GO solons meet with Estrada on Senate leadership

By Dona Pazzibugan, Gil C. Cabacungan Jr.
Inquirer
Last updated 06:02am (Mla time) 06/05/2007

MANILA, Philippines — Poised to wrest control of the Senate, political rivals of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo have started discussing who among them will lead the chamber and who will chair its key committees.

 

This was separately confirmed Monday by Sen. Panfilo Lacson, Sen. Manuel Roxas II, Sen. Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada and Senate President Manuel Villar.

 

As counting in the May 14 midterm election nears completion amid claims of fraud and vote-rigging in some parts of the country, the opposition appears set to dominate the 24-seat Senate while allies of the President will command control of the 275-seat House of Representatives.

 

“We have already met once,” said Lacson, who is certain of reelection under the Genuine Opposition ticket put together by detained former President Joseph Estrada.

 

Lacson would not say who initiated the meeting, which, according to a source, was held in Estrada’s resthouse in Tanay, Rizal.

 

He said a good number of senators were present. “We can get a clear majority. It was quite a big group. We will continue talking,” he said.

 

Roxas confirmed a meeting was held but also did not give details.

 

“We had a fellowship. We talked with each other about the legislative agenda. I think this (issue of the Senate presidency) will begin to percolate after the proclamation of the winners (of the May 14 election),” he said. “Everything is very preliminary.”

 

Jinggoy Estrada confirmed that opposition stalwarts who attended the birthday celebration of Sen. Luisa “Loi” Estrada at the resthouse of the elder Estrada on Sunday held informal talks that night, but added that nothing was firmed up because it was still too early at this stage to settle on anything.

 

The younger Estrada is reportedly interested in heading the public services committee, while Lacson is keen on the blue ribbon committee, both currently chaired by Team Unity’s Sen. Joker Arroyo.

 

Jinggoy Estrada declared that “whoever we support will win.”

 

Villar said he was confident he would keep his post of Senate President but was aware that Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. posed a serious threat.

 

“Of course, why not? I see no problem,” Villar told the Philippine Daily Inquirer when asked to assess his chances of staying on as Senate President amid the rumors that a faction in the opposition wanted to be represented by an uncompromising leader.

 

“We will not be Senate President if we are not skilled in these things. But it is too early to tell. We have to first define the opposition,” said Villar, one of eight Genuine Opposition candidates leading the vote count in the recent elections.

 

Sen. Edgardo Angara, who also appeared headed for reelection but under the administration Team Unity ticket, said it was too early to hold a caucus. With an Agence France-Presse report

Ermita backs Ong appointment to Supreme Court

Inquirer
Last updated 06:40am (Mla time) 06/05/2007
MANILA, Philippines — Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita has defended ’s appointment to the Supreme Court, bolstering Ong’s claim he was a natural-born Filipino and therefore qualified for the post.

 

Ermita countered before the high tribunal the assertions of former Senate President Jovito Salonga, saying Ong’s birth certificate that stated he was a Chinese citizen could only be considered evidence of his birth.

 

Salonga and lawyer Emilio Capulong, representing the Kilosbayan and Bantay Katarungan Foundations, respectively, had asked the Supreme Court to block Ong’s appointment since he was not qualified to be a justice, not being a natural-born Filipino.

 

The Constitution requires that members of collegiate courts be natural-born citizens.

 

Ermita said the entry on citizenship on the birth certificate was recorded without validation, while the findings of the BI were supported by evidence.

 

“Plainly then, an entry in a birth certificate may not be given greater evidentiary value than a pronouncement or determination made by the Bureau of Immigration or the Department of Justice confirming respondent Ong’s citizenship as a natural-born Filipino,” he said.

 

In the meantime, the board of trustees of San Beda Law Alumni Association (SBLAA) has expressed its support for the appointment of Ong, a 1979 law graduate of San Beda College.

 

The SBLAA board, representing 4,000 alumni, was joined by the Benedictine community led by SBC rector-president Rev. Mateo de Jesus, OSB.

 

SBLAA chair Avelino V. Cruz expressed “confidence in the sense of fair play, justice and equity of the Supreme Court,” pointing out that Ong had served the Philippine justice system in various capacities for many years without the issue of his citizenship ever being an issue. Leila B. Salaverria

 

Death and progress

Sexynomad
By Conrado de Quiros
Inquirer
Last updated 01:02am (Mla time) 06/05/2007

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is unperturbed. The Team Unity debacle, she says, will not deter her from pursuing economic progress. “The path we have set for economic reforms will not be upset by partisan elections. Politics will not undo our economic progress.” She has only three more years to go, she continued, and she will not be distracted by the results of the senatorial election.

 

Either she has good instincts for propaganda or her handlers know their business. If you notice, over the past several months, she has removed herself from the electoral scene and over the last couple of weeks has been abroad busily projecting herself as “delivering the goods.” At the very least, that frees her from blame for whatever might be said about the conduct of the elections, which her people have been desperately trying to overturn. At the very most, it makes her out to be working where everybody else is playing. Or it makes her out to be engaged in the serious business of uniting the country through economics while everybody else is engaged in the frivolous indulgence of dividing the country through politics.

 

Nice try, but it doesn’t cut.

 

All the alarm bells in my brain go blaring when I hear things like this. The last time I heard Arroyo say she had only so much time left and would rather spend it uniting the country through economic work rather than frittering it in political play was in 2002. She even went on to pledge on Rizal Day at the end of that year to not run in 2004, knowing as she did that she was a source of dissension. Less than a year later, she cast her lot in the field, and the rest is history. Or thanks to people like Garci, this country’s democracy became history.

 

When Arroyo acknowledges that she has only a few more years to go, be very, very afraid.

 

More than that, that was how Ferdinand Marcos postured toward the end of martial law when the world turned against him. Quite literally, the world, including the United States at one end, which would eventually force him to cut and cut cleanly, and the Filipinos at the other, who after August 1983 would have liked nothing better than to cut and cut him cleanly. During his twilight years, Marcos also postured about being busy with salvaging the economy, which he said was what the “silent majority” wanted, while his enemies were busy “salvaging” it with their fractious politics. Marcos did cut, but not so very cleanly: He had to be cut off from Malacañang by an angry crowd.

