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(Eagle News) — Senator JV Ejercito on Wednesday, Oct. 10, took his oath as the newest member of the Nationalist People’s Coalition. “Hindi kasi magandang tingnan na dalawa kaming magkapatid na nasa isang partido,” he said, referring to his half-brother, former Senator Jinggoy Estrada, who is a member of the Puwersa ng Masang Pilipino of which Ejercito was a member. The PMP is headed by Estrada’s and Ejercito’s father, Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada. According to […]
(Eagle News) — Self-rated poverty rose to 52 percent, a recent Social Weather Stations survey said. According to the SWS, the 52 percent was four points above the 48% registered in June. The SWS said that of the 52% self-rated poor families, 8% used to be non-poor one to four years ago, and 6% used to be non-poor five or more years ago. The remaining 39%, or about three out of four poor families, have […]
(Eagle News) — Former Assistant Communications Mocha Uson will run as independent in the 2019 elections. Uson made the disclosure after Senator Koko Pimentel, PDP-Laban president, said she would not be included in the official list of bets of the political party. Uson said it was still unclear whether she would run for a Senate seat, or for a House of Representatives seat. In a video posted on her Facebook page, President Rodrigo Duterte was […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte clarified he did not fire Mocha Uson as Communications assistant secretary. The President made the announcement in a video posted on Uson’s Facebook page. “Siya yung nagresign,” Duterte said, when asked about reports circulating Uson had been fired. In her resignation letter, Uson said she was quitting her post to pave the way for the passage of the P1.47-billion proposed budget of the Presidential Communications Operations Office. The proposed […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte is mulling appointing a Chinese businessman at the helm of the National Food Authority. “I’m looking for a Chinese who’s been there in the business maybe 20 years,” he said. NFA administrator Jason Aquino has gone on leave. The President had said he would appoint General Rolando Bautista at the helm of the NFA, but changed his mind and said he would appoint him as Social Welfare Secretary instead. The NFA […]
(Eagle News)—-President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Oct. 9, denied he had cancer, but said he did have a “badly eroded” esophagus due to drinking. “It’s not the colon, it’s my Barett. It’s badly eroded I was told to stop drinking years ago. But of late, bumalik kasi ako,” Duterte said. According to the President, the tests conducted on him yielded negative results. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque had said the tests last week were followup tests […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte announced he was considering appointing Salvador Panelo at the helm of the Office of the Press Secretary after Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque threatened to quit from his post. Roque made the threat after he was left in the dark about the President going to Cardinal Santos Medical Center last week to undergo some physical tests. Roque had told the media the President was only taking a day off in Bahay Pangarap […]
(Eagle News)–Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano is running in the 2019 elections. Duterte revealed this in a speech on Tuesday, Oct. 9. He, however, did not say what position he would vie for. Earlier, the Palace said there would be a revamp in the Cabinet with several running for different positions in the next polls.
(Eagle News)–The Senate has passed on third and final reading a measure that penalizes those who resort to cat-calling, stalking, and other forms of sexual harassment on the streets. Senate Bill 1558, or “Safe Streets, Workplaces and Public Spaces Act of 2017” which consolidates Senate Bill 1326, or An Penalizing Gender-Based Street and Public Spaces Harassment, Senate Bill 1250, or the Anti Sexual Harassment Act of 2016, and Senate Bill 1254 filed by Senator Grace Poe, […]
(Eagle News)–Chief Justice Teresita de Castro on Monday, Oct. 8, called on the Philippine National Police to “exert all means and efforts to apprehend the perpetrators” of the killing of the Ozamiz Regional Trial Court executive judge “at the soonest possible time.” According to De Castro, she has also “instructed the Court Administrator to coordinate with all law enforcement officers to bring to justice those responsible” for the death of Edmundo Pintac, who had been an […]
(Eagle News)—-The executive judge of the Ozamiz Regional Trial Court was shot dead in an ambush on Monday, Oct. 8. Edmund Pintac was dead on the spot after he was shot by unidentified assailants in Barangay Banadero at 4:20 p.m. The motive for the killing has yet to be determined.
(Eagle News)–In this picture provided by Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque is seen attending the Cabinet meeting on Monday, Oct. 8, despite being on leave. Roque was reportedly planning to seek an audience with President Rodrigo Duterte. Earlier, Roque said he would think about whether to stay as presidential spokesperson after he was left in the dark about President Duterte going to Cardinal Santos Medical Center to undergo medical tests, as admitted by […]
