January 5, 2010
SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA PUSHED TODAY FOR THE CREATION OF A GOVERNMENT AGENCY THAT WOULD LICENSE AND REGULATE THE PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING IN THE COUNTRY, INCLUDING THOSE OF FOREIGN PLANNERS WHO ARE CONTRACTED FOR WORK IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Loren stressed that environmental planning in the establishment of communities and in the construction of public and private structures like buildings, roads and houses has taken an added importance in view of the deleterious effects of climate change already being felt […]
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January 5, 2010
SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA WANTS THE SENATE TO IMMEDIATELY PASS THE BILL SHE AUTHORED CREATING THE MIGRANT WORKERS HOSPITAL SO THAT RETURNING OFWS CAN AVAIL THEMSELVES OF MEDICAL CARE.
Loren cited official statistics that 42 percent of returning or repatriated OFWs require immediate medical attention or hospital confinement.
“Many OFWs suffer exploitation and even physical abuse in the hands of their employers. Some arrive home with physical ailments, while others even have mental problems. But is government ready to help them?” […]
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January 4, 2010
SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA WARNED TODAY THAT THE RELAXATION BY THE BANGKO SENTRAL NG PILIPINAS (BSP) OF ITS RULES ON FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS MAY BE USED BY SOME CORRUPT PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT TO PARK THEIR ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH OUTSIDE OF THE PHILIPPINES TO ESCAPE GARNISHMENT.
“There may be good and valid reasons for this move by the BSP to allow just anyone to buy $30 million from local banks and to ‘invest’ the same abroad without needing approval anymore from the BSP,” […]
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January 3, 2010
THE NATIONALIST PEOPLE’S COALITION ON SUNDAY NIGHT STRONGLY CONDEMNED THE “BLACK PROPAGANDA” BEING WAGED AGAINST SEN. LOREN LEGARDA, THE NPC-NP CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT, AS “UNWARRANTED, BLATANTLY FALSE AND SCURRILOUS.”
Valenzuela City Rep. Rex Gatchalian, NPC spokesman, referred to text messages being circulated by anonymous sources claiming that Senator Legarda had filed a bill seeking to reduce the salaries of public school teachers and military personnel.
“Nothing could be farther from the truth,” Gatchalian said. “On the contrary, Senator Legarda […]
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January 2, 2010
SEN. LOREN LEGARDA WILL TAKE A MORE ACTIVE ROLE IN PUSHING HER ADVOCACY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND MORE GREEN TECHNOLOGY WITH THE ADVENT OF THE NEW YEAR.
As her New Year’s resolution, Loren said she would pursue her climate change advocacy “more passionately and bring it to the grassroots to show how it directly affects food and hunger.
Loren said she would also “try to convince business and industry to adopt green technology.”
“I will do these with even […]
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