Department of Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Monday reiterated that ABS-CBN network may continue operating while its franchise renewal is ongoing in Congress, contrary to the position of Solicitor General Jose Calida, who wants to shut the network down using a quo warranto petition. That’s two of President Rodrigo Duterte’s crucial Cabinet men clashing on...
MANILA — The House of Representatives on Monday night approved on third and final reading a bill declaring a national emergency and granting President Rodrigo Duterte additional powers to address the coronavirus pandemic in the country. The chamber approved House Bill 6616, otherwise known as “Bayanihan to Heal as One Act”, with 284 affirmative votes, 9...
Sought for comment, Presidential Spokesperson Panelo said: “You can be correct all the time, (but) mistakes happen. Maybe this is one of them."
MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted that his strenuous job as the country’s highest elected official is making him tired “a bit.” In an exclusive interview with Russia Today aired on Friday, the 74-year-old President said there are times when he gets exhausted due to “tremendous” stress, driven by his heavy workload. “Yes, a bit,”...
MANILA — “How do we compromise?” This was the question posed by President Rodrigo Duterte to the owners of Maynilad Water Services Inc. and Manila Water Co. over the alleged onerous water concession agreements it entered into with government in 1997. “They say na, “‘aregluhin natin (Let’s reach a compromise on this).’ How? How will I compromise?...
MANILA: The Palace on Tuesday, Sept. 17, slammed as “derogatory and biased, if not outright fiction” a British-American documentary on President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. In slamming “On the President’s Orders” made by Frontline PBS, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said it, together with “its so-called cinematic investigation on drug-related deaths, evidently has been deliberately...
MANILA — The fight has just begun. This is what the parents of teenagers who have joined left-leaning youth groups have declared during a recent interview over Philippine News Agency’s (PNA) One on Juan talk show. Relissa Lucena, mother of Alicia Jasper who was recruited by Anakbayan, said she and other parents will not back down...
MANILA – The 15-day deadline given to some 2,000 freed heinous crime convicts for them to voluntarily surrender will stay as only 400 of them have so far responded to President Rodrigo Duterte’s order, Malacañang said on Monday. “The fact is that there are 400 of them coming in; it could be that the others may...
MANILA — As the Philippines joins the rest of the world in observing the International Day of the Disappeared, a ranking official of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC) lambasted the communist group for the senseless purges they have committed against their own ranks in the 1980s and contributed heavily...