PLDT clarifies phone card issue

I got a clarificatory statement from PLDT, which should clear the issue about the phone cards featuring my friends Patricia Javier and Joyce Jimenez. Here it is:

PLDT management reiterates that it has terminated the premium phone services featuring Patricia Javier and Joyce Jimenez and has also stopped production of the said cards long before Marinduque Rep. Edmund Reyes Jr. waged a media assault against the company.

Any phone card being sold bearing the images of Patricia Javier and Joyce Jimenez are the option of retailers since PLDT has stopped producing and distributing these cards to our major dealers.

PLDt management continues to see no valid reason for Congressman Reyes’s media grandstanding against the company, more so his call for an investigation since the issue being raised no longer exists.

PLDT terminated its phone service featuring Joyce Jimenez as of May 20, 2003 and likewise terminated its phone service featuring Patricia Javier as of April 21, 2003 and Aug. 22, 2003.

In fairness to PLDT, the company terminated the phone services and stopped production and distribution of the cards without need for Congressman Reyes’s intervention.

PLDT is proud to announce the most recent phone cards and services it has launched including the Cardinal Sin card for the benefit of Caritas Foundation, the "Make-A-Wish" card featuring Jolina Magdangal, and soon, the Ninoy Aquino phone card for the benefit of the Benigno Aquino Jr. Foundation all designed to promote, uplift, and support Filipino values.

RX93.1 celebrates

When popular radio station RX 93.1 celebrated its 20th anniversary with its traditional grand bash, it wasn’t just looking back on two decades of achievement – two decades of pushing the envelope in radio programming – it was firmly looking forward to the future. In fact, the title of its anniversary celebration, Decade2Decade, refers less to RX 93.1’s towering presence in FM since the ’80s, but is more of an affirmation of the station’s commitment to excellence that has won it awards and kept the loyalty of its (ever-expanding) audience through the decades.

Decade2Decade – The RX 93.1 20th Anniversary Party – was a fittingly memorable occasion that brought together today’s hottest recording artists at The Forum at The Podium in a celebration dedicated to the lifeblood of RX, its listeners. Chart favorites like Side A, Parokya ni Edgar, Kyla, Nina, Mojo Fly and Moonstar88, performed alongside new artists like Jay-R, Arnee, and Brand Breakout discovery Stonefree, to the wild cheers of the audience that packed The Forum.

The spectacular party ushers in a new era of creative growth and corporate progress for RX 93.1, beginning with the RX-Sun Cellular Breakout 2003, the annual RX Artist Hunt for promising unsigned bands. In the last quarter of the year, Monster Radio RX 93.1 also introduces the new members of its on-air staff, who will take their place alongside RX 93.1’s popular DJs, newscasters, and announcers: Chico Garcia, Delamar, Boom Gonzales, Chinggay, Louie D, Rico Robles, Francesca, Tom Alvarez, Jude Rocha, Raffy Reyes and Danielle.

Decade2Decade is just a prelude to many more decades of growing up and getting younger with Manila’s hottest, Monster Radio RX 93.1!

Manila Campus Ministry

The Archdiocese of Manila Campus Ministry, under the auspices of the Ministry of youth affairs, marks its Silver Anniversary with a grand celebration dubbed as Gabi ng Parangal, a homecoming event tomorrow.

The grand celebration, spearheaded by Msgr. Vicente Bauzon, will start with a Eucharistic Mass at 4:30 p.m. at the Manila Cathedral. Dinner and Recognition program will follow from 6 to 9 p.m. at Clamshell 2, WOW Phils., Intramuros, Manila.

Expected to attend the homecoming event are priests, religious and lay people, as well as congregations, groups and individuals who have been part of the ministry for the past 25 years.

Says Msgr. Bauzon, "This is a good opportunity for us in the Campus Ministry to express our gratitude to all these groups and individuals who have been our partners in the ministry and to recognize their distinctive contributions to the mission of building faith communities in the campuses"

Rev. Fr. Rufino Sescon Jr., Minister of the Ministry of Youth Affairs of the Archdiocese of Manila, will deliver the keynote address. The event will be hosted by DJ Crystal and Sunsilk Boy Drew Arellano while Bong Quintana, Special Events Manager of Backroom Inc., will direct the event. Overall production supervision is by Marissa Saavedra.

Interested parties may contact the Campus Ministry – Ministry of Youth Affairs at 735-3390, 736-6588 or 736-6589.