News ReleaseNovember 5, 2011Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan today says that former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo brought upon herself her current predicament and should not blame the Department of Justice for not allowing her to travel.“She should have been forthright about her health status from the very beginning. She can hardly blame

Press ReleaseNovember 4, 2011Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, a vocal critic of the Arroyo administration, today expresses his approval for Justice Secretary Leila de Lima’s decision to bar the former president from leaving the country, supposedly for medical treatment.“Suportado natin ang desisyon ni Secretary De Lima,” Pangilinan says, then asks the

Press ReleaseNovember 4, 2011As peace talks resume today in Kuala Lumpur, Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan urges the GPH and MILF Peace Panel to discuss extensively various issues in the peace negotiations that have been left unresolved to prevent the escalation of violence between government and MILF forces. These include: areas

Marlon PurificacionNovember 4, 2011Journal OnlineSENATOR Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, chairman of the Senate committees on agriculture and food, and social justice and rural development, has called for an expansion of the backyard gardening component of the Aquino administration’s “Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program”, otherwise known as CCT, to alleviate rising hunger amid

Press ReleaseNovember 3, 2011Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan today stresses that the next Armed Forces of the Philippines’ Chief-of-Staff must be someone who can help end the insurgency swiftly and be “an instrument of lasting peace.”Pangilinan makes the statement after it has been declared that AFP Chief-of-Staff General Eduardo Oban, Jr.

Press ReleaseNovember 3, 2011Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, Chairman of the Senate Committees on Agriculture and Food, and Social Justice and Rural Development, calls for an expansion of the backyard gardening component of the Aquino administration’s “Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program”, otherwise known as CCT, to alleviate rising hunger amid rising food

Press ReleaseNovember 2, 2011Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan calls on the separatist group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to prove its sincerity to the ongoing peace process by surrendering wanted MILF commander Dan Laksaw Asnawi to the authorities.Asnawi has been tagged in the beheading of 10 Marine soldiers in 2007, and

Press ReleaseNovember 2, 2011Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food, today calls on the government to focus on job creation within the country’s agriculture and fisheries sector, saying doing so will spare the Philippines from recession that is currently threatening the global economy.In a

Press ReleaseNovember 2, 2011 Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, Chairman of the Senate Committees on Agriculture and Food, and Social Justice and Rural Development, as well as Co-Chair of the Congressional Oversight Committee on Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization (COCAFM), says that an “overhaul” of the present system regarding agricultural extension workers