The local Church will hold the Second National Mission Congress from April 17 to 24 to culminate the celebrations for the 500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines. Photo CBCP News With the theme “Gifted to Give,” the weeklong event is spearheaded by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the...
It will be up to the next Congress to set guidelines regulating the multi-billion peso ‘e-sabong’ (online cockfighting) operations, Senator Francis Tolentino on Wednesday, April 20 said. This would-be measure would make it clear which government agency would supervise and set the rules on...
Former national defense secretary Gilbert Teodoro has stressed the need to remove some existing laws in government that are already irrelevant and have become a regulatory burden to major companies and the general public. That is why, should he win in the May 2022 senatorial elections, Teodoro said...
Presidential candidate Panfilo ‘Ping’ M. Lacson said the national budget is the most important legislation that members of the Senate and the House of Representatives pass every year because without it, government agencies and other state-funded projects could not move to deliver essential...
The Gabriela Women’s Party-list has moved up two spots in Pulse Asia’s March 2022 survey, where it now stands at 6th place among 177 running party-lists. (Photo from Gabriela Women's Party-list Facebook) “This affirms the unwavering support of Filipino women and the people for our consistent...
A trio of pro-digital transformation bills will all be on Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte's mind once sessions resume in the House of Representatives after the May 9 polls. (Sergey Zolkin/ Unsplash) Villafuerte said further digitalization should preoccupy lawmakers in the remaining...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Several groups are now earnestly campaigning in social media to get party list seats in Congress in the upcoming May 2022 polls. Their principal objective is clear: get a party list slate so their top representatives get to become members of the House of Representatives. Of...
Faculty members at the University of the Philippines (UP) slammed on Saturday, April 2, the media interview of retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. (Screenshot from SMNI) Palparan was interviewed by Presidential Communications Undersecretary and National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed...
SANTIAGO CITY, Isabela – An unidentified man sprayed the house of 4th district Isabela Congressional candidate Jeany Agustin Coquilla in Barangay Batal, Santiago City with bullets at about 11:50 p.m. on Wednesday. (Photo courtesy of DWSI) Initial report by a local radio station said the house...
President Duterte said it is during the administration of the late President Corazon Aquino that the rich started to use the party-list system to get elected to Congress. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with key government officials at the Arcadia Active...
LAMBAYONG, Sultan Kudarat--Presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. says that if public clamor pushes Congress to pass a bill instituting same-sex unions, he would sign it. Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) "Dapat it will be up to Congress kung...
Senatorial candidate Herbert “Bistek” Bautista on Thursday said he supports the call for Congress to review the country’s oil price mechanism, noting how prices of fuel are being defined especially in the oil industry. Bautista made the call amid threats of more price increases as a result of...
