Vol 3 No 99.pmd

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VOLUME 3
NUMBER 99
TUE - WED
SEPTEMBER 8 - 9, 2009
AMID CHALLENGES ON QUARRY SCAM
Lapid to run for governor
BY DING CERVANTES
‘Banana
Island’
triggers
mudslide
C
ITY OF SAN FERNANDO –
Sen. Lito Lapid formally
announced here yesterday
his plan to run anew for governor
of this province, amid a challenge
from Gov. Eddie Panlilio to explain
to Kapampangans the “missing”
P568-million lahar quarry funds
during his and his son Mark’s
administrations.
PAGE 6 PLEASE
Stops traffic
anew in Ecija
highway
2 Angeles City workers
drown in Bataan beach
BY ANSELMO ROQUE
NUEVA ECIJA – The
‘Banana Island’ triggered anew a mudslide
in a stretch of the
mountain highway in
Carranglan, Nueva Ecija and stalled traffic for
several hours.
The exact place of
the mudslide is in Kilometer 193 + 50.
Hundreds of vehicles
PAGE 6 PLEASE
BY ERNIE ESCONDE
PAGBABALIK. Sen. Lapid (left) raises the hands of his runningmate
Lea Dizon during a press conference in the City of San Fernando yesterday.
The senator vowed to run for governor in 2010. PHOTO BY JOEY PAVIA
Info blitz promoting Clark Airport goes international
OLONGAPO, Balanga,
Dagupan, Malolos, Laoag,
Vigan, Baguio. Then,
Hong Kong.
It was a blitz the Clark
International Airport Corp.
(CIAC) at first locally pursued to promote the Diosdado Macapagal Interna-
tional Airport (DMIA) at the
Clark Freeport as a more
convenient alternative for
folk in provinces north of
Metro Manila, as well as
for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
The logic of the campaign that finally went
international last week in
Hong Kong surfaced in the
reactions of OFW’s, mostly domestic helpers (DH)
who had converged at the
hall of the Bayanihan
Kennedy Town Center
(Bayanihan Center) at 55
Victoria Road in Kennedy
‘Talamak na illegal logging,
dahilan ng baha sa Gapo’
NI JOHNNY R. REBLANDO
LUNGSOD NG OLONGAPO – Talamak na illegal
logging ang siyang dahilan
umano ng malawakang
pagbaha sa mga barangay
ng lungsod na ito.
Ayon sa mga resi-
dente, nabarahan ng mga
dahon at sanga ang mga
canal na siyang dinadaluyan ng tubig mula sa
kabundukan dahil sa patuloy na pagulan.
Kabilang sa naapektuhan ay ang Purok 5-B,
Rizal St. Extention, Baran-
gay Barretto ng pumasok
ang tubig baha sa loob ng
mga bahay ng mga residente at mawasak ang kalsada sa nasabing lugar.
Ayon parin sa mga residente, palpak ang kampanya ng pamahalaan sa
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Bakbak ang kalsada nang ito ay daanan ng tubig mula sa kabundukan ng
Purok 5-B, Rizal St., Extention, Barangay Barretto, Lungsod ng Olongapo
ng mabarhan ng mga dahon at sanga ang canal na siyang dinadaluyan ng
tubig bunga ng talamak na “illegal logging”. KUHA NI JOHNNY R. REBLANDO
town. The hall filled up to
capacity beyond the CIAC
team’s expectations, way
past the morning Mass
that dispersed them after
the final blessing.
The hall’s stage background was a huge poster
PAGE 6 PLEASE
MORONG, Bataan – At
least two employees of
the Angeles City government died of drowning at
the shoreline of Sitio Panibatuhan in Barangay Poblacion, here.
PO1 Julius Reyes,
Morong police investigator,
said cops and other rescue workers found the
body of Odel de Guzman,
30, an employee under the
Mayor’s office at about
3:30 a.m. on Monday.
The wife and other relatives took the body of De
Guzman from Funeraria
Baluyot in Morong for
transfer to Angeles City.
The body of another victim, Lester Tolentino, 22,
also an Angeles City government worker was retrieved Saturday, a few
minutes after the two were
drowned from another
beach.
More than 20 other
Angeles City hall employees checked-in on
Saturday afternoon at the
Sunset Beach Resort in
Nagbalayong, Morong
for a team-building seminar.
Reyes said investigation showed that the two
victims with another companion left Sunset Beach
Resort and went to the
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Ron Ron Dungca
combines youth,
experience in team
BACOLOR, Pampanga –
Poised to be one of the youngest mayors in the province, Ron
Earvin “Ron Ron” Dungca announced his line-up for the 2010
elections here.
Dungca disclosed four of the
incumbent councilors will join his
team, including three-term
Councilor Nilo “Pogi” Caballa as
his running-mate.
Councilors Bong San Pedro,
Amable Bengco and Rey Gozun
will seek re-election under Dungca’s team.
He said they have yet to
complete their team due to
“heavy applicants from new
comers.”
Political pundits said Dungca’s chances of winning had
been bolstered by the addition
of former Vice Mayor Efren
“Sticky” Blanco to his line-up for
councilors.
“We are trying to form a team
that has experienced public servants to combine with youth
teeming with dreams and drive
for exellence,” said Dungca, a
product of San Beda College
High School who is now a 4th
year business management student at the Angeles University
Foundation (AUF).
Dungca, eldest son of threeterm Mayor Romeo “Buddy”
Dungca, will turn 21 years old
early next year.
He had been helping his father with his regular people’s day
at their residence in Barangay
Macabacle on Saturdays.
Mayor Dungca said they are
sponsoring medical missions to
bring “the government closer to
the people, especially the poor
ones.”
NI ERNIE B. ESCONDE
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. Mayor Dungca (with paper) shows the meaning of public
service to his son Ron Earvin (seated, left) during the recent people’s day at their
resort-residence in Barangay Macabacle. PHOTO BY JOEY PAVIA
Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM
ADJUDICATION BOARD
Region III
OFFICE OF THE PROVINCIAL AGRARIAN REFORM ADJUDICATOR
2/F Hiyas Convention Center Annex
City of Malolos, Bulacan
BRANCH II
RENATO P. LEGASPI and DELIA P. LEGASPI,
rep. by their Atty–in–Fact CALIXTO C. HERRERA
Plaintiff/s,
-versus-
DARAB CASE No. R-03-02-5427-‘07
PAULITA C. RAMOS, ET AL.
Defendant/s.
x————————————---------------—————x
SUMMONS And NOTICE OF HEARING
TO:
Paulita C. Ramos
Felix Capales
Victorino Teodoro
Elias Santos
Ariel Reyes
Cesar Baldonado
Norma Baldonado
Jojo Santiago
Fernando D. Viterbe
Calumpang, San Miguel
Bulacan
Jobin Enterprises
Bagbaguin, Valenzuela
Metro Manila
PARO – DAR
Baliuag, Bulacan
Mr. Victorio Bagwisa
MARO – DAR, San Miguel
Bulacan
Register of Deeds
Tabang, Guiguinto
Bulacan
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • SEPTEMBER 8 - 9, 2009 • TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY
G R E E T I N G S:
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You are hereby summoned and required to file with this Office within FIFTEEN (15) DAYS after the service
of this Summons upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, your sworn answer to the complaint herewith
of the plaintiff, a copy of which is served upon you; and to serve a copy of the said answer, within the same
period, upon the plaintiff. If you failed to do so, plaintiff will be allowed to present his/her evidence and judgment
will be rendered based on the pleadings and evidence so submitted.
