Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Thursday criticized the government over the P1.44-trillion worth of infrastructure projects that the Commission on Audit (COA) had earlier flagged. COA has called out 17 government agencies over delayed, abandoned and idle infrastructure projects amounting...
The Duterte administration can tap over P20 billion that are under the proposed national budget for 2022 to help victims of Typhoon Odette. Senator Sonny Angara, chair of the Senate Committee on Finance, made the statement in response to President Duterte’s statement the government may be having...
The measure that would provide immediate solution to the dilemmas faced by franchise applicants whose renewal of legislative franchise had been filed but remained pending in Congress has hurdled second reading. Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, author of Senate Bill No. 1530, said he expects...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Thursday pushed for a measure that would require social media platforms to disclose the identity of "trolls" to curb the rising number of abuses done in the online community. Drilon, during the Senate Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Revision's...
If the Palace race is akin to courting someone, then presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo tried to woo Ilonggos on Saturday, Dec. 4, by telling them that she has always loved going back to their province because Ilonggos are her “favorite.” Presidential aspirant and Vice President...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Thursday called on Ilonggos to show their support to Vice President Leni Robredo’s presidential bid in the upcoming May 2022 national elections. Robredo is set to visit Iloilo on Friday to meet and personally thank her supporters in the city and meet with...
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...
Ces Drilon in 'Love Team: Beyond Boys' Lockdown' The much anticipated teaser video for Love Team: Beyond Boys’ Lockdown, a spin-off of the 2020 hit boys’ Love series Boys’ Lockdown, dropped yesterday enthralling viewers as stars Ali King and Alec Kevin return as fictional versions of...
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...
Pharmally exec Mohit Dargani's relation with the certain Gary Wong which he revealed to have paid for the chartered flight of him and his sister Twinkle when they attempted to fly out of the country at the Davao International Airport is "incredible", according to Senate Minority Leader Franklin M....
Due to alleged uncooperativeness, Pharmally executives Mohit Dhargani and Linconn Ong have been ordered transferred to the Pasay City Jail. (Photo from Senate / MANILA BULLETIN) The order issued by Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chairman Richard Gordon followed the adoption of a motion raised by...
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....
