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(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, July 22, offered a P1.3-million for the capture of those behind the deaths of four policemen in Negros Oriental recently. Duterte made the announcement in an interview with reporters after his State of the Nation Address. “Mas gusto kong patay sila. Kung patay sila, magdagdag pa ako ng 300. So it’s one million three hundred. Just bring me the head of that idiot leader there,” Duterte said. Earlier, the […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte is redefining the State of the Nation Address (SONA) as Filipinos know it with the way he delivers his own SONA, according to analysts who studied the President’s fourth SONA on Monday, July 22. During Eagle Broadcasting Corporation’s (EBC) special coverage of the President’s SONA, historian and De La Salle university professor Van Ybiernas and Department of Education (DepEd) Undersecretary Tonisito Umali explained how President Duterte had changed […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, July 22, gave Land Bank until the end of July to present to him a plan of “reconfiguration.” In his State of the Nation Address, Duterte said Landbank should return to helping farmers and not just focus on commercial transactions. When asked what exactly he wanted reconfigured in a press conference after SONA, Duterte said Land Bank “must participate..create cooperatives again, and for Land Bank to go to the […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, July 22, urged the creation of several departments and bodies he said were necessary to address specific needs of Filipinos. In his State of the Nation Address, Duterte urged the creation of a Department for Overseas Filipino Workers, a Department of Water Resources, including a Fire Protection Program, a National Academy for Sports, and a Department of Disaster Resilience. For this last one, Duterte emphasized the Big One, […]
Invites orchestra to play in Malacanang where he said he is “practically a prisoner” (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte sang his favorite songs, “Ikaw” and “Moon River” with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) after his grueling State of the Nation Address that lasted for more than an hour-and-a-half on Monday, July 22. The President decided to sing when he passed by the Batasang Pambansa lobby where the orchestra was playing. He thanked […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, July 22, urged Congress to pass the Trabaho Bill into law. The Tax Reform for Attracting Better and Higher-quality Opportunities (Trabaho) bill aims to gradually reduce the income tax rate on firms to 20 percent from 30 percent. In his State of the Nation Address, the President also urged the legislature to pass a new version of the Salary Standardization Law. “To the teachers who toil, kasali na po […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, July 22, defended the giving of fishing rights to China in the Philippines exclusive economic zone in the West Philippine Sea. According to Duterte, in the first place, what he was giving were “traditional fishing rights” which were allowed by the arbitral ruling in 2016 for as long as the provisions there are followed. “It is in the arbitral ruling, ayaw niyo lang tignan. People had been fishing there […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, July 22, ordered several agencies to simplify their processes for the people or else. In his State of the Nation Address, Duterte named the Land Transportation Office, the Social Security System, the Bureau of Internal Revenue and PAGIBIG as the top agencies that need to improve their services. “Simplify your process,” Duterte said. According to Duterte, the agencies have to “do it electronically like others.” “‘Pag di niyo pa […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, July 22, urged members of Congress to reimpose the death penalty. In his fourth State of the Nation Address, Duterte said the death penalty should be reimposed for heinous crimes such as illegal drugs and plunder. In calling for its reimposition, Duterte recalled the Marawi siege, where he said shabu “and millions of pesos, drug money killed 175 and wounded 2000” including soldiers. “It pains me to say we […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has arrived at the Batasang Pambansa for his State of the Nation Address. The President’s exact arrival time was 4:57 p.m.. His fourth SONA was scheduled at 4 p.m. Based on reports, the President’s arrival was delayed because the chopper that would take him to the venue could not immediately secure a go-signal for takeoff due to the bad weather. With a report from Vic Somintac
(Eagle News) — While anti-government protests had always accompanied State of the Nation Addresses of Philippine leaders and usually denounced alleged US interference in the country’s government, this time protest rallies against President Rodrigo Duterte’s SONA centered on his friendship and closeness with China. In this report by Gerald Ranez of EBC’s Eagle News Service, militant groups clamped on the West Philippine sea issue to denounce President Duterte. They also set fire to an […]
(Eagle News) — Political analyst Prof. Ramon Casiple talked about the qualities that defined the three years of the presidency of President Rodrigo Duterte during the Eagle Broadcasting Corporation’s special coverage of the 2019 State of the Nation Address. Casiple noted the high appoval rating of Duterte, even with the controversial war on drugs of the Duterte government, and how his political will had defined his presidency. Casiple, executive director of the Institute of […]
