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Minimum age of criminal responsibility now pegged at 12 years old in amended bill (Eagle News) — The House of Representatives has passed on second reading the bill lowering the age of criminal responsibility. House justice committee chair Doy Leachon said the approved HB 8858, however, was amended to make the minimum age of criminal liability 12 years old. “More than majority of the members said na 12 na lang,” he said. Under the amended measure, […]
(Eagle News) — The office of former Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez is the House of Representatives’ top spender in 2017, a Commission on Audit report showed. According to the list published by COA on Tuesday, Jan. 23, the office of Alvarez, who served as Speaker from July 2016 to July 2018, incurred a total of P43.7 million from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2017. Of this, COA said P30 million was spent for consultants’ contracts,more than P1 […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate on Tuesday, Jan. 22, adopted the House of Representatives’ bill seeking to abolish the Road Board. With the adoption of revised House Bill 7436, a bicameral conference committee will no longer have to be convened. The bill will therefore be directly sent to President Rodrigo Duterte for his approval. The adoption came following issues about whether or not the Road Board could be abolished in the first place amid developments in […]
(Eagle News)—Speaker Gloria Arroyo on Saturday, Jan. 5, welcomed the slowdown in inflation rate in December last year. In a statement, Arroyo said the “focus must now be on implementing things quickly and efficiently, in all fronts.” “In general, to the extent that so-called domestic supply side factors are involved, the government’s agencies must act quickly on the implementation side, to get the plans and programs going on the ground and produce results our people will […]
(Eagle News)–The House committee on rules on Thursday, Jan. 3, kicked off its investigation into what House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. said were “anomalies” in the proposed P3.757 trillion national budget for 2019. The first hearing kicked off in Naga City, Camarines Sur. Andaya had alleged a “favored” contractor, C.T. Leoncio Construction, linked to Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno through his in-laws, had cornered at least 30 government projects in the billions of pesos. He also […]
(Eagle News)—–House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. on Saturday, Dec. 22, said the House of Representatives would heed President Rodrigo Duterte’s call for the Road Board to be abolished. In a radio interview, Andaya said there should be “real abolition” of the board, which determines where the motor vehicle users’ charge goes. The MVUC is paid by motorists upon registration of their vehicles. According to Andaya, the proceeds “need to be included as a line-item fund […]
(Eagle News)–For Senator Grace Poe, the Road Board should first be “made to account for the billions of funds it utilized” from the motor vehicle users’ charge before it is abolished. “Ours is a government of accountability. And the car owners who contributed to the MVUC should be given their due course,” she said. According to Poe, the National Treasury should also “be apprised of the total funds that would be transmitted to them.” She […]
(Eagle News) — It was “presumably” President Rodrigo Duterte himself who ordered Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno not to appear before a House hearing on budget issues, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. In a press conference on Tuesday, Dec. 17, Panelo said it was only the President, after all, who could tell Diokno whether to make the appearance or not in the hearing slated on Jan. 3 next year in Naga. “The basis would be the […]
(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives on Tuesday, Dec. 11, passed on third and final reading a resolution seeking a revision of the 1987 Constitution to pave the way for a federal form of government. Over 200, or 224, voted for the passage of Resolution of Both Houses (RBH) No. 15 authored principally by Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, while 22 voted against it, and three abstained. Under the draft measure, the President and the […]
(Eagle News) — The bicameral conference committee has reconciled the Senate and House of Representatives versions of a measure that would strengthen and simplify corporate governance standards for a more business-friendly environment in the country. With Senate Bill No. 1280 and its House version reconciled, Congress is a step closer to amending the Corporation Code of the Philippines, which Senator Franklin Drilon said was an old law that had numerous and stringent incorporation and regulatory requirements that discouraged […]
(Eagle News)–Presidential son Paolo Duterte said he was not seeking revenge but “justice.” The former Davao vice mayor issued the statement after President Rodrigo Duterte said his son was running for a seat in the House of Representatives to get back at Senator Antonio Trillanes. Last year, Trillanes accused the presidential son of being part of a smuggling syndicate and of a triad, allegations which the younger Duterte denied. He resigned as the then- Davao […]
(Eagle News)–Former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte is running for a seat in the House of Representatives in the 2019 elections. President Rodrigo Duterte himself, the former vice mayor’s father, revealed this in a speech before members of the Filipino community in Papua New Guinea on Friday, Nov. 16. The President is attending the 26th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Econonic Leaders Meeting there, but cut short his trip. “I think he’s (Paolo Duterte) running for […]
