COA, BIR asked to probe CDC, CIAC

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May 7 - 9, 2015
PANANAW NG MALAYANG PILIPINO!
CA upholds garnishment
of P214-M CDC assets
By Ding Cervantes
C
LARK FREEPORT - The Court
of Appeals (CA) has junked
the appeal of the state-owned
Clark Development Corp. (CDC)
against the garnishment of some
P214 million of its assets in favor of
the private contractor which built the
Sacobia bridge in 1998 purportedly
as part of the mothballed Philippine
Expo theme park here.
Page 8 please
Clark airport
operations
normalize
Bridge over troubled assets. Photo
grabbed from internet
Bursting Clark’s balloons
COA, BIR asked to probe CDC, CIAC
ANGELES CITY – Government funds given to a
private group, sans liquidation and auditing processes. A possible case
of unpaid taxes on the
part of the beneficiary.
These sum up the
allegations cited by the
advocacy group Pinoy
Gumising Ka Movement
(PGKM) in its letters of
complaint over the weekend to the Commission
on Audit (COA) and the
Bureau of Internal Reve-
nue (BIR).
The subject of the
complaints is the annual
Clark hot air balloon festival organized by Capt.
Joi Roa under his Philippine International Hot Air
Balloon Foundation (PI-
HABF).
“For the past 15
years, [Clark Development Corp. and Clark International Airport Corp.]
have been subsidizing
the balloon festival in
Page 8 please
Lightning-struck nav
equipment repaired
CLARK FREEPORT Operations at the Clark
International
Airport
normalized
yesterday
morning after lightning
struck its navigational aid equipment Monday afternoon and consequently limiting arriving flights only during the
daytime.
The Civil Aviation
Authority of Philippines
(CAAP) issued yesterday a Notice to Airmen
(NOTAM) saying that
Clark airport’s Doppler
Very High Frequency
Omni-directional Radio
Range (DVOR) equipment
has
“resumed
normal
operations.”
The DVOR, which provides “bearing information to approaching
aircraft, was finally repaired by CAAP technicians and CIAC engineering
personnel.
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Angeles City Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan and RTC
Judge Omar Viola lead wreath-laying ceremony.
Pampanga 3rd District Rep. Oscar Rodriguez and City of San Fernando Vice Mayor Jimmy
Lazatin along with local officials and members of the local masonic lodge pose before the
statue of the martyr.
AC, CSF remember Abad Santos’ martyrdom
By Ashley Manabat
ANGELES CITY – The martyrdom and
heroism of former Chief Justice Jose
Abad Santos was remembered on his
73rd death anniversary on Thursday
with simultaneous wreath laying ceremonies here and in the City of San Fernando.
The ceremony in this city led by
Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan was held at
the Museo ning Angeles in Barangay
Sto. Cristo.
In San Fernando, Vice Mayor Jimmy T. Lazatin and Rep. Oscar S. Rodriguez (3rd district, Pampanga) led the
rites held at the foot of the statue of
Abad Santos at the Heroes Hall.
Pamintuan said it is important to remember the martyrdom of Abad San-
tos, who was a true son of Pampanga,
to instil in the youth his heroism.
“Let us remember him not only today, not only every 7th of May, but all
throughout,” he added.
Abad Santos was born in the City
of San Fernando. He is remembered
as one of the greatest “cabalens” who
ever lived and laid his life for his country, said Pamintuan.
Joining Vice Mayor Lazatin and
Rodriguez in San Fernando were City
Councilor Angie Hizon and the City
Tourism and Investments promotions
Office headed by Ching Pangilinan and
other government officials.
Lazatin extolled the martyrdom of
Abad Santos who gave up his life for
his country.
In Angeles, Pamintuan enjoined An-
gelenos and said Abad Santos should
be placed “in the brightest part of the
altar of our memory, and let his memory
inspire us to be unbowed and unbending against tyranny, against oppression,
against foreign domination, against exploitation, against human rights violations, against corruption, against all
that ails our society and country…”
After his speech, the mayor, together with Regional Trial Court Executive
Judge Omar T. Viola, Department of
Education Division Superintendent Dr.
Nicolas Capulong, Angeles City police
director Senior Supt. Eden Ugale and
other government officials proceeded
with the wreath laying ceremony, which
was accompanied with a 21 gun salute
by the local police.
Abad Santos was the fifth Chief Jus-
tice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and served as Acting President
of the Philippines during World War II.
On April 11, 1942, he and his son
José Jr. were captured by the Japanese. He identified himself as the chief
justice of the Supreme Court of the
Philippines. Abad Santos and his son
were taken to a concentration camp.
When asked to cooperate with the
Japanese, he refused. Although he
had nothing to do with military operations, they imputed to him the destruction of the bridges and other public
works in Cebu.
Before he was executed, he told his
son, “Do not cry, Pepito, show to these
people that you are brave. It is an honor to die for one’s country. Not everybody has that chance.”
Punto! Central Luzon • May 7 - 9, 2015 • Thursday - Saturday
‘Good Harvest’ turns bad
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Estafa cases filed vs. vanished firm
By Ding Cervantes
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO
-- Some 40 persons, mostly
from Central Luzon, have filed
separate syndicated estafa
cases against 22 respondents
identified with the Good Harvest Orchard Marketing Corp.
(Good Harvest) after their investments worth hundreds of
millions reportedly vanished
with the firm itself.
The firm had allegedly
lured some 17,000 folk to invest P33,920 for each mango tree they would plant in a
farm in Barangay Paysawan
in Bagac, Bataan. After five
years, each investor would
get P30,000 for each mango
tree per year for the next 50
years, it promised investors.
“Everything was so convincing because we were invited to the site where candidates for Miss Earth even
engaged in tree planting in
2005,” recalled Lito Ong, a
businessman from this city
who invested on several mango trees promised by Good
Harvest.
Danilo Navera of Mexico, Pampanga, who also invested over P100,000 on the
supposed mango trees, noted in his complaint that during
the third anniversary of Good
Harvest in 2005, the firm even
held a party at the Fontana
Resort at Clark freeport, with
2 pushers arestado
Ni Johnny R. Reblando
OLONGAPO CITY - Nahulog sa bitag ng mga tauhan ng City Anti-Illegal Drug
Special Operation Team
(CAIDSOT) ang dalawang
drug pushers sa makahiwalay na drug operation sa
lungsod na ito.
