SOURCE: SUNSTAR (www.sunstar.com.ph) Published : Wednesday, September 7, 2011 MANILA (Updated 2:56 p.m.) — The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday ordered a reinvestigation on the killing of Palawan journalist Gerardo “Doc Gerry” Ortega. In an order dated September 7, 2011, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima designated [...]
By: Ernesto F. Herrera SOURCE: MANILATIMES.NET 30 August 2011 HILIGAYNON broadcaster Niel Jimena, of dyRP (Iloilo) and dyAG (Negros Occidental) is the ninth casualty among media practitioners under the administration of President Benigno C. Aquino 3rd. According to news reports, Jimena was chased by unidentified motorcycle-riding assassins, [...]
National Union of Journalists in the Philippines (NUJP) Media Release Aug. 28, 2011 Slain Palawan broadcaster and environmentalist Doc Gerry Ortega would have been 48 years old today. He was killed last Jan. 24 by an assassin who pointed at former Palawan Governor Joel Reyes as mastermind. [...]