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:

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.

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....

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