Melanie T. Lim
The President’s sixth State of the Nation Address (Sona) last Monday was quite impassioned but not impassioned enough to keep me awake till the end.
Although I was awake all throughout her grand plans and promises for the “super regions,†I started to slip into oblivion after “Cyber Corridor.â€
MALACANANG on Friday expressed confidence that the House of Representatives will junk the impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo due to lack of merit and that Filipinos will readily accept the decision.
Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said the surveys showed that more than 56 percent of the population are tired of politicking and want to move [...]
A SEVENTH impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was lodged at the House of Representatives on Wednesday.
The filing of the so-called Cadapan-Empeno Complaint plugged what could be the last possible legal loophole that Arroyo supporters in the House may use to simply dismiss the complaints based on mere technicality.
Orlando P. Carvajal
There was no program that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said she’d embark on that I could disagree with. Everything she proposed to do or had started to do was something the people want her and her government to work on for the longest of time.
It was what she did not say that bothered [...]
WITH a fifth impeachment complaint filed against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Monday at the formal opening of the third regular session of the 13th Congress, House Speaker Jose de Venecia said he is confused as to which of the five complaints should be referred to the committee on justice to determine if the case is sufficient [...]
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo called on her political opponents to give up “old fights†and join her in the battle for the survival of the nation.
“The Filipinos are great people,” said President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in her State of the Nation Address Monday.
MANILA (5:30 p..m.) — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Monday she places high hopes on Mindanao becoming the agri-investment capital in the south, with its coconut products, high-value crops, and 40 percent of the country’s fish catch.
MANILA (5:00 p.m.) — The Central Philippine region would enjoy priority in tourism investments, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said in her address to the nation Monday.
Arroyo noted the “extraordinary hospitality of the people†of the Central Philippines which is composed of Palawan, Cebu, Bohol, Negros island and Leyte, among others.
She said these provinces attract more than [...]
MANILA (4:48 p.m.)– President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced during her State of the Nation Address on Monday her government’s new thrust to spur development in the countryside through the creation of four “mega-regions”.
