Mary Jane Veloso (center) (Santi San Juan/ MANILA BULLETIN) Senior Citizen Party-list Rep. Rodolfo "Ompong" Ordanes is asking President Marcos to take into consideration Mary Jane Veloso's elderly parents in the decision on whether or...
Senator Imee Marcos on Tuesday, December 24 urged the Marcos administration to slash the Department of Public Works and Highways’ (DPWH) budget by P188 billion to make the 2025 General Appropriations Act (GAA) aligned with the Constitution. Marcos believes the administration needs to...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (middle) approves the National Security Strategy (NSS) 2024 following a meeting with key security officials led by National Security Adviser (NSA) Eduardo Año (fourth from right) and Department of National Defense (DND) Usec. Ignacio Madriaga (fourth from left) in...
(File photo) Retired uniformed personnel and concerned stakeholders wrote to President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to convey their “serious concerns” regarding the “questionable deviations” of the approved General Appropriations Bill (GAB) 2025 from the National Expenditure Program...
Bataan 1st district Rep. Geraldine Roman (left), Tingog Party-list Rep. Jude Acidre (PPAB) There's absolutely nothing wrong with Malacañang's deferment of the signing of the P6.352-trillion General Appropriations Bill (GAB) for...
Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero on Wednesday, December 18, expressed his agreement to President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s decision to defer the signing of the 2025 General Appropriations Bill (GAB). “It is part of the legislative process and the system of checks...
Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo (left), President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Rep. Salo's office, BBM Media Bureau) Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo said President Marcos "demonstrated remarkable leadership and compassion" by helping...
After divesting its stake in Petron Corporation in 2008, trillion-dollar energy giant Saudi Aramco is reportedly plotting a re-entry into the Philippine energy sector. According to a highly placed source, this will be through a prospective merger and acquisition (M&A) deal with one of the...
All is not lost as President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. still has the power to ask the bicameral conference committee to reconvene and fix all the contentious items in the final version of the P6.532 trillion national budget for 2025, Sen. Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri said. Zubiri...
Pres. Marcos Jr. (middle) confers the Gawad Kalasag Seal to John Niño Suarez and Emer Jhune Donaire 24 th Gawad Kalasag National Awarding Ceremony at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Pasay City on Dec. 13, 2024. The two students were honored for their bravery in saving a...
Mary Jane Veloso (MANILA BULLETIN) Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas is urging President Marcos to grant clemency to overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Mary Jane Veloso upon her return from death row in Indonesia. Brosas, a member of the...
NTF-ELCAC Executive Director Usec. Ernesto Torres Jr. (File photo) No less than President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has assured the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) that it “will stay” despite calls made by certain groups for its abolition,...