...2015, President Benigno “PNoy” Aquino delivered his sixth and final State of the Nation Address, at Batasan Complex, Quezon City, which is considered as his longest SONA. For the past five years, the Philippines made a rapid advancement especially with regards to its economy. It seemed that the Philippine economy reacted positively with PNoy’s “Daang Matuwid”. The Philippines now is slowly climbing the global competitiveness rankings thanks to PNoy’s advocacy to good governance reforms. President Aquino, highlighted his speech with the achievements of his administration including the improved economy and outlook; increased collection of revenues and benefits of his social service programs (Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4ps) and PhilHealth), comparing this to the past administration of Macapagal Arroyo including fertilizer fund scam; the NBN-ZTE anomalous deal and "Hello Garci" scandal. In our opinion, President Aquino rightly delivered a summary of what his administration has done to the country. He had to use previous administration's scandals so that the mistakes it incurred will not be repeated. The most unexpected part of his SONA was his indirect speech towards Vice President Jejomar Binay the standard-bearer of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) for next year elections and his presidential endorsement. Our President had dedicated his term on apprehending the corruption in our country. Comparing to the past administration, we can state that the President today...
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...Grace R. Vargas, Jocevic Viernes, Maricor Assassination of Benigno Simeon "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr. The assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr., former Philippine Senator, took place on Sunday, August 21, 1983 at Manila International Airport. Aquino, also a longtime political opponent of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, had just landed in his home country after a 3-year self exile in the United States when he was shot in the head while being escorted from an aircraft to a vehicle that was waiting to transport him to prison. Also killed was Rolando Galman, who was later implicated in Aquino's murder. Reaction Assassination of Benigno Simeon "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr. The assassination of Ninoy Aquino Jr. is for me a mystey because there is no one who spoke out that they are the one who killed Ninoy. But I think it is the Marcos family responsible for the assassination because they are the one who had a conflict with late senator Ninoy Aquino. –Pelinio I think assassination of Ninoy Aquino was injustice of human rights because he was shot in the head while being escorted from aircraft. Also Ninoy wanted a justice for being not democratic threatened against Marcos’ authoritarian rule. I’m proud of having a good senator on that time because he only thinks about the Filipino’s sake and he really fight for the right of human rights under the Martial Law. ` –Ruben Benigno Aquino Jr. was assassinated because of political issue. He was opposing...
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...House of the Philippines PHILIPPINES 101 History of the Philippines Through the centuries… • 750,000-500,000 years ago: Flake tools 750,000found in Solana, Cagayan • 50,000-10,000 BC: Cutting tools found in 50,000the Tabon Caves in Quezon, Palawan • 24,000-22,000 BC: Fossil remains of 24,000“Tabon Man” in Tabon Caves • 6th to 10th century: Complex society exists in Negros Oriental. • AD 900: Chinese porcelain and stoneware found in Masbate. • AD 990: Wooden boat found in Butuan City. • 10th to 12th century: Metal works of iron, bronze, lead and gold. • 13th century: Muslim settlement in Sulu • 14th century: Artifacts from China, Vietnam and Thailand found in Palawan shipwrecks. • 15th century: Muslim Malays from Sumatra in Sulu led by Rajah Baguinda Magellan’s Journey • August 10, 1519 – Leaves Spain with 235 men and 5 ships. • March 16, 1521 – Arrives in Samar with three ships. • March 28 – Goes to Limasawa island, ruled by Rajah Kolambu and Rajah Siagu. Makes blood pact with Kolambu. • March 31: Catholic Mass celebrated on Easter Sunday, islands claimed for the King of Spain. • April 7: Goes to Cebu, makes blood pact with Rajah Humabon. • April 26: Zula, chief from Mactan, arrives seeking help against chief Lapu-Lapu. Lapu- • April 27: Goes to Mactan with soldiers and native allies to fight Lapu-Lapu. He is Lapukilled. • May 1: Rajah Humabon attacks the Spanish and forces them to leave. • September...
