We already have the Local Absentee Voting Act which allows certain mediamen, police, and teachers to cast their votes early so they carry on with their duties on Election Day. Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Rowena Guanzon has now proposed that certain other sectors – People with...
Now is not the time to implement the Child Car Seat Law. There is no need to enforce it now when current community quarantine rules prohibit children below 10 years of age from leaving their houses, Sen. Lawrence “Bong” Go said this weekend. The law, RA-11229, the Child Safety in Motor Vehicles...
At 5:30 a.m. today, following a midnight mass at the Quirino Grandstand at the Luneta in Manila, the procession of the Black Nazarene back to its permanent shrine at the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene – Quiapo Church – begins. This is the annual procession which...
With one single act – ordering the killing of a top Iranian general -- United States President Donald Trump last Friday set off events with dire repercussions on the whole world. Trump ordered the killing of Qasem Soleimani, chief of the Quds foreign operations...
President Duterte is due to sign the 2020 General Appropriations Bill today, January 6. It is already six days in the year, but the President chose to delay his signing of the bill so he would have a little more time to look at certain budget provisions more closely. Last year, we may recall, the...
Three major China-Philippines projects took off in the closing months of 2019 – the start of the Reed Bank joint gas and oil development west of Palawan, President Duterte’s directive to proceed with the P12.2-billion Kaliwa Dam project in Rizal and Quezon, and the...
President Duterte has decided to proceed with the construction of the Kaliwa Dam in Rizal and Quezon provinces, a project that has been held back for years because of several issues raised against it. The Haribon Foundation and other environmental groups oppose the dam for it will destroy the...