Huli ng pulisya sa Katipunan St., Barangay East
Bajac-Bajac ang suspek na
si Ernest Cayle, 21, matapos
magbenta ng isang plastic
sachet ng shabu sa isang police poseur buyer sa halagang
P300.
Narekober sa pag-iingat
ng suspek ang siyam na plastic sachet na hinihinalang naglalaman ng shabu.
Sa Barangay Sta. Rita,
huli naman ang suspek na si
Crispin De Leon, 56, matapos
magbenta ng shabu sa halagang P500.
Ang suspek ay nasakote
matapos na makipaghabulan at makipagbarilan sa mga
humahabol na pulis habang
sakay ito ng single motorcycle.
Narekober sa pag-iingat
ng suspek ang isang kalibre
38 baril na may laman na
apat na bala, marked money at limang plastic sachet
ng shabu.
Ang mga suspek ay
detinido sa Police Station 1
detention cell at ipinagharap
na sa kasong paglabag sa
Section 5 at 11, Article ll ng
RA 9165.
a well-known television personality as host.
Ong said that after five
years of waiting for their alleged mango tree to yield fruit,
Golden Harvest personnel became scarce and even its office at 1006 Richemonde Plaza at San Miguel Ave. in Ortigas Center in Pasig City has
already closed.
He said persons behind
Good Harvest could have
amassed hundreds of millions
from their supposed investors,
some of whom invested heavily on the supposed mango
tree farm project.
Ong said he and 39 others
who have filed cases against
Good Harvest have been urging other victims, estimated to
number about 17,000, to also
file cases. The complainants
so far have filed separate cases before various venues, including the Task Force Business Scam of the Department
of Justice.
Navera said he had invested most of his retirement pay
on the Good Harvest project.
“They explained to us that
they would put a reference
number on each tree so the
ownership of the tree could be
traced. They said that even
if our tree did not bear fruit,
there would be no problem
since there would be communal sharing of profits,” he recalled in his complaint filed
with the Task Force Business
Scam.
He also said Good Harvest
assured him of “no less” in the
venture as “they would also
plant sweet tamarind, santol,
opo grande and native kangkong in the area.”
“They also said the mango
trees would be taken care of
by no other than the so-called
Father of Philippine Mango,
Antonio Rola,” he also recalled.
The separately filed complaints had common respondents identified as Rafael W.
Lopez, John Rafael E. Lopez,
Adoracion Lopez, Conrado
Padilla, Jaime Santiago, Reynaldo Abella, Henry Reyes,
Floyd Ferare, Gilbert Mendoza, Willie Terrado, Edmund Lisondra, Froilan Leonardo, Antholy Raymond Abadilla, Josefina Pillarina, Wilma Siason,
Elbert Aquino, Richard Dalao,
Antonio Rola, Adelina Baile, Benjie Pazcoguin Jr, Jenny
Chug, and Elvira Rellosa.
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Punto! Central Luzon • May 7 - 9, 2015 • Thursday - Saturday
Customs officer, 3 others nabbed for drugs
By Ashley Manabat
CLARK FREEPORT -- A customs officer and his three cohorts were arrested in an illegal drugs operation in Barangay Sto. Domingo 1st, Capas, Tarlac by anti-narcotics
agents of the Philippine Drug
Enforcement Agency (PDEA)
Region III on Tuesday (May
5).
PDEA Regional Director
Jeoffrey C. Tacio identified the
suspects as Mark Anthony S.
Del Castillo, 41, a resident of
Barangay San Miguel, Tarlac City; Irineo M. Razon, 38,
a resident of Sto. Domingo
1st Capas, Tarlac; Armon T.
Metro Dental now open
at Sm City Clark
Punto! Central Luzon • May 7 - 9, 2015 • Thursday - Saturday
Metro Dental, Philippines’ largest nationwide
chain of dental centers,
opened its 15th branch in April
2015 at the 2nd Level of SM
City Clark.
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It will hold its grand opening on May 23, 2015 which will
commence with a blessing and
ribbon cutting ceremony to be
attended by the executives of
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from the different industries.
The ceremony will be followed by a public event to be
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Vistan, 20, of Sta. Lucia, Capas, Tarlac; and Aries C. Catacutan, 35, of Talaga, Capas,
Tarlac.
Tacio said the suspects
yielded four small heat-sealed
transparent plastic sachets
containing methamphetamine
hydrochloride or shabu weighing a total of 75 grams and assorted drug paraphernalia.
The suspects are now detained at the PDEA Jail Facility in Camp Olivas, City of San
Fernando.
Charges for violation of
Sections 6, 7, 11, 12 and 15
Article II of RA 9165 are being readied for filing in court
against the suspects.
NE village in eye
of Veloso storm
Recruiter Sergio also lives here
By Elmo Roque
TALAVERA, Nueva Ecija –
Barangay Esguerra here is in
the eye of the Mary Jane Veloso case. It is the home place
of the Pinay who just earned
a reprieve of her execution in
Indonesia and also of the two
persons whom she pinpointed as reason for her being involved in an illegal drug case.
The village is adjacent
to the Poblacion here and
is home to about 4,000 residents benefitting much from
the vastly improving first class
town of Nueva Ecija located
15 kilometers north of Cabanatuan City.
“We are affected by the Veloso case,” said Jimmy Dumaguit, barangay
chair. “Mary Jane is one of our own here as she
is married to a native of the place and her two
children stay here. The two persons she accused of being responsible for her trip abroad
that caused her woes are also from our village,”
he added.
Veloso was convicted by the Indonesian
court when authorities found in her luggage 2.6
kilograms of heroin upon arrival in that country’s airport. Her execution last week was postponed upon orders of Indonesian President
Joko Widodo because of the new evidence
presented in the Philippines about her case.
The new evidence involved the filing of cases of illegal recruitment, human trafficking, and
estafa before the Department of Justice (DOJ)
against Maria Kristina Sergio and her live-in
partner Julius Lacanilao.
“We have joined prayer-vigils in Cabanatuan City for Mary Janes’ deliverance from execution,” Dumaguit said. “But we have not allowed rallies against Sergio and Lacanilao condemning them for their alleged involvement in
Mary Jane’s case,” he added.
Mayor Neri Santos-Martinez also said they
have been lending support to the cause of Mary
Jane ever since.
