OMBUDSMAN Maria Merceditas Navarro-Gutierrez ordered
the suspension and charging in court of Internal Revenue and Customs
bureau officials who allegedly accumulated questionable wealth.
In separate rulings, the
Ombudsman ordered preventively suspended for six months Felix
Embalsado, Customs operations officer in Sta. Clara, Batangas; Emily
de Luna Singson, Revenue officer in Calamba, Laguna and Myrna
Ramirez, Revenue officer in Quezon City.
In his speech that opened the
plenary hearings on the proposed 2009 budget, former House
Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Edcel Lagman of Albay said
the ‘productive’ portion of the government’s allocation...
Mohammed Jammer Ali, acting
director of the Somali Foreign Ministry, reportedly told Associated
Press Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) that he is giving new
permission to use force against marauding pirates...
Chevron Corporation is set to
pour in a total of $5 million in the next three years to help bring
down the mounting incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in the country.
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