A vice chairman of the House Committee on Legislative Franchises says controversial television network SMNI is likely to lose its operating franchise. "There is a really big possibility [of] revoking [the franchise]," Surigao del Sur 2nd district Rep. Johnny...
Surigao del Sur 2nd district Rep. Johnny Pimentel (PPAB) Surigao del Sur 2nd district Rep. Johnny Pimentel believes that he has figured out what controversial network SMNI is all about. During the House Committee on Legislative Franchises...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez has practically guaranteed the availability of whatever funds Surigao del Sur would need in terms of its recovery and rehabilitation from the magnitude 6.9 earthquake...
Surigao del Sur 2nd district Rep. Johnny Pimentel (Facebook) Surigao del Sur 2nd district Rep. Johnny Pimentel will seek assistance from the House leadership in terms of funds that will be used for the rehabilitation of his earthquake-stricken...
DOH Secretary Ted Herbosa (Arnold Quizol/ MANILA BULLETIN) Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Teodoro Herbosa will face the screening panel of the bicameral Commission on Appointments (CA) for the second time on Dec. 5, CA Assistant Minority Leader...
Jeffrey "Ka Eric" Celiz (Ninja the Bloggerz Facebook) SMNI program anchor Jeffrey "Ka Eric" Celiz admitted to the House Committee on Legislative Franchises Thursday, Nov. 30 that his "source was wrong" in connection with his commentary that Speaker Martin...
DA Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. (left), Surigao del Sur 2nd district Rep. Johnny Pimentel (MANILA BULLETIN/ Facebook) Surigao del Sur 2nd district Rep. Johnny Pimentel acknowledged on Sunday, Nov. 26 the hefty challenge that Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. has to...
DA Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) The bicameral Commission on Appointments (CA) has received the ad interim appointment Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. from President Marcos. “Secretary...
Surigao del Sur 2nd district Rep. Johnny Pimentel (Facebook) A senior member of the erstwhile ruling party Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) believes that the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD) and the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas...
Surigao del Sur 2nd district Rep. Johnny Pimentel (left), former president Rodrigo Duterte (Facebook, Malacañang photo) How the mighty has fallen, and will continue to fall. From an estimated membership of 120 in the House of Representatives during...
The Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) has called on the Philippine National Police (PNP) to activate a special investigation task group and bring about the arrest of those responsible for the killing of a radio news anchor who was shot dead inside a radio booth in Misamis...
Surigao del Sur Representative Johnny Pimentel on Thursday, November 2 is confident that Japan can be the “logical fallback funding source” for the construction of the Mindanao Railways Project (MRP). Pimentel raised the idea ahead of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s visit...
