Tag: President Rodrigo Duterte

Palace: President Duterte has already given instructions to ensure safety of people within perimeter of Taal

(Eagle News)-President Rodrigo Duterte has already given instructions to ensure the people within the perimeter of Taal are out of the danger zone. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo added concerned agencies of the national government were now working closely with the Provincial Government of Batangas to ensure the safety of the residents, including their evacuation. He said the Palace was so far closely monitoring the situation. “We advise the public to continue to remain vigilant,” he […]

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Duterte urges Cabinet members to pursue projects that can be finished within his term

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, Jan. 10, urged his Cabinet members to pursue projects that can be finished within his term. The President is in his fourth year in office. He will step down in 2022. “Sabi ko sa lahat ng secretary ng mga departamento, ‘Do not go into projects which you cannot finish within the two-year time left for me in office,’” the President said in Cotabato. He was in Pigcawayan […]

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Teachers’ group “thankful” for public school teachers’ pay hike but says it’s not enough

Palace gives assurance President Duterte will comply with his promise (Eagle News) — A teachers’ group on Thursday, Jan. 9, thanked government for the increase in the salaries of public school teachers, but said this was not enough. In a statement, the Teachers Dignity Coalition national chair Benjo Basas said that while the group “recognizes” the increase in the salaries of government workers, “if (President Rodrigo Duterte) just adopted the (Salary Standardization Law) V submitted […]

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Go slams Robredo for saying drug war a “massive failure”; Filipinos feel safer, he says

(Eagle News) — Senator Bong Go on Thursday, Jan. 9, slammed Vice President Leni Robredo for her remark the drug war was a “massive failure,” saying Filipinos actually feel safer now. “Between one person using her own computation giving a grade of 1 percent, and 79 percent of Filipinos who said they are satisfied with our campaign, I will choose to believe the latter,” Go said, citing results of a Social Weather Stations that showed […]

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Duterte to Manila Water, Maynilad: “Pray nobody will be interested” in new water contracts

(Eagle News) — “Pray nobody will be interested” in the new water contracts prepared by government. This was the advice of President Rodrigo Duterte to Manila Water and Maynilad, which have yet to accept the contracts made by the Department of Justice after it found what it said were onerous provisions in the existing ones. Among these provisions were a ban on the government from interfering in setting water rates and an indemnification clause should […]

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Duterte appoints CA Justice Samuel Gaerlan to Supreme Court

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has promoted Court of Appeals Justice Samuel Gaerlan to the Supreme Court. Gaerlan filled in the post vacated by Diosdado Peralta, who is now Chief Justice. He bested the other shortlisted applicants for the SC post: Court Administrator Midas Marquez and CA justices Manuel Barrios, Ramon Garcia, Jhosep Lopez and Eduardo Peralta.

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Robredo stands by drug war report, refuses to comment on President Duterte’s “colossal blunder” remark

(Eagle News) — Vice President Leni Robredo on Wednesday, Jan. 8, stood by her report the drug war was a massive failure, despite criticisms the data she used was not accurate. Robredo, who was appointed co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee Against Illegal Drugs until she was fired by President Rodrigo Duterte with less than a month into the job, said in the first place, “we are very, very careful sa pagfinalize ng report na di […]

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Duterte orders mandatory repatriation of OFWs in Iraq as Crisis Alert reaches Level 4

(Eagle News)-The Philippine embassy in Iraq has raised a Crisis Alert Level 4, the highest among travel advisories, over Iraq amid rising tensions there following the killing of Iran’s top military official Qassam Soleimani from a US airstrike. In a Facebook Live video, Philippine Chargè d’ Affairès Jomar Sadie announced President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered a “mandatory repatriation” of Filipinos in the country. “Inatasan na po ng Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang iba’t ibang ahensya ng […]

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Duterte: PHL won’t deploy troops to Middle East unless national interest requires so

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will not deploy Philippine troops to the Middle East unless the national interest requires it. This is according to President Duterte himself, who spoke to reporters on Tuesday, Jan. 7. “(It’s) out of the question. Unless the national interest would demand it and it will be decided not by me but me and Congress,” Duterte said. According to the President, the Philippines would honor its Mutual Defense Treaty with […]

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President Duterte: Robredo “a colossal blunder”

(Eagle News)–“A colossal blunder.” This was how President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Jan. 7, described Vice President Leni Robredo after she said the administration’s drug war was a “massive failure.” The President reiterated Robredo, for all these years, has “done nothing.” The President has already said Robredo did not have the capacity to lead the country. He, however, appointed her as co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee Against Illegal Drugs last year, so she could, according to […]

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Palace: If Filipinos in Middle East are harmed, Duterte will side with US

(Eagle News) — If Filipinos in the Middle East are harmed amid the rising tensions between Iran and Iraq, and the United States, the Philippines will side with the US, the Palace said on Tuesday, Jan. 7. In a press conference, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said this was the position President Rodrigo Duterte made known during the 45th Cabinet meeting on Monday, Jan. 6, in which he expressed concerns about the welfare of Overseas Filipino […]

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Duterte approves P4.1-trillion national budget for 2020

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, Jan. 6, signed the P4.1-trillion national budget for 2020. Senator Sonny Angara, chair of the Senate finance committee, said the Department of Public Works and Highways received a net increase of P51.139 billion under the General Appropriations Act. “The idea is to complete as many projects as possible by the time President Duterte ends his term in 2022,” Angara said. Earlier, the Palace said President Duterte would veto what […]

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