Duterte ‘sorry,’ returns Sinopharm jabs to China

Leila B. Salaverria, Maricar Cinco, Patricia Denise M. Chiu 05/07/2021

MANILA, Philippines — In a rare response to public criticism, President Rodrigo Duterte admitted it was wrong to get himself inoculated with the Sinopharm vaccine and ordered the return of the remainder of the 1,000 doses donated…

Duterte to study plan to push through with hike on oil excise tax

Inquirer.net 11/30/2018

President Rodrigo Duterte will look into the recommendation of the government’s economic managers to push through with the scheduled increase in oil excise taxes next year, Malacañang said Friday. The administration’s economic managers had initially called for…

DTI: No price hikes for basic goods for at least 3 months

Inquirer.net 09/12/2018

Prices of some prime commodities will not increase for at least three months amid the recent spike in inflation, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Undersecretary Ruth Castelo said yesterday. Castelo said the government convinced BNPCs or…

Duterte’s address to the nation to push through — Bong Go

Inquirer.net 09/11/2018

While President Rodrigo Duterte’s press conference was canceled on Tuesday, he is still set to deliver a speech in Malacañang later in the afternoon. In a message to Palace reporters, Presidential Communications Group Undersecretary Feducia Mia Reyes-Lucas…

Sinas orders relief of Talisay City cops

Nestle L. Semilla 09/02/2018

  Chief Supt. Debold Sinas, the director of Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), ordered the relief of the personnel of Talisay City police station. Only five non-uniformed personnel (NUP) and Supt. Marlu Conag, the station…

Local execs, militants welcome strengthened anti-deposit law

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/06/2017

RICHARD (not his real name) was rushed to a private hospital in Cebu City in 2013 after he fell down the stairs in a rented house in the city’s Barangay Capitol Site. He needed to be admitted…

Following the President’s marching orders

07/30/2017

If yesterday’s raids in Ozamiz City that resulted in the deaths of Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog and his wife Susan Parojinog along with the arrest of Vice Mayor Nova Parojinog-Echaves at their respective homes didn’t make both former…

Duterte’s quarrel with the church

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 01/23/2017

A day after President Rodrigo Roa Duterte denounced the Catholic Church for criticizing extrajudicial killings related to the antidrugs war, Presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella suggested that church leaders hold a dialogue with the President to open possible…

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