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Photo Credit to www.newsinfo.inquirer.net via Google. This post is taken from the website of the House of Representatives of the Philippines (www.congress.gov.ph).  A bill establishing the Philippine Academy for Climate Change Adaptations and Disaster Risk Reduction has been filed in the House of Representatives. Rep. Rufus B. Rodriguez (2nd District, Cagayan de Oro City) said the objective of climate change body he proposed in House Bill 3987 is to provide students an opportunity to learn from experienced trainers and local communities about both the theory and practice of disasters risk reduction and climate change adaptation. "It will enrich the research activities of the students and increase their practical knowledge of the possibilities and the implementation of the theory at the community level," Rodriguez said. Rodriguez said disaster risk reduction is the concept and practice of reducing disaster risks through the systematic efforts to analyze and reduce the causal f...

This bill would benefit the world's texting capital, the Philippines.  A reduction of 20 centavos per text message is already a big help.  Let us support Rep. Terry L. Ridon for his great endeavor. The author does not claim ownership of this post.  It was originally published in the website of the House of Representatives at www.congress.gov.ph.  His main purpose was to publicize what our government official is doing for the welfare of our countrymen.   Rep. Terry L. Ridon (Party-list, Kabataan) has filed a bill seeking to lower the cost of mobile phone services and also mandate the telecommunication companies to file a petition with the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) whenever price adjustments on phone service fees are proposed. Ridon said House Bill 4380 also seeks the abolition of the interconnection fees for mobile phone services saying "the telecommunication companies have already recouped their expenses for infrastructure an...

This post is taken from the official website of the House of Representatives of the Philippines ( http://www.congress.gov.ph/).  Hopefully, this measure would provide the students in the public schools the access to medical services they ought to have supposedly. Moreover, it would also provide employment to our Registered Nurses and thereby would lessen the increasing number of unemployed RN nationwide. A House leader is seeking an inquiry into the possibility of appointing one nurse for every public school to provide accessible health care to some 17 million students enrolled in public schools nationwide and provide jobs to some of the 221,000 unemployed nurses in the country. Deputy Speaker Carlos Padilla sought the inquiry through House Resolution 1283 which directs the House Committee on Basic Education to look into the possibility of employing one school nurse for every public school in the country. "Assigning a nurse to every public school in the country...

Just before Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III delivered his 5th State of the Nation Address, a militant-minority-bloc of members of the Lower House or the House of Representatives has endorsed an IMPEACHMENT COMPLAINT against him.  Would this impeachment complaint succeed?  It would be another story. A picture of Impeach Pres. Aquino movement taken from newsinfo.inquirer.net This post would discuss how to impeach a public officer.  Of course, the discussion is basically based on what the 1987 Philippine Constitution provides. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment tells us that impeachment is a formal process in which an official is accused of unlawful activity, the outcome of which, depending on the country, may include the removal of that official from office as well as criminal or civil punishment.  In the Philippines, to impeach a public official simply means to to remove from office. In the 1987 Philippine Constitution, the followin...

On Wednesday, June 18, 2014, the Manila Bulletin reported that members of the House of Representatives propose for a creation of a high profile detention center. A photo taken from google.com.   House Bill (HB) No. 1360 or the “High Profile Detention Center Act of 2013” would create a separate detention center for “high criminals” but the proponents of said bill were quick to comment that such proposal won’t accord undue special treatment for the accused. AKO-BICOL Party-list Representative Rodel Batocabe and ACT-CIS Party-list Representative Samuel Pagdilao defended the salient features of the said bill at a news forum held at the House of Representative on Tuesday. “High profile cases” as the defined in the said bill, they refer to those that have attracted attention and publicity by reason of the relative position of the parties in society, cases imbued with public interest or cases which involve national security and safety. “It would cover sensati...