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Month: January 2010
Habang sinasakay sa police car si Jason Ivler, ang matagal nang hinahanap na suspek sa pagpatay sa dalawang tao, sabi ng isang pulis na halatang galit, “Maraming pinerwisyo ang taong ito.”
Talaga naman. Malaking dalamhati ang idinulot ni Ivler sa pamilya ni Renato Victor Ebarle, Jr., anak ni Undersecretary Ebarle sa Office of the President na kanyang walang pakundangang binaril noong Nobyembre. Noong 2004, napatay niya si Undersecretary Nestor Ponce, presidential assistant, sa isang banggaan ng sasakyan. Hindi niya napanagutan ang kanyang kasalanan kay Pnce dahil nagtago siya.
Malaki rin ang perwisyo ang idinulot niya kay Jason Aguilar, na magtatrabaho sana sa Qatar ngunit napagkamalan ng mga awtoridad ng Qatar na si Ivler. Bahagi kasi pagtutulungan ng international police ang pagtutugis ng pugante.
Kawawa naman si Jason Aguilar na nagkautang-utang para lamang maka-punta sa Qatar para mag-trabaho. Pagdating nya doon noong isang buwan, kunulong siya dahil napagkamalan na siya si Ivler. Isang linggo siya sa kulungan.
Biruin mo makulong ka sa isang lugar na ngayon mo lang narating.Walang lang kamag-anak at hindi mo pa alam ang salita. Napaka-traumatic yun.
(We still have to see the report but it looks like the senators concluded the issue was ethics, not graft.)
Click here for the report: http://www.senate.gov.ph/lisdata/1341811858!.pdf
By Christine Avendaño
Philippine Daily Inquirer
A draft report by the Senate committee of the whole is seeking the censure of Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. after finding him to have engaged in improper and unethical conduct in connection with the C-5 road extension project.
The report, which an official of a political party furnished the Philippine Daily Inquirer, said Villar’s involvement in the C-5 project in Parañaque and Las Piñas cities “made the Filipino suffer the total amount of P6.22 billion.”
The committee demanded the money’s return.
The money came from the realigned P4.28 billion for the extension project, the P1.8 billion spent for the original project but which was wasted due to the realignment, and the P141.1 million in overpriced right-of-way payments for Villar’s real estate companies.
On Friday, the Cervical Cancer Prevention Network or CECAP will once again give recognition to outstanding projects designed to make cervical cancer a thing of the past.
It will be the third year that awards for best practices in cervical cancer prevention will be given. But unlike last year which was just a forum, Friday’s activity will be a whole-day event. There will be a conference of experts and advocates, exhibits and a mobile clinic to be held at the Philippine General Hospital on Taft Avenue.
There are plans to have the mobile clinic inaugurated on Thursday.
CECAP is an alliance of organizations from the private and public sectors committed to eliminate cancer in the country. It is one of the projects of the Cancer Institute Foundation (CIF), a non-profit, non-stock foundation that provides support to the PGH Cancer Institute and its other accredited cancer management network institutions.
Mabuti naman at naisama ang Ang Ladlad, ang grupo na magtatanggol ng karapatan ng isang tao laban sa diskriminasyun dahil sa kanyang kasarian o gender, sa listahan ng partylist groups na mapagpilian ng mga botante sa nalalapit na eleksyun sa Mayo.
Umabot sa 144 ang listahan ng mga partylist groups na maaring pagpilian ng mga botante na magiging kinatawan ng mga sinasabi nating marginalized sector o bahagi ng ating lipunan na hindi nabigyan ng sapat na oportunidad para umunlad.
Hindi ko nakita sa listahan ang Magdalo, ng mga makabayang sundalo na kasamahan ni Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV. Ito ang isang pagkakamali ng Comelec na kailangan pa iwasto.
My friend Jun Campillo invited me to the Presidential Policy Forum sponsored by the Carlos P. Romulo Foundation of which he is one of the main movers, and I am glad I went. There is a difference between watching a forum on television, no matter if live, as against being right there where it unfolds.
The forum, held at the AIM Conference Center, was mainly focused on the country’s external relations and international competitiveness, which are the primary concerns of the policy center named after one of our history’s top diplomats, and is ably presided over by his son, himself a seasoned diplomat, former ambassador and foreign minister Bobby Romulo.
Only three of the five major presidentiables went to yesterday’s jam-packed forum – Gilbert Teodoro, Dick Gordon and Manny Villar. The audience was pretty distinguished, with foreign diplomats and heads of multinational agencies, foreign trade chambers, credible business community leaders, media, and even a former president, Fidel V. Ramos. Erap probably dodged the forum wisely. That crowd would not have warmed up to him, nor he to them. But Noynoy should have been around. Most in the audience empathize with him and Mar. His absence became more felt when FVR asked the obvious when he stood up to ask the last question – “Where are the others?”
By Nancy C. Carvajal, Marinel Cruz
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Show biz celebrity Kris Aquino confronted a female fan of her husband, basketball star James Yap, shouting insults at the woman and her mother just outside their upscale Pasig City residence late Wednesday, the Inquirer learned Thursday.
The popular TV host and movie actress spent about 10 minutes at the gate of the Valle Verde 2 home of Mayen Austria, 35, according to Austria’s uncle, Gabby Lopez (no relation to the ABS-CBN chair).
Lopez said he was at the Austria residence and that the family was entertaining guests—including Legazpi City Bishop Joel Baylon—when Aquino arrived.
by Andreo Calonzo, GMANews.TV
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Thursday approved the candidacies of environmentalist Nicanor Perlas and detained former Army general Danilo Lim, reversing an earlier decision excluding the two from the official list of candidates in the May 10 national elections.
Through Resolution 8743, the Comelec en banc announced that presidential aspirant Perlas and Liberal Party senatorial bet Lim have been included in the final list of candidates for the elections.
Perlas’ entry in the presidential rase raises the number of candidates vying for the highest electoral post in May to nine.
Pinadala sa akin ng isang pasahero ng Cebu Pacific ang kopya ng kanyang sulat sa Customer Service ng Cebu Pacific na naglalahad ng kanyang kalbaryo dahil sa kanyang maleta. Humihingi siya ng tulong na matapos na ang kanyang pagdurusa sa Cebu Pacific. Ito ang kanyang sulat:
Tatagalugin ko nalang ang sulat kong ito para naman malinaw at mag kaintindihan tayong lahat!
Ako ay si Christopher Raymund Saavedra Caballero,nakatira sa 1639-F.Maria Orosa st.Malate, Manila cel. 09165768164/09215758816/09222942257.
Naging pasahero ako ng Cebu Pacific last december 29 papuntang cotabato city at bumalik naman ako from Cotabato City to Manila ng Dec.31 2009.
Kaya ako nag- email sa inyo dahil yung maleta ko,may nakalagay na na “ fragile” at may naka dikit pang sticker galing ng Cotabato City na walang damage ang maleta ko.Kaso nang pag dating namin sa airport sa Ninoy Aquino International Airport ay may bitak na yung maleta ko at maraming gasgas na!
by Mylah Reyes Roque VERA Files Their husbands were close friends but their wives did not know one another. The Ampatuan massacre changed that. When…