 

You know you’re looking at trouble when you see posturing like this. At the very least what’s wrong with it is that it offers a monumental contradiction. It says that a ruler, particularly an illegitimate one, can lead a nation to progress when its people do not particularly want him or her. In a parliamentary system, the kind the Charter-change proponents, including Arroyo herself, have been pushing for, the “vote of no confidence” that the senatorial results represent would have been enough to make a prime minister resign. I’ve yet to know of a nation that progressed whose ruler could not rally the people behind her. I’ve always thought progress was something that was premised on widespread, if not universal, support.

 

There’s more. For you also have to ask, “What economic progress?” As in Marcos’ time, the “progress,” or whatever there is of it, is happening in spite of, and not because of, government. It’s happening because of the overseas Filipino workers, a humongous price to pay for survival. Just some weeks ago, an official at the Department of Foreign Affairs acknowledged the ravages overseas work was inflicting on the integrity of the Filipino family, and was incorporating that warning in its pre-departure orientation seminars.

 

As in Marcos’ time, the “progress” is being paid for by enormous loans. Lest we forget, this administration has borrowed more than the past two presidents combined. As in Marcos’ time, the “progress” isn’t trickling down to the poor: Arroyo has yet to answer the question (she says it’s “political”) why the “progress” hasn’t benefited most Filipinos. As in Marcos’ time, or probably more so, corruption riots — we are now the most corrupt country in Asia — which answers in part why the manna isn’t falling down. The officials of this government merely project their individual enrichment to that of the nation.

 

But in the end, what’s truly chilling about this posturing is the authoritarian message it sends. What it says is that it doesn’t really matter if you cheat in elections or you have a ruler who isn’t elected so long as you have “economic progress.” What it says is that it doesn’t really matter if murder and mayhem riot, if the victims are journalists or political activists, if they live in places God has forgotten or in those Mammon remembers, so long as you have “economic progress.” What it says is that it doesn’t really matter if your liberties are taken away and the two Gonzalezes and ilk are free to dictate how you may live your life, so long as you have “economic progress.” What it says is that it doesn’t really matter if right is wrong or wrong is right, the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished, so long as you have “economic progress.”

 

Indeed, what it says is that it doesn’t really matter if you have democracy or not. That argument was expressly revived by Washington SyCip some months ago in an article in the Business section of this paper, an argument we heard throughout martial law: that American-style liberal democracy wasn’t suited for the temper of Filipinos. For reasons known only to him, SyCip considers himself one.

 

You know you’re in trouble when you hear rulers, particularly illegitimate ones, talk about “economic progress” and not “fractious politics” being what the “silent majority” ordered.

 

The only reason that majority is silent is that it is dead.

Drive against militant party-list groups failed

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Last updated 01:51am (Mla time) 06/05/2007

This is in reaction to the article titled, “Admin drive vs militant party lists succeeding.” (Inquirer, 5/29/05)

 

First of all, the headline is not accurate. I never said that the administration’s drive against Bayan Muna and other progressive parties is succeeding. On the contrary, the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration has failed miserably in its six-year campaign to annihilate and marginalize our parties. Three of our parties — Bayan Muna, Gabriela and Anakpawis — are most likely to succeed in maintaining six seats in Congress despite the brutal campaign of extrajudicial killings, abductions, political intimidation, electoral fraud and violence being conducted by Malacañang and the military against our ranks.

 

While admitting that the last elections saw our toughest campaign so far, I pointed out that our good showing, despite the administration’s all-out effort to dislodge us, was a feat in itself. In fact, it was noted in the news report that I “hesitated to admit” that the vilification campaign against our parties had succeeded.

 

Second, I would like to stress that the so-called “Admin drive” against us is not simply a vilification campaign aimed at reducing our votes. Since 2001, the Arroyo administration and its armed forces have tried to annihilate our parties altogether. At least 180 of our key leaders and supporters have been killed by suspected state security forces. Scores have been abducted and many remain missing till this day. At the same time, a legal offensive has been launched at the national and local levels, using trumped-up charges of rebellion, murder, sedition or whatever they could concoct against our members and supporters. Even our congressional representatives have not been spared from warrantless arrests, trumped-up charges and assassination threats.

 

Not content with its deadly campaign, Malacañang and the Armed Forces used government funds and state machinery in the last elections to field and support its own party-list groups. Government-backed political operators were engaged in massive vote-buying, vote-padding, vote-shaving and other forms of cheating to dislodge us and undermine the party-list system as a whole.
Given this concerted, all-out effort by the executive and the Armed Forces of the Philippines to physically, legally and politically obliterate us, the performance of the progressive party lists in the recent elections was nothing short of sterling and a victory in itself. We consistently topped all surveys, raised crucial issues and campaigned effectively nationwide, and we guarded not only our votes but also those of our allies in the opposition.

 

Despite all odds, we are still in fighting form and ready to do battle when the next Congress opens. This is proof that the administration’s campaign against us has utterly failed.

 

REP. TEDDY CASIÑO, Bayan Muna Party List

Recto also concedes poll defeat

By Gil C. Cabacungan Jr.
Inquirer
Last updated 03:25am (Mla time) 06/05/2007

MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Ralph Recto Monday conceded defeat in the senatorial race.

 

The 43-year-old lawmaker, who served 15 years in Congress (nine years as Batangas representative), said he looked forward to “savor simple joys [such] as driving my kid to school, taking him out swimming, honing his putting skills, or going with him to the mall.”

 

He also looked forward to being a homebound husband to his popular wife, movie actress Vilma Santos, who won as governor of Batangas province.

 

“To the love of my life who’s stood by me through these years, whose grit and grace continue to inspire and amaze me, now I can say, ‘Honey, I’m home,’” Recto said in a valedictory speech titled “To Be Right Than Popular” that he read during the Senate’s last session before the 13th Congress ends.

 

Just last week, Recto filed a case in the Commission on Elections apparently because he felt he could still improve his ranking. He was at No. 14 Monday.

 

Recto is the second Team Unity candidate to concede defeat. The first to accept defeat was President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s former chief of staff Michael Defensor.

 

Recto is the main author of the expanded value-added tax law, which broadened the VAT coverage to include oil products and electricity, the core tax reform of the Arroyo administration.

 

“This is the time to accept the will of the people. But fate has not smiled kindly on us this time. The outpouring of votes is impressive and warmly appreciated but not enough to constitute a mandate to serve,” said Recto, the only reelectonist senator who is outside the Magic 12.

