Prioritize hunger, poverty response over Cha-cha — Binay, Hontiveros

Daphne Galvez 03/01/2023

MANILA Philippines — Prioritize addressing hunger and poverty instead of pushing for Charter change (Cha-cha), Senators Risa Hontiveros and Nancy Binay said on Tuesday. In separate statements, the two senators cited the need to provide for the…

Lawmakers tell BFP to buy more fire trucks, not guns

Beatrice Pinlac - @inquirerdotnet 10/07/2022

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) was grilled during a Senate sub-panel hearing Friday where it pitched to use nearly half of its unspent P94-million fund for fire trucks to buy more than 2,000…

In wishing Sinas’ recovery, Binay also prays PNP chief will have ‘deeper respect for life’

Neil Arwin Mercado - Reporter / @NAMercadoINQ 03/12/2021

MANILA, Philippines — While wishing for the recovery of Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Debold Sinas from his bout with COVID-19, former Vice President Jejomar Binay on Friday also expressed his wish that the national police chief…

The rise of ‘LGU citizenship’

Gideon Lasco - @inquirerdotnet 02/05/2021

It used to be that regardless of where you live in the Philippines, you expected more or less the same policies and services, with only the urban-rural divide making a difference—for instance, in health care. Of course,…

‘Many of our cops are becoming the face of terror’ – Nancy Binay

Neil Arwin Mercado - Reporter / @NAMercadoINQ 12/21/2020

MANILA, Philippines — Several senators called for an end to police abuse as they lambasted Monday the police killing of a mother and her son in Tarlac. Senator Nancy Binay questioned what the leadership of the Philippine…

DOTr: Cebu Bus Rapid Transit project should push through

Catherine Gonzales 10/05/2020

MANILA, Philippines — The Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system should push through despite the call of Senator Nancy Binay to reconsider the project, Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade said Monday. “We feel that it should be continued…

DOTr hit for delayed transpo projects

Marlon Ramos 10/03/2020

The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has wasted P21.5 billion in foreign loans after it failed to complete major mass transportation projects in Cebu and Metro Manila, two of the country’s most populous areas, Sen. Nancy Binay disclosed…

Binay to DOH: Explain origin of COVID-19 infection in PH

Consuelo Marquez - Reporter / @CMarquezINQ 08/30/2020

MANILA, Philippines — Senator Nancy Binay on Sunday slammed the Department of Health (DOH) for its pronouncement that it is too early to conclude that COVID-9-infected Chinese tourists, who visited the country this year, helped spread the…

Final, official count: Villar 1st, Binay 12th in Senate race

/INQ.net 05/22/2019

MANILA, Philippines — Re-electionist Sen. Cynthia Villar topped the 2019 senatorial race dominated by administration-backed candidates as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) finished the counting of all votes for the midterm elections. The Comelec, sitting as the…

Binay: Going solo is hard but fun

Irene R. Sino Cruz 03/19/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Running as an independent candidate in the May 2019 election, re-electionist Senator Nancy Binay said that she had to bring her campaigning straight to the people. “Ang strategy is direct to the people…

Binay asks Cebuanos to buy her book Make Love Not War

Irene R. SIno Cruz and Doris C. Bongcac 03/19/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines–“Accept and love your flaws so no one can use it against you.” This was  one of the many advises that Senator Nancy Binay wrote on her book “Make Love Not War” to make people…

Binay tells academe, gov’t offices: Implement FSL

Doris C. Bongcac 11/16/2018

SENATOR Nancy Binay is asking the academe and government agencies to lead in the implementation of the Filipino Sign Language Act which President Rodrigo Duterte recently signed into law. “Nanawagan po ako sa Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino…

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