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VOL. XXV NO. 030 SUNDAY JANUARY 20, 2013 P10.00 IN TACLOBAN
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FEEDING PROGRAM . Mrs Yedda Marie Romualdez (2nd right) (wife of Leyte 1st dist. Rep.Ferdinand Martin FM
Romualdez) assisted by son Marty (right) distributes nutritious porridge with chicken and egg to more than 800 children
during a feeding program at Barangay Cogon Palo Leyte yesterday. PHOTO BY VER S. NOVENO
We have been implementing the irst comeirst serve basis. here will be no special treat-ment. Everybody should line up even City Hallemployees, Cordao told reporters.
Section 90 o Ordinance 99-58 or the 1999Revenue Code o the City o acloban, ordersbusinessmen to renew permits and licenses dur-ing the irst 20 days o January. here was no
extension provided by the ordinance, she said.
T A C L O B A NCITYWell-knownpolitical prisonerand cultural workerEricson Acosta hasbeen released or themeantime rom Sa-mar sub-provincialjail in Calbayog City
aer a Samar trialcourt granted histemporary release.
Presiding Judge Fe-liciano Aguilar o theRegional rial Court,Branch 41 o CalbayogCity, granted Chie Pub-lic Attorney Persida Rue-da Acostas motion orhumanitarian reasonsor Acosta to be allowedtreatment at the special-ist kidney hospital.
Te court cited in itsorder Tursday, Jan. 17,the medical certicationo Dr. Erwin Ere, onthe urgency o the checkup and treatment at thesaid hospital owing to itscomplete acilities or bi-opsy and treatment.
In her maniestationcum compliance, Acostasaid there is an urgentneed or the 40- year oldpolitical prisoner to betreated owing to his kid-ney ailment.
Samar political detainee
gets temporary freedomBY REYAN ARINTO,Staff Writer
ACLOBAN CIY he City reasurerOice(CO) said that there will be no exten-sion o January 20, 2013 deadline or renewal obusiness permits and licenses, saying there wasenough time given to taxpayers to do such trans-actions.
City treasurer Zosima Cordao said that theKanhuraw Business Center is open this weekend
to accommodate renewals rom 15,000 businessoperators.
CTO: No deadline extensionor business permit renewal
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Unity Walk and
Prayer Rally or
SAFE 2013 to be
held today
DENR, DepEd to
orge agreement
on use o trees
afected by road
project
Road concret-
ing project in
Kananga town
commences
Davao eyed
or abaca
expansion
Ormoc mayor
lauds GIZ
for support to
city projects
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2 Leyte Samar Daily Express NEWS Sunday, 20 January 2013
CAMP KANGLEON,Palo, Leyte In yet an-other eort to ensure apeaceul conduct o the
midterm polls, the PoliceRegional O ce 8 (PRO8)will spearhead an earlymorning unity walk inacloban City today, Sun-day, January 20, to high-light the governmentscampaign or a secureand air election on May13.
op government o-cials to be led by PoliceChie SuperintendentElmer Ragadio Soria, Re-gional Director o PRO8,Commission on Elections
regional director JoseNick Mendros, Interiorand Local Governmentregional director PedroNoval, Jr. will be joinedby heads o other govern-ment agencies and theiremployees, religious lead-ers, political party lead-ers, military, students,academe, civic groups,election watchdogs andother election stakehold-ers in a massive UnityWalk and Prayer Rally orSAFE 2013 in a show o
ull support in attaining asecure and air elections.
While PRO8 is cur-rently implementing ag-gressive police operationstargeting partisan armedgroups and loose re-arms, there is a great need
to seek Divine intervention,guidance and grace to en-sure a secure and air elec-tions, Soria said.
Te activity will comein the heels o the success-ul peace covenant signingin Samar last January 13 inCalbayog City with DILGSecretary Mar Roxas pre-siding that garnered sup-port rom the church andother election stakeholdersand signed by local can-didates seeking or dier-ent congressional and localelective posts.
Te top police o cialadded that activity will beconducted to portray the
signicant role that willbe played by the dierentstakeholders in the orth-coming elections as heurged the electorate to joinand support the event.
