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VOLUME 7 NUMBER 84WED - THU

JANUARY 15 - 16, 2014

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BY BONG LACSON

ANGELES CITY – The advocacy group Pinoy Gumising Ka Movement (PGKM) yesterday

dared the organizers and leaders of the so called “Clark Challenge: Stakeholders Summit” to “free” the Clark International Airport (CIA) “from the tethers of Imperial Manila.”

‘REAL CHALLENGE TO STAKEHOLDERS’

PGKM calls for Clark int’l airport authority

PACKED. Passengers crowd the check-in counters at the new international passenger terminal building of the Clark Internantional Airport. PHOTO COURTESY OF CIAC-CCO

BY ARMAND M. GALANG

CABANATUAN CITY – Central Luzon is to receive 525,000 bags of the 725,000 bags of rice from Vietnam which unloading at the Subic Bay Freeport will be completed before the end of this month, the National Food Authority (NFA) reported Friday.

According to the NFA regional offi ce here, 500,000 bags or 25,000 metric tons have ar-rived via MV Voge Fies-ta while MV Vinh Phuoc will unload “later this month” some 225,000 or 11,250 mt.

This ensures “suffi -cient supply of rice for 2014,” according to the agency.

CL gets lion’s share of imported rice

Region 2 shall re-ceive 200,000 bags.

NFA-Region 3 Direc-tor Amadeo De Guzman said the imported rice from Vietnam is part of the 500,000 metric tons additional imported rice sought by the agen-cy through the govern-ment - to -government import scheme.

The Vietnam rice is meant to augment the current rice stocks which were badly af-fected due to the suc-cessive calamities that hit the country in 2013. “It will augment the NFA’s food security buf-fer stocks which were depleted due to the ab-normally huge require-ment for relief opera-

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BY DING CERVANTES

PORAC, Pampanga - One of the three farmers who were shot in Haci-enda Dolores here last Sunday died the other day at a hospital in San Fernando, even as the provincial police report-ed yesterday the arrest of three security guards

Farmer in Porac hacienda shooting dies3 security guards arrested

who had confronted them amid land reform contro-versies in the area.

Alyansang Magbu-bukid ng Gitnang Luzon (AMGL) Chairman Jo-seph Canlas confi rmed yesterday the death of farmer Arman Padino who sustained a bullet wound in his head during last Sunday dawn con-

frontation between some 30 farmers and security men of LLL Holdings Co. who had blocked them from reaching their farms.

Pampanga police di-rector Senior Supt. Os-car Albayalde named two of the security guards as Fernando de Vera and Elorde Sagun. An Arms-cor shotgun with bullets was recovered from De Vera. The third suspect

was not immediately identifi ed.

Canlas insisted, how-ever, that Padino died from a head wound in-fl icted by a .45 calibre pistol, not a shotgun. He said Padino was de-clared dead at about 2 p.m. Monday at the Jose Lingad Memorial Hospi-tal in the City of San Fer-nando.

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IN ITS mission to reach out to more Filipino families, Manu-life Philippines recently inau-gurated two new branch of-fi ces in Tarlac and Tugueg-arao cities that are consid-ered key areas in Central and Northern Luzon. As a step further in helping make an immediate positive impact in the communities where it does business, Manulife Philippines also brought its Caravan of Health to provide full medical services for Tar-lac and Tuguegarao-based customers ranging from sim-ple blood pressure, random blood sugar and body mass index (BMI) checks to the full physical, urinalysis, complete blood count and chest x-ray examinations.

“These medical services are usually organized in the premises of Manulife Phil-ippines’ new and existing

Manulife Philippines opens Tarlac City and Tuguegarao City branch offi ces

Also provided medical services for customersas part of its commitment to service the needs

of the communities where it does businessbranch offi ces as the com-pany continues to expand its business presence in key ar-eas of the country, particularly in the provinces,” said Indren Naidoo, President & Chief Ex-ecutive Offi cer, Manulife Phil-ippines. “As a reliable and trustworthy partner of Filipino families, Manulife also estab-lishes its commitment in help-ing improve the quality of life in the communities through our advocacy for health and well-ness.”

Some of these medical ser-vices for customers are con-ducted with the assistance of Metro Manila-based Manulife Philippines employees who are licensed medical technol-ogists, nurses or other allied health professionals -- whose skills and competence are fac-tors in helping deliver a total customer experience at every turn.

“Whenever necessary, we encourage our employees with backgrounds in allied health courses to help ser-vice the basic health needs of our policyholders in our new and existing branches, allow-ing them the opportunity to demonstrate Manulife’s com-mitment to provide a legend-ary customer experience at every stage,” said Mr. Naidoo.

Other Manulife Philip-pines branch offi ces operat-ing in the Central and North-ern Luzon areas include An-geles City in Pampanga, Baguio City, Balanga City in Bataan, Cabanatuan City in Nueva Ecija, Dagupan City in Pangasinan, Malolos City in Bulacan, and Santiago City in Isabela. With the inclusion of Tarlac and Tuguegarao cit-ies, Manulife Philippines has more than 30 branch offi ces nationwide. –Press Release

(L-R) Marlon Vicente, SAVP & Agency Director for Luzon, Manulife Philippines, Tuguegarao City Mayor Jefferson Soriano and Stephen Ong, VP & Territory Head for Metro Manila 3 & Luzon, Manulife Philippines lead ribbon-cutting rites in Tuguegarao.

BY DING CERVANTES

ANGELES CITY- The coun-try’s biggest alliance of fi sh-erfolk has written the Chinese government a “humble appeal” to resort to “bilateral and in-ter-nation dialogues with other claimants” of areas in the West Philippine Sea “rather than en-gage in hardcore assertion of some that needs to be careful-ly studied.”

The alliance warned that the territorial confl ict among the claimant-nations could be exploited by the US govern-ment to promote its interests in the area.

Fisherfolk write Beijing on sea confl ict,warns of US ‘self-motivated’ intervention

“We the leaders and rep-resentatives of Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamal-akaya ng Pilipinas (Pamal-akaya), a national federation of small fi sherfolk in the Phil-ippines, submit this humble appeal to the Chinese govern-ment to recall the new fi shing rule that demands foreign fi sh-ing vessels to seek permit be-fore entering the disputed wa-ters.”

The latter was coursed through Chinese ambassador for the Philippines Ma Keqing.

“Honorable Ambassador, we ask the Beijing govern-ment to consider this appeal

from the Filipino fi sherfolk and to allow diplomatic and peace-ful resolutions to the confl ict,” the letter said.

