Governance

High court black hole in transparency drive First of Two Parts GOOD GOVERNANCE is the solemn promise of President Benigno Simeon Aquino III. Transparency and respect for access to information could enable it; the rule of law, or the prosecution of cases built on evidence before the courts, could assure it endures.

WHILE his promise to speed up government service by cutting red tape and slowing down wang wang wielding officials have gained brownie points from the public, the business community has reminded President Benigno Aquino 3rd to make true his words of not imposing new taxes in the drive to improve revenue collections.

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MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino ordered yesterday the review of midnight appointments made by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as one way of stopping abuses in government.

Conclusion Former Senior Government Officials (FSGO) member and columnist Lito Banayo and former Civil Service Commission Chairman Karina Constantino David said that former President and Rep. Gloria Arroyo of Pampanga made numerous midnight appointments that could potentially present problems to President Benigno Aquino 3rd.

MANILA, Philippines – From 111th in the Corruption Perception Index, the Philippines now ranks 139th out of 180 countries in terms of corruption, 28 places behind Indonesia and the lowest of the major Southeast Asian nations.

THE GOVERNMENT has saved a total of P2.3 billion from the rationalization plan which abolishes redundant functions and outdated positions in the bureaucracy, a Budget official said yesterday.

THE Philippines ranks No. 4 in 10 countries in Southeast Asia that flunked in their campaigns to control corruption in government in 2010, an antigraft group said on Wednesday.

I don’t expect Noynoy Aquino to be the savior of the Philippines but like many Filipinos I expect him and his presidency to offer new hope.

MANILA, Philippines – An organization of government employees has thrown its support behind the move of president-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to start weeding out massive corruption in the bureaucracy, saying they will be the “eyes and ears” of the incoming administration.

WASHINGTON – The US Millennium Challenge Corp. has said it wants an assurance the incoming administration of president-elect Benigno Aquino III will abide by the MCC’s ideals and principles, including fighting corruption, before it forks over a development grant of about $500 million to the Philippines.

[This paper of the FSGO will be presented this afternoon at the Institute for Solidarity in Asia’s convocation to recognize ISA’s LGU partners, San Fernando, Pampanga, and Iloilo City and hear the solemn commitment of national government agencies to carry on with the work to achieve objectives under the ISA program. The meeting is at…

MANILA, Philippines – More than 50,000 rank-and-file government employees who are co-terminus with President Arroyo could lose their jobs after she steps down from office on June 30.

MANILA, Philippines–Education experts urged local officials to refrain from using their localities’ special education fund (SEF) in financing projects and programs that would just promote themselves.

President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III rode on a campaign slogan that endeared him to the Filipino people, making them stake all their bets on him. Despite having nine other contenders to the presidential post, President-elect Noynoy, won by a landslide. His slogan? “Walang mahirap kung walang corrupt” (There is no poverty where there is no…

MANILA, Philippines – Death is no exit for erring government officials being probed for administrative offenses like grave misconduct, dishonesty, and the like as their cases still would not be dismissed, a recent Civil Service Commission (CSC) circular said.

MANILA, Philippines – Having won the race to the presidency on an anti-corruption campaign, President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III will soon need to put his money where his mouth is. He will have to follow through on his promise to investigate allegations of corruption against prominent personalities, including outgoing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

The legal advisers of President-elect Aquino have dug up a 1962 ruling of the Supreme Court to justify his plan to revoke the alleged “midnight appointments” made by his predecessor, Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, involving as many as 300 positions including those with fixed term of office.

MANILA, Philippines – Businessmen are challenging newly-minted President Benigno Aquino III to keep his campaign vow to weed out corruption in his first 100 days in office.

MANILA, Philippines – A total of 41 governors and 923 mayors get re-elected nationwide during the May 10 national and local elections, the Department of Interior and Local Government yesterday.

The honorable congressmen of the House of Representatives needed no more than two minutes to ratify a constitutionally mandated and long overdue bill which people have been awaiting for more than 14 years and they blew it big time.

MANILA, Philippines – President-elect Benigno Aquino III vowed to  prioritize the passage of the Freedom of Information Bill (FOI) once he assumes office.

MANILA, Philippines – A Filipino migrant workers’ group has called on president-apparent Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to appoint labor officials who would truly look after the welfare of workers.

THE Asian Development Bank has raised red flags over possible irregularities in a $150-million agricultural project aimed at improving the incomes of nearly 1 million poor farmers in Bicol, Eastern Visayas and Mindanao.

SINGAPORE – India, Indonesia and the Philippines have Asia’s most inefficient bureaucracies, with red tape a constant blight to citizens and deterrent to foreign investment, a survey said Wednesday. Regional financial centres Singapore and Hong Kong have the most efficient bureaucracies, according to the survey of expatriate business executives by the Political and Economic Risk…

SINGAPORE—India, Indonesia and the Philippines have Asia’s most inefficient bureaucracies, with red tape a constant blight to citizens and deterrent to foreign investment, a survey said on Wednesday.

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ABOUT 1.5 million government employees are assured of continued wage increases in the succeeding three years, even as President Gloria Arroyo ends her term in Malacañang on June 30.

The May 10 elections were supposed to have ushered Filipino voters into the modern age of computerized voting, but the results show the country will remain stuck with feudal-style politics as dynasties secured elective positions at the provincial, congressional and local levels.

STATE CORPORATIONS IN the first quarter received from the government a total of P3.33 billion in subsidies—most of which went to those engaged in housing, health and livelihood projects.