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By Ric V Obedencio
Sunday Post

     The provincial government of Bohol, through the Provincial Board, has recognized and given honor “a posthumous commendation for bravery” of Private First Class Elfie Ayuban Igcalinos of the 67th Marine company, Philippine Marines of Malinao Weste, Lila, Bohol.

      PB unanimously passed Resolution 2009-445, “expressing deepest sympathy to the bereaved family of Igcalinos and rendering posthumous tribute for his breavery in protecting the peace and order of our country.”

      PB Member Ma. Fe Camacho-Lejos, who chairs the PB Committee on Peace and Order, introduced the resolution as tribute to Igcalinos during its regular session last week presided over by Vice-Governor Julius Caesar Herrera.

      Aside from this, the PB also is considering pitching support to the Igcalinos family, according to Herrera.

      This came up after PB member, Lawyer Aster Piollo, brought to her colleagues’ attention the suggestion of financial assistance.

      “Is it now time we also give financial assistance to the bereaved family aside from the commendation,” Piollo asked her colleagues.

      Herrera proposed that each PB member shall chip in P5,000 subject to the budget office’s recommendation.

      “For all of us in this body, it will total to P70,000 and that will be good enough,” Herrera said.

      Piollo, who also hails from Lila town, said “they (Igacalinos) will be very happy for that” (financial assistance).

      Igcalinos was reportedly one of the Marines who died in the ambush on August 12 by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Basilan Island.

      The Marines were pursuing the members of the dreaded Abu Sayyaf bandits in there. (RVO)

News report by the Bohol Chronicle

"Task Force Dumaluan" was created 48 hours after the shooting of former Panglao Mayor Doloreich Dumaluan at his beach resort in Bolod, Panglao town last Tuesday.

PNP Prov'l Director Edgardo Ingking appointed Police Supt. Abner Catalia to head the task force commissioned to dig deeper into the shooting incident. The PNP and CIDG were ordered to join hands in the investigation.

The shooting incident ensued after heated altercation objecting the erection of an electric post for the power connection of My Beach Resort, a new restaurant/resort undergoing construction beside Dumaluan's resort, owned by an Indian national married to a Boholana.

Dumaluan sustained a gunshot wound in his left shoulder after the shootout with alleged security personnel of the resort beside Dumaluan Beach Resort in barangay Bolod, Panglao town at 2:30 p.m. last Tuesday. He was airlifted to a Cebu hospital on that same day. The former mayor recovered fast from his gunshot wound and was able to celebrate Panglao's town fiesta last Friday.

The former mayor was allegedly fired upon by one Teodulo Macalandag, a resident of barangay Tiptip, this city. Macalandag, based on police criminal records, had been convicted of homicide and several cases of robbery. Earlier, there were claims that Macalandag is a blue guard of a Manila-based security agency which was later denied by the agency.

The suspected assailant of former Panglao mayor is charged with frustrated murder and three counts of attempted murder at the Provincial Prosecutor's Office.

Police reported that a certain Michael Culgue and Dexter Dumadapat, both construction workers of My Beach Resort narrated that at around 2 p.m. last Wednesday, while they were carrying a GE pipe along the shoreline in between the two resorts, the former mayor approached them carrying a shotgun, without any reason allegedly strike Culgue on his left side and strike also his co-worker Dumadapat on his right side.

This claim run counter as ex-mayor Dumaluan, in his sworn affidavit said that a little past 2 p.m. last Tuesday, while he was at his drug laboratory near the Land Transportation Office (LTO), this city, he got a call from his resort supervisor Sixto Dejan informing him that an engineer from the Bohol Electric Cooperative (Boheco) together with Opada, who is the foreman of the construction in the nearby resort, were about to erect a post on the shore fronting his property. According to Dumaluan, he proceeded to his resort and instructed Dejan to stop the men from erecting the electrical post as it is within the 20-meter salvage zone and it would pose danger to the resort's guests and people going to the beach.

While on his way to Panglao, the former mayor learned after calling up Boheco manager Carlos Itable that no Boheco personnel were dispatched to erect a post in Dumaluan's beach resort.

When Dumaluan arrived at the resort, he instructed one of his security guards to follow him to the beachfront and confronted the man who introduced himself as the engineer from Boheco, whom the former mayor later learned to be Toston. During the confrontation, Toston admitted that he was not actually employed with Boheco but were about to erect the post for the electrical connection of Nair's resort. Dumaluan told Frank Toston and his companions that he would not allow them to erect the post ordering them to bring the post and their equipment out of his property.

However, when the men were leaving, Frank Toston allegedly approached Dumaluan who was standing on the side of his beach property and shouted "What is your law?" (Unsa man gud imong balaod?) Toston purportedly came "threateningly closer and even elbowed me", Dumaluan stated in his affidavit.

That was when Dumaluan's resort supervisor and two companions closed in, screening Toston but the former mayor told them not to hurt the latter. Toston turned to leave Dumaluan's property together with his companions. Seeing that they were leaving, Dumaluan said he also turned towards his resort. However, before he could start walking away, he heard the alarmed voice of resort supervisor Dejan shouting that one was holding a gun. Dumaluan said he turned in time to see Macalandag shoot him, hitting his shoulder, causing him to fall to the ground. Dumaluan said that while on the ground, he saw Macalandag and Toston firing several shots from their firearms towards his direction and his companions. Upon his instructions, Dumaluan was rushed by personnel of his resort to the Gov. Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital.

After several minutes while Dumaluan was lying and being treated at the emergency room, another wounded man came in whom he recognized as the one who shot him earlier. Dumaluan said he immediately shouted for everyone to hear that this was the man who shot him, who was later identified as Macalandag, an ex-convict.

Dumaluan alleged in his complaint that Toston, Macalandag, Opada and the two other still unidentified suspects acted in conspiracy together with the Nair couple to commit the crime against him.

Lawyer Aleck Francis Lim told the Chronicle that charges for frustrated murder and attempted murder will also be filed against Frank Toston and Larry Opada, both residents of barangay Songculan, Dauis; Satish and Jacinta Nair; and two still unidentified suspects who were present during the shootout.

An inquest hearing for the charges against Macalandag is scheduled on September 9 at the Provincial Prosecutor's Office, Atty. Lim bared.

RESORT OWNER DENIES PLOT

Jacinta, wife of the Indian national resort owner called from South Africa last Friday and went on-air over dyRD last Thursday to strongly deny any plot to assassinate the former mayor.

During her long distance call to the radio station, Jacinta said it is "never in their culture to create trouble." In fact, since last year when they were about to start the construction of their restaurant/resort, they attempted several times to talk with Dumaluan but their invitations were all denied.

Lawyer J. Albert Tinampay, counsel of the Nair couple told the Chronicle that since July 10 this year, he, in behalf of his client, filed four grave coercion charges against the former mayor.

In a signed affidavit, a certain Reyland Fernandez alleged that the former mayor threatened him "to be shot dead and be paid if he does not stop the construction of a restaurant owned by Nair. The same claims were contained in the affidavit signed by Arnel Molina, Cirilo Luceno and Eduardo Culgue.

The cases filed at the 14th Municipal Circuit Trial Court in Dauis town were dismissed after said cases lack the needed preliminary investigation by the Provincial Prosecution Office.

Asst Prov'l Prosecutor Julius Cesar has set the clarificatory hearing on Sept. 16 this year.

Quote from: Macky Ferniz on August 26, 2009, 08:34:05 AM
Maayo unta nga ipa impose ang "Gun Free Zone" sa Panglao. Makaayo ni sa atong tourism. Pareha sa mga major tourism destination such as Monaco or Seychelles nga total ban ang mga firearms ug ang mga police didto batuta lang ang dala.

Balahag mag buntag ug sumbagay basta walay mangamatay ug walay ma igo sa mga stray bullets.

Macky, the two men who were with Dumaluan who returned fire after the former mayor was hit are security guards employed by a security agency.

Macalandag, the hitman, and his companions are not legitimate security guards. There is an ongoing investigation.

Quote from: ghemvhit on August 26, 2009, 05:55:49 AM
well, there's should be a reason why this happened....political matters?

ghemvit, not politically related. it could be related to a land dispute that has spanned more than 2 decades.

Quote from: Macky Ferniz on August 26, 2009, 06:56:30 AM
Hala mga close ni namo nga amigo being his younger brothers & Sisters are schoolmates of me and my 2 brothers since elementary to college years.

Basin sugo sa gahom sa alak ug init sa ulo ang hinungdan.

Macky, no one was drunk during the incident.

Quote from: glacier_71 on August 26, 2009, 06:37:34 AM
unsa may ranggo aning tawo nga gikalalis ug mipusil ni dumaluan?

Glacier, Macalandag was probably a hired hitman. At the Emergency Room of Gallares Hospital where he was treated for a gunshot wound on his right arm, he had confessed to the wife of Dr. Dumaluan nga "naay nagsugo niya sa pagpusil ni Dumaluan."

Macalandag, an ex-convict and on a parole, was not one of the two men who were confronted for erecting electrical posts in front of Dumaluan Resort and within the 20-m salvage zone. There were men who were pretending to be staff of Boheco. Boheco has issued a certification confirming that there was no directive from its office to erect electrical posts in front of Dumaluan's resort. Boheco has also confirmed that those who dared to erect posts in front of the resort are not employed by Boheco, yet they were carrying guns at the time.

According to reports, it was a well-planned drama and tactic made so that Dumaluan would show up at the scene where men were erecting electrical posts, and the hired assassins would have an opportunity to kill the former mayor.

Just as Dr. Dumaluan was about to leave the area, this 52-year-old Macalandag showed up and shot the former mayor.

Macalandag is not a security guard employed by any legitimate security agency in Bohol. But why did he possess a gun? Do we think an ordinary security guard would just shoot a mayor and resort owner? That is not the behavior of a legitimate guard. Besides, Macalandag was not confronted. Macalandag was not hurt. Macalandag did not receive any threatening words. Yet, he shot the mayor 3 times, and the first shot hit Dumaluan's front left shoulder.

Based on reports and affidavits, there are people behind Macalandag's boldness to harm the former mayor.

Dear Ate Bambi,

samtang nagbasa ko sa imong paghanduraw sa kagahapon, daw gilunopan ang akong dughan sa dili matukib nga mga paghandom nga walay sinugdanan...

Quote from: lindy on August 29, 2009, 05:17:32 AM
ngana gyud na mist you have to taste before you dip

kining avatar ni kuya lindy, mao niy hinungdan sa daghang nangapangos nga pagbati...

QuoteNadunggog ko panghupaw ug kahigwaos sa nausik nga pagbati...

Quoteug nasinati ug natagamtam ang kalipay nga igo ra sa pag-pangagho...

Ate Bambi,

Kini si "Gugma" murag mao ni ang nakapapiko sa tapaludo sa imong pagbati

ug siya ang nakapapusgay sa imong talidhay nga gisawod sa nagdilaab nga pangindahay ug nagpangawhat nga kalipay.

... ug didto nahulog ang kandado sa inyong sugilanon...

Hi Pamilacan,

Please read this guide: http://tubagbohol.mikeligalig.com/index.php?topic=3379.0

Here's the actual speech, Belle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk

One article has pointed out the important role of "silent languages" of international business. The article identified the use of five different silent languages: space, material possessions, friendship patterns, agreements across cultures, and time.

All of the factors have some meaning in interpersonal communication but are not necessarily spoken of. For example, one's conception of space relates to matters such as the distance between two people conversing. In the Middle East men will maintain an intimate distance, often too close for comfort for Westerners.

Material possessions of course always speak volumes about one's situation in life, particularly where social hierarchies are well developed so that people learn what to look for. The emphasis on well-known brands in Asian markets, for example, reflects a need to clearly identify one's position with signals other people understand. - lifted from "Global Marketing" by Johny K. Johansson

Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens:

We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom -- symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning -- signifying renewal, as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.

We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

This much we pledge -- and more.

To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do -- for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.

To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom -- and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required -- not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge: to convert our good words into good deeds, in a new alliance for progress, to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.

To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support -- to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak, and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.

Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.

We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course -- both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.

So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms, and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

Let both sides unite to heed, in all corners of the earth, the command of Isaiah -- to "undo the heavy burdens, and [to] let the oppressed go free."¹

And, if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor -- not a new balance of power, but a new world of law -- where the strong are just, and the weak secure, and the peace preserved.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days; nor in the life of this Administration; nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.

Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation,"² a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

Quote from: iNsIktiSayD on August 29, 2009, 02:38:23 AM
ako usa sa nabiktima sa pagpangdaut bag-o pa lang and i think kini tingaling nangdaut ni mike ligalig, pareho ra nig dugo sa nangdaut nako. pero, naa may ginoo.

Naa man guy mga tao, insiktisayd, nga kalipay nila nga mosabwag ug bakak ug tomo-tomo nga estorya. Ug kalipay nila nga makapasakit ug modaot sa uban. Naay mga tawo nga talawan sa kamatuoran. Dili moatubang ug harap-harapan nga estorya kay mabulgar man ang ilang pagkabakakon.

I Have A Dream

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."¹

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."2

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

    My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

    Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,

    From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

    Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

    Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

    Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

    Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

    Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

    Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

    Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

    From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

                Free at last! Free at last!

                Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

Europe is seeking to maintain flight opportunities for its astronauts by buying Soyuz spacecraft from Russia.

The European Space Agency (Esa) has asked Moscow if it is possible to increase the production of the craft from four to five a year.

Esa could then buy its own vehicle, perhaps with the Canadians who are also looking for more seat opportunities.

The expected retirement of US shuttles in 2010/11 means fewer humans will be going into space in the coming years.

The venerable Soyuz craft will be the only way of getting to the International Space Station (ISS), certainly in the short term.

Simonetta Di Pippo, the director of human spaceflight at Esa, told BBC News she was hopeful a deal on Soyuz could be put in place for 2013.

"From '13 on, we would like to have at least one European astronaut per year flying and this can be done in various ways. One of the proposals we are putting on the table is to buy a full Soyuz," she said. - BBC

A man who poisoned his estranged wife's tea with mercury has been given a 350-day suspended sentence.

William Dowling, 69, from Colne, Lancashire, poisoned 64-year-old Maureen Dowling's drink so she would become ill and dependent on him.

At Preston Crown Court, Dowling admitted administering a poison with intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy.

Judge Robert Brown, sentencing, said it was only "good luck" that Mrs Dowling did not suffer serious harm.

She suffered symptoms including forgetfulness, indigestion and headaches, but experts said the mercury had no serious adverse effect on her health.

But police later said she had been left feeling "very fragile, both physically and mentally" by her ordeal. - BBC News

Two Korean sisters are reunited for the first time in 2000 after being split during the 1950-53 (half a century later) war - 15 August 2000 file photo


North and South Korea have agreed to resume family reunions that were called off by the North two years ago, the two sides have announced in a statement.

The reunions, begun in 2000, were shelved amid worsening relations, but talks on the issue resumed this week.

Several hundred families split by the 1950-53 Korean War will be able to meet for several days from late September, the joint North-South statement said.

The agreement is the latest sign of tensions easing between the Koreas.

Time running out

Red Cross officials from both countries reached agreement after three days of talks at the Mount Kumgang resort in North Korea - where the family reunions are to be held from 26 September to 1 October.