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...CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION I. BACKGROUND Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people. – Julia Gillard. The increase of low-income, low-skilled youth in the labor market, particularly in developing countries, is a major concern internationally. In some regions of the world, young people are nearly three times as likely as adults to be unemployed. They are also more likely to work in the informal labor market than adults, in low quality jobs that offer limited socio-economic security, training opportunities, and working conditions. This enormous unlocked potential represents a substantial loss of opportunity for both individuals and society. With increasing emphasis being given to work- and skills-based solutions to economic competition and poverty in the developing world, comes a renewed focus on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) as a means to expand opportunities for marginalized youth (Tripney, et. al., 2013). Enhancing the quality of basic education in the Philippines is urgent and critical. In line with this, one of the discussions of DepEd which incurred on October 2010 is to enhance the basic education program of the country in a way that is least disruptive to the current curriculum, most affordable to government and families, and aligned with international practice through the K-12 policy. The poor quality of basic education is reflected in the low achievement...
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...increased. In 1995, Philippine Mining Act was passed which the government allowed foreign companies to fully operate in the country; it created backlash from Filipinos stating that they should be the only ones to mine their own resources but the government still allowed it for large investments coming from foreign companies which will boost the economy. 1 The country’s mining industry was also ignited by the legend of Yamashita’s treasure. The legend has attracted tourists and curious treasure seekers to look out for the supposed ‘treasure’ of gold that the Japanese Army had hidden in the different parts of the country. 2 It seems that gold mining is a lucrative business. But is mining helpful to the country? Mining have garnered vast impacts in every aspect of the country. It boosts the economy by letting the mining companies give the government its share of their profits. But only a margin of profits is being given to the government. According to Governor Joey Salceda of Albay, “which hosts the Rapu-Rapu Polymetallic Project, only received P3.4 million from the mining company’s revenues. The company’s export value reached P7.7 billion.” The profit that was being given by the mining company should be for infrastructures and other government-funded projects but according to him the P3.4 million was not sufficient.3 Gold mining also gives work to Filipinos. But these kinds of work are very dangerous in nature. Many lives are at risk but Filipinos continue to work despite...
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...Narratives of Land: The Current State of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines ALMOST twenty-six years of implementation, still counting and with completion nowhere near in sight. This amount of time that the Philippine government has taken to implement and complete the key provisions of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) law translates to a whole generation of Filipinos, including children of farmers, who have been born at the time of the law’s passage, have grown up through the years of tentative and unfinished implementation, and reaching adulthood amid current intensified clamor for government to complete its task. CARP is now the longest running program being implemented under a democratic political system, post-EDSA 1986. It has been widely seen as the litmus test of past and present administrations’ commitment to social justice, as mandated by the 1987 Philippine Constitution. CARPER or Republic Act 9700, signed 7 August 2009, gave the original Republic Act 6657 or CARP five more years to be completed. In 1998, CARP’s land acquisition and distribution component had been given its first 10-year extension and additional funding of PhP 50 billion through Republic Act 8532. One of the main goals during the extension period should be the completion of land distribution by June 30, 2014. The program should get PhP 150 billion for five years or PhP 30 billion per year for land acquisition and distribution and agrarian justice delivery (a total of 60 percent...
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...February 14th, 2013 : Armed intruders claim to be followers of Sulu Sultan * A group of armed intruders who claimed as the followers of the decedent of the Sultan Sulu have landed in Lahad Datu. * The police have warded and surrounded the area to control the incident. Situation in Lahad Datu under control – Hishammuddin * By the police resource, there is about more than 100 of armed group that suspects as the militant have landed in Lahad Datu. * The situation is still under control and inspection by the police and armed forces as they are negotiating with the intruder’s claims. * Datuk Hishammudin also urged the publics to not worried and makes any speculation regarding to the issue. February 15th, 2013 : Still a stand-off at Tambisan; security personnel on full alert * The intruders is said to be holling up in surau at Kampung Tanduao which mainly localized by Filipinos. * The intruders want to stay in Sabah and do not want to be deported to the Philippines. But they are still confined with tight security by Malaysian army, navy and police. * The villagers nearby in Kampung Tambisan claimed that the intruders were arrived with three boats landed in Silabukan and Sungei Merah that close to Kampung Tanduao. The villagers also said that they were unaffected by the incident and confident with tight security are able to ensure security. * A group of 30 gunmen armed with M16 rifles had entered Kampung Tanduao in Felda Sahabat 20 scheme and...
