The verdict on the 2009 annual budget from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) is out: while the entire appropriation ordinance had “substantially complied” with statutory requirements, several items in the legislative measure were ruled as “inoperative”.
The first is the P55 million that Vice Governor Rolex Suplico insisted in inserting into the appropriation ordinance [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 23, 2009
Gonzalez can’t seem to get the message
DOJ secretary Raul Gonzalez must really be deaf or blind not to understand the message given to him by his boss, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, when she overturned the DOJ resolution dismissing the illegal drugs cases filed by the PDEA against the so-called “Alabang Boys.”
The message is clear and simple: Gonzalez has grown incompetent and [...]
March 20, 2009
From bad to worse
Politics is a topic that never runs out of steam.
But there are instances when talk about politics brings unexpected surprises.
Last Wednesday, I met a lawyer who is more known for his sober and quiet manners, one who keeps his thoughts to himself most of the time. We ran into each other at the CoffeeBreak branch [...]
