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Probe of 100 solons in P728M scam urged Recipients of ‘Joc Joc’ largesse BY DENNIS GADIL SENATE minority leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. yesterday sought the inclusion of around 100 former and incumbent congressmen who received a share of the P728 million fertilizer fund. The Senate Blue Ribbon committee chaired by Alan Peter Cayetano has set the reopening of its probe next week with former agriculture undersecretary Jocelyn "Joc Joc" Bolante as the principal resource person. Pimentel said Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri should be also invited by the Blue Ribbon committee. Full Story...

PNP chief denies media access to police blotters BY RAYMOND AFRICA MEMBERS of the media are up in arms over a recent directive by PNP chief Jesus Verzosa denying them to freely access police blotters. The National Press Club said barring media men covering the police beat from getting unedited information from blotters "smacks of media repression" which it said had never been imposed in any administration, including during the martial law days. The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines said a police blotter is a public record, and requiring a court order or the approval of a police commander before being allowed access to the blotter is "a clear violation of the constitutional right to access to information."  Full Story...

Not available by phone, or face to face either BY REGINA BENGCO AFTER failing to get hold of US president-elect Barack Obama over the phone, Malacañang yesterday said a meeting with Obama is not in the agenda of President Arroyo when she is in New York Nov. 12 to 13. Arroyo will be attending the UN General Assembly on interfaith dialogues. Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita earlier said a possible meeting with Obama was high in Arroyo’s agenda. "There is no such plan in the first place," Press Secretary Jesus Dureza said in a radio interview. He said Obama will assume the US presidency in January and that Arroyo has a "different intention" in going to the US. Full Story..

 
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