“Whenever her kin approach us for financial
assistance for their travels to Manila to get support for the jailed Mary Jane (in Indonesia), we
always provide them,” she added. “A few days
before Mary Jane’s husband and children went
to Indonesia to be with the doomed Pinay before her scheduled execution, we gave them
some financial assistance,” she added.
At the municipal building here, a big tarpaulin, heralds the town’s plea for Mary Jane’s deliverance from sure death. The tarpaulin reads:
“Iligtas ang buhay ni Mary Jane. Ang bayan ng
Talavera ay kasama ng sambayanang Pilipino na nagdarasal para sa kanyang kaligtasan
(Save the life of Mary Jane. The town of Tala-
vera is praying for her deliverance.”
Santos said the Lacanilaos
have not approached them for
assistance but if they need
our support, we can give them
whatever we can as they are
also our own.
“It’s difficult to judge them
off-hand. Let the court decide
if they are guilty or not,” she
added.
Sergio and Lacanilao had
sought police protective custody because of what Maria
Kristina said they were threatened of bodily harm by Mary
Jane’s husband, Michael Candelaria, and her parents Cesar
and Celia.
Reports said Mary Jane
became acquainted with Sergio, who is a native of Naga
City, through her live-in partner
Julius. Sergio, a cum laude
graduate of Camarines Sur
Polytechnic College who left
her husband and five of their
children after working abroad,
used to go abroad as property
marketing assistant.
Mary Jane’s parents used
to stay in Barrangay Esguerra
here and were close to the Lacanilao family. They now stay
in Barangay Caudillo, Cabanatuan City.
Meanwhile, Supt. Wilson
Santos VI, police chief here,
said this town has also its
share of drug users and peddlers and based on monitoring by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in
Region III it is in the top ten list
of towns and cities in this province facing illegal drugs problem.
“But we have no information that there are drug mules
here, illegal drug syndicates,
or drug laboratories. Based on
confessions by some arrested peddlers, the supply here
comes from Cavite,” Santos
said. “The drugs are procured
at P7,000 to P8,000 per bulto (five grams) and is peddled
for over P12,000 in small sachets,” he added.
Santos attested that the
names of Sergio and Lacanilao are not in the watch list of
those involved in illegal drugs.
THINK GREEN
Festive Flair
Ning Cordero
Brodee’s Resto bar turns one
Cebu Pacific Ad
fearlessly heads the
kitchen with his signature dishes and cooking
techniques.
“We are strategically located in the Korean Town to offer different food choice, cuisine
and taste to customers.
Family during weekends
and group of friends after work hang out here
regularly. We have a lot
of future plans like expansion of the restaurant and additional dishes in the menu. There’s
a lot to look forward to
in Brodee’s,” equipped
Mendoza.
Dining here is more
fun with flavored beers
(salted caramel and
butterscotch) and bagel sandwiches. Try out
the beer pong and Hot
Wings, Monster Fries or
Beer challenge.
Brodee’s is located at
Ecco Bldg. Korean Town,
Friendship Highway, Angeles City, call 09999991979, opens Tuesday
to Sunday 11 am to 2 am.
Love to hear from you please write me at ningcordero@yahoo.com, instagram@thefestiveflair.
Of friendship and food Brodee’s
celebrates one. Rowena Mendoza with
husband (left) and young promising chef
Patrick Dimaranan (right) pose with Brodee’s
staff.
Punto! Central Luzon • May 7 - 9, 2015 • Thursday - Saturday
With the belief that
eating out should be
pleasing,
laid-back
and exciting, longtime
friends Francis Patrick Dimaranan and
Rowena
Mendoza
began Brodee’s as a
pop-up, now celebrating its first anniversary with flying colors.
“The
restaurant
operation is easy and
free flowing maybe
because of the friendship that we have established since college. I think this is important for the business to succeed. We
are all graduates of
HRM in Angeles University Foundation.
We joined and won
several culinary competitions like Chefs
on Parade, Philippine
Culinary Cup, and
others,” shared Mendoza.
They have put a lot
of love to their food.
Even in the heart of
Korean Town, they
transcend the dining experience with
Brodee’s
delicious
best-sellers
(Ribs
Platter, Wing Nation,
Big J’s Belly and Machos) and great ambiance. This restaurant
proves that youth and
creativity are recipes
for success. As the
young thriving chef
Patrick Dimaranan,
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Terminal tales
Punto! Central Luzon • May 7 - 9, 2015 • Thursday - Saturday
CLARK AIRPORT advocates, rejoice!
Only last week, this most happy news:
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“DO NOT cry, Pepito. Show these
people that you are brave. It is
a rare opportunity for me to die
for our country. Not everybody
is given that chance.”
Parting words of Supreme
Court Chief Justice Jose Abad
Santos, acting as President
of the Commonwealth of the
Philippines, minutes before
his execution by the Japanese
Imperial Army, for his defiant
refusal to pledge allegiance to
the conquering enemy.
May 2, 1942. The birthing of a
national hero. Of Kapampangan
pride. Of Filipino glory.
We shall never forget. We shall
be forever grateful.
MANILA,
Philippines
The
Clark
International Airport Corp. (CIAC) is set to
bid out the contract for the first phase of the
P7.2 billion low cost carrier passenger terminal
building at the Clark International Airport in
Pampanga within the next two months.
CIAC President-CEO Emigdio Tanjuatco III
said the first phase of the project worth P1.2
billion would be presented to the National
Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)
for approval next week.
“Once the President approves it, hopefully
the bidding for the project will start by the middle
of this year,” Tanjuatco said.
According to Tanjuatco, the project obtained
the green light from the NEDA - Investment
Coordination Committee (ICC) last week
after being pushed by the Department of
Transportation and Communications (DOTC).
“The fact that the national government
infused P1.2 Billion for airport improvement
is an indication of the government’s support
through the DOTC,” he said.
Tanjuatco said the proposed terminal
building designed by the French firm Aeroport
de Paris could accommodate 15 million
passengers annually…
Foremost Clark airport pusher Pinoy
Gumising Ka Movement ain’t even smiling
though.
“To see is to believe.” So declared the
PGKM, making like Glum, the Lilliputian, with
its “guarded pessimism” over Tanjuatco’s ohso-hopeful fascination.
“We have a long history of announced
biddings for the Clark terminal from the time
of GMA going until now,” said PGKM chair
Ruperto Cruz. “All announcements, all coming
to nothing. Now, can you blame us for being
pessimistic?”
