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By F. Allan L. Angelo
MOVES to increase real property taxes in Iloilo City could
lead to a real estate bubble, according to a business expert.
Arturo R. Jimenez, former
dean of the College of Business Administration of Iloilo
City-based Western Institute of
Technology, said drastic hikes
in property taxes amid a real
property boom could create
a bubble similar to what happened in Hong Kong sometime
in 2007.
According to investopedia.
com, a bubble is an economic
cycle characterized by rapid
expansion followed by a contraction. It is a theory that
security prices rise above their
true value and will continue to
do so until prices go into freefall
and the bubble bursts.
Jimenez property tax hikes
are likely to drive up rents and
prices of houses and office
spaces in the city.
“Prices could go up and
when the bubble pops because
consumers cannot anymore afford, it could trigger a sudden
drop in prices and lead to recession. That’s what happened in
Hong Kong when government
suddenly increased taxes because of the real estate boom,”
Mr. Jimenez said.
Jimenez said the tax hike
could also push prospective
investors out of the city as
they will be discouraged by
exorbitant rents and property
acquisition costs.
“That will definitely dampen
the expansion of businesses in
the city. In the end, we might
be left holding the bag,” he
added.
Earlier, the Iloilo Business
Club (IBC), Inc. also expressed
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Drugs
hidden
in shoes,
sandals
sent via
LBC
By Dolly Yasa and
Jennifer P. Rendon
ANTI-illegal drugs
operatives scored major
victories in separate
operations in the cities
of Bacolod and Iloilo
Monday.
PDEA-6 Director Paul Ledesma with suspected pusher Edgardo Justo (left photo). A kilo of suspected shabu (right photo) hidden in
the soles of shoes and sandals sent via LBC was seized from Justo Monday. (Dolly Yasa)
In Bacolod City, Philippine
Drug Enforcement Agency
(PDEA) operatives arrested
a resident of Murcia, Negros
Occidental for possessing a
kilo of suspected shabu with
an estimated street value of P7
million.
Edgardo “Rey Roman”
Justo, 36, of Barangay Sta. P7M /p7
There’s hope for LGU-hired teachers Fake adjudication
certificates at Super
By Wenceslao E. Mateo Jr.
CONTRACTUAL teachers hired by the Iloilo
City government can still retain their jobs once
they are absorbed by the Department of Education (DepEd).
Dr. Nelly Valerio, Iloilo City Schools Division superintendent, said local government unit
(LGU)-funded teachers are qualified for regular
teaching plantilla under DepEd.
LGU-hired teachers are funded by city’s Special Education Fund (SEF).
“They are all qualified to be absorbed into
the DepEd plantilla. They have all passed the
Licensure Exam for Teachers, including the
substitutes,” Valerio said.
In his field memo dated May 20, 2014, DepEd
Secretary Armin Luistro ordered a hiring freeze
of new LGU-funded teachers, including kindergarten volunteer teachers, starting this school
year, 2014-2015.
But Luistro said the newly created plantilla
positions for Teacher I will absorb qualified LGUhired teachers.
DepEd recently created 61,510 teacher items
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in 2013. For school year 2014-2015, an additional 33,194 items for kinder, elementary and
secondary teachers were also created with a
P9.52-billion funding.
Valerio said Iloilo City presently funds 165
teachers who are hired on a yearly contract but
are equally paid and enjoy the same benefits that
regular teachers in the DepEd plantilla receive.
The province of Iloilo has 345 LGU-funded
teachers, though they have lower pays compared
to their counterparts in Iloilo City.
There are about 37,000 LGU-hired teachers who
augment the regular teaching force of the DepEd.
The new 33,194 teachers are expected to fill
the shortage for the school year and to meet the
ideal teacher-to-student ratio set by DepEd.
The ideal ratio for kindergarten is 1:23-35
while for elementary multigrade (different levels in one classroom), the ratio should be 1:less
than 30.
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By Wenceslao E. Mateo Jr.
A NEW anomaly has been discovered at the Iloilo Terminal Market
or popularly known as Super Market in Iloilo City.
Reports reaching the office of City Councilor Rodel Agado,
Committee on Markets and Slaughterhouses chairman, said that
a certain Joy has been selling fake copies of the certificate of
adjudication since last week.
The certificate of adjudication is issued to a qualified
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Sex scandal
probe hits snag
By WenceslaoE. Mateo Jr.
THE investigation on the alleged sex
scandal rocking the Iloilo City Hall cannot
proceed sans a formal complaint or witness
despite orders from Mayor Jed Patrick
Mabilog to go deeper into the case.
City administrator Norlito Bautista said
they don’t know where to start in the probe
if no one is willing to talk.
Mabilog instructed Bautista along with
city legal administrator Daniel Dinopol
and Human Resource Office Chief Leo
Elevencione to investigate the purported
sex scandal involving an executive assistant of the mayor and a lady contractual
employee.
The sexual tryst is believed to have happened on the third floor of the city hall.
“Everybody who is suspected of having knowledge of the incident said that
they do not know anything about it. More
importantly, there is no complainant. If
only the guy’s wife
or the husband of
the woman would
complain, we could
then proceed with
the investigation.
Otherwise, how
could I?” Bautista
added.
Asked on the
content of the CCTV
footage in the third
floor, Bautista said
the CCTV is only
focused on the cor-
Man hacked
inside own house
By Angelica L. Tapalla
A 62-YEAR-old man was
wounded after being hacked
by a suspected thief inside his
own house.
Police identified the victim,
who was sleeping when was
attacked inside his house
around 12:30 a.m. Monday,
as Eduardo Hollega of Oton,
Iloilo
Police said theft may
have been the motive for the
incident. The suspect remains
at-large.
ridors, not inside rooms and offices.
“Because of this sex scandal, we could
probably think of providing each office with
a CCTV camera,” he said.
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‘Freedom Ride
from Oil 2014’
By Maricyn A. De los Santos
HUNDREDS of bikers from Iloilo City and nearby Iloilo towns
will ride in the name of freedom on Independence Day, June 12,
2014.
Event organizer Rock Drilon said the “Freedom Ride: Declaration of Independence from Oil” will start 5:30 a.m. at Jaro Plaza.
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conceit.
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the US and the rest was used for local consumption. The reserve was on standby in case the US
asked for more sugar in which case portions of
the “C” is converted to “A”.
The US market price, quoted in dollars, is
usually good as it is based more on political
considerations than purely economic sense. It
is dictated by the US government and the quota
is given to friendly countries. The friendlier the
country, the bigger the quota it gets.
The political nature of the US quota sugar is
graphically portrayed in Cuba. When in 1961,
Fidel Castro overthrew the government of Cuba
which was supported by the still America imposed sanction against Cuban sugar which was
the mainstay of the country as much as sugar is
Negros’. Castro declared “sin quota, sin amo!”
(No quota, no master.)
Each year the US Department of Agriculture
proposes the quota to supplier countries so the
Philippines has to maintain an expensive lobby
there to ensure we get a good slice. An increase
in our sugar quota is usually hailed as an achievement by any administration despite the “con
quota, con amo” reality.
In the event that there is a shortage or tightness
of supply for the local market, then portions of
the “C” is converted to “B”.
In 1974 the Laurel-Langley Agreement was
terminated and it freed the US from a mandated
quota from the Philippines. This forced the Philippines to enter into the world market, a free market
where most sugar producing dump their excess
sugar at low prices.
It was then that we classified for the fourth alphabet, the “D” sugar and since this is “a homeless
sugar” it is normally bought by traders at a lower
price. The traders had to sell them to the world
market where they can get a contract or keep them
and wait for “a miracle” – the conversion.
This system created the present controversy
- conversions of cheaply bought “D” to the expensive “B”.
The weakness of this system is that those who
are close to the authority to make the initial classification of sugar still to be produced will have
the advantage of knowing the quantity to buy.
The present situation arose, culling from last
week’s anonymous advertisement (I finally got
the name of the advertiser) because the SRA overallocated for the cheap “D”. This in effect reduced
the composite price of sugar that planters get. The
View Point
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PPLAUSE is the end and aim of “weak
minds,” parliamentarian Edmund
Burke once wrote. But it also spurs
“noble minds.” That’s tailor-fit for Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales.
She didn’t dally for the standing ovation
that erupted after she hauled, before the
anti-graft court, Senators Juan Ponce Enrile,
Jinngoy Estrada, Bong Revilla and associates
for plunder. Instead, she lodged an urgent petition with the Supreme Court: Please create two special divisions,
in the anti-graft court, to conduct, without break, the trial of the
pork barrel scam.
Morales cited four compelling reasons: “national magnitude
of these cases, complexities of the issues; multiple numbers of
accused and far-reaching consequences.”
The Constitution, precedent, plus Sandiganbayan’s own rules
underpin swift action. In January 2002, the high court crafted
a special division, in Sandiganbayan, to tackle plunder charges
against President Joseph Estrada and co-accused. It convicted
Erap with dispatch.
Sen. Ramon Revilla Jr. – charged with repeatedly slurping into
the pork barrel for bogus NGOS – scurried to the Sandiganbayan
Saturday with motions for suspension of proceedings. If granted,
that’d stave off the arresting posses for now. But what if denied?
