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(Eagle News) — Senator Richard Gordon on Thursday, Aug. 12, said he has recovered from COVID-19. The senator shared the news when asked in a Laging Handa public briefing. On July 28, Gordon announced he tested positive for COVID-19. “I was completely asymptomatic but because my wife, may autoimmune problem siya, siyempre ini-ingatan ko ang asawa ko, ang mga katulong namin sa bahay, mga kasama sa Red Cross, mga staff ko sa Senado,” Gordon said. […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Richard Gordon has tested positive for COVID-19. Gordon said he was so far asymptomatic. In a radio interview, he said he was staying home. He said he and his wife have already been vaccinated for COVID-19. “Magtetest siya [his wife] about three days,” he said. Gordon is the sixth senator to test positive for COVID-19. The other senators who tested positive for COVID-19 were Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri, Senators Sonny […]
Senator, his wife, 2 members of household staff test negative for virus (Eagle News)–Senator Richard Gordon and his wife have gone on quarantine after ten of the senator’s immediate staff tested positive for COVID-19. Gordon said the “self-imposed isolation” at home was really to “ensure the safety and well-being of anyone with whom we will interact in the future” as he and his wife Kate, including two of their household staff, actually tested negative for […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Richard Gordon has stressed the need for the government to stockpile on face masks, medical gowns, personal protective equipment and other strategic medical supplies to ensure sufficient stocks during epidemics and calamities. In filing Senate Bill No. 1347 or the Stockpiling Act of 2019, Gordon said if the country has sufficient supplies in stockpile, there would be no panic buying during emergencies. He cited as an example the sudden increase in the price […]
(Eagle News)–The joint Senate panel that probed the ninja cops issue has recommended the filing of charges for violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act against former Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde and the 13 policemen behind the irregular drug raid in Mexico, Pampanga in 2013. In a televised press conference, Senator Richard Gordon, chair of the justice and human rights panel, said Albayalde in particular violated Section 3a of the law, which […]
(Eagle News)–The Senate panel that cited in contempt and ordered detained three of its resource persons for “continuously lying” in its inquiry into the problems in the Bureau of Corrections has ordered them released. The order of release of BuCor legal unit chief Fredric Anthony Santos, BuCor records section chief Ramoncito Roque and New Bilibid Prison hospital doctor Ursicio Cenas was signed by justice and human rights chair Richard Gordon and was dated Sept. 19, […]
Gordon says Espino “fighting for his life” (Eagle News)–Former Pangasinan Governor Amado Espino Jr. is “fighting for his life” after his vehicle was ambushed in San Carlos, Pangasinan on Wednesday, Sept. 11. In a Tweet, Senator Richard Gordon said all five of Espino’s bodyguards “perished” as they shielded him from the attack made by a still-unidentified assailant at 4:30 p.m. Police Colonel Red Maranan, director of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office, said, however, that two […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Richard Gordon is proposing to “improve” Republic Act 10592 that increases the Good Conduct Time Allowances given to inmates. In filing Senate Bill No. 974, Gordon noted there was a need to do this so that the “meritorious principle of the law upon which it is based can be implemented,” and the law can be safeguarded from “abuse of powerful personalities whose years of imprisonment have not changed a bit the crooked and […]
(Eagle News) — Leave the talking to the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of National Defense. Senator Richard Gordon had this to say to government officials, after a Chinese vessel and a Filipino fishing boat figured in an allision near Recto Bank on June 13, and the 22 Filipino crew members, mostly fishermen, abandoned at sea. According to Gordon, too many officials speaking, especially if they are not in sync with one another, […]
(Eagle News) — For Senator Richard Gordon, the issue is not whether or not the hitting by a Chinese vessel of a Filipino fishing boat near Recto Bank was accidental. According to Gordon, “the issue is people are not supposed to be abandoned at sea,” which means Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang, for him, missed the point. “The crux of the matter is you left the fishermen in peril of the sea. Under the […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, April 30, said it supports a probe into the supposed influx of foreign doctors in the country. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo issued the statement after Senator Richard Gordon called for an investigation into an alleged syndicate that facilitates the entry of employment of such medical professionals even without the necessary permits. “He should really investigate the whys and the wherefores of this influx of foreign doctors in the […]
(Eagle News)—Senator Richard Gordon wants an investigation into what he said was a syndicate that facilitates the entry and employment of foreign doctors who practice medicine as medical consultants in certain hospitals even without the necessary permits. Gordon made the statement after learning that several doctors of Pakistani or Nepalese citizenships were working at the James L. Gordon Memorial Hospital, a government hospital in Olongapo City, as medical consultants. He said this was in violation […]
