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(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, March 5, expressed confidence the Commission on Appointments would approve Benjamin Diokno’s appointment as the new Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas governor. According to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, Diokno was, after all, “a good man,” an “experienced man,” an “expert man” and a “man of integrity.” He said these were the reasons President Rodrigo Duterte appointed Diokno at the helm of the BSP in the first place. Earlier, then-House […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, March 5, vouched for the integrity of the government’s narco-list, saying foreign governments had supplied the Philippines with intel through wiretapping. “Ang magagaling diyan Israel, magaling diyan America, Russia, China….Kung tayo lang, eh wala, kopong-kopong pa yata iyong mga instrumento natin,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. According to Panelo, while the Anti-Wiretapping Law considers wiretapping an illegal act without the authorization by a court, no law says the […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Corrections to probe the alleged illegal drug activities of an inmate serving his sentence at the New Bilibid Prison, and to file the necessary charges against those who may be allowing the same. In directing the two bureaus to conduct a case build-up against Rustico Ygot in Department Order No. 3, Guevarra cited Republic Act No. 10867 […]
(Eagle News) — House appropriations committee chair Rep. Rolando Andaya on Tuesday, March 5, said the House of Representatives was merely “itemizing” the appropriations under the national budget for 2019 approved by Congress to make them “more transparent and easy to scrutinize.” Andaya, also the Camarines Sur representative, made the statement after Senator Panfilo Lacson accused Speaker Gloria Arroyo of realigning P25 million from the Department of Health fund to solons who voted for her […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government on Tuesday, March 5, slammed as “an exercise in politics in aid of re-election” the Alliance of Concerned Teachers’ appeal of a Court of Appeals decision against a halt order on supposed police profiling. “The original petition was already dismissed and yet ACT PL (party-list) wishes to beat a dead horse,” Interior spokesperson Jonathan Malaya said in a statement. According to Malaya, the court’s […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson on Tuesday, March 5, accused Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of violating the 1987 Constitution when she supposedly tampered with the P3.75-trillion 2019 national budget already ratified by Congress. In a statement, Lacson said apart from violating Article VI Section VI of the Constitution, Arroyo also committed “grave abuse of discretion” when she, even after Congress’ approval of the budget, allotted P25 million for the Health Facilities Enhancement Program of the districts whose […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has disbarred a lawyer for drafting a fake decision “acquitting” a drug accused in exchange for money. In a statement, the SC said it ordered the name of Marie Frances E. Ramon stricken off the Roll of Attorneys “effective immediately” after she was found guilty of violating the Lawyer’s Oath, Canons 1, 7, 19, several provisions of the Code of Professional Responsibility and of grave misconduct when she wrote the […]
But in such a scenario, under MDT, PHL will “automatically be involved,” Lorenzana says (Eagle News) — For Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, the United States is “more likely to be involved in a shooting war” in the West Philippine Sea than the Philippines because of the “increased and frequent passage of” American naval vessels. Even then, Lorenzana said on the basis of the Mutual Defense Treaty, the Philippines will “automatically be involved,” which means the […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Budget and Management on Tuesday, March 5, expressed confidence the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the Philippine economy in general were “in good hands” with Benjamin Diokno at the helm of the BSP and the Monetary Board. In a statement, the DBM said “Secretary Ben, a lifelong public servant and economics professor,” after all, “embodies the decisive leadership, professional experience, and technical competence needed in a central bank governor.” […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine banking industry on Tuesday, March 5, welcomed the appointment of Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno as the new governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. In a statement, the Bankers Association of the Philippines lauded Diokno as a “respected economist, academic and civil servant” who spearheaded “various budget and governance reforms which improved the efficiency of the delivery of government services in the country.” “The BAP is optimistic that the reformist brand […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, March 5, said it expects “further improvement and disinflation” following the deceleration of inflation in February. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo issued the statement after the Philippine Statistics Authority made the announcement the country’s inflation rate last month fell within the 3.7 percent to 4.5 percent projection set by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. Panelo attributed the “positive development” to the “macroeconomic policies of the Duterte administration.” “We expect […]
(Eagle News) — Inviting candidates to graduations is “highly discouraged” this election season, the Department of Education said on Tuesday, March 5. In a statement, the DepEd said that while the act was not prohibited per se, it, after all, may still be “misinterpreted as an endorsement of a candidate” by principals and teachers. If, however, the invitation of a candidate or his or her attendance in a graduation was done due to a “valid and […]
