President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivers a message after the awarding ceremonies Friday (Nov. 6, 2009) of the 2009 Go Negosyo most inspiring Bataenios entrepreneurs and microentrepreneurs at the Bataan People’s Center in Balanga City, Bataan. (OPS/NIB-Photo)
MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s plan to resign as national chairman of Lakas-Kampi-CMD is simply party tradition, “passing the torch” to [...]
Written on November 8, 2009 | Posted in
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MANILA — The election lawyer of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo advised her critics to wait until December 1 if she would file her certificate of candidacy for any position or not.
Lawyer Romulo Macalintal said the President is qualified to run in any elective position in 2010 elections other than the presidency.
Macalintal, who served as Arroyo’s election [...]
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PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo extended until November 30 the amnesty for loose firearms and registration and renewal of expired licenses and non-registered weapons.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said the move stemmed from the President’s issuance of Executive Order 817-A last October 30 following recommendations from the National Firearms Control program Executive Committee to extend the initial one-month [...]
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PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has yet to appoint someone to replace Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) chief Sixto Esquivias who resigned for falling short in meeting tax collection target for the past months.
Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said Tuesday that BIR’s Senior Deputy Commissioner Joel Tan-Torres will act as the bureau’s officer-in charge for the meantime.
“In the [...]
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A MALACAÑANG official said successive calamities that devastated the country have prompted President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to scale down the celebration of Eid’l Adha to regional holiday.
Press Undersecretary Anthony Golez said while he is not aware of the exact reason of the President of amending Proclamation 1808, he could consider that the effect of the weather [...]
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PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo extended her sympathy to the families affected by a huge fire in Bacolod City.
The blaze, which claimed 16 lives, occurred early dawn Monday in a two-storey boarding house in a slum community in Central Bacolod.
“The President is extending her deepest sympathies and condolences to the families who died in Bacolod City,” deputy [...]
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