Then, his lawyers would lodge a petition for certiorari with the
Supreme Court. “If you are in his shoes, you will not also want to
be jailed,’’ the senator’s counsel said.
Sure. But “never grow a wishbone where your backbone should
be,” columnist Dorothy Parker would josh friends in New York’s
lower East Side. And backbone is what this Ombudsman has
always had.
As a Supreme Court justice, Morales penned the 8-7 decision
that scrubbed President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s memorandum
of agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front on ancestral
domain. “The biggest joke to hit the century,” she bristled at the
Corona court majority allowing Eduardo Cojuangco to dip into
levies extorted from indigent coconut farmers. The tycoon pocketed
16.2-million San Miguel shares.
“Our fears are shaped by past betrayals,” Viewpoint noted
(Inquirer, 3/23/10). “A Supreme Court that grovels... whistles up
a gross image (of) a Chief Justice trotting behind Imelda Marcos,
as parasol bearer.”
The lady ombudsman’s petition will be heard Tuesday by a court
led by a lady chief justice: Maria Lourdes Serreno. “Ing mayap
a babai / Maiguit ya karing rubi,” a Pampango proverb says. “A
good woman is worth more than rubies”.
Shattered hopes in constitutional institutions are reviving –
thanks to Filipinas of “burnished steel.” That includes Gabriela
Silang, executed in 1763 for rebelling against colonizers to “housewife” Corazon Aquino who sent a dictator packing.
“Women are only good for the bedroom,” Ferdinand Marcos
sneered when told that Cory reluctantly agreed to a draft. “Walang
alam yan.” And Cory snapped back. “True. I don’t know how to
steal, cheat, lie or murder.”
“People Power One” installed Aquino as the 14th – and the first
woman - president. She re-established constitutional government,
served with integrity, oversaw peaceful transition of power and
returned to her modest Times Street home. Marcos corpse molders
in a mausoleum as his heirs badger for denied Libingan Ng Mga
Bayani honors.
People respect women who refuse to be cowed and hewed to
principles. That includes today’s Justice Secretary Leila de Lima,
Commission on Audit’s Grace Pulido Tan and Heidi Mendoza,
Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman to BIR commissioner
Kim Henares.
They’re cut from the same bolt of Cecilia Muñoz Palma (19132006). The first woman Supreme Court justice didn’t buckle when
male colleagues surrendered to Marcos the 12th-century prerogative
of courts to rule on habeas corpus pleas. She flayed, in January
1975, the farcical “Citizens Assemblies.” “A referendum under
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Breakthrough to a flight
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composite price is the average planters get after
combining the prices of the three sugar alphabet.
SRA conducts field surveys’ (some claim the
survey is on top of the table which make the result
arbitrary) so it must have known the expected
production for the year and the consumption. Any
deviation can be covered by the “C” sugar.
SRA, however, claimed that there was an upsurge
in consumption because of the summer and the significant reduction in smuggled sugar. In short, SRA
underestimated the domestic demand and now must
cover this shortfall by converting the “D” into “B”.
That seems fine and regular enough, but the
critics say that since “D” was purchased at a low
price (P800) don’t because of the producer then
they must be paid with a differential which runs
to an estimated P700 per bag. This evens up the
“B” price of P1,500.
Sounds fair enough otherwise if they were
not compensated, then the traders would reap a
bountiful harvest indeed without planting a single
stalk of cane.
There are other ramifications of this conversion,
like foreknowledge by both SRA and the traders that
smells corruption because it gives undue advantage
to traders and those with inside information.
Juan L. Mercado
Wishbone – or backbone?
T THE outset of
exposés related
to the lechonaromatic revelry of the
putrid, the public outrage has
pressured to jail the guilty.
The Supreme Court
already ordered to abolish
the Priority Development
Assistance Fund (PDAF) but
has been inhibiting itself, out of courtesy to the
Office of the President, to also include President
Aquino’s discretionary fund—the Disbursement
Acceleration Program (DAP).
Now, however, that we see the imminent
conviction of senators Juan Ponce Enrile, Jinggoy
Estrada and Ramon Bong Revilla, there is a
reason to rejoice in a historic breakthrough in our
society’s governance that got its “sacred spark”—
if I have to borrow the theory of motivation that
works among academics—from whistleblowers
who risked their lives to tell the truth.
This is no ordinary achievement to take
for granted through partisan politics which
downplays the merits of each party. We can
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Sugar alphabet
HE CONTROVERSIAL conversion of “D”
sugar to “B” remains up
front despite the decision of the
Sugar Regulatory Administration with the concurrence of
the Sugar Alliance composed
of planters and millers.
Since 1935 when the quota
system was imposed by the United States to
ensure that Philippine production is controlled
to suit the market and business interests of the
American sugar industries, the Philippines has
retained the quota system even after the country
had become independent.
The division of sugar into using alphabet
classification system – A, B, C, and D creates an
annual controversy.
Most people outside the sugar industry do not
understand the classification. They are concerned
only of the availability of supply and the price.
It does not matter to them who gets skimmed or
gets fat under this alphabet system.
Initially there were only three alphabets – “A”
for the US quota, “B” for domestic use and “C”
for reserve. At that time, our sugar only went to
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remember that the fall of a dictator did not just
become an isolated case of adventurism to topple
the decrepit likes of drunken emperor Nero. After
the fall of President Marcos, President Estrada
also got his payday for plunder. Had it not been
for a fiddling presidential discretion to give him
a “pardon”, the sentence could have strengthened
the message that plunder does not pay.
As for the three senators about to face arrest,
the scenario implies that even the “big fish”
won’t be spared when it comes to facing the
frying pan (only that the size of the pan will be
adjusted). This could be everybody’s dream.
Albeit this looks like selective justice for the
moment, it is eloquent enough to dissuade abuses
of discretion among the legislators and the
executive branch constituents alike. This move
sends strong messages and it perhaps becomes
the chef d’oeuvre of the three branches of the
government.
Upon hearing witnesses’ accounts and
seeing the files of Benhur Luy, the move of
the Ombudsman to file the case against the
senators and Napoles before the Sandiganbayan
is laudable. Without its promptness, we could
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have thought of conspiracy theories or bribery
winning behind the scenes—or another venality
to be uprooted. The Supreme Court also decided
with circumspection in denying the petitions of
the accused to cancel the filing of plunder cases
against them.
President Aquino announced through his
spokesperson that he wants to speed up the trial of
pork barrel scam-related cases and even supports
the creation of special courts to handle such
cases. The palace clarifies that “this constitutes
a major step forward in our mission to find out
the truth about these anomalies”, spokesperson
Valte said.
Moreover, Senate President Franklin Drilon
clarified that we are not a country governed by
men but by laws. The arrest of the three members
of the Senate, he said, will not hamper the body’s
function as it will lead to the strengthening of
government institutions.
Rightly said, Senator Drilon. Without the
removal of the guilty, the Senate becomes a
complete copycat of Enron and Worldcom – the
most notorious firms in the world.
Our society should be thankful for the efforts
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of our whistleblowers, past and present. After
clearly seeing the role of whistleblowers in
unearthing frauds, our government should
have hastened the approval of bills for the
encouragement and protection of whistleblowers
pending in the senate.
For those who see selective justice working
at the moment, their vision needs to be stretched
because the imminent conviction of the three
senators is not an end-all. It just came to the fore
because the principal witness could have been
temporarily intimidated with power (that is why he
struggles to pinpoint Abad and other presidential
allies) as he seeks vindication from serious illegal
detention of Napoles. But we see that public
vigilance has grown in power to pressure the
unearthing of valuable facts about the issue.
Though we notice president Aquino’s struggle
to inculcate the real meaning of “daang matuwid”
(straight path) and would be rated only 60% in
terms of consistency, it would not be matched by
down players and rhetoric-makers who could at
best prove only 10% suppose they have the same
core value proposition.
Do not despise initial breakthroughs.
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COMBINED members of the Iloilo City police and Land Transportation Office (LTO) mount a checkpoint on Guzman Street, Mandurriao district to crack down on violators of traffic laws. (Angelica Tapalla)
Armed ‘RPA-ABB’
member arrested
B y A ngelica L. T apalla
AN ALLEGED member of the Revolutionary
Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade
(RPA-ABB) was arrested for possessing a
loaded gun at Brgy. Bungol, Janiuay Iloilo
Sunday night.
Police identified the suspect as Lorito
Caba, 60, of Brgy. Bungol.
Police Insp. Felix Alianza, Janiuay PNP
chief, said Caba has two arrest warrants:
one for illegal possession of firearms and
one for homicide with the use of unlicensed
firearm.
Alianza said they had been monitoring the
suspect for several weeks.
Police have yet to confirm if the suspect
is an RPA-ABB member.
Driver
hurt as van
plunges
into river
A DRIVER was wounded after
the delivery van he was driving
plunged into a river in LaPaz,
Iloilo City Monday afternoon.
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station of a sugar central in
Hacienda Ana, Barangay
Mabini, Escalante City last
Sunday night, June 9, 2014.
Col. Jon Aying, commander
of 303IB, said they suspect that
the 15 men are members of the
New People’s Army (NPA).
Reports revealed the NPA rebels
attacked the transloading station,
disarmed the security guard whom
they brought to the sugarcane fields,
then torched the equipment by
planting two improvised explosive
device (IED).
