Update: In today’s hearing, Atty. Bagares challenged Gen. Martir because he was the one who approved (even ordered according to militarynsources) of Lt. Raymundo’s detention and filing of charges against him.
Martir said he had inhibited, three days earlier. (Then why was he there presiding?) Then he left. Another member, Lt. Col. Emmanuel Salamat, also inhibited himself from the panel because he was the one who prepared the report on Lt. Raymundo’s case.
ABS-CBN announced that Ces Crilon , her cameraman Jimmy Encarnacion and Prof. Octavio Dinampo have been freed by their captors. They are now in the…
Update: In the 6:30 evening news, PNP Chief Avelino Razon said Ces Drilon, Jimmy Encarnacion and Octavio Dinampo will be released “in a few hours to one day”.
Update:The kidnappers of ABS-CBN reporter Ces Drilon and her cameraman Jimmy Encarnacion have given an indefinite extension on talks for their captives’ release, the son of the crisis negotiator said.
May napansin ako sa sinabi ni Mayor Alvarez Isnaji ng Indanan, Sulu,
ang negotiator sa pagpalaya kina Ces Drilon ng ABS-CBN, ang kanyang cameraman na si Jimmy Encarnacion at ang professor sa Mnidnao State University na si Octavio Dinampo.
Sinabi ni Isnaji na ang kidnappers ni Ces ay mga batang Tusog, mga 15 hanggang 20 taong gulang. “Mga anak at apo ng kasamahan ko sa MNLF, sabi ni Isnaji na dating kumander ng Moro National Liberation Front na nakipaggiyera noong panahon ni Marcos para magkaroon ng hiwalay na bansang “Bangsamoro” para sa mga Filipino-Muslim.
DILG puts up P500,000 each for the kidnappers of Ces and her team.
The kidnappers of ABS-CBN broadcast journalist Ces Drilon, her cameraman and a university professor have asked for a P15-million ransom, which they want delivered by Tuesday noon, according to an emissary.
The emissary, Alvarez Isnaji, mayor of the town of Indanan, Sulu, told reporters in Sulu the kidnappers set Tuesday as the deadline for the P15 million ransom for Drilon, ABS-CBN cameraman Jimmy Encarnacion and Prof. Octavio Dinampo of the Mindanao State Univerisity.
(The following article appeared in the Philippine Star last week where former foreign secretary Roberto R. Romulo writes a regular column.)
by Roberto R. Romulo
From 1989 to 1995, I was in government service as Ambassador and Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Having worked in a multinational corporation for 25 years in various management positions, I presumed that management techniques tried and proven effective in business organizations could be equally applicable in the government bureaucracy. I am writing on this topic, using my experience in the DFA, in the spirit of constructive criticism.
Alan Tanjusay of Mainichi Shimbun’s Manila has interviewed several times Octavio Dinampo, a Tausug professor in the Mindanao State University who accompanied ABS-CBN reporter Ces Drilon and her cameramen, Angelo Valderama and Jimmy Encarnacion last June 8 to Maimbung, Sulu where they were abducted.
A week before the abduction of Ces and her team, Tanjusay met with Dinampo in a restaurant here in Manila. Dinampo informed him that his book on the Abu Sayyaf group will soon be out.
Former President Estrada yesterday commended the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines for admitting that their supporting a power grab against him in January 2001 that installed Gloria Arroyo in Malacañang was a mistake.
“I commend the CBCP in displaying humility and admitting their error in supporting my ouster. At least now people are beginning to admit the truth that Edsa Dos was a conspiracy, a power grab. Former Chief Justice Cecilia Munoz Palma was right when she said that Edsa Dos was an instance when the rule of law was thrown out and the rule of force prevailed.”
From Inquirer: Ces is well, laughing – Indanan mayor
The man believed to have a hand in the kidnapping in Sulu province of three mediamen and a university professor has surrendered to authorities.
In an interview with radio dzBB’s Benjie Liwanag in Sulu on Saturday, Major Gen. Juancho Sabban said the man identified as Juamil “Mameng” Biyaw went down the mountains and “voluntarily surrendered.”
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Biyaw said that on June 7, he and his “boss” Dinampo, picked up Drilon’s group from the SSC Hostel in Jolo, Sulu. He said they went to Timbangan, a village in the province’s Indanan town. The group was on board a yellow Tamaraw jeep.
May pagka-sadista yata itong si Gloria Arroyo.
Ang sadista ay isang taong masaya kapag nahihirapan ang ibang tao. Ano kaya ang pakiramdam niya sa nakita niyang kahaba-haba ng pila ng mga tao na kumukubra ng P500 na binabalik sa kanila sa kanyang “Pantawid kuryente: katas ng VAT program”
Pinagyayabang niya ang pagbabalik niya ng P500 sa mga pamilya na ang kunsumo sa kuryente ay hindi lumalampas sa 100 kilowatt hours (siguro mga P700 ang bill). Minsanan lang ito.Aaabot sa dalawang bilyon ito kasi mga apat na milyon ang mga pamilya na ganoon kababa ang kuryente. Ang tawag nga sa kanila ay “lifeline consumers.”
I’m a great fan Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. The July issue of Vanity Fair features her in an article by Rich Cohen. I’m linking full article here.
It’s an established fact. Some women can’t stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it. That Angelina Jolie is one of the latter can be seen in any of the thousands of pictures of the actress—who was, after all, impregnated by Brad Pitt, which is like being impregnated by a future man or a star child—that began to proliferate in the celebrity weeklies and supermarket tabloids in the spring of 2008, by which time Jolie, who is carrying twins, had bellied out like a sail.