ARMED Forces Chief of Staff Generoso Senga has ordered the relief of two officers for defying a Malacañang directive allowing military officers to testify before congressional inquiries only upon approval of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. ...

TWO military officers today told the Senate defense committee that the Commission on Elections, aided by other top military officials, maneuvered to “slacken” security in Lanao del Sur, leaving the door open to massive cheating in the province in the...

JUAN Miguel Luz is staying put as education undersecretary for finance and will bring a case before the Civil Service Commission if Malacañang insists on sacking him.Luz, a career executive service officer, is scheduled to meet with Executive...

MANY Filipinos do not see martial law as a means of getting the country out of the political and economic quagmire it is in, according to a Pulse Asia survey. Pulse Asia’s  July 2005 nationwide survey of 1,200 respondents found nearly...

PRESIDENT Arroyo cannot sack Juan Miguel Luz as education undersecretary without cause because he is a career executive service officer (CESO) and holds a regular item in the government plantilla. Civil Service Commission Chairperson Karina...

DECLARING that she is tired of "chasing the bully around the schoolyard," Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's tough-talking days are back and could actually signal a role reversal, with Malacañang hereon taking the offensive and the president...

PRESIDENT Arroyo has fired Juan Miguel Luz as education undersecretary in what appears to be the fallout from the Department of Education’s refusal to accept three postdated checks Malacañang had released for Zambales Rep. Antonio...