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VOLUME 7
NUMBER 129
MON - TUE
MAY 19 - 20, 2014
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PANANAW NG MALAYANG PILIPINO!
Ang’s airport is ‘money
thrown into the sea’
Reclamation poses ‘lethal risks’
BY ASHLEY MANABAT
A
NGELES CITY – It is touted
to be better than the existing
international gateways of
Hong Kong and Singapore. It will
have four runways with a length
of 3,600 meters each and can
accommodate as many as 250
plane take-offs and landings per
hour including four Airbus 380
planes landing simultaneously.
PAGE 6 PLEASE
EDPAM MEETS OMB CHAIR. Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan hands a copy of “Agyu Tamu:
Triumph over Tragedy” coffee table book to Optical Media Board Chairman Ronnie Ricketts
during a courtesy call held Monday in commendation of the agency’s operations that led to the
confiscation of a P10 million-worth of pirated movie discs at San Nicolas Public Market. Joining
him in the awarding ceremony are Vice Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting and Councilor Maricel
Morales. PHOTO COURTESY OF ANGELES CIO
Hacienda Dolores farmers camp out at DAR
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- Farmers from Hacienda Dolores in Porac
town, backed by supporters, have set camp
in front of the regional of-
fice of the Department of
Agrarian Reform (DAR)
here and plan to stay on
until next month when
they join an eight-day
march to Manila.
Alyansang Magbubukid ng Gitnang Luson
(AMGL) Chair Joseph
Canlas said that march
to Manila would be to demand justice for the kill-
BY ARMAND M. GALANG
ter level of Pantabangan
dam was 182.10 meters
above sea level, over 11
meters away from its critical level of 171.5 masl
for irrigation and five meters above for 177 masl
critical level for power
generation purposes.
Engr. Josephine Salazar, operations manager of National Irrigation
Administration-Upper
Pampanga River Integrated Irrigation System
(NIA-UPRIIS), which operates the facility’s irrigation component said they
have stopped releasing
water from the dam as
it’s already harvest season.
“Still no releases from
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Pantabangan Dam
stops releasing water
CABANATUAN CITY –
The water level of Pantabangan Dam is continuously, though slowly,
rising but irrigation officials do not discount the
possibility of requesting
for cloud seeding over its
watershed.
As of Sunday, the wa-
Workers load salt to a Cessna 402 plane for cloud seeding over Angat
Dam watershed. PHOTO BY ARMAND GALANG
ing of Hacienda Dolores
farmer-leaders Menelao
Barcia last May 2 and Arman Padino last Jan. 13.
He said that the
PAGE 6 PLEASE
2 Bulgarians
nabbed for ATM
machine skimming
BY DING CERVANTES
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – Two Bulgarian nationals were arrested after allegedly
installing a copying gadget in an ATM machine
in a mall here recently.
Camp Olivas information officer Supt. Nelson Aganon identified
the suspects as l Mladenov Emil Stoyanov and
Kanev Lyuven Georgiev. They were nabbed
after they allegedly
skimmed an ATM machine of Banco de Oro
at SM mall here last Friday.
The two foreigners
were immediately held
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Woman centenarian
loves to sing, eat
paksiw na isda
BY ERNIE ESCONDE
Olongapo City Mayor Rolen Paulino, Portland Marine Services Inc. general manager
Rossini Reyes and Alexander Dayrit, owner of Dayrit’s Kitchen, do the ceremonial
ribbon-cutting. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
China Bank opens at SM City Olongapo
CHINA BANKING Corporation, known publicly as China Bank, one of the largest
universal banks in the Philippines in terms of assets,
capital base and market value has recently celebrated
its annual thanksgiving back
to back with the ceremonial blessing of the establish-
ment.
China Bank provides a
wide range of banking services through its branches nationwide, and through its alternative banking channels of
ATMs nationwide, internet and
mobile online banking. The
new full service branches offer
a wide array of banking prod-
ucts and services, and are
equipped with ATMs for 24/7
banking convenience.
Mall-based branch like
China Bank SM City Olongapo, the bank’s second
branch in Zambales serves
customers from Monday to
Saturday, from 10 am to 5
pm. –PR-SMOL
UP fresh grad
named Natatanging
Anak of Ecija town
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • MAY 19 - 20, 2014 • MONDAY - TUESDAY
BY ARMAND M. GALANG
2
TALAVERA, Nueva Ecija – A
21-year-old fresh graduate of
B.S. Chemical Engineering
from the University of the Philippines-Diliman was named
Natatanging Anak of this urbanizing municipality.
Alexander John Cruz, one
of 19 summa cum laude graduates having an average of
1.16 last April, was one of only
six people conferred with the
prestigious award by the town
government, headed by Mayor
Nerivi Santos-Martinez as part
of the Linggo ng Magsasaka
festivities of San Isidro Labrador that culminated on Thursday.
Santos said that Cruz’s
scholastic history, having entered UP as a scholar of the
Department of Science and
Technology, serves as inspiration among their people.
The other awardees were
Aquilino Ferrer (agrilculture),
Judith De Vera (spiritual), Jonnie Payoyo (youth leadership),
Carlito Fernando (finance)
and Ricardo Buenaventura
(cooperative).
For their contributions to
the local government, Vic Abesamis and Reynaldo Villanueva were given special awards.
“He did not only strive to
finish college, he worked hard
to earn knowledge with his
Cruz
mother and sister as well as
his country in mind,” Martinez
said of Cruz.
“I really faced a lot of challenges, financially and emotionally but I made them as
inspiration in achieving all my
dreams in college,” Cruz said.
He said he realized that he
can be a cum laude during the
second semester of first year.
“Kaya ko pala,” he said, adding that was the time he made
graduating with honors one of
his goals.
Cruz was raised by a single mother who worked hard
to provide his needs in his early studies. He never knew his
father.
He was the valedictorian
of his class at Honorato C. Pe-
rez Senior Memorial Science
High School in Cabanatuan
City where he learned about
the scholarship grants being
granted to poor but deserving
students by the DOST.
In Manila, there were
times when he had to eat rice
with free soup or topped with
menudo at the university’s cooperative canteen to make
ends meet. Instead of buying
or photocopying books, Cruz
regularly borrowed from the library.
While in college, he did
research work for some professors in the College of Engineering where he later became a student assistant. He
also had to take part-time tutorial jobs for high school students in Ateneo in some subjects such as math, chemistry
and physics.
Cruz intends to work for
an energy-related company
after graduation to help his
family and save money so he
could pursue graduate studies
abroad to enhance his knowledge and then return to the
country to be a scientist here.
He said he has no plan to settle or work abroad.
“To make ends meet, basically I’m a working student
without compromising my academics,” he said.
He is keen on taking energy-related work.
PILAR, Bataan- She may be
confined to a wheelchair and
can no longer walk and see,
but the mind and hearing of
Teodora “Doray” Baluyot who
celebrated her 100th birthday
Friday are still sharp.
Thanks, perhaps, to her
being cheerful, tirelessly and
repeatedly singing songs like
her rendition of “Ay, Ay Kay
Lungkot” and “Bukid ay Basa”,
among some others.
And maybe for her fondness for “paksiw na isda, sinigang sa kamatis na isda,”
vegetables and shrimps.
“Mahilig siya sa paksiw na
isda at hinalabos na hipon sa
almusal,” said retired school
teacher Rosa Valerio, 70, one
of her eight children with one
already dead.
Of the seven living children, two are businessmen,
two retired members of the
United States Navy, one a
retired budget analyst, one
a farmer and another one a
teacher.
Asked for her birthday
wish, the centenarian said
“sana maging maligaya tayong lahat at humaba ang buhay. Maalis lahat karamdaman sa ating katawan para
maging masaya.”
