Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo asked the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) to conduct a fair investigation on the allegations against her which she called untrue and baseless. Lawyers of Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo—Atty. Lorelie M. Santos and Atty. Yvette Dawn P. Gianan...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, June 17 expressed alarm over the reported link of convicted former Technology and Resource Center Director General, Dennis Cunanan, to the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO) in both Bamban, Tarlac and Porac, Pampanga. The senator said documents...
The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) is filing "serious" and "non-bailable" criminal charges on Friday against suspended Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo, and several others, its spokesman said on Saturday, June 15. Photo from Mayor Alice Leal Guo/Facebook PAOCC spokesman Winston...
Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros on Friday, June 7 vowed to also look into the reported “leakage” that marred authorities’ operation against a Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) company in Pampanga. “Nagpupugay ako sa Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission...
Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian expressed concern over the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) company based in Bamban, Tarlac after intelligence agencies confirmed that it's already deeply rooted there, having influence over politicians, and even law enforcement agencies. Sen....
Mayor Alice Leal Guo of Bamban, Tarlac on Thursday, June 6, asked the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) to lift her six-month preventive suspension on administrative charges filed against her. In her motion, Guo told the OMB her suspension should be lifted "on the ground that grave errors of...
Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Leal Guo has claimed that the Chinese national that senators allege is her biological mother is actually her father’s mistress. Guo, in her five-paged personal letter addressed to the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality...
Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada on Tuesday, June 4 pushed for the bill that would strengthen the system of filing of birth certificates in the country, noting how delayed registration of such documents have been abused. Estrada said passage into law of Senate Bill No. 2703...
Mayor Alice Guo (Facebook) The Ombudsman's suspension order against Mayor Alice Guo of Bamban, Tarlac will have no bearing on the Office of the Solicitor General's (OSG) investigation against her. Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra made this...
Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra has admitted that the filing of a quo warranto petition against controversial Mayor Alice Guo of Bamban, Tarlac is a very complicated proposition. Guevarra explained the...
Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros considers appropriate the preventive suspension order against Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo yet hopes that this is not too late. This was after the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) ordered the preventive suspension for not more than six months of Guo and...
The Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) has ordered the preventive suspension for not more than six months of Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Leal Guo and two other town officials after finding that there is strong evidence against them in the administrative charges of grave misconduct, conduct prejudicial to...