News Roundup 15 December 2019
Dec 15, 2019 • 2 min Read
Businessman shot dead in Bacolod City | INQUIRER.NET – A businessman was killed in an ambush on CL Montelibano Avenue in Barangay Estefania in this city at around 9:45 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15. Roberto “Kaishek” Lo Tan, 70, was driving his Nissan Sentra car when two men onboard a motorcycle overtook his vehicle and fired six times at him.
Robredo: PDEA chief supportive in private, dismissive in interviews | PHILSTAR.COM – Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday said she was disappointed with how Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Director General Aaron Aquino, whom she said changed his stance depending on who he was talking to. Her words came after Aquino’s pronouncements on Thursday that Robredo failed to communicate with the clusters in the Inter-agency Committee on Anti-illegal Drugs (ICAD) during her time as its co-chair. “Ilang beses na, ang sinasabi sa ikan, iba yung sinasabi sa media,” she said on her radio show, BISErbisyong LENI on Sunday. (Several times, what he told me was different from what he told media)
Maynilad, Manila Water concession deals with MWSS still up for renegotiation | Manila Bulletin – The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) has clarified the status of its concession agreements with Maynilad Water Services, Inc., and Manila Water Company, Inc., with the agency’s chief saying that the extension of these deals are still up for renegotiation. “It is still subject for renegotiation,” MWSS Administrator Emmanuel Salamat said in an interview. “So we are not saying that they are already done.” Salamat issued the statement following the decision of MWSS Board of Directors to revoke the existing board resolution approving the extension of the agency’s concession deals with Maynilad and Manila Water.
Robredo to release drug war report on Monday | The Manila Times – Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo confirmed that she will release her report on the government’s drug war to the public on Monday, December 16. Robredo said she will share an overview of the 30-page report, which contains her findings and recommendations on the anti-illegal drug campaign obtained from her 18-day-stint as co-chairman of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD). “Bibigyan natin ng kopya si Presidente, siyempre, kasi naka-address sa kaniya iyon. Bibigyan natin ng kopya iyong members ng ICAD. Bibigyan natin ng kopya iyong media (We will give the President a copy, of course, because the report is addressed to him. We will also give a copy to the members of ICAD. We will also give a copy to the media),” Robredo said on her weekly radio show on Sunday.
