Tag: Edwin Lacierda

Lacierda, tinawag na eksperto sa korapsyon si VP Binay

Tinawag na eksperto sa korapsyon ni Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda si Vice President Jejomar Binay. Tugon ito ni Lacierda sa patutsada ng kampo ng United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) na hindi dapat tawaging bottom-up budgeting kundi bribe your barangay ang paglalaan ng mas malaking pondo sa mga maliliit na komunidad na ikinakampanya ngayon ni liberal party standard-bearer Mar Roxas. Ayon kay Lacierda, dapat gawin ang mga sinasabi ni Binay lalo’t nahaharap ito sa mga alegasyon ng […]

Palace urges public to pay proper taxes

MANILA, PIA- Malacañang on Monday (April 6) called on the public to pay proper taxes for the continuous implementation of infrastructure projects. “Taxes are indeed the lifeblood of the nation and so we encourage everyone, every working tax-paying citizen, to please report, especially those who are not compensation employees,” Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said during the daily press briefing. “Compensation employees are withheld at source. For those who are professionals, those who have their own […]

Gov’t to look after the welfare of 172 Filipino workers in Ukraine –Palace

MANILA, March 5 (Philippine News Agency) — Malacanang on Wednesday assured that concerned government agencies will continue looking after the welfare of Filipino workers in Ukraine with the ongoing political crisis there. Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said during a Palace briefing that according to Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz, there are about 172 Filipinos in Ukraine. Lacierda however said, upon consulting the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), that they were not situated in the troubled Crimea […]