a mechanism to support high-impact and priority programs and projects using savings and unprogrammed funds. DAP also enabled the government to introduce greater speed, efficiency, and effectiveness in budget execution. DAP was introduced when the Aquino Administration assumed office in 2010, it unearthed systemic inefficiencies in public spending. These included poorly-designed and questionable projects that need to be cancelled; the prevalence of lump sum funds; implementation bottlenecks; among
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paper. It is a start but it will not be enough to make the mining industry work for the country. It will need leadership with a vision and the will to realize that vision. Uppermost in that vision is how it is implemented and supervised. If President Aquino truly wants to raise money to alleviate poverty in the Philippines, he is well advised not to dilly-dally. Now is the time with foreign and local investors looking to how he handles the mining imbroglio. The needs of our poor coincide with the high
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prominent. President Aquino’s burial will be graced by heavy rain. My friends and I wore yellow, the color of democracy and peace, or maybe just for this day. While waiting, we had a quick breakfast at a convenience store then we were off to Ninoy Aquino monument at Roxas Boulevard. The monument was packed with people when we got there at 9am. The weather was unfriendly, rain still pouring and mud everywhere. Everyone was wet. My sneakers were drenched inside out, my umbrella was broken, and my
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New peso bills win international award By Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star) Updated October 24, 2011 12:00 AM MANILA, Philippines - An international organization composed of central banks, currency-issuing authorities, currency producers and suppliers has recognized the new peso bills launched by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) last December. The BSP said in a statement that the International Association of Currency Affairs (IACA) has recognized the new peso notes - dubbed as
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Maurice John A. Gines BSIT - 3 Interested Filipino citizens have again witnessed another annual report from President Benigno Simeon Aquino III on July 23, 2012. The latest State of the Nation Address highlighted the string of efforts of the Aquino administration to showcase the difference it has made since it assumed governance in 2010. The president collectively pointed out numerous achievements and key measures related to the economy, health, education, employment, infrastructure, tourism
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RH Bill President Benigno Aquino III signed into law Republic Act No. 10354 or the "Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012" Friday last week, December 21, according to a copy obtained by Rappler. It was signed without fanfare, confirmed House Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II on Friday, December 28. On Saturday, December 29, Malacañang issued a statement saying: "The passage into law of the Responsible Parenthood Act closes a highly divisive chapter of our history—a chapter
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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
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AS MORE than a hundred peasants from Bukidnon continue their march to Malacañang to own the land they have been fighting for, a leader of a tribal group thinks the protesting peasants should also go beyond the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (Carper) campaign. Datu Jomorito Goaynon, chairman of the lumad group Kalumbay, said the marching peasants must not rely on Carper alone to fight for their lands, but also lobby for the approval of the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill
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Republic of the Philippines National Capital Judicial Region REGIONAL TRIAL COURT City of Makati, Br. ___, MAALAGA INSURANCE CORP (MIC) Petitioner , -versus- Civil Case No. Enforcement of Arbitration Agreement ZITIMOTORS and PONCE ENRILI As the duly authorized representative Defendant x----------------------------------------x PETITION FOR JUDICIAL RELIEF
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PHILIPPINE PRESIDENTS General Emilio F. Aguinaldo (March 22, 1869 - February 6, 1964). He was 29 years old when he became Chief of State, first as head of the dictatorship he thought should be established upon his return to Cavite in May 1898 from voluntary exile in Hongkong, and then a month later as President of the Revolutionary Government that Apolinario Mabini had persuaded him should instead be instituted. Aguinaldo’s presidential term formally began in 1898 and ended on April 1, 1901, when
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