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DECEMBER 20-26, 2019 Volume 13 - No. 7 • 16 Pages 133-30 32nd Ave., Flushing, NY 11354 • 2500 Plaza S. Harborside Financial Center, Jersey City, NJ 07311 • Tel. (212) 655-5426 • Fax: (818) 502-0858
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Andal Ampatuan Jr., kin guilty for Maguindanao massacre of 57 people by TETCH
TORRES-TUPAS Inquirer.net
Jail guards stand next to a crowd of accused waiting the promulgation at the trial venue inside a prison facility at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City. Photo courtesy of Supreme Court Public Information Office
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What’s next for DACA recipients and their families? After the Supreme Court oral arguments, immigration experts shed light on facts regarding the Trump administration’s efforts to terminate DACA
WHEN the Trump administration announced on Sept. 5, 2017 that it would phase out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the world turned upside down for hundreds of thousands of program recipients and their families. Since it was enacted in 2012 by former President Barack Obama, DACA has provided work authorization and protection from deportation for eligible undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as young children. Specific benefits varied from state to state; in California, DACA recipients are eligible for driver’s licenses, for example. What followed was a turbulent two-year
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MANILA — After almost 10 years of trial, the Maguindanao massacre case verdict has been laid down and the Quezon City Regional Trial Court has found Datu Andal Ampatuan Jr., a former Maguindanao town mayor, his siblings and several others guilty for the murder of 57 people. Aside from Ampatuan Jr., also found guilty are his brothers former Autonomous Region
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JUSTICE SERVED. Relatives of the Maguindanao massacre victims accompanied by lawyer Harry Roque (3rd from right) flash the victory sign after the promulgation of the decision on the case in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City on Thursday, December 19. A decade after the incident, the Quezon City Regional Trial Court found Datu Andal Unsay Ampatuan, Jr., Zaldy Ampatuan, Anwar Ampatuan, Sr., and several others guilty of 57 counts of murder and were sentenced to reclusion perpetua (up to 40 years imprisonment). PNA photo by Joey Razon
CHR on Marcos case dismissal: Public might think martial law atrocities are ‘fake news by RITCHEL
MENDIOLA AJPress
THE Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Tuesday, December 17, said that the public might cast doubts on martial law and its atrocities following the Sandiganbayan’s recent dismissal of a P200-billion forfeiture case filed against the Marcos family.
On Monday, December 16, the Sandiganbayan Fourth Division dismissed Civil Case No. 0002 filed by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) in July 1987 against the Marcoses due to lack of evidence. According to the Fourth Division, the PCGG merely presented photo-
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OFW remittances higher than Pope Francis celebrates incomes of recipients – report ‘Simbang Gabi’ in the Vatican Pope Francis
CARABALLO ManilaTimes.net
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by MAYVELIN
by RITCHEL
THE value of monthly remittances from overseas Filipinos workers (OFWs) now average more than 2.5 times higher than the monthly incomes of recipients in the Philippines, according to a report released on Monday, December 16, by a United States-based payments company. OFW’s queue at Central, Hong Kong to send remitanses and exchange
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Hong Kong Dollar to Philippine peso.
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MENDIOLA AJPress
WHILE Simbang Gabi (night mass) has been held four times at the Saint Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, it was the first time that it was led by Pope Francis on Sunday, December 15. In his homily, the Pope acknowledged the role of Filipino migrant workers in the growth
of Catholicism, saying that while the Simbang Gabi has been held in the Philippines for centuries, “in recent decades, thanks to Filipino migrants, this devotion has crossed national borders and has arrived in many other countries.” “You, dear brothers and sisters, who have left your land in search of a better future, have a special mission. Your
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