Tag: Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office

Retired policeman appointed to PCSO; Abas re-appointed as COMELEC chief

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed a retired policeman to the board of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, and re-appointed Sheriff Abas as chief of the Commission on Elections. Anselmo Pinili, the President’s former special envoy on transnational crime, replaced Jorge Corpuz, who resigned citing “health reasons.” Pinili’s term of office will expire on June 30, 2018. Abas, meanwhile, was re-appointed  after the Commission on Appointments did not act on his appointment in November […]

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PCSO chair Corpuz resigns

(Eagle News) — Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office Chair Jose Jorge Corpuz has resigned. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the announcement in a statement on Friday. According to Roque, Corpuz also resigned as members of the agency’s board of directors. The presidential spokesperson said he cited health reasons behind his resignation. “Mr. Corpuz, for the information of everyone, is not the person whom the President said he will fire for corruption,” Roque said. Only recently, the […]

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Cam files grave threats charges vs PCSO’s Balutan

(Eagle News) — Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office board member Sandra Cam filed grave threats charges against the agency’s general manager Alexander Balutan, whom she accused of being behind the alleged threats she has been receiving since she revealed the conduct of a lavish party in the agency. Cam filed the complaint before the Mandaluyong Prosecutor’s Office. Cam alleged that the first threat she received was on December 27. She said on that day, for the […]

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PCSO’s Cam mulls filing grave threats charges vs the agency’s head

(Eagle News) — Newly appointed Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office board director Sandra Cam on Thursday said she was mulling filing charges for grave threats against the agency’s head. In a press conference, Cam said this was because she believed he was behind the threats she has been receiving for the past weeks, right after she divulged what she said was the lavish year-end party held by the agency for its employees. Cam said the party […]

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Roque: President Duterte to probe “lavish” PCSO party

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will look into what Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office director Sandra Cam said was a “lavish” year-end party held for the agency recently. “Well, I think you know that the President does not tolerate extravagance, so we do not know yet. I’m sure the President will look into the matter. As you know, he’s very sensitive to what is reported by his own people in the different branches of government…,” […]

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PCSO chair defends year-end party slammed as “lavish” by newly appointed director Cam

Says party was “well-deserved” by employees (Eagle News) — The head of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office on Thursday defended the conduct of a year-end party for the agency’s employees, adding he was open to any inquiry into the money spent on the celebration. Jose Jorge Corpuz made the pronouncement a day after Sandra Cam, the newly appointed PCSO director, slammed the “lavish” party reportedly held at the EDSA Shangri-la Hotel, a five-star hotel. Cam […]

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Aquino ignores Arroyo in first NSC meet

MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — It surely is an awkward moment for former President Benigno Aquino III to finally meet again his political nemesis and predecessor, then president and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. This is the first National Security Council (NSC) meeting held in Malacañang. A video by state-run radio-television Malacañang showed that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte had a photo opportunity with the past presidents before he convened the NSC. At the first […]

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Appealing Arroyo’s case to SC is waste of time – Former Sandiganbayan Justice

Former Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Edilberto Sandoval said the plan of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales to appeal the victorious ruling of the Supreme Court for former president and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is a waste of time. At the weekly news forum, Usaping Balita at Serye Restaurant in Quezon City, Sandoval said Morales should learn to accept the SC ruling being a former member of the chamber. Morales, in a press conference Wednesday, said that […]

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