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(Eagle News)–More than P100,000 worth of property–or P150,000–was damaged after a fire razed a residential area in Caloocan early Tuesday, Feb. 5. The blaze in Barangay 8 broke out at 1:24 a.m., destroying at least 20 houses and leaving at least 40 families homeless, the Bureau of Fire Protection said. The blaze reached the second alarm before it was put out.
(Eagle News)–A fire hit a pastries factory in Meycauayan, Bulacan early Tuesday, Feb. 5. The blaze began in the factory in Barangay Libtong past midnight. As of 4 a.m., the blaze reached the fifth alarm. No one was reported injured so far.
Charges for damage to property also filed vs them (Eagle News)–Charges on Monday, Feb. 4, were filed against several suspects in the Jolo, Sulu blasts that killed at least 23 people and injured 95 others. Twenty-three counts of murder, 95 counts of frustrated murder charges and charges for damage to property were filed against Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan alias Imam, Usman Absara aliad Usman, Barak Ingog alias Bars, Makrim Habisi alias Makrim, Kammah Pae alias Kamah, […]
(Eagle News)—The National Bureau of Investigation has arrested Kenneth Dong, the alleged middleman in the P6.4-billion shabu shipment in 2017. Dong was nabbed by NBI operatives in a house in Katarungan Village ini Muntinlupa City at 2 p.m. The arrest was by virtue of the alias Warrant of Arrest issued by Judge Rainelda H. Estacio-Montesa of Branch 46 of the Regional Trial Court of Manila for importation of illegal drugs. Dong was also charged with rape […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte skipped an event in Leyte on Friday, Feb. 1, because he had a slight fever, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said on Monday, Feb. 4. According to Panelo, there was however no cause for alarm about the news coming from former Special Assistant to the President Bong Go as Duterte was still in the pink of health. “He may have felt that his body was not up to performing any activity that […]
(Eagle News)–The police on Monday, Feb. 4, reiterated that Richard Santillan, former Biliran Rep. Glenn Chong’s aide, was killed in a legitimate encounter with police. “For us, indeed it was a shootout,” Supt. Joseph Arguelles of the Police Regional Office 4-A said during a hearing by the Senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs. Arguelles cited what he said were the two bullet holes in the front bumper of the SWAT mobile of the […]
(Eagle News)—-President Rodrigo Duterte has returned the power to approve land reclamation projects to the Philippine Reclamation Authority. Under Executive Order 74, which was released on Monday, Feb. 4, the PRA, now under the Office of the President, will assume the authority from the National Economic Development Authority, which was designated as the approver during then–President Benigno Aquino III’s time. Prior to this, it was the PRA that had the mandate to approve land reclamation […]
(Eagle News)–Former Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Monday, Feb. 4, said he was “open” to returning to the Cabinet. Roque made the statement in a television interview, days after he announced he had withdrawn his senatorial bid due to health concerns. “But that’s being presumptuous. I don’t even want to go there,” Roque was quick to add. Roque served as President Rodrigo Duterte’s spokesperson for almost a year until he resigned to pursue his senatorial […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Monday, Feb. 4, slammed a House resolution that requires the approval of the plenary–or over 200 congressmen—before a congressman’s Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth is released. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that “while the executive does not intrude into the internal rules and procedures adopted” by the legislature, House Resolution No. 2467 “may be perceived as a transgression of Article XI of the Constitution, requiring any public […]
Several others also yield (Eagle News)–An Abu Sayyaf commander who was allegedly a suspect in the twin blasts in Jolo, Sulu that killed at least 21 people has surrendered to authorities. Philippine National Police chief Oscar Albayalde said “Kamah” of the Abu Sayyaf’s Ajang Ajang group was accompanied by four other Abu Sayyaf members when they yielded to the police. He said 14 suspects in the blasts remain at large. Interior Secretary Eduardo Año has […]
(Eagle News)–The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board has placed on preventive suspension the bus company that figured in a traffic incident on the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway. The LTFRB suspended the Jumbo Transport Inc. for not more than 30 days, and ordered it to comply with certain requirements within the period of suspension. The LTFRB ordered the company to bring its tourist buses to the agency for “inspection and determination of road worthiness,” to allow its drivers […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Panfilo Lacson on Sunday, Feb. 3, “thanked” two congressmen for allegedly making the public know about the “evil pork” in the proposed national budget. “What Speaker [Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s] talking heads obviously do not realize is that they’re actually advancing my cause in educating the public more about the ‘evil pork’ in the national budget,” Lacson said, referring to House Majority Leader Fredenil Castro and COOP-NATCCO party-list Rep. Anthony Bravo. Lacson made the statement […]