Aying said it was fortunate
that the other EID did not
explode.
Damaged equipments of the
Lopez Sugar Milling Company
were a transloading crane,
sugarcane testing machine
and gas pump, which cost P10
million.
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VISIT. Officials of Barangay Aranda in Hinigaran town visit Negros Occidental Vice Governor Eugenio Lacson (5th from left) and Board Member Len Gatuslao (5th from right) at the provincial capitol
recently.
Priest: No communion
for Murcia executives
THE priest whom Murcia town officials wanted
removed said he and his assistant will no longer
give the sacraments to local officials who earlier
passed a resolution seeking their replacement.
Fr. Greg Patiño said during his Sunday Homily
at the Immaculate Conception Parish that since
these officials “rejected” them as their priests,
they will also exercise their power not to give
them the sacraments.
The Sangguniang Bayan of Murcia passed
a resolution last June 2 asking Bacolod Bishop
Vicente Navarra to replace Fr. Patiño and Fr.
Agustin Hinayan, the parochial vicar.
The council accused the priests of using the
pulpit to attack them for their supposed inaction
over the town’s drug and gambling problems.
Mayor Andrew Montelibano already met
with Bishop Navarra last week to discuss the
conflict.
During the meeting, Navarra told Montelibano that he will look into the matter but asked
the mayor and the rest of the local officials to
refrain from giving public statements regarding
the issue.
Patiño also refused to comment further on his
controversial homily because he has also been
ordered by the bishop not to issue further statements anymore.
Montelibano, in response to the homily, said
Patiño cannot refuse to give them the sacraments
because it would violate their mandate as priests.
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Cruz, Murcia was arrested in a buy-bust
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operation in a mall parking lot in Bacolod
City Monday afternoon.
PDEA regional director Paul Ledesma
said they have been monitoring Justo for
his alleged illegal drug activities.
On Monday, Justo picked up a parcel
from commercial courier LBC inside the
mall. A PDEA agent posed as a buyer and
made a deal with the suspect at the mall’s
parking lot.
After the successful test buy, PDEA
agent arrested Justo and searched a pickup
truck where he loaded the suspicious
package.
Upon opening the box, PDEA agents
discovered 10 pairs of sandals and shoes.
Further examination of the items led to
the discovery of 22 sachets of suspected
shabu hidden in between the soles.
The suspect’s pickup truck with
registration plate XSU-373 was also
seized by PDEA agents.
“This is the biggest volume of illegal drugs
we have recovered so far,” Ledesma said.
Criminal charges are being readied
against Justo.
The suspect’s native town, Murcia, is
torn between its parish priests and local
officials who are in the middle of a dispute
over illegal drugs and gambling.
Frs. Greg Patiño and Agustin Hinayan
of the Immaculate Conception Parish
are at loggerheads with Mayor Andrew
Montelibano because of illegal activities
Fake...
from p.1
stall applicant whose status
at the Super was verified and
validated by the executive
market committee.
A stall holder who has secured a certificate of adjudication is entitled to a certificate of
award from the office of Mayor
Jed Patrick Mabilog.
More or less 1,000 stall
holders at Super underwent
Tax...
in their town.
The priests slammed Montelibano and
other town officials for turning a blind eye
on illegal drugs and gambling.
The officials have petitioned the
Catholic Church hierarchy in Negros
Occidental to remove Patiño and Hinayan
from the town.
This is not the first time that antinarcotics agents intercepted illegal drugs
sent via commercial courier LBC.
On April 21, 2014, PDEA agents also
seized more than P1 million worth of
suspected shabu from Romana de la Cruz,
46, of Brgy. Cuartero, Jaro, lloilo City.
The suspected drug stash was also sent
to Iloilo from Cavite via LBC.
A week after, PDEA also seized almost
P4 million worth of shabu from Jonathan
Badilles in a buy-bust operation in Cadiz
City, Negros Occidental.
‘TRES MARIAS’
Meanwhile, three women were arrested
in a buy-bust operation in a suspected
shabu den early Monday morning at Brgy.
Bakhaw, Mandurriao, Iloilo City.
Senior Inspector Edgar Anonoy, officerin-charge of Mandurriao police station,
identified the suspects as Rhea Olmido,
24, also of Bakhaw; Andrelyn Tabugon,
30, of Brgy. Infante, Molo, Iloilo City;
and Elma Mirasol, 42, of Brgy. Hibao-an
Norte Mandurriao.
The raiding team recovered 12 sachets
of suspected shabu, a weighing scale,
adjudication since March in a
bid to weed out illegal vendors
inside the market.
Agado said he was shocked
by the report which he received
while attending a conference
of the Philippine Councilors
League in Cebu.
“She was selling the certificates at P100 each. I do not know
how she ever produced the copies when the original papers may
lighters, and P1,350 cash.
Supt. Gilbert Gorero, spokesman of
the Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO), said
Olmido was the target of the operation.
The marked money was also recovered
from Olmido who is included in the police’s
watch list of illegal drug personalities.
Tabugon and Mirasol were arrested for
visiting Olmido’s place which is belied to
be a drug den.
POTOTAN RAID
In another operation in Pototan, Iloilo,
police arrested a tanod (village watchman)
of Guinacas village for possession
of suspected shabu and unlicensed
firearms.
Chief Insp. Aron Palomo, Pototan
police chief, said they arrested Ernesto
Bolivar of sitio Bugtong, Brgy. Guinacas
Monday afternoon.
The raid was conducted by the
Iloilo Provincial Police Office (IPPO)
intelligence branch with support from the
Pototan police force.
Palomo said Bolivar was involved in a
murder case which the suspect was able
to amicably settle.
Palomo said they recovered 19 sachets
of suspected shabu, 2 caliber .45 pistols,
and an M16 Armalite rifle.
The suspected drugs was valued at
more or less P44,000.
Aside from Bolivar, eight other persons
were arrested during the raid inside the
compound owned by the suspect.
not be given out except by the
market committee to the qualified stall applicants. We also give
them for free,” Agado told The
Daily Guardian Monday.
“Worse, each copy was already notarized even as it did
not even bear the name of the
stall applicant for which it is
supposed to be issued. The
lawyer who notarized the papers
must also be made to answer,”
from p.1
its opposition to the RPT hike mulled by the
City Hall.
Lea Lara, IBC executive director, said the
club’s board of trustees decided to oppose the
RPT hike as it could discourage investors to do
business in Iloilo City.
The Iloilo City government plans to increase
RPT assessment levels by at least 50 percent. The
assessment level is the percentage applied to the
market value to determine the taxable or assessed
value of the property.
The City Council’s committee on ways and
means is set to conduct hearings on the RPT hike.
The City Assessor’s Office (CAO) recom-
View Point...
from p.5
martial rule can be of no farreaching significance,” Palma
wrote with Justice Claudio
Teehankee. “It is accomplished
under a climate of fear.”
Under the watch of the late
Presidential Commission on
Good Government’s Haydee Yorac, the treasury recovered $683
million from Marcos’ Swiss bank
accounts. That same feistiness
showed in Yorac’s work, from
peace negotiator to Commission
on Elections official.
“Yorac knows she will not
complete the task herself,”
the 2004 Ramon Magsaysay
Award Foundation citation
noted. “Others will rise to it.
No one is indispensable, she
‘Freedom...
mended the RPT adjustments to the council in
February 2014.
Local government units have the power adjust
the RPT every three years.
The last RPT increase in Iloilo City was passed
in 2006 but it was implemented on a staggered
basis until it reached full enforcement in 2012.
The City government did not adjust property
taxes in 2009 because of the destruction caused
by Typhoon Frank in 2008.
Lara said RPT increases will also jack up rents
and market prices of properties. Investors and
developers might put off their plans if the RPT
is increased.
reminds us all. Making a difference is enough.”
Then senior vice president
of Equitable-PCI Bank Clarissa Ocampo made a difference
when she witnessed, from “a
foot away” President Joseph
Estrada signing a P500-million
loan as “Jose Velarde.” “I refused to certify it,” Ocampo
said. She later received threats
on her life and for some years
lived abroad. She is now a senior broadcast executive.
Heidi Mendoza audited the
comptroller’s office of the
Armed Forces of the Philippines and documented that,
under Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia,
the office plundered AFP funds.
from p.2
The 18-kilomter ride will cover the city’s six districts.
Upon registration, which is free, the participants can sign the
manifesto of support to the Iloilo City government’s initiatives to
make the city a walkable, bikable and livable city.
They can also sign a petition to the Sangguniang Panlungsod
and the Office of the City Mayor to pass an ordinance to set safe,
connected, convenient bicycle lanes and walkways encompassing
the city.
“This year’s Freedom Ride which will go to all six districts is
a people’s initiative in support of a walkable, bikable and livable
Iloilo City and is supported by the very same biker-volunteers who
helped organized the 1st Iloilo Bike Festival held last March,”
said Drilon.
Last year, advocacy group Dakila with iFold organized the first
Freedom Ride in Iloilo to campaign against human trafficking.
Last year saw around 500 bikers join the ride which traversed
Iloilo’s five districts.
That included a P200-million
reimbursement check from the
United Nations for Filipino
peacekeepers.
