EXPELLED. National Press Club (NPC) president Paul Gutierrez announces the expulsion from NPC's roster of members of Jaime Aquino, former provincial correspondent of the Manila Times, during a joint press conference at the NPC Building in Intramuros, Manila on Wednesday (Feb. 16, 2022). Gutierrez said Aquino and his group in Pangasinan have been accused of manufacturing bogus rape cases that led to the incarceration for nine months of Lopez, Quezon councilor Arkie Manuel Yulde. (PNA photo by Avito Dalan) MANILA - The National Press Club of the Philippines (NPC), the country's biggest organization of active members of the press, on Wednesday announced the expulsion from its roster of members, without any possibility of reinstatement, of Jaime Aquino, formerly a provincial correspondent in Pangasinan of the Manila Times. At a joint press conference at the NPC building with Palace Undersecretary Joel Sy Egco, Executive Director of Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS)
NOT RED-TAGGING. Alma Gabin, former Education Deputy Secretary of the Eastern Visayas Regional Party Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF), attends the weekly virtual press briefing of the National Task Force to End Local Communists Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) on Monday (Feb. 7, 2022). Gabin said she was not red-tagging when she and three other former top CPP-NPA-NDF members confirmed that Makabayan Bloc or "KABAG" (Kabataan, Anakbayan, Bayan Muna, ACT, Gabriela) lawmakers are also officials of the CPP-NPA-NDF. (Screengrab from PCOO/RTVM) MANILA - Four former top rebels of the Communist Party of the Philippines - New People's Army - National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) confirmed on Monday that Makabayan Bloc or "KABAG" (Kabataan, Anakbayan, Bayan Muna, ACT, Gabriela) lawmakers are also officials of the CPP-NPA-NDF. At the weekly virtual press briefing of the National Task Force to End
NOT RED-TAGGING. Alma Gabin, former education deputy secretary of the Eastern Visayas Regional Party Committee of the CPP-NPA-NDF, says she is not red-tagging when she and three other former CPP-NPA-NDF cadres confirmed that Makabayan Bloc or "KABAG" (Kabataan, Anakbayan, Bayan Muna, ACT, Gabriela) lawmakers are also officials of the communist group. Gabin guested in the weekly virtual press briefing of the National Task Force to End Local Communists Armed Conflictn Monday (Feb. 7, 2022). (Screengrab from PCOO/RTVM) MANILA - Four former leaders of the Communist Party of the Philippines - New People's Army - National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) confirmed on Monday that Makabayan Bloc or "KABAG" (Kabataan, Anakbayan, Bayan Muna, ACT, Gabriela) lawmakers are also officials of the CPP-NPA-NDF. At the weekly virtual press briefing of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), former CPP official Jeffrey Celis alias "Ka Eric&quo
NOT RED-TAGGING. Alma Gabin, former Education Deputy Secretary of the Eastern Visayas Regional Party Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF), attends the weekly virtual press briefing of the National Task Force to End Local Communists Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) on Monday (Feb. 7, 2022). Gabin said she was not red-tagging when she and three other former top CPP-NPA-NDF members confirmed that Makabayan Bloc or "KABAG" (Kabataan, Anakbayan, Bayan Muna, ACT, Gabriela) lawmakers are also officials of the CPP-NPA-NDF. (Screengrab from PCOO/RTVM) MANILA - Four former top rebels of the Communist Party of the Philippines - New People's Army - National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) confirmed on Monday that Makabayan Bloc or "KABAG" (Kabataan, Anakbayan, Bayan Muna, ACT, Gabriela) lawmakers are also officials of the CPP-NPA-NDF. At the weekly virtual press briefing of the National Task Force to End
MANILA - Barely two months into the killing of veteran journalist Jesus "Jess" Malabanan, Undersecretary Joel Sy Egco, Executive Director of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS), on Wednesday said a murder complaint has been formally filed by the Philippine National Police (PNP) against two suspects in connection with the crime. Egco said the PNP's Special Investigation Task Group (PNP-SITG) formed to thoroughly probe the murder of Malabanan has successfully completed its initial findings with the filing of a murder charge against suspects Aries Solomon and Jerry Trinidad, both of Tinambacan District, Calbayog City, before the Office of the Prosecutor of Calbayog and docketed under NPS No. VIII-10-INV-22B-00030. "I commend the men and women of the PNP who worked tirelessly in the investigation into the killing of my colleague and friend, Jess Malabanan. We are very grateful for your swift and thorough work in identifying the perpetrators of this hei