Plaintiff and defendant are hereby directed to attend the hearing of the case on September 17, 2009 at 1:30
p.m. City of Malolos, Bulacan
City of Malolos, Bulacan, July 23, 2009
Copy furnished:
Atty. Arturo F. Del Rosario
Romulo Blvd., San Vicente
Tarlac City
Renato Legaspi, et al.
Rep. by Calixto C. Herrera, Jr.
No. 4 Bentley St., St. Dominic Village
San Agustin, San Fernando City (P)
Punto! Central Luzon: August 25, September 1 & 8, 2009
ANDREW N. BAYSA
Provincial Adjudicator
By:
ELIZABETH F. LONDERA
Clerk of the Board
GSIS reminds pensioners to
renew active status to avoid
suspension of pension
THE Government
Service Insurance
System (GSIS) is
reminding its old-age
and survivorship
pensioners, whose
birthday falls within
September, to renew
their active status this
month to avoid suspension of their monthly
pension.
The state pension
fund is requiring its
pensioners to renew
their active status as
GSIS pensioners every
year, anytime during
their birth month, to
ensure the continuous
receipt of their monthly
pension. Should they
fail to do so, their
monthly pension will be
suspended and their
pension will resume
only after they have
complied.
For old-age pensioners, if at the time of
declaration by the GSIS
of any pension increase
and cash gift they are
under suspended
status, they will not be
entitled to the said
privileges.
To renew their active
status, pensioners must
go to the nearest GSIS
servicing office or the
nearest government
establishment installed
with a GSIS Wireless
Automated Processing
System kiosk or GW@PS kiosk on their
birth month.
Then, they must
place their eCard Plus
on the card reader of
the kiosk. Afterwards,
they must choose the
“Annual Reporting”
icon using the kiosk’s
touch screen and then
select any pre-registered finger. Finally,
they must lightly scan
their finger using the
fingerprint scanner of
the kiosk to complete
the process.
‘Talamak na illegal logging...’
FROM PAGE 1
inilunsad na “Bantay Kalikasan” dahil nagpapatuloy parin ang malawakang
illegal logging sa kabundukan ng Olongapo.
Nakaranas din ng pagbaha ang Barangay West
at East Bajac-Bajac, Sta
Rita, Mabayuan, Old
Cabalan, Mactan, Rizal
Avenue Ulo ng Apo Rotonda na umaabot hanggang
baywang na tubig baha ng
magsalubong ang “high
tide” at tubig ulan.
May 10 pamilya mula
sa Katipunan River side sa
Barangay East Bajac-Bajac ang inilikas sa evacuation center at 50 katao pa
ang inilikas sa Olongapo
City Elementary School.
Nagkaroon din ng
“landslide” sa little Baguio, Johnson Extention,
Barangay East Bajac-Bajac, Purok 13, Barangay
Barretto at Purok 12,
Barangay Old Cabalan at
wala naman ini-ulat na nasaktan.
Pinayuhan na rin ng
Olongapo City Disaster
Mangement Office ang
mga residente na nasa
mabababang lugar partikular na yung nasa tabing ilog lumikas sa mataas
na lugar.
Samantala, pormal namang ipinag-utos kahapon
ni Olongapo City Mayor
James Gordon ang pagsuspinde sa klase mula
Elementary, High School
at College matapos na bahain ang lungsod dahil sa
patuloy na walang humpay na pagbuhos ng ulan.
2 Angeles City workers...
FROM PAGE 1
long shoreline at about
5:15 p.m. on the same
day to gather corals. Later, Tolentino went swimming alone.
When De Guzman
noticed that his companion was waving and
seemed to be asking for
help, he swam to rescue
Tolentino. The two were,
however, engulfed by
strong waves and apparently sucked by strong
underwater current, police said.
Meanwhile, Angeles
City Vice Mayor Vicky
Vega-Cabigting said she
will conduct an investigation on the incident.
“Ipinagbawal na ng
mayor ang team-building
pero sila pinayagan. Ang
balita ko si Mr. Mel Bondoc ( ang nag-organize niyan. Magpapa-imbestiga
ako,” she said.
SAMAL, Bataan – Pabugso-bugso ang buhos ng
malakas na ulan dito na
nagdulot ng flash floods sa
ilang bahagi ng apat na
bayan na kinabibilangan
ng Samal, Abucay, Hermosa at Dinalupihan.
Ilang bahay sa Nagbalayong, isang barangay sa
bulubunduking bayan ng
Morong, ang pinasukan na
ng tubig. Nagsagawa narin
ng sandbagging upang
hindi maanod ng malakas
na tubig ang ibang mga
tahanan.
Ang baha ay may lalim na mula bukongbukong hanggang binti sa
barangay Ibaba at Sta.
Lucia sa Samal, sa MacArthur Highway sa Abucay, sa barangay Daungan at Almacen sa Hermosa at mga barangay Layac, Tabacan at Sta. Isabel
sa Dinalupihan.
Ilang bahay na ang pinasok ng tubig. Sinabi ni
PO1 Jaicon Marcelino ng
Hermosa police na kung
hindi pa lubusang titigil
ang ulan, inaasahan pang
tataas ang pagbaha dahil
sa lakas ng tubig na nanggagaling sa bundok.
Subalit parang nasanay na rin ang mga tao lalo
na ang mga bata sa ganitong kalagayan sapagka’t
masaya pa rin ang mga ito
habang tila naglalaro sa
gitna ng baha sa loob at
labas ng kanilang mga tirahan.
Ayon kay Julito Velasco, dating provincial agriculturist at isang civic at
religious leader sa Morong, dalawang bahay na
bungalow- type ang wasak
na wasak matapos sagasaan ng malakas na tubig samantalang isa naman ang partially damaged sa barangay Nagbalayong, Morong.
Ang nawasak ay ang
mga tahanan nina Ligaya
Sarmineto at Greg Anova
samantalang ang nasiraan
naman ng terrace ay sa
isang Usman family.
Nagsagawa ng sandbagging operations ang
mga tao sa pangunguna
ng Rescue Team ng Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority at ng mga tauhan
ni Morong Mayor Cynthia
Linao subalit ang may
6,000 sandbags diumano
ay inanod din ng tubig.
Sinabi ni Velasco na
sa halip na sa ilog dumaan
ang malakas na tubig mula
sa bundok ay sa kabahayan ito tumahak dahil
nagsarado ang bukana ng
ilog at ang sugpungan nito
papuntang dagat.
Wala naman umanong
mga tao sa evacuation
center sapagka’t ang mga
apektadong pamilya ay
nakitira na lamang sa kanilang mga kaanak.
