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(Eagle News) – Senate Minority leader Franklin Drilon has filed a resolution seeking to extend the legislative franchise of media giant ABS-CBN until end of year 2022. Drilon, in the Senate Joint Resolution No. 11, said there was a need for more time to review the application for the renewal by ABS-CBN of its franchise which ends on March 30 this year. He said the lives of some 11,000 workers would be affected in case […]
(Eagle News)–Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Thursday, Nov. 21, apologized to Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) president Vince Dizon for saying his father-in-law was late national artist Bobby Mañosa. Drilon made the apology in an interview over ANC, a day after he slammed the government’s P50-million cauldron to be used in the Southeast Asian Games. The cauldron was supposed to have been designed by Mañosa. Dizon, on the other hand, is in charge […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he did not see anything wrong in the building of the SEA Games cauldron which costs P50 million saying the structure was designed by a national artist and the cost of his work was for him to name. Duterte said that the work of the late National Artist for Architecture, Francisco ‘Bobby’ Mañosa, and there was no corruption in the case. “Mañosa was commissioned by the government […]
(Eagle News) — For the first time, House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano faced the Senate budget hearing and defended the P50-million cost of the so-called “golden cauldron” built for the 30th Southeast Asian Games. Cayetano, co-chairman of the Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee (PHISGOC), the private group which is handling preparations Philippine hosting of the SEA Games this year, insisted that the SEA Games cauldron which was designed by the late National Artist […]
(Eagle News)–Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Monday, Sept. 30, urged the Department of Foreign Affairs to cancel the passport of the woman who allegedly buys recycled illegal drugs from “ninja cops.” In calling for the move against Guia Gomez Castro, Drilon said she “does not intend to return to the country and face the warrants of arrest issued against her since 2002 for violation of Republic Act 6425 or the Dangerous Drugs Act.” Drilon […]
(Eagle News)–Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon has slammed the Public Attorneys Office for creating its own forensic unit, noting that this was a “mere duplication” of units of government bodies. In a statement, Drilon said the PAO forensic laboratory had “no basis in law,” adding that only the Constitution and an act of Congress allow for a public office to be created. He added that if PAO chief Persida Acosta’s argument the creation was based […]
(Eagle News)–Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon believes there is legal basis to order the re-arrest of convicts of heinous crimes who have been released under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. Drilon said “it was clearly established” after all that the procedure for the release of 1914 convicts, including three convicted of the rape-slay of the Chiong sisters, was “not followed.” He said the good conduct of convicts was wrongly computed as none of their […]
(Eagle News)–Current members of the minority bloc in the Senate have “no complaints” about Senator Tito Sotto as leader of the Upper Chamber. Senate minority leader Franklin Drilon said in an interview over radio dzbb on Sunday, June 2, that he and his fellow minority members, however, will not sign the resolution of Senator Panfilo Lacson that aims to determine how many senators indeed back Sotto’s leadership. Lacson drafted the resolution after Senators-elect Imee Marcos […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte signed on Wednesday, Feb. 20, the Revised Corporation Code which allows the registration of a “one-person corporation” and removing the requirement for the minimum number of five incorporators, among others. The Revised Corporation Code, which amended the 38-year old Corporation Code, aims to strengthen and simplify corporate governance standards for a more business-friendly environment amidst the drop in the country’s rank in the latest Ease of Doing Business […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV said that he had been assured by the Senate leadership that no arrests will be made while he is inside the Senate premises, as he was placed “under the custody” of Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III. “Basically I was placed in the custody of the Senate President until my lawyers file the necessary petition in the Supreme Court,” he told reporters shortly after emerging from a […]
(Eagle News) – Senate Minority Floor Leader Franklin Drilon said that it is possible that the Senate would no longer proceed with the impeachment trial of controversial Supreme Court Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. This is if the tribunal decides to take on the quo warranto case against her. “In my view, it is entirely possible that the impeachment court becomes academic, because if the Supreme Court takes the position that they can entertain the quo […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senator Franklin Drilon is asking his fellow senators to consider giving fiscal incentives to business enterprises as said entities will bear most of the impact of the new Tax Reform Law. Drilon reasoned that many businesses will be affected by the new law, especially with its provisions increasing taxes on gasoline, electricity and tobacco products. Such taxes could be passed on by businesses to consumers and, according to Drilon, […]
