News item in Malaya today (Aug. 21, 2006)
TAGUIG-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano yesterday.
brushed aside Palace demands for an apology, saying it should instead be President Arroyo who should say sorry “for cheating, lying and stealing the (2004) elections.”
Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye has demanded from Cayetano a “full and unconditional retraction” and a “public apology to the first family” after the latter accused the Arroyos of maintaining an account with a German bank.
The Wild Bird Club of the Philippines (WBCP) is sponsoring the the 2nd Philippine Bird Festival themed “Endemik: Dito Lang sa Pinas” to focus attention on conserving endemic bird species of the Philippines, the bird watching hobby and responsible appreciation of nature.
The Philippine Bird Festival, the only one of its kind in the country, will be held on September 22 and 23 at the Crossroad 77 Convenarium, Mother Ignacia Avenue corner Scout Reyes Street in Quezon City.
Madaling paniwalaan ang pahayag ni Arsenio Rasalan tungkol sa papel ni dating PNP chief Hermogenes Ebdane na ngayon ay public works secretary, sa pandaraya noong 2004 elections para kay Gloria Arroyo.
Matagal nang usap-usapan yan. Wala lang gustong magkumpirma.
Ito ngayon si Rasalan na kasama sa post-election operation ni Ebdane at ni Atty. Roque Bello ang nagkwento ng buong detalye kung paano nila pinalitan ang mga election returns para mag-match sa mga dinayang COCs (certificate of canvass) na siyang ginamit ng Congress sa pag-proklama kay Arroyo na nanalo sa 2004 elections.
Statement of Secretary Ignacio R. Bunye: First Family will not take vicious attack sitting down We demand a full and unconditional retraction from the person…
A news item in today’s (Aug. 19, 2006) issue of Malaya.
by Wendell Vigilia
AN opposition congressman yesterday accused “immediate members” of the family of President Arroyo of hiding a multi-million dollar bank account in a German bank.
In a TV interview, Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano (NP, Taguig-Pateros) declined to identify the owners of the account but said it is inside one of the seven boxes of evidence that were not opened in the impeachment hearings at the House.
Last March, we came out with the photos of some of the alleged cheating operations done by Atty. Roque Bello for Gloria Arroyo. The affidavit…
As our wise old folks never forget to remind us, truth cannot be forever hidden. Like water, it will find a way to come out.
One day after Goria Arroyo minions in Congress killed the second impeachment complaint, Arsenio B. Rasalan and Clinton John F. Colcol, came out with their testimonies relating their participation in the tampering of election results in the 2004 elections.
Rasalan named Public Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane, former PNP chief, as the one in charge of the grand post-election cheating operation.
It was only very recently that I learned that the lowly suka or vinegar can be used to detect cervical cancer.
Suka contains acetic acid which is what is being used in what I find a revolutionary approach to treating the disease that remains to be the No. 2 killer of Filipino women, next to breast cancer.
I’m sure I’m not the only one ignorant about the powers of acetic acid. And I learned about it only because I attended a forum “The Cervical Cancer Prevention Network program” two weeks ago at the Asian Hospital in Muntinlupa.
Supalpal si Gloria Arroyo ng Amnesty International, isang pribadong organisasyon na nagmu-monitor ng paglabag sa karapatang panta-o.
Sa report na nilalabas ng AI noong Martes, sinabi nila na lalong dumarami ang insidente ng pagpatay sa taong ito kahit pa na sinabi ni Arroyo na kinukondena niya ang pagpatay.
Pinansin ng AI na karamihan sa pinapatay ay mga binabansagan na “kaliwa” o mga miyembro ng progresibong organisasyon o mga kahit ng Communist Party of the Philippines.
Numbers of political killings in the Philippines are increasing for a second year, with at least 51 killings in the first six months of 2006 compared to 66 collated by Amnesty International in the whole of 2005. The leadership of the armed insurgency has threatened to form retaliatory assassination squads, according to an Amnesty International report released yesterday.
The killings follow a pattern of unidentified men shooting leftist party members before escaping on motorcycle and have taken place in the context of an intensified counter-insurgency operation. The Philippine government has failed to protect individuals.