“Magmahalan
kayo,
magtulungan at laging manalangin sa Diyos,” Rosa quoted
her mother as always advising them. Hearing this, the old
woman recited “Ama Namin.”
“Very blessed kaming
magkakapatid dahil mabuting
asal ang itinuro sa amin ng
aming ina. Humaba pa sana
buhay niya sapagka’t siya
ang inspirasyon namin at gabay,” said Rodolfo Baluyot, 60,
the youngest child and retired
member of the US Navy.
Rosa said their mother dissuaded them and even the
granddaughters from eloping
with their boyfriends. “Ayaw
niyang maulit ang nangyari sa
kanya na 16 na taong gulang
pa lamang siya ay nagtanan
at nag-asawa na,” she said.
She said that their farmer-father and mother sacrificed a lot rearing all of them
by selling palay grains in
Olongapo City. Her mother
became a widow in 2001.
During the Holy Mass held
in the residence of Rosa in
Bantan Munti, Pilar the centenarian opened her lips trying
to sing the Christian songs.
In “Hallelujah” and the
“Lord’s Prayer,” the old woman was in high spirits joining in
the singing and prayer.
When Fr. Josue Enero,
parish priest of Pilar, led in the
singing of “Happy Birthday,”
the old woman sang with the
audience, clapping her hands.
When the singing stopped,
she alone continued singing
the birthday song.
“Maraming salamat,” the
centenarian said when asked
by the priest what she wanted
to tell her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and
other relatives.
She has 31 grandchildren
and 53 great grandchildren
from eight children.
“Kami ang dapat magpasalamat sa inyo dahil inspirasyon kayo sa amin,” Fr. Enero
said.
The old woman suffered
a fracture in one of her legs
about two years ago and
since then was resigned to her
wheelchair. Glaucoma blinded
both her eyes five years ago.
R-6’s Most Wanted
falls in Zambales
BY GEORGEN HUBIERNA
CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga - After three years in hiding, a
former chairman of Barangay San Ramon, Silay City, Negros Occidental tagged as Number 1 Most Wanted in Western Visayas was arrested last Friday by joint operatives of
Central Luzon Police Command in Barangay Palanginan,
Iba, Zambales .
Police Regional Office 3 officials during press briefing
identified the suspect as Noel Ayalin y Oro, alias Kalbo,
lone suspect in the massacre of four barangay officials including a chairwoman of the sangguniang kabataan and injuring three other barangay officials.
Authorities said that on March 6, 2011, Ayalin, who lost
the previous election, ran amuck after learning that he would
be charged for malversation of funds and went on a shooting spree inside the barangay session hall which claimed
the lives of four persons.
Police disclosed that it was no less than the late DILG
Sec Jesse Robledo who ordered the manhunt for the suspect .
Lawmen were armed with warrants of arrest for direct
assault with murder under Sections 148 and 248 in relation
to Article 48 of the Revised Penal Code with Criminal Case
Numbers 8211-69, 2011-35, 8211-69, 2011-37 and 8211-38
issued by Judge Felipe G. Banzon, Regional Trial Court 6th
Judicial Region, Silay City, Negros Occidental.
Ayalin is now detained here awaiting transfer to Region 6.
Power outages today in Pampanga, Zambales
ANGELES CITY- Power outages are
slated today, May 20, in seven towns
in Pampanga and three in Zambales.
The National Grid Corporation of
the Philippines (NGCP) announced
yesterday that two-hour power outage,
from 6 to 8 a.m. today in areas served
by the Pampanga Electric Cooperative
2 and the San Fernando Electric Light
and Power Company, Inc.
The areas to be affected include
Bacolor, Sta. Rita, Sasmuan, Porac,
Lubao, Guagua, and Floridablanca.
The power outage is to “facilitate
correction of critical hot spot at Remedios DS terminal pad and retightening
of bolts and nuts of strain clamp along
Hermosa-Guagua 69 KV line.”
Also today in Zambales, power outage is slated from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in
areas served by the Zambales 1 Electric Cooperative, Inc., affecting the
towns of Candelaria, Masinloc, and
Sta. Cruz.
“This is to facilitate replacement of
old wood poles along Botolan-Candelaria 69kVLine,” NCGP said.
NGGCP also said “normal operations will immediately resume after
work completion” and that “customers
and the general public are advised to
take the necessary preparations and
precautions for this scheduled interruption.”
No pork barrel for PSAU
BY ASHLEY MANABAT
MAGALANG, Pampanga – The first and only
state-run
agricultural
university in Central Luzon was not a recipient
of the pork barrel fund or
the Priority Development
Assistance Fund (PDAF)
from any legislator.
This was gleaned
from the presentation
made by Honorio Soriano Jr., president of the
Pampanga State Agricultural State University (PSAU) here, in last
Friday’s media forum
dubbed “Balitaan” organized by the Capampangan in Media Inc. in cooperation with the Clark
Development Corp. and
the Social Security System.
Soriano said most of
the funding for various
infrastructure and research programs of the
university came from
government
agencies
such as the Department
of Science and Technology and the Department
of Agriculture as well as
non-government organizations.
“There
is
no
PDAF-funded projects
here particularly those
from (Janet Lim) Napoles,” stated Soriano.
PSAU, formerly Pampanga Agricultural College, was converted
into a state university
by virtue of Republic Act
10605 through the initiative of then 1st District
Rep. Carmelo “Tarzan”
Lazatin and Senators Al-
lan Peter Cayetano, Lito
Lapid and Edgardo Angara Jr.
RA 10605 was signed
by President Aquino in
June last year making
the PSAU the second
state-run
agricultural
university in the country
after Bicol and the first in
the region.
Soriano also said former President and now
Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (2nd District,
Pampanga)
released
P50 million during her
administration to establish the university’s new
library.
Soriano said PSAU is
now among the top educational institutions in
the Philippines, ranked
No. 4 all over the country in terms of its passing
rate in the Licensure Examination for Teachers.
“Our passing grade is
way above the national
mean of only 39.75 percent,” Soriano said adding that one of the requirements of the Commission on Higher Education is to have a passing rate above the national mean.
“This can only speak
of quality,” he said which
made PSAU a recipient
of a number of local and
national awards on its
research in energy, water and ecological conservation.
Soriano said that
PSAU’s strategic thrusts
are geared towards
boosting agro-industrial development in Pampanga by producing
top-caliber
graduates
and entrepreneurs as
well as embarking on
programs to help farmers and other stakeholders in the province to
help in poverty alleviation.
PSAU is located at
the foothills on the western slope of the majestic Mt. Arayat on nearly
700 hectares of government agricultural lands.
It is about 3.5 kilometers
east of the town proper
and about 15 kilometers
southwest from Angeles
City and the Clark Freeport Zone.
Pampanga now has
two state universities,
the other being the Don
Honorio Ventura Technological State University in Bacolor.
17 workers
of Korean
firm hurt
in mishap
BY ERNIE ESCONDE
BALANGA CITY – Seventeen workers of a Korean firm in Bataan on
the way to work were injured when the service
vehicle they were riding
crashed at a narra tree
along the Roman Superhighway here before 6
a.m. Saturday.
Seats of the mini-bus
snapped out and threw
passengers towards the
door and front portion of
the vehicle.
“Of the 17, five are
considered in serious
condition. Mostly, may
mga sugat sa body parts,
ang ilan may fractures,”
said Danica Hipolito of
the Balanga City Rescue
Team.
She said that they received a call about the
accident at 6 a.m. and
immediately responded.
Hipolito said they attended first to those in the
front seats. “May mga
nakaipit sa upuan,” the
rescue worker said.
