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President Rodrigo Duterte conducted a surprise inspection at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport-Terminal 2 after reports of several delayed flights Sunday night.

Ground movement at the airport was suspended for hours Sunday evening due to a red lightning alert, the Manila International Airport Authority said in a statement.

"President Duterte talked to airline and NAIA officials regarding the cancellations and delays to know whether there are flight diversions and if affected passengers are given incentives to ease their inconvenience," presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said.

According to Malacañang, a Philippine Airlines manager and a NAIA-Terminal 2 airport duty manager briefed the president on the flight woes.

The officials discussed the actions being undertaken to address the situation at the country's main gateway.

Duterte, on the other hand, talked about how flight aberrations could be minimized and how the Department of Transportation could address the issue, Malacañang said.

"He then talked to the passengers apologizing to them on the inconvenience caused by the disruptions. The president vowed to come up with a remedy within a month," Panelo said.

The MIAA confirmed that a red lightning alert was issued from 6:40 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. last Sunday. This alert suspended ground movement for ramp personnel and flights for at least 2.5 hours.

The alert is a safety measure to prevent any untoward incident from happening when bolts of lightning are prevalent in the immediate area, the MIAA said.

"The Manila International Airport Authority jointly with the airlines are exerting every effort to address the situation so that normal flight operations can resume as soon as possible," the MIAA said.


Read more at https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2019/06/10/1925276/duterte-inspects-naia-after-weekend-flight-delays#zzYAbVC5rtd9W8IX.99

Duterte inspects NAIA after weekend flight delays

President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday ordered authorities to shut down religious corporation Kapa-Community Ministry International over allegations it is involved in an investment scam.

"Ito, it is a continuing crime. So arrest them and investigate it," Duterte said in a televised interview.

"Kayong mga CIDG, kayong pulis, the special investigating teams there, the NBI, that is pyramiding . . . That is why NBI, sirahan mo na sila (shut them down) at dalhin mo doon sa (courts) upon my orders."

The CIDG is the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group.

Duterte said he has warned the public several times to be cautious.

"When it is good to be true, it is fraud. Biro mo 'yung P100,000 mo would earn P30,000 a month? Ni bangko na 'yung Banko Sentral natin magbigay, 3 lang porsyento," he said.

"Eh ito, kayong mga Pilipino, ilang beses ko na kayo sinasabihan? What is being promised to you is something like heaven, walang tao dito, walang bangko, maski 'yung Bank of America can afford to pay you P30,000 every month for your P100,000."

The Securities Exchange Commission in March said the cease and desist order it issued against Kapa "remains effective and still valid," amid reports it has secured a temporary restraining order.

"Hence, the public is hereby warned to be cautious in dealing with the above-mentioned KAPA and its allied entities, particularly in investing their money with said entities," it said.

SOURCE: https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/06/09/19/duterte-wants-kapa-ministry-shut-down-amid-fraud-allegations

Duterte wants Kapa Ministry shut down, amid fraud allegations

Malacañang on Wednesday tagged the opposition Liberal Party (LP), the Magdalo and certain media outfits behind efforts to discredit the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte ahead of the May 13 elections.

In a press conference, Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo said Duterte received intelligence information that showed the LP, the “Yellows,” Magdalos and media outfits were conniving against the Duterte government.

“The President has received intelligence information that has been validated and appears to show that there is deliberate attempt to discredit this administration, as well as to boost the candidacies of the opposition, senatorial candidates,” Panelo told reporters.

“And it appears that there are certain groups who are working together to achieve this goal. This group appears to be the Liberal Party. Some personalities identified as advocates or very active in social media, dishing out anti-Duterte statements and sentiments and validated to be allied with the Liberal Party,” he added.

Panelo also said the media organization named in the matrix first published by The Manila Times on April 22 and later presented by Malacañang were also included in the supposed conspiracy.

He also named a certain “Bong Banal” as the narrator in the “Ang Totoong Narcolist” videos linking Duterte’s family in the illegal drugs trade.

“It’s a propaganda of these people mentioned or shown in the diagram against this administration and to boost the candidacies of the Otso Diretso,” Panelo said.

