ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Warren Kiamco and Lee Vann Corteza both gun for honors as the third leg of the Senate President Manuel Villar Cup for billiards unfolds July 25 at the SM City in Marilao, Bulacan.
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
MANILA, July 17 (PNA) -- Senate president Manuel Villar filed Senate Resolution No. 504 urging the Senate committees on agriculture and food, and social justice and human rights to inquire into the plight of fishermen and the fishing industry in the wake of recent calamities.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
... senator filed the petition after several Senate personalities, including Senate President Manuel Villar Jr., appeared in television and billboard commercials.Villar's commercial, aired over television and radio, boasts how he helped abused overseas Filipino workers by paying their air fare back to the Philippines.At least three senators -- Panfilo Lacson, Francis Escudero and...
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Senate President Manuel Villar Jr. chided Sen. Jamby Madrigal Saturday for belatedly questioning the composition of the Commission on Appointments (CA) before the Supreme Court.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
... have called me up]," said Baja, who now works as a foreign affairs consultant of Senate President Manuel Villar.Baja said he is also puzzled at the silence of retired Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr., the current Philippine representative to the UN."I have not [heard] a word, nothing," Baja told a radio dzMM interview when asked if Davide has contacted him about the charges filed...
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
... others have just returned to the country courtesy of Senator Jinggoy Estrada. Senate President Manuel Villar earlier sponsored the repatriation of ten other OFWs.Estrada, chairman of the Senate Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources Development, earlier initiated the creation of a fund to aid workers in the UAE who are victims of abuse and maltreatment. While at the UAE,...
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
These are: Vice-President Noli de Castro, Senate President Manuel Villar, Senators Francis Pangilinan, Francis "Chiz" Escudero, Richard Gordon, Gregorio Honasan, Panfilo Lacson, Loren Legarda and Manuel "Mar" Roxas II, former president Joseph Estrada, Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay, Quezon City Mayor Feliciano "Sonny" Belmonte, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority chairman...
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
... the win added confidence in his continuing campaign as he prepares for the second leg of the Sen. Manuel Villar Cup this month in Cebu City.
Sunstar (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
... de Castro, Sen. Edgardo Angara, Rep. Edcel Lagman, Rep. Florencio T. Miraflores. Senate President Manuel Villar, Rep. Amelita Villarosa, And Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno. (OPS/NIB Photo) PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Thursday signed into law Republic Act (RA) 9503, which expanded the organizational structure of the Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) through the creation...
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
In a 25-page petition for Prohibition and Mandamus with Prayer for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO), Madrigal named as respondents "Sen. Manuel Villar, in his capacity as Senate President and Ex-Officio Chairman of the Commission on Appointments, Rep. Prospero Nograles in his capacity as the Speaker of the House of the Representatives" and the Commission on Appointments.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
... past, most bills were not approved in the first regular session of a Congress,” Senate President Manuel Villar said on Thursday. During the 12th and 13th Congresses, the Senate only passed on third and second reading a total of 16 and eight bills, respectively. “[This] should put to rest criticisms that the Senate has reneged on its lawmaking functions in favor of oversight congressional...
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Opposition Sen. Maria Ana "Jamby" Madrigal on Wednesday walked out a hearing of the Commission on Appointments after questioning the composition of the bicameral panel.Madrigal said the "old boys' club" mentality in the present CA allows the railroading of the appointments of several Cabinet members. She said Senate President Manuel Villar was being a fence-sitter for failing to act on...
Sunstar (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Tuesday certified as urgent the House bill extending the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (Carp) that include the acquisition and distribution of farm lands. Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said the President had already sent a letter certifying House Bill (HB) 4077 as urgent to Speaker Prospero Nograles and Senate President Manuel...
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
MANILA, June 4 (PNA) -- President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has certified as urgent a bill extending the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) for five more years. Press Secretary and Presidential Spokesman Ignacio R. Bunye on Tuesday said the President has already written Senate president Manuel Villar and House Speaker Prospero Nograles about the urgency to...
