May 2, 2012
Granting a P125 across-the-board minimum wage increase for 40 million workers is going to cost P1.43 trillion for a P9-trillion economy, President Benigno Aquino III said Tuesday.
With this argument, Mr. Aquino ruled out the grant of such an increase in his Labor Day speech, promising instead a P11.2-billion educational assistance and a P1.1-billion skills upgrade of government workers. Read the rest of this entry »
April 27, 2012
MANILA, Philippines (1st UPDATE) – Net satisfaction with President Benigno Aquino III’s administration dipped 10 percentage points in the latest Social Weather Stations survey (SWS) but its score remained well above previous governments. Read the rest of this entry »
April 24, 2012
The Filipino people’s public approval of the Aquino III administration has been seriously eroded. And they have a clear message to their elected Chief Executive: shape up, and focus on easing poverty, creating more jobs, managing well the swelling population, and moderating prices. Read the rest of this entry »
April 3, 2012
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III came to power as a leader who could bring about reforms and make a clean break from the past administration, but people had become impatient after his two years in office, a political analyst said on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »
April 3, 2012
The satisfaction rating on President Aquino dipped to a low of a net 49 points during the impeachment trial period with the Social Weather Station (SWS) survey held between March 10 to 13 showing 68 percent respondents satisfied with his performance against 19 percent dissatisfied. Read the rest of this entry »
April 1, 2012
SATISFACTION with the performance of President Benigno S. C. Aquino III has dropped to “good” and a majority of Filipinos see him as serving the interests of the middle class, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said in a new report. Read the rest of this entry »
March 26, 2012
Very much at the heart of the current impeachment proceedings is a search for a definition of “betrayal of public trust.” But as Justice Conchita Carpio Morales said, in the impeachment case against Chief Justice Hilario Davide, defining impeachable offenses is beyond the scope of judicial power. Hence, whether or not the offenses allegedly committed by Chief Justice Renato Corona are impeachable offenses is a difficult question for the impeachment court. How should the impeachment court evaluate those acts? Read the rest of this entry »
February 28, 2012
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February 18, 2012
DARES NOYNOY TO DISCLOSE SALN, BANK ACCOUNTS, PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
Tit for tat.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona came out swinging yesterday at President Aquino, a day after the chief executive called him a liar, demanding that now and not in “due time” should be the time for Corona to explain to the public how he had amassed all those millions and hid his wealth in several bank accounts, calling him guilty as charged. Read the rest of this entry »
