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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, June 28, shrugged off the Communist rebels’ decision to no longer hold peace talks with his administration. “E di mas mabuti..Ano to, negotiations, negosyo? If they are not willing to talk to me, that’s fine,” the President told reporters in Panglao, Bohol. According to Duterte, he was just a “worker of government” whose “main task is just to find peace for my country.” He questioned Sison’s earlier proposal […]
(Eagle News) –The National Democratic Front of the Philippines will no longer negotiate with the government of President Rodrigo Duterte, Jose Maria Sison, founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines, said on Thursday, June 28. “So long as (Duterte) heads the (Government of the Republic of the Philippines), the Filipino people, especially the oppressed and exploited, cannot expect any benefit from negotiating with the Duterte regime,” Sison said in a statement posted on the […]
(Eagle News) — “E di maganda.” President Rodrigo Duterte gave this reaction when asked to comment on ousted Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno’s statement she was open to running for a Senate seat in 2019. “Palit siya from Chief Justice to senator. Maganda. Botohin ninyo..,” he said. The President then, however, openly lashed out at Sereno, who she said “wasted the prestige of (being) Chief Justice.” “With that kind of behavior, (Senator Leila) […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, June 29, said those who think the intensified campaign against loiterers was not legal should question it before the Supreme Court. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the pronouncement, as he also welcomed a congressional investigation into the same. Roque made the move after Senator Bam Aquino filed a resolution seeking a Senate probe into the death of Genesis Argoncillo, who critics said was arrested for merely loitering, in […]
(Eagle News) — The National Union of People’s Lawyers on Wednesday, June 27, lashed out at President Rodrigo Duterte for his statement on loiterers. In a statement, NUPL president Edre Olalia said “vagrancy, as any freshman law student or lawyer who even perfunctorily listens to sedate Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) classes to ensure that their knowledge of the law is updated, is no longer a crime.” “It was decriminalised in 2012. Any existing ordinance […]
(Eagle News) — Davao Mayor Sara Duterte on Wednesday, June 27, said the #Babaeako social media campaign against President Rodrigo Duterte was bound to fail. In an Instagram post, the Davao mayor said that in the first place, “what (the President) doesn’t like lies not in the gender, but in the character.” “He has no respect for weakness. And many women and some men are known to be damsels in distress, that #babaeako included,” she said. […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said he would consult the Cabinet on his proposal to arm barangay chairpersons and tanods. “..Pero ang aking proposal no heavy firearm, shotgun lang..O mga tanod siguro ninyo, .22. Basta may panlaban lang,” Duterte said in a speech in Zamboanga del Sur. According to Duterte, the idea was to give the officials on the ground a role in the fight against criminality. “Kung bibigyan ko kayo ng armas, fight […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, June 25, reiterated he had no intention of staying in power. The President made the pronouncement amid his critics’ allegations he was planning to extend his term with his push for changes in the Constitution. According to Duterte, “wala akong hinihingi sa inyong additional power..” Duterte said that in the first place, “I’ve lived with power all my life.” He noted that he was mayor of Davao for 23 […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, June 25, urged the police to continue following his order against loiterers, including minors. “That is my order. And you continue to frisk people who are there doon sa daan,” Duterte said in a speech before newly-elected barangay chairmen of Northern Mindanao in Cagayan de Oro. According to Duterte, the President “can order, the mayor can order the barangay, issue regulations to protect public health, public safety, public order and to […]
(Eagle News) –Senator Risa Hontiveros lashed out at Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano, as she called on the government to heed the calls of 38 states for the Philippines to put an end to drug killings and to collaborate in a United Nations probe into the drug war. “I find Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano’s remark, saying that the 38 countries are simply biased and misinformed, ridiculous. So ibig sabihin biased ang Montenegro […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima on Saturday, June 22, condemned the Philippine National Police’s operations against loiterers, saying they should go after the “rude loiterer” in Malacañang instead. “Kung naghahanap ng tambay ang PNP, doon sila pumunta sa Malacañang. May bastos, palamura at tsismosong siga doon. Ang pangalan niya ay Rodrigo Roa Duterte,” she said. According to De Lima, the operations against loiterers were “really wrong.” “Pinapatay na nga nila sa ‘Tokhang’ ang mga mahihirap. […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, June 21, said he would push through with land reform even if peace talks with the Communist rebels will not continue. “With or without the talks with the communist, I will go ahead and forge a good land reform until the end of my term,” the President said in a speech in Davao City. The President had already said he would push through with the reform even if he […]
