DAVAO CITY – North Cotabato Gov. Nancy Catamco has promised 100 percent support for Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte should President Duterte’s daughter run to succeed her father in the 2022 elections. In a 3:26 video posted by a Facebook group called Kabataang Cotabateño, Catamco said the...
Unless the Freedom of Information bill is enacted into law and without confirmation from acknowledged international anti-corruption groups, serious doubts and questions will continue to be raised on the Duterte administration’s claim of high achievements in the fight against graft and dishonesty...
President Rodrigo Duterte will be clothed with immunity from legal prosecution if he wins the 2022 vice presidential race but this protection applies only in local setting and not in international courts of justice. President Rodrigo Duterte Duterte’s announcement that he would seek the vice...
Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Alfonso Cusi on Friday, July 16, called on his partymates in the Partido Demokratiko ng Pilipinas-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) to end "hostilities" within the political group. DOE Secretary Alfonso Cusi (Photo from DOE Facebook page) Cusi, the party's vice...
If they can do things to a "Manny Pacquiao", what more can they do to ordinary and poor Filipinos? This was the lament of Senator Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao on Friday, July 16, as he commented on the issues hurled against him amid his rift with President Duterte and the upcoming 2022 polls....
With the 2022 presidential election fast approaching, former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario on Thursday called on the Filipino people to choose a leader who will offer good governance and political will and reverse President Duterte’s policy of “loving and embracing” China. ADR...
Neither poll surveys nor President Rodrigo Duterte’s counsel will be enough as factors that would convince Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte to join the 2022 presidential race o stay out of it. Mayor Sara Duterte Hugpong ng Pagbabago secretary general and former Davao del Norte Governor Anthony del...
President Duterte admitted that he was using his floated vice presidential bid as a way to scare his political opponents in the May 2022 polls. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers a public address on July 12, 2021. (RTVM Screenshot) In his taped public address aired on Monday night, Duterte again...
Senators on Sunday bewailed the unused appropriations under the 2020 General Appropriations Act (GAA) that have been marked by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) as “For Later Release,” saying the fund could have been used to address critical government projects that are in dire need...
Communication Undersecretary Kris Ablan said the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) has requested the addition of more plantilla positions in the agency so the contract of service (COS) employees can become regular workers. PCOO logo (file) Ablan made the statement after...
Communications Undersecretary Kris Ablan confirmed that the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) had hired 375 contract-of-service (COS) personnel in 2020 but insisted that the agency has no trolls. PCOO Undersecretary Kris Ablan (ANC Screenshot) Ablan made the statement after the...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Friday, July 9 said President Duterte’s plan to run for vice president in the upcoming May 2022 national elections will go against the spirit of the Constitution and will pose as a serious problem of succession to the presidency later on. Drilon, a former...
