January 8, 2010
SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA VOWED YESTERDAY TO LOOK INTO A $41.67 MILLION IRRIGATION PROJECT IN THE PROVINCE OF LEYTE WHICH WAS DECLARED A FAILURE BY THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB), A MANILA-BASED MULTILATERAL FINANCING INSTITUTION.
The chair of the Senate Food and Agriculture Committee and the Congressional Oversight Committee on Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization (COCAFM), Loren, noted with dismay that an independent evaluation conducted by ADB on the 2nd Irrigation Systems Improvement project deemed it “inefficient” and “unsustainable” in attaining its […]
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January 7, 2010
ARE THE POOR BENEFITING AT ALL FROM THE GOVERNMENT’S HEAVY FOREIGN BORROWINGS?
Senator Loren Legarda posed this question as the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported that the country’s outstanding external debt amounted to $53.1 billion as of the end of the third quarter, up 2.5 percent from $51.8 billion recorded as of end-June.
“The country’s economic managers should be forthright and tell us exactly where the foreign borrowings are spent on, because the number of poor Filipinos has not […]
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January 6, 2010
PLANT MORE TREES, AND WE CAN SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT AND DEAL WITH CLIMATE CHANGE WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME. THIS WAS THE KEY MESSAGE CONVEYED BY SEN. LOREN LEGARDA, FOUNDER OF LUNTIANG PILIPINAS, AN ENVIRONMENTAL NGO, IN A RADIO INTERVIEW TODAY.
Loren observed that at the rate Filipinos are cutting down trees in the 700,000 remaining hectares of virgin forests, then the country will not have any more virgin forests in ten years.
Loren warned of dire consequences if the […]
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January 6, 2010
MABITAC, LAGUNA – NOTING THAT MORE THAN FOUR MILLION FILIPINO CHILDREN ARE CONSIDERED UNDERNOURISHED AND MALNOURISHED, SEN. LOREN LEGARDA TODAY ADVOCATED A BIGGER AND SUSTAINED FEEDING PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN, ESPECIALLY THROUGH THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.
Speaking before municipal and barangay officials here, Loren said that in giving priority to education, the government should also pay more attention to improving the health of rural and community residents, especially the children.
Loren said that she would push through her proposals to institute a […]
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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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