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(Eagle News) — House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez opened the House of Representatives Third Regular Session on Monday, July 23, amid moves by some lawmakers to have him replaced by Pampanga Rep. and former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Alvarez opened the House session detailing the victories and achievements under his leadership of the House wherein they have passed significant bills including the Bangsamoro Organic Law, which is expected to be signed into law today, during […]
(Eagle News) – Two committees of the House of Representatives approved on Monday, April 16, House Bill 6475, which was based on the recommendation of the Bangsamoro Transition Council. The House special committee on peace, unity and reconciliation, and the committee on Muslim affairs voted to pass the bill authored by Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, but the committee on local government rejected the same. On May 15, the House panels will meet again to determine whether […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Mexican middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, prepping for a May 5 title rematch with Gennady Golovkin, has tested positive for banned clenbuterol, his promoters blaming tainted meat. A voluntary drug test showed Alvarez had traces of the anabolic agent in his system. Golden Boy Promotions said in a statement on Monday that the level was “consistent with meat contamination that has impacted dozens of athletes in Mexico over the last […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez is not worried about the threat of several Senators that they will boycott the constituent assembly proposed by the House of Representatives. Alvarez said that the House of Representatives have sufficient numbers to amend the Constitution, whether or not the Senate joins them. Alvarez also said that before the Constitution can be amended, there is a need for a 3/4 majority vote of the Congress. […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Mexican fighter Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has agreed to a May 5 rematch against three-belt middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin, the Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday. The report said Golovkin’s camp was expected to greenlight the bout in “the next few days,” noting there was no rematch clause for a third fight in the agreement. “It’s going to be another great fight, so it’ll likely be a natural to do […]
(Eagle News) – Several senators expressed their disappointment that the House of Representatives had voted to give the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) a meager P1,000 budget, as they vowed to give the commission the P678 million it had asked for 2018, or even just re-allocate the P749 million budget it had for this year. Senator Panfilo Lacson, the sponsor of the P678 million budget for the CHR, said that he would continue to […]
(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to grant the Commission on Human Rights a budget of only P1,000 for next year, after 119 lawmakers approved a party list lawmakers’ proposal on the budget cut. Only 32 lawmakers voted against the proposal by 1-SAGIP party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta to give the CHR a P1,000 budget after accusing the commission of doing selective investigation of human rights violations. “You are supposed to investigate […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senate minority leader Franklin Drilon said it was impossible for any senator to support Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez’s proposal to extend martial law in Mindanao for five years. “The Senate, you know, we will stand as one and I don’t think any senator will agree to five years,” Drilon said. He admitted, however, that “theoretically,” Congress could approve the same. “But…I don’t think any senator in his right mind will […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The National Capital Region Police Office on Wednesday stood by its original statement that the act of Jessie Carlos that led to the deaths of 37 Resorts World Manila guests and employees was not a terrorist act. This even as House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez insisted during a House of Representatives inquiry that the attack could be classified as an act of terrorism. “Kung nag-cause ng terror so anong tawag natin […]
(Eagle News) — Police and hotel authorities on Saturday released for the first time footage of the actions of the gunman prior and during Friday’s hotel attack, which appeared to corroborate their earlier statements that the incident was not a terrorist attack. The footage–which was released after Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said he believed the incident was an act of terrorism—showed how the gunman reached the establishment on board a taxi. National Capital Region Police Office […]
(Eagle News) — Several congressmen took up the cudgels for President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, as the Lower House held a session that is expected to determine the fate of his martial law proclamation in Mindanao. House Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas said Duterte was “correct” in saying he would listen to the military and the police in connection with the declaration of martial law in Mindanao. According to Fariñas, it was “not the duty” of the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte signs the report to Congress on the declaration of martial law for the whole of Mindanao on the sidelines of the special cabinet meeting at the Presidential Guest House in Panacan, Davao City on May 25, 2017. Also there to receive the report was Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III and House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez.
