PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Monday night endorsed the use of “saksak” or rice cooked with camote (sweet potato) as extender to lessen the country’s heavy dependence on rice.
Arroyo, in an after-dinner chat in Cebu with reporters covering the launching of the new central seaboard roll-on roll-off (Roro) ferry route, said the practice was shared by [...]
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Monday night said she will implement a Cabinet revamp in May.
“Yes,” Arroyo only said in an informal after-dinner chat in Cebu Province with reporters who are covering the launching of the new central seaboard roll-on roll-off (Roro) ferry route.
Asked who would be affected by the shake-up, she said: “Secret.”
She said “no [...]
PRESIDENT Arroyo praised the Cebu Provincial Government for coming up with a program to help address the rice crisis.
President also ordered the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) in Central Visayas to coordinate with the Province for the promotion of the Capitol-based food program “SakSak,†which stands for “Sinanduloy sa Kabusog, Sinanduloy sa Kahimsog.â€
The program aims to [...]
PRESIDENT Arroyo yesterday signed into law the new University of the Philippines (UP) Charter.
Arroyo signed the charter at the UP in the Visayas Cebu College (UPVCC). The new charter recognizes UP as the country’s national university.
“There’s no greater pleasure for a UP alumna and former UP faculty like me than to be able to sign [...]
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s speech during the presentation of the 2008 budget on the economy with the Liga ng mga Barangay and the Working Poor at the Rizal Hall, Malacañang on March 14, 2008
Magandang hapon sa inyong lahat.
Mga lider ng Liga ng mga Barangay; si Congresswoman Carmencita Reyes na sinamahan ng kaniyang ABC dito; mga nagtatrabaho [...]
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is looking towards increasing rice production in the country if the increasing prices of rice in the world market continue its trend, Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said.
Bunye said the President, in an interview with the Asian World Street Journal, acknowledged that the present rice situation is a “global wake-up call” which every [...]
By Jun A. Malig Cognition
TO “HARMONIZE Subic-Clark strategies,†President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has reportedly issued Executive Order 504-A which “strengthened†the two-year-old Subic-Clark Alliance for Development (Scad) Council as the “single body.â€
The Scad Council is seen as the body that “will ensure an integrated and coordinated approach to the development of the Scad corridor as a [...]
THERE are no more barriers to the ongoing campaign of farmer groups in Negros Oriental who pushes for an extension of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (Carp) known as Republic Act 6657.
In Friday morning’s interaction with members of the media at the Sidlakang Negros Village showroom, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo reiterated the need to extend the [...]
By Nini B. Cabaero
Beyond 30
ONE of the activities of government to address the food shortage is to give cash to poor families so they will be able to buy their necessities.
What is meant to be an act of charity by the government is being viewed, however, as a move that would do more damage to [...]
IT was a concept developed almost a century ago.
But yesterday, the roll-on, roll-off (Roro) port in Barangay Polambato, Bogo City was finally inaugurated with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as guest of honor.
Arroyo launched her Central Nautical Highway with a Roro caravan to highlight the completion of the Strong Republic Nautical Highway (SRNH).
The caravan stopped by the [...]
