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DILG
asked to
break Maasin
standoff
By M. A. De los Santos
THE Department of Interior
and Local Government was
asked to intervene in the ongoing standoff between Mayor
Mariano Malones of Maasin,
Iloilo and the opposition bloc
in the Sangguniang Bayan on
the appointment of municipal
accountant Annalyn Amboy as
municipal treasurer.
Although Amboy’s appointment was approved by the
Department of Finance (not the
Bureau of Local Government
Finance as previously reported)
through Malones’ recommendation, the mayor failed to
secure majority vote from the
SB authorizing the treasurer to
be one of the signatories in the
local government’s depository
banks.
Councilors Inocencio Velasco, Ritchelle Mondejar,
Vicente Albacete and ABC
president Romulo Joquiño Sr.
voted against the resolution.
DILG /p7
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cain vs abel
Rep. Niel Tupas Jr.: He’s out for money
Vice-Gov. Raul Tupas: Pure baloney
By Louine Hope Conserva
ILOILO Vice-Governor Raul “Boboy”
Tupas vehemently denied the allegation
of his older brother, Rep. Niel “Jun-Jun
Tupas, Jr., that his in-laws are planning to put up businesses in the fifth
district if he wins as congressman.
Rep. Niel Tupas Jr.
Niel Jr. revealed in a radio interview that
the plan to put up businesses in the 5th district
fuelled Raul’s ambition to become congressman.
The vice governor recently joined the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) in his bid to run
against Niel Jr.’s wife, Yvonne Angeli Lee of the
Liberal Party.
“With respect to my elder brother, the plan
that my wife will put up businesses in
the 5th district should I win is far from
the truth. I have been a three-termer
mayor for nine years and my wife
has not put up any businesses in the
district,” Raul said.
To note, the family of Raul’s wife
Vice-Governor Raul Tupas
cain vs abel /p7
TIRE CLAMP DEAL
More graft charges
filed vs mayor, aides
By Angelica L. Tapalla
ILOILO City Councilor Plaridel
Nava kept his word to dump
more cases against Mayor Jed
Patrick Mabilog after the Asia
Pacific Economic Cooperation
meetings in the city.
Nava’s latest legal offensive
against his erstwhile ally pertains to alleged anomalies in
the purchase of six tire clamps
worth P144,000 way back in
More graft /p7
ILOILO City Councilor Plaridel Nava files criminal and administrative complaints against Mayor Jed
Patrick Mabilog and five others before the Office of the Ombudsman in Iloilo City relative to the tire
clamp purchase. (Ricky D. Alejo)
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COA disallows
City Hall incentive
By Wenceslao E. Mateo Jr.
THE Commission on Audit (COA) regional office
issued a Notice of Disallowance on the P20,000 Productivity Enhancement Incentive (PEI) granted by
the Iloilo City government to all regular employees
in 2014.
Councilor Eduardo Peñaredondo, appropriations
committee chair, relayed the COA notice to his colleagues in their regular session October 6.
To recall, City Hall’s 2014 PEI was approved in two
appropriation ordinances - Ordinance No. 2014-015,
which set aside P30.8 million for employees getting
their pay from the General Fund; and Ordinance No.
2014-2016, which set aside P2.06 million for employees under the Local Economic Enterprise Office
(LEEO).
COA based its disallowance notice on Section 1(a)
of Presidential Executive Order (EO) No. 80 dated
July 20, 2012 which states: “the PEI, in the amount
of P5,000.00, shall continually be granted across-theboard, in accordance with the guidelines to be issued
by DBM.”
But Peñaredondo said there is a problem with
COA’s notice.
“COA wants all of this to be paid back (beyond the
authorized P5,000), but how about the 15% tax that
the BIR (Bureau of Internal Revenue) has already
taken from us on that PEI? Will BIR also return that
to us?” he said.
Meanwhile, the 2015 PEI was authorized under
Executive Order No. 181-2015, which mandated the
COA/p7
Will ex-guv
Tupas run
for vice-guv?
By Louine Hope Conserva
ILOILO Vice Governor Raul
Tupas said he is clueless on
rumors that his father and
former governor Niel Tupas,
Sr. will run for vice-governor
alongside reelectionist Gov.
Arthur Defensor, Sr.
Raul said he was in Manila
for three days and even visited
Niel Sr. but they never discussed the issue of the latter
running for vice governor.
“I cannot give my reaction
as I do not know if it is confirmed already or just a floating
issue,” he said.
Raul also refused to comment on the matter considering
that he is already out of the
Liberal Party.
Will ex-guv/p7
No cement shortage despite importation
By Wenceslao E. Mateo Jr.
THE Department of Trade and
Industry (DTI) dispelled public
impression of cement shortage
in Iloilo City following recent
importation of the material
from Vietnam and Indonesia.
“The slight increase in the
prices of cement, which is now
on the average of P257 per 50kilo bag from about just P250
a few months ago does not also
indicate that there is a shortage
in the supply of cement,” said
DTI-Iloilo provincial director
Wilhelm Malones.
Malones said cement importation could be attributed to
the integration of Association
of Southeast Asian Nations
(Asean) markets this year.
The integration unites Asean nations under a free-market
setup similar to the European
Union for the purpose of accelerating economic growth,
social progress, and cultural
development among themselves.
The Asean member-countries are Brunei Darussalam,
Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,
Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and
Vietnam.
“Because of this, they may
now freely trade with each
other like each member is only
a province of a country. The
arrival of some 120,000 bags of
cement from Vietnam and the
100,000 bags from Indonesia is
part of that free trading among
members of the Asean countries,” Malones added.
Malones said robust demand
from construction companies
prompted cement importation
from the two Asean countries.
“It is especially true with
Vietnam cement which is Type
1 that contractors like because
of its short curing period and
probably for other reasons,”
he added.
As to the slight increases
in prices, Malones said it is
normal as it happens every
year.
DENR Secretary Ramon J.P. Paje closes the APEC High Level Policy Dialogue on Food Security
and Blue Economy, October 5, 2015, in Iloilo City. (APEC 2015)
Iloilo Plan of Action
for agri-fishery adopted
By Louine Hope Conserva
AFTER five hours of deliberation, membereconomies of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) adopted the Iloilo Plan of Action which strongly promotes inclusive growth
through food security and climate resiliency of
the fishery sector.
The document was adopted as the two-day
High-Level Policy Dialogue on Food Security
and Blue Economy concluded October 5.
The action plan consists of three pillars blue economy towards sustainable food supply
chains, fish loss reduction, and agri-business
development.
Environment and natural resources Secretary
Ramon J. Paje said the action plan will boost
the campaign to improve APEC region’s biodiversity, which is a significant factor to ensuring
food security.
This is also to develop our brand of “blue
economy” as the region is a major contributor in
the world’s fishing and agriculture production,
he added.
The Asia-Pacific Region accounts for twothirds of the world’s capture fishery production
and 80% of the world’s aquaculture production.
“To sustain and improve the productivity of
our oceans, we need to enhance the biodiversity
of coastal and marine ecosystems. Healthy
ecosystems support higher fishery production
and provide better ecological services such as
regulation of climate and disaster risk reduction,” Paje said.
The plan is also geared for implementation
among APEC economies to achieve sustainable
management and conservation of ocean and
coastal resources and ecosystems in order to
foster economic growth.
Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala said
consumption of fishery products in the APEC
region is 65 percent higher than the world average.
APEC economies represent nine of the top ten
Iloilo Plan/p7
Alim, Nava split on mayoral bet
By Wenceslao E. Mateo Jr.
ILOILO City Councilors Joshua Alim and Plaridel Nava
of the opposition United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) are
supporting different mayoralty
bets in 2016.
Alim earlier said he supports re-electionist Mayor Jed
Patrick Mabilog.
But Nava said he will en-
dorse Dr. Marigold Gonzalez
for mayor.
Dr. Gonzalez is a daughter of
the late congressman and justice secretary Raul Gonzalez,
Sr. and sister of former congressman Raul Gonzalez, Jr.
“The people needs a mayor
nga limpyo (clean), indi makawat (not a thief) kag indi ipokrito (not a hypocrite), and that is
Dr. Gold Gonzales,” Nava told
city hall beat reporters.
Nava said that he and Dr.
Gonzalez are presently forging
a “strong opposition” ticket to
face the Mabilog slate in the
2016 race.
He also hopes that Gonzalez, who is yet to identify herself with any political group,
would join him in UNA headed
by Vice-President Jojemar
Binay.
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Man nabbed
3 with gun in
checkpoint
Guns, ‘shabu’ seized
from six road-trippers
By Jennifer Ponsaran-Rendon
POLICE seized sachets of suspected shabu and
unlicensed firearms from six persons early Tuesday
morning in a checkpoint at Pototan, Iloilo.
Senior Inspector Ariel Corcino, Pototan police
chief, said the six suspects, including a minor, are
alleged drug personalities in San Enrique town and
Passi City.
Corcino identified the suspects as Rolly Trabado,
45, of Barangay Batuan, Pototan; Christian Castor,
21, of Dorillo St., Passi City; Joem Ponte, 36, of Barangay Damires, San Enrique; Regen Balasabas, 31,
of Commonwealth Drive, Passi City; Leo Pateña, 39,
of Barangay Pandan, Dingle; and Mae (not her real
name), 16, of Barangay Tuburan, Pototan.
Police reports indicated that Trabado is one of the
top drug personalities in Passi City. A few months
ago, Pototan PNP raided his house but he was not
around.
Guns, ‘shabu’/p7
Rebel killed, soldier
hurt in twin Iloilo clash
By Jennifer Ponsaran-Rendon
A SUSPECTED member of the New People’s Army (NPA) was
killed following twin encounters with soldiers in Tubungan,
Iloilo.