HEAVY
RAINS
prevented
hundreds of
Bulakenyos to
come to the
opening of
the eight-day
Singkaban
Fiesta
yesterday,
leaving trade
fair exhibitors
wanting for
customers
like the one
on the
picture.
PHOTO BY DINO
BALABO
‘OPLAN KANDADO’ VS. ERRING BUSINESSMEN
BIR padlocks 4 establishments
BY ARMAND GALANG
CABANATUAN CITY –
Four business establishments here were padlocked by revenue officials
in the first wave of its drive
called Oplan Kandado
against erring businessmen, a ranking official said
over the weekend.
Atty. James Ferrer,
chief of the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR’s)
Revenue District Office 23B (South Nueva Ecija),
said that besides intensi-
fying tax campaign, the
Oplan Kandado also levels
the playing field in the
business sectors.
“It’s also a matter of
leveling the playing field
among businesses,” he
said. “This is to be fair with
businessmen who religiously pay taxes.”
BIR Central Luzon Director Romulo Aguila who
led the RDO 23-B team in
the Oplan Kandado, said
the office had to conduct
a series of surveillance operations against business-
es suspected of wrongdoings, including false declaration of taxes.
Among those padlocked in Cabanatuan City
were three branches of
Weng Enterprises registered under the name of
one Danilo Martinez and
MSQ Fair Plaza owned by
Madelaine Sanchez.
Aguila said notices
were sent to the owners of
the establishments prior to
the padlocking operations
but were reportedly ignored.
“Notices were sent for
the owners to explain,” he
said, after the BIR concluded that a certain establishment has declared
receipts which are short of
30 percent less than the
actual amount.
Ferrer said the padlocked businesses can
operate again only after the
owners have settled the
discrepancies.
The owners of the padlocked establishments
have yet to issue any
statements.
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • SEPTEMBER 8 - 9, 2009 • TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY
BY JOEY PAVIA
Patuloy na pabugso-bugsong ulan
nagdulot ng flash floods sa Bataan
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PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • SEPTEMBER 8 - 9, 2009 • TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY
Quarry losses
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THE QUARRY records from January to May 2009,
ranged against the same period in 2008, as
provided by the Provincial Treasurer’s Office:
January 2009: P15,060,000
January 2008: P21,345,000
Difference: Minus P6,285,000.
February 2009: P16,755,000
February 2008: P20,700,000
Difference: Minus P3,945,000.
March 2009: P18,000,000
March 2008: P16,245,000
Difference: Plus P1,755,000.
April 2009: P15,975,000
April 2008: P21,510,000
Difference: Minus P5,535,000.
May 2009: P16,170,000
May 2008: P17,115,000
Difference: Minus P945,000.
For the period covered, this year’s quarry
collections are short of P14,955,000 compared to
last year’s. A loss that is nearly equivalent to the
total collection for January 2009.
Ranged against the whopping P1 million daily
collection set on the very first month of the
administration of Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio, the current
collections are dismally shameful, to say the least.
Now, now, let not Panlilio again blame the rains,
the boundary dispute between Mabalacat and
Bamban, Tarlac and the end of the construction of
the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway as the causes
of the decrease in the quarry collections. Those
make pure irrationalization, even at their first
serving last year.
So what gives really in this continuing downslide
of the quarry collections?
Art Punzalan, chief of staff of Vice Governor
Joseller “Yeng” Guiao, tagged the failure of the
Panlilio administration “to conduct a time and
motion study” long requested by the Office of the
Vice Governor for it to undertake. Such study will
ensure a more efficient and systematic quarry
collection, Punzalan said.
To us kibitzers on the side, the miracle that was
the multiplication of the quarry income from the
Lapid’s P20,000 per day to Panlilio’s P1 million
daily is undergoing yet another miracle, one that
is of the malevolent kind.
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O p i n i o n
Discernment
acaesar.blogspot.com
Zona Libre
Bong Z. Lacson
THE OPERATIVE word among the presidentiables in this preelection season.
Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio went into a long period of discernment
and came out of it saying “God is telling me to run for the presidency.”
The opinion polls said otherwise: 0.4 percent acceptance is in
no way reflective of a voice from God. Hence, Panlilio – salvaging
whatever remained saveable in his reputation – gave way to Senator
Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III.
The reluctant Noynoy is now in turn into a spiritual retreat down
South to seek “discernment and spiritual guidance” as he considers
whether to run for president under the Liberal Party.
Not to be outdone, Vice President Noli de Castro, albeit still
remaining coyly undecided about his presidential ambitions, is doing
his own discernment.
Said Presidential Adviser for Political Affairs Gabriel Claudio:
“We’re hoping before the first half of this month that there would be
a clear resolution of what would be (De Castro’s) decision.”
Claudio added that Kabayan is “doing his own careful
consideration of the entire situation and we’re giving him time.”
Discernment being religious, nay, spiritual in
nature, it is valid to assume that Jesus is Lord
(JIL) chieftain Bro. Eddie Villanueva had had his
own discernment as he firmed up his decision to
run for president anew. I just don’t know if El
Shaddai’s Bro. Mike Velarde is still into it, having
not heard any definite statements from him.
Discernment. What is it really?
The basic dictionary definition is that it is a
faculty of the human mind to discriminate among
sets of options what is apprehensible, relevant or
worthwhile. Beyond that, I posted some research
on the term in my April 3, 2009 piece here titled
The omen, that warned of Panlilio’s run for the
presidency. Thus:
A quick referral to Scripture on discernment
leads to 1 Corinthians 12:7-11, to wit: “7Now to
each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given
for the common good. 8To one there is given
through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to
another the message of knowledge by means of
the same Spirit, 9to another faith by the same
Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit,
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to another miraculous powers, to another
prophecy, to another distinguishing between
spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of
tongues, and to still another the interpretation of
tongues. 11All these are the work of one and the
same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just
as he determines.”
Finding full complement there is Psalm
119:66, “Teach me knowledge and good
judgment.” Clearly indicative here, as an
evangelical group puts it, is discernment as “the
ability to make discriminating judgments, to
distinguish between, and recognize the moral
implications of, different situations and courses
of action. It includes, apparently, the ability to
“weigh up” and assess the moral and spiritual
status of individuals, groups and even
movements.”
Comes here St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder
of the Society of Jesus. Yeah, the order of the
Jesuits.
St. Ignatius became a master of spiritual
discernment, only after a long period of practice
and prayer, going through the temptations and
experiences of “movements” in his soul.
It is not just God that moves us in periods of
discernment. There could be Satan too, ever trying
to mislead us. And our own inner voices that can
work for interests other than God’s.
Hence, as a Catholic charismatic group posted:
“If we are concerned to do God’s will, then we are
only interested to discern whether God is the source
of the leading…We must work at discerning God’s
voice. Discernment is the art of knowing when it is
God acting upon or speaking to us, and when it is
not. This art can only be learned by trial and error.
