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(Eagle News) — The Department of Agriculture assured it has funds to help small backyard raisers whose hogs were culled due to African Swine Fever (ASF) infection. This was in contrast to a news report that said that the department has no more funds for hograisers affected by ASF. “The headline of one major newspaper was malicious and misleading. It is far from the truth,” said Agriculture Secretary William Dar. With an initial reported […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine Dragon Boat Federation on Wednesday, Sept. 25, condoled with the kin of the seven paddlers who died after their dragon boat sank off Boracay waters. The PDBF said the victims were training for an international competition when massive seawater engulfed the 21-seater dragon boat a few meters away from the shore of Tulubhan Bay in Barangay Manocmanoc past 7 a.m. The other 14 boat occupants survived. “May peace and comfort find the […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Immigration on Wednesday, Sept. 25, confirmed the woman who allegedly buys recycled illegal drugs from “ninja cops” has left the country. Immigration spokesperson Dana Sandoval said Guia Gomez Castro was allowed to leave because she had “no derogatory records.” Authorities said Gomez, who won as chair of Barangay 484 Zone 48 but failed to take her oath in 2018, was already in the United States. It was Manila Police District director […]
TIMIKA, Indonesia (AFP) — The bodies of four passengers on an Indonesian cargo plane that went missing in the jungles of Papua a week ago have been recovered, the search and rescue agency said Wednesday. The DHC-6 Twin Otter took off from the city of Timika for a short flight to Ilaga, a mountainous region in the remote eastern province of Papua. Local authorities declared the plane — carrying three crew, a police officer and […]
MIRPUR, Pakistan (AFP) — Rescue workers battled on Wednesday to reach people affected by a shallow earthquake that rocked northeast Pakistan a day earlier, killing at least 22 people and injuring hundreds more as it tore roads apart and felled buildings. Schools were shuttered near the quake-hit city of Mirpur in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir where poor areas were reduced to rubble and the towering brick fences surrounding expensive homes had crumbled. Residents combed through the wreckage […]
(Eagle News)–The Oversight Committee on Corrections has created a panel to verify the records of each person deprived of liberty prior to their release. Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete said that while this was a “tedious process,” it is “called for under the circumstances.” He said the panel has met in the past days and “will meet again this afternoon with the relevant BuCor officers whose task is to justify each and every recommendation for release.” […]
(Eagle News)–At least seven were killed after a dragon boat sank off Boracay in Aklan today, Sept. 25. Authorities identified the fatalities in the incident in Sitio Lingganay, Brgy. Manoc-manoc past 7:30 a.m. as Mark Vincent Navarete, Omar Arcob, Maricel Tan, Yohan Tan, Richel Montoya, Antonette Supranes and John Vincent Natividad. They were dead on arrival in the hospital. Von Navarossa was reportedly rushed to the hospital to undergo treatment. The Philippine Dragon Boat Federation […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday it was a lie that the Amazon was being devastated by fire and accused countries critical of him of having a “colonialist spirit.” Speaking first at this year’s UN General Assembly, the far-right leader also heaped praise on his American counterpart Donald Trump for respecting his country’s sovereignty. The speech came a week after a Human Rights Watch report that accused Bolsonaro of […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine National Police on Wednesday, Sept. 25, vowed to continue its case build-up against the woman who reportedly buys recycled illegal drugs from “ninja” policemen. PNP spokesperson Police Brigadier General Bernard Banac said this was so the PNP “can file charges” against Guia Gomez Castro “if evidence warrants.” The National Capital Region Police Office has said it was verifying the whereabouts of Castro, who, reports said, was in the United States. NCRPO Guillermo […]
by Ivan Couronne WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Her imperious “How dare you?” to world leaders at the UN cemented Swedish teen Greta Thunberg’s role as her generation’s leading spokeswoman on climate change, the culmination of a year of dogged relentlessness, say those who know her. Though her words did not seem to move the leaders who spoke after her, her speech of only four and a half minutes immediately went viral, racking up tens […]
(Eagle News)–The woman who allegedly buys recycled illegal drugs from “ninja cops” never took her oath as barangay chair. According to National Capital Region Police Office chief Guillermo Eleazar, who gave a dzbb radio interview on Wednesday, Sept. 25, a kagawad of Barangay 484 Zone 48 in Manila assumed the post of officer-in-charge instead after Guia Gomez Castro failed to take her oath in 2018. Castro is reportedly in the United States but Eleazar said […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine National Police said it respects the decision of the Senate to reveal the names of policemen who allegedly recycle illegal drugs. In a statement, the PNP requested, however, that the Senate “exercise due dilligence in protecting the rights of these persons against undue persecution.” In any case, the PNP said it “only has the best interest of justice, fairness and good governance in uncovering the truth behind the alleged involvement of cops […]
