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(Eagle News)–The Palace has declared June 5 a regular holiday in the country. The declaration contained in Proclamation No. 729 signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea was in observance of Eid’l Fitr or the Feast of Ramadan for Muslims. The proclamation said this was upon recommendation of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos. Eid’l Fitr is celebrated by Muslims three days after the end of the month of their fasting.
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs-Overseas Voting Secretariat (DFA-OVS) announced through a press release that the 2019 Philippine Midterm Elections recorded the highest number of overseas voter turnout since the Overseas Voting Act was signed into law in 2003. It has to be noted that the 2019 elections can be seen as the culminating activity belonging to a three-year cycle, beginning with the voter registration in 2016, six months after the Presidential elections. […]
by Sara HUSSEIN TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Two people, including a child, were feared dead Tuesday in a mass stabbing attack that also injured 17 people in the Japanese city of Kawasaki, the local fire department said. “One man and one female child are showing no vital signs, said fire department official Yuji Sekizawa, employing a phrase commonly used in Japan to mean the victims have died but the death has not yet been certified […]
(Eagle News)–Court of Appeals justice Henry Inting has been named Supreme Court justice. Inting, the brother of Commission on Elections commissioner Socorro Inting, will replace the seat vacated by Lucas Bersamin after he was appointed Chief Justice. With his appointment, the 15 seats in the High Court are now filled.
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, May 27, threatened to resign if his son Paolo runs for the speakership in the House of Representatives. “Sinabi ko sa kanya, if you run for speakership, let me know. Kasi kung tatakbo ka, magre-resign ako,” Duterte said in a speech during the oathtaking of new government officials in the Palace. According to Duterte he was not taking sides in the race. Davao del Norte Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez, who […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Monday, May 27, admitted to meeting Peter Joemel Advincula but noted he did not pay much attention to what he said in his supposed exposé at that time. In a privilege speech, Trillanes said priests brought Advincula, who claimed to be the yellow-hooded character “Bikoy” in the “Ang Totoong Narcolist” videos against President Rodrigo Duterte, his family and some of his allies, to him in August last year. Trillanes […]
(Eagle News)–Lawyer Ferdinand Topacio on Monday, May 27, asked Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin to probe officials of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines who allowed Peter Joemel Advincula to hold a press conference at the IBP headquarters early May. In a letter submitted to Bersamin’s office, Topacio noted it was “highly improper” for IBP national president Abdiel Fajardo and incoming president and current vice chairman Domingo Cayosa “to have accommodated Advincula in using the IBP […]
(Eagle News)–Albay Rep. Joey Salceda on Monday, May 27, asked the Supreme Court to stop the implementation of a Metropolitan Manila Development Authority regulation that would eventually lead to the closure of provincial bus terminals along Edsa. In his petition for prohibition and/or mandamus with an application for a temporary restraining order and/or writ of preliminary injunction, Salceda asked the High Court to stop the MMDA from implementing MMDA Regulation No. 19-002, Series of 2019 […]
By Thomas I. Likness in Edmonton & Marvi Abellera in Slave Lake, Alberta EBC Edmonton Bureau (Eagle News) – More bad news for residents of the northern Alberta community of High Level in western Canada which is threatened by a wildfire. An Alberta government agency said a shift in wind direction could push the blaze even closer to the town. The fire remains out of control. It is only three kilometres from the town limits. […]
(Eagle News)–The Alyansa ng mga Tagapagtanggol ng Wikang Filipino will appeal anew the Supreme Court’s decision allowing the removal of Filipino and “panitikan” from the list of required subjects in colleges. The group of professors, students and activists said it would file a second motion for reconsideration after the SC upheld its November 2018 decision that ruled the legality of Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) Memorandum Order (CMO) No. 20, which allowed for such a […]
(Eagle News)–Rainshowers are expected in parts of the country today, May 27, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. PAGASA said Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon and CALABARZON will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms as a frontal system affects the eastern section of Luzon. Flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. Metro Manila, MIMAROPA and Western Visayas will also have cloudy skies with scattered […]
(Eagle News)–For Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo’s “long” statements about him “betray” his and President Rodrigo Duterte’s “obsession” about the senator. “While I’m supposed to feel good knowing that I have successfully gotten under their skin, but coming from somebody like Panelo, it somehow feels creepy,” Trillanes said. Trillanes issued the statement after Panelo said the senator’s “greatest service to the nation” was his “mandatory exit” from the Senate. The presidential spokesperson […]
