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(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima on Friday, June 29, accused the Philippine National Police of manipulating the number of those killed in the drug war. De Lima cited as alleged proof the PNP’s 2017 accomplishment report to President Rodrigo Duterte in which it allegedly pegged the number of dead at 20,322, “combining the number of those killed in police operations and so-called ‘deaths under investigation,’ the PNP’s euphemism for vigilante killings committed by […]
Says not all barangay officials, however, should be armed (Eagle News) — Senator Richard Gordon on Friday, June 29, expressed support for President Rodrigo Duterte’s proposal to arm barangay officials. He said, however, that only those in areas with high crime rates, rebellion, or insurrection should be given the weapons so they could “protect themselves and their community.” He added that those who were in the drug list or those who have criminal records should not be […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV is seeking an investigation into the Philippine National Police’s intensified campaign against loiterers. In filing Senate Resolution No. 775, Trillanes said the drive “poses a grave threat to human rights of Filipinos and violates due process of law.” Trillanes noted that the drive has resulted in the death of detainee Genesis Argoncillo. The police, said, however, that Argoncillo was arrested for “alarm and scandal.” Earlier, Senator Bam Aquino sfiled […]
(Eagle News) — Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana lashed out at Jose Maria Sison, a day after the founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines said the National Democratic Front of the Philippines can no longer hold peace talks with President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration. “Mr. Sison, you know that the peace talks is the only thing that is keeping you in the limelight. Without it, you are irrelevant,” Lorenzana said. According to Lorenzana, Sison was […]
(Eagle News) — Jose Maria Sison, founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines, clarified on Friday, June 29, that the peace talks between his group and the government were not terminated. In a statement posted in the National Democratic Front of the Philippines website, Sison said he “can only make the pertinent advice” to the National Council of the NDFP in his capacity as chief political consultant. He said “only the (NC) of […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has named a new Acting Prosecutor General. In a statement, the Department of Justice said Senior Deputy State Prosecutor Richard Anthony Fadullon was the new officer in charge of the Office of the Prosecutor General effective June 30, 2018. The DOJ said Fadullon would replace Makati Prosecutors Office head Jorge Catalan Jr., who resigned. The DOJ said Fadullon, who headed the DOJ panel of prosecutors that heard the 2009 […]
(Eagle News) — Resigned Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo and a former Tourism official ordered the withdrawal of almost P2.52 million worth of goods from Duty Free in 2017, the Commission on Audit found. According to COA, Teo issued memos for the withdrawal of P43,885 worth of items, while Undersecretary for Administration and Special Concerns Rolando Cañizal ordered the withdrawal of items worth P1.37 million. According to COA, Duty Free also withdrew items for the Tourism Department […]
(Eagle News) — Former Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Thursday, June 28, sued columnist Ramon Tulfo, and Inquirer editors and officials for libel and cyber-libel. Charged with 12 counts of cyber libel and 10 counts of libel were Tulfo, Inquirer publishers Marixi Prieto, Alexandra Prieto-Romualdez and Renato Reinoso, Inquirer executive editor Jose Ma. Nolasco, online associate editor Abelardo Ulanday, opinion editor Rosario Garcellano, Bandera publisher Eileen Mangubat, editor-in-chief Dona Policar, deputy editor Jimmy Alcantara, and others who […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, June 28, shrugged off the Communist rebels’ decision to no longer hold peace talks with his administration. “E di mas mabuti..Ano to, negotiations, negosyo? If they are not willing to talk to me, that’s fine,” the President told reporters in Panglao, Bohol. According to Duterte, he was just a “worker of government” whose “main task is just to find peace for my country.” He questioned Sison’s earlier proposal […]
(Eagle News) –The National Democratic Front of the Philippines will no longer negotiate with the government of President Rodrigo Duterte, Jose Maria Sison, founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines, said on Thursday, June 28. “So long as (Duterte) heads the (Government of the Republic of the Philippines), the Filipino people, especially the oppressed and exploited, cannot expect any benefit from negotiating with the Duterte regime,” Sison said in a statement posted on the […]
(Eagle News) — “E di maganda.” President Rodrigo Duterte gave this reaction when asked to comment on ousted Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno’s statement she was open to running for a Senate seat in 2019. “Palit siya from Chief Justice to senator. Maganda. Botohin ninyo..,” he said. The President then, however, openly lashed out at Sereno, who she said “wasted the prestige of (being) Chief Justice.” “With that kind of behavior, (Senator Leila) […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Thursday, June 28, said investigators were looking into the possibility the Samar “misencounter” between the military and the police was an ambush by members of the Philippine Army. According to Albayalde, the angle was being investigated as the military appeared to be in an advantage when the incident took place. “Ang gusto nating makita dito kung alam ba nila na pulis na […]