The letter pointed out that “about two million square ki-lometers of the South Chi-na Sea, out of the 3.5 million square kilometers is being claimed by Beijing and fi ve other countries are also claim-ing and are trying to assert their own sovereignty based on historical and legal asser-tions.”

“All claimants to South Chi-na Sea must come together and resolve this confl ict col-lectively and in accordance with national sovereign rights of their respective peoples,” it said.

It said that instead of being

torn with confl ict over the con-tested waters, the claimants could unite “to frustrate the in-tervention of the United States --- the biggest threat to world peace.”

“US government who (sic) is obsessed in controlling West Philippine Sea for oil re-sources, navigation and mili-tary control over the East Asia and Pacifi c region,” the letter asserted.

“Madam Ambassador at this juncture, we propose a South China Sea fi shing di-alogue to be participated in by representatives of govern-ments currently involved in the West Philippine Sea confl ict. The dialogue will enjoin fi sher-folk associations and non-gov-ernment organizations (sic).

The principles of equality, mutual respect, mutual bene-fi t, non-aggression, peaceful co-existence and foreign rela-tions based on people-to-peo-ple relations and international solidarity shall serve as frame-work for the proposed dia-logue,” the letter also said.

The group also expressed hope that its “letter of concern merits the attention and favor-able action of the Beijing gov-ernment in the name of world peace, peaceful co-existence and cooperation and frater-nal relations based on mutual respect and benefi ts among claimants in South China Sea and thwart any effort of Wash-ington D.C to exploit the situ-ation for US own agenda for global hegemony.”

BY DINO BALABO

MALOLOS CITY—Offi cials here led by Mayor Christian Natividad cried foul over about P100 million in taxes that the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is demanding to collect.

Records obtained by Punto showed that BIR Revenue Re-gion 5 based in Caloocan City found internal revenue tax lia-bilities of the city government for the year 2010.

The taxes included ex-panded withholding tax (EWT) which climbed to P22,932,838.93; fi nal with-holding tax (FWT) amounting to P73,654,490.27; and with-holding tax on compensation (WTC) amounting to P76,618.

In an interview, Natividad expressed disappointment over the taxes noting that even services they rendered were taxed by the BIR.

This includesP189,110 tax-

Malolos LGU cries foul over BIR tax demand

es demanded by the BIR for the P9,455,500 scholarship expenses of the city govern-ment in 2010. The said amount is equivalent to the two per-cent tax required for scholar-ship expenses.

Natividad said that they have not paid the taxes de-manded by the BIR noting that they will appeal before the BIR main offi ce.

He also said the BIR de-mand is unusual since the agency is demanding taxes on social services of the city gov-ernment.

The formal demand letter from the BIR was issued on June 24, 2013 and it showed that payment of overdue taxes was on August 9, 2013.

Natividad also said they also received a warning from the BIR that failure to pay the said taxes could lead to fore-closure of some assets of the city government.

OLONGAPO CITY-Inaresto ng mga tauhan ng National Bu-reau of Investigation, Olonga-po District Offi ce (NBI-OLDO) ang isang lalaki makaraan ni-tong palsipikahin ang kanyang NBI Clearance makaraan itong mag-apply ng trabaho sa isang pawnshop sa lungsod na ito.

Kinilala ang suspek na si Karl John Harder ng 41-F Mag-dalo St., Lapaz, Iloilo City at pansamantalang nanunuluyan sa No. 27 Harris St., Barangay East Bajac-Bajac, Olongapo City.

Batay sa salaysay nina Imelda Milano at Marian Grace Bag-Ongan kina Special In-vestigator lll Rolando Besarra at Special Investigator lll Pau-lo Calip ng NBI, December 19, 2013 nang mag-apply ang suspek sa pagka-accountant sa Lovely Kahael Pawnshop at nagpakilala ito sa pangalan Charles Jomar Alino.

Dahil wala pang bakante sa posisyon na ina-aplayan ng

suspek, pansamantala muna itong inilagay sa sales and marketing sa Subic Residen-tial Hotel na pag-mamayari ng Lovey Kahael Group of Com-panies habang bini-verify ang kanyang mga isinumiteng do-kumento hanggang sa matuk-lasan na peke ang kanyang NBI clearance at ang kanyang pangalan.

Ayon kay Frannielyn Tolen-tino, Clearance Offi cer ng NBI, peke ang NBI clearance ng suspek at wala ito sa record sa data base ng NBI dahil guma-mit ng pekeng pangalan ang suspek na Charles Jomar Ali-no sa halip ang tunay na pan-galan na Karl John Harder.

Ang suspek ay nasa cus-tody ng NBI Olongapo District Offi ce at ipinagharap na sa ka-song paglabag sa Article 172 ng Revised Penal Code at Fal-sifi cation by Private Individu-al and Use of Falsifi ed Docu-ments sa City Prosecutors Of-fi ce. –Johnny R. Reblando

Timbog sa pekengNBI clearance

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THE PHILIPPINES’ leading low-cost carrier, Cebu Pacifi c Air (PSE:CEB) partners with the Philippine Department of Tourism (Tourism Promotions Board) in its Bangon Tours ini-tiative, and holds a 75% off seat sale on all its destinations for summer travel.

Up for grabs until January 16, 2014, the 75% off seat sale is available on all of CEB’s 24 international and 33 domes-tic destinations. This includes destinations featured for Ban-gon Tours: Ilocos (Laoag), Ma-nila, Palawan (Puerto Prince-sa), Bicol (Naga, Legazpi and Virac), Cebu, Davao, Bohol (Tagbilaran), Iloilo, Boracay (Caticlan), Siargao, Camiguin and Cagayan de Oro.

Travel period for the 75% off seats is from March 1 to June 30, 2014.

“Cebu Pacifi c fully sup-ports the government’s tour-ism initiatives, especially in the wake of natural calamities late last year. We encourage ev-eryJuan to take advantage of CEB’s trademark lowest fares to explore Bangon Tours’ fea-tured destinations, especial-ly this summer,” said CEB VP for Marketing and Distribution Candice Iyog.

Iyog added that Filipino ex-pats and foreign tourists can also book the 75% off seat sale fares to visit the Philip-

Domingo Ramon C .Enerio III, chief operating offi cer of the Tourism Promotions Board and Candice Iyog, vice-president for marketing and distribution of Cebu Pacifi c Air, shake hands after signing the Memorandum of Understanding in support of Bangon Tours. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

CEB holds 75% off Bangon Toursseat sale to boost domestic tourism

pines. CEB even holds a spe-cial AED99 seat sale for those coming from Dubai to Manila, for the same seat sale and travel periods.

