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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said the Philippines would receive 5,000 firearms from a “friendly country.” In a speech during the inauguration of a shooting range in Davao, Duterte did not say which country this was, but said the firearms would be received “in the next few days.” “We will survive and we will win this pocket wars. And we will be a great nation someday,” the President said. In October, Russia […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to look into the possible liabilities of the agency that recruited Overseas Filipino Worker Joanna Demafelis, whose body was found in a freezer in an abandoned apartment in Kuwait. Aguirre gave the order to probe Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Global E-Human Resources Inc. through Department Order 102 issued on Monday. “…The (NBI), through Director Dante A. Gierran, is hereby […]
(Eagle News)– Members of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan tagged in President Rodrigo Duterte’s narco-list will not be tolerated. PDP-Laban President and Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III issued the statement following reports several new members of the party have been included in the list. “As the President and our chairman said, if you are unfairly linked to the drug trade, you will be given the chance to clear your name. However, no help will […]
(Eagle News)—The agency that recruited Joanna Demafelis will be held liable, the labor chief said a day after the Department of Foreign Affairs announced the arrest of her employer in Lebanon. In an interview over dzbb on Saturday, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said Demafelis’ recruiters would be held accountable “civilly or administratively.” He said this was “unless Kuwaiti police have evidence to link them to the violent death of Joanna.” “Hahanapin natin yun,” he […]
Criminal charges were filed on Friday against the son-in-law of National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultant Rafael Baylosis. The charges for illegal possession of firearm and ammunition were filed against Marklen Maojo Maga, a suspected member of the New People’s Army, before the Department of Justice. Maga, 38, was arrested by the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-National Capital Region and the military’s intelligence unit in San Mateo, Rizal on Thursday. The arrest was […]
(Eagle News) — Malacañang on Thursday summoned United States Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim over the US intelligence report that cited President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war and his pronouncements on the revolutionary government and nationwide martial as “regional threats.” In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said Executive Secretary Medialdea has also instructed the Department of Foreign Affairs, through the Philippine embassy in Washington D.C., “to coordinate and engage with the US agencies involved in the writing […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Grace Poe on Friday revived her call for Congress to pass a bill that would grant President Rodrigo Duterte emergency powers to address vehicular congestion in Metro Manila. Poe did this after the Japan International Cooperation Agency said around P3.5 billion per day were lost due to traffic in the country, a figure that was higher than the P2.4 billion JICA estimated was lost per day in 2012. According to Poe, the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday said someone should be held accountable for the Malampaya fund gas mess. “Alam mo ang malas ng Pilipinas? Ewan ko, Diyos lang ang makasagot nito. Ang Indonesia, may oil. Brunei, may oil. Ang Malaysia, may oil. Tayo, wala. Kokonti lang gas natin [Malampaya] kinurakot,” he said in a speech in Camp General Adriano Hernandez, Dingle, Iloilo. He said “somebody has to account for the loss” of funds. […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service President Rodrigo Duterte has instructed Philippine National Police Chief Ronald dela Rosa to form five more battalions that can help in the fight against terrorism. Dela Rosa said he received the instruction on Wednesday night. “So we will be adding …more battalions of Special Action Force,” Dela Rosa said, noting that one SAF battalion was composed of 500 people. According to the PNP chief, the additional men were apart […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday stood by the order to ban Rappler reporter Pia Ranada from covering Malacanang events, saying her organization was “not a legitimate agency according to the (Securities and Exchange Commission)” in the first place. The President was referring to the SEC’s January decision that revoked Rappler’s license on the grounds it violated the constitutional provision that bars foreign ownership of media, among others. “So I am now invoking […]
Defends Davao mayor’s creation of a regional party, though (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday took a hands-off stance in the “rift” between his daughter, Davao Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, and Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, even as he defended her move to create a regional party. When asked about the issue after his visit to the wake of Joanna Demafelis in Sara, Iloilo, Duterte said: “Puro sila abogado. Hayaan mo.” “Inday wanted to just.may group […]
(Eagle News) — Davao Mayor Sara Duterte on Thursday slammed Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez after he supposedly called her part of the opposition, and emphasized that he could impeach a President. “Ano sabi mo in a crowd, ‘President iba siya, Speaker ako, I can always impeach him!” And you call me opposition? Somebody should really tell the President about the truth,” she said in a Twitter post. She added: “Kung as*h*le ka sa Congress, don’t bring […]
