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(Eagle News)–Don’t vote for Leni Robredo in the next elections. President Rodrigo Duterte had this to say about the vice president, who had called the administration’s drug war a failure for supposedly failing to curb the number of drug users in the country. “Huwag kayong magboto kay Leni. Kawawa kayo,” Duterte said in a speech on Thursday night. Duterte said she has never said anything good about the police, and has always been hurling criticisms […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has reiterated his offer for Vice President Leni Robredo to be the country’s drug czar, and even offered her the rank of Cabinet. In a statement on Thursday, Oct. 31, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the offer includes placing “all offices, bureaus, agencies or government instrumentalities involved in the enforcement of the law on prohibited drugs placed under her command and supervision..” According to Panelo, the offer was “to dispel all […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima “must be hallucinating,” the Palace said on Thursday, Oct. 31. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made the statement after De Lima urged President Rodrigo Duterte, whom she called a “liar,” to formally declare that he was unable to discharge his functions as the chief executive, and to let Vice President Leni Robredo take over. “But that is precisely the problem, is it not, Mr. President? First, you are not […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte is safe in Davao City following the 6.5-magnitude earthquake that hit Mindanao on Thursday, Oct. 31. This was the assurance given by the Palace after announcing the President was in Davao when the quake struck. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the earthquake was recorded at 9:11 a.m. in Tulunan town in Cotabato. This was only two days after a 6.6-magnitude tremor hit the same area, leaving several dead […]
(Eagle News)–Only President Rodrigo Duterte should lead the war on drugs, Senator Panfilo Lacson said on Tuesday, Oct. 29. According to Lacson, a former Philippine National Police chief, only the President, after all, ” can wield sufficient authority and power over our law enforcement officials.” “Unless he delegates a blanket authority, including the power to hire and fire, no one else in the government bureaucracy can do it better than the Chief Executive under any […]
(Eagle News)–Make it three years. Senator Kiko Pangilinan had this to say to President Rodrigo Duterte, after the chief executive said he was ready to give Vice President Leni Robredo the post of drug czar for six months. Duterte issued the comment after Robredo said the drug war had failed to curb the number of drug users in the country. In making the offer, Duterte criticized members of the opposition, who he said only kept […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, Oct. 28, said he was ready to appoint Vice President Leni Robredo as drug czar if she thought she could do better. The President said this was what he meant when he said he would “surrender my powers to enforce the law” to Robredo for six months. Duterte made the comment after Robredo said there was a need to reassess the drug war after it failed to curb the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will push through with his flight this week to Thailand, where he will attend the 35th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit, a Palace official said on Monday, Oct. 28. Chief of Presidential Protocol Robert Eric Borje made the announcement days after President Duterte had to cut short his trip to Japan on Oct. 22 due to “unbearable pain in his spinal column near the pelvic bone.” Duterte, who […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte met with China’s Vice Premier Hu Chunhua in the Palace on Thursday, Oct. 24. The Palace said the meeting was on infrastructure projects that would be financed by China. Duterte told Hu the Chinese official’s visit was an indication of “growing friendship” between the Philippines and China, the Palace said. Accompanying the Chinese official were China’s Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jianhua, State Council Deputy Secretary-General Gao Yu, Ministry of Foreign […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte went back to using a motorcycle days after he figured in a motorcycle accident at the Presidential Security Group compound. Pictures posted by Senator Bong Go showed Duterte on board the vehicle. Go, who was riding a motorcycle himself, was beside the President. “Ready na kami ni Tatay Digong!!! Sama kayo? Ready Set Go!!! – Kuya Bong Go,” his caption of the pictures read. Go said Duterte had a “sore hip” […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte’s back pain was merely due to “muscle spasms,” Senator Bong Go said on Wednesday, Oct. 22. Go, who worked for the President for a long time until he was elected, said this was according to the President’s long-time neurosurgeons, whom Duterte consulted after going to former Senate President Nene Pimentel’s wake on Tuesday night. Go said the President had a magnetic resonance imaging done “….at wala naman pong nakitang dapat ikabahala.” […]
(Eagle News)–The decision on whether or not the three contenders for the Philippine National Police post should undergo a lifestyle check is for President Rodrigo Duterte to make. This is according to Lt. Gen. Archie Gamboa, who was appointed officer in charge of the police force after Oscar Albayalde stepped down over the ninja cops mess. Gamboa was also among the three shortlisted by Interior Secretary Eduardo Año for the PNP chief post. The other […]
