News: Guo in Pasig jail; motion to halt transfer moot

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Guo in Pasig jail; motion to halt transfer moot

September 24, 2024

CAUGHT ON CAM Images taken from security camera footage on Aug. 28 show activist Felix Salaveria Jr., in white shirt, walking home in Tabaco City, Albay province, before he is forced into a gray van (plate No. VAA 5504) by at least two men. Salaveria and fellow activist James Jazmines remain missing. —LYN RILLON

Hi there. Guo finally transferred to Pasig City jail

Dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo was transferred to the Pasig City jail on Monday after more than two weeks of detention at the PNP Custodial Center at Camp Crame -- but not before a "probable infection" in her left lung had to be ruled out first.

Presenting security camera footage taken early this month showing the abduction of activist Felix Salaveria Jr. in Albay, the human rights group Karapatan charged that his enforced disappearance and that of fellow activist James Jazmines

was a "professional operation."

Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan, which is recovering from a deadly earthquake earlier this year, was hit by a fresh catastrophe when heavy rain, said to be the biggest continuous downpour in the city's recorded history, triggered floods and landslides that killed six people.

In Lifestyle, Baguio-based contributor Elizabeth Lolarga profiles the artist-partners Kawayan De Guia and Nona Garcia and their abode in the city's Kitma Village, where the couple "keep separate studios, but their dogs join them in bed at night."

The surprise meeting between former VP Leni Robredo and current VP Sara Duterte sent shockwaves and confounded many, writes columnist Richard Heydarian in Opinion, with the recriminations only exposing "fault lines within the genuine opposition movement."

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OPINION

All our presidents' debts

Two years into his presidency, President Marcos has already borrowed P2.423 trillion, and at this pace, he is set to follow his predecessor's dubious record. Meanwhile, DBM calculates that our debt per Filipino has more than tripled from 20 years ago, from P45,652 to P138,764 each. Ouch!

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BUSINESS

LGUs, NGOs to get bigger profits from government-sanctioned community bingo

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REGIONS

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By Villamor Visaya Jr.

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