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MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Sa buong Pilipinas at hindi lamang sa Mindanao ang State of Lawlessness na idineklara ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte. Ito ang paglilinaw ni Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Secretary Salvador Panelo sa panayam ng programang Guest Who’s Talking sa Radyo Agila DZEC. Ginawa ni Panelo ang paglilinaw bunsod ng mga kalituhan dahil wala umanong malinaw na banggit ang Pangulo sa nasasakop ng idineklarang State of Lawlessness. Sinabi pa ni Panelo na bago […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Kinondena ni Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Police Director Genral Ronald Bato Dela Rosa ang nangyaring pagsabog sa Davao City na itinuturing nilang home town ni Pangulong Rodrigo R. Duterte. Pero sa kabila ng nangyari, hinimok ni Dela Rosa ang publiko na wag matakot at ituloy lang ang normal na aktibidad ngunit kailangan umanong maging alerto at mapagmatyag.
(Eagle News)– Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa on Monday (September 5) did not eliminate the possible involvement of drug lords in Davao blast, saying that they could have paid Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) to bomb the night market. “Itong Abu Sayyaf pera-pera lang ‘yan. Nangingidnap nga sila para sa pera eh. Kung ako mayamang drug lord sabihin ko sa kanila magbomba na lang kayo,” Dela Rosa told reporters in a […]
(Eagle News)– Davao City Police Director Sr. Supt. Michael John Dubria confirmed on Sunday (September 4) that the improvised explosive device (IED) used in the Roxas night market blast was cellphone-activated. Dubria also showed members of media a fuse assembly–a part of 60-mm round– found in the liver of one of the survivors. SPO2 Consorcio Gerones Jr., ordnance specialist of Davao City Police Office-Explosives and Ordnance Division, guaranteed that the use of a 60-mm round […]
MANILA, Sept. 5 – The National Youth Commission strongly condemns the recent bombing incident in Davao City that prompted the President to declare a region wide State of Lawless Violence. In a recent statement, the NYC further reiterated that whoever are the perpetrators of this dastardly act must be meted with punishment of equal magnitude as the crime they committed because this disrupts the peace and order situation that the current administration is working on. On […]
(Eagle News) — Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte has offered a P2 million reward for anyone who can give the names and the whereabouts of the suspects in the deadly Sept 2 bombing in a night market in Roxas District in Davao City. The mayor said that P1 million would be given for anyone who can give the name of the suspects, and another P1 million for those who can hand the suspects alive to […]
QUEZON CITY, Sept. 5 — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) firmly believes that death penalty will be a strong deterrent against all drug-related offenders in the Philippines. “Manufacturers, smugglers, pushers and all the more coddlers and protectors of illegal drugs in the country, both foreign and domestic, who were proven guilty in court, deserve nothing more than capital punishment,” said PDEA Director General Isidro S. Lapeňa. “Harsher penalties must be dealt for all drug traffickers […]
DAVAO, Philippines (AFP) — Philippines police Sunday were searching for three people wanted for questioning over the bombing of a night market in President Rodrigo Duterte’s hometown blamed on an Islamic militant group. The blast, which tore through a bustling market in the heart of Davao city on Friday, killed at least 14 people and led to the president imposing a “state of lawlessness” in the country. The head of Davao police on Sunday described […]
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Sept. 4 (PIA) — U.S. Embassy in the Philippines’ United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Southeast Asia Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) and the government of the Philippines, through its Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), launched yesterday a partnership in support of The Oceans and Fisheries Partnership (USAID Oceans). The program will enhance the sustainability of Asia-Pacific fisheries, protect the region’s rich marine biodiversity, and mitigate the serious impacts […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine authorities on Saturday said the Abu Sayyaf, a local Islamic militant group notorious for kidnapping foreigners, was responsible for a deadly night market bombing that killed at least 14 people. Here are five key questions and answers about the Abu Sayyaf: – Who are they? – The group is a radical offshoot of a Muslim separatist insurgency that has claimed more than 120,000 lives in the south of the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte visited on Saturday (September 3) the hospitals where the wounded victims of the deadly blast in a night market in Davao City were being treated and assured their relatives that the government will cover all their medical expenses. Duterte’s expression was that of concern, pain and extreme sadness as he consoled the relatives of the injured victims being treated at the San Pedro Hospital and Davao Medical Center. […]
By Caesar Vallejos EBC Correspondent Businessmen, through the statement of the Makati Business Club (MBC), strongly condemned the blast that killed 14 people and injured 67 others at the Roxas night market in Davao City calling it a horrific act of terror. “This act of cowardice, which targeted the lives of innocent civilians and sought to foster fear in people, has no place in any society,” the statement said. Earlier reports mention that the Abu […]
