Legarda brings back Bayong-All-You-Can in Senate, hopes to help distressed farmers through rescue buys

February 1, 2024

Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda once again brought back the Bayong-All-You-Can to the Senate and distributed 2.5 tons of rescue produce through Rural Rising Philippines, a non-profit organization founded by spouses Ace and Andie Estrada from Baguio City.
Among the crops distributed for this year’s BAYC are upo, yellow corn, eggplant, cucumber, sugar beets, white onions, papaya, carrots, radish, wombok, dippig, tumok, puso ng saging, white and red sweet potato, cauliflower, and cabbage, which all came from Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, […]

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Legarda lauds PH participation at Ambiente trade show in Germany

January 29, 2024

Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda lauded DESIGNPhilippines as a beautiful way to highlight Filipino artisanship and creativity as it opened its exhibit at the leading European trade show Ambiente in Messe Frankfurt, Germany, on January 26.
Legarda, regarded as a legislative champion of Filipino craftsmanship, supported the endeavor anew.
“We wish success to the Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (CITEM), an attached corporation of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), as the biggest delegation of the country has […]

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Legarda urges Filipinos to embody the legacy of the First PH Republic

January 25, 2024

As the country commemorated the 125th Anniversary of the First Philippine Republic on January 23, 2024, Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda emphasized the importance of upholding the idealism of this historic event that helped change the country’s progress after more than a century, urging Filipinos to look at it as a burning and undying symbol of democracy across the nation.
In her privilege speech on January 24, Legarda underscored the commemoration as a way to relive the lessons of the […]

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Ika-125 Anibersayo ng Pagpapasinaya ng Unang Republika ng Pilipinas

January 24, 2024

Mensahe ni Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda
Ika-25 Anibersayo ng Pagpapasinaya ng Unang Republika ng Pilipinas
January 24, 2024
Isang makasaysayang araw sa ating lahat!
Ginoong Pangulo,
Kahapon lamang ay nagsama-sama ang ilan sa atin sa simbahan ng Barasoain, ang simbolo ng pagbabago. Ang mga kaganapan sa makasaysayang simbahan sa lungsod ng Malolos—ang pagpupulong ng Unang Kongreso ng Pilipinas, ang pagbalangkas sa Konstitusyon ng Malolos, at ang pagpapasinaya ng Unang Republika ng Pilipinas—ay mga hudyat ng panibagong simulain tungo sa layunin […]

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Statement on the 5th Anniversary of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM)

January 24, 2024

SENATE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE LOREN LEGARDA’S STATEMENT ON THE 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BANGSAMORO AUTONOMOUS REGION IN MUSLIM MINDANAO (BARMM)
24 January 2024
We extend our warm felicitations to the Bangsamoro people on the observance of the five-year anniversary of the Bangsamoro government
The road towards the passage of a Bangsamoro Organic law has been long, and in fact, this conflict has been called the longest.
I know the scars of conflict to be harshest as I have been a security partner ever […]

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