page_title: 2014 in the Philippines
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 2014 in the Philippines / Events / April
caption_attribution_description: English: Senator TG Guingona's visit in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental
context_page_description: 2014 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 2014.
context_section_description: April 1 – The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, chaired by Senator Teofisto Guingona III, announced and recommended the filing of plunder and graft charges to Senators Juan Ponce Enrile, Jinggoy Estrada, and Bong Revilla together with Janet Lim-Napoles over their involvement in the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) scam. Other recommended to be charged were Gigi Reyes (Enrile's former Chief of Staff), Pauline Labayen (Estrada's former appointments Secretary), Richard Cambe (Revilla's political staff), former National Agribusiness Corporation (Nabcor) President Alan Javellana, and former Technology Resource Center (TRC) Director Antonio Ortiz. The committee also pressed further investigation to other four involved members of the House of Representatives, Janet Lim–Napoles' family and friends, and other involved government officials. The Office of the Ombudsman later announced that they will file plunder and graft charges to Lim–Napoles, and to the three involved Senators.
  April 2 – A Filipina resort employee and a Chinese tourist was kidnapped by seven armed members of the Abu Sayyaf in Singamata Reef Resort, Semporna, Sabah, Malaysia.
  April 4 – Senators Ralph Recto, Lito Lapid and former congressmen Corazon Malanyaon of Davao Oriental, Roberto Cajes and Eladio Jala of Bohol, Roger Mercado of Southern Leyte, Alipio Badelles of Lanao del Norte, and Eileen Ermita-Buhain of Batangas have been implicated in the Nabcor fund anomaly worth tens of millions of pesos.
  April 8:
  Former Vice President and Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council chairman Noli de Castro, currently the anchor of ABS-CBN's TV Patrol, attended the hearing of the Senate Committee on Housing, Urban Planning and Resettlement on the P6.6 billion housing scam of Delfin Lee's Globe Asiatique. De Castro admitted not having a special treatment to Lee on the arrangement between Pag-IBIG fund and GA.
  SC uphold the constitutionality of Republic Act No. 10354, also known as the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012, except for eight provisions (including Section 7, Section 17 and Section 23) which were partially or fully declared as unconstitutional.
  April 9 – The Manila Cathedral in Intramuros, Manila was reopened to the public after a 2-year structural retrofitting and rehabilitation due to cracks inside the structure. The project cost was 136 million pesos. President Aquino III, together with Senate President Franklin Drilon and Papal Nuncio Giuseppe Pinto, attended the first mass after the reopening led by Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle.
  April 10:
  The Philippine aviation industry, through the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), was finally upgraded into "Category 1" status given by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) after CAAP successfully complied with international safety standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
  Cebu Pacific's ban on flying their planes to any Europe destinations was lifted by the European Union.
  April 11:
  The Philippines and the U.S. reached an agreement on sharing local military bases with the U.S. military forces during times of humanitarian and maritime operations.
  20 government troops were injured in an encounter with the Abu Sayyaf Group in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan.
  April 14–13 policemen, including Philippine National Police (PNP) Superintendent Hansel Marantan, were relieved from their duties in connection with the January 2013 Atimonan rub-out incident that killed suspected gambling leader Vic Siman, environmentalist Jun Lontok and 10 others.
  April 15 – The Department of Energy (DOE) issued a yellow alert status on the Luzon grid following a series of temporarily shutdown of the Masinloc and Pagbilao power plants that decreased the island's power reserves.
  April 19 – Gigi Reyes, former chief of staff of Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile which is one of the recommended by the Ombudsman to charged for plunder over the PDAF scam, returned to the country.
  April 23 – In a joint statement, the government delegations of the Phi
caption: Sen. Teofisto "TG" Guingona III, announced the recommendation of filing of plunder and graft changes to Senators Juan Ponce Enrile, Jinggoy Estrada, and Bong Revilla, alongside Janet Lim-Napoles who involved in the Pork Barrel (PDAF) scam.
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