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BELMONTE ORDERS QCPD, BJMP TO PROBE QC JAIL RIOT

The Quezon City government has ordered authorities to investigate the riot between rival gangs at the Quezon City Jail recently that left one inmate dead and several others hurt. Mayor Joy Belmonte has directed the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) to look into the incident that […]

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PROBE BIR FOR UNCOLLECTED MARCOS TAX – PANGILINAN

The Senate must investigate the utter failure of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to collect the P203-billion estate tax liabilities owed by the descendants of former President Ferdinand Marcos to the government, vice-presidential aspirant Senator Kiko Pangilinan said. “Nakapanlulumong isipin na P203 bilyong ng estate tax liabilities ng mga Marcoses ang ilang taon ng […]

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SOLON: PROBE GOV’T EXECS LINKED TO AGRI SMUGGLING

A party-list lawmaker called for an investigation and the filing of charges against “big-time” personalities in the government allegedly involved in agricultural smuggling. Magsasaka Party-list Representative Argel Cabatbat said the Department of Agriculture (DA) should look into the smuggling problem, particularly the involvement of officials from the Bureau of Plant Industry as if they are […]

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SY EGCO: PROBE JOURNO’S FAKE COMPLAINTS MODUS

Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) executive director, Undersecretary Joel Sy Egco appealed to both the Senate and the House of Representatives to immediately conduct an inquiry, in aid of legislation, on the “criminal enterprise” of a Pangasinan-based newsman, involving the filing of bogus rape complaints against government officials. Sy Egco said the scheme […]

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SINGSON TO HOUSE: PROBE PNEUMONIA ‘BAKUNA BUDOL’

The chairman of the House Committee on Public Accounts stressed the need to make a more economical, yet equally effective, child pneumonia vaccine accessible to the public to help save the government billions of pesos in losses. Probinsyano Ako Party-list Representative Jose Singson Jr. made the call as he urged Congress to look into the […]

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SINGSON BACKS SENATE REPORT ON PHARMALLY PROBE

The chairman of the House Committee on Public Accounts expressed support for the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s report on the Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. investigation. Probinsyano Ako Party-list Representative Jose Singson Jr. said his panel would have submitted recommendations that are nearly identical to those presented by the Senate Blue Ribbon panel in its probe on […]

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GORDON WANTS SENATE PROBE ON CYBERTHEFT INCIDENTS

Senator Dick Gordon has filed a resolution seeking a Senate inquiry regarding the unabated commission of cybertheft against the public. Gordon, the Senate Justice and Human Rights Committee chairman, said in Senate Resolution (SR) 987 that the Upper Chamber must investigate the rising cases of diminishing money from bank accounts of government employees. “The Senate […]

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PROBE ON JOURNO’S SLAY MAKING PROGRESS – SY EGCO

A month into the killing of veteran journalist Jess Malabanan, Undersecretary Joel Sy Egco, executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS), cited progress in the official investigation now being jointly conducted by the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). “We have made significant gains in the […]

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PANGILINAN BACKS PROBE OF AGRI PRODUCTS SMUGGLING

Senator Kiko Pangilinan welcomed and joined the move to investigate in aid of legislation the rampant smuggling of agricultural products in the country. In his manifestation, the former Senate agriculture chair and food security secretary expressed his support to the call of Senate President Tito Sotto to probe large-scale smuggling of agricultural products and its […]

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HOUSE PROBE ON ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL LAND SALE URGED

ACT-CIS Party-list Representative Niña Taduran has called on Congress to look into the alleged anomalous sale of two parcels of land belonging to the Philippine Orthopedic Center (POC) from which the hospital is located in Quezon City. Taduran filed her Resolution No.2336 requesting the House of Representatives’ appropriate committee to “conduct an investigation in aid […]