Presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo’s senatorial bets on Wednesday, Feb. 9, appealed to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to allow the Office of the Vice President (OVP) to continue its COVID-19 pandemic response initiatives during the campaign period. The senatorial slate of...
House Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda's bid for a Senate comeback has officially begun following the launch of her campaign in her home province of Antique on Tuesday, Feb. 8. Loren Legarda (Photo from Loren Legarda's Facebook page) The former three-term senator has vowed to launch a campaign focused...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar In response to calls from the private sector, government has announced that they are now crafting a pandemic exit plan. Presidential adviser for COVID-19 response Vince Dizon has been quoted by the press as saying that the National Task Force...
Hidilyn Diaz (AFP) Weightlifting Olympic gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz aired her sentiments in the ongoing rift between fellow Olympian EJ Obiena and the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (Patafa) during Monday’s Senate hearing held online. Diaz, who was present to support Obiena,...
Filipino pole vaulter EJ Obiena on Monday told the Senate that all he wanted is to be able to clear his name and be reinstated as a national athlete. “What I really just want is to be reinstated as a national athlete; to be able to represent the Philippines,” Obiena told the Senate Committee on...
Could Sorsogon Gov. Francis “Chiz” Escudero be the next Senate President? If former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV is to be believed, that seems to be the opposition’s plan if they get elected to the Senate. Sorsogon Governor Chiz Escudero and former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV (MANILA...
Senators on Monday chided top officials of the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (PATAFA) for burdening the country’s elite athletes with administrative and accounting tasks that the national sports association (NSA) is supposed to be taking care of. During the Senate Sports...
Pole vaulter EJ Obiena’s mother on Monday told the Senate Sports Committee, chaired by Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, that she lent money to the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (Patafa) to help finance her son’s allowance after learning of the Olympian’s living conditions...
If he clinches a Senate seat this May, former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV will increase the number of persons with disabilities (PWDs) employed in the public sector and will enforce the livestreaming of all public bidding for government projects. Former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV (MANILA...
President Duterte has aired "grave concern" over what he described as the "apparent effort" at the Senate to put in a bad light the recent developments involving the Malampaya Gas Field. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) "This casts undue, undeserved, and unwarranted aspersion on the...
Senator Pia Cayetano has called on lawmakers to support the passage of the measure that seeks the establishment of the Philippines’ own Center for Disease Control. During the Senate’s hybrid plenary session on Wednesday, Cayetano said it is imperative that the country establishes its own agency...
Senator Pia Cayetano has called on lawmakers to expedite the passage of the bill that seeks the establishment of the Philippines’ own Center for Disease Control. During the Senate’s hybrid plenary session on Wednesday, Cayetano said it is imperative that the country establishes its own agency...
