Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte celebrated her 40th birthday yesterday, May 31.
The Presidential daughter chose to avoid being lavish in celebrating her birthday, instead, she threw a simple party in her residence in her hometown together with her family and few guests.
Inday Sara has been welcome by different cakes presented to her by her loved ones.
The Davao City Mayor seems happy to see that she received a different kind of sweets for his birthday.
Of course, President Rodrigo Duterte attended the event together with his assistant Christopher “Bong” Go.
The birthday girl and other guests showed their gesture of respect to the President as he arrived at the venue.
To complete the celebration, Inday Sara’s mother, Elizabeth Zimmermann also attended the event. She was greeted by her former husband, President Duterte with a kiss.
Inday Sara’s husband, Attorney Mans Carpio and her siblings Former Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte and Sebastian also attended the event.
The event has been covered by Davao City Public Information Officer Jefry Tupas and shared on social media to be seen by the solid followers of the Dutertes.
As of writing, the post of Jefry Tupas reached millions of views on social media platform Facebook.
Photo: Jefry Tupas
Some of the dishes served during the event are pancit, paella, lechon and beef stew.
The simple celebration of Inday Sara showed that the Dutertes kept their humble lifestyle despite of being powerful in Philippine politics.
Akbayan party-list representative Tom Villarin sued former Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) lawyer and now Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Undersecretary Jacinto Paras because of an unusual reason.
CCTV Footage shows DOLE Undersecretary Jacinto Paras greeting Villarin. It also shows that he put his phone at the top of Villarin’s gadget. Photo: House of the Representatives.
In his theft complaint that he filed to the Quezon City prosecutor’s office, the fierce critic of the Duterte administration claimed that Jacinto, who’s a supporter of the President allegedly stole his expensive phone during a congressional hearing last March.
CCTV footage shows that Paras already carried the phone of Villarin.
According to the testimony of Villarin, the DOLE exec who’s holding a phone and power bank approached him during the congressional hearing, later on, Paras placed his phone on top of Villarin’s expensive gadget.
“Kayo pala ni Senator [Risa] Hontiveros ang magkasama.” Paras told Villarin according to the complainant.
Paras left the hall together with Villarin’s phone.
When Paras left the area, the CCTV showed that the DOLE exec was already carrying the phone of the lawmaker.
After realizing that his phone was missing, he asked his staff to call his phone, later on, it was answered by a member of the Legislative Security Bureau (LSGB).
It also showed in another CCTV footage that Paras left the phone of Villarin in one of the rooms at the House of the Representatives.
Villarin believed that the intention of Paras for stealing his phone is to gather information that he may be used against Senator Risa Hontiveros who’s also a member of Akbayan.
“Yes, possibly that’s the main motive why he wanted my phone, to get information,” Villarin said.
Villarin pointed out that if Paras only mistakenly took his phone, he will return it to him or surrender it to the authorities and not leave it in an empty hall.
“Kung talagang nagkamali siya, dapat sinagot niya. Nagri-ring eh, pero hindi sinagot, iniwanan lang. Kung hindi sa kanya ‘yun, he could have answered [the call] and said, ‘Sorry, nadampot ko lang.’ Pero walang ganun,” he said.
According to Article 309, any person guilty of theft shall be punished by:
1. The penalty of prision mayor in its minimum and medium periods, if the value of the thing stolen is more than 12,000 pesos but does not exceed 22,000 pesos, but if the value of the thing stolen exceeds the latter amount the penalty shall be the maximum period of the one prescribed in this paragraph, and one year for each additional ten thousand pesos, but the total of the penalty which may be imposed shall not exceed twenty years.
Paras denied the accusations of Villarin, saying that he cannot do such a thing.
The former VACC lawyer is known for filing cases against the government officials who are seen to be part of destabilization efforts against President Duterte.
It seems that President Rodrigo Duterte gave a hint of who he really wants to succeed him as the leader of the Philippines.
During his speech at the Ceremonial enactment of Ease of Doing Business Act in Malacañan Palace on May 28, 2018, President Duterte who’s defending himself from the accusations of the ousted Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno expressed his willingness to retire from the presidency.
“Wala talaga, wala akong tinatago, sabihin mo sa gagang yan (Sereno), wala akong pakialam diyan, she got herself into it and it’s not because of us, not because of Congress,” Duterte said.
