Twenty-one more Cabinet secretaries, including Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile, will be keeping their posts amid the massive Cabinet reorganization by President Marcos. Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin announced the third batch of Cabinet members who were retained and...
Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Enrique Manalo will stay as the country’s top diplomat until he receives the nod from the powerful Commission on Appointments (CA), Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin said on Tuesday, June 3. Foreign Affairs Secretary...
President Marcos has appointed lawyer Francis Edralin Lim as the new chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin made the announcement on Tuesday, June 3, the same day of his designation. "Today the President has appointed Atty. Francis Edralin...
President Marcos knows what he is doing, and the Cabinet revamp is being done as quickly as possible, Malacañang said. Responding to the call of Senator-elect Panfilo Lacson for Marcos to act quickly on recalibrating his Cabinet to avoid possible inefficiency and divisiveness in the ranks,...
Leading private education organizations are rallying behind the continued leadership of Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Sonny Angara and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Director General Francisco Benitez amid the recent Cabinet revamp by President Marcos....
President Marcos has accepted the resignation of Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chair J. Prospero De Vera III amid the massive Cabinet revamp initiated by the President. Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin announced the new development in a Palace briefing on Thursday, May 29. He will be...
Two Cabinet secretaries, who were among the officials who laid out the plan to arrest former president Rodrigo Duterte, will continue to hold their respective positions under the Marcos administration amid the massive Cabinet revamp. President Marcos has retained Department of Justice (DOJ)...
President Marcos has named Darlene Berberabe as the new Solicitor General, replacing Menardo Guevarra, as a review of the Cabinet continues. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong ' Marcos Jr. swears in lawyer Darlene Berberabe and engineer Jose Ramon Aliling as new Solicitor General and...
Senator-elect Panfilo “Ping” Lacson urged President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to act quickly on the pending courtesy resignations of his Cabinet members, noting that the jockeying for positions in the Cabinet has intensified. Lacson said the President should do this to avoid...
Following the Cabinet reshuffle, 168 heads of government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) have also been ordered by the President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to file their courtesy resignations. According to a follow-up notice by the Governance Commission for GOCCs (GCG) issued on Wednesday, May...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian called on President Marcos to appoint a Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief who embodies strong leadership, unwavering integrity, and a deep sense of public service. In a statement issued on Wednesday, May 28, Gatchalian emphasized that the next PNP Chief must...
President Marcos denied that his recent move to revamp his Cabinet was just a political spin. In an interview with reporters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Marcos stressed that his decision to ask all his Cabinet members to resign is his way of fixing a problem and looking into it deeply. He said a...
