The Senate must proceed with the amendment of the Electric Power
Industry Reform Act (Epira) even if the House is no longer
interested in the endeavor, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino
“Nene” Pimentel Jr. said Thursday.
He told the weekly Kapihan sa Senado that the
Senate had already received the manifestation from the House
Committee on Energy headed by Rep. Mikey Arroyo of Pampanga that
they are no longer interested in amending the Epira.
DEDICATION and sacrifice surely reap rewards as more than a hundred
Filipinos were awarded with peacekeeping medals by the United
Nations recently, the Philippine Mission to the United Nations
reported Thursday.
THE Board of Marine Inquiry will summon more survivors of the MV
Princess of the Stars in a bid to beat the 15-day deadline imposed
by President Gloria Arroyo to finish the probe on the sea tragedy.
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