P 8.00
VOLUME 6
NUMBER 6
WED - THU
JUNE 13 - 14, 2012
$400 MINIMUM WAGE POLICY FOR PINOY DH
Malaysians now prefer
to hire other nationalities
BY DING CERVANTES
A
NGELES CITY – The
government’s household
service workers (HSW)
reform package prescribing $400
monthly salary for Filipino in
foreign countries has prompted
Malaysians to hire other nationalities instead.
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Corruption, political
patronage cited on
P45-B CCT ’13 project
RE-ENACTMENT. Local theatre performers from the Uyat Artista doing a mock presentation of
the first anniversary of the declaration of the Philippine Independence led by General Emilio
Aguinaldo at the Old Pamintuan Mansion. Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan and Tourism Sec. Ramon
Jimenez lead the 'Panatang Makabayan' during the 114th Independence Day celebration at the
Pamintuan Mansion. Story on page 2. CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
ANGELES CITY – Leftleaning leaders said yesterday that government’s
plan to give a higher P45billion budget for the Department of Social Welfare
and
Development’s
(DSWD) conditional cash
transfer (CCT) next year ,
amid reports of “corruption
and political patronage”
marring the project.
“It is turning the country into a republic of mendicants and beggars,” said
a joint statement issued
by Pambansang Lakas ng
Kilusang Mamamalakaya
ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya)
vice chair Salvador France
and Anakpawis party list
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‘Historic,’ says Luciano IN DOWN TOWN KUALA LUMPUR
on AirAsia’s KL flight Malaysian princess joins Pinoys
BY JOEY PAVIA
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Clark International
Airport Corp. (CIAC) President and CEO Victor Jose
Luciano described as “historic” the inaugural flight of
Philippines’AirAsia to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia via
Clark on Saturday.
“AirAsia is responsible
for what Clark is today.
Clark is the world’s fastest growing airport nowadays. This flight is historic,” said Luciano in stressing the confidence that the
AirAsia group had displayed over the years.
Luciano disclosed that
the AirAsia Berhad was
the first-ever budget airline
to start operations at the
CIA in 2005, offering daily
flights to Kuala Lumpur
and later to Kota Kinabalu.
It’s a sister company of
Philippines’ AirAsia.
In his send-off speech
at the Clark International
Airport (CIA), Luciano added that “we expect to grow
100 percent this year.”
Luciano noted that inPAGE 8 PLEASE
in 1st Independence Day march
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – For the
first time, Filipinos in Malaysia commemorated last Sunday the 114th Philippine Independence Day anniversary,
joined by a Malaysian princess and
highlighted by eight colorful floats applauded by local folk downtown in this
capital city.
“I think that apart from the Indepen-
dence Day parade that Filipino communities hold in Park Avenue in New York,
this is the only such parade held by
Filipino communities in foreign countries,” Philippine ambassador to Malaysia Eduardo Malaya told Pampanga
journalists who paid him a visit at the
Philippine embassy here.
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DOT to promote Pamintuan
Mansion as historical site
BY CHARLENE CAYABYAB
ANGELES CITY – Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez has
vowed to promote the Pamintuan Mansion as a historical site
saying it is where the first anniversary celebration of Philippine
Independence was held.
“It is obvious that this mansion is a very important site in
the history of our country. It
should be announced to the
whole country that this is where
the first Independence Day celebration was held,” Jimenez
said.
Jimenez was the guest of
honor and speaker during the
114th Independence Day celebration held at the Pamintuan
Mansion in this city.
The Pamintuan Mansion was
built in 1890 by Don Mariano
Pamintuan and Valentina Torres
for their son Florentino, mayor
of Angeles, in 1900. It was occupied by General Emilio Aguinaldo and his staff in 1899. During the celebration of the first
Independence Day, Aguinaldo
ordered a grand parade.
The mansion was first restored in 1983 and became the
regional office of the Bangko
Sentral ng Pilipinas in 1988.
Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan
said the National Historical Commission of the Philippines has
allotted P13-million for the restoration and maintenance of the
historical mansion.
INDEPENDENCE DAY RITES
During the celebration of the
114th Independence Day, Jimenez and Mayor Pamintuan led
the wreath laying ceremonies to
the historical mansion.
Flowers sent by President
Benigno Aquino III were used during the wreath laying ceremony.
“Our fight for freedom continues. This time against corrupt
individuals who do not want to
follow the straight path. Our
country is not yet free from poverty. Our fight against it continues,” Jimenez said.
For his part, Pamintuan cited the contributions of ordinary
constituents who joined the Philippine Revolution in 1896. He
said contributions of commoners are still important nowadays
in the progress of the nation.
A re-enactment of the 1899
celebration of Independence
Day performed by local artists
Uyat Artista was one of the highlights of the commemoration on
Tuesday.
Envoy pushes balance between
Malaysian and PHL trade, tourism
BY DING CERVANTES
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • JUNE 13 - 14, 2012 • WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY
KUALA LUMPUR – Philippine
embassy officials here have initiated efforts to lure Malaysians
to “take a second look” on the
Philippines to “correct” investments and tourism imbalance
between their two countries.
In an interview here, Philippine ambassador to Malaysia
Eduardo Malaya noted that
while the Philippines exports
some $1 billion worth of goods
to Malaysia, country’s Malaysian imports cost some $2.6 bil-
2
lion annually.
Also, latest statistics has
indicated that for every 80,000
Malaysians who visit the Philippines, 486,000 Filipinos visit
Malaysia, he said, adding that
Filipino businessmen’s investments in Malaysia is about three
times the amount of Malaysian
investments in the Philippines.
“The Philippines is contributing to Malaysian tourism and
economy in general,” he noted.
Malaya noted that “Filipinos
come to Malaysia for shopping
which is practically duty free.
Also a lot of Filipinos have discovered Kota Kinabalu.”
“We really have to balance
this,” he stressed, as he lauded
AirAsia for launching flights between Clark Freeport and Kuala
Lumpur.
AirAsia’s inaugural flight between the two destinations last
Saturday, using its “extra long”
Airbus 320.
At the launching of the inaugural flights, AirAsia chief executive officer Maan Hontiveros
noted that Malaysia has been
getting the most number of tour-
Philippine ambassador to Malaysia Eduardo Malaya holds a copy of a major Malaysian
newspaper with a new item about the Philippine Independence parade held by Filipinos
in Kuala Lumpur last Sunday. PHOTO BY DING CERVANTES
ists annually among Southeast
Asia countries. He noted that the
ratio of Malaysia’s 80 million
population to tourists is almost
one to one.
“Through our regular flights to
Kuala Lumpur, we hope to partake of the tourists who go to
Malaysia, so that from there,
they would also visit our country,” Hontiveros said.
Malay has proposed several
measures to attract Malaysians
and other tourists who visit Malaysia to also consider visiting
the Philippines which, he noted,
should attract both Muslim and
Christian populations.
“We can improve halal tourism by having more halal certified hotels,” he said. Halal refers
to the practice of serving porkless food according to the Islamic law.
Malay also cited foreigners
who have expressed interest in
the Christian traditions of the
Philippines. “I think many foreigners would consider the Philippines for pilgrimages. This is
an aspect that we can really
develop,” he added.
Malay said that only recently, the Malaysia-Philippines
Business Council (MPBC) has
been revived after years of being
dormant since it was founded in
1996. He said this could be instrumental in balancing the economic and tourism ration between the two countries.
The re-launching of the
MPBC here was attended last
May 28 by Vice Pres. Jejomar
Binay and top Malaysian businessmen.
“The council aims to identify and develop areas of cooperation between the Philippine
and Malaysian private sectors,
to encourage and develop further investment, trade links, and
joint exploration of business opportunities in third countries,”
he said.
Bahay ng
alkalde,
alyado, nilusob
ng mga pulis
NI ARMAND M. GALANG
LUNGSOD NG CABANATUAN – Umaabot sa 15 iba’t
ibang kalibre ng baril ang
narekober ng magkasanib na
puwersa ng pulisya sa
magkakasabay na paglusob
sa bahay ni San Antonio Mayor Arvin Salonga at anim na
sinasabing kaalyado nito sa
San Antonio, Nueva Ecija nitong Lunes.
Ang hinalughog, bukod sa
bahay ni Salonga sa Barangay
Poblacio, ay ang mga bahay
nina Roberto Carpio, Barangay
Luyos; Elpidio Sicat, Sto. Cristo; Joseph Guinto, Poblacion;
Saturnino Miranda, Sta. Cruz;
Hero Henson Garcia, Panabingan at Roy Juliano, Sta. Barbara.
