So what ever happened to the tracker teams? The family of murdered Palawan broadcaster and environmentalist Dr. Gerardo Ortega is losing hope his killing will be solved any time soon.
A witness in the 2011 murder of broadcaster-environmentalist Dr. Gerardo Ortega was strangled inside the Quezon provincial jail in Lucena City and did not commit suicide as declared by prison officials, results of a second autopsy showed.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Friday said the death of the alleged lookout in the hit team that murdered Palawan environmentalist-broadcaster Gerardo “Doc Gerry” Ortega would not affect the case that the government is pursuing against the culprits.
Police teams are intensifying efforts to locate former Palawan governor Joel T. Reyes and other persons accused of the murder of environmentalist broadcaster Gerardo Ortega last year, officials said on Friday.
Before Romeo Olea, three other journalists were killed in cold blood since the beginning of the year. Palawan broadcaster Gerardo Ortega, 47, was shot and killed by a lone gunman on Jan. 24 while shopping in a used-clothes store in Puerto Princesa City. Ortega, called “Doc Gerry” by friends and colleagues, was the anchor of [...]
