Two-faced Noy
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Noynoy is again off to the United States and the highlight of his visit would be a speech delivered before a forum to launch to Open Government Partnership initiative in the United States. The program involves several countries that would commit transparency in government.
Noynoy would definitely be a square peg in the conference despite his pro-democracy image for one sole reason: His administration has refused to give priority to the long-pending Freedom of Information (FoI) bill in Congress.
The passing of such bills among signatory countries are essentially the bone of the launching of the private initiative. The Philippines remains among the exceptionally few countries that still do not have an open records law that would compel the government to disclose documents. The FoI bill has been languishing in Congress for the past 15 years.
The last time that the bill had a chance of making it into a law was last year when the bill was killed savagely by a lack of quorum in the House of Representatives..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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