Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte thanked President Marcos and several officials of the current administration for backing the transfer of confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) from the Office of the President (OP) to her office in 2022. Vice President and Education Secretary...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday, September 6, criticized Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno’s for pushing for a national competitive examination among students who wish to qualify for college tuition subsidy instead of supporting the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary...
Senate deputy minority leader Senator Risa Hontiveros has urged the Senate to conduct an inquiry into the alarming rise in social media-related hacking, illegal access and other cybercrime incidents. In filing Senate Resolution No. 777, Hontiveros said “the offices of individual...
Senator Risa Hontiveros has sought a Senate probe into the spate of killings involving children and youth, the latest involving a 15-year old who was shot in the abdomen by a police officer. “The violent killings of society’s most vulnerable—our children and youth—many...
There is something fundamentally wrong if the Office of the Vice President is guaranteed a higher confidential and intelligence fund (CIF) over the Department of National Defense (DND) and the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) and other government agencies whose primary task includes...
Some senators on Friday, September 1 find it unnecessary for the government to impose a price ceiling on rice as addressing rice cartel and hoarding should have been the primary move of the government to tame the skyrocketing prices of the basic food staple in the market. Senators...
Senate President Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri on Thursday, August 31 vowed to expedite the passage into law of the proposed Philippine Maritime Zones Act in a bid to quell any attempts by China to expand and include the country's maritime territories as part of its own. The “standard map”...
The companion of slain teenager 17-year-old Jerhode “Jemboy” Baltazar told a Senate panel on Wednesday, Aug. 30, that the police investigator formerly handling the case altered the statement that he gave regarding the incident. Sonny Boy Aguistilo (Screenshot from the YouTube Live of the Senate...
The Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs, on Wednesday, August 30, lifted the contempt order against the three Navotas City police officers involved in the killing of 17-year-old Jerhode “Jemboy” Baltazar. These are Police Capt. Juanito Arabejo, Staff...
Tributes poured in from the Senate on Tuesday night August 29, 2023, following news of GMA Network’s veteran radio broadcast journalist Mike Enriquez’s passing. “Napakalaki ng legasiyang iiwan ni Manong Mike Enriquez, bilang isa sa pinaka pinagkakatiwalaang mga boses sa mundo ng...
Staff Sgt. Gerry Maliban, one of the six suspects involved in the killing of 17-year-old Jerhode “Jemboy” Baltazar told a Senate panel on Tuesday, Aug. 29, that while he was the first to fire, he said that he "heard a gunshot" first. During a hearing of the Senate Committee on Public Order and...
Amid the ongoing investigation on the killing of 17-year-old Jerhode “Jemboy” Baltazar, a Senate panel on Tuesday, August 29 cited in contempt the former head of Navotas City Police's Station Investigation and Detective Management Section (SIDMS), after lengthy questioning about skipping the...
