1st-APLUMA NEWS SUMMARY FOR DEC. 26, 2010
Posted by unang apluma on Saturday, December 25, 2010
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BROADSHEETS
PHIL. DAILY INQUIRER -- Pope prays: Break rods of oppressors
PHILIPPINE STAR -- Priest, 8 others hurt in Sulu chapel blast
MANILA BULLETIN -- Camp chapel bombed
TABLOIDS
PEOPLE’S JOURNAL -- Church bombed
ABANTE -- Christmas blast!
PILIPINO STAR NGAYON -- P17 umento para sa calabarzon workers
PEOPLES TONIGHT -- Man murders gf
ISSUES MONITORING
On Congress
Vice President Jejomar Binay wants Congress to give him P500 million in pork barrel funds on top of the P177-million budget President Aquino proposed for his office for 2011. Binay conveyed the request to the Senate-House conference committee that put together the final version of next year’s budget, a member of the panel told The STAR yesterday. “We did not know where to get the money, since giving the Vice President an additional P500 million would mean taking an equal amount from one agency or several agencies since we could not increase the total budget as proposed by the President,” he said. (Philstar)
On terror attack
Nine people were wounded yesterday when a bomb went off in a chapel inside a police camp during a Christmas Mass in Jolo, Sulu, officials said. Regional police operations commander Chief Superintendent Felicisimo Khu said among those wounded were the parish priest and a nine-year-old girl. Khu said the explosion, apparently triggered by an improvised explosive device planted near the altar, went off in the middle of the Mass celebrating Christmas Day yesterday morning. (Philstar)
On firecrackers
A total of 61 individuals were injured by firecracker blasts from Dec. 21 to 25, while two were hit by stray bullets across the country, the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday. A 44-year-old woman from Bulacan became the first fatality in this year’s Yuletide revelry when she killed herself by ingesting piccolo, a banned firecracker. Reports reaching the DOH’s “Kampanya Kontra Paputok” registry showed the woman had ingested 64 sticks of piccolo which is believed to contain yellow phosphorous, the same toxic substance found in watusi (dancing pyrotechnic). (Philstar)
On ceasefire
The military and the New People’s Army (NPA) traded accusations yesterday of ceasefire violations in an encounter in the province of Mindoro. Lt. Col. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Public Information Office (PIO) chief, said members of the NPA fired at Army troops waiting to receive a surrendered NPA at Sitio Upper Balading, Barangay Bayotbot, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro midnight of Dec. 23. Citing the report of Lt. Col. Roger Percol, commander of the 80th Infantry Battalion based in Occidental Mindoro, Burgos said the rebels attempted to sabotage the surrender. (Philstar)
On peace talks with MILF
Until the issue on the facilitator is resolved with finality, the stalled peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will not push through anytime soon, the MILF said yesterday. “We have requested the Malaysian government to retain Datuk Othman bin Abd’ Razak as facilitator and this still stands. It is not in the MILF mind to meet in January if the facilitator’s issue is not settled,” said Mohagher Iqbal, chair of the MILF peace negotiating panel. (Philstar)
On PAL
Sen. Pia Cayetano welcomed the decision of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to move the compulsory retirement age for flight attendants to 60 from 40. Cayetano lauded Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz for resolving the three-month-old case involving the Flight Attendants and Stewardesses Association of the Philippines (FASAP) and the Philippine Airlines (PAL) management. (Philstar)
On health
The Philippines and the European Union (EU) have signed the 36-million euro (about P2.12 billion) second phase of the Health Sector Policy Support Program (HSPSP). Present during the signing at the Department of Foreign Affairs were Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo, Health Secretary Enrique Ona, and EU Ambassador Alistair MacDonald. MacDonald said the program was a reaffirmation of EU’s continued commitment to helping improve the health of the country’s poor and disadvantaged population through a more effective, efficient and equitable health system. (Philstar)
On Vizconde case
Former National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) director Epimaco Velasco believes that the bureau can finish the reinvestigation of the 1991 Vizconde massacre case in six months before the end of the 20-year prescriptive period. “I believe the NBI can do it if they will really pursue it,” Velasco said during a recent face off with former NBI director Salvador Mison. Once the prescriptive period sets in, the search for justice of Lauro Vizconde in the gruesome killings of his wife Estrellita, 47, and daughters Carmela, 18, and Jennifer, 7, will be moot and academic. (Philstar)
PHIL. DAILY INQUIRER -- Pope prays: Break rods of oppressors
PHILIPPINE STAR -- Priest, 8 others hurt in Sulu chapel blast
MANILA BULLETIN -- Camp chapel bombed
TABLOIDS
PEOPLE’S JOURNAL -- Church bombed
ABANTE -- Christmas blast!