The families will be allowed to stay for a few days, spending time and sharing meals together, before returning to their homes.

Tens of thousands of families were separated by the war and the number who will be briefly reunited is a tiny fraction of those on the waiting list, says the BBC's John Sudworth in Seoul. For the rest, time is running out, our correspondent adds.

The North and South are still technically at war, as a peace treaty was never concluded at the end of the war. - BBC

Mobile operator China Unicom has signed a deal with Apple to launch the popular iPhone into the world's largest mobile phone market.

The phones are expected to go on sale in China later this year.

State-owned Unicom would be the first Chinese phone company to formally support the iPhone, although many unlocked iPhones are already in use.

China has more than 600 million mobile phone accounts and a deal to introduce the iPhone has been long-awaited.

Apple said the two partners had agreed a "multi-year deal" and expected the launch to be in the fourth quarter of 2009, but gave no financial details.

"We believe China Unicom's high-speed mobile broadband network, coupled with [the iPhone] will create new communication and different experiences for customers in China," said Unicom chairman Chang Xiaobin.

Apple sold 5.2 million iPhones between April and June this year, seven times more than a year earlier.

- BBC

The latest update of the Apple Mac operating system OS X, known as Snow Leopard, went on sale on Friday.

The software - available only as a DVD, not a download - was originally due to hit shops in September but Apple brought it forward at the last minute.

The system will go head-to-head with Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7, due for release in October.

Both will also compete with a system from Google, called Chrome OS, set for release in the second half of 2010.

Google will offer an entirely new operating system, whilst Windows 7 and Snow Leopard are refinements to existing systems. - BBC News

A Dutch court has put a 13-year-old girl under state care for two months, stalling her bid to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.

The decision by three Utrecht judges means Laura Dekker's parents, who support her plans, temporarily lose the right to make decisions about her.

A child psychologist will now assess her capacity to undertake the voyage.

Miss Dekker, who was not at the court, will continue to live with her father, Dick Dekker.

Mr Dekker - who did not make any immediate comment on the ruling - had earlier had a request for her to miss two years of school turned down.

Miss Dekker had planned to spend about two years aboard her 26ft (8m) boat, Guppy, to break the record set this week by a 17-year-old UK boy.

Mike Perham tackled 50ft waves, gale force winds and technical problems during the 28,000 mile (45,000km) circumnavigation, which took him nine months. - BBC News

MONDAY, August 31, the last Monday of August is declared National Heroes Day or the Cry of Balintawak also called Cry of Pugadlawin, and is therefore a non-working holiday.

Through Proclamation 1699, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has declared since December 24, 2008 regular holidays and special non-working holidays for 2009.

The proclamation also is based on Republic Act 9492, which moved holidays, except those religious in nature to the nearest Monday. 

Supposedly celebrated every last Sunday of August, by RA 9492, the celebration is moved to the following day, the nearest Monday. 

The National Heroes Day commemorates the time when supreme leader Andres Bonifacio declared the uprising against the Spaniards in the historic Cry of Balintawak which is situated in Pugadlawin, otherwise called the Cry of Pugadlawin.

Bonifacio’s declaration of the uprising, made symbolic by tearing to pieces the Spanish issued cedullas (residence certificates) also signaled the formal start of countless sparks of rebellion organized by the Kataas-taasan, Kagalang-galangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (Katipunan).

The uprising was triggered by the brutal rule the Spaniards imposed upon the Filipinos.

All of these, Bonifacio stated in his general proclamation issued August 28 when he wrote:

This manifesto is for all of you. It is absolutely necessary for us to stop at the earliest possible time the nameless oppositions being perpetrated on the sons of the country who are now suffering the brutal punishment and tortures in jails, and because of this please let all the brethren know that on Saturday, the 29th of the current month, the revolution shall commence according to our agreement.

For this purpose, it is necessary for all towns to rise simultaneously and attack Manila at the same time. Anybody who obstructs this sacred ideal of the people will be considered a traitor and an enemy, except if he is ill; or is not physically fit, in which case he shall be tried according to the regulations we have put in force. Mount of Liberty, 28th August 1896 - ANDRES BONIFACIO.

By the celebration, the country’s leaders also hope that the younger generation look up to the event as a venue for realizing the way of freedom and democracy. (PIA)

Si Presidente Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo karon mipahalipay kang Rubilen Amit, ang unang Filipina nga nakahakgom sa international billiards championship kontra sa mga beterana na mga mga women pool players sa tibuok kalibutan.

Si Amit mibisita sa Presidente sa Malacanang Rizal Hall uban nila ni billiards superstar Efren "Bata" Reyes ug Francisco "Django" Bustamante.

Gi-congratulate sa Presidente ang 27-anyos nga taga Cebu sa iyang kalampusan diha sa international billiards, sanglit ang iyang kalampusan nagbukas sa ganghaan alang sa ubang mga Filipina pagsulay sa kalibutan sa bilyar.

Matud sa Presidente nga unta matupngan sa babaye ang nakab â€"ot sa kauban niyang duha ka superstars, nila ni Bata ug Django.

Alang kang Amit ang iyang kalampusan nag-gumikan sa pagsige og practice, pag-pursiger, ug daghang mga pag-ampo.

Gilupig ni Amit ang kanhi world number one nga si Jeanette "The Black Widow" Lee sa quarterfinals ug mibungkag sa Taiwanese nga si Shin Min Liu, kinsa kaduha na kahigayon nga nahimong world 9-ball champion, aron paglankat sa First Women's World 10-ball Championship nga gihimo didto sa Skydome Ampitheater sa SM North EDSA, Quezon City sa miaging bulan sa Hunyo.

Nakuha niya ang top prize nga US $ 20,000.00.

Nagsige karon og training si Amit. Iyang representahan ang Pilipinas sa lain na sab nga international billiards competition adto sa Vietnam karong Nobyembre niining tuiga. - PIA

By the PIA

Finally, after an advocacy to put up a decompression chamber to rescue divers with decompression problems, Capitol now mulls for a hyperbaric chamber, that is, if plans do not miscarry.

Through the Provincial Tourism Council (PTC), Governor Erico Aumentado revealed that the plan is to put up the needed decompression chamber at the newly opened Bohol Medical Care Institute with the rise in diving tours here in Bohol.

Putting up the chamber has been a long dream for Bohol whose prime dive sites have lure local and international divers.

Still saddled with the apparent failure of the government to regulate the dives with direct supervision from the Philippine Commission on Sports Scuba Diving (PCSSD), Bohol’s resources and guest divers endanger themselves when diving here.

“We need this decompression chamber so much, with the lack of equipment here, some victims of diving accidents could not reach hospitals and facilities that can help them, said Aumentado.

The nearest facility Bohol divers can use is at the Central Command in Cebu and dive accident victims need to be airlifted fast to survive and make it to the treatment center.

According to the governor, Bohol has already been authorized to operate the hyper baric equipment.

A hyperbaric apparatus is capable of giving a therapy to dive victims whose blood oxygen levels have not stabilized after fast surfacing, posing dangers to their body oxygen levels against the atmospheric pressure.

At the present set-up, even with world-class dive sites, divers here need to sign waivers to waive dive operators’ responsibility in the eventuality of dive accidents, the governor added.

“We are now in the process of negotiating with the purchase of a P1 million equipment,” he shared to the delight of council members who are dive operators who tend to immediately benefit from the move.

Now we are planning to ask the Sangguniang Panlalwigan to promulgate an ordinance imposing fees for the use of the facility at the BMCI, said Aumentado. (PIA)

By the Philippine Information Agency

Daunting task, admits Atty. Lucas Nunag of Amarela fame, the incoming chairman of the private sector led-Provincial Tourism Council (PTC) here.

The council, which has largely been credited in chambering the innovative policies to mold the eco-cultural tourism boom here could probably be the only one private sector-led council.

Nunag takes on the rein of the advisory, policy-making and recommendatory body for all tourism programs in government and in the private sector from the first non-government representative as chairman in the PTC history.

Nunag would be on to a tough task, he admits as it would be challenging to lead the main council out to pave the roadmap for conserving and sustaining the tourism industry after it has established itself as a top tourism destination in the country.

Ordinarily a council led by the provincial chief executive, Governor Erico Aumentado who consequently held the chairmanships of the League of Provinces of the Philippines and the Union of Local Authorities could not put in all the time for the council here.

For this reason, the governor, who also believed handing the rein to the private sector would innovate the council operations relinquished the chairmanship to a travel operator and local media mogul Peter Dejaresco.

After serving full terms since 2006, Dejaresco called for the elections last Thursday during the PTC meeting held at SegLim of the Bohol Tropics.

This after the PTC has accomplished SAPA LGU Bilar and Camp Magsaysay, decongestion of the Choco Hills vehicular traffic, organized the Loboc River cruise Operators Association, the Bohol Marine Triangle and the dolphin protection, tarsier sanctuary and the tourist welcome center.

It has also moved to increase domestic flights to seven, put up familiarization tours and went into promotional blitzes that helped establish Bohol as a key destination.   

“I think I have served enough, although I would remain committed to support the council,” he said upon his call for elections.

Also elected together with chairman Nunag were Mr. Walter Sultan of Travel Village Tours as Co Chairman from the private sector, Ma. Marietta Gasatan of the Bohol Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) as treasurer, Carlito Responte of the Bohol Tri Media Association as Auditor and Peter Dejaresco of Angel’s Wings Tours and Travels as Press Relations Officer. (PIA)

By the PIA

SHOWING what good intentions in public service could do, in a rare move, San Miguel Mayor Claudio Bonior donated his P300K prize as model mayor to help erect the new P.7 M municipal library and information center here.

During the inauguration of the facility that would also house the municipal tourism, information, archive and the Secretary to the Sanggunian last Tuesday, August 25, Mayor Bonior said he has long dreamt about the facility than can be the source of key developmental information to help his people.

Fully believing in people empowerment as a potent tool for poverty alleviation based on their experience of the community driven development (CDD) approach adopted for their government projects, opening up a venue for information sharing would enhance the approach, the mayor said. 

It may be recalled that the town adopted the CDD approach for the Department of Social Welfare and Development Kapit-bisig Laban sa Kahirapan (KALAHI) Community Integrated Delivery Social Services (CIDSS), one that also pushed the mayor into the limelight for being a model in the project implementation.

The award came with a plaque of appreciation and P300K cash, one which the mayor also used to finance the municipal library and information center. 

By the PIA

WATERWORKS, market drainage and expanded social services took the big bulk of the debates during the recent Strategic Planning and Budgeting workshop for Tubigon local officials and department heads held in Lahug, Cebu City August 25-26.

Faced with the reality of a decreased Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) for the town and its reclassification by skipping into first class from a third class town, local officials face an imminent slashing of budgets to come out effective and operational as local government.

Although not necessarily affected as much because the town has not been as dependent on the national government’s allotment fund, Mayor and lawyer Luna Piezas has to admit measures have to be done to make the town a competitive haven for development in this side of Bohol.

Preparing for a possible shortfall of P5M from the IRA, the town officials haggled to insert each department’s priorities.

During the workshop facilitated by municipal planning and development office Engr. Noel Mendaña, insisted that the coping up proposed work plans and budgets should always correspond to the Executive-Legislative Agenda.

Fully participating the planning workshop were Mayor Piezas, Vice mayor Alfredo Batauza and the entire Sangguniang Bayan, department heads and key staff.

The scrimping of budgets finally settled with the prioritization of the expansion projects for the municipal waterworks, revamp on the market drainage system as well as the budget for senior citizens and the town’s persons with dis-abilities (PWDs).

Officials resolved that from the town’s general income, one percent would be set aside for the senior citizens and to aid for the PWDs.

One percent may be small but it would be significant enough for a town that has been grossing more than P50M, the one percent could be of substance, said Mayor Piezas.

By Roland Buerk
BBC News, Tokyo

Japan's unemployment rate rose to a record 5.7% in July in figures released just days before a general election.

Companies are continuing to lay off workers even though the economy has returned to growth after the most bruising recession for decades.

The state of Japan's economy is the key issue in the election campaign.

Opinion polls show the Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed for 53 of the last 54 years, faces defeat in the election.

News that the unemployment rate has risen to the highest since the Second World War is a blow for the Prime Minister Taro Aso.

Opinion polls show his Liberal Democratic Party was already on course for defeat on Sunday for only the second time in more than 50 years.

In July, 3,590,000 Japanese were out of work in July, over a million more than a year ago.

Japan's crushing recession is officially over, but the benefits are yet to be felt by families and workers.

Other figures released in Tokyo show core consumer prices fell by 2.2% in July from a year earlier, the fastest pace on record.

Japan was stuck in a deflationary spiral for years after an asset price bubble burst at the start of the 1990s.

By Prachi Pinglay
BBC News, Mumbai

Police in the Indian city of Mumbai say they have arrested a man for forgery and polygamy after he married at least six women over the past two years.

Tushar Waghmare, an engineer with Air India, allegedly kept all his wives in the dark about their counterparts.

He was arrested after his sixth wife went to the police when she discovered he was married to someone else.

Mr Waghmare is being kept in custody until 29 August. He says he married three times and never deceived anyone.

'Surprising'

Police said Mr Waghmare had told his wives he was divorced and had shown them a fake legal document.

"It is surprising that none of his previous wives did a background check on his antecedents," Mumbai (Bombay) police officer RM Vatkar told the BBC.

He would tell them he was travelling and then go on to another wife's home, Mr Vatkar said. Police say that some of his wives were well-educated and had jobs to support themselves.

But his latest wife became suspicious about his frequent travels and, after investigating his whereabouts, discovered he had another wife.

When she lodged a complaint with the police, details about his other marriages emerged.

Some newspaper reports say Mr Waghmare has married 14 women since 2006. But police told the BBC that they were only aware of six wives.

A US woman found after being abducted as a girl in 1991 gave birth to two children fathered by her alleged kidnapper, police say.

Jaycee Lee Dugard and the children, aged 11 and 15, were kept in a "hidden backyard within a backyard".

Alleged kidnapper Phillip Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy Garrido, 54, are being held in custody in California.

DNA tests are being done to establish Ms Dugard's identity, but meanwhile she has been reunited with her mother.

Ms Dugard disappeared in 1991, aged 11, from outside her Lake Tahoe home, apparently taken by two people.


Phillip Garrido

El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar she had lived with the couple, isolated from view at a property in Antioch near San Francisco since the kidnapping.

"The tents and outbuildings in the backyard were placed in a strategic arrangement to inhibit outside viewing and to isolate the victims from outside contact."

The three spent "most of their lives" there, he said, adding that they had never been to school or seen a doctor.

Their identities were revealed after Mr Garrido was spotted by police at the University of California Berkeley campus with the two young children.

He raised suspicions because as a registered sex offender he was not allowed to be with young children.

Phillip Garrido has a conviction for rape and was paroled in 1999, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

He was called in by his parole officer for questioning, and brought the two children and a young woman he called Allissa with him.

During questioning he revealed that Allissa was actually Ms Dugard. She also confirmed her identity to police.


Jaycee Lee Dugard

At the Antioch property, there was also a vehicle hidden in the backyard which matched the vehicle originally described at the time of the abduction, Mr Kollar said.

