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(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde has ordered the creation of a special investigation task force to probe the killing of Rep. Rodel Batocabe and his bodyguard. In a statement, Albayalde said the task group was also in order to “mobilize all available resources” for the investigation. “We appeal to the public to immediately report to the police any information that could lead us to the perpetrators and to help us quickly solve the […]
(Eagle News)—Ako Bicol party-list Rep. Rodel Batocabe was killed in an attack on Saturday, Dec. 22. Also killed in the gun attack in Daraga, Albay was his bodyguard identified as SP01 Orlando Diaz. A radio report said Batocabe, also the vice chair of the House committees on dangerous drugs; on natural resources; and on good government and public accountability, was about to board his vehicle after attending a gift-giving event in Barangay Burgos when the attack took […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Saturday, Dec. 22, welcomed House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr.’s statement the House of Representatives would heed President Rodrigo Duterte’s call for the abolition of the Road Board. “We are pleased to know that the House of Representatives has listened to the voice of the people who have long been outraged by the corruption surrounding the use of the said tax,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement. According to […]
(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority on Saturday, Dec. 22, announced the cancellation of some domestic flights due to bad weather. Below is a list: Cebu Pacific 5J 504 Manila – Tuguegarao 5J 505 Tuguegarao – Manila
(Eagle News)—-Both parties in the bullying incident in the Ateneo de Manila Junior High School that was caught in a now-viral video have met with school authorities. Ateneo de Manila University President Ramon Villarin gave this update in a brief statement posted on the school’s Facebook page on Friday night. According to Villarin, the Ateneo Junior High School Committee on Discipline has already also “heard” both parties involved. The statement was silent, however, on […]
(Eagle News)—–House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. on Saturday, Dec. 22, said the House of Representatives would heed President Rodrigo Duterte’s call for the Road Board to be abolished. In a radio interview, Andaya said there should be “real abolition” of the board, which determines where the motor vehicle users’ charge goes. The MVUC is paid by motorists upon registration of their vehicles. According to Andaya, the proceeds “need to be included as a line-item fund […]
(Eagle News)–The parents of the Ateneo Junior High School student who was seen being bullied by his schoolmate in a viral video have reported the incident to the police. A television report said the parents, accompanied by a lawyer, had the incident blottered before Station 9 of the Quezon City Police District on Wednesday. Ateneo is probing the incident, saying it “will not hesitate to impose penalties of dismissal or even expulsion in cases of […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, Dec. 21, said he wanted the Road Board abolished, putting an end to debates about what he believed the Road Board’s fate should be. “I have always been wary about this office because it has been the milking cow of people who are in government,” he said of the office tasked to determine where the motor vehicle users’ charges go. The MVUC is paid by motorists upon registration of […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Koko Pimentel on Friday, Dec. 21, confirmed President Rodrigo Duterte indeed wants the Road Board abolished. According to Pimentel, the chief executive told this to him during Senator Manny Pacquiao’s 40th birthday celebration in General Santos. “..President Duterte called for me and told me in very categorical terms that ‘we should abolish the road board’,” Pimentel said. He said he told Duterte that the Senate, under Pimentel’s leadership then, already passed […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Friday, Dec. 21, said the support of a body of the United Nations Human Rights Council for a probe into what it said were the human rights violations against Senator Leila de Lima constituted an “intrusion of our sovereignty.” “They have been saying that and we’ve been saying that the problem with you people is you’re listening to the critics of this administration. You are not investigating on your own,” […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Education (DepEd) prodded the Ateneo De Manila University to conduct the proper investigation and other actions regarding the various bullying incidents caught on videos that had gone viral involving one junior high school student. DepEd said that it had already “written the principal” of Ateneo High School to let the school officials know that the bullying incidents had already reached the department. For now, DepEd said that it would […]
(Eagle News) — There will be no work in Malacanang and in other government offices on Dec. 26. This was according to Memorandum Circular 55 signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea. The suspension, according to the memo, covers local government units, state-run firms, government financial institutions, state universities and colleges, among others. According to the memo, agencies whose functions involve the delivery of basic and health services and other services that include disaster preparedness and response […]
