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Palace: Duterte won’t interfere in Congress “intramurals” over 2019 budget

(Eagle News)–The Palace on Wednesday, March 6, said President Rodrigo Duterte will not interfere in the “intramurals” in Congress over the national budget for 2019. “They will have to settle whatever conflict they have among themselves,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. Panelo issued the statement when asked whether the developments in Congress were delaying the transmittal of the bill for Duterte’s signature. Senator Panfilo Lacson’s has alleged Speaker Gloria Arroyo  realigned P25 million from the […]

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Lorenzana orders Armed Forces to validate report on alleged harassment of Filipino fishermen near Pag-asa Island

(Eagle News)–Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has ordered the military to validate a report Filipino fishermen were harassed by Chinese vessels near Pag-Asa Island in the West Philippine Sea. In a statement, Lorenzana said that while  there has been “no substantiated report” on the supposed incident reported by Kalayaan, Palawan Mayor Roberto del Mundo from the Western Command, the Armed Forces of the Philippines, “through the Naval Forces West under WESCOM, will nonetheless continuously validate and report […]

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Palace clarifies: Diokno appointment at BSP does not need CA approval

(Eagle News)–The Palace on Wednesday, March 6, said Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas governor Ben Diokno did not need to get the approval of the Commission on Appointments after all. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo issued the statement a day after he said the Palace was confident Diokno would get the nod of the CA for his appointment. “After further evaluation of relevant laws and jurisprudence surrounding the appointment of former Secretary of Budget and Management Benjamin […]

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Public’s “right to know” paramount, says Palace as it justifies release next week of narco-list of politicians

  (Eagle News) – Malacanang said that the public’s right to know transcended whatever rights to privacy and presumption of innocence that national and local candidates have, as it justified the government’s plan to release next week the so-called narco list of politicians. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that it is also wrong for candidates involved in illegal activities to stop the release of the narco-list which was prepared with the help of wiretapped information […]

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Faeldon cancels privileges of inmates nationwide after Cebu police discovers drug ops of prisoner while inside NBP

(Eagle News) – Visiting privileges of inmates nationwide, including their recreational activities such as having basketball games, were cancelled by Bureau of Corrections chief Directo General Nicanor Faeldon effective Tuesday, March 5. This was after a prisoner was discovered making drug transactions through wifi connections inside the New Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa by the Cebu City police which traced to the NBP inmate the source of the 28 kilos of shabu valued at P190.4 million. […]

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Escudero: Diokno at helm of BSP will “ensure stability, continuity” of PHL fiscal gains

(Eagle News) — Senator Francis Escudero on Tuesday, March 5, lauded President Rodrigo Duterte’s appointment of Benjamin Diokno at the helm of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. “This will certainly ensure the stability and continuity of the country’s fiscal policies gains,” Escudero, who is the chair of the Senate Committee on Banks and Financial Intermediaries, said. According to Escudero, Diokno’s appointment to the post was a “promotion given that he will now be responsible for […]

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Palace confident BSP governor Diokno will hurdle Commission on Appointments

(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, March 5, expressed confidence the Commission on Appointments would approve Benjamin Diokno’s appointment as the new Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas governor. According to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, Diokno was, after all, “a good man,” an “experienced man,” an “expert man” and a “man of integrity.” He said these were the reasons President Rodrigo Duterte appointed Diokno at the helm of the BSP in the first place. Earlier, then-House […]

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Palace vouches for integrity of narco-list; says list based on intel gathered by foreign gov’ts via wiretapping

(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, March 5, vouched for the integrity of the government’s narco-list, saying foreign governments had supplied the Philippines with intel through wiretapping. “Ang magagaling diyan Israel, magaling diyan America, Russia, China….Kung tayo lang, eh wala, kopong-kopong pa yata iyong mga instrumento natin,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. According to Panelo, while the Anti-Wiretapping Law considers wiretapping an illegal act without the authorization by a court, no law says the […]

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Andaya: House merely “itemizing” appropriations in Congress-approved nat’l budget

(Eagle News) — House appropriations committee chair Rep. Rolando Andaya on Tuesday, March 5, said the House of Representatives was merely “itemizing” the appropriations under the national budget for 2019 approved by Congress to make them “more transparent and easy to scrutinize.” Andaya, also the Camarines Sur representative, made the statement after Senator Panfilo Lacson accused Speaker Gloria Arroyo of realigning P25 million from the Department of Health fund to solons who voted for her […]

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DILG: ACT appeal of CA dismissal of police “profiling” petition merely for media publicity

(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government on Tuesday, March 5, slammed as “an exercise in politics in aid of re-election” the Alliance of Concerned Teachers’ appeal of a Court of Appeals decision against a halt order on supposed police profiling. “The original petition was already dismissed and yet ACT PL (party-list) wishes to beat a dead horse,” Interior spokesperson Jonathan Malaya said in a statement. According to Malaya, the court’s […]

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Driver at konduktor ng bus, tatanggap na ng fixed salary simula March 9 – NWPC

(Eagle News) — Tatanggap na ng fixed na sweldo ang mga driver at konduktor ng mga bus simula sa Marso 9. Ayon sa National Wages And Productivity Commission (NWPC), dapat na magsimula na sa sa buwang ito ang bagong compensation scheme. Posibleng matanggalan ng prangkisa ang kumpanya ng bus na lalabag sa fixed salary scheme. Sa alituntunin ng NWPC, dapat ipatupad ng mga operator ng bus ang pay package para sa kanilang mga driver at […]

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Mainit na panahon,  patuloy na mararanasan sa bansa, ayon sa PAGASA

(Eagle News) — Apektado ngayon ng northeasterly surface windflow ang  Luzon at Visayas habang easterlies naman  ang nakaaapekto sa Mindanao, na siyang dahilan ng maalinsangang panahon na patuloy na mararanasan sa malaking bahagi ng bansa. Ayon pa sa PAGASA, kahapon ay naitala ang pinakamainit na temperatura na 33.6 degree Celsius  sa Science Garden sa Quezon City bandang  2:50 ng hapon. Para sa araw na ito naman, ang Dinagat at Surigao provinces ay makararanas ng bahagyang […]

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