Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Sprat-less
Just wanna share again this news from philstar http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=696267&publicationSubCategoryId=63.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Another Digest Alumni on the Run
I am just happy that another digest alumni is living her dream. Well, that is our lovely yaya, Anna Marie Mae Guerra dela Vega.
I just copy-pasted this from Manila Bulletin, so please enjoy:
I just copy-pasted this from Manila Bulletin, so please enjoy:
Aquino appoints 20 new gov't officials
By GENALYN D. KABILING
April 22, 2011, 3:27pm
MANILA, Philippines — President Aquino has appointed 20 new government officials, including some allies, to beef up the political office of Malacañang.
In a list of appointments issued last April 15, the President has chosen Atty. Vivencio B. Dizon as new undersecretary of the Office of the Political Affairs (OPA). Dizon is the vice president for media and public relations of Stradcom Corporation that operates information technology infrastructure projects for government.
Also named undersecretaries of the OPA are Atty. Jose Luis Martin Gascon and Ibarra Gutierrez III.
Gascon, a known supporter of Aquino, previously served as education undersecretary for legal and legislative affairs. He was also a member of the government panel negotiating peace with the communist rebels.
Gutierrez served as University of the Philippines (UP) law professor and director of the Institute of Human Rights at the UP Law Center.
Also joining the OPA are newly appointed Assistant Secretaries Rafael Albert and Jose Emmanuel Escaro as well as Directors Reynaldo Flores and Ana Marie Mae Dela Vega.
Meantime, the President also appointed Atty. Democrito Barcenas as member of the Philippine National Oil Company-Shipping and Transport Corporation (PNOC-STC) board. Barcenas, former Cebu vice governor, replaced Carlos Salinas.
Former Professional Regulation Commission chair Antonieta Ibe was appointed member of the Board of Trustees and Administrator of the Local Water Utilities Administration. Ibe takes the place of Orlando Hondrade.
Orlando Uy, former president of the Leyte Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was also named member representing the employers sector at the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) Region VIII, with a term of five years. The President retained Eugenio U. Soyao in his post at the RTWPB member in Region XII for a term of five years.
The President also designated Virgilio Castro and Florida Dija as directors at the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) as well as Marie Angela Gopalan and Zenaida Arevalo as directors of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
New officials at the Department of National Defense are Jose Grageda and Danilo Augusto Francia as acting assistant secretaries and Peter Paul Galve as acting director.
Datu Abouzeid Abbas Sinsuant is new acting director I at the Bureau of Local Government Finance of the Department of Health.
The President appointed Rodrigo Alanano as member of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Negros Oriental's 3rd district, replacing Roel Degamo.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
A Digest Alumni: Upholding the principle of "Your Voice! Your Strength"
I am always proud that I have been an "uyamot" member of the University Digest. I am also proud that I have met and worked with some of the most principled individual in that organization.
That is why, since I got some technical know-how on I.T (I graduated in computer engineering by the way, ha!ha!), this is my way of upholding that principle.
I have wanted to get in touch with Karl but he has no web-print (a footprint in the internet). He has no facebook, friendster, yahoo, or gmail. But I got some information on what he does and when he got that Atty title. He s*cks!ha!ha!.
Well I hope he doesn't sue me. =D
Anyway here is some of the things I got from the net and I would like to share it to all of you....
That is why, since I got some technical know-how on I.T (I graduated in computer engineering by the way, ha!ha!), this is my way of upholding that principle.
I have wanted to get in touch with Karl but he has no web-print (a footprint in the internet). He has no facebook, friendster, yahoo, or gmail. But I got some information on what he does and when he got that Atty title. He s*cks!ha!ha!.
Well I hope he doesn't sue me. =D
Anyway here is some of the things I got from the net and I would like to share it to all of you....
Prosecutor orders release of 28 farmers
By Nancy C. Carvajal
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 20:07:00 11/28/2008
Filed Under: Protest, Agrarian Reform, Prison
MANILA, Philippines -- Quezon City Assistant Prosecutor Ferdinand Baylon ordered Friday afternoon the release of 28 farmers who were arrested the previous day while picketing the Land Registration Office in Quezon City, their lawyer said.
Karl Marx Carumba said the prosecutor did not require any of the farmers to post bail although nine of them, including a minor, were charged with illegal assembly and disobedience to a person of authority.
A copy of Baylon’s resolution said, however, that the charges against the nine are subject to further investigation.
Carumba said the farmers went back to the Department of Agrarian Reform and plan to continue their protest on Monday.
According to Rogelio Salva, 58, one of the charged farmers, he would continue to join his companions and would not go home to the province.
“In my whole life I never thought of being thrown into jail, now that I experienced it, I intend to continue our fight for our cause,’’ Salva told the Philippine Daily Inquirer (parent company of INQUIRER.net) in the Visayan dialect.
excerpt from Philippine Inquirer
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
MERCI-LESS
by Efren Duran
The House of Representatives, after voting 212 “Yes”, 46 “No”, and 4 absentions, made a history by impeaching Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez for betrayal of public trust on March 22, 2011.
This is the first time in the history of the Philippines that an Ombudsman has been impeached by the Lower House.
