NBI to investigate killings of Mayors Halili, Bote

July 5, 2018

The National Bureau of Investigation is looking into illegal drug trade as a possible link to the killing of Tanauan City Mayor Antonio Halili last Monday, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said on Wednesday. Guevarra also ordered the NBI to investigate Tuesday’s ambush

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Gov’t on target on 6-month Boracay rehab, DENR chief says

July 5, 2018

Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu said on Wednesday the government is on target of rehabilitating Boracay island in Aklan. Despite a survey by  the Social Weather Stations showing majority of the Filipinos support Boracay rehabilitation for one year, the interagency group,

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Police looking into three motives on Bote’s death

July 5, 2018

Police are looking at three motives in the killing of a town mayor in Nueva Ecija on Tuesday, which are his family’s quarrying business, government projects said linked to his company and local politics. Chief Superintendent Amador Corpus, Central Luzon police director, said

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Police say sniper did not kill Tanauan mayor

July 5, 2018

There is no evidence showing Mayor Antonio Halili of Tanauan City, Batangas was killed by a sniper,  the head of the Calabarzon regional police said Wednesday. Chief Superintendent Edward Carranza said for a gunman to be considered a sniper, the distance

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DILG says slain Nueva Ecija is not in gov’t narco list

July 5, 2018

Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) OIC-Secretary Eduardo Ano said Wedmesday Gen Tinio, Nueva Ecija Mayor Ferdinand Bote is not included on the narco list of President Rodrigo Duterte. “You know being a mayor is one of the most

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Duterte blames Church why some gov’t programs not moving forward

July 4, 2018

President Rodrigo Duterte blamed on Wednesday the Church why some of the government’s programs, particularly the family planning, have been derailed. In a speech during the 31st anniversary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Quezon City, Duterte did not

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2 years of Duterte’s drug war, no holistic national action yet, NGO says

July 4, 2018

President Rodrigo Duterte’s intensified campaign against illegal drugs has been on its second year and yet the government has no holistic national action plan, particularly to those who became orphans of the slain drug suspects, a non-government organization said on

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Stocks up ahead of June inflation report

July 4, 2018

Stocks rose on Wednesday ahead of the June inflation report. The peso closed at P53.36 against the US dollar from Tiesday’s P53.375. Volume reached $587.1 million from $511.50 million on the previous day. The Philippine Stock Exchange index finished 81.08

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