A compilation of writings on the late Interior Secretary Jesse M. Robredo provides a peek of the different facets of the public servant’s life as told by people who knew him up close.
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) has distanced itself from a draft report that pointed to pilot error as one of the main causes of the plane crash that killed Interior Secretary Jesse M. Robredo and two others in August.
The tombs of Raul S. Roco and Jesse M. Robredo are just across each other in Barangay Balatas here and at the edges of two of the largest cemeteries that they seem to be sentinels for the rest of the departed in the city that remembers its two beloved sons like hometown heroes on All Souls’ Day.
Interior Secretary Jesse M. Robredo called Tuesday for the transfer of management of jails under local government units to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) following the escape of 11 prisoners from the Maguindanao Provincial Jail in Cotabato City.
If debris from North Korea’s rocket falls in your area, don’t touch it. Instead, call the fire department immediately.
Interior Secretary Jesse M. Robredo on Wednesday ordered the relief of the chiefs of police of three towns in his home province of Camarines Sur for their reported failure to stop the proliferation of the illegal numbers game “jueteng” in their areas.
Interior Secretary Jesse M. Robredo on Wednesday called on former Palawan Governor Joel Reyes and his mayor-brother to surrender and face charges in the 2011 murder of environmentalist-broadcaster Gerardo “Doc Gerry” Ortega.
Impeachment was the only recourse against the “tyranny of the judiciary,” Interior Secretary Jesse M. Robredo said on Tuesday.
With the destruction wrought by back-to-back typhoons, there ought to be a law that will literally put away savings for a rainy day.
Provinces, towns and cities have made great strides in delivering good governance at the local level, thanks mainly to the autonomy they were granted 20 years ago, said Interior Secretary Jesse M. Robredo.
One cell had a concealed air conditioner mounted on the toilet wall. Some prisoners had cellular phones and DVD players. Other inmates were in possession of “shabu,” or methamphetamine hydrochloride.
