Full of remorse, a witness surfaced to confess he could have helped save the life of murdered Department of Interior and Local Government municipal officer Ayres Napire had he acted decisively when he saw her crying for help and struggling inside the car of the suspected murderer, a government prosecutor revealed Thursday.
An election ban on government appointments is preventing the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) from enforcing a Malacañang directive to unseat Calixto Cataquiz, the mayor of this town, a ranking DILG official said.
The search for a town officer of the Department of the Interior and Local Government who was reported missing nearly a week ago ended with Wednesday’s grisly discovery of her decomposing body inside the trunk of a car, parked outside a hotel here.
New Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas II has resisted any temptations to read communications pertaining to the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) until he finally assumes his post on Monday.
Incoming Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas explained on Wednesday that his absence in last week’s hearing of Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago was not meant to “degrade” or “demean” the process.
After emerging unscathed from a Senate grilling, resigned Interior Undersecretary Rico E. Puno is escaping questioning in a House inquiry into an allegedly irregular police firearms deal.
Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) spokesman and office of public affairs director, Attorney Ariel Tanangonan on Tuesday said DILG Undersecretary Rico Puno is technically part of DILG as there has not been any official note on his status.
The appointment of incoming Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas has been filed with the Commission on Appointments Tuesday, the agency’s officer-in-charge Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. said.
League of Cities of the Philippines president, Mayor Oscar Rodriguez of San Fernando City, Pampanga, said Tuesday he took the recent appointment of Secretary Mar Roxas as the new head of the Department of Interior and Local Government positively amid remarks saying that he shouldn’t accept the job due to his current position in a big political party.
Did President Benigno Aquino III have the 2013 and 2016 elections in mind when he appointed two members of his Liberal Party to head two strategic government departments?
President Benigno Aquino III on Friday announced the appointment of Manuel “Mar” Roxas as the new secretary of the Department of Interior and Local Government.
Vice President Jejomar Binay was not interested in taking the post left vacant by the late Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo, his spokesman said Tuesday.
Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo came so close to finally getting his much-awaited confirmation from the Commission on Appointments when he died in a plane crash Saturday, and he may just get it posthumously.
