By Elijah Joseph C. Tubayan
Reporter

FOLLOWING CALLS for his resignation by members of Congress then a vote of confidence from the President, Customs Commissioner Nicanor E. Faeldon yesterday asked lawmakers to come up with a statute banning any government official, except the chief executive, from recommending the appointment or promotion of an employee at the Bureau of Customs (BoC).

AN IMPEACHMENT complaint against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes P. A. Sereno was submitted by an anti-crime group on Wednesday, but it has yet to be formally endorsed by a member of the House of the Representatives to bring it up for hearing.

MALACAÑANG ON Wednesday again defended President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s deadly drug war, but this time from a new critic: His predecessor, Benigno S. C. Aquino III.

By Ian Nicolas P. Cigaral
Reporter

PRESIDENT RODRIGO R. Duterte has made good on some his promises during his first State of the Nation Address by signing separate laws extending the validity of passports and driver’s licenses as well as well as the establishment of a free Internet access program in public places.