The victims are workers of Acre-Red, a Korean firm doing piping
works at the multi-million-peso
expansion
project of Petron Bataan
Refinery in Limay, Bataan. The workers were on
the way from Balanga to
report for duty at 7 a.m.
The victims were
rushed to the Bataan
General Hospital in Balanga.
“May pumasok na tricycle, nakarinig na lamang ako ng sigawan,”
said a worker complaining of aching feet.
“Tulog ako nakaupo
sa hulihan. Nang magising ako nasa may pintuan na ako ng sasakyan,”
said Herman Manuel,
19, also with aching feet
and body.
“Biglang
tumawid ang tricycle na galing
ng palengke, iniwasan
ng driver kaya bumangga sa puno,” 36-yearold Hadji Manuel on a
wheelchair said.
Service vehicle driver Ronald Alvarado, 48,
of Orion, Bataan was
among those seriously
injured.
“Iniwasan ko ang tricycle,” he said.
Saturnino,
another
worker, has injuries on
the forehead and face.
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • MAY 19 - 20, 2014 • MONDAY - TUESDAY
BY DING CERVANTES
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Editorial
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • MAY 19 - 20, 2014 • MONDAY - TUESDAY
Heart over mind
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VERY GOOD in 2010. Very Good in 2011. Very
Good in 2012.
That’s the score of the Province of Pampanga
in the Department of Finance’s fiscal performance
assessment for the three consecutive years within
the first term of Gov. Lilia G. Pineda.
Cited in the DOF website’s Iskor ng ‘yong Bayan
was Pampanga’s “consistently improved” overall
revenue generation capacity as a 1st Income
Class province, mainly due to its “consistently
posting double-digit growths” in locally sourced
income, thereby reducing its dependence
on the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA).
The DOF noted that tax revenue collections surged
by 136 percent in 2011 and further rose to 34
percent in 2012 despite the decline in real property
tax collections during the same period, while
nontax revenues jumped by 102 percent in 2010.
And to top it all, Pampanga had no reported debt
servicing expenditures from 2010 to 2012.
Average in 2010. Good in 2011. Needs
Improvement in 2012.
That’s the rating of Angeles City under Mayor
Edgardo Pamintuan in the same DOF Preliminary
LGU Fiscal Sustainability Scorecard, with regular
income increasing by 7 percent in FY2010, rising
to 15 percent in the following year and falling by 4
percent in FY2012; and local revenue at 9 percent,
22 percent and 5 percent for the same years
covered.
Average in 2010. Poor in 2011. Needs
Improvement in 2012.
That’s the scorecard of the City of San Fernando
in the same DOF assessment of the years covering
the last term of Mayor Oscar S. Rodriguez. Ironically,
when the city and the mayor had a bumper crop of
awards for good governance.
“Poor level of regular and local incomes for a
first-income class city,” the DOF assessed even
as it noted that “with the SRE (Statement of
Receipts and Expenditures) report for FY 2011 still
unavailable for more than two years now, it appears
that there is a deliberate neglect in complying with
the directives of Department Order No. 8 -2011, thus
undermining the accuracy of the aggregate LGU
report of the BLGF (Bureau of Local Government
Finance).”
Very Good for Pineda. Average for Pamintuan.
Poor for Rodriguez.
Comparisons, so it is long clichéd, are always
odious. In the parameter of public governance
though – as this Iskor ng ‘yong Bayan shows –
the heart of the mother is superior to the mind of
lawyers. Even World Mayor Prize winners.
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Zona Libre
Bong Z. Lacson
At face value
MAGLANQUE, Rene
Former DOTC Assistant Secretary now mayor of Candaba, Pampanga
Years Covered 2006-2008
Estimated amount of money received through conduits P108.24 million
Remarks: Does not include amounts received for Nasser Pangandaman and
Narciso Nieto. Other commissions cannot be determined as of press time.
An entry in the resumé of corruption
highlighted in the infographics The Benhur
Luy Files accompanying the fifth part of Nancy
Carvajal’s special report headlined “Gov’t
execs’ loot: P820M” in the Philippine Daily
Inquirer last Friday.
Of Maglanque, the story said:
“…Nasser Pangandaman, DAR secretary
from 2005-2009, received at least P94.1 million
through a conduit, Rene Maglanque, according
to Luy.
A “Rene Maglanque cash for Nasser
Pangandaman” and “SEC c/o Rene Maglanque
full payment of commission charge to RAD
project” were how the supposed kickbacks
were described in the records...
…Rene Maglanque, a former DOTC
assistant secretary and incumbent mayor of
Candaba, Pampanga, allegedly received P207
million from Napoles.
Maglanque in the records of Luy also served
as conduit of commissions for Pangandaman
and Nieto for DAR projects.
Maglanque’s entries in Luy’s records are
classified into three—”Usec Nieto c/o Rene
Maglanque,” “Rene Maglanque full payment
of commission charge to RAD project” and
“SEC c/o Rene Maglanque – full payment of
commission charge to RAD project.”
Conspicuous in his absence from the socalled “Napolist,” Maglanque is most visible in
the Benhur Luy Files. Which, with its details,
has become the more credible document.
Credibility here – to the detriment of
Maglanque – buttressed by an Inquirer front
page story on July 13, 2013 written by the
intrepid Tonette Orejas.
Read that story in part:
“…In 2012, the INQUIRER learned that
Maglanque had allegedly tried to bribe a leader
of a fishermen’s group in Masantol town in an
attempt to silence the group about an irregularity
involving the distribution of farm equipment.
Some 2,500 fishermen in Masantol were
reported to have received farming tools
and seeds worth P89.2 million from the
Department of Agrarian Reform. The supposed
beneficiaries, however, claimed that their
signatures had been forged and that they did
not receive anything from the DAR or its listed
partner, the Kaudpanan para sa Mangunguma
Foundation Inc. (KMFI).
KMFI is one of the fake NGOs Napoles
reportedly set up…
…Maglanque, one source claimed, had
asked a leader of the Masantol fishermen to
keep mum on the issue in exchange for P1
million. The amount was rejected.”
Really, now, it does not take an editor to see
a complete story here, merely by integrating
the italicized accounts above of Carvajal
and Orejas: credibly sourced, with enough
supporting facts to stand on its news merits.
Not to mention finely written. In its brief entirety,
a damning indictment of Maglanque.
Come to think of it though, was it not
Maglanque that damned himself in the Napoles
scam from Day 1?
Dead give-away were the streamers
Maglanque strung all around Candaba town
for his installation as new mayor on July 1,
2013 – “Mabuhay at Maligayang Pagdating
Madame Jenny, Jimmy and James Lim
Napoles from Mayor Rene E. Maglanque at
Pamilya” – a photo of one even meriting the
most prominent spot on Page 1 of the Inquirer,
juxtaposed right with the paper’s masthead.
No amount of high-pitched denial by
Maglanque then of knowing, much less dealing
with, Napoles could convince anyone of his
professed innocence.
No amount of quietude in Maglanque – he
has virtually hermetically sealed himself from
media – can now extract him from putative guilt.
Actually, Maglanque has long been
preceded by his not-so-flattering reputation.
Okay, perceived notoriety, to be precise.
In 2005, then Department of Transportation
and Communications Assistant Secretary
Maglanque was fingered by jueteng whistleblower Sandra Cam as “one of the bagmen” of
then Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel Arroyo. This,
in a Senate hearing.
Long reported too that Maglanque failed a
subsequent lifestyle check, his white mansion
most ostentatious, and certainly garish, amid
Candaba’s rusticity.
How Maglanque was able to wage two
expensive,
albeit
losing,
congressional
campaigns could only point to “a bottomless
war chest” that could have come only from
some source other than an honest, if legitimate,
one.