 

“I am grateful that 10 million of my fellow citizens expressed belief in my abilities to represent them. From the bottom of my heart, I thank each one of you for the trust you have reposed in me, including the 22 men and women here who wrote my name on the ballot,” he said.

 

No rancor or bitterness

 

Recto said he did not hold any “rancor or bitterness” in his defeat because he served “to the best of my ability, and always with the best interest of the country in mind.”

 

“If I shall end up as a footnote in history, I shall be blissfully content being remembered as one who chose principles over popularity and did what was right rather than what was expedient,” he said.

 

He quoted his famous grandfather, the late Sen. Claro M. Recto, a nationalist, who said, “The duty of a member of this chamber is not to pander to what is popular but to uphold what is right.”

 

“My grandfather practiced supply-side politics, and that involved voicing contrarian opinions, when popularity contests otherwise known as elections require a candidate to take the safest course to a new mandate, and that is to say what everybody is thinking but in the loudest voice,” said Recto. “I shall now pay the price of my intransigence. But I have no regrets.”

 

He was heartily congratulated by his colleagues and by the staff in the Senate before he left without finishing the session.

Comelec adopts Veterans formula for partylist representation

By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 00:02am (Mla time) 06/05/2007

MANILA, Philippines — (UPDATE) Commission on Elections Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. said the poll body will adopt the so-called Veterans’ formula in allocating party list seats amid opposition from leftwing groups.

 

Abalos said that while the Comelec, sitting as the National Board of Canvassers, has set the proclamation of 10 of 12 winning Senators Wednesday, it could not do the same for party list groups.

 

With the canvassing of votes in the congressional race still ongoing, it will be premature to declare which group gets the most number of seats in the House of Representatives, Abalos said in a press conference Monday.

 

“Because the party that will emerge as number one will be the one to get three seats under the [Veterans’] formula,” he said.

 

The Supreme Court has ruled that in determining the number of additional congressional seats a winning party is entitled to must be consistent with its October 2000 decision in the case of Veterans Federation Party v the Comelec.

 

Under the “Veterans formula,” additional seats for a party may be determined by dividing the number of votes of the concerned party with the number of votes of the party that garnered the highest number of votes. The votes will then be multiplied by the number of additional seats allocated to the number one party.

 

The same formula was adopted by the high court in throwing out a petition by the Citizen’s Battle Against Corruption for a second seat in Congress in April.

 

But some party list groups, including the leftwing Bayan Muna, are not happy with this representation formula.

 

Cibac has dismissed the method as erroneous, adding it contradicts the principle of proportional representation.

 

In a telephone interview, Bayan Muna lawyer Neri Colmenares said the group has been opposing the Veteran’s formula since 2001.

 

“This formula is wrong. The party list encourages more representatives in Congress,” he said, adding the Party-List Law does not say that the first ranked party list group must be rewarded with additional seats in Congress.

 

Colmenares said Bayan Muna will ask the Supreme Court to stop the Comelec from adopting the Veterans’ formula.

 

“I hope the Comelec will change its position,” he said.

Filipino students go back to school amid education worries

Florencio Abad

Associated Press
Last updated 01:16pm (Mla time) 06/04/2007

MANILA, Philippines — Facing a shortage of classrooms and teachers, about 20 million Filipino students headed back to school Monday after a summer break, as police beefed up security to prevent kidnappings of children.

 

The quality of the Philippine education system has been deteriorating for years, as the population booms and money is scarce. Some classes are held in dilapidated buildings with leaking roofs.

 

Sixty percent of students will complete public elementary school, 40 percent will get through high school, and only 20 percent will enter college, according to the Department of Education.

 

A recent national career assessment examination concluded that more than half of high-school students were unfit for further education. And the World Bank cited a 2003 study of trends in mathematics and science that ranked the Philippines in the lowest 10 percent of countries in both subjects.

 

“The situation remains dismal,” former Education Secretary Florencio Abad told The Philippine Daily Inquirer, citing problems of access, high dropout rates and low reading proficiency.

 

The government has set aside funds for new school buildings, education vouchers to subsidize the cost of tuition, teacher training and textbooks. Still, Education Department figures show a shortage of about 16,500 teachers and 6,500 classrooms this school year.

 

At the Rizal High School in Pasig city, a Manila suburb, as many as 60 students were crammed into one room, above the government’s goal of 45 pupils per classroom.

 

“Our target is to lessen the number of students per classroom so they’ll learn more. But we can’t help it. There were simply too many students who enrolled,” said principal Josephine Cruz.

 

Education Secretary Jesli Lapus said the government has started a program to equip 30,000 schools with cable TV sets beaming educational programs.

 

Meanwhile, about 1,000 police officers were looking after schoolchildren in Manila to prevent kidnappings and other crimes, police said.

 

Manila Police district chief Senior Superintendent Danilo Abarzosa said additional officers were deployed to Chinese Filipino schools in the capital’s Chinatown district. Ransom kidnappings frequently target wealthy Chinese Filipinos.

 

Abarzosa said undercover agents were patrolling schools and commuter buses.

Confusion leads to class suspension in Manila school

Confusion leads to class suspension in Manila school
By Allison Lopez
Inquirer
Last updated 09:54pm (Mla time) 06/04/2007

MANILA, Philippines — Classes at the Jose Abad Santos High School in Binondo, Manila were suspended on Monday due to confusion among school officials and students on where classes should be held.

 

Some students went to the school’s new building at Numancia and Urbiztondo Streets, San Nicolas, also in Binondo, while others went to the school’s old campus on La Chambre St., which is about a kilometer away.

 

Almost 80 percent of the school’s equipment and supplies, however, have been moved to the newly built school.

 

Teachers, students and their parents have opposed the transfer of the school to its new location.

 

Evelyn, the parent of a student, said the area had an unfriendly environment.

 

“The new school is surrounded mostly by deserted buildings and commercial establishments. Moreover, our children also have to pass through the Pasig River just to get to school, which is too dangerous for them,” she told the Philippine Daily Inquirer, parent company of INQUIRER.net.

 

Mayor-elect Alfredo Lim went to the school’s new site earlier in the day to talk to students and their parents. Lim and Senator Maria Ana Consuelo “Jamby” Madrigal filed in December a petition asking a Manila court to stop the city government’s plan to convert the school’s old site into a housing and commercial area. The court, however, denied their petition.

