Vol 5 No 77.pmd - Punto Central Luzon

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VOLUME 5
NUMBER 77
MON - TUE
NOVEMBER 7 - 8, 2011
CIAC turf war takes
toll on investments
Clark airport as PHL’s premier gateway compromised
BY BONG Z. LACSON
C
LARK FREEPORT – The ongoing turf war at the top
levels of the Clark International Airport Corp. has
reportedly taken its toll on
investments at the Clark airport.
Aeta tribesmen from
the Pastolan village in
the Subic Bay
Freeport perform a
native dance during
the Indigenous
People’s Week. Lower
photo shows an Aeta
woman plays her
gitarang-bakil
(mountain guitar)
during the
celebration. PHOTO BY
MALOU DUNGOG
SBMA sets more projects
for Aeta communities
BY MALOU DUNGOG
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT – The Subic
Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) is
planning more livelihood projects for the
Aeta tribes in this freeport zone to help
boost the income of the tribesmen and
promote economic development among
the indigenous communities here.
This was announced by SBMA officials on Wednesday, as the Subic authority highlight the importance of the
Indigenous Peoples as a continuation
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Funeral parlors do gimmicks
too against economic crunch
Online ‘burol’ and waterproof caskets
BY ARMAND GALANG
CABANATUAN CITY –
Funeral parlors are not free
from pressures other businesses come across with.
For instance, Jay Ilagan, a graduating member
of the city council who followed his grandfather in
funeral parlor business,
had to come up with varied presentation of caskets – different colors,
printing saints on their surfaces as well as offering
internet services – among
others.
“We need to be competitive,” he said, saying
though that he sets trends
most of the time. Recently, his parlor, RBN,
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Jay Ilagan, owner of RBN Funeral Parlor, shows a variety of unique
casketsthey offer. PHOTO BY ARMAND GALANG
Yesterday, informed
sources told Punto! that
Fly Guam, an airline operating out of the US island
territory, has “indefinitely
put on hold” its Clark-Agana flights reportedly already scheduled to start
this November.
This, the sources said,
on account of the “issue
of compromised safety of
aircraft” arising from the
theft of high power cables
at the Clark airport’s runway and taxiway.
The cable theft and the
resultant in-fighting at the
CIAC have had “demoralizing effect” on other airlines operating in Clark,
sources in the airline industry said.
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Pabrika ng
sigarilyo,
binantaang
ipasasara
NI DINO BALABO
LUNGSOD NG MALOLOS – Binalaan ng kapitolyo na ipasasara ang
isang pabrika ng sigarilyo sa lungsod na ito
kung hindi susunod sa
kanilang utos.
Ito ay matapos magpalabas ang notice of violation (NOV) ang Bulacan Environment and
Natural Resources Office (Benro) laban sa
Mighty Corporation,
isang pabrika ng sigarilyo na matatagpuan sa
Barangay Tikay sa lungsod na ito.
Ang NOV ay inilabas
ng Benro matapos idulog ng mga residente ng
Barangay Tikay ang reklamo kay Rommel Ramos ng Radyo Bulacan
na nagsisilbing co-host
ni Gob. Wilhelmino AlPAGE 6 PLEASE
END IMPUNITY, DEFEND PRESS FREEDOM
Proyekto ng mag-aaral
ng BulSU, hinangaan
LUNGSOD NG MALOLOS – Hinangaan ng mga
mamamahayag partikular
na ng mga opisyal ng National Union of Journalists
of the Philippines (NUJP)
ang mga isinumiteng short
video project ng mga magaaral ng pamamahayag sa
Bulacan State University
(BulSU).
Ang mga nasabing
proyekto na may temang
“End Impunity, Defend
Press Freedom” ay isinumite ng mga mag-aaral na
sumailalim sa isang semestre ng pag-aaral sa
kursong “Special Problems in Journalism.”
Bukod sa proyekto sa
nasabing kurso na pinadaloy ng mamamahayag
na ito, ang mga nasabing
produksyon ay magiging
bahagi rin ng pandaigdigang kampanya na
tinaguriang International
Day to End Impunity (IDEI)
na isasagawa sa Nobyembre 23 o ang ikalawang taong paggunita sa
Maguindanao Massacre.
“Ang gaganda ng production ng mga estudyante,” ani Nonoy Espina,
isa sa mga opisyal ng
NUJP-National Directorate, at isa rin sa mga patnugot ng website na
Interaksyon.tv ng TV5,
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Angeles University grad
th
ranks 17 in CPA exams
ANGELES UNIVERSITY Foundation (AUF) BS Accountancy graduate Fernando T. Tayag IV placed
17th in the October 2011 CPA licensure examinations, it was announced by AUF President Atty.
Joseph Emmanuel L. Angeles.
AUF BSA Class 2011 obtained
a passing rate of 90.91 percent. The
other successful examinees are:
Gindy P. Alvarez, Marianne B. Cutiongco, Allan Jay P. Evangelista, Mark Elvin P. Gopez, Joshwyn
M. Lagman, Sheree Joyce B. Limin,
Ron-Jeric M. Mariano, Jesus Antonio J. Rueda, and Arvin T.
Sarmiento
AUF obtained an over-all passing of 71.43 percent, the highest
in Central Luzon, versus the national passing of 47.70 percent.
SBMA sets more projects...
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of the celebration of the
National Indigenous Peoples Month, which aims to
recognize the unique culture and contributions to
the society of the various
native tribes in the country.
According to Armie Llamas, SBMA public relations manager, the agency has lined up various
activities for the Aetas in
this free port, such as an
“immersion” activity with
Aeta children.
The week-long program, she said, would also
include a movie-viewing
project to benefit Grade 1
students from the Aeta
communities of Pastolan
and Kanawan.
More important, the
SBMA has set up programs for the Aetas that
would go “even beyond the
IP Week” and help boost
the income of the ethnic
communities here.
“We have set up some
livelihood projects for them
so that they may have
some alternative sources
of income. Our Aeta tribes
have favored bead-making
as one livelihood project,
kasi mahilig sila sa mga
accessories. And they really earn from them,” Llamas noted.
Knette Fernando, the
SBMA deputy administrator for corporate communications, said the SBMA
has provided assistance to
Pastolan and Kanawan villages, as well as the Mampuweng, Limuran, Iram
and New Cabalan tribes in
Olongapo City, as part of
the agency’s corporate
social responsibility.
“We hold the Aeta people in high regard,” Fernando said. “They are the
guardians of our forests
and the stewards of the
land. We base our knowledge about the forests on
their natural skills to protect the land.”
She also noted that
SBMA Chairman Roberto
Garcia has a soft spot for
the Aetas. “This is why he
always extends his assistance for their needs —
food augmentation, calamity assistance, etcetera. He
always makes it a point to
help them,” she said.
Llamas who coordinates agency projects
with local IP communities
also pointed out that the
SBMA respects the Aetas’
authority over their ancestral land, which are located inside the free port
zone.
“The SBMA is just the
manager of the land, but
the IP’s are the ones who
own them. Even if the
(SBMA) board had approved a project, but when
the IP’s say no, then it
won’t materialize. That’s
how important they are to
us,” she added.
Proyekto ng mag-aaral ng BulSU...
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • NOVEMBER 7 - 8, 2011 • MONDAY - TUESDAY
FROM PAGE 1
2
ang isa sa mga pangunahing himpilan ng telebisyon
sa bansa.
Ang paghanga ni Espina sa mga proyekto ng
mga mag-aaral ng pamamahayag mula sa BulSU
ay nagsimula noong Oktubre 22 matapos na ipost
ng mamamahayag na ito
sa Facebook.com ang ilan
sa mga nasabing proyekto.
“Ang galing nito,” ani
Espina matapos mapanood ang mahigit isang
minutong produksyon ni
Misty Angelica Mendoza,
isa sa mga mag-aaral ng
pamamahayag sa BulSU,
na may titulong “Buhay
Manunulat.”
