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(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, Sept. 8, said it was Solicitor General Jose Calida who initiated a probe into the granting of amnesty to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV in connection with the Oakwood mutiny and Peninsula Manila siege. He said he could not refuse as Calida was the government lawyer and he as chief executive should “enforce the law.” This is the first time Duterte acknowledged that Calida initiated the research. Calida had remained […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said that he would follow whatever the Supreme Court will decide on the matter of the amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, even as he insisted that the amnesty was “fatally flawed” and void from the start. Speaking shortly after his arrival from Israel and Jordan on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2017, the President said he has to answer the questions from the media even if he has […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte arrived from his successful trip to Israel and Jordan on Saturday, Sept. 8, a day earlier than scheduled, insisting the amnesty of senator Antonio Trillanes IV was “fatally flawed” and challenging those who want him out to come to Malacanang so that he can step down immediately. “I’m ready to step down anytime.. Kung ayaw na ng Pilipino, bababa ako (If the Filipino people do not want me, […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, Sept. 7, suggested his daughter Davao Mayor Sara Duterte could succeed him in the future. “Kung di man ako makabayad sa inyo, andiyan man si Inday. Mayor man siya… she might be… in the future, pwede niyong malapitan. Inday is good. Marunong. Marunong sumipa, marunong sa lahat,” Duterte said in a speech before the Filipino community in Jordan. Duterte noted that his daughter was the “alpha” in their family. […]
(Eagle News)–Net trust in President Rodrigo Duterte is still very good in the second quarter of 2018, with 70 percent of Filipinos having much trust in him, a Social Weather Stations survey said. According to results of the survey done from June 27 to 30, only 18 percent were undecided, and 13 percent had little trust in the President, yielding a net trust rating of +57. The SWS said that this was an 8-point decline […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Friday, Sept. 7, insisted President Rodrigo Duterte wants him arrested even without a warrant. “The AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) and PNP (Philippine National Police) still have orders to have me arrested even without a warrant,” Trillanes, who has neen holed up in the Senate since Proclamation No. 572 declared void ab initio the amnesty granted to him, said. Trillanes made the statement even after Presidential Spokesperson Harry […]
(Eagle News)—-President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, Sept. 7, blamed the high inflation rate on the tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump on select products. In a speech before the Filipino community, Duterte clarified, however, that he was “not apologizing.” He said the government was “trying to control it.” Also on Friday, the Department of Finance released a list of measures it said would be implemented to arrest inflation, which the Philippine Statistics Authority pegged at […]
(Eagle News) –Senate President Tito Sotto on Friday, Sept. 7, banned the conduct of a mass and the entry of supporters of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV in the Senate premises over the weekend. “There is a church nearby. Senate is closed on weekends,” Sotto said. Besides, according to Sotto, “only staff of senators are allowed.” He added they had to turn off the air-conditioning units “at certain times and on weekends because (they) will bog […]
Presidential son says Manases Carpio to charge the senator with libel, too By Earlo Bringas Eagle News Service Former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte has filed libel charges against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. The charges filed before the Davao City Prosecutors Office on Thursday, Sept. 6, stem from what the presidential son said was Trillanes’ “defamatory publication, with malice, afterthought, and evil intent to malign, ridicule and harass me and my family during a teleradyo […]
(Eagle News) — The Makati court where the Department of Justice lodged a second motion for an alias warrant and hold departure order against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV will not issue the warrant just yet. Lawyer Diosfa Valencia, the Clerk of Court of the Makati Regional Trial Court’s Branch 150, said they have to retrieve case records first. Trillanes, who played a prominent role in the Oakwood mutiny and Peninsula Manila siege in 2003 and […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he would wait for the judicial process to proceed regarding the case of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, and would want the proper issuance of the arrest warrant from the regional trial court before he could be arrested, his spokesperson said. In a press briefing in Jordan, Presidential Spokesperon Harry Roque said that President Duterte would prefer civilian court processes to proceed, rather than court martial proceedings. “He will […]
(Eagle News)– The Department of Finance on Friday, Sept. 7, released a list of measures it said would be implemented to arrest inflation. In a statement on its website, the DOF said these measures were arrived at after a meeting among members of the Economic Development Cluster of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Cabinet on Wednesday, Sept. 5. The meeting took place on the same day the Philippine Statistics Authority reported that inflation had accelerated to 6.4 percent […]
