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Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate on Friday, August 20 reiterated his appeal to the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) to waive its scheduled power rate hike this month in the wake of the worsening public health crisis triggered by the 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandem

The Tax Management Association of the Philippines Inc. (TMAP) is confident that Congress will pass within the year the proposed reforms in the country’s personal income-tax system. In a briefing on Friday, TMAP President Terence Conrad H. Bello said lawmakers are now working hard to study possible enhancements in the…

President Rodrigo Duterte cannot tell the Commission on Audit what to do being an independent constitutional body, several lawmakers and a lawyer argued on Tuesday.

The progressive Makabayan bloc is pushing for a full scale congressional inquiry into the adverse audit findings made by the Commission on Audit in the the management by the Department of Health of the P67.32 billion anti-COVID 19 funds. Makabayan bloc image The resolution calling for the invest

Filipino farmer groups have called on the Duterte administration to stop targeting their ranks as they are being rounded up and forced to “surrender” as alleged members of the New People’s Army.

Bayan Muna party-list on Sunday said it has been receiving threats of hacking from trolls or hackers for over two months.

Water pila Seven congressmen who voted against the final reading approval of House Bills 9422 and 9423 decried the passage of the measures as the product of “unconscionable railroading.” HB 9422 and 9423, renewing the legislative franchises of Maynilad Water Services Inc. and Manila Water Company, respectively, to another 25 years. A total 206 House members registered “yes” votes for the passage of the bills. In his State of the Nation Address just last week, President Duterte chided th...

Published July 30, 2021, 1:57 PM President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to recall his previous decision for the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement with the United States won the support of two officials of the majority bloc in the House of Representatives. VFA exercise But not Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate who said the move has long been expected as the threat to rescind the VFA pact was meant only to impress China. “Pres. Duterte is appeasing the US, hag...

Published July 29, 2021, 9:55 AM Heads must roll in the Philippine National Police for the deployment of 51 COVID-19 afflicted police officers for crowd control duties at a feared “virus super-spreader event like the protest rally during the State of the Nation Address in Quezon City. SONA PROTEST RALLY “It’s almost like biological warfare against protesters eh,” declared Bayan Muna Rep. Ferdinand Gaite in a press statement released on Thursday, July 29. Gaite demanded the imposition o...

By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News Published July 28, 2021 9:30am A lawmaker has sought a House inquiry into the present working conditions of online platform-based delivery riders. In filing House Resolution 1974, TUCP party-list Representative Raymond Mendoza urged the House committee on labor and employment to investigate the working conditions of delivery riders and to determine whether an employer-employee relationship exists between the riders and the online platform. Mendoza said the ...