On Tuesday, November 8, the head of President Rodrigo Duterte’s economic team said that the President’s target is to lift 1.5 million people from poverty every year during his term. The plan is to sustain at least 7 percent economic growth annually. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez disclosed that Duterte wishes to reduce the poverty rate […] More
On Monday, November 7, after much disagreement and labelling it as “stupid” and “absurd,” President Rodrigo Duterte has announced that he is going to honor the Paris Agreement on climate change. Fearing this deal would curtail the economic progress of the country, the President expressed his disagreement at first. However, he told a group of […] More
Facebook user Bernard Ong urged Malacañang to learn to discern President Rodrigo Duterte’s lies from his jokes, adding that they should not use his jokes to cover up the president’s “outright lies and bad policies.” In his Facebook post on November 6, Ong showed five different instances when Duterte was lying instead of joking. Ong’s […] More
He thought he was safe being detained right inside a jail. But Rolando Espinosa, mayor of Albuera, Leyte, was wrong. Instead, he was killed in an alleged shootout with policemen right in his cell at the sub-provincial jail located in Baybay City, Leyte early Saturday morning. He died of 4 gunshot wounds. Operatives of CIDG-8, […] More
In his speech during the Integrated Bar of the Philippines regional convention, President Rodrigo Duterte had given out specifics regarding the figures who are behind the rumored ouster attempts. Although no name dropping had occurred, the description had fit Loida Nicolas-Lewis to a tee. The Filipina widow had been married to billionaire businessman Reginald Lewis […] More
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa has vowed to the public that no whitewashing on police investigations will occur over the killing of Albuera city Mayor Rolando Espinosa in his detention facility. Dela Rosa, who attended Senator Manny Pacquiao’s fight in Las Vegas on Saturday, gave out an immediate order to […] More
At the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) regional convention held in Manila Hotel, during his speech on Friday night, President Rodrigo Duterte had spoken about his health condition. “At this point in time, I am 72. Don’t ask me if I’m sick. Every 72-year old in this world is sick,” the President clarifies as […] More
Unlike in any other speeches, President Rodrigo Duterte first asked the members of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines-Greater Manila Region for permission before he again threw expletives to his critics for his administration’s ongoing war on drugs. [ads1] His complaints about the comments he heard from United States’ officials, including US President Barack Obama […] More
After the death of Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr., who was allegedly shot after he fought back the police who came to give his arrest warrant at a Leyte jail on Saturday, November 5, Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson wants to call for a resumption of the just concluded Senate inquiry on extrajudicial killings. Senator Lacson […] More
President Rodrigo Duterte said that drug syndicates now turned to kidnap-for-ransom activities because of his administration’s campaign against illegal drugs. “There’s a very low supply of drugs now, nag-shift na sila sa kidnapping,” Duterte mentioned during his speech at the regional convention of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) in Manila on Friday, November […] More
Albuera mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. was allegedly killed in a “firefight” after resisting arrest on November 5 at the Sub-Provincial Jail in Baybay, Leyte. A police incident report said, “Detectives of Northern Leyte CIDG8 led by PCI Leo Laraga together with RMU8 as participating unit implemented two search warrants inside the Sub-Provincial jail at Brgy. […] More
China giving permission to Filipino fishermen to return to Panatag Shoal is “an act of ownership,” according to former senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr. Former president and founder of PDP-Laban, the party list that selected President Rodrigo Duterte as their standard bearer for the May 2016 presidential elections, said that the issue should be raised to […] More