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SENATE minority leader Aquilino Pimentel III yesterday said President Marcos can order the Department of Finance (DOF) to stop transferring funds of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to fund unprogrammed appropriations in the 2024 national budget.
CAMARINES Sur Rep. Luis Raymund Villafuerte, one of the principal authors of the bill seeking to legalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, yesterday urged senators to give the proposed law a chance for the sake of suffering patients.
THE Court of Appeals has upheld its December 2023 ruling finding former Metro Manila police chief Samuel Pagdilao liable for simple neglect of duty over the general’s supposed failure to curb the proliferation of illegal drugs.
THE nine campuses of the Isabela State University (ISU) allocated 57.3 percent of internally generated funds in 2023 for instruction expenses equivalent to P77.32 million.
AT least 121,000 families (over 493,000 persons) affected by the effects of typhoon “Carina” and the southwest monsoon (“habagat”) in 11 regions in the country remained displaced yesterday, data from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) showed.
A VESSEL of the Vietnam Coast Guard is due to arrive today in Manila for a four-day visit which will be capped by an at-sea exercise in Manila Bay, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said yesterday.
THE PNP is actively helping in efforts to arrest suspended Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo and several others in connection with the Senate probe on offshore gaming.
THE first tranche of the salary increase for government workers will be distributed starting this year and be given retroactively starting January 2024, Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman said yesterday.