OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Several groups are now earnestly campaigning in social media to get party list seats in Congress in the upcoming May 2022 polls. Their principal objective is clear: get a party list slate so their top representatives get to become members of the House of Representatives. Of...
Faculty members at the University of the Philippines (UP) slammed on Saturday, April 2, the media interview of retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. (Screenshot from SMNI) Palparan was interviewed by Presidential Communications Undersecretary and National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed...
SANTIAGO CITY, Isabela – An unidentified man sprayed the house of 4th district Isabela Congressional candidate Jeany Agustin Coquilla in Barangay Batal, Santiago City with bullets at about 11:50 p.m. on Wednesday. (Photo courtesy of DWSI) Initial report by a local radio station said the house...
President Duterte said it is during the administration of the late President Corazon Aquino that the rich started to use the party-list system to get elected to Congress. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with key government officials at the Arcadia Active...
LAMBAYONG, Sultan Kudarat--Presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. says that if public clamor pushes Congress to pass a bill instituting same-sex unions, he would sign it. Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) "Dapat it will be up to Congress kung...
Senatorial candidate Herbert “Bistek” Bautista on Thursday said he supports the call for Congress to review the country’s oil price mechanism, noting how prices of fuel are being defined especially in the oil industry. Bautista made the call amid threats of more price increases as a result of...
Malacañang explained that President Duterte only wanted Congress to be cautious before deciding on suspending the operations of e-Sabong (electronic or online cockfighting), reminding them that the activity helps keep the economy afloat amid the pandemic and successive oil price hikes. Acting...
Pro-administration Senator Francis ‘’Tol’’ Tolentino on Friday, March 11 said the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) could have violated the law because they allowed the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) to issue online cockfight or...
Vice presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio is willing to urge her father, President Duterte, to call for a special session in Congress in connection with the current fuel price crisis. Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio (left) and President Rodrigo Duterte (Photos from...
AAMBIS-OWA Party-list Rep. Sharon Garin says that there is an urgent need for a special session in Congress to address the local fuel situation, reiterating the call made by her numerous House of Representatives colleagues. House Committee on Economic Affairs chair and AAMBIS-OWA Party-list Rep....
An "Fuel Crisis Ad Hoc Committee" will convene in the House of Representatives next week to tackle possible solutions to the problem of runaway domestic fuel prices. (Photo from House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco's Facebook) This was confirmed by House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco Friday afternoon,...
Senator Francis “Tol” Tolentino on Friday, March 4 questioned the decision of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) to seek legal guidance from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and leave out the Congress on the issue of “e-sabong” operations in the country. Tolentino,...
