FIRST Gentleman Mike Arroyo was allegedly promised a $70-million kickback by resigned poll chief Benjamin Abalos Sr. from the aborted National Broadband Network (NBN) deal, according to businessman Jose 'Joey' de Venecia III, the House Speaker's...

NO money changed hands at the Palace last October 11. That’s what Malacañang functionaries and some governors belonging to the League of Provinces of the Philippines (LPP) had been saying, at least up until Tuesday. In fact, people who were reading the...

THE wheels of justice are grinding excruciatingly slow for victims of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances, according to the Hong Kong Mission for Human Rights and Peace in the Philippines. One of the initial findings of the mission's...

CITIZEN-complainants led by former Vice President Teofisto Guingona today filed a criminal case against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo before the Office of the Ombudsman in connection with the scandal-ridden national broadband network deal, seeking in the...

IT has never had any need for publicity, and that remains true to this day. But recently the Presidential Legislative Liaison Office (PLLO) has come under the spotlight nevertheless, and not under the most pleasant circumstances at that. Most recently,...

NOW that Budget Secretary Rolando Andaya has denied that the funds used for "cash gifts" and "tokens" to local officials came from the national budget, many are wondering where the money could have come from. Some have suggested that the money came...

PRESS Secretary Ignacio Bunye initially referred to them as donations. The congressmen who admitted to being recipients considered these either as cash gifts or party contributions. None, including the two governors who first came forward to shed light on...