Senate Minority Leader Franklin M. Drilon on Monday, Nov. 15 expressed concern over the reduction made by Malacañang and the House of Representatives in the proposed 2022 budget of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and its attached agencies. In his interpellation during the hybrid...
Aside from being an “extraordinary housewife” as she was described by Senator Imee Marcos, Vice President Leni Robredo is also an “actual degree holder,” her spokesman said on Wednesday, October 27. Vice President Leni Robredo (Mark Balmores/MANILA BULLETIN) “VP Leni is also an...
Nothing has changed in the political bids of presidential aspirant former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and Davao City re-electionist Mayor Sara Duterte in the wake of the many speculations that pervaded the political atmosphere following their Cebu encounter on Saturday, Oct. 23....
Senator Imee Marcos is fed up with criticisms against their family over the 20-year rule of her father, former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr., ahead of the 2022 elections. Senator Imee Marcos (Senate of the Philippines) In a radio interview on Saturday, October 16, the senator said the country...
Senators believe that it's time for the government's pandemic task force to let local government units (LGUs) handle the COVID-19 and its impacts on their jurisdictions. Members of the Philippine National Police man a checkpoint in a barangay in Sampaloc, Manila after it was placed under lockdown...
Senator Imee Marcos has questioned the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) for allegedly allowing the Dito Telecommunity use its facilities for free. DICT Secretary Gregorio Honasan II attends a Senate hearing on the alleged irregularties in the PhilHealth on August 11,...
Senator Imee Marcos on Monday, September 6, said the lifting of immigration bans on 10 countries by the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases is ‘’reckless, if premature.’’ Senator Imee Marcos (Senate of the Philippines) Travelers from Bangladesh,...
Senators on Wednesday, September 1, expressed alarm over the possibility of a water shortage in Metro Manila for the next two years due to the continuing absence of an alternative water source for the capital. (MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) During the hearing of the Senate Committee of Public...
Senator Maria Josefa Imelda 'Imee' Marcos is purportedly positioning herself to become the running mate of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, who is supposedly mulling a run for the presidency in May 2022. Senator Imee Marcos (Photo from Wikimedia Commons) President Duterte, in his pre-recorded...
The chairperson of the Senate economic affairs committee on Monday, August 30, sought the abolition of two big government offices whose responsibility of buying supplies for government agencies have been shrouded with reports that billions of pesos entrusted to them were unused or were spent...
Senator Imelda “Imee” Marcos on Thursday, Aug. 26, said she finds it necessary for former Budget Secretary Wendel Avisado to face the next Senate blue ribbon committee hearing to shed light on some issues hounding the Department of Budget and Management (DBM)’s procurement services or DBM-PS....
The Senate approved on second reading Wednesday, August 25, the bill seeking to postpone the May, 2022 election in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Senators gather in the Senate plenary in the opening of the 18th Congress' 2nd regular session on July 27, 2020. (Senate...
