Voting 22-0-0 (yes-no-abstain), the Senate, on Tuesday, Jan. 14, approved on third and final reading Senate Bill (SB) No. 2816, also known as an act setting the term of office of barangay officials and members of the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK). “With the longer fixed term, the barangay officials...
If there's a common denominator between the new senatorial hopefuls who filed their certificates of Candidacy (COC) before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Saturday, Oct. 5, it is that they all want change to happen in the government, from their own perspective. Among the fresh faces that...
Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa (Senate PRIB) Kabataan Party-list criticized Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa for claiming that the ongoing investigation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the previous Duterte administration's...
ARINGAY, La Union – A 23-year-old Sangguniang Kabataan (youth council) chairman was shot and wounded on the Aringay-Tubao Provincial Road in Barangay San Simon East here on Sunday, September 8. Police identified the victim as John Joaquin Macabinta, SK chairman of Barangay San Simon East....
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte praised the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms' swift action on the proposal to hold the next Barangay and...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is looking into the controversial claim made in the name of an elected youth official in this city. Kim Cyril Sina-on Siacon, a Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) kagawad or youth councilor from Barangay Sooc, Arevalo District, was...
President Marcos urged local government executives to listen to the voice of the youth as they may have inputs that veteran officials might have overlooked, especially regarding technology. President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (RTVM screenshot) Marcos said this as he administered the...
Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel (Facebook) Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel is prodding the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) to take a cue from basic education and revert to the old academic calendar for higher education institutions (HEIs)....
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has slammed as "severe disregard for human rights" a barangay (village) ordinance in Bangued, Abra that proposed "execution or death penalty" for the third offense of illegal garbage dumping. In a statement, the CHR said the ordinance and the subsequent posting...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has deactivated more than 4.2 million voters from its records, the poll body's top official said. In a message to reporters, Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia said that this number will be deducted from the present number of voters, which is 68 million....
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Members of the House of Representatives have expressed their support for a proposed legislation that aims to defer the next Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) from Dec. 1,...
(PNA) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte wants to move the conduct of the next Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) from Dec. 1, 2025 to Oct. 26, 2026, and then every three years thereafter. In a statement on Tuesday, May 7,...
