Hontiveros: Let’s debate; Binay: Not now
By Gil Cabacungan, Leila SalaverriaFormer Akbayan Rep. Risa Hontiveros said she was ready to face rival senatorial candidate Nancy Binay in a public debate “anytime, anywhere.”
Former Akbayan Rep. Risa Hontiveros said she was ready to face rival senatorial candidate Nancy Binay in a public debate “anytime, anywhere.”
The United Nationalist Alliance indicated Wednesday it may drop Senator Francis Escudero, who snubbed the party’s proclamation rally in Cebu on Tuesday, from its senatorial lineup if he continues to stay away from UNA political sorties.
Surigao del Norte First District Rep. Francisco Matugas on Thursday defended Akbayan party-list Rep. Kaka Bag-ao’s designation as caretaker of Dinagat Islands.
“Obviously, the ‘ayes’ have it.” With this declaration by Deputy Speaker Lorenzo Tañada III, the House of Representatives approved by voice vote on second reading Wednesday night the controversial reproductive health measure, or House Bill No. 4244.
Tempers are fraying at the House of Representatives’ over the delay in the deliberations on controversial reproductive health (RH) bill, with two proponents of the measure exchanging caustic barbs.
The yearly observance of the feast of the dead appears to have galvanized lawmakers into reviving attempts to pass a law criminalizing the desecration of tombs or burial grounds.
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson believes a majority of senators, at least 14 by his count, will vote in favor of the reproductive health (RH) bill.
Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and now Pampanga congresswoman is in danger of “sudden death” because of a displaced titanium plate on parts of her cervical spine, according to a medical bulletin released to the media on Monday by sources close to her.
The Sandiganbayan has ordered the 90-day suspension of Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) chief Edmund Tan due to a pending graft case over the allegedly unlawful detention of a barge in the Visayas five years ago.
Jose Miguel Arroyo was haled to court Wednesday over the sale to the Philippine National Police of two of five helicopters which he allegedly bought from an American firm for the use of his wife, then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, for her campaign in the 2004 presidential election.
As a lawyer who had argued several cases before the Supreme Court en banc, then Justice Conchita Carpio Morales was someone you do not face unprepared.
More investigators will be combing through controversial transactions involving the people’s money—such as the fertilizer fund scam, Malampaya funds question, Government Service Insurance System deals, Philippine National Police purchases and Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System officials’ allowances.
The Presidential Commission on Good Government said it has presented enough evidence to show that tycoon Lucio Tan’s assets were allegedly acquired illegally, and asked the Sandiganbayan Fifth Division to order the multi-billionaire taipan and his co-accused to return these to the Filipino people or to pay the state their corresponding value.
