Philippines: President Congratulates Pacquiao
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IPU probe team to arrive in Philippines tomorrow
MEDIA RELEASE
April 17, 2007
IPU probe team to arrive in Manila tomorrow; Beltran’s incarceration,
trumped-up suits vs. Batasan 5 to be probed
The members of the fact-finding mission of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union will arrive on April 18, Thursday:
Let GMA dispute World Bank’s findings about worsening poverty in Philippines: Beltran
Anakpawis Party-List
From the Office of Rep. Crispin Beltran
He can be contacted via his cellphone number 09278711080,
or through his phone line in the Philippine Heart Center, 925-2401 loc 2432
http://masanganakpawis.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/
Ina Alleco R. Silverio, chief of staff 931.6615, 09195065269
News Release Tuesday , April 17, 2007
Let the Macapagal-Arroyo government dispute the World Bank’s findings about worsening poverty in the Philippines
Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today said that even one of the international financial institutions largely to blame for poverty and hunger in the world can see that the situation in the Philippines is lamentable. He challenged the Macapagal-Arroyo adminsitration to dispute the studies of the World Bank and defend its own economic programs in tha face of the expose that as of survey year 1997, percentage of the population below the poverty line was 36.8 percent.”This percentage, no doubt, has increased since then,” he said.
In Philippines, Political Prisoner Runs for Cebu Councilor
He has been in jail for three years as a political prisoner. Now he wishes to spend the next three years as a public servant in his hometown. Behind bars since May 2004, Jigger Geverola, 30, a political prisoner detained in a prison facility in the Central Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Cebu, is officially the first political prisoner in this province to run for public office.
By Karen Papellero
Bulatlat
He has been in jail for three years as a political prisoner. Now he wishes to spend the next three years as a public servant in his hometown.
Behind bars since May 2004, Jigger Geverola, 30, a political prisoner detained in a prison facility in the Central Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Cebu, is officially the first political prisoner in this province to run for public office.
Back in Philippines, Workers from Iraq Tell of Woes
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has partially lifted the ban on the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Nigeria and Lebanon, after the hostage crisis and bombing incidents, respectively, in these countries.
And now, a new alarm was raised over the continued holding of the 15 British sailors in Iran. Although there are only about 200 Filipinos in Iran, the fear is for the estimated 1.5 to 1.8 million overseas Filipino workers in the Middle East if a region-wide tension escalates.
During times of conflict, it is the OFWs who suffer. Two OFWs, who worked in Iraq, proved that deployment bans are useless.