It is to Maglanque’s misfortune – mainly
of his own making – that the usual suspect in
pulp fiction readily assumes his character, nay,
subsumes his very person.
Guilt at face value. Need I still ask: “Anyone?”
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Aguinaldo returns to restart
his insurrection
ON MAY 20, 1898, Admiral Dewey set General Emilio
Aguinaldo ashore at Cavite
and got him to start his insurrection “under the protection of
our guns” as Dewey stated in
his report of 1898.
General Aguinaldo who
was in exile in Hongkong, returned to the command of the
Philippine army through the
support of Consul-General
Smith of Singapore, and Consul Wildman of Hong Kong.
He was carried to Manila Bay
on the United States war vessel McCulloch by Commodore
Dewey and supplied him with
arms.
Aguinaldo left the panoplied
safety of Dewey’s squadron,
and plunged single-handed,
into the struggle for Freedom.
Few days later, on May 24,
while still “under the protection
of American guns”, Aguinaldo
proclaimed his revolutionary
government and summoned
the people to his standard
for the purpose of driving the
Spaniards out forever.
Aguinaldo was uninterruptedly successful in the field and
dignified just as the head of
his government. He defeated
detachment after detachment
of the Spanish army, took fort
after fort, captured regiments
with arms and ammunition,
and in a few months’ time he
had captured every Spanish
soldier in the island of Luzon,
or had driven those not captured into Manila.
His proclamation promised
a constitutional convention to
be called later (which was duly
called later) to elect a President and Cabinet; referred to
the United States as “undoubtedly disinterested” and declared the Filipinos “capable
of governing for ourselves our
unfortunate country”; and formally announced the temporary assumption of supreme
authority as dictator.
Puntong Bulacan
Dino Balabo
Promdi list
Kay tagal na inabangan ng marami ang paglabas ng “Napo List” o listahan ng
mga opisyal ng gobyerno na diumano’y nakinabang sa anomalya sa pork barrel.
Excited daw sila na malaman kung ang
kanilang ibinotong kongresista at senador at
kasama sa “Napo list.”
Pero sabi ng maraming Bulakenyo, hindi na
kailangan ang “Napo list” para malaman kung
nakasama ang ibinoto nilang kandidato sa mga
ngadaang halalan.
Masdan na lamang daw ang kalagayan ng
Bulacan at malalaman mo na.
Parang teleserye ang paglalabas ng “Napo
list.”
Ipinangakong ilalabas, pero inantala, tapos
ay nagpalabas ng subpoena ang Senado
upang mapilit na ilabas ito.
Kaso, ang dami na palang bersyon ng Napo
List.
May Ping List mula kay dating senador
Panfilo Lacson, may De Lima List mula kay
Justice Secretary Leila De Lima.
Meron ding Cam List mula kay Sandra Cam
ng Whistleblower Association, at siyampre
mayroon ding PNoy List na diumano’y hawak
ni Pangulong Benigno Aquino.
Sa dami ng “list” malamang malisya o
maligaw itiong usapin sa Napo list.
Ngunit kung ang pagbabatayan ay ang
“Promdi List”, lumang tugtugin na yan.
Wika nga ni Father Pedring ng Leighbytes
Computer Center sa Malolos, “kumita na yan.”
Opo, merong ding list ang Promdi.
Simple lang ang Promdi List,pero kakaiba
ito.
Ayon sa Promdi List, ang paglalabas ng
nanganganak na version ng Napo List ay
posiblepang magkaroon ng apo saka mga
ninong at ninang.
Opo, malaki ang posibilidad na may mga
lumabas pang ibang listahan. Sana ay wag ng
maglabas ng sariling listahan si Father Pedring.
Natatandaan po ba ninyo yung “Hello Garci
Scandal” tapes noong panahon ni Pangulong
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo na ngayon ay
kongresista ng Pampanga?
Naku, si Father Pedring, tandang-tanda
iyon, dahil mas nauna siyang ipinaganak sa
marami sa atin.
Okey, heto ang kuwento ng Hello Garci
Scandal tapes, at hindi ito nalalayo ng masyado
sa kuwento ng Napo List.
Una ay umugong at umusok ang usapin
hinggil sa Hello Garci Scandal Tapes.
Tapos, biglang naglabas ng kopya ng
Malakanyang at sinabing, heto ang Hello Garci
Tapes.
Kasunod nito ay ang paglalabas ng iba
pang katulad recording sa pagitan ni dating
Pangulong Macapagal Arroyo at mataas na
opisyal ng Commission on Elections.
Kaso, lumabas sa mga sumunod na balita
na yung ipinalabas na tape ng Malakanyang ay
edited na raw.
Pero kakaiba ang Napo list.Mukhang
biktima ring “dagdag-bawas.”
Ilang balita na ang lumabas na inaakusahan
si Secretary de Lima na nilinis day yung listahan
niya. Sanitized, wika nga.
Dahil naman sa hindi magkakatugma ang
mga pangalan sa mga listahan, may mga
nag-aakusa na dinagdagan ang pangalan ng
nakalista doon.
Batay sa Promdi List,ang kalagayang ito
ay malinaw na halimbawa ng “dagdag-bawas”
kahit walang halalan.
Alam natin na ang “dagdag-bawas” sa halan
ay natugunan ng Precinct Count Optical Scan)
PCOS machines na ginamit sa nagdaang
dalawang automated elections.
Dahil dito, may mga nagsasabing, dapat
yata ay pinadaan din sa PCOS machine yung
Napo list.
Kaso di pa naiimbento yung Promdi
Corruption List Optical Scan (PCLOS)
machines.
Pero sabi ni Father Pedring, hindi na
kailangan ang PCLOS sa Napo List.
Xerox Machine at simpleng computer
scanner lang daw ang katapat ng Napo List.
Pag daw naipa-xerox o naipa-scan ang
tunay na Napo List, tiyak na mabilis itong
kakalat partikular na social media.
Kaya siguro mayroon tayong Anti-Cyber
Crime law, samantalang hindi mapagtibay ang
Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill. Ano sa tingin
ninyo?
Napaguusapan
Lang
Felix M. Garcia
Nang dahil sa
‘Facebook’
(KARUGTONG NG SINUNDANG ISYU)
BAGAMAN kay mister direktang paghamak
ang pangyayaring yan kanya pang sinikap
kinuyom sa dibdib ang pait at saklap,
dahil na rin sa kaisa-isang anak.
Na ayaw niyang mahiwalay sa kanya,
kaya mapait man nilulunok niya
maitago lamang ni mister sa mata
ng anak ang pagiging kiri ng ina.
At kahit malamig ang pakikitungo
ni misis, si mister nagsawalang-kibo
pagkat pilit pa rin nitong binubuo
ang pamilya, dahil sa mahal na bunso.
Bunga na rin nitong ang kanyang asawa
ay lubhang makapit sa sintas ng ina;
Kaya malaki man ang sa ‘parents’ niya
ay di mapilit na doon muna sila
Tumira kahit man lang pansamantala
habang di pa nila kayang magpagawa
ng sariling bahay – at dahil ayaw nga
ni misis, siya na ang nagpaubaya.
At dahilan na rin sa lubhang malamig
ang pakikitungo ng biyenan at misis,
sa bahay ng kanyang magulang malimit
umuwi si mister, ‘five to six days a week’
Pero hatid-sundo pa rin sa asawa
kung saan si misis ay isang maestra;
At nahinto lang yan nang i-‘request’ siya
sa Middle East ng isang kapatid niya
Subalit matapos nitong matuklasan
na ang asawa niya pala ay tuluyan
ng nakisama sa kinalolokohan,
at sa bahay mismo ng biyenan pumisan;
Nagpasiyang umuwi nang wala sa oras
upang gumawa ng aksyong nararapat
para mapanagot ang taksil na kabiyak
nang naaayon sa ‘ting saligang batas.
