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Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → May → 22 → Truth-tagging? | Courts junk cases vs red-tagged activists, peace consultants Truth-tagging? | Courts junk cases vs red-tagged activists, peace consultants Ironically, cases against red-tagged individuals are being dismissed by government courts for lack of probable cause or because of insufficient evidence. Motions to quash search warrants were also granted by the courts, declaring whatever so-called evidence the police have ...

May 20, 2021 Parañaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez yesterday ordered an investigation into the festival in Baclaran last Monday. “We will check and see if there was a shortcoming among barangay officials in Baclaran, as well as law enforcers assigned in the area,” the mayor said. It was after the video was captured that some young people joined the game without wearing face masks. A parallel investigation into the incident was ordered to identify those involved in the mass gathering at the S...

SunStar Photo credit to PTV Davao + May 16, 2021 SINCE the tightened regional border controls took effect in Davao City on Friday, May 14, 2021, around 35 vehicles were barred from entering the city, according to the Davao City Police Office (DCPO). DCPO Spokesperson Captain Rose Aguilar told SunStar Davao in a phone interview on Sunday, May 16, that around 150 individuals were denied entry to the citys regional border checkpoint in Lumundao, Marilog District due to failure to prov...

Published May 15, 2021, 8:41 AM National Bureau of Investigation The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has arrested and charged two women who attempted to leave the country for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates using “falsified” travel documents. NBI Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Director Eric B. Distor identified them as Arbaya Lintukan Mukamad alias “Sandra Lipoles” and Gretchen Ablan who were both arrested at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay City. In a statement...

Powered by the common mission of ensuring public safety and the continuous conveyance of electricity, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed by Meralco’s Chief Legal Counsel Atty. William S. Pamintuan and Chief Commercial Officer Engr. Ferdinand O. Geluz, Secretary Eduardo M. Año of the Depa

The Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) followed its “internal mechanism” before it designated self-exiled communist leader Jose Maria Sison and 28 others as terrorists for the purpose of freezing their assets, an official of the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Thursday.

Sandiganbayan The Sandiganbayan has allowed former Department of Public Works and Highways’ (DPWH) Central Visayas Regional Director Juanito P. Abergas to plead guilty to a lesser offense of failure to render accounts instead of graft. With the grant of his motion to plea bargain, Abergas

By VIRGIL LOPEZ, GMA News Published May 11, 2021 7:03pm Updated May 11, 2021 7:06pm Government lawyers on Tuesday said the Supreme Court (SC) could not strike down a provision in the anti-terror law that allows authorities to detain a suspected terrorist for up to 24 days because it is a policy determined by Congress. During the continuation of oral arguments on the petitions assailing the law’s constitutionality, Associate Justice Rodil Zalameda inquired into the Congress’ decision...

Published May 10, 2021, 4:57 PM National Bureau of Investigation A medical sales representative has been arrested and charged by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for reportedly stealing over P400,000 from a lady physician by “forging stolen checks.” NBI Officer-In-Charge Director Eric B. Distor on Monday, May 10, identified the arrested suspect as Eloisa F. Mendoza of Genace Pharma Distributor. Distor said Mendoza was arrested last Thursday, May 6, in San Fernando City in Pampanga...

May 09, 2021 THE Philippine College of Physicians-Central Visayas chapter (PCP-CV) renewed its support and expression of solidarity to its two colleagues who have been indicted for reckless imprudence resulting to homicide by reposting its official statement dated September 2020 on its official Facebook page on Saturday, May 8, 2021. "The same statements would still hold true even to this day. We stand in solidarity with our colleagues and all frontliners. Our enemy is Covid-19," t...