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MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Parents lined up from sunrise holding sleeping infants as the Philippines launched a campaign on Monday to vaccinate millions of children against polio, which has re-emerged nearly two decades after the nation’s last cases. Years of falling vaccination rates, made worse by the botched rollout of a dengue vaccine, culminated in an outbreak of the preventable disease in September. “This is for the welfare of my child,” Ruth Miranda told […]
(Eagle News)–Oscar Albayalde is “not yet off the hook” even after he resigned as Philippine National Police chief, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said on Monday, Oct. 14. According to Drilon, Albayalde’s resignation ahead of his mandatory retirement on Nov. 8 “will not in any way clear him from his liablity, both administratively or criminally, in connection with the Pampanga ninja cops issue.” “Albayalde’s continued defense, and his failure to condemn the acts, of Major […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Panfilo Lacson on Monday, Oct. 14, said he has “mixed emotions” about Oscar Albayalde resigning as Philippine National Police chief. According to Lacson, Albayalde’s statements prior to his formal announcement to relinquish command of the 190,000-strong police force “have somehow diminished the redeeming value of his intent to spare the PNP from the so-called ‘ninja cops’ controversies.” Lacson said as a Philippine Military Academy graduate, he “feels sad whenever fellow Peemayers slug it […]
(Eagle News)–Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin on Monday, Oct. 14, urged Supreme Court personnel and officials to be “constant” in their loyalty to the judiciary. Bersamin also urged them to be “steadfast in the fealty to the letter and spirit of the constitution and to the rule of law” as he led his last flag-raising ceremony as Chief Justice. Bersamin is slated to retire on Oct. 17. “All I ask as I exit from the judiciary […]
(Eagle News)–Appropriate but not closure. This was how Senator Risa Hontiveros described Oscar Albayalde’s resignation as Philippine National Police chief following allegations he intervened in the status of the cases of 13 policemen behind a 2013 irregular drug raid in Pampanga. “I welcome the decision of General Oscar Albayalde, my mistah, to relinquish his post… Given the gravity of accusations, which have further demoralized an already misdirected police force, his decision to step down was […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Monday, Oct. 14, said it did not pressure Oscar Albayalde into stepping down as Philippine National Police chief. “I have not heard of anything leading or leaning to that,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in an interview over ANC. Panelo surmised Albayalde “has had enough of the accusations, innuendos, about his involvement in the drug case, given that his family is suffering from according to him, unfair and false allegations against […]
(Eagle News)–Cloudy skies with rainshowers are expected in parts of the country today, Monday, Oct. 14. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, Western Visayas and Palawan will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms as the Intertropical Convergence Zone affects Mindanao and Palawan. N A surface windflow is also prevailing over Northern Luzon. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, on the other hand, will have […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace has expressed sympathy for Japan, which was struck by “Hagibis,” one of the strongest typhoons to hit the country in decades. “President Rodrigo Roa Duterte expresses his deep sympathy to the people and government of Japan for those who perished, were injured, or found themselves homeless in the aftermath of the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in decades,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement. According to Panelo, “as we offer […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has accepted Oscar Albayalde’s decision to step down from his post as Philippine National Police chief, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said. Lt. Gen. Archie Gamboa, PNP deputy chief for administration, will automatically serve as PNP chief until President Duterte appoints a new police official at the helm of the police organization. Albayalde’s move came days before he was scheduled to retire on Nov. 8. This was following Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Monday announced he was stepping down from the top PNP post. Albayalde, who said he reached his decision “after careful thought and deliberation,” said during the police force’s flag-raising ceremony that he was on “non-duty” status starting today. “I have submitted my letter of intent to [Interior] Secretary [Eduardo] Año which he accepted and favorably endorsed to the President,” Albayalde said. He said this would “pave the […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Ronald dela Rosa is proposing to transfer the control and supervision of provincial and sub-provincial jails to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology. In filing Senate Bill No. 1100, which aims to amend some provisions of Republic Act 6975 or the Department of Interior and Local Government Act of 1990, Dela Rosa, former Bureau of Corrections chief, said this would “ensure a high probability of success in the reformation of our Persons […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima has expressed hope the prosecution of the alleged recruiters of Mary Jane Veloso in Nueva Ecija would pave the way for a review of her case in Indonesia. De Lima made the statement as she welcomed the Supreme Court ruling allowing Veloso, who is on death row due to illegal drug trafficking and is imprisoned in a Yogyakarta prison, to testify against Julius Lacanilao and Kristina Sergio via a deposition […]
