‘Binay proves vote-getting branch should now be sole UNA leader’—Osmeña
By Gil Cabacungan
The writing on the wall is clear: Vice President Jejomar Binay is the one, true king of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) and should now take leadership.
The writing on the wall is clear: Vice President Jejomar Binay is the one, true king of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) and should now take leadership.
Reacting to the White Vote Movement’s recent endorsement of senatorial candidates supportive of the Catholic Church’s opposition to the reproductive health (RH) law, Malacañang said it was leaving it to the voters to elect candidates over a range of issues.
It’s the second half of the campaign period and administration candidates who have to play catch-up are free to press the flesh on their own in places where the surveys say they are weakest, even if it means leaving President Aquino to campaign by his lonesome.
Former Akbayan Rep. Risa Hontiveros said she was ready to face rival senatorial candidate Nancy Binay in a public debate “anytime, anywhere.”
About one in every three liters of gasoline or diesel sold in the country is smuggled, resulting in P30 billion to P40 billion in yearly forgone revenue on the part of the government, according to the head of the country’s biggest oil refiner.
It sounds like funding for a drinking session but it is what the latest government antipoverty program is called.
A college buddy and contributor to President Aquino’s campaign who was brought into the administration to make sweeping changes at the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) embarked on a hiring binge of consultants in his first two years in office in the regulatory body.
Leave “Jose Velarde” out of it. The cousin of President Aquino and a Cabinet Secretary of ousted President Joseph Estrada are the ones wooing residents of Corinthian Gardens Homeowners Inc. (CGHI) for a “partnership” to build the Memory Museum complex at the corner of White Plains Avenue and Edsa in Quezon City.
The senatorial candidates of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) are free to criticize the Aquino administration in their campaign sorties, according to coalition secretary general Rep. Toby Tiangco.
Four months after a bidding was held for the Bicol International Airport construction in Daraga, Albay, the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) has yet to award the contract for the project.
Jose Miguel Arroyo, husband of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, looked relaxed and fit on Tuesday when he appeared at the Sandiganbayan, where he pleaded not guilty to charges he owned the choppers that were sold and passed off as brand new to the Philippine National Police.
The Senate fracas ain’t over. Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Sunday said he had “a complete folder of evidence” to pin down Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago for graft, alleging that she used Senate funds to rent a satellite office in a building owned by her husband.
“Suck it up and shut up.” This was the advice that Sen. Gregorio Honasan would give police and military officials who grumble about being ignored by President Aquino who has a penchant for filling up the top security posts with officers who served in the Presidential Security Group during the presidency of his mother, the late Cory Aquino.
