News Roundup 12 June 2022
Jun 12, 2022 • 5 min Read
Robredo hopes Sara Duterte will continue her programs at OVP | INQUIRER.NET – Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday expressed hope that her successor, Vice President-elect Sara Duterte-Carptio will be continuing the projects that her office had started. Speaking in her weekly radio program, Robredo also assured that her office is already holding transition meetings with Duterte-Carpio “Sana … ‘yung mga nasimulan ay tuloy pa din. Nagkaroon na ng several na transition meetings. Okay naman,” she said. (I hope…those we started will continue. There have already been several transition meetings. It turned out okay.) “Okay naman ‘yung mga transition meetings. Receptive naman ‘yung team na papasok,” she added. (The transition meetings are okay. The incoming team is receptive.) She then explained that past OVPs (Office of the Vice President) have had medical assistance programs, which is why she believes that the medical efforts her office began will be continued by her successor. “Tingin ko naman to a large extent itutuloy pa din. Siguro ‘yung mas kwestyon lang ‘yung mga programang hindi institutional, kasi marami kaming inumpisahan na programa na hindi talaga siya bahagi ng OVP,” said Robredo. (I think to a large extent it will continue. Maybe the more questionable are the non -institutional programs, because we have started many programs that are not really part of the OVP.) “Halimbawa itong Angat Buhay, hindi siya bahagi ng OVP. Maraming mga programa, lalo na noong pandemic, hindi siya bahagi ng OVP pero inimplement namin noong kami na. Sana ano iyon, sana mainstitutionalize, para kahit wala na kami, tuloy tuloy pa din,” she added. (For example this Angat Buhay, it is not part of the OVP. Many programs, especially during the pandemic, were not part of the OVP but we implemented them when we were there. I hope what happens is that all of it will institutionalized, so that even if we’re gone, we’ll continue) Meanwhile, regarding the Angat Buhay non-governmental organization, Robredo said it is now currently being registered. “Kapag na-register na ito hopefully—hinahabol sana namin, na by July 1, lumabas na ‘yung approval ng ating registration para tuloy-tuloy na. Pero gusto natin kasi, above board lahat. Gusto natin na mula sa umpisa, maayos na,” she explained.
Classes in Sorsogon town suspended amid Bulusan unrest | INQUIRER.NET – Classes in the elementary and secondary levels, in both private and public schools in Juban town in Sorsogon province will be suspended on Monday, June 13, due to the threat of Mount Bulusan‘s phreatic eruption on Sunday. Arian Aguallo, information officer of the municipal disaster risk reduction and management office said on Sunday that the suspension covers classes in elementary and secondary in public and private schools. Aguallo said out of 25 villages, only the village of Guruyan was not affected by the ash fall in the town. As of 1 p.m., at least 116 families or 366 individuals from Barangay Puting Sapa were evacuated at Juban Evacuation Center, the town’s gymnasium and Tughan Evacuation Center.
Release of ‘Tinang 83’ delayed despite bail payment, release order | PHILSTAR.COM – Despite a court order, police delayed for two to three hours the release of free farmers, activists, and supporters arrested for supposedly damaging land in Concepcion, Tarlac during a land cultivation activity. As of 4 p.m., 47 out of the 83 detained have already been released. According to Sentro Para sa Tunay na Repormang Agraryo’s (SENTRA) lawyer Jobert Pahilga the police received the police order at 1 p.m. but initially refused to free the jailed farmers, their supporters, as well as members of the media who had been covering the event. “I called the COP (Chief of Police). Sinabihan daw siya ni Fiscal [Mia Mae] Montefalco na mali ang order. Sabi ko sa kanya may order to release, dapat sundin niya. Kung may mali sa order ng judge, si Montefalco mag-question,” Kahilga told Philstar.com in an online message on Sunday. (I called the COP. Fiscal Montefalco apparently told him that the order was incorrect. I told him there is already an order to release so it should be followed. If there’s something wrong with the order given by the judge, then let Montefalco question it.) “In the meantime, release niya kasi utos ng korte. Otherwise, kawawa siya at ang daming kasong arbitrary detention kakaharapin niya.” (In the meantime, he should release them because the court already ordered for it. Otherwise, he would have to unfortunately face many cases of arbitrary detention.) The release order signed by Presiding Judge Antonio Pangan was given after the arrested individuals posted bail for their provisional liberty. According to an alert by peasant advocates organization Amihan – National Federation of Peasant Women at 2:45 p.m. on Sunday, it was Police Lt. Col. Reynold Macabitas — Concepcion, Tarlac acting police chief — who refused to recognize the release order. Town police initially did not want to release the detainees because they had expected the Information, or formal charge, to be filed before the court on Monday. The detainees lawyers brought the Information to the judge themselves so they could process bail proceedings, lawyer Joseline Martinez-Clemente of the National Union of People’s Lawyers told Philstar.com over the phone. “Kami na yung nagdala kay Judge Pangan kasi jurisdiction niya yun. Pagkatapos, nag-file kami ng motion to post bail tsaka reduce bail. Ginrant naman niya,” she also said. (We brought it to Judge Pangan because it is his jurisdiction. After that, we filed the motion to post bail and to reduce bail. He granted it.) “Sabi nila, dapat sa Lunes pa yan, e nakapag-issue na ng order si ano, nakita naman ni judge na okay naman yung mga papel namin tsaka yung Information so kung meron silang reklamo then they file the corresponding complaint nila later, but at the moment, they have to follow the legal order of the judge.” (The police said the release should have been on Monday, but the judge had already issued it. The judge saw that our documents were in order and if the police have any issues, they can file the corresponding complaint later. But, at the moment, they have to follow the legal order of the judge.)
