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(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs will suspend operations in some of its offices following the announcement of an enhanced community quarantine in the Greater Manila Area. In an advisory, the DFA said its office in ASEANA Business Park in Parañaque City and its consular offices in Metro Manila, Antipolo, Dasmarinas, San Pablo, and Malolos will be closed from March 29 to 31. Below is the revised appointment schedule of individuals whose original […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Information and Communications Technology has a new undersecretary. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Tuesday, May 26, confirmed presidential adviser Ramon “RJ” Jacinto has been appointed to the post. He made the confirmation days after President Rodrigo Duterte accepted Eliseo Rio Jr.’s resignation as undersecretary of the department. Rio in February said he had offered to resign because he was being “sidelined and kept out of the loop for several […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Francis Escudero on Tuesday, March 5, lauded President Rodrigo Duterte’s appointment of Benjamin Diokno at the helm of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. “This will certainly ensure the stability and continuity of the country’s fiscal policies gains,” Escudero, who is the chair of the Senate Committee on Banks and Financial Intermediaries, said. According to Escudero, Diokno’s appointment to the post was a “promotion given that he will now be responsible for […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed a former Davao region police chief and a former transportation official to government posts. Appointed as board member of the Clark Development Corporation was former police official Manuel Gaerlan, for a term of one year, based on appointment papers shown to the media on Monday, March 4. Dante Lantin, formerly of the Department of Transportation, was appointed member of the Philippine Racing Commission for a term of four years. […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed new envoys to several countries. Duterte appointed former Foreign Affairs spokesperson Raul Hernandez as ambassador to Turkey, appointment papers showed. Hernandez shall have concurrent jurisdiction over Georgia and Azerbaijan. Edward Fereira was also appointed as special envoy to Kazakhstan for a six-month term, Leah Ruiz as ambassador to Poland, and Alex Chua as ambassador to Kenya. Ruiz shall have concurrent jurisdiction over Ukraine, Latvia and Lithuania, the appointment papers showed. […]
(Eagle News) — The Commission on Appointments on Wednesday, Nov. 28, approved the appointment of Teodoro Locsin, Jr. as Foreign Affairs Secretary. Nobody opposed Locsin’s confirmation at the plenary, which took up the matter after the CA’s foreign affairs committee made the recommendation earlier in the day. Locsin was appointed at the helm of the Department of Foreign Affairs by President Rodrigo Duterte, following the resignation of Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano. Cayetano resigned […]
(Eagle News) — For Senator Panfilo Lacson, Teodoro Locsin Jr. getting the confirmation of the Commission on Appointments as Foreign Affairs secretary will be “easier than singing in the shower.” Lacson, chair of the foreign affairs panel, made the comment in a Tweet on Friday, Nov. 23, days before the CA was expected to take up Locsin’s appointment. President Rodrigo Duterte handpicked Locsin to replace then-Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano, who resigned to run […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Ralph Recto urged newly appointed Information and Communications Secretary Gregorio Honasan to retain his predecessor as his senior undersecretary. In a statement, Recto said the “nation will benefit from the combined skills” of Honasan and Eliseo Rio, who he said has “good credentials.” “It will be a waste of talent if Rio, with his good credentials – double engineering degree holder, ECE board topnotcher, academic, and ex-general who has had 50 […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed the head of the Army’s intelligence unit as the military’s next commanding general. Major General Macairog Alberto, chief of the Intelligence Service unit of the Armed Forces of the Philippines will replace Major General Rolando Bautista, who is slated to retire on Oct. 15. President Duterte has said, however, that he would appoint Bautista as the next Social Welfare secretary. Alberto served as commander of Task Force Davao […]
(Eagle News) — Newly appointed Chief Justice Teresita Leonardo-De Castro will take her oath before President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, Aug. 31, Special Assistant to the President Bong Go said. “CJ appointee Justice De Castro has communicated to OP [Office of the President] that she will endeavor to take her oath at the earliest time as soon as SC [Supreme Court] is in receipt of her appointment paper that she may assume and enter into […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, Aug. 27, defended his appointment of Supreme Court Associate Justice Teresita de Castro as Chief Justice. “Kung sino ‘yung nauna pumasok, siya ‘yung unang ma-promote and that would go for everybody,” Duterte told reporters at the Libingan ng mga Bayani in Taguig City. According to Duterte, “I am not familiar with) any of them actually.” “Wala akong kilalang justice na ‘yung personal. Truthfully, I have not talked to anyone there. […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Sunday, Aug. 25, dismissed allegations Supreme Court Associate Justice Teresita de Castro’s appointment as Chief Justice was a reward for her role in the ouster of Maria Lourdes Sereno as Chief Magistrate. “Wala pong saysay ‘yan,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. According to Roque, President Rodrigo Duterte, who picked the new Chief Justice from a shortlist provided by the Judicial and Bar Council, “upheld judicial professionalism by appointing most senior of […]