Who is Merceditas Gutierrez?
Ma. Merceditas Gutierres graduated from the Ateneo Manila University Law School in 1972. She started working in the government beginning in 1983 until present. Former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo appointed her as Ombudsman in 2005 becoming the first woman Ombudsman of the Philippines.
The Ombudsman is a powerful office tasked to investigate erring government officials. But as some congressmen contends, she has been “sleeping” on some of the most controversial issues which concerns the President Gloria Arroyo and First Genteleman Mike Arroyo.
Some speculates that the Ombudsman is protecting the former president and her family due to close connection ties and because, as some suggests, Mike Arroyo and Merceditas Gutierrez have been former schoolmate during their law student years.
Betrayal of public trust
Ombudsman Gutierrez has made many “first” in the Philippine history. Aside from being the first women Ombudsman, first Ombudsman impeached by the Congress, she also holds the record for the most number of impeachment cases for an Ombudsman.
I could recall what my financial adviser friend always tell me, “You are famous if you are controversial!” Does this mean that Ombudsman Gutierrez is famous? I bet she is!
Betrayal of public trust is the summary of the six cases filed against Merceditas Gutierrez. Although at least only one case needs to be won in order for Gutierrez to be impeach.
She may have or may have not betrayed the Filipino’s trust. Her defense is that she has upheld her office’s mandate, that the Lower House was not fair in giving out their decision.
Now, she is banking on the senators’ fairness. That is, despite the fact that in Congress majority are Liberal party or allies of PNoy while there are a majority in the Senate that may seem to be allied to the former president.
Impeachment trial
We now lay our trust to the impeachment court. And we fervently hope that our trust will not be betrayed, yet again. I am not insinuating that the Ombudsman is culpable of betraying public trust. Let us leave this to the impeachment court, to our honorable senators, to deal with but surely we should not remain blind and deaf. Not anymore!
The Filipino people deserve to have an Ombudsman who serves the people and not serve a few. The people are clamoring for change. PNoy stressed that impeaching Ombudsman Gutierrez will send the strongest signal that his administration is serious in its fight against corruption.
We just hope that the likes of Ligot and his wife, Carlos Garcia, Joc-joc Bolante among others will be prosecuted properly and that all the wealth that they may have amassed illegally be returned to the Filipino people.
As Pacman (who by the way voted for “no” in his twitter account) says, “let us see the scattered!” (translated in english…of course!).
Related blogs:
Ultraviewer's blog
Pets and Else blog
The House of Representatives, after voting 212 “Yes”, 46 “No”, and 4 absentions, made a history by impeaching Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez for betrayal of public trust on March 22, 2011.
This is the first time in the history of the Philippines that an Ombudsman has been impeached by the Lower House.
Who is Merceditas Gutierrez?
Ma. Merceditas Gutierres graduated from the Ateneo Manila University Law School in 1972. She started working in the government beginning in 1983 until present. Former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo appointed her as Ombudsman in 2005 becoming the first woman Ombudsman of the Philippines.
The Ombudsman is a powerful office tasked to investigate erring government officials. But as some congressmen contends, she has been “sleeping” on some of the most controversial issues which concerns the President Gloria Arroyo and First Genteleman Mike Arroyo.
Some speculates that the Ombudsman is protecting the former president and her family due to close connection ties and because, as some suggests, Mike Arroyo and Merceditas Gutierrez have been former schoolmate during their law student years.
Betrayal of public trust
Ombudsman Gutierrez has made many “first” in the Philippine history. Aside from being the first women Ombudsman, first Ombudsman impeached by the Congress, she also holds the record for the most number of impeachment cases for an Ombudsman.
I could recall what my financial adviser friend always tell me, “You are famous if you are controversial!” Does this mean that Ombudsman Gutierrez is famous? I bet she is!
Betrayal of public trust is the summary of the six cases filed against Merceditas Gutierrez. Although at least only one case needs to be won in order for Gutierrez to be impeach.
She may have or may have not betrayed the Filipino’s trust. Her defense is that she has upheld her office’s mandate, that the Lower House was not fair in giving out their decision.
Now, she is banking on the senators’ fairness. That is, despite the fact that in Congress majority are Liberal party or allies of PNoy while there are a majority in the Senate that may seem to be allied to the former president.
Impeachment trial
We now lay our trust to the impeachment court. And we fervently hope that our trust will not be betrayed, yet again. I am not insinuating that the Ombudsman is culpable of betraying public trust. Let us leave this to the impeachment court, to our honorable senators, to deal with but surely we should not remain blind and deaf. Not anymore!
The Filipino people deserve to have an Ombudsman who serves the people and not serve a few. The people are clamoring for change. PNoy stressed that impeaching Ombudsman Gutierrez will send the strongest signal that his administration is serious in its fight against corruption.
We just hope that the likes of Ligot and his wife, Carlos Garcia, Joc-joc Bolante among others will be prosecuted properly and that all the wealth that they may have amassed illegally be returned to the Filipino people.
As Pacman (who by the way voted for “no” in his twitter account) says, “let us see the scattered!” (translated in english…of course!).
Related blogs:
Ultraviewer's blog
Pets and Else blog
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