House Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda has emerged as the top choice of Filipinos among the senatorial candidates for the May 2022 elections, based on the lateset OCTA Research survey. Legarda, who is seeking a Senate comeback in the upcoming polls got the nod of 69 percent of a total 1,200 respondents...
Reelectionist Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri is calling for the "strict" enforcement of anti-hazing law against members of Tau Gamma Phi fraternity from Laguna following the death of one of its brothers allegedly due to hazing. Zubiri on Tuesday said in a statement "it is absolutely infuriating how...
Reelectionist Senator Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri on Monday called for the establishment of specialty hospitals across the country in a bid to deliver quality health care to "every corner of the country." Zubiri said he is "very much committed to decentralizing our health care system" because he...
Presidential candidate Vice President Leni Robredo ruled out the possibility of dropping reelectionist Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri from her senatorial slate because he is part of her close rival former Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s Uniteam ticket. Bayan Muna chair Neri Colmenares and Senator Juan...
Vice presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte and members of her UniTeam Senate slate vowed to support the agriculture sector if elected in the 2022 polls. Harry Roque (left) and Sara Duterte (right) on stage in Talavera, Nueva Ecija (Photo from LAKAS-CMD Media) “Ang Nueva Ecija po ay...
After securing the support of their allies in their hometowns of Imus, Cavite, and Quezon City recently, Partido Reporma standard-bearer Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson and running mate Senate President Vicente ‘Tito’ Sotto III headed south to solidify their base in Davao del Norte. Senator Panfilo...
The Philippine 24-member approved Monday, Jan. 31 a record 166 bills on third reading, the most bills approved in a single day in recent Senate history, if not this past decade. “I thank our presiding officer, Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III, for his guidance and leadership, allowing us to...
The Senate will resume sessions on Monday, January 17, and tackle more than 30 measures that are either pending for approval on third and final reading, for interpellation and for sponsorship. Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri said that among the priority measures that the Upper...
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri on Thursday, Dec. 30 tagged persons who skipped COVID-19 quarantine protocols as ‘’stupid, irresponsible individuals.’’ ‘’It has come to our attention that there are individuals who have skipped quarantine protocols coming in from abroad and...
The Senate has approved the bicameral conference committee report on the disagreeing provisions on the measure that seeks to raise the age by which statutory rape is determined by law. The bicameral report on Senate Bill No. 2332 and House Bill No. 7836, which seeks to amend Republic Act No, 7610...
Stephanie Zubiri and AA Patawaran sleuth around the life of the creator of Sherlock Holmes to celebrate the release of Montblanc’s latest Writers Edition pens ICON IN CRIME FICTION Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (National Portrait Gallery London) “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little...
Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has tested positive again for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a day after he physically attended the Senate plenary debates on the DND’s proposed budget for 2022. Senators who were informed of Lorenzana testing positive for the...
