ACQUITTED Tony Boy Floirendo cleared from graft charge filed by former Speaker Alvarez

By MAYA M. PADILLO

Former Davao del Norte representative Antonio crime of violation of Section 3(h) of Republic Act No. 3019.

“Tony Boy” Floirendo Jr. was acquitted by the Supreme Court from the graft charge filed by then House Speaker Pantaleon D. Alvarez with the Office of the Ombudsman in 2017.

NTF-ELCAC slams NPA ‘pattern’ of victimizing, attacking students

The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTFELCAC) on Monday scored the Communist Party of the Philippines - New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) for its “pattern” of victimizing students by mounting “ruthless and indiscriminate” attacks near public schools while demanding the resumption of peace talks with the government.

playbook, used to great effect for decades now.”

The task force also debunked the need for peace talks at the national level since local peace talks “have been fruitful and, in a short period, have borne more positive results than decades worth of ‘peace talks’ with self-styled leaders of the CPP-NPA-NDF.” guilty of the

The SC rejected Sandiganbayan’s view that the mere hold- ing of an interest in a corporation to whom a contract was granted by the government is enough to put a member of Congress within the purview of the constitutional prohibition cannot be accepted by the High Court.

“The Constitution must not have envisioned such a myopic view, for members of Congress