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QUEZON CITY, Philippines – Senator JV Ejercito is asking the Senate to probe the procurement system of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in view of the recent crash of the Philippine Air Force helicopter in Tanay, Rizal which resulted in the death of three soldiers. According to Ejercito, there have been reports that the AFP is buying second-hand or reconditioned equipment. “We can buy a small number of new ones just as long as they […]
(AFP) — Looters mobbed a deadly slum fire in Manila on Tuesday, pulling roofing sheets and electric wire from singed homes as firemen scrambled to contain the blaze. Riot police surrounded the Isla Puting Bato shantytown at Manila’s port area after being summoned by firemen who struggled to reach burning homes accessible only through narrow alleys that were swarmed by residents as well as scavengers. An AFP photographer saw about 100 people, most of them men, engaged […]
The Philippine delegation in Geneva, Switzerland led by Senator Alan Peter Cayetano and Deputy Executive Secretary Menardo Guevarra faced more than 100 representatives of the member-countries of the United Nations Human Rights Commission in defending the country’s human rights record. Cayetano explained there was a deliberate attempt to bloat the numbers on alleged extrajudicial killings. The Philippine delegates answered questions on drug-related killings under the Duterte administration. Cayetano said that the killings were not state-sponsored and […]
(Eagle News)– Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) chief Persida Acosta on Tuesday (May 9) welcomed the decision of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to investigate the death of Saad Samad Kiram alias “Abu Saad,” one of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) members who figured in a clash with government troops in Bohol province recently. Acosta, however, also urged the rights body to probe the killing of soldiers, policemen, and other government agents by the bandit group. “Ang suggestion […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Several members of the United Nations Human Rights Council expressed grave concern over the alleged incidents of extra-judicial killings in the Philippines, this after Senator Alan Peter Cayetano gave an account of the human rights record of the Philippines before the international body in Geneva, Switzerland. The delegates from the United States and Australia said that it was important that the government look into the alleged 7,000 reported incidents of extra-judicial killings to identify […]
Ni Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service Pasado na sa Senate committee on public services ang panukalang palawigin pa ang validity ng driver’s license. Walang tumutol nang isalang sa botohan ang panukalang batas na gawing limang taon ang validity ng lisensya mula sa kasalukuyang taon. Sa pamamagitan ng inaprubahang panukala, aamyendahan ang Republic Act No. 4136 o ang Land Transportation and Traffic Code. Sa pagdinig nangako ang Land Transportation Office na hindi ito magpapataw ng dagdag na singil […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — A party-list lawmaker expressed his disagreement to calls of protest groups to declare United Nations Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard as persona non grata. AKO Bicol party-list Representative Rodel Batocabe said that this move would only result in image problems for the Philippines, and would cast doubt on the country’s democracy. Batocabe said that Callamard should be allowed to express her opinions so government can rebut them. Callamard, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial […]
(Eagle News) — The Presidential Communications Operations Office has a new assistant secretary. Mocha Uson, a known supporter of President Rodrigo Duterte, has been appointed to the post. “Pursuant to the provisions of existing laws, you are hereby appointed (as such),” a letter from Malacanang dated May 8 said. “By virtue hereof, you may qualify and enter upon the performance of the duties of the office, furnishing this office and the Civil Service Commission of copies […]
(Eagle News) — Vice President Leni Robredo has asked the Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, to junk former Senator Ferdinand Marcos’ motion that seeks the dismissal of her counterprotest in connection with the 2016 elections. In her motion dated May 5, Robredo’s camp said her compliance to the PET’s order that she pay the first tranche of a protest fee of P15.44 million has rendered Marcos’ motion moot. The former senator had sought the help of the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Commission on Appointments cannot be investigated by the Senate and the House of Representatives, two senators who are members of the CA said amid calls to probe the powerful body. According to Senate Majority Leader Vicente “Tito” Sotto and Senator Panfilo Lacson, the Commission on Appointments (CA) is an independent constitutional body and therefore could not be investigated by the houses of Congress. “Not by the House, not […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – Former Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief of staff Roy Cimatu is a good choice as secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), according to Senator Panfilo Lacson. “He is definitely a good choice. I happen to know him all the way back to our military days,” said Lacson in a statement after Cimatu’s appointment. Lacson said that he knows Cimatu since the time that […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said “we were ignorant” when typhoon Yolanda hit in November 2013. Duterte made the statement during the launch of the first-ever humanitarian mission ship, MV Amazing Grace. “I was really appalled that despite the fact that the warning came to us early, (that there was the) most powerful typhoon so far in the century, many of our countrymen took it lightly,” he noted. “We were ignorant when the typhoon hit,” Duterte, […]