"It's a pretty spectacular story just to find someone like that. Someone we assumed was dead," said Bill Clark, a senior prosecutor in El Dorado County.

Jimmie Lee, a local police spokesman, said Mr Garrido was also being held for investigation of rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and sexual penetration. - bbc news

India scrambled a MiG-29 fighter jet to intercept an Air France passenger plane after it failed to identify itself correctly, the Indian air force says.

The Bangkok-bound flight from Paris had entered Indian airspace from Pakistan.

The pilot had used the wrong Identify Friend or Foe (IFF) code, which allows ground radars to differentiate between friendly and enemy aircraft.

The MiG was told to "break off and return to base" when the correct code was given, an air force official said.

Flight Lt Priya Joshi also told the AFP news agency that a report had been filed with India's civil aviation authorities over the incident.

The Air France Airbus-343 had entered India above Amritsar, in the north-west of the country, early on Thursday morning.

The Indian air force has stepped up security along the border with Pakistan in the wake of the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed more than 170 people. - bbc

I just came from Funeraria Gomez located along CPG Avenue and I stayed there for nearly two hours. I was talking to Bob Galero and Richard Bompat, media colleagues and friends of Fil Layao.

One of the things that we talked about was the rising number of motorcycle-related accidents in Tagbilaran and in Bohol.

A mandatory wearing of helmets should be imposed.

List of Commands You Can Use in Windows XP Run Prompt

To go to the Run Command Prompt, just hit your Windows icon in your keyboard and then hit R. Example, if you want to go to Microsoft Word without going to desktop icons or all programs list, just hit Windows icon plus letter R, then type winword, and hit Enter. Your MS Word Application will be opened for you. These short-cuts are a great time-saver.

Here's the list:

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The city government on Tuesday launched its Citizen’s Charter Guidebook simultaneous with the opening of its public assistance and feedback center in compliance with Republic Act 9485, otherwise known as the Anti-Red Tape Act of 2007.

The charter “is a service standard that communicates information on the services provided by concerned government agencies to the public and provides the step-by-step procedure for availing a particular service and the guaranteed performance level that is expected of the service.”

Iloilo City is the first highly-urbanized city (HUC) in Western Visayas to come up with a Citizen’s Charter that will ensure the efficient and effective delivery of government services.

“This Citizen’s Charter will make our operations more efficient and once we have an efficient government we can expect more efficient, better taxpayers,” Mayor Jerry P. Treñas said.

The charter contains the city’s mission, vision, history, map core values and directory of various city offices and emergency hotlines.

Likewise included are the organizational structure and frontline services and flowcharts; feedback and redress mechanism and location map of public assistance and feedback center.

“It is good that we already have a measurable period for us to deliver services. Hopefully, we will be faithful to this period; let us make sure that we be faithful to this,” the mayor added.

Civil Service Commission (CSC) Director IV, Atty. Rodolfo B. Encajonado, meantime, said the strict implementation of the Citizen’s charter would redefine the delivery of frontline services being catered by different, agencies, offices and units in your local government unit (LGU).

“The improvement of public service delivery more particularly the efficiency in the delivery of government services to the public is not farfetched and is attainable or achievable. This is your commitment to the agency, clients and other stakeholders that you will abide by the standards that you have established in catering or delivering the kind of services that they wanted to enjoy from us,” Encajonado said.

Interior and Local Government regional director Evelyn Trompeta, on the other hand, congratulated the city government for heeding calls to make a difference.

“The formulation of the Citizen’s Charter is one of the innovations thought of to improve the efficiency and delivery of frontline services,” she said. “The charter represents the commitment of employees of the Iloilo City and the city government towards standard, quality and time-framed service delivery, transparency and accountability.”

Trompeta also expressed their agency’s gratefulness to the city government for complying with the provisions of the law.

“If implementation is assured, if you have committed enough, if you give full cooperation this will be the legacy of Mayor Jerry Treñas. This book is not merely a book; this will spell out your commitment for a very transparent, accountable, efficient, and effective services to the people of Iloilo City,” she stressed.

Thelma Golez, chairman of the task force that was tasked by Mayor Treñas to come up with the charter, also recognized the efforts of various city offices that assisted in the coming up of the charter.

She said coming up with the document was not at all difficult because of the support coming from concerned city offices.(PNA)
LDV/PGLena/vlo

Davao Oriental Rep. Nelson Dayanghirang has filed a bill to address the deteriorating situation of the 421 rivers and 384 river systems in the country.

Dayanghirang introduced House Bill 6500 mandating cities and municipalities to create a River Development Authority (RDA) to preserve, protect and develop all rivers, river systems and natural waterways within their respective jurisdiction.

"The damage wrought on a river and its consequent death is not only a threat to public health, it is a vivid and compelling symbol of crumbling social order, a symptom of a society under severe environmental and ecological stress," Dayanghirang said.

He said a great number of the country's rivers is gradually vanishing and dying, while others are suffering from physical, biological or chemical damage.

"All these can be attributed to pollution, indifference and apathy to the environment, ignorance or simply human greed," he added.

Dayanghirang noted that "despite a number of laws enacted for the preservation and development of rivers, effective enforcement by local government units is weak due to the absence of a local agency with which coordination can be made."

He said the urgent need to establish RDA, which would save the rivers, river systems and natural waterways from extinction and degradation.

"There is a need for efficient institutional machinery in each local government unit not only to implement laws but also to promote the development of rivers, river systems and natural waterways," Dayanghirang said.

In the Davao Region, among the rivers that are already affected by pollution and siltation is the Davao River in Davao City, Hijo River in Davao del Norte and the Agusan River in Compostela Valley. (PNA) LAP/Ferdinand O. Zuasola/lvp

The power consumption of key cities in the Davao Region has already exceeded its power supply available in the area, according to Presidential Adviser for Mindanao Jesus Dureza.

Dureza said the reported looming power crisis come 2010 attributed to the "tremendous" economic growth in the cities of Davao, General Santos, Tagum in Davao del Norte and Digos in Davao del Sur, have caused a surge in the demand for power.

"We are consuming more power, but we do not have new power sources," Dureza said.

Another factor is the kind of industries that are being set up in the region, particularly by the (Information Technology (IT) sector and manufacturing.

However, Dureza said this early, the government is already addressing such concerns.

He said the new transmission lines put up by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines on the eastern coast of Mindanao which will provide another link for Southern Mindanao and Northern Mindanao.

Department of Energy Undersecretary Zamzamin Ampatuan has earlier confirmed the looming power crisis, emphasizing that the power crisis has already started.

"We are already experiencing the power crisis, but we are not that aware because we do not yet feel its effects," Ampatuan said, referring to the public.

One of the problems seen by the DOE and the private sector is the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) of 2001, which does not allow the national government to own and operate power plants.

A top executive of the Davao Light and Power Company said that to avert the crisis, there is a strong need for the construction of new power plants wherein a period from 38 to 40 months to complete the construction of a power plant.

At present, the Alcantara Group, a power generating company in Mindanao, is eyeing to build a 200MW coal-fired power plant in Maasim, Saranggani Province.

However, some sectors, particularly the environmental groups criticized the plan despite the company's effort to build a carbon sink around the power plant. (PNA)

Rep. Janette Garin of the first district of Iloilo has chided some of her colleagues in Congress for their incorrect interpretation of the provisions of the Magna Carta of Women regarding pregnant unwed students in campuses.

Garin, deputy majority leader of the House of Representatives and a known advocate of women’s rights, said to deny access to education to single female students who get pregnant is highly discriminatory. She stressed that the right of academic institutions ends when the impingement on the human rights of individuals begins.

In keeping with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the state condemns discrimination against women in all forms.

Denying women of their right to education and employment on the account that they got pregnant out of wedlock is a clear discrimination against women.

Garin said she is against all forms of discrimination against women and the 1987 Constitution affirms that the state recognizes the role of women in nation building and shall provide women rights and opportunities equal to those of men.

“Why should we then expel or deny enrollment to female students and refuse employment to female teachers who are single parents? What equality are we talking about when these Catholic schools only expel the pregnant women and not impose the same to the men who fathered them?” she asked.

Garin said in the Magna Carta of Women, the issue is not about violating the academic freedom of schools but the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women.

The very reason why it was passed was instances like these that encourage the society to look down on women just because their decisions do not conform with what is said to be morally upright by some sectors in the country, she noted.

Garin asked, is it not a Catholic teaching to forgive and allow these women and young girls to obtain a better future for the sake of the child they are carrying?

The Ilonggo lawmaker lamented that it is hypocritical for these schools to say that they teach Catholic morals when they do not have the morality to allow these women to start anew by acquiring formal education and and thus decent jobs. (PNA)

The Filipino differently-abled athletes received on Wednesday recognition from the Senate for capping the country’s highest medal output in the 5th Southest Asian Para Games held from Aug. 15-19 in Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia.

Senator Pia Cayetano took the floor before the start of the Wednesday session to introduce some members of the Team Philippines which brought home 24 gold, 24 silver and 26 bronze medals to surpass the country’s 17-21-22 gold-silver-bronze finish two years ago in Thailand.

”We would like to congratulate our para gamers that despite short training and short budget, they came home with a total of 74 medals including 24 golds,” Cayetano said in a media interview.

Cayetano promised to push for the passage of her own Senate Bill No. 1408 which allows the giving of equal incentives that abled athletes get to their differently-abled counterparts for winning medal in the big international competitions.

”This bill gives equal benefits to disabled athletes and regular athletes and we want to make this bill retroactive so that our previous winners will also get the right incentives for them,” Cayetano said.

Under Republic Act 9064, otherwise known as Athletes and Coaches Incentives Act, an abled athlete receives P5,000,000 million for an Olympic gold, P1,000,000 million for Asian Games gold and P100,000 for Southeast Asian Games gold medal.

Cayetano personally expressed her admiration to the athletes by congratulating them one by one including Ernie Cawilan, an 18-year-old swimmer with no legs and no left hand but came home with three gold medals all in record-breaking fashion.

”I admire their training and patience but more importantly, the symbolism they are making despite their disabilities. It is job to make sure that our environment would help them to be more productive,” the lady lawmaker said.

Last Tuesday, Senate committee on youth and sports chairman Lito Lapid filed Senate Resolution 1319 commending the RP contingent composed of 64 athletes for fifth place finish in the 11-nation sports fest for the athletes with mobility and visual disabilities, amputees, and with cerebral palsy.

”By harvesting medals in this international sports meet, the Philippine contingent has made our country proud and has shown to the world the spirit of Filipino competitiveness and excellence,” Lapid said.

Athletics team is the top medal winner for the Team Philippines, winning eight golds followed by chess and swimming with seven golds each.

As expected, powerhouse Thailand won the overall title 148-67-46 gold-silver-bronze finish, followed by host Malaysia with 82-74-56, Vietnam (66-50-40), Indonesia (26-21-14), Singapore (13-5-3), Brunei Darussalam (9-5-8), Myanmar (8-12-4), Cambodia (1-2-4) and Laos (0-1-1). (PNA)
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Some P3.5 million worth of cellular phones reportedly equipped with “voice scrambler” feature were seized by joint operatives of the Manila Police District (MPD) and National Telecommunications Commission (NTC)in a series of raids in Divisoria, Manila on Wednesday.

Superintendent Nelson Yabut, commander of the MPD Meisic Station 11, said the morning raids were enforced by joint operatives from MPD and NTC represented by Delaila Deles.

The NBI official said the raids resulted in the seizure of 1,000 pieces of fake Nokia mobile phones suspected to have been smuggled from China worth P3.5 million.

The raids were carried out after authorities uncovered earlier a new feature of counterfeit mobile phones. These mobile phones now being circulated in the “black market” are equipped with a "voice scrambler" that reportedly has the capability to alter the voice of the user beyond auditory recognition.

The NBI official pointed out that the fake Nokia model may just turn up to be a favorite among high-profile criminal syndicates in their illegal operations.

Yabut said the voice scrambler feature was reportedly available on counterfeit E series Nokia cellphones.

The official said the caller can choose at least six voices including the voice of a woman, an old woman, a man, and old man and two others.

“It poses danger and attraction to criminals,” Yabut warned. saying that it could be used by other criminal elements or pranksters "specially this coming election.” (PNA)

By Butch Galicia

The Filipinos Making Waves Festival (FMWF) at Yonge-Dundas Square on August 15 and 16 might have etched itself in the pages of Toronto’s cultural and entertainment history by being the first of its kind in the community to have been staged at the square.

It might have made history for having temporarily closed to traffic a segment of Yonge St. for a short community parade, made culturally significant and educational by three groups in tribal wear and gear representing indigenous peoples in the Philippines’ major islands of Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao.

But beyond first-ever citations, the two-day ticketless FMWF had proven itself effective in connecting a big number of people of non-Filipino descent to an introductory, if not deeper, appreciation of Philippine arts and culture through music.

To a degree, the two-day festival helped shatter ethno-cultural barriers and invoked recognition and acceptance of what Filipinos are and what they could do and could be in the field of raw and uninhibited public entertainment, especially at Toronto’s premier open-air public stage at the square.

But all who fully understood the festival’s underlying concept would forever remember it as having built and realized dreams as it opened doors of opportunity for young and aspiring talents who showed they had the heart and soul to melodiously and harmoniously sing, dance and play instruments with confidence and passion on a stage set before an audience of various cultural representations.

Take the case of nine-year-old You Tube regular Jheo Navarro, the youngest in the group of carefully selected and well-rehearsed cast, who took to heart “MacArthur’s Park”; Edessa Andrada, 10, who effortlessly belted Whitney and Celine selections like no other; Teresa Panaligan, 12, whose vocal prowess showed why she was Toronto champion of Kuya Germs’ singer-star search; and Hamilton youngster RJ Lingao-Lingao who crooned “Mack The Knife” with gusto reminiscent of five decades ago.

Jiva Andola, who had her first solo concert under Mentor Productions Inc. at the same stage where R&B diva Beyonce performed on in September 2006, sweated it out with the Sunday mid-afternoon crowd, adding heat to what king Sun and the plus 30 mercury rise could muster.

Andola’s version of “Pers Lab” and “Can’t Get Enough” gave justice to both original compositions of FMWF musical director Mon Torralba, a member of Philippine '70s band, The Hotdogs.

Jeanette Ricasio’s set that mixed “Isang Mundo, Isang Awit” and “Bonggahan” with a couple of English melodies provided a fitting opening act to Germany-based vocalist Maloy Lozanes, who showed the range of her disco-oriented pipes.

Like Jiva, local Talakantahan winners Ivy Joy, Jessica Joy and Ian Nillas -- in either solo or joint outings -- raised the roof and the mid-aft heat with Original Pilipino Music, pop and reggae sounds. Their FMWF debut was co-produced with Talakayan Radio.

Not to be understated were the performances of R&B singer Kristine Subido, hip-hopper The Real AJM, balladeer Rommel Billanes who held the Filipino Centre Toronto (FCT) 2009 Filipino Idol crown, Mike Miranda who introduced the modern “balagtasan” through music in spoken words, and FMWF back-up vocalist cum soloist Genevieve Alejandro with guitarist Brandon Torralba.

Zena ‘Lady Elvis’ Zagala, perhaps the most mature among the mike holders, showed her glowing golden spirit as she sang, danced and impersonated The King to the delight of the crowd.

