Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra has admitted that the filing of a quo warranto petition against controversial Mayor Alice Guo of Bamban, Tarlac is a very complicated proposition. Guevarra explained the...
Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros considers appropriate the preventive suspension order against Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo yet hopes that this is not too late. This was after the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) ordered the preventive suspension for not more than six months of Guo and...
The Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) has ordered the preventive suspension for not more than six months of Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Leal Guo and two other town officials after finding that there is strong evidence against them in the administrative charges of grave misconduct, conduct prejudicial to...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday, June 2 said subjecting Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Leal Guo and Lin Wen Yi, who is suspected to be her biological mother, to a DNA test may no longer be possible as Lin is now no longer in the Philippines. Gatchalian said he believes a DNA test between...
Sen. Risa Hontiveros released on Thursday, May 30, several documents showing the possible identity of Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo’s mother -- a certain Lin Wen Yi. A copy of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) document certifying the birthdates and addresses of Mayor Guo’s co-incorporators,...
Former Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda on Thursday, May 30 expressed her concern over the seeming “creeping invasion” of foreign nationals in the Philippines. Legarda made the remark when asked to weigh in on the controversy surrounding Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo whose...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Wednesday, May 29 said the National Peoples Coalition (NPC) should expel Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo due to her alleged links to Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) in her municipality. “Ako, personally, from what I’m seeing and this is my...
Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada on Tuesday, May 28, said he is keen on questioning the father of Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Leal Guo regarding the citizenship of his wife, Amelia Leal-Guo. Estrada had earlier asked the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender...
Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros on Monday, May 27 rejected speculations that the ongoing Senate investigation into Bamban Mayor Alice Guo’s links to illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO) activities in Tarlac is an attack on the Filipino-Chinese community. ...
Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros on Monday, May 27 said the Senate Committee on Women and Children may hold an executive session to hear more information about the identity of Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo from intelligence officials. Hontiveros said the panel will...
Filipino-Chinese civic leader Teresita Ang-See criticized the Senate for the way it has been investigating Bamban, Mayor Alice Guo, noting that the investigation has a “ridiculous zarzuela.” In a statement, observed that the lawmakers have apparently deviated from their goal of...
For Senate President Francis "Chiz" Escudero, the "burden of proof" is on those who are saying that Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo is not Filipino. During the Kapihan sa Senado on Thursday, May 23, Escudero stated that for now, the presumption that the mayor is Filipino remains based on the...