PILIPINO STAR NGAYON -- P17 umento para sa calabarzon workers
PEOPLES TONIGHT -- Man murders gf
ISSUES MONITORING
On Congress
Vice President Jejomar Binay wants Congress to give him P500 million in pork barrel funds on top of the P177-million budget President Aquino proposed for his office for 2011. Binay conveyed the request to the Senate-House conference committee that put together the final version of next year’s budget, a member of the panel told The STAR yesterday. “We did not know where to get the money, since giving the Vice President an additional P500 million would mean taking an equal amount from one agency or several agencies since we could not increase the total budget as proposed by the President,” he said. (Philstar)
On terror attack
Nine people were wounded yesterday when a bomb went off in a chapel inside a police camp during a Christmas Mass in Jolo, Sulu, officials said. Regional police operations commander Chief Superintendent Felicisimo Khu said among those wounded were the parish priest and a nine-year-old girl. Khu said the explosion, apparently triggered by an improvised explosive device planted near the altar, went off in the middle of the Mass celebrating Christmas Day yesterday morning. (Philstar)
On firecrackers
A total of 61 individuals were injured by firecracker blasts from Dec. 21 to 25, while two were hit by stray bullets across the country, the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday. A 44-year-old woman from Bulacan became the first fatality in this year’s Yuletide revelry when she killed herself by ingesting piccolo, a banned firecracker. Reports reaching the DOH’s “Kampanya Kontra Paputok” registry showed the woman had ingested 64 sticks of piccolo which is believed to contain yellow phosphorous, the same toxic substance found in watusi (dancing pyrotechnic). (Philstar)
On ceasefire
The military and the New People’s Army (NPA) traded accusations yesterday of ceasefire violations in an encounter in the province of Mindoro. Lt. Col. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Public Information Office (PIO) chief, said members of the NPA fired at Army troops waiting to receive a surrendered NPA at Sitio Upper Balading, Barangay Bayotbot, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro midnight of Dec. 23. Citing the report of Lt. Col. Roger Percol, commander of the 80th Infantry Battalion based in Occidental Mindoro, Burgos said the rebels attempted to sabotage the surrender. (Philstar)
On peace talks with MILF
Until the issue on the facilitator is resolved with finality, the stalled peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will not push through anytime soon, the MILF said yesterday. “We have requested the Malaysian government to retain Datuk Othman bin Abd’ Razak as facilitator and this still stands. It is not in the MILF mind to meet in January if the facilitator’s issue is not settled,” said Mohagher Iqbal, chair of the MILF peace negotiating panel. (Philstar)
On PAL
Sen. Pia Cayetano welcomed the decision of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to move the compulsory retirement age for flight attendants to 60 from 40. Cayetano lauded Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz for resolving the three-month-old case involving the Flight Attendants and Stewardesses Association of the Philippines (FASAP) and the Philippine Airlines (PAL) management. (Philstar)
On health
The Philippines and the European Union (EU) have signed the 36-million euro (about P2.12 billion) second phase of the Health Sector Policy Support Program (HSPSP). Present during the signing at the Department of Foreign Affairs were Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo, Health Secretary Enrique Ona, and EU Ambassador Alistair MacDonald. MacDonald said the program was a reaffirmation of EU’s continued commitment to helping improve the health of the country’s poor and disadvantaged population through a more effective, efficient and equitable health system. (Philstar)
On Vizconde case
Former National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) director Epimaco Velasco believes that the bureau can finish the reinvestigation of the 1991 Vizconde massacre case in six months before the end of the 20-year prescriptive period. “I believe the NBI can do it if they will really pursue it,” Velasco said during a recent face off with former NBI director Salvador Mison. Once the prescriptive period sets in, the search for justice of Lauro Vizconde in the gruesome killings of his wife Estrellita, 47, and daughters Carmela, 18, and Jennifer, 7, will be moot and academic. (Philstar)
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