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(Eagle News) — A former policeman who has been detained at the New Bilibid Prisons for the last 15 years testified of how he personally delivered P1.5 million in cash to then former Justice Secretary Leila De Lima placed inside a gift-wrapped shoe carton box. Former Police Officer 3 Engelberto Durano, a member of the Batang Cebu Brotherhood member, told the House committee on Justice hearing that he personally handed over to De Lima […]
(Eagle News)– Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Thursday (October 6) revealed that former Justice Undersecretary Francisco Baraan III has already left the country even before the House started its probe on the proliferation of drugs inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP). Aguirre said the House-issued subpoena for Baraan was not received by Baraan since he has already left on August 25. The House of Representatives inquiry started on September 20 and is still ongoing. Baraan is included […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed broadcast journalist Jose Santiago “Chito” Sta. Romana as the Philippines’ new ambassador to China. Along with Sta. Romana, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spokesperson Charles Jose was also named Philippines’ ambassador to Malaysia. “I accept the nomination with a deep sense of humility and I hope I can live up to the challenge of promoting the country’s interests and improving the relations between the Philippines and China,” Sta. Romana […]
(Eagle News) — A member of the Presidential Security Group who was once detailed as a close-in security of former Justice Secretary Leila De Lima testified before the House of Representatives on the alleged closeness and sweetness of De Lima to her former driver Ronnie Dayan. Jonel Sanchez was the first witness presented at the House hearing Thursday morning by the Department of Justice. Sanchez chose to testify even if the House committee on […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte garnered a “very good” rating in the recent Social Weather Stations’ (SWS) survey, despite his controversial tirades against United States and other international communities. The data were collected September 24 to 27. The survey, which conducted through interviews with 1,200 adults nationwide showed that 75% of them were satisfied, while 13 percent were undecided. With a net satisfaction of +64%, Duterte fared better than his predecessors, except former President […]
by Kerry Sheridan / with Daniel Woolls in Washington MIAMI, United States (AFP) — The United States began evacuating coastal areas on Wednesday as Hurricane Matthew churned toward the Bahamas, after killing at least 14 people in the Caribbean in a maelstrom of wind, mud and water. Haiti’s presidential election, scheduled for Sunday, was postponed after Matthew blasted the impoverished nation, knocking out a key bridge providing access to the country’s south where […]
(Eagle News)– Senator Leila De Lima on Wednesday (October 5) expressed her gratitude to Senator Richard Gordon for not pursuing the ethics complaint he planned to file against her. “I sincerely thank him na hindi na niya po itutuloy for the sake of the institution,” De Lima said in an interview. “We have better things to do in the Senate. Marami pong trabaho ang Senado. And then hindi ho maganda sa imahe ng institusyon na […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senator Richard Gordon said he will no longer file an ethics complaint against Senator Leila De Lima. Gordon said this after talking to Senator Sonny Trillanes before the start of the plenary session. Sen. Trillanes did not say what he and Gordon talked about. However, he admits that disagreements really happen when senators are on opposing sides of the issue.
Typhoon Chaba hits South Korea, bringing heavy rains that swelled rivers to bursting point, flooding city streets and forcing mass flight cancellations. The typhoon left six persons dead and at least four missing after triggering flashfloods in the southern coast of the country.
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea cleaned up Thursday after Typhoon Chaba lashed its southern coast with powerful winds and heavy rains that triggered flash floods and left six people dead and four missing. The violent storm passed over the southern tip of the Korean peninsula on Wednesday, pummelling the port of Busan — the country’s second-largest city — and the industrial city of Ulsan. In Ulsan, a man drowned near his apartment […]
(Eagle News)– Because of his delicate health condition, convicted kidnapper and high-profile inmate Jaybee Sebastian failed to attend the resumption of hearings at the House of Representatives on Thursday morning (October 6) regarding the illegal drug anomalies at the national penitentiary. At the start of the hearings in Congress, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said that Sebastian was supposed to appear that morning but that the recommendation of the medical doctor attending to him was […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — In response to the campaign of the Duterte administration to end contractualization, at least 200 business establishments have already regularized more than 10,000 employees, according to the Department of Labor and Employment. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said this was only 20 percent of the 50 percent target of the department. https://youtu.be/Q7e0sh4GM84
