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Buko talk

Published by Ellen on September 26, 2011

buko juice vendor — Thanks to Desi-Radio for the photo

Much as I’d like to join in the excitement of President Aquino over the interest of American businessmen in coconut water or buko juice, I have my reservations.

Upon his arrival from the United States, where he attended the official launch of the Open Government Partnership in New York – an initiative by US President Barack Obama and Brazil President Dilma Rouseff to promote transparency in governance, the President waxed ecstatic about the information that the Americans have discovered the joys of drinking buko juice, something that Filipinos have been doing since time immemorial.

“Drinking what they call coco water and what we call buko juice is a growing trend in the US. Because of its nutrients, because it is natural and environment friendly, it is becoming the new natural sports drink in America and is now a hundred-million-dollar industry,” he said.

Pres. Aquino meets with MILF chair Murad

Published by Ellen on August 5, 2011

By Carolyn O. Arguillas
Mindanews

Aquino wd Murad — Aquino and Murad in a Tokyo Hotel Thursday evening. Photo by OPPAP

GENERAL SANTOS CITY- Now the silence can be explained.

President Benigno Simeon Aquino III and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim shook hands and talked peace for two hours in a hotel in Japan with their respective panel chairs taking down notes, the President’s Cabinet members and the MILF’s peace panel and Central Committee members as well as the Malaysian facilitator waiting outside the meeting room.

The President and the MILF chair agreed to move the negotiations forward to ensure that whatever agreement is forged can be implemented within the Aquino administration whose term ends on June 30, 2016, the chairs of both panels told MindaNews in separate telephone interviews. How the talks can move forward, the panels will discuss when they meet within the month, they said.

PNoy sells Porsche

Published by Ellen on July 5, 2011

From abs-cbnNEWS.com

President Benigno Aquino III has sold his third-hand Porsche, one of his personal decisions that many citizens thought was not in sync with his call for good governance and austerity.

Aquino said it was security concerns and not the controversy surrounding the luxury vehicle, which he bought second hand, that prompted him to get rid of the white Porsche.

“It’s putting an unnecessary risk on the people who are guarding me. It is too exposed and it is like an advertisement, saying, ‘Here I am. I am most vulnerable here’,” the president told reporters.

Aquino’s first year: The good and the bad

Published by Ellen on June 28, 2011

Pinoy in Malabon — Shortcoming: shooting buddies

One area where the year-old Aquino government has made reforms, slow it may be, is in the fight against graft and corruption through reforms in the justice system.

This is not to say that Aquino has eliminated graft and corruption or there is no graft and corruption being committed by his own appointees. I merely recognize some reforms made in the justice system that could help in the fight against graft and corruption that was the campaign battle cry of Aquino -“Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap.”

Number one ‘achievement’ is the removal of Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez and her subordinates either through dismissal, resignation or suspension. As long as Gutierrez was head of the anti-graft body, her benefactor Gloria Arroyo, her husband and members of her family could feel safe from prosecution.

Robredo no longer ‘acting’ DILG secretary, gets regular appointment from Aquino

Published by Ellen on June 27, 2011

After almost a year, President Benigno Aquino III has decided that he can work with Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo, whom he is…

Walang “K” bumanat ang magnanakaw

Published by Ellen on June 25, 2011

at the renewal of rites of the santiagos — Photo taken at the renewal of wedding rites of the Santiagos.

Ang isang rason bakit pinupuna ko ang mga palpak ni Pangulong Aquino at ng kanyang mga tauhan ay dahil ayaw kong magkakaroon ng oportunidad si Gloria Arroyo na tatawa at magsabing, “Ayan, banat kayo ng banat sa akin. Ano ngayun ang nakuha nyong pumalit sa akin?”

At tama nga. Lumabas lang ang survey na bumababa ang satisfaction, approval at trust ratings ni Pnoy, bumalandra na si Arroyo.

Noong Huwebes, nagpa-press conference si Arroyo. Yan ang unang-una niyang press conference mula nang bumaba siya sa Malacañang, mag-isang taon na ang nakalipas. Sa Kongreso kung saan kinatawan siya ng pangalawang distrito ng Pampanga, mailap siya sa media. Makikita mo sa TV, Taas noo na parang emperatris yan kapag pumasok sa session hall.

Ayun sa mga report, nagbabala daw si Arroyo sa mga panganib sa ekonomiya dahil sa palpak na pamamahala ni Aquino ng bayan. Ginamit niya ang sinabi ng isang columnist tungkol kay Aquino: “nobody’s home.”

Alam naman natin na ang “nobody’s home” ay sinasabi sa isang taong bobo.

3 Cabinet men giving P-Noy headaches

Published by Ellen on June 24, 2011

DPwh june 23 — Aquino with Singson, not one of the 'dreaded' 3

By Delon Porcalla
The Philippine Star

President Aquino dreads seeing two or three members of his Cabinet he considers harbingers of bad news.

Aquino’s candid admission was made before dozens of officials and employees of the Department of Public Works and Highways gathered for the department’s 113th anniversary celebrations yesterday. He made it clear Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson was not among the three.

“Sa totoo lang, meron akong na-obserbahan na mga miyembro ng gabinete, mga dalawa o tatlo – kada makita ko agad iniisip ko, ano kayang bad news ang dala-dala nito (In truth, I have observed Cabinet members, about two or three – each time I see them I wonder what bad news they bring),” he said.

Pulse Asia’s May 21 to June 4, 2011 survey:Aquino’s overall approval and trust rating declined but he continues to enjoy approval by majority

Published by Ellen on June 22, 2011

About seven in ten Filipinos (71%) express appreciation for and trust in President
Aquino. On the other hand, less than one in ten is critical of presidential performance
(8%) and distrusts the President (7%). Essentially the same percentages of Filipinos are
unable to say if they approve or disapprove of the President’s work in the past three
months (21%) and are ambivalent as regards his trustworthiness (22%).

Hindi pwedeng i-ignore ni PNoy ang pagkadismaya ng taumbayan

Published by Ellen on June 21, 2011

Ano pa nga ba ang sasabihin ng Malacañang sa pinakahuling survey ng Social Weather Station kung saan lalong bumaba pa ang satisfaction rating ni Pangulong Aquino? Natural lang yun na depensahan nila ang kanilang ginagawa at hindi nga lang daw masyadong alam ng nakakarami.

Ngunit sa kanilang pagdepensa, sa halip na maghanap ng palusot, dapat aksyunan ang mga bagay na nagdulot ng dismaya kay PNoy ng taumbayan.

Kaibigan Atbp

Published by Ellen on June 17, 2011

Last week, the talk show, “ANC Presents” hosted by Lynda Jumilla discussed President Aquino’s choice of people to help him govern the country. She invited…

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