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Evidence indicates Cabral’s death was suicide—DILG, PNP
By Pot Chavez
filing of criminal charges against socalled gambling tycoon WORLD / A6Atong Ang
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PNP resurrecting probe Cabral list: All senators, solons made insertions into PCSO official's slay Next page
Leviste: No senator exempted, along with all district, party-list solons
Speaker grateful for PMA Class '83 vote of confidence in Quad Comm
By Maricel Cruz, Vito Barcelo, Pot Chavez, Rex Espiritu and Ram Superable By Rio N. Araja HE so-called “Cabral list” showed all senators and HE congressmen Philippine had insertions in the 2025 budget forPolice projects lodged National under the Department of Public (PNP) is reopening Works and Highways, Batanits investigation into gas Rep. Leandro Leviste on the 2020 murder of Monday said, even as he has Philippine Charity yet to disclose publicly his Sweepstakes Office supposed copy of the list.
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(PCSO) board secretary In a l DPWH to turn radio Wesley Barayuga. inover Cabral’s t e r v i e w, On Sunday, PNP Chief Police Leviste General Marlist, Rommel gadgetsFrancisco said all bil said he ordered the reopening of senators, l Ombudsman: the cold case after whistleblower including PoliceCabral Lt. Col.was Santie Mendoza told his mother, the House Quad Committee that he Senator Loren ready helped carry to out the killing at the Legarda, were behest of ex-PCSO general manager cooperate in the list of
Royina Garma. the late PubMendoza narrated before conlic Works Undersecretary Maria Catagressmen how Garma allegedly falina Cabral. cilitated the PCSO official’s roadside He said insertions in the DPWH assassination on July 30, 2020 by budget from senators reached around providing the necessary information P120 billion, including about P1 bilabout his schedule, details about his lion under Legarda’s name based on vehicle and the funding necessary to the list. A WEB OF CRIME? House leaders Aurelio Gonzales and David Suarez presented this matrix during the last QUAD carry it out. “I apologize to our senators, but Comm hearing which shows the operations of a criminal syndicate allegedly led by fugitive Michael Yang, then economic The whistleblower also implicated based on my recollection of the files, andadviser of former President Rodrigo Duterte, that controlled the illegal activities of the POGOs and was involved in the drug incumbent National Police Comtrade and extrajudicial killings. I have a copy in my laptop, I cannot recall missioner Edilberto Leonardo in the a single senator who was not in the list… planning of the murder. Barayuga was a retired police Next page general and lawyer who supposedly threatened to expose corruption within the PCSO shortly before he was shot dead in Mandaluyong City. Garma, herself an ex-police Lt. THE legal counsel of Chinese adviser of former President Rodrigo of illegal drugs and illegal activities Colonel, allegedly gained the top businessman Tony Yang sought to Duterte. associated with POGOs,” Suarez said spot at the PCSO because of her indisparage lawmakers’ conclusions Fortun, a lawyer who often finds in a mixture of Filipino and English. ing of drug war victim Kian delos The SC Second Division found By Pot Chavez Next page about himself at the Caloocan center high-profile The solons explained how the Santos inhis 2017.client’s supposedly the respondent police offisketchy past and his alleged ties cases, apparently sought to mock matrix details Yang’s connections to Akbayan party-list Jose Manuel cers guilty of murder and were senTHE Supreme Court (SC) anwith Overseas congressmen, calling otherRam individuals involved in illicit By Superable “Chel”Philippine Diokno hailed the SCGaming ruling, tenced to life jail term, their or up probe to 40 nounced on Monday its decision Operators (POGOs) and even “unacceptable.” activities, including the operations of saying it ultimately delivered justice years in prison. affirming the murder conviction of and Maricel Cruz organized crime. However, House members argued illegal POGOs. after eight years of waiting. Next page three policemen involved in the killLawyer Raymond Fortun they did not come by their suspicions Among the companies implicated THE Senate and the House of Repquestioned the House Quad about Yang recklessly. are Brickhartz Technology Inc. resentatives scrapped the joint cereCommittee’s impartiality and its On Friday, Senior Deputy Speaker and Xionwei Technology Co. Ltd., monial signing of the draft national NO CEREMONIAL SIGNING. Tito Sotto, right, and ability to pin