Ang ”Buhay Manunulat” ay tinampukan ang
pagpapakita ni Mendoza
ng mga larawang iginuhit
sa white board at kinunan
ng video, pagkatapos ay
sinabayan niya ng
pagkukuwento ng buhay
ng isang mamamahayag.
Bukod kay Espina,
marami din ang nagpahayag ng paghanga sa
produksyon ni Mendoza
ng sila ay maglagay ng
komento
sa
Facebook.com.
Hindi naman natapos
ang paghanga ni Espina
sa pagkokomento sa
produksyon ni Mendoza,
sa halip ay nagtungo siya
sa BulSU noong Biyernes,
Oktubre 28 para sa isang
panayam.
“Inisip ko lang kung
paano ko ilalarawan ang
buhay ng isang manunulat,” ani Mendoza at binigyang diin na iyon ay bahagi din ng pagpapahayag niya ng kanyang saloobin.
Maging ang mga guro
sa College of Arts and Letters (CAL) ng BulSU ay
kinapanayam din ni Espina na humanga sa subject
na “Special Problems in
Journalism.”
“Kayo lang yata ang
may subject na ganyan,”
sa University of the Philippines ay wala,” ani Espina kina Dr. Bonifacio
Cunanan, ang assistant
dean ng CAL; at Yolanda
Villavicencio, isa sa mga
guro sa CAL na bumuo
ng kurikulum para sa
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.
Ipinaliwanag ni Dr.
Cunanan na layunin ng
BulSU na mabigyan ng
sapat na paghahanda ang
mga mag-aaral sa pamamagitan ng pagbubukas
ng makahulugang kurso.
Inayunan naman ito ni
Villavicencio na nagsabing
higit na makabuluhan ang
isang kurso kung may sapat na kakayahan at karanasan ang gurong magtuturo nito.
Maging ang mga magaaral partikular na ang bumubuo ng klaseng nasa
ika-apat na taon ng pag-
aaral ng Bachelor of Arts
in Journalism ay kinapanayam ni Espina.
Isa sa kanyang mga
naging tanong ay kung
magpapatuloy ba ang mga
ito sa pagiging mamamahayag sa kabila ng mga
banta sa buhay ng mga
mamamahayag.
Ang nasabing katanungan ay sabay-sabay na
tinugon ng klase ng “yes!”
Ang video interview ni
Espina sa mga guro at
mag-aaral ng BulSU ay
nakatakdang ilabas sa
website ng Interaksyon.tv
sa darating na Nobyembre
23 kaugnay ng paggunita
sa ikalawang taon ng
Maguindanao Massacre at
pagsasagawa ng kaunaunahang International Day
to End Impunity (IDEI).
Ang IDEI ay inorganisa
ng International Freedom
of Express eXchange
(IFEX) na nakabase sa
Toronto, Canada.
–Dino Balabo
Funeral parlors do gimmicks too...
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launched the so-called
“on-line burol” and offered
water-proof caskets.
He said they offer it for
as low as P5,000 worth of
services, including casket,
for poor patrons to
P500,000 for the high-end
market.
They also have to
come up with various colors to suit the market such
as pink for girls and white
with prints of saints for the
religious.
“Our people here are
religious, they even ask for
a particular saint to which
we cannot say none,” Ilagan said.
By “electronic burol”,
the parlor provides a website where relatives of the
dead, furnished with
password, can view the
live situation at the
wake.
“People are becoming
practical they would want
to see the situation, know
the people at the wake but
would not have time to
travel home,” he said.
Records showed this
city, the most progressive
part of Nueva Ecija, has an
average of 7.2 deaths as
against 22.53 births daily.
He also noted that
high-end caskets are
found to be the favorites of
“early-planners” or those
people who would have the
caskets of their choice re-
served.
Reservation, he said,
gives the takers an opportunity to get the specific
design and materials like
the P500,000 worth Oakwood casket at present
price even if they will have
to use it several years from
now.
“It’s a win-win situation, we can use their money right now and they avail
the services at no-increasing price,” he stressed.
He noted that reservation is becoming a trend
in the locality. Some of
them were children who
would migrate overseas
and retired soldiers from
Fort Magsaysay, Palayan
City.
Some of these clients,
he said, believe that the
earlier a person prepares
for his death the longer he
or she can live.
Ilagan’s parlor also provides a singer for the
wakes. It was learned,
however, that a parlor from
another town even serves
dancers, defending on the
wish of the customer.
They even had to import from the United States
where trends are made,
he said.
Like any other business, Ilagan said, funeral
parlors are prone to economic vulnerability. Thus,
operators have to be creative enough to withstand
challenges.
NOTICE OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT
WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS
Notice is hereby given that the heirs of ORLANDO LOBO BASA who
died intestate on March 10, 2007 in Marisol Subd., Angeles City executed
an Extrajudicial Settlement with Waiver of Rights of his estate more
particularly described as a parcel of land (Lot 5, Blosk 312 of the consolidationSubdivision plan Pcs-03-010648 being a portion of Lots 74-B, 74-C, Psd57257 and Blk 243-A, Pcs-03-009243, L.R.C. Record No.__), situated in
the Barrio of Capaya, City of Angeles and covered by TCT No. 123814.
Punto! Central Luzon: October 24, 31 & November 7, 2011
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
REGIONAL TRIAL COURT
THIRD JUDICIAL REGION
City of San Fernando (P)
OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT
& EX- OFFICIO SHERIFF
HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND,
Mortgagee,
-versus-
EJF No. 239-11
DORIS B. BAKER,
Mortgagor.
x————————————————————x
NOTICE OF EXTRA JUDICIAL SALE
(Real Estate Mortgage under Act 3135, as amended by Act 4118)
Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135, as amended,
filed by HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND, mortgagee, with
principal address at Suburbia Commercial Center, Maimpis, City of San
Fernando, Pampanga, against DORIS B. BAKER, mortgagor, with
residence and postal address at Lot 3, Blk. 17, Fortuneville Subd. III,
Panipuan, City of San Fernando, Pampanga, to satisfy the mortgage
indebtedness which as of July 15, 2011 amounts to ONE MILLION
EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED
NINETY SEVEN and 92/100 PESOS (P1,871,297.92) excluding interest
and other charges, the undersigned Clerk of Court & Ex-Officio Sheriff
and/or her duly authorized Sheriff IV will sell at public auction on December
6, 2011 from 9:01 A.M. to 12:00 N.N. and from 1:00 P.M. to 3:59
P.M. at the main entrance of the Regional Trial Court Building, City of
San Fernando (P), to the highest bidder for CASH or MANAGER’S
CHECK and in Philippine Currency, the following property/ies with all the
improvements thereon, to wit:
TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. 640049-R
“ A parcel of land (Lot 7 of the cons. subd. plan Pcs-03012468 being a portion of cons lots 1 to 16, blk 1, Pcs-03011855, LRC Rec No. ), situated in the Bo. of Malino &
Panipuan City of San Fdo.,. x x x containing an area of SIXTY
FIVE (65) Square Meters, more or less x x x “
All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the abovestated time and date.
In the event the public auction should not take place on the said
date, it shall be held on December 13, 2011, without further notice.
Prospective buyers may investigate for themselves the title herein
above described and encumbrances thereon, if any there be.
City of San Fernando, Pampanga, October 27, 2011.
ATTY. JOSELEA YRAOLA FLORIA
Clerk of Court & Ex-Officio Sheriff
cc: HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND
Suburbia Comm’l Center, Maimpis
City of San Fernando, Pampanga
ARNOLF F. OCAMPO
Sheriff IV
DORIS B. BAKER
Lot 3, Blk. 17, Fortuneville Subd. III,
Panipuan, City of San Fernando, Pamp.
