by magnolia_eic | Sep 15, 2010 | Headlines, National News
ANG duha ka kamara sa Kongreso mohimog managlahing imbestigasyon sa gipahayag ni retired Lingayen Archbishop Oscar Cruz nga adunay ubang opisyal sa administrasyong Aquino ang nagdawat og binuwang suhol gikan sa jueteng operators.
Sa Senado, si Senador Miriam Defensor-Santiago nipasaka sa Senate Resolution No. 167 niadtong Lunes aron pag imbestigar sa gikatahong pagbalik sa jueteng, usa ka inila nga illegal numbers game, ug sa giingong mga protektor niini sa mga opisina sa gobyerno.
Sa House of Representatives, si Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rofriguez ug iyang igsuon nga si Abante Mindanao party-list Rep. Maximo Rodriguez, ug Ako Bicol party-list Reps. Christopher Co, Rodel Batocabe ug Alfredo Garbin nipasaka sa Resolutions 393 ug 388, aron pag imbestigar sa mga alegasyon ni retired Lingayen Archbishop Oscar Cruz.
Ang managsuong Rodriguez nagkanayon nga gikinahanglan gayud ang labing dali nga imbestigasyon sa maong mga alegasyon aron pagtin-aw sa mga isyo ug aron mailhan na sa publiko ang mga giingong nagdawat og suhol gikan sa illegal numbers game. (PIA)
by magnolia_eic | Sep 14, 2010 | Headlines, National News
GIHISGUTAN na sa mga opisyal sa kapolisan ug militar ang pagmugna og elite force nga ipang-deploy sa panahon nga adunay kritikal nga sitwasyon sa mandu ni Presidente Aquino.
Ang maong task force mag-apil sa militar ug kapolisan.
Ang tigpamaba sa Philippine National Police (PNP) nga si Senior Superintendent Agrimero Cruz Jr. nagkanayon nga ang pagbansay-bansay sa kapolisan maglangkob sa pagrespeto sa tawhanong katungod ug pagpreserbar sa nahitabuan sa krimen.
Apan matud pa sa tigpamaba sa AFP nga si Brig. Gen. Jose Mabanta Jr. nga gakinahanglan og igong panahon ang pag-uban sa militar ug kapolisan ngadto sa usa ka unified force nga adunay espesyal nga kahimanan ug pagbansay-bansay. (PIA-Bohol)
by magnolia_eic | Sep 14, 2010 | Headlines, National News
President Benigno Aquino III has issued an executive order reorganizing the Build-Operate-Transfer Center in fresh efforts to accelerate the financing, construction and operation of key government infrastructure projects through public-private partnership.
In issuing Executive Order No. 8, the President renamed the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Center to Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Center of the Philippines, whose functions will now be supervised by the National Economic and Development Authority. The BOT Center was previously under the wings of the Department of Trade and Industry.
The order, which was signed by the President on September 9, also earmarked P300-million working fund for the studies and activities of selected PPP programs and projects.
During the 30-day transition period, the current executive director of the BOT Center will lead the agency until a new head is appointed by the President upon the recommendation of Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Cayetano W. Paderanga.
Among the functions of the PPP Center is to extend assistance to all local government units and other government instrumentalities in the implementation of the projects, provide advisory services in PPP project preparation and development, recommend policies with regard to program implementation, monitor all government PPP projects and programs, and manage and administer the revolving fund to be called the Project Development and Monitoring Facility.
The EO likewise mandated the PPP Center to complete within six months the processing of qualified solicited proposals subject to existing laws, guidelines, and rules and regulations. (PCOO/PIA)
by magnolia_eic | Sep 14, 2010 | Headlines, National News
THE Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) announced Monday the members of its new panel that will continue peace negotiations with the Philippine government.
MILF secretariat chairman Muhammad Ameen said Mohagher Iqbal will remain chairman of the peace panel. He said other members, including lawyer Datu Michael Mastura and Maulana Bobby Alonto, were retained as members of the group, except Lanang Ali and Musib Buat due to health problems.
The MILF named Prof. Abhoud Syed Lingga, chairman of the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies; and Abdullah Camlian, chairman of the MILF technical committee, as new panel members.
Another peace panel member is Datu Antonio Kinoc of B’laan tribe from Columbio, Sultan Kudarat.
The MILF deactivated its peace panel in June 23 following its last meeting with its government counterpart under the administration of then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The MILF said it reconstituted its peace negotiating panel Sunday, after its central committee held a meeting mainly to discuss this agenda. (PIA)
by magnolia_eic | Sep 9, 2010 | Headlines, National News
BAG-o na ang tsirman sa Commission on Human Rights.
Kini human itudlo ni Pres. Benigno S. Aquino si kanhi Akbayan Rep. Loretta Rosales aron mo-alagad isip stirman sa ahensya nga nag-una sa pagtagad sa tawhanong katungod batok sa pag-abuso sa militar, kapolisan, mga ahente sa estado.
Tutokan usab niya, matud sa mga taho ang pagpatambok sa mandu sa ahensya lakip na ang pagbag-o sa charter niini aron mapausab ang panglantaw sa komisyon ilabi na sa pagpatuman sa balaod batok sa torture ug sa international humanitarian laws.
Sa pagkatudlo ni Rosales, daghan usab nga militanteng bahan ang misaway tungod sa una niining pagdawit sa mga legal ug progresibong bahan sa kalihukang komunista.
Gipamulong usab ni Rosales kaniadto nga ang pagpamatay sa mga aktibista naha-apil na sa kalihukang paglimpyo sa mga hanay sa komunistang organisasyon.
Kahinumduman nga si Rosales biktima usab sa abuso panahon sa martial law, ug iyang gipangunahan ang pagpabayad sa mga nabiktima sa martial law.
Una na usab nga gipangulohan ni Rosales ang House committee on human rights. (PIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Sep 9, 2010 | Headlines, National News
THE PUBLIC clamor for local governments to show transparency gains an ally in no less that Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse M. Robredo.
The innovative local government leader ace lately urged government units to be transparent and accountable by disclosing budgets and expenses in government websites as a way to make the effort successful.
It may be recalled that the country’s local authorities groups in the League of Municipalities of the Philippines, League of Cities of the Philippines, and League of Provinces of the Philippines had come up with joint resolutions urging the same call for transparency.
In fact, Robredo’s call also extends to all levels of government, despite the LGU’s avoidance from the policy even as the people insist on what they want.
People who have called for transparency and accountability dare local government leaders to a full disclosure of the annual budgets, incomes, expenditures, contracts and payables.
As LGUs comply with the Government Procurement Reform Act and now posts their annual procurement plans, invitation to bids and bid winners in “conspicuous places within the buildings in the locality, the Internet and newspapers of general circulation”, using government websites can make these transactions available to the public. (PIA)
