(BUSINESS MIRROR) SENATOR Jinggoy Estrada is pressing for the timely passage of an enabling law seeking to impose tougher sanctions against misuse of police and military uniforms. In filing Senate Bill 2149, Estrada alerted both government and the public to “beware of the falsities and misrepresentation of people who pretend to be uniformed personnel by wearing…
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(BUSINESS MIRROR) A LAWMAKER is pushing to have all copies of textbooks and reference materials in public elementary and secondary schools digitized. This, as Senator Jinggoy Estrada is moving to realize the ideal 1:1 textbook-student ratio in public-learning institutions, which for him is facing major delays. Estrada said in Filipino that having digital copies accessible…
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(BUSINESS MIRROR) SEN. Jinggoy Estrada is asking Congress to pass a law requiring telecommunication companies (telcos) and Internet service providers (ISPs) to automatically refund subscribers when they experience at least 24 hours of accumulated service interruptions within a month. This is the gist of Senate Bill No. 2074, which Estrada filed last April 17. “A…
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(BUSINESS MIRROR) The winners of the search for the country’s best domestic workers pose with senators after being feted during the 10th anniversary of Republic Act 10361, or the Domestic Workers Act or Batas Kasambahay. he law’s author, Sen. Jinggoy Estrada, gave out the awards as head of the Senate’s Labor panel. He was joined…
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Senator Jinggoy Estrada, taking up the cudgels for aging military veterans bearing the rising costs of medical and other pressing needs, prodded Congress on Monday to frontload passage of an awaited remedial law “proposing to increase by 350 percent to 488 percent their disability pension.” In pressing for an upward adjustment in their pension fund,…
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