by magnolia_eic | Apr 5, 2011 | Headlines, National News
PRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino III appointed on Monday a 37-year-old lawyer and a 61-
year-old state auditor as commissioners of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and Civil
Service Commission (CSC), respectively.
Christian Robert Lim, who was a member of the Bantay Balota group of then presidential
candidate Aquino and his running mate Sen. Mar Roxas, was designated Comelec
commissioner, replacing Gregorio Larrazabal, who retired in early February.
Lim served as an associate of the Carpio, Villaraza and Cruz Law Offices, popularly known
as The Firm, from 1998 to 2000, and was endorsed by former Special Prosecutor Dennis
Villa Ignacio, an ally and former subordinate of the law office’s senior partner Simeon
Marcelo.
He also served as private prosecutor in the plunder case against deposed President Joseph
Estrada, as well as in the murder charges leveled against Sen. Panfilo Lacson. At present,
he is a managing partner at Lim & Leynes Law Offices.
Rasol Lamping Mitmug, Commission on Audit director for Region 11 based in Davao City,
was appointed CSC commissioner in place of Cesar Buenaflor, who also once served as
commissioner of the defunct Presidential Anti-Graft Commission under former President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Mitmug counted as references former Vice President Teofisto Guingona Jr. and his senator-
son Teofisto III, former Senate President Jovito Salonga, Budget Secretary Florencio Abad
and Samar Rep. Raul Daza, a Liberal Party stalwart.
Both Lim’s and Mitmug’s fixed seven-year terms will end on Feb. 2, 2018. (PIA)
by magnolia_eic | Apr 5, 2011 | Headlines, National News
MALACAÑANG today urged Filipinos to take part in the government’s drive to eradicate
measles through the Department of Health’s (DOH) “Iligtas sa Tigdas ang Pinas” program.
Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office Secretary Ramon
Carandang told a news conference in Malacañang on Tuesday that the program’s “targeted”
families should take this opportunity as the vaccine is administered free of charge.
The DOH launched this month-long, nationwide, door-to-door measles vaccination campaign
on Monday to vaccinate about 18-million children between nine months to about eight years
of age.
The campaign aims to reduce the number of children at risk of getting measles or being
susceptible to measles that have built up since 2008 and to achieve at least 95 percent
measles immunization coverage of all targeted children.
This campaign also aims to immunize children against measles-rubella particularly those
children who were missed by the routine measles immunization and give booster doses to
those who have already received measles immunization in order to reduce the number of
those susceptible to the disease. (PCOO)
by magnolia_eic | Mar 31, 2011 | Headlines, National News
IPA-SUSPENDE ni Presidente Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III ang mga kawani sa Bureau of
Customs (BoC) nga nalambigit sa smuggling ug uban pang ilegal nga binuhatan.
Matud pa sa Presidente nga kinahanglang ipaubos sa preventive suspension ang maong
mga opisyal aron dili maimpluwensyahan niini ang gihimong imbestigasyon sa buhatan.
Tinguha usab niini nga mapakita sa publiko nga seryoso ang kagamhanan sa kampanya niini
batok sa smuggling.
Gihimo sa Presidente ang maong pahayag human madawat ang taho ni Customs
Commissioner Angelito Alvarez diin 12 ka operations officer, examiner ug document
processor ang girekomendang pasakaan og kaso tungod sa pagkalambigit sa smuggling ug
uban pang kaso sa korapsyon. (ecbPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Mar 31, 2011 | Headlines, National News
NAKITAAN og radioactive substance ang hangin sa Pilipinas bisan wala nausab ang
direksyon sa hangin sa Japan.
Matud pa ni Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
(PAGASA) Senior Weather Specialist Niño Relos, niabot na ang radioactive susbtance sa
Pilipinas tungod sa weather system sa nagkalain-laing nasud.
Niingon si Relos nga ang hangin nga may radioactive substance gikan sa Japan, gidala
padung sa direksyon sa China ug gikan didto, naapektuhan kini sa weather system diin ang
hangin nagtuyok gikan sa high pressure area (HPA) padung sa low pressure area (LPA).
Giingong ang maong sistema ang nakaingon nga napadpad sa Pilipinas ang gagmay nga
traces sa radioactive substance gikan sa Japan.
Gitataw usab ni Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI) Executive Director Alumanda
dela Rosa nga ubos kaayo ang level sa contamination ug wala kini bisan-unsang dautang
epekto sa palibot bisan sa tawo o bisan sa mananap.
Bisan pa niini, nitambag si Relos nga dili una maligo sa uwan ilabi na ang mga taga-Metro
Manila dili tungod sa radioactive substance kun di tungod sa polusyon nga mahimong
magresulta sa acid rain.
Gipulong usab dayon sa National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council
(NDRRMC) ang nagkalain-laing ahensya sa gobyerno sama sa Department of Trade and
Industry (DTI), National Food Authority (NFA) ug Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR) aron mahibaw-an kun unsang preparasyon ang gihimo nila kun mosaka
ang level sa kontaminasyon sa radioactive substance sa nasud. (ecbPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Mar 31, 2011 | Headlines, National News
THE Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC) announced that it had started mailing
payment for deposit insurance to Banco Filipino Savings & Mortgage Bank (BF) depositors
with account balances of P5,000 and below, with no outstanding loans and whose addresses
are complete in the bank’s records.
Payment is in the form of postal money orders (PMOs). These PMOs can be encashed
in more than 1,400 post offices and over 300 Land Bank of the Philippines branches
nationwide.
In a statement, PDIC said that as of end December 2010, accounts with balances of P5,000
and below make up 53 percent of the total number of deposit accounts maintained in the
bank.
“This is the first batch of payments and mailing of PMOs to depositors will continue daily.
Please allow time for the delivery of the PMOs to your houses,” PDIC executive vice
president Cristina Orbeta said.