At ang malinaw na magpapatotoo
sa naturan ay ang nakuhang litrato
ni mister mula sa ‘facebook profile’ mismo
ng kanyang asawa at ng kabit nito.
Na siya ngayong ginamit na ebidensya
ng tunay na mister nang ito’y magsampa
ng ‘administrative case’ laban sa isa
para matanggal sa pagiging maestra.
Bunsod n’yan, at dahil na rin sa posibleng
si misis ay wala nang malamang gawin
upang ang demanda ni mister mapigil,
ay itong huli ang tinangkang takutin
Sa pamamagitan ng ya’y kinasuhan
ng pambubugbog at kung anu-ano pang
klaseng pananakot para iurong lang
ni mister ang kaso sa DepEd ni Madam.
Ganun pala’t bakit kung di lang umabot
sa puntong sumingaw ang ginawang bulok
nila ng kabit niya ay di pina-abot
sa otoridad ang aniya’y pambubugbog
Ng kanyang asawa kundi nga lang nitong
ang immoral niyang gawa ay isumbong
sa ‘DepEd’ kung sadyang ika nga’y totoong
sinasaktan siya? (‘Perjury’ ang ganun!)
At marapat lang na pati itong biyenan
ay masampahan din ng kasong kriminal
sa D.O.J. upang kanyang panagutan
ang paglulubid ng kasinungalingan.
Sino sa akala nitong kusintidor
na biyenan, ang mapaniwala ang hukom,
na binubugbog ang kanyang anak, gayong
magkakasama yan sa iisang bubong?
Ang isang lalaki ubod man ng tapang
ay di gagawin ang bagay na naturan,
partikular sa bahay ng kanyang biyenan
sapagkat pihong siya ay malilintikan!
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • MAY 19 - 20, 2014 • MONDAY - TUESDAY
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Ang’s airport is ‘money thrown into the sea’
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It will even have an
elevated toll road that
would connect it to the
Makati central business
district making it the best
in the South East Asian
region.
But the $10 billion
cost to build San Miguel
Corporation’s
(SMC)
proposal for a brand new
airport is literally money
down the drain or more
appropriately
“money thrown into the sea,”
said the Pinoy Gumising
Ka Movement (PGKM),
a multi-sectoral group
based in this city advocating the full and immediate development of the
Clark International Airport (CIA).
PGKM Chair Ruperto Cruz said SMC’s new
airport’s flaw is its location.
News reports indicate that SMC’s new airport, which was presented to President Aquino
last week in Malacañang
by its president Ramon
Ang, will be located
along CyberBay Corp.’s
disrupted waterfront reclamation project along
the Manila-Cavite Coastal Road covering the cities of Parañaque and
Las Piñas.
Cruz pointed out that
recent calamities should
have taught us by now
that climate change is
real. He said Typhoon
Ondoy in late September 2009 caused widespread flooding especially in Metro Manila.
With only 85 kph
winds, storm surges
turned Roxas Boulevard
along Manila Bay and
immediate environs with
chest-high floodwaters
rendering the otherwise
busy highway impassable. Even the might of
the only world superpower was no match to nature’s wrath as the US
Embassy along the boulevard was not spared
from the flooding and
storm surges.
Cruz said accessibili-
ty will also pose a problem since the new airport
will surely be elevated
to protect it from flooding and will only have the
congested Manila-Cavite
Coastal Road as access
point other than the proposed elevated highway
to Makati.
Manila is already
bursting at the seams,
said Cruz, why build another airport there? He
asked.
“This is preserving
Imperialized Manila at
all costs, even to the utter detriment of the rest
of the Philippines,” Cruz
reasoned.
He said what happened at the Tacloban
2 Bulgarians nabbed...
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after a bank client reported that an ATM machine had two pin pads
with card skimmer, amid
their suspicious movements in the vicinity.
The two were initially held by SM security
officers until the arrival
of police probers who
found in their possession three data port cables that matched the
ATM card skimmer, a
small flat screwdriver for
picking ATM cards, and
a laptop with a decoding
software.
Aganon said the suspects faced violations of
Access Devices Regulation Act of 1998 and
the Act Providing for the
Recognition and Use of
Electronic Commercial
and
Non-Commercial
Transactions and Document.
The Bulgarians were
taken to the Mexico jail,
as part of the mall was
within the territory of
Mexico town.
Aganon said his
probers have been coordinating with the Bureau of Immigration to
get more information
about the suspects,
as they could be in the
wanted list of the International Police.
Hacienda Dolores farmers camp out...
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • MAY 19 - 20, 2014 • MONDAY - TUESDAY
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march, to culminate in a
rally either at the DAR
national office or near
Malacanang, would also
be to protest alleged
land grabbing at Hacienda Dolores for the
construction of a highend housing project by
two real estate firms he
named as LLL and FL,
both reportedly under
Ayala Land.
Amid a feeling of
helplessness, farmers of
Hacienda Dolores have
already allied with other
farmers’ groups, namely, the Aguman da reng
Maglalautang Capampangan (AMC) and the
AMGL, Canlas said.
He noted that way
back in 2005, the DAR
had already issued exemption and conversion
orders in favor of the real
estate firms for the highend housing project at
Hacienda Dolores. Since
then, the firms have
been encroaching into
their farms and fencing
them off.
Farmers in the hacienda have insisted their
rights to the land which
their forefathers started
to till way back in 1835.
“Even before year
1835 under the Spanish
colonialism, ancestors
of present-day farmers
have tilled the lands, still
named Hacienda Ramona, thus, their rights
to the land are historical
and moral,” Canlas said.
He noted that the
farmers’ forefathers had
been farming at Hacienda Dolores “even before the first Philippine
Republic was founded,
but since 2004 coinciding with the construction
of the Subic-Clark-Tarlac
Expressway (SCTEx),
the farmers started to be
harrassed.”
“Big landlords and
companies such as Ayala Land are taking advantage of CARP (Comprehensive Agrarian Reform of the Philippines)
provisions that serve
their interests and are
detrimental to poor farmers,” he noted.
He said that real estate firms are now constructing at the Hacienda
Dolores the 1,125-hectare Alviera project, composed of eco-residential,
commercial, light industrial and tourist facilities and establishments
similar to Nuvali in Sta.
Rosa City, Laguna province.
AMC Chair Elmer
Franco, who is also a
leader of the Aniban ng
Nagkakaisang
Mamamayan ng Hacienda Dolores (Aniban) said he
and other affected farmers would continue to assert their rights over their
lands.
Franco also demanded justice for “our martyrs, Arman Padiño and
Menelao Barcia, who
were killed for asserting
their rights to land.”
He said that since
2011, the real estate
firms have been fencing
off lands cultivated by
the farmers and barred
them from attending
to and harvesting their
crops.
“Aside from the extra-judicial killings, violence against farmers
are unabated. On November 29, 2013, unidentified men shot a
burning arrow at the
house of farmer Jessel
Orgas. On December 6,
2013, unidentified men
threw a grenade again at
Orgas’ house, wounding
him. On December 11,
2013, farmer Modesto
Posadas was shot and
wounded by two motorcycle-riding men near
the SCTEx-Porac interchange,” he recalled.
In a statement, the
farmers’ groups blamed
the Aquino government
for the events at Hacienda Dolores. It said the
untoward developments
were a result of the government’s Public-Private
Partnership (PPP) program, as well as Central
Luzon Regional Development Plan (CLRDP).
“Hacienda
Dolores
farmers witnessed elements of Philippine National Police and Philippine Army always coordinating with LLL and FL in
moves against the farmers,” Canlas said.
