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(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte criticized what he termed as “so-called friends” of the Philippines but judge his government’s war on drugs with “preconceived notions.” “Some so-called friends act like they know the answers to our problems and impervious to our socio-economic and political conditions. They create rules and norms for almost everyone, and some refuse to be bound by the same,” he said during his speech at the plenary session of forum […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has said the Philippines would seek to deepen ties with Latin America, Africa and Central Asia in the remaining years of his term. In his speech before the plenary of the 16th annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi, the President said it was also “high time the Philippines look at the Middle East with fresh eyes going beyond oil and Overseas Filipino Workers.” “As one of the fastest-growing […]
(Eagle News)–The two people who revealed the dialysis scam in Wellmed clinic in Quezon City have been arrested. Edwin Roberto and Leizel Santos de Leon were reportedly nabbed in connection with the estafa case filed against them over the processing of PhilHealth claims even of deceased patients at the clinic. Roberto and De Leon had been admitted to the Witness Protection Program but they lost their privileges after the case was refiled with the Metropolitan […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Friday, Oct. 4, said he believes his name was dragged in the ninja cops controversy because of politics. “I am retiring. Who’s the next PNP chief here?” he asked in an interview over CNN Philippines. Albayalde said this could also be a way to discredit whomever he will endorse as the next top policeman. Albayalde is slated to retire in November. “They will destroy my reputation, my […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, Oct. 3, said two generals are “still playing with drugs.” In his speech at the Valdai forum in Russia, the President did not identify the generals nor did he say if they were from the military or the police. The President made the revelation amid issues hounding the Philippine National Police, including its chief Oscar Albayalde. Albayalde has been accused of intervening in the cases filed against 13 policemen […]
(Eagle News)–Inflation slowed further to 0.9 percent in September, the lowest since June 2016. The Philippine Statistics Authority reported on Friday, Oct. 4, the downtrend was primarily due to the “0.9 percent annual rate of decrease in the index of heavily-weighted food and non-alcoholic beverages.” The PSA noted there was also a decrease in the annual change of the transport index– 0.9 percent–and lower annual increases in the following commodity groups: Clothing and footwear, 2.7%; […]
(Eagle News)–What have you done as Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief? This was the question posed by PDEA chief director-general Aaron Aquino to former PDEA director-general Dionisio Santiago, who had urged him to resign over the issue on ninja cops. Aquino particularly asked Santiago what he had done on the problem, which he himself revealed during a Senate committee on finance hearing on the PDEA budget. Aquino had said some law enforcers were also engaged […]
(Eagle News) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, during the Philippine leader’s second visit to Russia. The two leaders met at the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi on October 3, 2019, Thursday where they vowed to strengthen the Philippines and Russia’s bilateral relations. Russian President Putin welcomed President Duterte and thanked him for coming to Russia and participating in the Valdai Discussion Club which centered “around the development […]
(Eagle News)–“You dropped the ball big time.” This was the stinging rebuke made on Thursday, Oct. 3, by Senator Richard Gordon to Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde, who is in hot water over what has been described as an irregular drug raid conducted by his men in Pampanga in 2013. Gordon lashed out at Albayalde during the hearing on the Good Conduct Time Allowance law after the then-provincial director of Pampanga said there was […]
(Eagle News)–The police report on the 2013 Pampanga drug raid conducted by the 13 policemen subsequently ordered dismissed was only “full of lies.” This is according to retired Brigadier General Manuel Gaerlan, who was the deputy director for operations of Central Luzon when the raid led by then-Col. Rodney Baloyo and 12 of his men was conducted. Gaerlan said he had been tasked by then-Central Luzon police director Raul Petrasanta to check on the supposed […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Richard Gordon on Thursday, Oct. 3, asked the National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine National Police to look for the foreign national the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group believes was arrested by 13 policemen during the 2013 raid in Mexico, Pampanga. Apart from Johnson Lee, Gordon asked the law enforcement agencies to look for Ding Wenkun, whom the CIDG said was presented by the 13 policemen to the media as the one […]
(Eagle News)–The joint Senate panel looking into the Good Conduct Time Allowance law has cited in contempt the policeman who led the raid in the 2013 Pampanga raid. Rodney Baloyo was placed in contempt after lawmakers chastised him for being evasive and for taking too long to answer. Senator Richard Gordon asked the Senate sergeant at arms to detain Baloyo in “not so nice quarters.” Gordon initially said Baloyo would be detained in the Pasay […]
