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Pangulong Duterte, walang nilabag sa reinstatement ni PSupt. Marcos – CGMA

MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Walang nilabag si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte nang ibalik sa pwesto si Supt. Marvin Marcos bilang director ng CIDG sa Region 8. Ito ang nilinaw ni dating pangulo at ngayo’y House Deputy Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo matapos ulanin ng batikos ang naging hakbang ni Duterte. Si Marcos ay unang na-relieve matapos ibunyag ng drug lord na si Kerwin Espinosa na tumatanggap ng drug money si Marcos. Ayon kay Arroyo, si Duterte […]

Police presents 3rd suspect in foiled US Embassy bomb try

  (Eagle News) — Police presented on Wednesday (December 6) a third suspect in the foiled bombing attempt near the United States Embassy in Manila. The suspect was identied as Muhammad Jumao-as, a resident of Sta. Ana, Bulacan, Bulacan and an x-ray technician at a hospital. Chief Supt. Oscar Albayalde, head of the National Capital Region Police Office of the Philippine National Police said Jumao-as was also seen in the CCTV footage in Luneta along […]

Dayan back in Pangasinan after Senate lifts contempt order

MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Ronnie Dayan, the controversial driver-bodyguard of Senator Leila de Lima, is now back in Pangasinan after the Senate lifted its order citing him for contempt for humanitarian reasons. Senator Panfilo Lacson who talked to Dayan before he was allowed to leave the Senate premises Monday night said Dayan had promised he would attend the next Senate hearings. “After listening to him [Dayan], for purely humanitarian reason, and his commitment to be just […]

NCRPO: Isa pang suspek sa tangkang pambobomba sa US Embassy, nadakip

MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Kinumpirma ni National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) Director Chief Supt. Oscar Albayalde ang pagkaka- aresto ng isa pang suspek sa pagtatangkang pambobomba sa kahabaan ng Roxas Boulevard malapit sa US Embassy. Tumanggi namang pangalanan ni Albayalde ang panibagong suspek na naaresto dahil mismong si PNP chief Ronald Bato Dela Rosa ang magpiprisinta nito sa media ngayong araw, Disyembre 7. Una rito, dalawa sa mga suspek na nadakip ay kinilalang […]

Duterte sets aside P2 billion for free medicines to poor Filipinos this December

(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte is setting aside P2 billion to be given to poor Filipinos in need of medicines. Duterte said the amount was part of the P5 billion check granted to him by the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) which he is giving to the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). The President said he is directing the DOH and the DSWD to allot P2 billion for poor […]

Mayor Espinosa killed during ‘rubout’– NBI

(Eagle News)–The late Albuera town Mayor Rolando Espinosa was killed during a rub out, not in a shootout, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) concluded on Tuesday (December 6). The NBI has advised the Department of Justice (DOJ) to file multiple charges against 24 Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Region 8 officers led by their head Superintendent Marvin Marcos, and other individuals involved in the killing of Espinosa and his cell mate, Raul Yap, on November 5. […]

Pabahay para sa mga biktima ng Yolanda, maari nang matirahan

Tacloban, Leyte — Maaari nang lumipat ang mga biktima ng typhoon Yolanda sa mga itinayong pabahay ng gobyerno. Matatandaang ipinag-utos ito ni Pangulong Dutete nitong Nobyembre sa paggunita sa ikatlong anibersaryo ng supertyphoon Yolanda na ikinasawi ng mahigit na 6,000 katao. Ang pagpapalipat sa 827 na pamilyang nasalanta ng bagyong Yolanda noong 2013 sa mga bagong tayo na ‘relocation sites’ sa Tacloban, Leyte ay naganap nitong Sabado Disyembre 3. Sa tulong ng ‘Office of the Presidential […]

Senate defies Ombudsman on order suspending Villanueva

MANILA, Philippines — All senators united in their decision to support their fellow senator, Joel Villanueva, as they defied the order from the Office of the Ombudsman dismissing the former head of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). Villanueva was earlier charged with malversation, graft and falsification of public documents over the allegedly anomalous disbursement of his 10 million-peso Priority Development Assistance Fund or PDAF when he was the Citizens Battle against Corruption or CIBAC party-list representative. All of the senators supported […]

Signed bilateral agreement first before release of prisoners – Duterte

MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo R. Duterte said he will not release political prisoners without a signed bilateral ceasefire agreement with the National Democratic Front (NDF). Labor Secretary Sivestre Bello III in a statement said the President told him that if he’ll be given signed bilateral ceasefire agreement, he will release the political prisoners within 48 hours. “The President told us that once he receives even just a facsimile copy of the signed agreement, he […]

Russia, Philippines to develop military cooperation

The foreign ministers of Russia and the Philippines said Monday, December 6 that the two countries are ready to develop bilateral cooperation in the military sphere, but clarified  that they do not favor creating new military alliances in the Asia-Pacific Region. In a joint conference with his Philippine counterpart Secretary Perfecto Yasay, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said “as far as military alliances and military blocs are concerned, the position is that security issues in the Asia-Pacific […]