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Thursday, June 20, 2013

P.Noy Cabinet:Who are the best cabinet members?


In the early days of the Aquino administration, Senator Joker Arroyo voiced out his tirades against the administration  for running the country like a "student government".
The Aquino Cabinet
OfficeNameTerm
PresidentBenigno Aquino III2010–present
Vice PresidentJejomar Binay2010–present
Executive SecretaryPaquito Ochoa, Jr.2010–present
Secretary of Agrarian ReformVirgilio de los Reyes2010–present
Secretary of AgricultureProceso Alcala2010–present
Secretary of Budget and ManagementFlorencio Abad2010–present
Secretary of EducationBr. Armin Luistro FSC2010–present
Secretary of EnergyJericho Petilla2010–present(Jericho "ICOT" Petilla)
Secretary of Environment & Natural ResourcesRamon Paje2010–present
Secretary of FinanceCesar Purisima* ‡2010–present
Secretary of Foreign AffairsAlbert del Rosario2011–present
Secretary of HealthEnrique Ona* ‡2010–present
Secretary of the Interior and Local GovernmentMar Roxas2010–present
Benigno Aquino III2010–2010
Secretary of JusticeLeila de Lima* ‡2010–present
Secretary of Labor and EmploymentRosalinda Baldoz* ‡2010–present
Secretary of National DefenseVoltaire Gazmin2010–present
Secretary of Public Works & HighwaysRogelio Singson2010–present
Secretary of Science & TechnologyEngr. Mario Montejo2010–present
Secretary of Social Welfare & DevelopmentCorazon Soliman2010–present
Secretary of TourismRamon Jimenez2011–present
Secretary of Trade & IndustryGregory Domingo2010–present
Secretary of Transportation and CommunicationsJoseph Emilio Aguinaldo Abaya2011–present
Jose de Jesus2010–2011
Presidential Management StaffJulia Razon Abad2010–present
Presidential Adviser on National SecurityCesar Garcia2010–present
Presidential Adviser on Peace ProcessTeresita Deles2010–present
AFP Chief of StaffGen. Eduardo Oban Jr.2011–present
PNP Director GeneralDir. Gen. Raul Bacalzo2010–present
CHED ChairmanDr. Patricia Licuanan2010–present
Presidential SpokespersonEdwin Lacierda2010–present
Secretary of Presidential Communications
Development and Strategic Planning
Ricky Carandang2010–present
Secretary of the Presidential
Communications Operations Office
Sonny Coloma2010–present
National Economic and Development AuthorityCayetano Paderanga, Jr.2010–present
*Retained from previous administration.
‡ Promoted from lower office(s).
Joker, look what the "student government" has done !

Amid global fears of a double-dip recession, the Philippines represents a countercyclical story of growth and resilience. It is expected to expand by 5.5-6 percent this year. The currency has been relatively strong, while the stock market has been among the most bullish in Asia. The first quarter was most encouraging: the economy grew above 6 percent, while exports expanded by 7.7 percent. The country is also enjoying an 'era of moderation': interest rates are at around 4 percent, inflation is barely above 3 percent, and the debt-to-GDP ratio is at a historic low -- allowing considerable space for borrowing and monetary easing.

This sound economic environment explains why even "Dr. Doom" Nouriel Roubini has identified the Philippines as among the most resilient of key Asian economies in terms of responding to a major global shock. According to the Roubini Global Economics report, the country has considerable monetary-fiscal wiggle room to respond to growing volatility in the center-economies (i.e., euro zone, U.S., Japan, and China) and geopolitical uncertainties in the Persian Gulf. From Huff Post


Finance minister of the year 2012 
Cesar Purisima, the finance minister of the Philippines, has been named as Euromoney's Finance Minister of the Year for 2012. 

Filipino Albert del Rosario a lone Asean voice taking on China
Placing consensus above all, it is fair to say that Asean leaders are generally not known for their displays of emotion or passion.

Yet, in a crucial closed-door meeting in July, Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario tried to tap those dormant qualities as he tried to rally his peers to stand up to China over the South China Sea.
Trying, in the words of one observer, "to bloody well wake them up", del Rosario quoted the famous lines from German theologian Martin Niemöller of the perils of doing nothing in the face of mounting tyranny. Describing how the Nazis, unopposed, first came for the communists and then the trade unionists, Niemöller said: "Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no-one left to speak out for me."

Rarely has the Association of Southeast Asian Nations heard such language within its staterooms. "It was classic del Rosario," said one Asean envoy. "He's not afraid to appeal to our better selves … and he's not afraid to stand up and be counted when it comes to the South China Sea." From South China Morning Post



"The Philippines is its people. And its people are the Philippines."
—Ramon R. Jimenez Jr.

Ramon Jinmenez
He took over the helm of the Tourism Department from Alberto Lim who resigned on August 12, 2011. According to a report in Business Week Mindanao, as head of the tourism department after September 2011, an initial challenge for Jimenez was to come up with a catchy tagline to promote travel visits to the Philippines to compete with tourism campaigns for nations such as Brazil and India and Singapore.[8] Jimenez was quoted in the journal Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation about his sense of advertising:
The Philippines is its people. And its people are the Philippines.
—Ramon R. Jimenez Jr. From Wikipedia

CREDIBLE!
Secretary Edwin Lacierda is the Presidential Spokesperson of Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III, and an incumbent member of the Philippine Cabinet.[1] Prior to this, he was the spokesperson for the presidential campaign of then Senator Aquino from November 2009 up to the elections in May 2010.