Most of the homegrown talents were ably supported by back-up vocalists Tristan Torralba, Genevieve Alejandro, Gena Baldivia and Chyrelle Samson and live band members Mon Torralba on lead guitar; Natu Buzon, bass; Mike Ombao, keyboard; Jun Vidal, Don Lunaria and Terry Martell, alternating on drums.

But respected among the powerhouse array of FMWF performers was Mikey Bustos, who had evolved into an ultimate Canadian mainstream performer, shortly after copping 8th spot in the inaugural Canadian Idol Reality TV series in 2001.

Bustos showed he could fill the stage as he moved with his back-up dance crew in an opening number, then sang his latest CD selections depicting his love for music and life and standard tunes that time turned into classics.

Inspired to be the best in what they loved to do, youth groups representing various musical genres went onstage at performance level.

To the rhythm of the Mindanao’s indigenous kulintang, gong and drums, Santa Guerrilla aired their music that had contemporary undertones and messages.

So did R&B and hip hop groups Barkadaz and Crewzing. (PNA Feature)
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Continued risk aversion again hurt the local currency after it closed to its lowest trading level for the day at 48.73 against a dollar Wednesday.

Wednesday's closing for the peso is its 17-week low after it closed at 48.99 against the US currency on April 28, 2009.

At the Philippine Dealing System, the local unit started the day at 48.60, P0.10 lower than day-ago's P48.50.

It went up to as high as 48.60, which is also P0.10 lower than day-ago's level, before closing the session P0.22 weaker than Tuesday's closing.

Average rate for the day stood at 48.69, lower by P0.14 compared to Tuesday's 48.55 level.

Volume of trade also went down after it only reached P653.45 million from the previous day's P732.86 million.

Security Bank Treasury head Raffy Algarra said risk aversion continue to be high among investors as reflected in the movement of the local currency against the US dollar.

He said investors remains cautious “due to uncertainties” in the global economy but stressed that weakening of the local unit is “not worrisome.”

“(It) will settle at the same level in the coming days,” he added. (PNA)

Oil prices dropped for a second session on Wednesday as investors weighed ample inventories against upbeat housing data.

Light, sweet crude for October delivery dropped 62 cents to settle at 71.43 U.S. dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

According to the U.S. Energy Department's Energy Information Administration (EIA), crude stockpiles increases by 0.2 million barrels during the week ending August 21, against analysts' prediction for a drop. At 343.8 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are above the upper boundary of the average range for this time of year.

Oil's losses were tempered by the news that sales of new homes surged 9.6 percent in July, better than expected and again showing the housing market was climbing back from its bottom.

In London, Brent Crude for October delivery fell 24 cents to 71. 58 dollars a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange. (PNA/Xinhua)

U.S. stocks closed nearly flat after fluctuating most of the session on Wednesday as upbeat economic data failed to motivate investors.

Stocks rose in morning trading after the July new home sales beat expectations by surging 9.6 percent. It is the fourth straight month increase, indicating the housing market may be recovering from its historic downturn.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Commerce Department reported a 4.9 percent jump in durable goods orders in July, the biggest increase in two years.

However, upbeat data did not get investors into buying. The market sentiment grew more cautious recently as investors question over the rally without clear evidence of a recovery.

Decline in material and energy shares also weighed on the market following a sharp drop in commodities prices. Crude oil fell for a second day below 72 U.S. dollars on New York Mercantile Exchange.

The Dow Jones added 4.23 to 9,543.52. Broader indexes also went higher. The Standard & Poor's 500 index edged up 0.12 to 1,028.12 and the Nasdaq inched up 0.20 to 2,024.43. (PNA/Xinhua)

The dollar rose against most major currencies on Wednesday after reports showed that both U.S. new home sales and durable goods orders jumped in July.

Analysts said the trend on currency markets showed that the dollar could now benefit from rising confidence in U.S. economy, instead of falling amid lower safety haven demand.

The U.S. Commerce Department reported on Wednesday that new home sales surged 9.6 percent in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 433,000, much stronger than expected. New home sales are now 30 percent higher than its bottom level in January. The estimates for April, May and June were revised up.

New home sales in July were up in the Northeast, South, and West, but down in the Midwest. The number of unsold new homes fell for the 27th consecutive month to 271,000, its lowest level in 16 years. The inventory yardstick -- the months' supply of new homes at current sales rates -- fell from 8.5 to 7.5 months, the lowest since April 2007.

The median time for sale rose 0.6, to 12.4 months, its highest reading ever. It shows that the market for selling new homes is still brutal from a builder's perspective, despite the pickup in demand. The recovery of housing market will be a slow one, and new home sales will remain below normal for at least a couple of years, said analysts of IHS Global Insight.

In a separate report, the Commerce Department said U.S. durable goods order increased by 4.9 percent in July, the fastest pace in two years. Aircraft orders were the key to drive the increase, with orders for nondefense aircraft and parts more than doubled. Auto orders also helped with the success of "cash-for-clunkers" program, which provide vouchers to buyers who trade their old vehicles for new ones with better mileage. Without the transportation gains, Durable goods orders were up 0.8 percent in July.

The euro bought 1.4240 dollars in late New York trading compared with 1.4309 dollars it bought late Tuesday. The pound fell to 1.6239 dollars from 1.6350 dollars.

The dollar rose to 1.0984 Canadian dollars from 1.0850 Canadian dollars, and rose to 1.0687 Swiss francs from 1.0611 Swiss francs. It was unchanged at 94.20 Japanese yen. (PNA/Xinhua)

The National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) today announced the arrest of four carnapping suspects and the recovery of nine suspected stolen motor vehicles as part of its continuing anti-carnapping campaign.

NCRPO chief Director Roberto Rosales said the successful operation was launched by the Regional Traffic Enforcement Unit (RTEU/ANCAR) earlier this morning in Paranaque City and Pasay City.

Rosales said the operation resulted in the arrest of Christoper Pelingon y Basaca, 35 years old, married, a resident of 27 Pacific Gran Villa, Sto. Nino, Paranaque City; Felicito Roda y Cabuhal, 41 years old, married and resident of Sucat Road , Paranaque City; Ricardo Guarino y Cordeta, 36 years old, single, former Philippine National Police personnel and a resident of 503 Barcelona Street, Binondo Manila, who was cornered in front of Blue Wave Restaurant located along Macapagal Avenue Pasay City, and Louie Dayon y Sevilla, 35 years old, married, casino financier and resident of Lirio St., CAA, Las Pinas City, who was arrested in front of Heritage Hotel, EDSA corner Roxas Blvd.

Recovered from the suspects were a Mercedes Benz (XLA-865); Toyota Corolla (TDAâ€"270); Nissan Serena (XJV-424); Mitsubishi Eclipse (YCZ-535); Ford escapade (NUOâ€"365); Toyota Echo (WTL -471), Toyota Revo (MGMâ€"585); Nissan X-trail (ZAZâ€"340), and another Nissan X-trail (ZHPâ€"818).

In the report received by Rosales, the suspects were tagged as having been engaged into selling so called “Talon” vehicles that are later declared discovered to be stolen.

RTEU elements posed as buyers. During the arrest, Roda yielded a firearm, Cal. 45 pistol Colt MK IV with Serial No. 37628272, which he was carrying at the time. In the subsequent operation in Pasay City, NCRPO operatives seized a Llama Cal. 9mm pistol with Serial No. 62350 and an MOD GT-380 pistol with Serial No. AAO8246 from the ex-policeman suspect, Ricardo Guarino.

Rosales vowed that more and continuing operations will be conducted. He added that since the operations started last July 7, a total of 14 suspects have been arrested and charged, including two (2) policemen in active service, SPO3 Alfonso Nuevas, assigned at MPD and PO2 Rolando MANIPOLO, assigned at the Caloocan City Police. The operations have led to the recovery of 26 vehicles and 19 motorcycles.

Charges for Illegal Possession of Firearms and for Violation of Anti-Carnapping Law will be filed against the suspects.

Rosales noted a significant decrease in the incidents of carnapping in Metro Manila. He said that when he assumed command of NCRPO last April, a total of 98 vehicles were stolen. This figure went down every month with May registering 76 incidents, while June and July registered 73 and 72, respectively. There were days when no carnapping incident was reported.

The NCRPO chief has directed the Regional Operations to keep track of the carnapping incidents in Metro Manila using a scorecard for every Chief of Police and Station Commanders. He warned that those who will not keep up with the set target of NCRPO in further reducing carnapping incidents in Metro Manila will be administratively sanctioned.

He asked victims of carnapping in the metropolis to coordinate with the RTEU to check if their vehicle is one of those recovered by NCRPO. (PNA)
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The Senate is set to commend two young computer wizards for bringing honor to the Philippines at an international computer competition.

Senate minority leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. filed on Wednesday Senate Resolution 1320 seeking to commend Anthony Sy and Reynaldo Luz of Fountain International School in Santolan, San Juan City for winning bronze medals and certificate of recognition during the recent International Computer Project Olympiad.

The Computer Olympiad, which was held last May 9-11 in Ankara, Turkey, was organized by the Ministry of Education in partnership with the Atlantik Educational Institutions.

In the pre-selection phase of the contest, twenty-one finalists qualified for the final exhibit and competition.

The team from the FIS, which represented the Philippines, qualified for the finals with its entry for the “Web Site of Educator” category entitled “One Manila, One Dream.”

Sy, a fourth year student, and Luz, a first year student, created the Philippine entry which won the third place.

”These young achievers and their school deserves acclamation for bringing honor to our country through their determination and proficiency,” Pimentel said. (PNA)

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On August 26, 1903, the Pensionado Act of 1903 or Act 854 was approved by Governor General William Howard Taft through the Philippine Commission, which allowed qualified Filipino students to study in the United States for a four-year course.

These students were called pensionados, since they were studying at the expense of the colonial government to earn degrees in government administration in the U.S.

Upon their return to the Philippines, the pensionados were entitled to occupy important roles and positions in the government and its sectors -- agriculture, business, education, etc.

By 1912, there were already 209 Filipino students who graduated from American colleges and academic institutions.

Jorge Bocobo, one of the noted pensionados who studied in the U.S., helped President Manuel Quezon in drafting speeches and statements and in fighting for Philippine Independence as a member of four independence missions to the United States.

Bocobo, who passed the bar examinations with almost perfect score in Civil Law, translated the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo of Dr. Jose Rizal into English.

He also translated the Code of Kalantiao, the Philippine National Hymn, and the Bonifacio Decalogue. He wrote legal publications, including outlines of the laws on property, obligations and court decisions between 1924 and 1944. (PNA)

U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy has died, CNN reported Wednesday. He was 77.

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"Lethal levels" of the powerful anesthetic propofol killed Michael Jackson, according to court documents unsealed Monday and quoted by US media which put the pop star's personal physician under mounting police scrutiny.

The search warrant affidavit unsealed in Houston and tied to the investigation into the June 25 death of the pop star cites the Los Angeles County coroner's office as concluding after an autopsy that a fatal combination of drugs including propofol was administered to Jackson hours before he died.

"The Los Angeles Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner, Dr. Sathyavagiswaran, indicated that he had reviewed the preliminary toxicology results and his preliminary assessment of Jackson's cause of death was due to lethal levels of propofol," according to a facsimile of a Los Angeles search warrant and affidavit posted on investigative website TheSmokingGun.com and cited by US news networks.

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There will be 30 million Internet users in the Philippines by 2012, driven by lower cost of access and wider availability of devices, according to a report by research group Nielsen.

At the Internet and Mobile Marketing Summit 2009, Eric Barrera, Nielsen Philippines Director for Client Service, said the current number of Internet users in the country is pegged at 24 million of which 81 percent are between 10 and 39 years old.

Citing previous studies, Barrera said the length of time spent by people on the Internet is slowly increasing. In 2008, Filipino Internet users spent an average of 3.8 hours per day, or just about the same length as watching television.

“The length of time spent by the average Filipino online won’t change by 2012 but there will be more people online by then. This opens more opportunities for service providers,” Barrera said.

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The British government said hardcore online pirates who illegally swap and download copyrighted films and music could have their Internet connection cut off, in proposals announced Tuesday.

The measure, which would go beyond previous proposals and has strong similarities to a proposed French law, could be brought in soon to tackle illegal downloaders file-sharing en masse.

The government is "considering adding account suspension to the list of technical measures that could be used only as a last resort against the hard core of copyright pirates," said a spokesman for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

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No work, no pork.

Nueva Ecija Representative Eduardo Nonato Joson has proposed this policy to ensure that there would always be a quorum during sessions at the House of Representatives.

But Speaker Prospero Nograles was quick to reject this, saying this was unfair to the legislators’ constituents who were the recipients of the “pork barrel” or the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), which is used to finance local projects.

Joson made the proposal after the House has been plagued with absences these past few months, resulting in delays in the passage of important measures.

Joson said stringent measures were needed to compel lawmakers to show up in sessions and participate in legislative work.

Joson said the pork barrel of congressmen could be a good motivation for their attendance.

By Jani Arnaiz
Inquirer Visayas

Las Piñas Representative Cynthia Villar has expressed confidence that her husband Senator Manuel Villar would win in the 2010 presidential election even if the opposition failed to unite.

In an interview on Sunday afternoon, Villar said there would be "no turning back for Manny (Villar)" because the senator was very much capable to run a presidential campaign on his own.

"We are confident of winning because it's the people, not the party, who would vote for him for president," Villar said, adding that "the people would vote for their governor or mayor or even congressmen but they have their own choices for president."

She noted that her husband has been consistently topping the surveys.

"But that's not our only gauge for running for the highest position. We've been planning this before," Villar said.

She claimed that some members of the Lakas have signified their support for her husband.

By Nestor P. Burgos Jr.
Inquirer Visayas

Eight years after he was ousted on corruption charges, former President Joseph Estrada on Tuesday said he was almost sure of running for the country’s highest post in next year’s elections.

“It seems impossible now that the opposition will field only one presidential candidate. There is a 99.9-percent chance that I will be running for president,” Estrada said at a press conference here that was attended by opposition leaders and prospective candidates.

In Antique province on Monday, Estrada, chair of the United Opposition (UNO), said he would announce his decision in late September or early October.

He said 2010 would be “an opposition year.”

Estrada has said that he will run for president if the opposition failed to unite and field a common presidential candidate.

Since his release from detention in October 2007, he has already visited 64 of the 81 provinces in the country.

Estrada was ousted in a people power uprising dubbed “Edsa II” in 2001. He was later charged with and convicted of plunder but was pardoned by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

by the Philippine Daily Inquirer

Sen. Manuel Villar has pulled away from a field of more than a dozen presidential aspirants, gaining an additional 11 percentage points in voter preference from the 14 percent he got in May, results of the latest nationwide survey conducted by Pulse Asia show.

One in every four, or 25 percent of voters, would have Villar elected the country’s next president if the May 2010 elections were held early this month, Pulse Asia said Tuesday.

Trailing Villar, a former Senate president who made his billions in property development, are former President Joseph Estrada (19 percent), Vice President Noli de Castro (16 percent), Sen. Francis Escudero (12 percent) and Sen. Mar Roxas (11 percent).

A female call center agent and her friend were arrested for possession of illegal drugs ecstasy during a buy-bust operation recently here by operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).

