00:00Today on Rappler
00:06A search warrant is secured for Cate Cabral's room at Baguio's Aion Hotel, where she was checked in before her death.
00:19Bacolod City watchdog slammed Lucio Co's takeover of the Bilyar-led Prime Water Infrastructure Corporation.
00:26Filipino boxer Yamir Marshal wins the country's lone boxing gold medal in 2025 SEA Games.
00:32And the Philippines rubs up its 2025 SEA Games campaign with 277 medal haul.
00:40Authorities obtained a search warrant to sweep a room at the Aion Hotel in Baguio, where former Public Works Under-Secretary Cate Cabral was checked in before her death.
00:49The search seeks to shed light on Cabral's activities before her life ended.
00:53Earlier, an autopsy report released by the police December 20 determined that Cabral died due to blunt traumatic injury consistent with a fall.
01:01An autopsy helps investigators determine the cause and matter of Cabral's death.
01:05Cabral's family initially refused an autopsy on Friday but agreed the following day.
01:10Meantime, the Department of the Interior and Local Government has ordered the relief of Benguet's police chief and Tubatown's police head for, quote,
01:18mishandling the investigation.
01:20DILG chief John Brick Rimulia said in the presser,
01:24Cabral's gadgets were not turned over to the authorities but to the family.
01:27It was a crime scene so there were lapses on the part of the investigators but we are doing everything we can now para na-retrieve lahat ng mga materials yan.
01:39She was found unconscious near Buwed River along Cannon Road in Benguet on Thursday, December 18.
01:45She was pronounced dead at 12.3 in the morning on Friday, December 19.
01:49Former DPWH Undersecretary Roberto Bernardo alleged that Cabral was the main operator of the kickback system in the Public Works Department.
02:00Two consumer watchdogs in Bacolod City slam Lusho Kost take over of the Traffold Villar-led Prime Water Infrastructure Corporation.
02:08Groups Amlik Tubig and Water Watch Advocates brand the acquisition as injustice to over 70,000 households or water consumers in Bacolod.
02:17Bacolod Councillor Wilson June Gamboa Jr., a convener of Amlik Tubig, says water consumers would remain disadvantaged despite the takeover.
02:26The group also calls for the junking of the 2020 Joint Venture Agreement.
02:31Kost Crystal Bridges Holding Inc. assumed Prime Water's role in the controversial 25-year Joint Venture Agreement with Bacolod City Water District that started in November 2020.
02:42W.W.A. convener Wenji Sancho says since the takeover was done in haste without the knowledge of Basiwe executives and Bacolod consumers, then something seemed suspicious.
02:52He adds, quote,
02:53We want to know the details vis-a-vis what will happen now with the water distribution in Bacolod.
02:58W.W.A. cannot afford to see Bacolod water consumers to be in limbo.
03:02Kymir Marshal saves the Philippine boxing team from a goldless campaign as he claims the lone boxing gold medal.
03:11This after a 4-1 win over Indonesia's Michael Mosquita in the men's 80-kilogram final in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday, December 19.
03:20After missing the 2023 edition, Marshal claimed his fifth gold.
03:25His teammates settled for goldless finishes in the past days due to disputable decisions.
03:30In basketball, the Philippines retains its men's 5-on-5 basketball crown after a 70-64 comeback win over Thailand.
03:39It was a vindication for the Filipinos who scrambled to assemble a new team after local organizers reversed course and barred previously approved naturalized players.
03:49Team Philippines earns 50 gold, 73 silvers, and 154 bronzes for a total of 277 medals in the 2025 Southeast Asian Games, finishing 6th in the race for the overall championship.
04:05Despite placing 6th, its lowest finish since 2017, several Filipino athletes make history by ending the long-standing dominance of rival nations across multiple sports.
04:15The Filipinos captured a historic women's football crown, breaking the long-standing Thailand-Vietnam duopoly.
04:23In tennis, Alex Ayala ended a 26-year drought for a Filipino women's singles gold after beating a pair of Thai opponents in her last two matches.
04:32Swimming silver surgeons led by Kayla Sanchez's standout Sea Games debut.
04:37Sanchez earned the distinction as the most be-medaled Filipino athlete in this edition with her personal haul of three golds and five silvers.
04:45Athletics produced the most gold medals for the country with five courtesy of E.J. Oviena, Naomi Cesar, Hussein Lorana, Joquette De Los Santos, and John Cabang Tolentino.
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