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(Eagle News)–Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday, Feb. 24, slammed anew the continued detention of Senator Leila de Lima for drug charges. “That a Senator of the Republic, an outspoken critic of the administration, and a relentless crusader against extrajudicial killings, can languish in detention for two years on drug charges, despite the glaring absence of physical evidence, and on the mere say-so of convicted drug dealers currently serving prison sentences in the national penitentiary, […]
(Eagle News)—“Wutip” may enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility next week, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. According to Aldczar Aurelio, Pagasa weather specialist, the typhoon may enter PAR on Wednesday, Feb. 27, or Thursday, Feb. 28. Once it enters PAR, it will be named “Betty,” he said. So far, the typhoon was located 1815 kilometers east of Visayas, outside PAR, packing maximum sustained winds of 185 kilometers per hour near, and […]
(Eagle News)—The Department of Transportation on Sunday, Feb. 24, said it would “not take sitting down” the discovery of a grenade in the bag of a man inside a Metro Rail Transit 3 station. “The DOTr MRT-3 would like to stress that this matter will be taken seriously,” it said in a statement a day after the live grenade was found in the package of Christian Guzman, 29. The grenade, which was wrapped in packaging […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Sunday, Feb. 24, expressed its condolences to the kin of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas governor Nestor Espenilla, who passed away on Saturday night. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the Palace was “saddened” to learn about the “untimely demise” of Espenilla. “This UP magna cum laude graduate was best remembered by the ordinary Juan de la Cruz for making financial services closer to Filipinos who—we are all aware—transact mostly […]
(Eagle News) — Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Nestor Espenilla Jr., 60, who had been undergoing cancer treatment for more than a year, passed away on Saturday, Feb. 23. “It is with deep sadness that the Monetary Board (MB) announced that Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor and Chairman of the Monetary Board Nestor A. Espenilla, Jr. peacefully passed away on 23 February 2019 surrounded by members of his family,” the BSP’s statement said. “The […]
(Eagle News)–Deputy Governor Almasara Cyd Tuaño-Amador has been named officer-in-charge of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas following the death of Nestor Espenilla. The BSP said this was until President Rodrigo Duterte appoints the new head of the country’s Central bank. According to the BSP, the decision to make Tuaño-Amador officer in charge was made in a special meeting by the Monetary Board, the BSP’s policy-making body. Espenilla passed away on Saturday after battling tongue cancer. He […]
(Eagle News)—Light rains will prevail in some parts of the country as the northeast monsoon affects the Philippines. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Eastern Visayas will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains. Palawan, Occidental Mindoro, and the rest of Visayas will have partly cloudy skies, PAGASA said. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, PAGASA said, will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies. Meanwhile, Typhoon “Wutip” is located […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, Feb. 24, said he did not favor the deportation of Chinese workers in the country. “Yung mga Chinese dito, hayaan mo ‘yan na dito magtrabaho. Hayaan mo,” he said in a speech during a PDP-Laban event in Laguna. According to Duterte, this was because there were “300,000 Filipinos in China.” “Eh kung umalis ‘yung [300,000] of them?” he asked. Some senators want a crackdown on Chinese illegal workers, with […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Saturday, Feb. 23, slammed Senator Leila de Lima over her comments against the Build, Build, Build program, saying it would rather “ignore” her as “her senses apparently have flown to the cuckoo’s nest.” “A detained senator from the opposition has described the Build, Build, Build program, ‘grossly inefficient,’ among other nonsensical descriptives and false narratives…We will just watch her in amusement as she cantankerously pontificates like a headless chicken running berserk,” […]
(Eagle News)–Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Nestor Espenilla passed away on Saturday night. Espenilla, who had been battling tongue cancer, was 60 years old. He was appointed BSP governor in 2017.
(Eagle News)–Former Interior Secretary Rafael Alunan is the 12th senatorial bet President Rodrigo Duterte is endorsing. “Yes. Alunan is 12th in PRRD’s list. They are friends and bilib si PRRD kay Alunan,” Senator Koko Pimentel, who is among those included in Duterte’s slate, said. Apart from Alunan and Pimentel, Duterte’s senatorial slate is composed of former Philippine National Police chief Ronald Dela Rosa, former special assistant to the president Bong Go, former presidential political adviser […]
(Eagle News)–The national flag will be flown at half-mast on Sunday, Feb. 24, in honor of the late National Artist for Architecture Bobby Mañosa. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the Office of the President gave the order for the flag to be displayed as such on Mañosa’s interment “as a sign of mourning..” Panelo said this will be done “in all places where (the flag) is displayed in the country and in Philippine embassies abroad..” […]
