The next Ombudsman should be chosen based on integrity, intelligence and insight—three qualities vital in detecting corruption at its earliest stages, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano said. Speaking with reporters after the August 28 interview of the first batch of Ombudsman applicants, whose screening...
The Taguig City government held the Regatta sa Lawa boat race to celebrate its first World Lake Day on Aug. 27. The boat race was held in Laguna Lake in Barangay Lower Bicutan participated in by fisherfolk, athletes and residents. Barangay Bagumbayan won as grand champion with a time of seven...
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano on Wednesday, August 27 flagged the Department of Public Works and Highways’ (DPWH) Engineering and Administrative Overhead (EAO) fund, noting that it ballooned to P94 billion from 2022 to 2025 without ensuring project quality. Cayetano said this resulted to wasted...
A grandmother who turned 100 years old received a cash gift of P100,000 from the Taguig City government. Mayor Lani Cayetano personally delivered the check to Victoria Almazan at her home in Barangay Katuparan. She was accompanied by Councilors Raul Aquino and Edgar Baptista. “Maligayang...
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano welcomed reports online gambling transactions plunged by half after the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) ordered e-wallet providers to take down gambling site links. Cayetano lauded the development days after senators grilled central bank officials during a Senate blue...
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano was elected on Tuesday, August 19 to the Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET), a body that decides on electoral protests in the Senate of the Philippines. The Senate announced his election was announced on the plenary floor during the chamber’s 3 p.m. session. He will be...
Taguig City Mayor Lani Cayetano ordered an aggressive and sustained anti-illegal drugs operations in the city even as she commended the police for the series of arrests of suspected illegal drugs peddlers during several buy-bust operations. “These are not minor arrests. These are high-value drug...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has ordered e-wallet applications to remove within 48 hours all online gambling links that appear on their respective platforms. The BSP gave this order on the day of the Senate hearing of the Committee on Games and Amusement on the paint of online gambling on...
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano has urged Congress to give the same focus to pressing national concerns the same way it poured so much effort into the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte. Cayetano pointed this out as he defended his “yes” vote on the motion to archive the Articles...
The Senate on Monday, August 4, named Senator Paolo “Bam” Aquino IV as the chairperson of the Senate Committee on Science and Technology. Meanwhile, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano will now head the Senate Committee on Banks and Financial Institution. This marks Aquino’s second time leading the...
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano reiterated his belief the Senate should decide once and for all to either radically fund the K to 12 program or abolish it entirely. Earlier, during a plenary session, Cayetano pointed out that a decade of poor implementation of the K to 12 program only worsened the...
Two senators have called for urgent and comprehensive reforms in the Philippine education system, urging the 20th Congress to pursue “radical change” through the 2026 education budget, and outlining a seven-point agenda to address the country’s education crisis. In his first privilege speech...
