You see Jing Lapus has worked very hard to come up with a program that would help protect public school teachers from money lenders – some of whom are insurance companies – who charge between 36 percent to 1,000 percent interest a year but who have also convinced DepEd to be their collecting agent (read: the monthly loan amortizations are deducted at source before the teacher gets his/her salary).
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 90464 [Title] => GMA to lead 31st Earth Day celebrations at Palace [Summary] => President Arroyo is set to lead simple rites at the Malacañang Garden today for the 31st Earth Day celebrations.
The celebration will coincide with weekly Sunday programs at the palace garden which Mrs. Arroyo opened to the public last month.
Environment and Natural Resources Secretary and celebration organizer Heherson Alvarez said activities lined-up include a fun run led by running priest Robert Reyes and a clean-up of esteros around Malacañang to be led by First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo.
[DatePublished] => 2001-04-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 105624 [Title] => Clean Air Act rules set for signing [Summary] => Environment and Natural Resources Secretary is expected to sign the implementing rules and regulations of the Clean Air Act by the end of the month, Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) director Peter Anthony Abaya said yesterday.
Abaya said the Department of Environment and Natural Resources gave industries and groups opposing the law sufficient time to secure a Congress resolution deferring its implementation, but they failed to do so.
[DatePublished] => 2000-10-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 94969 [Title] => Police get new witnesses on UP frat killing [Summary] =>
Four witnesses have come forward to shed light on the killing of 19-year-old Den Daniel Reyes, which stemmed from a brawl between the Alpha Phi Beta (APB) and the Sigma Rho fraternity groups inside the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman campus in Quezon City last week.
Police investigators from the Criminal Investigation Division of the Central Police District said at least four students, two of them Sigma Rhoans, have provided probers details of what really transpired last Thursday night.
CID deputy head Superintendent Cecilio Aguilar said the witnesses gave police [DatePublished] => 2000-02-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
You see Jing Lapus has worked very hard to come up with a program that would help protect public school teachers from money lenders – some of whom are insurance companies – who charge between 36 percent to 1,000 percent interest a year but who have also convinced DepEd to be their collecting agent (read: the monthly loan amortizations are deducted at source before the teacher gets his/her salary).
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 90464 [Title] => GMA to lead 31st Earth Day celebrations at Palace [Summary] => President Arroyo is set to lead simple rites at the Malacañang Garden today for the 31st Earth Day celebrations.
The celebration will coincide with weekly Sunday programs at the palace garden which Mrs. Arroyo opened to the public last month.
Environment and Natural Resources Secretary and celebration organizer Heherson Alvarez said activities lined-up include a fun run led by running priest Robert Reyes and a clean-up of esteros around Malacañang to be led by First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo.
[DatePublished] => 2001-04-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 105624 [Title] => Clean Air Act rules set for signing [Summary] => Environment and Natural Resources Secretary is expected to sign the implementing rules and regulations of the Clean Air Act by the end of the month, Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) director Peter Anthony Abaya said yesterday.
Abaya said the Department of Environment and Natural Resources gave industries and groups opposing the law sufficient time to secure a Congress resolution deferring its implementation, but they failed to do so.
[DatePublished] => 2000-10-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 94969 [Title] => Police get new witnesses on UP frat killing [Summary] =>
Four witnesses have come forward to shed light on the killing of 19-year-old Den Daniel Reyes, which stemmed from a brawl between the Alpha Phi Beta (APB) and the Sigma Rho fraternity groups inside the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman campus in Quezon City last week.
Police investigators from the Criminal Investigation Division of the Central Police District said at least four students, two of them Sigma Rhoans, have provided probers details of what really transpired last Thursday night.
CID deputy head Superintendent Cecilio Aguilar said the witnesses gave police [DatePublished] => 2000-02-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
