MANILA — Team Unity senatorial bets are bullish that the steady rise of the peso, which has just hit a new six-year high of P47.455 per $1, will spell greater social payback for the masa and enable the government to save more from servicing its debts and thereby have more funds for its infrastructure and socio-economic projects.
Team Unity senatorial candidates will support the passage of new legislation imposing stricter penalties on polluters of water sources.
Senatorial candidates Edgardo Angara, Michael Defensor, Cesar Montano, Tessie Aquino-Oreta, Luis “Chavit” Singson, and Vicente “Tito” Sotto III said there is a need to pass laws that would deter the pollution of the diminishing water sources in the Philippines.
KAPATAGAN, Lanao del Norte ? Lanao’s most influential political clan ? the Dimaporos ? has thrown its full support behind Team Unity senatorial candidates as the TU ended its final swing to Mindanao a week before Election Day.
MANILA — Team Unity senatorial candidates have vowed to prioritize education in the coming Congress as a way to bridge the gap between the poor and the rich in this country.
Senatorial candidate Tessie Aquino-Oreta said that given the correct and adequate education, the country’s youth would grow as productive individuals who could free themselves from generational poverty.
MANILA — Perhaps for the first time since the downfall of the Marcos
dictatorship, four veteran alternative and folk musicians who gave
voice to the nationwide resistance against tyranny will perform on the
same stage and sing forgotten yet relevant songs of protest.
The four ? Heber Bartolome , Lolita Carbon, Paul Galang and Jess
Santiago ? will lead performers in Bayan Muna’s miting de avance
Tuesday starting at 6:00 pm at Barangay Tatalon, Araneta cor E.
Rodriguez Avenues in Quezon City.
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