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Davao lawmaker proposes law penalizing people abusing elderlies

Davao City 1st district Repres Paolo Duterte has moved to criminalize the act of exploiting, neglecting, or abusing the elderly.  (Unsplash) For this purpose, Duterte penned and filed House Bill (HB) No.4696, or the proposed Anti-Elder Abuse Act. If enacted, the measure will institu

Here's some potential good news for Filipino seafarers. (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives gave its final approval to the proposed “Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers", embodied in House Bill (HB) No.7325, during plenary session late Monday afternoon, March 6.

Rep. Duterte pushes free annual medical checkups for all Filipinos

Davao City 1st district Rep. Paolo Duterte has highlighted the need to provide free annual medical checkups for all Filipinos to ensure that they get access to preventive care and are able to address potentially serious health issues early on. Davao City 1st district Rep. Paolo Duterte (KEITH BAC

Lawmakers are asking the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to provide free annual medical checkups for all its members to ensure that every Filipino could access preventive care, and are able to address potentially serious health conditions in the early stages. Davao City Rep. Paolo Duterte, Benguet Rep. Eric Yap…

The law that reduces the prison time of inmates on account of good behavior shouldn't benefit those convicted of heinous crimes. (Unsplash) This was the stand of Davao City 1st district Rep. Paolo Duterte and Benguet lone district Rep. Eric Yap, who jointly filed House Bill (HB) No.4649.Th

MANILA - Davao City 1st District Representative Paolo Duterte and Benguet Rep. Eric Yap on Friday urged colleagues to pass a bill excluding heinous crime convicts from prison time reduction. The two lawmakers earlier filed House Bill (HB) 4649 or an "Act Defining Good Conduct and Providing Conditions in the Grant of Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA)" and further amending for the purpose Article 97 of Act No. 3815, otherwise known as the "Revised Penal Code," as amended by Re...

4 lawmakers file bill on ‘specialty’ hospitals outside Metro Manila

CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Philippine National Police chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr. inaugurated the new four-story building of the Regional Forensic Unit-Cordillera here on Thursday, Feb. 16. DEPARTMENT of Public Works and Highways-Cordillera Director Khadaffy Tanggol turns over the symbolic key to