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Duterte dangles P100,000 reward to tipsters of big corruption in gov’t By Vito Barcelo and Rey E. Requejo
ment projects. “I am asking all of you. Those who do not have permanent jobs, particularly PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte said those hired under the casual scheme, all Wednesday he would pay up to P100,000 you have to do is to let me know and I will to anyone who would tip him off about have a prize for you,” Duterte said in a corrupt officials and anomalous governNext page
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‘Ulysses’ barrels through Luzon Skirting Metro Manila as it crosses Central Luzon after lashing Bicol anew
By Rio N. Araja, Joel E. Zurbano, Vito Barcelo, and Jess Malabanan
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YPHOON “Ulysses” battered the country’s eastern shores as it made landfall over Quezon Province before midnight Wednesday—but was on track to skirt Metro Manila on a steady march to Central Luzon toward the West Philippine Sea. The storm made landfall in the vicin- dozens of people and left thousands of ity of Patnanungan, Quezon at 10:30 families homeless. p.m. last night, while lashing the BiThe center of Ulysses made another col region still reeling from deadly ty- landfall over Polillo Island by 12 a.m. Next page phoons Quinta and Rolly, which killed
IN HARM’S WAY. With Typhoon Ulysses bearing down on Metro Manila according to the state weather bureau’s projected storm track, Filipinos elsewhere scrambled for safety from the third storm to hit the country in as many weeks. They
include residents in the coastal area of Virac, Catanduanes, who also take shelter in a classroom used as an evacuation centre in Camalig town, Albay, as others alight from government vehicles in Legazpi City. AFP with Ian Cruz/GMA via Twitter
Palace okay to renegotiate contracts with Maynilad, Manila Water DoF to borrow $300m to buy COVID vaccine By Rey E. Requejo
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has approved the recommendations of the review panel to renegotiate the concession agreement with both the Manila
COVID-19 PH AT A GLANCE
(AS OF 4 PM NOVEMBER 11)
401,416 TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES
1,672 31,489 NEW
ACTIVE
7,710
49
362,217
311
DEATHS
RECOVERIES
NEW
NEW
Water and Maynilad Water Services, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said Wednesday. Guevarra said he met with President Duterte Tuesday night and presented to him their proposed new water conces-
Robredo denies Marcos treated unfairly by PET By Rey E. Requejo VICE President Leni Robredo on Wednesday disputed the claim of former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. that he had been treated unfairly by Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, whom he sought to have removed as justice-incharge of his electoral protest. In a counter manifestation filed Next page
sion agreements. According to him, they were arranging the holding of a meeting with the two water concessionaires. “In principle, the President has approved our recommendation so the next
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By Willie Casas
PENSIVE POSE.
President Rodrigo Duterte gathers his thoughts during a meeting with members of his Cabinet to discuss various updates at the Malacañang Golf (Malago) Clubhouse on Tuesday. Presidential Photo
MIDDLE- to high-income Filipinos could pay for their own coronavirus vaccine, President Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday night, as he revealed a plan to borrow US$300 million (about P15 billion) to purchase the cure to COVID-19 for all Filipinos. “As I have promised, the government will shoulder the cost of the vaccine for all Filipinos. That’s why we will start with the poor going up,” he said in his weekly televised meeting with the COVID-19 task force. Duterte, however, acknowledged that it might take some time before the country acquires doses of a vaccine Next page
Judge shot dead in office; gunman commits suicide By Willie Casas
NEW TOP COPS. Newly appointed Philippine National Police Chief Maj. Gen. Debold Sinas (right) bumps fists with Brig. Gen. Vicente Danao Jr., who will replace him as chief of the National Capital Region Police Office, during the NCRPO change of command rites inside Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City on Wednesday. Norman Cruz
step will be to sit down with the two water concessionaires in Metro Manila to discuss the specific terms and conditions of a proposed new water concession agreement with each of them,”
MANILA Regional Trial Court Branch 45 Judge Ma. Theresa Abadilla was shot and killed by her clerk of court inside her own chamber at the Manila City Hall on Wednesday. Abadilla, 44, was rushed to the Manila Medical Center but was declared dead past 3 p.m., according to a report by the Manila Police District’s Special Mayor’s Reaction Team (SMaRT). The clerk of court, 42-year-old lawyer Amador Rebato Jr., killed himself after shooting the judge and died, police said. Next page
VFA extended for six months By Rey E. Requejo
States amid persisting tensions in the South China Sea, the country’s top dipTHE Philippine government has decid- lomat said Wednesday. Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. ed to extend for another six months the suspension of abrogation of the Visit- stressed that President Rodrigo Duterte’s Next page ing Forces Agreement with the United