Ayon kay Senior Insp. Carlito Lopez, hepe ng San Antonio police, ang paghahaluhog
ay ginawa sa pangunguna ng
Philippine National Police’s Intelligence Group sa pamumuno ni Senior Supt. Allen Bantolo, at Criminal Investigation and
Detection Team (CIDT), Special
Forces, Regional Mobile Group
3, at Nueva Ecija police provincial office (NEPPO).
Sinimulan ang operasyon
bandang alas-6:00 ng umaga
at natapos dakong alas-11:00
ng umaga, ayon kay Lopez.
Narekober ng mga pulis
ang dalawang shotgun, isang
baby Armalite, anim na cal. 45
pistols,isang .357 revolver, dalawang .22 rifles, isang AK 47,
isang .9mm at isang galil,
ayon sa ulat ng PNP-IG.
Iniulat din na ang kumpiskasyon ng 12 bala para sa
M203 at marami pang bala para
sa iba’t ibang uri ng armas.
Sinabi ni Lopez na ginawa
ang pagsasaliksik sa bisa ng
search warrants in ipinalabas
ng hukuman dahil sa umano’y
paglabag sa Republic Act 8294.
Pero batay sa ulat ni Lopez, lahat ng nakumpiskang
armas ay may kaukulang
dokumento.”All seized items
were covered by license (s),”
saad ni Lopez sa kanyang ulat
sa NEPPO.
Ang mga nakumpsikang
ebidensiya, dagdag niya, ay
dinala sa Camp Olivas, Pampanga.
Ayon sa isang opisyal ng
pulisya, bagama’t wala si Salonga at iba pang kaalyado nito
ng isagawa ang kumpiskasyon ay sasampahan pa rin ang
mga ito ng kasong paglabag sa
illegal possession of firearms.
Kaugnay nito, noong Lunes
din ay inalis si Lopez bilang
hepe ng San Antonio at pinalitan ni Insp. Jaime Ferrer bilang officer-in-charge.
CENTRAL LUZON FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Ika-3 panalo itinala ng Futbulakenyos, Amihan nanalo din
NI DINO BALABO
LUNGSOD NG MALOLOS – Itinala ng Futbulakenyos ang ikatlong sunod na panalo sa Central Luzon Football League
(CLFL) noong Sabado, Hunyo 9
ng talunin ang Tarlac Football
Club sa iskor na 3-1.
Ang labanan ay naganap sa
Bulacan Sports Complex sa
lungsod na ito kung saan ay iilan
ang nanood.
Kaugnay nito, itinala ng
Lighthouse Amihan FC ang
unang panalo sa ikalawang laro
ng talunin nila sa iskor na 8-0
ang Pampanga FC sa larong isinagawa sa Bren Z. Guiao Sports
Complex sa Lungsod ng San
Fernando, Pampanga noong
Linggo, Hunyo 10.
Muling magsasagupa ang
apat na koponan sa Linggo Hunyo 17. Ang Futbulakenyos at
Tarlac FC ay maglalaban sa Tarlac, samantalang ang Amihan at
Pampanga FC ay maglalaban sa
Brent International School sa
Subic Bay Freeport sa Zambales.
Sa kasalukuyan, nangunguna ang Futbulakenyos na nakapagtala ng tatlong sunod na
panalo, ang Amihan at Tarlac FC
at kapwa may tig-isang panalo
at talo, samantalang ang Pampanga FC ay wala pang naipanalo sa tatlong sunod na laro.
“Sayang, hindi nakita ng mga
Bulakenyo ang unang laro at
panalo namin sa home field,” ani
Emmanuel Robles, playing
coach ng koponan ng Bulacan
matapos ang laro na ginanap sa
Bulacan Sports Complex sa
Barangay Sta. Isabel ng lungsod
na ito.
Ito ay dahil sa hindi pa nagiging popular sa mga Bulakenyo at maging sa ibang bahagi
ng Gitnang Luzon ang larong
football.
RED DAY. AirAsia CEO Maan
Hontiveros (left) is joined by
musician Jim Paredes and 129 other
passengers at the airline’s inaugural
international flight to Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia via Clark on Saturday.
PHOTO BY JOEY PAVIA
Simple ang basehan ng
panghihinayang ni Robles. Tinalo na nilang ang lahat ng tatlo
pang koponang kasali sa CLFL,
ang kauna-unahang amateur
football league sa rehiyon.
Bukod dito, hindi rin nakita
ng mga Bulakenyo ang walang
humpay na pananalasa ng Futbulakenyos noong Sabado.
Sa unang 45 minuto ng laro,
hindi na tinigilan ng Futbulakenyos ang pag-atake sa goal ng
Tarlac FC.
Matapos ang unang 45
minuto, nakapagpasok ng dalawang goal ang Futbulakenyos
kumpara sa isa ng Tarlac FC.
Sa ikalawang 45 minuto ng
laro, mas pinaigting ng Futbulakenyos ang pag-atake kaya’t
ang bola ay halos hindi nalayo
sa kalahating football field sa
panig ng Tarlac FC.
Gayunpaman, pinaigting din
ng Tarlac FC ang depensa,
kaya’t isa lamang ang naipasok
ng Futbulakenyos sa ikalawang
45 minuto ng laro.
Ilan sa mga natatanging
pagkakataon sa ikalawang 45
minuto ng laro ang halos 10 beses napagtangka ng Futbulakenyo na ipasok ang bola sa goal
ng Tarlac FC.
Nagningning din ang ka-
bataan at bilis ng mga manlalarong Bulakenyo na karaniwang
nagmula sa Bulacan State
University(BulSU).
May mga pagkakataon na
nagpapaikot-ikot sa tatlong manlalarong Tarlac FC ang isang
manlalaro ng Futbulakenyos.
Ayon kay Robles, maganda
ang ipinakita ng kanyang mga
manlalaro, ngunit kailangan pa
ang dagdag na pagsasanay upang mas maraming bola ang
maipasok sa goal ng kalaban.
Bentahe yung bilis at kabataan ng Futbulakenyos, pero
kailangan pang dagdagan,” ani
Robles at sinabing may nalala-
bi pa silang tatlong laro para sa
second round ng liga.
Sa Pampanga, itinala ng
Lighthouse Amihan FC ang
unang panalo ng talunin nila ang
Pampanga FC sa iskor na 8-0
noong Linggo ng haponHunyo
10.
Ayon kay John Bayarong,
coach ng Amihan FC na nakabase sa Lungsod ng Olongapo,
isang goal lamang ang naipasok nila sa unang 45 minuto ng
laro.
Ngunit higit pinagbuti ng kalaban sa ikalawang 45 minuto
kung kailan ay nakapagpasok
sila ng pito pang goal.
Over 60 laptops for clients of Metro Department Store and Supermarket
ANGELES CITY – Marquee
Mall, the fastest-growing mall in
Pampanga, is the place to be
as students started going to
school.
Affordable prices of goods
and commodities especially
school supplies could be found
at Marquee’s Metro Department
Store and Supermarket.
But there is more than just
fine shopping at Metro Department Store and Supermarket in
branches all over the country.
Over 60 lucky shoppers and
patrons will win Samsung
N100s Notebooks.
The promotion entitled “Back
to School: Get a chance to Win
Samsung Notebooks” is on-going from May 17 to June 30 of
this year.
There will be 11 winners per
week of Samsung Notebooks.
At least six notebooks will be
given at the Metro Department
Store and Supermarket.
A P500 worth of purchase at
the department entitles a customer to one raffle coupon.
The mechanics is the same
at the supermarket but there are
participating products. Customers are advised to check on the
list of participating products displayed all over the area.
Supermarket clients will have
a chance to play the roleta game
and win instant prices.
The wholesale purchase
worth P5,000 gives one raffle
coupon.
Enjoy fine shopping at The Metro Department Store. PHOTO BY RIC GONZALES
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • JUNE 13 - 14, 2012 • WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY
BY JOEY PAVIA
3
Editorial
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • JUNE 13 - 14, 2012 • WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY
Her own trumpet
4
“I’VE EXPERIENCED the complaints of
people about the adjudication system, from
arbitration in the National Labor Relations
Commission, all the way to fighting for your
rights, you’re bumping against big
establishments.
“So, I would say that I have an advantage
over all the other people because I personally
experienced all in the system itself.
“I fought against illegal termination and I
saw the hardships, the process. You will have
to fight the system.
“You will have to fight the large law firm that
does not even appear as lawyers but are
doing all the backchanneling. And I mean,
what can be a better teacher than
experiencing the judicial system yourself.”
So the Philippine Daily Inquirer bannered:
Henares: I have edge over CJ bets.
Blowing her own trumpet, Internal Revenue
Commissioner Kim Henares there. Her
insistence that she has not made any decision
yet short in reducing the decibel levels of the
blare.
