From: francis@mpl.ucsd.edu (Francis C Felizardo)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: HELP : New Cabinet Officials [REPOST]
Date: 13 Aug 1992 15:17:10 GMT
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Summary: Need Help on New Cabinet Officials
Keywords: Cabinet Officials

In article <1992Aug13.091253.22160@cs.uow.edu.au> g9235922@cs.uow.edu.au (Ronaldo S. Rebenque) writes:
>From: g9235922@cs.uow.edu.au (Ronaldo S. Rebenque)
>Subject: HELP : New Cabinet Officials
>Summary: Need Help on New Cabinet Officials
>Keywords: Cabinet Officials
>Date: 13 Aug 92 09:12:53 GMT


>        Could somebody post a list of the newly appointed Cabinet
>officials.  Thanks in advance.

>Ronaldo S. Rebenque
>Dept. of Computer Science
>U. of Wollongong
>NSW, Australia


Here's a REPOST of a recent article:

THE PRESIDENTIAL CABINET OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Secretary of Foreign Affairs:
Roberto R. Romulo - aged 53; son of Carlos P. Romulo (who was Foreign
Affairs Sec. in the 60s); graduted: Ateneo de Manila Univ and Georgetown
Univ; former presideant and general manager of IBM Philippines; Philippine
Ambassador to the EEC.
Secretary of Finance:
Ramon del Rosario Jr - Chairman and Chief Exec. Officer, Asian Bank Corp;
graduate of Harvard Business School
Secretary of Justice:
Franklin Drilon - Former Exec. Secretary, Office of the President
Secretary National Defense:
Renato S. de Villa - (retained from Aquino Cabinet)
Secretary of Agriculture:
Roberto Sebastian - Agriculturalist for DOLE Phils.
Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources:
Edelmiro Amante - Congressman from Agusan del Norte
Secretary of Agrarian Reform:
Ernesto D. Garilao - aged 45; served as Executive VP and Chief Operating
Officer of the Philippine Business for Social Progress; graduate of Ateneo
de Manila Univ (Behavioural Sciences); Masters degree in Managemeant from
the Asian Institute of Management.
Secretary of Education, Culture and Sports:
Armand Fabella - aged 62; graduated from Harvard College and London School
of Economics; served as Asian Development Bank Technical Adviser and book
author on education and economics
Secretary of Labor and Employment:
Nieves Confesor (Acting Secretary) - Chief of International Labor, Deprt of
Labor and Employment; then Chief of Labor Studies Institute; promoted to
Undersecretary of Labor and Employment.
Secretary of Public Works and Highways:
Jose de Jesus - retained from Aquino Cabinet
Secretary of Science and Technology: Ricardo Gloria (Acting)
Secretary of Trade and Industry:
Rizalino Navarro - aged 54; graduate of University of the East; holds a
Masters degree in Business Admin from Harvard; was Chairman of Sycip,
Gorres and Velayo (SGV) accounting firm
Secretary of Transportation and Communications:
Jesus Garcia - aged 47; head of the Conference of Inter-island Ship Owners
Operators; graduate of Ateneo de Manila Univ and Univ of San Carlos, Cebu
City
Secretary of Tourism:  Narzalina Lim (Acting)
Secretary of Health:
Juan Flavier - graduate of the Univ. of the Philippines and Johns Hopkins
University; president of the International Institute of Rural
Reconstruction
Secretary of Social Welfare and Development:
Corazon de Leon (Acting) - former Regional Director of the Dept of Social
Welfare and Development, National Capital Region; former Undersecretary of
the Dept of Social Welfare and Development
Secretary of Budget and Management: Salvador Enriquez (Acting)
Director General of the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA):
Cielito Habido - aged 39; graduate of the Univ. of the Philippines in Los
Banos; Masters and PhD in Economics from Harvard
Press Secretary: Rodolfo Reyes - veteran newsperson and Vice President of
ABS-CBN Channel 2
Acting Executive Secretary and concurrently Presidential Adviser on Energy
Affairs: Peter Garrucho Jr - former Secretary of Tourism; then Secretary of
Trade and Industry

OTHER APPOINTED OFFICIALS

Chief Crimebuster (Cabinet rank):
Vice President Joseph Estrada (Chairman, Presidential Anti-Crime Commission
Director General, National Security Council and Presidential Security
Adviser: Jose Almonte
Chairman, Presidential Commission on Good Government:
Magtanggol Guinigundo
Presidential Legal Counsel: Antonio Carpo - aged 43; graduate of Ateneo de
Manila and UP College of Law; legal practitioner in commercial law, banking
and finance, taxation, investment and trade
Presidential Adviser on Rural Development:
Daniel Lacson, Jr - former Governor of Negros Occidental
Philippine Debt Negotiator:  Emmanuel Pelaez
Chairman, Private Sector Council of Economic Advisers:
Emilio Osmena
Senior Deputy Executive Secretary, Office of the President:
Dionisio de la Serna
Comissioner, Bureau of Internal Revenue: Jose U. Ong
Commissioner of Immigration and Deportation: Zafiro Respicio
Customs Commissioner: Guillermo Parayno
Acting Solicitor General:  Educardo Montenegro
Press Undersecretary for Operations: Ramon Diez (replacing Paul Alvarez)
Press Undersec. for Media Relations: General (ret.) Honestro Isleta
(replacing Lourdes Siytangco)
Presidential Spokesperson: Anabell Tecson-Abaya
Deputry Director General, NEDA: Anicaeto Sobrepena
Acting Administrator, Manila Waterworks and Sewerage System: Teofilo
Asuncion
General Manager, Ninoy Aquino International Airport:
Col. Guillermo Cunanan
Chairman, Board of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS):
General (ret.) Jose Magno Jr
GSIS President and General Manager: Cesar Sarino
Chairman, National Police Commission (NAPOLCOM):
Rafael Alunan III
Board Member, Philippine Coconut Authority: General (ret.) Virgilio David
Director, Presidential Managemeant Staff (PMS): Ma. Leonora Vasquez- De
Jesus
Executive Director, Office of Muslim Affairs: Dimasangkay Pundato
According to the presidential spokesperson, President Ramos will be more
responsive to people's needs nationwide without having to be present in
several places. Officials of southern provinces will no longer have to go
to Manila often to follow up requests with the Executive Department; the
following presidential assistants will provide communication links between
Manila and the South to hasten government response to the people's needs in
the South:
Mr Rhett Pelaez - Presidential Assistant based in Cebu
Mr Paul Dominguez - Presidential Assistant based in Davao
[the above information provided by the Embassy of the Philippines in
Canberra]
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Lulu Turner
Dept of Political & Social Change
Research School of Pacific Studies
Australian National University
GPO Box 4, Canberra  ACT 2601
AUSTRALIA
tel: (06) 249 0173
fax: (06) 257 1893
e-mail (Internet): lulu@coombs.anu.edu.au
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