The House Committee on Justice has endorsed the passage of a bill for the segregation of high-level convicts from other prisoners through the establishment of a separate facility for the former. Prison cell Majority Leader and Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, one of the principal authors of...
The vice chairman of the House Committee on Justice on Wednesday, Sept. 8 called on the Philippine National Police (PNP) to impose the stiffest penalty available on cops found guilty of extorting money from detainees set for release. Rep. Fidel Nograles Rizal 2nd District Rep. Fidel Nograles aired...
Leaders of the House of Representatives are batting for the increase in compensation of persons wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for a crime they did not commit. Prison cells Deputy Speakers Michael Romero (1PACMAN Partylist) and Evelina Escudero (2nd District, Sorsogon) called for the immediate...
Supreme Court Associate Justice Mario Victor Leonen will have to contend with another impeachment complaint next year when the current leadership in the House of Representatives is no longer in power. Atty. Larry Gadon “We can try another impeachment case next year in a more receptive House...
The House Committee on Justice on Thursday, Sept 2 unanimously approved the grant of Philippine citizenship to Elizabeth Eder Zobel de Ayala, a Colombian socio-civic entrepreneur and wife of Ayala Corp. Chairman and CEO Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala. Elizabeth Eder Zobel de Ayala addressing the...
The House of Representatives finally put to rest on Wedneday, Sept. 1 the impeachment case filed against Supreme Court Associate Justice Mario Victor F. Leonen. 2D2C4968-9979-40D6-B491-3BDF053A42C3 With 165 congressmen voting in the affirmative and one in the negative, the Lower Chamber adopted...
Rizal 2nd District Rep. Fidel Nograles on Friday, July 9 called on government to move for the adoption of the US State Department’s recommendations to eliminate human trafficking in the Philippines notwithstanding improving its efforts towards this end. Human Trafficking image Nograles, vice...
If the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) will be prevented from dismantling shanties built by informal settlers within the National Bilibid Prison (NBP) area in Muntinlupa City, BuCor chief Undersecretary Gerald Bantag said he should also be given the same right to build a house inside Camp Aguinaldo....
