Vol 2 No 244.pmd

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VOLUME 2
NUMBER 244
MONDAY
MARCH 23, 2009
Rape suspect’s stay in HAU
alarms parents, Gabriela
‘We will not risk the safety
of our children’
BY JOEY PAVIA AND JOEY AGUILAR
A
NGELES CITY – Students of
Holy Angel University (HAU)
and their parents are
alarmed over the decision of one
of the biggest school in Central
Luzon to continuously employ the
services of an English professor
earlier charged with rape before
the Department of Justice (DOJ).
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LIST OF PRIORITIES
Noli urges Pinoys to put
housing above cellphones
BY DING CERVANTES
MABALACAT, Pampanga
– Vice Pres. Noli de Castro has appealed to Filipinos to escalate housing
above owning cellphones
and texting in their order
of priorities.
In his speech before
members of the Pampanga Press Club here, De
De Castro
Castro noted that while
“housing is the biggest investment of the ordinary
citizen”, it comes lower in
their priorities than cellphone ownership and texting.
“So I ask our countrymen to put more priority to
housing, education and
health,” said De Castro,
even as he vowed to finish
his job as housing czar of
the Arroyo administration
in the last 15 months of his
term.
“We in the housing sector continue to undertake
means to make amortization for your dream house
affordable. We have restructured the policies of
housing agencies and
made them investor-friendly so that we can lure businessmen and other developers to continue to put up
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Volunteers from the Bethesda Springs of Hope Healing Ministry and St. Luke’s Medical Center
attend to Aeta patients during the medical and dental mission held at the Pastolan Aeta Village
in the Subic Bay Freeport. PHOTO BY MALOU DUNGOG
1,300 Aetas benefit from U.S. medical mission
BY MALOU DUNGOG
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT – About
1,300 members of the indigenous
Aeta tribe here benefited from a
medical-healing mission conducted
recently by the Bethesda Springs of
Hope Healing Ministry, a Catholic
Christian ministry based in Columbus, Ohio.
The ministry sent some 40 doctors, nurses, dentists and x-ray
technicians to the Pastolan Aeta
community here to minister to the
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CIAC negotiating with major carriers from Middle East
CLARK FREEPORT – The
Clark International Airport
Corp. (CIAC) expects a
“major carrier” from the
Middle East to finally
launch regular flights at
the Diosdado Macapagal
International Airport (DMIA)
here and also link the airport to Europe.
CIAC president and
chief executive officer Victor Jose Luciano said that
negotiations with the ma-
jor Middle Eastern airlines
are now being finalized. He
declined to give details
pending the outcome of
the negotiations.
He said that the Middle Eastern airlines will
connect Clark not only to
the Arab countries where
hundreds of Filipino workers- mostly from Northern
and Central Luzon- are
employed, but also to EuPAGE 2 PLEASE
SBMA cites freeport’s
economic contributions
BY MALOU DUNGOG
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT – Officials of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) said that
Subic Bay has significantly
achieved its business objectives
of attracting investments and
generating employment opportunities after 17 years of existence
as a special economic zone and
freeport.
SBMA Chairman Feliciano
Salonga and SBMA Administrator Armand Arreza jointly cited
Subic’s economic contributions
on Thursday, after the agency
marked the 17th year of the passage of Republic Act 7227,
which created, among others,
the Subic Special Economic and
Freeport Zone (SSEFZ).
RA 7227, also known as the
Bases Conversion Development
Act of 1992, mandated the development of the SSEFZ into a
self-sustaining, industrial, commercial, financial and investment
center to generate employment
opportunities in and around the
zone and to attract and promote
productive foreign investments.
It was signed into law by
President Corazon C. Aquino on
March 13, 1992, after its consolidated version was finally
passed by both the House of
Representatives and the Senate
the month before.
“The Subic Bay Freeport, we
are proud to say, has consistently delivered on its objectives
in the past 17 years,” Salonga
said. “And it will continue to deliver despite the hurdles brought
about by the ongoing global economic slowdown,” he added.
“One bright note here is the
continuing increase of our labor
force, which grew by almost 18
percent last year. The biggest
chunk of this – or more than 41
percent – are employed in the
services sector; followed by ship-
GROUNDBREAKING. Mayor James “Bong” Gordon, Jr. (2nd from right) and Wilfredo M.
Tan (3rd from left), President and CEO of Hausland Development Corporation lead the
groundbreaking rites of the Bonaggapo Homes in Purok 3, New Cabalan, Olongapo
City. Joining them are Vice Mayor Cynthia G. Cajudo (2nd from left), First Lady and
Zambales Vice Governor Anne Marie Gordon (middle), Pag-IBIG Head Josephine Reyes
(right) and Mariano G. Tan (left). Photo By Malou Dungog
building/marine-related services,
which employ some 35 percent
of our work force,” Salonga said.
He also pointed out that the
87,502 jobs in the Subic Freeport as of December 2008 “is
more than thrice the number of
workers employed by the US
Navy at the heydays of the then
Subic Naval Base.”
Meanwhile, Arreza said that
in the last 17 years, the SBMA
has generated $5.75 billion in
committed investments, $11.21
billion in exports, and P2.21 billion in seaport revenues.
He added that with the operation of various investor-firms
since 1992, the Subic Freeport
had also contributed to the national treasury a total of P9.93
billion in collections by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR),
and P55.35 billion in cash and
non-cash collections by the Bureau of Customs (BoC).
Arreza also revealed that despite the global economic downturn, the agency is actually eyeing further growth through a new
development roadmap that has
identified five major investment
areas in the free port – namely,
logistics, manufacturing, shipbuilding, tourism, and business
process outsourcing and knowledge-based industries.
“After fulfilling our mandate of
attracting investors and creating
jobs, we have to re-invent the
purpose of the SBMA. Now
we’re aiming to take the Subic
Freeport, as well as the neighboring communities, to a higher
level — creating a multiplier effect in Central Luzon and the
rest of the national economy,”
said Arreza.