Mendoza resigned thje Asian
Development Bank job to testify
after her report on almost P510million of AFP losses had been
refrigerated. Her congressional
testimony led to action. Garcia
landed in the clink. A stacked
Commission on Appointments,
meanwhile, keeps Mendoza’s
confirmation in the freezer.
“Who shall find a valiant
woman?” asks the Book of
Proverbs.” Far, and from the
uttermost coasts is the price of
her...and her works praise her in
the gates...”
Stateside...
from p.4
tête-à-tête.
And they call themselves
“public servants.”
There is a famous quote saying that if we want to know a
person, let’s give him power.
Once they have tasted fame
and glory and their whims and
caprices have been satisfactorily
taken care of, they will cling to
political power like leeches.
They will become regular
clients in every electoral exercise
mesmerizing gullible voters and
taking them for a ride. Old habits
die hard. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely,
so goes a popular adage.
he added.
Agado said copies of fake
certificates are still with Super Market in-charge Virgilio
Tonogbanua.
He said he has ordered
Tonogbanua to “ground” the
market employee responsible
for selling the certificates pending further investigation.
Guardian
the daily
Western Visayas Most
Read and Respected
Driver...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
7
from p.6
lice said the driver lost control of the wheel while he was navigating
the road at Brgy. Baldoza, LaPaz.
The van (with registration plate FXA-618) was carrying boxes
of diapers to be delivered to one of the stores in LaPaz Market.
Police said they have yet to determine if the driver is guilty
of reckless driving. No bystanders were reported hurt in the accident.
The driver was rushed to the West Visayas Medical Center for
treatment.
Kia...
from p.8
the possibility that another squad would snap him up before Kia.
“Yung paglalaro, hindi ko pa alam yan. Ang focus ko ngayon
any yung pagco-coach,” he said in relation to that issue.
Pacquiao was also player-coach with his Liga Pilipinas squad,
the MP GenSan Warriors. (GMA News)
Chip...
from p.8
“I’m a huge fan of Philippine basketball, and it just keeps growing across the world because of American-Filipinos who are going
back and playing, representing their country. It’s fantastic.”
Blatche on Sunday arrived in Manila for a short visit, and for
the first time met some of his future Gilas Pilipinas teammates.
“I’m here for a short term (visit),” Blatche said in a short press
conference after his arrival. “What I wanna try to do is to learn
the culture, to soak this in. This is an amazing opportunity, I really want to make the best of it.” (With a report from TJ Manotoc,
ABS-CBN News)
Heat...
from p.8
James canned a trey on the other end for essentially a seven-point
swing.
Manu Ginobili managed 19 points off the bench.
The Heat shot 52.9 percent while holding the Spurs to a 43.9
percent clip. Both teams made over 40 percent of their triples, while
the Heat got just one more free throw attempt, 21-20.
Miami had a 44-34 advantage in points in the paint, while the
Spurs lost despite committing just 11 turnovers, two less than the
Heat. (GMA News)
Heat bounce back, tie with Spurs at 1-1
8
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Guardian
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MIAMI HEAT forward LeBron James (6) drives to the basket against San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard (2). (Bob DonnanUSA TODAY Sports/Reuters)
THE MIAMI Heat evened the 2014 Finals series, 98-96, against
the San Antonio Spurs, Sunday (Monday, PHL time) at the AT&T
Center in San Antonio Texas.
Games three and four will first period, and that allowed the
be played in Miami, Flori- Heat to catch up. Back-to-back
da, on Tuesday and Thursday hits by Tony Parker with 2:55
(Wednesday and Friday, PHL left had the home team up five,
41-36, but they missed their last
time).
A Tony Parker triple gave six shots, to create that tie.
After the break, James
the Spurs the lead, 93-92 with
2:26 left, but Chris Bosh came missed just one of his seven
up with a pair of big plays, first field goal attempts, to register
nailing a triple, which turned 14 in the third period alone, but
out to be the go-ahead basket, after a Ray Allen layup made it
and then finding Dwyane Wade a five-point game, 71-66, a pair
for a layup, 98-93, 9.4 seconds of Mills treys swung the lead
left. Manu Ginobili’s triple back to San Antonio, 74-73,
under minute left.
came right at the buzzer.
A pair of jumpers by Dwyane
After being shut down in
the fourth quarter of game one Wade found the bottom of the
due to cramps, LeBron James net, but a floater by Tony Parker
exploded for a game-high 35 capped of the period, with the
points, along with 10 rebounds, Spurs on top anew, 78-77.
Tony Parker had 21 points
three assists and two steals.
Chris Bosh added 18 points, and seven assists, while Tim
while Rashard Lewis and Duncan compiled a doubleDwyane Wade both added 14 double of 18 points and 15
boards. The duo however was
markers.
LeBron James finished a involved in a key turning point
vicious dunk to tie the game at in the final canton, when Mario
15-all, the Spurs closed out the Chalmers was called for a flagrant foul on Parker for throwfirst quarter on an 11-4 run.
In the second period though, ing an elbow. Both Parker and
the Spurs’ offense ground to a Duncan missed free throws on
halt. They shot just 30.4 percent, the subsequent possession, then
compared to 57.9 percent in the
Heat /p7
Chip Engelland has
Djokovic fails again at mission impossible in Paris
advice for Andray Blatche
San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Chip Engelland, who became
a naturalized Filipino in the 1980s, offered some words of advice
for Brooklyn Nets big man Andray Blatche, the latest recruit of
Gilas Pilipinas.
“I love the players that want to play. He wants to play and represent a country, and that’s great,” Engelland said of Blatche.
Engelland said the key for Blatche is to get to know the people
of the Philippines and their culture, as he will be playing for them
in the FIBA World Cup later this year.
“It’s difficult to represent anything if you don’t know the people,
and that’s what felt at home for me. I understood the Filipino people
and felt honored to represent them,” he said.
Engelland was part of the Philippine national team that won the
1985 Jones Cup Championship, although he is now more known
as the “shot doctor” of the Spurs.
“When I lived there (in the Philippines), I really felt part of the
culture,” the 53-year-old Engelland said. “For two to three years,
we were working towards this chip (the Jones Cup), we were
working towards that, so we’d feel part of the country.”
Although it’s been years since he wore a Philippine uniform,
Engelland only has good things to say about Philippine basketball
and Filipino fans.
“Philippine basketball has the greatest fans in the world,” he
said. “I’ve always said that. They’re the best basketball fans in
the world.”
“I was always a huge fan of the PBA. Luckily, I got to play in it and
play against some of the early greats in PBA history,” he added.
Chip /p7
PARIS – Beating Rafa Nadal at Roland Garros is
not impossible but it requires sustaining a furious
pace over five sets which, as Novak Djokovic
experienced in Sunday’s French Open final, is
easier said than done.
Djokovic made a brilliant start to win the first
set but suffered a lapse in form by the end of the
second that carried through most of the third
and eventually lost 3-6 7-5 6-2 6-4 as Spain’s
world number one claimed a record-extending
ninth title.
Serbian second seed Djokovic, looking to
complete a career grand slam in Paris, had won
four of their last eight meetings on clay but had
never prevailed in a best-of-five match on the
surface, indicating the size of the mountain he was
attempting to climb in hot and humid conditions.
Sunday’s loss was his sixth in as many attempts
against Nadal at Roland Garros, where the man
from Mallorca now holds a 66-1 record.
“It’s not impossible, but it’s very, very difficult
to stay with Rafa on this court throughout the
whole match on the highest level of performance,”
he told reporters.
“It’s normal that you have ups and downs. I
was just hoping that in the fourth I would be able
to come back. I started feeling a little bit better,
but I wasn’t managing to bring my A game when
it was most needed in the end of the fourth.
“Definitely it’s not easy, best of five, to play
against him in these conditions.”
Kia names Pacquiao head
CONSISTENCY LACKING
coach of expansion team
Studio Evolution
Djokovic came closest to toppling Nadal in last
year’s semi-final when he lost 9-7 in the fifth, but
COLUMBIAN Autocar Corp.
(Kia) named Filipino ring icon
and congressman Manny Pacquiao their expansion team’s
head coach in a press conference on Monday.
“Kailangan ko mapatunayan,
di lamang sa boxing, kundi sa
basketball ang aking gilas,”
Pacquiao said, explaining that
before boxing, basketball was
his passion.
Earlier in May, the team tried
to name him their player-coach,
in an attempt to circumvent the
rule that the three new expansion teams, Kia, NLEX and
Blackwater, were not allowed
direct hires. The PBA quickly
clarified however that even if he
were to go that route, Pacquiao
would still have to enter through
the rookie draft, thus creating
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Sunday’s display lacked the consistency needed
to push on for a deciding set.
After losing the second set, Djokovic looked
exhausted and then lost his balance on his chair
at the change of ends after falling 3-0 behind
in the third.
Just like the 2012 final, Djokovic doublefaulted on match point. This time, he was not
helped by the crowd as two spectators shouted
before the Serb’s second serve.
Djokovic would not criticize the interruption,
only saying it was part of the sport.
“When I play against Rafa, it’s always an exciting
match for us to play and for the crowd to see, so
they get also involved in the match,” he said.
“At the end of the day, it’s very emotional.
A lot of tension going on on the court. You
can feel that. I cannot find excuses in the
crowd. I cannot blame anybody.”
