THE PHILIPPINE Daily Inquirer on 30 July 2021 issued an apology to dzBB news anchor Carmelo del Prado for its 2014 investigative reports linking the br
Former Executive Editor
Philippine Daily Inquirer
The Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) management makes a bad call, press freedom suffers a setback, and a radio/TV personality gets away with a weak libel case.
A retired Inquirer top editor has deplored the PDI management’s decision to settle what he described was an untenable libel case filed by a radio/TV personality in connection with the newspaper’s investigative report on the P10-billion pork scam.
“It seems the PDI management got suckered into accepting a compromise deal that is demeaning to the brand and lopsidedly favorable to Melo del Prado, a broadcaster of dzBB Radio-TV GMA Network,” former Executive Editor Jose Ma. D. Nolasco said in a press statement.
Published January 13, 2021, 3:54 PM
The Sandiganbayan Third Division has ordered the 90-day suspension pendente lite of Davao del Sur Vice Gov. Marc Douglas Chan Cagas IV in light of his graft and malversation cases involving the misuse of his Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) when he was a congressman.
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The anti-graft court gave Cagas the chance to explain why he should not be preventively suspended from office pursuant to Section 13 of Republic Act (RA) 3019 and Section 4, Rule 8 of the 2018 Revised Internal Rules of the Sandiganbayan.
Cagas contended that being placed under preventive suspension will no longer serve its purpose since the opportunity to tamper the documents or influence possible witnesses in the cases would not do him any benefit.