Incoming Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III on Tuesday, June 28 said he favors an overhaul of the Department of Agriculture (DA) following allegations that some officials of the DA and the Bureau of Customs have been protecting alleged smugglers. ‘’May power naman sya sa mga...
’’Too broad’’ This is the reaction of incoming Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III to an order of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to internet services providers to block websites affiliated with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), New People’s...
Senator Aquilino Pimentel III on Wednesday, June 22 said the media should keep pressuring incoming Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Lilia Guillermo on the unsettled Marcos estate tax case. ‘’But in the meantime give her some time to act. Let us first wait for her to assume her...
More than two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, the mandatory use of face masks continues to be a topic of debates among experts in the Philippines. (REUTERS / Feline Lim/ MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Face masks have long been proven effective at reducing the transmission of SARS-Cov-2, the virus...
Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III and Senator Risa Hontiveros are now in the process of ironing the details of how they will lead the minority bloc in the Senate should there be no other senators who would join them in the group. In an interview on CNN Philippines, Pimentel said Hontiveros...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday expressed hope there would at leadt be three senators who would comprise the Senate minority bloc in the 19th Congress, confirming that talks about the formation of the group together with Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III and other potential members...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Wednesday congratulated Senators Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri and Cynthia Villar for finally resolving the impasse regarding the Senate presidency. Drilon issued his congratulatory statement after Villar conceded in the Senate presidential race in favor of...
Aspiring president Senator Manny Pacquiao on Friday shrugged off the Commission on Elections (Comelec)'s ruling that recognizes the PDP-Laban Cusi faction as "true and official." Senator Manny Pacquiao FB page Pacquiao, a member of PDP-Laban's Pimentel wing, said he is now more focused on wooing...
The Pacquiao-Pimentel faction of the Partido Demokratikong Pilipino (PDP)-Lakas ng Bayan (Laban) on Friday (May 6) will contest a decision of the special second division of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) recognizing the faction headed by Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi as the true and official...
Senators are throwing their support on proposals seeking to exempt from income tax all election honoraria and allowances of persons rendering services during elections. Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, author of Senate Bill No. 1193, said public school teachers who are required to render poll duties during...
Let science be our guide, not the expiration date! Senator Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III on Wednesday, April 6 gave this advice as government officials worry about the approaching expiration date of Covid-19 vaccines. ‘’Given the oversupply of Covid-19 vaccines here the Philippines, government...
Senator Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III on Tuesday dismissed as only "an election message" presidential aspirant former senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s call for unity and said it would be impossible, considering Marcos Sr.'s oppressive government. "Yung unity kasi is clearly an election...
