News Roundup 24 June 2021
Jun 24, 2021 • 4 min Read
Ex-president Noynoy Aquino died ‘peacefully in his sleep’ – family | INQUIRER.NET – Former President Benigno S. Aquino III died “peacefully in his sleep” on Thursday morning, his family said. “It is with profound grief that on behalf of our family, I am confirming that our brother Benigno ‘Noynoy’ S. Aquino III died peacefully in his sleep,” the family’s statement announced, as read by the this sister, Pinky Aquino-Abellada. “His death certificate pronounced his death at 6:30 a.m due to renal disease secondary to diabetes,” she added. Aquino served as the 15th President of the Republic of the Philippines from 2010-2016.
‘He will be missed:’ Leni Robredo heartbroken over demise of Aquino | INQUIRER.NET – “Nakakadurog ng puso.” This was how Vice President Leni Robredo described the passing of former President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III, who she described as a good friend and a faithful leader of the country. Aquino died “peacefully in his sleep” due to renal disease secondary to diabetes, his family said. He was 61. “Nakakadurog ng puso ang balitang wala na si PNoy. Mabuti siyang kaibigan at tapat na pangulo. He tried to do what was right, even when it was not popular,” Robredo said in a tweet Thursday. “Tahimik at walang pagod siyang nagtrabaho para makatulong sa marami. He will be missed. Nakikiramay ako sa kanyang pamilya,” she added.
Locsin eulogizes ‘brave, incorruptible’ PNoy as DFA lauds foreign policy legacy | PHILSTAR.COM – Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Thursday grieved the death of former President Benigno Aquino III who he remembered as “brave” and “indifferent to power and its trappings.” The fifteenth president of the Philippines died earlier Thursday after being rushed to the Capitol Medical Center in Quezon City. He was 61 years old. In a series of tweets, Locsin said that the former president “wasn’t fond” of him but admitted he could not help but admire the “incorruptible” son of two late democracy icons anyway. Locsin served as press secretary to Aquino’s mother, former President Corazon Aquino. “I’m out of Twitter from grief over the death of a sea-green incorruptible, brave under armed attack, wounded in crossfire, indifferent to power and its trappings,” Locsin said. “[He] ruled our country with a puzzling coldness but only because he hid his feelings so well it was thought he had none,” the top diplomat added. “[I]t was the way he and his siblings were raised by a great woman—their mother and of our restored democracy (without her none in power yesterday and today would be).” The late president’s mother Cory “believed that one must never let oneself go no matter the occasion or provocation; showing feelings was vulgar which I too believe but am guilty of,” the foreign affairs secretary known for his outbursts on Twitter admitted. “I beg his sisters to allow me the honor to share their grief. He wasn’t fond of me but I could not bring myself not to admire him.”
SC Justice Caguioa to Pres. Aquino: ‘Decent, respectful, the best of us’ | Manila Bulletin – Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justice Alfredo Benjamin S. Caguioa paid tribute to the late former President Benigno S. Aquino III “for his immense respect for the law. Caguioa served as secretary of justice and chief presidential legal counsel to the late former President before his appointment to the SC on Jan. 22, 2016. “If there is anything I will remember President Noy for, it was his immense respect for the Law. He believed in and lived by the Rule of Law,” he said. He also said in a statement: “This is why he always said that if we really believed in democracy, then we have to be patient with democracy – to stand by democracy amidst all the noise and dissent it invites and engenders. That was his integrity — to stand by democracy and uphold the law that guarantees freedom. “I am very honored to have worked for and with him in his Quixotic quest. I am deeply humbled to have been regarded by Noy as his friend. “He was simply the best of us. The best of all of us. Decent and respectful, always mindful of others. He exemplified Lux in Domino (Light in the Lord). And all that he did was Ad Majorem Dei Gloria (For the greater glory of God).”
Coronavirus deaths in Philippines breach 24,000 | PHILSTAR.COM – Local health authorities on Thursday reported 6,043 more COVID-19 infections, bringing the national caseload to 1,378,260.
- Active cases: 51,410 or 3.7% of the total
- Recoveries: 4,486, pushing total to 1,302,814
- Deaths: 108, bringing total to 24,036
Photo Source: Robert Viñas Malacañang Photo Bureau, Public Domain https://commons.wikimedia.org
