by magnolia_eic | Apr 7, 2011 | Headlines, National News
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III said he has instructed his economic managers to study all
possible measures that could ease the impact of high oil prices on vulnerable sectors.
The economic managers will consider things such as wage increase, price control, or even
deduction on value added tax (VAT), the President said in a chance interview at the sidelines of
an event at the budget department on Wednesday.
“I did instruct them to study all and every means of mitigating the spiraling oil prices especially
given the fact, that we don’t see a quicker solution to this. The first of the measures is
the ‘Pantawid Pasada’,” the President said.
The President said he expects the economic managers to come up with proposal as soon as
possible, or maybe next week, so he could decide if he’ll approve it.
Maintaining focus is important in addressing the needs of the most vulnerable sectors to ensure
that assistance are extended to them, according to the President.
At the same time, the chief executive expressed confidence that the country can weather the
crisis brought about by the increasing fuel prices as the government releases its previous
available savings.
The President also said that in the next few days the public will be hearing a lot more good news
as far as the economic field is concerned, including the country’s fiscal position. (PCOO)
by magnolia_eic | Apr 5, 2011 | Headlines, National News
WALAY plano si Presidente Benigno Aquino III nga magpatuman og ‘economic holiday’ sa
pagsaulog sa Araw ng Kagitingan sa umaabot nga Abril 9.
Sigun sa pamahayag sa Malacañang sa official gazette niini, magpabilin ang pagsaulog sa
Araw ng Kagitingan sa Abril 9 (Sabado).
“To those asking, Araw ng Kagitingan will be observed on April 9, a Saturday,” kalabot sa
nakabutang sa Proclamation 84.
Saulogon ang kaisog sa mga Filipino war veterans nga ni surrender sa Japanese forces
niadtong World War II sa Araw ng Kagitingan sa Dambana ng mga Bayani sa Bataan.
(ecbPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Apr 5, 2011 | Headlines, National News
GIPAGAWAS na sa Malakanyang ang Executive Order (EO) No. 32 o Public Transport
Assistance Program nga maghatag og fuel subsidy sa mga pampasaherong jeep ug tricycle
tungod sa walay hunong nga pagsaka sa presyo sa produktong petrolyo.
Gi-anunsyo ni Presidential Communications Group Secretary Ricky Carandang nga
nagkantidad og P450 milyon nga maong subsidy gikan sa gobyerno.
Bisan pa niini, miingon si Carandang nga dili pa apil sa Pantawid-Pasada Program ang
ayuda alang sa mga mangingisda ug mag-uuma.
Giingong wala pa gituki ang long term solution batok sa padayong pagsaka sa presyo sa
lana.
Gipasa na usab sa Malakanyang sa Department of Energy (DOE) ang pagkuwenta sa
diskwento sa kada litro sa petrolyo. (ecbPIABohol)
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)
