House members sought clarification on the highly technical nature of system loss on Wednesday, Aug. 6 as the Committee on Energy held its first hearing to discuss issues and concerns surrounding the proposed abolition of system loss charges from electricity bills. Pangasinan 2nd district Rep. Mark...
The House Committee on Energy committed to fast-track the legislative measures needes to implement President Marcos ' priority energy reforms aimed at reducing Filipinos ' electricity expenses, as stated in his recent State of the Nation Address (SONA). Thus, said committee chairman...
Palawan 2nd district Rep. Jose "Pepito" Alvarez literally rushed to the Senate in Pasay City on Thursday, June 4 after his name was included in a list of government officials who allegedly received money luggages ("maleta") from the so-called 18 Marine-bagmen. The 81-year-old Alvarez sought to deny...
Palawan 2nd district Rep. Jose "Pepito" Alvarez delivered one of the most unbridled, in-your-face diatribes against a fellow House of Representatives member in plenary on Tuesday night, June 2. And the 81-year-old did it to "congressmeow" Cavite 4th district Rep. Francisco "Kiko" Barzaga minutes...
The plenary hall of the House of Representatives (Dexter Barro II/MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives on Thursday, Sept. 19, deferred the plenary deliberation on the proposed P27.1-billion budget of the Department of Environment and Natural...
Former president Rodrigo Duterte (Keith Bacongco/ MANILA BULLETIN A high-ranking official of Partido Demokratiko Pilipino (PDP) has distanced the erstwhile ruling party from former president Rodrigo Duterte's tirades against President...
A cup of coffee (Usplash) A Filipino breakfast is not complete without a cup of coffee. But chances are, what you had this morning wasn’t produced by local farmers. In a House Committee on Agriculture and Food hearing Monday, Nov. 6, Palawan 2nd district...
