PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Tuesday she wants schools nationwide strengthened and retrofitted in time for the school opening next week, after they were identified by the public works department as among the 60 earthquake-prone buildings in Metro Manila.
Defense Secretary and National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) chairman Avelino Cruz Jr. said he would talk to Acting [...]
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BUDGET Secretary Rolando Andaya Jr. on Monday said the Senate and Malacañang are working on the restoration of the P31 billion alleged Palace pork barrel through the realignment of funds to some government agencies.
Andaya, in an ambush interview in Malacañang, said the current sentiment at the Senate was “more of realignment rather than absolute cuts.”
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PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Sunday ordered the sending of humanitarian team to Indonesia following an earthquake that is believed to have killed some 1,500 people last Saturday.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said Defense secretary and National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) chairman Avelino Cruz Jr. and NDCC Executive Director Glen Rabonza are preparing the details on the [...]
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PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Friday told financial market practitioners that she will continue to make a sales pitch for the country.
Arroyo, in her speech in the 45th Associacion Cambiste Internationale (ACI) Financial Markets Association World Congress Philippines, said she has invested a lot of her time and effort engaging the Philippines in global affairs.
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THE Arroyo administration is considering allowing members of the media to carry firearms to protect themselves from assault, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez Sr. said on Tuesday.
Gonzalez said allowing journalists to carry firearms was one of the options being considered by Cabinet officials during Tuesday’s meeting in Malacañang to end the spate of killings of journalists.
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MALACAÑANG on Sunday hinted at a “big cleanup” in the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) in order to plug revenue leaks.
Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said government is on track in meeting its revenue targets but it will step up its efforts by plugging leaks through “procedural reforms, prosecution and [...]
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EXECUTIVE Secretary Eduardo Ermita dismissed the “bombshell” of evidence that Senator Panfilo Lacson allegedly have and would be included in the new impeachment complaint that the opposition would file against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Ermita said they even expect the amended impeachment complaint that the House rejected last year to be a big part of the new [...]
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MALACANANG is praying that the Senate and the House of Representatives would find a middle ground that would move the proposed Charter amendments forward.
Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said the administration is also hopeful that dialogue between the two legislative branches would serve as a “springboard for closer and harmonious cooperation” in threshing out the Charter [...]
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MALACAÑANG and Congress on Tuesday reached a decision to prioritize the passage of the 2006 national budget and seven other bills during the last remaining session days of the second regular session of Congress.
Aside from the 2006 budget, Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said the other bills are anti-terrorism, bio-fuels, tax relief for low-income earners, rationalization [...]
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PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Monday ordered the Department of Agriculture (DA) to assist the farmers in the rehabilitation of farmlands damaged by tropical storm Caloy.
Arroyo also directed the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to ensure that supplies of basic goods are stable and prices remain affordable or at their present rates in anticipation of [...]
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