On the contrary, it found even louder
accompaniment in presidential drummer boy
Edwin Lacierda quoted as saying that his Boss
had expressed “his preference toward the
nomination of Commissioner Kim Henares.”
Only to backtrack – per the Inquirer report
– when “a commentator said the next Chief
Justice should not be an Aquino ‘toady.’”
Lacierda said that the President had not
made a decision on whether he wanted
Henares or Justice Secretary Leila de Lima
as replacement for ousted Chief Justice
Renato Corona.
Henares is the President’s shooting buddy.
Well within the premium standards of hiring in
the Aquino government, namely kaklase,
kaibigan, kabarilan.
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KUALA LUMPUR – With a population of some 28 million, Malaysia
had some 25 million tourist arrivals last year.
With a population of some 100 million, the Philippines had some
3.5 million tourist arrivals last year.
In 2010, 80,000 Malaysian tourists visited the Philippines.
In that same year, 486,790 Filipinos visited Malaysia.
Comparisons most odious. Fast facts enough to make one
damn: It’s no fun in the Philippines. Or get challenged: Take some
fun from Malaysia.
“Malaysia is very much willing to share its tourist market with
the Philippines,” Philippine Ambassador J. Eduardo Malaya told
visiting mediamen from Pampanga and Manila at the newly
renovated chancery here last Monday.
European-based, Malaysia’s tour boom could spill over to the
Philippines via specific packages, like three-day Boracay holidays
supplementing four-day Kuala Lumpur vacations.
Already, if I got the envoy right, talks have started on reciprocity
in the tourism industry between the two countries: on one hand,
Malaysia serves as the gateway of European tourism to the
Philippines; on the other, the Philippines serves as conduit of
American tourism to Malaysia.
Unarguably, a boon to both countries, resulting
from there.
Malaysian entities have likewise expressed
bullishness over the prospects of Philippine
tourism. Most prominent in this field is AirAsia.
No less than Tony Fernandes, AirAsia’s Group
CEO, is reported to have personally offered
President Aquino his firm’s marketing and strong
branding to lure more tourists to the country.
Fernandes does walk his talk. His confidence
in the potentials of Philippine tourism first
manifested in AirAsia’s locating its Philippine
operations at the Clark International Airport when
the country’s very own airlines were virtually
avoiding it like the plague. His faith in the
soundness of investing in Clark concretized in
AirAsia’s setting its hub right there. Proven,
indeed, with Philippines’ AirAsia taking off from
the CIA to Davao, Puerto Princesa and Kalibo as
initial domestic destinations, to Kuala Lumpur as
first international route and soon to other Asian
cities.
Ambassador Malaya underscored two
opportunities that would have direct bearings in
attracting Malaysian tourists to the Philippines.
The first is “halal tourism.”
Halal is an Islamic Arabic word meaning
“permissible” and denoting or relating to meat
prepared as prescribed by Islamic law.
A general concern of Muslim travellers to the
Philippines is the dearth of halal food outlets. It
goes without saying thus that to attract more
tourists from Malaysia, where majority of the
population is Muslim, there has to be more
ditanggung halal and makanan Islam among
Filipino restaurants.
The second is “Christian pilgrimage tourism.”
Predominantly Catholic, with its many
centuries-old churches, the Philippines can be
packaged as pilgrimage site for Malaysian
Catholics as well as those from other Asian
countries.
Prominently positioned here is Pampanga,
thanks to AirAsia at Clark. The province’s
magnificent edifices of faith – national cultural
treasures Betis and Minalin churches, the
equally grand legacy churches in Lubao, Sta.
Rita, San Luis, Sasmoan, Guagua and Apalit,
the cathedral in San Fernando and the pisamban
maragul in Angeles – make immediate pilgrim
destinations.
The Department of Tourism is reported to be
targeting some 100,000 Malaysian arrivals for this
year.
At the rate the AirAsia flights from Kuala
Lumpur and Kota Kinabalu are going, that target
looks easily attainable. Notwithstanding the
stupidity of the Department of Transportation and
Communications ordering a 30 percent reduction
in flights out of the Ninoy Aquino International
Airport starting July, purportedly to ease runway
congestion.
Clark is the answer, there. But totally blind to
Clark, the DOTC clearly is.
Maging
Maalam,
Maging
Malaya
Ni Erin Tañada
MGA KABALEN, dumating na sa napakahalagang yugto ang ating
paglalakbay tungo sa mga hangad na pagbabago. Ngayon, ang
bansa, sa pamumuno ni Pangulong Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III,
ay maghihirang ng bagong punong mahistrado. Magaganap ito sa
loob ng 90 araw makaraang nabakante ang pwesto ng chief justice
(CJ).
Ang hihiranging CJ ay magmumula sa isang “short list” ng mga
nominado na isusumite ng Judicial Bar Council (JBC) sa pangulo,
makaraan ang “selection process” na itinakda sa Saligang Batas.
Ang JBC ang tatanggap ng mga nominasyon mula sa
sambayanan. May mga kwalipikasyon para sa posisyon, tulad ng
integridad, probity, independence, at ekspiryensya at kahusayan
sa paglilitis.
Sa yugtong ito mahalagang puntuhan ang demokratikong
proseso sa paghirang ng susunod na CJ, gayun din ang mga dapat
baguhin sa estado ng ating Hudikatura.
Una, maihahantulad sa kasagraduhan ng isang
halalan ang pagpili sa CJ. Malawak ang
kapangyarihan at responsibilidad ng isang CJ na
tatayong pinuno ng isang independent branch of
government.
Ikalawa, ang JBC – ayon sa itinakda ng
Saligang Batas— ay kinakatawan ng tatlong
sangay ng gobyerno, mula sa liderato ng
hudikatura, mga chairpersons ng mga justice
committees sa Kongreso, at ng kalihim ng
Department of Justice.
Ikatlo, ang kabuuang listahan ng mga
nominado na isusumite sa JBC ay magmumula
naman sa taumbayan, kaya matunog ang
kahilingang gawing bukas sa publiko – maging
sa media na kumakatawan sa Fourth Estate —
ang selection process na isasagawa ng JBC.
Kailangan lang maisagawa ito sa maayos na
paraan.
Ngayon may pagkakataon upang ihayag ang
mga dapat baguhin at ayusin sa Hudikatura,
kasama na ang mga usaping administratibo at
pamamahala tungo sa pagkakaloob ng pantay at
makataong hustisya at mas epektibo at
episyenteng serbisyo publiko sa lahat ng
mamamayan, mayaman o mahirap.
Una rito ang pagsasa-ayos ng panlabas na
anyo at kondisyon ng mga lower courts, gayun
din sa pagpapasigla sa mga empleyado rito.
Kailangan maging disente ang anyo ng mga gusali
at pasilidad, bilang tanggapan para sa judicial
services. Anumang ‘di-kanais-nais sa anyo at
kapaligiran ng ating mga hukuman, maging sa
pakikitungo ng empleyado sa mga kliyente, ay
taliwas sa kaakibat na kasagraduhan ng
paggawad ng hustisya.
Ikalawa, ang panloob naman. May tuwid na
daan din sa paggawad ng hustisya. Tuluyan na
sanang mawaksi ang nabansagang “decisions for
sale,” maging ang kwestyonableng pag-dismiss
ng kaso, pabor sa akusadong salarin, kapalit ng
malaking halaga. Katiwalian at korupsiyon din ang
dahilan kung bakit nagiging mailap ang hustisya
sa mga mahirap.
Ikatlo, hiling natin na maragdagan ang budget
ng Public Attorney’s Office (PAO). Bukod sa
abang kondisyon ng mga tanggapan ng PAO sa
bansa, may kababaan din ang kita ng isang PAO
lawyer. ‘Di maikakaila na lumilipat ang mga PAO
lawyer sa pribado makaraang umani ng
ekspiryensya sa gobyerno. Sa pagganap nila
bilang abugado ng mga akusadong kapos sa
buhay ay mararamdaman na kung anong klaseng
serbisyo at hustisya ang pwedeng asahan mula
sa gobyerno.
Kaugnay ng ating adbokasiya sa karapatang
pantao, masusi kong pag-aaralan kung paano
mabibigyan ng ayuda ang PAO sa pagtalakay
namin sa 2013 budget. Maghahain tayo ng
panukala para rito kung kinakailangan. Mabibilang
sa mga talaan sa korte ang mga akusadong
mahihirap na napawalang sala makaraan ang
mahabang panahon nang pagkakakulong – at
pagkawalay sa mahal sa buhay — dahil lang sa
kawalan ng pamyansa.
