“It’s a right, let’s make it real.” Mothers at family planning fair.
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Gloria 'addiction'
to VAT slammed Bishop says she is floating on
Cloud 9
BY GERARD NAVAL
THE government is insisting on retaining the
value added-tax on oil because it does not really know how its
effects are making the common Filipino suffer, Lingayen-Dagupan
Archbishop Oscar Cruz said yesterday.
He said officials living in Malacañang are
detached from reality.
"Hindi pa sila bumabagtas sa kalye, lumalakad
kasama ang mga mahihirap. ito po ang hirap ng nakatira ... doon
sa 'Cloud 9,'" Cruz said over Church-run Radio Veritas.
MARITESS, 21, cradled four-month-old Ashley
Ann while beckoning one-year-old Abigail to keep up. The bag on
her left shoulder contained milk bottles and information
materials on family planning.
Her left arm was still sore from the
injectable contraceptive a health worker gave her.
She said her husband, a checker at a poultry
farm in Sta. Maria, Bulacan and a critic of artificial family
planning methods, did not know that she had availed of it. She
said she already found it hard to take care of two kids.
PRESS Secretary Jesus Dureza yesterday was
tight-lipped on speculations that Zenaida Ducut was considered
as acting chairwoman of the Energy Regulatory Commission due to
her closeness to Rodolfo "Bong" Pineda, President Arroyo's "kumpadre"
and an alleged jueteng lord.
Ducut, 52, deputy chief presidential legal
counsel, is a business associate of Pineda.
In 2001, she was listed as incorporator of
the Philippine World College Inc. as shown in Pineda's business
records at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