Major Ray Tiongson, spokesperson of the Philippine Army’s
3rd Infantry Division, only identified the fatality as a certain RokRok, a remnant of the NPA’s Southern Front group.
The incident also injured Corporal Paul Saldo of the 82nd
Infantry Battalion based in Miag-ao, Iloilo.
Saldo was hit on the right side of his stomach.
He was immediately evacuated from the encounter site and
brought to Iloilo City for proper medication. Saldo is now in
stable condition.
Tiongson said the first encounter happened around 4:30 p.m.
of Monday at Barangay Ambarihon.
Members of 82IB were conducting security patrol when they
encountered around five rebels.
Rebel killed/p7
DRILLS Health care providers and patients of Saint Anthony College Hospital participate in the
earthquake and fire drill organized by the hospital, September 22, to ensure preparedness during
emergencies. (CVAT photo/PIA-JBG)
Iloilo to host national
history conference
By Maricyn A. De los Santos
HISTORIANS from all over the country are
coming to Iloilo as the provincial government
hosts the 36th National Conference on National
and Local History, October 22 to 24, at the historic Casa Real de Iloilo, Iloilo City.
The confab is a joint undertaking of the
National Commission for Culture and the Arts
(NCCA) and Philippine National Historical
Society, Inc. (PNHSI)
Papers on local history will be presented,
including Casa Real de Iloilo: The Tale of a
Heritage Provincial Capitol by Ilonggo historian and provincial board member Demy Sonza;
The Life and Works of Pedro Casanave by Jose
Nereo C. Lujan, Iloilo Public Information and
Community Affairs Office chief; and One Island,
One Region: A History of Dominance and Union
in Negros Island by Earl Jude Paul L. Cleope of
Silliman University.
Other scholarly papers to be presented are
Looking for Women in Jose Ignacio Alcina’s
Historia de las Islas e Indios Bisayas by Marya
Svetlana T. Camacho of the University of Asia
and the Pacific (UA&P); The UST Baybayin
Documents: Shedding Light into Early 17th
Century Philippine Life by Regalado Trota Jose
of the University of Santo Tomas Archives;
Doctrina Christiana: National Treasure, World
Treasure by John N. Crossley of Monash University, Australia; and Towards an Open-ended
Understanding of Nationhood: The Discordant
Imaginings of Rizal, Bonifacio, and (Isabelo) de
los Reyes by Clement Camposano of UA&P.
Some papers will tackle the experiences of
Filipinos during World War II: The Strategies
and Operations of the Guerrillas in Laguna
during the Second World War by Marcelino
M. Macapinlac Jr. of St. Scholastica’s College
Manila; Interethnic Relations in a Time of War:
The Case of Baguio by Maria Nela B. Florendo
of UP Baguio; Children of War: The Japanese
Occupation in Philippine Historical Fiction for
Children by Glenda C. Oris of Ateneo de Manila
University; and Tsutomu Sawamura and his Contributions to the Philippine Wartime “National
Cinema” by Nick Deocampo of UP Diliman.
Other papers will open the discussion on the
role of clergy: Using Franciscan Missionaries’
Writings in Writing Local History by Grace
Liza Y. Concepcion of UA&P and The Jesuit
Christianization of Eastern Visayas, 1595 to
1695 by Rolando O. Borrinaga of UP Manila,
in Tacloban City.
Scholars from Mindanao will present papers
on issues close to their hearts: With a Spirit
Apostolically Bold: Mindanao’s First Christian
Century by Greg Hontiveros of Butuan Historical
Society; The GPH – MILF Peace Negotiations by
Tirmizy E. Abdullah of Mindanao State University - Marawi City; The Jawi Texts as Indigenous
Written Heritage of Muslim Filipinos by Calbi A.
Asain of Mindanao State University-Sulu; and
Bai A Labi: Noblesse Oblige (Nobility Obliges) of
Iloilo to/p7
Murder suspect collared
By Angelica L. Tapalla
THE fifth most wanted person
in Iloilo City was arrested
October 5.
Police identified the suspect
as Ranilo Bajon, 33, of Baran-
gay North Baluarte, Molo.
Bajon is facing murder
charges in Criminal Case No.
1068547 now pending at the
Regional Trial Court. He was
nabbed along Valeria St. in
City Proper, Iloilo City after
a concerned citizen tipped off
authorities of his presence in
the area.
The court pegged P200,000
for Bajon’s temporary liberty.
He is currently detained at the
Iloilo City police station.
By Jennifer P. Rendon
and Angelica L. Tapalla
DRIVING an old car proved to be
unlucky for a 23-year old man.
Ferdinand Tan, a resident of
Barangay San Rafael, Mandurriao, Iloilo City, was flagged
down in a checkpoint at Barangay North Baluarte, Molo, after
policemen grew suspicious
that he was driving a Mitsubishi Lancer sans a front hood
around 11:30 p.m. of Monday.
“Our policemen suspected
that the car is not registered,” said
Chief Inspector Rio Maymay,
chief of the Molo police station.
Tan was then asked to present his driver’s license and the
car’s OR/CR (official receipt/
certificate of registration) but
he failed to comply.
As they were making a plain
view check of the vehicle, the
team of Inspector Carlos Tio,
Jr. saw the firearm grip tucked
between Tan’s legs.
When he was made to step
out of the vehicle, police recovered a caliber .45 pistol
(serial number 823138) and
two magazines.
Maymay said the firearm
was already chamber-loaded.
The suspect claimed he just
came from his brother’s cafeteria
where he works as an assistant.
Investigation is still going
on to determine Tan’s other
involvement, if there is any.
In the meantime, he is detained at the lock-up cell of
Molo Police Station and will be
charged for violation of Republic Act 10591 (Comprehensive
Firearms And Ammunition
Regulation Act).
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The VP race is on
ITH at least ten days to go before the last day of filing of Certificates of Candidacy for the 2016 national
polls, the list of official entries is nearly complete.
Yesterday, Rep. Leni Robredo of Camarines Sur finally said she
is accepting the Liberal Party’s offer to run for vice president in
tandem with presidential bet Mar Roxas.
Robredo announced her decision in a
party gathering at the Club Filipino where
President BS Aquino also endorsed Mar
Roxas as the administration party’s candidate for President. These choices were
made by no less than Pres. Aquino himself
sans party consultation. But while Roxas
has been salivating on the presidential
endorsement, Robredo wasn’t keen on
Limuel S. Celebria running for VP until she was prevailed
upon by the President. In finally making the jump, Robredo used a popular
line from the blockbuster movie Heneral
Luna, “Bayan muna bago sarili.”
On the other hand, Senator Bongbong Marcos yesterday also
announced his decision to run for vice president. BBM made his
pronouncement rather quietly and without fanfare. Although a
member of the Nacionalista Party, BBM is going solo, running
without a presidential candidate. But he did throw his support
for Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte who may (or may not)
run for President.
“I flew to Davao City on Wednesday and consulted with Mayor
Rodrigo Duterte. He was gracious enough to promise me his support should I decide to run for Vice President. I too will support
Mayor Duterte if and when he runs for President,” BBM said.
Marcos confirmed he had been invited to become VP Jejomar
Binay’s running mate, that supporters on both sides had pursued
talks to this effect. But Marcos said “it would be difficult for me
to tame our differences.”
Curiously, BBM will be the third Nacionalista Party member to
declare running for Vice President. A couple of weeks ago Senator
Alan Peter Cayetano flew all the way to Davao City to make his
announcement there and also apparently to make a bid to become
Duterte’s running mate. After the announcement, Duterte shared
dinner with Alan and sister Senator Pia, who unabashedly declared
she is a fan of Duterte.
The other NP eyeing the vice presidency is Senator Sonny
Trillanes, who is supporting the presidential bid of Sen. Grace
Poe while running his own campaign. Poe is independent like his
vice presidential bet Sen. Chiz Escudero.
Binay’s running mate will likely be Sen. Gringo Honasan,
who actually belongs to Binay’s own party, the United Nationalist Alliance.
All but one of the VP bets are incumbent senators. BBM was
elected in 2010, ranking 7th with 13 million votes. The rest were
elected into the Senate in 2013: Cayetano ranked 4th with 17.58
million, Escudero 3rd with 17.50 million, Trillanes 9th with 14.1
million, and Honasan 12th with 13.2 million votes. Poe topped
the 2013 senatorial race with 20.3 million votes.
Robredo, meanwhile, is the incumbent representative of the
third district of Camarines Sur.
Of the six VP bets, four are from the Bicol region (Robredo,
Escudero, Trillanes, and Honasan). Cayetano is from Metro Manila though his wife, Laarni, is also from Albay.
Marcos, on the other hand, is an Ilocano.
Cayetano and Escudero were part of a group of young congressmen made popular by the national media as “The Spice Boys
of Congress.” The group included Mike Defensor, Ace Barbers
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Menace in our midst
the city to secure APEC meeting
delegates.
Major stories on the arrest of
suspected drug pushers in Negros
Occidental and Pototan, Iloilo
are also clear indications that the
illegal drug problem is far from
manageable – and certainly a long
way from being eradicated.
They may complain all they
want but we are tempted to question the sincerity of the police and
the Philippine Drug Enforcement
Agency in curbing this menace.
Apparently, arresting small fries
hardly strike fear in the heart of
drug lords and their syndicates. If
at all, these arrests only betrayed
the actual capabilities (or intentions?) of our authorities in dealing with criminals.
HE vicious attacks carried
out against two taxi drivers
in the city and province of
Iloilo in a span of one week might
be ordinary news to some.
But the twin events are very
telling of the more serious and
dangerous problem – proliferation
of illegal drugs.
One of the three suspects in the
robbery and killing of taxi driver
Jonathan Causing claimed that
they sniffed shabu before whacking the cabbie to kingdom come
last October 4 in Pavia, Iloilo.
Before Causing’s death, Lito
Ombrero of TR taxi lost an eye
after three suspects riddled him
with stabs in Mandurriao, Iloilo
City last September 27 despite
heightened police visibility in
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With the election season fast
approaching, it behooves every
voter to ask national and local
officials what they have done to
sincerely put an end to the illegal
drug menace. Instead of wasting
time on eponyms and titillating
twerks during the campaign period, let’s ask the hard question on
why illegal drugs persist and how
we can put an end to this deadly
problem.
We don’t want to hear them saying that crime and illegal drugs,
just like traffic congestion, are
necessary consequences of development. If they do, then maybe
it’s high time we consider making their political careers the next
casualties of the fight against this
societal menace.
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Staying the hand
REEK and Roman mythology tells
us that the Fates decide our destiny. Catholic theology on the other
hand rejects the doctrine of predestination.
Only God knows the future but by our actions or inactions we move on to what our
future will
be. Whether
we land in
hell or jail is
due entirely
to us. God
gives us the
grace to do
what is right
and just, and
Modesto P. Sa-onoy be obedient
to His will
and His laws
but we can
als o reject
God’s grace. God cannot impose on man
and deprive him of his freewill. That is not
in the nature of the Divine.
Our actions put us into gear as it were
and travel along the path we chose. As one
retreat master said a long time ago, we are
what we chose to be. We can sometimes
stay the hand of fate but as actions cause
counter-actions, so our actions result into
their inexorable end.
I am reminded of these verities when
I look at the case of the suspension order
of the Sandiganbayan against Monico
Puentevella and for him to cease and
desist from performing any act in relation
to the office of Bacolod City Mayor. With
bravado and flair that inspired Councilor
Sonya Verdeflor to praise Puentevella as if
he is the anointed one of heaven and even
G
Focus
invoking God into a purely secular and political gathering of supporters, Puentevella
called those who want him out of office as
“sungak sungak” or being inordinately
avaricious.
He thus added what one well-educated
lady said, a new perspective of his character. That despite his lofty position in the
city he can go down into the gutter with
that kind of language. The only remark I
could utter was that Puentevella must be
stressed out and the language is a behavioral defense mechanism.
A former college professor accosted
me during the opening of the painting
exhibit of Arch. Joe Dureza at the Negros
Museum last Friday. She asked whether
it is true that Puentevella has filed a motion for reconsideration with the SB and I
said I don’t know. I asked her a rhetorical
question, “but should he not file such a
motion? That is his constitutional right
and even to elevate his case to the Supreme Court.”
During a dinner with several media
people last Sunday, the discussion on the
impact of the suspension was inevitable.
Most believe that the longer the implementation of the suspension the more damaging it would be for Puentevella. A radio
anchor said it is better to start it now and
get this suspension done and over with
than for the order to be enforced closer to
the election.
Of course, there is hope the SB might
reconsider and lift the suspension but that
is an aphrodisiac dream because Puentevella will just repeat all these previous
arguments that the three justices of the
Sandiganbayan would probably consider
to be “nothing new.” The MR will give
Puentevella several weeks more to stay the
hand of the Fates.
He can go to the Supreme Court for a
Temporary Restraining Order. But did he
not already ask the SC for a TRO to stop
the Ombudsman from proceeding with the
investigation in the computer scam case,
the cause for this suspension? The High
Court simply sat on his petition and thus the
case proceeded in its predictable journey
to the Sandiganbayan.
We grant that the SB will accept his motion for reconsideration but at most he will
get a reprieve but will not mean dismissal
of this case. The SB might just reiterate
its order to suspend.
A news report last Monday is unclear. Atty. Lito Bayatan claims that
Puentevella “seems to be so incoherent
on what he will do about his suspension.” He noted that while Puentevella
claimed his lawyers have not filed a
motion for reconsideration, his lawyers
said they had initiated a petition to the
Supreme Court, understandably on his
suspension.”
It appears that Puentevella is not only
“incoherent” but that there is no coherence on what his camp is going to do.
Bayatan concludes that “if they are
lost on what to do, it is because the
suspension is final and executory. They
can only think now on how to delay the
inevitable.”
The puzzle is why the DILG has not
yet enforced the suspension order, as
of Monday. Perhaps by the time this
column appears, the order has been
implemented. Then we’ll know whether
the wheels of justice will grind exceedingly small.*
Toward resolving the Ortega case
(Here is a statement of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists on the arrest of former Palawan governor Joel Reyes and
his brother, former Mayor Mario Reyes of Coron. The statement
was posted by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility
in its website.)
HE deportation to the Philippines and subsequent
arrest of the alleged masterminds in the 2011 killing
of broadcaster and environmental advocate Gerardo
Ortega have awakened hopes that the suspected brains behind
the killing of a journalist would be prosecuted. If government
acts promptly, the recent arrest
of former Palawan governor Joel
Reyes and his brother, former
Coron, Palawan Mayor Mario
Reyes presents an opportunity
for the Aquino administration
to show political will to stop the
killings of journalists.
The numbers blacken the record
of the Aquino administration. Out
of the 50 journalists killed during
PNoy’s term, 28 are established as
work-related. That number belies
the claim that the press enjoys freedom in this country as journalists
and shows that in many places around the country, journalists are
at peril when their reports offend those with the means to arrange
for their silence.
Only fifteen cases have led to convictions in the killing of 149
journalists since 1986. The ongoing trial of the accused in the
November 23, 2009 Ampatuan Massacre includes those who allegedly planned and ordered the killings. In the killing of Herson
Hinolan in November 2004, a town mayor stands accused and on
trial. But no other mastermind in the killing of a journalist has
been arrested and tried. The gunman in the killing of Ortega was
convicted in May 2013. The Reyes brothers who were identified
by witnesses as masterminds during the trial had evaded arrest,
until last week.
The arrest and, hopefully, the speedy and fair trial of the
Reyeses for allegedly planning the killing of Ortega and hiring the killer and his accomplice would also be one of the
few instances in which a former government official would be
prosecuted. Because the Ortega killing was so outrageous, the
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prosecution of the Reyeses will send a clear signal to those who
would silence journalists that neither the killers of journalists
nor the brains behind them are as immune from prosecution as
they think.
But this is wishful thinking. Statistics and the court trials so
far do not inspire hope. Fifteen convictions out of 149 cases
is only ten percent of the total. A number of former or active
government civilian and military officials have escaped arrest
and prosecution by hiring lawyers who have so mastered the
technicalities of Philippine law that they expertly use them
in their clients’ behalf rather than that of justice. In one such
case, the killing of Tacurong City journalist Marlene Esperat,
the accused masterminds have managed to elude arrest despite the issuance of warrants of arrest against them. And as
journalist and media advocacy groups are well aware, legal
maneuvering has also caused the unconscionable delays in the
Ampatuan Massacre trial. The most dangerous consequence
of those delays is that they have made obtaining justice for the
58 men and women including 32 journalists and media workers
killed in the Massacre so elusive that the very trial itself could
result in encouraging more killings rather than deterring them.
Conditions of impunity include the kind of lawyering that only
the rich can afford.
There are other practices that contribute to weaken the criminal
justice system. The decision of the warden of the Puerto Princesa
city jail, where the Reyeses are detained, to allow them to hold a
press conference and their request for “hospital detention,” suggest
how easily those with wealth and power can find ways around
the rules that ordinary folk in the same situation are compelled
to observe.
The Department of Interior and Local Government has correctly
decided to relieve the warden and to initiate an investigation into
why he allowed the press conference. Hopefully, the Reyeses’
request for hospital detention will also be decided correctly and
with similar dispatch.
The Ortega case could be an important turning point in the
campaign to stop the killing of journalists and to combat the
culture of impunity. The Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists
(FFFJ) therefore calls on the courts to immediately resolve all
pending legal issues that could prevent the speedy trial of the
Reyes brothers in a demonstration of the Philippine government’s
commitment not only to resolving the cases involving the killing
of journalists, but also for the sake of the justice it has sworn to
provide every citizen.
5
Conscience
and the law
’M SURE most people agree that as we plunge into more
complicated, pressure-packed times, we need to remind ourselves of some basic, must-know concepts, precisely because
they run the risk of being forgotten and set aside.
Among these concepts is the intimate relationship between law
and conscience. We cannot deny that these days many people think
law and conscience have practically no relationship at all, or that
they work in different levels. They don’t meet.
In my chats with people, and somehow verified in my many
readings of current developments, I get the impression that conscience is increasingly considered the ultimate bastion of personal
freedom, the seat of one’s real and
barest self, where nothing extraneous like law should be let in.
I am afraid this is a dangerous
drift in people’s understanding
of things. It betrays a treacherous and even alarming idea of
freedom. It detaches freedom
from any clear, fixed reference
point, allowed to spin and fly in
any direction.
Freedom, in this view, is prone
Fr. Roy Cimagala to become nothing other than
a whim or caprice. It considers
itself self-created and self-defining, its own law, completely at the
mercy of arbitrary impulses, like one’s moods, passing fancies,
current crazes and fads.
Freedom without a fixed reference point can go everywhere
but can end nowhere. It becomes a wild and destructive force
that frustrates our desire for peace and joy. It’s highly deceptive,
strongly seductive but completely dangerous.
And yet no matter how distorted and even denied, the objective
truth about freedom, especially as it relates to the link between
law and conscience, cannot be contradicted.
A wayward freedom, if it does not crash, will be forced to
correct itself. It cannot escape the working of its own nature, and
its own origin and purpose. It might take centuries, wars, pain,
blood, but it cannot go against itself indefinitely.
