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(Eagle News) — The office of former Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez is the House of Representatives’ top spender in 2017, a Commission on Audit report showed. According to the list published by COA on Tuesday, Jan. 23, the office of Alvarez, who served as Speaker from July 2016 to July 2018, incurred a total of P43.7 million from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2017. Of this, COA said P30 million was spent for consultants’ contracts,more than P1 […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Koko Pimentel’s office incurred the most expenses among senators’ offices in 2017, a Commission on Audit report said. According to COA, the office of Pimentel, who served as Senate president from 2016 to May 2018, spent some P127.8 million—P49.2 million in staff salaries and benefits, and professional and consultancy fees worth P15.7 million, and miscellaneous expenses amounting to P11.7 million from January 1 to December 31, 2017. “That is expected. The Senate […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) — Five tourists including a honeymooning couple have drowned in a single week in the Maldives, officials said, prompting a nationwide safety warning to holiday resorts in the pristine islands. Tourism officials said all resort operators in the paradise archipelago were urged Monday to keep a close eye on their clients after the spate of deaths. Strong currents caused by a north-east monsoon were blamed for the slew of drownings in […]
(Eagle News)–Daraga, Albay Mayor Carlwyn Baldo, who has been tagged by police as the mastermind in the killing of Rep. Rodel Batocabe, was rushed to the hospital following his arrest for alleged illegal possession of firearms on Tuesday, Jan. 22. According to the police, Baldo’s blood pressure shot up and he hyperventilated while inside his detention cell in Albay on Tuesday night. Baldo was reportedly rushed to a hospital in Legazpi at 11 p.m. Police […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Wednesday, Jan. 23, condemned the ambush on San Fermando, Cebu Mayor Lakambini Reluya, adding that the “culture of violence that has characterized the electoral process will have to end.” In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said during the election period, “political rivalry is fever pitch resulting in the upsurge of election-related violence” but this “unfortunate and standard norm cannot continue..” “We urge [and] warn the candidates to cease and desist employment […]
Three bodyguards killed, two other companions injured (Eagle News)—Three people were killed after San Fernando Mayor Lakambini Reluya’s vehicle was ambushed in Talisay, Cebu on Tuesday, Jan. 22. According to the police, the three fatalities were bodyguards of Reluya, who survived the ambush in Barangay Linao, Talisay City, around 6 p.m. but was wounded. Two of Reluya’s companions were also injured. They have not yet been identified. The ambush took place after San Fernando Councilor […]
(Eagle News)—–President Rodrigo Duterte has fired some officials at the Department of Agrarian Reform after it took them two years to convert an agricultural land to a commercial one. Duterte himself made the announcement in a speech in Lucena on Tuesday, Jan. 22. “Kung nakikinig sila ngayon diyan sa conversion office ng DAR, better prepare because you’re fired,” he said, without saying names. President Duterte has been very vocal against red tape in government, and has […]
“She should address that to lawmakers, not to us,” Panelo says (Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, Jan. 22, slammed United Nations Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard after she criticized the Philippines for a House of Representatives proposal to lower the age of criminal liability to nine years old. “She should address that to the lawmakers, not to us,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. The Philippines has a presidential system of government where the principle […]
(Eagle News) — Daraga, Albay Mayor Carlwyn Baldo was arrested by authorities on Tuesday, Jan. 22, for alleged illegal possession of firearms. Baldo, who was tagged by the police as the mastermind in the killing of Rep. Rodel Batocabe in December last year, was arrested after authorities said they recovered two caliber .45 pistols, a magazine for an Uzi loaded with 7 live ammunition, eight live ammunition for a cal. 45 pistol, and live ammunition for an […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate on Tuesday, Jan. 22, adopted the House of Representatives’ bill seeking to abolish the Road Board. With the adoption of revised House Bill 7436, a bicameral conference committee will no longer have to be convened. The bill will therefore be directly sent to President Rodrigo Duterte for his approval. The adoption came following issues about whether or not the Road Board could be abolished in the first place amid developments in […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, Jan. 22, said it was leaving the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Philippine ambassador to the United States to work on the US visa ban on new Filipino workers with H-2A and H-2B visas. “That’s their turf,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said, referring to the ban announced by the Department of Homeland Security from Jan. 19, 2019 to Jan. 18, 2020. A H-2B visa is issued to foreign […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will not interfere in legislative work on the lowering of the age of criminal liability. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said on Tuesday, Jan. 22, that what was clear was that the President wants the age of criminal liability lowered. “And we will leave that to the lawmakers…We will not question that,” Panelo said. The House justice panel on Monday, Jan. 21, approved the lowering of the age of criminal […]
