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JUSTICE Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla yesterday told senators that corruption remains a hiccup in the food allocation program of the New Bilibid Prison (NBP), saying that only a portion of the budget allocated for each inmate is spent for their food.
WITH just over a month left before the end of the Overseas Voter Registration Period, the projected numbers of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the 2025 midterm polls remain unmet.
OMBUDSMAN Samuel Martires on Tuesday night asked the House Committee on Appropriations to completely remove any allocation for confidential funds from the Office of the Ombudsman’s P5.824 billion proposed budget for 2025.
The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) – Region V is set to hold tomorrow, (Friday, a public consultation for the proposed minimum wage rate adjustment in the Bicol Region.
SHIELA Leal Guo yesterday admitted that she left the country last July with elder sister Alice Guo, the dismissed mayor of Bamban, Tarlac, and brother Wesley via a circuitous route that took them to Malaysia but displayed selective amnesia in recalling basic details about their escape or her personal life.
DEFENSE Secretary Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr yesterday called China the “biggest disruptor” of peace in Southeast Asia amid rising Chinese aggression in the West Philippine Sea in the South China Sea.
A COMBATIVE Vice President Sara Duterte yesterday refused to answer lawmakers’ questions on the notice of disallowance that the Commission on Audit (COA) has issued to the Office of the Vice President (OVP) for its use of confidential funds in 2022, causing tensions to rise during the budget hearing on the OVP’s proposed budget for 2025.
PRESIDENT Marcos Jr. yesterday said there would be no sacred cows in the government, adding he already has a “very, very good idea” of whose heads will roll over the escape of dismissed Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo.