Less than a year before his term ends, President Duterte is being pressed by environment groups to act on their call to ban the use of single-use plastics as they assert "plastic pollution crisis should be addressed as urgently as the COVID-19 reponse." Environment groups EcoWaste Coalition, Break...
(SOCIAL WEATHER STATIONS) Most adult Filipinos agree that the country's president should only serve a single six-year term as stated under the 1987 Constitution, based on the Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey results released on Wednesday, Sept. 29 The non-commissioned SWS survey, conducted from...
If a "Tondo tandem" can vie for the top two positions in government, why can't a "Davao duo" do the same? Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio (left) and President Rodrigo Duterte (Photos from MANILA BULLETIN/ Malacañang) Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo raised this question in...
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio’s unwillingness to run for president despite consistently leading poll surveys for the position has given supporters more reason to encourage her to lead the nation. 50B3404E-BB7A-4E14-B32F-F0F7E874583D “Mayor Sara’s reluctance to run means she has...
President Duterte's defense of his supposed friends involved in the government's contracts with Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation should not be equated to tolerating acts of corruption. Senator Francis Tolentino (KEVIN DELA CRUZ/MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Administration ally Senator Francis...
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque recalled President Duterte's tirade against wealthy countries during the latter's recent speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) following the Philippines' dismal last place finish in Bloomberg’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Resilience...
"He is still the President." The Presidential Security Group (PSG) said that it will insist on joining President Duterte when he files his certificate of candidacy (COC) for vice president, saying the Commission on Elections (Comelec) cannot take the group's mandate of protecting the Chief...
Despite an unexpected second-place finish, Malacañang is unbothered by the result of a recent vice presidential preference survey, saying President Duterte is still the candidate to beat in the upcoming 2022 elections. President Rodrigo Duterte and Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III...
There is still a huge possibility that Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio could run for the highest position in government in the upcoming May 2022 national elections, a member of the Partido ng Demokratikong Pilipino-Laban (PDP-Laban) led by Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi said on Wednesday,...
(PULSE ASIA) Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte still emerged as the top pick among the preferred presidential candidates in the 2022 elections, based on the latest Pulse Asia survey results released on Wednesday, Sept. 29. The non-commissioned survey was conducted from Sept. 6 to 11 with 2,400 adult...
Will the alleged scam on the government's procurement of COVID-19 supplies reach Malacañang? "Yes." Senator Richard Gordon (Henzberg Austria/Senate PRIB) This was the answer by Senator Richard J, Gordon, chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon committee, when asked Wednesday, September 29, on whether...
The government can invoke police power of the State, but there is need for a new law that would compel people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Malacañang said on Tuesday, September 28, In his virtual media briefing, Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said the...
