Thursday, January 08, 2009 (Philippines)

MANILA. PNP spokesman Nicanor Bartolome says retired Director Eliseo dela Paz will be pardoned if the 105,000 euros would be returned to the PNP completely. (Jill Beltran) RELATIVES of Richard Brodett, one of the so-called “Alabang Boys” who fell in two separate buy bust operations of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) last September, said Wednesday that it was his mother Myra, who taught him how to use drugs. Dave Brodett, a brother of Richard’s father Philip, told the House oversight committee on dangerous drugs that it was Myra who not only tolerated but pushed his son to do drugs. Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo [full story]