Cabinet Members of President Gloria Macapagal

Cabinet Members of President Gloria Macapagal - Arroyo

Cabinet Members of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Just in case your social science or Makabayan teacher asks you for the list of the cabinet members of the Philippines under the Arroyo administration.

Executive Secretary - Eduardo R. Ermita
Department of Foreign Affairs - Alberto G. Romulo
Department of Agriculture - Domingo F. Panganiban but was replaced by Arthur Yap (update 10/18)
Department of Budget and Management - Rolando G. Andaya
Department of Education - Jesli A. Lapus
Department of Energy - Raphael P.M. Lotilla was replaced by Angelo T. Reyes - (update 07/19)
Department of Environment and Natural Resources - Angelo T. Reyes was replaced by Lito Atienza (update 07/19)
Department of Finance - Margarito B. Teves
Department of Health - Francisco T. Duque III
Department of Interior and Local Government - Ronaldo V. Puno
Department of Justice - Raul M. Gonzalez
Department of Labor and Employment - Marianito D. Roque
Department of Land Reform - Nasser C. Pangandaman
Department of National Defense - Gilbert Teodoro Jr. - (update 08/07)
National Economic and Development Authority - Romulo L. Neri but was replaced by Ralph Recto (update 07/23/08)
Department of Public Works and Highways Hermogenes E. Ebdane Jr.
Department of Science and Technology - Estrella F. Alabastro
Department of Social Welfare and Development - Esperanza I. Cabral
Department of Tourism - Joseph H. Durano
Department of Trade and Industry - Peter B. Favila
Department of Transportation and Communication - Leandro R. Mendoza
Press Secretary - Ignacio Bunye was replaced by Jesus Dureza who was replaced by Serge Remonde

A Mom's Thoughts on Sports and a Black-eye

For the first time in 13 years I came home to see my son sporting a shiner. And as much as I wanted to fuss, I couldn't...I wouldn't dare insult my son. Just waited for him to show it to me and tell me what really happened. Oh, I so wanted to rush him, to ask him to give me a blow-by-blow account but I kept my lips sealed. I wanted to kiss it and make it well, but I stopped at just a touch at his cheek while asking if it hurts. His teammate was telling him to make excuses for what happened and he answered with: Why should I? My mom knows I play soccer and she has always said this is part and parcel of the sport . I remember seeing Fernando Torres of Liverpool once sporting a black-eye, too. Well yes so I always say that…he plays basketball and soccer, which are both contact team sports albeit limited-contact - meaning there are rules that specifically prevent intentional or unintentional contact between players and penalties can be incurred when...

Remembering 9/11: The Legacy of Marie Rose Abad

The Americans in the US were not the only ones paying tribute to their loved ones who perished in the different events that made up what we call the tragedy that changed the world, Sept 11. Maybe unbeknownst to many Filipinos, there was one American married to a Filipino who died that day. And her legacy lives on in a once squalid and reeking with garbage slum in Manila turned into an orderly village that bears her name with 50 brightly one-storey colored homes built in her memory by her husband. As the world pays tribute to their fellowmen in the US, residents of Marie Rose Abad GK Village offered roses, balloons, and prayers for their benefactor. According to her Philippine-born American husband Rudy, he had it built in her memory in 2004 as a tribute to their 26 years of marriage and her unfulfilled desire to help the poor in the Philippines. This she saw when they first came here in 1989. After having described to her the Philippines as a paradise, they were appalled to see t...

No to T-shirts With Sexist Messages

Been wanting to write about a lot of things but time has been running really fats for me…at the end of the day all I want to do is stretch out on my bed, put up my legs, and pray I get to sleep the soonest. But alas it isn’t possible with several kids wanting this or that. I have only one son but have several nieces and nephews. Yesterday though I saw this girl wearing what I thought was a one of those simple plain t-shirts only to realize there was a slogan on the front which was quite small I had to stare at it to read. Then I saw her looking at me, I guess waiting for my reaction which of course she didn’t have to wait for long. I gave her what my son calls my ‘tiger look’ or the ‘stare that could kill a thousand ships’…oh yes, my own son has different names for it. Going back to the girl…how would you as a mother or a woman feel when you see a girl wearing a t-shirt with ‘ Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful, hate me because I have huge boobs. ’ I did not give her a l...

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