Philippines

From landmark Comprehensive Tax Reform Program to the controversial passage of the Anti-Terror Law, Talamitam looks back on President Rodrigo Duterte’s legislative promises ahead of his final State of the Nation Address (SONA). Duterte has so far signed 19 of his legislative priorities, but 41 measures remain pending in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. This is despite …

President Rodrigo Duterte later Monday will convey his last State of the Nation Address to a public still for the most part unvaccinated against an infection that has constrained the world to come to a standstill. Very nearly five months into the public authority’s immunization crusade, some 6.08 million out of a complete 109.03 million Filipinos have been completely inoculated …

The House of Representatives will focus on the five leftover bills in the authoritative plan of the Duterte organization when meetings continue one week from now, after the President conveys his last State of the Nation Address. In view of this, Speaker Lord Allan Velasco yesterday said the proposed measures are the five remaining for the chamber to pass from …

The retired Supreme Court senior associate justice Antonio Carpio dared President Duterte to ban China from fishing within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the West Philippine Sea during his last year in office. They even have one last test. In fact, they will wait for him to say that he has nothing to lose. They even added that …

President Rodrigo Duterte has required an extraordinary gathering of the public authority’s pandemic team  precisely two days after the Department of Health affirmed that there is neighborhood transmission of the profoundly infectious Delta variation of the Covid. In view of this, Duterte will require a crisis meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases and …

Surprisingly, barely nine months out from the 2022 races and the field of possible contender to the Senate appears to be loaded up with current and previous representatives just as individuals from the Duterte Cabinet In view of this, Sen. Panfilo Lacson and Senate President Vicente Sotto III, who have shown they will be running for president and for VP, …

President Rodrigo Duterte actually won’t help out an examination by the International Criminal Court into supposed wrongdoings against mankind because of the wicked “drug war,” this is what official representative Harry Roque has shared. In view of this, Roque was approached to remark on piece of the Supreme Court administering excusing the solidified petitions that requested that the council pronounce …

Surprisingly the representative if VP Leni Robredo didn’t decide to pass on the president’s Cabinet to lead his political resistance. In it’s social media post, Barry Gutierrez, the representative of Robredo, posted a screen capture of an instant message from previous Cabinet Secretary Leoncio “Jun” Evasco Jr. training the VP to “cease” from going to Cabinet gatherings. In view of …

Surprisingly, The US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III will visit the Philippines to reaffirm protection ties and respective relations between the two nations, the Pentagon said Tuesday. This comes hours after President Rodrigo Duterte in a prerecorded location circulated Monday night said that the expansion of the Visiting Forces Agreement, the end of which was required to be postponed …

Unexpectedly, Vice President Leni Robredo hopes that President Rodrigo Duterte’s last State of the Nation Address would be upfront on the country’s current situation on government response on COVID-19 pandemic and lay down definitive targets to help appease the people’s growing anxiety. Just days before Duterte delivers his final SONA, Robredo said she is hopeful that the president would be …