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Former Pres. Cory Aquino abandons all medical treatment

Former President Corazon Aquino, who is battling colon cancer, has decided to forego further chemotherapy or any other medical treatment, her spokesman was quoted yesterday as saying.

The 76-year-old Aquino, who led the Philippines from 1986 to 1992 after the fall of Ferdinand Marcos, was admitted to the Makati Medical Center last week and is reportedly being fed intravenously.

“The country’s icon of democracy is fighting the hardest battle of her life,” spokeswoman Deedee Siytangco wrote in a regular broadsheet column.

Makati Mayor and United Opposition president Jejomar Binay yesterday asked the Makati community to offer prayers for the former President Aquino.

Binay, who was appointed by Aquino as acting mayor of Makati immediately after the February 1986 Edsa Revolt, urged residents to hold prayer vigils for Mrs. Aquino.
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Use funds to generate jobs, not for foreign trips, GMA told

A member of the minority bloc in the House of Representatives yesterday scored President Arroyo for reportedly spending billions of pesos on her foreign trips, describing the Chief Executive’s jet-setting spree as a manifestation of the administration’s insensitivity to the sufferings of millions of Filipinos which have further been aggravated by the global financial meltdown.

Citizens Battle Against Corruption Rep. Josel Villanueva said Mrs. Arroyo should have used the funds on pump-priming programs to generate jobs to help poor Filipinos.

“Many people are starving to death. I believe it is immoral for the leaders of the country to use huge funds just for their travel abroad,” he stressed.

But Malacañang maintained that the President’s working visits abroad, particularly to Japan and Brazil, have reaped huge benefits for the country that include more trade, investments, development assistance, tourism promotion, new job opportunities and improvement of the welfare of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) as part of its overall strategy to shore up the economy.

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UN tags RP world’s top 5 sources in the world of Shabu

The United Nation’s Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) issued a stinging slap on the face of the country’s anti-drug czar President Arroyo after it named the Philippines a major transshipment point for methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu and ranked it among the top five sources in the world of the illegal drug.

The UN body said the drug problem in the Philippines remains significant despite continued efforts of local authorities to disrupt major drug trafficking organizations and dismantle clandestine drug laboratories and warehouses in recent years.

Mrs. Arroyo last January assumed the role of the government’s anti-drug czar after the so-called “Alabang Boys” controversy in which apprehended drug pushers from rich Manila families supposedly bribed officials of the court and the Department of Justice.

In its 2009 World Drug Report released on June 24, the Philippines ranked fifth on the UNODC’s list of major shabu seizures from 1998 to 2007, next to China, United States, Thailand and Taiwan.

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Gloria’s Cha-cha Express: A bullet train to recession - UNO

President Arroyo and her allies’ push to convene Congress into a constituent assembly (con-ass) immediately after she delivers her State of the Nation Address (Sona) next month, a plan ordered reportedly by Mrs. Arroyo herself, is equivalent to shoving the economy into recession, Makati Mayor and United Opposition (UNO) president Jejomar Binay yesterday said.

“The World Bank’s analysis that the Philippines will enter an outright recession this year should be reason enough for the Arroyo admi-nistration to put the brakes on Charter change (Cha-cha),” he said.

Binay said reliable reports published in The Tribune the other day that Mrs. Arroyo herself gave instructions to the House of Representatives to push con-ass immediately after she delivers her Sona to take advantage of the presence of the senators will trigger unrest and impact on the economy.

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House operations suspended after worker’s death with virus A(H1N1)

Work at the House of Representatives was suspended yesterday until Monday next week following the death of one of its employees, whose heart ailment was aggravated by an infection from the dreaded A(H1N1) virus.

Immediately after Speaker Prospero Nograles issued an instruction to suspend work to allow sanitation men to disinfect the House offices and other facilities, House employees numbering to more than 3,000 scrambled to their feet and rushed toward home and their sudden departure made the entire Batasan complex look like a deserted refugee camp.

Informed of the confusion that gripped the legislative chamber, some lawmakers quickly slammed the Department of Health (DoH) for withholding information on the background of the first Filipino A(H1N!) casualty who turned out to be a House employee.

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DoH: A(H1N1) cases in RP climb to 147

Thirty-six new cases of A(H1N1) virus yesterday brought to 147 the total number of people afflicted with the dreaded disease, according to the Department of Health (DoH).

The National Epidemiology Center (NEC), a DoH attached agency, reported that three of the 36 new cases were foreigners, including a 19-year-old lady who arrived from the United States and is now being quarantined in an undisclosed place in Cagayan Valley.

This developed as Health Secretary Francisco Duque announced on Saturday a policy shift in its bid to stem the spread of the dreaded virus. The shift, he said, was prompted by a decision by the World Health Organization to declare a global A(H1N1) pandemic.

“A policy of mitigation means that the DoH will shift focus in preparing households and health facilities to respond to the challenge posed by A (H1N1) in anticipation of more confirmed cases,” Duque said at a press briefing the other day.

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Gloria allies is now courting Senators to support Cha-cha

A day after the Palace claimed President Arroyo had advised the House of Representatives to shelve Charter change efforts, known allies of Mrs. Arroyo have started making the rounds to court senators individually to soften their stance against Cha-cha.

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. yesterday said some legislators identified with the administration tried to convince him to drop his objection to the idea of extending the term of elective officials, including the President and members of Congress, to build up support for his federalism proposal.

Pimentel, the main proponent of the bill seeking to shift to a federal system of government, said he recalled saying “no” to them.

“If I would go along with their proposition, I would lose the moral authority to oppose the extension of (President) Gloria’s (Arroyo) term,” he said.

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