Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Thursday, November 7, urged the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to adopt the United States’ policy of requiring airlines to conduct automatic refunds for all canceled and/or delayed flights. Pimentel made the call after...
Two more senators on Tuesday, November 5, expressed opposition to the deferment of the 2025 parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero filed a bill to formalize his proposal seeking to defer the BARMM...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III said on Monday, November 4, that he got "worried" when he found out that former President Rodrigo Duterte taught in a police academy and instructed aspiring police officers questionable practices. "That is now a professor of a fresh police...
Senators on Tuesday, October 29 lauded the Supreme Court for issuing a temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing the transfer of P89.9-billion funds of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to the National Treasury. Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go, chairman of the Senate...
Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero on Tuesday, October 29 said the Senate, as a whole and as a policy, deems it unacceptable to allow foul language or any form of expletives, to be uttered during congressional investigation or hearings. Escudero pointed this out a day after former...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III said he wants lawyers in and out of the government to analyze the admissions made by former President Rodrigo Duterte in the Senate's drug war probe. Former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his opening statement during the start of the...
Former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte arrvies at the Session Hall of the Senate before the scheduled Blue ribbon commitee hearing the past adminisitration’s war on drugs, October 28, 2024. (Mark Balmores) “I did what I had to do." Thus, said former President Rodrigo Duterte as he...
Senators are prepared to accord former President Rodrigo Duterte due courtesy and respect when he attends the Senate’s own investigation into the controversial anti-illegal drug campaign of his administration. Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa assured that the former president will...
Embattled televangelist Apollo Quiboloy on Wednesday, October 23 denied the allegations of human trafficking and sexual abuse being hurled against him. Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) founder Apollo Quiboloy faces senators for the first time during the public hearing of the Committee on Women,...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III announced on Tuesday, Oct. 22, that the Senate's parallel probe on former President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody drug war will begin on Monday, Oct. 28. Pimentel will be presiding over a motu propio investigation of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee...
Senator Pia Cayetano on Monday, October 21 confirmed that the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee will conduct its own public inquiry into the Duterte administration’s campaign against illegal drugs. Cayetano, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Public Accountability and Investigations (blue...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III on Monday, October 21 expressed belief Vice President Sara Duterte should seek professional help following her recent statements against President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. MB Photo Pimentel, in a press briefing at the Senate, said he...
