Tag: President Rodrigo Duterte

President Duterte to lead command conference on Typhoon “Ompong” today

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will lead a command conference on Typhoon “Ompong” on Thursday, Sept. 14. According to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, the command conference will be held at the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council Operations Center in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City at 3 p.m. “Ompong” entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility on Wednesday, Sept. 12, prompting the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration to raise a Storm Signal Number One  […]

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Duterte meets US envoy in Malacañang

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte and United States Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim had a meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 11. In a Twitter post, Kim said he and Duterte had an “excellent” meeting on “shared goals including defense priorities and economic partnership.” “Our alliance remains strong and iron-clad,” Kim said. The meeting between the President and Kim took place after Duterte lambasted  US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs Randall Schriver […]

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Trillanes names lawyers to represent him in Proclamation No. 572 court proceedings

(Eagle News)–Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Thursday, Sept. 13, revealed the names of the lawyers who would represent him in legal proceedings stemming from the issuance of Proclamation No. 572. Trillanes said his lawyers  are former University of the Philippines College of Law Dean Pacifico Agabin, law professor Joselito Chan, former Solicitor General Florin Hilbay, and the senator’s chief legal counsel Reynaldo Robles. He called  them “the best legal minds in the country who are […]

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Sison denies conspiracy to oust the President; Duterte is a “congenital liar, political swindler,” Sison says

(Eagle News)–Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison called President Rodrigo Duterte a “congenital liar and an incorrigible political swindler” after the chief executive said he had evidence of the conspiracy among the Communists, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and other members of the political opposition to oust him as president. “And I challenge him to present publicly what he claims as recorded conversations,” Sison said, referring to what Duterte said were taped conversations […]

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Duterte says he may recommend NFA Council abolition to Congress

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Sept. 11, said he may recommend the abolition of the National Food Authority Council. According to Duterte, he may make the recommendation to Congress. “It has not done any purpose. It only hinders the operation (of the NFA),” Duterte said. According to Duterte, “we need not have four or five” people who will make the decisions. He said “one” was enough. In the same speech, Duterte said […]

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Duterte declassifies supposed proof of conspiracy among Trillanes, Communists, other opposition members to oust him

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Sept. 11, said he has evidence to prove that Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, Communist rebels and members of the political opposition were conniving to oust him from the presidency. In a nationally televised tête-à-tête with Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo, Duterte said he had already ordered the evidence–“the conversation provided by a foreign country sympathetic to us”–declassified. He said the “connection” will be showed any day now. “It might […]

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Duterte: New airports to be built in Sangley Point, Bulacan

(Eagle News) — There will be new airports in Sangley Point and Bulacan. This is according to President Rodrigo Duterte himself, who spoke with Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo in a nationally televised tête-à-tête on Tuesday, Sept. 11. Duterte did not provide details. He earlier said, however, that there was a need to decongest the existing airports.  

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Duterte: PHL to have its third telco player by December

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Sept. 11, said the country would have its third telecommunications player by December. In his nationally televised tête-à-tête with Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo, Duterte said that in choosing the same, he would not follow the lowest bidder rule. “I will select (yung may) pinakamagandang record. I will choose the best. Pinakamahal, the best track record in the business,” Duterte said.  

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Duterte: Trillanes’ mother engaged in business with PHL Navy even when the now-senator, his father were still in naval service

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Sept. 11, lashed out at Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, saying it was his family who engaged in businesses with the Navy even when he and his father were in the naval service. “Ang problema kay Trillanes is he is crucifying (Special Assistant to the President) Bong Go for entering into business with government. But there was a time in the Navy’s history, ang tatay (ni Trillanes) nasa […]

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Duterte on why he believes amnesty granted to Trillanes is void ab initio: Grant of amnesty, pardon can only be done by President, not by Cabinet member

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Sept. 11, maintained the amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV was void ab initio because it was signed by then-Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and not by then-President Benigno Aquino III. In his tête-à-tête with Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo, Duterte said the granting of pardon or amnesty was, after all, “an act of state.” “It cannot be delegated to anybody but to the … president itself..Yung.. Constitution […]

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President Duterte to hold tête-à-tête with Panelo

(Eagle News) — The scheduled public press conference of President Rodrigo Duterte has been cancelled. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the President would instead hold a tête-à-tête with Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo. The event is only open to the government station PTV4. In a television interview, Panelo had said Duterte would talk about the issues hounding the country.

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Roque: Magdalo group also behind ouster plot vs Duterte

(Eagle News)—Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Tuesday, Sept. 11, tagged the Magdalo group led by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV as behind a supposed ouster plot against President Rodrigo Duterte “Itong grupong Magdalo, talaga namang ito ‘yung kanilang hobby, magpatalsik ng gobyerno bagama’t hindi naman sila nagwawagi,” he said in an interview. Earlier, Roque said also involved in the plot were the Liberal Party and Communist rebels. Roque denied  the ouster claims were mere attempts to […]

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