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Punto! Luzon
Central
Volume 8
Number 64
Thu - Sat
March 12 - 14, 2015
PANANAW NG MALAYANG PILIPINO!
All others say otherwise
DOTC chief insists Clark
flights cheaper than NAIA’s
By Ashley Manabat
CLARK FREEPORT –
Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) Secretary Joseph Emilio
Abaya insisted that airline passengers going to
Clark are not being discriminated with costlier
fares contrary to the observations of the Pinoy
Gumising Ka Movement
(PGKM).
During the Consultative Meeting of the
DOTC and the Clark International Airport Corp.
(CIAC) with government
stakeholders held at the
Widus Hotel and Casino
here last Monday, Abaya said it’s even cheaper for airline passengers
flying in or flying out of
Clark as compared to
NAIA in Manila.
“Mali rin po na mas
mura sa Manila. In fact,
Usec. Juju is telling me
na mas mura hu talagang lumipad from Clark
(It’s wrong to say it’s
cheaper in Manila. In
fact, Usec. Juju is telling
me that it’s really cheaper to fly from Clark),”
Abaya stressed.
Abaya was referring
to Undersecretary Jose
Perpetuo “Juju” M. Lotilla, DOTC undersecretary in charge of the civil
aviation sector, who was
seated beside him at the
presidential table.
But a quick check in
the internet will reveal
that airline passengers
who choose Clark spend
more as compared to
NAIA.
$300 more
During the seven
months operation of
Emirates Airlines here,
travellers using Clark
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All set for 2nd Lubao
hot air balloon festival
GUAGUA, Pampanga –It’s all systems go for the
Lubao International Balloon festival (LIBF) as organizers prepared for a bigger event this year.
“We expect a bigger and more festive event
as compared to last year,” said Department of
Tourism (DOT) Regional Director Ronnie Tiotuico
in Thursday’s press conference at the Plates and
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Abaya says French design
for Clark terminal too big
DOT pushes
C. Luzon as
‘convention
capital’
CLARK FREEPORT
-- The Department of
Tourism (DoT) Region
III is positioning Clark
and Subic as the preferred
destinations
for Meetings, Incentives,
Conferences,
and Exhibition (MICE)
events.
Ronnie
Tiotuico,
regional director of
the DOT-3, said his
department is planning to compile all
MICE-related
activities and facilities in
Central Luzon and
produce an audio-visual
documentary.
The DOT-3 will soon
announce the bidding
at www.philjobs.com,
he added.
“My next project
is to put up a bid, for
suppliers on AVPs,
as to who will cover
and produce the project which is the documentary,”
Tiotuico
said during the media
forum “Balitaan” organized by the Capampangan in Media, Inc.
in cooperation with the
Clark
Development
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But vows to defend it before NEDA
By Ding Cervantes
CLARK FREEPORT - Transportation and Communications Sec. Joseph Emilio Abaya has
vowed to adopt the P12-billion new terminal building as designed by the Aéroports de
Paris, the owner and manager of airports in Paris, although its construction would be done
in phases.
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PH’s 1st commercial rice hull-powered
electric plant in N. Ecija is switched on
By Anselmo Roque
SAN JOSE CITY – Just minutes after
the country’s first commercial rice hullpowered electric plant was switched
on here Friday, the groundbreaking
rites for another similar plant was held.
The generating plant was put up by
the 21 rice millers here in a joint venture with the Union Energy Corp. of
businessman Lucio Co. Their collaboration was firmed up in a biomass renewable energy entity, the San Jose
City “i” Power Corp. (SJC iPower).
“Our plant is one hundred percent
fired by rice husks,” said Edgardo AlPage 4 please
This power plant in Barangay Tulat in San Jose City, entirely fired by “ipa” or rice husk,is the first commercial biomass
plant in the country harnessed for electric feed to the Luzon grid. At least three more such plant, in Isabela and two
in Nueva Ecija, will be in operation soon with a combined power of 44 megawatts. Photo by Elmo Roque
Gov wants My Lubao Central MRF model in Pampanga
By Joel P. Mapiles
Pampanga PIO
Inspection. Gov. Lilia Nanay Pineda inspects the My LUbao Central MRF together
with Mayor Mylin Pineda Cayabyab and Board Member Joseph Anthony Torres, PENRO
Arthur Punsalan and Jaeson Sambat, provincial solid waste management officer and
Engr Dan Aquino, municipal incharge on solid waste management.