Indeed, the PGKM stands on solid ground
where proclamations on the construction of the
new Clark airport terminal get mired in shifting
quicksand.
Consider the following seemingly slightly
edited version of the above-cited news story:
MANILA, Philippines – Construction of the
proposed P7.2-billion budget terminal at the
Clark International Airport will likely start in the
second quarter of 2014.
On the sidelines of the press conference for
the inaugural Dubai-Clark flight of Emirates,
Clark
International
Airport
Corporation
President-CEO Victor Jose Luciano said the
terminal is expected to be completed by the
second quarter of 2016.
The terminal, he noted, will have a capacity
of between 10 million and 15 million passengers.
He added the government may fund the
project or place it under the Public-Private
Partnership (PPP) program.
That was in October 2, 2013 yet. And
Emirates, by May 2014, flew out of the Clark
coop, er, loop, and has not since returned.
Tanjuatco now. Luciano then. Same lines
– same lies? – same CIAC character crafting
fairy tales out of the Clark airport terminal. As
these finds from previous pieces here show:
In September 2006, GMA presided over the
laying of the time capsule for the construction
of Terminal 2. It was announced then that the
sum of P3 billion, to come from the Manila
International Airport Authority, the Philippine
Amusement and Gaming Corp., and the Bureau
of Immigration, among other agencies will be
allotted for the project.
…Luciano announced the $1.2 billion
proposal from an ALMAL Investments Co., a
subsidiary of the Kuwaiti mega developer M.A.
Kharafi Projects, “to cover all civil components
of the DMIA Terminals 1, 2 and 3 plus the
adjacent 1,500 hectares in the aviation complex
strictly following the CIAC original master plan.”
… CIAC press released that a group of major
government-linked and private firms in Malaysia
called Bristeel Overseas Ventures, Inc. (BOVI)
offered to infuse at least $150 million in foreign
direct investment to immediately undertake
the much-needed expansion of the passenger
terminal of the Clark International Airport.
…in a regular meeting on May 17, 2010, the
CIAC Board “resolved to accept for detailed
negotiations” the proposal of the Philco Aero
Inc. on the Passenger Terminal 2 Development
Project of the DMIA, as it was deemed “superior”
to the BOVI proposal.
…Luciano – in January 2012 -- announced
that “they” are pushing for the construction
of a budget terminal that will handle about
10 million passengers a year at the CIA.
“The new facility, amounting to P12 billion, will
take three years to complete and make (the
CIA) the second largest airport in the country,
next to Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International
Airport… This budget terminal is the kind of
terminal that meets the requirements of our
airport in Clark. Our terminal right now can only
accommodate 2.5 million. So we need a budget
terminal to effectively say that DMIA is the next
budget airline airport of the country.” So Mr.
Luciano said…
Too long in verbalization, ever short in
realization. That’s the CIAC story on the Clark
airport. Always has been.
P7.2- billion terminal in the offing? Believe,
at your own delusion.
Today in Philippine history
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Gregorio Torres Singian is born
in San Fernando, Pampanga
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On May 9, 1872, Gregorio
Torres Singian, the so-called
Father of Philippine Surgery,
was born in San Fernando,
Pampanga.
Dr. Singian, who completed a degree in medicine
from the University of Santo
Tomas (UST) in March 1896,
founded the Philippine College of Surgeons in 1936.
Notably, when he was director of the San Juan De
Dios Hospital in 1920, it was
affiliated with UST and became the UST Department
of Surgery in 1929 where he
instituted programs and residencies that helped make
Philippine medicine what it
is today.
He traveled extensively to Europe, visiting clinics and acquiring expertise
pertaining to surgery. Upon
his return to the country, he
put up a modern laboratory
electro-therapy clinic.
Prior to that, in 1907, Dr.
Singian was appointed as
the first Filipino associate
professor of surgery in the
Philippine Medical School,
which later became the University of the Philippines
College of Medicine.
During the Filipino-American War, he served as a
doctor in the Philippine forces under General Maximino
Hizon and General Tomas
Mascardo.
It is said that he treated
President Manuel Luis Quezon for malaria, nursing him
back to health in his home
in Pampanga and they became lifelong friends.
He was the editor of the
“Revista Filipina de Medicina y Farmacia” (Philippine
Review of Medicine and
Pharmacy), the maiden issue of which saw light in
1910.
He died on January 29,
1937 at the age of 64.
Halo-halo
Ding Cervantes
Descriptions of Purgatory
For thelogians, even priests, who try to complicate matters by too much
intellectualizing the world of spirits, much can be learned, again, from the events
in Medjugorje where the Blessed Virgin has continued to appear in tri-dimensional
form to visionaries since 1981.
I suspect that St. Thomas Aquinas himself
had realized relying too much on cerebration
in his Summa Theologica, so that after he was
given a vision of the afterlife, he remarked that
the volumes he had written were as if mere
straw. After this, he wrote no more.
So we continue with what Medjugorje
teaches us about the afterlife. An earlier column
quoted the visionaries describing Heaven as
they saw it. Now, Purgatory.
Here’s visionary Vicka’s words:
“Purgatory is an endless space of ashy color.
It was quite dark. I could feel people strangling
and suffering there. The Blessed Mother told
us we should be praying for souls stranded
in Purgatory. She said only our prayers and
sacrifices can release them from that place…
“The people there are helpless. They are
really suffering. We can be like Jesus a little bit
if we just do some voluntary penance for the
souls on Purgatory, especially for the ones who
are abandoned by their families on earth…
“I am aware of their suffering. I know some
of their torment. I know how desperately they
need our prayers. They are so lonely that it is
almost sickening to remember those moments I
was there. It is really a great joy to do penance
for the poor souls because I know how much it
helps them…
“And many of our family members who have
died desperately need our prayers. The Blessed
Mother says we must pray courageously for
them so that they might go to Heaven. They are
powerless to help themselves.”
From visionary Mirjana:
“There are several levels in Purgatory. The
more you pray on earth, the higher your level in
Purgatory will be…
“The lowest level is the closest to hell,
where the suffering is the most intense. The
highest level is closest to Heaven, and there
the suffering is the least. What level you are on
depends on the state of purity of your soul. The
lower the level the people are on in Purgatory,
the less they are able to pray and the more
they suffer. The higher the level a person is
in Purgatory, the easier it is for him to pray,
the more he enjoys praying and the less he
suffers…
“The Blessed Mother has asked us to pray
for the souls in Purgatory. They are helpless
to pray for themselves. Through prayer, we on
earth can do much to help them. The Blessed
Mother told me that when souls leave Purgatory
and go to Heaven most go on Christmas Day.
