From now on, it’s zip your mouths. The Court of Appeals issued a gag order preventing camps from Taguig and Makati to make public statements in connection with their ongoing dispute over the 729-hectare Fort Andres Bonifacio. A July 30 ruling had ordered Taguig City to stop exercising jurisdiction over Fort Bonifacio. Taguig filed an appeal, insisting that the former base camp is part of Taguig and not Makati. The five-page CA resolution warns that the parties could be cited for indirect contempt if they continue to discuss the merits of the case. [ABS-CBN News]
Speaking of gag orders…the National Press Club gave some senators the thumbs up for “thwarting an apparent attempt by some officers of the Public Relations Information Bureau identified with Senator Franklin Drilon to put a ‘gag’ on media interviews with a further to remove the accreditation of those violating” this rule, reports People’s Tonight.