Recently, I read that the Asia-Pacific population is slowing
down. In fact, it is feared to start shrinking. It is nearing belowreplacement level. The region is joining other ageing nations in
the West.
The culprit? The vicious contraceptive mentality, an abuse
of freedom, is taking its toll. Some countries affected by this
disease are desperate in reversing the trend. Let’s pray for
them.
Meanwhile, it is also reported that countries that still have high
population growth are expected to perform well economically
and to ride out the storm of our worst global economic crisis to
date.
But do you think many people will realize this? I have my
doubts. They would rather be scared to death by the highlyspeculative, suppositional, if not rash threat of global warming.
Oh, well….
Thus, it is important to educate everyone about the real character of freedom. And for this, the core of how freedom is lived
by connecting one’s conscience with an objective law should be
understood well.
Sad to say, a dense and almost impenetrable fog of ignorance
and confusion surrounds the understanding of this matter. Have
you, for example, heard of such things as eternal law, natural law,
and natural moral law?
The common belief is that these concepts have not stepped
out of the ivory tower ever since they were conceived. And no
one seems to be concerned. No one is doing anything to correct,
even if people, on the other side, have gone overdrive in knowing
technical items even to the nano level.
To say the least, this is a monstrous disequilibrium, a totally
unfair selectivity in our pursuit for knowledge!
We need to make everyone, especially the young, understand what conscience is and how it needs to respect and follow
a law which it has to discover, a law not of its own making.
This is what the Catechism of the Catholic Church says about
this matter:
“Deep within his conscience man discovers a law which he has
not laid upon himself but which he must obey. Its voice, ever calling him to love and to do what is good and to avoid evil, sounds
in his heart at the right moment… For man has in his heart a law
inscribed by God…” (1776)
“The education of conscience is indispensable for human
beings who are subjected to negative influences and tempted
by sin to prefer their own judgment and to reject authoritative
teachings.” (1783)
This is actually an old teaching, but to many nowadays, it is
hot and fresh breaking news.
I
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Vice-guv asks for 2016
budget breakdown
By Dolly Yasa
BACOLOD City – Negros Occidental
Vice-Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson
requested the Office of the Governor for
the itemized programs and projects to be
funded by the proposed 2016 executive
budget.
Lacson’s request pertained to specific
allocations under the 20-percent development fund, the peace and order fund, the
five-percent calamity fund, and the gender
and development fund.
According to Lacson’s chief of staff,
Jonathan Lobaton, they asked for the same
information when the provincial board
deliberated on the 2015 budget.
Meanwhile, Board Member Salvador
Escalante, finance committee chair, will
hold a meeting today, October 7, to decide
on the schedule of budget hearings.
Gov. Alfredo Marañon proposed a
P2.884-billion budget for 2016, an election year.
Next year’s budget is P247,099,000
more than the 2015 budget, which totaled
P2.637 billion.
Mayor ‘must pay for crimes’ – group Murcia
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equipment that do not even
Puentevella also alleged mayor sticks
work properly, if at all,” the that his suspension is meant to
with Binay
BACOLOD City – An anti- group said.
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graft and corruption group said
Bacolod City Mayor Monico
Puentevella must pay for the
alleged crime he committed
against the taxpayers of the
city.
In a press statement, Bacolodnon Kontra Korapsyon
said Puentevella must answer
to elementary and high school
students and teachers affected
by alleged anomalies in the
purchase of P24 million worth
of computers.
“It is a tragedy that while
our public schools needed
more classrooms, precious
government funds were wasted
on overpriced IT/computer
The group added that Puentevella is trying to portray himself as a “victim” of political
sabotage after the Sandiganbayan ordered his 90-day preventive suspension while his
graft case is being tried.
“This is totally absurd. He
allowed his Priority Development Assistance Fund to be
used to purchase overpriced
IT/computer equipment and
when he is now being made
to account for that decision,
he blames it on his political
opponents! What has politics
got to do with his decision to
spend his PDAF that way?” the
crusaders added.
Festival.
“How deceiving can this
be? In the first place, it was all
his dilatory tactics, including
pretending to be sick in the hospital to avoid arraignment, that
led to where the case is today,”
the group retorted.
The group added that Puentevella could have been suspended much earlier had he
not contested the judicial proceedings.
“Using the MassKara Festival to generate sympathy
for himself is a desperate and
pathetic act which actually
shows his wily and cunning
character,” they added.
‘Anybody is welcome to run’
By Dolly Yasa
BACOLOD City – Negros Occidental Governor
Alfredo Marañon Jr., said he welcomes anyone
who will run against him in 2016.
Marañon issued the statement following the
pronouncement of Abang Lingkod partylist Rep.
Stephen Paduano that he is willing to run for gov-
Ateneo...
from p.8
sion also dominated the Mixed
Pair Poomsae event, thanks to
the exploits of Elisha Venice
Aguilar and Laurence Izaiah
Firmeza.
Elisha Venice Aguilar, Alfonso Gabriel Samson and
Laurence Izaiah Firmeza also
clinched the gold in the Poomsae group event.
On the other hand, Ateneo’s
secondary girls’ team medalists
are Elaine Margaret Borres (silver, kyorugi and in Individual
Poomsae Category A); Patricia
Danise Seruelo (silver, kyorugi
and individual Poomsae Category B); and Ma. Wilmena
Popelo (silver, kyorugi).
Ruben Justine Gasacao
seized silver in both kyorugi
and Individual Poomsae Category A.
The AdI secondary team
also pocketed silver medals
in Mixed Pair Poomsae event
courtesy of Elaine Margaret Borres and Ruben Justine
Gasacao.
Borres, Gasacao, and Patricia Danise Seruelo also wowed
the crowd after winning the
gold in Group Poomsae Event
secondary level.
Kyna Zurielle Gemarino
of St. Robert’s International
Academy secondary girls also
grabbed the silver in kyorugi
and bronze in individual poomsae Category A.
Czarylle Faye Dinero of
ernor under the Love Negros (LN) Team.
“Anybody is welcome to run. After all, we are
in a democracy,” the governor said.
Earlier, Paduano, a close ally of 3rd district
Rep. Alfredo Benitez, said he is ready to run for
governor if fielded by the LN Team.
“I am just an ordinary, good soldier and a party
man,” Paduano said.
Central Philippine University (CPU) secondary girls’
bagged the gold in kyorugi
and in individual Poomsae
Group B.
Jim Marshall Simpas of
CPU-Tertiary Men got the
gold in kyorugi and silver in
Individual Poomsae category
A.
The competition started last
October 3, 2015 and ended
afternoon of October 5.
The participating schools
were AdI, CPU, Huasiong College of Iloilo, Sun Yat Sen High
Dolphins...
School, Western Institute of
Technology (WIT) and University of San Agustin (USA).
The Ateneo team is trained
and coached by Denmark Pinggol.
Other coaches are Alan
Diasnes (CPU), Lawrence
Diasnes (Huasiong), Alfie
Diasnes (Sun Yat Sen), Jun
Diasnes (WIT) and Ryan
Tachado (USA).
Hosted by USA, the taekwondo tournament was spearheaded by tournament manager
Jun Diasnes.
from p.8
names and assembled through a team-record
$164 million payroll, fired manager Matt Williams on Monday.
Under-performing players, defensive lapses,
and a slew of injuries to key players were just a
few of the reasons the Nationals staggered to an
83-79 record and failed to make the postseason.
Williams, 49, won 96 games in 2014 in his
first season as manager and was named National
League Manager of the Year. The Nationals lost
in the NL Division Series to the eventual World
Series champion San Francisco Giants.
Washington opened the 2015 season as a
favorite to win the World Series but the dream
ended swiftly with a spate of injuries that saw
Denard Span, Jayson Werth, Anthony Rendon,
Ryan Zimmerman and others spend much of the
year on the disabled list.
Bouchard’s comeback ends in tears
Eugenie Bouchard’s comeback match from
concussion ended in tears on Monday when dizzy spells forced her to retire from her China Open
first-round match against Andrea Petkovic.
By Dolly Yasa
BACOLOD City – Mayor Andrew Montelibano of Murcia,
Negros Occidental will continue to support the presidential
bid of Vice-President Jejomar
Binay despite threats from
Governor Alfredo Marañon,
Jr. that he will field his own
candidate for mayor in the 2016
elections.
Montelibano said he expects
Marañon to respect his decision
as they also have their own
choices of candidates for national positions.
Montelibano is one of the
top campaigners of Binay in
Negros.
Marañon last week declared
that mayors who will not support the presidential bid of
former DILG secretary Manuel
Roxas II will face opponents in
the 2016 elections.
The governor in particular
mentioned Montelibano.
“In 2010, I only have the
support of 11 barangays while
in 2013, only 16 supported me.
In 2016, all 23 barangays will
support me because they have no
complaints on the way I run the
municipality,” Montelibano said
Meanwhile, Montelibano
said that 3rd district Rep. Alfredo “Albee” Benitez will still
win his reelection next year.
“For me, nobody in the district could equal the projects
and the performance of Cong.
Albee. For me, he is unbeatable in the district,” the mayor
said.
Former governor Rafael
Coscolluela is being touted to
run against Benitez in 2016.
On a day when Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was also
hit by dizziness, Bouchard lasted just 10 games
before retiring from her first match since she
slipped and banged her head in the locker rooms
at the US Open.
Bouchard skipped last week’s Wuhan Open
to continue her recovery, but said she had felt
ready for Beijing and was bitterly disappointed
to retire.
Venus Williams up after Wuhan win
Venus Williams was the main mover at the
top of the new WTA tennis rankings published
on Monday, climbing 10 places to 14th.