“The Ayala Land project is definitely backed
up by the Aquino government as it funded
his election bid in 2010.
Government machineries are utilized by LLL
and FL,” he also said.
–Ding Cervantes
Pantabangan Dam stops releasing water
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Pantabangan Dam because the start of the water delivery for wet cropping season is June 1,”
she said.
The church in the old
town which was sub-
merged during the dam’s
construction in 1971 has
begun to appear. Salazar, however, downplayed fears of severe
shortage of irrigation
since a 181 masl elevation of the dam is a “normal occurrence” at this
time of the year.
Salazar said she
would request for the
cloud seeding but only
on “stand by in case
there will be no rains in
June.”
The Bureau of Soil
and Water Management
THINK GREEN
conducted cloud seeding
operation over the watershed of Angat Dam on
Friday.
“Not
immediate
need,” Salazar said,
noting that NIA-UPRIIS
plays vital role in the government’s food self-sufficiency program.
UPRIIS has programmed for irrigation
114,026 hectares of riceland, up by 2,772 hectares from last year’s
111, 254 hectares.
airport on November 8
last year at the height of
Supertyphoon Yolanda
should be enough reason to jolt us to our senses that an airport near
the sea is “impractical.”
‘Lethal risks’
Meanwhile,
the
PGKM warned that SMC
should be ready for civil society groups and environmentalists who will
surely oppose the plan
to reclaim 1,600 hectares of land from the sea
where the brand new airport will be built.
Based on news reports, Dr. Kelvin Rodolfo,
Environmental Sciences Professor at the University of Illinois, said
the reclamation of only
148-hectare of the Manila Goldcoast Reclamation Project along Manila
Bay would “pose lethal
risks to many people in-
cluding danger of land
subsidence, storm surges, storm waves and further ecological damage
to coastal ecosystem.”
Eloiza Tolentino, coordinator of the EcoWaste Coalition, had said
that Manila Goldcoast’s
148-hectare reclamation
project “would need 19
million cubic tons of sand
that would destroy coastal ecosystem.”
Environmentalists
also said “further reclamation would not only
damage the remaining coastal habitat and
eco-system but will also
effectively block the natural pathways of the river
system flowing into the
bay, thus increasing the
threats of massive flooding in Metro Manila.”
SMC’s airport proposal is a massive 1,600
hectares of land reclamation in the same area.
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
REGIONAL TRIAL COURT
THIRD JUDICIAL REGION
MACABEBE, PAMPANGA
OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT & EX-OFICIO SHERIFF
APUNG MONICA DE MINALIN
MULTI-PURPOSE COOPERATIVE,
Petitioner/Mortgagee,
-versus-
EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE
CASE NO. 14-0340(M)
SPOUSES ARNOLD C. CANO
and EDNA CANO,
Respondents/Mortgagors.
x------------------------------------------x
NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE
Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135, as amended
by Act 4118, filed by APUNG MONICA DE MINALIN MULTI-PURPOSE
COOPERATIVE with principal address at San Nicolas, Minalin, Pampanga,
against SPOUSES ARNOLD C. CANO AND EDNA CANO, registered owners
of Transfer Certificate of Title No. 460034-R, with residence and postal address
at 599 Colgante, Apalit, Pampanga, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness
which as of October 2, 2013, amounts to NINE HUNDRED SIXTY THOUSAND
SEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTY SIX PESOS AND 86/100 (P960,776.86),
Philippine currency, inclusive of the stipulated interest and penalties but
excluding of attorney’s fees, legal costs and expenses, the undersigned will
sell at public auction on July 4, 2014 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning, at the
Office of the Clerk of Court, Regional Trial Court, Macabebe, Pampanga,
to the highest bidder, for cash or manager’s check and in Philippine currency,
the following property with all the improvements, to wit;
TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. 460034-R
A parcel of land (Lot 1212-A-4-F-2, of the subd. Plan, (LRC)
Psd-233166, being a portion of Lot 1212-A-4-F, (LRC) Psd-228210,
LRC Cad. Rec. No. 345), situated in the Bo. of Colgante, Mun. of
Apalit, Prov. of Pamp. Bounded on the NE., pts. 4 to 5 by the Lacmit
River; on the SE., pts. 5 to 1 by a Rd. 8.00 m. wide; of the SW., pts.
1 to 2 by Lot 1212-A-4-F-1 of the subd. plan, and on the NW., pts. 2
to 4 by Lot 1212-A-4-E, (LRC) Psd-228210. Beg. At a pt. marked “1”
on plan, being N. 56 deg. 49’E., 588.08 m. from BMB 1, Apalit Cad.;
thence N. 37 deg. 35’W., 17.31 m. to pt. 2; thence N. 52 deg. 49’E.,
2.87 m. to pt. 3; thence N. 53 deg. 09’E., 13.16 m. to pt. 4; thence S.
68 deg. 34’E., 20.12 m. to pt. 5; thence S. 52 deg. 41’W., 26.39 m. to
the pt. of beg.; containing an area of Three Hundred Sixty Six (366)
Square Meters, more or less. All pts. referred to are indicated on the
plan and are marked on the ground as follows; pts 1 and 2 by PS
and the rest by Old PS. cyl. conc mons. 15x60 cms. Bearings true;
declination 0 deg. 47’E., date of orig. survey, Jan. 1919-March 1920
and that of the subd. survey was executed by Narciso L. Manansala,
Geodetic Engineer on November 29, 1975.
Prospective buyers may investigate for themselves the above-described
property and encumbrances thereon, if there be any.
All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated
time and date.
In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, it
shall be held on July 11, 2014 at said time and place without further notice.
Macabebe, Pampanga, May 9, 2014.
PABLITO G. CLEMENTE, JR.
Sheriff IV
ATTY. CHONA T. GUIAO
Clerk of Court and Ex-Officio Sheriff
Copy furnished:
Apung Monica De Minalin Multi-Purpose Cooperative,
San Nicolas, Minalin, Pampanga
Atty. Arnel S. Santos
Counsel for Petitioner/Mortgagee
802-B Navarro Building
Angeles-Magalang Road
Pandan, Angeles City
Spouses Arnold C. Cano and Edna Cano,
No. 599, Colagnte, Apalit, Pampanga
PUNTO! Central Luzon: May 19, 26 & June 2, 2014
The Gossipmiller
Cesar Pambid
Sarah Geronimo di asiwang pag-usapan si Matteo Guidecelli
BLOOMING na na blooming naman si Sarah Geronimo nang interbyuhin namin para sa presscon ng “The Voice Kids” na ginanap sa Good Times KTV sa The Fort
Strip sa Bonifacio Global City at mapapanood na simula May 24.
Hindi rin siya nakaiwas tanungin kung isasali din niya ang magiging supling nila ni Matteo Gudicelli sa nasabing contest. At mukhang mas open na siyang sumagot
about Matteo.
“Oo naman,” mabilis niyang sagot. “Sana nga, magkatotoo na. Maybe this time. . .” pambibitin niya. Kilig na kilig si Sarah sa title pa lamang ng pelikulang
pagsasamahan nila nina Coco Martin at Ruffa Gutierrez para sa Star Cinema
Napahagikhik uli si Sarah nang ibulong namin na magiging winner agad ang supling dahil pareho magagaling na singers ang kanyang Mommy at Daddy.
“Oo nga ano? Singer din siya (Matteo),” naalala niya.
“Nakikita ko talaga sa mga batang sumasalang ang sarili ko,“ patuloy ng blooming na Popstar. “Nag-umpisa ako when I was 8 years old lang. Sumasalang na
ako sa mga contest. Noon pa, inihanda na ako ng parents ko kung paano tanggapin ang pagkatalo, kung saka-sakali. Buti na lang at suwerte sila bilang mentors ko.
