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CHIEF PRESIDENTIAL LEGAL COUNSEL AVELINO CRUZ
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[Title] => Cruz sent to US for Balikatan TOR
[Summary] => President Arroyo said yesterday she was sending her chief legal counsel to the United States to finalize ground rules for US troops joining counter-terror exercises in the troubled south later this year.
In a statement from Seoul where she is on a state visit, Mrs. Arroyo said she has decided that the final "terms of reference" (TOR) governing the exercises called Balikatan 03-1 would "be given a final review by my office."
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-04 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 205918
[Title] => The earlier we talk, the better, Palace tells Piatco
[Summary] => Malacañang welcomed yesterday reports that the Philippine International Air Terminals Co. (Piatco) would not likely appeal the Supreme Court decision nullifying its controversial build-operate-transfer agreements with the government.
But Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye clarified that Piatco has not officially expressed interest in negotiating an agreement over the government’s looming takeover of the still incomplete Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 (NAIA-3).
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-13 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva
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[ArticleID] => 203657
[Title] => GMA: Defiant Pinoys face SARS sanctions
[Summary] => Overseas Filipinos evading SARS screening tests and quarantine rules on their return home would be punished, President Arroyo said yesterday. It was the government’s strongest move yet to prevent the killer disease from spreading.
"Those who willfully evade health checks at our ports of entry or who falsify their health data will be charged for violations of the law," Mrs. Arroyo said in a statement.
She did not specify the sanctions but said she would work closely with Congress on "long-term" enforcement measures, including forced quarantine.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-25 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva
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[Title] => TRO petition filed vs 2 new SBMA directors
[Summary] => The Court of Appeals was asked yesterday to issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) to stop the two new appointees of President Arroyo to the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) board from assuming their post.
The petitioners, former SBMA board members Gaudencio Mendoza and Luis Vera, said the appellate court should declare the recent appointments of Jaime Mendoza and Edralino Cajudo as "null and void and without operative effect" as there were no existing vacancies in the SBMA board at the time of their appointments.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-14 00:00:00
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[Title] => Palace gets into trouble with 2 other appointees
[Summary] => In defense of President Arroyo’s two newest appointees to the board of directors of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA), Malacañang got into trouble with her two other appointees to the SBMA board last year.
Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Avelino Cruz issued yesterday a legal opinion which justified the appointments of Jaime Mendoza and Ednalino Cajudo to the 15-man SBMA board, saying that their appointments were valid as there was legitimate vacancies.
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[Title] => Palace insists GMA appointees filled in two slots at SBMA
[Summary] => Malacanang insisted yesterday that President Arroyo’s two new appointees Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) Board of Directors were made to fill in existing vacancies.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-12 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva
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[Title] => Formation of new Palace media group justified
[Summary] => Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye justified yesterday the formation of a new communications group, which will help rally public support for President Arroyo’s programs and projects.
"The President formed a media group that will help rally support for her structural programs. This move is necessary to project the truth of the good news inherent in these reforms amidst the bad news that tend to be highlighted by media coverage in the past few months," Bunye said.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-07 00:00:00
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[Title] => ‘No secret group for GMA in 2004’
[Summary] => Malacañang belied yesterday reports that President Arroyo’s campaign handlers have put up a "shadow media task force" commissioned to allegedly "manage the manufactured clamor for her to run" in the May 2004 elections.
Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye told The STAR he was not aware of any such "media task force" composed of former journalists, public relations practitioners and private sector communications experts.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-06 00:00:00
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[Title] => PAGC won’t drop probe of Perez
[Summary] => Resignation won’t clear him of graft charges.
The Presidential Anti-Graft Commission (PAGC) said yesterday it will pursue a graft complaint filed against resigned Justice Secretary Hernando Perez.
Meanwhile, Malacañang brushed off insinuations that there was a trade-off in the resignation of Perez amid charges of corruption raised against him by two congressmen.
A PAGC source said a hearing of the case would be held as scheduled on Jan. 14.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-04 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Katherine Adraneda
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[Title] => Perez really on his way out?
[Summary] => Despite Malacañang’s denials, there are indications that Hernando Perez is on his way out as secretary of justice.
Perez, who is on a 30-day leave until next week, is now under investigation by the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission for obstruction of justice.
And Presidential Spokesman Rigoberto Tiglao has not ruled out Perez’s ouster for offenses other than those imputed to him by Manila Rep. Mark Jimenez.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-20 00:00:00
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December 20, 2002 - 12:00am