Napapanahon din ang pagpapatibay ng “Pillars
of the Criminal Justice System,” na binubuo ng
Court, Prosecution, Police, Penology, at
Community. Ang paksang ito ay tatalakayin natin
sa mga susunod na kolum.
Mga kabalen, ang kailangan natin ay isang
punong mahistrado na bukod sa walang bahid
at maalam sa batas at paglilitis, ay mayroon
ding kahusahayang pang-administratibo, gayun
din sa masinop at masiglang pamamahala,
upang tumibay ang pag-asang mararamdaman
na rin ng lahat na may pantay na hustisya sa
ating bansa.
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Miranda rights are established
ON THIS DAY in 1966, the Supreme Court hands down its
decision in Miranda v. Arizona,
establishing the principle that all
criminal suspects must be advised of their rights before interrogation. Now considered standard police procedure, "You
have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can, and will,
be used against you in court of
law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one,
one will be appointed to you,"
has been heard so many times
in television and film dramas that
it has become almost cliche.
The roots of the Miranda decision go back to March 2, 1963,
when an 18-year-old Phoenix
woman told police that she had
been abducted, driven to the
desert and raped. Detectives
questioning her story gave her a
polygraph test, but the results
were inconclusive. However,
tracking the license plate number of a car that resembled that
of her attacker's brought police
to Ernesto Miranda, who had a
prior record as a peeping tom.
Although the victim did not identify Miranda in a line-up, he was
brought into police custody and
interrogated. What happened
next is disputed, but officers left
the interrogation with a confession that Miranda later recanted, unaware that he didn't have
to say anything at all.
The confession was extremely brief and differed in certain
respects from the victim's account of the crime. However,
Miranda's appointed defense attorney (who was paid a grand
total of $100) didn't call any witnesses at the ensuing trial, and
Miranda was convicted. While
Miranda was in Arizona state
prison, the American Civil Liberties Union took up his appeal,
claiming that the confession was
false and coerced.
The Supreme Court overturned his conviction, but Miranda was retried and convicted in
October 1966 anyway, despite
the relative lack of evidence
against him. Remaining in prison until 1972, Ernesto Miranda
was later stabbed to death in the
men's room of a bar after a poker
game in January 1976.
As a result of the case
against Miranda, each and every person must now be informed of his or her rights when
arrested.
Ni Felix M. Garcia
Kabataan, di puedeng
bumili ng alak at yosi
sa Angeles City
ANG PANUKALA ni Mayor Ed Pamintuan,
Ng Angeles city, na maipa-iral
At ipagbawal sa buong kalungsuran
Ang pagbebenta sa mga kabataan
Ng sigarilyo at saka ng inuming
Agua pataranta o nakalalasing
Ay tiyakang ito’y mapipilit sundin
Ng mga may tinda ng ganyang bilihin
Lalo’t tulad nitong ya’y may kaakibat
Na parusang multa sa mga lalabag
Sa panukalang yan ng ama ng siyudad,
Kapag ito’y naging ordinansang ganap.
Na inaasahang ya’y susuportahan
Ng kasamahan sa palingkuran bayan;
At ng iba’t-ibang sektor sa lipunan,
Kasama na pati ang mga magulang
Na dapat manguna, pero sila itong
Sa murang isip n’yan parang nagtuturong
Ang paninigarilyo at gawang pag-inom
Ng alak ay likas na sa tao ngayon?
Pagkat di batid ng iba ang posibleng
Kahihinatnan n’yan kapag nahumaling
Sa paninigarilyo at nakalalasing
Na inumin sanhi ng patikim-tikim.
Gaya halimbawa kapag inutusan
Ng nakatatanda upang ibili yan
Nitong alin man sa dalawang naturan
Sa ‘sari-sari store’ o kahit saan man.
Lalo na kapagka inatasan sila
Na sindihan bago iabot sa kanila;
Kung kaya oras na yan ay matuto na,
Tiyak bisyo na ng murang edad nila.
Ganun din ang bagay na nakalalasing,
Tulad ng alak o anumang klaseng ‘beer’;
Kung ang bata ay malimit makasimsim,
Yan di magtatagal ay kalasing na rin.
Na siyang ninanais lubos masawata
Ni Mayor kung kaya naipanukala
Niya sa Konseho na sila’y gumawa
Ng ordinansa r’yan na nagbabawal nga
Sa nagtitinda ng sigarilyo’t alak,
Itong huwag pagbilhan ang menor de edad
Ng ganitong klaseng panindang di dapat
Maging bisyo nitong ating mga anak.
(Na sadyang tinukoy ni Rizal sa kanyang
Bantog na aklat na kung saan malinaw
Nitong inasam na nasa kabataan
Ang pag-asa nitong ating Inangbayan!)
Sa puntong ito ay sadyang marapat na
Maisabatas o maging ordinansa,
Itong panukala ng butihing ama
Ng lungsod upang yan ay ipairal na.
Batay sa kung anong mga nasasaad
Na kaparusahan o multang marapat
Ipataw sa kahit na sinong lalabag,
Maging sa dayuhan at sa taga siyudad
Na magbebenta sa mga kabataan
Ng sigarilyo at alak na naturan,
Ng walang sino pa mang kinikilingan,
(Kahit kamag-anak ka ni Mayor EdPam?)
Sa State, ang isang ‘young-looking’ di basta
Puedeng makabili ng ‘beer’ at ano pa,
Na ‘regulated’ na uri ng paninda,
Kung ya’y walang I.D. na maipakita
Na magpapatunay sa tunay na edad
Ng ‘buyer’ bago siya pagbilhan at sukat
Sapagkat tindera ang mapapahamak
Kung masita yan ng alagad ng batas.
Kung nagagawa yan sa ibang lupain,
Ito’y makakaya rin natin marahil;
Pagkat disiplina lamang din ang tanging
Lunas sa anumang magandang mithiin!
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • JUNE 13 - 14, 2012 • WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY
Pulso ng bayan
kailangan sa
paghirang ng
bagong CJ
Napaguusapan
lang
5
EDPAM SAYS
Museo to become benchmark for PH cultural properties
ANGELES CITY—Mayor
Edgardo Pamintuan expressed optimism that the
Museo Ning Angeles
would become the benchmark of other soon to be
declared national-cultural
properties of the Philippines by the National Museum.
Officials from the National Museum led by Director Jeremy Barns, Dr.
Ana Labrador, Prof. Angel
Bautista, Head of Cultural
Properties Division of
NMP, Kuliat Foundation
Inc. Incumbent President
Rosalie H. Naguiat and
Angeles City officials with
Pamintuan and Vice May-
or Vicky Vega Cabigting
leading the unveiling of a
marker declaring the Museo ning Angeles as an
“Important Cultural Property of the Philippines”.
Such declaration was
UNVEILING RITES. Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan and Vice Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting along with
KFI President Rosalie Naguiat (2nd from left) join officials from the National Museum, (from right)
Prof. Angel Bautista, Dr. Ana Maria Theresa Labrador and Director Jeremy Barns, during Tuesday’s
unveiling ceremony declaring Museo Ning Angeles as an “Important Cultural Property.”
PHOTO COURTESY OF ANGELES CIO
PNoy dimasyado sa harapang pag-abuso sa batas
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • JUNE 13 - 14, 2012 • WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY
NI DINO BALABO
6
LUNGSOD NG MALOLOS – Nagpahayag ng
pagkadismaya si Pangulong Benigno Aquino III na
hindi pa rin nauubos ang
nagnanais abusushin ang
Saligang Batas ng bansa
para sa pansariling kapakanan.
Ito ay matapos ang paglilitis at mapatalsik sa
tungkulin si dating Punong
Mahistrado Renato Corona.
Sa kanyang pahayag
sa mga dumalo sa ika-114
na guning taong paghahayag ng Kasarinlan ng
Pilipinas, sinabi ng Pangulo na bukod sa mga nagnanais baligtarin ang Saligang Batas, ay mayroon
ding mga opisyal na harapharapang lumalabag dito.
“Hindi ko maiwasang
madismaya minsan, dahil
matapos
ang
pinagdaanang ratipikasyon
ng ating Saligang Batas
noong 1935 at 1987, hindi
parin nauubos ang mga
walang pakundangan pa
ring naghahanap ng butas
upang gamitin ito sa pansarili nilang kapakanan,”
ani ng Pangulo.
Idinagdag pa niya na
“May mga opisyal na
harap-harapan kung lumabag sa batas, at harapharapan ding tinatakasan
ang pananagutan.”
Ayon sa Pangulo, ang
Saligang Batas ay dapat
natatakbuhan ng karaniwang tao, ngunit ito’y “nagiging laruan na lamang ng
mga naghahari-harian.”