PUNTO CENTRAL LUZON
PUNTO! Central Luzon: November 47, 14 & 21, 2011
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
REGIONAL TRIAL COURT
THIRD JUDICIAL REGION
BRANCH 56
ANGELES CITY
IN THE MATTER OF THE CORRECTION OF
ENTRY IN THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF
MINOR CHILD EIRENE NICOLE YABUT RABOR,
CHARINA CAPULONG YABUT-RABOR
(Biological Mother of MinorChild)
Petitioner,
-versus-
SP. PROC. NO. (11) 8693
THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF ANGELES
CITY, THE CIVIL REGISTRAR GENERAL,
NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE, THE REPUBLIC
OF THE PHILIPPINES, AS REPRESENTED BY
THE OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR GENERAL,
THE OFFICE OF THE CITY PROSECUTOR OF
ANGELES CITY,
Respondents.
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ORDER
A verified petition having been filed by Charina Capulong YabutRabor praying that after due notice, publication and hearing judgment be
rendered directing, the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Angeles City,
and the National Statistics Office, manila to correct in their records the
clerical error in the Certificate of Live Birth of the petitioner as to her sex/
gender from “MALE” to “FEMALE”, which appears to be sufficient in
form and substance, set the hearing of said petition on December 5,
2011 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning on which date and time, all persons
interested may appear and show cause, should they have any, why
the petition should not be granted.
Let copies of this Order be published once a week for three (3)
consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the province
of Pampanga and Angeles City at the expense of the petitioner.
Likewise, let copies of this Order and petition be furnished the Office
of the Local Civil registrar of Angeles City, the Civil Registrar General
and the Office of the Solicitor General.
SO ORDERED
Angeles City, October 20, 2011.
IRIN ZENAIDA S. BUAN
Judge
PUNTO! Central Luzon: November 1, 8 & 15, 2011
PNoy ‘kakalampagin’ ng mga mamamahayag para sa katarungan
MALOLOS—Kakalampagin ng
mga mamamahayag si Pangulong Benigno “Nonoy” Aquino III
sa ikalawang taon ng paggunita
sa Maguindanao Massacre upang mapabilis ang pagbibigay ng
katarungan sa mga pinaslang.
Ito ay kaugnay ng kauna-unahang pagsasagawa sa Nobyembre 23 ng International Day
to End Impunity (IDEI) na inorganisa ng International Freedom
of Expression eXchange (IFex)
na nakabase sa Canada.
Ayon sa Center for Media
Freedom and Responsibility
(CMFR), ang pangangalampag
ng mga mamamahayag sa Pangulo ay hindi lamang sa mga
pahayagan, radyo at telebisyon
isasagawa.
Ito ay isasagawa rin sa internet, partikular na sa mga social networking sites katulad ng
Facebook.com at Twitter.com at
maging sa mga blogsites ng mga
manunulat na tinawag na bloggers.
“We hope you can join the
online IDEI campaign,” ani
Melinda Quintos-De Jesus, ang
executive director ng CMFR.
Ang CMFR ay isa sa 95 samahan ng mga mamamahayag
sa mundo na kasapi ng IFEX.
Batay sa kanyang bukas na
liham, sinabi ni Quintos-De
Jesus ang ilang paraan ng paglahok sa pangangalampag kay
Aquino sa nalalapit na ikalawang
taon ng paggunita sa Maguindanao Massacre.
Una sa pamamagitan ng paggamit ng mga slogan sa Facebook at Twitter account ng mga
lalahok sa pangangalampag.
Ang mga slogan ay ang mga
sumusunod:
“Pangulong Aquino: Ilan pang
mamamahayag ang kailangang
mapatay? Kilos na!” at “Pangulong Aquino: Hustisya para sa
aking tatay, nanay, kapatid, o
relasyon ng may account sa pinaslang na mamamahayag.”
Ayon kay Quintos-De Jesus,
layunin ng slogan campaign na
ipaalala sa Pangulo ang kanyang
pangako na tutugunan ang pamamaslang sa mga mamamahayag sa bansa.
Gayunpaman, ang nasabing
kampanya ay hindi limitado para
sa mga pinaslang na mga
mamamahayag, kundi maging
sa mga aktibista, huwes, at
THINK
GREEN
mga pari.
Ipinayo rin ng CMFR sa mga
lalahok na matapos na ipost sa
social networking sites ang mga
mga nasabing slogan, dapat din
itong i-tag sa account ng mga
communication team ng Pangulo.
Bukod sa slogan campaign,
hinihikayat din ng CMFR ang
mga bloggers na makiisa sa
pagsasagawa ng IDEI sa pamamagitan ng paglahok sa
tinaguriang “Blog Action Day” na
isasagawa sa Nobyembre 21.
Ipinayo ng CMFR sa mga
bloggers na magsulat at talakayin ang mga usapin na may kinalaman sa pagsasagawa ng
IDEI.
Upang maisagawa ito, sinabi ng CMFR na maghahanda
sila ng mga impormasyon na
magagamit ng mga bloggers,
social media users, at mga interesadong individual at samahan.
Kabilang sa mga impormasyong inihahanda ng CMFR ay ang
mga resulta ng kanilang pagsusuri, mga background information at mga artikulo patungkol sa
paglaban sa impunity.
US envoy, advocates discuss
PHL human rights condition
US AMBASSADOR Harry K.
Thomas, Jr. said their government is committed to promoting respect for universal human
rights and is hopeful for a “renewed opportunity” under the
Aquino administration “to combat extrajudicial killings and
the associated culture of impunity.”
The ambassador made the
statement during a roundtable
discussion with representatives
of Philippine-based human
rights groups at the US Embassy in Manila recently.
At the meeting with the US
ambassador were: Philippines
Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) chairperson
Teodoro M. de Mesa; Institute
for War and Peace Reporting
(IWPR) project coordinator Ma.
Aurora Fajardo; Task Force Detainees of the Philippines representative Jonal Javier; Alternative Law Group (ALG) project
director Atty. Marlon J. Manuel;
Families of Victims of Involun-
tary Disappearances (FIND) cochairperson Nilda Sevilla; FIND
secretary-general Wilma Tizon;
Ateneo Human Rights Center
executive director Atty. Ray Paolo J. Santiago; Philippine Human Rights Information Center
executive director Nymia P. Simbulan; and Diaz, Parreño, Caringal Attorneys-At-Law partner
Atty. Al Parreño.
The human rights groups’
representatives informed Thomas of their ongoing projects
and suggested measures that
could significantly improve human rights conditions in the
Philippines.
Thomas said the US Embassy was encouraged by the
pledge that President Benigno
S. Aquino III made in his 2010
State of the Nation Address to
curb extrajudicial killings in the
Philippines.
He noted, however, that the
2010 US Department of State
Human Rights Report on the
Philippines included assertions
of cases of extrajudicial killings
that occurred under the Aquino
administration and expressed
concern regarding the slow
pace of investigations and
prosecutions of past cases.
Thomas mentioned that
from 2007 to 2010, the US government extended $3.5 million
in grants to the Philippine government and nongovernmental
organizations to strengthen
their capacity to address human rights violations. He informed the human rights advocates that the US Congress
continues to withhold a portion
of US assistance to the Philippine military until the Philippine
government meets certain conditions related to solving and
prosecuting cases of extrajudicial killings.
“The US government will
continue to press for progress
on addressing past cases and
the ongoing problem of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines,” the ambassador said.
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • NOVEMBER 7 - 8, 2011 • MONDAY - TUESDAY
NI DINO BALABO
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Editorial
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • NOVEMBER 7 - 8, 2011 • MONDAY - TUESDAY
Traffic
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TALK OF human trafficking and comes usually
images of young girls being rescued from some
brothels in some foreign city, of groups of women
offloaded at airports, the mind fixed on the
internationality of the crime.
