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Parts of Luzon are likely to experience blackouts for the second day in a row as the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) announces longer red alert hours, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Opposition Rep. Ferdinand Gaite of Bayan Muna slammed on Monday, May 31, the PDP-Laban’s resolution to convince President Rodrigo Duterte to run for vice president and choose his candidate for president. Gaite also chided the ruling party for calling for additional funding for the controversial Nat

“The Filipino people should reject all those identified with dictatorship and authoritarianism, reject all those responsible for or who abet extrajudicial killings and whose mantra is ‘kill, kill, kill,’ and all those who violate human rights.”

“While the country is in an economic crisis, public funds must be used primarily for basic social services, including education.”

The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) claimed the life of Antipolo City 2nd District Rep. Resurreccion “Cion” Acop, making her the third solon to die from the dreaded infection. Acop, 73, died after contracting COVID 19 on April 8, her husband, former Rep. Romeo Acop disclosed Friday, May 28. He a

Like most vaccines against the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the dismissal of the impeachment case filed against Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen gives the magistrate one year immunity from being subjected to a similar complaint before the House of Representatives. However, Leon

The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Council (NTF-ELCAC) on Wednesday, May 26, failed to stop the House Committee on Human Rights from investigating the alleged illegal arrest of Lumad students and teachers during a supposed “rescue operations” in Cebu City last February.. At the in

By CONSUELO MARQUEZ, GMA News Published May 25, 2021 4:00pm The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved on third and final reading House Bill 9007, which regulates the trade, manufacture, and use of e-cigarettes. With 192 voting in the affirmative, 34 in the negative, and four in abstention, the chamber passed the "Non- Combustible Nicotine Delivery Systems Regulation Act," which sets the minimum allowable age for the purchase, sale, and use of such products to 18 years old. The bil...

House of Representatives plenary 2 The lawmakers — Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, Quezon City Rep. Jose Christopher Belmonte, La Union Rep. Pablo Ortega as well as Makabayan bloc congressmen Bayan Muna Reps. Carlos Zarate, Eufemia Cullamat, Ferdinand Gaite, Gabriela Women’s Party Arlene Brosas, and ACT Teachers’ Partylist Rep. France Castro — said red-tagging “has become a very dangerous action or conduct by public officials and their agents.” “Red-tagging should be criminalized for two...

Published May 24, 2021, 4:24 PM What’s the difference between the legislative franchise applications of ABS-CBN network and Metro Manila’s two water concessionaires which all have gotten the goat of President Rodrigo Duterte? Aside from the alleged railroading approval of the franchise applications of Maynilad Water Services and the Manila Water Corporation during the first hearing on Monday, May 24, there are three other glaring issues that sets the ABS-CBN franchise bid apart from the two...