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(Eagle News) – Malacanang thanked the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee for inviting presidential son, Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte, and son-in-law Atty. Manases Carpio and giving them a chance to air their side. This was amid the allegations made by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV linking the two with the controversial smuggling activities at the Bureau of Commission “We thank the blue ribbon committee for giving Vice Mayor Duterte and Atty. Carpio the chance […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte is not giving any legal advice to his son, Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte and his son-in-law Atty. Manases Carpio, husband of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio. Duterte said that his only advice to his son and son-in-law is that they should appear before the Senate, if they are not hiding anything. The two are set to be at the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on Thursday, […]
(Eagle News) — After citing the names of Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte and presidential son-in-law Manases “Mans” Carpio in a senate hearing on Thursday, customs broker Mark Taguba apologized in writing to the President’s family clearing the two of any involvement in bribery and illegal drugs smuggling. The apology was contained in a statement sent by Taguba’s lawyer, Raymond Fortun. In the statement, Taguba stressed that he did not testify that the […]
(Eagle News) – The National Bureau of Investigation filed on Thursday (August 31) murder and other criminal raps against policemen involved in the death of 17-year old Kian delos Santos, citing evidence that the Grade 11 student was “killed without mercy” and shot in the head twice while he was crouched in a fetal position. The NBI also found out that the Caloocan City cops who killed Kian had no intention of bringing the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa said that he would ask President Rodrigo Duterte’s permission before furnishing the Commission on Human Rights the case folders on those who were killed in the administration’s war on drugs. Dela Rosa said that while the PNP would cooperate with the CHR, which is looking into the deaths, it still needs the President’s permission because all investigations into drug-related killings […]
(Eagle News) – Funds from the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, or 4Ps, meant to benefit the country’s poor, have been discovered in a camp of the communist rebel group, the New People’s Army (NPA). President Rodrigo Duterte himself bared this in a speech on Tuesday, when he said that the Pantawid Pamilya funds, still inside the envelopes, were found inside one NPA camp. “They recovered from an NPA camp envelopes containing the Pantawid,” Duterte […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said that the government will next go after the holding company, Benpres Holdings which is now renamed as Lopez Holdings Corporation of the Lopez family – owner of the media network ABS-CBN corporation — because of their alleged unpaid debts to the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP). The President said this during the 23rd anniversary of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) on Wednesday, August […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – Malacañang on Tuesday, August 29 happily welcomed the high ratings given to President Rodrigo Duterte by consulting firm Publicus Asia, Inc. In a recent survey conducted by the firm, President Duterte was hailed as “most loving official” and “most decisive official” in the country. “We are gratified that 90 percent of Filipinos considered the President as the most decisive and caring government official based on the nationwide survey by […]
President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, August 28, vowed assistance for poultry raisers who were affected by the bird flu virus in Pampanga and Nueva Ecija, as he stressed the safety of poultry products for consumption. “To help the industry recover, the government, through the Department of Agriculture, will assist in the affected poultry raisers in Pampanga and Nueva Ecija to defray their losses through interventions such as loans and capacity building trainings,” the President […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte had asked former Bureau of Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon to take a “a few days off” as both the Senate and the House of Representatives probe the controversial P6.4 billion shabu shipment from China that had put the bureau in hot water. Faeldon, who had already been replaced by Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) director Isidro Lapeña, had also been accused by senator Panfilo Lacson of being eaten […]
