Bicol International Airport,also referred by some sources as Southern Luzon International Airport,is an airport serving the vicinity of Legazpi,the capital city of Albay and the regional center of Bicol Region,in the Philippines. Dubbed as the Philippines' "Most Scenic Gateway",the airport is located in Daraga,an adjacent municipality of Legazpi. The ₱4.7 billion project is on a 200-hectare (490-acre) plateau 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) from Mayon Volcano. It replaced the old Legazpi Airport,which is only 2 to 3 kilometers from the BIA.
Liza Lagorza Maza is a Filipina politician and activist who was the lead convenor of the National Anti-Poverty Commission under the Duterte administration from August 2016 until her resignation in August 2018. She was a member of the Philippine House of Representatives,representing the Gabriela Women's Party.
Teodoro "Teddy" Acevedo Casiño is a Filipino activist,writer,and journalist. He was a member of the House of Representatives for Bayan Muna. He is currently the chairperson of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan). On December 4,2024,Casiño and 74 others filed the second impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte,citing betrayal of public trust for her office's alleged misuse of confidential funds.
Francisco Tiongson Duque III is a Filipino physician and government official who served as Secretary of Health in the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte from 2017 to 2022,a position he had previously held from 2005 to 2009 in the Cabinet of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. From 2010 to 2015,he served as the chair of the Civil Service Commission.
Ana Theresia "Risa" Navarro Hontiveros–Baraquel is a Filipino politician,community leader,and journalist serving as a Senator since 2016. She previously served as a party-list representative for Akbayan from 2004 to 2010.
Neri Javier Colmenares is a Filipino legislator,human rights lawyer and activist. He was an associate of the Asian Law Centre at Melbourne Law School when he was completing his Ph.D. in law on "The Writ of Amparo and the International Criminal Court." He also lectured at the University of Melbourne on International Human Rights Law and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Rolando Aureo Gutierrez Andaya Jr.,also known as Nonoy Andaya,was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives. He represented the 1st district of Camarines Sur from 1998 to 2006 and again from 2010 to 2019. During the 17th Congress,he was a House Deputy Speaker from 2016 to 2018 and was subsequently elected House Majority Leader,serving from 2018 to 2019. In his inter-congressional years,he was the Secretary of Budget and Management from 2006 to 2010 in President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's cabinet.
Sara Zimmerman Duterte-Carpio,commonly known as Inday Sara,is a Filipino lawyer and politician who is the 15th and current vice president of the Philippines. She is the third female vice president,the third vice president to come from Mindanao,and the youngest vice president in Philippine history. A daughter of 16th president Rodrigo Duterte,she previously served as the mayor of Davao City from 2016 to 2022,and from 2010 to 2013. She was also Davao City's vice mayor from 2007 to 2010.
Ferdinand Martin Gomez Romualdez is a Filipino businessman,lawyer and politician serving as the Speaker of the House of Representatives since 2022. He is also serving as the representative for the 1st district of Leyte since 2019 and previously from 2007 to 2016. He formerly served as the House Majority Leader from 2019 to 2022,and unsuccessfully ran for senator in the 2016 elections. He is a first cousin of President Bongbong Marcos.
Emmanuel Joel Jose Villanueva,nicknamed "Tesdaman",is a Filipino politician who previously served as the Senate Majority Leader from 2022 to 2024 and has been a Senator since 2016. He previously served as the Director General of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) from 2010 to 2015 in the administration of President Benigno Aquino III. He started his political career in the House of Representatives,representing CIBAC party-list from 2002 to 2010;at the age of 26,he was the youngest member of the House when he assumed office. He is a son of evangelist and politician Bro. Eddie Villanueva,founder of Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide.
Antonio "Tonchi" Luansing Tinio is a Filipino activist and former member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines for ACT Teachers Partylist from 2010 to 2019 and served as Deputy Minority Leader in the 15th congress. He also served as the national chairperson of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) from 2002 to 2012.
Mark Aguilar Villar is a Filipino politician and businessman serving as a Senator since 2022. He served in President Rodrigo Duterte's cabinet as the Secretary of Public Works and Highways from 2016 to 2021,and was the COVID-19 pandemic isolation czar from 2020 to 2021. A member of the Nacionalista Party,he was the Representative of Las Piñas from 2010 to 2016. Villar has also previously held executive positions in his family's businesses.
SMNI News Channel,known on-air as SMNI News,is a Philippine far-right religious free-to-air news and public service television network based in Makati. It is owned and operated by Swara Sug Media Corporation,the parent company of Sonshine Media Network International,a broadcasting arm of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC) led by Filipino televangelist and religious leader,Apollo Quiboloy.
Karlo Alexei Bendigo Nograles is a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the Chairperson of the Civil Service Commission from March 4,2022 to October 7,2024. He was previously the Cabinet Secretary (2018–2022) and acting Presidential Spokesperson (2021–2022) in the Duterte administration. He was also the co-chair and spokesperson of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) in the Philippine government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and chairman of the government's Inter-Agency Task Force on Zero Hunger. He was the representative of Davao City's 1st district from 2010 to 2018.
Eric Go Yap is a Filipino politician serving as the Representative for Benguet's lone congressional district since 2022,and was the district's legislative caretaker from January 2020 until he was elected in his own right. He was a party-list representative for ACT-CIS from 2019 to 2022,and is the chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations since March 2020.
Stella Luz Alabastro-Quimbo is a Filipino politician and academic who has served as the representative for Marikina's second district since 2019,as a member of Lakas–CMD. She previously served as a commissioner of the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) from 2016 until her resignation prior to her congressional run.
Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. became involved in a scandal over allegations of overpriced medical supplies it supplied to the Philippine government for the latter's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Blue Ribbon Committee of the Senate of the Philippines launched an investigation into the matter and uncovered other issues,such as the supplied face shields' alleged substandard quality and how the company was able to secure a contract worth billions of pesos despite being founded only in 2019 with a small paid-up capital.
Barangay Health Wellness (BHW) Association Inc.,also known as the BHW Partylist,is an organization which holds party-list representation in the House of Representatives of the Philippines. It aims to represent the interest of barangay-level health workers.
Yang Hongming,more commonly known as Michael Yang in the Philippines,is a Chinese businessman and is an associate of 16th Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Yang was linked in the Pharmally scandal which allegedly overpriced procurement contracts for medical supplies to be used by the Philippine government during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ramon Rodrigo "Rodge" Lorejo Gutierrez is a Filipino lawyer and politician and the current Member of the Philippine House of Representatives under the 1-Rider Partylist.