Arreza added that the importance for the SBMA to deliver on
its key metrics cannot be overemphasized “because Subic
has always been an enabler from
the time it was born 17 years
ago to today.”
“If Subic succeeds, it creates
a positive image for the country
as well. If Subic goes down, it
can drag the rest of the country,
too. This is why our biggest
moral purpose is to unite around
a sense of achievement for the
sake of our country,” Arreza said.
Ama inasarol
ng anak, patay
BALAGTAS, Bulacan – Brutal na pinaslang ang isang 60
anyos na ama ng kanyang
menor de edad anak sa Barangay Borol 1st ng bayang ito
nang nakaraang linggo.
Ang biktima ay nakilalang
si Levy Pascua, 60anyos,
may asawa, tubong Tiwi Albay at kasalukuyang nakatira sa Kalye Pogi, Barangay
Look 1st dito samantalang
ang suspek naman ay itinago sa pangalang Ron-ron, 15
anyos.
Ayon kay Ricardo Santos,
isa sa nakasaksi, bandang
alas-6 ng gabi nang marinig
nila na nagtatalo ang magama na aniya’y karaniwan
namang nangyayari sa biktima at suspek.
Ngunit ilang sandali lamang umano ng marinig nila
ang biktima at humihingi ng
tulong.
Ayon pa sa mga saksi
parang nawala sa katinuan
ang suspek at makailang ulit
na hinataw ang kanyang ama
gamit ang isang asarol na
gamit sa pagbungkal ng lupa.
Nang mahandusay na ang
duguang katawan ng biktima
ay kinaladkad pa umano ito
ng suspek at inihulog sa balon.
Dahil dito ay agad namang rumesponde ang mga
barangay tanod at kapulisan
na
nagresulta
sa
pagkakadakip sa menor de
edad na suspek.
Ang biktima ay nagtamo
ng maraming tama ng asarol
sa katawan partikular sa kanyang ulo na naging sanhi ng
kanyang kamatayan.
Ayon kay Ron-ron, wala
siya sa kanyang sarili ng
gawin niya ang krimen, at sinabi pa na parang may bumubulong sa kanya na lahat ng
mga tao ay sumasaludo sa
kanya.
Hindi rin umano niya
matandaan ang dahilan ng
kung bakit niya hinataw ng
asarol ang sariling ama.
CIAC negotiating with major carriers from Middle East
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • MARCH 23, 2009 • MONDAY
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ropean countries.
“Next, we will have to find a
direct link to Canada, Japan, and
Australia,” he said, amid the
possibility, he noted, that Cebu
Pacific could launch flights to
Australia.
CIAC launched here yesterday its first “roadshow” to promote both international and domestic flights at the DMIA.
CIAC chairman Nestor Mangio said “in spite of the global
crisis, the DMIA stands firm in
its aim to be the most competitive logistics center in Asia and
the premiere gateway of the
Philippines”.
“In the ASEAN region as well
as Japan, Korea and China,
there is the potential of 500 million tourists who can be lured to
visit our country,” he noted.
This, even as Luciano expressed optimism that CIAC
would be able to choose soon
its private sector partner in the
construction and operation of a
new passenger terminal at the
DMIA.
“It’s the first time in our nation’s history that we are going
into a joint venture mode (for the
terminal construction and operation),” Luciano said.
Under such scheme, private
parties interested in the joint
venture would present its proposal which would be open to
challenge from other interested
parties. “There will be 30 days
within which any other interested party can challenge the proposal, then we choose the best,”
Luciano said.
He said he expected the new
passenger terminal, which is
expected to increase the passengers’ capacity of the DMIA
from its present 1.5 million to as
much as seven million per year,
could be finished by next year.
One CIAC source, however,
admitted to Punto it would be
“physically impossible” to build
such a terminal before the term
of Pres. Arroyo ends in June next
year.
CIAC is now evaluating Pacific Avia Group, Inc. (PAGI) as
its possible joint venture (JV)
partner in the terminal project
that could cost anywhere from
P3 billion to P7 billion.
CIAC vice president for administration and finance Romeo
Dyoco, who chairs the joint venture-selection Committee (JVSC), said whoever will be CIAC’s
partner will “design, finance,
construct and operate” the proposed terminal 2 which will increase the passenger capacity
of the old but upgraded terminal
FROM GLOOM TO BOOM
Ecija farmers’ tell their hybrid rice tale
BY ANSELMO ROQUE
SAN ISIDRO, Nueva Ecija –
Three months ago, several farmers here complained about the
poor growth of their hybrid rice
plants. They exhibited a picture
of gloom as they predicted a low
harvest this cropping season.
Last Wednesday, during a
harvest festival in Barangay Pulo
here, they established a picture
of boom and boon.
Farmer Renato Linsangan,
64, of Barangay Mangga, this
town, attested in his testimony
during the festival’s brief program, that he was happy he did
not destroy his rice plants at the
height of reports, fanned by attestation by many farmers, that
what were distributed to them
were “defective” and “fake” hybrid seeds.
That time, he said, he noted
that some of his young plants
were maturing prematurely. He
also wanted to plough-under his
plants (binalak ko pong balasahin) but changed his mind after
consulting with technicians and
the outstanding farmers.
“Ngayon po, kapag inihagis
ninyo ang platong plastic sa
aking bukid, hindi po malalaglag sa lupa dahil sa makapal na
bunga ng aking tanim na palay
(If you throw a plastic plate now
in my farm, it will not fall on the
ground because of the plentiful
grains in the panicle of my rice
plants),” he said.
Another farmer, Alberto
Galvez of Barangay Pulo, also
in this town, said the evaluation,
based on crop cuts in several
portions of his farm, indicated
that his harvest would be 204
cavans per hectare.
