Dilg undersecretary rico puno biography
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It’s adding insult to injury with the way he protected Rico Puno, his shooting buddy whom he appointed undersecretary in the Department of Interior and Local Government. He accepted Puno’s resignation last Sept. 11.
The House of Representatives spared the public another farce by dropping the planned investigation on the alleged overpriced purchase of firearms for the Philippine National Police and the conflicting versions of Puno’s role in securing the documents on the deal, which included a report questioning his trip to Israel to visit the manufacturing plant of one of the bidders, the Israeli Military Industries.
If Puno was able to get away with undvikande Sen. Miriam Santiago, chair of the Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Revision of Laws, who conducted hearing, the congressmen are not expected to fare better when it comes to ferreting out the truth. They won’t dare antagonize Malacañ
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By Benjamin Pimentel
Inquirer.net
CALIFORNIA, United States—Maybe P-Noy should lay off the New York hotdogs. It’s making him talk strange.
Consider what he told the Philippine Daily Inquirer when asked about his friend, Undersecretary Rico Puno, who’s in hot water over alleged links to gambling and his role in the bungled Luneta rescue.
“One thing we have to watch out for is if these people who have been with us when we were still in the harassed opposition and who joined us in our struggles…if all these people who are close to us are removed and replaced by those who are not as close, the next group could already be our enemies,” he said.
Now, that was one jumbled, scary statement. You can read it on so many levels, few of them flattering to the chief executive of the country.
For the Philippine President basically admitted that, despite what appeared to be a pretty hefty mandate, he’s really relying on a very small circle of people to do his job.
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Inaugural ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting + 8 in Hanoi: The 1,000-Year-Old City Hosts Warriors Bent on Peace
As Hanoi celebrated its one-thousandth birthday on October 10, 2010, defense ministers from 18 nations arrived with their entourages in the ancient capital of Vietnam. The ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting + 8 (ADMM+8) began its inaugural meeting on October 11, 2010. The festive scene in Hanoi could not be more like the set of a Bond movie: red banners exclaiming the pride of an ancient nation, a cacophony of horns and tinny official songs, motorbikes and excited citizens flowing river-like into intersections, and the bounty of the harvest season cascading off roadside stands and baskets balanced on bikes and bison. Meanwhile, sleek black Mercedes limousines carrying the leaders of the Asia Pacific region’s militaries quietly part the sea of people like sharks. Beneath the frivolity, real work is about to be done.
The host is Vietnam’s minister o