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THE Department of Justice-Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (DoJ-Iacat) is asking Congress for a bigger budget to help boost its campaign against all forms of human trafficking, including online sexual abuse and exploitation of children.
SEN. Francis Escudero yesterday said he is confident the bicameral conference committee which is tackling the proposed 2024 General Appropriations Bill (GAB) will approve the inclusion of P200 million in the spending measure that will be used to reimburse the offloading of airline passengers without sufficient basis.
MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte and other government officials were required to comment by the Supreme Court (SC) on a petition assailing the constitutionality of the transfer of the P125 million from the Office of the President’s contingency fund to the Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) in 2022.
MANILA, Philippines — The foreign trips of Environment chief Ma. Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga cost only P3 million, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources clarified after a senator questioned the foreign trips and travel expenses of the agency’s officials.
Sen. Chiz Escudero is confident that the bicameral conference committee tackling the 2024 General Appropriations Bill (GAB) will accept the provision inserted by the Senate that will allow the reimbursement of Filipino passengers who were offloaded from their flights due to prolonged interrogation by immigration officers in the guise of fighting human trafficking.
DESPITE the recommendation of Senate minority leader Aquilino Pimentel III that the Office of the President be stripped of its intelligence funds and its confidential funds reduced, these have remained “unchanged” in the bicameral conference committee tackling the P5.786 trillion budget for next year.
I have no knowledge whatsoever of anyone from the Senate leaking information to any reporter on any House matter.
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano on Friday expressed support for the modernization of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), particularly the strengthening of the country's hazard mapping which will help the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) choose better locations for infrastructure.