“Tuwang-tuwa po ako sa aning ito (I am very happy about
this big harvest from my growing the SL-8 hybrid rice variety),”
he said.
Galvez said he was one of
those gripped by the “hybrid rice
scare” due to the appearance of
bolsters (bearing fruit) even
while the plants were still very
young.
In the harvest festival here
Wednesday, the members of
an evaluation team said farmer
Alberto Galvez will harvest a
total of 204 cavans per hectare, based on crop cut in various portions of the field, from
his planted SL-8 hybrid rice variety.
The evaluation team is composed of representatives from the
office of the provincial agriculturist, Central Luzon State University, National Food Authority,
Regional Field Unit of the Department of Agriculture in Central Luzon, and the irrigator’s
association.
They disclosed that in the
actual harvesting evaluation they
conducted in nearby Gapan
City, Ariel delos Reyes of Barangay Sto. Cristo Norte, emerged
as topnotcher with a harvest of
213 cavans.
They continue their evaluation in other towns and cities in
Nueva Ecija as the harvesting
activity progresses.
Serafin Santos, provincial
Farmer Alfonso Galvez (center) of barangay Pulo, San Isidro, Nueva Ecija shows to
Henry Lim (right), chair and chief operating officer of SL-Agritech Corporation which is
the producer of SL-8 hybrid rice variety, and Cesar Cucio, chair of the Nueva Ecija
provincial board committee on agriculture, a bundle of his bountiful harvest. An evaluation
team, which visited his farm Wednesday, said he will harvest 204 cavans per hectare.
agriculturist of Nueva Ecija,
said that Nueva Ecija is expected to register an all-time
high rice production record. He
said results of early harvest in
some parts of the province indicated good performances of
hybrid rice and inbred rice varieties.
Republic of the Philippines
NATIONAL WATER RESOURCES BOARD
DON PEPE HENSON ENTERPRISES, INC.,
Applicant.
x —————————————————x
Cse No. 09 – 1299
NOTICE OF HEARING
The Applicant requests for the issuance of a Certificate of Public Convenience to operate and maintain a
waterworks system within Friendship Plaza Subdivision, Barangay Pampanga, Angeles City, Pampanga with authority
to charge the following rates:
PROPOSED RATES
Residential / Institutional / Public Taps
Consumption, cu. m.
0 – 10
11 – 20
21 – 30
31 – 40
41 – 50
Over 50
Peso / cu.m.
P 301.00 Min. Charge
31.20 per cu. m.
32.30 per cu. m.
33.30 per cu. m.
34.40 per cu. m.
35.50 per cu. m.
Commercial / Industrial
Consumption, cu. m.
Peso / cu. m.
0 – 25 (mins)
P 1505.00 (min,)
26 – 1000
64.50 per cu. m.
Over 1000
68.80 per cu. m.
With Power Cost Adjustment
Notice is hereby given that this application will be heard by the Board on April 14, 2009, hearing will start at
9:00 o’ clock in the morning at the NWRB – WUD Conference Room, 8th Floor, NIA Building, EDSA Quezon City at
which time Applicant shall present its evidence.
At least fifteen (15) days prior to the scheduled hearing , Applicant shall publish this notice once in one
(1) daily newspaper of general circulation in Pampanga and serve by personal delivery or registered mail a copy
of (i) the application and its attachments, and (ii) this notice to all affected parties appearing on page 2 hereof.
Parties opposed to the granting of the application must file their written opposition with this Office supported by
documentary evidence on or before the above hearing, furnishing a copy of the same to the Applicant.
Failure on the part of any affected party to file his opposition on time and to appear at the hearing will be
constructed as a waiver of his right to be heard and the Board will proceed to hear and decide the applicant based
on the evidence submitted.
Failure by the Applicant to appear at the hearing shall amount to lack of interest on its part and the instant
application shall be dismissed accordingly.
Witness the Honorable Executive Director of the National Water Resources Board this March 6, 2009.
By Authority of the Board:
Affected Parties:
Luciano speaks with members of the Alliance of Travel and Tours Associations of
Pampanga. PHOTO COURTESY OF CIAC-PAO
1 that was constructed by the
Americans when Clark was still
a US air force base.
He said PAGI has been accepted by JV-SC “for detailed
evaluation and eligibility check”
which is expected to be finished
by March 13. After passing this
requirement, PAGI “will be subjected to a competitive challenge
of stage 3” process, it said.
CIAC cited the need to construct a bigger passenger terminal “due to the significant increases in the volume of flights
and international passengers
during the past three years” and
its “mandate” to transform the
DMIA into a premiere international gateway of the country.
In May last year, CIAC announced the bidding for the terminal project, soliciting three
companies which submitted bid
documents.
Admiral Energy of the US
passed the bidding but later
failed to submit proof of its track
record in the operation of an international passenger terminal.
THE SECRETARY
Sangguniang Panlungsod
Angeles City, Pampanga
(SGD) NATHANIEL C. SANTOS
Deputy Executive Director
Officer-in Charge
THE BARANGAY CHAIRMAN
Brgy. Anunas,
Angeles city, Pampanga
THE PRESIDENT – HOA
Friendship Subdivision
Brgy. Pampang, Angeles City
Pampanga
THE GENERAL MANAGER
Angeles City Water District
Angels City, Pampanga
Punto! Central Luzon: March 23, 2009
“We are calculating a minimum total harvest of 1.6 million
metric tons,” Santos said. “It will
top by more than a million tons
our harvest last year,” he said
during the festival’s program
Wednesday.
Converted into cavans of 50
kilos each, the expected harvest
will total to 32 million.
Santos attributed the expected unprecedented high harvest due to the increasing average production by the farmers
because of their application of
new technologies in production,
expansion of production areas
due to improved irrigation facilities, lowered cost of inputs particularly chemical fertilizers, and
favorable weather conditions.
