Senators commended the Bureau of Internal Revenue's (BIR) initiative to investigate Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo. BIR Commissioner Romeo D. Lumagui Jr. initiated a tax fraud investigation against Guo, who is currently under Senate scrutiny for various issues, including her citizenship. Sen. Risa...
Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian expressed concern over the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) company based in Bamban, Tarlac after intelligence agencies confirmed that it's already deeply rooted there, having influence over politicians, and even law enforcement agencies. Sen....
Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros considers appropriate the preventive suspension order against Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo yet hopes that this is not too late. This was after the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) ordered the preventive suspension for not more than six months of Guo and...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday, June 3 called on investors to provide capital for the development of microgrids in the country to help the Philippines achieve full electrification. “Electrification is usually followed by economic development and the government in partnership...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday, June 2 said subjecting Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Leal Guo and Lin Wen Yi, who is suspected to be her biological mother, to a DNA test may no longer be possible as Lin is now no longer in the Philippines. Gatchalian said he believes a DNA test between...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday, June 2 called on the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) to ensure that operators of the country’s major toll roads will first improve their services before approving and implementing any additional rate hike. Gatchalian made the call after the TRB...
Sen. Risa Hontiveros released on Thursday, May 30, several documents showing the possible identity of Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo’s mother -- a certain Lin Wen Yi. A copy of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) document certifying the birthdates and addresses of Mayor Guo’s co-incorporators,...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Wednesday, May 29 said the National Peoples Coalition (NPC) should expel Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo due to her alleged links to Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) in her municipality. “Ako, personally, from what I’m seeing and this is my...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Wednesday, May 29 urged the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to enhance its information dissemination campaign on the changes brought about by the Ease of Paying Taxes Act, particularly on the issuance of invoices in place of official receipts to ensure that taxpayers...
Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian said that Manila Electric Company's (Meralco) franchise renewal will allow scrutiny of the giant utility’s performance. “These franchise renewals, my view always is that we have to use this opportunity to review the performance of the grantee. And that's a good way of...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian has urged the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) to crack down on the rampant selling of babies online, particularly on Facebook. In a press briefing, the Department of Social Welfare and Development-National Authority on Child Care (DSWD-NACC) Executive...
It was another round of ‘madness’ for millions of Filipino consumers before the strike of midnight on Thursday (May 23), as most parts of Luzon grid had been tormented with one to 1.5-hour rotational brownouts. In the franchise area of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) alone, more than 487,000...
