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Midnight appointments
Department of Health

Indicative List of ‘Midnight’ Appointments by ex-President Arroyo, Feb. 19 to May 5, 2010
Office of the President, Government-Owned and -Controlled Corporations
Source: Former Senior Government Officials

Read more... | Posted Monday, July 19th, 2010

Midnight appointments
Department of Finance

Indicative List of ‘Midnight’ Appointments by ex-President Arroyo, Feb. 19 to May 5, 2010
Office of the President, Government-Owned and -Controlled Corporations
Source: Former Senior Government Officials

Read more... | Posted Monday, July 19th, 2010

Midnight appointments
Department of Environment and Natural Resources

Indicative List of ‘Midnight’ Appointments by ex-President Arroyo, Feb. 19 to May 5, 2010
Office of the President, Government-Owned and -Controlled Corporations
Source: Former Senior Government Officials

Read more... | Posted Monday, July 19th, 2010

Midnight appointments
Department of Energy

Indicative List of ‘Midnight’ Appointments by ex-President Arroyo, Feb. 19 to May 5, 2010
Office of the President, Government-Owned and -Controlled Corporations
Source: Former Senior Government Officials

Read more... | Posted Monday, July 19th, 2010

Midnight appointments
Department of Agriculture

Indicative List of ‘Midnight’ Appointments by ex-President Arroyo, Feb. 19 to May 5, 2010
Office of the President, Government-Owned and -Controlled Corporations
Source: Former Senior Government Officials

Read more... | Posted Monday, July 19th, 2010

Midnight appointments
Office of the President, GOCCs

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Read more... | Posted Monday, July 19th, 2010

Illicit list? Arroyo’s 977
‘midnight’ appointees

by Tita C. Valderama

LAWYERS at the Palace have been burning the midnight oil scrutinizing nearly a thousand appointments made by then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in various government agencies, including state-run corporations, from January this year until she bowed out of office on June 30.

One lawyer says the Presidential Management Staff (PMS) has so far tracked 977 Arroyo appointments in the last six months of her nine-year reign. “The list is growing,” says another lawyer involved in the rigid review of documents on the appointments but who is too timid to be named.

Read more... | Posted Monday, July 19th, 2010
Day after P-Noy proclaimed President

Arroyo made 13 ‘midnight
appointments’ on June 10

by Ed Lingao

SHE ALREADY created a furor with her “midnight appointments,” or appointments made on the eve of an election ban. Yet a month after the May 10, 2010 elections, then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo still managed to sneak in a final batch of 13 appointments on the eve of her departure from office.

Arroyo signed the appointments on June 10, 2010 even as dusk had settled on her presidency. She did so seemingly oblivious to the fact that the day before, June 9, the joint congressional committee of Congress, which canvassed the votes, had already proclaimed Benigno Simeon Aquino III as the new President of the Republic.

Read more... | Posted Sunday, July 11th, 2010
The joys of automated democracy?

Joke the vote, pun the bets

by Camille de Asis, Ivan Lim, Mark Tare and Angela Poe

Barring last-minute surprises in the election count, the Noynoy-Nognog tandem will lead the next casting at Malacañang Palace in the next six years, according to funny-boned Filipinos.

Nognog, dark-skinned Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay in real life, will also be installed as the country’s “first black vice president,” they say.

Read more... | Posted Monday, May 17th, 2010
For legacy or for House run?

GMA ‘spends’ P845M on ads,
tops list of gov’t ad buyers

by Karol Anne M. Ilagan

THE PERSISTENTLY unpopular President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo may be proof that sometimes advertising just doesn’t work.

In early April, or just a little more than two months before Arroyo is supposed to step down, yet another Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey had her posting a net satisfactory rating of -53 (satisfactory minus unsatisfactory) — her worst showing yet in her nine years as the country’s chief executive.

Read more... | Posted Thursday, May 6th, 2010

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