Reelectionist Rep. Shernee Tan-Tambut of Kusug Tausug Party-list was lucky to have a VIP "tour guide" when she campaigned in Pampanga last week. Kusug Tausug Party-list Rep. Shernee Tan-Tambut (2nd from left) walks around Pampanga with former President and House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (4th...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House As a proud Dagupeno, whose education was helped financed by bangus (milkfish) harvests, we miss our annual Bangus (milkfish) Festival here in our hometown Dagupan City, which was cancelled since the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic two...
PEACE MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House The 2022 Winter Olympics commenced in Beijing last Friday, amidst the RAGING COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical challenges around the world, especially the mounting tensions between Russia and the United States and its NATO allies over...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Sixteen years ago, on January 2006, as then speaker of the house, we organized a Global Interfaith Dialogue here in Manila, where leaders of government, parliament, academe, civil society, religion, and faith-based organizations from the...
House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco on Sunday called on eligible Filipinos who remain unvaccinated to get a jab during the national COVID-19 vaccination days slated on Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 and on Dec. 15 to 17, to help prevent another pandemic surge as families prepare for the holiday season. Velasco...
The Department of Finance (DOF) bucked the proposal seeking to impose a “super-rich” tax on Filipino billionaires as its negative impacts outweigh any potential revenue gains for the government. In a letter to House Speaker Lord Allan Jay Velasco, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House As the world’s economic powers gathered in Rome for the G-20 Summit, Iran announced that it would resume nuclear talks in Vienna before the end of this month. Tehran’s announcement is a welcome development as it is a significant step...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Chaos, fear, and uncertainty overwhelmed the Afghan people, following the withdrawal of the US forces from Afghanistan, terminating its mission in the country which lasted 20 years. In just a few weeks since the pullout of American troops,...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Some international observers expressed fears that the election of Ebrahim Raisi, an ultraconservative judiciary chief, as president of Iran would usher in a period of uneasy relations between Iran and the United States. Raisi, who...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Like many international organizations, we in the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) had to indefinitely suspend some of our programs due to the raging global pandemic which, sadly, seems to have no apparent end in...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Our wife, former Congresswoman Gina, our son Congressman Christopher de Venecia, and we join the Aquino family, relatives and friends, and the Filipino people in mourning the untimely passing of the nation’s former President Benigno...
President Duterte will welcome the advice of former House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano on not running as vice president in next year’s polls, Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said on Tuesday, June 8. President Rodrigo Duterte and Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano (Malacañang/PCOO)...