Chinese nationalSenate Yang President Aurelio Gonzales Jr. House of Pampanga which are being linked to alleged budget bill originally scheduled Speakerdown Bodjie for Dy, left, over theinclosing session of their respective Houses without ay preside wrongdoing a real and Deputy Speaker David Suarez of kidnapping. yesterday, resetting it to December the ceremonial signing criminal court.of the 2026 budget. Quezon presented a matrix showing The two firms supposedly 28. “I am very interested in how they Yang’s first appearance and his have connections with the Baofu Senate Finance Committee Chair[Quad Comm members] can prove subsequent activities at the Quad Compound in Bamban, Tarlac, man Sherwin Gatchalian welcomed this criminal network in court. In Comm hearing. which, in turn, can be directly traced the extension, saying it would allow Congress, lawmakers act as both “We saw a pattern, and we tracked to disgraced ex-mayor Alice Guo. sufficient time for the printing of the prosecutor and judge,” he said. it to the top of these corporations... During Friday’s Quad Comm draft enrolled bill and its distribuYang, who already admitted we stripped it of its layers , to get to hearing, lawmakers cited Tony Yang tion to bicameral conferees and all having a fake Philippine birth the top and through it all, we have in contempt for “lying” to about his senators. certificate, is the brother of Michael discovered and identified at least two businesses and business partners. Gatchalian said the Senate plans Yang, a presidential economic main actors or players in the issue Nextsharpage to complete the printing and ing of the draft enrolled bill ahead of the joint signing of the enrolled
THE Department of the Interior and Local Government and the Philippine National Police are looking at the possibility that former Public Works Undersecretary Maria Catalina Cabral may have committed suicide. “All signs point to suicide,” DILG Secretary JonvicPAGASA Remulla told ANC. Acting PNP chief Police Lt. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. added: “The pieces of evidence that were gathered show that there is suicide, but we cannot say yet for sure.” “Let the investigators complete their probe – comparing every piece of evidence, every statement, and every footage. Let’s wait for the forensics analysis so we can correlate everything,” Nartatez added. THE government has readied Cabral, who resigned fromP1.48 the billion worth of aid for communiDPWH in September after she was ties that may be hit hard by typhoon implicated in the flood control mess, ‘Julian’ which PAGASA was found dead Thursday says nightcould after turn into afalling supertyphoon. allegedly off a ravine along As ofRoad 5:00inPM onBenguet. Sunday, PAKennon Tuba, GASA raised Tropical Cyclone page Wind Signal No. 3 over Next Batanes and the northeastern portion of Babuyan Islands. “’Julian’ is forecast to continue intensifyingBARGAINS over the next 24-36 hours as it PARADISE. moves towards Batanes and/or Babuyan A cargoIslands. handler,With the current trend in its intensification, inset, hauls a the possibility ofofreaching super loadful goods typhoon category is notinruled out,” to a supplier Manila’s PAGASA said in itsbustling advisory. Divisoria market – DisasMeanwhile, the National a must destination ter Risk Reduction and Managefor (NDRRMC) bargain ment Council said that hunters especially a total of 1.9 million family food during the packs worth P1.48 billion, other Christmas and New food items Year worth P276 million, and festivities. non-food items Revoli(NFIs) Cortez worth P919 million were by andalready Norman prepared Cruz the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Some P171 million in standby fund is also available for utilization by the DSWD, including P123 million which can be allotted as Quick Response Fund (QRF) in the central office of the DSWD. In Batanes, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) advised residents to secure their roofs and install window shutters as Typhoon Julian is expected to make landfall
Gov’t readies P1.48b aid as 'Julian' strengthens
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PH lobbies UN for Security Council seat
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DOTr’s Bautista says online news report‘unfounded'
