1st-Apluma's website now online

September 5, 2010
BY ISMAEL AMIGO
1ST-APLUMA NATIONAL PRESIDENT

1ST-APLUMA is proud to announce that we now have our very own website where members and other interested parties can communicate with us and get to know more about our advocacy.

Just type http://1st-apluma.yolasite.com and voila!, 1st-APLUMA will be right in front of you now.

Anyone can access it and be updated on the freshest news, important issues, what's going in both houses of Congress, etc. and of course,  information about our group which represents provincial journalists, photographers, poets and others who make a living out of writing.

Other marginalized sectors of society like food handlers and hospital workers are also being carefully studied by the national executive committee for inclusion.

This is but a temporary website because we are planning to purchase our own so-called web domain or web address. At present, we have utilized the free service of www.yola.com, where anyone can create their own website easily.

Our website features daily headlines of different newspapers and updates from different government agencies such as the Metro Manila Development Authority, Bureau of Customs and Malacanang.

Also, anyone can interact with us through our forum and blogs where they can post their opinions and other views on matters like current events and anything under the sun that affects our daily living.

Should anyone out there needs an important issue be published on national dailies in Manila, all you need to do is write it down on APLUMA's blog and we'll take care of the rest. 

Another important thing that transpired out of our very own indefatigable executive vice president in Fitzgerald Cecilio's creativity in designing APLUMA's web is that interested parties can now send in their membership form through the Internet. 

Just click your mouse at the section that says "How to join" 1st-APLUMA. Fill up the form and click send. Very easy. In seconds, your application form will reach us and you’re automatically a member of our group. No fees to be collected because we know how hard cash comes along these days.

We also welcome writers who wish to talk out loud, have their masterpieces published on the Internet. Just send it to our email unangapluma@yahoo.com and we will publish it online through http://1st-apluma.yolasite.com.

We also encourage interested persons from different parts of Luzon,  Visayas and Mindanao to send in their application form through our new website. 

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President Aquino should act quickly on the growing rift between members of the Malacanang Press Corps and his spokesman Edwin Lacierda, who from the looks of it is certainly not fit for the job as the presidential mouthpiece.

Lacierda’s lack of patience to media’s oft intense questioning should be a ground for removal from his current post as this greatly affects President Aquino’s image to the public.

Only recently, Lacierda lambasted a journalist for his alleged “redundant” questions which should not be the case because members of the media are just trying to clarify things that will make their report accurate. Iwas kuryente, 'ika nga, right mga tsokarans? 

This is not the first time that Lacierda had a brush with the media. During the first few days of the Aquino government, he made the media wait for more than two hours for his scheduled media briefing.

With this, we give an unsolicited advice to Noynoy to replace or remake Lacierda or if not with someone who can tolerate the media’s “kakulitan”. 

Do it Mr. P-Noy before its too late!!!
 

1st-Apluma launches own website

September 4, 2010
1ST-APLUMA, an organization of provincial media practitioners, has launched its own where its members and other interested persons can communicate and get to know more about its advocacies, programs and projects.

“Just by typing http://1st-apluma.yolasite.com , anyone can access our website that gives the freshest news about our group which represents provincial journalists, photographers, poets and others who make a living out of writing,” said Ismael Amigo, national president of 1st-APLU...
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MMDA launches redesigned website

September 3, 2010
TO FOSTER more effective information dissemination, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has launched its new redesigned website at www.mmda.gov.ph.

Chairman Francis Tolentino said the reconstruction of the MMDA website is in line with the agency's renewed thrust to use technology in the pursuit of its mandate.

"The internet is a good medium to effectively communicate with the public. We intend to make full use of all available technologies and resources to deliver on time and u...
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Customs to probe rice, sugar smuggling in Davao port

September 3, 2010
A FOUR-MAN team will be sent to the Port of Davao next week to investigate the rampant smuggling of basic commodity such as rice, sugar, among others, an official of the Bureau of Customs said Friday.

Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence Group Filomeno Vicencio Jr. said the panel would conduct the probe to identify the people behind the smuggling of rice, sugar and oil in the port.

He said that he was instructed by Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima to look on the matter after receiving informati...
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EcoWaste Coalition welcomes MMDA’s renewed drive vs litterbugs

September 3, 2010
THE EcoWaste Coalition, a group campaigning for a “litter-free Pilipinas”, welcomed the decision by the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to revive an anti-littering policy that has been dormant for years.

In a statement, the group said the move to resuscitate MMDA Regulation No. 96-009 as amended by MMDA Regulation No. 99-006 should strengthen the agency’s operations, in collaboration with local government units (LGUs), to clear the streets and waterways of trash.

MMDA Chairman F...
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'Noynoy should act on media killings'

September 3, 2010
AN ORGANIZATION of provincial media practitioners has strongly condemned the murder of a local newspaper publisher in Nueva Ecija even as it pressed the Aquino government to take the necessary steps to protect members of the fourth estate.

"As we condemn in the strongest possible terms the killing of Edilberto Cruz, we call on the Aquino government to take the necessary measures to show that it is serious in its commitment to protect journalists," said Ismael Amigo, national president of Unang...
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Media’s sense of responsibility

September 3, 2010
BY ISMAEL AMIGO
1ST-APLUMA NATIONAL PRESIDENT

THE hostage crisis that left 10 people dead, including the perpetrator Capt. Rolando Mendoza, has served as eye-opener for many sectors, especially media people whose press freedom bestowed upon them and guaranteed by the 1987 Constitution are now put under a microscope by many sectors.

Many sectors believe that the crisis should have been resolved earlier, had not for the media’s blow-by-blow coverage of the crisis, where every movement of policem...
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1ST-APLUMA NEWS SUMMARY FOR SEPT. 2, 2010

September 3, 2010
(Legend: Phil. Daily Inquirer, PDI; Mla. Bulletin, MB; Phil. Star, PS; Mla. Standard, MS; Daily Tribune, DT; Businessworld, BW; Malaya, Today)

A.

PHIL. DAILY INQUIRER Outrage Over Delay On Ampatuan Trial

PHILSTAR (PS) Mendozaâs Woman Friend Faces NBI

B.
MANILA STANDARD HK Tourism Chief Wants Longer Travel Ban To RP

MANILA TIMES More Chinese Drop Manila

MALAYA Aquino Wonât Be Called In Probe

DAILY TRIBUNE Palace Hand In Senate Probe Suspension Eyed
 
ISSUES MONITORING
(Broadsheets)

On Congress

The Senate...
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No to arming of journalists!

September 2, 2010
ARMING journalists is not a guarantee that attacks against members of fourth estate will stop.
 
We, at the Unang Alyansa ng Pambansa at Pamprobinsiyang Lupon at Ugnayan ng Makatao at Maka-Diyos na mga Mamamahayag (1st-APLUMA) which I head as national president, believe that this plan would just worsen the situation and will take us back to the "Wild Wild West" days where grudges then were resolved through the barrel of the gun.
 
1st APLUMA is an aggrupation of provincial editors, writers, colum...

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Practice self-preservation -- 1st-APLUMA

September 2, 2010
BY ISMAEL AMIGO


DISCRETION is a better part of valor, or should we say self-restraint is a better part of valor.

This is just a piece of unsolicited advice to our fellow media practitioners from the Unang Alyansa ng Pambansa at Pamprobinsiyang Lupon at Ugnayan ng Makatao at Maka-Diyos na mga Mamamahayag or 1st-APLUMA, which I head as national president

1st APLUMA is an aggrupation of provincial editors, writers, columnists and radio announcers and a select council of advisers from major national...
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