The P302.8 million in bonuses the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) allegedly gave its employees in 2011 went to pay their “unpaid taxes and other benefits,” PCSO chairperson Margarita Juico said on Monday.
Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) chairperson Margarita Juico has blamed the previous Arroyo administration for the criticisms that it is encouraging the proliferation of jueteng through its small-town lottery (STL), which is allegedly being used as a front for the illegal numbers game.
Zambales Representative Milagros “Mitos” Magsaysay, a member of the minority bloc, wants the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office out of flood-prone Roxas Boulevard.
Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office Chairperson Margarita Juico on Monday decried a Philippine Daily Inquirer report that said PCSO directors improperly received millions in benefits in 2010, saying that agency officials had sought and secured the President’s approval of its board members’ compensation package.
Why should a charity agency be engaged in the production of thermal paper?
The TMA Group of Companies, Pty. Ltd. (TMA), an Australian paper manufacturer, has dared President Benigno Aquino III to make good on his “Daang Matuwid” crusade by curbing the alleged abuses of the state-run Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO).
Why won’t they believe her? A plaintive Margarita Juico, chairperson of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), on Saturday tried to extricate herself from the firestorm of criticism over an interview she gave a week ago in which she was quoted as saying that the agency had for a year now withdrawn P115 million worth of funding grants to 115 charitable organizations.
Four Catholic bishops on Thursday urged President Aquino and gaming chief Margarita Juico to make a public apology for dragging the Church into the so-called “Pajero” scandal. An archbishop also reminded the President that leadership was not only about integrity but about uniting people, not dividing them. At least two of the bishops called on [...]
Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office Chairperson Margarita Juico apologized on Wednesday for not immediately correcting news reports that seven Catholic bishops got the high-end Pajero sports utility vehicles from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) under the Arroyo administration.
“Tell Malacañang that it’s not talking to a stupid fool.” This was Manuel Morato’s message on Sunday to one of President Aquino’s media handlers who had challenged him to take Margarita Juico, Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office chair, and the PCSO board to court. Morato, who served as PCSO director during the Arroyo administration and PCSO [...]
Manuel Morato, former chair of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, on Thursday complained that senators were biased against him and other former officials of the agency in their hearing on alleged fund anomalies.
Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo on Monday said that a Senate inquiry might just be the right forum to clear the issue involving several bishops in the alleged misuse of funds of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO). But Pabillo said it was also high time for the state-run PCSO to spell out its functions [...]
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima is becoming an enigma, a riddle, nowadays. You can’t read what’s on her mind. De Lima says transcripts of tapes from the Bureau of Immigration did not show that Hubert Webb, principal accused in the Vizconde massacre, left the country. But the justice secretary says the investigation found no new [...]
