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(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)–Information and Communications Undersecretary Eliseo Rio Jr. said the principal reason he offered to resign was because he felt he was no longer needed in the department. He said his resignation had nothing to do with supposed anomalies in the disbursement of confidential funds of the department. In the first place, he said in a Facebook post he “never said there is an anomaly involving said confidential funds as in fact, I have no […]
(Eagle News)—Department of Information and Communications Technology Acting Secretary Eliseo Rio on Saturday, Jan. 26, denied Senator Franklin Drilon’s claim the franchise of Mindanao Islamic Telephone Co. was void “ipso facto.” Mislatel is part of the consortium that was named the third telco player in the country. In a hearing by the Senate public services committee on Friday, Jan. 25, Drilon said that the franchise of Mislatel was “ipso facto” revoked because it failed to operate […]
