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Suportahan natin ang mga kababayan nating sumasabak sa kasalukuyang 19th Asian Games sa Hangzhou City, China. Bilang chair ng Senate Committee on Sports, taus-puso kong pinupuri at pinasasalamatan ang mga manlalaro nating ibinibigay ang lahat para itaas ang bandera ng Pilipinas sa ginaganap na kompetisyon. Manalo man o matalo, ang importante ay magkaisa tayo para sa ating mga atletang Pilipino!
I trust DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian to give them the standard of care required for their protection and eventual reintegration, including their psycho-social needs. Ito ang pinakamahalaga muna sa ngayon.
SENATOR Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada wants more severe penalties, including life imprisonment and substantial fines, against individuals who will be found guilty of game-fixing in professional or amateur sporting events in the country.
Does someone owe you money but has gone "missing in action"? You're not helpless. You can easily file a collection case in the Small Claims Courts even without a lawyer to stir the debtor up.
Senator Win Gatchalian is pushing for a more regular conduct of the Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) for better monitoring of the country's literacy rates. The FLEMMS is a household-based nationwide survey conducted every five years. The FLEMMS 2019 was the sixth in the series starting in 1989.
While one third of Mindanao is devoted to agriculture and Davao region supplies 40% of the country's food requirements, the challenge lies in harnessing this potential to support the region's overall economic development, stressed Sen. Cynthia Villar.
SENATOR Ramon Bong Revilla, Jr.'s top-most priority bill expanding the coverage of 'Centenarians Act of 2016' to benefit octogenarians and nonagenarians is now nearing enactment after successfully hurdling its third and final reading last week, September 25, which incidentally was his 57th birthday. Revilla is the principal author of Senate Bill No. 2028 which substituted Senate Bill No. 21, the first measure he filed during the 19th Congress.
Despite the government's funding of assessment and certification for senior high school learners pursuing the technical-vocational-livelihood (TVL) track, Senator Win Gatchalian flagged that the shortage of qualified assessors remains a challenge for the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA).