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President Duterte approves nat’l broadband plan; is set to sign smoking ban EO on Tuesday

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has approved a national broadband program, and is poised to sign an executive order prohibiting smoking in public places on Tuesday. In a Facebook post, Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol said the President made the approval for the national broadband program on Monday, during the 13th Cabinet meeting in Malacañang. He said during the meeting, Department of Information and Communications Technology Secretary Rodolfo Salalima made a presentation for the program […]

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Cayetano: Human Rights Watch ‘License to kill’ report ‘not an unbiased’ source of info

(Eagle News) — Senator Alan Peter Cayetano called the Human Rights Watch a biased source of information on Monday, saying the group concluded drug suspects were being executed extrajudicially even if it only interviewed 24 of the 7,000 drug cases in the country. “HRW did not interview any of the (Philippine National Police officials),” the senator added during the Senate inquiry into the alleged killings of the so-called Davao Death Squad. Cayetano was referring to the 80-page report titled […]

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Lascañas apologizes to Senate, says he was coerced to lie

QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News)– Self-proclaimed Davao Death Squad (DDS) and former SPO3 Arturo Lascañas on Monday, March 6 apologized to Senate for his false testimony during the previous Senate hearing regarding the DDS conducted last year. “First, I’d like to ask for an apology and understanding of what I had said when I was invited (by) this honorable committee,” the retired cop said. Lascañas take back his October testimony and alleged that the DDS […]

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Cayetano reveals alleged Cabinet mass resignation plot

QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senator Alan Peter Cayetano revealed that the anti-Duterte group allegedly plans to engineer a mass resignation in the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte before the President’s second State of the Nation Address. The plan aims to paralyze the government and oust President Duterte. The group is said to be targeting those in holdover capacities or those who were appointed by former President Aquino, to join the mass resignation to […]

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Lascañas journal, fake and fabricated – Panelo

QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo dismissed the “Lascañas Journal” as a mere invention, adding that retired SPO3 Arturo Lascañas does not have a hand in its creation. “As I have previously stated, the so-called journal is a fabrication,” Panelo said in a statement. “The fact alone that it was not presented at the first opportunity is already a giveaway that it is an obvious and a no-brainer afterthought,” […]

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Senator Ejercito warns that people behind Lascañas also figured in Estrada impeachment

    (Eagle News) — Senator JV Ejercito on Monday (March 6) said that the Senate hearing on the testimony of retired police officer Arturo Lascanas should not be used as a platform to destabilize the present government, particularly to oust President Rodrigo Duterte. In a hearing by the Senate committee on public order on the testimony of retired police officer Arturo Lascanas, Ejercito pointed out that some of the people behind Lascanas when he changed his story […]

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Sotto: Was Lascañas affidavit written by several people?

(Eagle News) — Senator Tito Sotto on Monday raised the possibility of SP03 Arthur Lascañas’ affidavit being written by several people, saying there were parts that were written in a different font. “Parang cinopy, pinaste from somewhere, pinasok sa affidavit,” Sotto said in reference to the  “‘Origins of the Davao Death Squad’ part to Number 13′” of Lascañas’ written statement. “Kayo ba nagprepare nito? Bakit iba font, iba size?” the senator asked Lascañas during Monday’s Senate hearing into the so-called […]

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Cayetano points out inconsistencies in Lascañas testimony, affidavit

(Eagle News) — Senator Alan Cayetano poked holes in SP03 Arthur Lascañas’ testimony during Monday’s Senate inquiry into the so-called Davao Death Squad killings, saying there were parts there that differed from the contents of an affidavit he earlier submitted. Cayetano particularly cited what Lascañas said in his written statement that he was a founding member of an organized anticrime task force, which he said was created in 1988 to go after and “liquidate” criminals in Davao City. “Sasabihin mo (in the […]

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Sotto: Matobato and Lascañas claims the same but different at same time

(Eagle News) — Senator Tito Sotto on Monday said the testimonies of retired policeman SP03 Arthur Lascañas and Edgar Matobato did not jibe in several aspects. In particular, Sotto said that Lascañas’ testimony on where Jun Bersabal was taken after he was caught differed from that made by Matobato in a Senate inquiry last year. Lascañas, who testified on Monday’s Senate inquiry that was scheduled after he recanted his previous testimony the Davao Death Squad […]

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Lacson cites SC ruling vs flip-flopping testimonies, as Senate hears Lascanas testimony

  (Eagle News) — The Senate is again hearing today, Monday (March 6) the testimony of retired police officer Arturo Lascanas, with Senator Panfilo Lacson, head of the Senate committee on public order, warning the flip-flopping cop on Supreme Court rulings that do not allow major self-contradictions in cases of conspiracy. Lacson, himself, announced at the start of the hearing that he has “grown averse” of flip-flopping statements of witnesses, citing his personal experience of the […]

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Sueno to public: Report violence against women

QUEZON CITY — Fight the culture of silence, report violence against women (VAW). This is the call of Secretary Ismael ‘Mike’ D. Sueno of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) as the whole nation celebrates National Women’s Month this March. “To women who are victims of violence, do not be afraid in reporting and seeking help through the Barangay VAW Desk in your barangay. There is no shame in saving yourselves, your […]

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DOE sees LPG price downtrend; shares safety tips

TAGUIG CITY — With the downtrend in the international contract price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), the Department of Energy-Oil Industry Management Bureau (DOE-OIMB) announced a possible rollback in the price of an 11-kilogram LPG cylinder. Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi said that the rollback of $9/MT could translate to a P0.36/kg; or a possible P4-reduction per 11kg LPG cylinder. He said the possible reduction was based on their international price monitoring—the contract price for March amounts […]

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