“Sinabi ko nga kung may magsabi lang na isa dito, anyone of you, magsabi na ‘tumawag ka sakin, nakalimutan mo may kinausap ka?’ mag resign ako, totoo yan,” he added.
However, Duterte seems that wanted to ensure first who’s gonna catch the responsibilities that he would left when he finally decided to resign from Presidency.
The President, who’s a known ally of former Senator Bongbong Marcos asked his audience about the current status of the recount between the latter and Vice President Leni Robredo.
“Tutal gusto ko nalang rin mag resign eh, ano ba itong latest count kay Bongbong (Marcos) pati kay ano (Leni Robredo), Vice President ba talaga yan?” he said.
Is this a hint that President Duterte prefers Marcos to replace him than Vice President Robredo?
“Ang totoo po niyan, natanggal po talaga ‘yun sa bilang… the 21,000 votes have been actually removed from the tally of nung nakaupong vice president si Leni. Nabawasan po talaga siya ng 21,000 votes,” Chong said.
He said that the information that he shared on his social media followers came from a legitimate source from the revisors of the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET).
Chong said that Robredo lost votes because of the 50-percent shade of the ballot oval rule implemented by PET.
However, Robredo said that the information released by Chong was fake news.
Robredo defeated Marcos by only 263,473 votes lead.
Senator Manny Pacquiao is indeed a good and generous man.
The legendary boxer-turned-politician who’s wandering around his hometown in General Santos City met an old ice cream vendor along the streets.
Jen Manilay, who witnessed the good deed of Pacquiao narrated how the Senator’s short talk with the Ice Cream vendor changed the life of manong.
According to her narration, Pacquiao gave 3,000 pesos to the ice cream vendor, however when their discussion got deeper, the Senator increased the money that he gave to 30,000.
But it seems that the Senator felt that the money that he gave was not enough to the ice cream man who’s problematic because he’s just renting a small house and his children are not yet enrolled because of lack of budget.
So to make sure that the ice cream vendor would not be problematic anymore, Manny Pacquiao vowed that he would give a house and lot to manong.
This made the ice cream vendor teary-eyed because he didn’t expect that the Senator would give him too much.
You can read the whole narration of Manilay below:
a heartwarming afternoon today. surely, SEN MANNY PACQUIAO is such a good and humble man.
while mp is waiting inside his car, i called manong ice cream as he passed by to buy ice cream. sobrang init kanina. and i realized it was manong na lagi ko binibilhan pag npapadaan s building kng san ako ngttrabaho. i bought 10pcs of ice cream and gave 1 to mp. and mp suddenly said “tawagin mo c manong”. ngulat c manong ng sinabi kong may papakilala ako sknya at isang manny pacquiao ang kanyang nkita.
binigyan c manong ng 3k. and later on.. konteng usap with manong.. may 3 anak sya at di pa nkakapag enroll. and recently had a stroke.
naawa c mp.. binigyan ng 30k.
and question follows from mp “san ka nkatira?”
manong is renting a house daw sa bula.
and mp suddenly said… “ngrerenta ka? next week bibigyan kita ng bahay at lupa”
c manong parang nananaginip at mangiyak ngiyak s pasasalamat. today is surely a blessing. may pambili n ng gamot c manong. hindi narin mhihirapan mgtinda ng ice cream in a very sunny afternoon dahil binigyan nrin nmin c manong ng trabaho s goldenstate. see you again next week manong marciano… at s bago mong bahay at lupa.
in this video, we are telling him where he can meet us by next week. imedyo maingay at mgulo lang dhil na excite kmi for manong. ? ill upload kadugtong ng video nto.
“FOR EVERYONE WHO EXALTS HIMSELF WILL BE HUMBLED, AND HE WHO HUMBLES HIMSELF WILL BE EXALTED” -Luke 14:11
Despite of being ridiculed by some critics, it seems that Senator Manny Pacquiao remained humble and kept doing his duty to help other people.
Pacquiao came from a poor family but became a billionaire because of his boxing career.
Ozmiz City councilor Ricardo “Ardot” Parojinog was finally arrested by the Taiwan Police in Pingtung Country on Wednesday night.
Parojinog evaded the authorities for 10 months, after his brother Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo “Aldong” Parojinog Sr. for trying to resist the raiding team led by Chief Inspector Jovie Espenido.
