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                    [Title] => EDITORIAL - A word for the pork barrel
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Despite all the evils said in its name, the pork barrel does have a peculiar role in the Philippine setting that any hasty move to completely do away with it may result in more problems than it hopes to solve. Caution is therefore urged, not passion.

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Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama will not make a big deal out of the plan of the City Council to amend some ordinances that created the special bodies and commissions under his office.

[DatePublished] => 2011-08-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097048 [AuthorName] => Jessica Ann R. Pareja [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 691513 [Title] => Loyalty checks for consultants too [Summary] =>

All consultants at the Cebu City Hall will not be spared from the loyalty checks being conducted by the mayor.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1333954 [AuthorName] => Garry B. Lao and Jessica Ann R. Pareja [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 615889 [Title] => Lawmakers seek fixed wages for bus drivers [Summary] =>

Two congressmen advocated yesterday the grant of fixed wages instead of commissions to bus drivers and conductors.

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097047 [AuthorName] => Jess Diaz [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 530021 [Title] => Citi starts prepaid service in Asia [Summary] =>

Citi’s Global Transaction Services has officially launched Citi Prepaid Services to clients in Asia Pacific.

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Advisers of President Arroyo are getting anxious that a group of people who lost their “commissions” from the government’s cancelled telecom project are fast becoming a destabilization factor,
although not yet a threat to national security.

[DatePublished] => 2008-03-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 351799 [Title] => CH to scrap useless bodies [Summary] => Mayor Tomas Osmeña is streamlining the operations at the City Hall and will soon terminate several existing commissions and councils that he deemed unproductive.

This after the mayor expressed opposition to an earlier move by the City Council creating more commissions and councils for the city government.

In his regular press conference yesterday, Osmeña said the creation of new councils and commissions would mean additional appropriations for the honorarium of the members.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 271315 [Title] => Ayala Plans income, trust fund expand [Summary] => Ayala Plans has maintained a trust fund of P2.495 billion at the end of December last year. That is considered favorable in supporting its actuarial reserve liabilities of P2.448 billion.

Unaudited net income reached P36 million in the same period. Asset base stood at P4.536 billion while paid-up capital remained at P550 million, well over the minimum required P100 million.

The trust fund is part of the investment portfolio placed in fixed income funds which allows Ayala Plans to tap for maturing plans.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Banking [SectionUrl] => banking [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 147392 [Title] => Understanding UNESCO in order to play an active role [Summary] => Click here to read Part I
(Part 2 of a series on The Training of UNESCO Sec-Gen in the Era of Terrorism)
Home and school are working together from the moment the children wake up in the morning. Then the "basic needs of man" learned in Social Studies get activated as the child dresses up, takes his breakfast, leaves home and rides to school. [DatePublished] => 2002-01-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133347 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096378 [AuthorName] => Preciosa S. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 139238 [Title] => GSIS insurance monopoly: A never-ending scam [Summary] => Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
(First of a series)
For years, local firms in collusion with some of the biggest insurance companies in the world, including the likes of British company Jardines have fattened themselves from bloated premiums and commissions from government agencies.

Their accomplice: no less than the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS).
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1746638 [AuthorName] => Sheila Samonte-Pesayco [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => EDITORIAL - A word for the pork barrel
                    [Summary] => 

Despite all the evils said in its name, the pork barrel does have a peculiar role in the Philippine setting that any hasty move to completely do away with it may result in more problems than it hopes to solve. Caution is therefore urged, not passion.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-freeman/opinion/20140528/freetoon.gif ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 713195 [Title] => Rama won't block Council changes on boards, special bodies [Summary] =>

Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama will not make a big deal out of the plan of the City Council to amend some ordinances that created the special bodies and commissions under his office.

[DatePublished] => 2011-08-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097048 [AuthorName] => Jessica Ann R. Pareja [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 691513 [Title] => Loyalty checks for consultants too [Summary] =>

All consultants at the Cebu City Hall will not be spared from the loyalty checks being conducted by the mayor.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1333954 [AuthorName] => Garry B. Lao and Jessica Ann R. Pareja [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 615889 [Title] => Lawmakers seek fixed wages for bus drivers [Summary] =>

Two congressmen advocated yesterday the grant of fixed wages instead of commissions to bus drivers and conductors.

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097047 [AuthorName] => Jess Diaz [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 530021 [Title] => Citi starts prepaid service in Asia [Summary] =>

Citi’s Global Transaction Services has officially launched Citi Prepaid Services to clients in Asia Pacific.

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Banking [SectionUrl] => banking [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 50229 [Title] => Commission-ers destabilizing RP [Summary] =>

Advisers of President Arroyo are getting anxious that a group of people who lost their “commissions” from the government’s cancelled telecom project are fast becoming a destabilization factor,
although not yet a threat to national security.

[DatePublished] => 2008-03-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 351799 [Title] => CH to scrap useless bodies [Summary] => Mayor Tomas Osmeña is streamlining the operations at the City Hall and will soon terminate several existing commissions and councils that he deemed unproductive.

This after the mayor expressed opposition to an earlier move by the City Council creating more commissions and councils for the city government.

In his regular press conference yesterday, Osmeña said the creation of new councils and commissions would mean additional appropriations for the honorarium of the members.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 271315 [Title] => Ayala Plans income, trust fund expand [Summary] => Ayala Plans has maintained a trust fund of P2.495 billion at the end of December last year. That is considered favorable in supporting its actuarial reserve liabilities of P2.448 billion.

Unaudited net income reached P36 million in the same period. Asset base stood at P4.536 billion while paid-up capital remained at P550 million, well over the minimum required P100 million.

The trust fund is part of the investment portfolio placed in fixed income funds which allows Ayala Plans to tap for maturing plans.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Banking [SectionUrl] => banking [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 147392 [Title] => Understanding UNESCO in order to play an active role [Summary] => Click here to read Part I
(Part 2 of a series on The Training of UNESCO Sec-Gen in the Era of Terrorism)
Home and school are working together from the moment the children wake up in the morning. Then the "basic needs of man" learned in Social Studies get activated as the child dresses up, takes his breakfast, leaves home and rides to school. [DatePublished] => 2002-01-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133347 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096378 [AuthorName] => Preciosa S. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 139238 [Title] => GSIS insurance monopoly: A never-ending scam [Summary] => Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
(First of a series)
For years, local firms in collusion with some of the biggest insurance companies in the world, including the likes of British company Jardines have fattened themselves from bloated premiums and commissions from government agencies.

Their accomplice: no less than the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS).
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1746638 [AuthorName] => Sheila Samonte-Pesayco [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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