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The First Family

Shame and scandal in the family

The Arroyos have weathered allegations that range from keeping secret bank accounts to getting money from illegal gambling.

FROM overpriced highways to secret bank accounts, to gambling lords and thoroughbred horses, controversies have hounded the Arroyo administration long before wiretapped conversations implying election fraud hogged the headlines. And it is not only the president who has more than once been asked to account for charges of improper behavior; so too have husband Mike, eldest child Mikey, and brother-in-law Ignacio Arroyo.

Read more… | Posted Saturday, July 2nd, 2005

In Tarlac, CARP gives land to the wealthy

by Luz Rimban

BGY TINANG, CONCEPCION, Tarlac – When President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo last week began her six-year term, her inaugural address had one glaring omission: it made no mention of land reform.

But it was an omission that was barely noticed. To many, and especially to the government, land reform is practically a done deal, a program nearly complete, and about which little more need be said.

Read more… | Posted Monday, July 5th, 2004