He said the production area
for the current dry season cropping totaled to 145,000 hectares
compared to last year’s 131,000
hectares. In the last wet season
cropping, the total area was
170,000 ha.
The provincial agriculturist is
certain that Nueva Ecija will
maintain its standing as the No.
1 rice producing province in the
country.
Based on the “Rice Figures
in the Philippines” (PhilRice,
2007), Nueva Ecija had an average production of 1.13 million
metric tons since 2002. It was
followed by Isabela, 1.006 mt;
Pangasinan, 832,114 mt; Iloilo,
763,893 mt; Cagayan, 548,369
mt, and Tarlac, 469,316 mt.
Santos said that of the total
rice area in the province, some
41,000 hectares were planted to
hybrid rice, mostly SL-8 variety,
and the rest inbred rice varieties.
He said the cold spell and
the tolerable 1.7 percent mixture
of off-type seeds, which resulted in the appearance of early
bolsters, made many farmers
uneasy. But those who followed
the advise from the teams of
experts which monitored the
growing of the variety in the
farms, in applying remedial measures later confirmed that their
plants growth vigorously well.
SL-Agritech Corporation
chairman and chief operating
officer Henry Lim, who attended
the festival, said that the SL-8
rice seeds they produced and
sold were proven not really defective but suffered only some
initial problems due to climate
change and mixtures that were
difficult to avoid in seed production.
“The report about the early
bolsters were overblown and
caused anxiety among the farmers,” Lim said.
Lim expressed sadness
about the report that some 1,000
hectares of land planted to SL-8
in Nueva Ecija were destroyed
by the farmers because of unwarranted fear that the plants
would not perform well.
He announced here that his
corporation, which has been
described by the father of hybrid
rice, Prof. Yuan Long Ping of
China, as the pioneer in the
breeding of hybrid rice for the
tropics, said a better performing
hybrid variety than their SL-8 will
be introduced soon for commercial production. He said farmer
Aida Badong of Barangay San
Nicolas, Baao, Camarines Sur
achieved a harvest of 344 cavans
while Fernando Gabuyo of Tondod, San Jose City, Nueva Ecija harvested 345 cavans from
their respective one-hectare SL8 farm.
Former food minister Jesus
Tanchanco, meanwhile, said it
is about time for the government
to look into the re-strengthening
of the devolved agricultural extension service in agriculture as
he noted that it has become
“comparatively ineffective”.
He added that during their
time (the Marcos years), the field
technicians played a very important role in guiding and assisting farmers in their rice production efforts. He added that it was
during those times that the country experienced rice production
surplus.
Tanchanco, who is currently
the chair of a national businessmen and industrialists association’s committee on agriculture,
said he was told that some field
technicians who also planted the
hybrid variety are the ones who
plowed-under (binalasa) their
newly transplanted rice plants
because of some unusual
growths they observed.
Naturally, he said, some
alarmed farmers followed suit.
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • MARCH 23, 2009 • MONDAY
17 YEARS AFTER RA 7227
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Taking the road
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • MARCH 23, 2009 • MONDAY
FIFTY SIX flights a week: to Hongkong, Macau,
Malaysia, South Korea, as well as to Cebu and
Caticlan.
Five airlines: Cebu Pacific, Seair, Tiger Airways,
Air Asia, and Asiana.
Entitlements to 20 countries, including Qatar,
Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Australia.
The first flight to the Middle East beginning in April.
A new terminal with a capacity of three million
to seven million passengers to be ready by next
year.
Top notch visionaries for managers – in Clark
International Airport’s President-CEO Victor Jose
Luciano, EVP Alex Cauguiran, down the line to
rank and file.
Everything is in place – or nearly in place – at
the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport to
make Clark as a destination and a point of
embarkation.
Let that be known to one and all.
Hence, a series of road shows in various key
cities in Northern and Central Lzuon as well as
Metro Manila.
“This odyssey will create awareness for DMIA
and its flights and further spread the good news
that there is now a gateway that provides domestic
and international flights for our airline guests, some
of whom are our modern day heroes, the overseas
Filipino workers.” So said CIAC board chair Nestor
Mangio at the road show launch.
The seriousness of the mission of “creating a
brand” for the DMIA – and a concomitant warranty
for its realization is most manifest in CIAC tapping
the consulting service of no less than a champion
of the balikbayan program, former Tourism
Secretary Mina Gabor. It must be impacted in the
history of Clark that the now highly successful
signature festival of Clark, the Hot Air Balloon
Festival was a brainchild of Gabor, who started it
in 1994. So was the Paskuhan Village and the
Floricultura.
With the CIAC – and Gabor – plus the support
of the travel and aviation industry and the media,
there is no way for that mission of promoting the
Philippines through the DMIA to fail. And for Clark
to be ever nearer in realizing its full potential as
the premier gateway of the country.
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Bong Z. Lacson
NO COMEDY of errors but a farce, abutting on idiocy, if I may be
so candid about it, was a recent session at the hollowed – yeah,
right, not hallowed – hall of the sangguniang panlalawigan.
Witness your honorable representation from the 1st District of
Pampanga asking honorable councilor from Bacolor why the town
council “proceeded with the approval of the conversion of Xevera
Phase 1 despite a memorandum circular from the Department of
Land Reform suspending the conversion of all lands from agricultural
to residential.”
The circular, prompted by the severe rice shortage last year
was dated April 18, 2008.
On record, the Bacolor council approved the ordinance
reclassifying the land owned by Globe Asiatique Holdings, Xevera’s
developer, on May 20, 2008.
Aha, a clear violation right then and there!
Not so fast though, as obtains there is a contradiction, okay,
difference, in the terms: conversion vis-à-vis reclassification. Clearer
now, the honorable board member was on a totally different plane
of thought there from the issue on, well, board.
