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Gloria loses voice; no immigration record of Mike leaving for HK

Published by Ellen on August 4, 2011

Update: Mike Arroyo, misspelled name in BI Departure card; De Lima apologized for wrong info to public

By Ashzel Hachero
Malaya

Former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo is undergoing therapy due to loss of voice following cervical spine surgery last week at the St. Luke’s Medical Center in Taguig City.

GMA leaves hospital
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Doctors said Arroyo has been told to rest at her house for a month. She also was told to rest her voice. Doctors said there are no complications from her cervical spine surgery. However, she lost her voice after her vocal cords got swollen after she started to receive visitors last Wednesday.

“Her vocal chords were swollen and until now are swollen not because of complication in the surgery but they were strained because of use of cellphones,” Cervantes said.

Mayor Jerry Pelayo of Candaba, Pampanga, a close Arroyo ally, Arroyo is prohibited from talking, reading newspapers and watching television.

Sacked ‘torture’ cop now teaches criminology

Published by Ellen on July 18, 2011

By Mylah Reyes Roque
VERA Files

The Manila policeman dismissed from the service after he was caught on video allegedly torturing a theft suspect at a Tondo police station is now teaching—in a college for would-be policemen.

Police Inspector Joselito Binayug is a part-time instructor at the privately run Philippine College of Criminology-Manila Law College (PCCR-MLC), where he has been teaching Crime Detection Investigation since June.

The Philippine National Police dismissed Binayug from the service on Jan. 14, 2011 after Task Force Asuncion, which was formed to investigate allegations of torture at the Asuncion police station, confirmed that he was the policeman in the video. The footage showed a naked man lying on the floor of the police station, and was leaked to a TV station and the Internet in August.

Robredo no longer ‘acting’ DILG secretary, gets regular appointment from Aquino

Published by Ellen on June 27, 2011

After almost a year, President Benigno Aquino III has decided that he can work with Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo, whom he is…

Walang akong ituturo -Michael Ray Aquino

Published by Ellen on June 26, 2011

MRA Inquirer — Thanks to Inquirer for the photo.

Sa kanyang statement pagdating niya dito kahapon ng umaga mula sa sampung taong paninirahan sa Amerika, klarong sinabi ni dating Police Senior Superintendent Michael Ray Aquino na hindi siya inutusan ni dating Pangulong Joseph Estrad o si Sen. Panfilo Lacson na kidnapin, saktan o patayin si Salvador ‘Bubby” Dacer, isang publicist, at ang kanyang driver na si Emmanuel Corbito.

Sinabi ni Aquino na nang ininterbyu siya ng media noong 2001, sinabi niya na wala siyang kinalaman sa pagkamatay ng dalawa at hanggang ngayon, ganun din ang sasabihin niya. “ That’s the truth and nothing has changed since then. Then and now, I still maintain my innocence.”

Dagdag pa ni Aquino,”Gusto ko pong malaman ng sambayanang Pilipino na wala pong utos sa akin si President Joseph Ejercito Estrada o si Senator Panfilo M. Lacson to kidnap, harm and/or murder anyone specifically Mr. Salvador Dacer and Mr. Emmanuel Corbito. Wala na po akong maidaragdag, dahil wala po akong karagdagang kaalaman.”

U.S. court affirms probable cause vs Michael Ray Aquino

Published by Ellen on May 5, 2011

Former Police Officer Michael Ray Aquino is expected to be coming home soon. The mandate issued by the Court of Appeals (3rd circuit) is equivalent…

Accountability in the Aug 23 hostage tragedy

Published by Ellen on April 3, 2011

The bus 2 — If only the deputy ombudsman did his job honestly

The order of the Office of the President to dismiss Deputy Ombudsman Emilio Gonzalez from the service for “gross neglect of duty, gross inefficiency and misconduct in office (that) amounted to a betrayal of the public trust reposed in him” in connection with the case of former Manila Police District Police Senior Inspector (Captain) Rolando del Rosario Mendoza gave credence to the latter’s claim that he was a victim of injustice.

