Rosa Rosal back on Philippine Red Cross board

Rosa Rosal is back at the Philippine Red Cross after being appointed to its board of governors.

Rosal's was among the appointments that Malacañang announced over the weekend.

Last December, Rosal called for an audit of the PRC and for the board to suspend its secretary general, Gwendolyn Pang, while the audit was being done.

She said a former accountant for the PRC found irregular transactions and requests for payment and disbursement of funds, including the use of PRC money for a birthday party for Pang.

In a press statement in December, the PRC said it had already investigated the allegations and that Pang "was fully exonerated and the Philippine Red Cross Governing Board has expressed its full confidence in her continued leadership of the organization."

Aside from Rosal, other appointments announced by the Palace were:

• Nicolas Dy-Liacco Ojeda, Jr. as deputy executive director of the Information and Communications Technology Office, under the Department of Science and Technology (appointed May 19)
• Thomas Orbos as assistant general manager for planning of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority
• Cyril Ramos as deputy ombudsman for the military and other law enforcement offices (MOLEO)
• Blas James Viterbo as Securities and Exchange Commission commissioner
• Aurora Centeno as deputy executive director of the National Archives of the Philippines
• Vicente Lao as a member of the board of directors, representing the business sector, in the Mindanao Development Authority
• Gino Alphonsus Bayot as assistant secretary for the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office