“Many people were there. They were
suffering immensely…They were normal
people, all kinds. There was much physical
suffering…I could see the people shivering,
thrashing, and writhing in pain…I saw this place
for a short time…The Blessed Mother was with
me (during the vision). She explained to me
that She wanted me to see Purgatory. She said
so many people on earth today do not even
know about Purgatory…I could not hear them.
I only saw them. The Blessed Mother said so
many people who die are quite abandoned by
their loved ones. They cannot help themselves
in Purgatory. They are totally dependent on the
prayers and sacrifices of the generous people
on earth who remember them. Our Blessed
Mother hopes Her own children will help the
souls in Purgatory by prayer and fasting and
various penance for the poor souls to make
restitution for them…Those who have died no
longer have free will as they had on earth. They
no longer have a body. It is no longer possible
for them to make up for the things that they did
when they had their body that hurt and harmed
themselves and others.”
On July 24, 1982, the Blessed Mother said in
Medjugorje: “We go to Heaven in full conscious
of the separation of the body and soul. It is false
to teach people that we are reborn many times
and that we pass to different bodies. One is
born only once. The body, drawn from the earth,
decomposes after death. It never comes back
to life again. Man receives a transfigured body.
Whoever has done very much evil during his
life can go straight to Heaven if he confesses,
is truly sorry for what he has done, and receives
Communion at the end of his life.’ Our Lady said
that the souls in Purgatory can see their loved
ones during those moments when we pray for
them by name.”
Another visionary, Marija, described
Purgatory thus:
“Purgatory is a large place.. It is foggy. It is
ash gray. It is misty. You cannot see people there.
It is as if they are immersed in deep clouds. You
can feel that the people in the mist are traveling,
hitting each other. They can pray for us but not
for themselves. They are desperately in need
of our prayers. The Blessed Mother asks us to
pray for the poor souls in Purgatory, because
during their life here, one moment they thought
there was no God, then they recognized Him,
then they went to Purgatory where they saw
there is a God, and now they need our prayers.
With our prayers we can send them to Heaven.
The biggest suffering that souls in Purgatory
have is that they see there is a God, but they
did not accept Him here on earth. Now they
long so much to come close to God. Now they
suffer so intensely, because they recognize how
much they have hurt God, how many chances
they had on earth, and how many times they
disregarded God.”
Napaguusapan
Lang
Felix M. Garcia
Pamangampanya,
milalu karanun
Pabanua pa alus bayu mag-alalan,
Pero ngeni pamu dakal nong’ sasamal
Karing mangatikdi tamung manungkulan
Ban keng 2016 pasibayung tagal.
Y Alan Cayetano metung ne kareti
A ngeni pane tang’ akakit keng TV,
King kayang ngaku pin pasimpling ‘ads’ niti
Umpisa neng abak angga na king bengi.
Agyang y Trillanes sasamal nia naman
Agpang keng malino akakit ding dakal,
Tabalu mu pin nung yan e re kabilang
Ding mengapaunang kabud mu madaldal.
Ampon aliwa pa a magmayap-mayap
At nu’ anti galing keng pamagparagas,
Pero angga mu king puru la mung satsat
At ala mu namang masanting a depat.
Obat ela pa mu pin kaya magobra
At arapan pamu ing katungkulan da
Bayu ilatlat ing pamamulitika
A sobra karanun ban makatipid la?
Keng nung nanu-nanung klasing patalastas
A nu’la gagastus kualtang limpak-limpak,
Inya kalukluk da pamanyingil agad
King kaban ning balen ing karelang agap.
E ku buring sabyan pihung manako la
King balang mibawi karing ginastus da,
Pero ayasahan ta’ kaya karela
Ing matapat deting serbisyo king masa?
Partikular no’ ken ding bisang lumiwas
Lukluk o talan king puestung pekamatas,
A nu’ mapalyaring e la atlu, apat
Ding milutlutan ken panyatang ning oras.
Karing kapartido nang PNoy, bista man
Maragul ne keyna at e na popular
Y Mr. Palengke, ya mekad malamang
Ing posibleng iretu ning Malakanyang
Tabalu mu pin nung y Mayor Duterte
Ning Davao tagal ya bilang Presidente
(A nu’ dakal la ring iti mas buri re
Uli keng gelingan tais at subuk ne)
Y Binay bista man mibaba ya ‘ratings,’
(Uli ning mialiwang isyung e masanting
A kaya apilit dang babarongga pa pin),
Ya, apipihu tang’ tagal ya pa murin.
Y Miriam Santiago kabilang ya naman
Karing mapalyaring sumabak keng laban
Kabud mesikan ya pamikakatawan
Agpang keng amanung pisyag na nyang misan.
Y Senador Bongbong Marcos e malaut
Yang isabak da ring kakampi nang lubus,
A nung nu’ maragul ing keyang panyambut
Uling yang manuk da king parteng Ilokos?
Tabalu mu kareng pamilyang Aquino
Nung atin pang tagal keng datang a Mayo
Ngening nung wari keng maglayag a barko
Mityab ya’ing sekyan ning anak a Benigno.
Inya ninu man den a ngeni gagagad
E tana mu kabud mamalal at sukat,
Nu’ne pakasuryan tala pamung mayap
Ban e’ta sumisi king aldo ning bukas!
Punto! Central Luzon • May 7 - 9, 2015 • Thursday - Saturday
O pinion
7
CA upholds garnishment of P214-M CDC assets
From page 1
In the Pampanga
Press Club-sponsored
“Talk Widus” forum at
Widus Hotel and Casino
here Wednesday, CDC
Vice President for Business Development Eva
Tejada said the decision
of the CA was relayed to
the CDC by the Office for
Government Corporate
Counsel (OGCC) last
April.
The case stemmed
from the construction of
the Sacobia bridge by
the Ciriaco Corp. which
was hired by the Philippine National Construction Corp. (PNCC) to do
it in time for the commemoration of the Philippine Independence Cen-
tennial during the term of
Pres. Ramos.
