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(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday night visited the wake of the junior army officer killed by suspected New People’s Army members in Davao Oriental on Wednesday, February 1, the day the rebels announced the termination of the unilateral ceasefire. Duterte personally extended his condolences to the family of slain soldier 2nd Lieutenant Victor Alejo in Panacan, Davao City. He also spoke with the generals of the Philippine Army on the termination […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte announced the lifting of the ceasefire with the communist rebels effective Friday night (February 3) because of the recent killings of soldiers done by the New People’s Army (NPA) rebels. The President made the announcement during the ceremonial switch-on of the M’lang Solar Powered Irrigation System (MSPIS) first prototype in Barangay Janiuay, M’lang, Cotabato on Friday afternoon. “I tried my best. Pero parang kanta, But my best was […]
(Eagle News) — Amnesty International has revealed incidents where policemen in the Philippines pay officers and assassins to kill drug suspects, plant evidence and even set up an alleged racket with funeral homes who pay for each dead body sent to them. The international rights group investigated 33 incidents of drug-related killings in 20 cities and towns across the Philippines in which 59 people were killed, mostly poor people. The Amnesty report, which followed an […]
(Eagle News) — Defense Secretary Delfin Delfin Lorenzana said the ceasefire termination declared by the New People’s Army (NPA) would have “no effect” at all on the Armed Forces of the Philippines. In a statement, Lorenzana also said the NPA rebels themselves, even during the ceasefire, continued their ambushes and kidnapping of soldiers. “If the CPP-NPA (Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army) will terminate or stop their unilateral ceasefire it is up to […]
(Eagle News) – The Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza said the Philippine government is “dismayed” with the announcement of the New People’s Army (NPA) to withdraw the unilateral ceasefire effective February 10. The announcement was made by NPA spokesperson “Ka Oris” Madlos on Wednesday morning, February 1. Dureza rued that “this cancellation came just after some progress were made in the 3rd round of peace talks in Rome where negotiating panels […]
MANILA, Philippine (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte directed the Armed Forces of the Philippines to arrest corrupt and abusive policemen, saying that the culture of corruption in the current Philippine National Police was “very serious.” He said he personally would reorganize the police force, addressing newly promoted generals in Malacanang on Tuesday, January 31. “Let me reorganize the enforcement diyan sa drugs sa police. In the meantime, they would be arrested and I […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte will respect and will not comment on policies instituted by the new US President Donald Trump, including his controversial immigration and travel ban on seven Muslim countries, even as the Philippine leader announced that the Philippines would be open to accepting refugees with nowhere to go to. The President cited what the Philippines did when it accepted Vietnamese refugees in the late 1970s until early 1990s. The Philippines was then the […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the Philippine National Police to start an intense “internal cleansing” of its ranks, and to stop indiscriminate raids based on search warrants that are being done by cops at this time as he reorganizes the national police. In a late night press conference on Sunday (January 29) until the wee hours of Monday (January 30), the President also rejected the offer of PNP chief Director General Ronald […]
(Eagle News)– Calling its intensified infrastructure projects, “Build, Build, Build,” President Rodrigo Duterte’s infrastructure managers are embarking on a total of 64 big ticket projects ranging from major road networks, railway systems and bus rapid transit systems to airport and seaport modernization. The government aims to have the “golden age of infrastructure” under President Duterte, according to the Department of Finance. Another 15 ongoing projects are being implemented by the Department of Public Works […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte “earnestly asked” members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) not to provide “sanctuary” to the ISIS-connected Maute group, and other terrorist groups. In a speech during his visit to the wounded soldiers in Camp Siongco Station Hospital in Maguindanao, the President said that he wants to pursue peace with the Moro rebels as well as with the communist insurgents, but […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine economy grew a solid 6.8 percent in 2016, surpassing even China, and considered one of the fastest rates in Asia last year. Data provided by the Philippine Statistics Authority showed that the Philippine economy was even faster that China (6.7 percent), and Vietnam (6.2 percent) reflecting the fastest Gross Domestic Product growth in Asia. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said that this proved that the economy is in “pretty good […]
Quezon City, Philippines (Eagle News) – Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II said that he does not believe in former President Benigno Aquino III’s denial of responsibility for the Mamasapano tragedy. Aguirre also challenged Aquino to subject his personal phone under forensic examination in order to check what really were his commands to those directing the Oplan Exodus, particularly former Philippine National Police Chief Cesar Alan Purisima. https://youtu.be/nsTFnNMTCms Aguirre was the counsel who represented former Philippine […]