Nadal was 4-2 up in the fourth set when
Djokovic surged back into contention to
level at 4-4, but when it really mattered the
Spaniard came out on top.
“In the fourth set I started to feel a little
bit better, but then just on the crucial
points he played better. I wasn’t playing
at the level that I wanted, especially in
the second part of the match,” he
explained.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC of Serbia attends
“Congratulations to him. He was a the trophy ceremony after being defeated
better player in the crucial moments. by Rafael Nadal of Spain during their
Of course it’s disappointing for me, men’s singles final match at the French
but life goes on. It’s not the first time Open Tennis tournament at the Roland
or last time I lost a match.” (Julien Garros stadium in Paris June 8, 2014.
Pretot/Reuters)
(Vincent Kessler/Reuters)
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What some fund managers
don’t want you to know
MANILA – Thanks to mutual funds those who don’t have time
to watch the market can still participate in the returns equities
provide.
But one problem is fees. Observe closely when someone
is selling investments in a mutual fund. They will talk about
historical returns, and in the same breath, say these are not
guaranteed returns. They will talk about management and peso
cost averaging.
But they hardly talk about fees. If and when they do, they
will gloss over those numbers. You need to learn to ask the right
questions to get a good answer.
Some mutual fund companies do not even disclose their fees
prominently on their website.
You have to download their lengthy prospectus written
in hard-to-understand legalese and wade through all the
information to find out how much you are actually paying in
management fees.
A solution could be to standardize the information presented
in the prospectus. This will prevent fund managers from hiding
other costs.
In general, UITFs are better are disclosures off fees than
mutual funds in the country. You have to go deep into their
websites to find numbers.
Compared with mutual funds, UITFs offer better
diclosures.
For some companies, if you don’t look at their prospectus
closely, you won’t realize that you’re also paying sales load
fees and incentive fees. These hidden costs can pare down your
returns over time tremendously.
Management fees of mutual funds and UITFs in the country
range from 0.25 percent to 2 percent per year of your total
investments.
If you think that’s small, you’re dead wrong.
Two percent of your total investment per year can be a big
sum of money over time.
In general, peso money market funds and bond index
funds, charge the lowest fees. After all, most of the
short term money market funds are just placed with the
Bangko Sentral.
Curiously, index funds in the Philippines charge expensve
fees, a sign that they are actively managed.
Equity funds and gold dollar funds charge fees that are close
to the 2 percent mark. What’s interesting are redemption fees,
they can be very steep at up to 5 percent of the amount if you
take out the money before the holding period.
Fortunately, some mutual funds and UITFs don’t charge
redemption fees.
Other hidden fees include front loads, back loads and sales
loads which can go up to as high as 3 percent.
What some /pB2
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SMEs told to scale
up, be competitive
By Maricyn A. De los Santos
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
in Iloilo are challenged to expand and be
globally competitive as the country steps
up its preparation for ASEAN economic
integration next year.
In an interview on the sidelights of
Business Development Services (BDS)
Trainers’ Training held at Hotel del Rio
yesterday, Dr. Mario Lamberte, team leader
of USAID-funded Advancing Philippine
Competitive (COMPETE) Project, said the
project aims to provide SMEs with access to
credit from six partner banks, namely: Bank
of Philippine Island (BPI), BPI Family
Bank, BPI Leasing Bank, Secrity Bank,
PSBank, and Philippine Business Bank.
The formal financing institutions
committed P4 billion to support the
project which aims to improve SMEs by
giving them access to formal financing. Of
this amount, only P400 million has been
accessed since Project COMPETE started
last year, he added.
Lamberte stressed that banks appreciate
SMEs applying loans, including their great
business ideas and the proposed business’
potentials.
“The only problem is banks want to
see a solid business plan or financial plan
before lending out, especially if SMEs are
not known to them,” he said.
“The only way to improve what SMEs
are doing is to help them get a better
understanding of business plans and
financial plans,” he added.
Lamberte stressed the need for SMEs
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Panitan strafing
suspects identified
By FeliPe V. celino
ROXaS City – The three persons who strafed a house in
Barangay Cabangahan, Panitan will face charges after the
family bury the lone victim,
Richie Demoy.
according to Domoy’s livein partner, mary ann, the Dapog brothers – Judy, alias Toto
and alias Dikdik, of the same
barangay were the ones who
strafed their house last week.
She said the suspects might
have mistaken her partner as
the one who shot one of them.
They probably did that for
revenge, she said.
Police investigation revealed the victim and mary
ann were sleeping with their
two children when someone
knocked on the door.No one
answered when mary ann
asked who was knocking.
Few minutes later, a series
of gunshot coming from different directions ensued.
maryann said she immediately
covered her one-year-old and twoyear-old children with her body.
The victim’s brother, Ruben, said he heard gunshots
from his brother’s house.
When he went out to check
the incident, Ruben said he
saw his brother kneeling with
gunshot wounds.
The police recovered from
scene several empty shells of
M16 armalite rifle, caliber .45
and .9mm pistol.
mary ann said her live-in
partner has no known enemy
in their place.
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CAPIZ
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
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Capiz to host medical
convention in 2015
By Joel e. caPUnDan
DR. BALGOS
ROXaS City – Capiz province will host a
medical convention set next year at the Gerry
Roxas Foundation, Inc. building in Barangay
Dayao here.
Dr. abundio Balgos, one of the top officials of the american College of Chest
Physicians-Philippine Chapter, told The
Daily Guardian that some 300 doctors in
the country will participate in the medical
convention.
“This is the biggest medical convention that
the daily
Western Visayas Most
Read and Respected
we have here so far in Capiz,” he said.
The Philippine College of Physicians aklan-Capiz chapter will host the confab.
Dr. Balgos, president and chief executive
officer of Health Centrum, Inc., said tentative
schedule of the convention is on april, after
the Capiztahan 2015 celebration.
Previous convention venues were Baguio
City, Cebu City and Cagayan de Oro City.
He added that he already requested the
city and the province to develop all tourist
destinations so the participants can enjoy their
stay here.
DPWH hit for neglecting Cagay roads P3-m hall to rise
By FeliPe V. celino
ROXaS City – The Department of Public
Works and Highways (DPWH) Capiz First
Engineering District is blamed for the “bad
roads” in Barangay Cagay here.
Barangay Captain moreno Gonzaga said
the bad roads in the village already caused
several traffic accidents.
The roads are now under the DPWH
jurisdiction after these were converted to
national road as mandated by Republic act
No. 10407, converting Roxas City-CagaySibaguan-Balijuagan-Cuidian-Ivisan road
into a national road.
The said republic act mandated the
DPWH Secretary to include in the department’s program the improvement, repair
Slain parolee a
drug pusher – cops
By FeliPe V. celino
ROXaS City – The wanted
parolee who was shot dead after
resisting arrest and throwing
a hand grenade to the police
last June 5 at Barangay Daan
Banwa, Tapaz was also allegedly involved in illegal drug
trade.
Senior Insp. leomindo
Tayupon, Tapaz police chief,
said Vincer Barnizo of Brgy.
Daan Sur, Tapaz allegedly
supplied illegal drugs in the
towns of Tapaz, Dumalag and
Jamindan.
“We had been monitoring
his illegal activities for the past
months”, he said.
Barnizo died on the spot due
to gunshot wounds peppered by
the police in the different part
of his body.
The incident happened when
Tapaz police implemented the
order of arrest and recommitment against Barnizo who was
convicted by Regional Trial
Court Branch 16 in Roxas City
for frustrated murder.
The arrest was requested
by Natividad Dizon, chairman
of the Board of Pardons and
Parole, after Barnizo failed to
report.
Investigation showed Barnizo got alarmed when he saw
the approaching policemen. He
took a hand grenade from his
jacket and threw it to the police.
Fortunately, the hand grenade
did not explode because the
secondary safety pin was not
released.
The suspect ran from the
police and took another hand
grenade, which prompted the police to shoot him resulting to the
suspect’s instantaneous death.
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and maintenance of the said road, the funding of which shall be included in the annual
General appropriation act.
The conversion was approved in march
19, 2013.
District Engr. Sonny Boy Oropel of
Capiz First Engineering District has yet to
comment on the complaint of the barangay
officials.
FROM P.B1
to double time in becoming
globally competitive.
“We are trying to improve
competitiveness in enterprises,
especially in 2015, when there will
be new economic environment, and
there will be free flowing movements
of goods and services amongaSEaN
nations,” he said, referring to the full
implementation of aSEaN Free
Trade agreement next year.
“So with the BDS project, we
want the SmEs to prepare, improve
their competitiveness and beyond
2015, we want the SmEs to join
in the production network not only
in asia but in other parts of the
world, so, SmEs can offer better
services and goods to markets in the
Philippines and abroad,” he said.
Hesaidaccesstocreditisimportant
for a business to be competitive.
“access the credit is very
important, because when you
want to improve your operations,
you have to scale up or expand,
and also improve technology in
the production and processing,
so you can improve your
productivity,” he said.
“Expansion or scaling up needs
additional resources, maybe beyond
the SmEs existing resources. So
you have to tap the formal financial
market,” he added.
lamberte said many SmEs
still borrow from the informal
financing institutions.
The problem with the
informal financing is sometimes
the loan limit is low, so they
would need to access capital
from formal financing, which
has higher loan limits and longer
loan tenure,” he explained.
an applicant can borrow as
low as P200,000 to as high as P60
million, payable in eight years.
