COTABATO CITY — Congress should act on bills on the Bangsamoro Basic Law and other urgent measures before working to shift to a federalist form of government, said various resource persons here at the Senate’s third Regional Consultative Hearing on Charter Change. Sophia Paguital of the Mindanao People’s Caucus said

Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan on Sunday asked the National Food Authority (NFA) about the availability of affordable government-subsidized rice, especially for low-income Filipinos. “Hindi nasagot ng NFA sa nagdaang pandinig sa Senado ang mga tanong natin. Nasaan ang NFA rice? (NFA was not able to answer our questions in the

CEBU — Chinese leaders won’t consider as joke President Duterte’s mention of the Philippines as a province of China, former chief justice Hilario Davide Jr. said Thursday, reiterating his opposition to change the Constitution during a Senate public hearing on Charter change (Cha-cha) here. Davide noted that government’s prioritizing Cha-cha

MANILA — Senator Francis Pangilinan on Tuesday questioned inconsistent government data on rice supply, after the economic planning office reported an over-triple increase in distribution while the rice agency announced that rice supply will only last for two days. Pangilinan, former head of the Office of the Presidential Assistant for

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Several indigenous and sectoral leaders in Northern Mindanao are wary of changing the 1987 Constitution now, even as they also prefer a constitutional convention to a constituent assembly as a mode of Charter change. At the Senate’s first Regional Consultative Hearing on Charter Change here,

Minority senators have joined calls for the “immediate release” of opposition Senator Leila M. de Lima, who will mark her first year of illegal arrest and unjust detention on Saturday, February 24. They filed late Wednesday Senate Resolution (SR) No. 645 making an impassioned call for the freedom of De

In response to PNP chief plan for nationwide minors’ curfew

Magandang umaga po sa ating lahat! Sa mga nakaraang hearing natin tungkol sa panukalang baguhin ang ating Saligang Batas, makailang ulit na nabanggit ang isyu ng political dynasties — isa sa mga pangunahing katangian ng sistemang politikal sa ating bansa. Pro-chacha man o anti-chacha man, nagkakaisa ang mga resource person