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President Rodrigo Duterte should reconsider his directive to allow casino operations in Boracay and protect the “crown jewel of Philippine tourism” instead, House Deputy Speaker Bienvenido “Benny” Abante Jr. said. Boracay Island In his letter to the President on September 3, Abante said...

House Deputy Speaker and Manila 6th District Rep. Bienvenido Abante will lead an exodus of Lower House members from their respective political parties to join the Aksyon Demokratiko if Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso declares a bid for the presidency in the 2022 national...

House Deputy Speaker and Manila Rep. Bienvenido Abante on Friday, August 13 dared Health Secretary Francisco Duque to resign and spare President Rodrigo Duterte of the task of defending him again from accusations that he mismanaged government funds allocated to address the COVID-19 crisis. Rep....

Nearly three months after Congress stopped its inquiry into the bloody Quezon City shootout between two groups of law enforcers, the National Bureau of Investigation has yet to come up with the findings of its probe on the incident. Deputy Speaker and Manila Rep. Bienvenido Abante said the...


 Leaders of opposition and administration blocs in the House of Representatives are not buying the gag order imposed on spokesperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) as a way of sparing the agency from getting defunded. Deputy Speaker and Manila Rep....