The original cost of
the bridge was about
P153 million, but delays in payment prompted the firm to demand a
higher amount of some
P214 million, citing as
reason the rise in dollar
exchange rate amid the
1998 global economic
crisis. The CDC refused
to pay the increased
amount.
Default
The PNCC, in behalf
of Ciriaco, brought the
case before the OGCC
which decided on Dec.
8, 2008 in favor of the
PNCC and the Ciriaco
firm, but only on grounds
that the CDC had de-
faulted on the case by ignoring several hearings
slated by the OGCC on
the case. The OGCC
verdict was affirmed by
the Department of Justice on April 24, 2009
and further affirmed by
the Office of the President on Jan. 5, 2010.
The CDC then appealed the case before
the CA which issued its
verdict last April.
CDC Vice President
for Legal Affairs Pearl
Sagmit said her firm has
already filed disbarment
proceedings before the
Supreme Court against a
former CDC lawyer who
had failed to attend to
the case.
Tejada said that in its
decision last April, the
CA again cited the failure
of the CDC lawyer to respond to the initial hearings of the OGCC on the
case as reason for junking the CDC’s appeal.
CDC officials have
not revealed further
plans to resolve the
case.
It can be recalled that
in 2010, government
bank depositories started to implement a notice
of garnishment of some
P214 million of the assets of the CDC in favor
of PNCC and Ciriaco.
In a letter to the CDC,
Benilda Abrasia-Tejada,
executive vice president
and chief legal counsel of the Development
Bank of the Philippines
(DBP), said her bank had
Clark airport operations normalize
From page 1
Clark
International Airport Corp. President-CEO Emigdio Tanjuatco III thanked CAAP
Director General William Hotchkiss III for the
“swift and timely repair
of the DVOR.”
“We can now have
normal
airport
operations at
Clark
on a 24-hour basis,” Tanjuatco said.
Tanjuatco also commended CAAP technicians and CIAC officials and employees for
their “ingenuity and resourcefulness that led to
the successful repair of
the DVOR at almost no
cost to the government.”
CAAP originally issued
a NOTAM advising the
public that airport operations at Clark would be limited during daytime starting last Monday after the lightning
incident up to late afternoon of May 8.
CIAC reported that at 7:50 a.m. yesterday, a
pilot of a Cessna light
aircraft landing at Clark
airport confirmed clear
“signal and communication” with the DVOR.
The same observation
was reported by the pilot
of Qatar Airways that arrived at the airport from
Doha, Qatar at 8:50 a.m.
Thunderstorm
A lightning strike
brought about by a freak
thunderstorm with heavy
downpour on Monday
damaged the navigational equipment which
caused at least eight
flight cancellations which
were diverted to the Ninoy Aquino International
Airport (NAIA) in Manila.
At around 4 p.m. on
Tuesday afternoon, at
least four more flights,
one for arrival and three
for departure, have been
cancelled due to the
damaged navigational
equipment.
Angry pax
Some 200 stranded
airline passengers at the
terminal were angry because NAIA reportedly
refused to accept them.
They were instead billeted
at the Tune Hotel outside this freeport to wait
COA, BIR asked to probe CDC, CIAC
Punto! Central Luzon • May 7 - 9, 2015 • Thursday - Saturday
From page 1
8
millions of pesos, which
since 2009 is pegged at
P3.5 million per annum,”
said the letter addressed
to COA Chairman Michael G. Aguinaldo and
signed by Ruperto L.
Cruz, PGKM chair.
Cruz noted that: “Given the number of years
that CDC and CIAC
have been engaged in
this practice, the amount
of unliquidated and unaudited public funds re-
leased to Roa would be
substantial.”
Perceived by the
PGKM “as highly anomalous is that the CDC
and CIAC subsidy comes
from public funds but is
not subjected to liquidation and auditing processes. This, aside from possible violation of the law
that forbids government
subsidy to purely private
commercial enterprises.”
The PGKM appealed
to Aguinaldo “to please
commence an investiga-
tion in this regard.”
Cash crop
In the letter to BIR
Commissioner
Kim
Henares also signed by
Cruz, the PGKM again
cited the subsidy given
to Roa’s foundation by
the two government corporations.
“For BIR purposes,”
however, the PGKM
pointed to “the gate receipts, parking fees, stall
rentals, corporate sponsorships generated by
the balloon festival which
accrue directly and solely to Roa’s PIHABF.”
Said the letter: “Consider that in 2009, per
a CDC unofficial, and
therefore hidden, report,
49,638 tickets worth at
least P100 each were
sold, and 5,735 vehicles
parked in the designated P50-for-cars, P100for-buses parking areas during the four-day
period. Truly, immense
cash crop there already
reaped by Roa. And we
no choice but to comply
with the execution of the
garnishment order by releasing the CDC’s bank
deposits amounting to
P60,752,167 in favor of
PNCC “joined by Ciriaco
Corp.”
The Land Bank of the
Philippines (LBP) also
followed by garnishing
another P170, 704,469
of CDC’s deposits in favor of the same recipient.
After the erring CDC
lawyer resigned, the
state firm had tried to
seek the help of Pres.
Aquino to refrain from
pursuing a writ of execution of its garnishment
decision, saying the exchange rate cost adjustment had “no legal basis
or provision” in the contract between the PNCC
and the CDC.
The CDC also insisted that the OGCC “does
not have jurisdiction to
arbitrate under Presidential Decree No. 242” and
that this authority belonged to the Construction Industry Arbitration
Commission under Executive Order No. 1008.
The CDC also maintained that “PD 242 has
been used by PNCC to
cleverly camouflage private interest of Ciriaco
and unwittingly use the
OGCC as forum for arbitration in order to collect for and on behalf of
Ciriaco.”
The President, however, did not intervene.
for their rebooked flights
scheduled on May 8.
A passenger at Tune
Hotel complained of
the lack of food while a
woman passenger from
Bulacan who is bound
for Australia via a connecting flight from Hong
Kong complained that
she rented a van for
P3,500 only to be told to
wait until May 8.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the
CIAC “seeks the public’s
understanding for any
flight delays, diversion or
cancellations.”
Passengers travelling
through Clark airport are
advised to directly contact their airlines for the
latest flight updates and
travel arrangements.
Tanjuatco said only
two airlines, Cebu Pacific and Tiger Air, are affected by the damaged
navigational equipment
because of their night
time flights.