Human trafficking moves as much, if not more,
in the domestic front.
Raids of the “Area,” Angeles City’s bargainbasement flesh market, and at the infamous Fields
Avenue; the rescue of minors in some sweatshops
in Bulacan, in videokes in Tarlac, in hole-in-thewall joints in Zambales, periodic as they are but
nonetheless indubitable proofs of the continuing
plague of human trafficking.
After the perfunctory 15 minutes of infamy on
national television, what do we care about human
trafficking, especially of the victims, until the next
raids come as breaking news anew?
“More than rescuing (the victims), their
rehabilitation and reintegration are an important
phase.” So said Department of Social Welfare and
Development Regional Director Adelina Apostol.
The DSWD disclosed that 69 victims of human
trafficking in Central Luzon, including 23 minors
and four males, have availed themselves of the
government’s “reintegration program for trafficked
persons”, which it cited as an “important process
in the campaign against exploitation.”
Most of the victims were rescued from
prostitution fronts in different provinces in the
region.
The DSWD said program covers counselling
for the victims as well as their families, legal
assistance in the cases they filed against their
exploiters, provision of funds for small businesses,
and employment.
Apostol stressed though that: “The involvement
and participation of the victims themselves in the
rehabilitation process will facilitate their
reintegration in their communities.”
And, needless to stress, it is the involvement
and participation of the community itself that shall
put a definitive end to this modern day slavery that
is human trafficking.
EDGAR V. MOVIDO
Founder
LLL Trimedia Coordinators
Publisher
General Manager Atty. Gener C. Endona
Editor Joey R. Aguilar
Editorial Consultant Caesar “Bong” Lacson
Marketing Manager Joanna Niña V. Cordero
Advertising Officer Karl Jason S. Manaloto
Layout Dondie B. Ventura
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POST-ALL Saints’ Day roll through the main points of the SubicClark-Tarlac Expressway, albeit via the “local” newspapers and news
websites, make an interesting journey.
At Subic, the Freeport’s elite corps of veteran rescuers and
emergency response teams prompted its being the training center
– very soon, that is – of emergency rescue teams in the whole
Philippines.
At the same time, the Red Cross for Asia-Pacific shall establish
its regional headquarters here and develop a facility to enhance
the skills of rescue workers from all over the country on emergency
operations and disaster preparedness.
I don’t know but I thought I caught a glimpse of a smiling
Philippine Red Cross Governor Richard Gordon there.
And then there is the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority readying
itself to supply most of Central Luzon’s needs for seedlings under
a national greening program that seeks to plant some 1.5 billion
trees throughout the country within five years.
The SBMA is said to have “taken on a
significant role in the government’s National
Greening Program” after it signed a joint
memorandum of agreement with the Department
of Environment and Natural Resources and the
Department of Science and Technology for the
establishment of an indigenous tree species
nursery here.
“We are in the best position to supply planting
materials for the greening program, because the
Subic Bay Freeport has all sort of indigenous tree
species in its well-protected forests.” So was
quoted SBMA Chairman Roberto Garcia in the
papers. And adding: “Aside from this, Subic
Freeport has all types of vegetation — from those
that grow in forests to those that thrive in
grasslands and mangroves, so it can really supply
seedlings even for various types of location.”
Great strides there in disaster management
and environmental protection.
A short detour in Bataan provides more good
news.
At least 6,000 workers will be hired at the
Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB) comes next year
with two firms under the Lhuen Thai Garments
Co. starting their operations.
The FAB morphed from the Bataan Export
Processing Zone, the country’s first that was
established by the Great Ferdinand as a
showcase of his New Society, if fading memory
still serves right.
Currently, FAB hosts 52 registered firms, 45
of which are in full operation.
Fast-forward now to Clark.
A total of 3,008 job vacancies have been
posted for various firms inside the Clark Freeport,
75 percent of which – all of 2,222 – related to
information and communications technology and
business process outsourcing
The latest report at the Clark Development
Corp. showed that total employment at the former
bastion of American military might has now
reached an all-time high of 63,223 spread over
509 locators.
Where glee is the order at the Clark Freeport,
gloom and doom reign at the Clark airport.
The top leadership of the Clark International
Airport Corp. in an internecine campaign that
threatens to derail the full development of Clark
as premier international gateway. The cable theft
at the runway and taxiway negating Clark’s
advantages over all other airports – NAIA included
– as the country’s best.
Better move on to Tarlac, the expressway’s
endpoint. But what do we find but still bad news.
Billboards proclaim that starting today –
November 7 – motorists using the San Miguel
Road as ingress to and egress from the SCTEx
will have to pay toll.
The road traverses the 6,000-hectare Hacienda
Luisita owned by relatives of President Benigno
Aquino, as if you still did not know.
Tolls were previously collected on the road until
June 2 when the Toll Regulatory Board issued a
cease and desist order, which is said to be still in
effect.
Arnel Paciano Casanova, president-CEO of the
Bases Conversion and Development Authority,
said the imposition and collection of toll or passway fee was not consulted with them.
“We are not supporting it,” Casanova said.
“We are of the understanding that [the road] should
be for public use and for free…in consideration
for building the [Luisita] interchange there.”
The 94-km SCTEx links the Luisita Industrial
Park to the Clark and Subic freeports.
Yeah, at Hacienda Luisita gets crooked PNoy’s matuwid na daan. In more ways than one.
Galak at lungkot
sa panalo
SA PAGKAKATAONG ito ay
magbubuhat ako ng aking bangko. Muli naming naranasan ang
maging kampeon sa larangan ng
table tennis sa buong Gitnang
Luzon bilang mga manlalaro at
hindi bilang mga tagapagturo (o
coach-trainer). Ginanap ito sa
Marquee mall at 26 na mga koponan ang sumali.
Masaya ang grupo dahil sa
panalo sa Mayor Ed Pamintuan
Regional Table Tennis Cup. Wika
nga ni Ray Reg na aking kasangga: “Para ito sa mga Kapampangan!” Si Ray ay kasalukuyang
coach sa University of the Assumption. Ganun din ang sambitla na dalawa ko pang kasama – si Carlo Puno na isang
Psychologist at nagtatrabaho sa
City Social Welfare and Development Office sa Lungsod ng
Angeles; at si Rolendio David na
coach naman sa Guagua National College (GNC).
Sila ay ilan lamang sa mga
manlalarong nakatapos ng kolehiyo dahil sa pagpi-pingpong.
Sa kabila ng kagalakan sa
pagkapanalo, may hatid din namang kalungkutan ito sa aming
grupo. Pinipilit kong burahin sa
aking isipan na ako’y isang
mamamahayag sa pagkakataong iyon, ngunit sadyang mahirap itong gawin.
Nakita ko kung gaano kagagaling ang mga nagsipaglahok na mula pa sa Bulacan,
Bataan, Tarlac at Pampanga.
Masipag, hindi mareklamo, may
kusang palo at higit sa lahat,
nagsisikap na maging mahusay
na manlalaro.
Subalit sa kabila ng kanilang
mga pagsisikap, kulang parin o
walang anomang suporta ang
kanilang lokal na pamahalaan.
Sa katunayan, ilan sa mga atleta ay halos sumakto lang ang
panggastos upang makalahok
sa torneo.
Kuwento naman ng iba, masipag silang mag-aral subalit
kapos na kapos talaga sa salapi ang mga magulang upang tustusan ang ilang gastusin sa pag-
Hard to Get
Joey Aguilar
aaral. Bagamat libre na sila sa
matrikula sa kolehiyo bilang
mga manlalaro, hindi parin
kasya ang kinikita ng kanilang
magulang upang makatapos ng
pag-aaral.
May nakita akong isang manlalaro na sa tingin ko’y malaki
ang potensyal dahil sa taglay
niyang bilis at kahusayan.