The arrest prompted to believe that ecstasy had already penetrated Davao City.

PDEA regional director Sr. Supt. Roybel Sanchez said charges of violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act, are now filed against the two women.

He identified the suspects as Cherrie Tumaran, call center agent, a resident of Telstar Street, El Rio Village, Davao City and Rosemarie Lim, jobless and a resident of Awhag Subdivision, also in this city.

He said the two suspects were arrested in a buy-bust operation they had conducted at Autoshop Nightspot compound along JP Laurel Avenue, this city, this weekend.

He said the operation was conducted after doing surveillance on the suspects.

During the buy-bust operation, Sanchez said two ecstasy drugs were taken from the suspects and two others during search. Each tablet costs P1,800, Sanchez said.

Sanchez added that some people in the city are also placed under surveillance for engaging in selling ecstasy tablets, including that some from Manila who are in Davao City.

He said the brand of the tablets has the same brand on the capsulized ecstasy found from a Canadian national who was killed in a shootout with PDEA agents in Pasig City last August 21. (PNA)
FFC/JLC/lvp

I just got a sketchy report: Former Panglao Mayor Doloreich Dumaluan was shot today by a security guard of a resort owned by an Indian.

The informant says Dumaluan is now being treated at a hospital in Tagbilaran.

More details to follow...

South Korea's satellite seems to have not entered its target orbit after successfully separating from its carrier rocket, South Korea's science minister said Tuesday.

"We cannot spot the satellite in its orbit, where it is supposed to be," Science Minister Ahn Byung-man said at a press conference, calling it a "partial failure."

The government, however, said it was yet to identify with the exact cause of the incident, adding that it was observed that the satellite, although ignited as planned, was separated at an altitude 36-km higher than its target position. (PNA/Xinhua)

The Mysterious Deaths of 8 Residents of Antequera, Bohol
by the Bohol Chronicle

Eight residents of Antequera town died in a span of 2.5 years while people traced their mysterious deaths to their eating of freshwater eel locally called as "kasili" taken from a creek in a very secluded sitio in barangay Bantolinao, this interior town.

Antequera Mayor Cecil Rebosura told the Chronicle that she requested health authorities to look into the medical reason behind their deaths while many barrio folks suspect that the eight perished after the first victim identified as Antonio Aguilor, 70, fished an unusually 3-meter long giant "kasili" sometime in 2006.

Antonio's stomach bulged while he turned pale and yellowish until he died.

The same descriptions were given to the other fatalities who died one after the other, namely: Ricardo and his wife, Rebecca Aguilor, Jose Masibay, 60; his brother-in-law- Jose, 48, Rosalina Bastasa, 55, Emilio Samoya, 46 and Roland Aguilor, 27.

The latest victim, Roland is the grandson of Antonio whose eldest son Ricardo was the second fatality. Roland died last month even after undergoing medical checkup in Cebu City.

Bantolinaw Barangay Captain Pilotio Pana said that the death of the eight remains a mystery. Reports also said that old timers in the barangay cited deaths sometime in the late 40s, indicating deaths in succession in the same area where the creek is situated.

The creek with a huge stone in the middle was where the late Antonio fished out the giant "kasili". Commonly, this type of freshwater eel is less than a meter long.

Unsay Sala Nga Nahimo Ko? (Dangoyngoy Sa Nagdugong Kasingkasing)
sinulat ni Mike Ligalig


Gihinok nila ang TubagBohol
aron lubaon ang akong kadungganan
nga unta wala man akoy kalapasan
nga nabuhat batok kanila, gisabwag
nila ang tomo-tomong estorya
aron buling-bulingan
ang akong kadungganan
nga unta wala man ko nagpakaulaw
kanila sukad-masukad, gigamit nila
ang mga estoryang bakak
aron dugmokon ang akong kasingkasing
sa kaulaw ug hiwaon ang akong dughan
sa kasakit nga unta
wala man ko nanamastamas kanila.

Ug kung aduna man akoy pagkulang
sa akong pagkahigala, ug kung aduna man
akoy sayop nga nabuhat,
ako wala mahibalo niana,
apan ngano man nga hilam-osan pa man
ako sa pagpakaulaw sa kadaghanan
nga unta mahimo ra man nga ako atubangon
ug suginlan sa akong kapakyasan, kung aduna man.

Ang pagpakaulaw sa isigkatawo, ang pagsabwag
ug bakak nga estorya mao ba kini
ang gitudlo sa ilang mga ginikanan?
Mao ba kini ang gitudlo sa simbahan
aron ang usa ka inosenteng tawo
mag-antos ug magbangutan
sa sala nga wala niya nabuhat?

Kung sila pa tingali ang nabuhatan
sa ingon nga diin ang mga bakak nga estorya
ug pagpakaulaw sa pangalan
gimantala sa tibuok kalibutan
ug sila nasayod nga wala silay kalapasan
nga nahimo,

unsa kaha ang ilang bation?

Unsa kaha kalawom ang ilang kaguol?
Unsa kaha kakusog ang bul-og sa ilang mga luha
sa ilang kaapingan? Unsa kaha kalanog
ang pagbakho sa ilang kalag nga nagdugo
tungod sa hilabihang kangil-ad nga bakak?

Sila mianhi dinhi sa TubagBohol nga nagtakuban
sa tinuod nila nga pangalan; kung langitnon man
ang ilang katuyoan ngano nga naggamit man
sila ug bakak nga ngalan aron pakaulawan
ako nga naggamit sa tinuod kong pangalan?
Kung katarong ug kalinaw pa ang ilang motibo,
nganong dili man sila molangtad
sa tinuod nilang pagkatawo
ug mogamit sa tinuod nga pangalan
aron masuta sa tanan ang kahayag ug kamatuoran?

Sila mismo nasayod nga wala ko sila hilabti,
wala ko sila pasakiti ug tabi-tabi,
wala ko manghilabot sa ilang kinabuhi,
apan ngano man nga kalipay nila
nga makita nilang akong mag-antos
sa kasakit sa bakak nga sugilanon?
Ngano man nga ilang kalipay
nga masud-ong ako nga naalaot
tungod sa ilang sayop nga pagtoo?

Unsa ang nagtukmod kanila aron hugawhugawan
ang akong pagkatawo? Unsa ang nagdagkot
sa ilang kaikag aron mansahan
ang akong pangalan? Unsa ang naghaling
sa ilang dila aron ihatod ang mga estoryang bakak
ngadto sa ilang mga kahigalaan?

Kasina ba ang nagpasulabi sa ilang galamhan? Kasina ba
ang nag-awas-awas sa ilang dughan? Kasina ba
ang nagputos sa ilang handurawan?
Dili man ako adunahan, dili man ako politiko
nga tinahod sa katilingban, dili man ako magpapatigayon
nga nanglimbong sa timbangan, dili man ako kaabin
sa mga dautang elemento sa katilingban, dili man ako
kriminal nga gigukod sa balaod, apan ngano
nga sila naghugyaw sa kalipay ug pagmaya
kung ila akong makita nga nagbahog sa kasakit
ug kagul-anan tungod sa tinomo-tomong estorya
ug bakak nga way sama?

Kung sila kaha ang buhatan sa ingon?
Kung ila kahang pamilya ang magun-ob
tungod sa bakak nga estorya?
Kung ila kahang relasyon sa ilang mahal
sa kinabuhi ang maguba tungod sa hatod-hatod
nga mga bakak?

Unsa kaha ang ilang bation?

Unsa kaha ang ilang buhaton? Asa kaha
sila modangop ug tambal
alang sa dughan nga gitumban ug giyatakyakan?

Nagpuyo ako nga malinawon, yano nga Filipino
nga dili sagbot sa atong nasud, ug langit nasayod
sa kaaghop sa akong kasingkasing, ug kadtong
mga nakauban na nako ug nakasud-ong
sa kinauyokan sa akong pagkatawo
ang andam mobarog ug motug-an kung kinsa ako
ug unsay hulagway sa akong kasingkasing,
unsa ang mga butang nga akong gikaaligutgotan
ug unsa ang mga butang nga modalit kanako
ug pahiyom. Apan sila wala masayod kung kinsa ako,
sila hinuon ang kalit naghukom kanako
ug buot nila akong isugnod
sa kalayo sa impyerno
bisan wala silay nakitang katarongan.

Tungod sa kasina ug garbo, gihalad nila ang ilang
kaugalingon sa altar sa mga bakakon
ug tungod sa kahaguka sa ilang mga baroganan
ug ang ilang pagkatampalasan ug lampingasan
mibuta sa hugaw nga gusto nila ipahid sa uban.

Kung hipno pa sila ug hunahana,
kung aduna pay pamatasan nga nahibilin,
kung aduna pa silay delikadesa,
ilang likayan ang law-ay nga estorya
ug dili sila motuo dayon sa mga tabian
ug sila unta maminaw sa kamatuoran
apan ilang giabiba, gidayeg ang mga bakakon
ug ilang gisayawan ang bakak nga estorya
sanglit kini man ang ilang kalingawan.

Diha sa katilingban nga ilang gigikanan
nagpakahilom lang sila sa mga hiwi sa kagamhanan,
nagpahipi sila sa pagpanglupig sa mga gamhanan
gitak-om ang ilang mga baba batok sa dautan -
apan diha sa mga tsismis ug estoryang bakak
ila kining gipistahan ug gidulog sa higdaanan.
Bungol sila sa kasakit sa uban
ug wala silay dalunggan ipaminaw sa kamatuoran
tungod kay ang tig-a nila nga kasingkasing
nga gisamawan sa bahandi ug gigapos sa kasina
kanunay naghandum sa pagkapukan sa uban.

Bisan pa man niining tanan, andam ko
sudlan ang bilanggoan
kung ugaling aduna man akoy kalapasan -
dili lang unta ako pakaulawan ug luiban
ug buhatan ug mga bakak nga sugilanon;
andam ko himoon ang prisohan
nga akong lubnganan
kung ugaling aduna man akoy kasaypanan -
dili lang unta nila sabligan ug bakak
nga sugilanon ang hunahuna sa uban.
Kung aduna man akoy paglapas, ila unta
akong sultihan sa pribado ug prangka nga paagi
ug dili iangin ang uban nga walay kalapasan
kay andam man unta ako moluhod
sa ilang atubangan ug mangaliyopo
sa ilang kapasaylohan
kung ugaling ako aduna may kasaypanan.

Apan wala nila pangitaa ang hustisya, katarong,
kamatuoran, kalinaw, kahiusaan
kay ila mang gipalabi ang hulhog sa kangitngit,
kay ila mang kalipay nga malumos sa kasakit
ang ilang isigkatawo, ilang damgo nga
magdugo ang dughan sa uban.

Pagkapait diay nga yab-an ka
sa sala nga wala mo nabuhat,
pagkasakit diay nga budhian ka
samtang gihurot ang imong pagsalig,
pagkapait diay nga dagmalan ka
sa mga bakak nga estorya,
pagkasakit diay nga tingalon ka
sa apdo sa mga bakakon.

Saksi ang langit sa kabangis
ug kangil-ad sa ilang balatian,
ug moabot ra ang balos ug silot
ipakanaog unya sa Kahitas-an.

Unsay Sala Nga Nahimo Ko? (Dangoyngoy Sa Nagdugong Kasingkasing)
sinulat ni Mike Ligalig


Gihinok nila ang TubagBohol
aron lubaon ang akong kadungganan
nga unta wala man akoy kalapasan
nga nabuhat batok kanila, gisabwag
nila ang tomo-tomong estorya
aron buling-bulingan
ang akong kadungganan
nga unta wala man ko nagpakaulaw
kanila sukad-masukad, gigamit nila
ang mga estoryang bakak
aron dugmokon ang akong kasingkasing
sa kaulaw ug hiwaon ang akong dughan
sa kasakit nga unta
wala man ko nanamastamas kanila.

Ug kung aduna man akoy pagkulang
sa akong pagkahigala, ug kung aduna man
akoy sayop nga nabuhat,
ako wala mahibalo niana,
apan ngano man nga hilam-osan pa man
ako sa pagpakaulaw sa kadaghanan
nga unta mahimo ra man nga ako atubangon
ug suginlan sa akong kapakyasan, kung aduna man.

Ang pagpakaulaw sa isigkatawo, ang pagsabwag
ug bakak nga estorya mao ba kini
ang gitudlo sa ilang mga ginikanan?
Mao ba kini ang gitudlo sa simbahan
aron ang usa ka inosenteng tawo
mag-antos ug magbangutan
sa sala nga wala niya nabuhat?

Kung sila pa tingali ang nabuhatan
sa ingon nga diin ang mga bakak nga estorya
ug pagpakaulaw sa pangalan
gimantala sa tibuok kalibutan
ug sila nasayod nga wala silay kalapasan
nga nahimo,

unsa kaha ang ilang bation?

Unsa kaha kalawom ang ilang kaguol?
Unsa kaha kakusog ang bul-og sa ilang mga luha
sa ilang kaapingan? Unsa kaha kalanog
ang pagbakho sa ilang kalag nga nagdugo
tungod sa hilabihang kangil-ad nga bakak?

Sila mianhi dinhi sa TubagBohol nga nagtakuban
sa tinuod nila nga pangalan; kung langitnon man
ang ilang katuyoan ngano nga naggamit man
sila ug bakak nga ngalan aron pakaulawan
ako nga naggamit sa tinuod kong pangalan?
Kung katarong ug kalinaw pa ang ilang motibo,
nganong dili man sila molangtad
sa tinuod nilang pagkatawo
ug mogamit sa tinuod nga pangalan
aron masuta sa tanan ang kahayag ug kamatuoran?

Sila mismo nasayod nga wala ko sila hilabti,
wala ko sila pasakiti ug tabi-tabi,
wala ko manghilabot sa ilang kinabuhi,
apan ngano man nga kalipay nila
nga makita nilang akong mag-antos
sa kasakit sa bakak nga sugilanon?
Ngano man nga ilang kalipay
nga masud-ong ako nga naalaot
tungod sa ilang sayop nga pagtoo?

Unsa ang nagtukmod kanila aron hugawhugawan
ang akong pagkatawo? Unsa ang nagdagkot
sa ilang kaikag aron mansahan
ang akong pangalan? Unsa ang naghaling
sa ilang dila aron ihatod ang mga estoryang bakak
ngadto sa ilang mga kahigalaan?

Kasina ba ang nagpasulabi sa ilang galamhan? Kasina ba
ang nag-awas-awas sa ilang dughan? Kasina ba
ang nagputos sa ilang handurawan?
Dili man ako adunahan, dili man ako politiko
nga tinahod sa katilingban, dili man ako magpapatigayon
nga nanglimbong sa timbangan, dili man ako kaabin
sa mga dautang elemento sa katilingban, dili man ako
kriminal nga gigukod sa balaod, apan ngano
nga sila naghugyaw sa kalipay ug pagmaya
kung ila akong makita nga nagbahog sa kasakit
ug kagul-anan tungod sa tinomo-tomong estorya
ug bakak nga way sama?

Kung sila kaha ang buhatan sa ingon?
Kung ila kahang pamilya ang magun-ob
tungod sa bakak nga estorya?
Kung ila kahang relasyon sa ilang mahal
sa kinabuhi ang maguba tungod sa hatod-hatod
nga mga bakak?