Aside from Dubai, CEB also offers fl ights to the Phil-ippines from Nagoya, Narita, Phuket, Hong Kong, Singa-pore, Osaka, Bangkok, Kota Kinabalu, Busan, Seoul, Bru-nei, Ho Chi Minh, among oth-ers.

The Bangon Tours Project is an initiative of the Depart-ment of Tourism and the Tour-ism Promotions Board. It is in line with the government’s re-covery and rebuilding efforts for the victims and survivors of calamities, through the pro-motion of domestic tourism. It is an invitation to the Filipi-no market to travel within the Philippines, visit fun destina-tions and participate in rebuild-ing efforts.

CEB is the fi rst airline part-ner for Bangon Tours. For more information about Ban-gon Tours, email [email protected].

For bookings and inquiries, guests can go to www.cebu-pacifi cair.com or call the reser-vation hotlines (02)7020-888 or (032)230-8888. The latest seat sales can also be found on CEB’s offi cial Twitter (@cebupacifi cair) and Facebook pages.

BY DING CERVANTES

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO - The Department of Health (DOH) has re-ported a 112 percent increase in measles cases in Central Luzon.

The DOH fi gures were based on fi eld reports gathered from all over the region last year, as compared to statistics in 2012.

“There were 432 cases last year, signifi cantly higher than the 204 cas-

Measles cases rise 112% in Central Luzones reported in 2012,” DOH Expand-ed Program on Immunization head Lailani Mangulabnan noted.

She noted that the cases covered suspected measles cases that includ-ed 110 which were confi rmed in lab-oratories. Of the total, 62 cases oc-curred in the last two months of 2013.

Pampanga led with the most num-ber of cases at 42, followed by Bu-lacan with 19, Nueva Ecija with 16, Tarlac with 14 and Zambales with 10.

Aurora reported no case. DOH Regional Director Leonita

Gorgolon blamed low coverage of im-munization for the rise in the measles cases.

But she assured the public that there was no measles outbreak in the region and that there was no cause for alarm, even as she noted that cases in Metro Manila were even higher.

“Our surveillance report shows

that no fatalities were recorded to date. So it is safe to say that here in the region, we have contained the disease,” Gorgolon stressed.

Measles is a highly infectious and highly communicable disease caused by the measles virus. Symptoms in-clude high fever, cough, conjunctivitis and colds. If not properly managed, it can lead to complications such as blindness, encephalitis, pneumonia, diarrhea and even death.

NI ERNIE B. ESCONDE

BALANGA CITY - Dagsa na naman nitong Huwebes ang mga ibong dayong puti na may malalaki, karaniwang laki at maliliit sa pinatuyong pal-aisdaan sa tabi ng MacArthur Highway sa pagitan ng Samal at Abucay, dalawang bayan sa Bataan.

Huling nakita ang mga ibo-ng egret sa bahaging ito ng palaisdaan na may malalim na tubig pa noong Disyembre 29. Lumipat ang mga ito sa ibang palaisdaan sa Balanga City at muling bumalik sa pinatuyo ng palaisdaan.

Hindi alintana ng mga ibon ang malakas na ugong ng makina at tunog ng busina ng mga nagsasalimbayang sa-sakyan. Ang ilan ay lilipad la-mang saglit at muling babalik sa panginginain.

Ayon kay Mila Ramirez, hepe ng Protected Areas Wild-life & Coastal Zone Manage-ment ng Provincial Environ-ment and Natural Resources Offi ce, tatlong klase ng egret ang makikita sa palaisdaan

– large, intermediate at little egret.

“Umaalis sa China and as far as Northern Hemisphere ang mga ibon para makaiwas sa taglamig o winter season,” sabi ni Ramirez.

Ang Pilipinas umano ay bahagi ng tinatawag na Asian Flyway. “Kapag taglamig, dito nagpupunta ang mga ibon para dito mag-istasyon, manginain at magpalakas bil-ang paghahanda sa breeding season pagbalik ng mga ito sa kanilang bansa,” paliwanag ni Ramirez.

Dumarating, aniya, sa Bataan ang mga ibon late September o simula ng winter season at nananatili rito hang-gang Pebrero na ang iba ay in-aabot pa ng Marso.

“Muling bumabalik ang mga ito sa China, Northern Hemisphere at ang iba ay tu-mutuloy pa ng Australia at New Zealand,” sabi ni Ramirez.

Bukod sa egret, dumarat-ing rin, aniya, sa Bataan ang mga ibong black winged stilt, plovers, terns, sandpipers at iba pa.

“Sa aking personal na opinion, sa layo ng nililipad ng mga ibon, kung may dala man silang virus o bird fl u, hindi na makakaabot sa Pilipinas. Pero bilang pag-iingat, mabuti na ring huwag lapitan o hawakan ang mga ito,” sagot ni Ramirez sa tanong kung may posibili-dad bang may dalang bird fl u ang mga dayong ibon.

Sinabi ng wildlife offi cer na may nakatakdang water bird census sa Wetland Park sa Balanga City sa Enero 18, 2014. Ito, aniya, ay taunang ginagawa sa ibat-ibang lugar sa bansa na pinupuntahan ng mga dayong ibon.

Ginagawa ang taunang census sa pangunguna ng De-partment of Environment and Natural Resources sa tulong ng City Government of Bal-anga at Wild Birds Club of the Philippines.

“Noong Enero 13, 2013, nakabilang sa Balanga City ng mahigit 25,000 ibon sa isang araw at inaasahang ganon din kararami ang makikita o mas higit pa ngayong taon na ito,” sabi ni Ramirez.

Ibong dayo dagsa na naman sa tabi ng hi-way

HAGONOY, Bulacan— A husband and his wife were arrest-ed by police here Monday in connection with the brutal mur-der of a retired school principal early Sunday morning.

Supt. Rizalino Andaya, town police chief, identifi ed the suspects as Florante Faustino and his wife Virginia, both res-idents of Sitio Wawa, Barangay Iba in this coastal town.

Andaya said the arrest came after witnesses disclosed seeing early Sunday morning the suspects and their tricycle in front of the house of the victim Lucia Chico-Manila, 68, a retired school principal. Andaya said the motive for the killing appeared to be a robbery.

The suspects were charged late Monday afternoon at the provincial prosecutor’s offi ce and are currently detained at the Hagonoy municipal jail.

PO1 Michael Gutierrez, investigator of the case, said at least four witnesses told investigators that they saw the sus-pects and their tricycle at the victim’s house around 5 a.m. Sunday.

He said that scene of the crime operatives (SOCO) are now processing fi nger prints lifted from the crime scene and hair strands pulled and left on the hand of the victim.

Investigation showed that the victim was hit with a blunt object at the back of the head causing fracture and was also stabbed with a wooden object on the neck.