According to the report of ABS-CBN News, the fugitive has been located after his former colleagues who earlier arrested by the Philippine National Police (PNP) revealed his current location.
Later on, PNP gave the information to the Taiwanese authorities which resulted at the end of the 10-month hiding of the City Councilor.
PNP is now preparing their team that would be sent to Taiwan to transport Parojinog back to the Philippines.
Malacanang is not yet giving any comment on the arrest of Parojinog.
Parojinog is expected to face cases for possessing illegal drugs and heavy firearms.
Two weeks ago, authorities confiscated several high-powered firearms and bombs from the two houses of Aldong.
They seized 2 antitank rockets, 2 rocket-propelled grenades, several rifle grenades and different firearms.
Ozamiz PNP also confiscated 2 packs of suspected illegal drugs and several grenades at the farm which allegedly owned by the Parojinogs.
Last year, President Rodrigo Duterte set a bounty of P5 million in exchange for some information about the whereabouts of Parojinog.
He even said that the soldiers who are off duty could hunt Parojinog down so they could get the reward.
“Kaya kung wala na kayong magawa, off duty, suroy-suroy mo diha sa bukid, hunting-in ninyo iyan kasi that’s P5 million,” Duterte said.
Duterte also said that he would pardon the colleagues of the Ardot, if they would give them the location of the councilor.
“I do not care if he’s really a complicit of Ardot. Kung kasama niya, dadalhin niya iyong ulo, abswelto ko na siya,” he said.
Department of Justice also released a lookout bulletin against Ardot.
The 2017 Ozamiz police raid is considered as one of the bloodiest anti-illegal drug raids in the history of the Philippines which resulted to the death of Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo “Aldong” Parojinog, Susan Parojinog and fourteen others.
Meanwhile, Ozamiz Vice Mayor Nova Parojinog-Echavez and Reynaldo Parojinog, Jr. who both survived the raid are now detained in PNP Custodial Center.
It seems that Mindanao is indeed rich in resources like natural gas.
Youtube User ToRo Tomas showcased how a tube connected underground is releasing a liquid that would ignite if exposed to flame.
In the video, they put a metal at the top of the tube to support a pot that they’re using for cooking.
According to the uploader, the video was recorded in a remote area in Mindanao, and the water with liquid is flowing 24/7.
Another video showed that the water in Liguasan Marsh is also igniting when exposed to flame.
Both videos garnered thousands of views from the netizens, calling the attention of the government to prioritize oil exploration in different parts of Mindanao to solve the oil problem.
Many people are already aware that there’s a natural gas underneath the soil of Southern part of the Philippines, according to the survey conducted by the U.S, thousands of hectares of area in North Cotabato, Central Mindanao, and the Sulu Sea which holds around hundreds of millions of barrels of oil.
However, the exploration of this areas has been delayed several times because of the negotiation between the Islamic groups and government.
Several groups claimed that the oil-rich lands in Mindanao are part of their ancestral domain and they want part of the earnings if the government started to build oil fields in the said areas.
Moro National Liberal Front (MNLF) Chairman Nur Misuari also believed that if the peace in Mindanao already attained, it would be easier to the people to enjoy the natural resources.
Last week, the Alegria oil and gas fields in Cebu has started its production, giving some hopes to the netizens that more exploration and drillings would happen anytime soon.
Senator Panfilo Lacson expected that both lower and upper house would ratify the final version of the Philippine Identification System before Monday so it can finally be signed by President Rodrigo Duterte to make it a law.
This is Lacson’s statement after the bicameral conference committee approved the bill that seeking to establish an ID system that would merge all the other government IDs in a single national identification system.
“Not much difference. In fact, substantially, the HOR (House of Representatives) adopted the Senate version,” Lacson said in a text message
According to the law being pushed by Lacson, the national ID system should be known as the Philippine Identification System or Philsys.
It has three components, the PHilsys Number (PSN), the PhilID, and the PhilSys Registry.
The ID would contain the card owner’s face, full name, facial image, address, date of birth and fingerprints. It also non-transferable to ensure that it would not be abused by someone.
“The bill will allow every Filipino and resident alien of the country to be identified with the use of a PhilSys Number or PSN, a randomly generated, unique and permanent identification number which shall be the standard number assigned to each individual to be incorporated in all identification systems of government agencies,” Lacson said.
Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) is mandated to act as the registry of the Philsys, according to the bill.
The Congress would allot P2 billion for the implementation of the National ID System.
However, the National Identification System has been opposed by several lawmakers, saying that this bill would remove the Filipino’s “right to privacy.”
“The bill empowers the government to collect and retain from each and every Filipino citizen their personal information of exceptional scope and interest. The information includes, not just the basic personal data, but also ‘sensitive personal information,’ including biometrics (facial image, iris scan, full set of fingerprints), and other identifiable features of an individual,” ACT Teachers Party-List Representative Antonio Tinio said.
He believed that the national ID system would be used by President Duterte as a “powerful tool of surveillance, control and, repression over all citizens,”.
“With President Duterte’s emerging dictatorial rule, the deteriorating human rights situation, the increasing number of extrajudicial killings, martial law in Mindanao, a total war in the countryside, and the Duterte regime’s tyrannical rule, the bill may be used against those who criticize and oppose his policies,” Representative France Castro said.
President Rodrigo Duterte, despite his old age, managed to punish the alleged scammers who claimed that he and the scammer “have the same mother.”
In his speech during his visit at Tabagon town fiesta in Cebu, Duterte narrated how he confronted and punished the individuals who used his mother’s name to sell government position when the revolutionary government already implemented.
“Oo may revolutionary government si Duterte, kung gusto mo ng posisyon magbayad ka lang,” Duterte said while narrating how the scammers trying to convince people to give them money.
But there’s a thing that made Duterte furious that he ordered his guards to hunt for them.
“Nung nabasa ko, tinawag ko na yung sundalo at sabi ko dalhin niyo yang p***** i***** yan dito. ‘Bakit daw’ Kasi ang nanay ko kagalang galang na babae pero pinalabas nila na nagkaroon ng anak sa ibang lalake,” Duterte said in Cebuano.
“Oh diba, parang pinalabas nila na yung nanay ko nangaliwa? P***** ***. Sabi ko dalhin niyo yan dito,” he added.
According to Duterte, the alleged scammers received their first punishment by receiving some punches and slaps from him; however, he wanted them not to forget the lessons that he received from the Punisher.
“So nilagyan ko ng kape yung tasa, tapos kumuha ako ng mga condiments, yung puti at brown na asukal saka dairy. Nilagay ko lahat ng asukal doon sa baso tapos hinalo ko gamit yung daliri ko’.
“Inumin mo yan,’May Diabetes ako, sir’.Inumin mo’.’Sir,mainit pa masyado’.’Sige magreklamo ka pa ng isang beses p***** i*** k* babarilin kita sa ulo tapos itatapon ko katawan mo sa Pasig River’. So ayon ininom niya.”
He even let one of the scammers eat paper bills to learn his lesson.
“Tapos yung isa tumitingin lang. Yung natirang kape ibinuhos ko sa mukha niya. Tapos sinabihan ko yung mga guwardiya, ‘bigyan niyo ko ng kwarta’. So sila bunot naman ng kwarta. May tig bente, may tig singkwenta, at yung isa 100 pesos. Makikita mo talaga wala silang pera kasi kulubot yung papel. Ginusot ko yung pera tapos ipinasak ko sa (bibig niya).. Pinakain ko sa kanya. ‘Eto, kainin mo’.”
“Tapos yung isa, may nahugot na barya kaya kinuha ko rin.’Mayor baka bumara yan sa tiyan ko’. ‘Yan talaga ang gusto ko para hindi na kayo manloko, mga p***** ***. Ngayon hindi na talaga kasi laging pakiramdam ay busog ka na kasi merong nakabara diyan,”
“Tapos sinabi niya, ‘Maawa ka na sakin, mayor. Mahirap lang ako. Wala akong pera pang pa opera. Yung barya talagang babara yan,”
After narrating, he warned the other scammers using the government to extort money that they would receive the same punishment that he did to the two guys.
He told the people that one of the scammers that he punished came from Cebu.
Duterte is known for being strict and allegedly giving cruel punishment to criminals even during his time as Mayor of Davao City.
That is the reason why he’s the favorite politician of several human rights groups.
But despite publicly speaking about how he punished criminals, his critics failed to gather any solid evidence that the former Mayor of Davao is indeed giving inhumane punishments.
A man has gone viral on the internet after he committed a selfless act in Barangay San Miguel, San Sebastian, Tarlac City.
