THE BIGGEST infrastructure allocations for 2019 are going to the districts of former leaders of the House of Representatives, House Majority Leader Rolando G. Andaya, Jr. of the 1^st district of Camarines Sur said on Tuesday.

THE HOUSE of Representatives on Tuesday approved on third and final reading its proposed federal constitution, with 224 affirmative votes, 22 negatives and 3 abstentions.

FORMER senator Ramon “Bong” B. Revilla, Jr. and the prosecution may still ask the Sandiganbayan for clarification on whether the acquitted ex-solon is required to remit P124.5-million to the government in connection with the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) scam, according to Integrated Bar of the Philippines President (IBP) Abdiel Dan Elijah S. Fajardo.

CHURCH BELLS taken as war trophies by United States forces more than a century ago arrived in the Philippines on Tuesday, Dec. 11, ending Manila’s decades-long quest for the return of some of the most famous symbols of resistance to American colonialism.

THE Czech Republic government is donating P6.7 million for the rehabilitation of houses destroyed by typhoon Ompong (international name: Mangkhut), which hit communities in the northern Luzon area in September 2018.

LOCAL governments units (LGUs) in Mindanao support the extension of martial law, according to the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).

FORMER Foreign Affairs secretary Alan Peter S. Cayetano and his wife, exiting Taguig Mayor Maria Laarni “Lani” L. Cayetano, who are both running for congressional seats in two different districts in Taguig, have asserted that the Comission on Elections (Comelec) has no authority to evaluate their eligibility to run amid the disqualification cases filed against them.

THE BYPASS road project that will link Alae, Bukidnon and Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental is now almost 90% done, but full completion and opening is expected only in Nov, 2019, according to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).

COMPONENTS of the Metro Cebu Integrated Intermodal Transport System (MCIITS) are expected to be operational by 2020, particularly segments of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) and the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT).

PRESIDENT Rodrigo R. Duterte has warned all candidates in the 2019 midterm elections that he will personally arrest those who will be reported to be terrorizing voters.

THE DEPARTMENT of Justice (DoJ) has asked the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 51 to discharge a co-accused of self-confessed drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa to become a state witness.

PRESIDENT Rodrigo R. Duterte has signed an order creating a national task force that will focus on localized peace processes to end the 50-year old communist armed conflict in the country.