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Senator Idol Raffy Tulfo filed Senate Bill (SB) No. 2768 seeking to impose stiff penalties on crimes involving dissemination of false information on bomb threats, explosives, or any other life-threatening or destructive materials.
While anti-bullying policies, such as Social and Emotional Learning, are "embedded" in the MATATAG curriculum, monitoring teachers' capacity and actual implementation of these policies have become a challenge due to factors such as the high teacher-student ratio, difficulty in curriculum implementation, and the mismatch between teachers' training and their assigned subjects.
During a Senate Committee on Public Order hearing on Monday, August 5, Senator Christopher "Bong" Go raised concerns regarding the Philippine National Police's (PNP) alleged use of excessive force during a police operation within the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) compound in Davao City.
Senator Christopher "Bong" Go filed Senate Resolution No. 1100, congratulating gymnast Carlos Yulo for his outstanding performance in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
SENATE President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada has filed a resolution expressing the Senate's sympathy and condolences on the death of renowned star-maker Lily Yu Chu-Monteverde, more popularly known as "Mother Lily."
Amid the Senate's deliberations on tax incentives for businesses on Monday, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano reminded his fellow lawmakers to treat with equal urgency the workers' need for a true living wage and the need to eliminate corruption in the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).
Let me remind the PNP that in its operational procedures, only necessary and reasonable force should be used to accomplish the task of enforcing the law and maintaining peace and order. The operational manual of the PNP also states that the use of weapons (is) only in lethal approach and as a last resort if the suspect is "armed and dangerous" or if there is "unlawful aggression or intention to cause severe injury, serious bodily harm or death to police officers and other people".
Q: All right, let's start first with that damning revelation on 1,500 fake birth certificates issued from Davao del Sur, a barangay there, an area there, 1,500, mostly to Chinese nationals. Let's talk about just the scope of that revelation.