President-elect Bongbong Marcos underscored on Monday, June 20 the need to hasten the release of national identification cards (IDs) among Filipinos. (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) Marcos, in an impromptu press briefing at the BBM headquarters in Mandaluyong City, said he finds the current level...
“The short lists are getting shorter. If we started with 10 names, a dozen names, we are down to maybe three or two in each of those departments.” President-elect Bongbong Marcos (BBM Media Bureau) Thus, said President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. in a press conference on Monday,...
President-elect Bongbong Marcos is taking on the portfolio of Department of Agriculture (DA) secretary, as least temporarily. President-elect Bongbong Marcos (BBM Media Bureau) Marcos announced this himself in an impromptu press conference Monday, June 20, at the BBM headquarters in Mandaluyong...
House Deputy Speaker Rep. Rufus Rodriguez has promised to refile two electoral reform bills in the 19th Congress: one to ban the substitution of candidates in national and local elections; and another that declares incumbent officials as automatically resigned upon filing of certificates of...
A wake up call. (Unsplash) That's how outgoing Quezon City 5th district Rep. Alfred Vargas described the power outages in Luzon over the weekend, which affected an estimated one million residents, “This incident, which has been attributed to insufficient power supply, is a stark reminder that we...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is calling on Filipinos to pray for a Filipino lawyer who is in a critical condition after being shot in a random shooting incident in Philadelphia recently. DFA (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin identified the shooting...
With pump fuel prices seemingly racing toward the P100 per liter-mark, Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte is prodding the incoming Marcos administration to consider putting up a national strategic petroleum reserve (SPR). (Ali Vicoy/ MANILA BULLETIN) “I hope the BBM (Bongbong...
