Are Vice President Sara Duterte 's lawyers purposely throwing rank-and-file employees of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and Department of Education (DepEd) under the bus regarding article I or the confidential funds misuse allegation? Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon and the rest...
The "confidential funds saga" of Vice President Sara Duterte 's Senate impeachment trial promises to get even more interesting. This, after lead prosecutor Batangas 2nd district Rep. Gerville “Jinky Bitrics” Luistro informed the Senate impeachment court that two former aides of the...
House Deputy Speaker La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega V hilariously assumed on Wednesday, Aug. 5 that all informants of impeachment trial respondent Vice President Sara Duterte were sickly or had an ailment of some sort. This was Ortega 's sarcastic commentary to testimony coming out of...
Noting that the prosecution has yet to establish its allegations, the defense team of Vice President Sara Duterte on Tuesday, August 4, reiterated that there was "no misuse" or misappropriation of the Office of the Vice President 's (OVP) confidential funds. Defense spokesperson Atty. Michael...
The defense team of Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday, August 3, rejected the prosecution 's assertion that the Office of the Vice President (OVP) spent its P125 million confidential fund within 11 days in December 2022, disputing a claim based on Commission on Audit (COA) records during...
The Office of the Vice President (OVP) on Monday, Aug. 3, marked the fourth anniversary of its Libreng Sakay Program, highlighting that the initiative has provided free transportation to more than 3.54 million commuters nationwide since its launch in 2022. In a statement, the OVP said the milestone...
Two deputy speakers in the House of Representatives can 't help but feel that Vice President Sara Duterte 's continued refusal to personally answer the charges in her impeachment trial is a sign of guilt. La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega V and Zambales 1st district Jay Khonghun,...
Ranking congressmen have chided Vice President Sara Duterte for asking the Senate to foot the bill for her defense team 's preferred caterer during the course of the official 's impeachment trial there. Based on Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon and Akbayan Party-list Rep. Perci...
Iloilo 1st district Rep. Janette Garin says the Senate might find as "insulting" the request of Vice President Sara Duterte 's camp for the upper chamber to shoulder the catering cost of her impeachment trial defense team. In particular, the House deputy speaker took issue with the reported...
Manila 6th district Rep. Bienvenido "Benny" Abante Jr. has called "highly irresponsible" the decision of Vice President Sara Duterte to fly overseas in the middle of her Senate impeachment trial. Abante, the House quad-committee (quad-comm) v2.0 overall chairman, went as far to say that Duterte’s...
Vice President Sara Duterte has left the Philippines for a multi-country trip, her office disclosed. In a statement on Tuesday, July 21, the Office of the Vice President (OVP) said: The Vice President has left for an overseas trip. According to the OVP, the Vice President overseas trip includes a...
If confidential fund recipient "Mary Grace Piattos" isn 't a real person or doesn’t exist at all, then where did all the money go? House prosecutor Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon says this is among the questions that Vice President Sara Duterte 's defense team must answer in the...
