The House Committee on Youth and Sports Development, chaired by Isabela 5th District Rep. Faustino Michael Dy III, approved the bill granting retirement, health care, and death benefits to retirement, health care, and death benefits to professional Filipino athletes who won awards in international...
Senator Richard J. Gordon, chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon committee, on Monday, Nov. 29, said the Senate is preserving and protecting the Senate as an institution when it ordered the transfer this afternoon of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation executives Mohit Dargani and Linconn Ong from...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Monday reiterated that the financial documents they have been asking from Mohit Dargani and Linconn Ong are relevant for the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s probe into the procurement of overpriced COVID-19 pandemic supplies. Drilon said these documents...
Allegedly ignored in the House of Representatives, the Catholic church and other religious groups seeking the rejection of bills legalizing E-sabong and other forms of internet gambling may find solace from the Senate leadership. Lacson-Sotto tandem This was gathered after Senate President Vicente...
Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Sunday said he would seek the opinion of international law experts when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee starts hearing the various measures that seek to enhance the country’s positions in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). According to Pimentel, the...
Senate President Vicente Sotto III has signed the commitment order directing the transfer of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation officials Linconn Ong and Mohit Dargani from their detention cell at the Senate to the Pasay City Jail. The commitment order, signed by Sotto and Sen. Richard Gordon,...
Senate Finance Committee chair Senator Sonny Angara on Sunday renewed his call for the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to settle all of its obligations, particularly to private hospitals. Angara noted PhilHealth’s financial obligations to private hospitals have accumulated to...
House Deputy Speaker and 1SAGIP Partylist Rep. Rodante Marcoleta defended on Saturday, Nov. 27 the placement of his political advertisement at ABS-CBN, erstwhile broadcast network giant which he helped close down through the rejection of its legislative franchise application. Rep. Rodante...
Former Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation officer Krizle Mago faced senators again on Friday, Nov. 26 where she admitted that she did receive instructions to repack face shields that were being sold to the government. Krizle Mago, Pharmally executive This was during the Senate Blue Ribbon panel...
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...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has vowed to continue its fight against corruption in its agencies as it officially launched on Thursday, Nov. 25, its own Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC). Department of Transportation (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) The DOTr said it has partnered with the...
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...
