Give daughter chance to be by mom’s sickbed: Kiko MANILA – Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan has expressed strong support for Senator Leila de Lima’s very urgent motion for furlough to allow her to visit her mother in a hospital in Camarines Sur. “We urge the court to show compassion and

Cease making commuters guinea pigs: Kiko MANILA — Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan has taken up the cudgels for commuters and called on the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to stop its “anti-family, anti-progress” experiments on EDSA which has resulted in worse traffic gridlocks and even longer commute hours. “Dapat isipin

Disaster-prone Philippines needs a disaster-buster: Kiko MANILA — The Philippines ranks third as the most disaster-prone country in the world, regularly suffering from typhoons, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, not to mention the occasional drought, epidemic, El Niño, and La Niña, as well as the staple flooding. Yet our country does

Pangilinan seeks initial P1 billion for warehouse, rice mill in every rice-producing district Bawat butil na hindi naaaksaya, nadadagdag sa kita ng magsasaka: Kiko MANILA — To help rice farmers already in dire straits due to the unimpeded rice importation allowed by the Rice Tariffication Law, Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan

To solve fisher folk and fisheries problems, DFAR ‘isda solution’: Kiko MANILA — With oceans and seas making up a staggering 80% of our territory and producing in 2017 alone 4.31 million metric tons of fisheries worth P243.9 billion, the Philippines can become an aquaculture powerhouse of the world with

PANGILINAN CALLS FOR SENATE INQUIRY ON RICE TARIFFICATION Did farmers get help from P10-billion rice fund? Did rice prices go down? Kiko asks MANILA – Five months after the Rice Tariffication Act became law, about 200,000 farmers have stopped working on food production* and 4,000 rice mills have stopped operating**.