EYE CATCHING HEADLINE STORIES:
BUSINESS MIRROR -- BSP hints
tweaking rates soon
Upside risks to inflation were
top of mind among the economic managers on Friday, when the rate of change in
prices edged still closer to zero in August to 0.6 percent from 0.8 percent in
July…
INQUIRER -- 4 COA execs tied to
scam
Four officials of the Commission
on Audit (COA), including a now retired commissioner and state auditors, did
not only look the other way but also helped officials of National Agribusiness
Corp. (Nabcor) go around adverse reports involving spurious liquidation papers
in exchange for cash and gifts, according to witnesses in the new P500-million
pork barrel scam case.
MANILA STANDARD -- LP TOLD:
FORGET POE
Party chairman Drilon predicts
senator will run for President
SENATE President Franklin Drilon
said Friday he has given up on getting Senator Grace Poe
to be the running mate of Liberal Party standard-bearer and Interior Secretary
Manuel Roxas II in the presidential elections next year.
“In my view, Senator Grace Poe is
a candidate for president. The writing is on the wall; she will run,” Drilon
said…
MANILA TIMES -- LP should drop
Grace – Drilon
SENATE President Franklin Drilon
wants the Liberal Party (LP) to stop courting Senator Grace Poe to team up with
Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas 2nd, saying all efforts to convince her
to run for Vice President is useless because she is also aspiring for the
presidency…
PHILIPPINE STAR -- House rejects
gov't push for higher VAT
MANILA, Philippines - While
Malacañang won’t cut income taxes, the House of Representatives is also
unlikely to approve the Aquino administration’s proposal to increase the
value-added tax (VAT) from 12 to 14 percent.
Senior lawmakers slammed
Malacañang yesterday for opposing the legislation to reform the country’s
income tax system, asking the Palace to double-check its revenue projections
and “show compassion” to fixed-income earners…
MANILA BULLETIN -- Almendras new
traffic czar
Cabinet Secretary Jose Rene
Almendras is turning out to be President Aquino’s troubleshooter.
With no clear solution in sight
for the worsening traffic problem, particularly in Metro Manila, Malacañang is
pinning its hopes on the managerial skills of Almendras to solve or at least
ease the gridlock by designating him as the country’s traffic czar…
TRIBUNE -- LP drops Grace
Poe ‘not worthy’ to be Mar’s
VP—Erice2016 with her political soulmate, Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero, as her
vice presidential candidate.
Dropping Poe was the same message
in the LP-dominated House of Representatives…
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