Ngunit dahil sa konting mga bayarin sa paaralan ay naging hadlang ito upang siya ay huminto
sa pag-aaral sa kolehiyo.
PAGE 6 PLEASE
Ceteris
Paribus
Romeo N. Dyoco, Jr.
THERE ARE two specific fundamental situations which are the
underlying bases for the governance of the Clark Freeport Zone. A
new batch of appointees has taken over both Boards of Directors
and the top management positions of Clark Development
Corporation and the critical senior management positions of the
Clark International Airport Corporation.
It remains significant that the CIAC P/CEO Chichos Luciano
has managed to hang on by the skin of his teeth and the tips of his
fingernails by sheer tenacity and blatant audacity in spite of the
many charges of incompetence and corruption against him. That
is his privilege and the Aquino administration’s burden and accountability.
The basic situation regarding the top management of CDC and
CIAC is that, as the governing entities of the Clark FZ, they are
appointed on a yearly basis. The members of the respective boards
are appointed through the BCDA, the owner corporation, in
accordance with a wish letter from the Office of the President.
Historically and at present, these appointees
have accommodated mostly political
representatives. Still, there have been qualified
and competent appointees. This is the reality.
And the president/CEO of both CDC and CIAC
is a wish appointee of the President who is
elected obediently, of course, by the selected
boards. The Vice Presidents are, in turn,
recommended by the P/CEO and appointed by
the boards. All for a term of one year. And this is
repeated every year.
The CDC and CIAC top management,
therefore, is a layer of “glorified casuals”. They
have no guaranteed tenure and are exposed to
undue political pressures. There is a limited time
for “learning”, gathering both expertise and
experience. Once, if by chance or serendipity,
they remain long enough in office to overcome
the “Peter Principle” of rising to the level of one’s
incompetence, they may be separated from the
position for whatever or for no reason at all. The
principle of benefiting from the accumulated
experience and expertise is defeated.
In the meantime, these “glorified casuals”,
under the Damocles sword of alack of the security
of tenure, have to be accommodating and “play
footsies” with all kinds of politicians, local power
groups and brokers, carpetbaggers and various
stakeholders. The leadership becomes wishywashy and, in many cases, becomes strategically
inept, incompetent and inefficient. Worse, they
will fall into the same game, adopt their own
personal agenda and start “feathering their nests.”
Soon in addition to being P/CEO, they may
become allegedly Boy Scrap, Boy Cable or Boy
Duty Free.
Second, all of the lands of the Clark Freeport
Zone, 4,400 hectares of the main zone and
roughly 27, 000 hectares of the sub-zone, which
are titled in the name of BCDA or the Republic of
the Philippines or untitled, are under the
governance authority of mainly the CDC and for
the Civil Aviation Complex (the airport area and
the aviation logistics area of around 2, 300
hectares) under CIAC. All of these lands are
earmarked as location sites to attract both foreign
and local investors. These investors are envisioned
to bring in need investment capital, technology
and expertise and are enticed to do so by a variety
of incentives, both fiscal and supportive towards
facilitating the ease of doing business.
This supposedly very friendly site and situation
of doing business together with an efficient airport
and logistics hub is a development mechanism
for attracting needed capital, providing
employment, technology transfers, import
substitution, export generation, income generation
and other development goals. The basic constraint
in the governance of the lands of Clark is that
these cannot be sold. This is the reason why CDC
and CIAC cannot even set aside areas for the
housing of their employees to acquire ownership
of their own residential house and lots. The
employees will not acquire the unit under lease
no matter how long the term. They prefer to acquire
absolute ownership. This is the same case for
other potential locators. One major group from
the Peoples Republic of China could not
comprehend why they would have to pay
continuing lease payments when they wanted to
buy thousands of hectares in the sub-zone under
sales arrangement.
On the other hand, this constraint of not being
able to sell Clark lands may be a correct position
considering the very mandate of the zone. It is an
asset which should be considered as held- intrust and legacy for the future generations. Just
like that ad for a classic watch, it is not owned
but just held in trust to be passed on to the future
generations. If these lands had been allowed to
be sold, it would not be farfetched to have a worst
scenario of all the prime lands already sold to
vested and powerful interests under “sweetheart
deals.” Consider the example of the landowners
scenario in the country. It is the same elite class
who have used their positions and power to
monopolize the ownership of huge tracts of land
and haciendas.
Under this principle of stewardship over the
Clark lands, the governance should adhere to its
implementation not only in technical terms but
also in substantive and moral terms. It is sad that
the very ancestral domain issues of the Aetas
have not been fully addressed and settled. This
has been complicated by the “informal settlers”
who have acquired spurious titles and actual
possession of lands inside Clark. Moreover, there
are previous so-called investors who have located
themselves in prime lands with undelivered
development and unfulfilled economic and
commercial commitments. This is patently obvious
by just going around the area and surveying the
jungle-like and decaying structures, which are like
a scene from the Discovery Channel feature “the
world when there are no longer people.” It seems
that the concept of stewardship has been to revert
the property back to the jingle state of the ancient
world.
It is hoped that the present Clark
leadership will be able to grapple with these
fundamental issues towards a strategic crafting
and execution of the Clark Freeport zone’s vision
and mission. Or else, they will suffer the danger
of being collectively called “Boy Di Matuto”.
Ni Felix M. Garcia
Nakawan
sa CIAC, may
sabuwatan tiyak
(KARUGTONG NG SINUNDANG ISYU)
PARTIKULAR NA sa mga panuntunan
Ni P-Noy sa kanyang ‘matuwid na daan’
Na ninanais niyang lubos ipairal
Para sa malinis na pamahalaan.
Kaya marapat lang sa naturang punto
Na makasuhan si Ginoong Luciano
Ng ‘grave abuse of authority’ siguro,
Liban sa posibleng hihigit pa rito.
Kasama pati na ang ‘suspected culprit’
Na binigyan niya ng ‘hand written permit’
Upang bisitahin nila ang paligid,
Kung saan naroon ang nawalang gamit;
Pagkat di malayong ang nasabing apat
Na pinapasok ng CEO ng CIAC
Ang tumangay pati sa iba pang ‘scrap’
At nasabing kable na di na mahanap.
At marahil pati ang bakal na galing
Sa kung ilang pinagiba nitong ‘building,’
Na anila’y puede pa namang gamitin
Ay baka patagong ya’y naipuslit din.
Gaya halimbawa ng balak rentahan
Ni mayor Pelayo na ilang puesto riyan,
Sukat po bang basta ipa-‘demolish’ yan
Gayong ito nga ay ‘serviceable’ naman?
At tunay naman ding ‘in good condition’ pa
Ang lahat ng ‘building’ na pinagiba niya,
At ang ‘contract of lease’ yata ay handa na
Nang ang ‘demolition’ ay ipatupad niya.
Aywan lang kung anong pumasok sa utak
Ng ngayon ay ‘on leave’ na Bossing sa CIAC,
Kung bakit sobra ang kanyang pagka-atat
Na ipagiba yan ng kaagad-agad?
Gayong ayon nga po kay mayor Pelayo
Ay wala pang sira ang alin man dito;
Kaya liban sa personal na motibo
Ano ang nagtulak kay V.J. Luciano?
Upang karaka ay maglabas ng utos
Na walang matibay na batayan halos,
At ang kapalpakan nitong idinulot
Sa pamahalaan ay perwisyong lubos?
Sa puntong yan anong posibleng dahilan
Na maari niyang sa ‘tin ikatuwiran,
Upang siya ay di natin makasuhan
Ng ‘administrative’ o kasong kriminal?