The victim’s body was found around 9:30 a.m. Sunday by relatives under a plywood board at the back of her house.

Relatives said that the victim was supposed to attend a wedding in Manila that day, but the person who went to pick her up did not see her and left around 6:30 a.m.

Another relative went to the house around 9:30 a.m. and noticed that all doors in the house are open and appliances were in disarray. – Dino Balabo

Man, wife arrested for robbing, killing retired principal

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Summit’s stakeIT COULD not have come at a better time.

That is the Ninoy Aquino International Airport being branded as one of the 10 worst airports in the world.

“Particularly crammed,” described the article published by Wall Street Cheat of NAIA Terminal 1.

“Occupied only by minor carriers,” dissed the same article of NAIA Terminal 3.

That on top of the common denominators of “smelly bathrooms, long lines and rude staff” shared by all those in the list.

For a general outlook of NAIA, the article cited a CNN Travel Report thus: ”beleaguered by ground crew strikes, unkempt conditions, soup kitchen-style lines that feed into more lines and an overall sense of futility, NAIA brings the term ‘Stuck in the 1970s’ to a new level.”

The article is but the latest affi rmation of NAIA’s permanent niche in the list of The Worst Airports of the World.

Why, just last October, NAIA 1 was damned the “Worst Airport in the World for 2013” by the travel website Sleeping in Airports. A regression from the same website’s placement of NAIA in 2012 as the worst airport in Asia.

Indeed, it could not have come at a better time. Than now.

The sordid reality obtaining in NAIA impacting on the vast potentials of the Clark International Airport to be the Philippines’ premier international gateway.

Perfect timing for the “Clark Challenge: The Stakeholders Summit 2014” to open this Thursday, January 16.

To lay Clark’s claim to pre-eminence – in location, area, infrastructures present and future, as the best, if not the only option, to be premier international gateway.

And hopefully force the issue upon the stubborn minds of the Manila-centric national leadership.

Clark declaration“WHAT WE hope to achieve is to encourage the President to declare a national policy on the concrete role the Clark Freeport should play in the country’s economic development.”

Declared 1st District Rep. Joseller “Yeng” Guiao of the end-in-view of his brainchild, the “Clark Challenge: Stakeholders’ Summit” set this Thursday.

Specifi cally targeted by Guiao is the release of the P7.2 billion fund now lodged as un-programmed item embedded in the Department of Budget and Management much-bruited about by both Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya and Clark International Airport Corp. President-CEO Victor Jose Luciano as intended for the development of the Clark airport.

“We also hope to encourage the DOTC to hasten the completion of the North Railway project, as well as extend its reach from Calamba, Laguna to this freeport instead of the original target destination of only up to Malolos, Bulacan by 2020,” Guiao said.

Reading Guiao above is re-reading business mogul Manny V. Pangilinan who on at least three occasions said a defi nitive policy declaration on Clark by the Aquino government is all it takes for his group to invest here, particularly in the development of the Clark International Airport, complete with its own railway system.

At the sidelines of last year’s PLDT stockholders meeting where he sits as chairman, MVP disclosed that he had commissioned a study on the railway system fi tted to Clark: “So our thinking has always been to have a high speed train that will connect Clark with NAIA… of course it will have four stops… the fi rst stop could be in the northern part of Manila, another in the middle part and Makati and the fi nal stop is NAIA.”

Most certainly unlost to Guiao is MVP’s mind on the matter of Clark in facing the challenge to consolidate the stakeholders’ aspirations and actions to – as Punto bannered last week – “prod the national leadership to adopt a policy direction and concrete actions” on Clark – the freeport and the airport.

For added measure, Guiao vowed to take the summit output to the House via a privilege speech. Here’s something I picked from inquirer.net written by Paolo G. Montecillo that may serve as inspiring input to Guiao’s summit:

Aquino to decide on fate of Clark airport The fate of Clark International Airport will

be left in the hands of President Aquino, who will have to decide if the government should develop two major airports in Luzon or focus its efforts on just one.

The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) said different plans for Clark and its Manila counterpart, the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia), would be

brought up to the Cabinet economic cluster and later to the President for approval within the month.

The choice would be between maintaining two major airports—Clark and Naia—supporting each other, or vacating Manila in favor of the former US military base.

Malacañang also has the option of establishing a brand-new airport inside Metro Manila or in a nearby province that will replace the existing Naia complex in Pasay City.

“We are fi nalizing plans and bring this to the President [for a fi nal] decision,” Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya said Thursday.

Abaya admitted that while there were several options on the table, no clear favorite has emerged and it would be up to the President to take his pick.

“Will we have one or two gateways? Do we close down Naia in the future for some other airport? A lot of stakeholders are waiting for these decisions,” Abaya said in a radio interview.

“What’s important is that a decision is made soon so projects can move forward,” he added.

Clark International Airport is seen as the inevitable replacement to Naia, which has suffered from congestion and various legal issues over the past decade. The Clark airport sits on 2,400 hectares of land, more than three times bigger than the 700 hectares occupied by the current Naia complex.

Plans to develop Clark, however, have been put in the backburner as the government weighs its options on sticking with Naia.

The Joint Foreign Chambers of the Philippines, which represents foreign business groups operating in the country, earlier this week lamented the government’s indecision over Clark’s development.

The group said the frequent changes in the DOTC’s leadership—the department has had three secretaries in the last three years—has left Clark airport in the “twilight zone.”

Sadly, the above news item is dated February 28, 2013.

What was to be decided by BS Aquino within the month has been left undecided for the past 11 months.

Prod the President to declare a national policy on Clark?

I can only wish Guiao and his summit good luck. Mine is some unguarded pessimism borne by Clark promises proffered by one administration after another which always turned out broken and undelivered.

The only difference I see in this BS Aquino administration is there’s no promise at all.

ON JANUARY 15, 1894, Dr. Hilario D. G. Lara, regarded as the Father of Modern Public Health in the Philippines, was born in Imus, Cavite.

Lara devoted over fi ve de-cades of his life to the study of the spread of cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery, measles and diphtheria, resulting in the pre-

Dr. Hilario D. G. Larais born in Imus, Cavite

vention of these diseases in the country.

Dr. Lara received numer-ous awards and recognition, including the National Scien-tist Award in 1985 given by President Ferdinand Marcos.

Notably, Lara established the Institute of Public Health at the University of the Phil-

ippines and also helped es-tablish the National Research Council of the Philippines.

He also organized the fi rst medical library in the country and established community health demonstration centers nationwide.

He died on December 18, 1987.

