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BETTER DAYS The Duterte administration has enacted several decisive measures aimed at making government processes simpler, more efficient, and more responsive to the Filipino peoples’ needs. One was signed last July — R.A. 11573, which simplified our land titling system by improving the confirmat
Senator Francis Tolentino (Senate of the Philippines) Tolentino, in a statement on Wednesday, August 4, stressed that tollways “are the blood veins of the Philippine economy, encompassing our way of life and facilitating the mobility of people, goods, and services.” In his interpellation on Senate Bill No. 2094, which seeks to amend the Commonwealth Act No. 146 or the Public Service Act (PSA), Tolentino warned that allowing foreign companies to take control of the country’s expressways might have “national security implications in the long run.” “We are tiptoeing into some nationa...
Published June 1, 2021, 4:57 PM As the Senate starts to deliberate on the proposed amendments to the Philippine Services Act (PSA) on hopes to attract more foreign direct investments, consumers have spotted 2 provisions that would allow utilities firms to set rates without prior public consultations. In a letter to Senator Grace Poe, chairperson on the Senate committee on public services, Laban Konsyumer inc. (LKI) noted of the two items on Senate Bill 2094, which seeks to amend the 85-year old Commonwealth Act. No. 146, but which the group deemed inimical to the interest of consumers. Both c...
The country’s largest business groups have called for a review on two provisions – reciprocity clause and investments by foreign- state owned enterprises -- under the proposed Senate Bill 2094, which seeks to open the public services sector of the domestic economy to majority foreign equity ownersh
SunStar File photo May 30, 2021 ON MARCH 25, 2021, the bill creating the Metropolitan Davao Development Authority (MDDA) was passed on the third and final reading following the deliberations of the House of Representatives. The bill, which aims to focus on the socio-economic opportunities for the entire Davao Region, was hurried and unhampered amid the ongoing crisis brought about by the Covid-19. Davao City Third District Representative Isidro Ungab, proponent of the bill, bared this proposal during his oath-taking speech on June 21, 2019, at the Sangguniang Panlungsod. Ungab sa...