Kundi man ‘abuse of power & discretion’
At/o mas mababang klaseng ‘violation’
Ang puedeng isampa ng Adminstrasyon
Sa kapalpakan niya’t mga ‘drastic action’
At kasong ‘theft’ itong direktang isampa
Sa ating husgado laban sa apat na
‘Workers’ ng “ACP Power” at iba pa
Na posibleng naging kakutsaba nila.
Upang panagutan itong lahat-lahat
Na ng kagamitang nawala at sukat,
Liban sa iba pang kapalpakang dapat
Panagutan nitong CEO d’yan sa CIAC
Nang sa gayon ay di sila pamarisan
Ng nakararami pa nating opisyal,
At sila itong sa ‘matuwid na daan’
Ni P-Noy ang unang mabigyan ng aral!
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • NOVEMBER 7 - 8, 2011 • MONDAY - TUESDAY
‘Clark’s
fundamentals’
Napaguusapan
lang
5
CIAC turf war takes toll on investments
FROM PAGE 1
“There is real issue of
safety, of possible clear
and present danger to
flights which should be
immediately addressed by
the CIAC authorities, who
instead are fighting toothand-nail for positions and
influence,” he lamented.
As this developed, the
Airline Operators Council
is reportedly having second thoughts about moving to Clark because of the
issue. The AOC earlier
expressed its willingness
to move to Clark “if the terminals and the high speed
transportation like the
speed train from Manila to
Clark are in place” in the
aftermath of the announcement of Transportation
Secretary Mar Roxas of
the plan to transfer the Ninoy Aquino International
Airport to Clark.
Guam flights
As early as three
months ago, the Transportation Security Administration of the US Department
of Homeland Security is
said to have made inspection of the Clark airport as
a requisite for the Fly
Guam flights.
The TSA exercises authority over the safety and
security of the traveling
public in the United States
as well as US-owned airlines.
CIAC President-CEO
Victor Jose Luciano had
said then that the Clark
airport had met the standards set by the TSA.
“Obviously, it is the
TSA that could have
stayed the Fly Guam
flights, with the safety of
the Clark airport put into
serious doubt as a result
of the pilferage of the cables which serve as back
up in case the primary
cables lighting the runway
and taxiway are damaged,” the source said.
The theft of the cables
has become the bone of
contention between Luciano and his own vice
president for operations,
former Capas, Tarlac Mayor Reynaldo Catacutan.
It was Catacutan that
exposed to media the cable theft, and accusing
Luciano of issuing a personally handwritten note
allowing the suspected
thieves access to the
“high security area.”
In-fighting
“Luciano should be held
administratively and criminally liable for qualified
theft,” Catacutan said at
the time of his expose.
In turn, Catacutan has
been accused of trying to
undermine Luciano as he
“ambitioned” for the CIAC
presidency, sources at the
corporation said.
This has made the Luciano-Catacutan conflict a
“turf war,” according to observers.
The Pinoy Gumising
Ka Movement, an advocacy group fighting for the
Clark airport as the country’s premier international
gateway since 1992 said
in a statement: “The very
people tasked to preside
over the development of the
Clark airport appear to be
the very ones sabotaging
that development.”
This, even as PGKM
Chairman Ruperto Cruz
warned: “This infighting
and jostling for positions
inside CIAC is a complete
drawback to the future of
the Clark airport… It could
even degenerate to parochialism, some sort of a
corporate battle between
Tarlac and Pampanga personalities.”
Which it has fast
turned out to be with Catacutan asking President
Aquino to dismiss Luciano.
In an Oct. 25 letter to
the President, Catacutan
said: “Faithful to your directive and advocacy to
align management operations with your vision towards matuwid na daan
(straight path), the follow-
ing reports identify some
major problems confronting CIAC which pose
alarming doubts on the integrity of CIAC’s president
and chief executive officer
Victor Jose Luciano, thus,
a contradiction to the noble path you want your
people to tread on.”
Luciano dismissed
Catacutan’s move as
“purely political.”
“Can’t he wait for the
result of the independent
investigation? What is he
afraid of? For the truth to
come out?” Luciano said,
referring to the probe ordered by Clark Development President-CEO Felipe Antonio Remollo, acting chair of the CIAC, on
the missing cables.
The CIAC engineering
department earlier “corrected” reports on the missing
cable saying these were
“remnants of the old power lines installed along
Runway 02R/20L and Taxiway 5…old lines used to
power the perimeter lights
and not Runway 2 and
Taxiway 5 as reported.
The power cables at the
runway and taxiway remain intact.”
Luciano who went on a
leave of absence last week
to pave the way for an independent probe of the pilferage is returning to work
November 7.
Pabrika ng sigarilyo...
FROM PAGE 1
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • NOVEMBER 7 - 8, 2011 • MONDAY - TUESDAY
varado sa kanyang lingguhang palatuntunan sa
radyo na “The Governor’s
Hour” na isinasahimpapawid rin sa DWSS 1494
AM Radio.
Ang reklamo ng mga
residente ay sinangkapan
ng mga ebidensyang nakunan ng larawan at video kung saan ay makikita ang maitim na usok at
mga abo mula sa pabrika.
Dahil sa reklamo,
agad na tinawagan ni Alvarado si Abogado Rustico De Belen, ang hepe ng
Benro na nagsagawa ng
imbestigasyon.
Batay sa imbestigasy-
6
on ng Benro, natuklasan
na bukod sa bakas ng
abo na nagkalat sa loob
ng bakuran ng Mighty Corporation, at maitim na
usok na ibinubuga nito sa
papawirin, naglalabas din
ito ng waste water sa irrigation canal ng National
Irrigation Administration
(NIA).
Ayon kay De Belen,
ang mga kalagayang ito
ay lumalabag sa itinatatdhana ng Article VI, Section 42 ng Provincial Ordinance No. C-005.
Maging ang mga probisyon ng Republic Act
8749 at RA No.9275 o
mga anti-pollution laws ay
nalabag din umano.
Dahil dito, inatasan ni
De Belen si Dennis
Flores, ang pollution
control officer ng Mighty
Corporation, upang agad
na ituwid ang pagkakamali.
Inatasan din ni De
Belen ang Mighty Corporation na itigil ang pagpapatapon ng waste water
sa kanal ng NIA, at pinagbayad ang kumpanya ng
halagang P5,000.
Kung hindi naman susunod ang Mighty Corporation, sinabi ni De Belen
na mapipilitan silang ipasara ang pabrika nito.
Ito ay sa pamamagitan
ng pagkansela sa Mayor’s at Business permit
nito, at maging sa pagrerekomenda ng pagkanse-
la sa Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC)
at Provincial Government
Acknowledgement ng
Mighty Corporation.
Ang reklamo ng mga
residente ng Barangay
Tikay ay inihain ni Rommel Ramos kay Alvarado
noong Sabado, Oktubre
29 kaugnay ng pagsasahimpapawid ng kanilang
lingguhang palatuntunan
sa radyo.
Sa nasabing palatuntunan, ipinangako ni Alvarado na agad na tutugunan ang nasabing reklamo.
Ito ay dahil na rin sa
nakatanggap na rin sila ng
katulad na reklamo laban
sa Mighty Corporation.
Hard to Get
FROM PAGE 4
Ang iba naman ay umaasang manalo dahil sa
pabuya. Ito anila ay makakatulong ng malaki dahil sa
maraming gastusin sa paaralan lalo na at umpisa na
naman ang ikalawang semester, enrolment at pasukan
na naman.
Ngunit para sa mga atletang ito, ang mga torneong
kagaya ng Mayor Ed Pamintuan Cup ay malaki ang
magagawa upang mapalakas ang mga manlalaro hindi
lamang sa Lungsod ng Angeles kundi pati ang mga
nasa ibang lugar.
PAKINABANG. Sa pagdami ng mga magagaling na
manlalaro dahil sa mga patimpalak na ganito, madami din ang nakikinabang sa mga scholarship grants
na mula sa mga malalaking paaralan kagaya ng Angeles University Foundation na todo ang suporta sa
mga atleta.