TODAY IN PHILIPPINE HISTORYTODAY IN PHILIPPINE HISTORYSource: www.kahimyang.infoSource: www.kahimyang.info

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. –Maria Montessori

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Napag-uusapanLangFelix M. Garcia

When is the best month to fl y hot air bal-loons?

There is no hard and fast answer to this question. The quick answer is this oft-quoted: It depends! In many countries around the world, balloon fl ights happen every day when condi-tions are favorable to the sport. In Dubai where the temperature can shoot up to 35.5 degrees, they do it year-round and over their dessert sand dunes! In some African countries where the average temperature during summer is at 25 degrees, they do it for tourism purposes al-most every day of the year.

Is it safe to fl y a balloon during summer months when the temperature is very hot and humid?

Generally, ballooning is seldom done at ex-treme temperatures – too hot or too cold. The reason is that it takes more time and fuel to lift the balloon when the temperature is too high. Remember, balloon pilots need hot air to de-clare a lift off. The cooler it is outside the bal-loon, the lesser resources it takes for the bal-loon to fl y. Conversely, the hotter it is outside the balloon, the more heat one needs to lift the balloon. So, all that a pilot needs to do is to pump more heat to make a lift off.

This is the reason why, in almost all coun-tries around the world, balloon fl ights happen early in the morning (before sunrise) and late in the afternoon (at sunset) when weather condi-tions are most favorable – relatively cool tem-perature and light wind. This is the time when the wind is at its calmest. Here in the Philip-pines, we do fl y them at 5:30 in the morning and then again, at 5:00 in the afternoon.

Between the months of February and April, the average daytime temperature difference or variance is only 2-3 degrees. It means that April is hotter only by a small margin. Pilots who have been invited to participate this year have been offi cially informed about the temperature here in April at 34 degrees on the average (as compared to February at 31 degrees). Nobody is complaining because ballooning is done ear-ly morning and late afternoon when tempera-ture is generally more comfortable for the pilots.

What are the factors that make balloon-ing much safer to fl y?

As in other aviation – related sports, you need light wind (low speed), good visibility, and no chance of rain or thunderstorm. As today’s weather conditions are generally unpredictable due to climate change, fl ying these huge animals is based on LUCK! One needs a good horoscope or tarot reader to be able to decide whether or not to fl y a balloon. During commercial fl ights where tourists are prone to pay just to experience fl ying in one with the pilot, it takes much courage and guts to say NO to an intrepid passenger!

What are the factors that make balloon-ing dangerous to fl y?

The following are the things that a balloon pilot should be aware of: high wind warnings, gusty or breezy wind, thunderstorms, light-ning, chance of storm brewing and small craft warning, and of course, extreme temperatures. WIND IS MOST CRITICAL!

In the past, accidents do occur. These are mainly due to such incidents like human error, power line entanglement, fi re, mechanical trou-ble, lightning, among others.

What triggers a balloon to lift off? When the balloon is heated, it takes off coz

hot air is lighter than air at ambient tempera-ture. The more heat is pumped in, the higher and faster it goes upward.

Why do balloon pilots generally refuse to fl y at mid-day?

The reason is because the heating effect of the sun on the ground produces warm air that spiral upward. At this point, it becomes more diffi cult for the pilot to control his fl ight maneu-vers, and so, not much FUN! Upper winds are generally faster that the wind on the ground.

What if a balloon passenger needs to go to the bathroom?

Since balloon fl ights take about an hour or so, pre-fl ight planning is very important. Warn-ing: there are no bathrooms aboard the balloon!

–DOT Region 3

THE NOT-SO-FREQUENTLY-ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT BALLOONING WITH ANSWERS FROM A DUMMY LIKE ME…

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ANGELES CITY- Pres. Aqui-no was urged yesterday to certify as urgent a bill seek-ing to return the multi-billion coconut levy fund to its “real owners” and thereby has-ten the recovery of farmers displaced by Supertyphoon Yolanda.

The militant Kilusang Mag-bubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and the claimants’ movement Coco Levy Funds Ibalik sa Amin (Claim) issued this call amid reports that Malacanang “already downloaded to the Philippine Coconut Authority an initial fund of P2.8 billion for the rehabilitation and re-planting program in Leyte and Samar provinces, on Panay Island, and northern Cebu and Bantayan Island hit by ty-phoon Yolanda.”

“We challenge Aquino to immediately certify as urgent House Bill 1327 to hasten the recovery of small coconut farmers in Yolanda-hit areas,” said KMP Deputy Secretary General Willy Marbella.

Marbella noted that under the bill, “small coconut farm-

PNoy urged to certify as urgent bill on coco levy fund distribution

ers can use their own money for their own benefi t and re-covery.”

HB 1327 or the Genuine Small Coconut Farmers’ Fund authored by Anakpawis Par-ty-list Rep. Fernando Hicap proposed that “the coco levy funds shall be used exclu-sively for the benefi t of gen-uine small coconut farmers.”

KMP and Claim noted that HB 1327 is the “legislative counterpart” of the small co-conut farmers’ proposal for the “cash distribution of the recovered funds.”

The bill proposed that the funds “shall be apportioned to all coconut farmers with-out discrimination/prejudice in the form of cash and other so-cial benefi ts including but not limited to, pension benefi ts; medical and hospitalization benefi ts; maternity benefi ts; and educational assistance including scholarships.”

The Anakpawis bill also sought “to fi nance socio-eco-nomic projects initiated by small coconut farmers and their organizations and/or co-operatives that shall primarily focus on: livelihood programs

and projects meant to provide additional incomes to small coconut farmers; small and medium-scale coconut enter-prises, marketing and trading mechanisms, inventions and innovations of machineries and equipment for the devel-opment of high-quality coco-nut and improvement of lo-cal coconut production; and, programs that would provide loan facilities for small coco-nut farmers.”

Marbella, also the Claim national coordinator, warned the Aquino government against “scheming to plunder the P2.8 billion rehabilitation funds.”

“It’s been more than two months since Yolanda and small coconut farmers are yet to receive direct rehabili-tation funds from the Aquino government,” Marbella chid-ed warning: “We will close-ly keep an eye on the P2.8 billion rehabilitation fund for coconut farmers. Plunderers will face the small coconut farmers’ fury and we will hold them criminally liable for ev-ery peso they will steal from Yolanda victims,” he said.

Ding cacaluguran (1)CANITANG king bangan dacal cu pa tipunAt ing pagkeran cu malambut yang kutsun,Canita dacal la…malati’t maragulDing cacaluguran a cacu mandatun;Ala cung liliwan kilub patingapun,Ing balang buri cu balu rang idaun;Careti, nu’ku man magdulap, manintunMacakit cung agad, e cu man lumuyun.

