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The 71-year old Australian missionary Patricia Fox is now back in her home country Australia after leaving the Philippines Saturday night, Nov. 3. After losing a long legal battle with Manila to stop her deportation, she attacked Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s “reign of tyranny” Sunday. Fox, who spent almost three decades working with Philippine laborers, farmers and urban poor, was accused of illegally engaging in political activism as Duterte’s government cracked down on foreign […]
(Eagle News) – Fourteen bodies have been recovered as of Saturday, Nov. 3, from the site of a landslide that covered in rubble the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) building in Natonin, Mountain Province. Two bodies were recovered on Saturday, bringing the total of bodies recovered from the rubble at 14. Only 11 of the bodies had been identified. According to the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) of Mountain Province, […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte directed the expulsion and dismissal of three police senior cadets at the Philippine National Police Academy involved in the “hazing” of two male plebes where oral sex was forced on them. Duterte said he will never tolerate such actions which traumatize victims, leaving a “deep psychological” wound. Speaking during the situation briefing in Isabela Thursday, Nov. 1, Duterte said there is no place for such people in his […]
(Eagle News) — Nanawagan ang Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) kay Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na gawing Php 80.00 ang Php 25.00 dagdag-sahod na inaprubahan ng NCR wage board para sa mga manggagawa sa Metro Manila. Sa panayam ng Radyo Agila, sinabi ni TUCP spokesperson Allan Tanjusay na napakaliit ang 25 piso at hindi ito maipambibili ng disenteng pagkain ang mga mahihirap na empleyado. Napakalayo aniya nito sa kanilang proposal na 334 pesos per […]
(Eagle News) — Papasok ang Commission on Elections (COMELEC) sa negotiated procurement para sa bibilhing mga ballot paper at marking pens na gagamitin sa may 2019 mid-term elections. Sa invitation for negotiated procurement na pirmado ni Atty. Maria Theresa Yraola, Special Bids and Awards Committee (SBAC) secretariat head, halos P166 million ang inilaang halaga ng Comelec para sa mga bibilhing suplay. Sa nasabing halaga, P137.8 million ay inilaan para sa pagbili ng ballot paper, habang […]
(Eagle News) — Hanggang dalawang bagyo ang inaasahang tatama sa bansa ngayong Nobyembre. Ayon sa Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), ang mga nabubuong bagyo sa panahong ito ay kalimitang nakakaapekto sa gitna at katimugang bahagi ng Pilipinas. Inaasahan ding mas malalakas ang mga bagyong nabubuo sa panahong ito na posibleng manggaling sa Pasipiko o kaya ay sa loob ng Philippine Area pf Responsibility (PAR). Samantala, ipinabatid ng PAGASA na patuloy pa ring […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte urged his officials to provide water and food to those areas severely affected by typhoon Rosita (international name Yutu) as he directed the “return to normalcy as soon as possible” of the affected areas. Duterte surveyed the areas damaged by the typhoon’s onslaught, and conducted an aerial surveillance along with his officials. In a situation briefing in Isabela on Thursday, Nov. 1, the President noted the “extensive” damage in Northern […]
(Eagle News) –Typhoon Rosita (international name Yutu) has left at least 15 persons dead, even as officials expect this number to rise as more bodies are found in Northern Luzon which was badly hit by the tropical cyclone. The fatalities were from Region 3 or Central Luzon, Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and Southern Tagalog or CALABARZON. The number of injured at three are also expected to rise. The number of missing was also listed […]
(Eagle News) – Twenty-two people are still believed to be missing in the landslide that buried the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) second engineering district office in Mountain Province as full search and rescue operations entered its second day. Four bodies have been recovered in the rubble, according to the Philippine Information Agency – Cordillera Administrative Region, different from its earlier statement that five bodies had been recovered. “PIA MOUNTAIN PROVINCE: As […]
(Eagle News) — Former Customs commissioner Isidro Lapeña has officially started his new job as director general of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) after taking his oath before President Rodrigo Duterte. In his speech before he turned over his former job to former MARINA administrator Rey Leonardo Guerrero on Wednesday, Oct. 31, Lapeña insisted he had tried to institute reforms at the controversial Bureau of Customs, even as he admitted that […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has confirmed that former customs intelligence officer was indeed admitted to the Department of Justice’s Witness Protection Program (WPP). “Yes, Mr. Guban has been admitted into the WPP. But that’s all that I can say,” he told reporters on Tuesday afternoon. Guevarra refused to give more details citing the “confidential” nature of the WPP. Thank you for understanding the confidential nature and purpose of the WPP. Really […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — An Australian nun who battled a government bid to expel her from the Philippines after she angered President Rodrigo Duterte, said Wednesday she will leave rather than face certain arrest and deportation. Patricia Fox’s abrupt announcement came because immigration authorities refused hours earlier to extend her tourist visa and ordered the 71-year-old out by Saturday. Fox, who has spent nearly three decades advocating for the Philippines’ poorest, has become a symbol […]
