Even with the controversial P1.3 billion budget slashed from the Office of the Vice President (OVP), Senate Finance Committee chair Senator Grace Poe said the office can still perform its mandate with P733 million. In a press conference on Wednesday, November 27, Poe said that members of the Upper...
Voting 18-0-1, the Senate approved on third and final reading on Tuesday, Nov. 26, House Bill 10800 or the P6.352 trillion 2025 General Appropriations Bill (GAB). In plenary, Senator Grace Poe enumerated during the period of committee amendments how the Senate maximized the budget to secure the...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has asked the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) to move for the cancellation of over 1,500 registered birth certificates that were suspected to be fraudulently acquired by foreigners. Solicitor General Menardo I. Guevarra on Tuesday, Nov. 26, confirmed...
Senator Imee Marcos has formally asked Senate President Francis "Chiz" Escudero to fine-tune the procedures in the upcoming bicameral conference committee (bicam) meeting on the 2025 national budget. In her letter to Escudero, which she coursed through Sen. Grace Poe, chairperson of the...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A gubernatorial candidate in Sarangani in next year’s elections was shot and wounded here on Saturday, Nov. 23. LAWYER-BUSINESSMAN Gladden Lim shows his Certificate of Candidacy in next year's elections. (FB) Police Col. Nicomedes Olaivar, city police...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the war in Gaza because it was not linked to an immediate release of hostages taken...
Senator Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa is pushing to remove the P1-billion cap in the Bureau of Fire Protection's (BFP) utilization of revenues from the Fire Code of the Philippines. During the Senate plenary deliberations on the 2025 national budget, Dela Rosa said that the special provision on the...
Antonio Guterres, United Nations secretary-general, speaks during a plenary session at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations and other international organizations are bracing for...
BUTUAN CITY – Police have arrested the second most wanted person in General Santos City who had been hiding in the past three years in General Luna town, Siargao Island, Surigao del Norte province. Surigao del Norte Police Provincial Office (PPO) Director Police Col. Nilo T. Texon identified the...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) House of Representatives members are urging senators to take a close look at the merits of the Ayuda Para sa Kapos ang Kita Program (AKAP) of the Department of Social Welfare and...
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief, General Romeo Brawner Jr. reported a significant reduction in Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) forces, with insurgent fighters dropping to 1,111 from 2,200 last year, and their firearms cache reduced by about 1,000...
Vice President Sara Duterte (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) A vindication. That's how ranking congressmen described the Senate's decision to adopt the House of Representatives' move of slashing the Office of the Vice President (OVP)...
