News Evening Round up
Sep 23, 2019 • 3 min Read
3 PMA cadets tagged in Dormitorio’s death | The Manila Times
Three cadets of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) tagged as the principal suspects behind the hazing death of Cdt. 4th Class Darwin Dormitorio have been detained and are being investigated, officials said on Sunday.
China’s blockade of Ayungin Shoal resupply ‘objectionable’ — Palace | Philippine Star
China’s actions near Ayungin or Second Thomas Shoal in the West Philippine Sea should be subject to objection, Malacañang said Monday.
Last week, the Department of National Defense submitted a report to the House of Representatives, showing that a Chinese Coast Guard ship blocked Filipino vessels on a resupply mission to BRP Sierra Madre grounded on Ayungin Shoal.
Funds for health cut by P10 billion | Inquirer.Net
Funds for health services in the P4.1-trillion national budget for 2020 that the House of Representatives approved on Friday were slashed by about P10 billion, even as the country is facing a polio epidemic as well as dengue and measles outbreaks that have claimed the lives of more than a thousand people, mostly children.
95% of BuCor corrupt—Bantag | Manila Standard
The newly appointed chief of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) believes that 95 percent of the agency’s official and personnel are corrupt and wants to replace them wholesale, a senator close to President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday.
Locsin defends rejection of anti-drug war nations’ loans | Philstar.com
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) yesterday said the Philippines refuses to take money from countries that support a United Nations resolution to monitor the government’s drug war after Malacañang earlier ordered a suspension of negotiations for loans and grants from these countries.
Interior chief seeks PDEA’s ‘direct coordination’ vs ‘ninja cops’ | ABS-CBN News
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency should have directly coordinated with the national police over the alleged recycling of narcotics by some of its officers, instead of baring the information in a legislative hearing, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said Monday.
Hazing molded me into who I am now, Albayalde says | GMA News Online
Philippine National Police chief Director General Oscar Albayalde on Monday said that he also went through hazing when he was a cadet at the Philippine Military Academy, indicating that the experience shaped him into the officer that he is today.
Boy, 5, dies in blaze | SunStar Cebu
A FIVE-YEAR-OLD boy was killed after he failed to escape from his burning house in Barangay Agus, Lapu-Lapu City on Monday morning, September 23, 2019.
Firefighters eventually found the charred remains of Mon Harry Anhao at the side of what remained of his house’s stairs.
Dengue death toll in Cordillera increases – SunStar Baguio
SEVENTEEN people have died of dengue fever from January to September this year, according to the Department of Health (DOH)-Cordillera Administrative Region (DAR).
In the weekly Talakayan sa Environment Code radio forum of the Baguio Regreening Movement (BRM), Karen Lonogan, senior health program officer of DOH-CAR, said Cordillera recorded a total of 6,203 dengue cases as of September 7, 16 percent higher than the number of cases in the same period in 2018.
SMB breaks ground for brewing facility in Iloilo – SunStar Iloilo
San Miguel Brewery Inc. (SMB) finally broke ground on its new and third brewing facility in the Visayas that will rise in a 40-hectare property in Barangay Gua-an, Leganes, Iloilo.
3 suspected Dawlah Islamiya members nabbed – SunStar Zamboanga
THREE suspected members of the Maute group, now known as the Dawlah Islamiya, were arrested in a military operation in the hinterlands of Lanao del Sur, military officials disclosed Thursday.
