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Garcia is on the way out. This news from ABS-CBN:MANILA, Philippines - President Benigno Aquino III said Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) President and General Manager Winston Garcia will soon be replaced."It's just a matter of talking to his replacement," Aquino said in a Malacanang briefing on Wednesday.Previously, Aquino said the person being eyed to replace Garcia, a banker, is in

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In his Sept. 2, 2008 column, Ray O. Arcilla, a Malaya columnist, has this to say about the incompetence of the GSIS under petty bureaucrat Winston Garcia.The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has asked the Commission on Audit (COA) to audit the books of Meralco. Fine. But many believe COA should also audit GSIS.GSIS claims that an audit of Meralco would reveal a can of worms. Many

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The education secretary has a beef with the GSIS for its failure to address the discrepancies in its records with regard to teachers' contributions in the pension fund.He complains that instead of facing the issue headlong, the GSIS resorts to propaganda using its vast media resources to drown out his legitimate complaint on behalf of the teachers."These problems can't be solved with GSIS public

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Malacañang is running a Web site where citizens may air their complaints or ask for help. It contains a forum devoted to GSIS, and none of the entries by citizens has anything good to say about the current GSIS leadership.One of the entries is by a certain Mang Pandoy, which is obviously a pen name of a GSIS paid hack. In it, this Mang Pandoy alleges that the author of this blog is somehow

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At best, GSIS can be accused of false advertising. At worst, it is running a scam.Our father has finally received his eCard in the mail after months of waiting - a wait that started with a hellish experience at the start of the enrollment process to obtain the card at the Philippine Consulate General in New York City last March 9 (see the earliest post in this blog for a full picture of that

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The latest controversy surrounding the inept chairman of the GSIS offers a glimpse into the backroom deal-makings that occur within the corrupt Macapagal-Arroyo regime.Some congressmen have come up with some serious allegations against GSIS boss Winston Garcia, and it is not pretty. But this bozo who heads the GSIS seems to carry so much clout with Macapagal-Arroyo so that, despite his many

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In his column appearing in the June 16th online edition of Malaya, Lito Banayo has this to reveal: "A challenger is being accused of buying the votes of congressmen, allegedly using, not his money, but the funds of government employees tied up to the pension fund he manages."This allegation is also coming from at least four congressmen who are accusing Winston Garcia of the same shenanigan. They

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As the days go by with no end in sight to the incompetence of Winston Garcia, the GSIS failed eCard program continues to generate bad publicity for the state pension fund -- and by extension to the image of the homeland in the United States.Last evening's newscast of Balitang America, for instance, carried the sad stories of different pensioners in the United States who continue to encounter

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If you read the attached GSIS response to complaints against the eCard, it is plain to see how they are totally out of touch with reality.With all due respect, Ms. Enriqueta P. Disuanco, GSIS executive VP for operations, try as she might, has really nothing substantial to say about the total meltdown of this ill-conceived plan that collectively punishes pensioners in order to rid the system of

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Tim Ramos, one of our blog correspondents, has received a response from one of Winston Garcia's subalterns. Sorta. The response acknowledges that there are problems with the eCard, but it touches only on the fiasco that occurred last March 9 at the Philippine Consulate General in New York.It remains silent on what the GSIS intends to do to pensioners in terms of renumerating them for the gross

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The horror show that is the GSIS under petty bureaucratic tyrant Winston Garcia is unending.My dad was finally processed for his eCard at the self-serve kiosk at the Philippine Consulate. But wait. Now he is being told that he has to wait for close to two months before he could lay his hands on the eCard. Not only that, he won't be able to start using it unless he again shows up at the Consulate

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On March 9, pensioners waited for an eternity to obtain their eCard at the Philippine Consulate in New York. But because the eCard was (is) not ready for prime time, many of the pensioners were told to come back another time and register through the self-serve kiosks.As unacceptable as that proposal may be considering that they had to rearrange their schedule on pain that they would lose their

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Th correspondence office at Malacanang has written a referral letter to Winston Garcia asking him to comment on the complaints of Tim Ramos, one of our blog correspondents, regarding the mistreatment of pensioners in New York City last March 9.But we can bet our bottom dollar that this letter will go unanswered, just as a similar letter from the chief of staff of Sen. Mar Roxas has been rudely

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The failed eCard program that Winston Garcia is implementing with no regard for its bad consequence amounts to nothing but collective punishment. And the aggrieved party in this case is the elderly and mostly ailing government pensioners.In order to prevent scammers from continuing to collect the pension checks of dead relatives, he has embarked on the eCard program that is intended to stop the

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Winston Garcia is not without his defenders. Paid hacks and apologists abound in his backyard to do his bidding to cloud valid issues raised against his inept leadership rather than address them.Winston Garcia's ill-conceived eCard is destroying pensioners' lives in the Philippines. Instead of easing the burden of pensioners in their twilight years, he is adding on to it with his failed eCard

