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(Eagle News)–Classes were suspended in some areas on Wednesday, Sept. 12, as Typhoon “Mangkhut” was expected to enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility, bringing rains in parts of northern Luzon. Below is a list: Mexico, Pampanga –all levels Bauang, La Union –all levels; afternoon classes
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Sept. 11, said he may recommend the abolition of the National Food Authority Council. According to Duterte, he may make the recommendation to Congress. “It has not done any purpose. It only hinders the operation (of the NFA),” Duterte said. According to Duterte, “we need not have four or five” people who will make the decisions. He said “one” was enough. In the same speech, Duterte said […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Sept. 11, said he has evidence to prove that Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, Communist rebels and members of the political opposition were conniving to oust him from the presidency. In a nationally televised tête-à-tête with Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo, Duterte said he had already ordered the evidence–“the conversation provided by a foreign country sympathetic to us”–declassified. He said the “connection” will be showed any day now. “It might […]
(Eagle News) — There will be new airports in Sangley Point and Bulacan. This is according to President Rodrigo Duterte himself, who spoke with Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo in a nationally televised tête-à-tête on Tuesday, Sept. 11. Duterte did not provide details. He earlier said, however, that there was a need to decongest the existing airports.
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Sept. 11, said the country would have its third telecommunications player by December. In his nationally televised tête-à-tête with Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo, Duterte said that in choosing the same, he would not follow the lowest bidder rule. “I will select (yung may) pinakamagandang record. I will choose the best. Pinakamahal, the best track record in the business,” Duterte said.
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Sept. 11, lashed out at Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, saying it was his family who engaged in businesses with the Navy even when he and his father were in the naval service. “Ang problema kay Trillanes is he is crucifying (Special Assistant to the President) Bong Go for entering into business with government. But there was a time in the Navy’s history, ang tatay (ni Trillanes) nasa […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Sept. 11, said National Food Authority Administrator Jason Aquino has “requested” that he be allowed to step down. “He said he is tired,” Duterte revealed in his tête-à-tête with Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo. According to Duterte, he would “scout for a new one.” Duterte’s revelations came amid an alleged rice shortage in parts of the country.
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Sept. 11, maintained the amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV was void ab initio because it was signed by then-Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and not by then-President Benigno Aquino III. In his tête-à-tête with Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo, Duterte said the granting of pardon or amnesty was, after all, “an act of state.” “It cannot be delegated to anybody but to the … president itself..Yung.. Constitution […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Tuesday, Sept. 11, expressed elation at the Supreme Court’s decision to junk Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s request for a temporary restraining order against Proclamation No. 572. In a statement, Guevarra said that with the decision, the SC “also acknowledged the trial courts’ continuing jurisdiction over the coup d’ etat and rebellion cases, notwithstanding the alleged ‘finality’ of the orders of dismissal based on the grant of amnesty” to […]
(Eagle News) — The scheduled public press conference of President Rodrigo Duterte has been cancelled. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the President would instead hold a tête-à-tête with Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo. The event is only open to the government station PTV4. In a television interview, Panelo had said Duterte would talk about the issues hounding the country.
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Supreme Court has denied Senator Antonio Trillanes’ request for it to issue a temporary restraining order on the implementation of Proclamation no. 572. The SC instead asked Solicitor General Jose Calida to comment on the petition filed by Trillanes within ten days. In dismissing Trillanes’ bid, the SC said the issues of whether or not Trillanes applied for amnesty and whether or not he admitted his guilt for […]
(Eagle News)–The House justice panel has junked the impeachment complaints filed against seven Supreme Court justices who voted for the ouster of then-Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. With a vote of 23-1, members of the panel declared as insufficient in substance the complaints against now-Chief Justice Teresita Leonardo-De Castro, Justices Lucas Bersamin, Francis Jardeleza, Andres Reyes Jr., Alexander Gesmundo, and Noel Tijam. The panel had earlier found the complaints filed by several opposition lawmakers including […]
