Twenty former employees of the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) or Veterans Golf Club (VGC) have been ordered paid by the Commission on Audit (COA) a total of P3.69 million for their accumulated vacation and sick leaves from 2004 to 2011. While 48 members of VMMC/VGC filed their petitions...
​Another lawyer will form the defense team of former president Rodrigo Duterte in the crime against humanity he is facing before the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC, according to its document dated April 7, appointed Dov Jacobs to assist the defense team as associate counsel in...
Malacañang does not see the need for the Philippine Senate to submit its findings to US President Donald Trump regarding the owner of the aircraft that carried former president Rodrigo Duterte to The Hague, as suggested by Senator Bato dela Rosa. Presidential Communications Office (PCO)...
Senator Imee Marcos House Assistant Majority Leader Tingog Party-list Rep. Jude Acidre has expressed apprehension over the Senate's apparent unwillingness to accept Malacañang's stance of executive privilege in the hearing about former...
"Yung lahat ng nanggigipit sa amin ngayon, pupuntahan ko 'yan at yayakapin ko nang mahigpit (To all those who are putting pressure on us right now, I will go to them and hug them tightly)." This was Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa's answer in an interview on Saturday, April 5 on DWIZ to the...
The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has denied for lack of jurisdiction the petition of FMC Switzerland II GMBH which sought P10.49 million tax refund from the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) for 2019. FMC Switzerland filed before the BIR an administrative claim for valued-added tax (VAT) refund of...
Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa ought to maintain his willingness to show up at public hearings should be sought by authorities for whatever reason, Tingog Party-list Rep. Jude Acidre said Friday, April 4. "Sana madali lang ho din sya makita (We hope that we can also easily see him)," Acidre...
Various personnel from the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrived in the Philippines in October 2024 and were "assisted" by the current administration. Sen. Imee R. Marcos presides over the Committee on Foreign Relations’ second hearing despite the absence of invited key resource persons to...
Members of the Cabinet on Thursday, April 3 snubbed the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations’ second public hearing on the government’s move to surrender former president Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Not a single secretary, including their representatives,...
​Pro-Duterte supporters seem to have mistaken American author Nicholas Kaufmann to be the former president's lead counsel at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Nicholas Kaufman. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, April 2, the author said he is being "absolutely flooded" by messages from...
Senator Imee Marcos will push through with a second hearing investigating the arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte by the International Criminal Court (ICC) despite the apparent refusal of the Executive branch for Cabinet officials to attend. Senator Imee Marcos In a letter written by...
The lead counsel in former president Rodrigo Duterte’s crimes against humanity of murder charges in the International Criminal Court (ICC) has asked his supporters to respect the judicial process and not to interfere in the independence of the Court. Former president Rodrigo Duterte and his...
