President Marcos hailed modern-day heroes as the country commemorated National Heroes’ Day, stressing that nation-building is a “constant and unrelenting endeavor” that calls for the service of every generation. In his message for the occasion, the President underscored that new heroes...
FROM THE MARGINS On Aug. 18, 2025, Malacañang reaffirmed the administration’s commitment to strengthening micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) through the ongoing implementation of the MSME Development Plan 2023–2028. Speaking at the Presidential Awards for Outstanding MSMEs,...
When President Marcos took office in 2022, his administration vowed to ramp up oil and gas investments, starting within the safer terrains of the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ). It also eyed the flashpoint: restarting exploration and drilling in the contested waters of the West...
A successful compromise agreement—a process initiated during the previous administration—added ₱714 million to national coffers last May, coming from the current owner of a Monet painting that had been sold overseas and formed part of the ill-gotten wealth of the late strongman Ferdinand E....
House Deputy Majority Leader Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. Luigi Villafuerte has filed a bill that would help address the alarming incidents of school-based violence. Villafuerte filed in the current 20th Congress House Bill (HB) No.163, or the Mental Health and Digital Wellbeing for Youth Act of...
Recognizing its benefits, Bagong Henerasyon (BH) Party-list Rep. Robert Nazal is prodding all Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) members to take full advantage of the government’s newly launched Guaranteed and Accessible Medications for Outpatient Treatment (GAMOT) package, which...
Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan on Sunday, August 24 called on President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to certify as urgent a bill institutionalizing the extension services provided by the government to farmers and fisherfolk. Pangilinan, who chairs the Senate Committee on Agriculture,...
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Sunday, August 24 expressed the belief that the final test on corrupted flood control projects lies in the certainty of punishment. Lacson said that while President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) and the launching of the...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez has hailed President Marcos ' commitment to protect the rights and the dignity of the country’s so-called modern-day heroes, the overseas Filipino worker (OFW). This, as Romualdez, the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD) president, welcomed the set of...
President Marcos declared that he would not leave Malacañang until the country’s flood control problems were resolved, calling out corruption and poor workmanship in government projects. “If there’s one thing I will not leave this office until I fix this. This is one of those things,”...
A civil society group based in Bulacan has urged President Marcos to include provincial officials in the investigation of ghost projects and other anomalies involving flood control projects in the province. In a complaint forwarded to Malacañang on Aug. 22, Tindig Kalikasan claimed that Bulacan...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on Saturday, Aug. 23, moved to hold erring officials accountable as it prepared for a sweeping internal “cleansing” over alleged ghost and substandard flood control projects in Bulacan. In a radio interview, DPWH Secretary Manuel Bonoan said...