Of course, no one condones how Mendoza demanded justice which was to hijack a tourist bus full of Hong Kong nationals on a holiday visit. At the end of a 10-hour crisis that showed bungling by authorities, eight of the Hong Kong nationals were killed.

The actions of President Aquino during and after the grim incident had set a chain of diplomatic bunglings that have lasting effect on relations with China.

Statement of Sen. Panfilo Lacson on ‘pabaon’

Published by Ellen on February 16, 2011

Following statement was sent by Sen. Panfilo Lacson. I have verified it to be his statement.

No welcome, no send off

When I took over the helm of the Philippine National Police in November 1999,I was told that there was P40M per year in “commander’s reserve” at the exclusive disposal of the C,PNP. I was never interested. I instructed my Director for Comptrollership, then Police Director, now Congressman Romeo Acop of Antipolo City to treat that reserved fund as part and parcel of the general fund for personnel welfare and other operational activities of the command.

The monthly gas allowance for the C, PNP was equivalent to the consumption of 50 vehicles or more even if allowed to run 24 hours a day. Mindful of complaints that police cars often ran out of gas, I ordered the excess allowance downloaded to front line units.

I was likewise presented with a high limit credit card with the information that I could swipe it both for personal and official purposes. Again, I asked my office administrative officer, then Chief Insp. Asper Cabula to return the credit card with clear instructions not to activate it.

Marami pa ang dapat abutin ng diwa ng Pasko

Published by Ellen on December 26, 2010

dec 26 jolo bombing — After the blast. Manila Bulletin photo

Dalawang insidente sa Muslim Mindanao ang nangyari noong Sabado na dagok na naman sa seguridad ng bansa at nagpaala-ala sa atin na marami sa atin ang hindi na aabot ng diwa ng Pasko.

Una ay ang pagbomba sa simbahan sa loob ng kampo ng Philippine National Police sa Jolo at ang pangalawa ay ang pagtakas ng apat na suspek ng pambubumba sa detention center ng PNP sa Zamboanga city.

Kung sino man ang may kagagawan ng pagbubomba sa simbahan, maitim ang kanyang kaluluwa.

Nakakabahala din ito dahil kung itong lugar na dapat protektado dahil nasa loob ng kampo ng pulis ay napasukan ng terorista, saan pa ang lugar na ligtas ang ordinaryong mamamayan?

Wala naman daw namatay ngunit sampo ang nasugatan.

Former police official in Dacer-Corbito case appeals extradition

Published by Ellen on December 19, 2010

By VERA Files

Former police officer Michael Ray Aquino has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to junk the Philippine government’s request that he be extradited for the murder of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and Dacer’s driver, Emmanuel Corbito.

In his appeal filed Dec. 14, Aquino cited the lack of probable cause, noting the prosecution’s pattern of witness and evidence tampering.

Aquino anchored his appeal on the prosecution’s failure to produce Dacer and Corbito’s remains.

“Without a victim, there is no death. In the absence of death, there is no crime of murder. Without a crime, there can be no basis for a finding of probable cause,” he said.

House approves amnesty proclamation for Trillanes et al

Published by Ellen on December 13, 2010

Judge Oscar Pimentel of Makati Regional Trial Court denied the petition of Trillanes to cancel promulgation of the coup d ‘etat case in the light of the amnesty proclamation. Promulgation today.

In a vote of 213 “Yes” and seven “No”, the House of Representatives concurred with Proclamation 75 which grants amnesty to military and police personnel who participated in the July 2003 Oakwood mutiny, the February 2006 attempted withdrawal of support and the November 2007 Manila Peninsula siege.

Some congressmen took time to explain their vote. Bayan Rep. Teddy Casiño said, “Patriots deserve freedom.”

While a number of them expressed the hope that it would be the last amnesty to military rebels they would have to concur with, Rep. Salvador Escudero said, “I pray that the present and future governments govern well” so as not to give reasons for members of the military to rebel.

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