Cheche has been charged for wiretapping by GSIS, when her Probe Team tried to do a story on unfair compensation practices. Cheche had explicitly told GSIS that she was recording their conversation beforehand. She had offered them all the airtime to present their side of the story. In the end, because the story was negative, GSIS chose to charge her with wire-tapping.
Cheche Lazaro’s Statement
May 8, 2009
It is mind-boggling why I am being singled out for prosecution for following the tenets of responsible journalism. If raising the concerns of underpaid public school teachers deprived of their benefits by a publicly accountable government institution and giving my accuser the airtime to explain her boss’s side of the story are now considered crimes under our laws, then I plead guilty.
This is a small price to pay for bringing a perfectly legitimate public interest issue out in the open. Probe will not be intimidated into submission. I just wish my accuser will play fair and hire private lawyers instead of using government lawyers (from the GSIS), whose salaries are incidentally paid for by, among others, the teachers shortchanged by the questionable policy of the GSIS and private citizens like me who pay taxes.
In the last 22 years, Probe has carved a niche in the industry and won recognition here and abroad for consistently adhering to time-honored journalistic values of accuracy, fairness and objectivity. My team and I have no plans of changing the way we work just to accommodate the personal agenda of people in power.
Would You Trust These Two? Prospero Nograles and Luis Villafuerte this week both relinquished their posts as heads of their respective parties to pave the way for the merging of Kampi and Lakas. Citing preparations for the 2010 elections, they also claim that Cha-Cha is dead. But knowing how these two operate, would you take their word as gospel truth. If you ask me, I’d rather trust a snake than these two.
How many times have these two said anything truthful? As far as I can remember, zilch, nada, never. I’m sure they’re doing the dirty work of pushing the Cha-Cha one way or another. Just to be on the safe side, Gloria has been globetrotting, most probably to try and hide her loot. She’s using the plight of the starving, jobless Filipinos to spirit away her ill-gotten wealth. Perhaps she’s staying away from Europe as the EU have very strict laws against dirty money.
So the cat is out of the bag, Lakas and Kampi are consolidationg their forces, perhaps to resurrect a KBL-like party should they succeed in amending the constitution. They’re trying to create a monopoly of sorts to ensure that they would still enjoy the perks that come with their ass-licking loyalty to the soon-to-be illegitimate prime minister. Look hard at these pictures and tell me with all honesty that these two have any shred of sincerity in them. Would you entrust the future of your children in faces like these? Like I said, I’m better off with the snake. (by schumey.blogspot.com)
Group of activists and moralists joined the Pitao family in bringing their daughter to rest in peace. ( March 14,2009) But, it seems Rebelyn’s soul is not yet resting as her clan shout and seek justice for such barbaric act. The NPA is still blaming the Arm Forces of the Philippines. This writer also symphatize to the Rebelyn’s Pitao and I am with these individuals who seek JUSTICE for REBELYN!
The friendship ends. The peace negotiation would probably turn to trash. The death of Kumander Parago’s daughter, Rebelyn Pitao would be calling for change. Not for peace but for more bloody NPA attacks.
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte stated on his local show aired on ABS-CBN (Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa) that he promised to solve the problem by giving justice to Parago’s daughter after his wife, Evangeline Pitao blamed the Arm Forces of the Philippines of the said killing. NPA forces also blamed the military even the AFP denied their involvement.
Rebelyn Pitao, daughter of a high-ranking commander of the New People’s Army in Southern Mindanao, was abducted along her way home 6:30 am, March 6,2009. Twenty Four hours after, her body found floating in an irrigation canal in Carmen Davao del Norte with an object inserted to her private parts.
Mayor spoke for justice to it and told NPA to not think that it was AFPs act of vengeance. However, by principle, NPA continue blames the civil government behind the case.
For now, everything is uncertain. For this writer, everyone must be cautious for we do not know how will this end. Through war? Or, another life would be sacrificed again. The people Davao are trusting Mayor to solve it as soon as possible before the group of Parago strike. (Parago picture courtesy of davaotoday.com)
Watch the final day of the liberator Ninoy Aquino. In the video you will hear somebody giving cue to the killer to shoot ninoy. Well, it was his fate. He needed to die so that filipinos will be awaken and enlivened people’s power!
Dennis Cuesta used to anchor the hard hitting primetime radio program “Straight to the Point” over DXMD – General Santos. Apart from tackling corruption on air, he also heard out complaints from residents. Among the latest issues he tackled were complaints of maltreatment against a car company, where he was asked to testify for the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG).
Cuesta fought for his life at the intensive care unit of the St. Elizabeth Hospital in General Santos City for almost five days after he was shot at around 4:30 p.m. near the Gaisano mall of General Santos city on Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
Kidnapped television reporter Ces Drilon, cameraman Jimmy Encarnacion and Mindanao State University professor Octavio Dinampo were freed late Tuesday night, nine days after they were abducted in Sulu province.
Philippine National Police Director General Avelino Razon confirmed the hostages were released at around 11 p.m. Tuesday.
