The Senate Blue Ribbon committee has set its initial investigation into the COVID-19 vaccine procurement contracts worth billions of pesos on Wednesday, December 7. The hearing was set by Senator Francis Tolentino, committee chairman, and has called on officials of the Department of Health (DOH) to...
The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee is ready to open its own probe into the reported wastage of 44 million doses of COVID-19 shots and to look into the documents pertaining to the purchase of these vaccines, Senator Francis Tolentino said on Sunday, December 4. Tolentino said also said he supports the...
Amid pressure from senators to disclose the persons who supposedly influenced him to sign the unauthorized order on the importation of 300,000 metric tons (MTs) of sugar, former Department of Agriculture (DA) Undersecretary Leocadio Sebastian said Tuesday, Aug. 23 that nobody was behind his move...
Senator Francis Tolentino will adopt new rules for the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee once he officially becomes its chairman in the forthcoming 19th Congress, which will begin on July 25. Tolentino said the rules would ensure orderly committee hearings and would.respect the rights of persons...
Senator-elect Alan Peter S. Cayetano is willing to join the Senate majority bloc in the 19th Congress but this depends on whether the ‘’super majority’’ would hand him the chairmanship of the powerful Senate Blue Ribbon committee. The former House Speaker's condition of joining the Senate...
The incoming chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon in the 19th Congress today (June 9) assured that persons appearing before it would not be treated like criminals. Senator Francis ‘’Tol’’ Tolentino, who is expected to be voted upon as Senate Blue Ribbon committee chairman when the 19th...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Monday, June 6 maintained that the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee report that recommended the filing of criminal charges against Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III was correct as he is also liable for the questionable Covid-19 pandemic...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima expressed her dismay Saturday, June 4 over the archiving of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee report on the investigation of multi-billion peso ‘’anomalous’’ contracts between Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation and the government amid the Covid-19 pandemic....
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Monday said the next Senate in the 19th Congress can still adopt the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s findings on the investigation into Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. Drilon pointed this out as he reiterated that the Pharmally investigation “is not a...
The incarcerated officials of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. deserve no pity after siphoning P12-billion off the national coffers, Sen. Richard Gordon said. Gordon, chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, said this in response to Linconn Ong and Mohit Dargani's recent plea to Senate President...
Two detained officials of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation have asked to be placed under house arrest instead of being detained at the Pasay city jail based on ‘’humanitarian considerations.’’ The two officials—Mohit Dargani, treasurer and corporate secretary, and Linconn Ong,...
The wife of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation Director Linconn Ong on Sunday thanked Senate President Vicente Sotto III, Senators Panfilo Lacson and Richard Gordon for allowing her husband to visit their son who has dengue. In a statement, Summer Ong thanked the three senators and the Senate...
