Tag: colleagues

De Lima: Sotto, two other colleagues fail to see “global consensus about unjustness of my situation”

(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima has slammed three of her colleagues who accused some US lawmakers of intervening in Philippine affairs when they urged her release from detention. According to De Lima, Senate President Tito Sotto and Senators Gringo Honasan II and Panfilo M. Lacson failed to see the “global consensus about the unjustness of my situation.” She noted that last April 4, US Senators Marco Rubio, Edward J. Markey, Richard Durbin, Marsha Blackburn, and […]

DOJ officials, personnel to undergo drug tests

(Eagle News)– Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Monday (September 26) announced on his colleagues that they will undergo random drug tests in order to show their cooperation to the Duterte administration’s campaign on illegal drugs. “This is part of our efforts to support the President’s war on drugs. We cannot clean the houses of our countrymen, if our own house is not clean and not in order,” Aguirre said during his speech at the Department […]