Sa ganitong paraan, natutulungan ng pamahalaang
lokal ang maraming kabataan na gustong makapagtapos ng pag-aaral. Hindi na kailangan pang maglabas
ng pondo mula sa kaban ng bayan. Ang kailangan lang
ay isang pasilidad o training center kung saan
makakapagensayo ng mabuti ang mga manlalaro.
Makakatulong pa ito sa anti-drugs campaign ng
pamahalaan dahil magiging aktibo ang mga kabataan
sa palakasan, iwas sa droga at iba pang bisyo.
Makakapagimbita din ito ng mga mamumuhunan at
negosyante dahil ang isang lugar na may masiglang
palakasan ay isang indikasyon na malakas ang
ekonomiya nito. Lalakas din ang turismo lalo na kung
ang mga nasabing mga torneo at patimpalak ay magiging regular.
PAGKAKAISA. Sa ganitong mga palaro ay nakita ko
rin kung papaano magkaisa ang mga Kapampangan.
Sa elimination round ay magkakalaban kami ng Systems Plus Computer College, AUF, Holy Angel University, GNC, Team Pampanga-B, Porac Table Tennis Club,
at Pampanga Table Tennis Club.
Pagdating ng championship match, silang lahat ay
pumapalakpak at humihiyaw na bilang pagsuporta sa
amin. Malaking tulong ito upang mabuhayan kami ng
loob na halos hindi na kami makabawi laban sa mga
taga-Bulacan.
Sa pagtatapos ng laban ay kahanga-hanga din ang
ipinakita ng mga batang manlalarong taga-Bulacan dahil
sa kanilang kababaan ng loob, sa kanilang pagiging
sports sa laro. Sana ay mataglay ito ng lahat ng mga
manlalaro. Dapat nating maintindihan na nagkaroon ng
palakasan, kumpetisyon o sports upang maalis o di
kaya’y mabawasan ang mga digmaan sa mundo. Yun
na nga ang simula ng pagbuo ng Olympics. Wika nga
ng isang kanta na patungkol sa Olympics: “Competition, we unite as one.”
NOTICE
ALEMART CORPORATION for its protection
and that of its wholesalers and customers
announces that the following official receipts:
155601-155650 issued to its San Fernando
Sales Office cannot be accounted by the
Sales Office. Any payment evidenced by the
above receipts will not be honored by the
Company pending investigation
PEDRO S. TAN
President
Punto! Central Luzon: October 21-November 18, 2011
Republic of the Philippines
REGIONAL TRIAL COURT
THIRD JUDICIAL REGION
BRANCH 45
City of San Fernando (P)
IN RE: PETITION FOR ADOPTION of JENNA
SHEREE CAYANAN LUMBANG (as registered)
a.k.a. JENNA SHEREE L. GOPEZ and PATRICK
JAMES CAYANAN LUMBANG (as registered)
a.k.a. JOHN PATRICK L. GOPEZ.
FC. SP. PROC. CASE NO. 494
LEONILA C. LUMBANG,
Petitioner.
x—————————————————————————x
ORDER
A petition for adoption of minors JENNA SHEREE CAYANAN
LUMBANG a.k.a JENNA SHEREE L. GOPEZ and PATRICK JAMES
CAYANAN LUMBANG a.k.a JOHN PATRICK L. GOPEZ was filed by
their alleged maternal aunt , LEONILA C. LUMBANG.
Finding the petition to be sufficient in form and substance, same is
hereby set for hearing on December 7, 2011 at 9:00 o’clock in the
morning, inviting all interested persons to appear and show cause why
this petition should not be granted.
Let a copy of this order be published once a week for three (3)
consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the
province of Pampanga.
It appearing that petitioner is working abroad, trial custody for a
continuous period of six (6) months is hereby ordered to be complied
with, with Social Worker Marcelino L. Santos supervising the same.
Court Social Worker marcelino L. Santos is hereby directed to
conduct a Child and Home Case Studies, his reports relative thereto to
be submitted before the hearing of this case.
Furnish the Office of the Solicitor General and the Provincial
Prosecutor of Pampanga, with copies hereof and the Petition and its
annexes.
Likewise, furnish the Office of the Clerk of Court, RTC, City of San
Fenrnado, Pampanga, Court Social Worker Marcelino L. Santos and the
petitioner with copies of this Order.
SO ORDERED.
City of San Fernando, Pampanga, October 21, 2011.
ADELAIDA ALA-MEDINA
Judge
PUNTO! Central Luzon: November 1, 8 & 15, 2011
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
REGIONAL TRIAL COURT
THIRD JUDICIAL REGION
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO (P)
OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT
& EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF
EF No. 229-11
Punto Central Luzon
NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE
Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended
filed by HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND with its office address
at Suburbia Commercial Center; Maimpis, City of San Fernando,
Pampanga against ROMMEL J. ROGACION, with residence and postal
address at EM’s Barrio, Camp Olivas, City of San Fernando, Pampanga
to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of August 15, 2011
amounts to EIGHT HUNDRED ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED
SEVENTY FOUR & 64/100 (Php 801,174.64) PESOS excluding and/or
her duly authorized Sheriff IV will sell at public auction on December 6,
2011 at 10:00 am or soon thereafter (from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.), at the
main entrance of the RTC Bldg., City of San Fernando, Pampanga, to
the highest bidder for CASH/or Manager’s Check and in Philippine
Currency, the following property/ies with all the improvements thereon,
to wit:
TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. 602170-R
A parcel of land (Lot 5, Blk. 11 of the cons. and subd. plan,
Pcs-03-011855, being a portion of the consolidated lots 1, Pcs03-010506, Lot 1, Pcs-03-011271, Lot 132, Pcs-03-000027,
Lot 133-B-1, Lot 133-B-3 and Lot 133-B-5, all of Psd-03-123813,
L.R.C. Rec. No. ), situated in the Bo. of Malino and Panipuan,
Mun. of San Fdo., Prov. of Pampanga. xxx containing an area
of FIFTY (50) SQUARE METERS. xxx
“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 DECEMBER 13, 2011 without further notice.”
Prospective buyers may investigate for themselves the title herein
above described and encumbrances thereon, if any there be.
City of San Fernando, Pampanga, October 24, 2011.
REMIGIO L. DICHOSO
Sheriff IV
ATTY. JOSELEA Y. FLORIA
Clerk of Court VI
& Ex-Officio Sheriff
cc: HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND
Suburbia Commercial Center, Maimpis, San Fernando, Pampanga
ROMMEL J. ROGACION
Em’s Barrio, Camp Olivas, San Fernando, Pampanga
PUNTO! Central Luzon: November 1, 8 & 15, 2011
Bakit laging aburido???
Robin Padilla bad boy na naman?
The
Gossipmiller
by Cesar Pambid
NAKAPANINIBAGO si Robin Padilla. Kung bakit dami na naman nitong bitterness sa buhay, konting-kibot, nagagalit na naman,
konting-kibot, nagbabanta.
Aba, kung ilang kolum items na yung nabasa naming nanggigigil siyang meron
daw yatang gustong bugbugin. ‘Wag naman, di ba, sabi ni Robin Padilla nagbago
na siya?
O baka naman this is the case na hindi talaga nagbago si Robin na
kumbaga, image lang yung binago, pero sa true lang, siya pa rin yung
dating bad boy na maraming angas sa buhay.
Sa true lang, kapansin-pansin yung konting-kibot, galit, konting may
mabasa nagbabanta. Aba di yata maganda yan.
Sa edad niyag nirerrespeto na siya sa showbiz, dapat mapanatili
na niya yung magandang image Kumbaga, magpasensya na siya,
kung minsan natutuligsa siya, pagbigyan na niya ang mga tao, di pa
naman siya inaapi.
