Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson expressed concern on Friday, Nov. 26 about the involvement of one of the lawyers of the Dargani siblings who was said to be working for a member of the House of Representatives. Lacson raised this issue on Friday as he bared that Daryl Valles, one of the Dargani...
Senator Richard Gordon said on Friday, Nov. 26, that the former presidential economic adviser Michael Yang was afraid to come out after the capture of his business colleagues Linconn Ong, as well as siblings Mojit and Twinkle Dargani. Following the filing of Yang's petition to nullify the arrest...
Senator Risa Hontiveros said on Thursday, Nov. 25 that they stand by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee after former presidential economic adviser Michael Yang asked the Supreme Court (SC) to nullify the arrest orders issued against him. "The oversight powers of the senate are well-settled in law and...
Vice presidential aspirant Mayor Sara Duterte of Davao City said yesterday that she was negative to any illegal substances after taking a drug test on Wednesday, Nov. 24. 50B3404E-BB7A-4E14-B32F-F0F7E874583D “This test, I took voluntarily upon the request of my Uniteam partner, Senator Bongbong...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday said she would like to ask who paid for the chartered flight arranged by Pharmally Pharmaceutical executives Mohit and Twinkle Dargani when they attempted to fly out of the Philippines last Nov. 14 at the Davao International Airport. In an online press briefing,...
Some senators have expressed their support for the proposed extension of the validity of the 2021 General Appropriations Act (GAA) until December 2022. “Yes. I support extending validity of 21 budget,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said in a message to reporters on Wednesday, Nov....
Senators are keen on removing the budget assigned for the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (PATAFA) and give it to the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) if it fails to stop the apparent “harassment” being done against the country’s lone pole vaulter EJ Obiena. It was Senator...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar Young people have always been referred to as the “future of the country.” And they are. At some point, those of us who have had the extraordinary opportunity to serve the country will fade away in the background, and our young Filipino...
Presidential aspirant Senator Christopher “Bong” Go said he fully supports efforts to restore the original proposed budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) saying sufficient funding would help sustain the humanitarian and development projects in...
Several governors and mayors have vowed to troop to the Senate to hold protest action over the huge budget cut in the Barangay Development Program for New Peoples’ Army (NPA)-cleared barangays of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in the 2022 budget....
The Senate on Monday recalled the proposed budget of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) for next year for supposedly taking a “hands-off” approach on the case involving pole vaulter Ernest John Obiena and the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (Patafa). It was Sen. Pia...
Senators questioned the plan of the Presidential Broadcast Staff-Radio Television Malacañang’s (RTVM) plan to buy eight laptops next year worth P2.2-million. Senate President Vicente Sotto III said the laptops would be used supposedly for video editing and for the use of the “Davao team,”...
