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(Eagle News)–The number of families who reported being victimized by any common crimes within the past six months has increased, a Social Weather Stations survey said. According to the Fourth Quarter 2018 Social Weather Survey, done on December 16-19, 2018, the 7.6% or an estimated 1.8 million families reporting victimization by either pickpocket or robbery of personal property, break-ins, carnapping, and physical violence was 1.5 points above the 6.1% (or an estimated 1.4 million) in […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, Feb. 22, defended Communications Secretary Martin Andanar’s attendance at a PDP-Laban sortie. According to Duterte, Andanar, the son of Wencelito Andanar, a PDP-Laban stalwart, was exempted from the ban on government officials campaigning as he was an “ideologue” whose guidance was crucial. “The law says they can campaign,” Duterte said. He said he “did not allow the other members because they might, they will be campaigning if they want […]
(Eagle News) — Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin wants a meeting with the German ambassador after Germany’s Federal Foreign Office summoned the Philippine envoy for his supposed defense of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Nazis statement in 2016. “Yes, what now? Berlin embassy is handling it; I already told them to tell the German Foreign Ministry to send the German ambassador to me because I’d rather finish my own fights than have others do it,” Locsin said […]
(Eagle News) — The trial for the rebellion charges filed against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for his alleged role in the Manila Peninsula Siege in 2007 will resume on March 20. On that day at 2 p.m., the prosecution is slated to present its evidence against the senator before Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150 Judge Elmo Alameda. The resumption of the trial comes more than four months after it was supposed to resume after […]
(Eagle News) — The Makati Prosecutors Office has dismissed the qualified theft complaint filed by Kris Aquino against her former project manager. In dismissing the complaint, the prosecutors office ruled any personal transaction Nicko Falcis made with the credit card Aquino said was the card of her company Kris Cojuangco Aquino Productions did not constitute theft. For this, the prosecutor noted the credit card in question was under the name of Falcis. The prosecutor also […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Friday, Feb. 22, gave the assurance the government was doing all that it could to secure the release of the Malaysian and Indonesian hostages of the Abu Sayyaf. In a statement issued after videos circulating online showed alleged Abu Sayyaf members threatening to behead the hostages, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo reiterated, however, the government’s no-ransom policy. “To give in to the demands of terrorists and other lawless groups would embolden them […]
Entire Cavite Maritime section sacked (Eagle News)–A high-ranking maritime police official in Cavite was arrested for allegedly extorting money from an association of fishermen in exchange for fishing rights in the area. The Philippine National Police’s Counter – Intelligence Task Force, which runs after police scalawags, said Supt. Armandy Dimabuyo, commander of the 402nd Cavite Maritime Police Station, was arrested after he received the P18,000 from the fishermen as this month’s grease money in his office. The […]
(Eagle News) — Commission on Elections Commissioner Rowena Guanzon on Friday, Feb. 22, called out several candidates for what she said were their illegal campaign materials. Among those Guanzon berated were former Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chair Francis Tolentino, who is running for a Senate seat in the elections. “I’m calling on the candidates especially candidate Tolentino whose billboard is still there in Pasay and I see that billboard every time I go to the […]
(Eagle News) — The Sandiganbayan has acquitted former Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief Diomedio Villanueva of graft. In acquitting Villanueva, the First Division said the prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he committed the offense when he, as postmaster general at the Philippine Postal Corp., supposedly refunded PhilPost USA, a private company $1,031,936.04 or P53,043,834.52. The amount supposedly represented “Terminal Dues paid for mail matters sent to Royal Mail (UK post office).” […]
(Eagle News) — Interior Secretary Eduardo Año on Friday, Feb. 22, said the “narco-politicians” who he said figured in the agency’s list will be identified within the election period. Año made the statement in a radio interview days after President Rodrigo Duterte publicly expressed his support for the release of the list ahead of the May polls. According to Año, there was a need to validate the names on the list before it was released. He said […]
(Eagle News)–Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi has gone on a visit to the Philippines, and paid a courtesy call on Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Thursday, Feb. 21. In a brief statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs said the Iranian official met with Locsin at the DFA main office. The DFA said the two discussed the “status of bilateral relations between Manila and Tehran and regional developments.” Diplomatic relations between the two […]
(Eagle News) – -For Commission on Elections commissioner Rowena Guanzon, appointive officials who campaign for candidates should not receive their salary for that day. In a Tweet on Friday, Feb. 22, Guanzon said this was “because it means they were not doing their regular duties.” The Comelec official, however, did not give names. The 90-day campaign for over 60 senatorial candidates and 154 party-list groups kicked off on Feb. 12. It will end on May […]
