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Social Concerns Year
LAST January, 2006, during the bishops’ Plenary Assembly, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) declared 2006 as "Social Concerns Year" under the auspices of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The CBCP finally formally launched the year recently at the Manila Cathedral.
New game in town – business outsourcing
PRESIDENT Arroyo is personally on top of the situation in seeing to it that the national disaster plan is on track to minimize loss of lives and damage to property in the wake of Typhoon Caloy. We sympathize with the victims of Typhoon Caloy and assure them of support and assistance. All hands of the national and local governments are on deck to check and warn of disaster-prone areas, provide relief and rehab to affected communities, assist stranded commuters and keep an eye on the prices of essential commodities. Government is ready for any contingencies and we appeal to the public to cooperate in heeding warnings and in joining relief operations.
‘Auditing’ China
CHINA’s economic success is naturally worrying some entrenched interests in the capitalist centers of the West. While the confident are reviewing their methods, the disaffected are arguing for a protectionism they used to abhor in the better times when there was little competition.
Improved institution capacity targets
SHIFT has been made while specifying the measures for improved institutional capacity. This shift has to be clearly noted: Whereas before, the key institutions have been identified as the family, the school, the business enterprise, and the public governance unit, now in the measures for improved institutional capacity, the stress has shifted on to professional groups and sectors in society.
Ask for explanation
ADMINISTRATION officials want BIR Commissioner Jose Marie Buñag fired for missing the target collection of R675 billion for the four-month period of January to April.
Reciprocate, by looking at jailed Muslims, too
PARDON of more than 300 Filipino offenders by the King of Saudi Arabia was a first in history.
Bush asserting his authority?
WASHINGTON – US President George W. Bush has made broad use of his executive powers: Authorizing warrantless wiretaps, collecting telephone records on millions of Americans, holding suspected terrorists overseas without legal protections. His administration even is considering using the military to patrol the US border.
Shortfalls & the tax picture
THE government has to move fast to check tax collection shortfall placed at between P10 billion to P18.6 billion for the first quarter of the year.
One-liners
HERE are some casual events that amused newspaper readers last week, many of which were commonplace but they drew curt comments from many a nonchalant observer. The tongue-in-cheek, one-liner incidents:
Sri Lanka truce just in name
COLOMBO – Rebel suicide attacks on land and at sea, assassinations, military aerial bombings in retaliation: Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers may both say they honour a 2002 ceasefire, but war has already resumed in all but name.
The advocate
John 14:21-26
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