President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo shows off the Memorandum of Agreement creating the Judiciary, Executive and Legislative Advisory and Consultative Council (JELAC) Tuesday (May 13, 2008) at Malacanang's Reception Hall. Also in photo are House Speaker Prospero Nograles, Vice President Noli de Castro, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, Senate President Manuel Villar, House Majority Leader Arthur Defensor, Sr., Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno, and Senate Majority Leader Francis Pangilinan.
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Several
years ago, the 63rd Infantry Battalion of Philippine
Army under then Battalion Commander Manuel Usi in
Catubig, Northern Samar, took an alternative path to
peace and prosperity by introducing the Army Literacy
Patrol System (ALPS), offering literacy cum livelihood
programs to its learners to enable them to live in a
community harmoniously. The Army soldiers who
underwent rigid training to be qualified as
instructors took.... [read
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