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Housing committee chair says amendments to nat’l budget needed to accommodate housing for KADAMAY

QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – The chairman of the House committee on Housing is studying the possible amendments to the General Appropriations Act to accommodate the order of President Rodrigo Duterte for the Kadamay group to stay in the government housing project in Pandi, Bulacan. Cong. Albee Benitez said that amendments are needed in the GAA, or the national budget, because the existing housing projects already have beneficiaries. He said these housing units cannot be […]

Kadamay group grateful President Duterte allowed them to stay in Pandi, Bulacan

QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The controversial urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) said it welcomed President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement allowing its members to stay in the government housing project that they occupied in Pandi, Bulacan. Kadamay Chairman Gloria Arellano said that it is a welcome change to have a President that is open-minded about the poor. Arellano also said that the government should look into the housing shortage in the country. “So […]

President Duterte fires undersecretary; Says two more to follow

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday revealed he had fired another government official, an undersecretary, only days after he sacked a member of his Cabinet. Duterte made the revelation during a speech at the Grand Harvest Festival of the Seh Leng Agritech Corporation in Talavera,  Nueva Ecija. “Sabi ko kanina..tawagan mo..She’s fired. So pangalawa siya,” he said. The first official who was sacked this week was Department of the Interior and Local Government chief […]

Interior Usec for peace and order appointed acting Secretary of DILG

(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte appointed the department’s undersecretary for peace and order who had served previously as chief of police in Davao City as acting Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). The new DILG officer-in-charge is undersecretary for peace and order, Catalino Cuy. Presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella made the announcement on Wednesday, after the dismissal of former DILG head Ismael “Mike” Sueno because of complaints on corruption sent […]

Eight in ten Filipinos appreciate President Duterte’s performance, trust him based on latest Pulse Asia poll

(Eagle News) — Eight in ten Filipinos appreciate the performance and trust President Rodrigo Duterte. This is according to a Pulse Asia survey conducted via face-to-face interviews from March 15 to 20. The survey has a sample of 1,200 representative adults 18 years old and above, and a ± 3 percent error margin at the 95 percent confidence level. Relevant events before and during the conduct of the survey include the the filing of the first impeachment complaint against […]

Pagasa: Dry season just around the corner

(Eagle News) — The weather in the coming weeks will become warmer and drier, which would signify the start of the dry season. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration made the announcement on Wednesday, with the termination of the northeast monsoon that affected northern and central Luzon in the last few days. “However, some isolated rainshowers and thunderstorms are expected in the afternoon or evening particularly over the eastern sections due to localized convection,” it […]

5.4-magnitude quake rips through Metro Manila, parts of S. Tagalog

(Eagle News) — A 5.4-magnitude earthquake ripped through Metro Manila and some parts of Southern Tagalog on Tuesday night, prompting the Batangas government to declare a state of calamity and suspend classes. The quake was felt at Intensity IV in Makati and Obando, Bulacan, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. Intensity III was felt in Mandaluyong; Quezon City; General Trias and Dasmariñas in Cavite; in Sta. Ana, Manila; and in Lucena City, Quezon. […]

Batangas, niyanig ng 5.4 magnitude na lindol

(Eagle News) — Niyanig ng 5.4 magnitude na lindol ang lalawigan ng Tingloy, Batangas kagabi. Ito ay naramdaman bandang 8:58 ng gabi kung saan naramdaman din ang pagyanig sa karatig lalawigan. Ayon sa Philippine Institued of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), ang lindol ay may lalim na tatlong kilometro ang paggalaw at ang tectonic ang pinagmulan.

President Duterte to Inquirer and ABSCBN: You are “a bunch of (trash)”

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday again lashed out at Inquirer and ABSCBN, saying they were corrupt media organizations that were “a bunch of” trash. “Kaya sinasabi ko dyan, sa Inquirer, wag kayo magbasa dyan. Basura yan….Just like ABSCBN. They’re all a bunch of (trash),” Duterte said, using a more forceful expletive to describe the media organizations during the inauguration of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority’s crisis center in Guadalupe, Makati. His statement drew […]

President Duterte on why he fired Sueno: I did not like his answer

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday that he fired then-Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Mike Sueno because he “did not like his answer” when asked about the questionable firetruck deal the DILG had entered into. “Last night I fired a Cabinet member in a full Cabinet meeting because I did not like his answer because it was a plain lie,” he said during the inauguration of the Metropolitan Manila Development […]

President Duterte defends embattled Speaker Alvarez

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday took up the cudgels for Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, who has come under fire after admitting he had another girlfriend and children out of wedlock. “Sino ba walang babae dito? Mayor Herbert (Bautista) tumingin ka sa akin and I’ll tell you you’re a liar,” he told the Quezon City mayor, drawing laughs from the audience at the newly inaugurated Metropolitan Manila Development Authority’s Crisis Monitoring and Management Center. […]

Dismissed DILG chief Sueno insists he is not corrupt, but accepts Duterte’s decision

  (Eagle News) — Dismissed Interior and Local Government Secretary Ismael “Mike” Sueno said he has accepted “wholeheartedly” the decision of President Rodrigo Duterte, but insisted he is not corrupt. In a statement, Sueno also said he would have wanted the President to have “validated” the information that had reached him. “I just wished the information was validated. If only the President asked DILG personnel from the central down to the regional and field offices, […]