O baka naman nga may katotohanan yung lagging
pinagkukuwentuhang di magandang dating ng buhay ngayon ni Robin
Padilla. Una na nga yung tsismis na hirap daw siya sa pera. Na pati
raw si Mariel ay nagrereklamo dahil sa rami ng mga pakainin niya. Na
true yung isang nasabi ni Mariel na sa sbrang bait ni Robin, di na niya
solo ang buhay niya.
“Alam ninyo, nabubuhay si Robin para sa ibang tao, lahat ng tungkol sa kanya ay para sa ibang tao,”
minsang nasabi ni Mariel sa isang interview.
Nabuksan ang topic tungkol ditto, dahil nga si Mariel na raw ang nagrereklamo dahil pera na nito ang
ginagastos sa mga sinusuportahan ni Robin. <ay tsika pa ngang di na raw makabili ng mga bagong
damit si Mariel dahil nga ubos ang pera niya kay Robin.
How true?
Na puwedeng hindi nga totoo dahil alam naman nating malaki rin ang kinikita
ngayon ni Robin dahil sa maraming projects niya. At pangalawa yung
sinasabing gipit nga raw si Robin at ito ang dahilan kung bakit hindi
napinansiyahan ang pag-produce sana ng Mr. Wong para sa film
festival. At pangatlo yungd i umano’y di niya gustong parang siya
na nga nagbigay para makapasok ang pelikula ng isang kaibigan
niya, e minasama pa siya.
Yun kaya ang dahilan kung bakit nag-aalburoto at yung
dati niyang pagiging bad boy ay sumisibol na naman?
Just asking!
Jake Cuenca
ALAMAT NA yata sa showbiz yung pagiging masamang
ugali ng nanay ni Charice na dating Pempengco na si
Aling Raquel ba ang pangalan niya?
Antimano kasing umangat ang pangalan ni Charice
noong araw, lumitaw na yung maraming usapin
surrounding sa gulo ng kanyang pamilya. Mismong lola
niya sa ina ay naging kaaway nilang mag-ina sa
maraming kadahilanan. Kabastusang masasabi nga
noon pa man yung pagsagot-sagot ng mag-inang
Charice at ano na nga pangalan, ano, Raquel nga ba
yun, ng nanay niya? Sa pagsagot sa sariling ina, to
the point na naglantaran sila ng baho sa publiko na
kesyo ganyan at ganun.
Noong araw nga, kung bali-baligtarin ng mag-inang
ito ang ngayon ay namayapa nang si Mang Ricky ay
ganun na lang.
Pero heto ngayon si Charice, nagkukunwang
mabait na kesyo nalulungkot daw sa sinapit ng ama.
Pero kahit na alam naman nating pam-PR at panlinis
lang ng image itong ngayon ay ginagawa nina Cahrice
at ng nanay niya, marami ang hindi naniniwala. Saan ka
naman kasi nakakita na pati twitter niya ay kung anik
anik ang lumalabas sa bunganga ni Charice laban sa mga
kamag-anak, niya tama ba na saguy-sagutin pa niya ang
mga ito? Na para bagang inaapi siya gayung siya itong nasa
itaas sa ngayon.
Anyway, we wish na mali ang mga sinasabi namin dito
dahil nga baka naman nahuhusgahan na namin si Charice na
dating Pempengco. Sana ngam talagang mahal niya ang
kanyang ama at nagdadalamhati siya sa pagkamatay nito.
Amen!
Jake Cuenca pinagwelgahan
ng mga nakarelasyon
DALAWANG young stars na pareho pa manding naging ‘ex’ ni Jake Cuenca
na ang nag-announce na reluctant silang makasama sa anumang project ang dating
karelasyon..
We are referring to Melissa Ricks at ang “come-backing” at dating Star Magic
talent na si Roxanne Guinoo.
Roxanne recently signed a contract with Manny Valera para siyang tumayong
manager niya.
Obvious, parehong bitter ang pakikipaghiwalay ni Jake sa dalawa lalo na sa part
of Melissa, who claims si Jake ang kanyang first love and first boyfriend. In the
case of Roxanne, before Jake na-link din siya kay Joross Gamboa, na halos kasabay
niyang naging ABS-CBN talent since they both came from the reality show Star
Circle Quest.
Well, it might interest Jake to know that as far as Roxanne is concerned, taboo
rin sa kanya ang muling makatrabaho si Joross.
Single pa rin si Melissa pero may dyowa na si Roxanne, si Elton Yap, at may
anak na sila nito.
Roxanne said na may permiso ang kanyang mister sa desisyon niyang magbalikshowbiz.
At dahil months na rin ang nakaraan since Melissa’s much-publicized breakup
with Jake, may nagtanong kung in love na ba siyang muli.
“Naku, hindi po,” ang kanyang maliksing sagot. “Wala muna akong immediate
na plano na umibig muli.”
She has not heard much about Jake, she said, except sa usap-usapang may
gagawin into series with Shaina Magdayao titled Daho na kukunan ang kabuuan sa
Qatar in the Middle East.
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • NOVEMBER 7 - 8, 2011 • MONDAY - TUESDAY
Charice pinalaking mayabang
ng mayabang ding ina?
7
‘5th Sulong Zambales’ jobs fair inilunsad
NI JOHNNY R. REBLANDO
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • NOVEMBER 7 - 8, 2011 • MONDAY - TUESDAY
IBA, Zambales – Upang
matugunan ang mga pangangailangan ng mga
Zambaleño partikular na
sa paghahanap ng trabaho, inilunsad ng pamahalaang panlalawigan ang
“5 th Sulong Zambales”
jobs fair kamakailan.
Sinabi ni Gob. Hermogenes E. Ebdane Jr. na ito
ay pagpapakita ng kanilang simpatiya sa mga
mamamayan ng Zambales lalo na ang mga
naghahanap ng trabaho.
Nakapagtala ang Public Employment Service
Office (PESO) sa pamamahala ni Bise Gob. Ramon G. Lacbain II ng 183
rehistrado sa unang araw
ng jobs fair na isinagawa
sa Municipal Gymnasium
ng San Antonio sa pakikipagtulungan na rin ng
local na pamahalaan ng
nasabing bayan.
Nakapaglista din ang
PESO ng 156 sa ikalawang araw na inilunsad sa
Sinabacan, Candelaria,
Zambales sa Head Quarters ni Ebdane.
Ang dalawang araw na
jobs fair ay nilahukan ng
iba’t ibang ahensya sa
loob at labas ng bansa.
Nakiisa din ang iba’t
ibang lokal na kumpanya
kabilang na ang SM Department Store, Phil
Health, Social Security
System o SSS, Subci Bay
8
Metropolitan Authority Labor Department, Department of Labor and Employment, OZAPTI, PTT
Phils, Hanjin, Red Dragons, Sutherlands Global
Service, Urban Venture
Corporation, Puregold,
Juken Sangyo Philippines, 4B Construction,
Zambales Today’s News at
Ocean Adventures.
Pinaigting din ng
PESO ang pakikipag-ugnayan sa mga Internasyunal na kumpanya kung
saan 15 sa kabuuan ang
nakilahok rin sa nasabing
jobs fair. Kabilang dito ang
CSM International Recruitment Service Inc., Eyequest International Manpower Services Incorporated, YWA Human Resource Corporation, International Experts for Technical Support Services
Inc., United Global Manpower Resource Inc.,
YHMD International Manpower Services Inc.,
RRJM International Manpower Service Inc.,
Placewell International
Services Corporation at
Star World International
Manpower and Placement
Agency Inc.
Ayon pa kay Lacbain,
layunin ng PESO na matulungan ang mga
mamamayan ng Zambales sa pamamagitan
ng paglulunsad at pagdaragdag ng mga trabaho.
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