Tag: Paolo Duterte

Davao court orders Trillanes’ arrest for libel

(Eagle News) — A Davao court has ordered the arrest of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for libel. The arrest warrant issued by Judge Melinda Alconcel-Dayanghirang of the Davao City Regional Trial Court Branch 54 stems from the libel charges filed by former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte against the senator. The presidential son filed several libel complaints against Trillanes after the senator accused him of being a member of an international crime syndicate, of the Davao […]

Paolo Duterte to Trillanes: I want justice, not revenge

(Eagle News)–Presidential son Paolo Duterte said he was not seeking revenge but “justice.” The former Davao vice mayor issued the statement after President Rodrigo Duterte  said his son was running for a seat in the House of Representatives to get back at Senator Antonio Trillanes. Last year, Trillanes  accused the presidential son of being part of a smuggling syndicate and of a triad, allegations which the younger Duterte denied. He  resigned as the then- Davao […]

President Duterte: My son Paolo will run for a House seat to get back at Trillanes

(Eagle News)–Former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte is running for a seat in the House of Representatives in the 2019 elections. President Rodrigo Duterte himself, the former vice mayor’s father, revealed this in a speech before members of the Filipino community in Papua New Guinea on Friday, Nov. 16. The President is attending the 26th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Econonic Leaders Meeting there, but cut short his trip. “I think he’s (Paolo Duterte) running for […]

Trillanes welcomes Paolo Duterte’s filing of libel cases vs him

(Eagle News)–Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Sunday, Sept. 23, welcomed  former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte’s filing of libel cases against him. According to Trillanes, it would be “an opportunity to call Polong as a hostile witness, so he would be compelled to show his tattoo on his back to prove that he is a member of a Chinese triad drug syndicate.” “It would also be an opportunity for me to have his bank accounts […]

Paolo Duterte files two new libel cases vs Trillanes

(Eagle News)– Former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte on Wednesday, Sept. 19, filed two new libel cases against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. The cases filed before the Davao Prosecutors’ Office stem from Trillanes’ allegations in media  the presidential son was involved in the P6.4-billion shabu shipment. Rainer Madrid, Duterte’s lawyer, said Trillanes had called his client a drug lord in an interview over radio dzmm on June 6 and over CNN Philippines on June 14. […]

Trillanes given ten days to answer libel raps filed by Paolo Duterte, Mans Carpio vs him

(Eagle News)—-Senator Antonio Trillanes IV was given ten days to submit a counter-affidavit to the libel charges filed against him by former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte and lawyer Mans Carpio. The charges, filed before the Davao Prosecutors Office, stem from a radio interview Trillanes gave in 2017 in which he accused the presidential son and the presidential son-in-law of asking money from Uber and other firms regulated by the Road Board, the Department of […]

JUST IN: Former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte files libel raps vs Trillanes

Presidential son says Manases Carpio to charge the senator with libel, too By Earlo Bringas Eagle News Service Former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte has filed libel charges against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. The charges filed before the Davao City Prosecutors Office on Thursday, Sept. 6,  stem from what the presidential son said was Trillanes’ “defamatory publication, with malice, afterthought, and evil intent to malign, ridicule and harass me and my family during a teleradyo […]

Paolo Duterte lashes out at Sison for linking him, President Duterte to illegal drugs

(Eagle News) — Former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte on Friday, July 6, lashed out at Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison for his comment he and his father, President Rodrigo Duterte, were the “biggest protectors of illegal drugs in the country.” “Joma Sison’s accusation….confirms that the founder of the oldest terror group in Southeast Asia is completely losing it,” the younger Duterte said in a Facebook post. According to the presidential son, […]

Paolo Duterte to sue Trillanes for libel

(Eagle News) —  Former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte said he would file complaints against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for “viciously destroying my name, maligning my reputation and integrity, and for deliberately manufacturing lies and spreading black propaganda against me.” The libel charges stem from Trillanes’ statements implicating the presidential son in the P6.4-billion shabu shipment mess in May 2017 last year. Trillanes had alleged in a Senate inquiry into the shabu shipment mess that […]

President Duterte attends birthday celebration of daughter Sara in Davao

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, May 31, attended the birthday celebration of Davao Mayor Sara Duterte in Davao. Based on pictures posted by Jefry Tupas of Davao City’s public information office, also present were Sara’s mother and the President’s former wife Elizabeth Zimmermann, Sara’s husband Manases Carpio, and Sara’s brothers Paolo and Sebastian. Tupas described the celebration as “simple and intimate.” The President was accompanied by Special Assistant to the President Bong […]

Bong Go clarifies: Duterte’s daughter, daughter-in-law, granddaughter given Dengvaxia shots

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte’s daughter Kitty, his daughter-in-law and his granddaughter received shots of the controversial Dengvaxia vaccine. Special Assistant to the President Bong Go said the wife of presidential son Paolo Duterte, Sabina Duterte, issued the clarification herself that apart from Kitty, it was she and her daughter Sabina who were given the shots. It was Go who earlier said that Kitty, Sabina and her brother Uno had been administered the vaccine. […]

Bong Go: President Duterte’s daughter Kitty, two grandchildren given Dengvaxia shots

(Eagle News) –President Rodrigo Duterte’s daughter Kitty and his two grandchildren with son Paolo have been administered the controversial Dengvaxia vaccine. This was confirmed by Special Assistant to the President Bong Go on Tuesday, May 21. “May nagtanong kanina kung na-inject raw ba si Kitty at ‘yung dalawang anak ni Paolo, kinonfirm naman po ng mga nanay nila na positive po na-inject po sila,” Go said. Kitty’s mother is Honeylet Avancena, the President’s current partner. Earlier, […]