MANILA – As the Senate deliberated the P3.3-trillion national budget, women leaders from Samahan ng Nagkakaisang Pamilya ng Pantawid on Wednesday morning danced the zumba outside the Senate gates to get the senators’ attention regarding their worry: That 1.3 million of the 4.4 million families-beneficiaries would be removed from the

MANILA – The election of Danilo “Danicon” Concepcion as new president of the University of the Philippines is “well-deserved,” said Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan. The senator, a UP alumnus, congratulated the new UP president over the phone. According to the UP website, Concepcion is the current Dean of the UP

“Simple lang naman po yung title ng resolution: Expressing the Sense of the Senate that, well, in so many words, that the former President Marcos is unfit to be buried in the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Sa akin po ay, sumasang-ayon po ako roon kaya po ako bumotong suporta rito.

Sa mungkahi na isuspindi ang privilege of the writ of habeas corpus at arestuhin nang walang warrant ang mga tao na di umano’y nasa likod ng criminal lawlessness o drug menace: Ang suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus ay maaring gawin lamang ayon sa Article III

One would think eighteen year-olds wish for sugar, spice and everything nice on their debut, but not Jianne Amber Y. Yaokasin who opted to share her blessings with the students of Tacloban by donating libraries. Amber, the eldest child of Mr. Jimjim Yaokasin, celebrated her 18th birthday last October 2.

The Supreme Court’s decision yesterday was a move to erase our collective memory. Of the illegal arrests, detentions, tortures, killings. And the plunder during martial law. For there was systematic robbery of people’s money, as several Supreme Court decisions have said. One of those decisions is on the coco levy.

Noong 1971, naisabatas ang RA 6260 o ang Coconut Investment Act na nagpataw ng buwis o “Coco Levy” sa mga magsasaka ng niyog. “Para sa pagpapaunlad ng industriya at kung saan ang mga magsasaka ang makikinabang.” 0.55 sentimos ang coco levy na ipinataw sa kada 100 kilo ng kopra sa

MANILA – Sixteen Senators from the Senate Committees on Agriculture and Food and Finance on Wednesday signed and approved Committee Report on the Coco Levy Bill. Sponsored and heard by Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, who heads the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food, Senate Bill 1233 or “An Act Creating