Unsa kaha ang ilang bation?

Unsa kaha ang ilang buhaton? Asa kaha
sila modangop ug tambal
alang sa dughan nga gitumban ug giyatakyakan?

Nagpuyo ako nga malinawon, yano nga Filipino
nga dili sagbot sa atong nasud, ug langit nasayod
sa kaaghop sa akong kasingkasing, ug kadtong
mga nakauban na nako ug nakasud-ong
sa kinauyokan sa akong pagkatawo
ang andam mobarog ug motug-an kung kinsa ako
ug unsay hulagway sa akong kasingkasing,
unsa ang mga butang nga akong gikaaligutgotan
ug unsa ang mga butang nga modalit kanako
ug pahiyom. Apan sila wala masayod kung kinsa ako,
sila hinuon ang kalit naghukom kanako
ug buot nila akong isugnod
sa kalayo sa impyerno
bisan wala silay nakitang katarongan.

Tungod sa kasina ug garbo, gihalad nila ang ilang
kaugalingon sa altar sa mga bakakon
ug tungod sa kahaguka sa ilang mga baroganan
ug ang ilang pagkatampalasan ug lampingasan
mibuta sa hugaw nga gusto nila ipahid sa uban.

Kung hipno pa sila ug hunahana,
kung aduna pay pamatasan nga nahibilin,
kung aduna pa silay delikadesa,
ilang likayan ang law-ay nga estorya
ug dili sila motuo dayon sa mga tabian
ug sila unta maminaw sa kamatuoran
apan ilang giabiba, gidayeg ang mga bakakon
ug ilang gisayawan ang bakak nga estorya
sanglit kini man ang ilang kalingawan.

Diha sa katilingban nga ilang gigikanan
nagpakahilom lang sila sa mga hiwi sa kagamhanan,
nagpahipi sila sa pagpanglupig sa mga gamhanan
gitak-om ang ilang mga baba batok sa dautan -
apan diha sa mga tsismis ug estoryang bakak
ila kining gipistahan ug gidulog sa higdaanan.
Bungol sila sa kasakit sa uban
ug wala silay dalunggan ipaminaw sa kamatuoran
tungod kay ang tig-a nila nga kasingkasing
nga gisamawan sa bahandi ug gigapos sa kasina
kanunay naghandum sa pagkapukan sa uban.

Bisan pa man niining tanan, andam ko
sudlan ang bilanggoan
kung ugaling aduna man akoy kalapasan -
dili lang unta ako pakaulawan ug luiban
ug buhatan ug mga bakak nga sugilanon;
andam ko himoon ang prisohan
nga akong lubnganan
kung ugaling aduna man akoy kasaypanan -
dili lang unta nila sabligan ug bakak
nga sugilanon ang hunahuna sa uban.
Kung aduna man akoy paglapas, ila unta
akong sultihan sa pribado ug prangka nga paagi
ug dili iangin ang uban nga walay kalapasan
kay andam man unta ako moluhod
sa ilang atubangan ug mangaliyopo
sa ilang kapasaylohan
kung ugaling ako aduna may kasaypanan.

Apan wala nila pangitaa ang hustisya, katarong,
kamatuoran, kalinaw, kahiusaan
kay ila mang gipalabi ang hulhog sa kangitngit,
kay ila mang kalipay nga malumos sa kasakit
ang ilang isigkatawo, ilang damgo nga
magdugo ang dughan sa uban.

Pagkapait diay nga yab-an ka
sa sala nga wala mo nabuhat,
pagkasakit diay nga budhian ka
samtang gihurot ang imong pagsalig,
pagkapait diay nga dagmalan ka
sa mga bakak nga estorya,
pagkasakit diay nga tingalon ka
sa apdo sa mga bakakon.

Saksi ang langit sa kabangis
ug kangil-ad sa ilang balatian,
ug moabot ra ang balos ug silot
ipakanaog unya sa Kahitas-an.

By Allison Lopez
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Pink balloons were re-leased by Makati residents and workers as the young daughter-in-law of Mayor Jejomar Binay was laid to rest Wednesday.

The Makati employees were one in mourning with relatives and friends of Kennely Ann Lacia-Binay during the memorial Mass at the Sacred Heart Parish on Wednesday.

The 29-year-old wife of councilor Junjun Binay, who was a former actress and model, died from massive bleeding and cardiac arrest after giving birth to her fourth child on Aug. 11.

Speaking during the Mass celebrated by Bishop Teodoro Bacani, the younger Binay thanked all sympathizers for their unwavering support, and apologized to “Ken-ken” who was hospitalized for a month at Makati Medical Center.

His voice cracking, he related that Ken-ken had often asked him to stay beside her but he was usually unable to.

“For one reason or another, hindi ko po laging nagawa ito. She told me ‘hon, I cannot sleep when you’re not beside me. For some reason, hindi ko rin po maipaliwanag how men can be so insensitive with the little requests that our wives or loved ones ask from us,” said a teary eyed Binay.

“So I told myself now it’s too late. It’s too late to give her the tightest and warmest hug only a husband can give to his wife. And now it’s too late because I can no longer give my wife the kiss that seals the bond of our affection,” he added.

His wife’s sudden death, he added, should gently remind everyone to “value the days, the hours, the minutes, the seconds that we spend with our loved ones.”

He then read from the children’s book “Guess How Much I Love You”â€"an anniversary gift from Ken-kenâ€"and brought the crowd to tears.

In a statement, Mayor Binay also expressed gratitude to those who condoled with them.

“These past days have been the most difficult period in our lives. In Ken-ken, Ellen and I found another loving daughter whose youthful zest and cheerful glow always warmed our hearts. We could not have asked for more,” he said.

Makati’s councilors served as pall bearers as Ken-ken’s body was to be taken to Heritage Park in Taguig City for cremation at noon.

The ashes of Ken-ken, who left behind her children Jejomarie Alexi, 6, Maria Isabel, 3, Jejomar III, 1, and newborn Maria Kennely, were brought back to their newly built house in San Antonio Village.

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Without my knowledge, I became a helpless victim of a nasty rumor that started to rear its ugly head over a year ago, a malicious gossip happily manufactured by those who pretend they know me so well and those who have nothing else better to do in their monotonous lives but to cook fallacious stories at the expense of others’ undeserving hurt, pain, humiliation and defamation.

The saddest thing about it was that I did not know I was already a target of a demolition job since over a year ago. I never thought those fabricated lies had already existed since last year. I thought the culprits were sincere, honest, and civilized souls, but I was so wrong about them.

Had I known about this fabricated story when it was first floated by busybodies and fake acquaintances, I could have long dismantled the horrible web of lies that others have so loved to pass on to their peers without the shame and conscience that the same could inflict irreparable damage to families and relationships.

The worst thing about it was that some people have lost their sense of truth, justice, fairness and self-respect that for them to pass on a pathetic gossip and multiply it into a bloated lie is more humane, more important, more honorable than to verify facts, clarify reports, seek out truth and give an innocent man a fair trial and perhaps a benefit of the doubt. But he was not afforded the basic gifts of justice. He was immediately judged and condemned long before he knew the existence of an absolute lie.

And one day, which will be remembered as a day of infamy in TubagBohol.com, while I was away from the wired world, a heartless sponsor of destructive lies and gossips abused the free registration privilege provided by this site, created a fake name, asked someone to register a fake name for this lover of other people’s humiliation, and posted more than 20 threads (of same content) of litany of lies against me â€" all for the sole purpose of satisfying the cravings of this person’s envy and jealousy which had mutated into a state of psychological depravity.

For this person, sheer happiness is to see an innocent human being suffer without cause, to witness others languish in emotional pain. For this person, personal happiness and gratification is to see the humiliation of a harmless fellow creature.

For this shameless and heartless person, conceiving a false report, nurturing it with an evil intent, and sharing it with others in public is the pinnacle of this person’s psychological disturbance, the summit of this person’s virtual insanity, and the perfection of a demonic moral corruption.

And those who rejoice over the appearance of lies and dishonesty without caring for truth, justice, fairness and without respecting the sanctimonious privacy of others have deliberately fanned the hurtful fires of intrigues, a thoughtless, insensible, inhuman act that only reflects the deepening poverty of their self-esteem and self-respect.  

Their stories are all absolute lies. I wronged no one here, truth to tell, as you all are aware of. Yet, there are those who want to implicate me of wrongdoings for no reason at all. And their only proof of evidence is the existence of their evil imagination.

Those who may not be so familiar with the tremendous technicalities of putting up this site, paying for its expensive server, and maintaining it so that it is error-free and accessible by all worldwide for free 24 hours a day, seven days a week cannot perhaps appreciate the intense labor of love and self-sacrifice by me and by those who are passionate to see this site alive in the coming years. If the troublemakers really can’t value our efforts, at least they could just stay away from us peacemakers.

That if these wandering detractors cannot control or at least moderate their outbursts of envy and jealousy, at least they could tame their lying tongue and circumcise their fictitious imagination for their own sake. That if they have lost their sense of self-respect and human civility and dignity, at least they could spare the innocent and the truthful and the young ones from lurid, indecent writings.

Heaven has its own reward for those who maintain purity in their hearts and heaven has its own reward for those who have become heartless champions of harmful lies and gossips.

The just will live by faith, but the wicked will eat the fruit of their own vanity one day.

In this temporal life, they can alter their IP address, register bogus names and assume false personalities all for the purpose of spreading lies and humiliating others, but in heaven, on the final day of reckoning, they can never manipulate God’s permanent records of deeds.

Today they can still run, but on His day, they can no longer hide.

Ang Batang Nagkamoritsing
sinulat ni Mike Ligalig (circa 2009)

Kaganiha ang inahan nga dili mahitsura ang porma,
galago ang sinina, buhok gilawalawaan
sa aso ug abog, mibunlot sa kamot sa bata ug
mitiyabaw paghilak iyang anak. "bu**** ka,
wa kay hinungdan, lakaw, pagdali," singka sa
babaye, ug iyang gikumot ang ulo sa batang
nagkamoritsing kansang mga tiil daw agipo ug uling.

"Tabok, patyon ta kang buanga ka," kasuko sa inahan
nga natawo sa iyang kamot, unya diriyot maparok ang ulo
sa bata sa gahing kalsada tinumban sa mga dinagsa

"Ayaw iangin nang imong anak sa imong kabuang... ug wa na
kay gusto, ipasagop na sa DSWD, galuoyluoy lang ka
anang bata," sagbat sa tigulang babaye nanindag bisan-unsa
daplin sa kalsada gawas sa plaza - apan ang iyang mga pulong
giligsan sa tig-ang kasingkasing

Sa paglatas sa bata sa kalsada, gilabni ang iyang hilak
sa kalanrakas sa palibot, mga ligid ug makina nagtagawtaw
sa alas sayes sa hapon

Ang milanog nga kaguol sa batang gamay
karon gisalipdan sa hagulhol sa mga jeep,
gitabonan sa mga aso ug abog
nga misagol sa mga luha

Toshiba is to start making products that can play Blu-ray discs.

The decision marks a big change for the electronics firm which was the prime mover of the rival HD-DVD format.

Blu-ray and HD-DVD went head-to-head to see who could dominate the burgeoning market for movies produced in the high definition format.

The format war was effectively won in early 2008 when the Blu-ray camp won the backing of all four of the biggest movie studios.

Blu-ray was largely developed by Sony. Its efforts to dominate the HD market were also helped by sales of the PlayStation 3 which has a Blu-ray player built-in.

Toshiba said it would begin production of stand alone Blu-ray players as well as drives for PCs and laptops. Its first products are likely to be ready for the end of 2009.

The Japanese firm also said it would join the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) - the industry body which oversees development of the high-definition format. - BBC

The price of raw sugar has increased to its highest level since March 1981, as supply concerns grow.

Raw sugar futures added 3% on Monday, to 21.55 cents a pound.

"The main problem is a deficit in sugar supplies," said Nick Penney, a trader with Sucden, a firm that focuses on sugar trading.

Growing demand in Brazil for sugar to be turned into ethanol, coupled with a sharp fall in Indian production, have both prompted worries, he explained.

Sugar production in India for 2008-09 fell 45% year-on-year, according to a report by Sucden.

And a "drastic fall" is expected for the coming Indian crop, it said.

India had less rain in the monsoon season and it was also uneven, damaging a number of agricultural crops.

There are concerns that the pending sugar crop, which will be ready around November, will be inadequate. - BBC News

I am not sure kung napoint out na ba ni.

"tinughong" doesn't have an English translation, I think.

To welcome balikbayan Boholanos on Tigum Bol-anon Tibook Kalibutan or dubbed as TBTK a health and wellness program is tailored by Yap and Associates Dental Clinic and its partner establishments in Bohol and Cebu.

The health and wellness program is expected to cage for three months from July to September this year facilitated by Jay Jabonero, Managing Director of PREIMAX, an Agency based in Cebu providing services such as promotions, publicity, marketing, research and event management services for Small and Medium Entrepreneurs (SME) in southern Philippines.

TBTK Health and Wellness program is a Community Social Responsibility (CSR) project of Yap and Associates Dental Clinic with the support of various establishments from Bohol and Cebu.

As a CSR of the doctors, patients may enjoy special privileges by enrolling at Yap and Associates Dental Clinic Health and Wellness Program.

Being a member of the health and wellness program patients may enjoy special package that includes dental treatment, hotels and resorts special prices, discounts, freebies and tokens from different restaurant, salon, spa, pharmacy, grocery store and other establishment joining the health and wellness program of Yap Dental Clinic

These selected companies will be giving free gift certificates for dental check-up, oral prophylaxis (cleaning) and other dental treatments to their loyal customers.

A loyalty or membership card will be given to loyal customers of the establishment affiliated with Yap and Associates Dental Clinic.

Customers are encouraged to avail health and wellness program to maintain excellent health, save big money, earn points and rebates.

An affiliated company of the health and wellness program has posters, tarpaulins and flyers bearing with the health and wellness program logo, terms and conditions or may visit the clinic at the ground floor of Tagbiliaran City Square Mall to support or to avail Bohol Health and Wellness program.

Recently, Yap Clinic initiated the health and wellness tourism program to promote Bohol as the dental holiday for foreigners. It continues to serve above basic dental services through tie-ups on selected establishment as partners.

Local and foreign patients may enjoy a variety of dental programs like tooth bleaching which is much lower up to 30-50% price differences compared to Manila.

The clinic offers highly standardized and latest oral care procedures such as dental implant and periodontal disease treatment to be handled by the clinic’s associate specialist dentist from Cebu.

Local and foreign dental implant patients may book for an appointment as a special dental Holiday Package in Bohol that includes hotel accommodation, transportation and other tourism services.

To update, Dr. Joy Yap is pursuing her dental implant specializations through Asian Implant Institute under Dr. Henry Kwek.

Yap is happy to announce that Boholanos will soon experience dental implant which will attract foreigner to make Bohol as “holiday implant and other full dental treatment destination in the Philippines” which is one of the focal dental services to help promotes health and wellness tourism in Bohol.