The voices we experience are quite subtle, and
discernment requires us to become sensitive to
subtle differences between the different movements
upon our soul. Yet we will never recognize the
voice of God with absolute clarity, and anyone
who claims to hear God clearly and with
certainty should be avoided — they have not
even begun to know spiritual realities if they make
such a claim.”
Thus Panlilio declared: “God is calling me to
run for the presidency.”
Thus it came to pass: Panlilio getting 0.4
percent in the opinion survey of presidential
pretenders.
A lesson to those undergoing discernment:
“Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord,
thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him
guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord
in vain. (Exodus 20:7)
TODAY IN HISTORY
Star Trek premieres
ON SEPTEMBER 8, 1966, the
crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise
takes off on its mission to "boldly go where no man has gone
before," with the premiere of Star
Trek.
Although Star Trek ran for
only three years (starting in
1966) and never placed better
than No. 52 in the ratings, Gene
Roddenberry's series became a
cult classic and spawned four
television series and ten movies.
The first Star Trek spin-off
was a Saturday morning cartoon, The Animated Adventures
of Gene Roddenberry's Star
Trek, which ran from 1973 to
1975 (original cast members
supplied the voices). The TV
show Star Trek: The Next Generation first aired in 1987 and
was set in the 24th century, starring the crew of the new, larger
U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D,
captained by Jean-Luc Picard
(played by Patrick Stewart). This
series became the highest-rat-
ed syndicated drama on television and ran until 1994.
Another spin-off, Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine, premiered in
1992, featuring a 24th-century
crew that lived in a space station rather than a starship. Star
Trek: Voyager, which debuted in
1995 and ran until 2001, was the
first to feature a female captain,
Kathryn Janeway (played by
Kate Mulgrew). In this series,
the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager
is stranded more than 70,000
light years from Federation
space and is trying to find its
way home. The final spin-off to
air on TV was Enterprise, which
premiered in the United States
on September 26, 2001. The final two episodes of that show
aired in May 2005.
Meanwhile, the cast of the
original Star Trek voyaged onto
the big screen, starting with Star
Trek: The Motion Picture in
1979. The first film yielded disappointing returns at the box of-
fice, but its sequel, Star Trek II:
The Wrath of Khan, in 1982 was
more successful and ensured
more movies in the franchise.
Subsequent films included Star
Trek III: The Search for Spock;
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home;
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier;
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered
Country; Star Trek: Generations;
Star Trek: First Contact; Star
Trek: Insurrection; and Nemesis.
The Star Trek books have been
translated into more than 15 languages, and Star Trek conventions are held all over the United
States.
In 1992, the National Air and
Space Museum in Washington,
D.C., opened an exhibit honoring the original Star Trek television series. The exhibit featured
more than 80 costumes, props,
and models from the show, including Mr. Spock's pointy ears
and a replica of the deck of the
starship Enterprise.
Source: www.history.com
Kayamanan ng
mga kandidato
LAHAT AY nakatuon ang atensyon sa mga pulitikong kakandidato
sa pagkapangulo sa 2010 elections. Kaya naman ang isipan ng
bawat isa ay nakatuon sa kung sino ang nangunguna sa mga
survey, at kung sino ang magsasanib puwersa.
Iyan ang personality centered politics na siyang tinututukan ng
natioal media, sa halip na bigyang pansin ang iba pang
makahulugang bahagi ng buhay pulitika.
Puntong
Bulacan
Dino Balabo
Nakakabahala rin ang minsa’y naging pahayag ni Senador
Manuel Villar na tinaguariang “One Billion Peso Challenge” kung
saan ay sinabi niya na kung walang salaping may halagang P1-B
ang isang kandidato sa pagkapangulo ay hindi na dapat
kumandidato.
Para sa marami, partikular na hanay ng maralita at mga
mamamahayag, ang pahayag ni Villar ay isang palatandaan ng
pagiging arogante.
Ito ay dahil sa lumalabas na ang paglilingkod
bayan ay nalalayo na sa prinsipyo at kapakanan
ng mamamayan.
Para sa mga taong may paninindigan, malinaw
ang kuwalipikasyong itinakda ng Saligang Batas
sa sinumang nais maging pangulo ng bansa, at
hindi kasama doon ang pagkakaroon ng limpaklimpak na salapi.
Simple ang kuwalipikasyong itinakda ng
Saligang Batas sa mga kakandidato sa
pagkapangulo. Natural born citizen, literate, at
registered voter na nakatira sa bansa.
Tagalugin natin. Ipinanganak sa bansa,
marunong bumasa at sumulat at rehistradong
botante.
Kung tutuusin, kahit ikaw at ako ay maaring
kumandidato sa pagkapangulo kung ikaw at ako
ay nasasaklaw ng nasabing kuwalipikasyon.
Ngunit para naman sa Comelec, dalawa ang
uri ng kandidato. Yung tunay na kandidato na may
kakayahang magsagawa ng kampanya sa buong
bansa, at yung nuisance candidate na wala daw
kakayahang magsagawa ng kampanya dahil
walang sapat na pera at partidong tutulong.
Para naman sa mga mamamahayag, ang mga
katagang ‘nuisance candidates” ay oxymoron o
redundant o salitang inuulit, dahil ang lahat daw
ng kandidato ay “nuisance.”
Sa isang banda ay may punto ang pananaw
na karammihan kung hindi man lahat ng kandidato
ay nuisance. Kasi daw ay wala namang
plataporma at kung mayroon man, hindi naman
ginagawa kaya nakakainis.
Isa sa mga isyu na nakakalimutan ng mga
mamamahayag sa panahon ng kampanya sa
halalan ay ang kayamanan o self worth ng mga
kandidato partikular na yung matatagal na sa
larangan ng pulitika.
Mahalagang suriin ito upang malaman kung
saan sila kumukuha ng panggastos sa kampanya.
Batay sa tala na naipon ng Philippine Center
for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), patuloy ang
paglago ng kayamanan ng limang pangunahing
kandidato sa pagkapangulo, kung saan ang ilan
ay nagsimula bilang kongresista at kasalukuyang
senador.
Kapansin-pansin ang paglago ng kanilang
kayamanan dahil ang buwanang suweldo ng isang
kongresista at senador ay P35,000, samantalang
ang Pangulo ay P45,000 kada buwan, bukod pa
sa katotohanang mula huling bahagi ng dekada
90 ay naghihingalo ang ekonomiya sanhi ng krisis.
Narito ang tala ng PCIJ hinggil sa networth ng
mga kandidato batay sa kanilang statement of
assets, liabilities and networth (SALN).
Senador Manny Villar: P75.3-M (1992);
P324.4-M (1998); P405.5-M (2001); P921.3-M
(2007).
Senador Chiz Escudero: P2.5-M (1999); P6.5M (2005).
Senador Mar Roxas: P12.7-M (1993); P23.5M (P1995); P55.8-M (1998); P76.8-M (2002); P50M (2004); P140.3-M (2006).
Senador Loren Legarda: P103-M (1998);
P106.7-M (2001), P103.5-M (2003).
Vice President Noli De Castro: P23.6-M
(2000); P25.2-M (2001); P51.3-M (2004); P51.7M (2005)
Senador Richard Gordon: (P24.9-M (2005).
