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Cash birthday gifts for Bacolod senior citizens mulled
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (295+ words) " CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO An ordinance granting birthday cash gifts to senior citizens of Bacolod City, was recently passed on first reading by the Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod. The ordinance authored by Councilor Em Ang and co-authored by Councilor Dindo Ramos, said the…...
Bacolod starts pension payout for 14, 000 seniors
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (181+ words) " THERESA MAE DULMAN More than 14, 000 senior citizens in Bacolod City are set to receive their social pension as the city government officially began the distribution of payouts on Monday. Councilor Celia Matea Flor, the author of the city's social pension…...
Sancho rues lack of sectoral representation in local councils
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (170+ words) Wennie Sancho, secretary general of the General Alliance of Workers Assn. (GAWA), yesterday said that one of the most forgotten provisions of the Local Government Code of the Philippines is the sectoral representations in the local sanggunians. Sancho said no…...