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(Agence France Presse) — One of the Philippines’ biggest banks has been sanctioned over alleged fraud by one of its executives, the central bank said Tuesday. The penalties were imposed on the Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company (MBTC) after one of its vice presidents was arrested in July on suspicion of stealing 1.75 billion pesos ($34.5 million) from the bank. Some directors and officers at MBTC, better known as Metrobank, will also be suspended, the […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The anti-crime group, Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC), has announced that it is preparing an impeachment complaint against Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales. VACC Chairman Dante Jiminez said they have a thick set of documents replete with attachments which they are preparing as part of their impeachment complaint against the Ombudsman. Included in the complaint are alleged instances of delay in decisions, selective justice and injustice that the VACC claimed […]
By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service The Senate on Tuesday approved on third reading the proposed Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion that will exempt around 6.8 million workers in the country from paying income taxes. Seventeen senators voted in favor of Senate Bill No. 1592 sponsored by ways and means committee chairman Sonny Angara. In the approved version, workers who earn up to P250,000 each year will no longer pay income tax. Apart from […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – Malacañang said that it will not hinder initiatives of local government units to conduct localized peace talks with Communist rebels. Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque said that local government units have a degree of autonomy and they are free to promote localized peace talks with the rebels. “We have local autonomy so the peace talks can proceed on a local level if the local government units should want or desire […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Solicitor General Jose Calida on Tuesday said that the petitions filed before the Supreme Court questioning the government’s war on drugs were but “ingenious moves” to “destabilize” the Duterte administration and “sow anarchy.” In his opening statement at the resumption of oral arguments, Calida said the Almora petition, for one, prays “that the respondents or any of their agents, representatives or assigns be prohibited from implementing or enforcing any […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte urged Congress and the public to craft a new Constitution that he says “will suit” the Filipino way of life, and where taxpayers’ money is assured to go back to the people. At the same time, he vowed to resign once this is done. “Let’s have a Constitution that is inclusive,” he said during the anti-corruption summit of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) held at the Philippine […]
(Eagle News) — The National Privacy Commission on Tuesday confirmed that data of Filipino Uber users were among the data stolen in a breach late last year. In a statement, the NPC said this was based on information provided by Uber Philippines on Monday, over a year after the hack was reportedly deliberately hidden from the public by Uber’s US office. Uber Philippines said it had no prior knowledge about the breach that saw “some […]
Only Associate Justice De Castro allowed to speak on “adjudicative” matters By Moira Encina and Erwin Temperante Eagle News Service (Eagle News)– The Supreme Court en banc has voted to allow justices and other personnel to attend House justice panel hearings on the impeachment complaint against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. But SC spokesperson Theodore Te said the en banc–which voted unanimously without Sereno— allowed Associate Justice Noel Tijam and the others, except Associate Justice Teresita […]
By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III on Tuesday filed a cyberlibel complaint against blogger Edward Angelo Dayao after he called him and other senators “lapdogs” of Malacañang. Sotto filed the complaint before the Pasay City Prosecutors Office to take to task Dayao for his comment in his “silentnomore.ph” blog that came after Sotto and six others –Senators Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III, Richard Gordon, Manny Pacquiao, Gregorio Honasan II, Juan Miguel […]
By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service Senators raised doubts the Bangsamoro Basic Law could be passed by the end of this year, even if President Rodrigo Duterte calls for a special session of Congress. “Not even a special session can fast-track it to be passed into law this year. It contains 289 sections that hearings alone can take so much time,” Senate Majority Leader Vicente “Tito” Sotto III said on Tuesday. He added the proposed budget […]
Ni Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Nanawagan ang grupong Hukbong Federal ng Pilipinas sa labing anim na milyong Pilipino na bumoto at nagpapanalo kay Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na suportahan ang pagsusulong ng revolutionary government. Sa isinagawang press conference sa Quezon City, inilunsad ng grupo ang kanilang signature campaign na target na kumalap ng limang milyong lagda bilang suporta dito. Ayon kay Danilo Mangahas, national adviser ng Hukbong Federal Pilipinas, ito ang pinakamabilis […]
(Eagle News) — Bigong maiprisinta sa pagdinig ng House Justice Committee ang kopya ng Statement of Assets Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) ni Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. Ayon Kay University of the Philippines-Human Resources Development Office (HRDO) Director Angela Escoto na hindi nila makita ang 2002 SALN ng punong mahistrado. Mula noong 2000 hanggang 2009 , nagturo si Sereno sa U.P. bilang isang associate professor. Ang nadala lang nilang dokumento sa Kamara ay ang […]
