Former Senate President Franklin Drilon sought on Saturday, Jan. 28 the privatization of the government’s gaming industry to fund the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) being proposed by administration allies. The solution to the problem of funding the MIF ‘’lies in the long overdue...
ILOILO CITY – Three party-list representatives have filed a resolution calling for a probe on two substandard flyovers in Iloilo that were pet projects of former Ilonggo Sen. Franklin M. Drilon. REPRESENTATIVES (from left) France Castro of ACT Teachers party-list, Arlene Brosas of Gabriela...
BONOAN ILOILO CITY – Mayor Jerry Treñas has threatened to declare Secretary Manuel Bonoan of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) as persona non grata over the alleged lack of formal update on the substandard Ungka II Flyover pet project of former Ilonggo Sen. Franklin Drilon in...
ILOILO CITY – The municipal council of Pavia, Iloilo province on Monday, Dec. 12, called for a House inquiry on the P680-million Ungka II flyover here, one of the last pet projects of former Sen. Franklin Drilon before he formally retired from politics this year. THE Ungka II flyover straddles...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police arrested on Thursday, Nov. 17, in Asturias, Sulu an Abu Sayyaf Group member allegedly involved in the abduction of broadcast journalist Ces Drilon and the decapitation of a school teacher in 2009. ABU Sayyaf kidnap suspect Ibrahim Esani Asara (left). Major William Maisog,...
Former Senate President Franklin M. Drilon and former Senator Panfilo Lacson pressed the Commission on Audit (COA) to audit all the Covid-19 supply purchases worth billions of pesos during the Duterte administration. "The new administration should pursue and resolve this matter to its logical...
Former Senate President Franklin M. Drilon on Friday, November 11, said closer scrutiny of the Marcos administration’s P9.3-billion intelligence and confidential funds (CIFs) is called for. Drilon, a former Justice secretary, emphasized that the continued use of the CIFs undermines transparency,...
‘I lied.’’ Senator Imee Marcos admitted that she lied to then-Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon during the previous 18th Congress that the scheduled December 2022 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections would be the last postponement. Marcos recalled this incident after Senator...
Messages poured in on the commemoration of the 13th death anniversary of democracy icon, former President Corazon Aquino, who died in 2009 at age of 76 because of advanced colon cancer. A supporter of former president Cory Aquino visited her tomb at the Manila Memorial Park in Parañaque City on...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drllon on Friday, June 24 said the completion of the Jalaur River Multi-Purpose Project (JRMP) in Iloilo would help boost the country’s food security and address declining agricultural productivity. JRMP is the biggest dam outside of Luzon. “The completion of...
Several senators are now slowly moving out of their offices at the Senate complex in Pasay city as their terms expire on June 30. Outgoing Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III said his taking out of his personal effects at his Senate office does not hurt as he looks at the transition from a high...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Monday, June 6 maintained that the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee report that recommended the filing of criminal charges against Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III was correct as he is also liable for the questionable Covid-19 pandemic...
