Alice Guo dismissed, disqualified from public office | The wRap
Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
- Ombudsman dismisses Mayor Alice Guo from service
- PH protests China’s use of flares on PAF plane over Scarborough Shoal
- ‘Quite alarming’: Dela Rosa hits Remulla, Guevarra over recent ICC statements
- Britain’s Tom Daley announces retirement after Paris Olympics silver
- Jojo Nones, Richard Cruz deny sexual assault allegations
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/august-13-2024/
- Ombudsman dismisses Mayor Alice Guo from service
- PH protests China’s use of flares on PAF plane over Scarborough Shoal
- ‘Quite alarming’: Dela Rosa hits Remulla, Guevarra over recent ICC statements
- Britain’s Tom Daley announces retirement after Paris Olympics silver
- Jojo Nones, Richard Cruz deny sexual assault allegations
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/august-13-2024/
Transcript
00:00Today on Rappler
00:13Alice Guo, the controversial mayor of Bambantarlac, is dismissed and banned from public office.
00:18The Philippines protests China's firing of flares near a Philippine plane over Scarborough
00:23Shoal.
00:24Senator Bato De La Rosa says he finds the openness of certain government officials to
00:28the ITC probe quite alarming.
00:32Britain's five-time Olympic diving medalist Tom Daley is retiring.
00:36And GMA Network's Giorgio Nones and Richard Cruz deny sexual abuse allegations made against
00:41them by actor Sandro Mulac.
00:46Controversial Bambantarlac mayor Alice Guo is dismissed and banned from public office.
00:51The Office of the Ombudsman gave the order on Tuesday, August 13, after it found Guo
00:56guilty of grave misconduct.
00:58She is perpetually disqualified from re-entering government service, and all her retirement
01:02benefits from any post she held are forfeited.
01:05Guo became a household name ever since a Senate investigation uncovered her suspected links
01:10to illegal pogos.
01:12Officials questioned her nationality and ties to business partners accused of crimes.
01:17Guo faces a slew of cases, including qualified trafficking and a petition to cancel her birth
01:22certificate.
01:23The Court of Appeals earlier froze her assets, and the Senate ordered her arrest to force
01:27her to participate in its investigation.
01:32The Philippines officially protests China's jets firing flares near a Philippine plane
01:37over Scarborough Shoal.
01:39Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo tells a congressional panel on Tuesday, August 13, the DFAS filed
01:44a note verbal against China to convey its strong condemnation of the incident.
01:49Manalo says the Philippine Air Force plane's actions were lawful because it did not pose
01:53threat to the Chinese planes.
01:56It also did not violate any sovereignty or jurisdiction because it was within its rights
02:00to patrol the area.
02:02In a separate briefing, the Navy Inspector General Rear Admiral Roy Vincent Trinidad
02:07tells reporters the Chinese plane's actions were, quote, coercive, aggressive, and deceptive.
02:13The incident happened last Thursday, August 8, above Scarborough Shoal in the waters off
02:18Zambales.
02:21Senator Bato De La Rosa says he finds it quite alarming that certain administration
02:25officials hinted at openness to the ITC's probe into the war on drugs.
02:30In a privileged speech on Monday, August 12, De La Rosa reacted to recent statements by
02:35Justice Secretary Boyeng Remulia and Solicitor General Menardo Guevara.
02:39The pronouncements of those two executive officials are quite alarming.
02:46Are they challenging the policy set by the president?
02:51Guevara earlier said his office wouldn't prevent ITC prosecutors from interviewing people allegedly
02:56involved in the drug war.
02:58In a separate interview, Remulia said it's the International Criminal Police Organization's
03:02job to serve an arrest warrant once it's out.
03:06As former President Rodrigo Duterte's first police chief, De La Rosa stands with him accused
03:10of crimes against humanity over drug war killings.
03:16Britain's five-time Olympic diving medalist Tom Daly says he's retiring.
03:21The 30-year-old tells British Vogue he feels, quote, "...it's the right time to call it
03:25a day."
03:26Daly ended his final Olympiad in Paris with a silver from the men's synchronized 10-meter
03:31dive with Noah Williams.
03:33It was a fitting comeback for Daly as he took a hiatus after winning gold in the Tokyo Olympics
03:38in 2021.
03:40He says he returned for a final Olympiad because his older son asked him to.
03:44With that, Daly became the first British diver to compete in five Olympics.
03:49His popularity grew after he came out as gay in 2013.
03:53He tells the BBC, quote, "...he's really happy with how everything's gone."
03:56GMA Network independent contractors Giorgio Nones and Richard Cruz deny sexual abuse allegations
04:05made against them by 23-year-old GMA actor Sandro Mula.
04:09In a Senate hearing on Monday, August 12, Senator Gingoy Estrada questioned both Nones
04:14and Cruz's totally unacceptable absences during the first hearing on August 7.
04:19Nones apologized for not showing up during the last hearing, admitting he and Cruz were
04:24both scared to be subjected to a media circus and a premature trial.
04:28He adds they were afraid of the possibility of violating the ongoing investigation by
04:32the National Bureau of Investigation.
04:35Addressing Mula, they say, quote, "...we did not do anything wrong to you and you know
04:39that in your heart.
04:40It's not too late to tell the truth."
04:42Cruz and Nones add they are homosexuals, but they are not abusers and they do not commit
04:47any wrongdoings against others.
04:52And that's today's wrap.
04:53I'm Cara Oliver.
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