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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed former Transportation Undersecretary Cesar Chavez to the Bases Conversion and Development Authority Board of Directors. Chavez term as member will expire on June 30, 2019. Chavez had resigned as undersecretary of the Department of Transportation following the several glitches that marred the operations of the Metro Rail Transit 3. Chavez had cited a “simple sense of delicadeza” as the reason for his then-resignation.
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice maintained Senator Antonio Trillanes IV was still facing a coup d’état case despite a Makati court issuing an order dismissing the same. In a statement, Acting Prosecutor General Richard Anthony Fadullon said this was because the amnesty granted to Trillanes, on which the dismissal of the case was supposed to be anchored on, was void ab initio, or was as if it never existed in the first place. “Thus […]
(Eagle News)—Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Tuesday, Sept. 4, defended President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to revoke the amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. According to Guevarra, “the matter of taking a look at whether amnesty granted is valid or not is something that can be done at any time..” He said this was “because probably you’ve seen from the proclamation if that grant of amnesty is declared to be void then it can be […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has issued an executive order revoking the creation of the Negros Island. On Aug. 7, Duterte signed Executive Order 38 that essentially revoked former President Benigno Aquino III’s Executive Order 183, which allowed for the integration of the provinces of Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental into the Negros Island Region. Aquino, who signed EO 183 on May 29, 2015, ordered the formation of the NIR reportedly “to improve the delivery […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate adopted on Tuesday night an amended resolution that emphasized there would be no revocation of President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of martial law in Mindanao at the moment. Seventeen senators–all from the majority bloc— adopted Senate Resolution no. 388, which incorporated amendments introduced by Senator Francis Escudero. Of the Senate majority bloc, only Escudero and Senator Grace Poe did not sign the earlier version of the resolution. Those who did not vote […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice has recommended the revocation of a land agreement between the Bureau of Corrections and banana firm Tagum Agricultural Development Company Inc. owned by the family of Davao del Norte Rep. Antonio Floirendo Jr. In its list of recommendations made public during a House of Representatives hearing on the allegedly anomalous contract on Tuesday, the DOJ fact-finding committee tasked to look into the deal also instructed BuCor to “file the appropriate action for […]
