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(Eagle News) — A rice watchdog opposed the plan of President Rodrigo Duterte to lift restrictions on the rice imports. Cathy Estavillo, Spokesperson of the Bantay Bigas group, said that President’s plan was only a band-aid solution. She said government should instead focus on the strengthening of local rice production to avoid rice shortage in the future. Estavilo said the lifting of restriction on rice imports will be a disadvantage to the farmers, as it […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque said the President Rodrigo Duterte’s appeal for Filipino workers in Kuwait to come home is not compulsory, as he clarified that there was no permanent ban on the deployment of Filipino workers in Kuwait. Roque made this clarification after the President announced on Sunday that the deployment ban to Kuwait will stay until a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the protection of Overseas Filipino Workers in Kuwait is […]
(Eagle News) — The Coalition for Justice on Monday, April 30, urged Solicitor General Jose Calida to resign after he denied a request for him to file a quo warranto petition against Associate Justice Teresita de Castro on the basis she supposedly did not file her complete Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth. CFJ, which supports Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno who faces a quo warranto case filed by Calida for her alleged failure […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Office of the Solicitor General has submitted additional evidence in the drug case against Kerwin Espinosa and his co-accused. Included among those submitted by the OSG during the second hearing of the preliminary investigation into the charges of conspiracy in relation to the sale of illegal drugs against Espinosa, Peter Lim, Peter Co, Max Miro, Lovely Impal, Lovely Ruel Malindangan, Jun Pepito and others were the sworn statements of […]
(Eagle News) – Senate President Koko Pimentel on Monday, April 30, said Qatar or Saudi Arabia could serve as “intermediaries” between the Philippines and Kuwait. Pimentel made the statement following what appears to be a straining of relations between the Asian country and the Gulf state stemming from the abuse of Overseas Filipino Workers in the Middle Eastern country. Kuwait has ordered the expulsion of Philippine Ambassador Renato Villa and the recall of its Manila […]
(Eagle News) — Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo said on Monday, April 30, that the P60-million payment by People’s Television Network Inc. to Bitag Media Unlimited Inc. for the airing of Department of Tourism advertisements on her brother Ben Tulfo’s program was covered by a “government-to-government contract.” Teo said that she never signed any such contract, which “went through a bidding” and was “reviewed by” the DOT’s legal department. “All checks were made payable to […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Monday, April 30, said it would probe the P60-million payment made by People’s Television Network Inc. (PTNI) to Ben Tulfo’s Bitag Media Unlimited Inc. (BMUI) for the airing of Department of Tourism (DOT) advertisements. The DOT is headed by Tulfo’s sister, Wanda Teo. “Ang alam ko umabot na ‘yung balita (kay Presidente Rodrigo Duterte). I can confirm na meron nang let’s look into this. Gusto niyang malaman ang puno’t […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service (Eagle News) – All the undersecretaries and assistant secretaries of the Department of Justice have already submitted their “courtesy resignation” as of Monday, April 30, in compliance with a memorandum issued by Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra. Guevarra himself confirmed that all the five undersecretaries and the seven assistant secretaries of the department had tendered their resignations. The DOJ chief said that some of the said officials had even […]
(Eagle News) — Wala pa umanong natatanggap na banta sa seguridad ang Philippine National Police (PNP) sa isasagawang nationwide labor day protest bukas, Mayo 1. Ayon kay PNP Chief Director General Oscar Albayalde, bagama’t walang banta sa seguridad ay hindi ito dapat ipagsawalang bahala at kailangan pa ring paghandaan. Sa taya ng PNP, nasa 150,000 na militante ang inaasahan nilang pupunta sa mga lansangan bukas para mag-rally. Una nang sinabi ng labor groups na pinaghandaan […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Simula ngayong araw, Abril 30, asahan na ang mas mabigat na daloy ng trapiko sa Quezon City. Ayon sa Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), dahil ito sa pagsasara ng ilang kalsada upang simulan ang konstruksyon ng coping beam ng Metro Rail Transit o MRT-7. Bunsod nito, ipatutupad ang one-way traffic sa Regalado mula Mindanao Avenue hanggang Commonwealth Avenue mula 5:00 AM hanggang 10:00 PM. Simula naman sa Mayo 6 […]
(Eagle News)–Fewer families experienced involuntary hunger in the first quarter of 2018, the Social Weather Stations said. The SWS said the 9.9 percent of Filipino families who experienced involuntary hunger at least once from January to March was 6.0 points below the 15.9 percent quarterly hunger survey result in December 2017. “This is only the second time hunger has been in the single-digit range since March 2004,” the SWS said. According to the pollster, the 9.9 percent […]
Moira Encina Eagle News Service Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has directed all Justice undersecretaries and assistant secretaries, except career officials, to tender their courtesy resignation. In a memorandum dated April 24, Guevarra ordered those concerned to submit their resignation letters to President Rodrigo Duterte through him not later than April 30. Among the assistant secretaries and undersecretaries appointed by then-Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre are Erickson Balmes, Reynante Orceo, Raymund Mecate, Antonio Kho and Deo Marco. […]
