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The government is allocating a bigger P1.42-trillion budget for infrastructure development under the 2024 National Expenditure Program in a bid to spur higher economic growth, Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandman said. In a statement Tuesday, she said the amount is 6.6 percent higher than the P1.33 trillion allotted for this year. “To create more jobs and […]
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The proposed nationwide entrance test for higher education should focus more on equity to ensure that poor students would have better chances of admission to state universities and colleges (SUCs), Commission on Higher Education chairman Prospero de Vera III said. De Vera made the statement in response to the proposal of Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno […]
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The Commission on Human Rights has almost 2,000 cases against policemen in its docket, its chairperson Richard Palpal-latoc told the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday. “Involving Philippine National Police personnel as respondents, we have a total of 1,966 cases and [those cases involve] a total of 2,208 victims of human rights violations,” the CHR chief […]
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