Once again, the charter reform train is chugging, with President Rodrigo Duterte’s allies in Congress making steps to reopen negotiations on reforming the basic law of the nation. It is no secret that Duterte wants to amend the Constitution for the longest time in his platform when he ran for president in 2016 along with this is the idea of …

Two senators want the 18th Congress to be assembled by the Senate and the House of Representatives as a constituent assembly to bring restricted changes to the 1987 Constitution. Senators Ronald dela Rosa and Francis Tolentino shared in the filing of Resolution of the two houses (RBH) No. 2 that changes are required to implement the 33-year-old Constitution in order …

Surprisingly, the legislators are raising the Social Security System ante to avoid charging heavier rates, supposedly as a form of reprieve for pandemic-battered employees, to its members on the 15th of January. No less than House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco put forward his own plan to combat the imminent SSS contribution increase from 12 percent to 13 percent of monthly …

The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases, in accordance with the Direction of President Duterte, has set up a Scientific Working Group or TWG to concentrate on the surveillance and awareness of the latest form of COVID-19 originating in the UK. In fact, IATF approved Resolution 92, which established the Technical Working Group on COVID-19 Variants …

The long wait is over as President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law initiatives aimed at supplying eligible students with medical scholarships, creating an alternate teaching framework for adults and out-of-school children, making certification of organic goods more available, and allowing the President to easily oversee the delivery of critical documents during a national emergency. There were actually four laws …

Looking back on the third and final reading, the House of Representatives adopted a bill that aims to grant the president extra authority during national emergencies to fast-track approvals, licenses, and certifications. It was noted by a 267-6-0 margin, legislators approved House Bill No. 7884 before the special session was adjourned. In view of this, here comes a new anti-red …

Previously, around a dozen clauses of the 2021 national budget have been vetoed by President Rodrigo Duterte, including one which allows the executive branch to send to Congress quarterly reports on the utilization of intelligence funds. Duterte shared in a 16-page veto letter on next year’s spending, intelligence funds protect national security related services, initiatives and operations that are considered …

Surprisingly, President Rodrigo Duterte will no longer allow the Department of Education to pilot face-to-face classes in January next year, amid increasing concerns about a new strain of coronavirus that experts fear will be more infectious than the first. Duterte said during a television meeting with his COVID-19 task force telling that he is calling back the order and he …

This is what needs to be done for law enforcers found committing crimes, there would be an expected hell to pay. This is what President Duterte highlighted as he vowed to feed the COVID-19 virus to a policeman who killed an elderly woman and her son in Tarlac ignited by a widespread uproar. Accused of being lenient with soldiers and …

The gruesome killing in Tarlac this week has been on fire in the country since it received massive complaints, heartbreaks and frustrations through different the enforcement of the law. For this reason, The assassinations in Tarlac by Police SMSgt. Jonel Nuezca is not protected by the pledge made by President Rodrigo Duterte to back the police against employment-related court proceedings, …