The House plenary. (Speaker’s office) The House of Representatives is bent on approving the proposed P6.352-trillion 2025 General Appropriations Bill (GAB) on third and final reading on Wednesday, Sept. 25 after two weeks of...
Photo: Freepik Culture finally caught up with me that I experienced “wordnesia.” For the first time since I started writing for Manila Bulletin, I encountered a blank. Literally. Surprisingly, I never feared the blank page. I am most comfortable with having mental diarrhea on paper. Sometimes,...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) It's a foregone conclusion, but the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD) party is throwing its hat in the administration coalition that will field candidates in the upcoming...
Senator Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr. (Left), House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) The House Speaker Martin Romualdez-led Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD) has named "Alyas Pogi" himself as its official senatorial...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (Speaker’s office, Facebook) Vice President Sara Duterte said her close allies in the House of Representatives have revealed that there are ongoing talks that say Speaker Martin Romualdez...
The distribution of hot meals to Tondo fire victims that was carries out by the Office of Speaker Martin Romualdez and Tingog Party-list (Speaker’s Office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez has facilitated the request for the immediate release...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) Speaker Martin Romualdez gave a stern message to critics of the House of Representatives on Monday, Sept. 16, the first day of the marathon plenary debates on the proposed...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez has hailed President Marcos “zero-billing” initiative, which provides for free medical services in 22...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives switches gears on Monday, Sept. 16 from the just-concluded committee level deliberations on the proposed P6.352-trillion 2025 national budget to the even...
Native royalties in pre-hispanic Philippine archipelago Through the centuries the Filipino had been putting on a mask in order to confound his conquerors. When the time came for him to take off the mask because it was no longer needed, he found that it had become part of his face. This is the...
With much fuss around the budget of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) in the House of Representatives, Senator Grace Poe said the Upper Chamber would approve or modify the budget based on the merits of the proposals of each office — not on who sits as its head. "Every department will...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) He made this call during the launch of the Bagong Bayaning Magsasaka (BBM) Rice program—a partnership between the National Irrigation Authority (NIA) and irrigation association...
