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MANILA, Philippines — Funds that will be used to refund passengers who will miss their flight or become offloaded due to long immigration assessments will be taken from the Bureau of Immigrations’ excess income and not from deductions of employees’ salary, Sen. Chiz Escudero said on Monday.
Sen. Chiz Escudero has assured employees of the Bureau of Immigration that their salaries and benefits will remain intact and untouched even with the inclusion of a provision in the 2024 General Appropriations Bill (GAB) that allows the reimbursement of thousands of passengers who missed their flights due to long immigration assessment.
Sen. Chiz Escudero has urged the Marcos administration's economic managers to increase the gross domestic product (GDP) moving forward in order to maintain the country's debt-to-GDP ratio at a manageable level.
MANILA, Philippines — Niratipikahan na ng Senado at Kamara ang Bicameral Conference committee report tungkol sa panukalang P5.768-T 2024 National budget.
It might have been a scene straight out of the gripping HBO series Succession because it was about the retirement of a media empire’s big boss and the announcement of his successor. But the comparison ended there; there was neither a cunning plot to steal the throne or a dark denouement as what happened to the Roy family in the television series.
MANILA, Philippines — Qualified students applying for admission to private colleges and universities will no longer be required to pay for entrance exam fees under a new Senate bill greenlighted on final reading.
The Senate on Monday (Dec. 11) passed on third and final reading two-education related measures sponsored by Sen. Chiz Escudero, which would waive the college entrance examination fees of deserving students and amend the land use development law covering state universities and colleges (SUCs).
The Senate on Wednesday (Dec. 6) ratified the reconciled version of the proposed "No Permit, No Exam Prohibition Act" as approved by the Bicameral Conference Committee--a proposal put forward by Sen. Chiz Escudero, chairman of the Committee on Higher, Technical and Vocational Education in the upper chamber.