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(Eagle News) — Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno has allowed the release of the fourth tranche of increase of salaries of some government workers. House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr., who made the revelation in a statement, said, however, that the order applies only to workers in local government units and in government-owned and -controlled corporations based on Local Budget Circular No. 118 and Corporate Budget Circular No. 23 signed by Diokno last Tuesday. “Now, (Diokno) realizes […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is slated to meet the 12 minors who were being used as drug couriers and were “rescued” by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Navotas. PDEA Director General Aaron Aquino made the revelation in a radio interview on Friday, Jan. 18. According to Aquino, the meeting could take place next week. “Hindi niya akalain na yung mga ganung edad ay ginagamit na as couriers,” Aquino said, noting that Duterte […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Friday, Jan. 18, branded as “remarkable in ignorance and bias” the report of a United States-based non-government organization that said the Philippines was a “war zone in disguise.” “Not having presented any proof that it has conducted factual investigation in the country as to the conditions obtaining, it is reasonable to believe that its conclusions (are) based on allegations made by groups that are hopelessly and blindly critical of the Duterte […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed a former Malabon vice mayor at the Department of Social Welfare and Development. Mark Allan Jay Yambao, who served as Malabon vice mayor from 1995 to 2004, will serve as undersecretary of the agency. His appointment paper was signed by President Duterte on Tuesday, Jan. 15.
Urges PDEA to help send the minors to Bahay Pag-Asa instead (Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima on Friday, Jan. 18, slammed what she said was the parading of minors before the media so authorities could “brag about their presumed accomplishments and earn ‘brownie points.’” De Lima made the statement after the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency nabbed 28 suspected drug offenders, including 12 minors from four to 15 years old, in Navotas on Jan. […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Friday, Jan. 18, ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to probe the killing of former Cebu City Assistant Prosecutor Mary Ann Castro. Guevarra said he made the directive for the NBI to “identify the perpetrators at the soonest possible time” in a text message to reporters. Castro was shot dead as she was driving her Nissan Juke vehicle on Escario St. on Thursday, Jan. 17. The police […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Transportation on Friday, Jan. 18, lauded a guard at the Clark International Airport after she returned a wallet containing almost P200,000 which she found in the airport premises. Citing a report from Clark International Airport Corp. (CIAC) President Jaime Alberto Melo, the DOTr said Lorna Brinosa, 39, found the wallet with P182,000 in cash on the floor of a nearby light post at the landside commercial area of the airport terminal. She […]
(Eagle News) — Senators have agreed to require the Bureau of Immigration to coordinate with the Department of Labor and Employment before it issues special working permits to foreigners who intend to work in the Philippines for less than six months. The senators came to an agreement upon the advice of Senator Joel Villanueva, who questioned the BI’s authority to issue the permits even with what he said was its lack of technical capability to […]
(Eagle News) — A group of lawyers in Cebu condemned the killing of a former prosecutor on Thursday, Jan. 19. “Justice cannot be attained by another act of injustice…Killing another person is not the resolution of a problem..Never can it be and never will it be,” Mundlyn Martin, Integrated Bar of the Philippines Cebu chapter president, said in a statement issued after the killing of Mary Ann Castro. Castro was shot dead by a still-unidentified […]
(Eagle News) — A measure seeking to institutionalize a framework to advance energy efficiency and conservation practices in the country has hurdled the bicameral conference committee. In a statement, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chair of the Senate committee on energy, said the approval of the reconciled version of Senate Bill No. 1531 and House Bill No. 8629, or the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act, is “quite timely, especially at a time when the Philippines is experiencing sustained economic […]
(Eagle News)—-Senator Bam Aquino has filed a resolution seeking to increase the social pension of senior citizens. In calling for a P1000 increase for those receiving a pension not exceeding P3,000, and those who are not receiving any at all, Aquino noted in Senate Bill. No. 2142 that that sector of society needed to cope with the rising cost of basic commodities. For this, Aquino cited a study conducted by the Coalition of Services of […]
(Eagle News) — A former Cebu City prosecutor was shot dead on Thursday, Jan. 17. The police said Mary Ann Castro was driving her Nissan Juke on Escario St. when a man on board a motorcycle drove beside her and shot her several times at 9:53 p.m. Castro was able to drive her vehicle a few meters after she was attacked until it hit a fence. Authorities are so far looking into the cases Castro […]
