BACOLOD CITY – Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson called on newly-elected local officials to work toward building a safer, more inclusive, and progressive province, emphasizing that true progress must be felt by those who have the least. “If it is not felt, then we have fallen short of...
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson has vowed to work with Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian to ensure transparency in the budget process as deliberations on the P6.793-trillion draws near. This, after Gatchalian, who now chairs the Senate Committee on Finance, vowed to ensure transparency in the...
BACOLOD CITY – A team of agricultural experts from Israel is scheduled to arrive in Negros Occidental next week to assist in combating the red-striped soft scale insect (RSSI), a pest currently threatening the province’s sugarcane plantations. The visit follows a meeting between Israeli Consul...
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Thursday, July 31, 2025 scored the lawmakers who applauded President Marcos’ rebuke when he raised the anomalies on flood control projects during his State of the Nation Address (SONA). "I would like to think that the standing ovation during the President’s...
Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson became more emboldened to fight pork barrel and other anomalies in the budget, after President Marcos stressed in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday that there should be no repeat of the mangling of the 2025 budget. Lacson, an avowed enemy of the...
The Senate impeachment court will have to decide whether or not to heed the Supreme Court’s decision barring the Senate from taking up the Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte. Atty. Regie Tongol, spokesperson of the impeachment court, confirmed this saying it is part of...
Senators are hoping to hear President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. disclose how his administration intends to find solutions to the country’s perennial problem on massive flooding and online gambling in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 28. Sen. Panfilo “Ping”...
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Sunday, July 27 said he is confident there are still other venues where senators can inquire about the evidence in the impeachment case filed against Vice President Sara Duterte. One such forum to take up the controversy surrounding Duterte’s use of...
If the Senate decides to defy the Supreme Court 's (SC) decision on the impeachment case of Vice President Sara Duterte, the rule of law may end up being the "biggest loser". This was according to Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson, who said on Saturday, July 26, that while he will follow the...
Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson wondered why floods continue to plague Filipinos despite yearly increases in the budget for the national government 's flood management programs. Lacson noted that while the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has spent an estimated P2 trillion on...
BACOLOD CITY – Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson paid his last respects to overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Leah Mosquera, a native of San Enrique town, whose remains arrived in the province on Thursday, July 24. Lacson joined the grieving family and friends of Mosquera as her remains...
By SENATOR PANFILO M. LACSON Like many of us, Filipinos, I loved my parents dearly and unequivocally. I never left them in their old age, nor on their sickbed, and I supported them until they breathed their last. I did everything I could to hold on to them in the waning years of their lives....
