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(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government will rehire some 15,000 contact tracers to sustain the country’s contact tracing efforts. In a statement on Saturday, January 16, the DILG said the rehires will work for at least six months. “While the country’s COVID-19 response is significantly improving, we should sustain our contact tracing efforts especially with the reported entry of the new UK coronavirus variant into the country,” the statement said. […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered Health Secretary Francisco Duque III to form a new team that will be in charge of the compensation due to COVID-19-positive health workers and to the kin of those who die due to the virus. In a briefing aired on Friday, the President said the Health chief should tap “persons of honesty” for this. “P**** i**, dalawang buwan itong lecheng ito. Just imagine two months, tapos ang Secretary ang […]
(Eagle News) – More than 7,000 military personnel from the US and the Philippines are set to work together in this year’s the annual “Balikatan” exercises which started Monday, April 1, aimed at strengthening interoperability between both countries’ armed forces. Balikatan is an exercise between the Republic of the Philippines and the United States, and also involves participation from Australia, which will last until April 12. Balikatan is a Tagalog phrase for “shoulder-to-shoulder,” characterizing […]
(Eagle News) — Former Senator Bong Revilla on Friday, Dec. 7, posted bail for the graft case filed against him. Revilla posted a P480,000 bail for 16 counts of graft before the Sandiganbayan after he was acquitted of the plunder charges filed against him, earlier in the day. During the promulgation, the Sandiganbayan’s first division, which had to convene into a special division because it could not reach a unanimous decision on Revilla’s plunder case, […]
(Eagle News) — Drug manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur on Thursday, June 15, acknowledged that the risk of “severe disease” in those administered the dengue vaccine Dengvaxia was higher if they did not previously contract dengue. “In this supplementary analysis, we found an increased incidence of (such) in vaccinated people without a prior infection compared to unvaccinated people without a prior infection,” Sanofi Pasteur said in a statement. The drug company’s pronouncement was essentially an acknowledgment also […]
(Eagle News) — Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia on Friday, June 8, denied the National Economic and Development Authority ever claimed that P10,000 were enough to sustain the needs of a family of five per month. “Nauunawaan at ikinalulungkot ko na may mga taong nadismaya sa ginamit na halimbawa sa press conference noong ika-5 ng Hunyo 2018. Nililinaw ko po na hindi kailanman nabanggit ng NEDA na ito ay disenteng budget para sa isang pamilya,” […]
(Eagle News)–A Court of Appeals justice was fined P100,000 for gambling, an act which government officials are banned from doing under the law. The Supreme Court meted out the penalty to Associate Justice Normandie Pizarro, who was seen gambling in a casino in Pampanga in pictures given to the High Court by an anonymous complainant. The complainant also said Pizarro himself admitted to going to a casino in 2009. “Judges should behave at all times so […]
Close to 60,000 security personnel — or 59,276 individuals to be exact — will be deployed to ensure the safety and security of the 31st ASEAN Summit this month. Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) officer-in-charge Catalino Cuy said the troops would be deployed to key strategic areas in Metro Manila and Pampanga to ensure the safety and security of the ASEAN delegates. Cuy said the largest contingent would come from the Philippine […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Gregorio Honasan posted bail in a local court in Laguna on Friday, a day after he was ordered arrested by the Sandiganbayan over the alleged misuse of almost P30 million in pork barrel funds. Honasan posted a P60,000-bail for the two counts of graft in the sala of Executive Judge Teodoro Solis of Branch 25 of the Binan Regional Trial Court around 10 a.m. The judge signed his release order. Prior […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) –The number of people left homeless after an earthquake struck western Indonesia has soared to nearly 84,000, leaving authorities struggling to care for the victims, an official said Tuesday. The shallow quake last week killed more than 100 people and injured many more when it struck Aceh province, one of the areas worst affected by the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Thousands of homes, businesses and mosques were levelled by the […]
