Senator Sonny Angara on Tuesday, January 3 said he hopes the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) will prioritize the modernization of the country’s airports following the New Year’s Day airspace shutdown fiasco at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). Angara recalled Congress...
Former Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson has thumbed down a proposal to decriminalize illegal drug use saying this would only boost the market for illegal drugs. Lacson, a former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, made his position known after Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa said he is now...
Former Senate President Franklin M. Drilon and former Senator Panfilo Lacson pressed the Commission on Audit (COA) to audit all the Covid-19 supply purchases worth billions of pesos during the Duterte administration. "The new administration should pursue and resolve this matter to its logical...
Former senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Sunday, October 9 commended the swift and decisive response undertaken by the Philippine National Police (PNP) in the foiled hostage-taking of former Senator Leila de Lima. Lacson, a former PNP chief himself, said the in-depth investigation already...
Former Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Thursday, September 22 said the Manila Regional Trial Court’s junking of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) petition for proscription that sought to declare as “terrorist organizations” the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New...
Former Senator Panfilo M. Lacson on Friday, September 2, slammed Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda for saying that the Communist Party of the Philippines/New People’s Army/New Democratic Front (CPP/NPA/NDF) is "not an enemy of the State." ‘’Senator Legarda is a friend and I respect...
BACOLOD CITY (PNA) – Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson said Wednesday, August 17, that he does not believe there is a sugar crisis in the country amid reports of an impending shortage in supply and soaring retail prices. GOV. Lacson (center). (FB photo) “No, I don’t think there is....
Amid the alleged proliferation of paid trolls who spread disinformation and misinformation, two lawmakers have moved to criminalize peddlers and creators of fake news. Malabon City lone district Rep. Jaye Lacson-Noel and An Waray Party-list Rep. Florencio Noel filed House Bill (HB) 2971, otherwise...
NEGROS Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson swears in Vice Mayor Miguel Antonio Peña (2nd from left) and Councilor Anthony Gerard Suatengco as mayor and vice mayor of Pulupandan, Negros Occidental, respectively, at the Provincial Capitol in Bacolod City Wednesday, July 20. (Photo courtesy of...
After his Senate term ends on June 30, Senator Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson is hoping to start the next chapter of his life story - by contributing to food security through a new endeavor. Lacson and some friends, including former Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel "Manny" Piñol, have organized themselves...
Outgoing Senator Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson is hoping senators in the 19th Congress would continue his crusade of tenaciously scrutinizing the national budget and keeping it free from dubious congressional insertions, known as "pork barrel”, and useless appropriations. "I hope somebody will take...
Outgoing Senator Panfilo M. Lacson has sought a conditional suspension of the excise tax on fuel, and the scrapping of several lines of exemption in the Value-Added Tax (VAT). Lacson said this two-pronged formula could give Filipinos some badly needed breathing room from the effects of prohibitive...