He said Asiana Airlines and Jin Air have
adjusted and moved
their night flights to daytime. –Ding Cervantes
with Ashley Manabat
did not even count the
stall areas, going at an
average of P17,000 per,
and the even pricier corporate sponsorships!”
Continued the letter:
“In its last edition just last
February, it was reported that the hot air balloon festival drew some
200,000 spectators. At
the price of P300 per ticket, that would already
amount to a staggering
P60 million. Rentals have
reportedly been raised to
an average of P25,000,
as well as the parking
fees to P100 and P200.”
“We believe the income generated by the
hot air balloon festival for
Roa’s PIHABF is worth
looking into by your good
office,” concluded the
letter to Henares.
Calls to the CDC
President-CEO
Arthur
Tugade and CIAC President-CEO Emigdio Tanjuatco III for their side of
the issue remained unreturned until presstime.
– Bong Z. Lacson
Alviera Brightscape Campfest offers starlit weekend adventure
From page 1
Adventurer, at P1,990
per person, comes with
roundtrip transportation
from Manila to Alviera
(with travel insurance),
free use of all SandBox
thrills and attractions, access to all Brightscape
Field Day Events, passes to the Brightscape
Music Jam, as well as an
event kit filled with surprise Brightscape Campfest freebies.
Weekend
Camper
tickets at P2,990 per person entitle participants to
all Day Adventurer inclusions, plus overnight
campsite stay, access to
campsite-exclusive activities, free use of Coleman tents, exclusive use
of SandBox and a hearty
buffet breakfast on Sunday morning, May 31.
The
Brightscape
Field Day events start
with kite-flying, drumming, basic survival
skills, flow arts movement and a lot of SandBox action. Watch the
skies for amazing kites
then learn to make them
and fly your own. Kite-flying and kite design are
featured in Art in the Sky
sessions. Wildernecessities takes you on a walk
on the wild side to learn
basic nature skills from
local experts. Learn to
drink water from bamboo stalks, kindle a small
camp fire or pick out
edibles from available
plants around you. It’s
fun field survival 101.
Ever marched to
the beat of your own
drum? Here’s a chance
to find your rhythm and
feel the beat at Pulses & Artbeats. Led by
the high-energy Adinkra
Lumads Djembe Community, join this community drum circle to experience pulsing drumbeats
like no other. If you’re
into moving with the
beat, learn the basics of
flow arts movement from
the experts at Flow Arts
Philippines. Swing and
sway using poi, hoops
and other props.
There’s a whole day
to enjoy all of SandBox’s
attractions. Take in the
Adventure Tower, the
Avatar One rollercoaster zipline, Giant Swing,
Aerial Walk and the 9-km
Alviera-Columbia Bike
Trail. Plus, there’s minigolf, archery, children’s
playground and ATV/
UTV rides.
As the sun sets, the
outdoor stage show
opens with Ring of Fire,
a sunset spin jam featuring the flow artists
and Djembe musicians.
Shadowtales
follows
suit, a silhouette puppet theater performance
written and performed
exclusively for the event.
The evening culminates
with the soundtrack to a
sizzling summer with the
Brightscape Music Jam
starring Barbie Almalbis,
Imago, Quest, The Ransom Collective, Chocolate Factory, Brisom,
Absolute Play, and the
Adinkra Lumads.
Simultaneous-
ly, Weekend Campers
will be treated to exclusive Camper Field
Day Events, such as
tent-pitching 101 from
Coleman’s camping pros,
a bonfire session with
s’mores treats provided, and stargazing and
star-mapping sessions.
“Brightscape Campfest is an exclusive summer experience that only
Alviera can provide. It’s
a unique and great way
to celebrate and crown
the summer,” said John
Estacio, Alviera General Manager. “Visitors will
even have a choice between staying the whole
day and taking in the
breezy plains of Porac,
or they can go weekend
camping with us overnight. We welcome ev-
eryone to enjoy the outdoors with us here.”
Brightscape Campfest packages are available at www.travelfactor.
org/brightscape.
Tickets only with prices of
P1,000 for Day Adventurer and P1,500 for
Weekend Camper can
be purchased via www.
ticketnet.com.ph.
Alviera Brightscape
Campfest is an event
presented by Ayala Land
and Leonio Land in partnership with Travel Factor, Coleman, Alveo, Avida and Avida Settings
Alviera, and Philippine
Star. This is also brought
to you by The North
Face, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Business Mirror,
Widus Hotel, and Marquee Mall. –PR
The Gossipmiller
Cesar Pambid
Pauleen Luna open na sa relasyon kay Vic Sotto
Very open na ngayon si Pauleen Luna sa relasyon niya kay Vic Sotto. Not only that, you can ask her anything and she won’t refuse to answer or say no comment.
How would she describe her relationship with Vic Sotto now?
“Three years na kami and as of now, very smooth na ang lahat,” she says. “We know each other better kaya wala nang mga away-away like before.”
Have they talked about getting married? “Yes, napag-usapan na namin, but there is nothing final. If you’d ask me, I want a very simple wedding, nothing grand,
flashy or extravagant.”
Is she now in good terms with his four kids: Danica and Oyo, Vico and Paulina? “Oh yes. We’re okay. We respect each other. When he celebrated his 61st birthday
recently, I was the one who arranged the whole trip for them. Expensive, huh! Then when they returned here, kami naman ni Vic, we had a simple dinner together.
Ganun lang naman kami. Masaya na sa kain-kain together.”
Is it okay for her that she plays another villain role in “The Rich Man’s Daughter”? “Okay naman. I’m just happy na back in primetime ako. Kasi laging afternoon
soaps ang sinasalihan ko lately, like yung huli na ‘The Borrowed Wife’ na last year pa. Kami ni TJ Trinidad ang magkasama roon and we’re together again in ‘Rich
Man’s Daughter’. Siya ang eldest son sa family nila and I’m his wife. Arranged marriage yung sa amin. Hindi ko alam, ang true love niya is a teacher, si Charee
Pineda. Naiinis ako rito kay Rhian Ramos kasi siya ang youngest child sa family nila, and yet parang siya yung mas paborito ng parents nilang sina Al Tantay and
Glydel Mercado, not TJ na siyang panganay. Siempre, tuwang-tuwa ako nang mabistong si Rhian pala has a lesbian affair with Glaiza de Castro kasi discredited na
siya sa family nila.”
