Pimentel: Duterte’s secret funds may be restored in bicam

Julie Aurelio 11/11/2023

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III warned on Friday that lawmakers may not have heard the last of the debates over Vice President Sara Duterte’s request for P650 million in confidential funds even after she withdrew the proposed…

Sandiganbayan: 5th conviction for Napoles, this time over llocos Sur pork

Julie Aurelio 10/28/2023

The Sandiganbayan has found pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles guilty of graft again. Her latest conviction was on the three counts of graft and three counts of malversation of public funds over the misuse of…

VP Sara’s secret funds as Davao mayor also draw scrutiny

Julie Aurelio 10/01/2023

A Makabayan lawmaker on Saturday asked the Commission on Audit (COA) to thoroughly investigate the P2.697-billion confidential fund allocations for Vice President Sara Duterte when she was mayor of Davao City from 2016 to 2022 and demand the…

Sen. Hontiveros – VP Sara feud over secret funds escalates

Julie Aurelio, Marlon Ramos 09/16/2023

Sen. Risa Hontiveros is not backing down on her call for Vice President Sara Duterte to come clean on the disbursement of P125 million in confidential funds that her office received in December 2022. Speaking to journalists in Iligan…

House sets P2-billion aid to ease impact of rice price cap

Jerome Aning, Julie Aurelio 09/05/2023

MANILA, Philippines — The House of Representatives is earmarking P2 billion to ease the impact of the price ceiling on rice on retailers who bought their stocks above the cap of P41 a kilogram for regular-milled and…

Extend validity of drivers’ licenses, LTO urged

Julie Aurelio 08/27/2023

A party list lawmaker has urged the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to automatically extend the validity of drivers’ licenses for one year after a Quezon City court issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) to stop Banner PlastiCard…

Identify ‘traitor,’ lawmaker urges House

Julie Aurelio 08/21/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Congress should investigate and identify “possible traitors” in the government who reportedly promised to remove the BRP Sierra Madre from the Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal as a Makabayan lawmaker said former President Rodrigo Duterte’s…

Teves: Suspect, ‘terrorist,’ now expelled lawmaker

Julie Aurelio 08/17/2023

MANILA, Philippines — With 265 members in favor and three abstaining, the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday night to expel Negros Oriental Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. on several grounds, including abandonment of public office and indecent…

Palace to work with Google, Meta, Tiktok, X in fight vs fake news

Julie Aurelio 08/13/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Media and information literacy (MIL) may soon be included in school subjects, while social media websites may soon work with the government to fight fake news, especially among the youth. These are among the…

House clarifies Arjo Atayde’s trip to Europe

Julie Aurelio 08/07/2023

No public funds will be spent for 22-day trip to Europe of recently married Quezon City Rep. Juan Carlos Atayde and his wife, actress Maine Mendoza. House Secretary General Reginald Velasco made the clarification after Atayde and…

5 of 18 resigned PNP officials tagged in 2014 drug ‘matrix’

Dexter Cabalza, Julie Aurelio 07/31/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Five of the 18 high-ranking officials whose courtesy resignations were accepted by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for their involvement in illegal drugs were among the 30 police officers identified in a drug matrix prepared…

P40 wage hike not enough to buy a kilo of rice — solon

Julie Aurelio 07/01/2023

The P40 increase in daily minimum pay for workers in Metro Manila approved this week cannot even buy a kilo of rice, a lawmaker said Friday. On June 27, the National Wages and Productivity Commission approved an…

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