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Senator Idol Raffy Tulfo has urged the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to identify and help wrongfully imprisoned indigent persons in the country who were abused by state authorities to attain freedom and get the right justice.
"By December, we will present the review and redesign of the teacher education curriculum...The current curriculum is a one-size-fits-all model, and the data clearly shows that this approach is no longer effective". This is the promise of newly-confirmed Teacher Education Council Executive Director Dr. Jennie Jocson during a hearing of the House Committee on Higher and Technical Education on September 11.
AN ACT STRENGTHENING THE BASES CONVERSION AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7227, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS "THE BASES CONVERSION AND DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1992", AS AMENDED
Good afternoon Mr. President, distinguished Colleagues.
First of all, I would like to thank you for zealously working with this Representation last year for the passage of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget of GCG and CHR. As then a neophyte Chairperson of a Subcommittee of the Committee on Finance, I learned a lot from our collaboration and I am hopeful that our efforts contributed meaningfully to the operations of your agencies and to the achievement of your goals and targets.
Senate President Chiz Escudero called on the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to rethink what it means to be indigent when it comes to the health requirements of Filipinos.
Senator Christopher "Bong" Go, the main proponent of the Malasakit Centers program, proudly highlighted that nearly 12 million Filipinos have benefited from the program since its inception. Official data from the Department of Health (DOH) reveals that a total of 11,828,630 patients have been served through Malasakit Centers from 2019 to May 2024.
The exclusion of Sulu from the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) will impact the upcoming 2025 elections. But as of now, the elections are expected to proceed, pending any further guidance from the Commission on Elections (COMELEC).