Inilarawan pa niya ang
mga ginagawa ng ilang
opisyal na hindi tinukoy ng
kanyang sabihing, “Kung
umasta sila, animo’y hawak nila ang piring ng katarungan, para bang lisensyado silang palitan, bawasan, ibahin at baliktarin
ang Konstitusyon.”
Ayon kay Aquino ang
katatapos na paglilitis kay
Corona na umabot ng
limang buwan ay dapat
maging babala sa mga
nagnanais baligtarin ang
Saligang Batas.
Ito ay dahil sa pinatingkad ng katatapos na
paglilitis ang diwa ng
demokrasya kung saan ay
“karapatan ng mga Pilipinong malaman ang katotohanan at maramdamang
buhay ang demokratikong
sistema sa bansa. Muli
rin nitong idiniin sa ating
mga lingkod-bayan na ang
kapangyarihang ipinahiram sa kanila ni Juan
dela Cruz ay may kaakibat na responsibilidad at
pananagutan.”
Ayon sa Pangulo ang
pag-abuso sa batas ay
masasalamin sa tahasang
korapsyon na naging daan
upang lalong dumami ang
“naging sakim sa kapangyarihan.”
Ito ay nagbunga ng
pagdami ng bilang ng mga
manhid at nagwalangkibo.
“Naging pundido ang
parola ng demokrasya dahil walang nagkukusang
alagaan at panatilihin ang
alab nito,” ani ng Pangulo.
Ipinagmalaki rin niya
na nakakabuwelo na ang
bansa patungo sa tuwid na
landas, at nangako siya na
“hindi natin hahayaan
pang maligaw tayosa dilim
ng nakaraan.”
“Gaya ng nakasaad sa
Saligang Batas, sa taumbayan nag-uugat ang lakas ng ating bayan. Kaya’t
makatarungan lamang na
sila rin ang makikinabang
sa bunga ng ating mga
pagsisikap. Kaya naman
bawat repormang itinutulak natin—mula sa trabahong naihahandog natin
sa ating kababayan, hanggang sa pagtataguyod ng
katarungang panlahat;
mula sa pagkukumpuni ng
sistemang panlipunan,
hanggang sa matuwid na
paggugol ng ating pananalapi—ay dapat sumasalamin sa prinsipyong
pinagtibay sa loob mismo
ng simbahang ito noong
1898,” dagdag pa ni Aquino.
Bilang dating Kongresista ng Tarlac, sinabi niya
na naging sandigan niya
ang Saligang Batas.
“Lagi kong binabasa,
pinag-aaralan at sinusuri
ang mga probisyon nito.
Bukod sa napapaloob dito
ang mga batayan na dapat kong sundin bilang Pilipino, ginagabayan din ako
nito kung paano ko magagawa nang mas
mahusay ang obligasyon
ko bilang lingkod-bayan,”
ani ng Pangulo.
Pinatingkad din niya
ang kahalagahan ng Saligang Batas na pinagtibay
ng Kongreso ng Malolos
noong Enero 1899.
Sinabi ng Pangulo na
noon pa man ay “mulat na
ang ating mga ninuno sa
prinsipyong bumubuhay
sa ating demokrasya: ang
ganap na kapangyarihan
ay nagmumula at angkin
ng sambayanang Pilipino,
kaya’t sa kapakanan ng
Pilipino rin ito dapat nakatuon. Pumili sila ng mga
kinatawan, hindi para
maghari at pagsilbihan,
kundi para mamuno at itimon ang bansa tungo sa
tamang direksyon, at paglingkuran ang karaniwang
mamamayan.”
“Nang nagpunta sa
Malolos ang pitumpung kinatawan mula sa iba’t
ibang probinsya, pangunahing bitbit nila ay ang
mga adhikain ng sarili nilang mga lalawigan, at ang
pangarap ng nag-iisang
bayan. Inuna nila ito kaysa sa personal nilang interes. Nakaatang sa kanilang balikat ang obligasyon na isulat ang mga alituntunin na sinang-ayunan
ng taumbayan, upang
magsilbing gabay kung
paano sila mamumuhay at
makikitungo nang tama,
patas, at makatarungan
sa isa’t isa,” sabi ng Pangulo.
Dagdag pa niya, “Hindi nila tayo binigo. Matagumpay nilang ipinunla
ang isang saligan na bukal
ng katarungan, magtatanggol at magtataguyod
ng kabutihan, at sisiguro
sa pantay na karapatan
para sa lahat.”
THINK GREEN
made by the Panel of Experts of the National Museum led by Barns, stating that the Museo Ning
Angeles has “exceptional,
cultural, artistic and historical significance to the
Philippines.”
It merited such distinction after being singled out
from among the numerous
cultural properties that are
not sufficiently outstanding
to receive the classification of “National Cultural
Treasures” thus; they are
considered important cultural properties.
The Museo Ning Angeles is the first cultural property to be given such a distinction.
Pamintuan said that
the declaration is a boost
to the ongoing development and preservation of
the museum, which was
once the old municipal
building of the city.
He said that the management of the museum is
a clear manifestation that
government and the private
sector can work alongside
cultural preservation.
“The Museo Ning Angeles can be a perfect ex-
ample of how other places with cultural properties
can manage their own
with the help of their local
government,” Pamintuan
said.
The Museo Ning Angeles is currently managed
by the Kuliat Foundation,
Inc. (KFI).
KFI is a non-stock nonprofit organization that is
committed to work for the
preservation of Angeles
City’s history, culture and
traditions.
It is the official administrator of the Museo ning
Angeles. The KFI manages the museum with the
help of donors and the city
government.
For his part, Barns said
that the Museo Ning Angeles should now take
steps in improving its museum services and ensure
that the building is preserved for the next generation of Angelenos.
With the new distinction, the museum can avail
technical assistance from
the National Museum of
the Philippines and at
some point, programs and
funding.
Republic of the Philippines
REGIONAL TRIAL COURT
Third Judicial Region
BRANCH 50
Guagua, Pampanga
IN RE: PETITION FOR CORRECTION
OF ENTRY IN THE CERTIFICATE OF
BIRTH (LCR No. 83-1360) OF RACHELLE
ROMAN SUNGALO.
RACHELLE ROMAN SUNGLAO,
Petitioner.
SP. PROC. NO. G-12-2442
-versusTHE OFFICE OF THE CIVIL REGISTRAR
OF GUAGUA, PAMPANGA AND THE CIVIL
REGISTRAR GENERAL IN MANILA,
Respondents.
x——————————————————————x
ORDER
On April 13, 2012, petitioner thru counsel, Atty. Grant Z. Tepace,
filed the Petition that, an order be issued directing the Civil Registrar
General in Manila and Civil Registrar of Guagua, Pampanga to change
and correct petitioner’s gender and true and correct spelling of his first
name in the National Statistics Office (NSO) copy of his Certificate of
Live Birth as follows:
From female
to male
Gender
:
Female
Male
First Name :
Rochelle
Rachelle
WHEREFORE, finding the petition to be sufficient in form and
substance, the court hereby:
a) sets the case for hearing on June 27, 2012 at 10:00 o’ clock in
the morning.
b) orders petitioner (1) to serve within seventy two (72) hours from
receipt hereof copies of the petition and its annexes to the Office of the
Solicitor General of the Philippines, Office of the Provincial Prosecutor,
City of San Fernando, Pampanga, and the Office of the Local Civil
Registrar of Guagua, Pampanga, and (2) to show proof of said service
to this court;
c) orders all persons interested in this petition: (1) to appear on said
date and time before this court, Regional Trial Court, Branch 50, Guagua,
Pampanga; and (2) show cause, if any, why the petition should not be
granted;
d) orders the Solicitor General to enter his appearance in this case
for the state seventy two (72) hours from receipt of this Order;
e) orders the Branch Clerk of Court of this court to furnish copies of
this order to the petitioner, his counsel, the Solicitor General, the Office of
the Local Civil Registrar of Guagua, Pampanga; the Provincial Prosecutor
of Pampanga; the Civil Registrar General of the Philippines and the
National Statistics Office, who are given fifteen (15) days from notice of
the petition or from the last due date of publication of such notice within
which to file their comment/opposition thereto, if any.
Further, let the petitioner at his expense, publish this Order before
the date of hearing for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of
general circulation in the Province of Pampanga. Likewise, the petitioner
is directed to pay the amount of Five Hundred (Php500.00) Pesos to the
Office of the Provincial Prosecutor, City of San Fernando, Pampanga as
appearance fee of the Public Prosecutor and thru whose office, the
Solicitor General shall be represented in the proceedings, and to show
proof to the Court of such payment made or before scheduled hearing.
SO ORDERED.
Guagua, Pampanga, April 26, 2012.
