Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Wednesday said Malacañang and the Department of Justice (DOJ) should not allow Public Attorneys Office (PAO) Chief Persida Acosta to report to work for her continued refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Drilon said he finds it unacceptable that...
Detained Senator Leila de Lima on Sunday, Jan. 2, said the Department of Justice (DOJ) should be flexing the long arm of the law on real criminals and not on members of the political opposition like her. De Lima made the remark after the recent dismissal of a drug trafficking case against Kerwin...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Friday urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to look at the possible syndicate operating where people required to undergo the mandatory quarantine are able to skip it through means of bribery. Go made the call as he...
Presidential aspirant Senator Panfilo Lacson on Thursday urged state prosecutors and other investigating agencies to immediately look into the Commission on Audit’s (COA) report on the purported P1.44-trillion worth of infrastructure projects that are delayed, abandoned and/or left idle. “It is...
Should they win next year, the opposition candidates running with Vice President Leni Robredo will be more open to having the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigate the alleged extrajudicial killings (EJKs) that happened under the guise of the Duterte administration’s war on illegal...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima has urged the Senate to investigate the Bureau of Corrections’ (BuCor) decision to build a wall on a road leading to the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Brgy. Poblacion, Muntinlupa City and check if existing laws were violated during the activitiy. De Lima said the...
In an unprecedented move, the Muntinlupa City Council passed six resolutions Saturday, pertaining to the construction of walls on roads inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa by the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor). This is the first time that six resolutions were passed by the City Council...
The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) on Saturday built another wall on a road leading to a Department of Justice (DOJ) housing project inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Bgy. Poblacion, Muntinlupa. This was after residents tore down the first one that it erected on Friday night. The new wall built...
Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Wednesday, Nov. 17 supported a proposal to increase the 2022 budget of the Department of Justice (DOJ) in order to improve the justice system in the country. Pimentel, a former Senate President, also lauded the decision to fast track the modernization of...
A strong political will is needed for the national government to sell the large Muntinglupa national penitentiary and establish three regional detention centers, Senate President Vicente C. Sotto on Wednesday, Nov. 17 said. Sotto, thus, threw his support to Senate Minority Leader Franklin M. Drilon...
Bombarded by criticisms on its proposal to implement a "no vaccine, no subsidy" policy for the beneficiaries of the conditional cash transfer or Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries, an official of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) pointed to the local...
The stage is set for the thorough investigation and case build-up of criminal cases against police officers whom critics described to have played God in the conduct of anti-illegal drugs operations in the last five years. This, after the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the National Bureau of...
