April 19, 2013
Senator Loren Legarda today called on the Commission on Elections and her fellow candidates to ensure that campaign expenditures especially on TV advertisements are fully transparent, following the Supreme Court order restraining the imposition of airtime limits.
“With the COMELEC airtime limits now counted on a per network basis, anyone who uses the full airtime of 180 minutes for radio and 120 minutes for TV will violate the spending cap for candidates of approximately P150 million,” Legarda noted. “That means […]
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April 17, 2013
Senator Loren Legarda, Senate foreign relations committee chair, today called on the Department of Labor and Employment and the Department of Foreign Affairs to intensify representations with the Saudi government for the immediate repatriation of stranded overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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April 17, 2013
Believing that upgrading the quality of Philippine education is a good investment for the country, Senator Loren Legarda has allocated a large amount of her Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) to the construction and rehabilitation of classrooms and school buildings.
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April 16, 2013
Sen. Loren Legarda today expressed alarm over the discovery of more than 20,000 pounds of meat from the endangered pangolin in the Chinese vessel that ran aground in Tubbataha and urged the authorities to dig deeper into the matter.
She said the discovery of the banned cargo should prod Philippine Navy and Coast Guard authorities to exercise the highest vigilance as similar illegal activities could be taking place off […]
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April 15, 2013
About 5,000 students of the Isabela State University who are children of farmers are to be the first batch of beneficiaries of Sen. Loren Legarda’s “Pantawid Tuition Program.” Legarda, who has put premium on education, announced her plan for the first batch of student beneficiaries during her visit to the province over the weekend.
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