The two detained Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation executives are expected to be freed from jail on June 3, the ‘sine die’ adjournment of Congress. This is because the contempt charge slapped by the Senate Blue Ribbon committee against the two shall have been extinguished, Senate President...
More ballot boxes containing Certificates of Canvass (COCs) and Election Returns (ERs) for president and vice president were delivered to the Senate today (May 16). As of 7:11 a.m. Monday, May 16, 2022, the Senate received 128 COCs or 73.99 percent of the total 173 COCs expected to be transmitted...
The Senate has received a total of 117 or 67.63 percent of the 173 Certificates of Canvass (COCs) and Election Returns (ERs) for president and vice president expected to be transmitted to the Upper Chamber, as of Sunday, May 15. Numerous ballot boxes rolled in at the Senate on the sixth day of its...
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri said Saturday, May 14 that would try to get a majority in the 24-member Senate that would help pass the legislative agenda of presumptive president Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. Zubiri, whose reelection in the May 9, 2022 polls has been all but...
The first bill that incoming Senator Raffy Tulfo will file in the 19th Congress will be about domestic violence. ‘’In my anti-domestic violence bill whoever the victims are, they will be helped. Victims need places where they can go to for immediate help, where they can seek safe refuge, find...
So. who will be the Senate President in the forthcoming 19th Congress? There are still no clues on who will replace outgoing Senate President Vicente Sotto III, chairman of the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC). Sotto lost in the May 9, 2022 vice presidential race. By June 30, he will have...
As speculations rise on who should be the Senate President in the 19th Congress, returning Senator Loren Legarda’s name has also cropped up. Legarda is one of the frontrunners in the May 2022 senatorial elections, ranking second in the race, based on partial and unofficial count from the...
The search and eventual election of a Senate President in the forthcoming 19th Congress is on. But what are the qualities that the next Senate chief should possess? Senate reporters threw this poser to out-going Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III, 73, who ran but ‘’lost’’ in the May 9,...
Closing ceremony of the English Language Training-Intermediate Level for Cambodian Senate personnel ENGLISH LESSONS Philippine Ambassador to Cambodia Maria Amelita C. Aquino is joined by deputy director general of the Cambodian Senate Lok Chhay and Filipino teacher Teodoro Ariel Publico in handing...
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri said the 24-member Senate has a bloc of almost a dozen independently elected senators who are looking forward to working productively with the new administration for the good of the Filipino people. Zubiri, a re-electionist, has made it to the "Magic 12",...
As the lone opposition senatorial candidate poised to secure a spot in the 19th Congress, Senator Risa Hontiveros on Thursday, May 12, said she intends to “stay in this long and very serious game” with the administration of presumptive president Fedinand Marcos Jr. (Senator Risa...
The Senate of the Philippines has received the ballot boxes containing the Certificates of Canvass (COCs) and election returns (ERs) from Cambodia, Vietnam and Malabon City. The ballot boxes would then be stored inside the Senate building in Pasay City until such time Congress convenes as the...