Netizen Noel Guevarra narrated how the man that he didn’t name helped the people who got stranded in an establishment by transporting them in their homes.
The sudden thunderstorm made some people trapped in the said establishment and the people who got no umbrella has been helped by this man for free.
Guevarra said that they tried to pay the man as an exchange for his help, however, the good Samaritan refused.
The good samaritan despite not introducing himself, helped anyone who were stranded during the thunderstorm. Photo: Noel Guevarra
“Ayan, di baleng ako ang mabasa. Wag lang kayo.” the good Samaritan told Guevarra.
The post garnered an amazing 320,000 likes and 47,000 shares as of writing, most of the comments were praise from the people who were amazed by the selfless act of the good Samaritan.
Some even urged several television programs to feature the man and to know more about his story.
You can read the story of Noel Guevarra below:
Kagabi, around 7pm, biglang umulan ng sobrang lakas sa San Miguel. Nakakatakot yung kidlat at kulog. Andaming stranded. Pero etong si kuyang may payong, nagalok na ihatid ang mga tao sa mga sakayan (kasama kami dun).
Kami yung unang tinulungan niya at plano naming bayaran siya kahit magkano lang. Bilang pasasalmat ba.
Nung hinatid niya kami sa harap ng Robinson’s, habang naglalakad, sabi niya:
“Ayan, di baleng ako ang mabasa. Wag lang kayo.”
After niyang tumulong samin, ni hindi siya humingi ng kapalit. Umalis agad siya. TUMULONG SA IBA PANG WALANG DALANG PAYONG. HINATID NIYA KUNG SAAN SAAN.
Pinanuod ko lang siya kasi naamazed ako eh. hahaha.
After 30mins, tumila din yung ulan kahit papano. Nilapitan ko siya, at inabutan ko ng pangmeryenda. Nagpasalamat siya. Napangiti ako kasi kita kong masaya siya na nakatulong siya sa maraming tao.
Minsan, sa kabila ng maraming pangit na nangyayari sa mundo, isang taong may mabuting puso lang ang kailangan natin para ma-restore yung faith natin sa humanity. KUDOS KAY KUYA!!!
A tourist who was caught smoking in a public place in Camiguin has been arrested by the authorities after he showed a rude behavior towards a Municipal Councilor yesterday.
According to Mambajao Councilor Frances Margaret Aparte, she saw the man smoking in front of the beach so she asked him to stop it.
However, the man gave a rude response to the councilor who’s not wearing her uniform or lawyer attire during that time.
“Ha? Bawal magsigarilyo? Naa moy balaod diri nga bawal? (may batas kayo dito?)” he told the councilor.
Aparte even lectured the man over the Tobacco Regulation and Control Ordinance, however, the man continued to smoke even she already warned that she would call the authorities.
He even mentioned the police and President Duterte in his another rude response.
“Police? Asa imo police? Police ni Duterte? Tua ra man Manila ang Police ni Duterte?” (Pulis? Asan ang Pulis? Pulis ni Duterte? Ikaw ba ang Pulis ni Duterte sa Manila?) he said.
After realizing that the man cannot be convinced to stop smoking anymore, she already decided to arrest the man and brought him to the police to be punished for violating the anti-smoking law.
“NOW THEREFORE, with the power vested on me, I unveiled myself from being a mere #BarangayCoastalMaintenanceWorker to a LAWYER, ANTI-SMOKING TASK FORCE OFFICER, SB CHAIRMAN ON PEACE AND ORDER and most of all a PROTECTIVE MOTHER…” she said in her Facebook post.
The man after being arrested for violating the anti-smoking law photo: Frances Margaret Aparte
According to her, after the man brought to the police station, he begged several times not to file a case against him, however, the councilor refused his request.
“Bahalag nabilar ning burosa ni, bahalag 2am na nakatulog mafilan lang ta ka og kaso (2 am na ko nakatulog para lang makapagsampa ako ng kaso dito) to make sure you will stay in jail to teach you a lesson to abide with our local laws and to respect women, esp. Pregnant women,” she said.
She also warned the tourist to “Do not make fun of their laws” or “suffer the consequences.”
At least, the councilor showed some mercy by not showing the violator’s face and revealing his identity on social media.
As of writing, the post already got 10,000 reactions and thousands of shares on social media.