 

Pedro Arao, administrative officer of the Department of Education in Manila, said classes would most likely remain suspended at JASHS until Lim and Education Secretary Jesli Lapus could resolve the problem.

 

Except for the buildup in traffic, police officials said that the first day of classes in public schools in Metro Manila had no hitches.

 

“It was not only peaceful, it was also very orderly,” Superintendent Rommel Miranda of the National Capital Region Police Office said.

 

Students of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, meanwhile, protested the 300 percent increase in tuition which would take effect this semester.

 

Their enrollment and registration forms were stamped with the words, “Paid under protest” to show their opposition to the “illegitimate” increase approved by the UP Board of Regents last December.

Fixing education flaws: Textbooks shot through with errors

Part II On education of two parts

By Fernando del Mundo
Inquirer
Last updated 02:38am (Mla time) 06/05/2007

MANILA, Philippines — Antonio Calipjo Go says you only have to look at the textbooks used in public schools to find out what’s wrong with the Philippine education system.

 

“Fifty percent of the books are defective,” says Go, 56, academic supervisor at the tiny Marian School of Quezon City tucked away in the working class district of Novaliches.

 

“That’s being kind. In fact, the figure is higher, closer to 75 percent,” says the man who, in 2002, stirred a hornet’s nest in education circles by exposing more than 400 errors he had found in one public elementary textbook.

 

This time, Go is referring to the seven Social Studies textbooks in Filipino from the Department of Education that will be used in Grades 1-5 this school year.

 

All told, 11.9 million of these books, including teaching manuals, have been published at a cost of P500 million and distributed by contingents of Boy and Girl Scouts after they were delivered across the archipelago in Coca Cola trucks.

 

They were published under President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s Education for All program, which receives funding from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.

 

The program, among other things, calls for the construction of school buildings in all municipalities to allow universal free education, train teachers and strengthen competencies in the core subjects of English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and Filipino.

 

Books are updated every five years and the seven Social Studies textbooks to be used this year represent the first stage of the process. The books were supposed to have been published and distributed last school year, but protests marked the bidding and the initiative was delayed.

 

Around P800 million was originally earmarked to publish 17 million Social Studies textbooks up to high school in the first stage. Protests held up the rest of the project.

 

Losers are children

 

“Suppliers are like politicians; they don’t want to lose,” says Education Secretary Jesli Lapus. “The process gets to be protracted and the losers are the children.”

 

The next batch of textbooks on English subjects will be distributed before the end of the school year.

 

The latest effort to revise learning materials came amid rising concern that the Philippine education system has not kept abreast of the demands of globalization and unhappiness over the performance of Filipino students in international competitions.

 

When the seven new books came out, a set was received at the Marian School gate last November with an unsigned note to Go urging him to conduct a review.

 

“We have seen their contents and we need your second opinion. We are clutching at straws … Please do not disappoint us,” says the anonymous note writer.

 

Go, who has become a devil’s advocate to government functionaries and academicians with doctorates from elite schools, obliged.

 

Barely literate graduates

 

He has expressed alarm that the public school system has produced nothing more than “half-baked, barely literate graduates.”

 

Go has made improving education his advocacy. He has spent more than P800,000 to publish the blunders he had found in the DepEd textbooks, for which he has earned libel suits and brickbats. He shrugs them off.

 

In a congressional hearing called by Sen. Panfilo Lacson in January, Go detailed the “factual and conceptual” errors he had uncovered upon review of the seven books published under the $200-million Second Social Expenditure Management Project funded by the World Bank.

 

Over 100 errors

 

In at least one book for Grade 3, “Ang Bagong Pilipino” (The New Filipino) by Expectacion Castor-Gonzales and published by Daewoo International Corp. JV of South Korea and Mary Jo Publishing House Inc., Go listed more than 100 errors.

 

Example: Nahiwalay ang Pilipinas sa Asya at naging pulu-pulo nang lumubog ang mga tulay na lupa sa pagkatunaw ng yelo noong Panahon ng Yelo (The Philippines separated from Asia and became an archipelago when the land bridges were submerged as a result of the melting of the ice during the Ice Age.)

 

Webster says Ice Age refers to “a time of widespread glaciation.” It was freezing then. Global warming was not yet in the lexicon of the era.

 

The seven books had supposedly gone through a four-stage evaluation by a panel that included academics from topnotch schools.

 

Money-making

 

During the Senate inquiry, claims of irregularities in the bidding and the textbook procurement program were aired. However, there has been no resolution to the allegations.

 

Lacson himself says some congressmen have used hearings as money-making propositions, threatening to call inquiries and then dropping them off after receiving payoffs from publishers. However, he did not name them.

 

“It’s an unending cacophony. It’s all noise. We’re not doing anything about it,” says Go. “Delegations of congressmen come here. Nothing has happened after the photo ops.”

 

One good thing came out of the January hearing. Following Go’s exposé, the DepEd again had the newly issued books reviewed by its staff and academicians.

 

Invited by the department to discuss the purported blunders, Go declined and told Undersecretary Franklin Sunga that unless independent observers were present, he would not participate. He never heard again from Sunga.

 

The DepEd told the Philippine Daily Inquirer on May 17 that the panel had again reviewed the seven books after the Lacson hearing and found the percentage of “correctness” of each of them ranged from 90 to 99.48.

 

“Ang Bagong Pilipino” rated 89.95-93.97 percent. The errors were 9 conceptual, 20 factual and 47 language and others which were unspecified.

 

Correction leaflets

 

DepEd officials say leaflets containing the corrections have been published and are being distributed to teachers. They are hoping that the errata leaflets will reach all schools before classes open.

 

Edita A. Tan, a University of the Philippines-Diliman professor emeritus, laments that the DepEd has not developed a credible program for improving the quality of textbooks.

 

“Apparently, education majors instead of field specialists write the textbooks. I suggest that the DepEd launch a program for reviewing each textbook in elementary and high school and have experts in each field to write new ones,” she says.

 

“The education people should help in adapting the language to the various grade levels. They should not be the ones to write Math, Science, Social Studies, History and English as they have no expertise in these subjects,” Tan says.

 

“There are allegations that the textbook department in the DepEd works with writers for monopolizing the production of textbooks. There is money in this business. Textbooks are quite expensive despite their poor content and poor printing quality,” she adds.

