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Kuwait expels PHL ambassador amid tensions arising over OFW treatment in Middle Eastern country

Also expels ambassador in Manila (Eagle News) –Kuwait is expelling Philippine Ambassador Renato Villa amid tensions arising over the treatment of Overseas Filipino Workers in the Middle Eastern country. News agency KUNA added Kuwait was also expelling its ambassador in Manila, even after the Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs gave its assurance it would respect the country after it protested Philippine Embassy officials’ alleged illegal rescue of OFWs there, and their remarks that allegedly constituted […]

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President Duterte hits West anew for allegedly interfering in ASEAN affairs

(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte went on a verbal offensive against the West on Wednesday, April 25,  before he was slated to leave for Singapore to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit. In Maguindanao, the President railed at Western countries he said felt superior, and imposed their own values on ASEAN countries in particular. “Si President Widodo nagko-complain. Si Najib ganun rin. Ang Cambodia, iniipit nila. Prangkahan ko kayo. Sa ASEAN, except maybe Thailand, […]

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Duterte makes new appointments

(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte has made new appointments in several government agencies. Former Social Security System Commissioner Jose Gabriel La Viña, who was Duterte’s social media strategist in the 2016 elections, was appointed  undersecretary of the Department of Tourism on April 24. La Viña’s stint as SSS chair was not extended by President Duterte in February after he allegedly  requested for budgets for an advertising program and a social media project with him as TV host, among […]

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Two Pasay policemen nabbed for extortion

By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Two  policemen were arrested on Tuesday, April 24, after they were caught extorting money from buses and vans using an illegal terminal in Pasay City. PO2 Jerry Adjani Jubail and PO1 Michael Mindevil Domalanta, both of the Malibay police community precinct, were nabbed by members of the Philippine National Police’s Counter-Intelligence Task Force after they were caught doing the illegal act on  M. Dela Cruz St., Malibay. According to Senior […]

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PDEA to release this week the names of barangay officials allegedly engaged in drug activities

By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency is slated to release this week the names of over 200 barangay officials who are allegedly engaged in illegal drug activities. In a press conference, PDEA director general Aaron Aquino said it was Malacañang itself that ordered him to release the 211 names. The figure, he said, was a decrease from the 293 names included in the original narco-list of  President Rodrigo Duterte. Forty-one […]

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SC asked to stop Boracay closure

By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Several individuals have asked the Supreme Court to stop the closure of Boracay for its rehabilitation. In their petition for writ and mandamus filed on Wednesday, April 25, Mark Anthony Zabal, Thiting Escoso Jacosalem and Odon Bandiola asked the SC to issue a temporary restraining order or a writ of preliminary injunction “restraining and/or enjoining” President Rodrigo Duterte, Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea, Interior department officer in charge Eduardo Año […]

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Palace stands by BI order; says Australian nun Fox must leave PHL

(Eagle News)–The Palace on Wednesday, April 25, stood by the Bureau of Immigration’s decision to order  Australian nun Patricia Fox to leave the country. In a television interview, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said before the decision was made, a process was followed. “Hindi po dapat namumulitika at dahil nag-violate po siya ng terms and condition niya ay dapat siyang umalis ng Pilipinas,” he said. The BI on Wednesday announced the forfeiture of Fox’s visa which […]

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Australian nun Fox to question BI order for her to leave PHL

(Eagle News) — The camp of Australian nun Patricia Fox said it would question the Bureau of Immigration’s decision to forfeit her missionary visa, and order for her to leave. In a television interview, Jobert Pahilga, Fox’s counsel, said they would first file a motion for reconsideration with the BI. If the BI denies their motion, he said they would elevate the issue to the Court of Appeals, and then to the Supreme Court if […]

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BI orders Australian nun to leave PHL

By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has forfeited the missionary visa of Australian missionary Patricia Fox and ordered her to leave the country. Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said this was after the BI’s board of commissioners (BOC), which he chairs, found her “to have engaged in activities that are not allowed under the terms and conditions of her visa.” Associate Commissioners J. Tobias Javier and Aimee Torrefranca -Neri are members of […]

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Drilon admits LP urging Mar Roxas to run for senator in 2019

(Eagle News) — Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Tuesday, April 23, admitted the Liberal Party was urging former presidential candidate Mar Roxas to run for senator in 2019. He said, however, that Roxas, who has since moved away from the public eye since losing the 2016 presidential elections to then-Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, has not yet decided. “He is also enjoying his private life,” he said. He said that so far, they were still […]

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Rappler’s Ressa makes appearance at DOJ; submits counter-affidavit to cyber-libel complaint filed vs site

By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Rappler’s Chief Executive Officer Maria Ressa made an appearance before the Department of Justice  on Tuesday, April 23, to subscribe to her counter-affidavit in connection with the cyberlibel complaint filed against the news site. Ressa went ahead and did the same even if the preliminary investigation on the case was scheduled on April 25, Wednesday, at 2 p.m. This was because she reportedly would be unable to attend the […]

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Supreme Court dismisses petitions seeking to declare Ombudsman post vacant

(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday, April 23, junked the consolidated petitions seeking to declare the position of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales vacant. In junking the petitions filed last year by lawyer Rey Nathaniel Ifurung and former Metro Rail Transit Line 3 general manager Al Vitangcol III, the SC said Article XI, Section 11 of the 1987 Constitution and Sections 7 and 8(3) of Republic Act 6770 provide that the Ombudsman is appointed to a seven-year […]

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