Kilub ning aldo-aldo gewa Na ning GinuMacapa-iki la king balang kimut cu;Abe cong’ magsaya potang maglimbang cuPati caring cualtang laman ning bulsa cu;Ala ninu pa man karing meniad cacuIng e mirinan ken basta’t king agyu cu;Calulu’t mabandi lawe cu parehuUling pante-pante ing pamakiabe cu.

Dapot uling ing bie mengari mung rueda,Ngana nang mibabo at milalam keta,Canita macualta – ngeni pulubi na,Paldas na ing benging sadia cung ligaya;Ing lalung makirut a cacung pibataPati caluguran cacu mebating pa;Ngening ala na cung gaucan caring bulsa,E na cu macakit metung man carela.

A, ngeni cu ikit abitasang lubus,Ding cacaluguran capara no’ cabudNing cacung anino madalas catanud,A tacatakiki king cacung pangimut;Marap cu king sala – atiyu king gulut,Gulutan ke iti… king arap ya lalsut;At king madalumdum nung carin cu lungub,Dit’man e ke akit nu’ku man dumurut!

Abril 1, 1996

Ding cacaluguran (2)CANITANG atin cung dacal a pibandianMasanting a bili ampon masicanan,Kilub patingapun ning bie cung makanianMialiwa nong’ tau ding cacu daratang;Ating magpalimus para keng pisamban,Ampon aliwa pang canacu ra aduan;Mibabalangi la king cacung santungan,Pati na ring e cu sadiang casingkilan.

Pasbul ning mansion cu biclat keng manawaCaring ninu pa man a cacu magsaria; Timawa lang lungub angga king cusinaKing nanu mang oras mangan ya ing bisa;Alang e midinan o misaupan cayaKing cacu inawad da lalam cung upaya;At maging ding e cu sadiang capamingua Ikit cung ginusal cambe ring aliwa.

Canita, ing balang catayang sabian cuPakirandaman dang anting igcas Ginu;Malati’t maragul canacu mamintuAla cung liliwan king balang buri cu;Nu’ku man malikid siping cu atiluDing cacung alale matapat canacu;Camaganac ampon cacaluguran cu,E cu no’ abilang caring taliri cu.

Pero uling ing bie mengari mung dugang,Ngana nang mibabo – milalam nung misan,Canita atinan… ngeni rugu oyan…Ing anggang tipun cu, melaso mesintang;Ing lalung masakit a canacung kimtan,Mebating cung bandi pati sintang hirang!Ngening lupad na cu’t ala nang sicanan,Ing cacu mitagan asu niang pulgasan!!!

Abril 4, 1996

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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINESREGIONAL TRIAL COURTTHIRD JUDICIAL REGION

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURTANGELES CITY

RURAL BANK OF PORAC (PAMP.), EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSUREINC., represented by its President OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGELourdes Connie C. Tayag UNDER ACT 3135. AS AMENDEDMortgagee,

-versus- F.C. CASE NO. 2013-1014

Sps. ERIC D PENA andLADY MADONNA T. PENA,Mortgagors.

x---------------------------------------------------------xNOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE

Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act. 3135, as amended fi led by the Mortgagee, RURAL BANK OF PORAC (PAMP.), INC., represented by its President Lourdes Connie C. Tayag, with principal offi ce on Sto. Rosario St., Angeles City, against the Mortgagors, Sps. ERIC D. PENA and LADY MADONNA T. PENA,and residents of 181 San Pedro II, Magalang, Pampanga, in order to satisfy the mortgage debts which as of June 30, 2013 amounts to ONE HUNDRED SIXTEEN THOUSAND SEVEN PESOS AND 98/100 (P116, 007.98) Philippine Currency, principal, inclusive of arrears, interests and penalties and charges allowed by law and excluding the fi ling fee, publication fee, sheriff’s fee and attorney’s fee and other necessary expenses, the undersigned Sheriff IV hereby gives notice and announces that on February 12, 2014 at 10:00 o’ clock in the morning at the Offi ce of the Mayor of Magalang, Pampanga, located at the 2nd Floor of the Municipal Hall, Magalang, Pampanga, will sell at public auction for CASH and in Philippine Currency, the following parcel of land with all existing and future improvements thereon, to wit:

TCT NO. 115031A parcel of land (Lot 6 Block 22 of the consolidation and

subdivision plan, Pcs-035411-004549, being a portion of the consolidated Lots 5,6 and 7 Pcs-035411-004121, Lots 124-A-15 BB, E, F, G, H, I, J, Psd-035411-051057, Lots 124-A-4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 Psd-041482, Lots 124-B-2-B-2-B-3-T Psd-03-037314 L.R.C. Rec. No. )situated in the Barrio of Sta. Cruz, Municipality of Magalang, Prov. of Pamp. Bounded on the SW., along line 1-2 by Lot 5, Blk. 22; on the NW., along line 2-3 by easement; on the NE., along line 3-4 by Lot 7, Blk. 22; and on the SE., along line 4-1 by Road Lot 3 all of the cons. & subd. plan. x x x both of the consolidation-subdivision plan.. x x x containing an area of ONE HUNDRED FORTY FIVE (145) SQUARE METERS..xxx

Prospective buyers/bidders may investigate for themselves the above-mentioned parcel/s of land for their information and protection.

In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be held on February 19, 2014 at the same time and place without further notice.

Angeles City, December 27, 2013

JOSE GLENN V. ROSARIO Sheriff IVCopy Furnished:

RURAL BANK OF PORAC (PAMP), INCc/o Ms Lourdes Connie C. TayagMortgageeSto Rosario St., Angeles City

ATTY. ENRICO P. QUIAMBAOCounsel for the Mortgagee2/F Bank of Commerce Bldg., Mac Arthur HighwayLourdes Sur East, Angeles City

Sps. ERIC D. PENA and LADY MADONNA T. PENAMortgagors181 San Pedro II, Magalang, Pampanga

PUNTO! Central Luzon: January 15, 22 & 29, 2014

PGKM Chair Ruperto Cruz said yesterday that the Clark summit should focus on how to fast-track the development of the CIA it by “working for its autonomy.”

The CIA is managed by the Clark Internation-al Airport Corp., formerly a subsidiary of the Bas-es Conversion Develop-ment Authority but is now under the Department of Transportation and Com-munications.

“We cannot hope for any full development of the CIA as long as it is under the dictates and direction of Manila-cen-tric agencies,” Cruz said.

The challenge is for the establishment of a Clark International Air-port Authority, indepen-dent of line agencies of the government, “with a charter of its own, fo-cused solely on the de-velopment and manage-ment of the CIA,” Cruz said, giving as model the Mactan Cebu Interna-tional Airport Authority.

