A party-list lawmaker filed a bill in Congress proposing to rename the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) back into the Manila International Airport (MIA), less than a week after a bill was lodged to rename the gateway into the Ferdinand E. Marcos International Airport.
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MANILA - A party-list lawmaker on Wednesday said there is nothing irregular about Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Dionardo Carlos using a police helicopter to pick him up from the Balesin Island Club in Polillo, Quezon. Duterte Youth Party-List Rep. Marie Cardema, the vice-chair of the House National Defense and Security Committee, said Carlos' usage of the PNP chopper is part of his privileges as the country's top cop. "General Dionardo Carlos is the PNP Chief 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. He was stranded in Balesin Island and wanted to report for duty in Camp Crame on a Monday morning. Under the rules & regulations of the PNP, he is entitled to the use of the PNP helicopter. Nothing irregular about it," Cardema said. The chopper was supposed to pick Carlos up from the exclusive resort island of Balesin on Monday morning. The helicopter took off at 6:17 a.m. in Pasay City and was initially reported missing but was later discovered to have crashed in
RAPPLER Chief Executive Officer Maria A. Ressa declined to enter a plea on her conditional arraignment for a second cyberlibel case.
A Makati trial court entered a not guilty plea on her behalf, her lawyer Theodore O. Te told an online news briefing on Tuesday.
Since the arraignment is conditional, Ms. Ressa did not waive her motion to quash the case, which had been submitted for resolution, he added.
Her arraignment came as a condition of the prosecution for her request to travel abroad to visit her parents in the US on Dec. 19, which the court granted.
Ms. Ressa told the same briefing she still had to seek permission from other courts where she has pending cases.