Wednesday, September 08, 2010
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The House Minority bloc said President Benigno Simeon Aquino III's alleged flaws in choosing his Cabinet members manifest his weak leadership.Zambales Rep. Ma Milagros Magsaysay said the President should choose the best people even if they are outside his circle of supporters."It manifests the weak leadership of Mr Aquino. No one possesses the ultimate knowledge for everything but as a President you can always tap the best from anywhere in the Philippines," she said in a press conference on Wedn...
MANILA — Former Maguindanao Governor Andal Ampatuan Sr. only agreed to surrender his son and namesake who was tagged in the Maguindanao massacre when he got assurances that he would be put "under the care" of then president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, a government witness said on Wednesday.
Lakmudin Saliao, a former household help of the Ampatuans who acted as a close-in aide of Andal Sr., said the clan patriarch only agreed to surrender Andal Jr. to authorities after getting assurances fr...
MANILA—Starting September 16, the British embassy here will no longer accept British passport renewal applications, it said in a news release.
“As with other passport renewals across Asia, these will be processed by our Regional Processing Center in Hong Kong. This will not affect the present four-week turn around time expected,” said British Consul Joanne Finnamore-Crorkin.
“All renewal applications will therefore have to be sent by the applicant directly to Hong Kon...
MANILA – Is it a case of miscommunication between members of the Presidential Communications Group?
Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Secretary Ricky Carandang expressed surprise Wednesday on an announcement made by Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma that Malacañang and media groups have agreed on coverage guidelines during crises.
He said Coloma’s statement was premature and baseless, as the Communications Group members...
MANILA - The United Nations (UN) is open to working with Ilocos Norte 2nd District Rep. Imelda Marcos in creating development targets for member-states, its Philippine representative said.
On the sidelines of the Step-up Campaign Forum on Wednesday, UN coordinator to the Philippines Jacqueline Badcock said “she’s a representative of the House of Representatives—and also as chair of a very important committee.”
The former First Lady has expressed willingness to represe...
MANILA, Philippines - President Benigno Aquino admitted on Tuesday that he appointed Jesse Robredo only as acting secretary of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) as reported earlier by VERA Files and ABS-CBN News. (Click here for related story.)
Aquino said he had differences with Robredo during the election campaign, which is why he appointed Robredo in an acting capacity. Robredo's name has not been submitted to the Commission on Appointments (CA) for confirmation.
He t...
MANILA - Ilocos Sur Rep. Ronald Singson on Tuesday did not enter any plea during the hearing of his drug trafficking case at a District Court of Hong Kong.
During Tuesday's proceedings, the lawmaker asked the court for more time. The court agreed to an extension and rescheduled the arraignment to October 19.
Following the conditions of his bail, Singson needs to report to the Hong Kong police everyday. The court has also asked Singson to undergo medical evaluation.
Singson left th...
MANILA - The driver of a Philippine tourist bus hijacked by a sacked policeman told a public inquiry Tuesday how he witnessed the gunman shoot more than a dozen Hong Kong visitors one by one as talks broke down.
Bus driver Alberto Lubang said his left hand was handcuffed to the steering wheel and he saw the horrific scenes unfold at the back of the bus through the rear-view mirror as the day-long standoff ended in a bloodbath.
"I heard the first shot and then I saw a hostage cuffed to the st...
MANILA - About half of the Philippine population considers themselves poor despite robust economic growth, a survey showed on Monday.
The independent study by the Social Weather Stations showed that at least 9.4 million families, about 50 percent, considered themselves to be poor, up from 43 percent or 8.1 million in March, a spokesman of the group said.
"We asked them to choose between two cards: poor or not poor. We did not ask them why they feel poor," said Leo Larosa, a researcher at pol...
MANILA - Groups seeking to impeach Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez declared initial victory when the House justice committee on Tuesday voted that the two impeachment complaints were sufficient in substance.Partylist Representatives Teddy Casino of Bayan Muna and Arlene “Kaka” Bag-ao of Akbayan, endorsers of the complaints, said this was the first time that the committee allowed an impeachment complaint to be fully deliberated by the body, unlike the past years when they were immedi...
MANILA - A Philippine anti-corruption official accused of extorting money from the policeman who triggered a deadly hostage crisis has refused to testify about the allegation, a government minister said Monday.
Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez said in a letter that she and her deputy, Emilio Gonzales, were turning down an invitation to attend a hearing on last month's hijacking, in which eight Hong Kong tourists and the hijacker were killed.
"We may not be able to compel them because we do not...
A three-year romance between an Englishman and his Filipina girlfriend turned sour when he sent her to the police after losing more than P300,000 in cash and other valuables on Saturday morning.The foreigner, Paul Fitzgerald admitted that his lover Maricel Fuentes was not in the best state of mind. According to him, she had been an alcoholic and a frequent user of illegal drugs. The Englishman claimed that Fuentes, 29, had been dependent on him, who was giving her a monthly allowance of P40...
MANILA - The younger brother of slain hostage-taker Rolando Mendoza on Monday said he asked for help from the media during a critical moment in the August 23 hostage crisis because he was afraid of what other policemen would do to him if he was arrested.
SPO2 Gregorio Mendoza said he ran towards waiting media workers near the command post in Rizal Park after he heard then Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim tell other policemen to take him away. This was after one of the police negotiators told the mayo...
Philippine officials managing a hostage crisis left their posts to fill up on coffee and food as a gunman who had seized a busload of Hong Kong tourists began shooting, an inquiry heard Saturday.
Manila deputy mayor Isko Moreno told a public hearing he went to a nearby hotel to watch the crisis that left eight hostages dead play out on television while mayor Alfredo Lim had admitted Friday heading to a nearby restaurant.
The testimony by Moreno on Saturday came after details emerged of ...
MANILA—On the USS George Washington, men in Hawaiian shirts and sunglasses and women in cool tops and sandals are waiting patiently for their turn to board the ferry that will take them to shore.
Looking more like an airport than a nuclear warship, the USS George Washington anchored off Manila Bay yesterday so its 5,000-strong crew could enjoy a much-deserved four-day holiday.
Sunny weather welcomed American soldiers, who were anxious to walk on land and fulfill their mission&mda...
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