The project is focused on SmEs
in the following sectors: Energy,
Construction, Tourism, Health,
manufacturing and agriculture.
SmEs who want to avail
of the project can avail of the
training from BDS providers.
The COmPETE Project
is spearheaded by USaID, in
partnership with Iloilo Business Club,
Department of Trade and Industry-6,
and Taytay sa Kauswagan, Inc.
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By FeliPe V. celino
ROXaS City – Barangay 3 will
soon have its Barangay Hall
after Roxas City mayor angel
alan Celino approved its P3million budget.
Village chief Ruben Fuentes
welcomed the good news. He
said that in the past years, they
have to rent a venue to conduct
the Sangguniang Barangay
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session.
“With the realization of the
said project, we believe that we
could serve of people better,”
Fuentes said.
Under the memorandum
of agreement, the Department of Public Works and
Highways will construct the
barangay hall and turn it over
to the local government of
Barangay 3.
FROM P.B1
It is absolutely critical for you to consider the cost of investing.
This is why we all need to be more discerning of the fees.
Index funds
One way to avoid these fees is to harness the power of
indexing.
Well-known american businessman Charles Schwab said that
for 98 percent of Americans “low cost, diversified funds that track
indexes are the way to go.”
In fact, Warren Buffett has recently announced if his wife
survives him, 90 percent of the inheritance will be placed in the
Vanguard Index 500 Fund.
“Both individuals and institutions will constantly be
urged to be active by those who profit from giving advice
or effecting transactions. The resulting frictional costs can
be huge and for investors, in aggregate, devoid of benefit,”
Buffett said.
“So ignore the chatter, keep your costs minimal and invest in
stocks as you would in a farm.”
Clearly, costs hould matter to you. They should be significant
to your investment philosophy. (From a report by Salve Duplito,
ANC)
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Direct clients only.
Cash or installment basis
ILOILO
BRANCH:
•
Low
Down
payment
for only P 1,000 pesos.
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No agents please!
Tabuc Suba, Jaro
• 24 months installment plan
For More Information Text:
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• Sells volume of motorcycles with a minimum
Brgy. San Rafael, Mandurriao, Iloilo City
of 5 units.
Contact No:
Iloilo City
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09173043777 l 09088954768
033-3297424/09463871937
VISIT US @ COM. CIVIL JARO ILOILO CITY
Fax No. (033) 508-1490 Monday-SatOR CALL ( 033 ) 329-1646/509-3020
urday Tel # (033) 396-5743 l 396-5744
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8:00am to 5:30pm
Tel. No. 329 6001
SILVER & U
@ UR
FASHION
CJP BLDG.,
BALANTANG,
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
JARO,
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ILOILO
CITY
LGF SM CITY, ILOILO
TEL.
NO.
(Near Toy Kingdom)

1. Cookery NC II (316 hrs.)
2. Food and Beverage Service NC II
3. Bread and Pastry Production NC II
4. Bread and Pastry Production NC II
+ Singapore
45 D.B Ledesma Street, Jaro, I.C.
Tel Nos. (033) 509-7477
509 -3272 / 320-5106
email: [email protected]
RESTAURANT
(FINE DINING/FASTFOOD)
SUPERMARKET
COLLECTION/BILLING SYSTEM
DEPARTMENT STORE
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
SPECIALTY STORE
DRUGSTORE
WHOLESALE
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RJV
COSMOPOLITAN
“Iloilo’s beauty &
wellness haven!”
TEL. NOS.: 509-9530, 396-6742
CP NO.; 0917-7980-370
INC.
NCI
(033) 301-2161
GLASS
CAR TINT
Buhang Taft North, Mandurriao, Iloilo City
Smart - 0939-939-0690
Tel. Nos. (033) 501-6093 * (033) 857-7053
SERVICES OFFERED:
l AUTO GLASS l CAR TINT
l ALUMINUM
AMA Computer Learning Center
22 AMA Bldg., Delgado St., Iloilo City
Tel. Nos.
(033) 5086871 ) 3381229
Tel. no. 396-7139
Smart no. 0920-877-5290
Sun no. 093211857400
[email protected]
SERVICES OFFERED:
• Risograph • Calling Cards • Photo and Video
coverage • Tarpaulin • PVC ID •Personalized ID
•Streamer • Banners • Stamp Engraving • Key
Duplication• Hardbound, softbound,
ringbind • T-shirt printing • Embroidered logo
• Computer Lay-out, Encoding, Scan & Edit •
Wedding • Baptismal • Birthday • Invitation •
Flyers •Brochures, • Labels • Tags • Letterhead
• Stickers • Rush ID • Photo Printing • Lamination
• Receipts, Invoices • Office Supplies Supplier
•Corporate Giveaways
CONVENIENCE
STORE
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SHORT COURSES OFFERED
Prospec Office Systems Products
2nd Floor, Sun Yat Sen Bldg.
Mapa Street, Iloilo City
MULTI-STAGE PURIFICATION PROCESS
MULTI-MEDIA SEDIMENT PROCESS
ACTIVATED CARBON  WATER CONDITIONING & SOFTENING PROCESS

5 MICRON FILTRATION  REVERSE OSMOSIS  POLISHING PROCESS 
GRANULATED CARBON  ULTRA VIOLENT LIGHT
Brgy. Buhang
Taft North, Mandurriao,
Iloilo City
335-1280
Iloilo Interior, Diversion Road
Mandurriao, Iloilo City
Telefax: 321-3801 to 03
Cellular: 09081090939
email: [email protected]
Lydia Songano Bldg., Brgy. Tagbak,
Jaro, Iloilo City • Tel. # 300-3272
ROXAS BRANCH:
Km. II Lawa-an, Roxas City
(Infront of Rusi)
Tel. # (036) 522-7818
Mobile No. 0917-300-1210
NEW VISTAMAR
Triple C

Repair Shop
CORPoration
For your Financing
Contact: Mr. Vic Mina, Jr.
WEDDING/BAPTISM/
We sell:

c/o Asian Lumber Bldg. Door 5 & 6
Needs
BIRTHDAY/DEBUT/
Electrical & Construction Materials
144 M.H. del Pilar St., Molo Iloilo City
ANNIVERSARY/SCHOOL
Accept
Real Estate
Tel.
No.
33-33399/
ACTIVITIES/FUNERAL
Owned & Managed by:
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
CP No. 0920-911-5708
&
Chattel
Mortgage

Website:www.ruscelphotography.multiply.com
Mr. Bonito L. Robiso
Printworx
A PRODUCT OF WATER WARE INTL.
Aircon
HOPEWELL
FINANCE
(Branch Manager)
G/F CCC Finance Bldg.
M.H. Del Pilar St., Molo, Iloilo City
Email: [email protected]
Tel# 300-11-78 / 0949-805-1870
LARGE FORMAT DIGITAL PRINTING
KRYZ CULINARY ARTS &
G/F RSVP RESIDENCES II,
WEST TIMAWA AVE.,
ILOILO CITY
SIMPLY RELIABLE
PURIFIED DRINKING WATER
R&L
J&R Family
Digital
Studio
monthly subsidy of P20,000,
DIGITAL PHOTO/VIDEO PRODUCTION
P30,000,P50,000 for 1 year
190
COMMISSION CIVIL ST.,
-30 to 50 years old
JARO, ILOILO CITY
-At least two years sales experience,

with managerial background
0927-8262049,0928-3462762

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-With good communication skills
SERVICES:
-People Oriented
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10 more nurses
deployed in Kalibo
By VenUs G. VillanUeVa
KalIBO – Health services here
is seen to get a boost with the
deployment of 10 more nurses
under the Nurse Deployment
Program (NDP).
Under the project, the local
government will get 10 nurses
who will be paid by the national
government through the Department of Health.
members of NDP Team met
with Kalibo mayor William
lachica, chairman of Community Health Team management
Council, to brief the latter on the
role of the nurses in the town’s
health programs.
The NDP in Kalibo targets
to lower if not eliminate the
number of maternal deaths in
the barangays.
The nurses will also keep
track if pregnant women avail
pre-natal services, or if all newborn babies are immunized.
The nurses will also implement New Born Screening and
Exclusive Breast Feeding along
with 120 CHT Partners composed
of Barangay Nutrition Scholars
(BNS), Barangay Health Workers
(BHW) and Barangay Population
Officers (BPO).
They will also visit houses and
monitor beneficiaries of the National Household Targeting System
(NHTS) Poverty Reduction.
The NDP is a DOH project
that aims to improve local
health systems and support
the Philippines’ attainment of
Universal Health Care or “Kalusugang Pangkalahatan”.
It also aims to give employment opportunities to the growing number of unemployed nurses in the country. (PIA Aklan)
Guardian
the daily
Western Visayas Most
Read and Respected
Blare and glare
W
E need to be most careful
about certain sounds and
lights, produced mainly by us
and by some worldly dynamics, which
are detached from their true source and
disoriented from their true goal, both of
whom is none other than God.
We have so many of them today that
we now appear to be sinking under their
sheer weight and thrown to confusion
by their endless flow of complicated
Fr. Roy Cimagala and complex data, information, ideas,
images, etc.
