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48 admin cases vs erring Customs employees filed from 2019 to 2020 (Eagle News) — The Bureau of Customs has so far filed over 100 cases against erring importers and customs brokers. The bureau said the 127 cases filed by the Bureau’s Action Team Against Smugglers cover the period from CY2020 to January 8, 2021. Of the figure, 75 criminal cases were filed before the Department of Justice, while 52 administrative cases were filed against […]
(Eagle News)–Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Thursday, January 14: MIAA said flight schedules may change at any given time. MIAA advised passengers to confirm their flights on the day they are supposed to be scheduled as only those with the confirmation will be allowed entry into the airport. The government has banned foreign travelers from over 30 countries following reports of the UK and South African COVID-19 […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health and the Philippine Genome Center on Wednesday, January 13, confirmed the COVID-19 variant first seen in the United Kingdom has been detected in the country. In a joint statement, the DOH and the PGC said this was after samples from a Filipino who arrived from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) yielded positive genome sequencing results. The statement said the patient was a male resident of Quezon City […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 492,000 mark on Wednesday, January 13, after the Department of Health reported 1453 additional cases. The DOH said of the 492,700 total cases, 24,478 were active. Of these, 84.9 percent were mild cases, 6.1 percent asymptomatic, 5.5 percent critical, 3 percent severe, and 0.5 percent moderate. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported today were Quezon City with 95, Cavite with 66, Manila with […]
(Eagle News) –Around 15,000 foreign nationals have filed their annual reports (ARs) before the Bureau of Immigration during the first week of the mandatory reporting for this year. Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said in a statement a third of the foreign nationals made their reports at the main office in Intramuros, Manila while the rest filed their ARs in the various immigration field, satellite and extension offices in Metro Manila and the provinces. Morente urged those […]
(Eagle News) — Thirty-seven more police personnel have recovered from COVID-19. The Philippine National Police said with the additional recoveries, the PNP COVID-19 recovery tally rose to 8981. Twenty-six additional cases pushed the PNP COVID-19 total to 9332. Of these, 323 were active. No additional deaths were reported, which means the PNP COVID-19 death toll remains at 28. The government has said uniformed personnel were among the priorities in a COVID-19 nationwide vaccination program as […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government now has an officer-in-charge with Interior Secretary Eduardo Año going on leave for one month. In a radio interview, Interior spokesperson Jonathan Malaya said Año has designated Undersecretary Bernardo Florece at the helm of the agency during his absence. Año’s one-month leave started on Monday. Malaya had said the doctors of Año, a COVID-19 survivor, had advised him to get plenty of rest. He […]
(Eagle News) — The Zamboanga City police drug enforcement unit chief has been ordered dismissed from the service after he tested positive for drug use. The Philippine National Police said PNP Chief Debold Sinas also ordered the restrictive custody of Police Major Jivertson D Pelovello after his confirmatory test on January 6 yielded positive. Pelovello was among 60 personnel of the Zamboanga City Police Office who were tested for drugs by the Regional Crime Laboratory […]
(Eagle News) — Thirty-four more COVID-19 cases have been reported among overseas Filipinos. The Department of Foreign Affairs said with the additional cases, the COVID-19 total among Filipinos abroad rose to 13056. Twenty-seven more have recovered, pushing the recovery total to 8488. No additional death was reported, which means the death toll remains at 935. The Middle East and Africa are still the regions with the most COVID-19 cases, recoveries and deaths among Filipinos abroad, […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police welcomed the appointment of former Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II as a commissioner of the National Police Commission. In a statement, PNP chief Debold Sinas said Aguirre’s expertise in law and legal procedures will provide NAPOLCOM with the “professional advantage to better perform its mandate of administrative supervision of the (PNP).” “In my capacity as Chief PNP and ex-officio member of NAPOLCOM, I extend the warmest congratulations of […]
(Eagle News) — The Metro Rail Transit-3 will soft-launch an app to facilitate contact tracing among commuters on January 18. But MRT-3 Director for Operations Michael J. Capati said passengers will still be given time to familiarize themselves with the MRT-3 Trace web-based application, so while they may download the same starting that date, full implementation is in February 2021. To register, the MRT-3 said passengers may access trace.dotrmrt3.gov.ph and fill out the forms with […]
(Eagle News) — Task Force PhilHealth has endorsed a Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission report recommending the filing of charges against several current and former PhilHealth officials over allegedly fraudulent and membership insurance claims done in its Region 1 office. A statement from Justice Assistant Secretary Neal Bainto said the 25, who were not identified, are facing criminal charges for falsification under Article 171 of the Revised Penal Code, malversation under Article 217 of the RPC, usurpation […]