So honorable councilor prefaced his response
on the difference between conversion – banned
by the DLR memo, and reclassification, a totally
different matter. Furthered he that authority at their
level, the sangguniang bayan, was limited to
reclassification and exclusive of conversion. Hence
the reclassification ordinance, that honorable
board member inadvertently – to be kind to him –
took as conversion.
Thundered 3rd district board member at poor
councilor: “You are here to answer our questions
by “Yes” or “No” and not to lecture us.
Honorable as he is, I have not the gumption to
call 3rd District board member stupid with that
statement. But pray, tell, how the hell can a why
question be answered by either yes or no?
To paraphrase: Why did the Bacolor
sangguniang bayan approve the conversion of
Xevera Phase 1 despite a DLR memorandum
circular suspending all conversions of agricultural
lands to residential?
Yes, Sir. No, Sir.
A proposition most stupid, if not outrightly
idiotic. Save for the beautiful mind of the honorable
3rd district board member.
A lapse there, if I may say. As great a lapse, if
not greater, as that in the period of time – all of 30
days – given the sangguniang panlalawigan for
the review of the Bacolor ordinance: submitted in
August 2008 and taken only in March 2009. Well
over six months or some 180 days past deadline.
Rendering the review purely moot and academic,
as my favorite lawyer, Attorney Agaton is wont to
say.
The other 1st district representation put some
sense and legal frame on the Bacolor ordinance
admitting the sangguniang panlalawigan could
have “overlapped” its functions when it asked for
the Xevera housing plan details, something outside
the provincial board’s ambit and an intrusion into,
if not a usurpation of, the authority of the municipal
mayor and the municipal engineer.
So did the brighter head from Mabalacat knock
some sense into the thick craniums of his peers?
Not in any way. What he raised were some
suspicions, if not innuendoes, of some motivations
that inspired him to “lawyer” for Xevera. Ah, what
tangled web the green- eyed spider weave!
Yeah, right. As one stalked, er, haunted, by a
bittersweet Bacolor past.
TODAY IN HISTORY
Mexican presidential candidate assassinated
ON THIS DAY in 1994, Luis
Donaldo Colosio, Mexico’s ruling party’s presidential candidate, is gunned down during a
campaign rally in the northern
border town of Tijuana.
As a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI),
the political party that held power in Mexico for most of the 20th
century, Colosio became the
protÝgÝ of future Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari
and was elected to the Congress
and Senate. In 1988, he was the
campaign manager of Salinas’
successful presidential campaign and the same year was
named PRI party head. In 1992,
President Salinas appointed
Colosio social development secretary. He became increasingly
reform-minded in this capacity;
although his promises to reduce
Mexico’s widespread poverty
failed to stop anti-government
guerrilla activity in the state of
Chiapas. Salinas designated
Colosio his successor in late
1993, making him the PRI candidate and thus the favorite to
win the presidential election
scheduled for August 1994.
Colosio campaigned as a
man of the people and often appeared without the protection of
bodyguards. On March 23,
1994, he was assassinated at a
campaign rally in Tijuana. Mario
Aburto Martinez, a factory worker, was arrested at the scene and
later convicted as the sole
shooter. During the next few
years, however, evidence was
uncovered suggesting a conspiracy that may have led all the way
up to President Salinas’ office.
Colosio had promised to fight
Mexico’s rampant political corruption, of which Salinas, who
had ties to organized crime in
Mexico, was guilty.
In the wake of the assassination, Salinas appointed
Ernesto Zedillo the PRI presidential campaign. Zedillo was elected in an election unusually free
from fraud, and served as Mexican president until 2000. Salinas spent the late 1990s in exile but returned to Mexico in
2000. His administration has
been implicated in other political assassinations, and in 1999
his brother Raul was convicted
of ordering and financing the
September 1994 murder of Jose
Francisco Ruiz Massieu, the
secretary general of the PRI.
Regarding Henry
BY HENRYLITO D. TACIO
Have faith
Minerva Zamora-Arceo
(COURTESY OF MABUHAY NEWS)
IF THERE’S one person who truly had faith in himself, it was
Thomas Alva Edison. This American inventor had only three
months of formal schooling. And
yet, history records show that
he knew more failures than successes. For 13 months, Edison
kept on searching for a filament
that would stand the stress of
electric current. As he pondered
whether he would be able to discover the elusive thing, he got a
note from people backing his
experiment that they would no
longer be giving additional funds
for what he was then doing.
News like that may bring a
person to quit, but not Edison.
In fact, it did not deter him from
continuing his work. He refused
to admit defeat and worked without sleep for two more days and
nights. Eventually, he managed
to insert one of the crude carbonized threads into a vacuumsealed bulb. “When we turned
on the current,” he recalled, “the
sight we had so long desired finally met our eyes!”
Before that, however, Edison
had to endure a string of failures.
“What a waste! We have tried
no less than 700 experiments
and nothing has worked. We are
not a bit better off than when we
started,” a couple of men who
were working alongside him
said. He just shrugged this comment, telling them, “Oh yes, we
are! We now know 700 things
that won’t work. We’re closer
than we’ve ever been before.”
However, the story did end
there. When Edison finished
doing the first electric bulb ever,
he handed a finished bulb to a
young helper. The lad carried it
nervously up the stairs step by
step. At the very last moment,
he dropped it.
The whole team had to work
another 24 hours to make another bulb. When it was done,
Edison looked around and then
handed it to the same boy. The
bulb changed history but the
confidence the inventor had given to that boy definitely changed
his life forever. Edison knew that
more than the bulb was at stake.
He had given the boy a second
chance. That faith in him probably changed the boy’s life.
“We live by faith or we do not
live at all,” said Harold Walker.
“Either we venture – or we vege-
tate. If we venture, we do so by
faith simply because we cannot
know the end of anything at its
beginning. We risk marriage on
faith or we stay single. We prepare for a profession by faith or
we give up before we start. By
faith we move mountains of opposition or we are stopped by
molehills.”
