Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, March 6, filed a resolution calling on the Senate to conduct an investigation on the series of political killings happening in the Philippines. Hontiveros filed Senate Resolution No. 518 following the assassination of incumbent Negros Oriental Governor Roel...
Senator Risa Hontiveros has filed a resolution urging the Senate to investigate the administrative orders issued by the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) that have led to an “excessive” rise in port fees. In filing Senate Resolution No. 484, Hontiveros specifically mentioned the AOs pertaining...
Senators on Wednesday, February 15, called for an in-depth probe into the latest incident at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) involving a private aircraft allegedly being used for human trafficking. Lawmakers made the call after Sen. Grace Poe delivered a privilege speech exposing how...
A New York-based commercial bank has expressed willingness to cooperate with a Senate panel investigating the Philippine Amusement Gaming Corp.’s (PAGCOR) alleged anomalous contract with a third party auditor for Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs). In a letter to Janice Godornes,...
Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) is taking full responsibility and accountability for the air traffic system glitch that hit the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) on New Year’s Day. CAAP Director General Manuel Antonio Tamayo expressed the CAAP’s position on the issue...
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...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III has sought on Thursday, Aug. 11 a full-blown Senate investigation into the alleged corruption-tainted purchase of P2.4 billion worth of ‘’outdated and overpriced’’ laptops for public school teachers. In Senate Resolution (SR) 120 that he had...
Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III has always been one of the more sober and reasonable voices in the Senate. Lawyer Ferdinand Topacio issued the statement after thanking Sotto for his ‘’kind announcement regarding our clients Mohit Dargani and Linconn Ong, and to his adherence to the ruling...
Two Pharmally Pharmaceutical corporation executives will come out of the Pasay City jail on June 3 with their heads held high ‘’unbroken and unbowed.’’ This was the statement issued today (May 17) by lawyer Vonn Rico Kapunan, lawyer of Mohit Dargani, treasurer, and Linconn Ong, auditor, who...
The two detained Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation executives are expected to be freed from jail on June 3, the ‘sine die’ adjournment of Congress. This is because the contempt charge slapped by the Senate Blue Ribbon committee against the two shall have been extinguished, Senate President...
The Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs is seeking to regulate the operations of online cockfighting (e-sabong) and limiting its operations only every Sunday and legal holidays. Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa said this is just one of the initial recommendations of the Senate...
Presidential candidate Senator Panfilo M. Lacson on Monday, April 4 said he would inhibit himself from any Senate investigation into the unpaid P203-billion estate tax on the Marcos family. "Ako, dahil presidential candidate ‘yung involved sa isyu—sabi ko nga kanina—mag-i-inhibit ako sa...
