Tag: Neri Colmenares

Palace calls Colmenares’ recent claims vs gov’t “baseless, laced with malice”

(Eagle News)–Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Friday, Aug. 2, dismissed as “baseless” and “laced with malice” Bayan Muna chair Neri Colmenares’ remark the recent killings in the country, including the ones in Negros Oriental, were state-sponsored. In a statement, Panelo said Colmenares’ remarks were “but a part of the propaganda of the Communist Party of the Philippines [CPP], to which obviously he subscribes and parrots, to discredit the administration and the security forces of the […]

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Leftists to SC: Stop enforcement of Kaliwa Dam loan agreement

(Eagle News) — Leftists on Thursday, May 9, urged the Supreme Court to put a stop to the enforcement of the Philippines’ Kaliwa Dam loan agreement with China. In filing the petition for prohibition with an urgent prayer for the issuance of a temporary restraining order or a writ of preliminary injunction, Neri Colmenares, Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate, Anakpawis Rep. Ariel Casilao, Gabriela Reps. Emmi de Jesus and Arlene Brosas, Alliance of Concerned Teachers […]

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Zarate, Colmenares ask SC to nullify Meralco “sweetheart deals”

(Eagle News) — Two leftists have asked the Supreme Court to nullify what they said were the sweetheart deals entered into by Meralco with its own generating companies in 2016. For this, Bayan Muna chair Neri Colmenares and Rep. Carlos Zarate filed a petition-in-intervention with an application for urgent relief by way of temporary restraining order and/or writ of preliminary injunction to allow them to intervene in the case originally filed by Alyansa Para sa […]

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Palace to Colmenares: Go to court instead of questioning Chico irrigation deal in media

(Eagle News)–Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Sunday, March 3, urged senatorial bet Neri Colmenares to go to court instead of criticizing the Chico irrigation deal in media. “If he is not satisfied with our responses he is free to go to the courts, as his usual style for media mileage, and we will be happy to oblige him there,” Panelo said in a statement. According to Panelo, he has “better things to do than” to engage […]

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Palace: Senate bet Colmenares “just desperately seeking media mileage” by criticizing Chico irrigation deal

(Eagle News)—-The Palace on Saturday, March 2, dismissed Neri Colmenares’ criticisms of the  Philippines’ Chico irrigation deal with China, saying the senatorial bet was “just desperately seeking media mileage.” According to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, in the first place, the $62.09-million loan  that will help fund the construction of the irrigation project that will “provide a stable supply of water to around 8,700 hectares of agricultural land, benefit 4,350 farmers and their families and serve 21 […]

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Albayalde urges former Makabayan lawmakers ordered arrested by Nueva Ecija court to surrender

(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Monday, July 30, urged the former Makabayan bloc lawmakers who have been ordered arrested by a court to surrender peacefully. “The PNP is duty-bound to implement orders of judicial authorities,” Albayalde said, as he called on Satur Ocampo, Liza Maza, Teddy Casiño and Rafael Mariano to turn themselves in. Apart from the four, Judge Evelyn Turla of the Regional Trial Court 40 of Palayan, Nueva Ecija ordered Vicente […]

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Colmenares: Proposed Charter in House bans People Power, limits press freedom

(Eagle News)– The proposed Charter in the House of Representatives bans People Power and grants government the power to suppress irresponsible media, former Rep. Neri Colmenares said on Saturday. In arguing his position, Colmenares in a statement cited changes in the 1987 constitutional provisions on where sovereignty lies and on the right to a free press and to free speech as contained in the approved Constituent Assembly House Resolution No. 9. For the first,  Colmenares […]

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US files asset forfeiture against Napoles

QUEZON City, Philippines, July 16 (Eagle News) — Bayan Muna representative Neri Colmenares said that the Philippine government should act quickly to secure the assets of alleged pork barrel scam queen Janet Lim Napoles as the United States Justice Department filed a forfeiture complaint against Napoles. Colmenares added that it is the Filipino people who should benefit from the forfeited assets and not the US government. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith […]

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