The veteran older sister of world number
one Serena Williams won the WTA tournament
in Wuhan last week, as Spain’s Garbine Muguruza retired during the final due to exhaustion,
although she was already a set and three games
down at that point.
There was some solace for the Spaniard,
though, as the Wimbledon finalist climbed three
places to a career high ranking of fifth.
Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic was the big loser as the
former French Open champion fell six places to
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Guns, ‘shabu’...
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A criminal charge for violation of RA 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act) was
filed against him.
On the other hand, Corcino
said that Castor and Ponte are
both on San Enrique’s watchlist
of illegal drug personalities
while Balasabas and Pateña’s
involvement in the illegal drug
trade is yet to be confirmed.
The teenage girl, on the
other hand, is a known drug
user in Pototan.
Pototan police was conducting a checkpoint at P. Ledesma
Ward when the suspects’ ve-
Rebel
killed...
from p.3
The five-minute firefight
injured Saldo.
At 3:30 a.m. of Tuesday,
the Army team encountered
the same group of rebels, reinforced by around four others,
at the boundary of barangays
Buenavista and Batga, nearby
villages of Ambarihon.
It was during this encounter
that alias Rok-Rok was killed.
Tiongson said 82IB troops recovered an M-16 rifle, a caliber.45
pistol, several ammunition, rifle
Iloilo to...
from p.3
Female Royal Title Holders in
Meranao Society by LabiHadjiSaripRiwarung of Mindanao
State University Marawi.
Two other papers to be
presented are From Lands
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from the Visayas, Mindanao
Will ex-guv...
from p.2
“What I am looking at in
a candidate is if we have the
same advocacies and direction. But as to the potential
candidate of LP, I cannot comment on that as it is an internal
concern. It is unnecessary for
me to issue any statement,”
Raul said.
Iloilo Plan...
from p.1
fish producers in the world.
“A healthy marine environment would mean a healthy
APEC community and sustainable livelihoods for our
peoples. It is our hope that any
policy we will develop in this
meeting will always be rooted
on protecting our resources on
which our economies are built
and will thrive,” he said.
Alcala said it is the first
meeting where the micro-en-
Columny...
from p.4
and Migs Zubiri. Honasan and
Trillanes, on the other hand,
gained fame or notoriety as
coup plotters. Both are still
facing rebellion cases in court.
Robredo is the widow of former
DILG acting secretary Jesse
Robredo, who gained fame for
his so-called “tsinelas” (rubber slippers) leadership which
simply means being accessible
to and identifying with the
common people.
BBM is the son and namesake of the late former President Ferdinand Marcos, who
declared Martial Law and ruled
this country for at least two de-
Angelicum...
from p.8
coordinated by the Angelicum
Alumni Association.
“Lots of prizes were awarded
hicle, a Toyota Corolla sedan
driven by Trabado, passed by.
When asked for his driver’s
license and the vehicle’s OR/
CR (official receipt/certificate
or registration), Trabado failed
to present any paper, prompting policemen to do a visual
search.
A tooter then fell off from
the vehicle while crumpled
aluminum foils were scattered
inside the vehicle’s seat.
Further search led to the
recovery of five sachets of suspected shabu, drug paraphernalia and two handguns – a caliber
.45 pistol with 11 ammunition
and two magazines and a caligrenades, and personal belongings from the encounter site.
As this developed, government troops are conducting
follow-up operations to ensure
the security and safety of the
civilians and to run after the
fleeing lawless elements.
Before the twin encounters,
the last armed clash between
soldiers and rebels in Tubungan
happened on Sept. 19, 2014.
Members of the 82IB were
also conducting security operations when they encountered
around 30 rebels that time.
ber .38 revolver.
The five male suspects
claimed they came from a cara
y cruz game in Passi City.
They planned to eat arroz
caldo at Barangay Rumbang,
Pototan when they passed
by Mae and asked her to join
them.
Corcino said the six suspects
will be made to undergo drug
test.
Charges for violation of Republic Act 10591 (Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition
Regulation Act) and RA 9165
(Comprehensive Dangerous
Drugs Act) were already filed
against them Tuesday.
The incident wounded Private First Class Ronald Apiladas, who was hit on his lower
left extremities and left hip.
On March 31, 2015 members
of the Iloilo Provincial Public
Safety Company (IPPSC) First
Maneuver Platoon traded shots
with the NPA’s Southern Front
group at Mambiranan village,
Tubungan, injuring Police Officer 2 (PO2) Efren Buscar.
The day before that, suspected NPA rebels also fired
upon Army troops in the towns
of Leon and Tubungan.
and Other Island Provinces
during the 1880s-1890s by
Marco Stefan B. Lagman of UP
Diliman; and A Century After:
‘Ethnographic Authenticity’
and the Materiality of Dean
C. Worcester’s ‘Native Life
of the Philippines’ (1913) by
Analyn Salvador-Amores of
UP Baguio.
Bernardita R. Churchill,
PNHSI president, is the national conference convener.
The launching of Journal of
History 2015 will highlight the
conference.
PNHS is the oldest voluntary professional organization
devoted to the study and research of Philippine history.
The vice-governor, who is
running for 5th district congressman, also refused to name
his “favored replacement” as
the province’s second highest
official.
Capitol sources claimed that
LP is considering Provincial
Administrator Raul Banias
and Mayor Christine Garin of
Guimbal, Iloilo as the possible
running mate of Defensor.
The name of Niel Sr. came
up as a “compromise” candidate to avoid breaking up the
Defensor-Tupas-Garin coalition.
Despite jumping from LP
to the National People’s Coalition (NPC), the vice-governor
vowed to continue supporting
Defensor.
trepreneurs are members of
delegates of one country.
“Representatives of our
small fishermen and members
of the private sector are duly
recognized in our meetings,”
he said.
He said the action plan will
also help the small farmers and
fisher folks participate in the
value-adding of the product and
thus increase their earnings.
Paje said the timetable of
implementation depends on the
need of each economy.
HLPD-FSBE is the last
APEC meeting hosted by Iloilo
City.
The Iloilo Action Plan is the
third document to be adopted
after the city’s hosting of three
APEC meetings.
The two previous meetings
led to the adoption of an Iloilo
Declaration for APEC Disaster
Risk Reduction Framework
and Iloilo Initiative for ecommerce to promote Micro,
Small, and Medium Enterprises.
cades. BBM was vice governor,
governor, and Representative
of Ilocos Norte.
To my mind, among the
current crop of vice presidential aspirants, BBM is the
more intellectually mature.
In declaring his intent to run
for VP, BBM said: “I believe
that elected officials have an
obligation to our people to help
change the course of our nation’s history by banishing the
politics of personality which
to me is one of the primary
causes why our country today
has become a soft state where
the rich become richer, the
poor become poorer, graft and
corruption is endemic, the drug
menace pervades, injustice is
the norm and government incompetence is accepted as the
new normal.”
I know many of my friends,
particularly those who suffered under martial law, will
raise their eyebrows to this,
but BBM’s statement makes
a lot of sense. His avowed unconditional support for Duterte
clothes his intent with candor.
For those who may not know
it, Duterte began his political
career as an OIC vice mayor
in Davao under Pres. Cory’s
Revolutionary Government.
The appointment was made
because the Dutertes led the
Anti-Marcos group in Davao.
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Binky Montesclaros of Bukidnon province in Mindanao is
into construction businesses.
“Let me clarify that my
wife’s businesses are focused
on Bukidnon and neighboring
cities. I do not know the intention of my brother in coming
up with this allegation. Maybe
my brother wants contractors
DILG ...
from p.1
Five allies of Malones in
the SB voted for the resolution
which is one vote short of the
required majority.
Malones said DILG’s intervention would solve the “slowdown, if not breakdown of the
functioning of the municipal
government.”
Malones said he stands by
his belief that the “slowdown”
is caused by the four opposition
councilors.
But the opposition bloc
stressed that their refusal to
grant the mayor’s request is
More
graft
...
from p.1
2012.
Named as respondents in
the criminal and administrative
case filed with the Office of the
Ombudsman on October 6 were
Mabilog, assistant department
head II and Bids and Awards
Committee (BAC) member
Jess Sio, General Services Office head and BAC chair Joren
Sartorio, and city administrator and BAC member Norlito
Bautista.
The private respondents
are Pacita Sio Uy, proprietor
of Narita Electric Center; and
Felix Uy, Nippon Engineering
Works proprietor.
The Uy couple is related
to Jess Sio, one of Mabilog’s
trusted aides at the City Hall.
Nava said he sued Mabilog
and company for violating Sections 3(e) and (g) of Republic
Act 3019 (Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act); Section
47, Article XV, in relation to
Section 65, Article XXI of Republic Act 9184 (Government
Procurement Reform Act);
and administrative offenses for
grave misconduct, dishonesty,
and conduct prejudicial to the
best interest of the service.
The councilor said graft and
conflict of interest were present in
the transaction since Sio and the
bidders/suppliers were related.
Narita Electrical Center of
from Iloilo to feel bad against
me. The congressman brings
projects to the district. If my
wife or in-laws do business
in our district, that is just not
right,” he said.
Raul said his in-laws do not
want to be involved in the political infighting of the Tupas clan.
He said his brother may
have misunderstood the recent
meetings between his in-laws
and two business conglomerates to put up a restaurant in
Iloilo City.
“I do not deny the business
background of my wife’s family. They earned it through
blood and sweat. In fact, my
in-laws own a restaurant in
partnership with SM and Ayala
situated in Davao, Cagayan de
Oro and Bukidnon,” the vicegovernor added.
to maintain check and balance
and transparency in the local
government.
“Amboy is the wife of an SB
member allied with the mayor,
and a municipal accountant,”
the opposition councilors said
in a joint statement.
