Tag: Santos

US House ousts ‘crook’ congressman in historic vote

By Frankie TAGGART WASHINGTON, Dec 1, 2023 (AFP) – US lawmakers voted Friday to expel George Santos, the scandal-plagued politician who lied his way into Congress and has been indicted on charges of bankrolling his lavish lifestyle with stolen donor cash. One of the most colorful but controversial figures in the 234-year history of the House of Representatives, the New York Republican is only the third person to join Washington’s rogues gallery of ejected lawmakers […]

DOJ chief Guevarra directs NBI to probe killing of suspended BuCor legal chief

  (Eagle News) – The Department of Justice has asked the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to investigate the killing of the Bureau of Corrections former legal chief who was gunned down on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 19, in Muntinlupa City as he was about to fetch his young daughter at school. In Department Order No. 82 dated Feb. 19, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra directed the NBI to “conduct an investigation and case build-up on the […]

INC sets 4 world records for May 6 Worldwide Walk; INC now has 24 Guinness records in all

(Eagle News) – The Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) has set its fourth record title for its historic May 6 Worldwide Walk to Fight Poverty with the announcement from Guinness that the INC had broken its own record for the largest charity walk in multiple venues. Guinness awarded on Tuesday, June 12, the official certificates for the four new world record titles that the INC had set for its historic global march. With this, […]

Chemical container blaze restricts Brazil’s Santos port

Up to a dozen containers carrying chemicals caught fire at a terminal at Brazil’s largest port of Santos on Thursday (January 14, 2016), restricting ship movement, representatives of the port authority Codesp said. The fire at the container terminal operated by logistics company Localfrio in Guaruja, on the eastern side of Santos, started around 3 p.m. Brasilia time (1700 GMT), sending plumes of smoke across the shipping channel at the commodity exporting port. A spokeswoman […]