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(Eagle News) — Japan did not cease its search for the 36 Filipino seafarers who remain missing after a cargo ship sank more than two weeks ago. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin said Japan in fact continued its search that Saturday “against protocol.” According to Locsin, he, the Philippine ambassador to Japan, and the Japanese government “are on this.” “On the other hand, I refuse to ask other Asian powers to join in the search […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Risa Hontiveros on Sunday, May 3, confirmed one of her staff members tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement, Hontiveros said Jaye dela Cruz Bekema, her chief legislative officer, confirmed in April she was COVID-19-positive, five days after she lost her baby at 18 weeks. “We all celebrated with her when she announced to us that she was pregnant and would be able to avail of the 105 day expanded maternity leave we […]
(Eagle News) — Immigration commissioner Jaime Morente still enjoys the trust and confidence of President Rodrigo Duterte, the Palace said on Tuesday, Feb. 18. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made the remark amid the allegations of corruption hurled against unscrupulous immigration personnel who escort Chinese Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators workers in the airport in exchange for a fee. “Until he says otherwise, the assumption is [that] he has confidence in him,” Panelo said. Senator Risa Hontiveros […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Risa Hontiveros on Sunday, Dec. 8, reiterated it was a crime for hospitals to ask a person in need of urgent emergency care for cash deposits before attending to him or her. Under RA 10932, or the Strengthened Anti-Hospital Deposit Law, in cases of emergency which can lead to a person’s death, the hospital will not “request, solicit, demand or accept any deposit or any other form of advance payment” before giving the […]
(Eagle News)–Appropriate but not closure. This was how Senator Risa Hontiveros described Oscar Albayalde’s resignation as Philippine National Police chief following allegations he intervened in the status of the cases of 13 policemen behind a 2013 irregular drug raid in Pampanga. “I welcome the decision of General Oscar Albayalde, my mistah, to relinquish his post… Given the gravity of accusations, which have further demoralized an already misdirected police force, his decision to step down was […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Risa Hontiveros has filed a bill that seeks a probe into the recent spate of killings in Negros Oriental. In urging the committees on public order and dangerous drugs, and justice to investigate in Senate Resolution No. 47, Hontiveros noted that the killings were “an easy and chilling example of the violence against civilians that has flourished under the culture of impunity and lawlessness in the country.” “It is this that has made […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Risa Hontiveros has called for “an urgent and comprehensive” probe into the funds being used and released by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) following reports PhilHealth funds were misused to pay for the dialysis treatments of deceased patients. “The gravity of the recent allegations should prompt government to check if every peso under the PhilHealth is indeed being used in a manner compliant with laws and the PhilHealth’s mandate. We […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte has vetoed a bill banning corporal punishment on children. In vetoing the consolidated Senate Bill No. 1477 and House Bill No. 8239, Duterte said he did not share the “overly sweeping condemnation” of such a practice. He said he was “of the firm conviction that responsible parents can and have administered corporal punishment in a self-restrained manner, such that the children remember it not as an act of hate or abuse, but […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Risa Hontiveros called on Public Attorneys Office chief Persida Acosta to resign, following the measles outbreak in several parts of the country which some blamed on the hype made by the lawyer of the Dengvaxia controversy. “(Her) lies have slain children…. Her lies and hysterics contributed directly to the erosion of public trust in our vaccination programs. And because of this, 55 children have lost their lives to measles, and an outbreak now […]
(Eagle News) — Opposition senator Risa Hontiveros has reiterated her opposition to lowering the minimum age of criminal liability in the country, even if the House of Representatives has already amended and passed on second reading a bill that pegged the same at 12 years old. The bill is an amended version of the bill earlier passed by the House justice panel that pegged the minimum age of criminal responsibility at nine years old, from […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Risa Hontiveros on Saturday, Jan. 12, said the Department of Foreign Affairs owes the country an explanation for the loss of passport data by its former passport maker. “The recent admission that a privately contracted firm took the entire physical database of all of the country’s passport holders indicates a serious national security risk, and is evidence of the Duterte government’s gross incompetence in protecting the people’s private data,” Hontiveros said in a […]
(Eagle News)—-Senator Risa Hontiveros said President Rodrigo Duterte was the “single biggest threat to human rights in the Philippines.” Hontiveros’ statement came on Dec. 10, Monday, a date the United Nations declared as International Human Rights Day. “The President has singlehandedly rolled back human rights safeguards and made the country a haven for human rights violators,” she said. Hontiveros noted what she said was the “bloody and abusive” war on drugs, which she said “has set […]