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The problem with Winston Garcia is that he apparently fancies himself to be such a lover of fine arts that he took the liberty of spending pensioners' money on a painting whose questionable value does nothing to add to the pension fund.His skewed priority does not end there. He issues ghost-written press releases (nonsense drivel, really, because they do not reflect reality -- remember his wild

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A columnist in a Manila newspaper is parroting Winston Garcia's line that the problem with Garcia's harebrained idea (i.e., the failed eCard) is not the unilateral and Gestapo-like implementation of this program but the people's "resistance" to new technology.But repeating such a skewed and stupid screed just won't fly, and it leaves us wondering how much government money is Garcia spending to

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Something's definitely fishy with the eCard.My mom has just received a phone call from her sister-in-law in Anaheim, California. Tita Virgie, who was patient enough to wait for her turn at the Philippine Consulate in LA to be fingerprinted, has still to receive her eCard. It's been over a month since she enrolled in the program.She was told she would get the eCard in the mail in three weeks.Now

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Almost a month after the office of Sen. Mar Roxas had sent Winston Garcia a referral letter concerning the complaints of Tim Ramos, this petty bureaucratic tyrant has deemed not to respond.His continuing silence shows how he disrespects valid grievances against his department. Or it can also mean that he is guilty as charged.Which is which Winston Garcia?

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(Charlie Chaplin in "The Great Dictator")Reading the sad story in the link hidden in the headline of this piece (yes, you have to click on the headline of this post to reveal the story) manifests the lack of heart exhibited by a petty tyrant in the person of Winston Garcia. The response of his people to the valid complaints of the pensioners is similar to the craven and arrogant attitude of the

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(At right is Sen. Mar Roxas. Photo courtesy MarRoxas.com)Sen. Mar Roxas has written Mr. Winston Garcia a referral letter to address the complaints aired by Tim Ramos of New Jersey. The letter was sent by Ms. Susan Ople -- Senator Roxas' chief of staff -- last March 15.Tim Ramos is waiting what kind of response, if any, he would get from Mr. Garcia.So far, it has been nothing but dead silence.

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(At left is Winston Garcia preening before the camera in San Francisco at the launch of the disastrous eCard enrollment program in the United States on March 6, 2007. Photo courtesy PhilippineNews.com)“This is the first pension service of its kind in the world, and it is 100 percent homegrown.”That is how Winston Garcia, GSIS chairman and president, described the disaster-plagued eCard program

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Last March 19, Balitang America, a news program of ABS-CBN International, carried a news story on the GSIS fiasco that occurred at the Philippine Consulate General on March 9, 2007.It interviewed pensioners who waited at the Consulate for hours on the second day of the ill-conceived eCard enrollment. As expected, the pensioners had nothing good to say about the brainchild of the incompetent GSIS

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We have received permission from Berns, a victim of the GSIS disaster in New York last March 9 and one of our contributors to this blog, to reproduce (slightly redacted) her letter of complaint to Ms. Cecilia Rebong, Consul General of the Philippine Consulate General in New York City. While it is true that some people found no reason to complain about the incident (and our guess is that they had

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Tim Ramos, one of our contributors to this blog, has emailed a letter to all the senators of the Republic of the Philippines to ensure that one Winston Garcia is made accountable for his failure of leadership at the GSIS. Sen. Mar Roxas is the only legislator so far to have taken action. Through his chief of staff, he has asked Mr. Garcia to respond to Tim's letter of complaint (click on photo

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Just as we thought...the GSIS incompetence continues.Almost two weeks after the March 9, 2007 GSIS eCard enrollment disaster, the Philippine Consulate General in New York is left with a lemon. They have a self-service kiosk that continues to have technical problems, and no end is in sight.We have called the Consulate twice to try to make an appointment, but the best they could tell us is to wait

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Kudos to The Filipino Reporter, the leading Filipino newspaper in the tri-state area, for focusing on the mess created by the GSIS in its eCard enrollment program in the United States.Edmund Silvestre, veteran news editor of The Reporter who cut his teeth in journalism as a broadcast journalist with IBC 13 in Manila in the '90s, has done a superb job of shining the flashlight on the New York City

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Almost a week after her awful experience at the Consulate, my 81-year-old mother is finding it painful to walk. She suffers from osteoporosis, and she is now paying the price of hours of waiting at the Consulate last March 9. Being confined in an uncomfortable chair for several hours has worsened her condition.Whereas before it did not bother her all that much, now she is feeling the pain more,

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The following letter was sent to Ms. Cecilia Rebong, Consul General, Philippine Consulate General in New York, by one of those affected by the GSIS disaster that occurred during the enrollment of Filipino pensioners on Macth 9, 2007 at the Consulate. We are posting it here in hopes that it will awaken Philippine officials into implementing reforms in a broken Philippine bureaucracy that is the

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(At right is the Philippine Consulate General in New York City)To read the florid -- and highly exaggerated -- press releases issued by the media relations office of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), one is led to believe that the state pension fund's eCard is the next best thing after the invention of the Internet itself.GSIS President and General Manager Winston F. Garcia boasts

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