Duterte bares names of congressmen, congresswomen linked to corruption By JULIA MARI ORNEDO, GMA News
Published December 28, 2020 9:55pm
Updated December 29, 2020 8:39am President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night bared the names of House members who have been linked to alleged corruption related to infrastructure projects. Duterte also relieved from their posts district engineers of the Department of Public Works and Highways who are involved in the corrupt practices alleged before the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission. The House members named by Duterte were: Occidental Mindoro Representative Josephine Ramirez-Sato Former Ifugao Representative Teodoro Baguilat Jr. Quezon City Fifth District Representative Alfred Vargas Misamis Occidental Representative Henry Oaminal
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THE only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. â Edmund Burke, Irish statesman and philosopher.
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. â John Stuart Mill, father of utilitarianism which promotes âhappiness and pleasure and the absence of pain.â
I donât presume to be a good man â Iâm not that presumptuous â but I hate this country going to the dogs because of the rampant corruption in this administration.
President Rodrigo âDigongâ Duterte canât be expected to know everything thatâs going on behind his back since he has no eyes in the back of his head.
Philippinesâ Customs impound misdeclared agri goods
At the Port of Subic, the Bureau of Customs seized 17 containers of agricultural goods such as carrots and broccoli from China worth P9.3 million (â¬158,000). Instead of the declared contents -frozen jams- boxes of fresh carrots and broccoli were found in the shipment consigned to Zhenpin Consumer Goods Trading.
It arrived at the Port of Subic last November 22 and was the subject of an alert on November 27, District Collector Maritess Martin said. The containers underwent inspection headed by the Customs bureau in collaboration with the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission, National Bureau of Investigation, and Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority.
By Luis V. Teodoro
The advent of a new year and the end of the old should be an occasion for assessing what has gone before as well as for looking into what could happen in the next. But the second task is more difficult than the first for being the opportunity for the usual cheer mongers to once more predict that despite its foundations in yesterday, tomorrow will inevitably be better for everyone.
The year 2020 has been unprecedented in the horrors it inflicted on this already prostrate country and its people. It practically began with a disaster the eruption of Taal Volcano on the 12