“Besides, there are two qualified employees who are next in
rank. The mayor certainly had
ample time to look for more
qualified personnel that would
replace the retired municipal
treasurer. We are also affected
but what we are asking the
mayor is to give us a municipal
treasurer who is ‘apolitical’ and
we will immediately hold a
special session to expedite the
appointment,” they stressed.
Because of the standoff, municipal employees of Maasin
have yet to receive their salaries
for September 16-30.
Lolita Resbo, an employee of
the provincial government, was
detailed to Maasin to fill in the
municipal treasurer’s office but
she resigned Sept. 17, 2015.
The delay in financial transactions in Maasin also hampered the delivery of basic
services in the town, including
garbage collection, among
others.
Pacita Sio Uy won the contract after offering P144,000
for six clamps (at P24,000
apiece) while the other bidder
is Nippon Engineering Works
owned by her husband Felix
Uy which offered a higher bid
of P146,000.
The third bidder is 1st
Defenders which tendered
P147,000.
“These are three criminal
and administrative cases. Obviously, they cannot refute the
fact that those who participated
in the bidding are husband and
wife, and worse, they are close
relatives of Jess Sio,” Nava
said.
Nava said under the law,
BAC members should not be
related to the bidders to at least
the third civil degree lest the
bidding would be declared null
and void.
Adding conflict to the deal
is the fact that Jess Sio is also
the end-user of the tire clamps
supplied by his aunt Pacita.
Nava said the 2012 deal is
questionable because there was
no ordinance authorizing the
purchase of tire clamps as the
wheel clamping ordinance was
enacted only in 2014.
“Jess Sio signed the award
and he is also the end-user. We
can also see that the deal was
manipulated because there was
no wheel clamping ordinance at
that time,” he added.
Nava also alleged that the
tire clamps were overpriced
even at the winning bid of
P24,000 per unit as a similar
item only costs P830 per unit.
“They did not even use the
clamps because they just kept
it away,” he added.
Nava also claimed that the
minutes of the BAC meetings on the deal were rigged
based on the dates on pertinent
papers.
“The deliberation and awarding of contract were consummated ahead of the issuance of
the bid abstract. It should be the
other way around,” Nava said.
Nava said he has no idea
how the process went about
“but records showed that Jess
Sio has a conflict of interest and
they have given unwarranted
benefits to certain bidders.”
Nava said Mabilog is liable
after he issued and signed the
purchase order for the wheel
clamps.
“Why did he sign the purchase order when there was no
urgency for the city to buy the
clamps?” he asked.
Mabilog, being the mayor
and chief executive, exercises
jurisdiction over the BAC.
“So, before you sign the
PO, you should first evaluate
if the bidder is qualified or the
correct process was followed.
Obviously, this was not done,”
Nava said.
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from p.2
grant of incentives to both national and local
government unit employees equivalent to P5,000
or one month basic salary as of May 31, 2015 to
be paid starting June 1, 2015.
Poor
officiatin...
Half of the 2015 incentive has already been
released to employees in August 2015.
The other half, according to Mayor Jed Patrick
Mabilog, will be released in December.
from p.8
Romeo. “Lahat ng chance na
pinipilit namin para mapunta
‘yung momentum sa amin,
pinuputol nila.”
“Wala akong masabi. ‘Yun
lang, sobrang disappointed ako.
Para sa akin, hindi naging fair
‘yung laban,” he said.
Romeo is not the only person to complain about the officiating: his teammate, Marc
Pingris, spoke out against the
“made in China” referees while
Filipinos on social media were
outraged about the calls being
made against Gilas all game
7
long.
For Romeo, who was competing for Gilas Pilipinas for
the first time, the refereeing put
a damper on his experience of
playing in the tournament.
“Gusto ko sana na manalo
kami, or ‘yung kalabasan noon
ay maging sobrang memorable,” he said. “Pero para sa
akin, hindi na s’ya ganoon
ka-memorable dahil doon sa
nangyari.”
Nevertheless, Romeo was
grateful for the support of the
Filipino fans all throughout
their campaign. He and the rest
of Gilas were given a heroes’
welcome when they returned
to Manila on Monday. (ABSCBNnews.com)
Angelicum
fun run to
assist feeding
program
By Elyrose S. Naorbe
THE Angelicum School Iloilo
(ASI) mounted its first fun run
dubbed “1st Elevarse Angelicum Fun Run 2015” at SM City
Iloilo over the weekend.
The event themed “One run
can change your day, many
runs can change your life,”
showcased 3K and 5K race
categories.
Around 500 runners composed of Angelicum students,
faculty, parents and other runners from Iloilo and neighboring towns supported the event
which aims to raise funds for
their TLE (Technology and
Livelihood Education) project
and feeding program for the
pupils of Cubay Elementary
School in Jaro, Iloilo City.
Race director Russel Liñgat
said the Angelicum Fun Run
was a significant success given
the satisfactory turnout.
“Since this is a fund-raising
project, the runners also served
as benefactors to those we are
helping through our various
programs. We are very grateful
to those who spent time with
us and helped us raise funds
for our beneficiaries,” Liñgat
added.
Ben Golez Palmes, one of
the participants, the fun run
was a success and was wellAngelicum/p7
Ateneo shines in
ISAA taekwondo
By Elyrose S. Naorbe
ATENEO de Iloilo’s taekwondo team made waves in the 2015 Iloilo Schools Athletic Association taekwondo tournament at the Iloilo
Doctor’s College gymnasium. (Mark Pinggol)
THE ATENEO de Iloilo (AdI)
Taekwondo team pulled off
impressive victories in the 2015
Iloilo Schools Athletic Association (ISAA) elementary girls’
taekwondo championships at
the Iloilo Doctor’s College.
The AdI elementary girls’
team was declared overall
champion in both poomsae
(forms) and kyorugi (sparring).
Elisha Venice Aguilar
snatched the gold in kyorugi
and another gold in Individual
Category A Poomsae.
Teammates Elizabeth Marie
Borres and Niesha Kariz Pequierda also brought home the
gold in kyorugi.
AdI elementary boys settled
for 1st runner-up honors courtesy of Mathew Thomas Del
Rosario (silver, kyorugi); Xyrus Andrei Desierto (gold, kyorugi); Laurence Izaiah Firmeza
(gold, kyorugi and individual
Poomsae Category B); and Gabriel Alfonso Samson (silver in
kyorugi and gold in Individual
Poomsae Category A).
The AdI elementary diviAteneo/p6
Dolphins fire coach,
Yankees pitcher in rehab
JOE Philbin became the first coaching casualty of the National Football League’s 2015 season after leading the Miami Dolphins to an
anemic 1-3 start early in this campaign, the team said on Monday.
Philbin was fired a day after his team failed to convert any of
their 12 third down opportunities or four fourth down chances
during a 27-14 loss to the AFC East division rival New York Jets
at London’s Wembley Stadium.
Meanwhile, New York Yankees veteran starting pitcher CC
Sabathia is checking himself into alcohol rehabilitation and will
miss the upcoming Major League Baseball postseason, the lefthander said on Monday.
“Today I am checking myself into an alcohol rehabilitation
center to receive the professional care and assistance needed to
treat my disease,” the 35-year-old Sabathia said.
Sabathia, a six-time All-Star who won a World Series with
New York in 2009, was the winning pitcher last Thursday against
the rival Boston Red Sox when the Yankees clinched their first
postseason berth since 2012.
Nationals fire manager after two seasons
The Washington Nationals, a club that struggled all season
and barely finished .500 despite a roster loaded with marquee
Dolphins/p6
Poor
officiating
taints Romeo’s
FIBA Asia
memories
GILAS Pilipinas guard Terrence Romeo is very disappointed with how their gold
medal game against China was
officiated, believing it denied
the Filipinos a fair chance of
winning the game.
The Philippines lost to China, 67-78, in the finals of the
2015 FIBA Asia Championship last Saturday to settle for
the silver medal for the second
consecutive tournament.
“Dahil sa referees, wala
kaming magagawa eh,” said
Poor officiating/p7
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Biz group pushes int’l
food security standards
THE 21 Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) membereconomies, especially developing countries, should adopt an
international standard on food
security to address increasing
risks brought by global warming, the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) said.
Anthony Nowell, a member
of the Board of Food Standards
of Australia-New Zealand,
emphasized the importance for
developing countries to start
aligning their food standard
policies with Codex Alimentarius, a collection of internationally-recognized standards,
codes of practices, guidelines,
and other recommendations related to food, food production,
and food safety.
“[Standardization on producing quality food] is actually
quite easy because the work
has effectively been done by
Codex. If all countries were to
make a commitment to come
very close to Codex, and work
strongly from the base, then
I think that we have a large
resolution to the issue,” Nowell said
Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the United States, Canada, and Japan already aligned
their food security standards
with Codex, he said, noting that
developing countries “have not
been long enough to the process” and that “some traditional
things have to change.”
The APEC Food Safety CoBiz Group/pB2
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015
WV posts P2.82-B
trade balance
By Maricyn A. De los Santos
WESTERN Vis ayas posted a positive
trade balance in the second quarter of
2015, according to the Philippine Statistics
Authority (PSA).
PSA data showed that the balance between the inflow and outflow of goods in
the region in April-June 2015 was valued
at P2.82 billion.
In the same period, the outflow of commodities from Region 6 totalled P24.29
billion while inflow was valued at P21.46
billion.
Trade balance in the 2nd quarter of
2015 is lower than the P3.7 billion that was
posted for the same period last year.
More commodities valued at P29.96
billion were transported from Western
Visayas in the second quarter of 2014,
while a total of P26.2 billion worth of commodities were transported into the region
in the same period.
Meanwhile, balance of trade in the second quarter of 2015 is higher than the first
quarter of this year.
