SENATOR Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan supports calls to lower the tax rate imposed on private learning institutions to 10 percent so as not to affect the schooling of around four million students amid the pandemic.

SENATOR Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan wants the government to promptly make a decision on Bayanihan 3 so that the Senate can take action as needed.

AS the Senate Committee of the Whole is set to hear on June 15 the national government’s anti-Covid response, Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan expresses support for the Cebu provincial government’s double-swabbing policy for returning overseas Filipinos (ROFs).

SENATOR Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan welcomes the arrival of over 2 million US-supported Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to be distributed to Cebu, Davao, and Manila as these would provide much-needed boost to the Philippines’ Covid-19 vaccine supply.

IN a bid to resolve the concerns of coconut farmers to access benefits due them from the recently passed law on how to use the 100-billion-peso coco levy trust fund, Senator Francis “Kiko’ Pangilinan enumerates several recommendations on how to hurdle the roadblocks.

SENATOR Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan condoles with the families of Far Eastern University football player Kieth Absalon and his cousin who were killed in a roadside explosion while biking in his hometown Masbate City.

SENATOR Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan on Tuesday said that additional spending on the procurement of Covid-19 vaccines needs to be subjected to a Senate hearing.

GOVERNMENT must feed the soil that is the Philippine economy so that micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) who make up 99 percent of registered businesses may thrive, Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan said Tuesday.