Ang tagal kong nakakahinga pag isisigaw na ang winner.
“Feeling ko, mas mahirap ang mga contest ngayon, kaya, I’m so amazed talaga sa mga batang ito, lalo na kapag kinakausap namin at kino-coach.
“Natutuwa din ako dahil may psychologist silang kinuha para sumalubong sa mga bata after their performances. Kahit nanalo at lalo na kapag natatalo. Ingat na
ingat sila sa feelings ng mga ito. Ayaw nilang ma-trauma ang mga bata. Napaka-importante kasi ang pakikipag-usap after a performance. Mga bata ito, at ibang-iba
sa mga adult contestants na mas prepared na siyempre, sa pagtanggap ng disappointments.
Luis Manzano male counterpart ni Anne Curtis
HILA-DITO hila-doon ang inabot ni Luis Manzano sa presscon ng “The Voice Kids.”
Totoong na-miss nang husto ng movie press ang panganay (at bunso) nina Edu Manzano at Vilma Santos sa pagtatapos ng “Minute to Win It.”
Kaliwa’t kanan din ang tanong sa kanya kung kailan siya magiging “legal husband” ni Angel Locsin at kung ano ang karapatan niyang maging isa sa mga host ng
bagong kiddie show na sa trailer pa lamang ay umaani na ng masigabong palakpakan, lalo na nang ipakita ang sampol ng batang bumanat ng “Grow Old with You.”
Agad pinatunayan ni Luis kinagabihan ang “karapatan” niya dahil bumongga siya ng kanta sa Smart Araneta bilang special guest ni Anne Curtis.
Si Luis na nga ang kokoronahang “Male Counterpart ni Anne Curtis,” na pupuno ng Smart Araneta. Hindi pa malaman kung ano ang titulong ibibigay sa kanya at
kung kailan ito magaganap It will probably be the biggest joke in showbiz ever.
Nag-aalala tuloy si Luis kung papayagan niya ang magiging panganay nila ni Angel Locsin na sumali sa isang kiddie show na
tulad ng “The Voice Kids.”
“Kung ako ang tatanungin, hindi siyempre. Pero, kung magpipilit siya, ano’ng magagawa ko? Look at me, pinag-aral ng
mga magulang para maiwasan ang pagso-showbiz, pero, saan ba ako naroon ngayon? Heto, pinanggigilan n’yo parati,”
sagot niya.
Totoo naman kasi, iba ang dating ni Luis, aminin natin, Namana niya ang husay ng Dad niya (si Edu Manzano) sa
hosting with matching tremendous humor. Iyon na nga lang, kinapos siya sa dramatic prowess ng kanyang Mom
(Vilma Santos).
Nakatsamba(?) siya bilang supporting actor sa “All My Life” kahit may John Lloyd Cruz at Vilma Santos pa
siyang laging kaeksena. Hindi siya na-intimidate.
NAGING kontrobersyal at umani ng hindi magagandang komento sa social media ang tanong ni Boy Abunda kay
Wowie de Guzman nang interbyuhin nila ni Janice de Belen ang nabiyudong aktor sa Buzz ng Bayan some
three weeks ago.
Kaya naman nang magkaroon kami ng pagkakataong makausap si Kuya Boy ay hiningan namin siya
ng reaksyon tungkol dito.
Ayon kay Kuya Boy, aminado naman siyang insensitive nga ang ibinatong first question kay Wowie.
“Ano ’yung tanong? The question was “May mga usap-usapan sa social media, pinakita nila sa
akin ang thread na nagsasabing pa-interview ka nang pa-interview kasi gusto mong mag-balik sa
industriya.”
Nasagot naman daw ni Wowie nang maayos ang tanong at wala namang naging problema.
After the show ay na-basa niya ang text ni Gladys Reyes na matalik na kaibigan ni Wowie.
Napaka-galang daw ng pagkaka-text ng aktres, in fairness.
“Ang kanyang text message, nagsasabi na nasaktan siya at ang kan-yang mga kaibigan pati
si Wowie, specifically du’n sa una kong tanong.
“Pero I give it to Gladys, napakagalang ng pagka-text. ’Yung ‘nasaktan ho kami dahil sa
nabulaga kami du’n sa unang tanong which we felt was in-sensitive.’ Hindi ’yung, ‘napakainsensitive mo naman, Kuya Boy,’ hindi.
“Let’s give credit to her. Napakagalang ng kanyang pag-express ng disgusto doon sa
paniniwala niya na insensitive ang unang tanong.
“I agreed. I really felt that the first question was insensitive. Sinagot ko si Gladys,
nagpaliwanag ako. Sabi ko, “I take full responsibility. I apologize if I hurt you, if I hurt
Wowie, if I hurt your friends. Pero gusto ko lang malaman mo that the question was not in
the original questionnaire.”
Kwento ni Kuya Boy, before the show ay may meeting sila at nagkaroon
ng briefing sa mga questions. Wala sa briefing ang nasabing tanong.
Maya-maya ay nilapitan daw siya ng head writer na si Mark at ipinakita
sa kanya ang thread na may mga komento nga raw tungkol sa pagpapainterview ni Wowie dahil gusto umanong magbalik.
Magalang naman daw ang tanong ni Mark sa kanya na kung puwede
niya itong itanong kay Wowie and he said, “Mark, napaka-insensitive
naman ng tanong na ’yan’. Unang-una, inimbita n’yo, pumayag.
Pangalawa, nandiyan na live. I mean, I don’t think that’s proper.
“Pero kung ang intent mo is for him to be able to address that dahil
meron sa thread na nagsasabi na nagpapa-interview siya, eto ang
kundisyon ko, puntahan n’yo sa dressing room ngayon (si Wowie),
tanungin n’yo. Kung pumayag, okay. ’Pag hindi pumayag, ayoko.
“Pumunta sila, tinanong, tinulungan pa si Wowie kung ano ang
konstekto ng tanong para maintindihan niya, kung papayag siya,
papayag ako. That’s the background. I shared that story to Gladys.
“In fairness to Gladys, bumalik siya ng text, ‘maraming salamat po
Kuya Boy sa inyong pang-unawa sa sakit na nararamdaman namin’.
End of story. That’s the whole story.
“Footnote to this story, sa tagal ko nang nag-iinterbyu, hindi ako
natatakot magkamali ’coz nobody’s perfect, I’m always willing lalo na
kapag kasalanan ko, to apologize.
“At saka hindi ako ’yung ‘siya kasi’, I always take full responsibility.
Magpapaliwanag lang ako nang kaunti because it’s important to note na
alam ni Wowie,” pahayag ni Kuya Boy.
Naging leksyon din daw sa King of Talk ang nangyari na hindi lahat ng makatwiran
ay puwedeng itanong. Kahit pumayag daw si Wowie, he felt that he shouldn’t have done
that.
“Kahit nagpaalam sila kay Wowie, I should have followed my instinct na insensitive ang tanong,” he said.
Kahit nakatanggap ng mga batikos si Kuya Boy mula sa netizens without even knowing the back story,
wala naman daw galit sa puso niya at inirerespeto naman niya ang opinyon ng bawat tao aside from the fact
na tinatanggap naman daw niya na nagkaroon din naman siya ng shortcomings.
Sarah Geronimo
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • MAY 19 - 20, 2014 • MONDAY - TUESDAY
Boy Abunda saludo kay Gladys Reyes
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Akmang binhi ang itanim sa tagtuyot, binabahang lugar
BY DINO BALABO
SAN MIGUEL, Bulacan---Unang bahagi pa lamang ng taong ito ay napakamot na sa
ulo ang mga magsasaka sa
bayang ito tulad ni Simeon
Sioson ng Barangay Lambakin.
