Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) executive director, Undersecretary Joel Sy Egco (File photo) MANILA - Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) executive director, Undersecretary Joel Sy Egco on Friday appealed to both the Senate and the House of Representatives to immediately conduct an inquiry, in aid of legislation, on the "criminal enterprise" of a Pangasinan-based newsman, involving the filing of bogus rape charges. Ego said the scheme has already victimized several government officials in what could be best described as a "rape case for hire". In a statement, Egco, as head of the country's lead agency mandated to protect journalists from threats and violence, said he officially wrote Senate President Vicente Sotto III and ACT-CIS party-list Rep. Rowena Nina Taduran of ACT-CIS, to investigate the "modus operandi" of Jaime Aquino. Aquino's modus targeted public officials through the filing of bogus criminal complaint
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)
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco’s name surfaced as the next president of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino -Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) as a faction emerged and threatened to wrest the leadership of the Malacanang-backed political party from its current head, Senator Manny Pacquiao. Velasco’s Lower House
Published February 10, 2021, 8:00 AM
The crypto currency tack of the Cagayan Special Economic Zone and Freeport is right on track with the economic development path, not just in the Philippines but, globally.
This was stressed by Secretary Raul Lambino, who is also administrator and CEO of the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA), the operator of the ecozone and freeport.
When he assumed office in 2017, launched the “Crypto Valley in Asia.” The future growth of the Cagayan Special Economic Zone and Freeport, he said, would be driven by new technology and innovative ideas, of which the cryptocurrency was the leading product.
The choices he made as Administrator and CEO of the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA), which is in charge of the development and management of the Cagayan Freeport, have led the Zone on a high-growth path.