2010 poll automation uncertain

By Fel V. Maragay
About l7 months before the 2010 elections, the automation of the voting and counting process remains uncertain because the Commission on Elections, Malaca?ang and Congress could not get their act together to get the ambitious project going.

Senate vows quick action on ?baselines?

When it resumes sumes session on Jan. l9, the Senate will tackle on the floor the archipelagic baselines bill with or without its sponsor, Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago.

Freeze order on Bolante lapses

By Rey E. Requejo
FORMER Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn ?Joc-Joc? Bolante can now do whatever he wants with the 32 bank accounts suspected to have been used to funnel the P728 million in fertilizer funds with the lapse of the freeze order on them by the Court of Appeals.

Police trust rating rises; Puno cautiously optimistic

By Romie A. Evangelista
The National Police?s public trust rating rose from 22 percent in 2006 to 49 percent in 2008, based on the latest Social Weather Stations survey, Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno said yesterday.

P2-b earnings a record for Immigration bureau

THE Immigration bureau breached the P2-billion income mark in 2008, the first time since it joined the group of billion-peso earning agencies and departments six years ago.

Environment regional heads revamped

Environment Secretary Joselito Atienza issued a special order reorganizing his department?s regional executive directors.