The House leadership is allegedly threatening to use the upcoming budget deliberations as leverage against the Juvenile Justice Welfare Council (JJWC) to force it to agree with a compromise on the proposed bills to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR).
The Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front of the Philippines (CPP-NPA-NDFP) has terminated the unilateral ceasefire it declared in August last year, barely a week after the third round of peace talks with the Philippine government ended in Rome.
The Supreme Court (SC) has affirmed another indictment against businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles in connection with the pork barrel scam that she allegedly architected.
If Public Works Secretary Mark Villar appears all over the news these days overseeing government-funded infrastructure projects, that’s not just because he’s one hardworking Cabinet official.
As far as Gabriela party-list Reps Emmi de Jesus and Arlene Brosas are concerned, the University of Sto. Tomas (UST) just “emboldened sexual offenders” with its gross mishandling of a sexual harassment case between two of its students.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is only too happy to carry out President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to crush the illegal drug trade in the country using their arms because cops are paid handsomely for it.
Malacanang has welcomed a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showing majority of the Filipinos are satisfied with how democracy works in the Philippines under present government of President Rodrigo Duterte.
President Duterte has ordered Environment Secretary Gina Lopez to implement the total ban on logging operations in the country without exemptions.
Human life in the Philippines has become cheap as the Duterte administration carries out a violent campaign on illegal drugs, with suspected pushers and users killed for as low as P5,000, according to a report by the human rights watchdog Amnesty International.
A hilarious video about a boy professing his love for vegetables gave a few Cabinet members the best laughing fit in a recent meeting in Malacanang.
Happiness filled the official residence of President Duterte following the visit of a few family members.
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