Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Undersecretary Claire Castro has denied that she was the person in an alleged recorded conversation about troll farms, saying lawmakers must be careful not to be unwittingly used by fake news peddlers. Castro said this after Senator Robin Padilla presented...
Senator Robin Padilla presented on Tuesday, Nov. 25, an unverified audio recording allegedly made to sound like a conversation between a certain Presidential Communications Office (PCO) official and an unidentified individual linked to troll farms, which he said surfaced online and required the...
Senator Robinhood Padilla called for sobriety and unity in the Upper Chamber following the return of Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson as chairman of the powerful Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. In a Facebook post on Monday, Nov. 3, Padilla acknowledged that political...
BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office is investigating the encounter between the 62nd Infantry Battalion and the New People’s Army in Moises Padilla town, Negros Occidental province on Oct. 28. The incident claimed the life of a six-year-old boy believed to have been hit...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Ella Celestina Garcia-Yulo has called on the New People’s Army (NPA) to surrender and pursue peace talks, following a gun battle between soldiers and communist rebels where a six-year-old boy was killed in Sitio Matal-i, Barangay Quintin Remo, Moises Padilla, Negros...
BACOLOD CITY – A six-year-old boy was killed in an encounter between the military and the New People’s Army in Barangay Quintin Remo, Moises Padilla town, Negros Occidental province on Tuesday, Oct. 28. Vice Mayor Felix Mathias Segundo Yulo has visited the remains of the victim and extended...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) clarified on Monday, Oct. 20, that its review of the military pension system, including possible sanctions for retirees allegedly spreading misinformation, remains a work in progress amid public backlash, including from a retired general who warned that any...
Former Senator Antonio "Sonny" Trillanes IV says he 's willing to face a Senate inquiry into claims that he was designated by the government to conduct a welfare check on former president Rodrigo Duterte at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Netherlands. “Game ako diyan. Pero...
BACOLOD CITY – A 42-year-old Department of Education (DepEd) employee died after his motorcycle crashed into a parked carabao cart in Purok 2, Barangay Magallon Cadre, Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental on Sunday, Aug. 31. Police Major Romulo Gepilango, Moises Padilla police chief, identified the...
The military expressed openness to an “out-of-the-box” proposal by Senator Robin Padilla to revive the National Development Support Command (NADESCOM) which could temporarily handle flood control projects amid an investigation into the reported anomalous infrastructure projects and...
The municipal government of Moises Padilla in Negros Occidental officially opened a new facility aimed at supporting abused women and children as well as individuals facing personal crises. Municipal officials led by Mayor Ella Celestina Garcia-Yulo and husband, Vice Mayor Felix Mathias Yulo III,...
Senator Robinhood Padilla 's bill requiring all elected and appointed officials of public offices, including the President, to undergo an annual mandatory drug testing, is not directed at President Marcos. This was according to lawyer Rudolf Philip Jurado, Padilla 's chief-of-staff, who...
