A petition seeking to set aside and invalidate the highly controversial General Appropriation Act for the 2025 budget was filed before the Supreme Court over the weekend. The petitioners, led by lawyer Vic Rodriguez and Davao City 3rd District Representative Isidro T. Ungab asserted that the 2025 GAA which had been signed by Pres. Ferdinand…
In Photo: Rep. Isidro T. Ungab and Sen. Imee Marcos. They saw the blanks what other cannot. Former Chairman of the Appropriation Committee of the House of Representatives, Davao City 3rd District Representative Isidro T. Ungab issued a rejoinder to his stand on the controversy over the blank amounts of expenditures in the Bicameral Committee…
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go’s Malasakit Team extended additional support to recovering victims of various calamities in New Corella, Talaingod, and Asuncion, Davao del Norte on Friday, January 17 to help them rebuild and recover normalcy in their lives. During the distribution activities held at the respective Municipal Halls of the towns, Senator Go, in a…
Davao City – Not a single official in Davao City has come out in the open to condemn what apparently is fake news which claimed that this southern capital is the most congested city in the world. The story which made headlines in various major dailies in Metro Manila however was criticized by Davao City…
The ambition of politicians to either land or cling to power has pushed the country to the edge. In Congress the incumbent leadership did nothing but waste time to remove VP Sara Duterte, the last impediments to their insatiable lust for power and greed for money. Pres. Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. vetoed some items in…
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has implemented a new benefit package covering outpatient emergency care services, which took effect on January 1, under PhilHealth Circular No. 2024-0033. The Outpatient Emergency Care Benefit (OECB) package covers a wide range of services for patients treated in emergency departments (ED) of accredited facilities, including prehospital transport. Health…
Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go, Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Health, joined the turnover of the Super Health Center on Thursday, January 9, in Barangay Poblacion 3, Midsayap, North Cotabato. “Kanina po, maraming nagpapasalamat sa akin. Pero sa totoo lang po, ako ang dapat na magpasalamat sa inyo dahil binigyan ninyo ako ng pagkakataong makapagserbisyo….
Gipagawas na sa Commission on elections kon COMELEC ang ballot face templates nga pagagamiton sa tulo ka distrito sa Davao City, atol sa local election karong Mayo 12, 2025. Dunay lima ka opisyal nga kandidato pagka-mayor, ug upat ka kandidato usab pagka-vice mayor ang nalakip sa balota. Sa District 1, dunay may lima ka mga…
Several milestones marked NGCP’s achievements in 2024, following the completion of four major grid projects that have significantly bolstered the reliability of the country’s grid infrastructure. In January, NGCP inaugurated the Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection Project (MVIP), the Cebu-Negros-Panay 230-kiloVolt (kV) backbone in April, and the Mariveles-Hermosa-San Jose 500kV Line in July. Capping its fruitful year, NGCP…
We used to come out with a litany of events, achievers and non-performing assets, losers and winners, tragedy and success and ironies as a year-ended. This year however the institution that made it on the headlines of the print and broadcast media is the House of Representatives. The year 2024 and what and how…
