Senator Francis Pangilinan
(Senate of the Philippines / FILE PHOTO)
“Malinaw na hindi sapat ang compensation para sa ating public health workers lalo na ngayong pandemya. Sila na nga ang nahaharap sa panganib, hindi pa mapunan ang kanilang mga pangangailangan upang, unang una, maging ligtas habang nasa frontlines at pangalawa, mabigyan ng katumbas na pasahod ang kanilang serbisyo (It is clear that the compensation being given to public health workers is not enough. They are in the frontlines against dangers but their requirements are lacking so that they would be safe and they should be given salaries equal to their services),” Pangilinan said in a statement on Wednesday, April 21.
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Senator Francis Pangilinan (Senate of the Philippines / MANILA BULLETIN)
Pangilinan said the government should not allow a fish shortage to happen as this will surely raise fish prices in the end.
“We already have a pork shortage problem. Let’s not allow a fish shortage because for sure it will raise fish prices,” Pangilinan said.
On Saturday, fishermen of Zambales blamed their dwindling catch to the presence of at least 20 Chinese vessels anchored around 111 kilometers from San Antonio.
According to the fishermen, they usually earned as much as P4,000 per fishing trip but they are now coming back almost empty-handed due to the scarcity of catch.
Published April 8, 2021, 5:01 PM
Opposition Senator Francis ‘’Kiko’’ Pangilinan on Thursday, April 8, said the Philippine intelligence community should focus its attention on what China is doing at the Julian Felipe reef, a part of Philippine territory, and not nit-pick on small entities such as the Senate employees’ union.
Senator Francis Pangilinan
(Senate of the Philippines / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
The National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) should also look into the entry of some four million Chinese nationals into the country since 2017, he added.
Pangilinan, president of the Liberal Party, said he supports the stand of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on the continued refusal of a big number of Chinese armed militia vessels at Julian Felipe reef and nearby reefs.
The country could face a "humanitarian crisis" if the government would not step up its efforts to test, trace, and treat as many COVID-19 cases as possible to cut the transmission of the novel coronavirus, Senator Francis Pangilinan warned on Saturday, April 3.