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(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional a provision in the country’s anti-drugs law that prohibits drug suspects from striking plea agreements. The decision is in favor of Salvador Estipona, Jr., who had asked the High Court to junk the provision, after his motion for a plea bargain was junked two times by the Legazpi City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 3. Estipona had argued the accused of “other heinous crimes such as murder, some acts […]
CHR to issue request “one more time” (Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government said on Friday that President Rodrigo Duterte has thumbed down the Commission on Human Rights request to view police case folders on supposed extrajudicial killings. “Yes. It’s something like that,” DILG officer-In-charge Catalino Cuy said in a chance interview when asked if Duterte would heed the CHR’s request. He said he already informed CHR Chairman Chito Gascon […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte believes some parties are out to “sabotage” the government’s war on drugs, which some say was used as pretext to claim the lives of three boys, including Carl Angelo Arnaiz, whom the President described as his relative. “Silipin mong mabuti kasi may (nananabotahe). Sinasadya talaga iyan..Bantay ka riyan, may nagluluto diyan to discredit (the government),” he told Philippine National Police Chief Roland dela Rosa, who was with him when […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Department of Public Works and Highways will conduct road reblocking activities in the cities of Caloocan, Quezon City and Pasig starting 11 p.m. Friday, September 8, according to DPWH-National Capital Region Dir. Melvin Navarro. In its advisory posted in its website, Navarro said affected roads include the second lane, southbound direction of A. Bonifacio Avenue from Dome St. to Sgt. Rivera; second lane, southbound direction of Mindanao Avenue from […]
(Eagle News) — EBC Films, the film production arm of Eagle Broadcasting Corporation, will release and premiere its first full length film entitled Guerrero on October 31, 2017. The film Guerrero is directed by Carlo Jay Cuevas, the director of the award winning film Walang Take 2. For a sneak peak of this EBC film debut, watch this trailer:
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – Caloocan police arrested more than 100 persons, including minors, on Thursday night, September 8, under Oplan Rody in different parts of Caloocan City. Police arrested the 100 persons who violated various city ordinances such as drinking liquor or alcoholic beverages in public, wearing no shirts in public areas. Many of those arrested claimed they did not know about the curfew hours. There were 27 minors arrested because they allegedly […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Senate is willing to give former Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon ample time and opportunity to explain himself, as the plan to arrest him on Friday over his failure to appear in Senate hearings did not push through. Senate Blue Ribbon Committee Chairman Richard Gordon said that he does not want to embarrass Faeldon by arresting him but stressed that the former Customs chief must explain why the P6.4-billion […]
The year 2017 marks the 80th anniversary of one of the most extraordinary humanitarian stories on the eve of World War II which centers around the Philippines. This is the Open Door policy initiated and installed by Manuel L. Quezon and the rescue of 1,300 Jewish souls from the Holocaust. Over the past years, the story was highlighted in a variety of ways, with additional research that shed some light on the very unique decision-making […]
MEXICO City, Mexico (AFP) — At least 15 people were killed in a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake in Mexico, an official said Friday, as 10 more bodies were found in the southern city of Juchitan. “The death toll is 15 in all… based on the figures from each state,” the head of the disaster management agency, Ricardo de la Cruz, told TV station Milenio after the quake, the most powerful to hit Mexico in a […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Irma has been downgraded to a Category Four hurricane but is still extremely dangerous, the National Hurricane Center said on Friday. The storm raging in the Caribbean which is en route to Florida is now packing maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per hour (250 kilometres per hour), the agency said its 0900 GMT update. That is down from speeds of 185 mph when Irma was at its peak […]
(Eagle News) — No Filipino was injured or killed in the 8.1-magnitude earthquake that struck Mexico on Thursday. Vice Consul Mikhal de Dios of the Philippine Embassy in Mexico said that in the whole of Mexico City, there were 700 Filipinos, but most of them lived west and north of the city, not in the south, where the quake took place. “(Pero) malakas ang lindol dahil umabot dito sa Mexico City kahit 1000 kilometers ang […]
