ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Facebook) ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro is calling for the abolition of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and the reallocation of its budget to agencies that...
ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo (PPAB) House Deputy Majority Leader for Communications Rep. Erwin Tulfo has proposed a "restructure" of the National Food Authority (NFA), instead of an abolition. “Hindi naman buwagin, but rather restructure. As a...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) As if to quell senators' mistrust, ranking members of the House of Representatives have given individual assurances that there's no plan to abolish the Senate amid the current push...
The Philippine government asked United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Dr. Ian Fry to engage in a “genuine dialogue” with the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) after he suggested that the task force be abolished. UN Special Rapporteur Ian Fry with Philippine...
Malacañang has issued a memorandum abolishing the North Luzon Railways Corporation (NORTHRAIL) for not producing the desired outcomes and not generating the level of social, physical, and economic returns. NORTHRAIL (Facebook) Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin signed Memorandum Order No. 17 by...
A ranking congressman has assured senators that the aboltion of the Senate won't be included in the plans of the proposed constitutional convention (con-con), which would be tasked to come up with possible amendments to the 1987 Constitution. Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte...
Albay 2nd District Rep. and House Ways and Means chair Joey Salceda on Sunday, Nov. 27, assured workers at the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine (RITM) that there would be no abolition or layoffs there even after the country’s establishment of its own Center for Disease Control (CDC) inches...
Malacañang has ordered the abolition of the First Cavite Industrial Estate (FCIE), a 154.5-hectare industrial subdivision in Cavite, after being "dormant and non-operational" for several years and being no longer "cost efficient." Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea signed Memorandum Order...
Vice President Leni Robredo bared some interesting tidbits about herself as she took on the fast talk challenge during “The Jessica Soho Presidential Interviews” on Saturday, Jan. 22. (The Jessica Soho Presidential Interviews) Under the challenge, a series of questions is hurled at the...
Vice President Leni Robredo’s spokesman on Sunday, Nov. 14, maintained that the presidential aspirant and leader of the opposition is against terrorism and insurgency in the country but stressed that the government’s current anti-insurgency task force is “problematic.” Vice President Leni...
Malacañang said fighting the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic would have even been more difficult without the Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, urging the public to recognize the good that the body has done. File photo of President Duterte...
Commission on Audit (COA) chairman Michael Aguinaldo has expressed his backing for the calls to abolish the Philippine International Trading Corporation (PITC) and the Department of Budget and Management's Procurement Service (DBM-PS), to address issues in government procurements. Commission on...
