sa Ibon Foundation. At mula noong 2017 hanggang 2019, higit 1 milyon ang “job losses” sa sektor ng agrikultura, na pinalala pa ng pandemya ng COVID-19.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Patuloy naman ang pagpapatupad sa closed fishing season, na alinsunod sa Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998, kung saan may panahon na bawal ang pangingisda sa ilang tukoy na lugar sa mga karagatan ng bansa.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ayon kay Tan, kamakailan ay may grupo ng mga mangingisda na umaapelang suspendihin ang patakarang closed fishing season partikular sa mga lugar na binayo ng bagyo dahil nagdudulot umano ito ng “artificial shortage” ng mga isda, at nakaka-apekto rin sa inflation o mabilis na pagtaas ng presyo ng mga bilihin.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">At sa ganitong panahon, kawawa ang mga mangingisda na nakadepende sa kanilang kabuhayan na pangingisda.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Kaya naman sinabi ni Tan na sa pamamagitan ng Tulong Pangkabuhayan program ay makapaglalaan ng “livelihood, financial, medical at iba pang social assistance” para sa mga "eligible" na benepisyaryong mangingisda.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Kapag naging ganap na batas, kada buwan ay bibigyan ang mga benepisyaryo ng “Tulong Pangkabuhayan voucher” na ang katumbas ng P3,000.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Maliban naman sa nabanggit, ang mga benepisyaryo ay pinasasakop sa mga programa, serbisyo o benepisyo mula sa Philhealth, SSS, DSWD, DOLE at TESDA.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-39805098049789132222022-09-21T08:19:00.005+08:002022-09-21T08:19:46.272+08:00WALANG KWENTANG SERBISYO, HINDI PAGSUNOD SA MGA PAMAMARAAN NG PAMAHALAAN NG ISABELA COOPS 1 & 2, INIMBESTIGAHAN NG KAPULUNGAN<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Nagsagawa ngayong Lunes ng unang deliberasyon ang Komite ng North Luzon Growth Quadrangle sa Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan, na pinamumunuan ni Ilocos Norte Rep. Angelo Marcos-Barba, hinggil sa House Resolution 367, na humihimok sa Komite na imbestigahan ang nagawa ng Isabela Electric Cooperatives 1 (ISELCO 1) at 2 (ISELCO 2), gayundin ang HR 333 na humihimok sa Komite ng Enerhiya na magsagawa ng pagsisiyasat sa suplay ng kuryente sa Isabela. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“One of the main thrusts of our President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is his campaign and advocacy for the importance of power and how it is operating and maintaining our homes, our families, our communities, our cities and municipalities,” ani Barba. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Gamit ang sikat na Bangui Windmills ng Ilocos Norte bilang background, upang ipahiwatig ang patuloy at hindi nauubos na enerhiya sa North Luzon, sinabi ni Barba na kailangang matandaan na ang windmills ay mga konkretong paalala din para sa mga mambabatas, upang tumulong sa Pangulo na maisakatuparan ang green transition. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“Equally important in fulfilling this aspiration is to ensure that our efforts in making the energy sector in our provinces be of great benefit to our constituents. In line with this, may we always strive to provide and conserve renewable and sustainable energy and energy sources,” dagdag niya. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Habang nasa pagdinig, nagtanong sina Isabela Rep. Faustino “Inno” Dy at Antonio “Tonypet” Albano kay Atty. Catherine Rosete, general manager ng ISELCO1. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Tinanong ni Dy ang tungkol sa labis na koleksyon ng ISELCO 1. “Gusto ko lang po itanong Attorney, ano naging action ng ISELCO 1 dito base kasi sa desisyon ng ERC mula pa ho noong December 2019 is that ISELCO 1 was directed to refund the amount of P166,275,589.00 on the generation rate and an additional P13,763,473.00 on the transmission rate,” ani Dy. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ayon kay Rosete, alam ng ISELCO 1 ang nasabing utos ng ERC at naghain ito ng motion for consideration sa ERC. Nakabinbin pa ang mosyon, ngunit nakapagsauli na ito ng mga labis sa nakolekta, ani Rosete. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Samantala, tinanong ni Albano si Rosete tungkol sa kanilang pagsunod sa mga pamamaraan, tulad ng isang aprubadong resolusyon ng lupon mula sa ERC, bago magpatuloy sa isang proyekto. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“But this is no reason to proceed with certain projects without ERC approval,” ani Albano. Nakasaad sa HR 367 na ang mga lokal na pamahalaan sa lahat ng antas sa lalawigan ng Isabela ang nasisisi sa dumaraming reklamo mula sa mga may-aring kasapi, dahil sa hindi magandang mga serbisyo ng ISELCO 1 at ISELCO 2 batay sa madalas na pagkawala ng kuryente, hindi makatuwirang taas na halaga ng mga singil sa kuryente , di-makatuwirang pagpapataw ng mga singil sa serbisyo nang walang paliwanag sa mga mamimili, o hindi aprubado ng ERC, at ang matigas na pagtutol sa utos ng NEA na isauli ang over recovery sa mga kasaping mga mamimili ayon sa HR 367. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Nagkaisa namang sumang-ayon ang Komite na pagtibayin ang mosyon na inihain ni Mountain Province Rep. Maximo Dalog Jr. na ang mga nasabing resolusyon ay pangunahing isangguni sa Komite ng Enerhiya, at pangalawang isangguni sa Komite ng North Luzon Growth Quadrangle, at upang higit pang magsagawa ng magkasanib na pagpupulong hinggil sa mga nasabing usapin.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-53566458704053284142022-09-21T08:17:00.002+08:002022-09-21T08:17:10.833+08:00PANUKALANG EASE OF PAYING TAXES ACT, APRUBADO NA SA IKALAWANG PAGBASA<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Inaprubahan ngayong Lunes ng Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan, sa pamumuno ni Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, sa ikalawang pagbasa ang House Bill 4125, o ang panukalang “Ease of Paying Taxes Act.”</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Layon ng panukala na gawing moderno ang pangangasiwa sa buwis, ayusin ang pagpapatupad ng buwis, kabilang na ang pagbabalangkas ng mg polisiya at maayos na pamamaraan sa iba’t ibang uri ng mga nagbabayad ng buwis. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Aalisin na sa HB 4125 ang pagkakaiba sa pagitan ng sales invoice at official receipts. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Gagamitin na rin ang sales invoice bilang dokumento na gagamitin ng mga nagbabayad ng buwis para patunayan ang mga transaksyon ng value-added tax, maging ito ay bentahan ng produkto o serbisyo. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Bukod pa rito, isasailalim din sa institusyon ang simplified tax returns at pagpoproseso ng mas maliliit na mga taxpayer, para sa mas magaan na pagpapatupad ng mga tuntunin at patakaran sa buwis. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Samantala, palalakasin ng panukala ang kakayanan ng mga transaksyon sa buwis sa pamamagitan ng pag-alis ng restriksyon kung saang lugar inihahain ang returns at pagbabayad ng buwis. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ang ilan pa sa mga pangunahing tampok sa panukala ay ang paglikha ng mga pasilidad sa pagpaparehistro para sa mga non-resident taxpayers, at ang pagtatanggal ng binabayarang annual taxpayer registration fee na P500. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ang hybrid na sesyon sa plenaryo ay pinangunahan nina Deputy Speakers Aurelio Gonzales Jr. at Vincent Franco Frasco.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-49402262979181532012022-09-21T08:15:00.004+08:002022-09-21T08:15:32.668+08:00KARAGDAGANG PONDO NG 2023 BADYET NG DOH, HINILING NG MAMBABATAS NA MADAGDAGAN PARA SA CANCER AWARENESS AT PREVENTION<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Hiniling ngayong Lunes ni Rep. Linabelle Ruth Villarica (4th District, Bulacan) sa Kagawaran ng Kalusugan (DOH) na maghanda ng karagdagang pondo sa kanilang 2023 panukalang badyet para sa cancer prevention at awareness.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa kanyang privilege speech sa breast cancer awareness, sinabi ni Villarica na dapat na pagtuunan ng pansin ang nakararaming kababaihan na nagtatrabaho sa industriya ng business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, na mas nanganganib dahil sa kanilang oras ng trabaho sa gabi. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Kanyang sinabi na bukod sa nakatalagang panganib na may kaugnayan sa reproductive cycle ng kababaihan, ay may mga indikasyon rin na ang mga babae na nagtatrabaho sa gabi ay nahaharap sa 60 porsyentong mas mataas na panganib na magkaroon ng breast cancer, kaysa sa mga hindi nagtatrabaho sa gabi. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“As per data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) way back in 2016, the BPO industry in the Philippines that had already reached 1.3 million was already composed of 53.2 percent women,” aniya. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Bilang pangulo ng Association of Women Legislators Foundation Incorporated (AWLFI), sinabi ni Villarica na patuloy na isinusulong ng AWLFI ang breast cancer awareness dahil sa nakakaalarmang ulat ng dalawang usapin ng breast cancer sa bansa. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“While it is prevalent, it is often diagnosed only when it is already at its latter stages,” aniya. Binanggit ni Villarica na ang National Integrated Cancer Control Act (NICCA) ay nagsusulong ng “our commitment to the establishment of a cancer control policy in every workplace”. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sinabi niya na ang kapansin-pansin sa NICCA ay ang ayudang pondo para sa kanser na dapat na paglaanan ng sapat na badyet, upang makatulong sa pambayad sa paggagamot, at palawigin pa ang mga benepisyo mula sa PhilHealth para sa kanser at suporta sa mas malaking kampanya para sa cancer awareness.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31329648.post-18569134177971580202022-09-21T08:14:00.002+08:002022-09-21T08:14:08.114+08:00PRE-PLENARY NA PAGPUPULONG SA PANUKALANG P4.3-B BADYET NG MMDA, ISINAGAWA<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;">Nagsagawa ng pre-plenary na pagpupulong ngayong Lunes ang Komite ng Appropriations sa Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan, na pinamumunuan ni AKO BICOL Rep. Elizaldy Co, tungkol sa 2023 panukalang badyet ng Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) na nagkakahalaga ng P4.382-bilyon.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ito ay bilang paghahanda para sa deliberasyon sa plenaryo ng panukalang badyet ng ahensya, na nakatakda sa Miyerkules, ika-21 ng Setyembre 2022. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Mas mababa ang nasabing halaga ng humigit-kumulang P1.3-bilyon kaysa sa badyet ng MMDA na P5.6-bilyon para sa taong 2022. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ang pre-plenary na pagpupulong ay pinangunahan ni Committee Senior Vice Chairperson at Markina City Rep. Stella Luz Quimbo. Sinabi ni Quimbo na ang one-on-one na sesyon sa mga mambabatas upang talakayin ang kanilang mga alalahanin sa MMDA ay magaganap matapos ang pagtatanghal ng badyet. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Matapos ang maikling pahayag ni MMDA Chairman Engr. Carlo Dimayuga III, nagbigay naman si MMDA Executive Director Michael Gison ng pangkalahatang-ideya na presentasyon, hinggil sa panukalang badyet ng MMDA. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ayon sa kaniya, ang MMDA ay nagpanukala ng P8.4-bilyon badyet, ngunit P4.382-bilyon lamang ang naaprubahan sa ilalim ng National Expenditure Program para sa 2023. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“This would be a deduction of around P4 billion cut across all mandates of the MMDA. It is also worth noting that there were no allocations given for heath, sanitation, and urban migrating and renewal projects,” aniya. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Sa bawat paggasta, sinabi ni Gison na ang MMDA ay maglalaan ng P70-milyon para sa mga serbisyo ng tauhan, P2.6-bilyon para sa maintenance and other operating expenses (MOOE), at P1.6-bilyon para sa capital outlay (CO) sa 2023. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Nagtanong si Valenzuela City Rep. Eric Martinez kung ano ang magiging epekto ng mahigit P1-ilyong bawas sa badyet sa sektor ng MMDA Traffic Management. “Will it mean lesser personnel?,” aniya. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Ipinaliwanag naman ni MMDA Traffic Discipline Office Director Neomie Recio na P108-milyon ang ilalaan sa kanilang tanggapan sa 2023, kung saan ang P45-milyon ay mapupunta sa pasahod, kabilang ang para sa Job Orders. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">Kaugnay nito, ang maaapektuhan ay ang pamamahala ng trapiko, aniya. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-weight: bold;">“Mga streetlights at footbridges ang mga proyekto po namin ang di nabigyan (ng pondo) para sa 2023,” ani Recio.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com