Tree walk groupswill assemble in designatedareas and will stride alongdesignated routes on theirway to the prayer rally to beheld at the Balyuan Amphi-theater.
Te Unity Walk Group 1composed o PRO8 contin-gent, representatives rom
the Commission on Elec-tions, National Police Com-mission, Department oInterior and Local Govern-ment, Region 8 Administra-tors League, Department oEducation, Department oBudget and Management,Department o Justice,
Philippine Drug En-orcement Agency andArmed Forces o thePhilippines will walkrom the Leyte Nation-al High School area
along Lino Gonzaga Ave.Te second group com-
posed o leaders and per-sonnel o Leyte Police Pro-
vincial O ce, Regionalraining School 8, Come-lec-Leyte, religious groups,academe, students, civicgroups, non-governmentorganizations and otherelection stakeholders willwalk rom the new LandBank o the Philippinesbranch along Real St.
Te third group com-prising o cers and meno the acloban City PoliceO ce, Comelec-acloban,Barangay Peacekeeping Ac-tion eams, barangay o-
cials, election watchdogs,other civic groups, academe
and students will convergeat the Leyte Lumberyardarea along Rizal Ave.
Leaders o various reli-
gious groups will lead theinter-aith prayer and bene-diction. Other highlights othe event are the lighting othe unity candle, recitationo the Voters Pledge, sign-ing o the Pledge o Com-mitment, and releasing odoves and white balloons tosigniy the united eort oall the participants towardsSAFE 2013.
Similar activities willbe simultaneously held inprovincial capitals in the
region, Soria said. (PINSPROMUEL A NACAR)
Unity Walk and Prayer Rally orSAFE 2013 to be held today
or a local peasant groupwhen he was captured.
Te court allowed histemporary release to un-dergo a medical check-upand treatment aer Acosta
visited him with a medico-legal consultant who con-rmed he is suering romnephritis, a conditioncharacterized by bloodin the urine, lower backpains, evers and painulurination and that no hos-
pital in Samar is equippedto treat Acostas condition.
tions.Acosta, who authori-
ties claimed, is a leadero the communist rebelsmovement, was arrestedin San Jorge town in Sa-mar and was detained or23 months at the Calbayogsub-provincial jail whilebeing tried by the GandaraRegional rial Court oncharges o illegal posses-sion o explosives.
His amily and support-
ers insisted he was doingvolunteer research work
tulano o the Samar sub-provincial jail o Baran-gay Carayman, CalbayogCity.
Pablo ariman, ather-in-law o Acosta, earliersought the assistance oAcosta or assistance orthe treatment and legal as-sistance o his son- in- law,who is detained at the Cal-bayog City sub provincial
jail as he has been com-plaining o urinary di cul-ties since July last year.
Former UP Colle-gian editor Acosta wasteary eyed when he wasinterviewed by media-men praising the eortso Acosta or his tempo-rary release, hoping thatother political prisonerswho suer rom seriousailments could likewisebe allowed treatment orhumanitarian considera-
Samar...from page 1
Ere said that detaineeAcosta suered rom mul-tiple instances o hema-turia, meaning blood inthe urine, since 2009. Healso suers rom bouts oblood in the urine accom-panied by lower back pain,high grade ever and pain-
ul urination or dysuria.He also stressed the
patients health condi-tion is precarious andrequires urgent conne-ment through diagnosticexamination, possibly in-cluding renal biopsy andother specialized anciliaryprocedures in a specialistkidney hospital.
Te court also orderedthat political detaineeAcosta should be escortedby jail o cer Jesus Os-
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ACLOBAN CIY An agreement betweenthe Department o En-vironment and Natural
Resources and Depart-ment o Education will beorged on the use o treesthat will be aected bythe United States-undedSamar road upgradingproject.
DENR Regional Di-rector Manolito Ragubsaid they have to makesure that the 7,739 treesthat will be removed romroad construction will beproperly accounted.
We should make a
noble cause out o this.Tis will be converted
KANANGA, Leyte- Close to our kilom-eters o arm-to-marketroad concreting projectin this town ociallystarted last January 15during the groundbreak-ing ceremony o the con-
creting o sitio Km. 14to sitio orrel, BarangayMasarayao arm to mar-ket road.
