The Senate impeachment court can still change the current voting threshold of 16 senators to convict Vice President Sara Duterte, according to three former chief justices of the Supreme Court. Hilario Davide Jr., Artemio V. Panganiban, and Reynato S. Puno said the number of votes to remove an impeached official should not be fixed at...
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Duterte net worth rose to ₱98M in 2025 even without corporate acquisition costs
Could omitting corporate acquisition costs in her statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) mean Vice President Sara Duterte’s net worth, which 2025 records showed was a whopping ₱98 million, is undervalued? Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian raised this question on Tuesday, Sept. 15, after House prosecutors presented Duterte’s SALNs from 2007 to 2025 at...
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Ex-Sandigan chief testifies on unexplained wealth in Duterte impeachment trial
Retired Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Amparo Cabotaje-Tang told the Senate impeachment court on Monday, Sept. 14, that the Constitution imposes stricter rules on the president and vice president’s financial engagements to prevent potential abuse of power. “There is a greater possibility of abuse given their positions,” she said, citing a Supreme Court ruling in the case...
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Billions of pesos for school infra went to contractors tied to flood-control scam
A single three-story building serves all 1,500 students at Mabuhay City Elementary School in Dasmariñas, Cavite. To accommodate everyone, the school runs on three shifts, with 500 students each shift, crowded into 13 classrooms that can barely fit the 40 or so pupils crammed into them for four hours each day. Yet, just steps away,...
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Prosecutors plan to call Duterte to testify in her impeachment trial
House prosecutors intend to call Vice President Sara Duterte as a witness in her own impeachment trial after presenting evidence on all four allegations they raised against her under the articles of impeachment. “The testimony of the Vice President will be material to all four articles—grave threats, misuse and misappropriation of funds, unexplained wealth, and...
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President urged: Ensure free, fair and credible BARMM election
Duyog Bangsamoro, a multisectoral coalition of regional and national civil society organizations convened to safeguard and “accompany” the Bangsamoro peace process, called on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to prevent any effort by outside groups to influence the outcome of the Sept. 14 Bangsamoro parliamentary election, whether for or against any regional political party. The independent coalition...
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Duterte secret fund recipients were minors, dead or missing in PSA records
Beyond odd-sounding names, supposed recipients of Vice President Sara Duterte’s confidential funds from her office and the Department of Education (DepEd) in 2023 were recorded as minors, dead, or missing in the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). The youngest was a 2-month-old baby who died in 1965, or 60 years before supposedly signing acknowledgment receipts (ARs)...
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First BARMM election to proceed as scheduled
CAGAYAN DE ORO—Come Sept. 14, the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) will hold its first-ever election to finally choose the members of the Bangsamoro parliament. The election may be historic not only for BARMM but for the entire country as well—both in significance and also for the promise of true democracy and reforms...
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Witness says he didn’t know Duterte assigned security officer to handle DepEd secret funds
One of Vice President Sara Duterte’s “most trusted” officials acknowledged on Wednesday, Sept. 2, that he was unaware that she had tasked a security officer, Lt. Col. Dennis Nolasco, with handling multimillion-peso confidential funds at the Department of Education (DepEd). Michael Poa, a former education undersecretary and chief of staff, said he learned of Nolasco’s...
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No DepEd funds for Army youth programs, colonels tell impeachment court
Two Army officials stated Tuesday that their units received no confidential or regular funds in 2023 from the Department of Education (DepEd) under Vice President Sara Duterte for anti-insurgency and anti-terrorism programs for the youth, contrary to its claim. They also told the Senate impeachment court that DepEd officials requested that the certifications they issued...