SOURCE: https://www.rappler.com/nation/229986-malacanang-releases-new-diagrams-conspiracy-discredit-duterte-may-8-2019

Palace links Liberal Party, Magdalo in ‘Oust-Duterte’ plot

President Rodrigo Duterte has abolished the Philippine Sugar Corporation (Philsucor) for supposedly not effectively fulfilling its role and to eliminate redundancy, saying some of its functions are already being fulfilled by other government entities.

Memorandum Order Number 30, ordering the abolition, was signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea by authority of the President on October 25. It was made available to media on Monday, October 29.

Philsucor was created through a Presidential Decree in 1983 to finance the establishment, expansion, and acquisition of sugar mills, refineries, and other similar facilities in order to boost the country's sugar industry.

But according to the memorandum order, the Governance Commission for GOCCs (Government-Owned and Controlled Coporations) recommended Philsucor's abolition on two grounds.

Its functions and and purpose "duplicate or unnecessarily overlap with the functions, programs, activities, or projects of the SRA (Sugar Regulatory Authority) and government financial institutions."
It is "no longer effectively performing the objectives and purposes for which it was originally intended."
The document adds that private financial institutions, aside from public ones, are already providing the financial needs of sugar mills.

Not stated in the order is the Commission on Audit's finding that Philsucor was among the GOCCs that shortchanged the government through non-declaration, failure to record, failure to remit, or under-remittance of dividends from 2004 to 2014.

The audit agency stated that Philsucor remitted to the treasury less than the P441.256 million that they should have remitted.

The Palace order provides for separation benefits for Philsucor officials and personnel. – Rappler.com

Duterte abolishes Philippine Sugar Corporation

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines in Manila in February. Thousands of people have been killed by the police or by vigilantes since Mr. Duterte became president in June. Credit Ace Morandante/Presidential Office, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
MANILA — Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines may have committed crimes against humanity by inciting killings during his bloody antidrug campaign.

Thousands of people have been killed by the police or by vigilantes since Mr. Duterte became president in June, and rights groups say the police may have ordered the extrajudicial killings of drug dealers and users, a charge that officials have denied.

In a report released on Thursday, Human Rights Watch examined 32 deaths from October to January, all involving the Philippine National Police. Police reports asserted that officers had committed the killings in self-defense, but witnesses characterized them as “coldblooded murders of unarmed drug suspects in custody,” the rights group’s study said.

“We think there’s a very strong case to be made in front of the I.C.C. that crimes against humanity have been committed,” Elaine Pearson, the Australia director at Human Rights Watch, said by telephone, referring to the International Criminal Court. She said the first step should be parallel investigations into Mr. Duterte’s antidrug campaign by the United Nations and by the Philippine Justice Department.



In a statement on Thursday, Ernesto Abella, a spokesman for Mr. Duterte, said the report’s allegations were baseless.

“A war on criminality is not a war on humanity,” he said. “On the contrary, it is a war precisely to protect humanity from a modern-day evil. To say otherwise is to undermine society’s legitimate desire to be free from fear and to pander to the interests of the criminals.”

The Philippines is a member of the International Criminal Court. In October, the court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, said in a statement that she was “deeply concerned” about reports of extrajudicial killings in the country.

Ms. Bensouda said the killings could fall under the international court’s jurisdiction “if they are committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population pursuant to a state policy to commit such an attack.”

But Romel Bagares, a rights lawyer at the Center for International Law in Manila, said in an interview on Thursday that Philippine law appears to grant the president immunity from prosecution while in office.

Even though the International Criminal Court encourages domestic courts to prosecute crimes against humanity, “it may not be helpful at this point to immediately raise the I.C.C.’s jurisdiction as a trump card,” Mr. Bagares added. “The threshold has to be established by documenting the relevant cases, and filing the cases in Philippine courts, if only to show that there is a failure or an unwillingness to prosecute on the part of the state.”

It is unlikely that Mr. Duterte would face domestic prosecution while president. His allies control both houses of Congress, and his justice secretary, Vitaliano Aguirre II, is one of his old fraternity brothers.

Last week, Mr. Aguirre oversaw the arrest of Senator Leila de Lima, the chief critic of Mr. Duterte’s bloody antidrug campaign, on charges that she took bribes from imprisoned drug traffickers.

