The Senate has amended its rules to authorize the Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms (OSAA) to protect members of the Upper Chamber, Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero said on Wednesday, August 7. Escudero said amendments to a portion of its rules was done during the plenary session on...
Northern Samar 1st district Rep. Paul Daza (Facebook) Northern Samar 1st district Rep. Paul Daza is urging the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) to one day come up with an "upgraded" version of Philippine Offshore Gaming...
DOJ Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla (left), Speaker Martin Romualdez (Facebook) House Speaker Martin Romualdez has welcomed Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla’s vow to comply with President Marcos' directive for a...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) What one committee can do, four can do better. It is with this notion that members of the House of Representatives is pushing for the formation of a four-committee panel that would...
Surigao del Norte 2nd district Rep. Robert Ace Barbers (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILABULLETIN) Surigao del Norte 2nd district Rep. Robert Ace Barbers has reiterated his belief that a highly-organized criminal syndicates--with its hands dipped in...
(Unsplash) Amid claims that the prohibition on Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) would directly impact the property industry, National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) asserts that the ban would barely make a noise in the office and residential...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (left), former president Rodrigo Duterte (MANILA BULLETIN) PORAC, Pampanga--President Marcos is bent on shutting down the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) "that proliferated during the...
(Unsplash) PORAC, Pampanga--The Philippine government is spending P200,000 a month for the sustenance of infants fathered by illegal foreign Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) workers with Filipino women, who have been left to fend for...
Senator Grace Poe noted on Monday, August 5, the decrease in text scams when President Marcos ordered the ban of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs), raising the need for legislation for the latter. "From that time on actually a little before that time until the present, kung mapapansin...
It is horrifying that a Chinese national succeeded in winning in the country’s elections and assume a local government seat, Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros said. Hontiveros made this assessment following the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) discovery that the...
Former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque (PPAB) Former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque has attended the House of Representatives' inquiry into Philippine offshore gambling operations (POGOs) where he denied alleged connections to the recently outlawed...
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) will have to put on hold the directive it issued last month that ordered all foreign workers of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) to leave the country in 60 days. Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Jesus Crispin C. Remulla said on Thursday, Aug....
