Latest press releases, statements, manifestos, announcements, etc.
16 April 2007
The 17th Asia Pacific Military Medicine Conference Opens Today
The 17th Asia Pacific Military Medicine Conference opens today for a 5-day conference from 16 to 20 April 2007 at the Shangri-la Hotel, Makati City with a total of 300 service delegates from 19 Asia-Pacific countries.
6 April 2007
Army to militants: Prove AFP?s link in Oton shooting, abduction
Reply to statement of Ms Hope Hervilla, Regional Coordinator of the Activist Party-List Bayan Muna blaming/accusing the military on the attempted murder and abduction of certain Maria Posa Dominado, Ely Garachico and Nilo Arado.
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:
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.
News Release
April 16, 2007
Sans cheating, Bayan Muna sure to recapture three seats
Bayan Muna President and Representative Satur Ocampo today expressed
confidence that the partylist group will again recapture the maximum
three seats in the House of Representatives in the May 14 elections.