March 19, 2008 Mind Bullet Inc.
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I.BANNER STORIES
Crash victims’ kin to get $165 million
Biggest settlement in RP aviation history
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:35:00 03/19/2008
DALLAS, TEXAS—Insurance companies have agreed to pay $165 million to settle lawsuits brought by relatives of those killed in the crash of an Air Philippines Boeing 737 on Samal Island in 2000, said to be the biggest settlement in Philippine aviation history.
PMA top grad tells class: Protect people, Charter
By James Mananghaya
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City – This year’s valedictorian of the Philippine Military Academy “Baghawi” (Bagong Halaw ng Lahi) Class of 2008 urged his classmates to uphold their mandate of protecting the people and the Constitution.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080318149
3. Manila Times
No rice crisis, GMA assures
Senators score Yap, say staple scarce in markets
President Gloria Arroyo assured the public of rice sufficiency and the government’s capability to meet the food requirements of consumers.
“There is no rice shortage, the supply [of rice] will continue,” President Arroyo said on Tuesday, reacting to concerns over a possible shortage of the staple of Filipinos.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/mar/19/yehey/top_stories/20080319top1.html
4. Malaya
Palace: Go to court on Palawan oil deal
Confused over area named by Trillanes?
BY JOCELYN MONTEMAYOR
MABALACAT, Pampanga. — Deputy presidential spokesman Anthony Golez on Tuesday dared detained Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV to file charges in court and substantiate his latest allegations that President Arroyo violated the Constitution when the country entered into a joint exploration agreement in Palawan with China.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/mar19/news1.htm
Subic-Clark Expressway opens
GMA, governors lead soft opening of SCTEx
Motorists may use BCDA-owned highway free for 1 week
By FRED M. ROXAS
MABALACAT, Pampanga — President Arroyo and a convoy of officials travelled from Clark to Subic yesterday through the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEx) as part of the soft opening of the newly constructed Subic- Clark segment of the 94-kilometer highway.
http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080319119765.html
No Gloria order to suspend JMSU
By Michaela P. del Callar
03/19/2008
The controversial Joint Maritime Seismic Undertaking (JMSU) agreement was never put on hold by Malacañang, a senior Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) official disclosed yesterday.
http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20080319hed1.html
7. Abante
KRISIS SA BIGAS
Nina BOYET JADULCO, ROSE MIRANDA, NOEL ABUEL, ERALYN PRADO at JULIET DE LOZA
Nagsimula nang mag-usisa ang taumbayan kung ano talaga ang sitwasyon ng Pilipinas sa usapin ng supply ng bigas makaraang magsi-mulang maramdaman ang sunud-sunod na pagtaas ng halaga nito.
http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/mar1908/default.htm
SC MAWAWASAK KAY BRION
Bernard Taguinod
Masisira ang hudikatura sa bansa kapag ipinilit ni Associate Justice Arturo Brion ang kanyang sarili na lumahok sa deliberasyon ng petisyon ni Commission on Higher Education (CHED) chairman Romulo Neri sa Supreme Court (SC) kaugnay ng iginigiit nitong executive privilege upang makaiwas sa isinasagawang imbestigasyon ng Senado hinggil sa broadband scandal.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/mar1908/news1.htm
Bureau of Fire nagpaalala sa mga bakasyunista vs sunog
Ni Doris Franche
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Pinaalalahanan kahapon ng Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) ang milyon-milyong bakasyunista mula sa Metro Manila na tiyakin ang seguridad ng kanilang mga bahay bago lisanin ito upang makaasa na may babalikan pa silang tahanan matapos ang Mahal na Araw.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=2008031873
10. Journal
RICE PRICES UP
By: Tess Bedico Bernadette Tamayo and Joel dela Torre
Shortage averted but staple will cost more -- Palace
THE government yesterday gave assurances that there is no rice shortage but prices of the staple will increase.
“Medyo mas mamahal ng kaunti, pero walang shortage. Tuloy-tuloy ang supply,” the President said in her speech at the inauguration of the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-03-19&sec=1&aid=53244
11. Business World
BY ERNESTO B. CALUCAG, Researcher
Growth fails to generate jobs
DESPITE HIGHER-THAN-EXPECTED economic growth in the fourth quarter, a total of 2.68 million people found themselves without work in January, pushing the unemployment rate back to the 7% level from October’s 30-year low.
http://bworldonline.com/BW031908/content.php?id=001
12. Business Mirror
Jobless rate falls, yet ‘fails to impress’
By Cai U. Ordinario
Reporter
Despite a decline in the country’s unemployment rate and the subsequent increase in the country’s employment, economists continue to harp on the lack of quality jobs in the country.
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/03192008/headlines01.html
II. POLITICAL
Estrada claims credit for new expressway
Arroyo forgot me in the billing
By Jocelyn Uy
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:18:00 03/19/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Former President Joseph Estrada Tuesday said that if it were not for him, the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway would not have materialized.
Arroyo at PMA: P14B for AFP to end rebellion
Northern Luzon Bureau
First Posted 04:19:00 03/19/2008
FORT DEL PILAR, BAGUIO CITY—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Tuesday said Filipinos were fed up with “the politics of division and despair” and called on the new graduates of the Philippine Military Academy to help her defeat the 39-year communist insurgency by 2010.
PMA No. 1 stutters, calls Arroyo ‘Makapal’
By Frank Cimatu
Northern Luzon Bureau, Philippine Daily Inquirer, INQUIRER.net
First Posted 05:31:00 03/19/2008
FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City—It was a game of stutters and it featured the President of the Philippines and the valedictorian of the graduating Philippine Military Academy Baghawi Class of 2008.
Arroyo: No rice shortage but …
By Tonette Orejas
Central Luzon Desk
First Posted 02:22:00 03/19/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Expect prices of rice to go up but the country will not experience a shortage of the staple despite shortfalls in global supply, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said in Mabalacat town in Pampanga province Tuesday.
PNOC: China ship in Palawan for JMSU
By Donnabelle Gatdula
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
State-owned Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) confirmed yesterday that the Chinese vessel Nan Hai 502 currently in Palawan is part of a group conducting seismic data gathering in Philippine territory under the joint marine seismic undertaking (JMSU).
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080318150
$165 M OK’d in RP plane crash suit
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
DALLAS – Insurance companies have agreed to pay $165 million to settle lawsuits brought by relatives of those killed in a 2000 plane crash in the Philippines, lawyers for the families said.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080318151
‘9 M jobless, underemployed’
By Mayen Jaymalin
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Nine million Filipinos are either jobless or looking for additional jobs, the National Statistics Office (NSO) reported yesterday.
At the same time, the Asian Development Bank reported in a recent study that the Philippines has one of the highest unemployment rates in Southeast Asia, contributing to growing poverty despite last year’s 7.3 percent economic growth, partly due to low levels of private and public investment.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080318152
‘Erap 2010’ stickers sprout, but ex-leader says they’re not his
By Jose Rodel Clapano
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
An alliance of pardoned former President Joseph Estrada’s supporters has created hundreds of “ERAP 2010” stickers for distribution nationwide to convince the people to support Estrada’s presidential bid in the 2010 elections.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080318153
Mikey: Pols only using Lozada
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Senate star witness Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr. is being used by “certain politicians” to promote their political plans, according to Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel Arroyo.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080318159
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