From January to March, commodities
that were transported from the region
totalled P26.43 billion while commodities transported to the region amounted to
P24.79 billion.
Trade balance in the first quarter 2015
amounted to P1.6 billion, or P1.18 billion lower than the second quarter of
2015.
According to the PSA, Central Luzon
leads the highest favorable trade balance
among regions in the country at P8.45
billion.
Aside from WV, other regions which
posted billion-peso mark positive trade
balances were the National Capital Region,
P7.26 billion; Davao Region, P2.45 billion;
and Caraga, P1.46 billion.
Eastern Visayas suffered an unfavorable trade balance of negative P8.05
billion.
Other regions with negative trade balances were Zamboanga Peninsula, P4.64
billion; CALABARZON, P3.61 billion;
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Events
Guardian
the daily
Western Visayas Most
Read and Respected
Ilonggo artists
unite for Iloilo tourism
OMEGROWN musical artists once again
came together to
showcase their talents and
passion for local music and
tourism industry during the
last day of the 11th Tumandok
Tourism Fair, September 27
at Robinsons Place IloiloFountain Area.
Tumandok is a yearly event
organized by the Provincial
Office of Culture, Tourism
and the Arts, Department of
Tourism-6, Tinukib Pasalubong Center, Iloilo Science
and Technology University,
and Iloilo Tourism Officers
Association, Inc.
Ilonggo recording artists
Daniel Zedane, Marty n’ Lindy,
and rap groups Eunioa and
Metaphorhyme performed
their original songs.
The Iloilo Pop Song Festival, the first multimedia songwriting competition in Western Visayas organized by the
municipality of San Enrique
together with RSLPhoenix
Music and SEAC Batch 1990
H
launched the competition.
The Northern Iloilo
Polytechnic State College
(NIPSC)-Ajuy campus under
college administrator, Dr.
Cirilo Deocariza, and faculty
and staff presented the municipality of Ajuy’s Tambobo
Festival Theme Song performed by local singer Jamela
Puyo, Ilonggo rapper Rodj of
Metaphorhyme and NIPSCAjuy Tambobo Dancers.
Ilonggo artists in Region
6 reunited onstage once
again and performed “Lagaw
‘Ta (Experience Western
Visayas),” the first and only
unified tourism song and
music video of Region VI
produced in 2013.
Now on its 11th year, the
Tumandok Tourism Fair,
which carries the theme “Heritage and Tourism: Community and Environment” and held
at Robinsons Place Iloilo from
September 24-27, continues
to highlight the best of Iloilo’s
tourism industry, talents and
culture heritage.
Bicol, P0.62 million; ARMM,
P0.24 million; and Cagayan
Valley, P0.08 million.
Domestic trade in Western
Visayas is the third highest in
the country at P113.93 billion, or 21.3 percent of the
national domestic trade in the
second quarter of the year.
These commodities were
transported to and from the
region through land, air and
rail transport systems.
PSA recorded no rail transactions since last year.
ing of regulators, food safety
regulators across the region,”
he added.
As part of the private sector, Nowell said he advocates
a very strong role for the
private sector on the issue of
food security. He said that
while bureaucrats can make
the right policies, the private
sector makes sure that “food
gets from the small fisherfolk
and farmers to the markets of
the world.”
Policy-makers should bring
farmers, fisherfolk, and the
private sector together so that
they can work closely on how
to efficiently deliver their crops
and fishes to the market for
trade, he added.
Iloilo City is hosting the
APEC High-Level Policy Dialogue on Food Security and the
Blue Economy (HLPD-FSBE)
Meeting, which wrapped up
yesterday. (PNA)
ILONGGO artists peform Lagaw Ta Experience Western Visayas
FIRST live performance of the Tambobo Festival theme song
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In the last meeting in Cebu
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Poster making
contest
highlights
Consumer
Welfare Month
The Department of Trade and
Industry Region 6 (DTI-6),
in partnership with the Department of Education, holds
this year’s On-the-spot Poster
Making Contest.
This activity is one of
the highlights of the Consumer Welfare Month celebration and is open to public high schools students
of Personal Computers
for Public Schools (PCPS)
beneficiary schools in the
region.
The contest aims to challenge the participants to create
a poster that will influence its
viewer to reflect on this year’s
Consumer Welfare Month
theme: “Consumer Protection in the ASEAN Economic
Community.”
For the qualifying round
of the Provincial Level Onthe-spot Poster Making Contest, each DTI Provincial
Office will choose the 10
best entries.
The schedule of the provincial level competition is
October 5 (Antique), October
7 (Aklan), October 9 (Iloilo
and Capiz) and October 21
(Guimaras).
First prize winners in
the provinces will compete
in the regional finals on
October 23, 2015 at the
DTI-Audio Visual Room,
3rd Floor, DT Building, cor.
J.M. Basa-General Peralta
Streets, Iloilo City.
All winners at the provincial and regional level
will receive certificates of
recognition and gift checks.
Medium to be used include
pastel colors and illustration
board. All the winning entries
will automatically become
the property of the DTI.
October was declared Consumer Welfare Month pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 1098. This year, the
National Consumer Affairs
Council leads the celebration.
(DTI-6)
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Western Visayas Most
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Guimaras tourism projects
bag national recognitions
TWO projects of the island-province of Guimaras
won 1st runner-up honors during the 10th National
ATOP-DOT Pearl Awards (Provincial Level) at the
SMX Convention Center, Davao City, October 3,
2015.
The Guimaras: Bike Paradise of the Philippines
Project, a partnership between the Provincial Government of Guimaras (PGG) and the John B. Lacson
Foundation Maritime University (JBLFMU), secured
the 1st runner-up spot in the Best Tourism Event (Adventure Category).
The Barangay San Roque Community-Based
Rural Tourism (CBRT) Suba Malawig Eco-Tour
project, meanwhile, also won a similar award in the
Community-Based Responsible Tourism-Enterprise
Category.
Governor Samuel T. Gumarin, Jordan Mayor
Cresente P. Chavez, Jr., and Provincial Administrator
Alejandro D. Araneta received the awards.
The ATOP-DOT Pearl Awards is a mechanism of the
Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines and
the Department of Tourism to give recognition to the
country’s best tourism practices for local government
units to replicate.
‘Ang Banwahanon
Awards’ nomination
extended to Oct. 12
THE nomination phase of the
2015 Ang Banwahanon Awards
was extended until October 12,
2015, according to Bacolod
City Councilor Ana Marie
Palermo.
Palermo said the Secretariat
Office is still awaiting more
nominees who have yet to
submit their forms.
Ang Banwahanon Awards
are given to personalities
who made considerable impact and services which
contribute to the economic,
cultural, social, moral and
educational developments of
Bacolod City.
The awards were first conferred in 1974 to individuals
who made exemplary and selfless service achievements that
inspire Bacolod residents.
The nominees must be a Filipino citizen with known probity
and integrity, an actual resident
of Bacolod for at least 10 years,
willing to be of service to the
community when called upon
by the city and will come from
the private sector.
Nomination forms are available at the office of Councilor
Palermo on the second floor of
the Bacolod People’s House.
(CMO-PIO)
San Carlos City signs
up for E-AlkanSSSya
SCENT Senior Inspector Gerry Ann C. Marcelino, inmates welfare and development division chief of
the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology-6, examines dishwashing liquid concoction introduced
by a private company to the management of Mambusao District Jail in Bula village, Mambusao,
Capiz. The product, which comes in lemon or citrus (calamansi) scents, is a source of income for
inmates. (J. Britanico/BJMPVICRS)
Cleanup for mother earth
THOUSANDS of volunteers composed of students,
business-oriented groups
(estero adopters), community residents, employees
and key officials from the
Department of Environment
and Natural Resources and
Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB)
took part in the cleanup
activity dubbed “Adoptan-Estero” in observance
of the International Coastal
Cleanup, September 19,
2015.
The 1,012 participants
collected more or less
1,665 kilograms of wastes
from Nabitasan to Rizal
villages in LaPaz, Iloilo
City.
The activity also cleared
the waterways of Batiano
River, Iloilo River and its
tributaries (Mansaya Creek,
Calajunan Creek and Dungon
Creek).
Adopt-an-Estero/Water
Body Program is among the
Guardian
THE SSS San Carlos Branch recently signed a Memorandum of
Agreement (MOA) with the San Carlos City Local Government
for the coverage of more than 900 Job Order and Contractual
employees under the e-AlkanSSSya Program.
Present during the MOA signing ceremony last September 4 at
the Mayor’s Office were San Carlos City Mayor Gerardo P. Valmayor, Jr., (4th from right) with Branch Head Isaac P. Ciocon, Jr.,
(3rd from right). Also present were MSS Head Phillip M. Lucero
and JMSR Lenard G. Niadas.
Also in photo are officers of the Job Order Workers of San
Carlos City (L-R) Ma. Fatima P. Bagacay (Secretary), Maria
Mercy D. Yap (P.I.O.), Janice S. Po (Treasurer), Rene D. Salva
(President) and Natalie Ann P. Nacario (Vice President).
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Price: P 1.2M
priority programs of DENR
handled and monitored by
EMB-6.
According to EMB-6
regional director Jonathan
P. Bulos, six water bodies
in Iloilo province were
adopted by 38 adopters/
partners.
To date, 24 water bodies
in Western Visayas were
already adopted by 64 partners.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015
The Flash has a director;
takes a break
from social media
John Wick director moves
to The Coldest City
A
CCORDING to The Hollywood
Reporter, Seth Grahame-Smith
(Abraham Lincoln: Vampire
Hunter, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,) is in negotiations to direct and
write “The Flash” for Warner Bros.
Pictures based on the iconic DC Comic
scarlet speedster.
