Senator Loren Legarda today said that the Metropolitan Museum of Manila (MET) and the Independent Curators International (ICI) has extended the deadline of application for the Curatorial Intensive in Manila.
Filipino applicants may submit their application until September 10, 2016. The Curatorial Intensive in Manila is supported by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Office of Senator Loren Legarda.
Senator Loren Legarda has filed a bill that would establish the People’s Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), to replace the People’s Television Network, Inc. (PTNI).
Legarda, a former broadcast journalist, said that the rapidly evolving media landscape, together with the need for a reinvigorated government-owned broadcast station, necessitates the abolition of PTNI to be replaced by PBC, which will be granted both television and radio broadcasting rights.
Senator Loren Legarda has filed a bill (Senate Bill No. 411) that seeks to strengthen the regulation of the country’s health facilities and services to ensure the quality, safety, accessibility and affordability of health services, especially for the poor.
Senator Loren Legarda has filed a bill (Senate Bill No. 416) proposing mandatory child nutrition program in all public elementary schools and barangay day care centers in order to address the country’s worsening state of malnutrition.
Legarda pointed out that the country’s chronic malnutrition rate has increased from 30.3% in 2013 to 33.5 % in 2015 based on latest Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) data. Moreover, a study by the international organization Save The Children showed that 1 in 3 Filipino children suffers from stunting.
Senator Loren Legarda today expressed support to the administration’s major thrusts in the national budget and said that the Senate will work on ensuring that the people’s money will flow back to them through programs that are beneficial to all.