Ms. de Lima chaired a Senate panel last year that heard testimony from a professed hit man who said he belonged to a death squad that Mr. Duterte had overseen while serving as mayor of Davao City. Ms. de Lima has denied the charges against her, describing them as political persecution.

Felipe Villamor reported from Manila, and Mike Ives from Hong Kong.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/world/asia/rodrigo-duterte-human-rights-watch-philippines.html

Duterte May Be Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity, Rights Group Says

LOLO AND APO. President Rodrigo Duterte poses beside new grandson Stonefish Carpio. Photo from SAP Bong Go
After a long day, President Rodrigo Duterte was finally able to meet his new grandson, Marco Digong Carpio or Stonefish.

Duterte arrived at the Davao Doctors Hospital past midnight on Friday, March 3, after speaking at two events in Cebu.
He was accompanied by Special Assistant to the President Secretary Christopher "Bong" Go.

A tired but smiling President Duterte, sporting a hospital cap and gown, posed for a photo beside the incubator holding baby Stonefish, who was born past noon on Thursday, March 2.

Go also posed for a photo beside Stonefish's mother, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio.

Earlier that day, the President shared he couldn't wait to finish with his official events so he could meet Stonefish. Duterte also entertained photo requests of the hospital staff.

His family time, however, was short as he is set to attend other official events in Mindanao on Friday. – Rappler.com/Pia Ranada
SOURCE: http://www.rappler.com/nation/163098-president-duterte-meets-grandson-stonefish

Tired but happy Duterte meets grandson Stonefish

Three unidentified assailants gunned down Peter Cruz in Barangay Manggahan, Pasig City late Tuesday evening. Fernando Sepe, Jr., ABS-CBN News

MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday announced that he will again use policemen in his controversial war on drugs amid reports that drug dealers are back on the streets, but he said not all policemen will participate in the renewed campaign.

“I have ordered [PNP chief] Bato [dela Rosa] to recruit young men in the PNP who are imbued with fervor of patriotism to be the members only of the task forces. Every station should have one pero yung pili ng pili (but only select ones), iyung walang history of corruption (those who don’t have a history of corruption),” Duterte said.

“I have to do it because kulang ako ng tao.”

(I have to do it because I lack men.)

Duterte also said the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), which took over the campaign when the police’s war on drugs was suspended, will continue to supervise anti-illegal drug operations.

The Philippine National Police (PNP) last month suspended its war on drugs after several cops were accused of kidnapping and then killing a Korean businessman right inside the PNP headquarters in Camp Crame in the guise of an anti-drug operation.

Duterte yesterday said, since the suspension of the police’s war on drugs, there has been "a gain, a rise of drug activities by 20 percent.” ~ Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
SOURCE: http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/28/17/duterte-orders-return-of-police-to-war-on-drugs

Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Ronald Dela Rosa yesterday said the police force is willing to resume its campaign if Duterte will allow it. He claimed that drug traffickers were rejoicing over the suspension of the police campaign.

“The longer na wala kami sa war on drugs, the situation is getting worse, the more na babalik yung problema. Sayang yung gains na nakuha natin from the first 7 months ng ating war on drugs. Nasasayangan ako e. So the sooner the better.”

(The problem will worsen the longer we are not part of the war on drugs. I don't want the progress of the war on drugs for the first 7 months to go to waste.)

Duterte orders return of police to war on drugs

POWER BASE. Rizal Park crowd throw their support behind the President’s war on drugs. —PHOTO BY RICHARD REYES
President Rodrigo Duterte’s supporters massed in the tens of thousands on Saturday to mark an alternative “people power” gathering and express support for the leader they said was maligned internationally for his war on drugs that has so far left more than 7,000 dead.

Ironically, among those in the crowd were a group of loyal followers of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, whose brutal two-decade regime was ended by the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution that forced him and his family into exile in Hawaii. The Marcoses were later allowed to return home and have since regained political clout.

President Duterte recently allowed a hero’s burial for Marcos, and has expressed backing for his son and namesake, former Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., who is contesting his narrow loss in last year’s vice presidential vote.

