Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Sunday, March 3 said it is high-time President Marcos leads the government in rationalizing all cash assistance programs for the poor and the marginalized to minimize corruption and remove partisan politics from it. Considering that...
The Marcos administration registered a reduction in the budget deficit last year, with revenues growing significantly faster than expenditures, data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed. In 2023, the national government's fiscal deficit stood at P1.512 trillion, a 6.3 percent decrease from the...
Energy access is a major game-changer in empowering a country – but the depressing fact remains that more than a billion people globally still don’t have access to electricity services – a basic need that marginal segments of populations – or those in the ‘laylayan’ are morally being...
President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (Malacañang photo) The fourth quarter of 2023 Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey revealed the Marcos administration has received a “very good” net rating of +52. SWS vice president Jay Sandoval presented the survey results at the 2024 SWS Survey...
Several key points were conveyed by United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Irene Khan as she summed up her observations during her 10-day visit to the Philippines. At the end of her trip on Feb. 2, Khan, rapporteur on the freedom of opinion and expression, called on the Marcos administration to...
President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) Majority of Filipinos have expressed satisfaction with how the Marcos administration is running the country, based on the December 2023 "Tugon ng Masa" survey conducted by the OCTA Research. The survey results released on...
After being denied a grant under former president Duterte’s administration, the US foreign aid agency Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) is again extending its hands to the Philippines as it sees the country is on the “right pathway forward.” MCC Chief Executive Officer Mary Albright said that...
Senator Imee Marcos on Thursday, February 1 urged her brother President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to clarify his administration’s stand regarding the International Criminal Court (ICC). While the President has already stated that it would not cooperate with the ICC in any...
(Mark Balmores/MANILA BULLETIN) AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee called on the Marcos administration to strictly implement existing fishery laws in an effort to increase the country’s fish stock. “While President Marcos said last year that he was not...
Senator Imee Marcos on Thursday, February 1 urged her brother President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to abandon the push for a People’s Initiative (PI) that he and his allies in the House of Representatives had started. Marcos said she cannot understand why the President has...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte (PPAB) Citing the need to achieve sustainable consumption, Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte has urged the Senate on Tuesday, Jan. 30, to give the green light to a bill that seeks to prioritize ...
Former senator Gregorio “Gringo” Honasan has called on the country’s leaders to show sobriety as the nation experiences turmoil brought about by the push for Charter change through a People’s Initiative (PI) campaign. Honasan, also a former member of the Philippine Army special...
