{"id":202923,"date":"2019-02-19T03:58:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T08:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=202923"},"modified":"2019-02-19T03:58:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T08:58:37","slug":"prrd-appoints-ex-major-general-to-dswd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/02\/19\/prrd-appoints-ex-major-general-to-dswd\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD appoints ex-major general to DSWD"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_202924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202924\" style=\"width: 692px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/paje.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-202924\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/paje.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/paje.jpg 692w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/paje-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-202924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duterte signed Paje\u2019s appointment paper on Feb. 15, less than a month after he appointed Brig. Gen. Felicisimo Budiongan as DSWD Undersecretary on Jan. 23 this year. (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo R. Duterte has appointed retired major general Rene Glen Paje as undersecretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).<\/p>\n<p>Duterte signed Paje\u2019s appointment paper on Feb. 15, less than a month after he appointed Brig. Gen. Felicisimo Budiongan as DSWD Undersecretary on Jan. 23 this year.<\/p>\n<p>Paje will be working under DSWD Secretary Rolando Bautista, a former Chief-of-Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the DSWD, Paje was First Scout Ranger commander during the Marawi siege in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Paje was also the former deputy chief of staff for civil military operations and member of the Philippine Military Academy Class 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte has repeatedly mentioned his preference to appoint former military and police officials saying they follow orders immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The President also deemed them as \u201chonest and competent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the ex-military and police officials in Duterte\u2019s Cabinet include Secretaries Eduardo A\u00f1o (Interior and Local Government); Roy Cimatu (Environment); Eduardo del Rosario (Housing and Bangon Marawi Task Force chief); and Nicanor Faeldon (Bureau of Corrections chief).<\/p>\n<p>Also in his Cabinet are Rey Guerrero (Customs Commissioner), Isidro Lape\u00f1a (Technical Education and Skills Development Authority Director General); and, Glorioso Miranda (Bases Conversion and Development Authority member), among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo R. Duterte has appointed retired major general Rene Glen Paje as undersecretary of the Department of Social &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":196280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}