News Roundup 10 February 2022
Feb 10, 2022 • 4 min Read
Ex-CJ Davide endorses Robredo for president | PHILSTAR.COM – Former chief justice Hilario Davide Jr. has joined the growing list of former government officials endorsing the presidential bid of Vice President Leni Robredo. Describing Robredo and her running mate Sen. Francis Pangilinan as “heaven sent,” Davide said the two officials “unselfishly served the people” both in private and during their time in public office. “Only this tandem of Leni-Kiko has a vision for our country, or has presented to the people doable and achievable programs of government within their term of six years that would lift up our country and our people from years of stagnation and decay because of corruption and greed, incompetence, poor governance and failure of accountability,” Davide said in an open letter. The 86-year-old former magistrate is the father of Cebu Vice Gov. Hilario Davide III, a member of the Liberal Party who has also endorsed the Robredo-Pangilinan tandem. Two other former magistrates are also publicly supporting the opposition candidates: former Supreme Court senior associate justice Antonio Carpio and former SC associate justice and ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales. Carpio and Morales are among the convenors of opposition coalition 1Sambayan. In addition to former officials who are part of 1Sambayan, over 100 former Cabinet secretaries, military chiefs, diplomats and senior government officials are backing Robredo’s bid for the presidency.
US: Evidence proves Quiboloy’s offenses | PHILSTAR.COM – The United States Department of Justice pursued prosecution of the case against Apollo Quiboloy as evidence and facts supported violations of US criminal law, the agency said. Nicole Navas Oxman, senior communications advisor for International Law Enforcement spokesperson, noted that the “Federal Bureau of Investigation’s release of a wanted poster for fugitive Apollo Quiboloy follows a multi-year law enforcement effort.” “The US Department of Justice pursues prosecutions when the evidence and the facts support violations of US criminal law and cause us to seek an indictment from the grand jury and the grand jury returns an indictment,” Oxman said in an email to The STAR. The wanted poster for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ founder, she said, is unrelated to the Philippines’ ongoing presidential election campaign.
Cebu’s biggest transport group declares support for Leni’s presidential bid | INQUIRER.NET – Cebu’s biggest transport group has expressed support for the presidential bid of Vice President Leni Robredo, believing there will be a “just implementation” of public transport modernization if she wins as president. In a press conference Thursday, Cebu Integrated Transport Service Cooperative (CITRASCO) president Ryan Benjamin Yu said they would be at the forefront of the campaign at the grassroots level. Nine other smaller transport groups, whose routes are mostly in Mandaue, Lapu-Lapu, and Cebu Cities, supported the stand of CITRASCO. These include the Visayan United Drivers Transport and Allied Services Cooperative, cooperatives from PUV routes in Banawa, Pit-os, Talamban, Single Taxi Group, and drivers groups in Compostela and Carmen towns. Yu said they supported a different candidate before but shifted to Robredo after seeing the platform of government that would fit into the needs of the transport sector. He, however, did not want to mention the name of the presidential candidate he previously supported. CITRASCO has at least 1,000 PUV units covering Metro Cebu. Its 5,000 members are composed of jeepney and taxi drivers and operators. “We will be campaigning to our families and member communities. We will be spreading information. It will be hardcore campaigning. We will volunteer ourselves for this,” said Yu, who was joined by smaller transport and sectoral groups during the press conference.
Another less than 5K new COVID-19 cases recorded | Manila Bulletin – The Department of Health (DOH) reported 4,575 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the country on Thursday, Feb. 10—the third straight day that the Philippines logged less than 5,000 infections in a single-day. Also, the daily rise in new COVID-19 cases has remained below 10,000 for the last 10 consecutive days already. The regions with the highest number of new cases were Western Visayas, Central Visayas, and the National Capital Region. Active cases nationwide were now down to 93,307. These include 85,244 patients who are experiencing mild symptoms; 3,316 are asymptomatic; 2,991 in moderate condition; 1,444 are severely ill; and 312 in critical condition. Since 2020, the Philippines has already recorded a total of 3,627,575 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The death toll jumped to 54,783 or 1.51 percent of all infections after 94 new patients died. Meanwhile, there were 7,504 patients who have recuperated. The recovery tally stood at 3,479,485 or 95.9 percent of the case total.