Kayo na po ang bahalang humatol sa mga
pulitikong nabanggit. Sana, kung papasyal sa
inyong lugar ang mga nasabing pulitiko ay
pakitanong ninyo sila kung paano lumago ang
kanilang kayamanan.
Tandaan natin, na ang mga tala na nabanggit
sa itaas ay batay sa kanilang SALN na kanilang
isinusumite bilang mga lingkod bayan.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in
adversity than in prosperity. –Chilo
Napaguusapan
lang
Ni Felix M. Garcia
Kabaligtaran
ne ning Tata
ing Anak?
KASEBIAN ding matua, nung nanu ya’ing impun
Yang maging bunga ning nanu mang pundutung;
Inia nung ing mangga mamunga yang Santul
Ninung sumabing e milagrung maragul?
Iti, king agia mang anti yang diparan
At king ugali na ampon karaptanan
Ning tau karin da pakibas keraklan,
Atin namang lalto a mipapakanian;
A binang maragul ing pamialiwa
Ning dapat ning anak kumpara king igpa;
Nung ing pengari na asne kaganaka,
Mekad mu, ing anak, maimut yang bagia..
O kaya nung asne kasampat a dapat
Ing tata, baligtad king asal ning anak:
At nung kapurian king matua itang igkas,
Katumbalas niti pawa namang pintas!
Antimo king bili nang GMA ngeni
A nu’ pawang puna karin, keta’t keni
Ing isyung kaya ra bubusbus parati,
Yan kang Apung Dadong misan mu miliari.
Iti kaugne na ning binie nang utus
King RCA, a nu’ mamesus na’ing salup
Ing punan ning abias, ta’na pepabugnus
King alaga namung otsenta sentimus!
Nanung pekibat na king simpa rang dalum
Ding e kapartidu’t maka-oposisyun?
“Bilang Presidente ‘ting kung obligasyun
Gawan ing nanu mang posibling solusyon;
A makakayap king kanakung balayan
Ngening ding memalen a sukat pagsilbian,
Akakit ko reting keng danup mangalgal
Pauli ning kalamidad a dinatang!”
Burian ku pa nganang king sukulan lungub
Kesa king lalon kong mamate king danup
Ding ka-Pilipinung mangailangan saup
Nung king aduan deti ala kung ayabut.
O nung maliari mo ngana pang sinabi
Yan karing memalen pamie ku nang libri;
Mupin iti masakit kung apaliari
Uli ning ala kung salaping sarili;
A ibayad kanian, agia mang burian ku
Ing pamie ku namu lalam kung gubyernu!
(A mangabaldugan ipamie nang pihu
Nung atin yang perang anti kang Arroyo? )
Ken la maragul a pamialiwa mekad
Ding mi-tata nung surian ta’lang banayad
King kabilian deti’t pamirapat-dapat
Agpang king malino tamung asasanak!
Y Apung Dadong e ya meging kabalitan
Karas keng korapsyon o kaya pikualtan,
Pero ining anak e ta’ balung sabian
Nung baket asna pu yata king karakal?
Ing mialiwang isyu a nu’ kulang namu
Mabilug a yatu lubus da ngang balu;
Ninung maniwalang minapun ya rugu
Ginastus yang milyun? Pero iti tutu!
(Atin yang kasuglung)
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • SEPTEMBER 8 - 9, 2009 • TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY
Editorial
5
Jennylyn Mercado umayaw na sa GMA 7
Lapid to run for governor
by the Ombudsman in
similar case filed earlier
against him. “We (he and
son) did no one harm. We
just wanted to be left alone
serving the people,” he
added.
Reacting to Lapid’s
announcement, Panlilio
said “it’s a welcome move.
He has all the rights to
seek a return to governorship.”
But Panlilio also vowed
to pursue the plunder
charges he filed earlier this
year against Lapid and his
son Mark who had been
Pampanga governor from
2004 to 2007. The charges were based on allegations that they enriched
themselves from the provincial government’s lahar
quarrying operations.
“I will definitely pursue
the case either as a public official or a private citizen,” Panlilio vowed.
Lapid introduced his
running mate as her “leading lady in politics”. Dizon,
daughter of a prominent
family in local real estate,
took up business management in the Universidad de Europeo and
marketing in the University of Barcelona.
Lapid’s press conference initially turned out to
be one for his forthcoming
movie, together with movie actors Ronnie Rickets
and director Baldo Maro,
even as local media who
were told to proceed to the
restaurant venue here as
‘Banana Island’ triggers mudslide
FROM PAGE 1
and motorists going up
north and coming down
toward the Nueva Ecija
area were stranded starting 2:00 p.m. Monday. A
land of the highway was
cleared about 1:00 a.m.
Tuesday and the vehicles
were allowed to pass by
turns.
Last August 7, thousands of motor vehicles
and passengers were
stranded in the same area
due to the massive landslide due to rains triggered
by Typhoon Kiko. Police
reports said the landslide
then stalled vehicle for 32
hours in an eight-kilometer stretch going up north
and about the same
stretch on the other side
coming down to Nueva
Ecija.
The recurrence of succeeding mudslides is not
yet discounted because of
the problem caused by the
“Banana Island”. Authorities said another heavy
rain will surely trigger another mudslide and closing of traffic.
Just what is “Banana
Island”.
Engr. Ramiro Cruz,
chief of the second engineering district of the Department of Public Works
and Highways (DPWH) in
Nueva Ecija, said the island is a breach in a portion of the mountain where
mud, debris and water collect.
It is shaped like a giant banana fruit and impounds from 40,000 to
50,000 metric tons of debris. Whenever heavy
rains come, big volumes of
the debris are washed
down on the highway.
“It’s on the mountain in
Barangay Putlan overlooking the highway,” Cruz
said. “That area is really
our big problem when
there is rain,” he said.
The debris that is
washed down had to be
moved down to the river
bank which abuts the other side of the highway. It
takes several hours before
the debris can be cleared
by several pieces of heavy
equipment.
The landslide area is
barely 15 kilometers from
Dalton Pass which is at
the boundary of Nueva
Ecija and Nueva Vizcaya.
Cruz said the “Banana
Island” is provided with a
stone masonry at its tip
near the highway to prevent continuous mudflow.
The problem occurs when
the island is already brimming with debris and rainwater.
“We will have to remove
the debris up there in the
mountain. We will do this
as soon as we fixed the
highway of its current
problem,” Cruz said.
He said it will be a tedious job and will require
weeks and good weather
conditions to do it.
Cruz said the problem
in Barangay Puncan
could be traced to the big
earthquake in 1990. The
mountain area, he said,
was shaken causing the
soil and the rocks to be
loose.
“Parang itinahip ng lindol iyong bundok doon
(The earthquake shook to
and fro the mountain up
there),” Cruz said.
Info blitz promoting Clark Airport...
PUNTO! CENTRAL LUZON • SEPTEMBER 8 - 9, 2009 • TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY
FROM PAGE 1
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marked “Para sa Inyo, ang
Airport na ito”, a declaration that summarized the
essence of the Hong Kong
event referred to as “roadshow” by its organizers.
