Bill strengthening AMLA now only needs Duterte’s signature By MA. ANGELICA GARCIA, GMA News
Published January 20, 2021 8:02pm The House of Representatives on Wednesday ratified the bicameral conference committee report on the bill aimed to strengthen the Anti-Money Laundering Act. In a statement, Speaker Lord Allan Velasco said the final version of the AMLA amendments will be immediately sent to President Rodrigo Duterte for his signature The approved bicameral version had included tax crime as a predicate offense to money laundering and set a threshold to excess of P25 million. The bicameral panel also agreed to require the submission of reports on all real estate transactions involving an excess of P7.5 million to the Anti-Money Laundering Council. It also retained the House provision granting the AMLC the power to investigate, issue subpoenas and conduct search and seizure.
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2021 judiciary budget to help decongest courts
Published 3 months ago
Angara noted that the National Expenditure Program submitted by Malacañang to Congress last year did not contain a provision for the appointment of judges-at-large. (File Photo: Sonny Angara/Facebook)
MANILA – The judiciary will be able to fast-track the adjudication of several pending court cases with the support provided by Congress under the 2021 national budget for the appointment of judges-at-large, Senator Sonny Angara said Sunday.
Angara, who steered the early approval of the 2021 General Appropriations Act (GAA) as chairman of the Senate’s Committee on Finance, said a total of PHP244.988 million was included in the budget of the judiciary for the implementation of Republic Act 11459 or the Judges-at-Large Act.
Published January 18, 2021, 10:06 PM
The House of Representatives leadership on Monday stripped of committee assignments two staunch allies of former speaker and incumbent Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano who helped him form the new political bloc BTS, an acronym taken from the popular K-pop group.
Rep. Mike Defensor and Rep. Lray Villafuerte
After BTS fans took offense to the group for allegedly “politicizing” the image of their idols, Speaker Lord Allan Velasco’s leadership also showed his displeasure by relieving Reps. Michael T. Defensor (Anakalusugan Partylist) and LRay Villafuerte (NP, Camarines Sur) of vice chairmanship assignments.
Defensor, who was recently sacked as chairman of the House Committee on Public Accounts and Good Government, lost the vice chairmanship of five House panels – the Committees on Health, on Public Information, on Dangerous Drugs, and on Public Accounts.
Published January 18, 2021, 6:50 PM
Whether rich or poor, all local government units will receive from the national government COVID-19 vaccines that will cover 70 percent of their population, with the more affluent getting the advantage of inoculating 100 percent of local population.
Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr., chief implementer of the National Task Force (NTF) on COVID-19
(NTF AGAINST COVID-19 / MANILA BULLETIN)
Thus, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez stressed that LGUs, mostly in Metro Manila, that have money to spare to purchase vaccines for their constituents will have a bigger chance of inoculating a larger part of their population.
Nearly all LGUs in Metro Manila, led by the cities of Quezon, Makati, Manila, Navotas, Pasig and Caloocan, are ready to spend to purchase vaccines that would add to their 70 percent share from the national government.