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Lapus Hallucinating on State of Education: Youth Group

March 28, 2007

Letter to the Editor:

Education Department Secretary Jesli Lapus seems to be hallucinating
for blaming the country’s population as the one causing the shortage
of classrooms in the country.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her minions are beginning to
sound alike. First it was the Palace Queen who put the blame on the
citizen’s luxuries and ordered a control on using short message
sending or texts and cigarette smoking to avoid experiencing hunger.

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Panabo Has Spanking New Bus Terminal

PANABO CITY—Panabo now has a new bus and jeepney terminal, an infrastructure that can do well for the city as one of the key trading posts in Mindanao.

A product of a P38-million loan from the Asian Development Bank with counterpart from Land Bank of the Philippines, the Panabo City Integrated Bus and Jeepney Terminal was formally opened this week.

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SMART, SuperFerry Tie Up for Mobile Payments

MANILA — Leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART) has inched closer towards creating the trailblazing Smart Mobility Loop, the country?s first mobile-based, universal transport payment system designed for more than 25 million cellphone users.

The company has forged a partnership with SuperFerry, which operates 12 domestic passenger ships, to jointly develop a passenger travel fare collection system using the award-winning Smart Money electronic financial services platform. This will enable passengers to pay for their tickets with just a few clicks on their mobile phones.

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DBP Sets Aside P5.2 Billion for Mindanao Projects

By Germelina Lacorte
davaotoday.com

DAVAO CITY—The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) has set aside 5.2 billion pesos this year to finance both pipeline and newly proposed projects in Mindanao, an official of the bank said.

Rey Magno Teves, DBP director, said the bank has the funds to finance critical infrastructures that he hoped would spur economic activities in Mindanao.

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