These includes caries (cavity) screening, routine cleanings and fluoride treatments, oral hygiene instruction, pit and fissure sealants, root canal therapy, oral surgery, crown and bridge work, cosmetic dental services (porcelain and processed composite veneers, inlays and onlays, teeth reshaping and re-contouring, power bleaching, home bleaching) and emergency care.

The couple dentist envisioned Bohol as the hub for dental holiday implant destinations of Philippines like Manila and Cebu with the cooperation of the other local dentist, local government through Department of Tourism and Department of Health and other related tourism business in Bohol.

Since the couple are active member of International Association of Orthodontics or IAO that provide them latest discovery on dentistry as there additional investments, they firmly believe that once all dentist be united and forget about competitions, this will surely make Bohol as one of the dental tourist destination in the Philippines.

To recall, orthodontic treatment was first available in Bohol through Dr. Venerando Yap after his extensive trainings and working experiences in America.

Their commitment as “The Legendary Smiles of Bohol” in public services persuaded both couple to continue and upgrade their equipment, skills and knowledge in dental services through different seminars, trainings and conventions regardless of their number of years in the profession.

Dr. Ven has undergone further studies in esthetics dentistry under Philippine Academy of Esthetic Dentistry, prostethetics and orthodontics , a field of dental treatment of malocclusions (improper bites), which may be a result of tooth irregularity, disproportionate jaw relationships, or both or simply known to the patients s misalignment of bites.

To accommodate the increasing demands of dental patients, Yap clinic in Tagbilaran City Square Mall is personally manage by his wife, Dr. Joy Yap -a Registered Nurse; Pharmacist and a Doctor of Dental Medicine graduated at Cebu Doctors’ University and had a preceptorship program in Orthodontics at Filipino Orthodontics Study Club under Dr. Alfred Valera. She finished cosmetic dentistry at Philippine Academy of Esthetic Dentistry being the president of the fourth batch and currently taking up dental implant course at the Asian Implant Institute under Dr. Henry Kwek.

Yap Dental Clinic is first in Bohol to open with an associate dentist to accommodate increasing number of patients. Dr. Vene’s ideas in opening a chain of associate’s dental clinic also help new doctors to develop their skills in dentistry.

Through his passion, Yap Clinics have helped associate doctors to open and manage their own clinics in the Bohol and other neighboring island.

Yap and Associates Dental Clinic welcome the delegates of TBTK and proud to announce that Boholanos are globally competent and competitive in dental profession as they offer highly standardized dental treatments mostly availed by foreigners (Lines by Jay Jabonero, preimax@gmail.com, 0932.258.8900)

This resource-rich municipality got windfalls in the form financial assistance that run in millions of pesos courtesy of the Department of Agriculture (DA) through Secretary Arthur C. Yap, said Mayor Stephen Rances.

The “blessings” or financial bounty for the town are given in recognition of the town’s potentials and to improve the lot of the inhabitants here through various projects and programs, according to the message of Yap read for him by DA regional director Ric Oblena.

Both Gov. Erico B. Aumentado and Vice-Gov. Julius Caesar Herrera recognized the town’s potentials in agriculture and that has to be developed.

Aumentado and Herrera, together with board member Concepcion O. Lim, federated president of the Liga ng mga Barangay, graced the 105th foundation day celebration of this town. The big event for Mabini townsfolk was attended by hundreds of people including barangay officials, employees and other sector representatives.

According to Engr. Eygene Cahiles, head of the Bohol Agricultural Promotion Center, these project that the DA wishes to implement include the giving of checks in the amount of PhP200,000 for each of the 22 barrios; Fish port, PhP14 million; Communal irrigation systems in barangay Tangkigan (rehabilitation), PhP1.5 million; and Small Water Impounding Project (SWIP) in barangays San Jose and San Rafael at PhP15 million apiece; Compsoting facility, PhP700,000 at P350,000 each unit; and farm-to-market road, PhP4.4 million and small reservoir impounding project in barangay Catacay, P10 million.

On the other hand, Bureau of Fishereis and Aquatic Resources (BAFR) director Andy Bojos also unveiled before the crowd the fisheries-related projects: Mabini mariculture zone for high value species, PhP2.5 million; Abalone Grow-out project, P425,000; Oyster project, P220,000; seaweeds nursery, P186,000; Mudcrab sanctuary, P58,000 and Aqua-silviculture, P190,000.

During the same affair, Rances led the launching and signing of pledge of commitment of the Citizen’s charter and the Clean and Green competition.

Bestowing of Plaques of Recognition to past mayors and a Resolution adopting Aumentado as adopted son of Mabini highlighted the big celebration.

The celebration was spearheaded by Rances with the able support of Vice-Mayor Esther Fostanes-Tabigue and Sangguniang Bayan members --- Kagawads Jesha C. Toque, Erwin V. Uy, Olimpiades A. Madrinan, Edgardo N. Ybanez, Emilio C. Garcia, Crescencio B. Bernales, Vicente Ismael O. Gulle, Jr., Allan O. Legaspi, ABC president Crispina A. Vergara and SK president Gilbert U. Auditor ----- barangay officials and different committees formed for the purpose of a successful celebration. (RVO)

By Ven Arigo

Brothers Provincial Board Member Cesar Tomas Lopez and Mayor Peter Lloyd Lopez would like outgoing first district Rep. Edgar Chatto to serve the Boholanos beyond his term in Congress.

The elder Lopez who is the senior member of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan urged the Boholanos, particularly his townmates, to “support Chatto so that he could extend his service to the province.”

The younger Lopez who serves his second term as the municipal chief executive said the solon’s “talent in effective governance must not be wasted.”

“The Boholanos must have Chatto keeping his service to the people,” the mayor stressed.

Chatto, whose Congress term will end in June next year, has consistently topped in surveys for next Bohol governor succeeding last-termer Gov. Erico Aumentado.

The Lopez brothers who are cousins of former Gov. Rene Relampagos made the statements during the blessing and turnover of the waterworks project led by Chatto himself in Cansuaguit, Loon on Saturday.

Fellow local officials chorused with the capitol lawmaker and the mayor in citing Chatto as a reliable development provider.

Department of Public Works and Highways officials, Vice Mayor Bong Ladeza, town councilors and barangay leaders attended, too, the ceremony. Fr. Floro Hora officiated the project blessing.

In his speech, Chatto assured the Loonanons of his continuous support to the development thrusts of their municipality and barangays.

In coordination with the provincial leadership, Chatto’s present major work in Loon---and ultimately for Bohol--- involves the on-going concrete conversion of the sleepy inter-island Catagbacan port into an international cruise ship.

It has been envisioned to become the country’s major global cruise ship destination outside Metro Manila. The international cruise industry is a fast-growing sector of global tourism.

The on-going first major phase of the port project is slated to be finished next summer at a cost of P80 million. The final second phase will follow.

Would the Panglao Airport be realized or not? Such persistent public query was answered by the President herself.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo assures Boholanos Panglao Bohol International Airport (PBIA) civil works would roll by December this year.

The Presidential assurance came amidst rumors that the Project Management Office has met “minor problems” with the facility’s works.

In her recent visit here during the Bohol Day Celebration, PGMA bared that the project is now with the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) Board.

According to the President, Transportation and Communication Secretary Leandro Mendoza fast-tracked the timetable of the project and is only awaiting the National Economic Development Authority Investment Coordinating Committee (NEDA-ICC) approval on the final costing of the Bohol airport facility.

NEDA-ICC is to meet by the first week of August.

The President does not see any problem with the airport project.

The NEDA Board meeting, which gives the final nod for the project’s cost, is in time when the President would be in Washington for a state visit and talks with US President Barack Obama.

On this, Mrs. Arroyo said she would let Vice President Noli de Castro preside over the board to assure facilitated project nod.

The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) is mainly bankrolling the P4.17B project by putting in P3B. MIAA Manger Alfonso Cusi had personally made several visits here and assured Gov. Erico Aumentado the agency’s commitment. The Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) puts up the remaining P1.7B.

It may be recalled that President Arroyo herself broke ground and buried the time capsule for the project in May of 2008. When she did this, she pronounced that the project should be done before her term ends in 2010.

The road access widening works leading to Panglao airport is now underway, lessening worries as the days off the President’s term tick off.

PGMA’s Bohol Day announcement elated the Boholanos, including those who came home for the triennial Tigum Bolanon sa Tibook Kalibutan (TBTK) worldwide this week, who anticipated major statements from the President’s adopted project dreamt by local officials.

The anticipation of a major statement from the President was also borne out of the fear that the project may have been dumped because of local opposition here.

Apart from the President’s pronouncements, Press Secretary Cerge Remonde, who also talked with DOTC Secretary Mendoza bared an “all systems go” status for the airport facility in Panglao. - the Bohol Standard

Department of Agriculture (DA) officials have reported a significant decline in the farmgate prices of chicken this week, a positive development they expect would pull down retail costs of the commodity to P110-P120 per kilo.

In a report to Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap, Director Davinio Catbagan of the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) said that the drop in farmgate prices by an average of P20 per kilo as of July 21 was due to a “confluence of factors” such as improved farm efficiency and increase in birds’ weight, which resulted partly from the intervention measures that had been put in place by the DA and BAI to help the livestock and poultry sector sustain its growth this year.

Assistant Secretary Salvador Salacup said, meanwhile, that Yap has ordered DA officials to keep tabs on wet markets all over the country to ensure that this hefty drop in the farmgate rate would translate into cheaper retail prices for Filipino consumers.

Chicken farmgate prices have dropped from P92-P94 per kilo three weeks ago to P72-P74 per kilo as of July 21.

“Because farmgate price is down by P20, retail prices must be adjusted down correspondingly as well,” Catbagan said. “The drop in prices is not a decision of the raisers, but is supply driven, brought about by improved farm production efficiency and increase in birds’ harvest weight.”

The poultry subsector posted a 4.71% growth increase in 2008, with chicken production rising 5.76%. The subsector, with its 14.11% share in the total agricultural output, was valued at P130.9 billion at current prices or 10.71% higher than the previous year’s record.

Philippine agriculture expanded 3.92% in 2008 with its value rising by almost 20% to P1.16 trillion despite an unprecedented food crisis brought about by declining farm productivity across the globe.

The country’s continuous Bird Flu/Avian Influenza (AI) free status allows the Philippines to continuously export chicken meat to Japan & Middle East countries and breeders’ day-old-chicks (DOC) to Nepal and other Asian countries.

In 2007, Philippine agriculture grew 4.68% with key subsectors posting ample or higher-than-expected yields as the DA succeeded in large part in easing the impact of a dry spell that had initially threatened to cripple farm growth in the second half of that year. - the Bohol Standard

Around 50 couples from different barangays in Duero, Bohol will attend a couples Party on July 31 to enhance their awareness on the importance of birth spacing and correct myths and misconceptions about family planning.

The party is part 0f the 20th World Population Day Celebration. This year gives special attention to women with the theme “Responding to the Economic Crisis, Investing in Women is a Smart Choice,” focusing on the urgency and importance of population issues, particularly in the context of the current economic crisis that threatens many public health efforts.

The 2003 National Demographic and Health Survey reveal that the poorest women pay the highest price with their wealth, well-being, and ultimately their lives, particularly during financial crisis. The desire to have children and raise them well should prompt many families to plan the timing and the number of their births. Many couples, however do not have the knowledge, tools and assistance they need to maintain their reproductive health and form the family that they desire. Currently, more than half of all pregnancies in the Philippines occur too soon or to close together. Consequently, many women give birth to more children than they can care for. In the end, deaths among mothers are high, especially among disadvantaged women â€"those who are poor, live in rural areas or have little education.

The Couples’ Party also aims to promote a better quality of life through responsible parenthood and family planning. Family planning affords couples a better chance for a healthy family, higher income, better education of children, participation in community activities and less stress for the entire family. The party will also highlight the significance of planning to safe motherhood and child survival. A mother who plans or spaces her pregnancies, protects herself and, at the same time, gives her child a greater chance of survival. Moreover, well spaced children are healthier since they are better nourished, better cared for, and more resistant to infections or illness.

The party will be conducted from 7:00 am to 4:30 pm at the Duero Cultural Center. There will be life testimonials of successful family planning users in between lectures and games on responsible parenthood, birth spacing, rumors and misconception on family planning, and national, as well household impact of family planning. Family planning services will be provided as well during the event.

The World Population Day was launched in 1989 and became an annual event which seeks to raise awareness of population issues around the world. (For further information on the event, just contact the Provincial Health Office.)

Not really spared from the adverse effects of the global financial crisis, the Central Visayas economic performance slowed down following a holding back stance until the economy starts to bounce.

But according to the Regional Development Council in its Full Council Meeting held Friday at the posh Bohol Tropics Resort here, tourism, one of Visayas’ major economic drivers remained vibrant.

The vibrant status can be gleaned from visitor arrival data in the fourth quarter of 2008 which exceeded last year’s level by 9.6%, the RDC briefing notes reveal.

The continued influx of foreign travelers coming to the region despite the recession in the United States and other major economies has been the main reason why the region squeezed a double digit increase in foreign visitor arrivals.

In fact, observers have noted that a large bulk of foreign arrivals visiting the region were balikbayan homing for the holidays and the festivals in the region in the first quarter of the new year.

For foreign travelers, Koreans still remain to be on top comprising more than one-fourth of the total foreign visitors in the region. Japanese ranked next with about 18%.

Chinese tourists, perhaps owing to the travel campaigns made by local officials to China have doubled their arrivals since fourth quarter of 2007.

In domestic travel, the market showed a slow-down from its previous year’s high double-digit performance of 12.5% in the fourth quarter of 2007 to 8.1% in 2008.

In Bohol, from 54,915 tourists in 2006, it went up to 62.033 in 2007 and then rose to 71,366 to an annual average of 15.05%.

Industry players in the region also confirmed the growth, however slower than the previous year, says the Department of Tourism.

Reports reaching DOT revealed that tourism stakeholders noted that occupancy rates in the region’s hotels remained high, despite clear close-cutting measures in the light of the crisis.

This was also noted by authorities in Bohol when reports stream of declined interest in investing in the industry, possibly because tourism sector still remains to be one of the most vulnerable industries to the crisis. (PIA)

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo inaugurated on Wednesday the Bohol Medical Care Institute (BMCI) or known as the Bohol Diagnostic Center, a facility that will provide cheap socialized medical and diagnostic services to indigent families of this island province.

Immediately upon her arrival at the Barangay Dao District here, the President unveiled the marker of the P20 million BMCI facility located at the right side of the building’s main entrance.

On hand to assist the President were Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, Education Secretary Jesli Lapus, Governor Erico Aumentado, Tagbilaran City Mayor Dan Lim, and First Consolidated Bank foundation chairman.

In his brief remarks, Governor Aumentado said the opening of the BMCI and the Sandugo Regional One Town, One Product (OTOP) provincial trade fair reflects the administration’s focus on key areas of success in the province especially in health, trade, agriculture, education and livelihood.

He stressed that the formal opening of the BMCI “will address the shortage of appropriate diagnostic facilities in Bohol” and the prohibitive cost of medical care services whenever Boholanos go to the cities of Cebu, Manila, Cagayan de Oro or Davao for diagnosis or treatment.

The BMCI will house diagnostic equipment and specialists clinics designed to provide indigents and middle class patients socialized services.

