Senator Christopher ’’Bong’’ Go said on Thursday, March 9 that law enforcement should have been more proactive in dealing with the matter of the missing 34 ‘sabungeros’ (cockfight aficionados). Go, chairman of the Senate health and demography committee, issued the statement after...
Malacañang has ordered a thorough investigation on the disappearances of individuals involved in e-sabong (electronic cockfighting) and likewise directed an inquiry into online sabong licensees for possible violations. Palace memorandum ordering a thorough investigation on the disappearances of...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año warned on Sunday, Feb. 27 the persons with information on the 31 missing cockfight enthusiasts (sabungeros) to cooperate with authorities or run the risk of facing charges. In an interview over GMA News, Año insisted...
House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Carlos Zarate wants the Office of the Ombudsman and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to look into the Department of Agriculture's (DA) alleged pro-important policy for what he described as "economic sabotage". (Office of Bayan Muna...
Stressing that online scammers posing as sellers should be imprisoned, President Duterte on Monday, Feb. 14, told Filipinos to avoid buying online for now. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his regular public address on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. (RTVM Screenshot) “I am advising the Filipinos (to)...
The camp of presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said Wednesday the individuals that supposedly threatened to kill Marcos Jr. already surrendered to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). Lawyer Vic Rodriguez, Marcos Jr.'s spokesman said they were informed by the Department...
Enchong Dee (Facebook) Actor Enchong Dee was released on bail after he voluntarily surrendered to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Quezon City Monday afternoon in connection with the P1 billion cyber libel case filed against him by DUMPER Representative Claudine Bautista-Lim in August...
National and local government offices that were affected by the fire at a mall in Alabang, Muntinlupa have resumed operations but in different locations. A fire hit the Starmall Alabang mall last Jan. 8 that took 33 hours for firefighters to extinguish. Several government agencies that were...
Operatives of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) confiscated some P150-million worth of fake COVID-19 antigen test kits, face masks, medicines as well as counterfeit products during a raid in a warehouse on Friday, Jan. 21 in a warehouse in Manila. The operation led to the arrest of the storage owner, a...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Thursday called for an investigation into the alleged foiled escape of confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa and two other persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) facility, lamenting she is always dragged into any reports...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Friday urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to look at the possible syndicate operating where people required to undergo the mandatory quarantine are able to skip it through means of bribery. Go made the call as he...
Presidential aspirant Senator Panfilo Lacson on Thursday urged state prosecutors and other investigating agencies to immediately look into the Commission on Audit’s (COA) report on the purported P1.44-trillion worth of infrastructure projects that are delayed, abandoned and/or left idle. “It is...
