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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo instructed today the Cabinet to come up with quick and cheap solutions to end Mindanao’s power problems.

Press Secretary Cris Icban Jr. today assured that government operations remain on track, with the new appointees to the Cabinet providing continuity of services as they took over from those who resigned recently to seek elective positions in the May 10 elections.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo instructed today the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) to immediately relocate almost 200,000 informal settlers living along the shorelines of Laguna de Bay.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said today that her administration has loaned out some P340 billion through various lending schemes to micro, small, medium entrepreneurs and these helped generate some six million jobs.

Malacanang today said that the new team in President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s cabinet will be a working team that will ensure continuity in government services and operations until the end of her term in June.,

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo today announced the appointment of Philippine Army Chief Lt. General Delfin N. Bangit as incoming Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines , vice Gen. Victor Ibrado, who is retiring on Wednesday, his 56th birthday.

TOLEDO CITY -- President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, after inaugurating here today a new 82-megawatt coal-fired power plant, said the Visayas power problem is over and the region will no longer "import power from Luzon."

Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Charito Planas today described President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo an “infrastructure icon” for spearheading an aggressive infrastructure program that, among others, has built a total 48,585 kilometers of national roads since 2001 compared to only 34,326 kms of three previous administrations.