Photo courtesy of Jun Jaso
Pagbagsak sa presyo ng sibuyas,
ipinagtataka ng mga opisyal
Punto! Central Luzon • March 12 - 14, 2015 • Thursday - Saturday
Ni Armand M. Galang
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BONGABON, Nueva Ecija Patuloy sa pagbaba ang produksiyon ng sibuyas sa Gitnang Luzon at patuloy ang
pagtaas ng pangangailangan
sa produktong ito sa bansa
ngunit mabilis na bumabagsak
ang presyo nito na nagdudulot ng matinding pagkalugi ng
mga magsasaka.
Ito ang ipinagtataka ngayon ng mga opisyal ng Department of Agriculture at lokal na
pamahalaan sa gitna ng pahayag ng Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) na wala itong pinahintulutan na mag-angkat ng
pulang sibuyas nitong mga
nagdaang taon.
Ayon kay Regional Dir. Anrew Villacorta ng DA-Central
Luzon, nasa P10 hanggang
P12 kada kilo lamang ang
sibuyas na pula sa ngayon samantalang nasa P11 piso mula
P9 ang kada kilo ng sibuyas
na puti.
Ngunit halos hindi na rin
mararamdaman ng mga magsisibuyas sa bayang ito ang
pagtaas ng presyo ng yellow granex na dating nasa
P9 bawat kilo dahil paubos
na ito samantalang nanganganib naman na bumagsak
pa ang halaga ng red creole
dahil nagsisimula pa lamang
ang anihan para sa regular na
panahunan, ayon kay Villacorta.
Ang bayang ito ang tinaguriang “Onion basket of the
Philippines” dahil dito nagmumula ang higit na malaking
supply ng sibuyas.
Ipinagtataka rin ni Mayor Allan Xystus Gamilla kung bakit
tila matamlay ang pamimili
ng mga negosyante sa kanilang produkto gayong lumalabas sa kanilang pagsusuri na
bakante pa ang mga cold storage sa kanilang bayan at mga
kalapit na lugar.
“Nakapagtataka
dahil
kakaunti ang nagtanim ng
sibuyas ngayon dito sa amin
at bakante pa ang mga storage pero walang namimili,” ani
Gamilla. Maraming magsasaka sa bayang ito, aniya, ang
tumutok sa pagtatanim ng ilang high value crop katulad ng
mais at iba pang uri ng gulay.
Personal namang nagtungo sa bayang ito si Villacorta
nitong Miyerkules upang siyasatin ang sitwasyon kung saan
dumiretso siya sa ilang kooperatiba at indibidwal na magsasaka.
Kumbinsido si Villacorta
na bagaman at break even
na ang mga magsasaka sa
presyong P10 kada kilo ng
sibuyas na pula ay maitutur-
ing pa rin na lugi sila sa umiiral na P12 bawat kilo dahil sa
interes ng kanilang inutang na
puhunan at pambayad sa cold
storage na P210 bawat 30-kilo
bag.
Sinabi ni Ariston Balala,
manager ng Kawanggawa
Multi-Purpose Cooperative, na
kinakailangan nilang ipasok
ang kanilang produkto sa cold
storage sa maraming pagkakataon dahil naghihintay sila
na tumaas ang presyo. Ngunit
madalas rin aniyang nalulugi
sila kapag lumipas ang ilang
buwan na hindi tumaas ang
halaga sa pamilihan.
“Talagang luging-lugi sila,”
saad ni Villacorta.
Pangako ni Villacorta na titingnan rin ng kagawaran ang
mga ulat na may smuggled na
sibuyas ang nasa pamilihan
sa ngayon.
Ayon sa grupong Sinagtala, ilang bodega sa Kamaynilaan ang puno ng mga
smuggled na sibuyas kaya
bumabagsak ang presyo ng
lokal na produkto.
Binigyang-diin naman ng
opisyal ang pangangailangan
ng suporta sa mga magsisibuyas, kabilang ang pagtatayo ng storage para sa kanila.
Dagdag ito, ani Villacorta, sa
loan facility at bagsakan o
trading centers.
Magnanakaw huli sa CCTV
Ni Johnny R. Reblando
SUBIC, Zambales ---Nadakip sa isinagawang follow up
operation ng mga tauhan ng
Subic PNP ang isang magnanakaw sa kanyang hideout sa Sitio Bukid, Barangay
Calapacuan dito.
