Legacy fund pushed to address education woes
SEN. Edgardo Angara said there is a need to create a legacy fund to support the upgrade of the country’s education system.
SEN. Edgardo Angara said there is a need to create a legacy fund to support the upgrade of the country’s education system.
“It is honored by tradition,” Sen. Edgardo Angara stressed. He meant Senate President Juan Ponce’s Enrile’s “Christmas gifts” of P1.6 million each to 18 “friendly” senators”, including Angara. At year’s end, Enrile ladled “maintenance and other operating expenditures” (MOOE) savings. Why did it ignite today’s brawl?
President Benigno Aquino III has extended for another two or three months a weeklong review of the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport Authority (Apeco), an official of the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) said on Friday.
Sen. Sergio Osmeña III on Tuesday vowed to block the P353-million budget next year for the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport Authority (Apeco), saying Sen. Edgardo Angara’s pet project has “absolutely no chance of succeeding in 50 years” and that the P2 billion spent for it had been wasted.
When Sen. Tito Sotto took to the podium yesterday to defend anew the passage of the cybercrime law, with his his pet copy-pasted online libel provision, you knew that he’s feeling the heat.
A senator on Thursday warned Malacañang against choosing a politician as the next Chief Justice.
The defense panel said Tuesday that there were no “personal issues” in the filing of the motion to inhibit against Senator Edgardo Angara.
Senators were meanwhile divided over the implications of the electoral sabotage charges brought against Arroyo as the Supreme Court had made it clear that the temporary restraining order (TRO) it issued allowing her to leave the country remained in “full force.”
Residents opposing the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (Apeco) in Casiguran, Aurora, on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional the laws that created the zone.
Senator Edgardo J. Angara has filed a P61-million libel suit against architect Felino Palafox Jr. who, Angara claimed, has been waging a “willful, wanton, reckless and malevolent campaign” against him.
Urban planner Felino Palafox took on the Angaras of Aurora province on Tuesday, filing a criminal complaint against Sen. Edgardo Angara for allegedly having a pecuniary interest in the Aurora Pacific Ecozone and Freeport Authority (Apeco) project and for pushing for its development despite concerns about the project site.
Was it truly a sacrifice, or he just knew what was coming? Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri has drawn praise from both sides of the political fence for resigning his post as senator. But according to former Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr., the father of Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III who has doggedly contested Zubiri’s victory in the [...]
