Makati City Mayor Abby Binay filed her Certificate of Candidacy (COC) for re-election in the upcoming 2022 election through her representative Atty. Jason Certeza. Mayor Abby Binay Binay previously served in Congress as Representative of Makati's 2nd District from 2007 to 2016. She served as mayor...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay For more than five years, ordinary citizens had to contend with the egregious display of officious behavior by some of our public officials. From the highest ranks of leadership down to the second and third tiers of the bureaucracy, the space...
After the reported success of the pilot testing of the country's new quarantine classification system in Metro Manila, former Vice President Jejomar Binay urged the national government to thoroughly study first its plan to implement granular lockdowns nationwide. Ex-Vice President Jejomar Binay...
The Office of the President (OP) has assured senators that it will prioritize and speed up government programs and projects whose funds were identified as "for later release" (FLR), as well as the "institutional amendments" of lawmakers in this year's national budget. Senator Juan Edgardo 'Sonny'...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay By the time this column sees print, Metro Manila would have been under Alert Level 4 for one week. An official of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) described the situation over the weekend as “good,” but his...
Two senators on Monday, Sept. 20 welcomed President Duterte’s directive to conduct limited face-to-face classes in areas with minimal risks for COVID-19 saying it is a significant step forward in the efforts to restore normalcy in the country’s education sector. “We expect that that the...
Former Vice President Jejomar Binay expressed hope on Friday that the granular lockdown experiment in Metro Manila will be a success in both managing the number of COVID-19 cases and in restarting the country's economy. Former Vice President Jejomar Binay "While many experts, including the WHO...
The Makati City local government unit (LGU) has placed under granular lockdown the H. Santos Street in Brgy. Tejeros on Thursday. (Photo from Makati PIO) “I ordered the granular lockdown after noting an increase in the number of COVID-positive cases in the said area. We need to contain the...
Senator Nancy Binay on Wednesday, Sept. 15 said the government should focus on the war against COVID-19 pandemic which poses bigger repercussions to the lives of thousands of Filipinos and to the country’s economy as well. “We are at war with COVID-19. The government should focus on this war....
Two lawmakers on Wednesday, Sept 15, said there is no need to pass a new law that would allow the private sector and local government units (LGUs) to purchase booster shots for COVID-19 v as it is already covered under the Vaccination Act of 2021 that Congress rushed to approve. Sen. Nancy Binay...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay Businessmen by nature are not prone to criticize a sitting administration on every matter involving national policy. But it took a policy gaffe of epic proportions, one with far-reaching consequences on the economy and the livelihood of...
Former Vice President Jejomar “Jojo” Binay slammed the national government's “granular lockdown experiment in Metro Manila,” describing the policy as “counter-intuitive.” Former Vice President Jejomar “Jojo” Binay Binay underscored that in other countries, granular lockdowns are...
