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(Eagle News)–Vice President Leni Robredo visited Cagayan on Sunday, Nov. 15. Robredo made the announcement in a Tweet. “We arrived in Cagayan this morning. Our team arrived a few hours earlier with supplies,” she said. She said the situation was “so much better.” “Many areas still flooded but water receded already,” she said. Cagayan has been placed under a state of calamity following the effects of “Ulysses” on the province. The Philippine National Police has […]
(Eagle News) — Vice-President Leni Robredo said she and her staff have tested negative for COVID-19 after taking the swab test. In a tweet in her official twitter account, Robredo said that all of them at the Office of the Vice-President (OVP) who were exposed to a COVID-19 positive person last week had tested negative for the virus. “All of the OVP staff who were exposed last week tested negative. Thank God!! All the activities […]
(Eagle News) – Vice-President Leni Robredo said she and her staff are under quarantine after being exposed to a person who turned out to be COVID-19 positive last week. In her weekly radio program, “Biserbisyong Leni” on Sunday, Oct. 25, Robredo said that the exposure happened sometime Wednesday or Thursday while she and her team were doing the rounds of their project regarding community learning hubs in Metro Manila. “Umikot kami. Monday nasa Pasig, […]
(Eagle News) – Palace spokesperson Harry Roque chided Vice-President Leni Robredo for her 50 percent trust rating and 57 percent performance rating in the recent Pulse Asia survey, and blamed this on her alleged “politicking amid the pandemic.” In a press briefing, Roque noted that Robredo was a “far fourth” behind President Rodrigo Duterte, Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto IV, and House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano. President Duterte was leading with a 91 percent […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte congratulated Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu for the rehabilitation, cleaning and beautification of Manila Bay as a portion of the bay area which had been covered with crushed dolomite rocks became an instant attraction for both locals and foreigners. “Let us begin by congratulating Secretary Cimatu. You know I remember that meeting and I think everybody was there when I said, ‘Roy, kaya mong linisin ‘to? And his answer […]
(Eagle News) — Vice-President Leni Robredo greeted the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) on its 106th anniversary on Monday, July 27, 2020, and noted how the Church had helped the nation amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Robredo cited how the Church had allowed the use of the Philippine Arena to serve as treatment and isolation center for COVID-19 patients. She also noted how the Church members had continued worship services even inside their homes amid […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace has conveyed its condolences to Vice President Leni Robredo for the passing of her mother on Saturday, Feb. 22. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo noted that Salvacion Gerona was a “selfless and dedicated teacher who molded countless of young minds across the generation.” Gerona was a an English professor at the Universidad de Santa Isabel in Naga. “We wish to extend our heartfelt condolences to Vice President Ma. Leonor ‘Leni’ […]
(Eagle News)–Vice President Leni Robredo is scheduled to visit on Tuesday residents of Santa Teresita, Batangas who were affected by Taal volcano’s activity. An advisory said Robredo was scheduled to attend a briefing at Bulwagan Makulot at the San Fernando Air Base, Lipa, Batangas at 1 p.m. At 2:45 p.m., she would go to Santa Teresita, Batangas. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said an alert level 4 remains hoisted over Taal volcano, which […]
(Eagle News)–“A colossal blunder.” This was how President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Jan. 7, described Vice President Leni Robredo after she said the administration’s drug war was a “massive failure.” The President reiterated Robredo, for all these years, has “done nothing.” The President has already said Robredo did not have the capacity to lead the country. He, however, appointed her as co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee Against Illegal Drugs last year, so she could, according to […]
(Eagle News) — Vice President Leni Robredo said she would release whatever she had found out in the three weeks that she had been the country’s anti-illegal drug czar as she vowed to fight the drug war in her own way, questioning even President Rodrigo Duterte’s sincerity in fighting illegal drugs. “Sa mga susunod na araw, magbibigay ako ng ulat sa bayan. Sasabihin ko ang aking natuklasan at aking mga rekomendasyon,” Robredo said after […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte explained that he decided not to appoint Vice-President Leni Robredo as a cabinet member because he believed doing so would “jeopardize” the country’s state secrets. Speaking late Tuesday night, Nov. 19, Duterte said that he is not allowing state secrets to be known by Robredo, and that she could have access only on a “need to know basis” to certain confidential information on the anti-illegal drug war. The President […]
https://youtu.be/gtHd8siAZnE (Eagle News) – A repackaging or “retooling” of the Philippine government’s current anti-illegal drugs campaign is now in the works after the meeting of Vice-President Leni Robredo with the Philippine National Police (PNP) The “tokhang” operations which had been linked negatively to drug killings will just be “retooled”, but the government’s drug war would not be stopped or removed, officials said. “Ang isa sa kanyang suggestion din is retooling on how we are going […]
