House Speaker Faustino "Bojie" Dy III underscored on Friday, April 17 the Marcos administration 's commitment to serving justice to Filipinos for alleged corruption in government, including the flood control projects corruption scandal. This, as the House leader welcomed in a statement the...
Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Alfredo Garbin Jr. gave a somewhat ominous statement regarding his former co-nominee Zaldy Co, who was arrested in the Czech Republic after roughly a year of hiding from Philippine authorities. According to Garbin, Co--considered a key personality on the issue of anomalous...
ILOILO CITY – Former Mayor Jerry Treñas, the father of incumbent Mayor Raisa Treñas here, has admitted issuing an order that resulted in the two-year delay of a drainage project by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in this city. Jerry confirmed the June 10, 2025 order in a...
Minority congressmen are itching to hear what former Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co has to say about the flood control projects mess, now that he has been arrested in the Czech Republic. Senior Deputy Minority Leader Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima said the Philippine...
From uploading video exposés against President Marcos in November 2025 to getting nabbed by authorities in the Czech Republic in April 2026, former Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co 's days as a fugitive have seemingly come to an end. While we await Co 's eventual return to the...
The camp of Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. believes that practically zero evidence has been produced so far against the former senator in connection with anomalous flood control projects in Pandi, Bulacan after a week 's worth of bail hearings at the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court. Since the...
Iran is approximately 7,000 kilometers away from the Philippines. But an ongoing war in that part of the world rattles ours almost immediately. This conflict in West Asia (or the Middle East to the Western world) has disrupted crude oil shipments to the Philippines, a country that imports about 98...
BEYOND BUDGET Assalamu alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. I was honored to be invited to deliver a short video message for the launch of the training of Early Childhood Development Teachers for Local Government Units (LGUs) under Project RISE — Reskilling, Innovating, Sustaining Excellence in...
The Quezon City government on Friday, Apr. 10, assured residents of continued housing and relocation support despite unrest that erupted during a clearing operation along NIA Road in Barangay Pinyahan. City authorities said the clearing operation was conducted to prepare the area for the...
President Marcos has ordered the distribution of P8 billion to 42,000 barangays around the country, intended for educational, social, and economic projects. Executive Secretary Ralph Recto said the program, which rolled out last March 24, provides villages P200,000 each to fund projects related to...
CEBU CITY – A cease-and-desist order against a controversial hillside development here is not warranted. This was the contain of a resolution approved by the Cebu City Council and defending the Monterrazas de Cebu development from complaints that it has caused massive flooding in surrounding...
Senator Imee Marcos, on Wednesday, April 1, called for the full public release of the final report of the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI), stressing that transparency is essential in addressing alleged irregularities in flood control projects. Marcos cited provisions of Executive...