Matapang ang producer ng BG Production na si Baby Go. Sabay ang filming ng“Tres Marias” and “Tupang Ligaw”. “Tres Marias” is a drama about a remote island
where 12 to 14 year-old girls getting pregnant due to extreme poverty and ignorance is a way of life. We remember seeing this in a documentary before. Now, Raquel
Villavicencio (currently seen in the villainous Donya Claudia in “Yagit”) has written a script based on this true story of babies breeding babies, to be helmed by Joel
Lamangan, who wasn’t able to attend the story conference as he was rushed to the hospital due to dizziness and vertigo.
The “Tres Marias” title refer to three best friends: Maria Rosanna (Angelie Nicole Sanoy), Maria Aleta (Barbara Miguel) and Maria Suzette (Therese Malvar). All of
them have won acting awards, Angelie for “Patikul”, Barbara for “Nuwebe” and Therese for “Huling Chacha ni Anita”. Angelie as Rosanna is the youngest and most
innocent at 12. She’s the daughter of the barangay captain (Jim Pebanco) who’s so protective of her that she’ll rebel against him.
Barbara as Aleta is already pregnant at 13 when the story opens. She’s living in with Vincent Magbanua who’s 14. Therese as Suzette is 14 and the most sexually
aware. She leaves the island to have an abortion in the city and returns with a German boyfriend
in tow. Also in the cast are Sue Prado, Paolo Rivero, Ayen Laurel and new discoveries Jash
Ezekiel and Juan Carlo. Playing a special role is Derrick Monasterio as a rich but aimless city
boy who later helps the girls to achieve their dream of putting up a high school in their island.
“Tupang Ligaw” is an action-drama written and to be directed by komiks novelist Rod
Santiago (“Agua Bendita”, “Babaeng Nawawala sa Sarili”, “Buhawi Jack”). This will star
Matteo Guidicelli, the personal choice of Direk Rod because they’ve worked before in
his “Agua Bendita” on ABS-CBN, as a peaceful man looking for his missing younger
brother in a town controlled by a kingpin called El Diablo, played by Paolo Contis.
Also in the cast are Bangs Garcia, Rico Barrera and child actor Francis Ryan Lim.
The movie has an anti-violence message with the responsible use of guns as its
advocacy. Both “Tres Marias” and “Tupang Ligaw” will be line produced by Dennis
Evangelista.
Mrs. Pablita ‘Baby’ Go is the woman behind BG Productions International. How
did she get into producing local movies? “Mahilig ako manood ng local movies
noon pa, lalo na ‘yung kina Vilma Santos at Sharon Cuneta,” she says. “Siguro,
kapalaran ko talaga ang mag-produce. Ang nagkumbinsi sa’kin is Direk Joel
Lamangan and my friend Romeo Lindain na executive sa UCPB na siyang bank
ko. They convinced me to produce ‘Lihis’, which is about a gay love story sa mga
NPA. It’s now competing in the Miami Gay & Lesbian Filmfest. After that, we did
‘Lauriana’ na nagpanalo ng acting awards for Allen Dizon and Bangs Garcia. May
two films akong di pa napalalabas, ‘Bigkis’ and ‘Homeless’, both by Neal Tan. If
you’d notice, the movies I do are advocacy films with valid messages. ‘Lihis’ is about
a better understanding of gays in love. ‘Lauriana’ is about violence against women.
‘Bigkis’ is about congested public hospitals while ‘Homeless’ is about typhoon victims
who lose their homes at nagiging biktima ng mga sindikatong ginagawa silang pulubi.
We have two new films na katatapos lang i-shoot. ‘Child Haus’ ni Direk Louie Ignacio is
about poor children from the provinces battling cancer, starring Katrina Halili and very
talented child stars. ‘Daluyong’ is about lonely priests na nagkakasala dahil mga tao
rin lang sila, starring Allen Dizon and Diana Zubiri. Now, we have ‘Tres Marias’
tungkol sa mga batang ina at ‘Tupang Ligaw’ which is anti-violence.”
A successful real estate broker, Mrs. Go is from Dumaguete and was
only 15 years old when she married her Chinese husband who’s 21 years
older than her. They have three daughters and one son. “Yung eldest
ko, Jean, is graduate ng La Salle and now works as a hotel manager.
She’s married with kids. Next is Joy, cum laude from St. Scho, married
na rin and a bank manager. The third, Pamela, is a med tech from
Centro Escolar and the youngest at 17, our only boy, Philip, is taking
up business at UA&P. My husband and my children are all very
supportive of my being a film producer. Masaya kasi ako rito.”
But does she get back her investment? “Oo naman. When we start
a project, we coordinate with the networks para sure nang bibilihin
nila ang TV rights. Like ‘Child Haus’, ‘Bigkis’ and ‘Tres Marias’, sa
GMA ‘yan kasi we’re using their stars. ‘Homeless’ naman and ‘Tupang
Ligaw’ is with ABS as they star Ejay Falcon and Matteo Guidicelli. Ang
primary target namin for ‘Tres Marias’ is to get into an international film
festival kasi very daring ang subject material at tipong hindi gagawin
ng mainstream films.”
Katrina, may peace of mind na
Pauleen Luna
HALOS anim na taon na ang nakalipas matapos ang controversial
sex video scandal na parehong kinasangkutan noong 2009 nina Dr.
Hayden Kho at dating sexy star na si Katrina Halili. Marami na ang
nangyari since then at nakapag-move on na pareho ang dalawa
maging ang kasintahan ni Dr. Hayden na si Dra. Vicki Belo.
Si Katrina ay isa sa mga endorser noon ng kanyang Belo
Medical Clinic. But everything now is water under the bridge at
pare-pareho silang may natutunan sa nangyari.
Katrina initiated for the reconciliation with Dra. Vicki at
Dr. Hayden dahil gusto na rin niyang magkaroon ng peace
of mind.
Katrina is not expecting na maibabalik pa sa dati
ang pagkakaibigan nila nina Dra. Vicki at Dr. Hayden. Ang
mahalaga ay nagkaayos na sila at masarap na umano ang
kanyang pakiramdam.
The Starstruck alumnus wants to focus on her career now
more than ever. Being a single mom to her 2-1/2 daughter
Katie (courtesy of ex-boyfriend Kris Lawrence), she needs to
work harder.
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Matapang na producer malaking tulong sa movie industry
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Punto! Central Luzon • May 7 - 9, 2015 • Thursday - Saturday