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...Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program Poverty is one major problem, not only our government, but everyone of us faces. It deprives people not only of safe water and adequate food, clothing and shelter, but also education and healthcare. It puts people’s life in danger and robs them of their future. Moreover, poverty takes away people’s right, their freedom, dignity and peace of mind. Certainly, in a country well governed, poverty is something to be disgraced of. In line with this, with thinking minds as the ‘raw’ materials, brainstorming as the process, they had come up with a useful product, the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps’). This is one of the State’s anti-poverty initiatives under President Benigno Aquino III’s administration. Its objectives are to provide social assistance by giving cash assistance to poor families to lessen their basic needs and to develop social welfare by breaking the intergenerational poverty cycle through investments in human capital. However, the question we are all interested of is that, how useful and effective is this program in our country? According to the National Statistics Office (NSO) Cebu district officer Gil Melchor Rubia, the poverty incidence among population during the first semester of 2012 was estimated at 27.9 percent. She added that comparing this with the 2006 and 2009 first semester figures estimated at 28.8 percent and 28.6 percent, respectively, poverty remained unchanged. It is still a mystery of how the...
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...Assessment of Aquino Administration’s policies and achievements The Aquino Administration at the mid of its term: assessment of its policies and achievements in key areas. When Benigno (Noynoy) Aquino was elected in May 2010, it was a huge wave of hope that swept him in a landslide victory into the office of the Philippine President: * hope that he would bring back honesty as guiding principle into the actions and decisions of this office – as it had been the case during the presidency of his revered mother Cory Aquino 1986 – 1992, whose passing away in summer 2009 had plummeted the nation into deep nostalgic mood and initiated the request of the Liberal Party for her son as presidential candidate in the 2010 elections; * hope that the lawlessness, high levels of violence, corruption, human rights violations and impunity would finally find an end; * hope that the hardened poverty of more than 25% of the fast growing population would finally be reduced – following his campaign slogan: “no corruption, no poverty any more”; * hope that he would be able to bring peace to the country which was suffering for more than 40 years from fighting with the Mindanao based Muslim Rebellion and the armed campaign of Maoist in many rural provinces all over the country. Three years later, in the mid of his single six-years term, it is still the hope of the majority of the population which is upholding his high popularity. What has been done, what has been achieved...
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...The effects of APEC To ensure the safety of the economic leaders and delegates in Manila, tight security was enforced. This included road closures and rerouting schemes of major thoroughfares — such as EDSA and Roxas Boulevard — that resulted in traffic disruptions in The APEC lane along EDSA extension in Pasay City. the metro. Most motorists and commuters complained of the traffic schemes adjustments, which forced them to walk to their destination. Several airlines canceled their flights to make way for the arrival and departures of the APEC participants. Philippine Airlines said it lost an estimated P870 million, while Cebu Pacific lost around P400 million. A number of people also took to the streets and staged protests, denouncing the APEC and the leaders of its 21 member economies. Quiz: Can you recognize these world leaders? Was the summit a success? The Philippines reportedly allotted P10 billion to stage the week-long APEC activities. Ambassador Marciano Paynor Jr., director general of the APEC National Organizing Council, said the expenses in hosting the event was an investment. He added that the traffic and inconvenience the summit caused is "a little sacrifice compared to the benefits that we will gain out of our membership from APEC." Related: APEC gains not quantified, says economists But former Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno said the P10 billion the government spent was too much. He said that it could have been cheaper if the APEC leaders' meeting was held outside...
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...Global Economic Crisis The global financial crisis (GFC) or global economic crisis is commonly believed to have begun in July 2007 with the credit crunch, when a loss of confidence by US investors in the value of sub-prime mortgages caused a liquidity crisis. This, in turn, resulted in the US Federal Bank injecting a large amount of capital into financial markets. By September 2008, the crisis had worsened as stock markets around the globe crashed and became highly volatile. Consumer confidence hit rock bottom as everyone tightened their belts in fear of what could lie ahead. The current financial crisis is the worst the world has seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. For younger generations, accustomed to mild recessions of the new phase of globalization, the misery of the Great Depression is hitherto nothing more than a distant legend. However, the collapse of two Bear Stearns Hedge funds in summer of 2007 exposed what came to be known as the subprime mortgage crisis, reintroducing the world to an era of bank failures, a credit crunch, private defaults and massive layoffs. In the new, globalized world of closely interdependent economies, the crisis affected almost every part of the world, receiving extensive coverage in the international media. “In an Interconnected World, American Homeowner Woes Can Be Felt from Beijing to Rio de Janeiro,” observed the International Herald Tribune at the onset of the crisis. “Chinese Steelmakers Shiver, Indian Miners Catch Flu,” noted...
