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1 week ago | 
manilatimes.net | Catherine S. Valente |Bernadette E. Tamayo |Kaiser Jan Fuentes
(UPDATES) MALACAÑANG on Tuesday countered the campaign advertisement of Sen. Imee Marcos depicting the country's current situation as "black," saying the color better described conditions during the previous administration under former president Rodrigo Duterte. In a press conference, Palace Press Officer Claire Castro described President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s administration as trying to achieve a white color compared to the blackness of the past administration.
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3 weeks ago | 
manilatimes.net | Javier Joe Ismael |Catherine S. Valente |Bernadette E. Tamayo
SEN. Ronald Dela Rosa, who has expressed fears of his own arrest by the International Criminal Court (ICC), wants the Senate to subpoena all government officials involved in the arrest of former president Rodrigo Duterte, after some 30 of them skipped Thursday's hearing.
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4 weeks ago | 
manilatimes.net | Javier Joe Ismael |Catherine S. Valente |Bernadette E. Tamayo
A DAY after breaking away from her brother President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s senatorial slate, Sen. Imee Marcos hammered away at his administration, saying that given the many pressing problems facing the nation, it should not have given priority to the arrest of former president Rodrigo Duterte.
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4 weeks ago | 
manilatimes.net | Bernadette E. Tamayo |Catherine S. Valente |Red Mendoza
(UPDATE) SEN. Imee Marcos on Wednesday withdrew from the administration's senatorial slate, Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas, marking a sharp break from her brother, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., over the arrest and extradition of former president Rodrigo Duterte.
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2 months ago | 
manilatimes.net | Bernadette E. Tamayo |Red Mendoza
SENATE Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III said he would request all senators to attend a caucus to explain their positions on the impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte. Pimentel had earlier written to Senate President Francis Escudero to remind him that the Constitution mandates the Senate to act "forthwith" on the Duterte impeachment case.
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2 months ago | 
manilatimes.net | Red Mendoza |Bernadette E. Tamayo
(UPDATE) A GROUP of lawyers from Mindanao on Tuesday petitioned the Supreme Court to stop the impeachment proceedings against Vice President Sara Duterte, saying that the complaint was rushed and constitutionally infirm. The move came on the same day the Supreme Court ordered the Senate to comment on an earlier petition that seeks to compel the chamber to begin the impeachment trial immediately.
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2 months ago | 
manilatimes.net | Catherine S. Valente |Bernadette E. Tamayo |Red Mendoza
(UPDATES) CANDIDATES took their advocacies to the people Tuesday as the 90-day campaign period for senatorial candidates and party-list groups began. The administration's Senate slate, under the banner of Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas, officially launched its campaign in Ilocos Norte, rallying support in the political stronghold of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his family. Register to read this story and more for free.
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2 months ago | 
manilatimes.net | Red Mendoza |Bernadette E. Tamayo
(UPDATE) LAWMAKERS on Wednesday voted to send articles of impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte to the Senate for trial, a day before the current congressional session was set to end. "Having been filed by more than one-third of the membership of the House of Representatives, or a total of 215 members... the motion is approved," Speaker Martin Romualdez told lawmakers. Duterte's fate now lies in the hands of 24 senators, two-thirds of whom must vote for her impeachment to convict her.
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2 months ago | 
manilatimes.net | Catherine S. Valente |Bernadette E. Tamayo |Red Mendoza
(UPDATE) PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. appointed Dr. Edwin Mercado, a US-trained orthopedic surgeon, as president and chief executive officer of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth), Malacañang said Tuesday. Mercado, who replaced Emmanuel Ledesma Jr. as head of the state insurer, took his oath before the president in Malacañang on Tuesday, the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
manilatimes.net | Kristina Maralit |Bernadette E. Tamayo |Red Mendoza
(UPDATE) THE 17 Filipino crewmen of an oil tanker seized by Houthi rebels in Yemen in November 2023 have been released. The release of the Filipinos and the rest of the crew of the M/V Galaxy Leader was announced by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in a statement released by Malacañang past midnight Thursday. "Our Filipino seafarers are now in the care of our Philippine embassy in Muscat, Oman, and will be reunited with their loved ones in the Philippines very soon," Marcos said.
