Former president Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) The Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives collectively slammed on Saturday, Jan. 13 the dismissal of the grave threat case filed by one of its members against former president Rodrigo...
(MANILA BULLETIN) Cagayan de Oro City 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez is proposing a bold response to China’s recent execution of two Filipinos for drug-related offenses. The response that the veteran lawmaker wants is a tit-for-tat; basically, an...
(Unsplash) The chairman of the House Committee on Dangerous Drugs believes that the Philippines should be able to impose death penalty on foreigners who bring in illegal drugs, in the same way that foreign governments implement it against Filipinos. Surigao del...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (center) (Rep. Castro's office) Makabayan bloc member and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro has filed a criminal complaint against former president Rodrigo Duterte before the Quezon City Prosecutors Office...
House Majority Leader and Zamboanga City 2nd district Rep. Mannix Dalipe (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) House Majority Leader Zamboanga City 2nd district Rep. Mannix Dalipe has likened former president Rodrigo Duterte's recent death threat against ACT...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (PPAB) The House of Representatives is ready and willing to provide additional security personnel for ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro. Thus, said House Secretary General Reginald Velasco in an interview Monday, Oct. 16 even...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has increased the maternity and death benefits for workers in the sugar industry under the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) fund. This, after Labor Secretary Bienvenido E. Laguesma signed DOLE Administrative Order No. 318, expanding the workers’...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro, former president Rodrigo Duterte (PPAB, Malacañang photo) Makabayan bloc member ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro thanked on Monday, Oct. 16 the House leadership for siding with her amid the "death...
Full payment of compensation and benefits to the families of community disaster personnel who lost their lives in the performance of their duties must be implemented, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said. Thus, the CHR declared its full support to the enactment into law of Senate Bill...
(Unsplash) House Committee on Dangerous Drugs Chairman Surigao del Norte 1st district Rep. Robert Ace Barbers says the death penalty "could be a deterrent" against the entry of huge hauls of illegal drugs in the country. "I guess it could be a deterrent,...
Super typhoon “Egay” may have left the country last week but the devastation it left was continuously felt as two more fatalities were reported by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), which brought the death toll to 29 as of Friday, August 4. The NDRRMC said 14...
The Philippines will use the upcoming joint commission meeting with Malaysia to further raise the issue of Filipinos serving death sentences in the foreign land as it attempts to repatriate them to the country. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Ali Vicoy) President Ferdinand "Bongbong"...
