House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), former president Rodrigo Duterte (Speaker’s office, Malacañang photo) Mindanao-based congressmen continue to compliment Speaker Martin Romualdez's leadership despite former president Rodrigo Duterte's disparaging...
PEACE-MAKER (In our column last Sunday, we spoke of the need to create more avenues for dialogue, cooperation, and solidarity amid the protracted wars, lingering tensions, as well as the issues and challenges besetting the international community. One such avenue is through political parties. We...
The tirades of former president Rodrigo Duterte against members of the House of Representatives, including House Speaker Martin Romualdez, and the subsequent remarks made by Congress, show the “cracks” in the UniTeam tandem and signals the start of the preparation for the next elections, a...
Department of Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco received the SKAL Tourism Award for Good Tourism Governance at the 31st SKAL International Tourism Awards, coinciding with the 42nd founding anniversary of the SKAL International-Makati Chapter. The event took place at the SMX Aura Convention...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives will hold a special session on Saturday, Nov. 4, the House leadership has bared in a memorandum. In the memorandum issued by House Secretary General Reginald Velasco...
Artificial intelligence (Unsplash) Citing privacy and security concerns, the House of Representatives has told its workers not to use artificial intelligence (AI) image generators. This was done in a memorandum dated Oct. 23, 2023 and titled, "Use of...
Suspended LTFRB chairman Teofilo Guadiz III (Contributed photo) It has been a harrowing past two weeks for suspended Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) chairman Teofilo Guadiz III, but now he finally feels exonerated. This,...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Whistleblower Jefferson Tumbado admitted before congressmen Monday, Oct. 23 that he had no proof of the alleged corruption in the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB). ...
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan (left), House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Facebook, Speaker’s office) Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan has credited Speaker Martin Romualdez's "high degree of professionalism" for the House of...
House of Representatives (MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives will neither be distracted nor intimated by the political noise surrounding the issue of confidential funds. Thus, said Santa Rosa City lone district Rep. Dan Fernandez, who...
PEACE-MAKER We sadly note the ongoing bloodshed in Israel and Palestine; long-drawn-out war in Ukraine; lingering tensions in the Korean Peninsula, West Philippine Sea, East China Sea, and Taiwan Straits; periodic killings in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan, among many other bloody hostilities...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) More House members are insisting that the chamber’s realignment of P1.23 billion worth of confidential funds from the 2024 national budget--including those sought by Vice President Sara Duterte--was...
