Archive | July 20, 2012

Closure and demolition of parts of the Boracay West Cove ordered by DENR

Remember my May 31, 2011 article on Manny Pacquiao alleged Boracay West Cove lounge sits on top of Cemented age old rock formation? Ten days after I posted those photos, The Malay Mayor John Yap, town officials and members of the Boracay Special Tourist Police Office ordered the Boracay West Cove closed. Then another good [...]

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Persons with disabilities (PWDs) recommend reforms for 2013 elections

20 July 2012, Tagbilaran City – Upholding Life And Nature (ULAN), a non-stock, non-profit legal NGO specializing in environmental human rights, is currently working on a project aimed at making the upcoming 2013 elections more disability-inclusive. The project hopes to improve the participation of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the election process by instituting reforms [...]

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International Community Awaits PNoy Action on FOI; Joins National Demand for Political Will

IN REMAINING for so long without a right to information law, the Philippines is failing to respect its role, as a Steering Committee member of the Open Government Partnership, to show leadership by example for OGP in terms of domestic commitments. This was the main message of more than seventy organizations that work internationally and [...]

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FOI advocates from 40 countries write @noynoyaquino: Rush FOI Act

(Open Letter) 19 July 2012 His Excellency BENIGNO S. AQUINO III President of the Philippines Malacañan Palace Manila Through: Hon. Florencio B. Abad Secretary Department of Budget and Management Hon. Manuel L. Quezon III Undersecretary Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office Re: Passage of the Freedom of Information Act Dear Mr. President: We, the [...]

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Pork, daang matuwid’ don’t mix: One bidder, one PDAF project

By Roel Landingin Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism AUCTIONS for civil-works contractors to carry out “hard” or infrastructure-related pork-barrel projects must be lonely affairs. There is only one bidder for each of the competitive tenders held by the Department of Public Works and Highways to choose a contractor for infrastructure projects under the PDAF program, [...]

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Pigging out on Pork a la PNoy: Senators’ PDAF floods NCR, vote-rich provinces

Pigging out on Pork a la PNoy Senators’ PDAF floods NCR, vote-rich provinces By Malou Mangahas and Rowena F. Caronan Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism Third of Five Parts Read Part 1 Part 1 – Pigging out on pork – PDAF racket rocks ‘daang matuwid” Read Part 2 Pigging out on pork a la PNoy: [...]

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