“The recent incident in which the Senate provided Sen. Dela Rosa with protective custody and later allowing him to escape to avoid arrest is sufficient grounds to deny the interim release,” NUPL’s Ephraim Cortez said.
Sitios Sinugmawan and Plaringding residents told mission participants that the six were indeed civilians as they have talked to them personally regarding agrarian issues in their areas. They confirmed that they were not carrying any kind of firearm at any point and time, the mission, conducted last May 13 and 14, revealed.
Energy authorities are asking the NGCP and the generators to explain why power plants keep on breaking down when demand is highest. The Department of Energy itself had been unable to explain why the country’s power generators fail to ensure stable and adequate supply despite earning billions annually.
By letting Bato escape, Cayetano gave the republic another black eye, rendering real Loren’s earlier opinion that Cayetano cannot be trusted. How will the Philippine government respond to such atrocious conduct? Perhaps by doubling efforts to hunt down de la Rosa and his new sidekick, Padilla.
Imprisoned journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio is 2026’s Wallis Annenberg Justice for Women Journalists Award given to reporters unjustly detained, jailed, or imprisoned, the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) announced.
Like a thief in the night. This Biblical metaphor was exactly how Senator Ronald de la Rosa slipped back into hiding after appearing at the Philippine Senate after six months of being absent and gaining protective custody from an arrest order from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Will changing lawyers before actual trial help Rodrigo Duterte whose alleged crimes have been unanimously confirmed by the ICC pre-trial judges?
“We are under attack. Anyone watching this, we are the Senate of the Philippines…” Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano said in a brief online video message before he was cut off.
This is the second time in successive years and under two different Congresses that the controversial political figure had been impeached. Last year, Duterte had also been impeached by a vote of 215, more than two-thirds of the Lower House.
On the day that the House of Representatives meets to vote on the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte, her allies have successfully moved to remove Sotto and allies from the leadership who are seen as pro-impeachment.
