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                    [ArticleID] => 1499288
                    [Title] => P40M Luna Painting purchase: Winston glad COA gave okay
                    [Summary] => 

Winston Garcia said he felt vindicated by the Commission on Audit’s decision to reconsider its disallowance of the purchase of the Juan Luna painting that was bought for around P40 million at an auction in Hong Kong during his time as president and general manager of the Government Service Insurance System.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-12 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 687195 [Title] => 'GSIS won't sell paintings yet; study ongoing' [Summary] =>

Paintings worth millions of pesos placed under the custody of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) will not be sold until after a thorough study is made, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said yesterday.  

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 489293 [Title] => GSIS execs cleared in P53-million art purchase [Summary] =>

The Court of Appeals (CA) cleared Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) chairman Winston Garcia and nine others of graft charges in connection with the purchase of paintings by national artists Juan Luna and Fernando Amorsolo worth over P53 million in 2002.

[DatePublished] => 2009-07-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096875 [AuthorName] => Edu Punay [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 263523 [Title] => GSIS officials puzzled over ‘Parisian Life’ flap [Summary] => Top officials of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) expressed puzzlement over a recent report by Commission on Audit (COA) legal officer Rogelio Tablang disallowing the purchase of the Juan Luna masterpiece "Parisian Life."

Tablang’s report runs counter to the decision of GSIS’ resident COA auditor, who upheld the acquisition and considered it an investment, citing the GSIS charter and Supreme Court decisions.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 223007 [Title] => GSIS says it has enough funds to retire all 1.5-M gov’t workers [Summary] => Under heavy fire for delays in pension payments and suspension of loans to its members, the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) said all 1.5 million government employees could retire today and it could still fulfill its obligations if it could sell "some real estate assets and collect some of its receivables".

GSIS is under attack for anomalies in its fund management, but in a statement, the state-controlled fund said yesterday that it had cash-on-hand of P16 billion as of September, more than enough to meet its obligations.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 217002 [Title] => GSIS has P181-B for members’ loans [Summary] => CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has assured its 1.5 million members that it is in the pink of financial health with P181 billion in available funds for investment.

This as it announced that all loan applications and retirement benefits pending since May would be processed starting Friday.

GSIS vice president for public affairs Mernito Razimo told The STAR that the agency is also set to allocate some P20 billion for a loan window called the retirement loan program.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804849 [AuthorName] => Ding Cervantes [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 210516 [Title] => Sarah Meier: Fitting Filipina [Summary] => For someone who collects passport stamps, Sarah Meier remains true to only one mark - that of being 100% Pinoy. The thought came as a surprise one lazy morning inside the famed GSIS Museum, as Sarah arrived late for a photo shoot that caused Juan Luna's Parisian Life to add another hour to its one-century wonder. [DatePublished] => 2003-06-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 210124 [Title] => Sarah Meier: Fitting Filipina [Summary] => For someone who collects passport stamps, Sarah Meier remains true to only one mark - that of being 100% Pinoy. The thought came as a surprise one lazy morning inside the famed GSIS Museum, as Sarah arrived late for a photo shoot that caused Juan Luna's Parisian Life to add another hour to its one-century wonder. [DatePublished] => 2003-06-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 205804 [Title] => Oreta to GSIS: Act on delayed benefits [Summary] => Sen. Tessie Aquino-Oreta has called on the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) to investigate complaints of late pensions made by several retired government employees.

A group of pensioners who visited her office last Friday and sought her help said their claims have been delayed for three months now, Oreta said.

"It is ironic that while the GSIS trumpets that it has some P20 billion in excess funds, the agency could not even pay for claims that amount to as low as P800 and as high as P3,500," Oreta said in a statement.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 192924 [Title] => Parisian Life valuable for being a great artist’s work [Summary] => Okay, so we did stir up a hornet’s nest, especially in the plush offices of the Ayala Corporation, when we wrote that article last Friday, wherein we said that we should not be looking only at movie actor Fernando Poe Jr. (FPJ) as a potential presidential contender for the 2004 elections. We suggested that we should also look for someone in the caliber of Mr. Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (Jaza), who revealed a very rare talent in seeing something very positive in what most political pundits or politicians considered as our nation’s biggest negative... [DatePublished] => 2003-01-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134429 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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