Co-Sponsorship Speech Committee Report No. 28 – Senate Bill No. 1869 Center for Disease Control and Prevention 13 February 2023 Mister President, with the indulgence of the author and sponsor, my beautiful kumare, Senator Pia Cayetano, I would like to co-sponsor Senate Bill No. 1869 entitled: “An Act Creating the Philippine Center for Disease Control…
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JINGGOY DEFENDS SBN 1849: Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, chairperson of the Committee on National Defense faces fellow senators during the plenary session Monday, February 13, 2023, to defend Senate Bill No. 1894 which seeks to amend Republic Act (RA) No. 11709 or “An Act Strengthening Professionalism and Promoting the Continuity of Policies and Modernization Initiatives…
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(MANILA BULLETIN) Senators on Friday, February 10 welcomed the proposal for the Philippines and Japan to strengthen its military and security ties with the United States, including the holding of joint military exercises and disaster response cooperation. “This is nothing new as there had been a similar undertaking and the most recent of which was…
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This is nothing new as there had been a similar undertaking and the most recent of which was the Trilateral Cooperative Arrangement (TCA) between Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, a regional commitment focused on measures to address maritime security threats and challenges. The recent years’ changing regional security landscape exposed our country’s vulnerabilities. Any strategic…
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JINGGOY ASSURES SBN 1849 WILL ADDRESS REVOLVING-DOOR POLICY: Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, chairperson of the Committee on National Defense and Security, assures his colleagues that Senate Bill 1894 which seeks to amend Republic Act 11709 or “An Act Strengthening Professionalism and Promoting the Continuity of Policies and Modernization Initiatives in the Armed Forces of the…
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(MANILA STANDARD) Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada aired his concern over alleged “dummy” Filipino owners of placement agencies recruiting land-based overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Estrada also called out officials of the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on the matter, and urged the department to cancel the recruitment license of the local recruitment agency of slain OFW…
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(SMNI NEWS) NAGBABALA ngayon si Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada laban sa mga umano’y mga dummy na Pilipinong may-ari ng mga placement agencies na nagre-recruit ng land-based overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Nanawagan si Estrada sa mga opisyal ng Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) na bantayan mabuti ang usaping ito bunsod ng kaso ng pagpaslang sa OFW na si…
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(POLITIKO) Senator Jinggoy Estrada on Thursday urged officials of the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) and other concerned government agencies to be on the lookout for alleged “dummy” Filipino owners of placement agencies recruiting land-based overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Estrada raised this possibility during Wednesday’s Senate hearing following the cancellation of the recruitment license of…
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(JOURNAL NEWS) SENATOR Jose Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, rang the alarm bells on alleged “dummy” Filipino owners of placement agencies recruiting land-based overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Estrada called out officials of the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on the matter in the wake of the recent case of slain OFW Jullebee Ranara…
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(GLOBAL DAILY MIRROR) In response to the recent incident of a slain OFW in Kuwait, Senator Jinggoy Estrada called out the officials of the Department and Migrant Workers (DMW) to inspect “dummy” Filipino owners of placement agencies recruiting land-based overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). During Wednesday’s Senate public hearing on Jullebee Ranara’s case, Estrada stated that…
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