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(Eagle News) — “Pray nobody will be interested” in the new water contracts prepared by government. This was the advice of President Rodrigo Duterte to Manila Water and Maynilad, which have yet to accept the contracts made by the Department of Justice after it found what it said were onerous provisions in the existing ones. Among these provisions were a ban on the government from interfering in setting water rates and an indemnification clause should […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has promoted Court of Appeals Justice Samuel Gaerlan to the Supreme Court. Gaerlan filled in the post vacated by Diosdado Peralta, who is now Chief Justice. He bested the other shortlisted applicants for the SC post: Court Administrator Midas Marquez and CA justices Manuel Barrios, Ramon Garcia, Jhosep Lopez and Eduardo Peralta.
(Eagle News)–The mandatory repatriation applies to Filipinos in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said. Bello made the confirmation as he announced an alert level 4 was already hoisted over the three countries, following the US killing of top Iranian military official Qassam Soleimani. Philippine Overseas Employment Agency administrator Bernard Olalia said the POEA will convene this Friday to issue the resolution declaring the total deployment ban on OFWs to those countries. […]
(Eagle News)-A Department of Budget and Management official on Wednesday, Jan. 8, gave the assurance there were available standby funds for the repatriation of Overseas Filipino Workers in Iran and Iraq. In an economic press briefing in Malacañang, Budget Assistant Secretary Rolando Toledo said the Department of Foreign Affairs had P1.29 billion for its repatriation program. According to Toledo , the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration also had P600 million on standby for OFWs who need […]
(Eagle News) — Vice President Leni Robredo on Wednesday, Jan. 8, stood by her report the drug war was a massive failure, despite criticisms the data she used was not accurate. Robredo, who was appointed co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee Against Illegal Drugs until she was fired by President Rodrigo Duterte with less than a month into the job, said in the first place, “we are very, very careful sa pagfinalize ng report na di […]
(Eagle News) — A Paranaque court has acquitted Bureau of Corrections chief Gerald Bantag and two others of homicide. In its Jan. 8 order, Judge Betlee-Ian J. Barraquias also acquitted then-SJO2 Ricardo Zulueta and JO2 Victor Erick Pascua in the ten counts filed against them by inmates of a Paranaque jail when Bantag was jail warden. Bantag, Zulueta and Pascua had said they merely defended themselves after they were attacked by the inmates and an […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Wednesday, Jan. 8, gave the assurance the concession deals crafted by the Department of Justice won’t “kill” water concessionaires Manila Water and Maynilad should they decide to accept them. In an interview over ANC, Guevarra said what they did with the new deals was to remove the provisions that were “highly disadvantageous” and to replace them with “more equitable” ones. “It’s something that will give life, life […]
(Eagle News)–A 3.9-magnitude earthquake struck Davao Occidental on Wednesday, Jan. 8. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which hit at 12:11 p.m., had its epicenter 41 kilometers southeast of Sarangani. Depth of focus was 24 kilometers. An instrumental Intensity I was recorded in General Santos City; Malungon, Sarangani. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
(Eagle News)-Rains are expected in parts of the country today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administratuon said Caraga and Davao Region will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms due to the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affecting Mindanao. PAGASA said Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, Cagayan Valley will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains due to the northeast monsoon. Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs has advised Filipinos in Saudi Arabia to be vigilant in view of the recent developments in the region. In an advisory, the DFA said Filipinos should observe against “potential security threats, observe security measures and protocols established by the Saudi government, and abide by the laws, rules, and regulations of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” According to the DFA, for security-related incidents, information on developing security situations on the […]
Tehran, Iran (AFP)–Iranian Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday responded to the assassination of commander Qassem Soleimani with a missile attack on an Iraqi airbase used by the US military, Iranian state media said. The IRGC confirmed the Ain al-Assad base was hit “with tens of missiles” and promised “more crushing responses” in case of further US attacks, the state-run PressTV said on Twitter.
Baghdad, Iraq (AFP)–Iran on Wednesday launched a missile attack on an Iraqi airbase where US forces are based, threatening “more crushing responses” if Washington carried out further strikes, Iranian state media said. It said the missiles were in response to a US strike last week that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi top commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Security sources told AFP that nine rockets hit the sprawling Ain al-Asad airbase in the country’s west, […]
