PHILIPPINE National Police Chief Avelino Razon ordered yesterday Chief Superintendent Leocadio Santiago, director of the Special Action Force, to look into VERA Files two-part report that the elite police unit undertook the switching of  2004 election returns in the Batasan Pambansa.

Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay, who is also president of the United Opposition, however, is wary about the investigation to be conducted by the PNP of its own unit. 

MALACANANG issued today the following press release in reaction to a VERA Files  report that several police commandos have confirmed their participation in the switching of election returns at the Batasan Pambansa in early 2005 to make it look like Gloria Arroyo won the 2004 elections:

“Don’t believe in the baseless allegation, but, instead, respect the decision of the Supreme Court.”

FORMER Cabinet members are asking Congress to pass immediately a law that would define the country's baseline in keeping with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea or UNCLOS.

THE Philippines is “far from achieving Education for All” by 2015, concluded a fact sheet released on July 11 by the National Statistical Coordination Board.

The NSCB, which consolidates facts and figures from different government agencies, pointed to the consistent drop in the net enrolment ratio or participation rate at the elementary level from schoolyear 2002-03 to schoolyear 2006-07 as among the reasons for saying so.