Minority congressmen are up in arms over a Pasig City regional trial court (RTC) ruling that is prolonging the implementation of the P85 wage hike for workers in the National Capital Region (NCR) or Metro Manila. Thursday, Aug. 13 was the last day of the temporary restraining order (TRO) Pasig City...
Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima has filed two measures seeking to reduce electricity costs by prohibiting non-technical system loss charges on electric bills and exempting system loss from value-added tax (VAT). In filing House Bill No. 10677 or the "Non-Technical System...
Ranking congressmen celebrated on Thursday night, Aug. 6 a development that brought the Apollo Quiboloy 's potential extradition to the United States (US) one step closer to reality. Senior Minority Leader Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima and Deputy Minority Leader Akbayan...
Vice President Sara Duterte 's defense said it deliberately limited its cross-examination of the prosecution 's witnesses during the July 29 session as part of its legal strategy to avoid unnecessarily prolonging the Senate impeachment trial. In a press briefing following the session,...
Stressing that government funds aren 't "unlimited", House prosecutor Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima highlighted the need to scrutinize impeachment trial respondent Vice President Sara Duterte 's handling of the P612.5-million confidential funds entrusted to her...
Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima believes that President Marcos will downplay the flood control projects corruption scandal instead of giving it focus for the second year in a row in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 27. According to De Lima,...
House Senior Deputy Minority Leader Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima says President Marcos must once and for all "show some strength" in his scheduled State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 27 . De Lima--one of the solon-prosecutors in the Senate impeachment trial...
Senator-judge Robin Padilla 's old-fashioned insult toward House prosecutors Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon and Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima earned him a dignified--but still punchy--response from Ridon. The tit-for-tat stemmed from Padilla comments on the...
Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima gave huge props to her fellow solon-prosecutor, Akbayan Party-list Rep. Chel Diokno for helping deliver a crucial victory for them in Vice President Sara Duterte 's Senate impeachment trial. De Lima was referring to the impeachment...
Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima says that China Daily 's racist depiction of Filipinos reeks of China 's "insecurity" toward the Philippines, which refuses to get bullied over the West Philippine Sea (WPS) issue. "The racist depiction by China Daily, a Chinese...
Amando Virgil Ligutan--the prosecutor who has been keeping the defense of Vice President Sara Duterte in check with his propitious objections --has earned the respect and admiration of his fellow prosecution panel members in the ongoing Senate impeachment trial. This is not to say that Ligutan didn...
Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima has called out China 's seemingly escalating arrogance in connection with two recent developments involving the Asian giant. "China’s recent action reaches a new level of arrogance and of spreading disinformation and propaganda in...
