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(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night revealed how former Commission on Higher Education chair Patricia Licuanan came to resign, saying he threatened to file charges against her if she did not make the move. “Sabi ko kay Bong (Go), ‘Tawagan mo. Sabihin mo kay (Executive Secretary Salvador) Medialdea. Either she steps down or I will file a case against her. Mamili siya,’” Duterte said at an event attended by local executives from Visayas […]
(Eagle News) — A high-ranking official of the Commission on Higher Education has resigned. The resignation of Karol Mark Yee, CHEd executive director, came after the resignation of CHEd Chair Patricia Licuanan amid allegations she took questionable trips. “As the President may be aware, following my appointment last July 2017, there have been ongoing legal and political challenges that have since constrained the full exercise of my authority and duty,” Yee said in his letter […]
By Jodi Bustos Eagle News Service QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News)– Senator Chiz Escudero on Wednesday denied that he was behind the proposal to confer a University of the Philippines honorary doctorate to President Rodrigo Duterte, but admitted that he “did not object when it was proposed.” “I did not move but I did not object when it was proposed given that it is a UP tradition that Philippine heads of state (including the Chief Justice […]
