Photo courtesy of Volleyball Philippines Twitter account Brazilian coach Jorge Edson Souza de Brito arrived in the country Wednesday night after a long wait to join the national women’s volleyball team in its bubble training in Batangas on Aug. 1. Philippine National Volleyball Federation (PNVF)...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año lauded the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) on Thursday, July 22, for declaring the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) as a terrorist organization. The designation of the NDF as a terror group put the...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma In mid-2020, House Deputy Speaker and Sorsogon Representative Evelina Escudero proposed the creation of a separate Department of Culture. This was prompted by the clamor for higher levels of budgetary support to agencies under the National Commission on Culture and Arts...
Leyte 4th District Representative Lucy Torres-Gomez will be seeking a seat in the Senate in the 2022 elections. Incumbent Leyte 4th District Rep. Lucy Torres-Gomez files on October, 2018 her certificate of candidacy for reelection in the 2019 midterm polls. (Marie Tonette Marticio/MANILA BULLETIN...
Frontrunners in pre-elections surveys should not get too confident about their places as results could still change in the months before the May, 2022 elections, Sorsogon Governor Francis "Chiz" Escudero said on Wednesday, July 21. Former senator and Sorsogon Governor Francis 'Chiz' Escudero...
Senator Christopher ‘’Bong’’ Go on Wednesday, July 21, said that President Duterte is focused on COVID-19 response and the economy even as the selection process for the 2022 national elections slowly goes into high gear. Senator Christopher 'Bong' Go (Office of Sen. Bong Go/MANILA BULLETIN)...
Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III has enumerated nine possible senatorial candidates that he and Senator Panfilo Lacson will support in the 2022 national 2022 national and local elections. Senate President Vicente 'Tito' Sotto III Sotto, who had just confirmed his and Lacson's plan to run...
The upcoming election tandem of Senators Panfilo "Ping" Lacson and Vicente "Tito" Sotto III will not be campaigning against the Duterte administration but will be pushing for reforms that the current government failed or did not do enough. Senate President Vicente 'Tito' Sotto III (left) and...
They have decided. Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson and Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III will be running in tandem for the 2022 elections. Sotto confirmed to the Manila Bulletin on Tuesday, July 20, that he will run for vice president next year, with Lacson as his running mate for president....
Karapatan (LOGO/File Photo) Human rights group Karapatan has denounced the plan of President Duterte to run for vice president in the upcoming national and local elections in May 2022. With this plan of Duterte, it is " undeniably clear" that he " wants immunity as a shameless ploy for impunity,"...
In this file photo taken on April 21, 2020, a member of the Philippine National Police Special Action Forces uses a megaphone to remind shoppers to practice social distancing during a government imposed enhanced quarantine as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Manila....
Senator Francis Tolentino on Tuesday, July 20, appealed to his partymates in the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) to "simmer down" and make peace with each other. Senator Francis Tolentino (KEVIN DELA CRUZ/MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) "The proper attitude should be to simmer...
