Human rights lawyer and senatorial candidate Jose Manuel "Chel" Diokno reiterated his firm stand against the revival of death penalty even if put in a situation where he had to deal with a heinous crime committed to his own family. Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)...
Accountability on the part of the Reds. (Mark Balmores/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) This was the "one missing ingredient" in the failed peace process between the Philippine government and the communist insurgents, President Duterte claimed during a speech in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan on...
President Duterte has signed a law prescribing stiffer penalties for the crime of perjury. (Ye Jinghan/ Unsplash) Enacted was Republic Act (RA) No.11594, titled, "An Act increasing the penalties for perjury, amending for the purpose Articles 183 and 184 of Act No. 3815, as amended, otherwise known...
State-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) will be filing a motion for reconsideration on the P980,400.00 penalty imposed by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) on forced outages violation of its newly privatized 650-megawatt Malaya thermal power facility. The...
The Energy Development Corporation (EDC) was slapped with fines by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) after its Nasulo geothermal plant was found to have breached the mandated ‘forced outage limit’ prescribed for such technology in the electricity generation business. In a disclosure to the...
State-owned Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is urging government agencies to pay unremitted premium contributions to avail of penalty condonation. In a statement, Rolando Macasaet, GSIS president and general manager said on Tuesday, Oct. 19, said that government agencies are encouraged...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has stretched the deadline for the filing of various tax returns in areas under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) and modified community quarantine (MECQ). (Ali Vicoy/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) BIR Commissioner Caesar R. Dulay said the extension was in...
Can we please get a reimbursement from the Philippine government? Newly-repatriated OFWs at NAIA await the buses that will transport them to their quarantine facilities. (Ariel Fernandez/ MANILA BULLETIN) This was the appeal of some returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), particularly those...
The Metro Manila Council (MMC) has tasked the local government units of the National Capital Region (NCR) to come up with their own ordinances penalizing individuals who will get a "booster" shot or a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine, Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte bared Saturday. The order came...
President Duterte is prepared to face death penalty if he is convicted before a local court, not the International Criminal Court (ICC). President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) Addressing the nation late Wednesday, July 28, the President asserted that he would rather stand...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is prodded to impose penalties against the generation companies (GenCos) that have caused unwarranted rate hikes during the power supply-strained summer months. That has been the demand of several consumer groups, led by the Power for People Coalition (P4P),...
The head of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care (CBCP-ECPPC) has asked Filipinos, especially the youth to elect leaders who will champion the cause of life and fight the existing culture of death. CBCP "We challenge all sectors especially...
