The impeachment proceedings against Vice President Sara Duterte are increasingly being framed not just as a political battle, but as a defining constitutional test, following a new petition-in-intervention filed before the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Lawyers and Mindanao-based leaders...
Vice President Sara Duterte has taken her legal battle to the Supreme Court (SC) of the Philippines, with her defense team confirming the filing of a petition questioning ongoing proceedings at the House of Representatives of the Philippines. In a statement released on Wednesday, April 8,...
The Bacolod City regional trial court (RTC) has declared four children of the owners of the country’s biggest passenger bus company as fugitives from justice after they remained at large despite the arrest order issued against them more than three years ago in 2022. Declared fugitives from...
A group of lawyers challenged before the Supreme Court (SC) the alleged unconstitutional acts by the Committee on Justice of the House of Representatives (HOR) and sought a stop to the impeachment proceedings against Vice President Sara Duterte. The petitioners were lawyers Israelito P. Torreon,...
A Roman Catholic bishop has called on newly appointed Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Acting Secretary Juan Miguel Cuna to make the agency’s leadership transition meaningful by delivering long-overdue justice to communities hit by the oil spill in the Verde Island Passage...
Filipinos’ satisfaction with Vice President Sara Duterte rose by six points in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey conducted from Nov. 24 to 30. The survey, released on Feb. 10, interviewed 1,200 adults nationwide and found that 54 percent of...
Billionaire Manuel B. Villar denied allegations of price manipulation and insider trading filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), describing the charges as baseless while vowing to defend his family’s business reputation. Villar, the Philippines’ richest person, said in a...
The Senate has transferred custody of Henry Alcantara, former Bulacan District Engineer of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Shortly before 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 21, DOJ personnel fetched Alcantara from the Senate detention facility....
A proposed measure in the Senate seeks to mandate the reimbursement of travel expenses incurred by Filipino passengers who were deferred or denied boarding due to unjustified and prolonged pre-departure procedures of the Bureau of Immigration (BI). Senator Raffy Tulfo, who chairs the Senate...
State prosecutors will file criminal charges against Align Assets and its executives for allegedly orchestrating an unlicensed investment scheme that promised outsized returns through cryptocurrency trading, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said. The Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a...
In observance of this year’s Human Rights Day, marking the 77th anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Caritas Philippines and the Episcopal Commission on Social Action – Justice and Peace reaffirmed their commitment to promoting and defending the human dignity of...
Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan has called on lawmakers to expedite the passage of Senate Bill No. 1547 or the bill seeking the establishment of the Justice Reform Commission. Pangilinan said passage of the measure into law would help ease the public’s mounting anger over the multi-billion...