“I should have known
about the Clark airport earlier. I can imagine the trouble I and my family could
have been spared had we
used the airport instead of
traveling all the way
through the traffic in Manila every time I go home
and every time I fly back
here,” said Aileen de la
Cruz, 32, of Tarlac City, a
DH in Hong Kong and a
Sunday volunteer at the
center.
De la Cruz is one of
about 130,000 OFWs in
Hong Kong, most of them
with families living in the
four regions of North Luzon. Most of them are DH
whose “minimum allowable wage” is HK$3,580.
In pesos, this can be
multiplied by about 6.20
under current rates.
CIAC executives, led
by its president and chief
executive officer Victor
Jose Luciano, had briefed
her and other OFW’s on
what’s happening at the
DMIA and what’s in store
for them: the DMIA lies in
the heart of Central Luzon,
making it the most viable
and convenient airport of
choice for travelers for folk
anywhere north of Metro
Manila whose traffic has
thus become dispensable.
This, he said, means travel convenience and less
dent on finances whenever OFW’s, welcoming or
well-wishing relatives in
tow, fly in or fly out.
Among bus lines with
routes to DMIA are Partas,
Philtranco and Genesis.
Soon, Victory Liner will join
their ranks, he said. Taxis, too, are available.
Noting many of the
OFWs before him had not
gone home for years, Luciano also cited the completion last year of the
Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX) as another convenience factor
in considering the DMIA.
But a major factor that
should lure OFWs, noted
Luciano, is that several
“budget carriers” fly international at Clark: Air Asia
of Malaysia, Tiger Airways
of Singapore, and local airline Cebu Pacific and, by
Sept. 31, Zest Air. Cebu
Pacific has connecting
flights to other parts of the
country such as Cebu and
Davao.
“The DMIA is only one
and a half to four hours flying time from most major
Asian cities and, by land,
less than an hour away
from Metro Manila and
Subic Bay Freeport,” he
said.
Luciano was joined in
the Hong Kong mission
by CIAC chairman Nestor
Mangio, CIAC consultant
former Tourism Secretary
Mina Gabor, Subic Bay
Metropolitan Authority
(SBMA) vice president
Raul Marcelo, Hotel and
Resorts of Pampanga Association president Marc
Nepomuceno, and Clark
Development Corp. tourism officer Noemi Garcia.
After the meeting with
the OFWs, the CIAC team
dressed up more formally
the following day for a
meeting with 50 executives of travel agencies
“travel media professionals” in Hong Kong, on the
42nd hotel floor of the Langham Place in Mong Kok.
“The DMIA international roadshow is initially focused on promoting greater awareness of DMIA as
practical point of departure
and arrival of OFWs deployed in that country, as
well as a convenient gateway of travelers from South
China to the business and
leisure destinations in
Central Luzon, specifically inside the Clark and
Subic freeport zones,” Luciano said.
Gabor noted that while
the world still has to fully
recover from the global financial crisis, “there is
reason to think positively
mostly in terms of short
haul tourism”.
“There remains much
space for tourism in the
Philippines despite the global crisis, because there
are many areas such as
medical and other such
forms of tourism whose
potential still has to be
maximized,” she said.
Philippine Consul General Claro Cristobal that
tourists from Hong Kong
have risen in number to
become the 5 th largest
number of tourists in the
Philippines.
“Hong Kong can be persuaded to rediscover the
Philippines,” he said, noting historical ties between
the Chinese autonomous
region and the Philippines,
principal among which
were the national hero Dr.
Jose Rizal’s practice of
medicine in the then crown
colony, and the design and
sewing of the Philippine tricolor.
Luciano expressed
confidence that DMIA
whose airport passengers
numbered only 7,000 four
years ago, expects to process no less than
750,000 passengers this
year.
Past CIAC’s first international roadshow, Hong
Kong OFWs, as well as
tourists, are expected to
help realize this.
–Ding Cervantes
early a 9 a.m. awaited for
Lapid’s political declaration. By noon, however,
movie reporters were still
tackling Lapid’s movie
project.
“This presages another possible Lapid administration based on script
and acting,” said one of
the local journalists who
asked not to be quoted.
Asked what his most
notable achievement in
the Senate was, Lapid cit-
ed a law which he co-authored, providing free legal
assistance to the poor.
Lapid also said that his
son Mark has no political
plans for next year’s elections and seemed “content” with his present post
as head of the newly
formed Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone
Authority, formerly the
Philippine Tourist Authority (PTA) which has a fixed
term of six years.
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
REGIONAL TRIAL COURT
THIRD JUDICIAL REGION
BRANCH 55
MACABEBE, PAMPANGA
The
Gossipmiller
ABANGAN NATIN kung mapapangatawanan ng Siyete ang ‘di umano’y pangako nito kay Jennylyn na alagaan nila ito as far as project
is concerned kahit na hindi na ito muling pumirma ng kontrata sa kanila.
As it is, wala ng kontrata si Jennylyn Mercado sa GMA Artist Center, pero hindi na ito nag-renew ulit.
Nilinaw ng manager ni Jen na as long na hindi napapabayaan ng GMA ang alaga ay mananatili itong Kapuso. Ipinagtapat ni Becky
Aguila, manager ng actress, na nakipag-partner siya kay Viva Boss Vic del Rosario sa pagma-manage sa career ni Jen.
“Pero sa TV project, ako pa rin. But, when it comes to her singing career, movies, recording or commercial, concert, partner na kami
ng Viva,” pahayag ni Becky.
Dalawang albums at dalawang pelikula in two years ang nakatakdang pirmahan ni Jen sa Viva Films. Naniniwala si Becky na hindi
magkakaroon ng conflict sa Siyete, particularly kay Wilma Galvante, ang hindi nila pagre-renew ng kontrata dahil kinausap at ipinaalam
daw nila kay SVP for Entertainment Madam Wilma ang pagpirma ng kontrata sa Viva as co-manager ng actress. At hindi kami
mabibigla kung ilipat ni Becky ang alaga sa Dos kapag hindi na nasundan ang project ni Jen sa Siyete.
Pero may hidden hitch ang kalagayan ngayon ni Bercky Aguila as far as sa naging co-manager nila ng Viva kay Jennylyn Mercado.
Open secret na kasi yung hindi na naman talaga nakikialam si Becky sa career ni Jen, at itong pagpirma sa Viva ay si Jen ang may
gusto. Kumbaga, nagpatangay lang naman sa agos si Becky for delicadeza. Hindi naman kasi magandang tingnan na parang nilayasan
na siya ng alaga. Para sa kaalaman ng marami, kaunting komisyon na lang ang tanging nagdidikit kina Jen at Becky. Matagal na sila
sa ganitong sitwasyon, at itong Viva ek na ito ay isang palabas na lang. Before we know it, solo na ng Viva Films ang pag-aalaga kay
Jennylyn Mercado.
by Cesar Pambid
IN RE: PETITION FOR CANCELLATION AND
OR CORRECTION OF ENTRY IN THE BIRTH
CERTIFICATES OF AIRRA CHAY MACANAS
MACAPAGAL,
IAN
BON
MACANAS
MACAPAGAL, JEFFERSON MACANAS
MACAPAGAL, JR., JOHN JAICEN MACANAS
MACAPAGAL and MAYNARD M. MACAPAGAL,
respectively.
