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(Eagle News)– A fourth petition questioning the constitutionality of the one-year extension of martial law in Mindanao has been filed before the Supreme Court. The group led by Dinagat Islands Rep. Kaka Bag-ao and former Commission on Elections chairman Christian Monsod said the approval of Congress of the declaration was “unwarranted and unjustified” given the absence of “actual rebellion” as required for such a declaration in the Constitution. They said the claims of the supporters […]
(Eagle News) — Ipinag-utos ng Departmet of Justice (DOJ) sa National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) na imbestigahan ang isyu ng nawalang mahigit 1,000 armas sa Philippine National Police (PNP) headquarters na sinasabing ibinenta sa New People’s Army (NPA) sa Mindanao. Ang kautusan ay inilabas ni Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II kasunod ng direktiba mismo ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte. Sa Department Order No. 007 na pirmado ni Aguirre, inatasan din ang NBI na mag-case build up. […]
(Eagle News) — The National Union of People’s Lawyers on Monday filed a petition challenging the one-year extension of martial law in Mindanao before the Supreme Court. The petition is the second filed since the extension was granted by Congress, upon the request of President Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte had cited existing threats in seeking for the extension. In asking the Supreme Court to declare the extension “null and void,” the NUPL argued that such […]
(Eagle News)– The Supreme Court has asked several members of Congress and Cabinet members to respond to a petition questioning the constitutionality of the one-year extension of martial law in Mindanao. This was after the High Court said in a December 29 resolution that the petition filed by members of the so-called Magnificent 7 in the House of Representatives “appears to be sufficient in form and substance.” Asked to comment “within a nonextendible period of 10 […]
(Eagle News) — Opposition lawmakers belonging to the “Magnificent 7” bloc on Wednesday, December 27, filed a petition before the Supreme Court asking it to stop the implementation of the full-year extension of martial law in Mindanao, questioning its constitutionality. In a 29-page petition, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman led other opposition lawmakers in seeking a temporary restraining order (TRO) from the high court or a writ of preliminary injunction to stop the implementation of […]
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) appealed for humanitarian aid to help the more than 500,000 people affected by Typhoon Vinta (Tembin), which hit 23 provinces in the Philippines. PRC Chairman Senator Richard Gordon made the appeal as figures on the number of deaths and missing people from the flashfloods and landslides that struck parts of Mindanao continue to rise in the wake of ‘Vinta’. “Rural communities, which are in remote mountainous areas, are the […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The death toll from a storm that unleashed landslides and floods across the southern Philippines has climbed to 240 with scores of others still missing, officials said Monday. Tropical Storm Tembin (Vinta) on Friday struck the country’s main southern island of Mindanao, which often escapes the 20 or so storms that batter the rest of the archipelago nation each year. Civil defence officials said the number of confirmed deaths from Tembin […]
MANILA, Philippines ( AFP) – The death toll from a tropical storm in the southern Philippines has risen to 74, officials said Saturday, with concerns the figure could rise as dozens remained missing. Tropical Storm Tembin struck Mindanao, the archipelago nation’s second-largest island on Friday, triggering flash floods and mudslides that have since erased a remote village from the map. The Philippines is pummelled by 20 major storms each year on average, many of them deadly. But Mindanao, […]
(Eagle News) — The Asian Development Bank has approved a $380-million loan to help “strengthen the road network and spur economic development” in Mindanao. In a statement on Friday, the ADB said the amount “will help finance the detailed design of 300 kilometers of national highways in Mindanao, which will be constructed through other projects.” Jeffrey Miller, Principal Transport Specialist at ADB’s Southeast Asia department, said the strengthening of roads in southern Philippines “will support the development […]
Guevarra notes, however, that extension of 60-day martial law rests in Congress as provided for also in Constitution (Eagle News) — Rep. Lito Atienza on Wednesday said that approving a one-year extension of martial law in Mindanao would be tantamount to circumventing the Constitution which said that martial law could be imposed for a period of 60 days. “I’d like to be enlightened again…How can the extension be longer than the original,” he said before […]
“We do not ask for an unlimited martial law,” Medialdea says (Eagle News) — “Unlimited peace.” This was what Executive Salvador Medialdea said was the aim of President Rodrigo Duterte’s proposal for a one-year extension of martial law. In his presentation before the joint houses of Congress on Wednesday, Medialdea said that such an extension would help quell a “state of actual rebellion” that he said “subsists in Mindanao.” He said this was “perpetrated not […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has formally asked Congress to extend martial law for one year in Mindanao. In a letter addressed to Senate President Koko Pimentel and House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, Duterte cited a letter of recommendation suggesting the one year extension beginning January 1, 2018 from the Secretary of National Defense. In the letter received by Duterte on December 4, the defense department cited the “current security assessment” made by the chief […]
