The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) expressed readiness to vaccinate children against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) once a written directive has been released. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) “We will vaccinate whomever the government wants us to prioritize,” said PRC Chairman and Chief Executive...
Senators on Tuesday, Oct. 5 sought the revocation of the memorandum issued by President Duterte that bars Cabinet officials from attending the Senate probe on the government’s procurement of alleged overpriced COVID-19 pandemic supplies from Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation. At the...
Senator Richard Gordon is not backing down in his word war against President Duterte amid the Senate's ongoing probe on the government's purchase of health supplies amid the COVID-19 pandemic. President Rodrigo Duterte and Philippine Red Cross chairman Senator Richard Gordon (FILE PHOTOS/MANILA...
The Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation official who earlier broke contact with the Senate after giving her testimony affirming the anomalies in the government’s procurement of COVID-19 pandemic supplies from their company showed up at the continuation of the Senate blue ribbon committee’s...
President Duterte on Monday, Oct. 4, told Senator Richard Gordon to pay the government to P140 million in disallowed funds he accrued when he was still chairman of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA), saying the significant amount could be tapped to buy coronavirus disease (COVID-19)...
President Duterte said he was “pleased” to know that the Commission of Audit (COA) has agreed to audit the subsidies received by the Philippine Red Cross (PRC), chaired by Senator Richard Gordon, who has led the Senate’s inquiry into the government’s alleged anomalous deals with Pharmally...
President Duterte continued to play hardball with the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee as he announced the issuance of a memorandum enforcing his earlier pronouncement to personally clear invites for his Cabinet members to attend the panel’s hearings. President Rodrigo Duterte signs the memorandum...
Local chapters of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) were directed to stay alert and ready to respond to any disturbance brought by Tropical Depression (TD) “Lannie.” Philippine Red Cross / MANILA BULLETIN PRC chapters, especially those in the Visayas region, were instructed to send updates to the...
Senator Richard Gordon welcomed on Monday, October 4, calls for government officials to cooperate with the Senate's ongoing probe into the procurement of medical supplies and equipment for the country’s COVID-19 response. Senator Richard Gordon (File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Gordon, who chairs the...
Opposition Senator Leila De Lima on Monday, Oct. 4 chided President Duterte for ordering members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to ignore the Senate’s subpoenas in its inquiry into the government’s procurement of overpriced COVID-19...
The House Committee on Good Government held on Monday, Oct. 4 its last hearing on the motu propio inquiry into allegations of overpricing of medical supplies procured by government amid allegations that it has been bias in favor of state agencies and the embattled supplier, Pharmally...
Krizle Mago, a pharmaceutical firm executive who went missing after testifying in the Senate against her own company, will testify again in a legislative inquiry but this time before members of the House of Representatives on Oct. 4, Monday. Krizle Mago, Pharmally executive Mago is now under the...