“With no strings at-tached to Imperial Ma-nila, the Mactan airport charted its own destiny in the aviation industry and succeeded in cata-lysing the development of the areas it serves,” Cruz said. “We, in Pam-panga and Central Lu-zon can do no less with an autonomous Clark airport.”

No to twin-airportsystem

Cruz likewise took ex-ception to the proposed “twinning” of the CIA and the Ninoy Aquino International Airport ad-vanced by the CIAC and

PGKM calls for Clark int’l airport authority

“It seems that there is an effort to twist this case,” he said, as he ex-pressed doubt on the im-partiality of both the po-lice and local offi cials.

In a report, Albayalde said the security guards were believed to have fi red the shots that crit-ically wounded farm-ers Padino, Noel Tumali and Arman Lomibao, all members of the Aniban

Farmer in Porac hacienda shooting diesng Nagkakaisang Mama-mayan sa Hacienda Do-lores (Aniban), a group asserting the rights of hacienda farmers over lands being claimed by LLL Holdings and two other private corpora-tions.

Tumali and Lomibao remained in serious con-dition at the Jose B. LIn-gad Memorial Hospital in San Fernando.

The police report identifi ed barangay Ha-

cienda Dolores chair-man Antonio Tolentino and security guard Lar-ry Sabado as being also injured. Sabado was re-ported to have sustained hacks from a bolo.

Canlas noted that Tolentino, who is also a member of Aniban, was arrested by the po-lice and remained in the police headquarters in Porac yesterday. He said the police fabricat-ed charges of malicious

mischief and “carnap-ping” of a motorcycle allegedly belonging to LLL Holdings against the chairman.

Albayalde cited po-lice report saying that a confrontation arose at about 4:30 a.m. last Sun-day after some 30 farm-ers ignored LLL Holdings security men who had warned them not to pro-ceed to their farms in an area being claimed by the company.

tions after the devasta-tion caused by Typhoon Santi and Supertyphoon Yolanda last year,” De Guzman said.

De Guzman also said that the rice importation is coupled with an ag-

CL gets lion’s share of imported riceFROM PAGE 1 gressive procurement

of locally produced rice to build enough supply that will stand with the region’s rice consump-tion for this year.

He said such stocks are all of highest qual-ity because they regu-larly conduct monitoring

of their stocks based on the required regulations and standards.

“Our current policy is that we do not store rice for more than six months, therefore I am assuring the con-suming public that our present inventory of lo-

cal rice stocks, which were recently milled us-ing our newly-procured palay, are all of good quality. The same goes for the imported rice, since the stocks need to pass NFA’s quality standards,” De Guzman added.

FROM PAGE 1 the DOTC. “That’s the PIAT-

CO deal in actual prac-tice, only the “latak” or crumbs from NAIA will be given to Clark, serv-ing as though the lesser of the twin with Manila as the dominant sibling,” Cruz said.

The now- scrapped PIATCO deal mandat-ed that the development of any international air-port in the country could be undertaken only af-ter NAIA achieved an annual arrival of 10 mil-lion passengers for three consecutive years.

The PIATCO deal was challenged in court by the PGKM in the early 2000’s calling it a “sabo-tage of the Clark airport’s declaration (by former President Ramos) as fu-ture premier internation-al gateway of the coun-try.”

Closed eyesPart of the Clark chal-

lenge, Cruz reminded the so-called stakehold-ers going to the summit organized by Pampanga 1st District Rep. Joseller “Yeng” Guiao is to “force open the closed eyes of government to the po-tentials of Clark which government has long been squandering.”

“Clark has some 2,500 hectares of avi-ation area, two parallel runways and sound in-frastructure all around. It has the only extant space for a third runway even,” Cruz said. “But in-stead of tapping these actual resources, gov-ernment is still looking for other areas for the country’s premier airport, even wanting to go into expensive and environ-

mentally unsound recla-mation.”

“An airport in a re-claimed area is open to storm surges – as shown by Yolanda, yet gov-ernment is stubbornly pursuing that direction,” Cruz said, referencing to reports of reclamation in Sangley Point or along the Bulacan coastline as possible airport sites.

Challenge to leadersBolstering his call

for a Clark International Airport Authority is the challenge PGKM hurled to the region’s political leaders to “put your mon-ey where your mouths are.”

The Regional Devel-opment Council for Cen-tral Luzon has been re-ported to back the full development of the CIA as premier international gateway.

Pampanga 3rd Dis-trict Rep. Oscar S. Ro-driguez, vice chair of the Central Luzon Bloc of congressmen is reported to have marshalled his peers up to Northern Lu-zon to support the same advocacy.

“First, our legislators can start laying the legal ground for the Clark air-port authority. Second, they can dedicate their priority development as-sistance fund or howev-er it is called now, to fund that authority, “Cruz said. “If Sen. Jinggoy Estrada could allot his PDAF to his father’s LGU, I don’t see any reason why our congressmen, and Sen. Lito Lapid too, to do the same for Clark.”

For the local govern-ment units contiguous to Clark, Cruz said they should “cease and de-

sist from their culture of mendicancy, of merely waiting for largesse from the freeport and instead actively work for its de-velopment.”

The Clark Chal-lenged: Stakeholders Summit 2014 is sched-uled for Thursday, Jan-uary 16 at the Widus Convention Center here. The BCDA, CIAC and the Clark Development Corp. are set to make their own presentations for the development of CIA before an expected assembly of 200 busi-nessmen, local offi cials and NGOs.

The Clark summit aims to prod the nation-al government to put up a policy on Clark espe-cially on the airport. –With reports from Ashley Manabat

“There is lack of sin-cerity from our national leaders to develop our airport but with an auton-omous Clark Internation-al Airport Authority, k In-ternTas ann autonomous region, Kapampangans will plot their own path for its full and immedi-ate development,” said Cruz.

The challenge is for the establishment of the Clark International Air-port Authority, autono-mous from line agencies of the government, that will oversee the develop-ment of the CIA, he ex-plained.

Cruz said the Central Luzon bloc of the House of Representatives as well as Kapampangan senators in the Senate should put their Prior-ity Development Fund (PDAF) for funding the full and immediate devel-opment of the CIA.

He said funds can also be culled from the MRT subsidy funded by the Filipino people as well as from local gov-ernment units (LGUs) from Central and North-ern Luzon.

Cruz said the CIA is the only airport which has an existing 2,500 hectares of available space as well as two par-allel runways and more than enough space for another one.

“There is no more reason for delay,” said Cruz. “The time to act is now, he said, adding that “Kapampangans as well as other stakeholders in Central and Northern Lu-zon to should act as one now.”

