FOI: Capitol and the cities of Cebu and Mandaue regulate access

08/18/2016

by Mayette Q. Tabada (The Cebu Citizens-Press Council’s project to find out the transparency stance and mechanisms of the potential heads of selected local government units in Cebu started before the May 2016 elections. Questions formulated by…

Strong media support

Editorial 07/08/2016

By this time or next week President Rodrigo Duterte may have made good on his promise to expand press freedom by signing an executive order granting freedom of information not only to media but to the public…

Civil society, Cebu media sign nationwide FOI petition

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 07/02/2014

Civil society groups and the Cebu media yesterday joined a nationwide signing of a petition calling on President Aquino and the members of Congress to immediately pass and enact into law the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill.…

P-Noy should sign FOI

07/01/2014

President Benigno Aquino III marked his fourth year in office yesterday with a slate of promises old and new, of continuing efforts to clean house, and tons of reconstruction projects brought about by two major disasters, among…

Nationwide FOI signature campaign tomorrow

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 06/30/2014

Cebu media will join a nationwide launching of a signature campaign for the immediate passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill. A sign-on event and a forum on the FOI will be held at the Rajah…

Temporary setback in FOI law

05/29/2014

Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III’s disclosure that the Freedom of Information bill (FOI) and the bill decriminalizing libel will not be passed anytime soon is a big blow to proponents of the two measures who’ve lobbied for years…

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