The New American Webster
Handy College Dictionary defines faith as “belief without
proof.” It also means “confidence” and “reliance.” To William Wordsworth, “Faith is a passionate intuition.”
Having a hard time understanding what faith really is?
Martin Luther King, Jr. describes,
“Faith is taking the first step even
when you don’t see the whole
staircase.” Poet Rabindranath
Tagore has this view: “Faith is
the bird that sings when the dawn
is still dark.”
“To me,” said John Dewey,
“faith means not worrying.” The
late Bishop William A. Quayle
used to tell of an experience
during a sleepless night. After
rolling and tossing far into the
night, he said that he seemed
to hear God’s voice telling him
to go on to sleep and let God
run the world the rest of the
night.
Faith can move mountains,
but don’t be surprised if God
hands you a shovel. In his book,
The Edge of Adventure, Bruce
Larson tells a story about a letter found in a baking powder tin
which is wired to the handle of a
pump. It offered the only hope of
drinking water on the seldomused trail across a desert. The
letter in the tin read as follows:
“This pump is all right as of
June 1955. I put a new leather
sucker washer into it, and it
ought to last several years. But
this leather washer dries out and
the pump has got to be primed.
Under the white rock, I buried a
bottle of water. There’s enough
water in it to prime the pump,
but not if you drink some first.
Pour in about one-quarter, and
let her soak to wet the leather.
Then pour in the rest medium
fast and pump like crazy. You’ll
get water. The well has never run
dry. Have faith.”
If you were the person who
found the letter, what would you
do? You are very thirsty and
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About it
there’s immediate water. Will
you do what you had been instructed to do? A postscript of
the letter reads: “Don’t go drinking up the water (in the bottle)
first. Prime the pump with it first,
and you’ll get all you can hold.”
Hebrews 11:1 states: “Faith
is being sure of what we hope
for and certain of what we do not
see.” Joshua was a hard-headed person, so to speak. When
a flood hit his area, he climbed
to his roof. A rescue boat came
by but Joshua called back to
their offer of help; “No, thanks. I
have faith in the Lord. He will
save me.”
The waves came higher and
Joshua scrambled to the highest part of his roof. Another boat
came by to save him, but
Joshua waved them off, professing his faith that the Lord would
save him. When the waves began lapping his feet, he pulled
himself to the tip of the roof. A
helicopter swooped down to save
him, but Joshua was still depending on the Lord.
Of course you know what
happened next. Joshua got
drowned. When he stood before
the Lord, he complained, “Lord,
I had such faith in you. Why
didn’t you save me?” To which
the Lord replied, “What more do
you want from me? I sent you
two boats and a helicopter?”
A famous heiress keeps her
priceless collection of jewels in
the vault of a large bank. One of
her prize possessions is a very
valuable string of pearls. It is a
scientific fact that pearls lose
their original luster if not worn
once in a while in contact with
the human body.
So once a week, a bank secretary, guarded by two plainclothesmen, wears these priceless pearls to lunch. This brief
contact with the human body
keeps them beautiful and in
good condition.
Our faith is a lot like the pearl.
It must be used in order to be
useful. It must be worn out
among the masses of mankind
where faith and hope are needed. As someone puts it: “Every
tomorrow has two handles. We
can take hold of it by the handle
of anxiety, or by the handle of
faith. “
For comments, write me at
[email protected]
Vibrant Clark
LISTENING to an enthusiastic speaker like former
Tourism Secretary Mina Gabor is very refreshing and
inspiring. Unlike other tourism officers who are bankrupt
in ideas, Gabor has a lot to offer to Clark International
Airport Corp. (CIAC) as far as selling Clark is concerned.
So getting her as a consultant is a good job.
During the North Luzon Tourism Roadshow organized
by CIAC last Friday, Gabor was very optimistic on the
potentials of Clark and Northern Luzon as prime
destinations in the country. Sometimes, in our weakest
moment even for a nation, all we need is a little nudge to
move forward. And Gabor is doing just that for Clark .
Gabor, CIAC, ATTAP and Clark Freeport Tourism
Association are planning a series of road shows in various
cities in North and Central Luzon to strengthen this
tourism project.
Matched with a strong leader like CIAC President and
CEO Victor Jose “Chichos” Luciano, Gabor and all the
stakeholders in this campaign for tourism will open
numerous opportunities for employment and livelihood.
It is not surprising that CIAC is pulling the strings on
this campaign considering the creditable developments
at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA).
As soon as Luciano took over as CIAC boss,
improvements continue to unfold in the country’s next
premier airport. Of course Luciano was able to invite
several airlines to fly in Clark including his former
company, South Korea ’s second flag carrier Asiana.
Asiana was named airline of the year by the Air
Transport World (ATW). They are flying in 62 major cities
and destinations worldwide including China , Japan ,
Korea , United States , London , Paris , India , Malaysia
, Singapore , Hongkong , Taiwan , Russia and Sydney .
It has 65 modern aircraft and the first airline to be ISO
2002 certified for aircraft maintenance.
Luciano said DMIa is more than ready to
accommodate huge aircraft and additional flights. Given
its existing state-of-the-art radar and high standard
support infrastructure, Luciano said the construction of
the proposed US$142-million (P6 billion) Terminal 2 is
on the way.
Meanwhile, CIAC Chairman Nestor Mangio said the
new terminal will accommodate three to seven million
passengers. This is in preparation to the influx of
international and domestic passengers brought by Tiger
Airways, Cebu Pacific, SeaAir and Asiana airlines. DMIA
recorded three million passengers last year and at the
rate it is going, there is no doubt that such projection
will be accomplished.
DMIA has 56 flights a week. More and more people
travel at ease through DMIA. Most of the flights are Clark
to Hongkong, Macau, Bangkok , Singapore , Malaysia ,
South Korea , and domestic destinations like Cebu and
Caticlan.
