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(Eagle News) — Former Presidential Commission on Good Government Chair Camilo Sabio was arrested on Tuesday based on outstanding warrants issued by the Sandiganbayan for graft and malversation of funds. The 82-year-old Sabio — who is facing the charges in the fourth and fifth divisions — was taken to the National Bureau of Investigation in Manila, where he underwent the booking process. The Sandiganbayan sentenced Sabio to serve a maximum of 12 years imprisonment for the […]
(Eagle News) — The medical technologist who supposedly found Horacio Castillo III’s body on a street in Manila is now considered a “person of interest” by police, after officials of the barangay where he claimed to have found the University of Sto. Tomas law student’s body denied a body had indeed been found there. Supt. Erwin Margarejo, Manila Police District spokesperson, said it was officials themselves of Barangay 133 who issued a statement disputing John […]
(Eagle News) — Inihirit ng limang transport group sa Land Trasportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) ang dagdag-singil sa pasahe ng jeep. Hiling ng grupo, na mula sa otso (8) pesos ay gawing sampung piso ang minimum jeepney fare, kasabay ito ng pagtaas sa presyo ng gasolina. Kabilang sa mga nagpetisyon sa taas-pasahe ay ang Federation of Jeepney Operators and Drivers Association Of The Philippines (FEJODAP), Alliance of Concerned Transport Organization (ACTO), Liga ng Transport […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Bagong Henerasyon party-list Representative Bernadette-Herrera Dy urged fellow lawmakers in the House of Representatives to act on her proposal to make all kinds of hazing illegal. Herrera Dy, who is also chair of the information committee, made the statement following the death of Horacio Castillo III, a first-year law student at the University of Sto. Tomas, allegedly due to hazing. Castillo’s body–which bore candle and cigarette marks, and bruises—was […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Richard Gordon is set to summon San Juan Regional Trial Court Judge Jovencio Gascon to the next blue ribbon committee hearing into the P6.4-billion drug shipment that slipped through the Bureau of Customs via express lanes, and corruption in that agency. This was after it was revealed in Thursday’s hearing that Gascon failed to order the destruction of 890 kilograms of shabu seized in December 2016. According to Senator Panfilo Lacson, […]
(Eagle News) – Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to probe the death of 22-year old University of the Sto. Tomas (UST) law freshman Horacio Tomas Castillo III during a “welcome rites” of the Aegis Juris fraternity. Aguirre, an alumnus of San Beda’s Lex Talionis Fraternitas, said that “deaths and physical injuries due to hazing have no place in a civilized society.” “The loss of a life […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella on Tuesday clarified that private companies and schools would be the ones to determine whether there would be classes and work in their respective institutions on Sept. 21. Abella made the clarification as he announced that the Palace would, within the day, release a memorandum circular specifying that there would be no work in government offices–both local and national—nor classes in public schools and state universities and colleges […]
(Eagle News) — Isinusulong ng isang mambabatas na isama ang basic journalism sa mandatory subject ng Senior High School. Paliwanag ni Bulacan Representative Jose Antonio Sy-Alvarado, napapanahon nang isama ang panukala sa curriculum upang makatulong aniya ang mga estudyante na maiparating ang tamang impormasyon sa publiko. Ang pagsali aniya sa basic journalism ay makakatulong na makabuo ng tamang pagpapahayag ng saloobin. Sa tala ng Department of Education (DepEd), nasa 1.3 million ang mga estudyanteng nasa […]
(Eagle News) — Magtataas ng singil sa tubig ang Manila Water dahil sa pagbaba kamakailan ng halaga ng piso. Ayon sa Manila Water, epektibo ang Foreign Currency Differential Adjustment (FCDA) ng Php 1.21 bawat cubic meter labinlimang (15) araw matapos ang publication ng pagtataas ng singil ng tubig sa pahayagan. Ang nasabing adjustment ay alinsunod sa palitan ng halaga ng dolyar at Chinese Yuan kontra piso. Ang FCDA component ng water bill ay ma-aadjust sa 4.86 […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency has filed criminal charges against former Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon and several others over the P6.4-billion drug shipment that slipped through Customs via express lanes in May. PDEA filed charges for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act, particularly for conspiracy to import illegal drugs and for protecting or coddling drug traffickers against Faeldon and others from the BOC —BOC directors Milo Maestrecampo and Neil Anthony Estrella; intelligence officers […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said that the remainder of what was the supposed budget of the Commission on Human Rights can be used to procure state-of-the art body cameras for the police. President Duterte said that if the proposed CHR budget will not be returned, it can be used to buy new police equipment. “If you do not want to return the budget to the CHR, why don’t you invest […]
(Eagle News) — Iloilo Mayor Jed Mabilog, who was tagged by President Rodrigo Duterte as a “narcopolitician,” and another city official are facing graft complaints for entering into an allegedly anomalous towing services agreement in 2015. In a statement on Monday, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales said there was probable cause to charge Mabilog and Sangguniang Panlungsod member Plaridel Nava II with one count of violation of Section 3 (h) of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices […]
