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NEWS / A7 VOL. XXXVIII • NO. 360 • 14 SECTIONS 60 PAGES • P20 • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2025
No sign PBBM calling for special session Impeachment advances on Marcos’ cue—Escudero By Rio N. Araja and Pot Chavez
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RESIDENT Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has not given any sign that he intends to call for a special session of Congress to tackle Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment, Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero said on Sunday. The Senate President noted that so he set the issue aside while neither the proponents or opponents both chambers of the legislaof Duterte’s ouster had contacted him ture are on break. about starting the impeachment trial, Next page
DSWD issuing unified PWD IDs amid proliferation of fakes
LOVE DATE.
A couple avoids the Valentine Day rush to take a ‘couplie’ at a giant wooden heart set up at the Quezon City Memorial Circle in Quezon City. Manny Palmero
By Rio N. Araja
be implemented by December. “By the end of this year, we will be THE Department of Social Welfare having a unified ID system,” agency and Development (DSWD) announced spokesperson Irene Dumlao told Super on Sunday that a unified identification Radyo dzBB on Sunday. system for persons with disability will Next page
WANTED.
An unidentified man was caught in a flash shot while stealing a black bag taken from the plane that crashed last Thursday in Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur. He is now the subject of both US and PH operatives for the return of the bag. Story on A8. Sultan Datu Ali Camino
Solons: Speaker being targeted as a diversion By Rio N. Araja LEADERS at the House of Representatives sounded the alarm over a plan by opposition solons to divert public attention from the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte.
On Sunday, two lawmakers called an impending complaint against Speaker Martin Romualdez and two other House leaders “a feeble attempt” to distract the public’s focus from the legislature’s efforts to hold Duterte accountable for alleged wrongdoings while in office.
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Stroke survivor solon accepts Bato’s apology By Rio N. Araja AKBAYAN party-list Rep. Percival Cendaña on Sunday accepted the apology of Senator Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa for tirades on his physical appearance as a person with disability. “I welcome Senator Bato’s apology. I hope he can also do the same to all stroke survivors who were hurt by his remarks,” he said in a statement. “We are not being onion-skinned but it is a different thing when a public servant of such a high position uses his voice to threaten people with violence and discriminate against people with health concerns,” the lawmaker added. Next page
PH-Canada in final stages of VFA talks CANADA and the Philippines are in the final stages of negotiating a pact to allow them to deploy troops on each other’s soil, the Canadian envoy to Manila said Sunday.
Deputy Majority Paolo Ortega of La Union and Assistant Majority Leader Jay Khonghun of Zambales said the supposed complaint would attempt to accuse Romualdez, Majority Leader Manuel Jose Dalipe, and Rep. Zaldy Co of budget
Manila already has similar vis- assertion of claims to the South iting forces agreements with the China Sea. United States and Japan, and is also “We are in the final stages of nein talks with France and New Zea- gotiating the agreement which will land in the face of China’s growing Next page
Senator Ronald ‘Bato’ Dela Rosa
Akbayan party-list Rep. Percival Cendaña
NMC backs Marcos position on PH sovereignty over WPS By Vince Lopez
commitment to assert and defend the country’s sovereign rights in the West THE National Maritime Council Philippine Sea (WPS). The NMC said the Philippines remained (NMC) expressed its full support for Next page President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s firm