AMOR M. DIMATATAC-ROMERO
Presiding Judge
PUNTO! Central Luzon: June 4, 13 & 20, 2012
MISS WORLD-PHILIPPINES candidates pose for posterity at the monument of the late President Emilio Aguinaldo in front of the Barasoain church
in Malolos City after the 114th Independence Day celebrations led by President Benigno Aquino III on Tuesday. PHOTO BY DINO BALABO
Miss World candidates add glitter
th
to 114 Independence Day rites
MALOLOS CITY – Additional
attraction.
President Benigno Aquino III
is not the only person who provided color and glitter to the
114th Independence Day celebrations at the historic Barasoain
church here on Tuesday.
It also included the 25 Miss
World-Philippines pageant candidates led by Cory Quirino, the
country franchisee of the pageant that sends the most talented, intelligent and beautiful Filipina to the world stage.
Clad in colorful upper garments and shawls, the 25 can-
didates including the lone Bulakenya Ivy Ocampo of Paombong sat at the stage where the
President spoke while facing the
Barasoain church.
Participants to the celebrations, including journalists cannot help but look at the President,
then to the pageant candidates.
Bulakenyos hailed the President for leading the annual rites
here.
In the past years, guest
speakers to the annual rites have
ranged from a sitting senator of
the republic to an undersecretary, which historian objected
noting it reduced the importance
of the Barasoain church where
AirAsia to launch 2 more
int’l flights on June 19
BY DING CERVANTES
CLARK FREEPORT – After
launching last Saturday flights
to Kuala Lumpur, Airasia announced here yesterday it will
have regular flights fly from here
to Hong Kong and to Macau
starting June 19.
To commemorate the twin
launch, AirAsia is offering “allin promo fare” of only P688 one
way from Clark to Hong Kong
and from only P588 one way
from Clark to Macau. Tickets
for this promo are available
starting June 13 up to 19, for
flights starting this July 19 up
to January next year.
“Just four days after launching our first international flight
to Kuala Lumpur, we are doubly excited to announce today
that Philippines’ AirAsia will
start flying out of Clark to Hong
Kong and Macau on July 19.
Business travelers and Overseas Filipino Workers will welcome these new routes while
it provides tourists and shoppers exciting choices,” AirAsia
Inc. Chief Executive Officer
Maan Hontiveros said.
Airasia launched its first international flight from Clark to
Malaysia last June 9. The
flights now depart daily for Kuala Lumpur’s Low Cost Carrier
Terminal.
“These twin launches provide yet another opportunity for
Filipinos to have access to
Hong Kong and Macau’s attractions but more important for
our OFW families here in Central and Northern Luzon where
more than 30 percent of OFWs
came from to reconnect and
bring their families closer more
than ever through our low cost,
high value travel fares,” Hontiveros added.
The country’s newest low
cost carrier is operating the
new routes with brand new Airbus A320 staffed by well-trained
and experienced flight and cabin crew.
the first Congress was convened
in 1898.
Housed at Barasoain, the
said Congress ratified on September 1898 the independence
declared by the late General
Emilio
Aguinaldo
in
Kawit, Cavite months earlier.
The following year, on January 23, 1899, the Malolos Congress ratified the first republican
Constitution that gave birth to
the first democratic republic in
Asia and Africa.
The said events gave Barasoain the honor of having the
Senate President or the House
Speaker as guest speakers in
the annual rites, but receding
sense of history led to lower officials to lead the annual rites.
This was reversed for the first
time on Tuesday with the President leading the annual rites.
His presence was made
more colorful by the pageant
candidates, but some Bulakenyos cited their lower garments
as too short, thereby showing
more skin of their legs.
Cora Sityar, said that the lower garments candidates were inappropriate for the occasion. But
other Bulakenyos could care less.
After the President delivered
his Independence Day message
and walked down the stage for
the recessional honors, the pag-
eant candidates also walked
across the plaza in the hope for
a brief group photo session with
the President.
But it didn’t happen as photographers along with other people with cameras came flashing
and clicking, thereby blocking
the space between the candidates and the President who
was then shaking hands of Bulakenyo supporters at the other
end of the plaza.
In the end, the candidates
just stood by the walkway where
the President entered earlier and
individually shook hands with the
President as they walk out of
the plaza.
Angeles mayor recalls June 15
special non-working holiday
ANGELES CITY – Mayor
Edgardo Pamintuan ordered the
recall of the implementation of
City Ordinance No. 315 declaring June 15 of every year as a
special non-working holiday in
this city.
The cancellation was prompted by the absence of a Presidential Proclamation or an Act
of Congress, which by law, are
the only basis for the declaration of special non-working holidays, both in local and national
application.
As of 3 p.m., Wednesday,
the Office of the City Mayor, after constant follow-ups has not
received any official communication and approval from the Office
of the President of the Philippines.
However, Pamintuan urges all
Angelenos to observe in their
own personal and collective capacities, the significant event in
our history when we have triumphed over the tragedy of the
eruption of Mt. Pinatubo on June
15, 1991.
2 dead, 2 seriously hurt in motorcycle collision
BY ERNIE B.ESCONDE
ORION, Bataan – Two died
while two were seriously injured
in a head-on collision of two
motorcycles at the national
road in Barangay Bilolo, Orion,
Bataan early of dawn of Sunday. The four were reportedly
close friends.
Police said Karlo Rafa, 22,
credit collector of barangay Bilolo, Orion died on the spot while
Jerson Cruz, 19, private school
janitor of Barangay Balut, Orion was pronounced dead on
arrival at the Orion St. Michael
Hospital.
A call at the James Gordon
Memorial Hospital in Olongapo
City showed that Ronaldo Lalim, 18 of Wawa, who was with
Rafa was serious and breathing only through a mechanical
ventilator.
Another rider, Raymond De
Belen, 26, laborer of Wawa,
was confined at the Bataan
General Hospital in Balanga
City with broken limb. Cruz who
was with him died. “Wala akong
matandaan, nagising ako nasa
ospital na,” De Belen said.
Fely Festejo said she was
awake when the accident happened at 12:30 a.m. in front of
her sari-sari store. “Tumilapon
sa motorsiklo ang isa at tumama sa pader ng tindahan ko.
Punerarya na ang kumuha sa
kanya,”she said.
The old woman pointed to
the spot on the road where the
other three victims fell. They
were all rushed to the Orion
hospital but the two injured were
later transferred to other hospitals.
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • JUNE 13 - 14, 2012 • WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY
BY DINO BALABO
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Malaysians now prefer to hire other nationalities
FROM PAGE 1
“The Malaysians now
prefer to hire Indians or
Cambodians, but the more
discriminating ones still
retain their Filipino domestic helpers who have been
with them for the past 10
to 15 years,” said Philippine ambassador to Malaysia Eduardo Malaya in
an interview over the
weekend.
Malaya, who assumed
post eight months ago,
said that while the latest
count put the number of
Filipino domestic helpers
now in peninsular Malaysia at 24,430, their number has been dwindling
amid efforts of the embassy to enforce the $400
minimum pay.
Records from the Phil-
ippine Overseas Employment Administration
(POEA) indicated that domestic helpers in Malaysia
numbered 71,557 in 2009.
Malaya said that the
policy has encouraged
Malaysians to focus more
the hiring of skilled and
semi-skilled Filipino workers. The domestic workers
are now outnumbered by
40,215 Filipinos working in
local factories.
Apart from the domestic helpers, embassy statistics revealed that peninsular Malaysia also
hosts 3,001 other OFW’s
in managerial, professional, and supervisory jobs,
2,095 more employed in
plantation, agricultural,
aquatic and forestry fields,
2,666 in information technology and electronics,
Corruption, political patronage cited...
FROM PAGE 1
chair Fernando Hicap.
This year, the CCT
transfer budget is P34 billion.
Pamalakaya noted in a
statement, however, that
the project has been
marred by reports of “corruption and political patronage.” It cited complaints from fishing areas
in Sorsogon, Cavite and
Laguna where supposed
beneficiaries reportedly get
less of their monthly allocation of about P1,400,
while others report not getting their share at all.
France and Hicap said
that the P45 billion of “hardearned taxpayers’ money”
should not be treated as a
“national charity fund” and
would find better use in
“creating jobs, implementing social justice-driven
land reform, and providing
the country the much needed resources for education, social services, and
mass housing.”
They said the fund
could also be used “to fund
agricultural development
and rural industrialization
which is liberating, productive and thorough-going
compared to the useless
and corruption-driven
CCT.”
They lamented that
CCT has only perpetrated
mendicancy and made
poor folk as “objects of
charity” and cited Washington and the International Monetary Fund- World
Bank as authors of the
project.
