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Negros Power Watch, claimed that the ousting of the Negros Occidental Electric Cooperative's nine board members and the suspension of its general manager were carried out by the National Electric Administration without legal justification

While a number of laws, mostly economic in nature, have been passed since Marcos came to power, most of his legislative agenda remains pending in Congress

JEEPNEY drivers and operators on Wednesday filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to stop the government from implementing various administrative issuances in relation to the full implementation of the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP) starting next year. In a 56-page petition, transport group Piston through its chairman Mody Floranda,…

The House of Representatives on Monday approved four priorities of the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC)—the proposed New Government Procurement Act, the proposed National Water Resources Act, the proposed Philippine Cooperative Code of 2023 and Revised Government Auditing Code of the Philippines. House Bill (HB) 9648 seeks to repeal Republic…

FOLLOWING a five-week recess, the House of Representatives is set to resume regular sessions on Monday with a clear focus on expediting the approval of the P5.768-trillion national budget for 2024 and advancing the few remaining priority bills of the Marcos administration. Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez on Sunday emphasized…

THE House of Representatives will resume regular sessions on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, focusing on the timely enactment of the P5.768-trillion 2024 national budget and passing the few remaining priority bills of the administration.

DURING their congratulatory speeches at the 13th Gawad Parangal Awards of the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA), Rep. Nicanor Briones and Felimon Espares expressed their support to the cooperative sector through the new laws they were passing.

AMID rising prices and shortages of agricultural products due to what he called nefarious acts, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. certified as urgent the proposed measure imposing severe penalties on the crimes of agricultural economic sabotage.

The chief of the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) on Wednesday expressed the need to increase the agency’s budget by P160 million to be able to exercise its functions as a regulatory, developmental and quasi-judicial body.  CDA Undersecretary and Chairman Joseph Encabo said that as CDA received the proposed budget from…

A bill that will regulate the activities of co-operative banks is now awaiting Senate deliberations and approval. This was after members of the House of Representatives—voting 206 affirmative and 0 negative—approved on third and final reading House Bill (HB) 8265 to promote thrift and savings mobilization for sustainable economic development…