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Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte was caught on camera punching a sheriff of the Davao Regional Trial Court Branch 15 who was serving a demolition order on Friday.
Duterte said she had asked court sheriff Abe Andres to wait for 2 hours before serving a demolition order that would destroy shanties of 500 families in Barangay Kapitan Tomas Monteverde Sr. Suliman, Agdao.
She said Andres ignored the order, causing tension to break out in the area.
What’s the basis for such an appointment? It could not be competence because he has proven as BuCor chief to be clueless about his job.
He said his understanding of his job was just policy-making and he refused to take command responsibility for the violation of his subordinate for allowing former Batangas Governor Antonio Leviste, in prison for the 2007 killing of his business associate Rafael de las Alas, to go out of the jail accompanied by fellow inmates.
Diokno also considered the practice of prisoners living out a “small matter.”
Sa halip na magbigay siya ng panahon sa pagtuturo sa mga prosecutor o piskal kung paano maging asintado sa pagbabaril, dapat siguro ang asikasuhin ni Pangulo Aquino ay ang solusyon sa nakakabahalang sitwasyun ng peace and order sa bansa.
Sa kanyang talumpati sa National Convention ng Prosecutors League of the Philippines sa General Santos City, nagboluntaryo si Aquino na maging instructor ng prosecutors sa pagbabaril. Ang isang hilig kasi ng Pangulo maiban sa mamahalin at mabibilis na kotse at maglaro ng computer games at mag-baril.
Maganda naman sana ang kanyang speech. Sinabi niya na alam niya ang panganib na sinusu-ong ng mga prosecutor na siyang tagapagtanggol ng pamahalaan at mamamayan sa mga kasong criminal. Merong public prosecutors na empleyado ng pamahalaan at merong private prosecutors, mga abogado na kinukuha ng mga biktima.
Update: The office of the Ombudsman is defying the President’s order and said it will not implement the dismissal of Gonzales because they have conducted their internal investigation and have cleared Gonzalez of any wrong doing.
Here’s the 15-page decision from the Office of the Executive Secretary: OP decision on Gonzalez
This is a press release from the Office of Executive Secretary Paquito “Jojo” Ochoa , who headed the panel that reviewed the recommendation of the Investigation and Review Committee headed by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima that headed the investigation of the Aug. 23 tragedy.
We hope Gonzalez is just the first of those that will be hold accountable for the fiasco that cost the lives of 8 Hongkong nationals and a series of blunders in the country’s relations with China.We are waiting what the government will do with Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim, DILG Undersecretary Rico Puno and former PNP Chief Jesus Verzosa. They too were negligent of their duties.
Deputy Ombudsman Emilio Gonzalez III has been dismissed by the Office of the President (OP) for gross neglect of duty and gross misconduct in handling the dismissal complaint against hostage-taker former P/Sr. Insp. Rolando Mendoza, on recommendation of Palace lawyers who reviewed the findings of the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC).
Click here:Court of Appeals final decision on Lacson
By Jomar Canlas
Manila Times
This was the ruling of the Court of Appeals (CA), which also declared that the Department of Justice’s standing order for the senator’s arrest and detention could be a ground for a possible criminal charge of arbitrary detention against Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.
In a 16-page resolution of the appellate court’s Special 16th Division, a copy of which was obtained by The Manila Times, the court said that the ruling automatically lifted the warrant of arrest issued against Lacson and immediately nullifies his indictment before the Regional Trial Court of Manila in connection with the Dacer-Corbito double-murder case.
The appellate court promulgated the ruling, written by Associate Justice Ramon Bato Jr., on March 18, 2011.
It stressed that the lifting of the arrest warrant against Lacson is immediately executory, unless the Supreme Court, through preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order, restrains the appellate court.
By Luz Rimban and Artha Kira Paredes VERA Files BANGUED, Abra.—A spate of killings here has left at least five people dead in a span…
Aba, malaking bagay yan. Tatlong oras lang ang nakalipas, nagsalita na siya. Kahit pa sabihin nating “motherhood statement” lang ang sinabi niya, kahit naman papaano nagsalita at bumisita pa ng gabing yun din sa mga dinala sa ospital.
Malayong-malayo sa nangyari noong Agosto 23 nang nanghostage ang isa maykasong pulis ng isang bus na puno ng turista galing Hongkong. Umaga nagsimula ang panghu-hostage, inabot na ng gabi ni isang sentence, walang sinasabi si Aquino. Hindi nga alam ng marami kung nasaan siya ng mga oras nay un at kung alam niya ang nangyayari.
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines has added Ortega’s name to the long list of journalists of have been killed in a country that prides itself as a democracy but at the same is one of the most dangerous working place for journalists.
Ortega was a veterinarian and environmentalist who was also a radio commentator. He was shot at close range while he was shopping in an ukay-ukay store. The gunman, Marlon Dicamata, has been apprehended.
Police has traced the gun used in the killing of Ortega to former Provincial Administrator Romeo Seratubias, who reports said claimed to have sold the gun to someone else.
Last month, Malou Tiquia, president of Publicus, which is into political management and strategizing, went to her veterinary clinic in Quezon City to pick up her beagle.
She parked her car, a Ford Fiesta, in front of her vet’s clinic located between Ferino’s Bibingka and Tapa King and Pizza Hut. “The place is well lighted and guarded,” Malou underscored.
It didn’t take her five minutes to pick up her beagle and when she came back, she found her car burglarized.
“Tinangay lahat my whole bag with wallet, cards and everything, two laptops because we just came from a briefing of a client. My make-up kit,” Malou related.
Nagawa ang pagpatay sa pamamagitan ng landmine sa Las Navas sa Northern Samar. Mga miyembro ng 803rd Brigade ang nasawi na pabalik na sa headquarters para umuwi sa pamilya sa Pasko at bagong taon.
Malalim ang sama ng loob ni Parlade. Sabi niya:
“ Ang tanong namin: nasaan ang mga human rights advocates? Nasaan ang mga nagpu-protekta ng karapatan ng mga bata?