The play of forces they generate is
truly mind-boggling. Our reaction to
this phenomenon can be varied. Some
simply get mindlessly sucked in by the spiral. Others take more
active part and play games with them, often without realizing
the risks. They even go to the extent of gambling with their
destiny.
We need to shield ourselves from this worldly blare and
glare, and find space and time for some silence and darkness
if only to rediscover the voice and the light of God, our Father
and Creator.
He is always around, and in fact is always intervening in our
lives. Being our Creator and Father, he actually governs us nonstop, although most of the time we are unaware of his moves.
That is a predicament we need to correct. We should try our
best to establish firmly and deeply in our consciousness and in
our culture in general the habit of praying, meditating and contemplating, so we can nourish our sense of the true foundation,
meaning and direction of our life.
ReFLeCtIoNs /pB7
REFLECTIONS
AWARD. Civil Service Commission-6 regional director Atty. Rodolfo Encajonado (4th from right)
awards posthumously the Parangal sa Lingkod Bayani to public school teacher Rogelio “Sir Elyong”
Ladera, who died while rescuing victims of super typhoon Yolanda, received by his wife and daughter.
Also in photo are CSC and Department of Education officials. (PIA6)
Pinoy Fun at Sm City Iloilo’s
Independence Day Celeb
PINOY fun will fill the air as SM City Iloilo
celebrates Independence Day, 8am , on June
12, 2014!
Sm City Iloilo has once again taken the lead
in celebrating this occasion through events that
will enrich our nationalistic spirit.
With this year’s contemporary, young and
hip theme, the mall has lined up several events
that highlight the Filipino attitude, including
a Flag Raising ceremony with over 2,000
target participants from the public and private
sector.
adding excitement to the event is the performance of one of the country’s fast rising hip-hop
artist Sheeyee.
Big discounts are also in store in the Pinoy
Fun Sale mallwide on June 12 with up to 70%
discount on selected items.
Because being Pinoy is so much fun, head to
Sm City Iloilo and celebrate the pride.
TREE PLANTING. Engr. Randy A. Alipis, division manager of National Irrigation Administration
– Antique leads NIA employees in the planting of 1,000 tree seedlings one June 6, 2014 at Lagdo
Reforestation Site, Barangay Lagdo, Sibalom. (PSM/PIA Antique)
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Aga, Charlene
have split up?
maNIla – Rumors that showbiz couple
aga muhlach and Charlene Gonzales
decided to call it quits spread online,
following a blind item detailing the
separation of a celebrity couple who
already have kids.
In the blind item, the actress allegedly
decided to end their relationship after
she found out about the actor’s affair
with a 20-year-old dancer.
However, the couple agreed to keep
their status private and just stay at
the same house but sleep in separate
bedrooms to protect their family’s
endorsements, the report added.
Netizens speculated in the comments
section that the item was referring to
muhlach and Gonzales.
But on may 28, muhlach posted a
video of Gonzales’ wedding anniversary
surprise on his Facebook account, as
revealed by a report on entertainment
website PEP.ph.
In the video recorded by muhlach
himself, the actor was seen following a
trail of white petals leading to a surprise
special breakfast by Gonzales for their
13th wedding anniversary.
REFLECTIONS..
“Good morning, guys! I woke
up to this,” muhlach said in the
video, referring to his wife’s early
morning surprise, “man, oh man!
She always does this to me.”
muhlach also posted on
Instagram a photo of him
and Gonzales together at
the recently concluded
Philippine movie Press Club
(PmPC) Star awards.
Gonzales also posted
photos on Instagram,
thanking muhlach for 13
years of married life.
The former beauty queen
also took to Instagram to
thank friends and fans
who greeted them on their
anniversary.
To finally end the rumors about their
marriage once and for all, muhlach
directly denied the speculations in a
published report.
“Thank you for your concern my
friend. Really appreciate it. Hayaan na
natin sila. We’re all good, no worries,”
the actor told PEP in a Facebook
FROM P.B6
Christ himself, perfect God and perfect man, found it necessary
to distance himself from the crowd from time to time if only to enter
into a deeper and more intimate communion with his Father.
Being God himself, he is always with his Father. We could say
there was no need for him to pray. But being man also, he needed
a way to converse with his Father and to conform his will to the
will of his Father.
Saints have done this and we too should do the same. This is
not a call, of course, to flee from the world. We are in the world
and it is God who has placed us here and who wants us to do his
will in the middle of the world.
We just have to be careful with the world, since not everything
in it is good. Contaminated by our sin, it has many elements that
can lead us away instead of toward God.
That’s the reason why Christ in his priestly prayer to his Father
said, “I have given them your word, and the world has hated them,
because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.”
(Jn 17,14)
and yet, in the next breath, Christ said, “I pray not that you
should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them
Running away from certain financial realities has
great appeal, but is ineffective. Don’t expect to win
the lottery. Do what’s necessary.
You can be very cool, rational and objective about your
relationship today. Focus on facts, but keep your sense
of humor.
You could feel very scattered and overwhelmed today
as you try to be all things to all people. It is not your job
to do EVERYTHING!
Matters you thought were perfectly clear are
suddenly forgotten or misunderstood. Be patient
and go over everything again.
Imaginative abilities are high in your household
today. Go for fantasy games, role-plays, movies,
TV, reading, or daydreaming.
Today you can be rational and logical, detached
and objective. You listen more to your intellect
than to your emotions.
Revise your current financial plans by taking a
good hard look at what you most desire and what
is currently practical to achieve.
Dynamism, energy, enthusiasm and the ability to
excite others are highlighted. You can pep other
people up.
Crowds seem a bit overwhelming. Seek out alone
time and a sheltered environment.
Today you feel a strong desire for smoothness
and ease on the job. Your ability to create unity
becomes an asset.
After your long day, curling up with a book or favorite
TV show is a good idea. Relax and unwind.
B7
REPUBlIC OF THE PHIlIPPINES
Department of Transportation and Communication
LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING AND REGULATORY BOARD
Region VI, Iloilo City
GINA RESURRECCION
applicant/s
CASE NO. 09-VI-306 AK
NOTICE
Petitioner request authority for Renewal of CPC to operate a PUJ service with conversion to dual to operate on the line: KalIBO DUmaGUIT aND VICE VERSa with the
use of (1) unit.
This application/petition shall be considered by the Board on June 17, 2014 at 9:30
a.m. at its office at LTFRB Building, Quintin Salas, Jaro, Iloilo City, on which date applicant/petitioner shall formally submit all its/his/her evidences.
at least FIVE (5) days prior to the date of hearing, applicant/petitioner shall publish this
NOTICE once in any newspaper of general circulation in Western Visayas (Region VI).
Parties opposed to the granting of this application/petition must file their written opposition supported by the documentary evidence submitted by the parties unless the Board
deems it necessary to receive additional documents and/or oral evidence.
WITNESS the Honorable, ROmUlO V. BERNaRDES, Regional Director, this 9th
day of June, 2014.
(Sgd.) JOSE MARIE V. LAMPARERO
Actg. Hearing Officer
REPUBlIC OF THE PHIlIPPINES
Department of Transportation and Communication
LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING AND REGULATORY BOARD
Region VI, Iloilo City
WILFREDO CARADO
applicant/s
CASE NO. 1994-VI-989 ILO
NOTICE
Petitioner request authority for Downgrading of unit from mINI BUS to PUJ service
with shortening of line from: IlOIlO CITY - (ITGSI) - CalINOG to IlOIlO CITY
(ITGSI) - lamBUNaO aND VICE VERSa with the use of (1) unit.
This application/petition shall be considered by the Board on June 17, 2014 at 9:30
a.m. at its office at LTFRB Building, Quintin Salas, Jaro, Iloilo City, on which date applicant/petitioner shall formally submit all its/his/her evidences.
at least FIVE (5) days prior to the date of hearing, applicant/petitioner shall publish this
NOTICE once in any newspaper of general circulation in Western Visayas (Region VI).
Parties opposed to the granting of this application/petition must file their written opposition supported by the documentary evidence submitted by the parties unless the Board
deems it necessary to receive additional documents and/or oral evidence.
WITNESS the Honorable, ROmUlO V. BERNaRDES, Regional Director, this 9th
day of June, 2014.
(Sgd.) JOSE MARIE V. LAMPARERO
Actg. Hearing Officer
message.
The Buzz tried to get a statement from the
former beauty queen, but she chose to remain
silent about the issue.
However, Charlene’s mom, Elvie, denied the
rumors in a report of newspaper Remate, saying
“Not true. Bayaan mo na, basta happy sila.” (ABSCBNnews.com)
from evil.” (17,15) These words can only mean that while not
everything is all right with the world, we should just stay there
and do what we are supposed to do with God’s grace and with
our all-out effort.
We should not escape from doing business and politics nor
belittle them and the other human and temporal affairs we have in
the world. Rather we should see to it that all these necessary human activities start and end with God. They should not be pursued
simply at the instance of our own designs and ambitions without
making a clear reference to God’s will and laws.
and so we have to be wary when certain elements in the world
tend to conjure some siren calls and false lights meant to titillate
us, or to intoxicate us if only to deceive and mislead us.
The art of doing this has developed immensely, sad to say.
