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(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, March 7, said it backed the Bureau of Corrections’ decision to cancel all the privileges of inmates at the New Bilibid Prison and its other operating units. In a press briefing in Malacanang, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the “temporary” cancellation of the privileges in the national penitentiary, Davao, Iwahig, San Ramon, Sablayan and Leyte prison and penal farms was aimed at preventing the proliferation of illegal drugs […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Corrections to probe the alleged illegal drug activities of an inmate serving his sentence at the New Bilibid Prison, and to file the necessary charges against those who may be allowing the same. In directing the two bureaus to conduct a case build-up against Rustico Ygot in Department Order No. 3, Guevarra cited Republic Act No. 10867 […]
(Eagle News) — The papers appointing Nicanor Faeldon as the new chief of the Bureau of Corrections will come out “soon,” the Palace said on Tuesday, Nov. 13. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made the statement after Faeldon, now an administrator at the Office of the Civil Defense, took offense at Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra’s statement he had yet to report to the BuCor despite an announcement about his transfer from the OCD. Guevarra later clarified […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Bureau of Corrections Director Ronald Dela Rosa said he was implementing “anti-tambay” operations in the New Bilibid Prison to curb illegal drug activities there. Dela Rosa made the pronouncement amid allegations of human rights violations in the Philippine National Police’s campaign against loiterers. But President Rodrigo Duterte, who ordered the police to intensify these operations, noted that loiterers were not actually arrested. PNP Chief Oscar Albayalde said they were […]
Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Ininspeksyon ni Bureau of Corrections Director Ronald Dela Rosa ang selda ng walong New Bilibid Prison inmates na nakakulong sa detention facility ng Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines sa Camp Aguinaldo. Ayon kay Dela Rosa, nais niya kasi matiyak na mahigpit ang ipinatutupad na seguridad sa mga inmate kahit pa nagsilbing state witness ang mga ito sa imbestigasyon sa umano’y illegal drug trade sa NBP. Kung […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has formally appointed retired Philippine National Police Chief Ronald dela Rosa and retired Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Rey Leonardo Guerrero to new posts in government. Dela Rosa was appointed the new director general of the Bureau of Corrections, while Guerrero was appointed as the Maritime Industry Authority’s new administrator. Their terms will last until July 2022, appointment papers released by the Palace on Thursday, May 3, said. […]
(Eagle News) — Davao del Norte Rep. Antonio Floirendo Jr. has posted bail. Floirendo posted the cash bond of P30,000 in a Davao court on Wednesday, on the same day the Sandiganbayan issued a warrant of arrest against him. The warrant stemmed from the graft case filed by the Ombudsman against the lawmaker over the joint venture agreement between the Bureau of Corrections and his family’s Tagum Development Corp. The complaint before the Ombudsman had been […]
(Eagle News) — The Sandiganbayan has issued a warrant of arrest against Davao del Norte Rep. Antonio Floirendo. The warrant stems from the graft case filed by the Ombudsman in connection with a questionable deal between the Bureau of Corrections and the Tagum Agricultural Development Company (Tadeco). The complaint in the Ombudsman was filed in March 2017 by Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, who argued Floirendo had “financial interests” in Tadeco even when he had already been elected a lawmaker. […]
“Drug lords…must be quaking in their slippers,” Lacson says (Eagle News) — Several senators on Wednesday welcomed the impending appointment of Philippine National Police Chief Ronald dela Rosa at the helm of the Bureau of Corrections. “The drug lords serving time in the (New Bilibid Prison) must be quaking in their slippers at the thought of Bato in their midst practically 24/7,” Lacson, a former PNP chief himself, said. He added Dela Rosa’s assignment as […]
By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service “Here I come…I’m coming. See you there.” Philippine National Police Chief Ronald Dela Rosa had this to say to convicts still engaged in illegal drug activities in the Bureau of Corrections, which he is expected to head after his retirement from the police force in 2018. “He is my boss ever since and he will be my boss forever. So hindi ako puwede na aayaw sa pagtatrabaho niya sa […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Ronald dela Rosa will be appointed as chief of the Bureau of Corrections when he retires in 2018. The announcement was made by President Rodrigo Duterte. Dela Rosa is set to retire in January 2018, when he reaches the mandatory age of retirement. Dela Rosa earlier said Duterte had already announced plans to appoint him to another agency after his retirement, but he declined to reveal what this […]
(Eagle News) — The prosecution has dropped former Bureau of Corrections officer in charge Rafael Ragos as a respondent in the drug trafficking complaint filed against him, Senator Leila de Lima and Ronnie Dayan. According to the prosecution, Ragos, who already testified against De Lima in a House inquiry in 2016, is, after all, set to turn state witness. In his testimony, Ragos said he went to the senator’s house in Paranaque in two separate […]