Te project is und-ed by Asian Develop-ment Bank (ADB) thruthe Agrarian ReormCommunities Project II(ARCP II). Te stretch
to school urniture orthe benet o students opublic schools especial-ly in Samar provinces,
Ragub told Leyte SamarDaily Express.
Te project will keepthe road right-o-way atnot less than 20 metersas specied by ExecutiveOrder No. 621. Te up-graded road will have aroad shoulder o 1.5 me-ters on both sides.
Ragub said that ortwo contract packages(CP) alone, they needP6.15 million as replace-ment cost that will be a-
ected by the 222-kilom-eter road rehabilitation
project.We will enorce the
rule that in every tree cut,it should be replaced with
100 seedlings, which willbe planted in dierentparts o Samar Island,Ragub said.
With the 7,739 treesthat will be cut, theDENR requires a 773,900replacement. Te depart-ment will still determinethe cost required in twoother CPs that are stillunder bidding process.
Te P6.15 millionrom the Department oPublic Works and High-
ways (DPWH) und orroad- right- o -way, will
cover compensations orCP1 with 236 aectedtrees and a unding re-quirement o P641,481
and 2,029 trees or CP3with replacement cost oP5.51 million.
Te $214.44 mil-lion road project covers15 towns in Samar andEastern Samar traversing134 villages with 23 kilo-meters crossing the Sa-mar Island Natural Park(SINP), a 458,700 hec-tares area, which hostsa total o 974 species oplant diversity.
Only ew o trees
along roadsides are natu-rally grown. Most o the
DENR, DepEd to orge agreementon use o trees afected by road project
trees were grown throughtree planting activities.Te natural orest coverwill still be intact, Ragubsaid.
Other than trees, theMCA-P disclosed that a
total o 9,169 structureswill be removed by the
entire project.Te most common
obstructions are ences,houses, stores, publicwaiting sheds, water au-cets, ramps, benches, ga-rages, balconies, doors,
driveways and pathways.(SARWELL Q. MENIANO)
Road concreting project in Kananga town commenceso the road concret-ing is 3.828 kms romthe national highway inKm 14 up to the amousQueen Pineapple Planta-tion in sitio orrel, Brgy.Masarayao in Kananga.Te total cost o the pro-
ject is P20,775,669.22Mayor Elmer Codil-la, Vice Mayor MacarioLumangtad Jr. and mu-nicipal ocials led thegroundbreaking ceremo-ny o the road concret-ing project. Joining themare personnel rom theDepartment o Agrarian
Reorm regional, pro-vincial and municipal o-ces, provincial agrarianreorm ocer Marlu Me-rin o PARSSO Leyte;Engr. Francis Diloy oCARPO/ BDCD-Leyte; provincial rural inra
specialist Engr. DaniloArtugue, provincial ruralinra Engr. Jojo Dalump-ines; regional environ-ment and social sae-guard Bong Fernandez;provincial environmentand social saeguard JoelPajares; CDD Coordina-tor Godoredo Pastor;
AED coordinator Ma.Matilde Vergara, mu-nicipal agrarian reormocer Evelyn Laurente.
Also present were mu-nicipal engineer ClaudioJao Jr. and Engr. JosephFrederick Pepito o JFAP
Construction and baran-gay ocials led by chairMarcos Cuizon.
Merin urged the lo-cal ocials and the com-munity to help maintainthe project so that it willserved its purpose evenor a long span o time.He lauded the support o
the Sangguniang Bayano Kananga that is in-strumental to the reali-zation o the project.
Vice Mayor Lumang-tad Jr. said that the con-creting o the road was
just only a dream. But the
persistence and determi-nation o Mayor Codillayield ruitul results.
Mayor Codilla, inhis message, said thatthe project was real-ized because o the sup-port o the barangay o-cials and land ownerswho donated portions
o their property or thesaid project. Te mayorsaid that beore the LGUwas hesitant to avail theARCP II project becauseo the 70% counterparto the local government,its a good thing that the
Oce o the Presidentthru the National Gov-ernment Assistance toLocal Government Unit(NGALGU) shoulderedthe 25% o the projectcost in order to helpLGUs. Tus the equityo the LGU is now at 40-
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Leyte Samar Daily Express OPINION Sunday, 20 January 2013
Q
EDITORIAL
Pass the FOI bill now
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Leyte Samar
Chiz welcomes Comelec ruling on politicalairtime but sees internet ruling vague
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Quidnuncs
Neighbor
chito dela torre
UICK and correct action. This is the best
and justly deserved path for the House of
Representatives to take on the Freedom of
Information (FOI) bill.
