Lawyer Jessica Lucila "Gigi" Reyes, who was tagged in the multi-billion peso pork barrel fund controversy, was released from her detention facility, the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) confirmed on Thursday, Jan. 19, In an advisory, the BJMP said Reyes was released from the Taguig...
Outgoing Senator Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson is hoping senators in the 19th Congress would continue his crusade of tenaciously scrutinizing the national budget and keeping it free from dubious congressional insertions, known as "pork barrel”, and useless appropriations. "I hope somebody will take...
Independent presidential candidate and Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson said he will reform the controversial pork barrel system as well as the ugly culture of patronage politics in the Philippines should he win the presidency in the May 2022 elections. To do this, Lacson sought the cooperation of his...
Aspiring president Vice President Leni Robredo is not ready to move on from the multi-billion-peso pork barrel scam that came to light many years ago, stressing the need to get to the bottom of this if elected. Vice President Leni Robredo (Photo courtesy of the OVP) Asked whether or not she is...
Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno will push for the use of renewable energy in the country to lower power rates if he clinches a Senate seat in the May 2022 polls. Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno (Photo from Diokno’s campaign team) Diokno, a senatorial aspirant, lamented that consumers are always...
Sen. Panfilo 'Ping' Lacson Sr. (Facebook) Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson Sr. has said he would love to see his campaign against pork barrel featured in the movies. On Facebook, Lacson said he hopes this controversial issue will be one of the highlights of his biopic, given the chance a movie company...
Presidential aspirant Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said he hopes that development projects being pushed by lawmakers would undergo at least proper planning and consultation with local authorities as well as implementing agencies starting next year and beyond. Lacson said the country cannot...
As his crusade against senators involved in the probe on the government's purchase of alleged overpriced coronavirus (COVID-19) supplies continues, President Duterte now turned his attention to opposition Senator Franklin Drilon and asked him to explain his connection with incarcerated...
"Guni-guni lang po 'yan (That's an illusion)." This was how Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque described a lawmaker's observation that a supposed "new variant" of the illegal pork barrel fund was included in the government's proposed P5.024-trillion budget for 2022. Presidential spokesperson Harry...
House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate and former Rep. Neri Colmenares on Saturday, August 21 urged the Commission on Audit and the Office of the Ombudsman to follow the money trail in the form of the tens of billions of pesos in government savings. Money Zarate and...
Actor and Cavite Vice Governor Jolo Revilla is thankful that his father, Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla, Jr., was recently acquitted by Sandiganbayan. Recall that a few days ago, Bong was cleared in all 16 graft charges that have been filed against him relating to the so-called pork barrel fund...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima said on Wednesday, July 7 that state probers and lawyers should learn from the setbacks they experienced after Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla, Jr.’s acquittal from the graft charges that were filed against him in connection with the pork barrel controversy or...
