PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Monday night that she was expecting that the Catholic Church will further back her policies following the wishes of Pope Benedict XVI.
Arroyo, in an interview with government-owned National Broadcasting Network (NBN), said the Pope, in his encyclical Danes Caritas Es, discussed the role of the church in the search for justice.
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Sunday ordered the preparations of contingency measures in case Mt. Bulusan erupts while she is abroad.
Arroyo, in her pre-departure speech after meeting with disaster officials at the Centennial Terminal, said the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in the area have shifted from “counter-communist-terrorist operations” to “disaster and relief” mode.
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Thursday directed the military to protect businessmen who are being victimized by “revolutionary taxation” in the renewed fight against the communist New People’s Army (NPA).
Addressing the three Army battalions that will assigned to NPA infested areas gathered in Camp Aguinaldo, Arroyo said many businessmen have complained to her during her visits [...]
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo dealt with the PNP’s firearms shortage problem by imposing her own computations on PNP Chief Arturo Lomibao, the same way she did to acting Education Secretary Fe Hidalgo over the classroom shortage
This was shortly after the presentation of police officers who rescued kidnap victim Sonia Lim Sanchez and Lomibao’s update on how [...]
THE majority at the House has no choice but to ensure that the new impeachment complaint to be filed against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is once again junked to maintain a status quo in the House leadership, House Majority Leader Prospero Nograles said Monday.
Nograles candidly said that while questions on the President’s legitimacy remain, it is [...]
MALACANANG said the opening of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) Terminal 3 will spur trade and tourism and generate more jobs for Filipinos.
Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said the earlier announcement of Trade Secretary Peter Favila that the dispute on the Naia 3 is about to be solved is a “very positive and welcome development.â€
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Friday said she is expected to sign the law abolishing capital punishment on June 24, which would coincide with the feast day of St. John the Baptist, whom she described as a “victim of death penalty” during his time.
Congress last week passed their respective versions of the bill repealing the death [...]
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo goes to Cauayan City in Isabela on Friday where she will hold the first “mega-planning” session for her new investment tack, which involves dividing the country into four multi-regional groupings.
The groupings are North Luzon (Regions 1, 2, Cordillera Administrative Region, plus Aurora and Nueva Ecija); Metro Luzon (Regions 3, 4A, and Metro [...]
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Tuesday the country’s three major oil companies will rollback diesel prices by 50 centavos starting Tuesday midnight due to a one percent reduction in the import duties for crude and refined oil products.
Arroyo issued the statement after an inspection of the Pandacan oil depot that the price of diesel will not [...]
FINANCE Secretary Margarito Teves on Monday said Congress could still work on passing the 2006 budget as long as the proposed 2007 budget has not yet been submitted by Malacañang to the House of Representatives.
Under the Arroyo administration, the budget for the following year is submitted to the House a month after Congress opens and [...]
