A House leader has called out the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) for alleged "abuse of authority" in proposing a two-day number coding ban on private vehicles. (Mark Balmores/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) "I oppose the MMDA imposition of the number coding scheme covering two days...
President Duterte has blamed fake news peddled by rebel group and other "enemies" of the government over the vaccine hesitancy of some Filipinos, especially those in Mindanao. Duterte said Monday night, April 11, it is the government's "enemies" who have been spreading false information and...
Magdalo Party-list Rep. Manuel Cabochan III said he would resign as a congressman and nominee of his party-list if the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) can show immediate proof that Vice President Leni Robredo has links with the New People’s Army (NPA). Vice...
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte--It was like a victory party a full month before the actual elections. Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) The UniTeam ticket attracted another mammoth crowd, this time at the jampacked Leyte Grandstand here on Saturday, April 9. According to...
Senator Franklin Drilon, a stalwart of the once-ruling Liberal Party (LP) that presidential candidate Vice President Leni Robredo still chairs to this day, believes that more local officials will be joining her “pink movement” in the coming days because of the surge in her March survey numbers....
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...
The National Unity Party (NUP) has endorsed the vice presidential campaign of Lakas—Christian Muslim Democrats chair Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte. Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte (center) speaks to reporters during a sortie in Antipolo on March 31, 2022 (Lakas-CMD Media) "We are one with Mayor...
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...
