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(Eagle News) — Vice President Leni Robredo has asked the Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, to junk former Senator Ferdinand Marcos’ motion that seeks the dismissal of her counterprotest in connection with the 2016 elections. In her motion dated May 5, Robredo’s camp said her compliance to the PET’s order that she pay the first tranche of a protest fee of P15.44 million has rendered Marcos’ motion moot. The former senator had sought the help of the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Commission on Appointments cannot be investigated by the Senate and the House of Representatives, two senators who are members of the CA said amid calls to probe the powerful body. According to Senate Majority Leader Vicente “Tito” Sotto and Senator Panfilo Lacson, the Commission on Appointments (CA) is an independent constitutional body and therefore could not be investigated by the houses of Congress. “Not by the House, not […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – Former Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief of staff Roy Cimatu is a good choice as secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), according to Senator Panfilo Lacson. “He is definitely a good choice. I happen to know him all the way back to our military days,” said Lacson in a statement after Cimatu’s appointment. Lacson said that he knows Cimatu since the time that […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said “we were ignorant” when typhoon Yolanda hit in November 2013. Duterte made the statement during the launch of the first-ever humanitarian mission ship, MV Amazing Grace. “I was really appalled that despite the fact that the warning came to us early, (that there was the) most powerful typhoon so far in the century, many of our countrymen took it lightly,” he noted. “We were ignorant when the typhoon hit,” Duterte, […]
(Eagle News) — The incoming President. This was how President Rodrigo Duterte described Philippine Red Cross Chair Richard Gordon on Tuesday, as he heaped praises on the senator during the launch of the country’s first ever humanitarian mission ship. Duterte used the reference several times in front of members of the audience, who were apparently amused. “We local government officials…we are not new to disasters..We deal with (them) almost every other day….We stare eyeball to eyeball with human tragedy. But nothing can beat […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang assured the public that there is no whitewash in the cases involving controversial pork barrel personality, Janet Lim Napoles, as it dismissed accusations that there was a deal between her and the government. Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said that the Court of Appeals decision to acquit Napoles on the illegal detention case filed against her by whistleblower Benhur Luy has “no direct impact on her pork-barrel cases.” “Government is clear that there is […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed former House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. as special envoy for inter-cultural dialogue. De Venecia–who was peace envoy during Fidel Ramos’ administration—will hold the post from April to September 2017, Foreign Affairs spokesperson Robespierre Bolivar confirmed on Tuesday in a text to reporters.
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice has recommended the revocation of a land agreement between the Bureau of Corrections and banana firm Tagum Agricultural Development Company Inc. owned by the family of Davao del Norte Rep. Antonio Floirendo Jr. In its list of recommendations made public during a House of Representatives hearing on the allegedly anomalous contract on Tuesday, the DOJ fact-finding committee tasked to look into the deal also instructed BuCor to “file the appropriate action for […]
(Eagle News)– Around 400 Martial Law victims lined up on Monday (May 8) at the Human Rights Victims’ Claims Board in University of the Philippines Diliman to get their initial compensation for the suffering they experienced during the Marcos regime. HRVCB chair Lina Sarmiento said the first batch of more than 4,000 claimants will receive a minimum of P12,500. The HRVCB targets to finish processing the claims of all Martial Law victims by 2018. Most of […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Former Environment Secretary Gina Lopez, urged the public, including her supporters, to give the newly appointed Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary, Roy Cimatu a “chance.” This was disclosed on Monday afternoon during Lopez’s speech expressing her gratitude after a group of environmental activists chained themselves to the gate of the DENR office. This was to protest the alleged influence of big businesses in government, particularly in […]
(Eagle News) — So be it. This was the reaction of Davao del Norte Rep. Antonio Floirendo after he was removed from the powerful Commission on Appointments on Monday. In a statement, Floirendo said from the very start, his position at the CA was “at the behest of the Lower House leadership.” “If the House leadership deemed me as no longer needed in the CA post, then so be it,” he said. He said he […]
Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella on Monday, May 8, announced the appointment of Nestor Espenilla Jr. as the new governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) at the Rizal Hall in Malacañang.
