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(Eagle News)– The Department of Justice has asked a Valenzuela court to reconsider its dismissal of the charges against several suspects linked to the P6.4-billion shabu shipment mess in May. The cases for importation of dangerous drugs filed against self-confessed Customs fixer Mark Taguba, Eirene Mae Tatad, Richard Tan, Manny Li, Kenneth Dong Yi, Teejay Marcellana, Jhu Ming Jyun, Chen I-Min, Chen Rong Huan, and three others were dismissed by Judge Maria Nena Santos of the Valenzuela […]
(Eagle News)- The newly appointed officer in charge of the Department of the Interior and Local Government thanked the President for the “trust and confidence” he said was given to him. In a statement on Saturday, retired Armed Forces chief Eduardo Año also enjoined “all members of Team DILG to perform their tasks honestly and diligently towards improving the quality of the services to attain DILG’s programs for the good of our country and our countrymen.” […]
(Eagle News)– The Department of Education on Saturday condemned the rape-slay of a Grade 7 student in Camarines Sur. According to the DepEd, the victim from Tinawagan High School in Tigaon was found lifeless at a banana plantation around 50 meters from her house. According to the DepEd, the victim’s younger brother said that on December 7, 2017, he and his sister were walking home when she walked ahead of him, “made a turn to […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Millions of dollars of cocaine packed in a plastic drum has washed up on a seashore in the eastern Philippines, an anti-narcotics official said Friday. A local fisherman in the town of Matnog found the drum on Wednesday and reported it to authorities, not knowing what was inside, said Christian Frivaldo, a regional director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency. Inside the drum, anti-drug agents found about 24 kilograms (53 […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II said that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has no copy of the proposed compromise agreement between the Marcos family and the government submitted by Atty. Oliver Lozano. “That has not been tackled in the Cabinet. I could not say anything about it because I have never seen it yet,” Aguirre told reporters in a press conference. Aguirre added that he cannot make an action […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II said that President Rodrigo Duterte has yet to order Cabinet officials to study the proposed compromise deal submitted by Marcos loyalist Atty. Oliver Lozano. Aguirre also said that he had not seen the compromise agreement with the Marcoses but will of course study it once ordered to do so. The compromise agreement states that the Marcoses will give part of their wealth to the […]
(Eagle News) — The Court of Appeals has affirmed its earlier decision rejecting the enforcement of a Hawaii court’s judgment that awarded almost $2 billion in damages to martial law claimants. In its ruling, the CA’s Former Twelfth Division said there was “no new or substantial matter” raised by petitioners former Commission on Human Rights chair Etta Rosales, Hilda Narciso, Priscilla Mijares, Mariano Dimaranan, and director Joel Lamangan that warrants a reversal of its July 7, 2017 decision. […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed a former beauty queen and a retired general to government posts. Margie Moran, former wife of Davao del Norte Rep. Antonio Floirendo Jr., an ally of Duterte, was designated as a member of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ board of trustees. Her term of office will end on June 30, 2018. Retired police director Benjamin Magalong, for his part, was appointed as a member of the board […]
An expert panel of doctors from the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital is investigating if the deaths of 14 children had any link to the controversial dengue vaccine Dengvaxia, officials said Friday. Dengue was blamed for only four of the 14 deaths being probed, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said, with lupus and meningococcemia named as the cause of the others. But now the panel of experts will verify those reports, health officials said. The […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Former Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon protested the alleged violation of his human rights by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, particularly its chair Senator Richard Gordon. Faeldon said that Senator Richard Gordon, chair of the Blue Ribbon Committee did not allow him to celebrate the holiday season with his family. He also said that the committee did not allow him to have a check-up with his cardiologist and did not […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has accepted Paolo Duterte’s resignation as vice mayor of Davao. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the President did this on Friday afternoon. A letter sent by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea said the younger Duterte’s resignation was “effective immediately.” Copies of the letter, dated January 5, were also given to the younger Duterte’s sister, Sara, also the Davao mayor, and to Catalino Cuy, officer in charge of the Department […]
(Eagle News) — The National Union of People’s Lawyers on Friday expressed disappointment at the Court of Appeals’ recent decision that effectively barred death row inmate Mary Jane Veloso, who is detained in Indonesia, from testifying in the case against her alleged recruiters in the Philippines. “We are disappointed that the taking of her material testimony is being prevented by our own courts, the Court of Appeals in particular, upon motion of the accused illegal […]
