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(Eagle News Service) — The senate is set to review the possibility of reviving death penalty in the country. In an interview with senate reporters, Senator Vicente Sotto III has again revived his call for the re-imposition of the death penalty in the country, following the exposed luxurious prison lifestyle of several convicted drug lords in the New Bilibid Prison (NBP). The senator, however, said that he will amend his bill that imposes death penalty […]
(Reuters) — At least 132 students and nine staff members were killed on Tuesday (December16) when Taliban gunmen broke into a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and opened fire, an army spokesman said, in the bloodiest massacre the country has seen for years. “In the rescue operation today, around 960 children and staff members were rescued from here. I have given you the casualty figures, but I will repeat it again for your knowledge that 132 children and nine […]
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned a deadly Taliban attack on a Pakistan school on Tuesday (December 16) as “an act of horror and rank cowardice to attack defenseless children while they learn.” “No cause can justify such brutality. No grievance can excuse such horror,” Ban said. “Getting an education is every child’s right. Going to school should not have to be an act of bravery.” At least 130 people, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday after Taliban gunmen broke into […]
The Aquino administration showed concern yesterday over the decision of three Sandiganbayan justices to inhibit themselves from trying the plunder and graft cases against Senator Jinggoy Estrada. “The interest of the people is that there should be no delay in the proceedings and the wheels of justice must continue to turn,” said Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma. In a letter to the anti-graft court’s presiding Justice Amparo Cabotaje-Tang, Associate Justices Roland Jurado, Alexander Gesmundo and Ma. Theresa […]
(Eagle News Service) — Justice Secretary Leila de Lima asked officials of the New Bilibid Prisons, including the commander of the jailguards in NBP’s maximum security compound, to explain how the drug inmates had managed to live luxuriously while inside the prison compound. De Lima asked NBP head Superintendent Franklin Bucayu for the list of all the assigned officers in the NBP’s maximum security compound, to determine who should be blamed for the illegal activities […]
The Palace on Tuesday offered its condolences to the victims of the hostage-taking incident in a café in Sydney, Australia where three persons, including the hostage-taker, died. Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr. said that the Filipino nation is sending its sympathies and offering condolences to the families of those killed in the Lindt cafe siege in Sydney, Australia. “Pinaabot ng sambayanang Pilipino ang pakikiramay at panalangin sa mga mamamayan ng Australia dahil […]
The Japanese government on Tuesday (December 16) ordered the culling of roughly 4,000 poultry at a farm in western Japan after bird flu was detected in three of the chickens there, Japan’s Kyodo News reported. Health authorities said three chickens from a farm in Nobeoka City, Miyazaki Prefecture, tested positive for a highly pathogenic H5 strain of avian influenza, Kyodo News said. Local government on Tuesday began slaughtering all of the roughly 4,000 birds raised at the farm. Officials said they will […]
Vice president Jejomar Binay is facing another plunder complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman. This time, the vice president is alleged to have pocketed millions of pesos from the alleged overpriced Makati Science High School.
Sobrang suplay ng langis sa Pandaigdigang Merkado ang dahilan ng magkaka-sunod na rollback sa presyo ng produktong petrolyo sa bansa. Ayon Energy Undersecretary Zenaida Monsada, nagkaroon ng sobrang suplay ng langis sa International Market kaya’ bumaba ang presyuhan nito. Ang inaasahang pangangailangan ng langis lalo na sa Europe, China at Amerika ay hindi nagamit kaya sumobra ang suplay. Aa pagkakataong ito ay umiral ang tinatawag na Law of Supply and Demand na nagkaroon ng magandang […]
Muling ipinagharap ng plunder complaint sa Ombudsman sina Vice President Jejomar Binay at anak na si Makati City Mayor Jun Jun Binay. Sa pagkakataong ito, dahil naman sa umano’y overpriced na Makati Science High School building sa Cembo Makat ang reklamo. Sa complaint ni Atty. Renato Bondal, inakusahan nito ang mag amang Binay na kumita umano ng 800-milyong pisong kickback. Ang Makati Science High School building umano ang pinakamahal na High School building sa kasaysayan […]
Dapat abangan ang inaasahang pag-isyu ng arrest warrant kay US marine private first class Joseph Scott Pemberton ayon kay Atty. Harry Roque, abogado ng pamilya Laude. Kasunod ito ng pagsampa ng kasong murder ng Olongapo prosecutor’s office kay Pemberton kaugnay ng pagpaslang kay Jeffrey Laude noong Oktubre a-onse. Hamon ni Roque kay AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Gregorio Catapang… Ilabas nito ang arrest warrant. Obligasyon aniya ni Catapang na arestuhin si Pemberton at hayaan ang […]
Mananatili hanggang July 15 sa susunod na taon ang mga depot sa Pandacan. Ayon kay Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada, pinal na ang kanilang desisyon na ipasara ang depot para sa isasagawang development at gagawin na itong “Income-generating site.” Balak itong patayunan ng mga gusali at mall na magbibigay ng mas maraming trabaho sa mga residente sa paligid ng depot at income sa gobyerno Sinabi ni Estrada na ipinag-utos na ng Supreme Court ang pagpapatanggal sa […]
