MANILA — Malacanang assured today that more than anyone else, the Philippine government is determined to put an end to the issue of political violence and human rights violations in the country.
Press Secretary and concurrent Presidential Spokesperson Ignacio R. Bunye said the government is “working in an open and transparent way” and with the support of international partners to put an end to human rights violations.
MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo asked the Social Security System (SSS), which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, to once again increase the pension of SSS members and beneficiaries by 10 percent.
Speaking at the agency?s 2nd National Account Officers (AO) convention at the Great Eastern Hotel in Quezon City, the President said the proposed increase comes on the heels of an earlier 10 percent raise that she had also requested last September.
MANILA — Malacanang expressed sorrow today over the death of Julia Campbell, an American Peace Corps volunteer who was found dead in Ifugao province.
“Ikinalulungkot natin na siya ay namatay pero harinawa hindi sa anumang pamamaraan other than just pure accident,” Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said during his regular press briefing in Malacanang this afternoon.
MANILA — Malacanang assured the public today that the ongoing conflict between government troops and a breakaway group of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in Sulu would definitely not affect the forthcoming elections in the province.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said in his regular weekly press briefing in Malacanang the government is doing its best to ensure that the renewed fighting in Panamao town between the military and the group of MNLF commander Uztads Habier Malik will not affect other municipalities in Sulu.
News Release
April 19, 2007
References: Ka Willy Marbella, internal deputy secretary general, KMP and ANAKPAWIS party list nominee
Carl Anthony Ala, public information officer
?Both the World Bank and Malacanang are wrong!?-KMP
More Filipinos are getting poorer by the day
At the Rural People?s Endorsement of ANAKPAWIS held at the Plaza Miranda today the militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) said that more and more Filipinos are getting poorer by the day because of the policies of globalization that the Macapagal-Arroyo government is implementing.