“Instead of approving
the CCT budget of P45 billion for next year, senators
and congressmen should
instead pursue in-depth
investigation and audit-performance of the CCT program which was introduced by former Pres. Arroyo,” the statement of the
two leaders said.
The statement called
on Senate Pres. Juan
Ponce Enrile and House
Speaker Feliciano Belmonte to “prioritize the
oversight review of the CCT
and study its relevance as
soon as the President has
finished with his State-ofthe-Nation Address.”
Budget Sec. Florencio
Abad said earlier that the
30 percent increase in the
CCT budget would represent about two-thirds of
the DSWD budget for
2013.
Social Welfare Sec.
Dinky Soliman said, however, that her department
is seeking a total of P67
billion budget for next year,
including the P45 billion for
CCT to cover an additional 700,000 poor families
nationwide.
Already, some three
million families are covered by the CCT project.
–Ding Cervantes
‘Historic,’ says Luciano on AirAsia’s...
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ternational passenger volume increased to 31 percent or 355,034 from January to May this year compared to 270,900 last year.
He also cited the
growth of domestic passenger volume to 73,791
from the period of January
to May 15 this year compared with the 16,918 of
the same period last year.
Low cost carrier (LCC)
Philippines’ AirAsia on
Saturday launched its first
international destination
and offered the second
daily flights to Malaysia’s
capital city via the CIA.
AirAsia CEO Marianne
Hontiveros joined 130 other passengers at the inaugural flight that left Clark
at 3:15 p.m. and arrived at
the Low Cost Terminal
(LCT) here at about 6:40
p.m., some 20 minutes
ahead of schedule.
For her part, Hontiveros
said: “The additional frequency to Kuala Lumpur
provides yet another link
for Filipinos and Malaysians to our amazing
beaches and natural wonders in Puerto Princesa,
Kalibo, Davao and here in
Central Luzon. If we are
able to draw even a fraction from Malaysia’s 24.5
million tourists, this will
impact on our tourist arrival record for 2012, which
means more jobs, more
food on the table, more
opportunities for every Filipino.”
AirAsia also started its
Davao and Kalibo flights
last March 28 and Puerto
Princesa on April 20.
Hontiveros said their
airline’s second international flight will be Clark to
HongKong in July.
“When
Tony
Fernandes, the man who
built AirAsia, came in
March to attend our domestic launch, the Philippines, according to Tony,
was the last piece on AiAsia’s ASEAN jigsaw puzzle. Indeed, we are, and
we are about to shake up
air travel and tourism in the
region,” said Hontiveros.
She thanked Tourism
Malaysia for helping them
provide familiarization
tours and five-star hotel
accommodations to their
guests, including journalists and bloggers.
Malaysian princess joins Pinoys...
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He said Malaysian
Princess Jacel Kiram of
Sulu joined the parade and
other activities of the Independence Day rites. The
Kuala Lumpur Marching
Band, and the Philippine
Off-Road Land Rover
Team, which came here
specifically to join the
commemoration, were
also in the parade.
“The floats showcased
the diversity and richness
of Philippine culture in their
colorful costumes and festive music,” Malaya noted,
expressing hopes that the
parade commemoration of
Philippine Independence
would be continued by the
federation in the years to
come.
He said, “We are happy and heartened that the
Filipino-Malaysian community came out in force
to celebrate our unique
heritage, especially that
we celebrate the 114th
anniversary of the proclamation of Philippine Independence.”
Malaya, who led the
Independence Day activities, said 1,200 overseas
Filipino workers here participated in the parade.
“This was made possible by the organization of
20 different Filipino groups
based in Malaysia into the
Federation of Filipino Associations in Malaysia
(FFAM) with OFW Amializa Francisco being elected its president,” he said.
The parade ended at the
Philippine embassy along
Chang Kia Keng road where
cultural presentations were
held and Filipino foods were
served. The fight between
Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley was also aired
live on television in the embassy where the festive atmosphere was temporarily
broken by Pacquiao’s defeat.
Malaya said that peninsular Malaysia hosts
about 40, 215 OFW’s, as
he noted that lesser Filipinos are being recruited as
domestic helpers. Two
years ago, the Philippine
and Malaysian government
signed an agreement putting at $400 montly the
minimum pay of Filipino
domestic helpers.
He said that the policy
has encouraged Malaysians to focus more the
hiring of skilled and semiskilled Filipino workers.
The domestic workers are
now outnumbered by
40,215 Filipinos working in
local factories.
The latest count revealed 24,430 Filipino domestic helpers in Malaysia, but this number had
declined from previous statistics, Malaya said, although he could not immediately cite previous figures.
Apart from the domestic helpers, embassy statistics revealed that peninsular Malaysia also
hosts 3,001 other OFW’s
in managerial, professional, and supervisory jobs,
2,095 more employed in
plantation, agricultural,
aquatic and forestry fields,
2,666 in information technology and electronics,
2,125 in oil and gas and,
2,721 in hotel, restaurant
and tourism.
–Ding Cervantes
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes
to meet the morrow most cheerfully. –Epicurus
2,125 in oil and gas and,
2,721 in hotel, restaurant
and tourism.
This amid a clamor
from some sectors for the
government to amend the
requirements of the HSW
reform package minimum
wage policy and allow lower but acceptable salaries
and conditions for domestic employment abroad.
Recently, the Scalabrini Migration Center (SMC)
and the government’s Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS) noted
that the minimum pay policy has not worked after five
years since the Philippine
government unilaterally imposed it on labor-hosting
countries in 2006.
The HSW minimum
wage policy was adopted
during the term of former
Pres. Arroyo purportedly
to “professionalize” overseas domestic jobs.
Under the police, such
workers must be at least
23 years old, get a minimum of $400, and not pay
any placement fee.
The policy also required the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)
to train departing domestic workers and issue a
training certificate called
“National Certificate Level
II” (NC2). At the same
time, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration
(OWWA) was tasked to
subject the departing domestic workers to a language and culture orientation seminar.
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
THIRD JUDICIAL REGION
REGIONAL TRIAL COURT
BRANCH 61
ANGELES CITY
IN RE: IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION
FOR ADOPTION OF MINOR AARON JOHN L.
CORTEZ,
SPEC. PROC NO. 8773
SPS. BIENVENIDO L. BANTA AND
ADORA M. TOLENTINO-BANTA
Petitioners.
x—————————————————————————x
ORDER
In this petition for adoption of minor Aaron John L. Cortez the
petitioners alleged that they are both natural born Filipino citizens who
became naturalized Canadian citizens and they are residents of No.
3011 Mariano Street, Sta. Trinidad, Angeles City. They got legally married
on July 17, 1995 in Mabalacat, Pampanga but up to the present they
have no child of their own. In view hereof, they decided to adopt the
subject mino, Aaron John L. Cortez, the grandson by consanguinity of
petitioner Adora M. Tolentino-Banta as the child is the son of Camela T.
Lansang-Cortez, the daughter of Felicita M. Tolentino-Lansang, the fullblood sister of petitioner Adora M. Tolentino-Banta. The subject child was
born on June 7, 2007 in Angeles City and is the third child of spouses
Rolando E. Cortez and Camela T. Lansang-Cortez. The said spouses
have two other minor children and are having financial difficulty in providing
support to their children because Rolando Cortez has no permanent job
while Carmela is a plain housewife. Thus, when Carmela Cortez got
pregnant with Aaron John and until the latter’s birth and up to the present,
the petitioner’s have been providing support to the minor. They have
loved and cared for the minor and consider and treat the minor as their
own son, thus, providing all the necessary support, parental love and
care and his education.
As to their qualifications to adopt, they possess all the qualifications
to adopt and none of the disqualifications provided by law. They are in
possessions of full civil capacity and legal rights to adopt the minor.
They are of good moral character and have not been convicted of any
crime involving moral turpitude nor charged for any crime. They are
financially, emotionally, and psychologically capable of caring rearing
the minor. They are in a position to care the minor in keeping with means
of the family. They are physically, emotionally, psychologically, socially
and economically stable and have loved, cared, and reared and continue
to love, care and rear the child up to the present and will do the same up
to the future. Canada where the petitioners have been naturalized citizens
has diplomatic relation wit the Republic of the Philippines and allows
adopted children in the Philippines to enter the said country. Should this
adoption be granted the child will be allowed to permanently reside with
petitioners. The adoption of the subject minor by them is for the best
interest and welfare of the child. The parents of the subject minor are fully
aware of this petition and they gave their consent by executing their
affidavit of consent. As the child is the relative by consanguinity within
the fourth civil degree of the petitioner wife and considering that the minor
has been in the care, custody and support of the petitioners since his
birth and up to the present, they have already a happy and harmonious
bonding relationship, hence the supervised trial custody may already be
dispensed with.
