Headline Writing Exercise 1

Direction: Write an appropriate headline for each of the following leads.

DOE to oil firms: Justify P1 pump price hike

ILOCOS NORTE – Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes urged the country’s petroleum players
to explain their move to raise pump prices by P1 per liter yesterday.

“We will summon the presidents of Shell, Petron, Chevron and other independent oil
players to explain to the Department of Energy and to the public why they need to
increase their prices by P1 per liter,” Reyes told reporters attending a wind power project
briefing here.

Soldiers get loneliness pay on Pag-asa Island

PAG-ASA ISLAND, South China Sea (AP) – This sun-splashed island is so remote that
soldiers are paid a “loneliness fee” for deployment here, and the few residents are
encouraged with free meals to live in a nascent village without a single car, store or
Internet access.

Arroyo names Durano as head of tourism

President Arroyo has designated Tourism Secretary Joseph Durano as general manager
of the Philippine Tourism Authority (PTA) following the end of the six-year term of Robert
Dean Barbers.

Aquino appears on public after cancer diagnosis

Former President Corazon Aquino made her first public appearance early yesterday
evening since she was diagnosed with cancer of the colon.

The former president attended the third healing Mass offered for her at the St. Joseph’s
Convent of Perpetual Adoration (Pink Sisters) in Quezon City.

Troops attack MNLF camp in Sulu

ZAMBOANGA CITY — The military branded yesterday as propaganda reports that troops
attacked a Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) camp in Sulu last week to flush out Abu
Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorists.

AFP eyes demolishing NPA, Abu Sayyaf in Arroyo’s term

Incoming Armed Forces chief Lt. Gen. Alexander Yano aims to crush the New People’s
Army (NPA), Abu Sayyaf and other threats to national security before President Arroyo’s
term ends in 2010, the Philippine Army said yesterday.

Nograles files bill to operate TransCo

Speaker Prospero Nograles has filed a bill seeking a 25-year franchise for a private
company that won the concession to operate the power transmission assets and facilities
of the state-owned National Transmission Corp. (TransCo) last December.

OWWA to halt loans for OFWs

Bad news for departing overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

Acting Labor Secretary Marianito Roque yesterday reported that the Overseas Workers
Welfare Administration (OWWA) would no longer give loans to departing OFWs.