We should try to avoid being naïve in the face of this unwelcome
development. And the first thing we have to do is to strengthen our
relation with God, by spending time praying and offering sacrifices,
studying his teachings and doctrine, undertaking a lifelong program
of growing in the virtues, etc.
We have to realize that these practices are as basic and necessary to us as breathing and eating and drinking. We cannot survive
spiritually nor aspire to reach our true ultimate goal if we consider
them as merely optional.
In this way, we can tend to be more discerning and discriminating in assessing the multi-level developments we have around us,
and play more actively in the process of reconciling us and the
whole world with God, our Creator and Father.
Republic of the Philippines
Local Civil Registry Office
Province of Guimaras
municipality of Buenavista
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
CCE-0021-2014 Ra 10172
In Compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG memorandum
Circular No. 2013-1 Guidelines in the Implementation of the administrative Order No. 1
Series of 2012 (IRR on R.a. 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that WINZEL
M. ESLABON has filed with this Office, a Petition for correction of entry in sex from
“FEMALE” to “MALE” in the certificate of live birth of WINZEL MANGALLADORA
ESLABON born at Buenavista, Iloilo and whose parents are Wennie Z. Eslabon and
Melanie M. Mangalladora
Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with
this Office.
REPUBlIC OF THE PHIlIPPINES
Department of Transportation and Communication
LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING AND REGULATORY BOARD
Region VI, Iloilo City
EDWIN CELIZ - Vendor
CASE NO. 02-VI-902 ILO
CHRISTINE C. MANGLALLAN - Vendee
applicant/s
NOTICE
Petitioner request authority for Sale and Transfer of CPC to operate a PUJ DUal service on the line: IlOIlO CITY - (JaRO BIG maRKET) - SaN mIGUEl and vice versa/
to any point in Panay, made by: EDWIN CElIZ - VENDOR in favour of CHRISTINE
C. maNGlallaN - VENDEE, with the use of one (1) unit/s.
This application/petition shall be considered by the Board on June 17, 2014 at 9:30
a.m. at its office at LTFRB Building, Quintin Salas, Jaro, Iloilo City, on which date applicant/petitioner shall formally submit all its/his/her evidences.
at least FIVE (5) days prior to the date of hearing, applicant/petitioner shall publish this
NOTICE once in any newspaper of general circulation in Western Visayas (Region VI).
Parties opposed to the granting of this application/petition must file their written opposition supported by the documentary evidence submitted by the parties unless the Board
deems it necessary to receive additional documents and/or oral evidence.
WITNESS the Honorable, ROmUlO V. BERNaRDES, Regional Director, this 9th
day of June, 2014.
(Sgd.) JOSE MARIE V. LAMPARERO
Actg. Hearing Officer
REPUBlIC OF THE PHIlIPPINES
Department of Transportation and Communication
LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING AND REGULATORY BOARD
Region VI, Iloilo City
WILFREDO CARADO
applicant/s
CASE NO. 1994-VI-1146 ILO
NOTICE
Petitioner request authority for Renewal of CPC with Downgrading of unit from mINI
BUS DUal to PUJ DUal service with shoetening of line from: IlOIlO CITY - (PaVIa TERmINal) BINOlOSaN - CalINOG to IlOIlO CITY - (PaVIa TERmINal) lamBUNaO aND VICE VERSa/ TO aNY POINT IN PaNaY, with the use of (1) unit.
This application/petition shall be considered by the Board on June 17, 2014 at 9:30
a.m. at its office at LTFRB Building, Quintin Salas, Jaro, Iloilo City, on which date applicant/petitioner shall formally submit all its/his/her evidences.
at least FIVE (5) days prior to the date of hearing, applicant/petitioner shall publish this
NOTICE once in any newspaper of general circulation in Western Visayas (Region VI).
Parties opposed to the granting of this application/petition must file their written opposition supported by the documentary evidence submitted by the parties unless the Board
deems it necessary to receive additional documents and/or oral evidence.
WITNESS the Honorable, ROmUlO V. BERNaRDES, Regional Director, this 9th
day of June, 2014.
(Sgd.) JOSE MARIE V. LAMPARERO
Actg. Hearing Officer
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(SGD.)ELMA F. ZALDIVAR
municipal Civil Registrar
Republic of the Philippines
Local Civil Registry Office
Province of Guimaras
municipality of Buenavista
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
CCE-0018-2014 Ra 10172
In Compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG memorandum
Circular No. 2013-1 Guidelines in the Implementation of the administrative Order No. 1
Series of 2012 (IRR on R.a. 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that JOANN R.
MUCHO has filed with this Office, a Petition for correction of entry in sex from “FEMALE”
to “MALE” and father’s first name from “Valentin” to “Valentino” in the certificate of
live birth of JOANN RAFIL MUCHO born at Buenavista, Iloilo and whose parents are
Valentine G. Mucho, Jr. and Angeles E. Rafil.
Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with
this Office.
Listen for the words behind the words today. You
need to decipher the hidden messages.
(SGD.)ELMA F. ZALDIVAR
municipal Civil Registrar
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B8 Tuesday, June 10, 2014
2014 Mutya ng Pilipinas-Iloilo Froilene Villanueva as
Reyna Elena wearing a gown made by Jun-g Bayona
Candelario
Melchorita Escalante Mabilog is this year’s
Emperatriz in an Eric Delos Santos gown,
with consort son JV Mabilog
Mother Mary, Queen of Flower’s caro during the grand
Santacruzan
Jane Celeste Gan-Limsui in Alex Soncio
gown
Tweets Causing Tupas-Ballleza
in Eric B. Delos Santos gown with
hablon tapis made by Poli Abastillas
Dolly Chua, bearer of the letter A in
Ave Maria, wearing a gown by Jun-g
Bayona Candelario
Helen Stummer in an Alex Soncio gown
Connie del Castillo in an emerald
green Eric Delos Santos’s gown —
with Lourdes Diocson, TDG Iloilo
Press and Connie del Castillo.
Gemma Arellano Cercado Pabalan in
Alex Soncio gown
Maritess Lim in an Eric B. Delos
Santos gown
Sheila M. Draper in Bo Parcon gown
Reyna Mora Krisnah Catague, 2013 Mutya
ng Pilipinas-Iloilo City, in a gown by Hector
Totong Gellangarin — with TDG Iloilo Press.
F
Charmy Joy Ga as Reyna Fe in a gown
made by Jaki Peñalosa
2014 Mutya ng Pilipinas-Iloilo Miss
Friendship Lara Thaneza Janeo as
Reyna Esperanza in a gown made by
Djohn Clement
OR the second time, the much-awaited Iloilo City’s Grand Santacruzan
was unveiled in a glitzy procession in honor of Blessed Virgin mary,
capping the last merry month of may, dahlings!
leading the religious festivity was 2014 mutya ng Pilipinas-Iloilo Froilene
Villanueva as Reyna Elena. She wore a dramatic white terno with a corseted
bodice and a bouffant biased skirt with floral patterns traced with Swarovski
crystals, seed pearls and jet beads.
This year’s Reyna Emperatriz, melchorita EscalanteVda De mabilog was
resplendent in her Eric delos Santos’s violet gown highlighted with intricate beadworks
in dainty floral patterns. She was escorted by her debonair son JV Mabilog.
Seen on the freedom grandstand endlessly taking pictures was no other than
madame melchorita’s son – the very energetic Iloilo City mayor Jed Patrick
mabilog.
Well, upholding the elegance of the celebration were 42 beauty queens and
Iloilo City’s women of style. The beauties offered their time and walked from
Iloilo Provincial Capitol to San Jose Parish church in their best of the best
2014 Miss Silka Iloilo finalist Angela
Bella Zarandin as Reyna Caridad in
a Binky Pitogo red gown
Filipiniana regalia don by Iloilo’s talented fashion designers, dahlings.
as Helen Stummer said, “We are here to give honor to our Blessed mother,
mama mary for all the blessings we received through her intercession.”
Hard work, coupled with lots of patience, not to mention sleepless nights,
went into the well-thought preparation of the event. But it certainly was well
worth it, unprecedented in its history.
a project of the Iloilo City Tourism Council under the leadership of mae
Panes and Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry-Iloilo headed by
Donna Rose Ratilla, in collaboration with the Iloilo City Government, Iloilo
City Tourism Office and San Jose Parish Church, it is aimed to become a tourism
attraction yearly.
Surely, fashion and culture added pomp to this affair, with the stunning
creations of Iloilo Designers’ Guild headed by Jaki Peñalosa, Iloilo Young
Designers Guild under the helm of Jet Salcedo, miag-ao mayor macario
Napulan and municipality of miag-ao for donating the hablon fabrics used by
the designers for the gowns of the Sagalas .
Reyna Judith Ma. Ahriana Lovely
Reyna Sheba is Mary Diane Nufable, 2014
Huyaban, 2013 Iloilo Festival Queen and
Fiesta Queen of Miag-ao, in a gown by
First Runner-up 2014 Miss Paraw Regatta, Doddie Vril Tan
in a gown of Hector Totong Gellangarin
Model Daisy Batch is Reyna Esther in a gown
by Hector Totong Gellangarin
.2014 Mutya ng Pilipinas-Italy Patrizia Garrido
Bosco as Reyna del Cielo (Queen of Heaven)
in a Jun-g Bayona Candelario gown