President Duterte will not pursue his vice presidential bid if his daughter Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio will run for president in the 2022 elections, a source confirmed. President Duterte and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio (Malacañang, HNP photos) This confirmation from a highly...
Caloocan City has completed the distribution of the cash assistance (ayuda) to its constituents that were severely affected by the declaration of the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) , the first Local Government Unit (LGU) in Metro Manila to do so. Overall, Department of the Interior and Local...
President Duterte has linked two former Cabinet members of the previous Aquino administration to Commission on Audit (COA)-themed irregularities. President Rodrigo Duterte (Photo from PCOO Facebook) In his "Talk to the People" public briefing on late Tuesday night, Aug. 24, Duterte identified...
President Duterte has made his first categorical statement that he will run for vice president next year. President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during his “Talk to the People” briefing on Aug. 24, 2021. The briefing ended at past midnight. (Screenshot from Facebook live) He did so during the tail...
Justifying the overpriced face masks procured by the Department of Health (DOH), President Duterte on Tuesday, Aug. 24, said he remembered asking embattled Health Secretary Francisco Duque III not to undergo public bidding anymore because of the urgency of the need. President Rodrigo Duterte...
President Duterte on Tuesday, August 24, insisted that he’s not making up laws when he defends policemen and the military who kill while in the line of fire. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his regular address to the nation on August 24, 2021. (RTVM Screenshot) In his weekly taped address to...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar The government of Afghanistan, which the United States helped put up and supported for 20 years, has collapsed. The US has made the decision to withdraw from the country they invaded in 2001 as a response to the horrific 9/11 attacks on the...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay A ranking government official was quoted in media as defending the decision of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) to relax quarantine restrictions in Metro Manila despite alarming increases in the number of daily COVID-19 cases. He said it was...
President Duterte gave his most impassioned defense of Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III yet, saying he would "stand by him" even if the entire country goes against his decision to support his embattled Cabinet member. President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during his "Talk to the...
Should he run for president, Senator Richard Gordon said he would choose a "public health person" to be his vice president. Senator Richard Gordon (Henzberg Austria/Senate PRIB) "I'm looking for a public health person. We have to get out of COVID. And I will need somebody other than my secretary of...
Ruling party Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) will surely have a standard-bearer for the May 2022 elections come Sept. 8, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles (Photo from Nograles's Facebook) PDP-Laban will hold on that day its national...
Opposition coalition 1Sambayan said on Tuesday, August 24, that the announcement of President Duterte’s acceptance of the ruling PDP-Laban’s nomination for vice presidency in 2022 is not surprising, stressing that it’s a “complete mockery of our Constitution and democratic process.”...