 

“Elementary and high schools, public as well as private, do not provide libraries and laboratory facilities. How can our students learn if they do not have books to read and laboratories to experiment in?” she says.

 

Lapses acknowledged

 

Executive Director Socorro Pilor of the DepEd’s Instructional Materials Council Secretariat acknowledges lapses in the textbooks in spite of the department’s efforts to tighten evaluation procedures.

 

“They were not too sharp or meticulous, or perhaps the time given to evaluators was not enough,” Pilor says. On the whole, she says “the books are still useful.”

 

She also outlined plans to mobilize professionals from UP and the Ateneo de Manila University to be involved in the evaluation and review processes in English textbooks.

 

With Go’s exposés, however, she says the experts from the elite schools seemed a little gun shy for fear of being embarrassed. “It makes it doubly difficult to choose the better reviewers,” says Pilor.

 

Heads will roll

 

Secretary Lapus says the DepEd is introducing more innovations in the bidding process in an effort to eliminate flaws in textbooks.

 

“Heads will roll,” he says of those whose books are found to be flawed. “They will no longer be eligible … we will never use them again.”

 

Lapus took over as President Macapagal-Arroyo’s fifth education secretary. A former banker and congressman, he has a reputation as a crisis manager. He welcomes criticism of the department and is determined to push through education reforms.

 

Go suggests: “Pay good evaluators so the books come out right. Teach what is right. The abysmal quality of our textbooks is the root cause of the deterioration of our education system. When we teach wrong concepts, they are perpetuated.”

 

List of Party List Nominees Revealed

This is what I get from CIBAC .

List of Party List Nominees Revealed
Sunday, 06 May 2007
1-United Transport Koalisyon (1- Utak)

1. Vigor Ma. D. Mendoza II
2. Homero A. Mercado
3. Zenaida J. De Castro
4. Efren A. De Luna
5. Ryan Benjamin C. Yu

(Akong Ako Kasosyo Party) Kasosyo Producer- Exchange Association, Inc. (AA- KASOSYO)

1. Dionisio Magpantay
2. Felix A. Brawner, Jr.
3. Caridad R. Delgado
4. Luis R. Casimiro
5. Alberto L. Ong, Jr.
6. Francis T. Afulugencia

Aangat Tayo (AT)

1. Daryl Grace J. Abayon
2. Eden Debulgado Rivera
3. Meriam Lasta Paylaga
4. Jean Andaca Bautista
5. Dannelyn J. Letran

Abakada-Guro Party (ABAKADA)

1. Jonathan A. dela Cruz
2. Samson S. Alcantara
3. Cecilia M. Dy
4. Jose Floro Crisologo
5. Jerry D. Alfonso

Abanse Pinay (ABANSE PINAY)

1. Teresa Banaynal Fernandez
2. Kalayaan Pulido-Constantino
3. Yasmin B. Lao
4. Rebecca N. Tanada
5. Isabelita Solamo Constantino
6. Lucia Evelina O. Melecio-Tan
7. Paulina Lawsin Nayra
8. Mary Ann Duran-Dino

Abante Ilonggo Inc. (ABA ILONGO)

1. Aguinaldo L. Miravalles
2. Arturo P. Mejorada
3. Robert C. Doromal
4. Anecito B. Magbato
5. Rogelio S. Setubal

Abono Party List (ABONO)

1. Roberto Raymund M. Estrella
2. Francisoc Emmanuel R. Ortega
3. Ramon M. Morden
4. Rosendo O. So
5. Fa Sison Almasan

Action for Democracy and Development – Tribal People (ADD-TRIBAL)

1. Dr. Abdurahman U. Amin
2. Dr. Nejemah Mokiin S. Malna
3. Datu Tayam P. Sangki
4. Atty. Hasan G. Alam
5. John Albert E. Cerveza

Action for Teacher Empowerment through Action Cooperation and Harmony Towards Educational Reforms ( A TEACHER )

1. Mariano U. Piamonte Jr.
2. Ulpiano P. Sarmiento III
3. Carolina C. Porio
4. Nenita V. Habulan
5. Julieta R. Cortuna

Advocates for Special Children and the Handicapped Movement (ASAHAN MO)

1. Oscar G. Yabes
2. David Jonathan V. Yap
3. Lino Siao Ong
4. Jose L. Lipa, Jr.
5. Voltaire Dela Cruz Mauricio

Agbiag! Timpuyog Ilocano, Inc. (AGBIAG)

1. Marcelo T. Farinas II
2. Samuel V. Tomas
3. Rogelio G. Mendoza
4. Ruth Joy L. Guinid
5. Alex M. Manalo

Aging Pilipino Organization, Inc. (AGING PINOY)

1. Edwin L. Lisondra
2. Ernesto M. Camaino
3. Rosalinda V. Dacanay
4. Alma A. Lood
5. Esther B. Sales

Agricultural Sector Alliance of the Philippines (AGAP)

1. Nicanor M. Briones
2. Cesar A. Cobrador
3. Rico B. Geron
4. Albert Roque T. Lim
5. Victorino Michael I. Lescano

Ahon Pinoy (AHON)

1. Dante Francis M. Ang II
2. Bernardo F. Ople
3. Ernesto C. Herrera III
4. Alfredo M. De La Rosa
5. Ricardo S. Arevalo

Ahonbayan (AHONBAYAN)

1. Edgar A. Catarongan
2. Edgardo C. Manda
3. Raden C. Sakaluran
4. Antonio Mariano C. Almeda
5. Erlindo L. Modar

Akbay Pinoy OFW – National, Inc (APOI)

1. Melchor P. Rosales
2. Floyd N. Feraren
3. Adelaida S. Lazaro
4. Alexander S. Galura
5. Zenaida D. Toledo

Akbayan Citizens’ Action Party (AKBAYAN)

1. Ana Theresia Hontiveros-Baraquel
2. Walden F. Bello
3. Enrico G. Dayanghirang
4. Byron D. Bocar
5. Vicente A. Fabe

Aksyon Sambayanan (AKSA)

1. Elizabeth C. Angsioco
2. Timoteo Aa. Aranjuez
3. Mao K. Andong, Jr.
4. Fernando D. Gana
5. Donna Antoinette A. Casio
6. Hadji A. Balajadia

Alagad (ALAGAD) 1st set of nominees:

