Kiko Pangilinan

MANILA – Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan supports the call of public-school teachers for a P10,000 pay increase in their monthly compensation. On Friday, the eve of World Teacher’s Day, thousands of teachers and their supporters held a unity walk to Mendiola to demand a P30,000 entry-level salary for public school

MANILA — The scourge affecting the swine industry is failure of governance in the agriculture sector, Senator Francis Pangilinan said Friday, World Animal Day. The former food security secretary said government mechanisms failed to enforce food safety protocols in contaminated frozen pork products smuggled in without benefit of inspection that

MANILA — Rice farmers should get at least P700 million in cash aid from the rice tariff collection in excess of the P10 billion collected this year, the Senate said Wednesday. During the interpellation on Senate Joint Resolution 8, Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan insisted that the country’s rice farmers need

MANILA — The Senate on Tuesday is rushing the passage of a joint resolution directing six national agencies and local government units to directly buy rice from local farmers. Joint Resolution 8 directs the Departments of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Interior and Local Government (DILG), National Defense (DND), Transportation

MANILA — The Department of Agriculture on Monday adopted Sen. Francis Pangilinan’s Sagip Saka law in its mission to double farmers’ incomes in the next five years. Agriculture Secretary William Dar gave this presentation during the hearing on the department’s budget proposal of P71 billion, or not even a tenth

MANILA – Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan on Monday requested Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to hold in abeyance his action on the memorandum of agreement (MoA) between the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Dito Telecommunity to build telco towers inside military camps, pending the submission of the MoA and

MANILA — Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan is calling on all young people to register to vote, noting that about 10 million young people age 18 to 24 years old failed to do so for the May 2019 senatorial elections. “That number can very well dictate the direction of the nation.