The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has mobilized its own personnel to assist the Bangsamoro Human Rights Commission (BHRC) in the investigation of the ambush of Christhia Angela Aragoncillo, an official of the Ministry of Social Services and Development in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has vehemently denounced as "grave violations of human rights" the series of rape cases reported in the country involving minors. But what is more alarming about the cases, the CHR pointed out, is the fact that most of the rape suspects are family members of the...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has directed the suspension of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) for the Luzon Region effective Monday afternoon, May 27, due to insufficient generation capacity in the grid. In a statement, ERC said the decision to suspend WESM operations followed...
Makati City 2nd district Rep. Luis Campos Jr. (Facebook) Citing the Philippines' perennial slow Internet, Makati City 2nd district Rep. Luis Campos Jr. has revived his proposal to penalize telecommunications companies (telcos) that fail to...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has denounced the May 19 bombing during a Catholic mass in a chapel in Cotabato City where two women worshipers were injured. In a statement, the CHR said the incident was "a deplorable act of violence that has no place in society." The CHR said that police...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has sought the release of 85-year-old Gerardo "Gerry" Dela Pena who, it said, had served almost 12 years in jail since his arrest on March 21, 2013. Published reports stated that Dela Pena was convicted of murder in 2014 for shooting his nephew. He was...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has vowed to monitor the investigation on the incident in Lubao, Pampanga where a Grade 9 school teacher "physically and verbally abused' three students. The investigation is being conducted by the regional office of the Department of Education (DepEd) and its...
It was another round of ‘madness’ for millions of Filipino consumers before the strike of midnight on Thursday (May 23), as most parts of Luzon grid had been tormented with one to 1.5-hour rotational brownouts. In the franchise area of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) alone, more than 487,000...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Friday, May 24 took the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to task in penalizing power-generating plants that may have breached their reliability index. Gatchalian’s call came in the face of looming rotating power outages,...
Commissioner Monina Arevalo Zenarosa of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has lauded the Senate’s initiative to propose the “Abogado Para sa Bayan” bill that would provide scholarships for deserving students who want to pursue legal education. As a retired Court of Appeals associate...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved the shelf registration of SM Prime Holdings Inc., one of the leading integrated property developers in Southeast Asia, for up to P100 billion of fixed-rate bonds and an initial offering worth up to P25 billion. In its meeting on May 23, the...
Despite its completion three years ago, the P7.3 million facility of the provincial government of Aurora for the production of coco coir nets has remained non-operational, the Commission on Audit (COA) said. In its 2023 annual audit report (AAR), the COA said that the subproject, Establishment of...