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...Cavite City) and they have been active in politics since the 1990’s. Its patriarch is former Representative Plaridel “Del” Madarang Abaya, who served the 1st District of Cavite from the 10th to the 12th Congress of the Philippines (1995-2004). In the May 2010 elections, he lost the congressional race to actress Lani Mercado Revilla in the lone district of Bacoor, Cavite.[i] He started his military career as a cadet at the Philippine Military Academy in 1959 and served as an officer in the Philippine Army and Philippine Constabulary for 28 years. He completed his military career in 1987 as a full colonel.[ii] He is married to Consuelo Bautista Aguinaldo, one of the grandchildren of President Emilio Aguinaldo. This connection between the Abayas and first President has served the Abayas well, as it extends their political clout to Aguinaldo supporters. Also, it adds political weight to their name because they are associated with Aguinaldo’s heritage. The union of Del Abaya and Consuelo Aguinaldo produced two sons: Peter Anthony and Joseph Emilio. Both of them are...
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...Proposed Tourism Development in: _______Intramuros______ TM09306: Tourism Planning and Development __________________________________________________________________Final Report ABSTRACT A historical place called Intramuros that is once a center for government religion and military superiority during the Spanish era, During the time it was called a walled city because of the tall walls that covered all over the place. But during the 2nd World War it was heavily damage due to bombings and also, the Japanese used it for their prison barracks. This paper shows the profile of the case study area which consist of Geographic Characteristics, Socio-economic, and Political profile. This explains the current status of Intramuros in terms of population, environmental quality, economic condition, and the educational institutions in the area. Political profile is one of the most important factors to consider since the government is the one who gives financial support to accomplish certain projects or plans. The city of Intramuros has many things to offer. Even if it is not blessed with natural and archeological resources, the “walled city” is rich in history and culture that plays a major role in preserving our heritage and national identity since, it is easily overlooked by many Filipinos. In order to know the strategies that we are going to utilize and to come up with our group’s goal and mission, we use Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats Analysis...
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...archipelago consisting of more than 7000 islands. It is the 12th most populated country in the world which poses as a difficult challenge for good governance and development other than smaller countries. The Philippines is mostly mountainous. The citizens can speak several languages. Not to mention, the country is very close to the Pacific Ring of Fire which makes it more prone to frequent natural disasters. There is a 95.8 million in population. It also has a GDP of $424.4 billion with a 6.6% growth in 2012 and it has a five year annual growth of 4.7% with a $4,430 per capita. The Philippines also have a 7% unemployment rate and a 3.1% inflation rate. These are some of the quick facts of the Philippines as of September 2013. When President Benigno Aquino III took office back in 2010, he addressed the most important concern in the Philippine which is corruption. He instantaneously launched massive investigations from the administration he replaced and how they abused their power. The economy of the Philippines has been developing on the average of 5 percent annually over the past two decades. The most important increase in our Gross Domestic Product is the remittances which is more than 10% of the GDP. The distribution of the benefits to the less privileged has been an ongoing challenge in spite of the growth we had in the economy. Also, the Philippines is currently undergoing from extensive poverty and has a massive problem with underemployment and unemployment. Agriculture is...
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...Unit I Foreign Policy What is Foreign Policy? Foreign policy has many exegesis as there are internationalist who attempt to define this most intriguing subject of international relations. Initially, it has been define as a “ statement of national goals limited both absolutely and relatively by national power”. The Foreign Service Institute of the Philippines prefers to allude to it as “ set of guidelines articulated by the government to a country in order to promote its national interest through the conduct of its relations with other countries” The Foreign Service Institute of the Philippines has likewise quoted a dictum ascribed to President Ferdinand E. Marcos that: The foreign policy of a nation is the articulation of its fondest needs and aspiration, and in international affairs, it is its sole weapon for the promotion of national interest. Foreign Policy is a “part of the general program of government. It is furthermore an extension of its domestic policy”. The term “system” when used in the context of an organization, implies an entity composed of a set of parts and created to accomplish certain, objectives. The aim of the system is the coordination of human efforts and material resources to produce desired results in a dynamic organization. An organization, as social system, has certain inherent characteristics: 1) it has subsystem and, is part of a suprasystem in continual interaction with one another 2) It has define objectives...
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