Ending four decades of secessionist war by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front remains a top priority of the Aquino administration but the President has to exercise “due care and utmost diligence” in bridging the differences that remain between the two sides in the negotiations, two administration officials said Saturday.
Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas said Friday that an autopsy conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on the remains of a suspect to the killing of Palawan environmentalist and journalist Gerry Ortega showed the cause of his death to be “asphyxia by hanging”.
Allegedly too stoned to be interrogated, the suspected gunman in the killing of Mayor Erlinda Domingo of Maconacon, Isabela, has yet to give investigators information that would lead the authorities to the mastermind, Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas said Saturday.
Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas on Wednesday defended Malacañang order to suspend Cebu Governor Gwendolyn for six months, saying this has nothing to do with politics.
The powerful Commission on Appointment has confirmed the appointment of Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas II after Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago withdrew her motion to block his nomination.
Incoming Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas on Wednesday faced the powerful Commisson on Appointments amid Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago’s threat to veto his confirmation.
Incoming Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas on Wednesday faced the powerful Commisson on Appointments amid Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago’s threat to veto his confirmation.
Beleaguered Interior undersecretary Rico Puno voluntarily stepped down from his post to give incoming Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas a free hand to form a new team.
Newly appointed Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas faces big challenges in his new post, especially with the reported increasing crime rate in Metro Manila, Zambales Representative Mitos Magsaysay said Thursday.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) believes that Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas will not be a thorn in the path of the projected peace agreement with the government.
From opening doors to pulling chairs for President Benigno Aquino III as a young Navy lieutenant and as an aide-de-camp back when it was his mother, the late Corazon Aquino, who stood at the government’s helm, newly appointed chief of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) chief, Cavite Representative Joseph Emilio Abaya, has gone a long way in public service.
Ifugao Representative Teodoro Baguilat Jr., who was among those considered to take over at the Department of Interior Local Government, said outgoing Transportation and Communication Secretary Manuel Roxas II now has “the most difficult position in the Cabinet” as new DILG chief because anyone chosen for the position would have the “unenviable burden” of being compared to the late Secretary Jesse Robredo.
Transportation and Communications Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas fits the “same mold of integrity” that the late Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo embodied, a leader at the House of Representatives said Friday.