1. Rodante D. Marcoleta
2. Alberto M. Malvar
3. Sergio C. Manzana
4. Renato S. Cabling
5. Miguelito C. Bajas

2nd set on nominees

1. Diogenes D. Osabel
2. Julian C. Mislang, Jr.
3. Ric O. Domingo
4. Henry A. Asistin
5. Hermenegildo T. Encierto, Jr.

Alay sa Bayan ng Malayang Propesyonal at Repormang Kalakal (ABAY PARAK)

1. Nilo L. Geon zon
2. Datu Michael A. Kida
3. Virgilio M. Acabal
4. Mervin S. Natalicio
5. Nilo R. Quiros

Alliance for Barangay Concerns (ABC)

1. Rafaelito N. Villavicencio
2. Josephine G. Herrera
3. Jovita Tuela Z. Ouano
4. Emmanuel Thomas H. Neria

Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD)

1. Pastor M. Alcover, Jr
2. Ruben R. Platon
3. David S. Odilao, Jr.
4. Provo B. Antipasado, Jr.
5. Domingo M. Balang

Alliance of Associations of Accredited Workers in the Water Sector (AAWAS)

1. Ranulfo C. Feliciano
2. Isidro G. Lapuz
3. Lope B. Santos III
4. Atty. Ranulfo P. Verian
5. Engr. Ascencion G. Fonte Jr.

Alliance of Neo-Conservatives (ANC)

1. Gamaliel A. Cordoba
2. Quirino D. Dela Torre
3. Emilio B. Cayadona
4. Manuel C. Reyes, Jr.
5. Rene P. De Assis, Jr.

Alliance of People’s Organization (APO)

1. Oscar A. Marmeto
2. Val Adriano Guevara
3. Remigio C. Agustin
4. Allan M. Maasir
5. Cesar Y. Palma

Alliance for Rural Concerns (ARC)

1. Narciso D. Santiago III
2. Oscar D. Francisco
3. Kashmir B. Leyretana
4. Basilio P. Propongo
5. Isidro A. Suedad

Alliance of Vendors & Traders of the Phils. (VENDORS)

1. Yussu C. R. Macalangcom
2. Naguib A. Munder
3. Saidamen M. Tabao
4. Hilda Sacay-Clave
5. Narciso G. Quiogue

Alliance of Volunteer Educators (AVE)

1. Eulogio R. Magsaysay
2. Jose C. Baesa
3. Adelaida R. Magsaysay
4. Percival J. Macapagal
5. Aladino L. Leccio

Alliance Transport Sector (ATS)

1. Jaime S. Domdom
2. Sarcawi H. Nasser
3. Leopoldo M. Villarena
4. Floro S. Arceta
5. Benjamin E. Rubio

Alyansa ng Mamamayang Naghihirap (ALMANA)

1. Honesto L. Cueva
2. Ernesto R. Arellano
3. Eduardo F. Landayan
4. Lourdes A. Gula
5. Mario L. Aguirre

Akapin (AKAPIN)

1. Oscar J. Taleon
2. Teofilo B. dela Cruz
3. Jonathan P. Capanas
4. Marlon C. Advincula
5. Carmen R. Zubiage

Alyansa ng mga Grupoing Haligi ng Teknolohiya para sa Mamamayan (AGHAM)

1. Emil Q. Javier
2. Saeed Sarapio A. Daof
3. Angel C. Alcala
4. Mario M. Movillon
5. Ruben C. Gamala

Alyansa ng Sambayan para sa Pagbabago (ASAP)

1. Voltaire Francisco B. Banzon
2. Roy P. Mahinay Sr.
3. Carlito B. Cubelo
4. Anthony B. Francisco
5. Leonora M. Protacio
6. Amado J. Domingo

Aba-ako (ABA-AKO)

1. Leonardo Q. Montemayor
2. Dioscoro A. Granada
3. Manuel G. Arejola
4. Percival C. Chavez
5. Bernadette B. Lingo
6. Rene C. Bullecer

An Waray (AN WARAY)

1. Florencio Gabriel G. Noel
2. Neil Benedict A. Montejo
3. Michelle P. Mendiola
4. Jason L. Alve
5. Ranilo T. Maat

Anak Mindanao (AMIN)

1. Mujiv S. Hataman
2. Ariel C. Hernandez
3. Arnel N. Arbison
4. Erlinda N. Senturias
5. Quini Gine W. Areola

Anak Pawis (ANAK PAWIS)

1. Crispin B. Beltran
2. Rafael V. Mariano
3. Joel B. Maglunsod
4. Fernando L. Hicap
5. Ferdinand R. Gaite
6. (not submitted)
7. Jaime S. Paglinawan
8. Orly E. Marcellana
9. Joselito V. Ustarez
10. Wilfredo A. Marbella
11. Jose Roy G. Velez
12. Nicolas S. Galia
13. Carmen T. Buena
14. Jacinto F. Tanduyan
15. Medardo R. Roda

Ang Bagong Bayan na Magtataguyod ng Demokratikong Ideolohiya at Layunin (BANDILA)

1. Luth Myr P. Teoxon
2. Lucas M. Managuelod
3. Benasing A. Macarambon III
4. Alexander D. Mañalac
5. Gilberto A. Ricafort

Ang Galing Pinoy (A.G.)

1. Bernardo R. Corella Jr.
2. Ronnie D. Remedios
3. Leborio M. Jangao Jr.
4. Bai H. Laila Y. Abbas
5. Enrique S. Atanacio

Ang Laban ng Indiginong Filipino (ALIF)

1. Hon. Acmad M. Tomawis
2. Aissah M. Tomawis
3. Raima Macalandong T. Cali
4. Jamela M. Tomawis
5. Gamal M. Tomawis

Ang Samahan sng mga Mangangalakal para sa Ikauunlad ng Lokal na Ekonomiya (A SMILE)

1. Eduardo Ma. R. Santos
2. Ronald Francisco Lim
3. Anthony P. Dequiña
4. Jaime G. Napoles
5. Manuel R. Jarmin

Angat Antas Kabuhayan Pilipino Movement (Aangat Ka Pilipino)

1. Eduardo C. Morales
2. Nasser J. Halipa
3. Solomon C. Cnoy
4. Ephraim P. Advincula
5. Elias B. Beltran

Aangat Ating Kabuhayan Pilipinas, Inc (ANAK)

