Napansin nyo ba mula Sabado, nang nananalasa ang bagyong Ondoy hanggang ngayon, wala pang order si Gloria Arroyo na magpalabas ng pera mula sa contingency fund?
Tiningnan ko ang website ng Office of the Press Secretary kung saan lahat na press release ng Malacañang lumalabas, wala ni isang order magpalabas ng pera.
Dati kapag may bagyo, pasikat kaagad si Arroyo. Magu-order siyang magpalabas ng pera. Sa budget mayroong mga P1 bilyon na calamity fund at P1 bilyon din para sa contigency fund. Kaya total na mga P2 bilyon sa isang taon. Sa opisina yan ng Presidente at kailangan ang kayang approval sa pagpalabas nun.
In an article written by Gil Cabacungan, Inquirer reported that Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey Arroyo” yesterday pushed for tighter regulation of the Facebook, the world’s leading social networking site, after he claimed to be a victim of a “malicious attack” by one of its members.
“My picture was posted on Facebook with a caption saying I was shopping for wine at the height of “ondoy”. This is another malicious attack on my person. It is so depressing,” Arroyo wrote in an e-mail response to the Facebook post which has appeared in several blogs.
Arroyo claimed he was in Malacañang last Saturday and that it was difficult to cross Katipunan from the village where he lives because of the rising floods. “How could I be at Rustan’s on Katipunan Avenue at the height of Ondoy when Katipunan was impassable at that time? For the record I was in Malañang with my family trying to mobilize rescue and relief operations for people of Metro Manila and for my constituents in my district in Pampanga,” he said.
Arroyo grandaughters Mikaela and MoniqueMalacañang is taking back Gloria Arroyo’s announcement that the Place will be converted into a relief and evacuation center for victims of typhoon “Ondoy”.
Former AFP Chief Hermogenes Esperon, now chief of the Presidential Management Staff said there was an apparent miscommunication: Malacañang was not supposed to be an evacuation center as Arroyo herself announced Monday.
“This is a repacking center, meaning we will receive donations, repack them, then send them to evacuation centers where the flood victims are,” he told the Philippine Daily Inquirer. “If they want to receive relief goods, they should go to the evacuation centers.”
The House of Representatives’ committee on justice has junked the impeachment complaint against Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez.
Cheers erupted from employees and officers of the Office of the Ombudsman who attended the proceedings as the chairman of the panel, Quezon City Representative Matias Defensor, announced that an “absolute majority” had found the complaint insufficient in substance.
ArroyoThe recent calamity brought about by typhoon Ondoy was an extreme event not likely to happen again in our lifetimes. This of course is of little comfort to our countrymen who were ravaged by the storm, and who now need more than ever our time, our compassion, and our time, our compassion, and our material support as they try to rebuild their lives.
As my own small contribution to the common effort, I have ordered Malacanang Palace to be opened to the general public, effective immediately, as a center for relief and rescue operations, the receipt and distribution of charitable donations and the temporary relocation of families who were displaced or made homeless by the storm.
Relocated families will be sheltered in all available premises within the Palace grounds. Government employees will be asked to make room for our guests, and I myself will move across the river to temporary quarters at bahay pangarap in the PSG compound.
Habang pinapakinggan ko ang sinasabi ng mga rescuers na gustuhin man nilang tulungan ang lahat na humihingi ng tulong noong kasagsagan ng bagyong Ondoy, hindi nila kaya dahil limitado ang kanilang mga gamit, naala-ala ko ang $35,000 na .dalawang hapunan ni Gloria Arroyo at ng kanyang mga alipores sa New York noong isang buwan.
Sinabi ni Lt. Col. Edgard Arevalo, spokesman ng Philippine Navy, na iilan lang ang kanilang rescue team, rubber boats at trucks. Sinabi sa TV hindi yata umaabot 20 ang rubber boats ng Navy.
Sinabi rin ni Marikina Mayor Marites Fernando na 13 lang ang rubber boats ng Marikina.
Photo by Inquirer’s Niño Jesus Orbeta Inquirer’s Nikko Dizon posted this description in her Facebook Wall: “GMA presided over a Cabinet meeting in a shiny…
This is what Gloria Arroyo said in her State of the Nation Address last July:
As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared as the latest technology permits to anticipate natural calamities when that is possible; to extend immediate and effective relief when it is not; the mapping of flood-and-landslide-prone areas is almost complete. Early warning, forecasting and monitoring systems have been improved, with weather-tracking facilities in Subic, Tagaytay, Mactan, Mindanao, Pampanga.
We have worked on flood control infrastructure like those for Pinatubo, Agno, Laoag, and Abucay, which will pump the run off waters from Quezon City and Tondo flooding Sampaloc. This will help relieve hundreds of hectares in this old city of its age-old woe.
Patuloy naman yung sa CAMANAVA, dagdag sa Pinatubo, Iloilo, Pasig- Marikina, Bicol River Basin, at saka river basin ng Mindanao.
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Seeing many areas in Metro Manila turned into an ocean, I remember the 1995 futuristic movie “Waterworld”.
Officials with Arroyo include Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita (to Arroyo's right),Labor Secretary Marianito Roque behind Ermita), Foreign Undersecretaty Esteban Conejos (in barong . first row)
Nakita nyo ba ang litrato ni Gloria Arroyo kasama ang mga Overseas Filipino Workers na nag-eskapo sa kanilang mga malulupit na among Arabo nang siya ay dumating mula Saudi Arabia noong Huwebes?
Hindi ko alam kung ako ay maawa o maiinis.
Binigyan, siguro ng mga Labor officials, ang mga OFW ng miniature flag at kanila yun winawagayway na para bang Olympic team na na nanalo sa kompetisyun sa ibang bansa. Ano namang medalya ang kanilang dala? Luha sa kanilang malupit na karanasan?
Hilaw ang tawa ni Arroyo. Paano nang ininterbyu ng mga reporter ang mga OFW, panay pasakit ang kuwento.
Gusto ng Malacañang na palakpakan si Arroyo sa pagsagip ng mga kawawang OFW sa trahedya na kanilang napasukan.
Pwede ba, naibenta na ang ganyang gimik. Ginawa na yan ni Sen. Manny Villar at dating Pangulong Estrada.
Hindi pwedeng uubra kay Arroyo ang ganyang gimik dahil siya ang naka-upong pangulo (kahit ninakaw lang niya ang pwestong yun). Di ba programa niya ang magpadala ng mga Pilipino na sa ibang bansa bilang katulong? Mismo ang pamahalaan, ang TESDA, ang nagbibigay ng training para magiging supermaids. Kaya, ayan ang inabot ng marami nating kababaihan na OFW.
