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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, Jan. 16, stood by his dismissal of the Bacolod police chief, saying that “at the very least” he was a protector of the illegal drug trade. “I cannot believe that with all the information available to every chief of police or city police director for that matter assigned in the province, that you would not review the record of the province in terms of criminality and drug […]
(Eagle News) — Members of the leftist Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Jan. 16, to invalidate Congress’ approval of a third martial law extension in Mindanao. In their petition, Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Carlos Zarate, Gabriela Women’s Reps. Emmi De Jesus and Arlene Brosas, Anakpawis Rep. Ariel Casilao, ACT Teachers Reps, Antonio Tinio and France Castro, and Kabataan party-list Rep. Sarah Jane Elago argued there was no “factual […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority on Wednesday, Jan. 16, hailed one of its employees after he returned an envelope containing a “significant amount of dollar bills” that he found while on duty. MIAA general manager Ed Monreal lauded airport janitor Jeffrey Almoguerra, 30, and a father of two, for his honesty when he took the envelope he found at the vicinity of a foreign exchange counter in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport […]
(Eagle News) — The Bacolod police officials who were relieved by President Rodrigo Duterte for allegedly allowing the proliferation of the illegal drug trade there received a “dressing down” from no less than the chief executive himself, the Palace said on Wednesday, Jan. 17. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said former Bacolod police chief Senior Supt. Francisco Ebreo, Supt. Allan Macapagal, Supt. Richie Yatar, Supt. Naruddin Tayuan and Senior Insp. Victor Paulino were […]
(Eagle News) — For the Department of Transportation, allowing motorcycles to operate as public utility vehicles requires “thorough study, deliberation and assessment.” The DOTr issued the statement after a bill was filed seeking for the legalization of motorcycles as PUVs before the House of Representatives. The filing of the bill came after the operations of ride-hailing application Angkas were suspended in November last year. The DOTr has argued the motorcycles could not operate as PUVs […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has named a new Sandiganbayan justice and a new immigration deputy commissioner. Appointed as anti-graft court judge was Makati City Regional Trial Court Judge Ronald Moreno, who replaces now-Supreme Court justice Alexander Gesmundo. Lawyer Aldwin Alegre, for his part, takes the post vacated by Aimee Torrefranca-Neri at the Bureau of Immigration. Torrefranca-Neri had resigned in April last year.
(Eagle News) — Interior Secretary Eduardo Año on Wednesday, Jan. 16, directed the Philippine National Police to intensify its measures in order to protect candidates running in the 2019 elections. “The PNP should take offensive and preventive measures. We should be several steps ahead of those who resort to violence to win an election,” Año said. According to Año, in particular, the PNP should intensify “police interventions, operations, and police visibility.” He said the police should coordinate with […]
(Eagle News) — A Chinese national wanted for alleged economic crimes and corruption in China has been arrested by authorities. In a statement, the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission said it and the Bureau of Immigration’s Fugitive Search Unit, in coordination with Chinese authorities, nabbed Xie Haojie. His arrest came after the PACC’s counterparts from China asked for the Philippines’ help in apprehending Xie, who is accused of “economic crimes and corruption” amounting to P11 billion, in […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson wants part of the P75 billion the Senate deleted in the proposed 2019 budget for public works to be used to reinforce slopes and roads in the Baguio, La Trinidad, Itogon, Sablan, Tuba and Tublay area. Lacson made the statement as he reiterated slope protection work was necessary in the BLISST area, where landslides occur. “We will not allow bloated estimates similar to that in Nueva Ecija, where the […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — An Islamist attack on an upmarket hotel and office complex in the Kenyan capital has left 15 people dead, according to two police sources at the scene where fighting was still ongoing. “We have 15 people dead as of now and that includes foreigners. You will be given more details on all this and even the nationalities by our seniors,” a police source told AFP on condition of anonymity. A second source […]
(Eagle News)–The remains of the newlyweds who drowned while on their honeymoon in the Maldives have been flown to Sri Lanka. In a statement on Wednesday, Jan. 16, the Department of Foreign Affairs said the remains of Leomer Lagradilla and his wife Erika left the Maldives on board a Sri Lankan Airlines flight for Colombo at 12:50 a.m. Tuesday, Manila time. The couple’s remains will be embalmed in the Asian country before they are flown […]
MONTREAL, United States (AFP) — Canada urged Beijing on Tuesday to grant clemency to a Canadian sentenced to death for drug trafficking, after his sentence reignited a diplomatic dispute that began last month. Ottawa has warned its citizens about the risk of “arbitrary enforcement” of laws in China following a court’s sentencing of Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, 36, to death on Monday, increasing a previous 15-year prison term. The sentence came during a clash between Ottawa […]