1. Eduardo B. Octaviano, Jr.
2. Delfin C. Genio Jr.
3. Kenneth T. Gatchalian
4. Ramon L. Morillo
5. Marcelo D. Sigue

Arts Business and Science Professionals (ABS)

1. Catalina G. Leonen-Pizarro
2. Eugene Michael B. De Vera
3. Catalino O. Lanting
4. Yolanda C. Aguilar
5. Mary T. Jazul
6. Justino I. Valdez

Asosasyon ng mga Maliliit na Negosyanteng Gumaganap (AMANG)

1. Marcelino P. Arias
2. Giovanni H. Melgar
3. Enrique M. Fajardo
4. Agustin B. Abella
5. Isagani G. Calderon

Assalam Bangsamoro People’s Party (ASSALAM)

1. Datu Pendatun B. Disimban
2. Bai Sittie Zohora Montañer
3. Jolly S. Lais
4. Anwat Tucar Rasul
5. Abdulrakman D. Ampatuan

Association of Administrators, Professional and Seniors (AAPS)

1. Edna B. Azurin
2. Joseph D. Logronio
3. Rene B. Azurin
4. Josegfina E. San Juan
5. Felicisima S. Teododro

Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives (APEC)

1. Edgar L. Valdez
2. Ernesto C. Pablo
3. Sunny Rose A. Madamba
4. Mariano C. Corvera, Jr.
5. Ponciano D. Payuyo
6. Lamberto M. Canlas

Babae para sa Kaunlaran (BABAE KA)

1. Rosalinda Q. Dagami
2. Ruth E. Vasquez
3. Maria Corazon M. Tumang
4. Aida Cristina M. Sunga
5. Ma. Luisa Z. Lantin*

Bago National Cultural Society of the Philippines, Inc. (BAGO)

1. Alexander G. Bistoyong
2. Perfecto U. Litap
3. Rudolfo A. Lockey
4. Inocencio G. Carganilla
5. George D. Banayos

BATAS

1. Daniel S. Razon
2. Melanio L. Mauricio, Jr.
3. Jose Y. Sonza
4. Ariel M. Pacis
5. Olivia G. Coo

Bagong Tao Movement (BTM)

1. Arthur Alvin A. Aguilar
2. Mignon M. Fernando
3. Armando M. Escanto
4. Norman Vincent S. Bungubung
5. Richard V. Reverente

Bahandi sa Kaumahan’ug Kadagatan (BAHANDI)

1. Ali B. Sangki
2. Eduard B. Trinidad
3. Jose G. Agduma
4. Esteban M. Salinas
5. Julio R. Bincay

Barangay Association for National Advancement and Transparency (BANAT)

1. Salvador B. Britanico
2. Raul Lambino
3. Joel C. Mendez
4. Ricardo G. San Juan, Jr.
5. Rodolfo R. Zalazar

Bayan Muna (BAYAN MUNA)

1. Saturnino C. Ocampo
2. Teodoro A. Casiño
3. Neri J. Colminares
4. Elpidio A. Pulmano
5. Alfonso M. Cinco IV
6. Siegfred D. Deduro
7. Roman L. Polintan
8. Bayani O. Cabronero

Bayan Muna (BAYAN MUNA)

1. Saturnino C. Ocampo
2. Teodoro A. Casiño
3. Neri J. Colminares
4. Elpidio A. Pulmano
5. Alfonso M. Cinco IV
6. Siegfred D. Deduro
7. Roman L. Polintan
8. Bayani O. Cabronero
9. Hope V. Hervilla
10. Cynthia N. Lumbera
11. Joven G. Laura

Bigkis Pinoy Movement (BIGKIS)

1. Sheryl G. See
2. Johnny G. Tan
3. Carlos A. Bathan
4. Mario B. Cornista
Biyaheng Pinoy (BP)

1. Jesus C. Cruz
2. Arsenio S. Abalos
3. Mary Rose Magsaysay-Crisostomo
4. Danilo B. Cagas
5. Muamar Abudurahim Akbar

Biyayang Bukid (BIYAYANG BUKID)

1. Teofilo M. Villamar
2. John Erwin S. Teodoro
3. Teodoro G. Montoro
4. Arsenio A. Esteras, Jr.
5. Albino C. Pardiñez, Jr.

Buhay Hayaan Yumabong (BUHAY) 1st set of nominees:

1. Hans Christian M. Señeres
2. Hermenegildo C. Dumlao
3. Antonio R. Bautista
4. Victor Pablo C. Trinidad
5. Eduardo C. Solangon, Jr.

2nd set of nominees:

1. Rene M. Velarde
2. Ma. Carissa O. Coscolluela
3. William Irwin C. Tieng
4. Melchor R. Monsod
5. Teresita B. Villarama

Citizen’s Battle Against Corruption (CIBAC)

1. Emmanuel Joel J. Villanueva
2. Atty. Cinchona C. Gonzales
3. Sherwin N. Tugna
4. Emil L. Galang

Coalition of Associations of Senior Citizens in the Philippines (SENIOR CITIZENS, INC.)

1. Atty. Godofredo V. Arquiza
2. Jose T. Pamplona, Sr.
3. Bienvenido M. Lim Rañola
4. Marcelino M. dela Cruz
5. Luciano E. Beltran
6. Atty. Benjamin M. Tomimbang, Sr.
Cocofed-Philippine Coconut Producers Federation, Inc. (COCOFED)

1. Domingo P. Espina
2. Efren M. Villaseñor
3. Saida E. Wong
4. Federico M. Mortola
5. Oscar T. Pialago

Confederation of Grains Retailers Association of the Philippines (GRECON)

1. Pablo R. Gonzales, Jr.
2. Helen M. Osin
3. Zenaida D. Lim
4. Fortunato Y. Miranda
5. Celsa J. Bernales

COOP-NATCCO Network Party (COOPNATCCO)

1. Guillermo P. Cua
2. Jose R. Ping-ay
3. Cresente C. Paez
4. Luis D. Carrillo
5. Romulo F. Caceres
6. Emmanuel L. Solis, Jr.

