Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla, Jr. lauded President Marcos and his economic team on the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for the third quarter of this year. This, after the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported a 5.9 percent year-on-year growth in the third...
The Office of the Vice President (OVP) will no longer pursue its request for P500 million worth of confidential funds under the proposed 2024 budget which has been deemed submitted for plenary approval on Thursday, November 9. Sen. Sonny Angara faces his colleagues during the plenary session...
Senator Robinhood Padilla believes that a return to morality and to God is the only path the country can take for it to move forward and attain peace. In his speech at the Ambassadors for Peace dinner banquet in Quezon City, Padilla said many Filipinos today, particularly the youth, are divided...
TOL VIEWS Nov. 8, 2023 marks the 10th anniversary when super typhoon Yolanda hit the country and wreaked havoc in communities in the Philippines but most extensively devastating Tacloban, Leyte. Yolanda claimed thousands of lives, displaced millions of families, and damaged properties worth...
Senate President Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri told the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to settle the issue regarding delays in refunds on the value-added tax which may prompt foreign investors to pull the plug and move shop to other countries. Sen. Sonny Angara, chairperson of the Committee on...
Sen. Imelda "Imee" Marcos said on Wednesday, November 8, called for respect to the thousands who perished in the wake of Super Typhoon Yolanda's onslaught 10 years ago. Marcos mentioned in a statement on the 10th anniversary of the Super Typhoon Yolanda tragedy that the solidarity that paved the...
As the “Eksibit sa Nanganganib na Wika ng Pilipinas” officially opened on the second floor of the Senate building on Monday, Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda underscored the importance of preserving indigenous languages and called the staging of such exhibits an eye-opener...
A Senate panel on Tuesday, November 7 lifted the contempt order against the four leaders of the Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc. (SBSI) or the so-called Socorro "cult" namely Jey Rence Quilario also known as "Senyor Agila", Janeth Ajoc, Mamerto Galanida, and Karren Sanico. The Senate security group...
FINDING ANSWERS The slaughter of innocent children and other civilians had the world grieving for Israel as it coped with the shock of the Oct. 7 massacre perpetrated by Hamas terrorists. Widespread condemnation of the treacherous attack reverberated across the globe as people fully understood why...
Senators on Monday, November 6, condemned the killing of 57-year-old veteran broadcaster Juan Jumalon who was shot dead while live on air in his home-based radio station in Misamis Occidental on Sunday morning. Senate President Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri called for the creation of a task force...
BETTER DAYS We congratulate the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the successful holding of the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE). As committed by our poll body, there was no failure of election in any of the 201,786 precincts across the country. We also extend our...
Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva thanked Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio for expressing Japan's willingness to continue to partner with the Philippines in various areas. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivers his speech in Nihongo before the members of the Congress in a special...