Slow and wrong. This is the worst and justly rea-
sonable judgment that Filipino voters would have
of the House members, most especially of those
seeking reelection in May 2013, should the FOI fail
to pass.Time, the dribble drivel in the House, and an Ex-
ecutive seemingly less than lame in his support for
the bill the odds seem stacked against the passage
of the FOI bill in the 15th Congress. This is even as
the Senate had passed its version of the bill on third
and final reading before Christmas last.
Only nine session days remain from Jan. 21,
when lawmakers return to work after a month-
long holiday break, to Feb. 6, 2013, after which
lawmakers will have another extended break and
plunge into election campaign mode. They will
have just three more session days in June in-
tended mainly for closing ceremonies, before
adjourning sine die to give way to the incom-
ing 16th Congress on June 30, 2013.
Failure by the incumbent House to pass the
FOI up to third reading, so it could be submit-
ted to bicameral action thereafter, in the com-
ing nine session days is certain death for thebill in the 15th Congress. Legislative work on
the bill will revert to step one yet again in the
16th.
This is why only quick, focused action to
pass the FOI bill is the absolutely correct path
for the 280-odd members of the House to take,
in their last nine session days before the elec-
tion campaign kicks off.
It avoids wasteful spending of scarce tax-
Senator Chiz Escudero
welcomed the Commission
on Elections (Comelec) ruling
shortening the airtime that a
political candidate may buy for
campaign ads, saying the move
would level the playing eld for
all candidates.
Those who have deep
resources will no longer lord
over the airwaves and leave thosewho have meager resources way,
way behind, Escudero said at
the Senates weekly Kapihan sa
Senado media forum.
At least no single candidate
can put one over the other in
terms of airtime. Its a fair
game for everyone, its a
welcome thing, he added.
But the senator also
sa id t he Come le c s
regulations on internet
campaigning remains a
vague issue, given the
innovative concept of the
internet technology.
Comelec Resolution
9615, which covers
the airtime acquisition
ceiling, said online
advertisement, whether
procured by purchase, or
given free of charge, shall
not be published more
than three times a week
per website during the
campaign period.
Cha i r ma n S ix to
Brillantes said online
election propagandaincludes ads posted on
social networking sites
such as Twitter and
Facebook.
E s c u d e r o s a i d
inte rne t r egula t ions
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Leyte Samar Daily ExpressOPINIONSunday, 20 January 2013
Prayer for the Nation and
for Those who Serve in
Public Office
God, our Father, you guide every thingin wisdom and love. Accept the prayers we
offer for our nation; by the wisdom of ourleaders and integrity of our citizens, mayharmony and justice be secured and may
there be lasting prosperity and peace.Almighty and eternal God, You know the
longings of our hearts and You protect ourrights. In your goodness, watch over those
in authority, so that people everywhere mayenjoy freedom, security and peace.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus
Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns withyou and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever
and ever. Amen. (Courtesy of Daughtersof St. Paul)
Pray the Holy Rosary daily forworld peace and conversion of sinners
(The family that prays together stays together)
THE REVEALER OF GOD
Mortal eyes can see only those things that are mortal. For instance,you cannot see your own spirit; therefore, how can you behold its Crea-tor? When the spiritual eyes are opened, then surely you can see theone who is Spirit, and all spiritual realities as well. Who can open ourspiritual eyes to see God? It is Jesus Christ. We know that the Sonof God has come and has given us understanding to know him who istrue (1 Jn 5:20). St John the Baptist conrmed that Jesus Christ wassent by God to reveal him as he is, when he said to his own discipleswho complained about the baptism by Jesus, No one can receive any-thing except what is given him from heaven(Jn 3:27). It is Jesus whogives us not only the spiritual eyes to see God, but also a heart to ex-perience Gods presence. Take a piece of charcoal: however much youmay wash it, its blackness will not disappear; but let the re enter intoit and its dark colour vanishes. So also, when we receive the re of theSpirit of Christ, all the blackness of evil is driven away from our heartand thus we are able to experience Gods presence. How fortunate are
we who have been baptized by the re of Christ to be able to recognizeand experience the true living God! This gift of awareness of God is nott be hoarded and kept to ourselves. We are to share this gift with others.If people refuse to listen to us, we can still pray for them to the Father.(His Word is Life by Vima Dasan, S.J. published by Paulines. Visit usat www.paulines.ph or at Paulines Media Center, Real St., TaclobanCity. Tel. #321-3195)
Sowers Seeds: Saint Paul lays down a clear principle: Do younot know that your body is a member of Jesus Christ? And that yourbody is a temple of the Holy Spirit? +Blessed James Alberione,Founder of the Pauline Family
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The Sower
Jueteng again on limelight
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Pass...from page 4
Ormoc Upside
Down
FIDEL D. BANZON
Since the time I could
already understand what
was happening around
me, the words anak ng
jueteng was the expres-
sion I often heard. I was
born in Los Baos, La-
guna, known those days as
home of hot springs.
