by magnolia_eic | Mar 2, 2011 | Headlines, National News
ANDAM ang Department of Energy (DOE) nga makipagsabot-sabot sa grupong Consumer
ug Oil Price Watch (COPW) ni Raul Concepcion kalabot sa computation sa gipatuman nga
price adjustment sa mga produktong petrolyo.
Sa usa ka pakighinabi sa radyo, gipahayag ni Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras
nga mahimong moapil sa weekly meeting sa DOE kada Lunes sa buntag ang grupo ni
Concepcion aron makita niini ang formula ug computation sa gipatuman nga price adjustment
sa mga kumpanya sa lana.
Giingong andam usab silang makipagsabot-sabot sa grupo ni Concepcion aron mahibaw-an
ang kaugalingong computation niini ug uban pang impormasyon nga mahimo nilang ipaambit
nga makatabang sa gobyerno.
Kalabot usab sa suhestiyon ni Senador Ralph Recto sa paggamit sa inventory-based pricing
sa computation sa price adjustment, gitataw ni Almendras nga wala siya nisulti nga dili kini
angay gamiton.
Adunay tukmang panahon lang matud pa sa paggamit niini ug sa karon, ang spot-based
pricing ang gigamit sa gobyerno.
Niangkon usab ang kalihim nga nag-unang hagit sa DOE ang supply security diin
kinahanglang mas padak-an pa ang kasamtangang suplay sa produktong petrolyo sa
Pilipinas tungod na usab sa kagubot sa pipila ka nasud sa Middle East. (ecbPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Mar 2, 2011 | Headlines, National News
The Aquino government wants to reorganize the heavily indebted National Food Authority
in order to arrest the agency’s ballooning debt, improve the delivery of services and to fast
track the administration’s goal of lowering rice importation in order for the country to be rice
sufficient in two years.
In a press briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said the Bill reorganizing
the NFA was discussed during President Benigno S. Aquino III’s first Legislative Executive
Development Advisory Council meeting in Malacañang on Monday.
The LEDAC was created through Republic Act 7640 approved by then President Fidel V.
Ramos on December 9, 1992 which mandated that LEDAC shall serve as a consultative and
advisory body to the President as the head of the national economic and planning agency for
further consultations and advice on certain programs and policies essential to the realization
of the goals of the national economy.
The President discussed why the NFA needed to be reformed and give way to a National
Food Corporation (NFC), primarily mandated to maintain and manage a national strategic
and government rice buffer stock by July of each year, Lacierda said.
The NFC, Lacierda added, will not take over NFA’s debts and obligations pegged at P161-
billion (down from P177-billion) and would start on “a clean slate basis.”
“All assets and liabilities of NFA not transferred shall be retained and administered, disposed
of and liquidated by the NFA,” Lacierda said.
Together with the creation of the NFC, Lacierda said, the Bill would also propose increasing
the penalties of rice smuggling “which shall be considered as economic sabotage and deem
the offense as non-bailable.”
Aside from the NFC, a Food Development and Regulatory Administration (FDRA) would be
created to “carry out regulatory, scientific and developmental functions for strengthening the
efficiency of the food supply chain in order to increase the value of the farmers’ produce as a
component of food products for export.” (PCOO/PIA)
by magnolia_eic | Mar 2, 2011 | Headlines, National News
The government has joined forces with the advertising industry to promote a long-term
advocacy program for values orientation and transformation by highlighting positive Filipino
values along nation-building goals.
The partnership was formally announced during the signing of a Memorandum of
Cooperative Undertaking between the Presidential Communications and Operations
Office led by Secretary Herminio “Sonny” Coloma, Jr. and the Advertising Foundation of
the Philippines represented by its chairman Ruperto Nicdao, Jr. at the Bahay Ugnayan in
Malacañang on Tuesday.
Dubbed Makabayang Pilipino, the program hopes to foster the values and virtues of
nationalism, honesty, discipline and respect for laws and authority, concern for the
environment, the spirit of bayanihan, and the excellence for global competitiveness among
people and communities. It is an integrated marketing communications program consisting
of multimedia advertising campaigns, special events, and other social marketing projects on
values promotion and the development of a Makabayang Pilipino movement.
Launched last October 21, 2010, the Makabayang Pilipino will harness the initiatives and
resources of the private sector, government and civil society towards values transformation of
the people for peace, progress and sustainable development of people and country.
Present also during the signing ceremony were Johnip Cua, Ad Foudantion immediate past
president, Luis Morales, Oversight Chairman, Makabayang Pilipino and Eric Canoy, vice-
chairman, Makabayang Pilipino core group. (PCOO/PIA)
by magnolia_eic | Mar 2, 2011 | Headlines, National News
NAKADAWAT gahapon og tig-$1,000 ang may 12 ka biktima sa pang-abuso sa tawhanong
katungod niadtong panahon ni kanhi Presidente Ferdinand Marcos, isip kumpensasyon alang sa
ilang naagian nga kalisod.
Kini ang labing unang higayon nga nakadawat ang mga biktima sa kumpensasyon sukad niduso
sa class suit niadtong tuig 1986.
Ang ceremonial turnover sa mga tsekeng kumpensasyon gipahigayon sa Club Filipino sa
Greenhills, San Juan gahapon.
Mismong si American Lawyer Robert Swift, lead counsel sa mga biktima, ug ang iyang mga
Pinoy co-counsel, sa tabang ni Commission on Human Rights (CHR) chairman Etta Rosales, ang
nanghatag sa mga tseke sa mga claimants, nga gi representahan sa pamilya sa mga biktima.
Ang maong kantidad giingong gitugot ni Judge Manuel Real sa US District Court sa Hawaii
human kini aprubahi niadtong milabay’ng buwan ang pagpanghatag sa may $7.5 milyon sa 7,526
eligible human rights victims.
Kahinomdoman nga niadtong tuig 1986 pa dihang gisang-at sa mga biktima ang maong lawsuit
sa Hawaii court, human nga gipalagpot si Marcos. (ecbPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Mar 2, 2011 | Headlines, National News
GISEGURO nila House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. ug Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile
kang Presidente Benigno Aquino III nga sulod sa Mayo ug Hunyo ning tuiga, mapalabang nila
ang katunga sa 23 priority bills sa Malacañang.
Matud pa nilang Speaker Belmonte ug Sen. Enrile, nahimong malampuson ang labing-unang
Legisla-tive-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) meeting nga gipatawag sa
Presidente.
Sigun pa ni Enrile, kini ang pinaka-malampuson nga LEDAC meeting nga iyang natambungan
tungod kay nakasentro ang mga prio-rity bills sa Malacañang sa halos tanang aspeto sa
gobyerno lakip ang ekonomiya ug seguridad sa nasud.
Si Belmonte nagtuo usab nga mapalabang sa Kongreso karong Mayo hangtud Hunyo ang
katunga sa maong mga priority measures ilabi na nga kadaghanan niini natuki na sa Kongreso.
Nagpasalamat usab si Presidente Aquino sa 2 ka Kapulungan sa Kongreso nga mainitong
gidawat sa Kongreso ang priority measures sa Palasyo dungan sa paniguro nga dalion kini nila’g
palabang.
Wala maapil sa priority measures ang Freedom of Information bill ug ang kontrobersyal nga
Reproductive Health bill.
Apan matud pa ni Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda, gitun-an sa Palasyo nga i-apil ang
maong mga balaod-non sa mga priority measures. (ecbPIABohol)
