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(Eagle News)—-For Interior Secretary Eduardo Año, there is a clear ground for the removal of Guimbal, Iloilo Mayor Oscar Garin Sr.’s authority over the local police. Año issued the statement following Police Regional Office 6 director Chief Supt. John Bulalacao’s allegations Garin and his son, Iloilo Rep. Richard Garin, mauled a policeman, P03 Federico Macaya. Richard Garin has apologized, saying he was only irked Macaya had asked a victim to withdraw a complaint against a suspect. […]
(Eagle News) — The chief of the Philippine National Police in Region 6 will sue Guimbal Mayor Oscar Garin Sr. and Iloilo 1st District Rep. Richard Garin for allegedly mauling one of his policemen over the weekend. In a statement, Chief Supt. John Bulalacao said apart from filing the charges for physical injuries, alarm and scandal, direct assault against an agent of person in authority and grave coercion against the mayor, and the charges for grave […]
(Eagle News)– Former Health Secretary Janette Garin and her husband Iloilo Rep. Oscar Garin Jr. have filed separate libel complaints against former Health secretary Paulyn Ubial. The complaints were filed in connection with Ubial’s statements to the media that linked the couple to the Dengvaxia mess. Garin’s complaint was filed before the Iloilo Prosecutors Office on Friday, while her husband’s was filed on Jan. 28. In a Senate panel hearing on the controversy, Ubial had […]
(Eagle News) — Former Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial on Thursday said the husband of former Health Secretary Janette Garin pressured her into placing additional budget into Dengvaxia. “You have to put additional budget for the dengue vaccine to continue this para naman di maprejudice ang first and second (shots) mo,” Ubial quoted Iloilo Rep. Oscar Garin as saying during the 2016 budget deliberations. Ubial added that Cebu Rep. Gwendolyn Garcia had “insisted” that the vaccination […]
