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(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, Sept. 12, said he will not go after Bureau of Corrections officials who released convicts under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law “in good faith.” Duterte issued the remark as the Ombudsman continues its probe into the release of convicts of heinous crimes under the law, suspending over 27 BuCor officials in the process. The officials included Ramoncito Roque, chief of the BuCor documents and records section, and Senior […]
(Eagle News)–Officials of the Aquino administration should not be blamed for the release of convicts of heinous crimes under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law or Republic Act No. 10592. This was according to now-Senator Leila de Lima and former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, who issued separate statements after the Ombudsman asked them to explain why the GCTA law’s implementing rules and regulations they crafted in 2014 excluded some categories of inmates who could not […]
(Eagle News)–Ombudsman Samuel Martires has asked former Justice Secretary Leila de Lima and former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas to explain their Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. Martires, who is conducting a probe into the law that was used by the Bureau of Corrections as a basis to release some convicts of heinous crimes, particularly wants to know why the IRR Roxas and De Lima crafted in 2014 did not […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, March 8, said former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas should have been a traffic aide instead. Duterte made the comment as he recalled how Roxas, who is running for a seat in the Senate in the upcoming May elections, “was managing traffic.” He was apparently referring to then-presidential candidate Roxas managing congestion caused by the 2009 State of the Nation Address of then-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Commonwealth Ave. in […]
(Eagle News) — If there is anyone former Philippine National Police chief Ronald dela Rosa would like to be debating against, it is former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas. “It’s my honor to be debating against a former (Secretary of Interior and Local Government), former boss, former presidential candidate..Kilala siyang matalino, kilala akong barumbado, kilala siyang mayaman, taong kalsada lang ako,” Dela Rosa, now the Bureau of Corrections chief, said in an interview over CNN Philippines […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Dec. 18, said it was Mar Roxas who ordered former police general Vicente Loot killed. “I did not order the ambush. It was Roxas. Roxas ordered his ambush, not me,” Duterte said in Visayan. On May 18, unidentified men opened fire at Loot and his family who had just arrived in a wharf in Daanbantayan, Cebu, where the former general is mayor. They survived the attack. President Duterte has […]
(Eagle News) — Former presidential aspirant Manuel “Mar” Roxas II who lost to President Rodrigo Duterte in the May 2016 national elections filed his certificate of candidacy to run as a senatorial bet in the May 2019 elections. Roxas filed his COC past 8 a.m. Tuesday, October 16, at the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) main office in Intramuros, Manila. Roxas will be running under the Liberal Party (LP). He had previously served as […]
(Eagle News)—It’s best he keep his silence. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque had this to say to former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, after he gave what the Palace considered to be unsolicited advice in addressing the rice problem in the country. “Dahil sa kanyang karanasan doon sa Leyte ay mabuti pong manahimik na siyang muli,” Roque said in a radio interview. According to Roque, “alam naman natin kung ano ang ginawa niya sa Yolanda, sabi niya […]
(Eagle News) — Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Tuesday, April 23, admitted the Liberal Party was urging former presidential candidate Mar Roxas to run for senator in 2019. He said, however, that Roxas, who has since moved away from the public eye since losing the 2016 presidential elections to then-Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, has not yet decided. “He is also enjoying his private life,” he said. He said that so far, they were still […]
(Eagle News) — “Welcome on board.” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque had this to say to Kris Aquino after she said in a post she now understood why then-Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte won the presidency in the 2016 elections. Before making the statement, the sister of former President Benigno Aquino III, who endorsed Mar Roxas in the previous polls, criticized Roxas’ wife, Korina Sanchez, for making a television feature about her former husband James Yap. “Sampal […]
MANILA, May 11 – Malacañang has accepted the results of the May 9 elections. “Our people have spoken and their verdict is accepted and respected,” Communication Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr. said in a statement issued on Tuesday. “The path of good governance or Daang Matuwid is already established as all presidential candidates spoke out against corruption, and in favor of continuing and expanding present pro-poor programs, and pursuing more initiatives to sustain the strong economy and achieve […]
(Eagle News) — Liberal Party presidential candidateManuel “Mar” Roxas II voted in precinct 722-A in Poblacion 5, Roxas City, Capiz. He was accompanied by his wife, broadcaster and television personality Korina Sanchez. Before voting, Roxas first ate at a “carinderia” in a public market in Roxas City. He immediately headed to the Liberal Party headquarters in Quezon City where he continued to monitor the elections.
