Latest in executive orderThe superintendent of the Philippine Merchant Marine Academy (PMMA) backed a proposal for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to issue an executive order automatically classifying the country’s approximately 400,000 active seafarers as military reservists, modeled after the United States’ “7th Service”…
Manila City Mayor Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso has immediately moved to cut fuel consumption in city government operations by 50 percent ahead of an anticipated oil shock triggered by the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz and escalating conflict in Iran. Under Executive Order No. 7…
House Minority Leader and Caloocan City 2nd District Rep. Edgar Erice on Friday, December 26, said the resignation of Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) Commissioner Rossana Fajardo confirms that the body created to probe corruption in public works has failed. In a text message to The…
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