MANILA (3rd Update) — Malacañang said Friday that the historic meeting between President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and United States President Barack Obama is a triumph for all Filipinos.
“It’s a historic meeting. It has been a successful one. It was a hit,” said Acting Executive Secretary Gabriel Claudio in a press briefing at the New Executive Building [...]
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THE State of the Notion of Arroyo (Sona) came too soon, or more like not sooner.
If you want an example of time flying, the best would be the case of Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s stay in power. Last July 27, she faced television cameras to deliver her ninth Sona, which concerns this variety store [...]
By Mel Libre
Free Verse
PRESIDENT Gloria Arroyo delivered her State of the Nation Address (Sona) and we were treated to a glowing picture of our country, a view that rarely get published in the major dailies or reported in prime television news.
One of her key statements was: “Our reforms gave us the resources to protect our [...]
“ARE you deaf?” This was Malacanang’s reaction to criticisms that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo did not categorically state she is stepping down from presidency when her term ends on June 30, 2010.
Arroyo wrote her 13-page valedictory State of the Nation Address (Sona), with inputs from her Cabinet members.
Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said Arroyo made it clear [...]
FORMER President Joseph Estrada lashed out at President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, saying her State of the Nation Address (Sona) was “out of touch with reality and devoid of real facts.”
In a statement a day after the President’s Sona, which saw her taking potshot at her critics including Estrada, the former leader said Arroyo “either lied or [...]
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo returned to the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) Tuesday the shortlist of names of six applicants for two vacancies in the Supreme Court (SC).
For the President, six names are not much of a choice.
In a letter addressed to the eight members of the JBC, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita asked the screening body [...]
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo gestures during her State of the Nation Address at the House of Representatives in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines on Monday, July 27, 2009. Arroyo said she has no desire to extend her term beyond next year. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
CAGAYAN DE ORO — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s credibility as a [...]
THE idea would have been acceptable after the then newly elected President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo broke tradition by holding her oath taking at the Provincial Capitol grounds in 2004.
Or at least after she transformed the former “Aduana” into the Malacañang sa Sugbo, the first official residence of a president outside Luzon.
The holding of the Asean [...]
By Elias L. Espinoza
Free Zone
THE Washington Times described US President Barack Obama in its July 26, 2009 editorial as a “sanitizer” following reports that he will meet today President Arroyo, who gains the distinction as the first southeast Asian leader he invited to the White House.
The editorial considers Obama’s welcoming of President Arroyo at the [...]
By Atty. Pachico A. Seares
News Sense
PRESIDENT Gloria Arroyo controls content in her speeches. No one can force her to say anything she doesn’t want to say and yet no one can gag her.
The only people who influenced text and sound of her last state-of-the-nation address were Palace goblins who reviewed the speech line per line [...]
