Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri on Wednesday, September 27 said the Senate will reallocate confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) and other unnecesary appropriations and give it to the Philippine Coast Guard and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and other agencies...
House of Representatives (PPAB) Citing the "escalating threats in the West Philippine Sea (WPS)", ranking members of the House of Representatives have made a "collective decision" to reallocate confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) that were originally...
Commodore Jay Tarriela (File photo) For the past 17 years, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) only received a total of P118,725,000 for its intelligence fund, an official disclosed on Tuesday, Sept. 26, as lawmakers are pushing to increase the agency's budget to better secure the country's coastlines...
House of Representatives (MANILA BULLETIN) A special oversight committee must be formed in a bid to bost transparency in the use of controversial confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) by government agencies. Committee on Appropriations Senior Vice...
Recognizing the opportunities and challenges that technology, especially artificial intelligence, brings to the education sector, Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Thursday, Sept. 21, proposed three critical actions that must be taken to ensure educators and learners harness...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, September 18 said the Executive department’s multiple attempts to explain the controversial confidential funds that were transferred from the Office of the President (OP) to the Office of the Vice President (OVP) last year are raising more questions about its...
Clarita Carlos (Facebook) Former national security adviser Clarita Carlos has floated the possibility of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to help government in its anti-poverty or poverty-alleviation efforts. "Can AI sift thru ALL our attempts to solve...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Thursday, September 14, shot back against Vice President Sara Duterte saying she doesn’t need her respect, only her response to questions on her office’s use of confidential funds in 2022. Hontiveros made this response after the vice president singled...
P3PWD Party-list nominee Rowena Guanzon (X) P3PWD Party-list nominee and proud kakampink Rowena Guanzon says she doesn't have intelligence funds, only sheer intelligence. This was Guanzon's tongue-in-cheek pronouncement in an X post Wednesday, Sept....
Opposition senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, September 11 shot back at Vice President Sara Duterte for bragging that critics were unable to support their “dirty imagination” when they questioned the confidential expenses in 2022 of the Office of the Vice President which was not provided under...
The rapid progression in the development and application of artificial intelligence (AI) can no longer be denied or ignored, and Philippine corporations will have to grab this by the horns and turn it into an opportunity or be left behind. Dr. Sanjay Sarma is CEO, President, and Dean of the Asia...
The Senate will push for a higher intelligence funds for all government agencies that are mandated to defend the country’s sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea, Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri said. Zubiri said this includes the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and the...
