Last Monday President Noy delivered his second State of the Nation Address. Many criticized the President for not presenting a road map for the country. But I think the Sona was centered on the need to go back to basics as a precedent to solve problems effectively.
Flip through the four-volume audit of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao and Maguidanao. They’re case-studies of utak wangwang, a phrase President Benigno Aquino III minted in State of the Nation address. In his first Sona, P-Noy lashed the powerful who blasted sirens to shove the weak aside. This time, he deployed wangwangs as symbol [...]
Not a few were disappointed with the failure of P-Noy to show the big picture of how he will run the economy in the remaining years of his term and the specifics of what he actually accomplished in his first year. Indeed, P-Noy’s State of the Nation Address last Monday was heavy only on one [...]
President Benigno Aquino III had the chance to categorically state his position on the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill during his State of the Nation Address (Sona) but blew it, advocates said on Wednesday. FOI advocates such as the Right to Know, Right Now! Coalition consider the second regular session of the 15th Congress a [...]
President Benigno Aquino III and his justice secretary are confident they have an ace in retired Supreme Court justice Conchita Carpio-Morales at the Ombudsman’s Office that they are no longer interested in further arguing the legality of the truth commission before the Supreme Court. With Mr. Aquino’s appointment of Morales, the government now has enough [...]
Whatever the P-Noy government’s failings, it is far, far better than the one it replaced,” says Conrado de Quiros of the Philippine Daily Inquirer in his column yesterday. I agree, except that some yardstick should also measure whatever P-Noy claims as his accomplishment based on what he or his team promised at the start of his administration.
Senators are not keen on holding an investigation into the P1 billion funds that the previous management of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) had allegedly spent for the coffee of its casino customers
AN official of the Cebu archdiocese said President Benigno Aquino III’s second State of the Nation Adress was “very good.”
The Supreme Court on Tuesday announced that it has set an oral argument to hear the different petitions questioning the postponement of Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) elections. Speaking at a news briefing, Supreme Court administrator and spokesman Midas Marquez said the tribunal scheduled the court proceeding on Aug. 9, a day after the [...]
MANILA, Philippines—After days of preparing for his second State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Aquino managed to crack jokes again even as administration officials were busy expounding on the chief executive’s key messages and explaining his silence on important issues such as land reform and the reproductive health bill. Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa expressed [...]
You may still call her “Madame Justice.” Owing to court tradition, newly appointed Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales may still be addressed as “Justice,” Supreme Court spokesperson Jose Midas Marquez said on Tuesday. “There’s a tradition… once a justice always a justice. Maybe you should ask her. I don’t think she would mind if you still called [...]
President Benigno Aquino III’s biggest bombshell during his recent State of the Nation Address (Sona) is now a fully brewed controversy. A single company apparently cornered the bulk of the P1 billion spent by state-owned Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) on coffee used as perk for casino patrons in a span of 10 years, [...]
An organization advocating for the rights of the urban poor sees “more deaths and violence” in the remaining years of the Aquino administration should “priority economic development projects” under public-private partnerships (PPP) continue to be implemented. In a statement, the Urban Poor Resource Center of the Philippines Inc. (UPRCP) said “hundreds” of urban poor communities [...]
