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By Caesar Vallejos, EBC Correspondent Like basketball, boxing can freeze time in Filipinos’ lives. It is very close to every Pinoy’s heart that it unifies the country as a nation. “Eto rin ang sport na literal na babagsak ka at kailangan mong bumangon,” Carlo Ortega Cuevas, director of GUERRERO said. GUERRERO of EBC Films is a movie about failures and triumphs. “Sa trailer ng pelikula, naisip ng mga nakapanood, andun na lahat iyong buong story. […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said that the remainder of what was the supposed budget of the Commission on Human Rights can be used to procure state-of-the art body cameras for the police. President Duterte said that if the proposed CHR budget will not be returned, it can be used to buy new police equipment. “If you do not want to return the budget to the CHR, why don’t you invest […]
(Eagle News) — Two members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) were killed on Sunday, September 17, in a clash with Islamic State-inspired group Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in Barangay Andavit and Barangay Datu Salibo, Mindanao. According to the intelligence report from the Philippine National Police-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PP-ARMM), the BIFF members who clashed with the MILF belonged to the Commander Abu Torayfe group. The MILF fatalities on Monday, September 18, […]
(Eagle News) – All officers and members of the Aegis Juris fraternity had been preventively suspended by the University of Sto. Tomas Faculty of Civil Law which barred their entry to the UST campus. This was following the death of a 22-year old freshman law student Horacio Tomas “Atio” Castillo III in a reported hazing incident involving the fraternity. The preventive suspension was effective September 18, 2017 according to Memorandum Order No. 2017-Sept-18-01 posted […]
(Eagle News) — Policemen in a precinct in Pasay have been sacked following allegations they pocketed a robbery victim’s money. In a television interview, National Capital Region Police Office chief Director Oscar Albayalde said a total of 35 personnel, including the commander of Police Community Precinct 3 have been ordered relieved. “”Mayroon tayong iniimbestigahan na complaint doon na may na-recover silang pera sa isang robbery at tinitingnan natin ang alegasyon na pinaghatihatian nila,” Albayalde said, without […]
STOCKPORT, United Kingdom (AFP) — Former England captain Wayne Rooney was on Monday banned from driving for two years and ordered to perform 100 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to drink driving. Rooney was charged after being stopped by police while driving a black Volkswagen Beetle at 2:00 am on September 1. The car belonged to a woman he had met in a bar.
(Eagle News) — Iloilo Mayor Jed Mabilog, who was tagged by President Rodrigo Duterte as a “narcopolitician,” and another city official are facing graft complaints for entering into an allegedly anomalous towing services agreement in 2015. In a statement on Monday, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales said there was probable cause to charge Mabilog and Sangguniang Panlungsod member Plaridel Nava II with one count of violation of Section 3 (h) of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Department of Social Welfare and Development gave cash-for-work to 190 families from Marawi City who evacuated to Cebu. Through its Food Office in Central Visayas, the DSWD is cooperating with the local government of Cebu to give Php 380, 000 to the refugees. Based on government data, there are 80,000 families who were affected by the ongoing battle between the government forces and the ISIS-ispired Maute Group in […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said he would “personally invite” the Human Rights Commissioner of the United Nations to set up a satellite office in the country. Duterte made the announcement amid repeated criticisms from some affiliated with the Catholic church and the opposition that there were human rights violations in the conduct of police operations in line with the President’s war against illegal drugs. It also came after the House of […]
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan (Eagle News) – Binulabog ng bomb threat ang Puerto Princesa City Coliseum noong Linggo, September 17. Ayon kay Allan Naraga, program manager ng City Coliseum, bandang 8:00 ng umaga nang may nakitang isang pouch na nakasabit sa loob ng CR ng naturang gusali. May kasama itong papel na may nakasulat na “may sasabog na bomba dito sa Puerto.” Matapos ito ay agad silang nakipag-ugnayan sa mga awtoridad. Sa pagresponde ng bomb squad […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday declared Sept. 21 a “national day of protest.” “Lahat ng gustong magprotesta laban sa government, pumunta kayo,” he said in an ambush interview with reporters. Noting that work and classes were suspended on that day, he said even communists fighting a war in the mountains could attend the protests. He said the “Red Army” would not be arrested, noting that the police and the military would all […]
(Eagle News) — Civilians being held hostage by terrorists in Marawi are being made to dress like their captors and hold guns so they would look like they were part of the group being hunted down by government forces. Catholic priest Teresito “Chito” Suganob, 51, shared this information with government security forces after he was rescued from the hands of the terrorists led by Omar Maute in Barangay Sangkay on Saturday, Armed Forces of […]
