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BLUE RIBBON URGED: PROBE NAT’L ID ISSUANCE DELAY

Senate Minority Leader Koko Pimentel III filed a resolution seeking to investigate the circumstances leading to the delay of issuance of the national identification cards (national ID) by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). “Given the unreasonably prolonged delivery, questionable usefulness, and substandard quality of the national IDs, there is already cause to believe that there […]

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SENATE SUSPENDS ARREST ORDER FOR ROSE LIN – GORDON

Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chair Senator Dick Gordon announced that the committee has allowed, for humanitarian reasons, the 10-day abeyance of the arrest order against Rose Nono Lin following her camp’s request as she is currently confined in a hospital for a “surgical procedure.” “If Rose Nono Lin is indeed ill and needs to have […]

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PRESENT ACIERTO, ‘BIKOY’ TO REOPEN SENATE DRUG PROBE – GORDON

Senator Dick Gordon, chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, is not likely to entertain calls for him to reopen the investigation into the smuggling of shabu through the Bureau of Customs after Presidential son Paolo “Pulong” Duterte and former Presidential Economic Adviser Michael Yang were implicated in the case. According to Gordon, unless their […]