The Philippine government is losing about P26 billion in taxes every year due to illicit cigarettes, a House lawmaker said. During the Combating Illicit Tobacco Trade webinar on Thursday, April 7, PBA Party-list Rep. Jericho Jonas B. Nograles said that based on the Euromonitor International report,...
Independent presidential candidate Panfilo M. Lacson on Wednesday, April 6 criticized the exploitation of the country’s party list system, saying the rich use it to lobby for their interests in Congress. Lacson issued the statement after President Duterte himself said that the next generation of...
PASAHERO Party-list is urging the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to “promptly and favorably” act on the request of the Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB) to exempt the distribution public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers' fuel subsidy from the election public spending...
VALENCIA CITY, Bukidnon--Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa said he has been scolded by his daughters because of the online cockfighting (e-sabong) issue. Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa (left) and Gretchen Barretto (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) More specifically, it's his spat with actress and...
VALENCIA CITY, Bukidnon--Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa, a one-time presidential aspirant in the coming May 9, 2022 elections, says he's been rooting for Bongbong Marcos for a while now. Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Dela Rosa, a Partido Demokratiko...
Party-lists. One can argue that there’s just too many of them. Too many, in fact, that they occupy an entire page of the ballot. And yet, of the gazillion party-lists registered in every poll since the passing of Republic Act (RA) 7941 in 1995 (although it was the 1987 Constitution that created...
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...
A welcome relief for commuters. That's how PASAHERO Party-list founder Robert Nazal described the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority's (MMDA) decision to implement a two-week dry run for the return of provincial buses on EDSA starting March 24. (Mark Balmores/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN)...
For an official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the issues raised against a number of party-list organizations running in the May 2022 polls are now procedurally moot. Commissioner George Garcia (Comelec FB) Comelec Commissioner George Garcia was reacting to the 124 of the 177 PL groups...
The number of party-list groups flagged by Kontra Daya for being part of political dynasties or big businesses, having unclear or questionable advocacies and representations, having connections with the government or military, having incumbent local officials as party-list nominees, or having...
"Most sustainable and liveable" party-list. Bagong Henerasyon Party-list was given this title over the weekend during the Nation Builders and MOSLIV Awards organized by Sustainable Standards Inc. (SSI). House Deputy Speaker and BH Bagong Henerasyon Party-list Rep. Bernadette Herrera (second from...
AP Party-list has called the attention of the Department of Tourism (DOT) on what it has described as the "painfully slow" rehabilitation of Siargao. Siargao (Dale de Vera/ Unsplash) A popular tourist destination, Siargao--often mentioned in the same breath as Boracay--was ravaged by typhoon...