My father was a consta-
ble with the rank of corpo-
ral. He was active chasing
collectors of jueteng num-
ber game.
I have written in the
past about the story of my
mothers uncle whom my
father caught worthy to
note. Mothers uncle asked
my father, Do you know
me? My father replied,
Yes. You are the uncle of
my wife.
He retorted, Why ar-
rest me?
I dont want you to be
a bad example to my chil-
dren.
Jueteng is not only re-
cent concoction of gam-
blers. It was already ex-
isting many years before
I was born. It is one game
even member of the law
enforcement agencies are
fond of betting. It is also a
source of funds for many
politicians and law enforc-
ers.
In mid 1950s, when Iwas the criminal inves-
tigator of the Police De-
partment in Los Baos,
seven of the 10-member
force was ordered by then
Municipal Mayor Genaro
Villegas Catalan to appre-
hend the participants in the
jueteng lottery at Barrio
Batong Malake.
That was the rst time
the drawing of numbers
was done in our town. Rea-
son? Their holding of the
draw in other municipali-
ties of Laguna was knownto the constabulary, hence
the transfer of venue. They
thought mayor of then
peaceful town will not
bother them and consent
their presence.
They were wrong be-
cause they were hauled to
Two number pair makes millionaires.
Same number use as scythe by the Devil.
the municipal building and
lectured by the mayor. The
mayor was not anxious to
le charges or had them
penalized. The gamblers
were released. They only
transferred from one town
to another within Laguna
province.
Why jueteng games
continue to exist? It is one
game poor people can af-
ford. Those who have noth-
ing in life are enticed with
the prize, though, only for
small amount compared to
the PCSO number games.
They prefer to bet in jueteng
because there are collectors
going around. Unlike the
PCSO betting stations with-
out collectors soliciting for
bets. It is the combined con-
venience and low bet price
that lures the poor bettor.
However, it is not only
the poor people, but those
from the middle class cast
their bet, too, for sheer fun
or trying lady luck.
To erase from the face
of the earth the game of
jueteng is impossible, like,
giving of money to vot-
ers on election. It could be
likened to the increase in
prices of commodities and
services that is impossibleto return the exchange of
U.S. dollar to Two Pesos.
Some suggest that
jueteng has to be legalized
to stop ofcials and law
enforcers from committing
corruption. It will even be
a source of tax. Some law-
makers are even suspected
of intentionally not enact-
ing a law to legalize jueteng
because of losing the source
of funds for election ex-
penses.
The lotto game was cre-
ated by law, is it moral? It isalso gambling, only legal-
ized.
By legalizing jueteng,
the Atimonan 13 incident
may no longer be repeated.
As long as jueteng exist
there will be more deaths,
not only deaths but source
of corruption will persist,
so they say.
