MANILA – Panay News columnist Ramon “Ike” Señeres was among the several appointees to various government offices named by President Rodrigo Duterte recently.
Señeres was made a director of the board of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO). His appointment paper was released publicly on Monday.
Señeres, brother of the late 2016 presidential candidate Roy Señeres, writes a regular column for Panay News entitled “Faith, Hope and Charity.”
Aside from Señeres, also appointed by Duterte were Evangelina Lourdes “Luli” Arroyo-Bernas as chairperson of the National Museum’s board of trustees and retired Army colonel Yusop Jimlani as Presidential Adviser on Local Extremist Groups Concerns.
Arroyo-Bernas is the daughter of former president and now House of Representatives speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo while Jimlani was a former chief of the City Demolition Unit in Davao City.
Other appointees were at the Department of Justice, Philippine National Police, Professional Regulation Commission, National Conciliation and Mediation Board, Department of Science and Technology, Department of Agriculture, Department of Interior and Local Government, and Department of Public Works and Highways./PN
