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Tribunal condemns Bulacan judge’s slay
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senATors roAsT nAiA’s honrADo By Macon Ramos-araneta
MANILA International Airport Authority general manager Jose Angel Honrado got a dressing down from Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Thursday for washing his hands of the widening “tanim bala” extortion mess and any other problems at the airport.
After Honrado told the Senate Blue Ribbon hearing that he had no control and supervision over the baggage inspectors accused of planting bullets on travelers to extort money from them, Marcos pressed the airport manager: “What then is your job?” Honrado replied, “To ensure the smooth flow at the airport.” But Marcos said bullet planting was not conducive to a smooth flow at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
“What is then your job if you simply ignore these incidents, or those arrested with guns or firecrackers? When you go to work in the morning, what do you do?” Marcos asked. “What if there was a terrorist who was able to sneak in the airport during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit? What’s your standard operating procedures for this?” he added. Honrado insisted, however, that the incidents fell under the jurisdiction of
the Philippine National Police, and it was the PNP that must file charges against those arrested at the airport. The Office of Transportation Security, on the other hand, has supervision over the passengers. Before grilling Honrado on his functions at the airport, Marcos asked him when he first heard about the case of Gloria Ortinez, the Hong Kong-bound Filipino worker who was stopped when a bullet that she denied owning was found in her luggage. Next page
Testimony. Alleged bullet-planting victims Gloria Ortinez and Lane Michael White take their oath before the Senate hearing on Thursday on the alleged bullet-planting scam at the airport in Manila. Lino SanToS
Another school for lumad kids torched
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Putin, Widodo decide to skip Apec summit By Sara Susanne D. Fabunan RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin and Indonesian President Joko Widodo have pulled out from the Asia Pacific Economic Conference Leaders’ Meeting in
Manila next week. Reports from the Kremlin said Thursday that Putin will be represented instead by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. “I can confirm that the prime minister will represent Russia at the Apec sum-
mit in Manila,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “From the viewpoint of optimization of schedules of the top leadership of the country, the president has made a decision not to go that far together with the premier for one to two days,”
he said. Peskov said the decision was to send Medvedev anyway because the prime minister had a series of meetings planned in the region. Earlier, the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed Next page