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...
Residents spend the night at makeshift tents outside their homes after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes off Calayan, Cagayan on Sept. 12, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Calayan Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office) At least five persons were reported hurt in Calayan, Cagayan after it...
Ombudsman Samuel Martires (Screenshot from YouTube live) Ombudsman Samuel Martires has chided complainants who insist on filing charges against individuals for "red-tagging", despite the absence of a law prohibiting it. Martires, during the Office of the...
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...
(Unsplash) A dejected Ombudsman Samuel Martires told congressmen Monday, Sept. 11 that he believed corruption in the Philippines won't get solved within "our lifetime". Martires, during the House Committee on Appropriations' deliberation on the Office of the...
(Unsplash) The Office of the Ombudsman's system was hacked earlier this year, causing its decision writing process to get compromised. Thus, bared Ombudsman Samuel Martires to members of the House Committee on Appropriations Monday, Sept. 11 during the...
The government is set to hold another round of cash payouts in Metro Manila and Zamboanga del Sur on Monday, Sept. 11, as part of the Marcos administration's efforts to assist small rice retailers affected by the nationwide price ceilings. CASH GRANT — Department of Social Welfare and...
Personnel from the Philippine Navy and Philippine Marine Corps load family food packs onboard landing craft (LC) 298 before these are transported to fire victims in Bonga, Tawi-Tawi. (Photo courtesy of Office of Civil Defense) The Office of Civil Defense (OCG) bared Sunday, Sept. 10, that it...
AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee (Facebook) Implementing electronic licenses is the "long-term solution" to the plastic license card woes hounding the Land Transportation Office (LTO). AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee had this to say even as the...
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) intiates its first ever free Conductor’s Theoretical Course (CTC) for bus conductors to help them be more educated with their roles and responsibilities. The course is spearheaded by LTO’s Pasay City Licensing Center-Driver’s Education Center (PCLC-DEC)....
The driver’s license of former policeman Wilfredo Gonzales was revoked for at least two years after he was found liable for the four charges leveled against him in connection with his confrontation with a bicycle rider in Quezon City which went viral on social media. At the same time, LTO chief...
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has issued the guidelines on the extension of driver’s license amid the shortage of the plastic cards which was aggravated by the legal battle between two companies which participated in the bidding process. In a memorandum issued to the agency’s regional...
