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)