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Pangilinan, Hontiveros: Are all coco farmers already registered to benefit from P100B levy fund?
WITH two weeks left for coconut farmers to register, Senators Francis Kiko Pangilinan and Risa Hontiveros want to know the status of the Coconut Farmers Registry that will determine who will benefit from the 100-billion-peso coco levy funds and assets.
In Senate Resolution 736, Pangilinan and Hontiveros call for a Senate committee hearing on the status of the registration of the estimated 3.5 million coconut farmers in the country who are supposed to benefit from Republic Act 11524 or the Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund Act, which took effect March 13 this year.
Published May 29, 2021, 12:12 AM
With less than a year before the next national elections are held on May 9, 2022, what is the state of the Commission on Elections’ preparedness?
There are just four months left before the end of the voter registration period on September 30. The Comelec is finalizing arrangements with mall management companies so that voter registration can take place during weekends in their facilities a convenient set-up that would enable more eligible citizens to ensure their participation in the 2022 national elections.
As of last week, the Comelec has received more than three million applications for voter registration. During a recent Senate hearing, a Comelec official said that the target is to register four million new voters, the estimated number of Filipino youth reaching the minimum voting age by 2022.
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FINANCE SECRETARY Carlos G. Dominguez III said he expects the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) to grow faster in the second quarter, as the number of coronavirus infections have dropped from April’s peak and more vaccines have arrived.
“There is good news on the horizon, however. In the second quarter of this year, we expect to begin growing our economy again. We see that the second wave of infections that started at the end of March has subsided dramatically. We hope that this will be the last surge,” Mr. Dominguez told a forum on Thursday.
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Less than two weeks before the deadline of mass registration of coconut farmers, the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA), the lead agency tasked to implement the Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund Act or Coco Levy Act, is now 41 percent complete in the validation of the National Coconut Farmers