As for me, whether or
not jueteng is legalized,
it is still immoral because
the principle laid down by
Christ Jesus to love your
neighbor no longer exists.When a person wins, it will
be for the chagrin of the los-
er who in a sense is a neigh-
bor. Understanding the
teachings of Christ mani-
fest that all forms of gam-
bling are from evil. (Feed-
back welcome, g_duna@
yahoo.com)
payers money on
legislative work that
often start and end
as mere verbal jousts
among lawmakers.
It is, most assured-
ly, also the right thingfor the House to do.
The FOI bill imple-
ments the state policy
of transparency and
accountability that
the Constitution we
Filipinos ratified in
1987 explicitly and
fully guarantees.
Passing the FOI
bill is thus a constitu-
tional obligation that
lawmakers have hadto fulfill, to do right
by all citizens, from
25 years ago.
Passing the FOI
bill is a public good
that trumps any and
all supposed private
concerns that a few
lawmakers claim are
the reasons why they
do not favor FOI and
insist on loading it
up with right-of-re-
ply (ROR) provision.
They have had, they
say, fallen victim to
negative reporting by
the news media.
Lawmakers that
they are, they must be
well aware of the Con-
stitutional principle
of a public office is a
public trust, the very
reason why the news
media and all citizens
must pry and probe,critique and censure,
and report news good
and bad about issues
and events vested
with public interest.
Libel laws, codes of
ethics, and self-regu-
lation mechanisms are
fully observed in most
news media agencies.
There are no reasons
that are writ in law for
these few lawmakers
opposed to the FOI to
now dangle ROR as a
precondition to their
vote. In this instance,
it is clear that to them,
ROR is truly just a
monkey wrench to kill
the bill.
We, the newspa-
pers, television net-
works, radio stations,
online and independ-
ent media agencies,
and citizen journal-
ists of this nation
state here and clearly
now our expecta-
tions of the House of
Representatives: Get
back to work, assurea quorum, pass the
FOI bill in your last
nine session days.
You have all prom-
ised and sworn to
serve by matuwid na
daan, transparency,
and accountability in
government, and we
expect nothing less
than clear, concrete
results on your prom-
ises.
It is election season
once more and you
are all likely to offer
more promises to get
elected. But before
we vote, we ask you
to finish your unfin-
ished business. Start
with one you swore to
deliver two decades
and a half ago: Pass
the FOI bill now.
too easy to look for ones
departing vehicle. It has
been a mess, a snarl, and
a snafu. It has seemed for
over a week that nobody
was looking into the
situation. Add to that the
noticeable presence ofsingle motorcycles whose
drivers do not wear the
required helmets, which
no traffic enforcer or
policeman cares about. All
these stink like the stink
which drivers and paying
passengers alike get every
time they get through the
market section at the HUC
boulevard area the awful
bad smell has been there
since before Christmas
2012.
V a r i o u s s e c t o r shave called it a the rst
controversial state for
year 2013 that Tacloban
think-tanks might have
jus t missed in their
oversight duty. For how
said
***
The main thoroughfare
at the Abucay new bus
terminal at Taclobanhighly urbanized city
is a constant sight of
congestion, since a week
ago, during rush hours on
afternoons. This needs a
quick review by whoever
is in charge of the trafc
there. This unwelcome
development resulted
after the city government
radically changed its
already smooth traffic
and terminal program
when it allowed the start
of the demolition of someexpensive structures inside
the terminal station where
buse s, jeeps and vans
used to park and wait for
paying riders. Commuters
have been placed in a
confusion. It is now not
have many loopholes,
and the Comelec has not
yet developed the corecompetence to provide
and dene standards for
its usage.
I t l e a ve s mor e
questions than answers.
How can Comelec monitor
it? For example, how do
they count the minutes
used by a par t icular
c a nd ida t e ? Wha t i f
someone uploads an ad
without the candidates
knowledge or permission?
Will that be counted
against his airtime? Whatif ill-meaning protagonists
will use this free uploading
just to discredit a political
rival? These are realities
that I hope the Comelec
will tread with caution and
consideration, Escudero
Chiz...from page 4
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7Leyte Samar Daily ExpressSunday, 20 January 2013 NEWS
Gothong Southern
Shipping Lines Inc. re-
cently celebrated another
milestone when one of its
vessels, bagged the top ti-
tle in the Bureau of Quar-
antines (BOQ) annual
search and recognition of
the Cleanest Vessel - Car-
go Category. M/V Don
Albino Sr. was declared
Cleanest Cargo Vessel for
2012 during BOQs re-
cently concluded award-
ing ceremony held at Sa-rossa International Hotel
and Residential Suites.