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By Darwin Amojelar TRANSPORTATION Secretary Jaime Bautista denied an online news report claiming that Malacañang was angry with the increase in airport fees without the approval of the Cabinet members. “The Bilyonaryo article is malicious and unfounded,” Bautista said in a Viber message, referring to the By Alena S. Flores website that Mae published the said story. “Bilyonaryo is inconsistent,” he added. THE country’s reported oil firms rolled Bilyonaryo online back that pump prices much as P1.60 “Bautista andbyhisaslong-time protegeper in liter effective 6 a.m.Undersecretary today amid conPhilippine Airlines, for cerns overand oversupply. Aviation Airports Bobby Lim, are Thecenter oil companies cut the of at the of the storm afterprice it was kerosene by P1.60 per liter, diesel by Next page P1.30 per liter, and gasoline by P0.80
Navy spokes debunks China claim of military exercises in Scarborough shoal By Rex Espiritu
THE Philippine Navy debunked on Sunday the recent announcement by China that it conducted military exercises off Bajo de Masinloc, also known as Scarborough Shoal, in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). China reportedly made the announcement coinciding with the per literMultilateral to reflect movements the fourth Maritimein Coglobal oil market. operative Activity between the Jetti Petroleum, PTT Philippines, Philippines, Australia, Japan, Seaoil Philippines,andCleanfuel, and New Zealand, the United Chevron Philippines issuedexclusive separate States within Manila’s advisories the latest adjusteconomic on zone (EEZ)price in the rements. gional waters over the weekend. Rodela Romero, of the Philippine Navy director Spokesperson for WPS Rear Admiral Roy NextVinpage
Gas, diesel, kerosene down today as oversupply forces rollback
cent Trinidad told reporters that Manila troops did not monitor any such activity, adding that Beijing’s statement was meant only for its internal audience. “Our troops did not observe any exercise, we have to understand that sometimes, China is doing this for their internal audience, right? For them not to look weak and embarrassed,” Trinidad said. Two Chinese warships were monitored at a distance ranging By Vito Barcelo from eight to 14 nautical miles. One of theseLuis went up toTagle 1,000 CARDINAL Antonio said yards at the MMCA sitetobut evencorruption runs counter God’s plan tually away. “It notfor as he ledwent the Simbang Gabiwas Mass threatening, just Peter’s normal,” accord-on Filipinos at St. Basilica
Tagle urges Pinoy Catholics to reject greed in Vatican mass
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THE Philippine government on Sunday publicly called for the United Nations (UN) to give it a seat on the UN Security Council, highlighting the country’s strong record and dedication to upholding the rule of law. bill and the bicameral conference Department of set Foreign committee report for 10Affairs a.m. on (DFA) Secretary December 28. Enrique Manalo in a speech delivered at the isUN GenHe said the timeline intended eral Assembly York saiddocuthe to ensure thatinallNew supporting Philippines continues to emphasize ments are complete and accessible the “importancebefore of upholding the to lawmakers the chamber rule of law and the integrity of the reconvenes for formal ratification. multilateral system the face of toAccording to inGatchalian, the day’s global challenges.” Senate is targeting ratification of the Quoted byconference reports, Manalo also bicameral committee said: Philippines consisreport“The on December 29,has after memtently pursued sovereign bers are given peace, enoughthe time to study equality of states, the rights and digthe enrolled copy. nityThe of allSenate persons.” approved amendHe added the country is alsoto ments to its that legislative calendar recognized as the “first Reprovide additional timeAsian to finalize the bicameral conference commitNext page tee report and enrollment of the proposed P6.793-trillion 2026 national Next page
AWARD. Hans Sy, Chairman of the Executive Committee of SM Prime Holdings, was honored by the Philippine Retailers Association (PRA) with its Outstanding Filipino Retailers President Award for his visionary leadership in retail development. (From left to right): PRA Director and Director of SM Retail Jorge T. Mendiola, PRA Vice President and President and COO of Golden, ABC, Inc. (The Penshoppe Group) Alice T. Liu, SM PrimeHis Holdings Chairman of the Committee Hans REJECT GREED. Eminence Cardinal LuisExecutive Antonio Tagle presides overT.aSy, Mass PRA President and of Quorum International, Inc. (Toby’s Sports) Roberto to mark the 7th day ofChairman Simbang Gabi at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on Sunday. In Claudio, andurged PRA Director andtoPresident of Sportshouse Int’l.and Leisure, Inc. and his S. homily, Tagle the faithful reject greed, consumerism dishonest gain as proponent of PRA OFR President’s Christmas approaches. CBCP NEWS Award Mars C. Chua