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(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin to be the new chairperson of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), according to a recent statement by Malacañang. Bersamin has already taken his oath of office. He was initially designated as a member of the GSIS Board of Trustees on Feb. 6, but was later nominated to chair the GSIS, which was also approved by President Duterte. Noting his […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte’s termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement is “epically wrong,” Senator Leila de Lima said. In a statement, De Lima said for one, the VFA, after all, “is an important cog in a whole system of defense and security arrangements with the US that includes the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA)..” She said the Philippines “has benefitted for many years, particularly in the matters of joint […]
(Eagle News)–Cloudy skies and rains are expected in parts of the country today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region and Cagayan Valley will have partly cloudy skies to cloudy skies with isolated light rains as the northeast monsoon affects Northern Luzon. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, PAGASA said, will have partly cloudy skies to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers. PAGASA said this was due […]
(Eagle News)–A Senate inquiry into ABS-CBN’S compliance to its franchise terms does not preclude any action in the House of Representatives or in the Supreme Court on the matter. This is according to Senator Grace Poe, chair of the Senate committee on public services who filed Resolution No. 322 calling for the probe. This was after Solicitor General Jose Calida alleged in a quo warranto petition filed before the Supreme Court that the network had […]
(Eagle News)–It still remains to be seen if President Rodrigo Duterte will stick to the termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement, Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison said. In a statement, Sison said it would also be “laudable” if Duterte scraps all other military agreements with the United States. Sison said it was, however, “difficult or impossible to believe” that Duterte would do this. For Duterte to scrap the Enhanced Defense Cooperation […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, Feb. 15, said he will no longer allow massive land reclamations until he steps down in 2022, unless they were “connected with a government project.” The President made the remark during the inauguration of Sangley airport in Cavite, amid the proposed reclamation projects in Manila Bay. “Because… if you approve one, you approve all. Ganun ‘yan,” he said. According to Duterte, those who were pushing for the reclamation should […]
(Eagle News)–The Senate can look into the compliance of ABS-CBN to the terms of its legislative franchise by virtue of its oversight function. Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon made the remark as he threw his support behind Senator Grace Poe’s Senate Resolution 322 following the allegations made by the Office of the Solicitor General against the network. In seeking for a revocation of the network’s franchise in the quo warranto petition filed before the Supreme […]
(Eagle News)–If US President Donald Trump were president of the Philippines, he would have also junked the Visiting Forces Agreement, the Palace said. “Given his character and principled stand on a matter of national interest, [Trump] would have done exactly the same thing he had done..,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement. According to Panelo, if President Rodrigo Duterte were also the US President, “he would have given the same reaction.” Because of […]
(Eagle News)–An alert level 2 remains hoisted over Taal, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. PHIVOLCS said activity in the main crater in the past 24 hours has been characterized by weak emission of steam-laden plumes rising 200 to 300 meters high. Sulfur dioxide emission was measured at an average of 53 tons per day on February 15. PHIVOLCS said the Taal Volcano Network recorded 69 volcanic earthquakes “that are associated (with) rock […]
(Eagle News)–Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy skies to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said this was due to localized thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. Northern and Central Luzon will have moderate winds and coastal waters. The eastern sections of Southern Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao will have moderate to strong winds and moderate to rough […]
https://youtu.be/lb_Zmuo-Jgw (Eagle News) The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday, Feb. 15, reported one confirmed polio case in Nueva Ecija which brings the total number of polio cases in the country to 17. At the same time, the DOH also confirmed that environmental samples collected from Butuanon River in Cebu had tested positive for the poliovirus. This was after the confirmatory tests done by the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine. The latest confirmed polio case […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health has recorded a total of 487 persons under investigation (PUIs) for the novel coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 as of Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. In its latest update, the number of PUIs discharged from various hospitals have now reached 330. This is after they have tested negative for the virus. But the DOH said that the total number of cases which have tested negative for the virus […]