The annual awarding
led by BOQ, is aimed to
acknowledge the efforts
of shipping industries in
maintaining the cleanli-
ness of their ships which
is an imperative require-
ment of the ofce, as well
DAS4 Cleanest Vessel 2012(Cargo Category)
as DOH and the Maritime
Industry Authority (MA-
RINA).
Cebu Quarantine
Medical Ofcer, Dr. Phil-
bert S. Muga and Ms.
Rose L. Alegarbes, BOQ
Health Educator, gave
the award to the Master
of MV Don Albino Sr.,
Capt. Ronnie S. Osorio,
accompanied by Marine
Department Head, Ernie
M. Alix and GS HR Core
Services Head, Leolu S.Tagalog.
For the last ve years,
Gothong Southern has
been consistently rec-
ognized by BOQ for its
efforts to operate and
maintain a eet of cargo
vessels with standards
that surpass the maritime
industrys requirements.
It is mandated busi-ness owners renew theirpermits and licenseson the last day thatswhy we tapped our vol-unteers to somehowshorten waiting time.
Business ownerswho ail to comply withthe deadline will be pe-nalized with a 25% sur-charge and a 2 % inter-est per month, she said.
he Real Propertyax Revision 9 whichimposes 25% adjust-ment on real property
values , already took e-ect this year. Hence,she encouraged realproperty owners to
avail o the 20% maxi-mum discount by set-tling their tax paymentswithin this month.
he city govern-ment here has collectedP495.75 million o localtaxes in 2012, surpass-ing the annual target by18% with the remark-able surge in businesstax earnings. For 2013,the city government isaiming to collect 448.5million local taxes. (SAR-WELL Q. MENIANO)
CTO...from page 1
Engr. Jao said that theproject will be completedaer 120 calendar days.
Te said place wherethe road concretingproject is on progress,is included in the Dept.o ourism (DO), Ca-nadian InternationalDevelopment Agency(CIDA) destination/itinerary or the promo-tion o Northwest Leyteourism Alliance. Teroad is indeed leading toa major tourism destina-tion, which is the QueenPineapple Plantation inKananga, Leyte. (GERARDREYES)
mineral water owned byLarrazabal also sourcedtheir water in the samebarangay.
He said that his ad-ministration is morethan willing to enter intoa joint undertaking withnational agencies con-sidering that the LGUcan put up counterpartunds or the project. Hementioned the ongoingirrigation projects andother inrastructure pro-
jects in Kananga that hisadministration is work-ing hard to improve thedelivery o the services tothe people o Kananga.
45% o the project cost itwas learned.
Te mayor explainedthe importance o thesaid road not only tothe land owners whose
pineapple and sugarcaneplantations are located inthe barangay, but its sig-nicant role also to thelives o the residents andordinary olks.
Te sweetest pineap-ple which is the prideo Ormoc is in orrel,the mayor said, and the
Road...from page 3
often, from the Petron
vicinity at the national
highway in Basey, Samar
where Tacloban-boundBasaynons wait for buses
and vans from Borongan
and Guiuan (Eastern
Samar), we could only
take either Van-Van or
Duptours vans. The entry
of this transport service
of Grand Tours came as
an exhilarating relief.
Thank you, Grand Tours
management. Thanks a
lot, too, for your elegant
new terminal station at
Tacloban. Yours certainly
boosts greatly the tourismdrive in the Eastern
Visayas region.
***
I like your Christ, I do
not like your Christians.
Your Christians are so
unlike your Christ.
Mahatma Gandhi
***
Ka Chito
services in Region VIII
deserves another feather
to its cap. After opening
routes to Ormoc City,Catarman in Northern
Samar and Calbayog
City, expanding operation
which used to be only
be tween Catba logan
(Grand Tours base
located in Samar) and
Tacloban, now it regularly
serves the riding public
want ing conveyance
to and from Borongan
City. I discovered this
for myself only one late
evening this week as I
waited for a ride backto Tacloban. The Grand
Tours van came at about a
few minutes after 7 p.m.,
and as I disemabarked
from it a t Tacloban
already, the driver told me
that the route was plied
rst early last November,
2012. I had not known
tha t be f o r e . M os t
long this will remain, no
one at the terminal stationcan offer a guess. Perhaps
mayor Alfred Romualdez
is not informed about this
perplexity there.
