Jinggoy Estrada questions barangay officials’ unpaid insurance fund

MANILA, Philippines — Is the national government negligent in paying the barangay officials’ insurance fund? At a Senate committee on local government hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Jinggoy Estrada questioned the allegedly unpaid barangay officials’ insurance fund, particularly asking if this had really been unpaid since 1995.  “In your position paper three years ago, you stated