For Bobby Brillante, spokesperson of the Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte National Executive Coordinating Council, their gathering merely coincided with the Edsa anniversary, which was being celebrated across town.
“I think the celebrations complement each other because Feb. 25 was a celebration of freedom. We want to make sure that freedom and democracy will continue to stay,” Brillante said.
Organizers claimed that the crowd had reached 800,000 people as of 9 p.m., but the police estimate was much lower at 215,000.
Supporters were bussed in from all over Metro Manila and outside the capital as early as 4 p.m., carrying streamers in support of their 71-year-old idol.
A group from Bacoor, Cavite, brought with them a poster that read: “Fight for law and order, support the administration of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.”
The program was hosted by Arnel Ignacio, a former comedian who was appointed to a government post and who led the crowd in chanting the President’s name.
Other celebrities and performers spotted were Nina, Aiza Seguerra, Cesar Montano, Vehnee Saturno and Richard Merck. Sexy singer Mocha Uson, who was recently appointed to the government’s censors board, was expected to perform around midnight.
The rally featured an interfaith prayer vigil and a concert through the night.
Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial lauded President Duterte for prioritizing public health.
“It was the first time in Philippine history that the health budget was higher than the defense budget,” she said to cheers from the crowd.“That is how much the President loves us Filipinos; he has full support for our health,” she added.
Brillante said similar gatherings were also held in Cebu, Davao and Cagayan de Oro, with overseas Filipino workers conducting their own activities in other countries.

He added that the rally was meant to be a “people’s expression of support rather than a political expression.”

Among the groups invited were the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan, Friends of Rody Duterte, Kilusang Pagbabago, Hugpong Federalismo and other people’s organizations.

Interior Undersecretary John Castriciones pointed out that the gathering was not meant to undermine the memory of the Edsa People Power Revolution 31 years ago, nor call for the President to put in place a “revolutionary government” as alleged by critics.

Clamor for change
“Edsa clamored for change. We are clamoring for change as well, but this is genuine change at the moment,” Castriciones said.
“Edsa [was] successful in initiating change [but its] true spirit was betrayed. That’s the reason why we didn’t succeed in our pursuit for changes … It’s embarrassing that we were not able to achieve anything at all despite Edsa,” he said.
Castriciones sought to dispel rumors of a “revolutionary government,” adding that the main objective of their activity was to consolidate the people’s support for the administration, especially in its fight against the “evils of society,” such as corruption, criminality, poverty and the illegal drug trade.
“This is the only time we can really gather together. We are fighting a good fight and this is against the evil one. If we succeed, we will be able to pave the way for peace and order [to
prevail], which is a precondition for us to achieve progress and development. If we’d like to attain genuine change, this is it,” he said.
While maintaining that the event was devoid of any political color, Castriciones said that they “can’t stop any individual (from invoking) their principles about politics.” He was apparently referring to Marcos loyalists in the crowd.
Forced attendance?
But others in the crowd told the Inquirer their attendance was a prerequisite to the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino program.
Mary Ann Bitara said that they “did not know” what the activity was about when they left at about noon Saturday in a convoy of around 30 vans.
Teresita Castillo, on the other hand, said that while she supported the President, she was troubled by the antidrug campaign. She said did not believe the common theme among pro-Duterte social media pages that various groups were out to destabilize and take the reins of government.
Castriciones stressed that the government wasn’t behind the vigilante killings, and urged young people to “open their minds and show their love for their country” by admitting to themselves that the drug problem had gone out of control.
No martial law
The gathering came a day after President Duterte shot down critics’ claims that he was preparing to place the country under martial law.
“I don’t need to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, martial law … I don’t need that,” President Duterte said in Samal Island on Friday, where he presided over the turnover of a drug rehabilitation facility.
“I will protect and defend the Constitution of the Philippines and the Filipino people,” he added.
The President also urged the Catholic Church to stop spreading what he called were rumors, and challenged critics to make good their threat to remove him from office and send him to jail, by staging a coup d’etat or starting an impeachment proceeding.
“Do all you can do,” he said. “I became President without a party, without money. Whose will was that, mine? It was God’s. So ask God himself why I am here,” Mr. Duterte said. —WITH REPORTS FROM ALLAN NAWAL AND JIGGER JERUSALEM

SOURCE: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/875379/tens-of-thousands-of-duterte-supporters-gather-in-rizal-park

LOOK: Tens of thousands of Duterte supporters gather in Rizal Park

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