Posts Tagged by unattended

Party-list concept needs revisiting

ZOOMING IN 09/02/2009 Representative government is not a perfect system of government, and one of its salient imperfections is the elected representatives’ inability to accord priority to the needs and concerns of all those who elected them. Read More

Who falls the hardest?

HE SAYS 09/02/2009 Sen. Dick Gordon is looking at the players of the ZTE Broadband scam of Gloria Arroyo rather differently. For him, the personalities who surfaced to expose it, and the government officials who figured in the $329.48-million mess, one of the biggest anomalies under the Arroyo’s administration, are all part of a scheme to defraud government of big money through this botched deal with China. Read More

Senator eyes probe into ‘anomalous’ multibillion-peso ammo deal

By Angie M. Rosales 09/02/2009 Read More

GRP-MILF talks hang over 2 contentious issues

09/02/2009 Peace negotiations between the government and the Muslim secessionist group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) continues to hang in the balance with the two panels’ holding of contradicting positions on at least two issues. “Nothing is definite We are still awaiting word from the Malaysian facilitators Read More