The next administration should prioritize generating opportunities for employment to the 75 million working-age Filipinos in the country, particularly the nearly four million who lost their jobs in an extended Covid-19 pandemic, senatorial candidate and Sorsogon Governor Francis “Chiz” Escudero...
Former Vice President and senatorial aspirant Jejomar Binay urged the national government on Monday, March 7, to hasten the rehabilitation of communities and sectors affected by Typhoon Odette that hit the country in December of last year. Binay aired his appeal after visiting several cities in...
A group of education workers urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to further discuss the compensation of teachers who will serve in the upcoming May 2022 elections. (ALI VICOY / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines, in a statement issued Friday,...
Instead of tying the hands of the next administration with a major policy shift, the government should fast-track the implementation and distribution of the P2.5-billion allocation for financial subsidy and fuel vouchers to qualified utility vehicles rather than tinker with provisions of the Oil...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma How important are the coming elections in shaping the future of the nation? An election could change the course that a country will take for an entire generation. Consider the snap elections held on Feb. 7, 1986. Recall that this event sparked a massive wave of protest...
Partido Reporma presidential candidate Senator Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson stressed Wednesday (March 2) that said fake news is a disservice to the people, and spreading wrong information is harmful to others, especially during the campaign period for the May 9, 2022 national elections....
House Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez on Friday called on President Dutete to immediately fill the still empty seats of the seven-member Commission on Elections (Comelec). In a statement, Rodriguez said the May 9 elections are "fast approaching" and the poll body now needs all the help it can get,...
Vice presidential candidate Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday said he is more than prepared to face his rivals in upcoming debates as it would give him a better chance to lay out the Lacson-Sotto tandem's plans to uplift the lives of Filipinos. Even before announcing their political...
Incumbent and returning senators dominated the senatorial results of the PAHAYAG Election Tracker Survey, with eight of them entering the top 12 slots, PUBLiCUS Asia Inc., an independent non-commissioned national survey, bared on Wednesday. Former senator and incumbent Sorsogon Governor Francis...
The only way to for a presidential candidate to get the President Rodrigo Duterte’s Partido Demokratikong Pilipino-Laban’s (PDP-Laban) endorsement is for them to adhere to the party’s “11-point Agenda for Continuity” which includes the continuation of the administration’s war on drugs,...
Senatorial candidate and former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Guillermo Eleazar has vowed to look into the various measures about online cockfighting should he get elected as a senator in the May 2022 elections. Senatorial candidate Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar while campaigning in Batangas...
If he wins the presidency, one of Senator Manny Pacquiao’s first acts at Malacañang is to offer evangelist and House Deputy Speaker Bro. Eddie Villanueva the job of an anti-corruption czar. Sen. Manny Pacquiao, wife Jinky and 1Pacman Partylist Rep. Eric Pineda is welcomed by Rodriguez...
