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(Eagle News)—The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System on Saturday, March 16, vowed to solve the water shortage in 150 days. MWSS administrator Reynaldo Velasco issued the statement after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the water regulator to demand from Manila Water a release of 150 days worth of water to address the same. “Admittedly, we are on a catch up mode as far as water supply source is concerned since our main source which is the […]
(Eagle News)—The military is verifying information the supposed successor of Isnilon Hapilon, the emir of the Islamic State in Southeast Asia, has been killed. The military said it had submitted samples from the body suspected to be of Abu Dar based on the scars to the Scene of the Crime Operatives. The dead man was one of the eight killed in a clash with government security forces in Tubaran, Lanao del Sur on Thursday, March […]
(Eagle News)–The Supreme Court has temporarily stopped the Legal Education Board from requiring aspiring law students to pass a nationwide law school entrance exam before studying law. The SC issued the temporary restraining order on the implementation of the LEB’s memorandum number 7, which was assailed by two consolidated petitions, pending the resolution of the main case. LEB Memorandum No. 7 says an aspiring law student cannot be admitted into a law school unless he […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippines on Saturday, March 16, condemned the mass shootings in New Zealand that left at least 40 dead. “The Philippines joins all peace-loving nations and peoples around the world in condemning — in the strongest and in no uncertain terms — this assault on the faithful in places of worship,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement. According to Panelo, the “reprehensible act has no place in a civilised world.” He said […]
(Eagle News)—The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a tropical depression outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility. In its latest weather update, PAGASA said the center of the tropical depression was so far located 1595 kilometers east of Mindanao, packing maximum sustained winds of 45 kilometers per hour near the center and gustiness of up to 60 kilometers per hour. PAGASA said the weather disturbance was expected to enter PAR tonight […]
(Eagle News) – Officials of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) and of its two water concessionaires failed to comply with President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent directive for them to release water good for 150 days from Angat dam, by noon of Friday, March 15, saying this was simply not doable. The chief regulator of the MWSS, Patrick Ty, said the current water infrastructure would not be able to accommodate the President’s directive. He […]
(Eagle News) — Officials of Manila Water Company have been asked to explain the severe water crisis affecting its coverage area in the East Zone of Metro Manila and parts of Rizal before the Senate. The Senate Committee on Public Services led by Senator Grace Poe has already summoned the officials of Manila Water in a scheduled hearing next week. Poe said that Manila Water should explain how this water crisis came about when the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte denounced the public officials included in the narco-list, saying they committed treason against the Filipino people as a whole. “This is actually treason. If you are in the government and you commit a crime, it could be likened in the olden times. It would be categorized as treason. You commit it against the people,” he explained. Administrative cases have been filed by the Department of the Interior and […]
(Eagle News) — The wife of former Iloilo Mayor Jed Mabilog on Friday, May 15, dismissed as “lies” her husband’s inclusion in the narco-list which President Rodrigo Duterte made public on Thursday night. “You resorted to lies and fabrication which your own agencies have consistently rebutted” Marivic said in a Facebook post, apparently addressing herself to Duterte. According to Marivic, if the latest narco-list was “truly validated, why don’t you furnish the media the validated list […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson on Friday, March 15, said some members of the House of Representatives were only “confusing the public” with the term they used to describe what they did to the proposed national budget already ratified by both the Senate and the House of Representatives. “There is a whale of a difference between itemization and realignments of what have been approved by the joint bicameral conference committee and ratified in plenary […]
Is sentenced to six to eight years in jail (Eagle News) — The Sandiganbayan has found former Optical Media Board chair Ronnie Ricketts guilty of graft. The anti-graft court sentenced the former actor to six to eight years imprisonment after ruling he gave undue advantage to to Sky High Marketing Corporation when he ordered its pirated compact discs released a day after his men confiscated them without filing charges in 2010. Ricketts can also no longer […]
(Eagle News)–Members of the ruling PDP-Laban party who were included in the narco-list may face expulsion. This is according to PDP-Laban president Senator Koko Pimentel, who issued a statement to this effect a day after President Rodrigo Duterte, PDP Laban chair, bared 46 names he said were engaged in drug-related activities. Pimentel said the expulsion would be meted out if their explanation was found “unsatisfactory.” “The party has no place for narco-politicians as well as […]