Myanmar leaders simply don’t want help! For them it is ok to see their people slowly die in hunger,thirst and sickness rather than accepting the help from the U.S. just because of the possibilty that U.S. might seize the country’s oil deposit. If this is not stupidity, the myanmar leaders are not far from KILLERS- letting their people die just because of PRIDE.
The following is the report about the back-to-base of the U.S. vessels carrying relief goods after the Myanmar generals disapproved their entry.
BANGKOK, Thailand – U.S. Navy ships are leaving Myanmar after failing to get the junta’s permission to unload aid to “ease the suffering of hundreds of thousands” of cyclone survivors, the top U.S. military commander in the Pacific said Tuesday.
Word of the aborted mercy mission comes even as the United Nations warned that a month after the cyclone swept through Myanmar, more than 1 million people still don’t have adequate food, water or shelter and junta policies are hindering relief efforts.
Adm. Timothy Keating ordered the vessels to leave the Myanmar area Thursday, after the U.S. made at least 15 attempts to convince Myanmar’s leaders to allow ships, helicopters and landing craft to offload their aid.
Myanmar’s state media has said that it feared a U.S. invasion aimed at seizing the country’s oil deposits. But the junta has also forbidden use of military helicopters from friendly neighboring nations, which are vital in rushing supplies to isolated survivors.
Stranded passengers sleep after the most destructive earthquake China has experienced.
CHENGDU, China – A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing more than 8,700 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country’s worst quake in three deca
The 7.9-magnitude quake devastated a region of small cities and towns set amid steep hills north of Sichuan’s provincial capital of Chengdu. Striking in midafternoon, it emptied office buildings across the country in Beijing and could be felt as far away as Vietnam.
Snippets from state media and photos posted on the Internet underscored the immense scale of the devastation. In the town of Juyuan, south of the epicenter, a three-story high school collapsed, burying as many as 900 students and killing at least 50, the official Xinhua news agency said. Photos showed people using cranes, mechanical hoists and their hands to remove slabs of concrete and steel.
Buried teenagers struggled to break free from the rubble, “while others were crying out for help,” Xinhua said. Families waited in the rain near the wreckage as rescuers wrote the names of the dead on a blackboard, Xinhua said.
Sinusunod na natin ang maraming bagay mula sa siyensya para sa produksyon ng pagkain. Bihira na tayong humingi ng ulan mula sa kung sino mang maligno sa ating kapaligiran. Natulungan na tayo ng siyensya para sa ating mga desisyon para sa produksyon ng ating pagkain.
Sa ngayon nakaamba ang krisis sa pagkain lalo na sa supply ng bigas. Sinasabi sa atin ng Malakanyang na walang krisis pero nagsasabi ang ating karanasan at kaalaman sa siyentipikong pagsusuri na may problema ang sinasabi ng palasyo. Alam nating kapag tumataas ang presyo ng isang bagay maaaring wala na itong supply: O baka merong kartel na nagmamanipula; o may kartel at walang supply.
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week both relinquished their posts as heads of their respective parties to pave the way for the merging of Kampi and Lakas. Citing preparations for the 2010 elections, they also claim that Cha-Cha is dead. But knowing how these two operate, would you take their word as gospel truth. If you ask me, I’d rather trust a snake than these two.
Group of activists and moralists joined the Pitao family in bringing their daughter to rest in peace. ( March 14,2009) But, it seems Rebelyn’s soul is not yet resting as her clan shout and seek justice for such barbaric act. The NPA is still blaming the Arm Forces of the Philippines. This writer also symphatize to the Rebelyn’s Pitao and I am with these individuals who seek JUSTICE for REBELYN!
Rebelyn Pitao, daughter of a high-ranking commander of the New People’s Army in Southern Mindanao, was abducted along her way home 6:30 am, March 6,2009. Twenty Four hours after, her body found floating in an irrigation canal in Carmen Davao del Norte with an object inserted to her private parts.
GSIS – Gago at Salbaheng Institusyon Sa pinas
May 13, 2009 by Rebel NewsCheche has been charged for wiretapping by GSIS, when her Probe Team tried to do a story on unfair compensation practices. Cheche had explicitly told GSIS that she was recording their conversation beforehand. She had offered them all the airtime to present their side of the story. In the end, because the story was negative, GSIS chose to charge her with wire-tapping.
Cheche Lazaro’s Statement
May 8, 2009
It is mind-boggling why I am being singled out for prosecution for following the tenets of responsible journalism. If raising the concerns of underpaid public school teachers deprived of their benefits by a publicly accountable government institution and giving my accuser the airtime to explain her boss’s side of the story are now considered crimes under our laws, then I plead guilty.
This is a small price to pay for bringing a perfectly legitimate public interest issue out in the open. Probe will not be intimidated into submission. I just wish my accuser will play fair and hire private lawyers instead of using government lawyers (from the GSIS), whose salaries are incidentally paid for by, among others, the teachers shortchanged by the questionable policy of the GSIS and private citizens like me who pay taxes.
In the last 22 years, Probe has carved a niche in the industry and won recognition here and abroad for consistently adhering to time-honored journalistic values of accuracy, fairness and objectivity. My team and I have no plans of changing the way we work just to accommodate the personal agenda of people in power.
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