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While the government may have made the motions to meet the minimum requirements of the law with the notification of the Hultman familywhich the Hultmans never receivedand the publication of a notice when Teehankee applied for executive clemency, the recent statements of [Executive Secretary Eduardo] Ermita and Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez have demonstrated a dismaying indifference to the plight of the victims families, insisting that the government was under no obligation to inform the Hultman family about the presidential pardon, the MBC said in a press statement.
The umbrella organization of the Philippines largest corporations, the MBC has been critical of Malacaang since it called on Ms Arroyo to step down in 2005 in the wake of the Hello Garci election fraud scandal.
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The MBC said Ermita was correct in his assertion that the power to commute sentences and grant pardons was a constitutionally enshrined presidential prerogative of the President. But it questioned the use of this argument to parry criticism of Ms Arroyo.
Why deny the Hultmans, one of the grievously offended parties in this case, the courtesy and the right to be informed and to respond to the government decision? it said

An umbrella body for hundreds of district, town and county councils in England and Wales said some of its members were facing severe short-term difficulties because their funds were tied up in failed Icelandic banks. The Local Government Authority said a small number of councils which provide public housing, trash collection and other services might face specific problems, but did not elaborate. Just over 100 local bodies had a total of 798.95 million pounds (US$1.37 billion) of taxpayer money in Icelandic banks, the LGA said. Those funds are now at risk after Iceland's financial system imploded.
The LGA was at pains to emphasize that councils' investments had not disappeared. Or at least not yet.

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