Hospitals are now scrambling for funds to continue operating as the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has yet to settle a "huge" amount of unpaid reimbursements for treating COVID-19 patients. (JANSEN ROMERO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Dr. Jaime Almora, president of the...
The rebuilding of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) almost forty years ago today was “one of the best good things” that former First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos has done for her country, according to Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. Former First Lady Imelda Marcos (3rd from...
Veteran election lawyer Romulo Macalintal, who is also Vice President Leni Robredo’s lead counsel, said on Tuesday, May 11, that only “luck” will reverse the ruling of the Supreme Court (SC) that junked the electoral protest filed by former Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Vice President Leni...
The Senate labor committee wrapped up on Monday, May 10, its deliberation on the proposed creation of the Department for Overseas Filipinos (DOFIL). Senator Joel Villanueva speaks during a Senate hearing on February 24, 2020. (Senate PRIB/Henzberg Austria) Senator Joel Villanueva, committee...
Senators on Monday, May 10, quizzed Cabinet officials on the Duterte administration's push to create a Department of Overseas Filipinos (DOFIL), now supposedly made more urgent by the COVID-19 pandemic. Overseas Filipino workers who were quarantined for weeks wait for flights back to their home...
Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa on Saturday, May 8, defended President Duterte after the latter backed out from his challenge to debate with former Supreme Court (SC) Justice Antonio Carpio on issues about the West Philippine Sea (WPS). Senator Ronald 'Bato' dela Rosa speaks in the Senate on June,...
Senator Imee Marcos on Monday, April 26, appealed anew to the Department of Health (DOH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to grant a wider emergency use approval of repurposed drugs like ivermectin and other preventive treatments for novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). A frontline...
Senators on Thursday pushed for the passage of the bill seeking to tax Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO) to help the government generate revenues and fund its major programs, particularly on health and education, badly needed this time of a COVID-19 pandemic. Sen. Sonny Angara (Joseph...
Active Vista will have a virtual screening of Lauren Greenfield’s 2019 documentary Imelda Marcos (Photo from Lauren Greenfield’s Instagram) From just a Bloomberg article about an animal island in the South China Sea, American filmmaker Lauren Greenfield directed a documentary that created such...
With the live-action remake "Voltes V: Legacy" just around the corner, "Voltes V" is still alive and kicking 44 years after its inception. But for new and older fans out there, did you know what sealed the fate of the popular anime version back in 1979? In those days, a whole generation of...
As the domestic economy continued to battle the impact of COVID-19 and the devastation from successive typhoons, Senator Imee Marcos urged the Duterte administration’s economic managers to be ‘bold, aggressive and quick’ economic stimulus response instead of the current “anemic” stimulus...
On September 21, 1972, Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. delivered a scathing privilege speech on the floor of the Senate warning the nation that President Ferdinand Marcos was on the verge of declaring martial law. It was to be his last speech at the Senate; he was arrested the next day. Unknown to all...