Mangio said that despite the current global economic
crisis, DMIA likewise stands firm as a logistics center in
Asia . He added that CIAC has secured air entitlements
to at least 20 countries including Qatar , Kuwait and
United Arab Emirates .
What is happening inside the Freeport Zone and DMIA
reminds us that we should not be totally hopeless amidst
the economic meltdown. We are affected yes but as
President Arroyo’s boys always say, “it is all about the
attitude.”
In a lighter note, I would like to thank our guests during
the Pampanga Press Club 60 th anniversary at Xevera
Mabalacat last May 19. Despite the hot and humid
weather, Vice President Noli De Castro, Press Secretary
Cerge Remonde, SCADC Chairman Edgardo Pamintuan
and several under secretaries and assistance secretaries
made it to the affair. Thanks to Usec. Rellie Fajardo,
Asec. Clayton Olalia, Asec. Rafael Yabut and Director
Dennis Cunanan. Also, our friends from the local
government units were also present namely; Mayor Denis
Pineda, Mayor Lyndon Cunanan, Mayor Oscar Tetangco,
Mayor Marino Morales and Councilors Jay Sangil and
Mariucel Morales. Our special thanks also to MNTC Vice
President for Corporate Affairs Marlene Ochoa, Dante
Velasco of Creative Points, Chief Supt. Leonilo Cruz,
Pamcham President and ADCL Chairman Renato
Romero, ADCL vice president Sonny Dobles, CDC Pres.
Benny Ricafort, CIAC Pres. Chicos Luciano and more.
And lastly, congratulations to all the newly elected
officers of PPC.
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • MARCH 23, 2009 • MONDAY
Editorial
5
“Whether the accusations against the professor
are true or not, HAU should
deal with it with utmost
concern to the students
and delicadeza. Please
take note that the suspect
had previous alleged sexual acts committed on a
minor,” said a parent of an
engineering student who
refused to be named.
She was referring to
HAU professor Arnel Atienza Ocampo who was
charged with multiple
counts of rape in relation
to Republic Act 7610 before the DOJ in Manila last
February 13.
He said “HAU already
erred in checking the
background of Ocampo
and now they continue to
act blind.”
This developed as the
Gabriela, a national alliance of women’s organization, asked HAU President
Dr. Arlyn Villanueva to hold
a dialogue with them today
“in the pursuit of justice
and upholding the rights of
women.”
“What alarms us is that
Mr. Ocampo continues to
teach in your university,”
said Gabriela Secretary
General Emmi De Jesus
in a letter to Villanueva
dated March 17.
“Last March 11, 2009,
the father of the former
HAU student sought the
help of Gabriela saying his
daughter was a victim of
rape by Arnel Ocampo, a
faculty member of your
University,” added De
Jesus in her letter.
According to the victim’s father, his daughter
was 16 years old and a
freshman during the school
year 2006-2007 when she
was reportedly raped.
Parents of the victim,
identified only as “Rose,”
said a sexual harassment
complaint had been filed
against Ocampo in Magalang Institute in 1997 by
the parents of a fourth-year
high school student. He
said Ocampo was dismissed by the school.
Ocampo then filed a case
for illegal dismissal before
the Department of Labor
and Employment (DOLE)
but it was dismissed.
Meanwhile, HAU students also forwarded text
messages to Punto saying: “HAU has bin d subj
of media (tv/radio/newspaper) for 3wks now. Our reputation is badly tarnished.
Our skul did not allow our
accused prof 2take a leave
wen he ws filing one wks
ago. Wat is our school
doing?? We must do
something abt dis nw!!
…pass 2 ur clasmeyts if
u care for our univ..”
Some students interviewed by Punto also said
that their parents are planning to transfer them to
other schools next semester after knowing that HAU
still allows Ocampo teach.
“Nagtataka lang kami
bakit hindi siya inaalis at
patuloy parin siyang nagtuturo sa school. Ayaw
naming isipin na may
palakasan dito pero yan
ang nangyayari. Yung mga
alam naming matitino inaalis naman, baligtad na
yata ang mundo,” the students said.
Parents also said that
they will not risk the safety of their children. “Madami pa namang mga eskwelahan na kapakanan
ng mga estudyante ang
inuuna,” they said.
This reporter called up
twice Angelita Ayson of the
HAU personnel department, who was tasked to
speak on behalf of the
school on March 20 but
she was not available. She
failed to return calls even
as the mobile phone number of this reporter was given to a certain Nimfa.
HAU issued a statement earlier saying that
they will cooperate with
the DOJ on its investigation regarding the case.
Earlier, Ayson said
they had not suspended
nor sacked Ocampo.
Noli urges Pinoys...
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PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • MARCH 23, 2009 • MONDAY
housing projects,” he said.
A group called CIA Bayanihan Textpower Brigade,
Inc. which was registered
with the Securities and
Exchange Commission in
2006 as a non-profit, nonsectarian, charitable and
humanitarian organization,
has reported that among
87 million Filipinos, 43
million own a cellphone.
Describing the Philippines as the text capital
of the world, the group said
that over 600 million text
messages are sent in the
country everyday.
It cited a survey indicating that “cellphone load
is number one on the product list of priorities by the
Filipino people, beating
coffee, shampoo and
snacks and other food
needs.”
“Telephone companies
are earning billions of pesos daily from he sale of
6
cellphone loads alone,” the
group added in its website
bayanihan-cia.org.
But De Castro urged
homeless Filipinos to
spend less on cellphone
use and spare what they
could save for low-cost
housing amortizations.
He cited the case of
hundreds of families to be
relocated here to give way
to the long-delayed Caloocan-to-Clark north railway
project, who would pay
only a little over P200 as
monthly for 30 years. “You
probably spend P300 a
month for texting, so why
not spend less for homes
for your families?” he
asked.
De Castro also
stressed that all housing
agencies under the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) which he
heads has been streamlined to prioritize a specific function. “Thus, the Na-
sick, in partnership with
the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) and
volunteers from St. Luke’s
Medical Center in Manila.
