If the ruling party wanted to ensure continuity of the reform agenda, President Duterte has suggested the search for a presidential candidate who will not venture into corruption. President Rodrigo Dutete leads the signing of bills during a ceremony in Malacañang on June 24, 2021. Accompanying...
President Duterte feared that the Philippines will implode if former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV becomes the next president, saying his staunchest critic was stupid and has illusions of grandeur. President Rodrigo Duterte and former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV (Malacañang/Trillanes Facebook)...
President Duterte said that he has been trying his best in curbing corruption in government and that he had made some progress in weeding out corrupt officials. President Rodrigo Dutete (Malacañang) Duterte made the statement after Senator Manny Pacquiao alleged that the current administration was...
House Majority Leader and Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez on Wednesday, July 7 said that the new coalition of key political parties in the country has started to take shape “sooner than expected”. Mayor Sara Duterte Romualdez, president of Lakas-CMD, said the coalition is ready to push...
President Duterte said he has tempered his opposition to gambling because the country was running out of funds to address the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang) Duterte made the statement as he led a meeting with executives of the ruling PDP-Laban...
The feud between President Duterte and Senator Manny Pacquiao is not yet over. The President has raised the tax evasion complaint hurled against Pacquiao, saying the boxing icon owed the government P2.2 billion in back taxes. Turning the tables on the senator, Duterte argued that if a person...
President Duterte said he was now seriously considering running for vice president in the 2022 elections but said he prefers that the winning president should be his friend or he would be reduced to inutility. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) Duterte made the statement as he led a...
President Duterte has declared the month of July of every year as the "National Anti-Trafficking in Persons Awareness Month." President Rodrigo Duterte reads a document during a meeting with top government officials on July 6, 2021. (Malacañang) In Proclamation no. 1180, the President directed...
President Duterte has signed into law the measure enhancing the powers and functions of the Joint Congressional Energy Commission (JCEC). President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) President Duterte signed the enrolled copy of Republic Act (RA) No. 11571 on July 6, 2021. The JCEC,...
Should President Duterte decide to run and win as vice president in the May 2022 polls, a Catholic prelate said he cannot succeed as president if the need arises. Retired Novaliches Bishop Teodoro Bacani (RCAM / Paul Guanlao / MANILA BULLETIN) Retired Novaliches Bishop Teodoro Bacani, a member of...
Former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV believes that he has an “airtight case” against President Duterte and his former long-time aide, Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, over the alleged P6.6 billion in government contracts that Go’s family’s business received while the President is in power....
The government is inclined to keep enforcing stricter border control measures to stem the spread of more contagious coronavirus variants in the country. MORANDANTE_07062021-3 President Rodrigo Roa Duterte presides over a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases...