SPOUSES JEFFERSON M. MACAPAGAL
and MAY ROSE M. MACAPAGAL,
Petitioners
-versus-
SPECIAL PROCEEDING NO. 09-0658(M)
THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF
APALIT, PAMPANGA, NATIONAL STATISTICS
OFFICE (NSO), SOLICITOR GENERAL, CIVIL
REGISTRAR GENERAL,
AIRRA CHAY MACANAS MACAPAGAL, IAN
BON MACANAS MACAPAGAL, JEFFERSON
MACANAS MACAPAGAL, JR., JOHN JAICEN
MACANAS MACAPAGAL and MAYNARD M.
MACAPAGAL, all minors,
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MA. JOSEPHINE M. ROSARIO-MERCADO
Judge
Punto! Central Luzon: August 25, September 1 & 8, 2009
ABANGAN NA LANG po natin ang pagtatalak ng mag-amang Jun at Jolina Magdangal ngayong unti-unti pero
sigurado, Jolina is being eased out of GMA 7. Pinakahuling bulungan sa biz na ayaw na ng GMA 7 kay Jolina
kaya una na itong sinibak sa Unang Hirit at ngayon nga ay sinibak na rin ito sa StarStruck.
Bakit nga ba nawala si Jolina Magdangal bilang host sa StarStruck V at si Carla Abellana ang ipinalit sa
kanya ng GMA7?Hindi lang sa StarStruck natsugi si Jolens. Sa Unang Hirit ay hindi rin siya nakabalik. Si
Sunshine Dizon ang nag-take over on her place. Ang nag-iisang show na lang ni Jolens ay Adik Sa ‘Yo na
malapit na ring matapos.
Walang kaalam-alam si Jolina na out na siya as host ng StarStruck V. Nalaman na lang ng kanyang ama ,
na tumatayong manager niya, ang lahat nang magtanong ito kung kelan uumpisahan ang teaser ng reality show.
“Bakit? Ano’ng naging pagkakamali ko? I’m deeply hurt,” ani Jolina sa online net na www.stir.ph.
Na-shock daw siya at may pagtatanong pang bakit siya lang ang nawala, ang kanyang co-host na si Dingdong Dantes ay nanatili. Pagtatapos ni Jolens sa online net: “Professionalism and talent are no longer tickets to
a successful showbiz career.”
Sa nangyaring ito, ano kaya ang move ng daddy ni Jolina para sa career ng anak na sa aming pagkakaalam
ay talent pa rin ng GMA7?
Ano pa, di as usual, tatalak siya?
Career path ni Jake Cuenca binago nina Gerald at Kim
SENON PUNZALAN MACAPAGAL
(deceased),
ELENA MANDAT MACAPAGAL
(deceased),
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN,
Respondents.
x——————————————————————x
ORDER
On August 7, 2009, this court received the petitioners’ verified
amended petition dated July 30, 2009 praying that respondents Local
Civil Registrar of Apalit, Pampanga, and Civil Registrar General, National
Statistics Office, Quezon City, be ordered to correct (a) the entries under
(i) Item No. 3 under “Date of Birth” from “3 July 1966” to “July 3, 1996;”
and (ii) Item No. 18 under “Date and Place of Marriage of Parents” from
“September 9, 1995 Cabanatuan City” to “Not married” appearing in the
Certificate of Live Birth of Airra Chay Macanas Macapagal; (b) Item
No. 18 under “Date and Place of Marriage of Parents” from “September
9, 1995 Cabanatuan City” to “ Not married” appearing in the Certificate
of Live Birth of Ian Bon Macanas Macapagal; (c) Item No. 18 under
“Date and Place of Marriage of Parents” from “September 9, 1995
Nueva Ecija” to “Not married” appearing in the Certificate of Live Birth
of Jefferson Macanas Macapagal, Jr.; (d) Item No. 18 under “Date and
Place of Marriage of Parents” from “September 9, 1995 Nueva Ecija” to
“Not married” appearing in the Certificate of Live Birth of John Jaicen
Macanas Macapagal; and (e) Item No. 18 under “Date and Place of
Marriage of Parents” from “September 9, 1995 Nueva Ecija” to “Not
married” appearing in the Certificate of Live Birth of Jefferson Maynard
M. Macapagal, all on file in said offices.
Finding the amended petition to be sufficient in form and substance,
this court hereby (a) sets this case for hearing on the amended petition
on November 3, 2009 at 11:00 in the morning at the Session Hall
of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 55, Macabebe, Pampanga;
(b) orders the petitioners (i) to cause the publication of this Order once
a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in an accredited newspaper of
general circulation in the province of Pampanga at their own expense;
(ii) to serve within twenty-four (24) hours from receipt of this Order,
copies of the amended petition and its annexes to the Office of the
Solicitor General of the Philippines, the office of the Provincial Prosecutor
of Pampanga, City of San Fernando, Pampanga, the Local Civil Registrar
of Apalit, Pampanga, and the civil Registrar General of the Philippines;
and (iii) to show proof of said service to this court on said date and time
of hearing; (c) orders herein respondents to file their respective comments
on the amended petition within fifteen (15) days from receipt of this
Order; (d) orders all persons interested in the amended petition to
appear before this court on said date and time of hearing and to show
cause, if any, why the amended petition should not be granted; (e)
orders this court’s OIC – Branch Clerk of Court to furnish copies of this
Order to the petitioners, their counsel, the respondents, the Office of the
Solicitor General, the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor of Pampanga,
the Local Civil Registrar of Apalit, Pampanga, the Civil Registrar General
of the Philippines, and the Office of the Clerk of Court, Regional Trial
Court , Macabebe, Pampanga; and (f) directs the office of the Solicitor
General to enter its appearance in this proceedings within twenty-four
(24)hours from receipt of this Order.
SO ORDERED.
Macabebe, Pampanga, August 11, 2009.
Jolina Magdangal inaayawan na ng GMA 7
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ILANG TULOG na lang, magwawakas na ang
paborito naming teleserye sa Dos, ang Tayong Dalawa.
Aminado si Jake Cuenca na maraming pagbabago ang nangyari sa buhay
niya mula nang gumanap siya bilang
Dave na ka-love triangle nina Gerald
Anderson (JR) at Kim Chui (Audrey).
Bukod sa kanyang hectic schedule,
‘di hamak na mas maraming nakakakilala na ngayon sa aktor.
“Dati kasi ‘pag namamasyal ako sa mall,
walang pumapansin sa akin. Ni walang bumabati,” naka-ngiting kuwento niya.
Dumaan
kami sa photo shoot ni Jake at doon namin siya
nakausap. At doon ay nasaksihan namin kung
pa-ano siya pagkaguluhan ng fans ngayon.
