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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte took a break from his hectic schedule and went around a mall in Makati over the weekend. Pictures from Special Assistant to the President Bong Go showed Duterte surrounded by tight security as he visited Greenbelt 5, after attending the 51st annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank in Mandaluyong. Several mallgoers took pictures with the President, who accommodated them.
(Eagle News)–Motorists were met by a clean Roxas Boulevard and other Manila streets even after the Worldwide Walk to Fight Poverty saw over a million people gathering there on Sunday, May 6. This was after members of the Iglesia ni Cristo’s Society of Communicators and Networkers took it upon themselves to clean the main thoroughfare and side-streets after the 1.6-kilometer charity walk aimed at helping those in need in Africa. Gino Labarete, vice president for communications […]
(Eagle News) — For these members of Bicol’s Kabihug Tribe, not taking part in the Iglesia ni Cristo’s Worldwide Walk to Fight Poverty was out of the question. At one point in their lives, after all, they were the ones who were suffering from poverty, that is until they were chosen as beneficiaries for the Felix Y. Manalo Foundation’s housing and livelihood projects in 2016. Through the Iglesia ni […]
(Eagle News) — The Iglesia Ni Cristo added another feather on its cap after it bagged the new Guinness world record for largest human sentence on Sunday, May 6. Paulina Sapinska, Guinness adjudicator, said the INC’s 23,235 participants who formed the sentence “PROUD TO BE A MEMBER OF IGLESIA NI CRISTO” beat the 16,550 participants of previous record-holder, the Rotary International District 3000, Rotary Club of Perambalur New Gen, and Roever Group of Educational Institutions. Participants […]
(Eagle News) — Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Saturday, May 5, said other government employees were at risk of being removed from their posts if she was removed via a quo warranto petition. “Ganu’n po katindi ang pananakot na puwede nilang ipukpok sa ulo ng lahat ng mga kawani ng gobyerno. Hindi lang sa larangan ng hudikatura, hindi lang ‘yung mga impeachable officers, hindi lang sa mga abogado kundi sa milyun-milyong mga kawani sa […]
(Eagle News) — Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Saturday, May 5, gave the assurance she would win in the quo warranto case filed against her. “I am hopeful that young people will not be disappointed because victory is in the air, not because we are good in relying on number, but on the voices of people,” Sereno, who has been on leave since March 1, said in “The Mumshie on Fire: Speak Truth To Power” […]
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(Eagle News) — A former member of an all-female singing group was arrested in an anti-drug operation in Quezon City on Saturday, May 5. Kat De Santos, formerly of the Baywalk Bodies, was allegedly nabbed by members of the Quezon City Police District Station 1 after she was allegedly caught buying drugs in Barangay San Jose. Authorities seized a sachet of suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride, or shabu, from her. De Santos is facing charges for […]
Says aim is to sustain growth rate at 7 percent, to bring down poverty incidence rate to 14 percent by 2022 (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, May 5, said there was a need to “put our house in order,” vowing to be “harsh” against those who prevented the country from achieving this goal. According to the President, who spoke in closing ceremonies of the Asian Development Bank Annual Meeting in Mandaluyong, he […]
(Eagle News)–Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno has asked the Supreme Court to order Associate Justice Samuel Martires to inhibit from the quo warranto petition filed against her. According to Sereno, this was because Martires exhibited “actual bias.” Proof of this, he said, were Martires’ comments about during the oral arguments set for the petition. “With due respect, it appears that Justice Martires has formed an opinion on the competence of respondent (Sereno) to serve as […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Saturday, May 5, welcomed the results of a recent Social Weather Stations survey that showed that one of three Filipino families have escaped poverty. According to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, the administration “has espoused inclusive, sustainable and resilient growth.” “We have broadened access to free education, medicine and healthcare and other basic services to ensure that our people directly benefit from the country’s economic gains while reducing the vulnerability of families […]
(Eagle News)—–Senators Antonio Trillanes IV and Leila de Lima renewed their call for the Supreme Court to refrain from entertaining the quo warranto petition against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, saying it was “treading on dangerous ground.” “Kapag nilabag ng judiciary ang eksklusibong kapangyarihan ng Kongreso na magtanggal sa pwesto ng mga impeachable officers, lalampas na po kayo sa boundary ng kapangyarihan ninyo, at nag-tre-trespass na po kayo sa teritoryo ng lehislatura,” Trillanes and De […]