Cruz said the move of the national leadership to make the Clark Inter-national Airport Corp. (CIAC) under the auspic-

es of the Department of Transportation and Com-munications (DOTC) greatly undermines the CIA development and exposes the collusion in its hidden agenda to sabotage its develop-ment, he said.

Representative Jo-seller “Yeng” Guiao (1st district, Pampanga) has organized the Clark Stakeholders Summit scheduled for today at the Widus Convention Center here. The Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA and its subsidiary the Clark De-velopment Corp. (CDC) as well as the CIAC are set to make their own presentations for the de-velopment of CIA.

The Clark summit aims to prod the national government to put up a policy on Clark especial-ly on the airport.

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The GossipmillerCesar Pambid

Lovi-Rocco romance ongoing!

HINDI MUNA mapapanood sa soap opera si Rocco Nacino pagkatapos ng successful team-up nila ni Lovi Poe sa Akin Pa Rin Ang Bukas. Mas pinili ni Rocco na gumawa ng pelikula ngayon kaysa magsimula ng panibagong soap opera.

Nakausap namin si Rocco sa set ng Magpakailanman last Sunday evening sa Maginhawa St., sa Quezon City, kung saan siya ang gumaganap sa title role sa episode na Marlon de Leon Story, na idinidirek ni Maryo J. delos Reyes, at ipalalabas ngayong Saturday.

Ani Rocco: “ Pinapili ako ng aking manager, ang father kong si Ralph at ng Artist Center ng GMA, kung ano ang gagawin ko pagkatapos ng Akin Pa Rin Ang Bukas, kung soap opera o pelikula. Mas pinili ko ang movies. Kasi, dalawa ang gagawin kong magkasunod: Ang Eman ni Tikoy Aguiluz at ang movie ng Viva Films na isu-shoot sa Amsterdam.”

Tungkol sa Pedro Calungsod Story, happy si Rocco sa naging resulta ng pelikula. Kahit di siya nagwaging best actor, at least ay na-nominate siya bilang best actor sa nakaraang awards night ng MMFF 2013.

Si Lovi Poe pa ang nagsabi sa kanya over the phone na nominated siya sa best actor category.Nangangahulugan lang na di nagtatapos sa Akin Pa Rin Ang Bukas ang kanilang friendship na dalawa. Totoo kayang tuluy-tuloy pa rin ang panliligaw ni Rocco

kay Lovi?

Giyera de pamilya tuloy pa rin

TULOY ANG giyera de pamailya sa ilang showbiz celebrities. Minsan pa nagsalita na naman ang ina ni Charice sa pagkagalit sa anak at sa kabit nitong si Alyssa Quijano,

dahil aniya, noon pa mang araw, nilalait na ng nanay ni Alyssa si Charice. Dahil dito, wala raw itong kapatawaran mula sa kanya. Charice and Alyssa became close

when Charice became Alyssa’s mentor in “The X Factor Philippines.” “Sinisiraan nila noon at nilalait si Charice, pinapa-out nila sa ‘Little Big Star’

(the ABS-CBN talent search where Charice placed as runner up to Sam Concepcion). Alam ni Charice ‘yan kaya sabi ko, sana, ibang babae na lang, wag lang ‘yan,” she said on TV, adding that Alyssa is just using Charice and doesn’t really love her. “Ang ikinasasama lang ng loob ko, madali niya lang nakalimutan lahat ng ginawa ko para sa kanya. Bakit ngayon sinasabi niya na wala akong nagawa, na may pangalawa na siyang pamilya at doon siya masaya?”

Mommy Raquel admits she also has a misunderstanding with her own mom, Mrs. Tess Relucio, who revealed that Charice tried committing suicide last year. She says when her mom asks something from her, “at hindi ko

naibibigay, ayun, sinisiraan ako.”Tuloy din ang gulo sa Baretto family. Demadahan na ito to the max at wala

nang makapipigil pa.It’s 2014, and there is certainly no peace in these households.

Kris Aquino napaikutan si Manny V. Pangilinan?

INIS DAW ang nararamdaman ngayon ni Manny Pangilinan kay Kris Aquino dahil nilaro lang siya nito. Acccording to some sources, plantsado na dapat ang paglipat ni Kris

Aquino sa GMA 7 na balitang nabili na ng PLDT sa malaking halaga.

Paano namang di makararamdam ng inis si MVP e, sa true lang mas malaki pa raw ang pinag-usapang bayad

kay Kris kesa dun kay Sharon pero yun pala ginamit lang yung leverage ni Kris para makakuha ng offer sa ABS.

Bukod sa malaking halaga ng kontrata may isa pa raw pakiusap si Kris na madaling ibinigay sa kanya ng network.

We don’t know how true this is but Kris’ request is for her to be paired with John Lloyd Cruz and Coco Martin, the top Kapamillya actors today, in a primetime soap. They will play two young men fi ghting over her. If it’s true that this was granted, let’s see if we’d really see such a show airing on ABS later this year. As we all know, Kris’ last soap, “Kailangan Ko’y Ikaw” with Robin Padilla and Anne Curtis, didn’t rate as expected so it was quickly axed. But as one Kris fan said, “sana mag-stick na lang siya sa hosting.”

Lovi Poe

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CLARK FREEPORT -- The Clark Development Corp. has reported that investors here have post-ed 38.9 percent higher exports.

The CDC’s Enterprise Regulatory Department (ERD) noted that last year’s exports were worth $368.17 million, higher by $103 million than the $265 million worth of exports in 2012.

Phoenix Semiconductor Philippines Corpora-tion (PSPC) remains with the biggest export vol-ume at $223.36 million or 61 percent of the total export as of last December, the ERD noted.

Second in exports volume was Nanox Phil-ippines Inc., which used to be the top exporter here, with $66.67 million worth of exports; HLD Clark Steel Pipe Co. Inc. with $14.76 million; Yo-kohama Tire Philippines Inc. with $14.29 million; SMK Electronics Philippines Corp. with $11.67 million; L&T International Group Philippines Inc. with $11.24 million; Ametron Inc. with $7.91 mil-lion; Viskase Asia Pacifi c Corp. with $2.18 million; Golden Stone Garments Inc. with $1.69 million; and Multi-Tek Fasteners Inc. with $1.58 million.

The ERD also reported that 83 other locators in this freeport reported exports with a combined value of $12.77 million.

The PSPC likewise had the biggest import vol-ume in the last month of 2013 with $218.22 million followed by Nanox with $30.79 million, the ERD also said.

The ERD also noted that “CDC was able to generate around P1.92 million from the various fees of importing and exporting fi rms, which is up by 17 percent compared to 2012’s P1.65 million.”

Clark exportsrise by 38.9%

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