By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com It is now only less than a month before Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo leaves Malacañang and the Filipino people could not wait to get it over with. Despite the flak that the Commission on Elections and Smartmatic are getting for bungling the automated elections, and even if the old problems of vote-buying –…
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Solons Push for Probe on Use of SSS funds for Stimulus Package
BY BULATLAT Legislators want to investigate the use of Social Security System (SSS) funds for the Arroyo administration’s economic stimulus package. Recently, SSS President Romulo Neri committed P12.5 billion to the economic stimulus fund. Assistant Minority Leader and Gabriela Representative Liza Maza, Gabriela Representative Luz Ilagan and Anakpawis Representative Rafael Mariano filed a resolution today…
Three’s Company as Bolante Does a Garci and a Neri
From the looks of it, it seems that former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn “Joc Joc” Bolante is doing a Garci and a Neri, thus, adding the fertilizer scam to the list of issues that would hound the Arroyo government beyond 2010. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS ANALYSIS Bulatlat From the looks of it, it seems that former Agriculture…
As SC Upholds Neri, Use of Executive Privilege to Cover Up Crimes Feared
BY Bulatlat.com September 5, 2008 The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan-New Patriotic Alliance) said that the recent Supreme Court decision on the Senate versus Romulo Neri gives present and future government offenders ‘unbelievably wide latitude to commit misdeeds.’ Voting 9-6, the Supreme Court yesterday upheld its earlier decision that former National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) Secretary…
Government Employees, Teachers Picket SSS on Neri’s First Day as Chair
BY MEDZ MONTEREAL Contributed to Bulatlat August 1, 2008 – 2:56 p.m. Government employees, teachers and workers held a demonstration today at the main office of Social Security Systems (SSS) as former National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) Chair Romulo Neri sits as the new SSS president. Antonio Tinio, chairperson of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers…
The Potent Difference
What the Supreme Court eventually chooses to do will certainly be determined not only by what takes place in the judicial arena. The hard-earned lesson for us in countless battles against anti-people state policies, malfeasance in office and intractable abuse of authority: the people cannot simply rely on Congress, even with a marginally oppositionist Senate,…
Groups Appeal to SC: Reverse Neri Decision, Uphold the People’s Right to Know
No less than Chief Justice Reynato Puno received the open letter handed over by various anti-Arroyo groups when they held a caravan to Baguio last April 15. Bayan Chair Dr. Carol Araullo expressed hope that there is a chance for their petition to be heard. ”The SC majority that decided the Neri petition could have…
Obstructing the Truth
Obstructing the Truth. The recent reopening of the Senate investigations on the controversial National Broadband Network (NBN) deal the Philippine government and China’s ZTE Corp. (By Flon Faurillo/bulatlat.com)