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Janet Toral sent the following updates: 1.DigitalFilipino.com Club SME and Corporate members are invited to attend the forthcoming E-Commerce Policy Development Workshop this May 2…
by Ramon J. Farolan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
One of the tallest in the group at five feet, six inches was Arlene Orejana, a psychology graduate of UP. The fourth of five girls, she was born in General Santos City and studied at the Mindanao State University before entering UP….
When the class of 1997 arrived at Fort Del Pilar, they were received by second class cadets belonging to the class of 1995. Cadet Antonio Trillanes IV was in charge of indoctrinating the newcomers on the Honor System in the Academy. Arlene Orejana thought he was cute! Leave it to the women to notice these things even during times of stress and pressure.
Sabi ni AFP Chief Hermogenes Esperon, na dapat ay hanggang May 9, 2008, lamang ang serbisyo, ay “honored” siya kung i-appoint siya ni Gloria na secretary of national defense.
Ngunit mukhang malabo maging defense secretary si Esperon ngayon dahil ang balita namin, pumapalag si Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro.
Sabi ni Teodoro na bilang presidential appointee, siya ay nasa gobierno lamang hanggang gusto ng presidente. Siyempre naman. Ngunit halata sa kanyang tono na inis siya sa pagtrato ni Arroyo ng mga posisyon sa pamahalaan na kanyang personal na regalo sa kung sino ang magagamit niya sa kanyang ambisyon na manatili sa kapangyarihan.
by Victor Reyes
Col. Roberto Caldeo is the third soldier to commit suicide apparently from stress or trauma over a bloody assault on an Abu Sayyaf stronghold in Basilan in 2000.
This was disclosed yesterday by officers who were also involved in “Final Option,” an operation to rescue a priest and dozens of teachers and students taken hostage by the Abu Sayyaf.
Gloria Arroyo is set to go to the United States for a state visit on June 24 to 25.
Aside from meeting President George W. Bush, Arroyo is also scheduled to address the US-Asean Business Council.
The talk is that Arroyo will witness the signing into law of the Veterans Benefits Enhancement Act by Bush.
(I was not able to get photos in today’s hearing. I just asked for these photos from a relative of one of the detainees. Both photos were taken after the hearing. The first photo shows the Tanay-bound officers. In the second photo are officers detained at the ISAFP facility in Camp Aguinaldo.)
by Victor Reyes
Malaya
Officers linked to the alleged power grab attempt in February 2006 yesterday gave Armed Forces chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr., who is due to retire from the
service in two weeks, a failing grade as the military chief for close to two years.
“No one has brought more shame to the institution,” former Scout Ranger chief Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim said of Esperon in a handwritten statement issued at the sidelines of a court martial hearing against the accused officers inside Camp Aguinaldo.
There are two items in the April 23, 2008 letter of Sen. Miriam Santiago, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,to House Speaker Prospero Nograles unsettling.
The first one is her saying that she was shelving Senate Bill 1467 and House Bill 1202 defining the country’s archipelagic baselines “”Pursuant to President Arroyo’s directive.” The other one is her furnishing a copy of her letter the Chinese Ambassador Song Tao.
Santiago is known as “an administration senator”. It’s not surprising for her to toe the administration line. But she is a member of the Legislative Department, co-equal with the Executive and Judicial branches of government. Senators are not supposed to get orders from the executive department, even from the president.
By Julie M. Aurelio
Philippine Daily Inquirer
An opposition senator on Thursday told a Makati City court that the so-called Oakwood mutiny in 2003 cannot qualify as a coup d’etat, especially if compared to the 1987 and 1989 coup attempts.
Testifying for the defense, Biazon said there was no attack, even as the members of the so-called Magdalo group of rebel soldiers seized the Oakwood luxury apartments in the Makati financial district, said lawyer Ernesto Francisco, who represents eight of the 22 junior officers accused of leading the mutiny.
Nagkandarapa ang mga guwardiya sa Malacañang noong Martes nang biglang nagprotesta ang mga magsasaka sa harap ng gate ng Malacañang sa pamamagitan ng mga nakasulat na mensahe sa kanilang katawan.
Mahigpit kasi ang security sa paligid ng Malacañang. Parang pier na nga ang Malacañang sa dami ng cargo vans na nakaharang doon. Takot sa taumbayan si Gloria. Bigla tuloy nag- red alert sa paligid ng Malacañang.