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| Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines | Friday, July 13, 2007 |
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Cabinet to tackle President Gloria Arroyo and members of her Cabinet will address an Infrastructure and Investment Conference of the Central Philippines Super Region to be attended by 27 governors, 33 mayors and seven congressmen at the new Bacolod-Silay Airport in Silay City today. The conference will open with a speech from the President to be followed by a presentation of the Central Philippines infrastructure projects by Presidential Management Staff director general Cerge Remonde, Assistant Secretary Jose Capadocia, Office of the Undersecretary for Media Relations OIC, said yesterday.
Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro Mendoza will discuss the roll-off,
roll-on nautical highway and airports of the super region, while Public Works
and Highways Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane will give a briefing on the roads and
bridges. | |||
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Militants to picket A picket in protest of Republic Act 9372, or the Human Security Act of 2007, will be held by Karapatan Negros, Bayan Muna, Gabriela, Anak Pawis, and the National Federation of Sugar Workers as President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo visits Negros today. KN secretary general Fred Caņa said yesterday that there will be around 100 protesters who will meet Arroyo when she arrives at the Bacolod City airport.
He said their lawyers told them that massive warrantless arrests of members of
progressive groups such as Karapatan, Bayan Muna, Gabriela, and Anak Pawis without
any could be a "worst case scenario" once the Human Security Act takes effect
Sunday. "This is the death of democracy," Caņa said, adding that the act is just
part of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's agenda to suppress those who criticize
her administration. | |||
| Pensioners
seek Pensioners of the Government Service Insurance System yesterday appealed to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to intervene in their complaints against the agency, among them, the implementation of the E-Card Plus and the suspension of the 10 percent annual increase in their pension. Pensioner Romeo Lavilla Sr. said that before the appointment of Winston Garcia as president of the GSIS, pensions were released on time and they were enjoying an automatic annual increase of 10 percent. "All these changed under Garcia's leadership, with most pensioners enduring delays in the release of their pensions," Lavilla said.
Benefits given to survivors were also suspended, a manifestation of a restrictive
system that work against GSIS members, he added. | |||
