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(Eagle News) – Former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque changed his mind and decided to run for senator in the May 2019 elections, instead of as a party-list representative, when he filed his certificate of candidacy with the Commission on Elections on Wednesday, October 17. Roque will run under the People’s Reform Party (PRP) of the late senator Miriam Defensor Santiago. He said that he was offered by President Rodrigo Duterte to run under […]
(Eagle News) — Commission on Higher commissioner Prospero “Popoy” E. de Vera III has been appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as the new CHED chairman. De Vera will serve as CHED chairman until July 2022, according to Commission’s OIC-Executive Director Cinderella Filipina S. Benitez-Jaro in a press release posted on the Facebook page of De Vera. For his part, De Vera thanked the President for the appointment, saying he was “humbled” and “challenged” by the […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Despite an exceptionally snow-filled winter, Swiss glaciers have lost 2.5 percent of their volume this year, according to a report Tuesday which dubbed 2018 “a year of extremes”. This year’s record-breaking temperatures have greatly contributed to the loss of “a fifth of (the glaciers’) volume over the past decade”, according to the annual study on the state of the glaciers, published by the Swiss Academies of Science. And this despite the […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde welcomed the election of the Philippines into the United Nations human Rights Council (UNHRC), even as he called on critics to help the government address human rights violations. “First of all, the Philippine National Police shares with the entire Filipino nation the honor of being elected anew to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to serve another three-year term until 2020. The Philippines’ election to the […]
Ni Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Kinumpirma ng Armed Forces of the Philippines at Philippine National Police na tuluyan nang nalusaw ang “Red October ouster plot” ng rebeldeng grupong New People’s Army. Ayon kay AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Carlito Galvez, wala nang kakayanan ang rebeldeng grupo na maglunsad ng malawakang pag-atake dahil sa maramihang pagsuko ng mga miyembro nito. Naaresto rin umano ng AFP sa operasyon ang limang matataas na lider […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the nation’s security forces to be non-partisan during the election season as he asked them to make a “commitment to the Filipino people” to stay “neutral. “Let us make a deal here, promise, we make a commitment to the Filipino people. This election, strictly neutral tayong lahat,” he said in a speech on Monday, Oct. 15, during the Philippine Army’s change of command rites. Duterte also asked […]
(Eagle News) — Former senator Jinggoy Estrada on Tuesday, October 16 filed his certificate of candidacy for the May 2019 elections before the Commission on Election (Comelec) main office in Intramuros, Manila.
(Eagle News) — Ilocos Norte Gov. María Imelda Josefa “Imee” Marcos filed her certificate of candidacy for the 2019 senatorial race. The governor was accompanied by her brother, former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., and her son Borgy Manotoc. She will be running under the Nacionalista Party. (Eagle News Service Jerold Tagbo)
(Eagle News) – Senator Bam Aquino is seeking re-election under the opposition Liberal Party as he filed his certificate of candidacy on Tuesday, October 16, at the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) main office in Manila. Aquino is seeking his second term as senator. On Tuesday, human rights lawyer Jose Manuel “Chel” Diokno also filed his certificate of candidacy as a senatorial bet also under the opposition Liberal Party. Diokno served as chairman of the […]
(Eagle News) – Former Senator Pia Cayetano, sister of Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano, filed her certificate of candidacy as a senatorial bet with the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) main office in Intramuros, Manila on Tuesday, October 16. Cayetano biked her way to the COMELEC office in Manila from the Rizal Park before filing her COC on Tuesday. She will be running under the Nacionalista Party. She is currently the Deputy Speaker of […]
(Eagle News) — Former presidential aspirant Manuel “Mar” Roxas II who lost to President Rodrigo Duterte in the May 2016 national elections filed his certificate of candidacy to run as a senatorial bet in the May 2019 elections. Roxas filed his COC past 8 a.m. Tuesday, October 16, at the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) main office in Intramuros, Manila. Roxas will be running under the Liberal Party (LP). He had previously served as […]
(Eagle News) — Naniniwala ang Malacañang na hindi masisisi ang Department of Interior and Local Government o DILG kung gumawa ito ng hakbang para mapigilan sa paghawak ng kapangyarihan o pananatili sa poder ang mga pulitikong sangkot sa operasyon ng iligal na droga sa bansa. Magsusumite ang DILG sa Commission on Elections o COMELEC ng listahan ng narco-politicians sa layuning ma-disqualify ang mga ito sa pagtakbo para sa election sa 2019. Sinabi ni Presidential Spokesman […]
