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Over 3000 BuCor personnel to undergo retraining, Bantag says

(Eagle News)–More than 3000 Bureau of Corrections personnel will undergo retraining on orders of  newly installed Bureau of Corrections chief Gerald Bantag. Bantag made the revelation on Friday, Oct. 4, the same day policemen from the National Capital Region Police Office arrived to temporarily take their place. “We will give them  para masolve ang problema dito. Ang problema dito illegal drugs syndicate,” National Capital Region Police Office director Guillermo Eleazar said. According to Bantag, it […]

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In photo: Rodney Baloyo, who led the 2013 Pampanga drug raid, detained in a Bilibid cell after being cited in contempt

(Eagle News)–Rodney Baloyo, who led the 2013 drug raid in Pampanga which the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group said was irregular, is now detained in a cell at the New Bilibid Prison, as seen in this picture given by the Bureau of Corrections to Eagle News. Baloyo was cited in contempt on Thursday, Oct. 3, for being evasive under questioning by senators on the drug raid. Baloyo, who was a colonel at that time, had […]

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PHL to seek to deepen ties with Africa, Central Asia, Latin America in remaining years of Duterte’s term

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has said the Philippines would seek to deepen ties with Latin America, Africa and Central Asia in the  remaining years of his term. In his speech before the plenary of the 16th annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi, the President  said it was also “high time the Philippines look at the Middle East with fresh eyes going beyond oil and Overseas Filipino Workers.” “As one of the fastest-growing […]

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Two Wellmed dialysis scam whistleblowers arrested

(Eagle News)–The two people who revealed the dialysis scam in Wellmed clinic in Quezon City have been arrested. Edwin Roberto and Leizel Santos de Leon were reportedly nabbed in connection with the estafa case filed against them over the processing of PhilHealth claims even of deceased patients at the clinic. Roberto and De Leon had been admitted to the Witness Protection Program but they lost their privileges after the case was refiled with the Metropolitan […]

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Albayalde: My name got dragged into ninja cops controversy due to PNP politics

(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Friday, Oct. 4, said he believes his name was dragged in the ninja cops controversy because of politics. “I am retiring. Who’s the next PNP chief here?” he asked in an interview over CNN Philippines. Albayalde said this could also be a way to discredit whomever he will endorse as the next top policeman. Albayalde is slated to retire in November. “They will destroy my reputation, my […]

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President Duterte: Two generals “still playing with drugs”

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, Oct. 3, said two generals are “still playing with drugs.” In his speech at the Valdai forum in Russia, the President did not identify the generals nor did he say if they were from the military or the police. The President made the revelation amid issues hounding the Philippine National Police, including its chief Oscar Albayalde. Albayalde has been accused of intervening in the cases filed against 13 policemen […]

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Inflation eases further to 0.9 percent in September

(Eagle News)–Inflation slowed further to 0.9 percent in September, the lowest since June 2016. The Philippine Statistics Authority reported on Friday, Oct. 4, the downtrend was primarily due to  the “0.9 percent annual rate of decrease in the index of  heavily-weighted food and non-alcoholic beverages.” The PSA noted there was also a decrease in the annual change of the transport index– 0.9 percent–and  lower  annual increases in the following commodity groups: Clothing and footwear, 2.7%; […]

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Aquino to Santiago: What have you done as PDEA chief?

(Eagle News)–What have you done as Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief? This was the question posed by PDEA chief director-general Aaron Aquino to former PDEA director-general Dionisio Santiago, who had urged him to resign over the issue on ninja cops. Aquino particularly asked Santiago what he had done on the problem, which he himself revealed during a Senate committee on finance hearing on the PDEA budget. Aquino had said some law enforcers were also engaged […]

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Cloudy skies, scattered rainshowers expected in Cagayan Valley, other areas

(Eagle News)–Cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers are expected in parts of the country. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said these conditions will prevail over Cagayan Valley, Cordillera Administrative Region, Camarines provinces, Aurora, Quezon and Catanduanes due to the low pressure area off the  east of Baler, Aurora. Flash floods or landslides due to occasional heavy rains are possible. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, on the other hand, will have […]

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Four killed in Paris police stabbing, attacker shot dead

By Gregory Danel Agence France-Presse PARIS, FRANCE (AFP) — A knife-wielding man working at police headquarters in central Paris went on a rampage Thursday, stabbing and killing four employees before himself being shot dead, officials said. A fifth person who was critically injured was being treated in hospital after what was the deadliest attack on police in France in years. Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said that the attacker, a 45-year-old employee from the IT department […]

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Gordon rebukes Albayalde: “You dropped the ball big time”

(Eagle News)–“You dropped the ball big time.” This was the stinging rebuke made on Thursday, Oct. 3, by Senator Richard Gordon to Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde, who is in hot water over what has been described as an irregular drug raid conducted by his men in Pampanga in 2013. Gordon lashed out at Albayalde during the hearing on the Good Conduct Time Allowance law after the then-provincial director of Pampanga said there was […]

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Former police official says police report on 2013 Pampanga raid “full of lies”

(Eagle News)–The police report on the 2013 Pampanga drug raid conducted by the 13 policemen subsequently ordered dismissed was only “full of lies.” This is according to retired Brigadier General Manuel Gaerlan, who was the deputy director for operations of Central Luzon when the raid led by then-Col. Rodney Baloyo and 12 of his men was conducted. Gaerlan said he had been tasked by then-Central Luzon police director Raul Petrasanta to check on the supposed […]

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