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                    [Title] => Ombudsman clears Comelec execs of criminal liability on ACMs
                    [Summary] => After recommending graft charges in June, the Office of the Ombudsman reversed itself and cleared several officials of the Commission on Elections yesterday of suspected wrongdoing in the Comelec’s purchase in 2003 of ballot counting machines meant for modernizing the electoral system.


An investigating panel headed by Overall Deputy Ombudsman Orlando Casimiro said that after a series of clarificatory hearings, it found "no iota of evidence" against the poll officials.
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Batay sa 52-pahinang supplemental decision ng Ombudsman, binaligtad nito at isinantabi ang resolusyong ipinalabas noong Hunyo 28 na naglalaman ng resulta ng imbestigasyon na maaaring gamitin ng Kamara upang mapatalsik si Comelec Commissioner Ressureccion Borra.
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Augusto Lagman, former president of the Information Technology Foundation of the Philippines (ITFP), said they were preparing their documents, but he could not say when they would file the charges.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413632 [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 254892 [Title] => Abalos back at work, faces tough week [Summary] => After resting for more than a week due to illness, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Benjamin Abalos will report back to work today with electoral cases piling up on his desk.

Commissioner Resurreccion Borra said Abalos was supposed to show up yesterday but decided to extend his vacation for another day.

"The chairman has been released from the hospital, and he is expected to attend the executive session (this afternoon)," he said.

Abalos has been on sick leave since June 12 upon the advice of his doctors.
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The employees demanded the resignation of Comelec financial director Eduardo Mejos whom they blame for the delay in the release of their salaries and remittance of benefits.

In a statement, the disgruntled employees led by Luallah Elisa Pama of the Alliance of Comelec Employees in Service Inc. warned they would continue with their mass action until all their conditions are met. [DatePublished] => 2004-06-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413632 [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 225413 [Title] => Infighting slowing 2004 preparations, official admits [Summary] => It is messy and going nowhere fast, thanks to infighting.

Confirming the messy situation at the Commission on Elections that may result in chaotic elections come May 2004, the poll body’s newly appointed Education and Information Division (EID) chief yesterday described the voters’ education program as "zero" in the midst of infighting within the Comelec.
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Raul Ragay, the employees’ leader, complained that Abalos pulled him aside while giving interviews to television stations. Others, he said, were screamed at during the 15-minute encounter in front of the Comelec head office in Intramuros, Manila.
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"We do not know if Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos is aware of all of our problems. This is one of our ways of making it known to him," said a Comelec employee who requested not to be named.

Foremost among their complaints is the delay in the release of their P4,000 clothing allowance, which they claimed had been released in other government offices way back in February. [DatePublished] => 2003-06-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413632 [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 107493 [Title] => ‘Don’t extend San Mateo dump closure’ [Summary] => Residents of Rizal province warned the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) against extending the Dec. 31 deadline for the closure of the San Mateo landfill.

The warning was issued by A-Homes, an association of subdivision and village associations in Rizal province, as apprehension rose upon their learning that the results of the bidding for a new sanitary landfill continues to be delayed.
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                    [Title] => Ombudsman clears Comelec execs of criminal liability on ACMs
                    [Summary] => After recommending graft charges in June, the Office of the Ombudsman reversed itself and cleared several officials of the Commission on Elections yesterday of suspected wrongdoing in the Comelec’s purchase in 2003 of ballot counting machines meant for modernizing the electoral system.


An investigating panel headed by Overall Deputy Ombudsman Orlando Casimiro said that after a series of clarificatory hearings, it found "no iota of evidence" against the poll officials.
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Batay sa 52-pahinang supplemental decision ng Ombudsman, binaligtad nito at isinantabi ang resolusyong ipinalabas noong Hunyo 28 na naglalaman ng resulta ng imbestigasyon na maaaring gamitin ng Kamara upang mapatalsik si Comelec Commissioner Ressureccion Borra.
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Augusto Lagman, former president of the Information Technology Foundation of the Philippines (ITFP), said they were preparing their documents, but he could not say when they would file the charges.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413632 [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 254892 [Title] => Abalos back at work, faces tough week [Summary] => After resting for more than a week due to illness, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Benjamin Abalos will report back to work today with electoral cases piling up on his desk.

Commissioner Resurreccion Borra said Abalos was supposed to show up yesterday but decided to extend his vacation for another day.

"The chairman has been released from the hospital, and he is expected to attend the executive session (this afternoon)," he said.

Abalos has been on sick leave since June 12 upon the advice of his doctors.
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The employees demanded the resignation of Comelec financial director Eduardo Mejos whom they blame for the delay in the release of their salaries and remittance of benefits.

In a statement, the disgruntled employees led by Luallah Elisa Pama of the Alliance of Comelec Employees in Service Inc. warned they would continue with their mass action until all their conditions are met. [DatePublished] => 2004-06-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413632 [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 225413 [Title] => Infighting slowing 2004 preparations, official admits [Summary] => It is messy and going nowhere fast, thanks to infighting.

Confirming the messy situation at the Commission on Elections that may result in chaotic elections come May 2004, the poll body’s newly appointed Education and Information Division (EID) chief yesterday described the voters’ education program as "zero" in the midst of infighting within the Comelec.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413632 [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 210593 [Title] => Comelec chair blows top over protesting employees [Summary] => Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. blew his top yesterday during a confrontation with protesting employees of the poll body, reportedly shoving and screaming at his personnel right in front of television cameras.

Raul Ragay, the employees’ leader, complained that Abalos pulled him aside while giving interviews to television stations. Others, he said, were screamed at during the 15-minute encounter in front of the Comelec head office in Intramuros, Manila.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413632 [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 210300 [Title] => Comelec employees to wear black in protest [Summary] => Employees of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) are expected to dress in black today to protest the alleged withholding of their benefits and other "decays" in the poll body.

"We do not know if Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos is aware of all of our problems. This is one of our ways of making it known to him," said a Comelec employee who requested not to be named.

Foremost among their complaints is the delay in the release of their P4,000 clothing allowance, which they claimed had been released in other government offices way back in February. [DatePublished] => 2003-06-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413632 [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 107493 [Title] => ‘Don’t extend San Mateo dump closure’ [Summary] => Residents of Rizal province warned the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) against extending the Dec. 31 deadline for the closure of the San Mateo landfill.

The warning was issued by A-Homes, an association of subdivision and village associations in Rizal province, as apprehension rose upon their learning that the results of the bidding for a new sanitary landfill continues to be delayed.
[DatePublished] => 2000-11-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) ) )
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