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(Eagle News)– The Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court has granted Senator Leila de Lima’s motion for a one-day medical furlough. In a motion dated March 6, Muntinlupa RTC Branch 205 Judge Amelia Fabros-Corpuz granted De Lima’s request that she be allowed to undergo a checkup following a Philippine National Police General Hospital CT-scan result that found a lump in her liver. The checkup will reportedly take place at the Philippine Heart Center on Monday, with all expenses […]
(Eagle News)– The Palace on Saturday hit back at United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein after he said President Rodrigo Duterte needed to undergo a “psychiatric evaluation.” “Your language was not just an insult to the Filipinos, but to all countries who have democratically elected their heads of states,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. He said that while Zeid, who is also the prince of Jordan, was a native of a […]
(Eagle News) — Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano on Saturday slammed United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein for his pronouncement that President Rodrigo Duterte should have himself examined by a psychiatrist. In a statement, Cayetano said Zeid’s remarks “cast untoward aspersions regarding the President of the Republic of the Philippines” and “bring great dishonor to the Human Rights Council and its noble endeavors.” “This action of (the) High Commissioner is completely […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency on Saturday announced the arrest of two Nigerians who were allegedly members of an African drug cartel operating in Bicol and the Calabarzon area. PDEA Director General Aaron Aquino said Agu Agustin Chukwuebuka and Nkwocha Chimaobi were nabbed after they sold 11 sachets containing 500 grams of what was believed to be shabu to a poseur-buyer in a parking lot of a fast food in Talaba, Bacoor, Cavite. […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Samar on Saturday, the Philippine Institute for Volcanology and Seismology said. PHIVOLCS said the quake hit 56 kilometers northeast of San Policarpo at 3:45 a.m. The depth of focus of the earthquake, which was tectonic in origin, was at 5 kilometers. There were no reported aftershocks.
(Eagle News) — Rappler on Friday slammed the administration for its alleged use of government resources to go after the media entity. “The Duterte administration is mustering state resources at the risk of grave embarrassment and accusations of arbitrariness and brazen harassment. What is this government so afraid of?” Rappler said in a statement posted on its site. The statement came after the National Bureau of Investigation filed a cyber-libel complaint against Rappler executive editor […]
(Eagle News) – Stop interfering. Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno had this to say to politicians who she claimed were “harassing” her and therefore encroaching in judicial independence. In a speech at the Panpacific University in Pangasinan on Friday, March 9, Sereno, wearing an all-black outfit, even appeared to liken herself to Captain America in the movie “The Avengers: Civil War,” to the protagonists of “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,” and to the main character […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a measure that gives selected Philippine National Police officials the power to issue subpoenas. Republic Act No. 10973, signed by the President on March 1, 2018, particularly gives the PNP chief, and the director and deputy director for administration of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group the authority to issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum “in relation to their investigation.” “The subpoena shall state the […]
(Eagle News) — Former Philippine National Police Chief Alan Purisima has asked the anti-graft court to allow him to go on an 11-day trip to the United States so he can attend the annual meeting of his organization, and meet his family. Purisima told the Second Division, where he faces perjury cases over alleged falsehoods in his Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth from 2006 to 2009, and from 2011 to 2014, that he planned […]
She has already done a “magnificent job in alienating her own colleagues,” he says (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is not bullying Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, the Palace said on Friday, noting that she has already “done a magnificent job in alienating her own colleagues.” In an online interview, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said proof of this was that it was Sereno’s colleagues themselves “who say she does not deserve the post.” “Hindi […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has named the wife of former Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro as the Philippines’ representative to the United Nations Children’s Fund. Based on the appointment paper dated March 7, Monica Prieto Teodoro’s term will last for a year–from September 26, 2017 to September 27, 2018. The female Teodoro served as Tarlac 1st District representative from 2007 to 2010. Her husband, who was defense secretary from 2007 to 2009, was offered the […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice has dismissed the rebellion complaint against the widow of slain Maute terrorist group leader Otto Maute. In a resolution dated March 7, the DOJ ruled there was a lack of probable cause for the complaint filed by the police and the military against Najiya Dilangalen Karon-Maute. She was arrested in January by the police and the military who accused her of aiding members of the terrorist group. In junking the […]
