Insurance firm vows to retrieve 300k liters of oil from sunken tanker

By Rey E. Requejo

Cruz

and Maricel V.

THE Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday said an insurance firm pledged to retrieve the remaining industrial fuel oil in the MT Princess Empress, which sank off the cost of Oriental Mindoro on Feb. 28. Justice Undersecretary Raul Vasquez said Valeriano Del Rosario and May Valles, representatives of

Napolcom to review 36

‘ninja cops,’ clears 917

By Charles Dantes

THE Philippine National Police said Tuesday the fiveman advisory group has recommended 36 senior police officials for further evaluation by the National Police Commission (Napolcom).

PNP spokesperson Colonel Jean Fajardo told a news conference the advisory group cleared the remaining 917 senior police officials, who also submitted their courtesy resignations, from any involvement in illegal drugs.

“For the remaining 36, they will undergo further evaluation by the Napolcom,” Fajardo said.

“And eventually, once the findings are submitted to the President, it will be the authority and discretion of the President whose resignations will be accepted,” she added.

Meanwhile, PNP chief General Benjamin Acorda Jr., who assumed his post this week, said there was still no plan to implement a revamp in the police force.

Shipowners’ Protection and Indemnity Club (P&I), gave the commitment during the insurance firm’s first appearance in the inter-agency dialogue on the oil spill held last week.

“There is a big breakthrough. The change mitigation and adaptation. Mr. Marcos said through Mr. Biden, Manila and Washington will discuss commitments to the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT), a 70-year-old accord between the two allies.

P&I committed to do the retrieval operations, and the possibility of raising the vessel itself. But it’s up to their technical assessment whether that would be considered,” Vasquez said.

REMEDIAL MEASURES. With their regular classroom lacking sufficient ventilation amid the smothering summer heat, a group of Alternative System Learning students at the Aurora Quezon Elementary School in San Andres, Malate, Manila hold their class at the school’s covered court on Tuesday. It was the same at Rafael Palma Elementary School in Manila, where a student is allowed to take a test along the classroom corridor (inset). Danny Pata and Norman Cruz

DFA: 50 Pinoys in Sudan evac’d, ceasefire helps

By Rey E. Requejo, Vince Lopez, Macon Ramos-Araneta and Vito Barcelo

THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday said 50 Filipinos were evacuated out of Khartoum, Sudan on Monday night amid the ongoing clashes between the Sudanese military and a paramilitary group.

DFA spokesperson Ma. Teresita Daza said the first batch of Filipino evacuees left Khartoum by land at 8 p.m. on Monday (Manila time). From there, the Filipinos were expected to reach Aswan in Egypt, and then its capital, Cairo.

The department earlier said that Filipinos in Sudan have sought the Philippine government’s help for their repatriation.

Earlier, three Filipinos, through their employers and the Saudi Arabian government, had been evacuated from the conflict-torn country to Jeddah.

The violence in Sudan erupted between the forces of the two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: the