Posted August 05, 2008 00:53:00
Reputations are not built overnight. As with a cathedral, they are laid stone by stone. In the raging controversy between Court of Appeals (CA) Justice Jose Sabio and the alleged emissary of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), businessman Francis R. de Borja, the latter suffers an enormous disadvantage.
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Posted August 04, 2008 01:09:00
MANILA, Philippines - This is in reference to the column of Neal Cruz titled “Are we better off today than before GMA?” (Inquirer, 7/30/08)
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Posted August 02, 2008 03:56:00
MANILA, Philippines—In last Monday’s State of the Nation Address was a sentence—“Yet, even unfriendly polls show self-rated poverty down to its 20-year low in 2007”—that mostly refers to the poll group Social Weather Stations (SWS).
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Posted August 02, 2008 03:22:00
What we have is not only a people reeling from high food and oil prices but also a people badly demoralized. And the administration had better believe it. It isn’t just a matter of perception.
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Posted August 01, 2008 09:16:00
Mrs. Gloria Arroyo’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) got a total of 101 waves of applause from her loyalists, only to be matched later with hisses from well-meaning sectors for the Sona’s premeditated slips (or issues omitted by GMA’s aides?)
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Posted August 01, 2008 09:13:00
Last Monday, Congress behaved not as a co-equal branch of government, but as a groveling institution that views itself as subordinate to the Chief Executive.
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Posted August 01, 2008 04:04:00
MANILA, Philippines—Malacañang Thursday lodged a protest with the Marketing and Opinion Research Society of the Philippines (MORES) assailing the “faulty” methodology allegedly used by Pulse Asia in its July survey and saying it was meant to embarrass President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
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Posted August 01, 2008 01:15:00
MANILA, Philippines—What’s true, what’s false in the President’s statement on her administration’s population policy, which was part of her State of the Nation Address last Monday?
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Posted August 01, 2008 01:14:00
MANILA, Philippines—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivered her State of the Nation Address (SONA) completely oblivious to the past year’s biggest corruption scandal that defined the state of the nation’s morals.
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Posted July 31, 2008 20:05:00
MANILA, Philippines -- For failing to tackle the worsening education crisis and their job concerns in her State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was given a failing grade by the country's public school teachers.
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2008 ADDRESS
I address you today at a crucial moment in world history.
Just a few months ago, we ended 2007 with the strongest economic
growth in a generation. Inflation was low, the peso strong and a
million new jobs were created. We were all looking to a better,
brighter future.
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2007 ADDRESS
We meet here today to inaugurate a new Congress after a fresh election.
I congratulate every elected official, from municipal to provincial to
Congress on hard fought and successful campaigns.
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2006 ADDRESS
Sa araw na ito, nakatuon ang isip natin sa ating mga kababayan sa Lebanon. Nasa kuko sila ngayon ng malagim na paglala ng digmaan. Kahapon lamang, sinalubong natin ang unang dalawang-daang Pilipinong lumikas doon. Limang-daan pa ang mauuwi natin sa susunod na apat na araw.
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2005 ADDRESS
Every year, we meet on this day in this great hall to celebrate democracy
and take stock of the nation: the country and its condition; the government
and its performance; the people and their well-being.
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2004 ADDRESS
Angelo de la Cruz is home. We did it! Congratulations to the Filipino
people.
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2003 ADDRESS
Yesterday, without bloodshed, without damage to property, and within
a single day, we overcame an ill-conceived mutiny carried out by
misguided military officers.
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2002 ADDRESS
In the corridors of power, in the Palace where I work, past presidents
of the Republic sit in their portraits in judgment of me. In this
gallery of the highest public servants, none sits in sterner judgment
than the man who first led me by the hand into the Palace as a teenager.
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2001 ADDRESS
Kamakailan, may sumulat sa aking tatlong batang taga-Payatas,
sina Jayson, Jomar at Erwin. Ginawa nilang paper boats ang liham
at pinalutang sa pasig river patungo sa malacañang.
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