Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Ronnie Puno has been authorized by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to suspend all Maguindanao officials after the mass murders of a least 57 people in the province last Monday. The president has given Sec. Ronnie Puno “full powers of supervision” to carry out his own recommendation to suspend all government, military and police officials in Maguindanao. He was... 

It is expected that President Gloria Arroyo will sign on Friday the law extending the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Act (CARP) in Bulacan. Known as the Carper law, legislators make this as a tribute to the late President Corazon Aquino since it was during her administration when the CARP was granted. However, the signing of the CARP extension with Reforms is also significant to Arroyo because her father, President Diosdado...