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(Eagle News) — Outgoing Australian Ambassador to the Philippines, Her Excellency Amanda Gorely, visited the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) Central Office in Quezon City to make her farewell courtesy call on INC Executive Minister, Brother Eduardo V. Manalo, on Monday, December 10. Gorely said she was “delighted to pay a farewell courtesy call on Brother Eduardo Manalo.” It was the Australian ambassador’s second time to visit the INC Executive Minister. The first […]
(Eagle News) — Malacañang said that the decision to declare a holiday truce with the communist rebels this coming holiday season rests on President Rodrigo Duterte. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that President Duterte and Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana already had talks on the matter. During the discussion, the defense department stated its negative position on the holiday ceasefire with New People’s Army (NPA). The military believes that based on experience, the communist rebels only used […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang said the handover ceremony of the Balangiga bells by the United States to the Philippines on Tuesday, Dec. 11, which will be led by President Rodrigo Duterte, is an “affirmation” of strong US-Philippine relations. The hand-over of the historic bells that were taken as war trophies from a Catholic Church in Balangiga town in Samar in 1901, will be held at a ceremony at the Villamor airbase in Pasay City. The […]
(Eagle News) — Nagdagdag ang Bureau of Immigration ng mga tauhan nito sa iba’t-ibang international airports sa bansa bilang paghahanda sa holiday rush ngayong Disyembre. Ayon kay BI oort Operations Division Chief Grifton Medina, nagpalabas na ng travel orders si Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente sa 56 empleyado ng departamento na magreport na ngayong linggo sa kanilang mga assignment. Ang mga immigration officer ay idineploy para umagapay sa pagproseso ng libu-libong mga international passengers na inaasahang […]
(Eagle News)—Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Monday, Dec. 10, posted bail for the libel cases filed against him. Trillanes went before Pasay Judge Rowena Nieves Tan to post the P96,000 bail set by Judge Melinda Alconcel-Dayanghirang of Davao City Regional Trial Court Branch 54, or P24000 for each of the four counts of libel filed against him. The charges were filed by former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte, after he was accused by Trillanes of being […]
(Eagle News)—-Senator Risa Hontiveros said President Rodrigo Duterte was the “single biggest threat to human rights in the Philippines.” Hontiveros’ statement came on Dec. 10, Monday, a date the United Nations declared as International Human Rights Day. “The President has singlehandedly rolled back human rights safeguards and made the country a haven for human rights violators,” she said. Hontiveros noted what she said was the “bloody and abusive” war on drugs, which she said “has set […]
(Eagle News) — Obligado pa rin ang mga guro sa mga pampublikong eskwelahan na mag-report sa trabaho sa holiday break mula Disyembre 16 hanggang Disyembre 22. Nilinaw ng Department Of Education (DepEd) na ang DepEd Memorandum Order No. 49 kung saan nakatakda na hanggang Disyembre 15 na lamang ang klase sa public schools at holiday break mula Disyembre 16 hanggang 22. Iginiit ng ahensya ang kanilang Order No. 53 kung saan nakasaad na required pa […]
(Eagle News) — Dapat tulungan ng Commission on Elections (Comelec) ang mga botante para mabatid kung sinong kandidato sa 2019 mid-term elections ang nangangampaniya na kahit wala pang campaign period. Ito ang hamon ng grupong Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino sa Comelec kasunod ng pag-amin nito na wala silang karapatan para papanagutin ang mga kandidato na may premature campaigning. Una nang sinabi ni Comelec Spokesman James Jimenez na wala silang magagawa patungkol sa pre-mature campaigning at […]
(Eagle News) — Pinalawig ng Commission on Elections (COMELEC) ang oras ng pagboto sa darating na midterm elections sa susunod na taon. Ayon kay Comelec Spokesperson Director James Jimenez, dinagdagan ng isang oras ang botohan kung saan ginawa na itong mula ala sais ng umaga (6:00 AM) hanggang ala sais ng hapon (6:00 PM). Ang nasabing pasiya ng ahensiya ay bunsod ng inaasahang pagtaas ng voting population na posibleng umabot sa animnapu’t isang milyon kumpara […]
(Eagle News)—“An incorrigible rabble-rouser and a perennial whiner.” This was how Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo described Senator Antonio Trillanes IV after he lashed out anew at the Duterte administration following the issuance of a warrant of arrest against him for libel. “Instead of facing this squarely, however, the Senator from Bicol ranted and released a fiery statement before the media, attacking the administration as his usual style,” Panelo said. According to Panelo, Trillanes was “certainly […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Sunday, Dec. 9, urged Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison to “stop his propaganda war,” and return to the Philippines instead. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made the statement after Sison criticized President Rodrigo Duterte’s foreign policy on the West Philippine Sea. “We urge Mr. Sison…to see for himself the independent foreign policy course that the President has charted, including a cautious, pragmatic, and diplomatic stance on how to […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Panfilo Lacson urged the reduction or removal of what he said were uncalled for congressional insertions worth P4.3 billion in the House version of the proposed P3.7-trillion budget for 2019. Lacson made the statement after House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr., also Camarines Sur’s first district representative, said the allocations — allegedly P2.4 billion worth of projects in House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s second district in Pampanga, and P1.9 billion in projects in Andaya’s province — […]
