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(Eagle News)–Two branches of the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court have granted Senator Leila de Lima’s very urgent motion she be allowed to visit her ailing mother. In separate 3-page orders, Branch 205 Judge Liezel Aquiatan and Branch 256 Judge Gener Gito allowed De Lima to travel to Naga from Aug. 14 to 15, with a maximum period of 48 hours, after the prosecution posed no objection to De Lima’s motion provided certain conditions such as […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Ralph Recto has filed a bill seeking to have all government buildings and offices utilize solar energy systems in a reported bid to reduce utility costs and promote the development of renewable energy resources. Under Senate Bill No. 48 or the bill on Solar Energy in National Government Offices, Recto seeks the installation of solar energy systems that can initially supply 10 percent of the power supply of government offices or buildings. The […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima has filed a bill seeking for free tertiary agricultural education for the dependents of indigent farmers. In filing Senate Bill No. 853, De Lima cited data from the Philippine Statistics Authority 2015 Poverty Statistics for Basic Sectors report which noted that farmers and fishermen are the sectors with the highest poverty incidence. She said the poverty incidence for the sector of farmers was at 34.3 percent. “Naturally, families of farmers […]
(Eagle News)–“Abuse of power.” This was how Senator Leila de Lima described President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to shut down all forms of gambling operations within the mandate of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office. “Shutting down PCSO does not make sense and obviously warrants deep scrutiny. Who gains from the closure of PCSO operations?Obviously, not the indigent stakeholders, nor the PCSO employees and lottery operators and staff. Are vested interests behind this abuse of power?,” De […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima wants “audible crossing information” placed on roads for blind pedestrians crossing the streets. In filing Senate Bill No. 623, De Lima noted that people who are blind or visually impaired cannot rely on traffic lights at every intersection. “Without sufficient visual information, they merely depend on the sound or sense of traffic to identify a time when traffic has stopped and crossing the street is possible,” she said. She said […]
(Eagle News)–Insufferable. This was how Senator Leila de Lima described President Rodrigo Duterte’s fourth State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 22. In a statement, De Lima said in the first place, one does not fight corruption by “whining, complaining, and crying out to the plunderers to stop their corruption,” or by reinstating the death penalty. “Definitely, it is not achieved by converting the Coco Levy fund into pork barrel for the legislators’ consumption […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima has refiled a bill that seeks to define what constitute extrajudicial killings in the country, and to hold those responsible for them liable. In filing Senate Bill No. 371, De Lima effectively refiled SB No. 1197 that remained pending in the Senate Justice and Human Rights Committee in the 17th Congress. “In light of the thousands of deaths, the Filipino as a nation cannot negate that EJK is a clear […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima has slammed President Rodrigo Duterte for what she said were his rants about his work as the chief executive, urging him to concentrate on his job instead. “A competent leader would have nothing else on his mind at this moment except to govern, face the pressing issues hounding the nation, and ease the suffering of the Filipinos, especially the poor and vulnerable members of our society,” De Lima, who is […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima on Friday, June 14, slammed President Rodrigo Duterte for what she said was his “deafening silence” over the Recto Bank incident, and Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin. De Lima issued the statement even after the Palace condemned the actions of the Chinese vessel that abandoned 22 Filipino fishermen on board a Philippine fishing boat that was sinking after the two vessels collided on June 9, and after Locsin said the […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima has thrown her support behind Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, who has been accused of being among those behind the “Ang Totoong Narco-list” videos against President Rodrigo Duterte, his family and some of his allies. “Nakita na naman natin ang pagiging doble kara ng gobyerno ni Duterte. Noong nagsasalita si ‘Bikoy’ sa pagkakasangkot sa ilegal na droga ng pamilya ni Duterte, wala raw itong kredibilidad at hindi dapat paniwalaan. Ngunit ngayong […]
(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 […]
(Eagle News) — Detained Senator Leila de Lima has asked the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court to allow her to vote in the May 13 elections. De Lima, who is detained on drug charges, filed the motion following a recommendation from the Commission on Elections for her to “still exercise her right to suffrage through the escorted voting system..” The Comelec made the suggestion after it denied De Lima’s request for “a special polling place at […]
