Several government agencies on Friday, June 16 raised concerns that members of the Taliban and other “splinter groups” would revive their propaganda once the Philippines gives in to the United States’ request for the government to temporarily house Afghan nationals in the country. ...
Senators have expressed confusion and concern as to why the United States (US) government has chosen the Philippines as the country to temporarily house their allies from Afghanistan. Sen. Imee Marcos leads the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs' inquiry into the United States government's...
Senators are seeking immediate answers into the purported proposal of the United States to allow some Afghanistan nationals to temporarily stay in the Philippines. This, after the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, headed by Sen. Imelda “Imee” Marcos, has set a public hearing on the...
Senator Maria Imelda “Imee” Marcos on Wednesday, June 14, pressed for the completion of an evacuation plan for Filipino migrant workers in Taiwan before acting on a US relocation of Afghan refugees to the Philippines. As chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Marcos said the...
Senator Imee Marcos, on Friday, June 9, urged newly appointed Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro and National Security Adviser (NSA) Eduardo Año to shed light on a request by the United States to grant some Afghans special immigrant status in the Philippines. Marcos, chairperson of the Senate...
(L-R) Tiaong Mayor Vincent Arjay Mea, Quezon Governor Angelina Tan, and Senator Imee Marcos lead the distribution of educational assistance to needy students in Quezon province *(Photo by Belinda Otordoz)* . Last June 8, 2023, College students from five towns of Quezon province's second...
Senator Imee Marcos on June 8, Thursday, filed a resolution asking the Senate to inquire into the United States’ request for the Philippine government to temporarily house some Afghanistan nationals, with special immigrant visa applications, in the country. Marcos, in filing Senate Resolution...
Negros Oriental 3rd district Rep. Arnolfo "Arnie" Teves Jr. (left) and Senator Imee Marcos (Facebook) Controversial Negros Oriental 3rd district Rep. Arnolfo "Arnie" Teves Jr. has slammed the proposed P500-billion Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF), which he said wasn't good for the country. Teves,...
ILOILO CITY – Sen. Imee Marcos on Sunday, May 28, assured that she will personally relay to President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. the unresolved problems with the P680-million substandard flyover here. PROTESTERS flock to the unused P680-million Ungka Flyover that straddles Pavia, Iloilo and Iloilo...
Passage of the controversial Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) bill before the July State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" R. Marcos Jr. is the ideal. But the "ideal" might not happen because there are still a lot of questions that senators wanted answered by Senator...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) should review a recent memorandum order that would limit the type of fertilizer that rice farmers could use, Senator Imee Marcos on Monday, May 15, said. Signed on April 27, Memorandum Order 32 (MO 32) promotes the distribution of yet unnamed biofertilizers to...
Although biofertilizer is good and farm yields are high, its price seems too steep and unreal. “Ang problema lamang, baka maging new fertilizer scam pagkat nakita ko yung mga presyong tinakda para sa biofertiliizer at yung mga presyo para sa regular fertilizer ng DA, ke taas-taas (The problem is,...