Democratic Independent Workers Association (DIWA)

1. Emmeline Y. Aglipay
2. Pepito M. Pico
3. Jamairy L. Domado
4. J. Roberto L. Abling
5. Luisita P. Agbayani

Filipinos for Peace, Justice and Progress Movement (FPJPM)

1. Lorenzo Y. Cadsawan
2. Oscar A. Valera Jr.
3. Roger M. Federezo
4. Evangeline G. Reyes
5. Amoran Mai Batara

Gabriela Women’s Party (Gabriela)

1. Liza T. Largoza-Maza
2. Luzviminda C. Ilagan
3. Flora Belinan
4. Nenita Cherniguin
5. Helen Asdolo
6. Maria Lourdes T. Jarabe
7. Nenita M. Tampico
8. Lucia F. Francisco
9. Elena L. Bianan
10. Marites L. Pielago

Hanay ng Aping Pinoy (HAPI)

1. Jamie Flores Zarraga
2. Tranquilino Urmeneta Picson
3. Nino Tolentino Zarraga
4. Ricardo Bopte Pajarillaga
5. Edgardo Macario Roxas

Kabataan Party-list (Kabataan)

1. Raymond V. Palatino
2. Enrico P. Almonguerra
3. Mary Francis Veloso
4. Mark Lovis B. Galanga
5. Ma. Clarizza Z. Singson
6. Angela B. Colmenares-Sabino

Kabukluran ng mga Kababaihan Filipina sa Timog Katagalugan Inc. (Buklod Filipina)

1. Zenaida T. Tobias
2. Cynthia L. Lising
3. Virginia A. Teodosio
4. Cristina C. Pacheco
5. Josefina T. Fuentes

Kalahi-Advocates for Overseas Filipino (KALAHI)

1. Apostol Poe M. Gratela
2. Karlo Alexi B. Nograles
3. Luisito V. Clavano
4. Sunday Manlangit Olis
5. Russel Contemplacion Almarez

Kapatiran ng mga Kulong na Walang Sala (KAKUSA)

1. Ranulfo P. Canonigo
2. Omar A. Rivera
3. Ma. Jesusa A. Sespene
4. Josie F. Manalo
5. Ophelia G. Javier

Kasangga sa Kaunlaran Inc. (Ang Kasangga)

1. Gaspar DL. Gamban
2. Alvin L, Cabatit
3. Felicitas R. Lomotan
4. Rosalito D. Trinidad
5. Albert K. Suarez

Butil Farmers Party (BUTIL)

1. Leonila V. Chavez
2. Agapito H. Guanlao
3. Herminio G. Ocampo
4. Reynaldo C. Capalad
5. Rufino C. Hernandez

Novelty Entrepreneurship and Livelihood for Food Inc. (NEELFFI)

1. Hussein P. Pangandaman
2. Perla C. Baldemor
3. Rogelio F. Valle
4. Mohammad Isa Perfecto C. Vergel de Dios Jr.
5. Alfredo I. Nengasca
6. Reuben F. Valle

Parents Enabling Parents (PEP)

1. Philip H. Piccio
2. Vicente P. Ortuoste
3. Victoria Gomez Jacinto
4. Cornelio C. Zafra
5. Jocelyn M. Upano

Partido ng Manggagawa (PM)

1. Gerardo F. Rivera
2. Judy Ann C. Miranda
3. Ma. Luisa P. Parroco
4. Eliseo D. Alim

People’s Movement Against Poverty (PMAP)

1. Ronaldo A. Lumbao
2. Benita C. Tanyag
3. Cynthia I. Villarin
4. Jervina N. Maglunob
5. Amado S. Masulit

Pwersa ng Bayaning Atleta (PBA)

1. Davey Christian R. Chua
2. Enrico A. Pineda
3. Jerry Herman G. Cordiñera
4. Orlando G. Castelo
5. Steven Anthony T. Relova

Sandigang Maralita (SM)

1. Sultan Moh’d Yussoph Abdulkhayer P.C. Sambitory
2. Datu Alioden P. Noor Jr.
3. Sdg. Salem O. Batua-An
4. Bai Johaimah N. Sacar
5. Mr. Erwin B. Culanag

Sanlakas

1. Jose Virgilio L. Bautista
2. Nilda C. Lagman-Sevilla
3. Wilson M. Fortaleza
4. Flora A. Santos
5. Bibiano C. Rivera

Seaman’s Party Inc. (SPI)

1. Nestor M. Vargas
2. Danila R. Mauro
3. Marcelino J. Villanueva
4. Rodrigo A. De Villa
5. Ulyses M. Sapalo

Suara Bangsamoro Party-list (SUARA)

1. Zaynab A. Ampatuan
2. Amirah Ali Lidasan
3. Samaon Sammy Buat
4. Macasalong P. Sarip
5. Fridah G. Olama

Sulong Barangay Movement (SB)

1. Efren O. Docena
2. Roberto G. Brillante
3. Jorge M. Mariano
4. Fustino S. Tugade, Jr.
5. Romeo T. Valorozo

The True Marcos Loyalist Association Inc. (BANTAY)

1. Jovito S. Palparan, Jr.
2. Ramon Y. Garcia
3. Benjamin I. Angeles
4. Alan L. Guevara
5. Agnes L. Reaño

Trade Union Congress Party (TUCP)

1. Raymond D.C. Mendoza
2. Arnel Z. Dolendo
3. Alexander H.G. Aguilar
4. Temistocles S. Dejon, Jr.
5. Michael D.C. Mendoza

Union of the Masses for Democracy and Justice (UMDJ)

1. Virgilio S. Eustaquio
2. Salvador S. Panelo
3. Ruben S. Dionisio
4. Denis P. Ibona

United Movement Against Drugs Foundation Inc. (UNI MAD)

1. Teodoro L. Lim
2. Alphonsus P. Crucero
3. Enrique B. Galang Jr.
4. Antonio M. Rom III
5. Manuel C. Mendoza

Veterans Freedom Party (VFP) 1st set of nominees:

1. Estrella DL. Santos
2. Ma. Esperanza H. de Ocampo
3. Rey P. Gavina
4. Peregrino M. Andres
5. Justice Manuel R. Pamaran

2nd set of nominees:

1. Rodrigo B. Gutang
2. Francisco L. Tolin
3. Juanito B. Aquias
4. Jaime C. Echeverria
5. Nestor C. Castillo

You Against Corruption and Poverty (YACAP)

1. Carol Jayne B. Lopez
2. Haron D. Omar
3. Ernesto A. Moya
4. Arnel A. Zapatos
5. Alexis Wayne P. Valdivia