These include radiology, laboratory/pathology, endoscopy, treatment of eye, ear, nose, throat (EENT) diseases, therapy/pain management, internal medicine, cardiology and ambulatory services.

The BMCI is a joint project of the provincial government, First Consolidated Bank (FCB) Foundation, Bohol Chronicle-DYRD- Inyong Alagad Foundation and the New York-based Home Reach Foundation aimed to provide indigent and middle class families socialized medical/diagnostic services. - the Bohol Standard

As the Department of Education in the region, including Bohol, is under fire for the alleged scam in the bidding of school furniture supplies amounting to millions of pesos, Bohol division superintendent Dr. Elpidio Jala has defended the acquisition of the furniture (desks and chairs) for use of different schools here.

The allegation stemmed from the BAC action of awarding the bid to the highest winning bidder, which appeared to a contradiction to government rules that the lowest bid should have been given the award.

Jala confirmed that a complaint was filed against officials of the DepEd including members of the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) Bohol for the alleged irregularities in the bidding of the P10-million worth of furniture supplies.

BAC Bohol awarded the project to the highest bidder--- Manila-based Hope Metal and Furniture Manufacturing Incorporated---with an amount bid of P2,768,615.00 but the lowest bid amounted to P1,973,625.00 submitted by Monlac Furniture Maker.

Because of this scenario, DepEd reportedly stood to lose amounting to P2.5 million when the project was awarded to highest bidder while the six other bidders were disqualified for the defective samples.

The disqualified contractors alleged that there was “favoritism” because the Manila-based bidder is a nephew of a top DepEd official that the report did not identify.

Jala reacted to the published news report in Cebu City regarding the alleged bidding of supplies scam.

Jala said in an interview last Friday that all the bid processes and procedures have been observed and the BAC including the technical working group opted to award the bid to the highest because the other bidders failed to qualify.

He said he has no option but to affix his signature to BAC resolution granting the award to the highest bidder.

Jala explained that he was about to consult the DepEd legal department for comment to resolve the first bidding. But only to realized he had nothing to do because he was advised by the BAC that there were already two biddings conducted so DepEd cannot anymore declared failure of the bidding, based on the bidding guidelines and policies. If he made the consultation, the fund for the furniture could have been handled by the DepEd central office, he said.

Another project of the same nature (acquisition of furniture supplies) is being withheld and Jala has yet to affix for approval of the award to the winning bidder.

Based on the BAC Resolution No. 09-02 declaring and recommending to Jala that RLJ Wood and Iron Works as the “bidder with lowest calculated and responsive bid for the supply and delivery of school furniture CY 2008 (re-bidding) for Lot A, B and C.”

The same Resolution signed by BAC chairperson Maria Linda Namocatcat, vice-chairperson Leonida C. Lerion and regular member Bianito A. Dagatan, showed that RLJ Wood and Iron Works is the highest bidder with an amount bid of P2,703,510 for LOT A project; P3,926,009.10; and P4,254,186.30 for Lots B and C, respectively.

Only RLJ Wood and Iron Works “complied with the technical specifications of the Agency,” the Resolution pointed out.

Other bidders on Lot A, which much lower than the RLJ Wood and Iron Works (P2,703,510), include Barly Enterprises with bid amount of P2,083,350.00 and JEC Lumber Corporation, P2,579,325.00.

In Lot B, Barly Enterprises put the bid for P3,054,800.00; RLJ Wood and Iron Works, P3,926,009.10; Iligan Integrated Manufacturer’s Multi-purpose Cooperative, P3,201,526.00; and JEC Lumber Corporation, P3,783,690.00.

In Lot C project, three contractors participated in the bidding: Ramagal Door and Sash Manufacturing with a bid amounting to P4,373,190.00; Iligan Integrated Manufacturer’s Multi-purpose Cooperative, P3,466,638.00; and RLJ Wood and Iron Works, P4,254,186.00.

“The results of the Technical Working Group post-qualification showed that Barly Enterprises and Iligan Integrated Manufacturer’s Multi-purpose Cooperative failed to comply with the technical specifications of the agency as evidenced by their samples submitted,” BAC said.

Jala said that he would face whatever legal action against the DepEd following the filing of the complaint with the Ombudsman and the reported congressional investigation filed by Akbayan Party-list Rep. Riza Hontiveros-Baraquel. (RVO) - Ric Obedencio, the Bohol Standard

By Alcuin Papa, TJ Burgonio
Philippine Daily Inquirer

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her party racked up a dinner bill of close to P1 million at a ritzy New York restaurant during her recent trip to the United States, according to an online news report.

And the militant Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), which referred to the story of the New York Post that was posted August 7 on its website, is demanding an explanation.

Richard Johnson wrote the brief report in the Page Six “Eat and Drink” section of the NY Post online edition.

It read: “The economic downturn hasn’t persuaded everyone to pinch pennies. Philippines President Maria Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was at Le Cirque the other night with a large entourage enjoying the good life, even though the former comptroller of her country’s armed services, Carlos Garcia, was found guilty earlier this year of perjury and two of his sons were arrested in the US on bulk cash-smuggling charges. Macapagal-Arroyo ordered several bottles of very expensive wine, pushing the dinner tab up to $20,000.”

Firestorm mars TBTK endgame
Published by Sunday Post

  It was an endgame nobody expected.

  The promise of a memorable goodbye given the hype of the Tigum Bol-anon sa Tibuok Kalibutan (TBTK) was punctuated with fire and brimstone from disgruntled players of the grand homecoming.

Held every three years, this year’s edition was marred by reports that it was poorly attended; the medical, surgical and dental mission lacked coordination and lastly the lament of a former beauty queen being deprived of her grand prize, the equivalent of a round trip ticket to the US.

All this formed part of the sad spectacle surrounding the grand reunion of Boholanos all over the world. Built around the acronym TBTK, it was billed beforehand that it was the biggest assembly of Boholanos gathered together every three years to make a grand homecoming to their birthplace.

The unkindest cut of the TBTK hoopla was the behavior of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan where it took upon itself, the role of looking into the controversy surrounding its 2009 staging here.

Taking the cudgels to those who expressed convulsion over some lapses of the worldwide activity, the SP chaired by Vice-Gov. Julius Caesar Herrera wasted no time to step into the reported mess.

It was Board Member Asther Apalisok Piollo who blew the whistle on  the reported irregularities of the affair citing  complaints she received from outside sources who were as concerned as to the success of the big event.

At least four SP committees scrambled to treat the endgame issue. The planned probe was lodged before the four committees â€" appropriations, tourism, women and culture/arts. Herrera chairs the appropriations, board member Ester Corazon Galbreath of tourism while Piollo and board member Amalia R. Tirol chair the women and culture/arts, respectively.

SP FIRESTORM

In its session last  July 28, Piollo’s call for an inquiry virtually sparked a firestorm when he quoted a newspaper report vis-à-vis the complaint of Loida Tiza Lagonoy, 2006 Miss Bohol International. The Post broke an exclusive story detailing the complaint of Lagonoy about a grand prize that never was. In a video presentation last week  on the occasion of the coronation of the Miss Bohol International 2009, the pageant winner broke her silence about her failure to enjoy the round trip reward.

While it was reported that she was able to secure a visa to ensure her US trip, she blamed beauty contest organizers for not doing good enough to have her airplane ticket replaced after it expired.

In bringing her complaint to the attention of the SP,   Piollo qualified that she was not out to ruin the spirit of the TBTK but she just wanted to put things in their proper perspective. She said all she wanted was for the next TBTK to be devoid of any messy observations.

MEDICAL MISSION

In the same SP furor, the lady board member also took potshots to alleged non-coordination  of key participants of the medical, dental and surgical mission.

According to  information she gathered from reliable sources, the medical mission was only used as smokescreen  for the rest and recreation of participating stateside doctors, nurses and other volunteers.

According to the board member, the duty of  carrying out the task of extending medical, dental and surgical mission was  left mostly to local participants while their foreign counterparts were out there enjoying every minute of their visit to Bohol’s tourists spots. The local volunteers came from the Gov. Gallares Memorial Hospital.

But Carlita “Liklik” Schroeder debunked Piollo’s pontifications about the US-based volunteers’ behavior while in Bohol.

As overall coordinator in the US for medical volunteers to participate in the medical mission, Schroeder said they cannot be faulted for enjoying their stay here because in the first place the participating medics paid for their own trip including fare and board and lodging.

The Boholana who is married to an American, however, confirmed that when the US volunteers did arrive at the medical mission site which was the Bohol  Cultural Center, they found to their surprise that they were treated like bystanders instead of being key participants.

Describing what she heard about the lapses in the medical mission, the complaining board member said “those who were members of the medical, surgical and dental missions only come here in order to have a good time. She said what she was expecting were hands-on volunteers because they were supposed to attend to the needs of indigent Boholanos especially so that a financial assistance was extended by the provincial government. .

On the issue of Ms. Lagonoy, where she did not receive her prize of an all-expense trip to the US, Piollo said the pageant organizers should have done something to help the poor girl.

“The winner of the beauty contest, after the crowning does not have any clear obligation in order to represent the culture of the Boholano people. They are supposed to be ambassadors of goodwill of Bohol ,” she lamented.

Lagonoy confirmed this and expressed disgust for being cheated of her title and award she deserved when she bid farewell during the coronation night. She was succeeded by Carlene Pepito Yap as Miss Bohol Inter-national 2009.

The Lagonoy family is willing to appear before any of the SP committee looking into the TBTK mess if only to aid its side of the controversy. This they confirmed in a text message to Herrera. The text said that the family was grateful that the SP was concerned to the flight of the family member who was treated not like a beauty queen.

For her part, Pureza Veloso Chatto, wife of Rep. Edgar Chatto (1st district) in a radio interview and one of the organizers of the pageant, denied the allegation lodged by Lagonoy, .

TBTK chairperson Betty Veloso Garcia reportedly said she’s ready to face the investigation, saying TBTK has nothing to hide. The homecoming of the Boholanos gave an opportunity to Bohol’s tourism industry to generate earnings as most of the visitors stayed at  resorts, she said.

Also in a radio interview, Veloso was asked if she would be willing  to attend the inquiry, which Piollo labeled as “in aid of legislation.

Saying she was  living anytime soon, Veloso said she would  probably let somebody based here to appear in her behalf to clear the air of any malicious insinuations regarding her role in the TBTK. Veloso who had since left  this city for the US is the president of the Confederation of Boholanos of  the United States and Canada (CONBUSAC), the host of the TBTK.

POO ATTENDANCE

Another “blot in the escutcheon” of the 2009 TBTK was  its poor attendance as shown by the dismal registration report. Reports said that only a handful of TBTK members registered compared to more than 300 in 2006. Gov. Erico Aumentado told the media during his Governor Reports program last Friday that he was informed there were only 40 plus registrants.

It was reported that an opposing camp to the present TBTK leadership did not bother to participate in the TBTK election of officers because of the past “rift” between the two groups that remains unsettled. Against this leadership breakdown, Garcia still remains as president. She was reportedly re-elected by a handful of participants gathered in an election at Metro Center here.

NEGATIVE REVIEWS

While the medical mission yielded negative reviews,  Fancy Baluyot, social and health consultant of the province particularly on the medical missions, denied that balikbayan doctors and other medical professional did not participate in the missions that benefited a lot of patients.  She said that she’s willing to face the SP inquiry if called.

For his part, Herrera preferred to call the SP action as “consultation” in aid-of-legislation. He added that the SP, being the highest law-making body of the province, has also the duty to monitor the activities because the province is also actively involved in it. The planned “consultation,”  which is expected to start anytime, will be convened soon and called on the people concerned to provide vital information for the lawmakers.

For his part, Gov.  Aumentado said in his weekly Governor Reports media program there may be a need to look into this. “Kon aduna may sipyat, angay susihon,”. But the governor cautioned the probers  to do it in a way that it cannot intrude into the privacy of some TBTK individuals.

“Maayo tingale nga tarongon sa pagsusi kay dili man maayo nga ipakita ang tumang kaanyag sa atong mga kandidata,” referring to the “indecent” portrayal of Miss Bohol International 2009.

The governor acknowledged that it was a sacrifice on the part of the TBTK organizers to host the homecoming. He added that the inquiry must be acted in accordance with due process so that it may not “strain” the TBTK because of its expected financial aid  to the provincial government.

But he admitted that the provincial government has spent a “little” in welcoming  TBTK balikbayans as a sort of an inspiration to pour their resources in the province.

The province had spent a total of PhP293,650.00 for the holding of Medical Missions and TBTK activities held three years ago, based on the certification issued by assistant provincial treasurer Primitiva Ontong and noted by provincial administrator lawyer Tomas Abapo, Jr.

These expenses in the form of catering services provided by the Bohol Tropics Resort Club in this city are just recently settled. (With reports from Ric Obedencio) 

Kung makalipay sa tawo ang pagpamakak ug pagtomo-tomo ug estoryang bakak aron pasakitan ko ug ang akong mga higala, ang maong kalipay iya sa dautan ug sa gahom sa kangitngit.

I was attacked while I was away from Internet connection. The attacked was timed the day they knew I won't be online for some time.

The plan was so evil that only those who have unstable minds and unhappy marital lives are capable of manufacturing lies and falsehood in such magnitude.

The only purpose for spreading those ABSOLUTE LIES, courtesy of their evil imaginations, is to satisfy their curiosity of envy and jealousy.

These people, and I already know who they are, get so much pleasure through the pain and humiliation of their fellow human beings.

They are so unhappy they want others to be miserable, too. For them, to be happy is to sponsor falsehood and to inflict pain to others.

They have an arrogant delusion that if they could fabricate lies and intrigues, the shame and humiliation of their fellow human beings will fulfill their deep longing for peace and happiness.

They can fake their IP addresses and falsify their usernames, but they cannot fake their records in heaven.

By Philip Tubeza
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Starting July 19, the shelf life of cellular phone credits will be “tripled,” with the prepaid load of P10 or less extended to three days and the load of more than P300 stretched to four months, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) announced Tuesday.

On the prodding of the Senate, the NTC also announced that effective July 23 unsolicited “text spam” or promotional text messages would be prohibited.

The NTC action came in the wake of the uproar over “disappearing loads” caused by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile’s complaint of “vanishing load” in his prepaid account.

Consumer rights advocates have long criticized this practice of telecommunication companies (telcos).

The commission earlier justified its years of inaction, saying that a temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by a Quezon City judge had blocked an NTC memo that set the guidelines on billing statements, sale and use of prepaid cards, and interconnection agreements.

Investigate judge

At the resumption Tuesday of the Senate hearing, Enrile, who initiated the probe of the disappearing loads, said he would ask the Supreme Court to investigate the Quezon City judge who issued the TRO eight years ago.

“The Senate president will write the Chief Justice and ask through him to discipline this judge and learn why the case has not moved for eight years,” Enrile said.

“We will also write the Judicial and Bar Council that the Senate will object to the promotion of that judge,” the Senate President said.

The office of Sen. Mar Roxas identified the judge as Vivencio S. Baclig, presiding judge of Branch 77 of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court.

At the hearing, NTC Commissioner Ruel V. Canobas said telcos had already agreed to the NTC decision to extend the shelf life of cell phone loads.

"Binignit" - It seems that we don't have an English translation for this word.