Grahame-Smith will be going off a
treatment from Phil Lord and Christopher
Miller, The Lego Movie duo that at one
point were also in talks to direct the project
but instead went on to direct the Han Solo
Star Wars movie.
Ezra Miller will be playing Barry Allen aka The Flash, and will most likely be
introduced in Batman v Superman: Dawn
of Justice, and then become part of Justice
League Part 1, which will be released in the
summer of 2017.
The Flash solo film is set to hit theaters
on March 3, 2018.
I am not entirely excited for this
movie because to be honest I am really
enjoying the current Flash TV series,
which, for me, is a good enough adapta-
tion of the comic book series because it
captures the tone and the light-hearted
approach which a Flash adaptation
should have.
The tiny positive side of the movie adaptation Fox is developing is that Phil Lord
and Chris Miller has a hand on it. Lord and
Miller are the geniuses behind “The Lego
Movie” and the two recent “Jump Street”
movies.
It’s a tiny positive side because Lord and
Miller just initiated developing it; it’s now
in the hands of Seth Grahame-Smith, and
that may be a bad idea because “Abraham
Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” was sort of
forgettable.
***
“John Wick” director David Leitch will
direct actress Charlize Theron in “The
Coldest City” for Focus Features instead
of opting to return to helm Liongate’s
action-thriller “John Wick 2” starring
Keanu Reeves with his co-director Chad
Stahelski, who will film the sequel on his
own.
The directors were expected to return to co-direct the follow-up sequel,
but Leitch decided to drop out to focus
on “The Coldest City,” which had
conflicting schedules with the “John
Wick 2” shoot.
Leitch and Sta- ReymundoSalao
helski are also Just Another
attached to di- Film Junkie
rect the film
adaption of the
graphic novel
“Cowboy Ninja
Vi k i n g ” s t a rring Chris Pratt
for Universal
Pictures.
“The Coldest City” is based off the
best-selling Oni Press graphic novel which
“follows an underground MI6 officer who is
killed just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Theron will play a spy who must find
a list she was smuggling into the West to
protect herself and the counter-intelligence
community.
Photo from the Instagram account of Sofia Andres
MANILA – Sofia Andres is taking a break from social media for
reasons she refused to divulge.
On Instagram, the young actress posted a picture of a lifeline
and in the caption, she told her followers that she will not be
posting for a while but will certainly come back when she’s
“whole again.”
“I’ll be back soon… HAPPY 1 MILLION FOLLOWERS!!!
Thank you for everything, the love and support... I may not be
posting but I will always check on you. I promise that I’ll be more
active when I’m whole again,” she said.
“I hope I made you guys smile with my posts. I hope I made
you feel special with the dms I sent you. I hope I made you feel
appreciated, the tagged photos that I liked, I can see all of you. I
feel the love and you gave me strength. My dear followers, I’ll
miss you,” she added.(ABS-CBNnews.com)
What Sharon thinks Kean Cipriano denies he is leaving Callalily
of KC-Piolo
reconciliation
MANILA – Despite several
solo projects on TV and on the
big screen, Kean Cipriano clarified that he will never leave his
band Callalily.
Speaking with Boy Abunda
on Monday night, Cipriano said
he owes a lot to the band.
“Just to clear things out
-- everything that I do, films,
TV, directing, all that, it will
all boil down to Callalily. At
the end of the day, I’m always
going to be Kean Cipriano of
Callalily. It’s my last name,”
he said.
Cipriano also credited the
band for his career as a per-
former.
“It’s the air that I breathe.
Kaya ako nakaupo ngayon
kausap ko si Mr. Boy Abunda,
dahil po sa Callalily ‘yun.
Pamilya kami. I’ve been with
the boys since day one. Callalily is celebrating 10 years in
2015,” he said.
Cipriano is among the celebrity performers on the second
season of ABS-CBN’s “Your
Face Sounds Familiar.” He also
used to appear on “ASAP” as
part of the Sessionistas.
His last TV series with the
Kapamilya network was “Inday Bote,” where he worked
with Alex Gonzaga and Matteo
Guidicelli.
Cipriano also appeared in
movies like “Praybeyt Benjamin 2” and “English Only
Please.”(ABS-CBNnews.com)
Philippine Society of Mechanical
Engineers - Panay Chapter
invites…
PME_ RME_ and CPM (Certified Plant Mechanic)
to attend General Membership Meeting on October 10, 2015 Sat 10:00AM
@ CASA REAL OLD CAPITOL BLDG_ Registration starts 10:00AM-10:30AM
Attire: Formal / Corporate_ Fellowship to Follow after Dinner
Guests: Board of Mechanical Engineering & PSME National Officers
and also everyone is invited to the:
3rd PSME FUN RUN on Oct. 11, 2015 Freedom Park @ 5:30AM
invites…
JPSME - PSC “Student Congress / Olympics” on Oct 03, 2015 @ University of SAN AGUSTIN
for inquiries pls call:
PSME Office_ (033)3297315 * 09167769956 * 09124965458
Rene_09178128045 / 09493630658 * Argel_09185586561
Duties are inescapable. Buckle down and take care of
those nagging tasks. You’ll feel better crossing completed
items off your list.
Sharon Cuneta. File Photo
MANILA – Sharon Cuneta is
overjoyed now that her daughter, KC Concepcion, and actor
Piolo Pascual are finally okay
years after their controversial
breakup.
In an interview with entertainment website PEP, Cuneta
said she actually regrets what
she said against Pascual back
when he and Concepcion have
just broken up.
“Alam mo, kapag ina ang
isang tao, siyempre parang
mas gugustuhin mo ikaw
ang masaktan kaysa sa anak
mo. Hindi lang naman ‘yun
ang relationship niya. May
iba naman. Never akong
nangialam, ‘di ba? Siguro
that time lang, hindi ka masasaktan kung hindi mo mahal
‘yung tao. So, I really treat
him [Piolo] as part of the
family. Pero tapos na ‘yun,
I’m very happy na okay na
sila,” she said.
Looking back, Cuneta said
she should not have been too
vocal about her opinions about
Pascual at the time.
“Alam mo, sana rin hindi
ako naging masyadong public
sa feelings ko noon kahit na
masakit. Kasi parang afterwards, noong tapos na lahat,
in retrospect, kahit kanino mo
gawin, kahit sa sarili mo mangyari, hindi maganda. So, ayaw
na ayaw ko na [nakakasakit].
Siyempre I’m sure nakasakit
ako,” she said.
Cuneta, however, said she
has yet to bump into Pascual
in showbiz functions. (ABSCBNnews.com)
A child or person near you is more needy than usual
today, and you’ll want to help. Do what’s necessary, but
not too much!
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Your potential for charm and charisma is high. You may
be very persuasive - or attract others who use their wiles
on you. Have fun!
You can be more persuasive than usual, and this
could be a useful asset monetarily. Take advantage of
opportunities.
Your beloved is eager for a romantic encounter. Set the
mood and enjoy the results.
A chance to share some fun and frolic with friends. Get
together to chat, laugh, enjoy life with one another.
Free exchange of ideas is inhibited today because
someone feels threatened and put-down. Provide
reassurance to ease the situation.
Take stock of your vocational position today. Look for
avenues to gain more power. Take a step closer to what
you want.
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get overwhelmed. Actuality is still more important than
appearances.
Time to stand up for what you know is right. You don’t have
to be pushy, but need to support your ethical principles.
Relaxation, feeling “up” and enjoying other people are
highlighted. You’re sociable and fun-loving; let your
sparkle out!
Your sense of justice or fair play may be aroused by
activities at work today. Be tactful!
Tourism
B8 Wednesday, October 7, 2015
THE Molo
Mansion
By Maricyn A. De los Santos
Photos by Ricky Alejo
T
HE Molo Mansion in Iloilo City is now a sight
to behold.
After years of neglect, it was recently
brought back to life to become a new tourist
destination in the city.
Formerly owned by the prominent Yusay-Consing
family of Molo, the mansion is one of the few ancestral
houses in Iloilo that retained much of its original
structure.
On the ground floor, locals and tourists can shop
for proudly Pinoy-made souvenir items and heritage
products of SM City Iloilo’s retail affiliate Kultura.
Aside from enjoying the panoramic and undivided
view of the famous “feminist church” in Molo
from its second floor, guests can find products of
local producers, including wall decors, furniture,
delicacies, crafts, indigenous clothes, among
others.
Tinukib, an organization of local
SOUVENIR items and other crafts are showcased at
the Kultura Showroom on the mansion’s ground floor.
producers, showcases these indigenous products in cooperation
with Taytay sang Kauswagan, Inc., a micro-financing firm.
One can also enjoy the view and ambience of the entire
place over a cup of coffee or tablea tsokolate at Café Panay of
Dr. Mae Tamayo-Panes.
Satisfy your gastronomic cravings with Sabor Ilonggo’s
native delicacies and other affordable treats.
Refresh your tired souls under a balete tree while sipping
your favorite fruit juices, including the now-popular iced
dragon fruit juice, at Table Matters juice bar of Mi Amor
Iloilo.
For lovers of arts and everything aesthetically beautiful, the
mansion also features the masterpieces of renowned Ilonggo
visual artists.
Surely, Iloilo is not only taking a big leap in terms of
economic development.
With the opening of Molo Mansion’s door to Ilonggos (in
addition to newly-restored heritage buildings and vibrant art
scene), expect Iloilo’s successful bid to become the center for
cultural heritage tourism not only in the region but the country
as well.
SUPPORT small and medium enterprises by patronizing products of local producers displayed at
the mansion’s second floor.
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ILONGGO delicacies to satisfy your tummy’s cravings or
pasalubong for friends and family various.
UNIVERSITY of San Agustin students check the handloom displayed at
Molo Mansion.