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(Eagle News) – Two committees of the House of Representatives approved on Monday, April 16, House Bill 6475, which was based on the recommendation of the Bangsamoro Transition Council. The House special committee on peace, unity and reconciliation, and the committee on Muslim affairs voted to pass the bill authored by Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, but the committee on local government rejected the same. On May 15, the House panels will meet again to determine whether […]
(Eagle News) — Cabinet Secretary Jun Evasco Jr. is “no longer part of” the National Food Authority Council. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the announcement on Tuesday, April 17. According to Roque, this was after President Rodrigo Duterte himself decided that the NFA would be “under the (Department of Agriculture) anew.” Apart from the NFA, the Philippine Coconut Authority and the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority are back under the DA, Roque said. He added the […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration on Tuesday, April 17, released Australian nun Patricia Fox from custody. Jobert Pahilga, Fox’s lawyer, said this was after they “satisfactorily explained” it wasn’t a rally she had attended in Tagum, Davao, but a visit that was part of her advocacy. The supposed rally Fox attended was captured in pictures submitted to the BI. “Walang probable cause (for the charge of being an undesirable alien) as of […]
Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service Magkakaroon na ng North Luzon Express Terminal sa Ciudad de Victoria, Bocaue, Bulacan. Ito ay matapos lumagda sa isang memorandum of agreement ang Department of Transportation at Maligaya Development Corporation upang maitayo ang nasabing terminal. Ayon kay Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade, ang terminal ang inaasahang solusyon sa matinding traffic partikular na sa kahabaan ng Edsa. Ito ay sapagkat oras na matapos ang terminal, hindi na aniya papayagang pumasok ng Edsa […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has declared the month of April as the Filipino Food Month. In making the declaration through Proclamation No. 469 signed on April 13, the President noted that under the Implementing Rules and Regulations of Republic Act No. 100466, or the National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009, culinary tradition was “recognized as part of” the country’s “cultural heritage which may be utilized to highlight a nation’s character, and foster national […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service The fate of former Special Action Force Chief, Police Director Benjamin Lusad, who is facing plunder and malversation charges in connection with his alleged failure to distribute P59.8 million in monthly allowances to SAF troops, now rests in the hands of Incoming Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde. This is according to PNP Chief Ronald dela Rosa, who is slated to bow out as the country’s top policeman on April […]
(Eagle News) — Malacañang on Monday, April 16, said it was only exercising its sovereignty when it blocked the entry of a European socialist party politician for violation of immigration laws, and ordered him deported. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said that Giacomo Filibeck, who was stopped at the immigration counter of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport in Lapu-Lapu on Sunday, April 15, had, after all, been blacklisted for violating the law provision that prohibits tourists staying in […]
(Eagle News) — If charges were to be filed against him in connection with the drug war, outgoing Philippine National Police Chief Ronald dela Rosa said he would face them outright. “Handa ako, as I have said, I may sink or swim with my President, hindi ko siya iiwan,” Dela Rosa said. As of April 13, 19,086 drug offenders were arrested in 12,032 anti-illegal drugs operations since the PNP relaunched the campaign in early December […]
(Eagle News) –Senator Panfilo Lacson on Monday, April 16, stood by his decision not to sign the blue ribbon committee draft report that recommended the filing of charges against Former President Benigno Aquino III and others over the Dengvaxia mess. This was after Senator Richard Gordon, the panel chair, cited Lacson’s alleged ties with Aquino when asked to comment on Lacson’s opposition to the draft that also recommended the filing of charges against former Health […]
(Eagle News) — Former Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre denied ordering his men to shred documents at the Justice department before leaving office. “If any shredding was done, I know nothing about it,” Aguirre said in a statement. In any case, in the first place, he said the shredding of documents was “regularly done in public and private offices.” “We can even surmise that it was done to get rid of unneeded … documents,” he said. […]
There should be a “more partial arbiter of truth,” Roque says (Eagle News) — The Palace on Monday, April 16, cried foul over Facebook’s choice of Rappler and Vera Files as fact-checkers tasked to weed out fake news and misleading content in the platform. According to Roque, there should be a “more partial arbiter of truth” that will review stories on Facebook that have been flagged as dubious. In January, the Securities and Exchange Commission revoked […]
(Eagle News) — Members of the Liberal Party including Vice President Leni Robredo drew flak from netizens after a picture of them happily posing at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, Germany circulated online. Apart from Robredo, Senator Francis Pangilinan, Ifugao Rep. Teddy Baguilat Jr., Quezon City Rep. Jose Christopher Belmonte, Dinagat Islands Rep. Kaka Bag-ao, Marikina Rep. Miro Quimbo and former Budget Secretary Florencio Abad were seen smiling at the monument meant to honor those […]
