Supreme Court (SC)
Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, former spokesperson of the National Taskforce to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), sought the dismissal of the indirect contempt case initiated against her by the Supreme Court (SC) itself.
Badoy was charged with indirect contempt
Palace signals intent to slow-walk Bayanihan III
May 31, 2021 | 8:57 pm
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THE PALACE on Monday called the proposed third Bayanihan law as not an urgent matter, and maintained that the government needs to allow the 2021 national budget and previous economic packages to run their course before passing another stimulus measure.
“We welcome Bayanihan III as a fallback,
pero mukhang ‘di po urgent
ang passage
nito, dahil ginagastos pa po natin iyong existing budget
natin (it’s not looking very urgent, because we are still still spending previous budgets),” the President’s spokesman Herminio L. Roque, Jr. said at a televised news briefing.
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The mayors of Manila, the capital and nearby cities on Thursday night approved a two-week curfew that will start on March 15 to curb a fresh surge in coronavirus infections.
The curfew will run for seven hours starting at 10 p.m., Benjamin de Castro Abalos, Jr., who heads the Metro Manila Development Authority, said by telephone.
“It will be very intensive in the sense that we will implement massive testing, more contact-tracing, quarantine and coordinated granular lockdowns,” he added.
The Department of Health (DoH) reported 3,749 coronavirus infections on Thursday the highest daily tally since September bringing the total to 607,048.
The number was the highest since Sept. 19, when the agency reported 3,962 cases, according to past health bulletins.