IN OUR PIECE yesterday, we printed what a reader texted us that the supposed to be commission in the NBN-ZTE deal of $132 million dollars which, at the time, was equivalent to P6.5 billion at an exchange rate of P50 to $1, was more than half of the budget of the Department of Health.
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BETWEEN 1890 and 1891, Dean Conant Worcester, an American zoologist who later became a member of the United States Philippine Commission (1899-1901), visited Guimaras Island several times to collect specimens of Philippine fauna. He took the photographs above and below right, two of the many albumen prints he produced during his stay in the country.
THE RUCKUS IN Metro Manila brought about by the NBN probe is a good study for those who want to learn the dynamics of damage control and PR stunts.
Less than 24 hours before various sectors were to converge in Makati City Friday, the police and Malacañang came out with a report about the planned assassination of President Arroyo.
RODOLFO NOEL “Jun” Lozada may not know it from the beginning but his courageous testimony in the Senate has unleashed a political storm threatening the precarious hold to power of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (PGMA).
Over the years, the Filipino people have grown accustomed to scandals, abuse of power and all forms of shenanigans committed by the Arroyo regime. As scandal after scandal erupts, the indifference of the people enabled Arroyo regime to cling to power. This only emboldened the despicable administration to become more notorious in stealing public funds, wrecking institutional processes and destroying the foundations of constitutional democracy.
THE ORIGINAL church of Oton, Iloilo was of Byzantine and Gothic style and formed like a Greek cross with its four doors and eight towers. The interior had a Gothic altar of five bodies, four choirs and one artistic pulpit.
THE BISAYANS, like the rest of the Filipinos, did not take the Spanish colonization of their country sitting down. From the moment the Spaniards settled down permanently in the country in 1565, the natives fought back and continued their resistance in the form of revolts up to the end of the Spanish rule in 1898. The revolts were either caused by personal and religious motives, by the oppressive Spanish-introduced economic as well as religious institutions, and by land problems.
BISHOP VICENTE Navarra is calling on the public to join the Mass for Truth. A Mass will be held at 5 p.m. today at the San Sebastian Cathedral to rally the people to call for, search, and stand for truth. Especially on the graft and corruption in government.
Let us not limit ourselves to the NBN deal. The deal is only one of them. Let’s all rally for truth.
PRESIDENT GLORIA Macapagal-Arroyo’s administration deployed the full force of the state’s police powers on Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr., key witness in the Senate inquiry into the $329-million national broadband contract, when the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) sent an agent to his former office in search of documents which the government intends to use against him for corruption charges.
THERE ARE ONLY three significant issues in coal as far as Iloilo City is concerned. First, whether or not Iloilo City is suffering or will suffer a power shortage in the coming years; two, whether or not coal has health and environmental hazards; and, whether or not renewable energy as an alternative power source is available in Panay.
The fact that oppositors to the establishment of a coal plant here, which uses clean coal technology in Iloilo City, are squandering for concrete data to back up their claims of adequate power supply betrays their position.
IN THE PROVINCE of Iloilo, there is also an urgent need to reform and rationalize the electric cooperatives – Ileco I and II – that provide the electric power to the entire province.
The concerns and grievances of members-consumers have, for years, been undermined, technically circumvented and avoided by the management of these cooperatives because of the personal agenda of the officers. It is common knowledge that majority of the cooperative board members won in the election because they were front candidates of powerful politicians lording in their respective areas. They are never beholden to the members-consumers who legally and morally own the electric cooperatives.
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