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Do you believe the Palace claim that there is no shortage of classrooms for public schoolchildren for this school year?
Despite Malacanang's position that the government has provided enough classrooms for this school year, the first day of school saw the holding of big classes in cramped public school facilities prompting lawmakers to allocate an additional P4 billion for education this year.
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COURTESY CALL IN MALACAÑANG.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo receives United States Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney (right) and US Admiral William Fallon, commander of the US Pacific Command, based in Hawaii, during a courtesy call in Malacañang Monday, June 5, 2006.
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NAIA official gunned down at airport
A long standing feud between an airport official and an aviation police officer ended in a bloody and fatal confrontation at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) departure area late Monday night.
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Tigers, Aces renew rivalry
NOT TOO long ago, they have a rivalry going. They figured in several championship and playoff battles just a few years back.
Now, they’re back on a familiar trail. |
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Palace lauds Congress for ‘respect for life’
In moves lauded by Malacañang, both chambers of Congress yesterday approved their respective measures to repeal the Death Penalty Law.
The Senate yesterday overwhelmingly approved on third and final reading a measure repealing the country’s Death Penalty Law that has arguably failed to serve...
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Senators bewail GMA’s threat to veto national budget
Senate President Franklin M. Drilon and other senators yesterday bewailed President Arroyo’s threat to veto the Senate-approved version of the proposed 2006 P1.053-trillion national budget that they trimmed by P26.3 billion.
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Laguna keeps leadership in internal revenue collection
Laguna once again emerged as the number one among the 79 provinces in the country in terms of internal revenue collection in 2005 which stood at P11 billion. |
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War veterans get P500M
President Arroyo yesterday ordered the release of an initial P500 million to start payment of arrearages in pension benefits to Filipino war veterans this week.
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CLOSE THE ZOO.
Maintaining that zoos are "cruel animal prisons", an activist from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in a tiger costume protest outside the Manila Zoo. (Ali Vicoy)
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Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. The rest of the country will have partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers and thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening.
Manila Bay will be slight to moderate.
Temperature range – 25.0°C – 33.5ºC
Tides – High: 7:29 a.m. 0.77 m.
Low: 2:10 p.m. 0.39 m
Sunrise — 5:26 a.m.
Sunset — 6:23 p.m.
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