Only one member of the fragmented by still influential Villafuerte clan of Camarines Sur made it in Monday’s elections, and the youngest at that, trouncing his own grandfather in the province’s gubernatorial race.
A vehicle carrying the wife and daughter of Camarines Sur Representative Diosdado Ignacio ‘‘Dato’’ Arroyo, son of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, figured in an accident along Maharlika Highway in Sto. Tomas, Batangas, on Monday morning, police said Tuesday.
Ailing former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who is once again in detention this time for plunder, is seeking a medical parole for prisoners suffering from an incapacitating physical condition, like herself.
Attention paparazzi: Be on the lookout for three pending House bills which seek to define and penalize the crime of stalking.
The rift between Camarines Sur third district Representative Luis R. Villafuerte Sr. (LRV) and son Gov. Luis Raymund “LRay” Villafuerte Jr. has widened with the former’s endorsement of Rep. Diosdado “Dato” Ignacio Arroyo’s re-election bid in the second district against son LRay, who plans to challenge Arroyo in the 2013 elections.
Scholars of Representative Diosdado “Dato” Arroyo sent registered letters to President Benigno Aquino III through the post office here Tuesday, asking for the release of scholarship funds from Arroyo’s share of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF).
With still over a year until the next elections, Governor Luis Raymund “LRay” Villafuerte has started stirring the political pot in Camarines Sur by declaring he would be challenging Representative Diosdado “Dato” Ignacio Arroyo for the second district congressional seat in the province.
Members of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s immediate family extensively used the two helicopters that were falsely sold to the Philippine National Police as brand new in 2009, according to flight records obtained by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). Based on the flight logs of the two Robinson R44 Raven 1 helicopters, [...]
Recent controversies blamed on former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo—from the so- called “Pajero” bishops who were embroiled in the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office fund mess, to Zaldy Ampatuan’s allegations of fraud in the 2004 and 2007 elections and graft in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao—are all “smokescreen to President Benigno Aquino’s lackluster performance,” a son of the former president said.
