December, 2017
A Christmas appeal
December 14, 2017 · By opinion.inquirer.net
Dear President Duterte: With 12 days to Christmas, children and families deserve the best of this season’s gift — to be able to celebrate Christmas with all their loved ones. We ask you to give the gift of freedom to Bishop Carlo Morales of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente and over 400 political prisoners in the […]
Read More...MMDA official jokes about shooting ‘negative’ journalists
December 14, 2017 · By Rambo Talabong for www.rappler.com
MMDA Assistant General Manager Jojo Garcia jokes that journalists who write unflattering reports about his agency should become targets of Oplan Tokhang MANILA, Philippines – Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Assistant General Manager Jojo Garcia is in hot water after joking that journalists who write “negative” reports about the MMDA should be shot. Garcia was preparing […]
Read More...PNP drug enforcement chief: No need for body cameras, we have God
December 14, 2017 · By Rambo Talabong for www.rappler.com
(UPDATED) ‘Our camera as policemen is God,’ says PNP Drug Enforcement Group chief Joseph Adnol MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Cops don’t need body cameras – they only need God watching over them. This was the sentiment of Philippine National Police (PNP) Drug Enforcement Group (DEG) Director Chief Superintendent Joseph Adnol on Wednesday, December 6, reacting […]
Read More...Eight tribal leaders shot dead by Philippine troops
December 13, 2017 ·
Two soldiers also die in what military claims was a clash with rebel group Religious leaders and human rights workers condemned the killing of eight tribal members during a military offensive on Dec. 3 against communist rebels on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. A military spokesman claimed all the dead were members of the […]
Read More...Plastic Pollutes the oceans
December 13, 2017 ·
Plastic Pollutes the oceans Fr. Felix Rebello Every year about 300 billion pounds of plastic is produced in the world and not even 5% of it is recycled. So where does the remaining 95% goes? Well most of it finds safe haven in landfills and the remaining is thrown in the oceans. It’s a known […]
Read More...In Florida, Trump attacks credibility of Roy Moore accuser as he rallies support for Alabama Senate hopeful
December 13, 2017 · By Michael Finnegan for www.latimes.com
President Trump defended embattled U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama on Friday by trying to undercut the credibility of a woman who has accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 16. At a campaign rally just over the Alabama state line in Pensacola, Fla., Trump tried to buttress Moore’s argument that Beverly […]
Read More...New drug war deadline? ‘Give me another year’ – Duterte
December 13, 2017 · By Pia Ranada for www.rappler.com
The President says he will no longer respond to criticisms of his drug war by human rights groups MANILA, Philippines – A new deadline for his controversial drug war? Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday, December 6, that he may need only just one more year to suppress drugs. “Basta sabi ko sa droga […]
Read More...Slain students ‘full-time’ rebs
December 13, 2017 · By Maricar Cinco - Correspondent for newsinfo.inquirer.net
SAN PEDRO CITY—The youngsters slain in what the military said was a clash with soldiers in Batangas province were full-time guerrillas belonging to the New People’s Army (NPA), not new recruits as some officials earlier said. Maj. Gen. Rhoderick Parayno, head of the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division, said the killings of 15 supposed members of […]
Read More...Kids arrested, abused in war on illegal drugs
December 12, 2017 · By Jodee A. Agoncillo, Mariejo S. Ramos for newsinfo.inquirer.net
(Last of two parts) Under pressure to show they are winning the fight against narcotics, police are raiding alleged drug dens with increasing frequency. But among those regularly picked up are children, who are sometimes manhandled the same way adult criminals are. A police manual revised in October last year prohibits physically harming children in […]
Read More...Businessman held for girl’s alleged rape
December 12, 2017 · By Robertzon Ramirez for www.philstar.com
MANILA, Philippines — A 71-year-old businessman was arrested in an entrapment operation at a condominium unit in Makati City on Wednesday after he allegedly raped a ninth-grade student, the Southern Police District (SPD) said yesterday. Elias Cosme, who runs a real estate business, was apprehended by police officers and social workers at a condominium in […]
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