In fairness sa aktor, hindi siya maramot
sa fans. Ito ang gusto namin sa kanya
eversince, warm siya.
Mararamdaman mo na gusto niya talaga ang kanyang pag-aasikaso sa fans.
“Sa ngayon, talagang sobrang
blessed ako. kaya nagpapasalamat
ako sa Diyos, sa ABS-CBN at sa
la-hat ng supporters ko. Pero ngayon
ang pinuproblema ko talaga ay ‘yong
acting eh, ‘yong demands ng show
for acting. Lahat ng atensyon ko, ibinubuhos ko sa last 15 days ng show,
saka confident kami na ‘yong ending
namin will cater to everyone,” sabi pa
ni Jake.
Teka, ano ba ang mang-yayari kay
Jake sa katapusan ng kuwento ng
Tayong Dalawa?
“Basta, it’s an ending that will
cater to everyone. Panoorin n’yo na
lang”
Kahit hindi pa tapos ang
Tayong Dalawa, heto at malapit na
ring simulan ni Jake ang Ruby, Pinoy version ng hit na Mexican telenovela five years ago, at gaganap siya bilang si Alejandro, ang
lalaking mapupusuan ni Ruby.
Hindi lamang sa ABS-CBN
nagpapasalamat si Jake. Maging
sa GMA7 ay hindi siya nakalilimot.
Aniya, nagkita raw
sila kamakailan ng ilang executives ng
Kapuso sa premiere ng Pangarap
Kong Jackpot na
produced ng magasa-wang Direk
Carlo J. Capa-ras at
Donna Villa, kung
saan bida siya, at
malugod daw siyang binati ng mga
ito sa tagumpay
na tinatamasa
niya ngayon sa
kabilang network.
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Lapid called for a press
conference to announce
his bid for the gubernatorial post he filled for three
terms from 1995 to 2004,
accompanied by Lea Dizon whom he introduced
as his vice gubernatorial
running mate. Both of
them are natives of Porac
town which is within Pres.
Arroyo’s second district.
While he could still run
for a last term as senator,
Lapid said he has realized
he felt “more comfortable
being closer to the people”.
“The senate is for legislation and there are good
lawyers there. I am just a
high school graduate,” he
said in a press conference
he held in Tagalog.
Lapid said he expected to be named as the official gubernatorial candidate of Lakas-CMD as he
expressed doubts that his
party could unite with the
Kabalikat ng Mamamayang Pilipino (Kampi) at the
local level. “I am the most
senior Lakas member in
the province,” he noted.
Panlilio and Vice Gov.
Joseller Guiao had filed
separate charges of plunder against the Lapids on
allegations they pocketed
funds from lahar quarry
operations in Pampanga.
Lapid appealed to the
media to refrain from bringing out the so-called quarry scam issue. He said he
had already been absolved
Jennylyn Mercado
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The Lakeshore: A herald of
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Pampanga’s real estate potentials
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DESCRIBE IT as indomitable or resilient. But, no matter what
adjective you use, the Kapampangan’s ability to find opportunities in the face of great adversity and deep despair is a trait
that other races could envy.
Such character was proven time and again after Pampanga, with all the fury of Mt. Pinatubo dumped over it, survived
economic slump brought about by the calamity and breezed
forward into becoming a force to reckon with in terms of economic competitiveness.
That is the same spirit that, even after property buyers
have listed the province in the bottom-half of their “where-to”
line-up in looking for the next best place to build their dream
homes, propelled the real estate industry of Pampanga into
becoming a sunrise industry.
A testament of that never-say-die attitude is Architect Nestor
S. Mangio and his team who, instead of dropping their hands
down in helplessness, became development visionaries who
would not just allow Pampanga to go from a progressive province to a virtual no man’s land.
In September 2000, Mangio and his group that established
the Central Country Estate, Inc. (CCEI), broke ground for the
Lakeshore Estate along Kilometer 71 of the North Luzon Expressway in Mexico, Pampanga—a move that, at first, raised
brows and drew one too many discouraging words.
For, indeed, who would have thought that development
would be possible in unproductive lands that idle at the shoulder of the NLEx and in a province that is still reeling from a
natural catastrophe? But the CCEI people knew with their hearts
Pampanga is up for something big and that after being mired
too low it has nowhere else to go but up.
The Lakeshore Estate was destined to prove a point—that
the real estate industry in Pampanga is really a sleeping giant
awaiting its time to wake up and cause a resounding ripple
effect in the province’s economy. Within the first year after its
official, there was no stopping the estate into becoming an
epicentre of growth for Pampanga and, eventually, of the entire region.
Rapid development of the Lakeshore Phase I commenced,
giving birth villages that offered breathtaking sceneries of the
Lakeshore man-made lake which was launched the following
year.
Such physical development in the Lakeshore practically
transformed it into a landmark that offers breathtaking scenery for those passing through the NLEx; it also elevated Pampanga’s prominence in the housing and real estate industry,
wooing other developers to open shop and to take their shares
in the growing market of property-buyers booking their next
trip to the province.
The Lakeshore became the stimulus that ignited a lucrative industry and revived Pampanga’s ailing economy. Investments, that generated thousands of jobs and brought in the
needed revenues for the government, poured in as a result of
the economic spin-off, among these was the Petron Toll Service Facility that is now home to several restaurants and refuelling station to provide a comfortable stopover for travellers
along the NLEx.
In effect, every step that The Lakeshore takes is geared
towards fulfilling its corporate social responsibility rather than
just fostering its own business interests.
This year, The Lakeshore will yet again add another feather on its cap with the launching of its Business Park or “Biz
Park.”
Service and leisure-oriented businesses such as BPOs,
restaurants, hotels and specialty shops will find the invigorating synergy of wide open spaces, outstanding amenities and
natural environments a boon for their day-to-day operations.
The Lakeshore Biz Park is a rare hybrid that captures the true
essentials of the ideal business location: it filters out the noise
and confusion of urban congestion; ushers in the peace and
old-world charm of the countryside and infuses 21st century
cutting edge technology in an exclusive, elegant and secured
business community. It is a one-of-a-kind versatile environment where people can work, live and play with matchless
ease and convenience.
The Lakeshore Biz Park is envisioned as a mixed use ecofriendly environment ensconced in the world-class lakeside
community. Your prime office space is enhanced by wide avenues and exclusive parking spaces, tree-lined sidewalks dotted with islands of greenery and wrapped in sweeping panoramic views of open sky, soothing waters and mountain-bordered fields. Rest and recreational options include sailing,
boating, racquet sports, biking, jogging, basketball and golf—
all within easy strolling distance from your workspace. Businessmen can optimize their precious time and energy by opting to live in modern condominiums integrated within the business park.
Directly adjacent to the modernized NLEx, the Biz Park is
less than an hour from Metro Manila and a few minutes away
from local and international gateways: the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in Clark and the world-renowned port
facilities of Subic.
Made in time for the 9th anniversary of The Lakeshore, the
Biz Park is designed to host more investment to beef up the
employment percentage of communities around the estate
and bring in taxes to government coffers.