A joke said, though,
these problems would be
naught once the terminal
and the market are closed,
and thoroughly studied
for excellent, perpetual
remedies.
***
Hats off to Grand
Tours! : By the way,
Grand Tours transport
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8 Leyte Samar Daily Express NEWS Sunday, 20 January 2013
ORMOC CIY Te mayor o this citylauded the German In-
ternational Cooperation(GIZ) on providing as-sistance on the imple-mentation o variousprojects intended or thewelare o the Ormocan-ons.
Mayor Eric Codilla,in an interview withLeyte Samar Daily Ex-press, revealed that GIZprovided technical sup-port to some ve o theprojects initiated by the
city government.Codilla said theseprojects include thestreamlining o busi-ness permits, the con-struction o the sanitary
HE Departmento ourism (DO) has
ailed to meet the 4.6million target touristarrivals in 2012.
Tere were only4,272,811 oreign tour-ists who went to thePhilippines last year,9.07 percent higherrom the 3,917,454tourists who came herein 2011, the DO said.
Te agency did notcite the reason why itailed to achieve its tar-
get o 4.6 million tour-
landll, putting up ofood mitigating control,construction o solar
dryer and the conduct otrainings or rescue anddisaster assistance.
he oicial pointedout that GIZ extendedassistance to the citygovernment or they areaware that the adminis-tration is making its bestto implement projectsthat would help the liveso their constituents.
GIZ help us in tech-nical aspect by means o
conducting trainings toteach the community ina certain topic like dis-aster preparedness. Weare proud to say that theassistance that they pro-
vided s imply is the ruito the good governancewe have, he said.
he local govern-ment unit always makesure that every projectsassisted by the GIZ areproperly implementedand given value, orthem not to be tiredon helping us, Codillaadded.
Furthermore, thechie executive said thatwith the cooperation andsupport o GIZ, the citygovernment enables to
address and give back tothe people the necessarythings that they supposedto receive rom theirelected public o cials.(REY GERILLA GRADO)
Ormoc mayor lauds GIZ
for support to city projects
ists, but the data showedthat arrivals rom China
signicantly declined,rom a high o 42,868in January last year to17,360 in December.
But comparing to2011 volume o 243,137arrivals, total tourist ar-rivals rom China in2012 showed a moder-ate increase o 3.19 per-cent to 250,883 visitors,the DO said.
China was the ourthbiggest source o arrivals
last year, it added.
Relations between thePhilippines and China
have been aected bythe territorial row. Ma-nila has been claimingparts o the South ChinaSea, while Beijing says itowns practically the en-tire area.
Korea continues tobe the countrys larg-est visitor market with1,031,155 arrivals, ac-counting or 24.13 per-cent share o the total
visitor volume, the our-
ism department said.Te said market rose
by 11.45 percent romits arrivals o 925,204 in2011. Another recordwas achieved by the tour-ism industry as it is therst time that a sourcemarket o the Philippines
reached its 1 millionthvisitor, it added.
Record shows thatall major markets othe country registeredgrowth in arrivals, DOsaid.
Following the Ko-rean market, the UnitedStates market constitut-ed 15.27 percent o thetotal inbound tra c byproducing 652,626 visi-tors to the Philippines.
Tis gure is up by 4.50percent rom 624,527 in
2011.Japan which provided
412,474 visitors was thethird biggest source otourists in the country,ollowed by China.
Next to China was
aiwan registering216,511 arrivals, ol-lowed by Australia with191,150 tourists.
Other markets withsubstantial contributionto the overall visitor ar-rivals include Singaporewith 148,215 arrivals,Canada with 123,699 ar-rivals, Hong Kong with118,666 arrivals, UnitedKingdom with 113,282and Germany with
67,023 arrivals, DOsaid.(SUNNEX)
Tourism departmentmisses target in 2012