Ito ay dahil sa kawalan ng
ulan na naging sanhi ng pagkatuyo ng kanilang mga tinggalan ng tubig at pananim
kaya’t wala silang inani.
Sa
baybaying
bahagi
naman ng Bulacan, nangangamba ang mga magsasaka
ng palay sa pagpasok ng tubig
alat sa kailugan at mga sapa
na ayon kanila ay “lumalason”
sa kanilang pananim.
Ito ay dulot ng kawalan
ng tubig ulan na nagtutulak
sa tubig alat sa karagatan na
lalo ngayong pinalulubha ng
papalapit na pananalasa ng
El Nino, isang kalagayan ng
panahon na tinatampukan ng
kawalan ng ulan at pinaiigting
ng climate change.
Sa kabila naman ng mga
problemang ito na hatid pagbabago ng timpla ng panahon,
may solusyong nakahanda
ang Philippine Rice Research
Institute (PhilRice) na nakabase sa Nueva Ecija.
Ito ay dahil sa nakapagparami na sila ng mga binhi
ng palay na maaaring itanim
sa mga lugar na kinakapos ng
tubig,o kaya ay sa mga lugar
na laging binaha at mga lugar
na pinapasok ng tubig alat.
Ayon kay Inhinyero Ricardo Orge, dalubhasa sa climate
change center ng PhilRice,
hindi dapat mabahala ang
mga magsasaka dahil sa mga
binhing kanilang naparami na
makatutugon sa mga adverse
weather conditions.
Kabilang dito ay ang NSIC
Rc346 o ang Sahod Ulan 11
na maaaring itanim sa mga
bukiring umaasa sa tubig ulan
o rain-fed.
Ito ay ang mga bukirin katulad ng matatagpuan sa Barangay Lambakin na karaniwang
sinasagasaan ng kakulangan
sa tubig lalo ngayong nahaharap ang bansa sa El Nino.
Ang NSIC Rc324 o Salinas 10 ay maaaring itanim sa
mga bukirin malapit sa dagat
at pinapasok ng tubig alat, samantalang ang NSIC Rc308 o
Tubigan 26 at NSIC Rc298 o
Tubigan 23 ay maaaring itanim
sa mga mababang bukirin na
karaniwang binabaha.
Bukod sa mga ito,mayroon
ding binhi ang PhilRice na tinatawag na NSIC Rc318H o
Mestiso 48 na madaling mamunga. Ito ay mapag-aanihan
sa loob lamang ng 104 hanggang 114 araw.
Ang NSIC Rc342SR o
Mabango 4, ay isang aromatic special purpose rice na
maaaring pag-anihan ng pitong tonelada bawat ektarya
AEROTROPOLIS. Mabalacat City Mayor Marino “Boking” Morales, Arch. Felino
Palafox Jr., Aerotropolis Expert Greg Lindsay, Clark International Airport Corporation
President & CEO Victor Jose I. Luciano and Department of Transportation &
Communications Undersecretary Jose Perpetuo Lotilla exude optimism at the 2014
Clark Aviation Conference held Friday at the Clark Freeport.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CIAC-CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
sa loob ng 114 araw, bukod pa
sa matibay ito sa mga peste
sa palayan.
Ang mga nabanggit na binhi ng palay na naparami ng
PhilRice ay napag-aanihan ng
anim hanggang 12 tonelada
ng palay bawat ektarya. Sinabi ni Orge na ang mga nasabing binhi ay naitanim na sa
ibat-ibang lalawigan sa Gitnang Luzon.
“Ang maipapayo ko sa
ating mga kababayang magsasaka ay subukan ang pag-
tatanim ng mga binhing ito
ayon sa kalagayan ng kanilang lugar upang matiyak na
makakaani sila,” ani Orge.
Inayunan din ito ni Andrew
Villacorta, regional executive director ng Department
of Agriculture sa Gitnang Luzon. Bukod rito, nagpahayag ng tiwala si Villacorta na
hindi masyadong maapektuhan ng El Nino ang pananim
na itatanim ngayong Hunyo.
Ito ay dahil sa umaasa silang
masusustinihan ng ulan ang
pananim na itatanim.
Ipinagmalaki pa ni Villacorta na sa taong 2013, umabot sa 18.44 milyon metriko
tonelada ang kabuuang produksyon ng palay sa bansa sa
kabila ng pananalasa ng mga
kalamidad.
Ang produksyong ito ay
katumbas ng 97 porsyentong
pangangailangan sa bigas ng
bansa kaya’t tinagurian ang
bansa bilang “fastest growing
rice producing country in Asia”
sa taong 2013.
Korean robs money exchange workers with P1.4 M
BY DING CERVANTES
ANGELES CITY -- A Korean national was arrested
by the police here while allegedly attempting to hold
up companions carrying P1.4 million cash in a vehicle in Barangay Balibago here last Saturday.
A report from Station 4 of the local police named
the suspect as Yang Rae Song, 37.
The report said a police patrol was making the
rounds along the MacArthur Highway in the Balibago
commercial district when their attention was caught
by a man getting out of a car and shouting for help.
It turned out that Song had offered employees of
a money exchange shop a ride in his car on their way
to a bank to deposit P1.4 million. The employees said
they had trusted him as a regular client.
Chief Inspector Romeo Castro of Station 4 said
that on the way, Song produced a. .45 pistol and
threateningly ordered other people in the vehicle to
turn over to him the bag that contained P1.4 million
cash.
One of the employees, however, immediately got
out of the car and shouted for help.
The cops then surrounded the vehicle and arrested Song who did not put up a fight. They found already in his possession the bag containing P1.4 million cash, as well as his pistol.
Police probers are looking into reports the Korean
was in financial straits and had incurred casino debts
worth some P15 million.
Song was slated to be charged with robbery and illegal possession of firearms and ammunition even as
probers looked into his status as alien in the country.
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • MAY 19 - 20, 2014 • MONDAY - TUESDAY
No. 3 in drug list nabbed
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BY GEORGE HUBIERNA
CAMP MACABULOS, Tarlac City -- Arrested in Hong
Kong for theft, jailed in Manila for drug pushing, and
now behind bars anew for drugs.
Francisco San Jose, alias Roger Gacusan, 34,
jobless, was arrested in a buy-bust operations right
in front of his rented house along Macapagal St. in
Barangay Burot here over the weekend.
Senior Supt. Alex B. Sintin, Tarlac police provincial director, said San Jose is No. 3 in the watch list
of drug personalities here.
Sintin said a pre-arranged transaction set by the
operating team led by Inspector Ferdinand Marcos
was consummated when PO2 Florante Sagun who
acted as poseur buyer was able to buy a piece of
heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet of shabu from
the suspect in exchange of P500.
The suspect resisted and tried to escape but the
operatives cornered him and another sachet of shabu was seized from his possession.
According to Barangay Central Chair Edgar Aguas
who happened to be the uncle of the suspect’s live-in
partner, San Jose lived a luxurious life despite being
jobless. He added that the suspect usually operated
at night, dressed in women’s clothes and wore heavy
make-up.
Aguas also revealed that his niece, who is pregnant, was forced by the suspect to sell shabu inside a
high school campus in Barangay San Miguel.
“Nagtaka po ako bigla silang nawala sa aming lugar kasi mainit na sila sa mga pulis, yun pala limipat
lang sa Barangay Burot. Matagal na po silang inirireklamo ng aking mga kabarangay at ilang beses ko
na rin yang kinompronta pero todo tanggi. Muntik na
rin syang mahuli ng mga pulis nang minsang nakasuot siya ng duster na may mga nakabulsang shabu
kaya lang madulas talaga,” Aguas said.