In prayer, the petitioners pray that after due notice, publication, and
hearing this petition be granted and the child for all legal intents and
purposes shall be considered as the legitimate child of the petitioners and
shall be known and use the name Aaron John Tolentino Banta.
Attached to the petition is the home and child study report.
This Court finds the petition sufficient in form and in substance and,
therefore, sets it for hearing on June 25, 2012 at 1:30 in the afternoon, on
which date and hour, any person who may have an interest in or be
affected by this petition is ordered to appear and signify his/her opposition
thereto and show cause why this petition shall not be granted. Any
person who has an interest or affected by this petition is given fifteen (15)
days from the last publication of this order to file his/her opposition and/
or answer.
Let copy hereof be published once a week for three (3) consecutive
weeks in the newspaper of general circulation in the Province of
Pampangaand Angeles City, which was selected by raffle under the
supervision of the Hon. Executive Judge, at the expense of the petitioners.
Furnish copies of this order to the petitioners, their counsel, the
Office of the Solicitor General, the Office of the City Prosecutor, the DSWD
Angeles City, the social worker and the newspaper.
SO ORDERED.
Angeles City, Philippines, April 27, 2012
BERNARDITA GABITAN-ERUM
Judge
PUNTO! Central Luzon: June 13, 18 & 25, 2012
Sam Pinto di pa hinog?
The
Gossipmiller
by Cesar Pambid
NAKALULUNGKOT isiping maraming ibang tao ang mas pumpabor kina Solenn Heusaff at Gwen Zamora kaysa kay Sam Pinto.
Sabi nila, nakahihigit daw ang acting abilities ng dalawa kaysa alaga ng Viva Films na si Sam Pinto.
Case in point sa kumparasyon ay ang pagka-edit out ng maraming eskena ni Sam Pinto sa Boy Pick Up at sinasabing bad acting
ang dahilan kaya tinanggal ang mga naturang eksena. Dahil sa nangyari, sumama raw ang loob ni Sam Pintio na ang pangyayaring
nang mapanood niya ang Boy Pick-Up where along with Solenn Heussaff and Gwen Zamora, she supposedly plays leading lady to
Ogie, iilan lang sa eksena na kinunan sa kanya ang nasa pelikula. Nagmukha lang daw tuloy siyang extra.
Di nga raw kasi impressive ang pagkakaganap ni Sam sa kanyang role kaya hayun at napasama sa in-edit sa movie. Kesa
mapintasan nga naman ang movie, pati na rin si Sam, mas mabuti na lamang na hindi ito mapanood ng publiko.
Ayon naman sa ilng observers, di raw dapat sumama ang loob ni Sam Pinto dahil mas makabubuti sa kanya yun. What she
should do raw, she should put some extra effort to improve her dull acting. Otherwise, di na siya muling kukunin.
Sayang, ang ganda pa naman ni Sam na marami talaga siyang tagahanga.
Almost everyone agrees na tipong artista talaga si Sam as she is tall, charming and most of all, sexy.
What her biggest liability, though, is that she appears too conscious of her looks, na nakakalimutan niya how it is to look and act
natural.
Ewan kung nag-a-acting workshop si Sam. Which is a “must” fo all aspring stars.
And she should take the acting workshop to heart, for this is the “key” para mapansin na she can act.
In fairness kina Solenn at Gwen, they have somehow proven their acting mettle in the few TV shows and movies na kanilang
nilabasan.
Social media center ng ABS
MAS MADALI nang makakuha ng pinakasariwang mga balita sa
Kapamilya Network ang mga mamamahayag, bloggers, at buong
komunidad sa online sa paglulunsad ng ABS-CBN Corporation ng ABS-CBN Social Media Newsroom,
ang pinakaunang social media newsroom ng isang TV network sa bansa.
Sa pamamagitan ng ABS-CBN Social Media Newsroom, lahat ng opisyal na pahayag mula sa ABSCBN ay matatagpuan sa isang website. Maaari din itong i-share agad sa ibang social networking sites
tulad ng Twitter, Facebook at Goggle+ sa isang pindot lang.
“Ang ABS-CBN Social Media Newsroom ay magandang halimbawa ng komunikasyon sa digital world.
Sa pamamagitan nito, napapalapit ang ABS-CBN sa mga stakeholders at katuwang nito sa loob at labas ng
bansa na nais malaman ang mga bagong balita sa aming programa at serbisyo,” sabi ni ABS-CBN Corporate
Communications head Bong Osorio na dating regional director ng International Association of Business
Communicators sa Asya.
Dagdag pa niya, ang paggawa ng social media newsroom ay lumalaking trend o “uso” sa mga korporasyon,
saan mang panig ng mundo, para matugunan ang pangangailangan sa mabilisang impormasyon ng mga
mamamahayag, bloggers at iba pang nasa mundo ng Internet.
Nilalaman ng ABS-CBN Social Media Newsroom ang mga press o photo releases tungkol sa ABS-CBN
kabilang na ang mga subsidiary nito; video plugs ng pinakabagong mga programa; kopya ng panayam sa mga
Kapamilya stars at executives; RSS feed features; at clippings tungkol sa sinasabi ng media sa ABSCBN.
Ayon kay ABS-CBN Corporate Affairs & PR director Kane Errol Choa, ang digital communication
ay nagbibigay daan para mas mapabuti ang palitan ng impormasyon sa pagitan ng ABS-CBN
at ng mga tumatangkilik nito.
“Ginawa naming user-friendly ang disenyo ng ABS-CBN Social Media Newsroom at
naglalagay ng press releases sa nakasulat at nakaayos ayon sa gusto ng mga
mamamahayag at blogger,” dagdag niya.
Mag-log-on lang sa www.abscbnpr.com para tignan ang pinakabagong mga materyal
hatid ng ABS-CBN Social Media Newsroom. Maaari rin itong mabasa via RSS feeds sa
inyong smartphones. Mag-download lang ng RSS reader applications tulad ng Google
Reader, Taptu, at Flipboard sa inyong iOS, Android, o Windows phones.
Maaaring kunin o kopyahin ng mga manunulat at bloggers ang press materials
sa site at maaari rin silang gumawa ng sarili nilang materyal base dito o sa mga
matatagpuang interview transcripts at audio o video materials.
Ang ABS-CBN Public Relations Group, sa ilalim ng Corporate Communications
Division, ang mag-a-upload ng mga bagong materyal sa site araw-araw na
diretsong iti-tweet ng @abscbnpr at mapa-publish bilang wall post sa
facebook.com/abscbnpr.
DI PA MAN umaamin sina Bossing Vic Sotto at Pauleen Luna sa kanilang
relasyon, heto at nauna pa ang balitang they already called it quits.
“Nagkakalabuan na sila noon kaya tumakas si Pauleen after the presentation
of the cast on stage at di na nagpa-interview,” sabi ng isang source.
Could it be just a cool off stage? “No, nag-cool off na sila a couple of months ago,
pero nagkaayos din, but this time, for good na raw.
Sobrang nape-pressure kasi si Pauleen dahil maraming against sa relasyon nila, from
Vic’s own kids, lalo na si Oyo, up to her parents na tutol talaga. Even Pauleen’s own friends,
ayaw rin kasi nga sa sobrang laki ng age gap nila. So finally, bumigay na rin si Pauleen sa
dami ng nagsasabi sa kanyang malabo talagang magtagal ang relasyon nila. So, libre
nang mabaling kay Solenn (Heussaff) ang attention ni Bossing.”
Paano na yan, sino ang magpapatuloy sa ipinagagawang bahay ni Pauleen? It is
said na si Bossing Vic ang namumuhunan para maipagawa ang bahay ni Pauleen.
Tuwa l;ang nina Oyo Boy at Danica?
Si Dina Bonevie matutuwa rin kaya?
Young star na may BF
may sumusuportang DOM
TUMATAYONG bugaw ng sikat na youngstar na ito ang nanay niya yes, sinusulsulan
ni madir na harapin ng anak ang isang DOM na sandamakmak ang mga pera.
Binibili na niya halos ang youngstar kaya lagi itong nakabuntot sa mga shooting at
taping ng youngstar.
The truth is, may BF na hayag ang youngstar kaya nakapagtataka kung paano
siya nakapamamangka sa dalawang ilog.
Mahusay ang nanay niya, kunwari girlfriend siya ng DOM na lagging nakabuntot
sa kanila para di mapansing kabit ng anak ang matandang lalaking lagi nilang kasama.
Clue. Ay ayaw, baka magalit ang youngstar at tumubo ang buntot niya.
Ay ano ba yan, alakdan?
Sam Pinto
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Vic Sotto, Pauleen Luna break na?
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