SBMA Administrator
Armand Arreza said the
“medical-healing mission”
led by Maribi Mapa-Garcia,
a founding member of the
Bethesda ministry, also
dispensed medicines and
other health supplies
worth P800,000.
The missionaries and
volunteer medical-dental
personnel were welcomed
by Pastolan Aeta chieftain
Conrado Frenilla, who expressed his appreciation
of the medical assistance
on behalf of his constituents.
SBMA deputy administrator Raul Marcelo, who
coordinated the mission,
said that in accordance
with the ministry’s program of providing an “experience of hope” to communities, the whole-day
mission started with a
holy mass and a valuesformation seminar.
Lecture on the proper
use of medicines, as well
as hygiene and dental
care, was also held including actual medical and
dental examination of patients.
“It is an activity that
really makes you feel happy,” Marcelo said. “Nakak-
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To attract more investors into the government’s
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level yung relationship namin. Kumbaga, maging kami. Hindi natin alam, di ba?
Sana, sana kami na talaga,” pahayag ni Oyo.
May kinalaman ba sa pagiging open nila ngayon tungkol sa relationship nila ni
Kristine ang pagkakaayos ng annulment case niya at ang dating karelasyon na si
Diether Ocampo?
“Wala naman,” sagot ni Oyo. “Siguro ang masasabi ko lang mas relieved lang
sa part ko na alam kong maayos na at wala kaming magiging problema ni Tin in the
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Mas relieved ba siya ngayon na sinasabi nina Kristine at Diether na pareho na
silang free ngayon, especially si Diet na open na ring ipakilala
sa mga tao ang kanyang bagong girlfriend?
“Oo naman. Pero ang mas mahalaga kasi ay yung alam
ko na okay silang dalawa at magkaibigan sila hanggang
ngayon. Maganda kasi at least walang magkakaaway.”
Nagkaharap at nagkausap na ba sila ni Diet?
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Nalaos nang singer tatapat sa mga sikat
ISYU NGAYON na kinuhang contract artist ng Viva Artists Agency
si Champagne Morales, pantapat daw kay Sarah Geronimo.
Pumirma kasi ang comebacking singer ng two years sa Viva at
renewable ng one year.
Nilinaw ng VAA na magkaiba ang linya nina Sarah at
Champagne. Mas magco-concentrate si Champagne sa
hosting panlaban kina Toni Gonzaga, Nikki Gil, at Bianca
Gonzales. Gusto talaga ng Viva na ma-explore si Champagne
bilang host. Doon muna ang focus nila kaya bibigyan daw siya
ng isang show sa cable channel. Pero balak din nila itong bigyan
ng second album.
Kung sabagay, produkto ng SOP si Champagne at naging
co-host din noon ni Manny Pacquaio sa Sports Idol ng IBC 13.
Tinanong nga namin si Champagne kung hindi ba siya
pinagselosan noon ni Jinkee Pacquiao? Hindi naman daw.
Actually, ipinagtatanggol pa nga raw siya noon na hindi siya
ganoong klase ng babae. Kilala raw siya ni Jinkee.
Noong bigyan nga siya ni Pacman ng tiket para
manood ng kanyang laban sa abroad, kasama naman
niya ang kanyang daddy kaya wala talagang tsismis
na nangyari sa kanila.
Matatandaang si Champagne ang naging champion
ng Metro Pop Star Search for a Star ng GMA-7 noong
1998.
Rhian Ramos perfect leading
lady para kay Richard Gutierrez
SA TOTOO LANG, gandang-ganda kami sa billboard nina
Richard at Rhian na nasa malapit sa GMA 7.
Bagay talaga sila, parehong class ang dating ng
dalawa.
Nu’ng una, akala ng i-lang fans ay mahihirapang
makahanap si Richard ng babaing kapareha niya
after being paired with KC Concepcion and Angel
Locsin dahil masyadong defined at guwapo ang
mukha niya.
Then came Rhian.
Sa Zorro, talagang perfect ang chemistry nila
sa looks department. Kung sa akting naman, di
patatalo si Rhian who developed into a very fine
actress simula sa Captain Barbell. Yung
tinatarayang trying hard na baguhan noon na
nakapasok dahil sa nepotism, proved that
she can be great in the acting department.
Kahit na si Richard, talagang
ipinagtatanggol siya. Sa presscon ng
Zorro, Richard is all praises for Rhian at
aniya, hindi niya akalaing magiging tunay
na aktres si Rhian Ramos.
Go, Rhian, go, many people are behind
you!
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • MARCH 23, 2009 • MONDAY
FROM PAGE 1
Kristine Hermosa pakakasalan
na ni Oyo Boy Sotto
Rhian Ramos
Parents, Gabriela...
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Scenes from a wedding
BY THE sea they met, so by the sea they did
wed.
Ma. Iona Katrina F. Lacson, geography
instructor at UP Diliman and third child of Bong
and Dottie Lacson met David Allan Dy,
research and development exec at Canon
Philippines and eldest child of Ernie and Puny
Dy, met at the sea off Baler on a dive. And fell
in love.
Two years after, on a balmy day in late
Feburary at St. John the Nepomucene church in
San Juan, Batangas they tied the knot with close
family and friends – traveling all the way from
California and New York, Metro Manila and Tarlac,
Iloilo and Pampanga – in happy, joyful attendance.
Reception – at the La Luz Resort – was
naturally by the sea.
The best wishes for the newly-wed.
Corals and fish
make the cake.
The groom’s family.
Sealed with
a kiss.
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • MARCH 23, 2009 • MONDAY
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Love before
the House of God.
Mr. & Mrs. David Allan Dy
Reception by the sea.
Family of the bride.
Emotional high for
father of the bride.
Photos courtesy of Fotogra Weddings. fotogra.ph.