CEBU CITY – Twenty-five persons have been arrested in Central Visayas since the election gun ban was enforced on Jan. 12, the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas said. The PRO-7 also said that 35 firearms – 13 pistols and 22 revolvers – and bullets were seized. Among...
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia said on Friday, January 24 that it would no longer remove poll aspirants' names even if they would withdraw their candidacy for the May 2025 national and local elections. In an interview on Teleradyo Serbisyo, Garcia said that they...
(MANILA BULLETIN) Tempering the runaway prices of basic goods through legislation--that's the mission statement of Galing sa Puso (GP) Party-list, which is eyeing a seat in the House of Representatives in the upcoming mid-term polls. Lawyer JP...
Malacañang is confident that the Supreme Court (SC) would not nullify the P6.235-trillion 2025 national budget, citing the need for the government to function. Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin said this amid looming constitutional challenges to the 2025 national budget following allegations of...
Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero on Wednesday, January 22 rejected claims there were supposedly items in the P6.3-trillion General Appropriations Act of 2025 that were left blank. In a press briefing at the Senate, Escudero said he found such claims preposterous considering...
A dinner held for former senator Bam Aquino turned into a reunion of sorts as various artists and influencers who backed the 2022 presidential run of former vice president Leni Robredo once more volunteered for Aquino’s senatorial bid. Photos of the gathering were posted on various social...
ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo remains the frontrunner in the Pre-Election Senatorial Preferential Survey conducted by Tangere from Jan. 8 to 11, despite experiencing a 5 percent drop in his voter preference. In the survey results released on Wednesday, Jan. 22, Tulfo holds a 58 percent...
CEBU CITY – He may be lagging in surveys but retired Col. Ariel Querubin is liking what he’s seeing with his senatorial bid. SENATORIAL bet retired Col. Ariel Querubin answers questions from the media during a press conference in Cebu City on Monday, Jan. 20. (Calvin Cordova) Querubin was...
ABS-CBN News gears up for the upcoming midterm elections with its comprehensive coverage of Halalan 2025 airing across multiple digital and television platforms, along with its electoral interview features, school tour programs, and launching of its live Halalan webpage. On the day of the elections...
DAVAO CITY – Davao City third district Rep. Isidro Ungab maintained on Monday, Jan. 20, that the observed discrepancies in the bicameral conference committee report on the 2025 national budget are not fake news and emphasized the blank items in the annual expenditure. A copy of the report was...
"He's lying." This was how President Marcos responded to the comments of former president Rodrigo Duterte on the 2025 national budget, which he claimed to be containing irregularities such as blank items. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. "He's lying. He's a president. He knows that...
Malacañang slammed "malicious" claims alleging President Marcos for purposely leaving certain parts of the 2025 national budget blank to simply fill in the amounts like in a blank check. Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin ((John Louie Abrina) Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin said in a...
