February 6, 2015 | In: 2004 Electoral Fraud, Arroyo Impeachment, Civil Society, Free Expression - Asia, Freedom of Information, General, Gloriagate, Governance, In the News, Investigative Reports
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February 5, 2015 | In: 2013 Elections, 2016 Elections, Arroyo Impeachment, Campaign Finance, Charter Change, Freedom of Information, Governance, In the News, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch
By Che de los Reyes Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism HE WOULD have long left his post at the Commission on Elections by the time Filipinos cast their ballots in the 2016 elections. But chances are some of Sixto S. Brillantes Jr.’s...
March 1, 2013 | In: Access to Information, Arroyo Impeachment, Freedom of Information, Governance, Media, Noynoy Watch, Paper Chase
IT'S A RACKET that has not been busted from 10 years ago, and lingers on to this day. A number of congressmen and senators have set up or hand-picked bogus and favored NGOs (nongovernment organizations) to serve as vassals of their pork barrel, or what...
November 30, 2008 | In: 2004 Electoral Fraud, Arroyo Impeachment, Congress Watch
WITH delicadeza just so easily dispensed with, the fourth impeachment complaint against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was junked last week and goes to a plenary vote this Tuesday. But it is unlikely that enough votes will be garnered to overturn the House of...
November 26, 2008 | In: Arroyo Impeachment, Congress Watch, In the News
CHARGES of cheating, bribery, graft and corruption and other crimes will continue to haunt President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo even beyond 2010 as her critics vowed to carry on the fight while Catholic bishops urged the citizenry to keep searching for the...
November 26, 2008 | In: Arroyo Impeachment, Congress Watch, In the News
ONE by one, as if in a chorus line, allies of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the House of Representatives on Tuesday took turns undermining the fourth impeachment complaint filed against her, prompting pro-impeachment lawmakers to nearly walk out of...
November 24, 2008 | In: Arroyo Impeachment, Congress Watch, In the News
FORMER House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. appealed to his colleagues on Monday to “use (their) conscience” in deciding on the latest impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The Pangasinan lawmaker was trying to win the...
