Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:01:53 +0000
The Senate will prioritize measures seeking to increase the salaries of public school teachers, Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri vowed Wednesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 13:28:20 +0000
The senators who attended the dinner hosted by Sen. Manny Pacquiao at his Makati residence on Wednesday were asked to list the committees they preferred to lead, according to Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 12:49:28 +0000
The Senate on Monday said the urgent certification of priority bills such as the ROTC bill should have been released earlier.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 11:27:29 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The proposed mandatory Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) for Grades 11 and 12 students may have to wait for the next Congress which opens in July. Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri said this on Tuesday as he opposed the proposed bill mandating basic ROTC for high school students in public and […]
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 23:28:38 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — What the President’s men want, they get.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 10:56:31 +0000
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said on Wednesday that he had already secured the commitment of three senators to pass the security of tenure (SOT) bill by the end of the 17th Congress.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:02:51 +0000
Congressional leaders failed to reach a consensus on the 2019 national budget even after meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte in Malacañang on Tuesday night.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 16:07:32 +0000
The Senate and the House of Representatives will meet again in a conference on Friday to discuss and hopefully ratify the 2019 national budget.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 08:43:55 +0000
With the “overwhelming” ‘yes’ votes for BOL ratification, the country is finally seeing Mindanao “shed its history of conflict and enter an age of peace and progress.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 12:01:01 +0000
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri on Sunday appealed for a “peaceful” Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) plebiscite.
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