Sa ulat ng pulisya nakilala
sa pamamagitan ng kuha ng
CCTV footage ang suspek na
si Albert Pangilinan, 34, residente ng Purok 3, Barangay
Calapacuan nang pasukin nito
ang bahay ng isang American
national na si Richard Witney,
79, at kabarangay ng suspek.
Narekober ng pulisya sa
Barangay
Calapandayan
ang isang electric jig saw na
ninakaw ng suspek at ibenta
sa halagang P800.
Nakuha din sa loob ng
cloth bag na pagmamayari
ng suspek ang isang plastic
sachet ng shabu at iba-ibang
drug paraphernalia, kitchen
knife, kaha ng sigarilyo, kwintas, sunglasses, cellphone
at dalawang T-shirt na hinihinalang nakaw.
Ang suspek ay detinido sa
Subic PNP detention cell at
ipinagharap na ng kasong robbery at paglabag sa RA 9165.
LUBAO, Pampanga --- Governor Lilia Nanay Pineda wants
to turn the My Lubao Central
MRF into a model material recovery facility in the province.
This was pronounced by
the governor as she visited the
said MRF facility yesterday together with Mayor Mylin Pineda Cayabyab who showcased
their projects such as production of organic fertilizers, recyclable materials, micro-organism, organic farming and
bamboo furniture production.
The governor lauded the
workers here for their efforts in
helping the “My Lubao Central MRF” to become model of
all material recovery facilities
in the province.
Established in 2010 during
the time of former Mayor Dennis Pineda now Vice Governor of Pampanga, the My
Lubao Central MRF already
produced 47.07 tons of holcimable materials from January to this date alone.
However, in the same period, at least 212.82 tons of garbage were delivered to Metro
Clark Sanitary Land and the
municipal government spent
minimum of P360 per cubic
meter bin of garbage or a total
of P11,525 per 32 cubic meter
bin.
According to Engr. Dan
Aquino,
designated
solid
waste management officer
here, the My Lubao Central
MRF is being manned by atleast 16 workers.
Now, he said, the entire
town has no illegal dumpsites
and all waste materials are being collected and delivered on
a daily basis at the said Central MRF.
The governor also said she
is “partly happy” with My Lubao Central MRF, for its waste
disposal, proper composting
and their compliance to RA
9003 as she believes that this
could produce more good results if it could maximize its full
potentials.
“I am happy but not 100
percent as I am still seeing garbage on the road. We must act
together to achieve zero waste
not only in LUbao but in the entire Pampanga and I want that
as a legacy,” she said.
The governor pointed out
that “there are still more things
and more projects and programs that should be implemented to fully manage solid
waste not only in Lubao but in
the entire province.”
The governor urged the
municipal government here to
take all the necessary efforts
needed in turning Lubao into
the cleanest town in the province and achieving zero waste
management.
He urged all sectors to fully
and actively participate in the
campaign for zero waste.
“Let us involve everybody,
every entity, as everyone is
producing garbage every day,”
the governor reiterated.
The governor vowed to
continue full support to the
municipalities and cities which
are most compliant on solid
waste management through
the provision of additional
dump trucks, baling machines,
shredders and among other
equipment needed for the operation and management of
solid waste, suggesting that
that there should be a cluster materials recovery facility
(MRF) in every town to save
energy and gasoline in collecting the garbage.
‘Ding Babai’ to debut
at AUF this March
ANGELES CITY-- Teatru Ima Kami Pampanga will be staging the play “Ding Babai” on March 13, 20 and 21 at the St.
Cecilia Auditorium of AUF.
The play is presented in cooperation with the Angeles
University Foundation (AUF) Center for Culture and Arts and
the AUF Repertory Theater.
Director Tony Mabesa, for his part, said that the play
shows the different facets and aspects and even sins of
women, adding that there is a heightened artifice in the presentation of the play as it is done in three versions. He added
that the play is really aimed at showing and understanding
women.
The show dates for “Ding Babai” are set on March 13
(3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.), March 20 (7:00 p.m.), and March
21 (3:00 p.m.).
The play, The Women was written by Claire Boothe Luce
in 1935 To make it more appealing to the audience now, the
producers wanted a touch of “modern.” The play is adapted and directed by Professor Tony Mabesa to suit contemporary time. It was translated into Capampangan by Peppet Evangelista. It is a production of concerted efforts of the
Teatru Ima Kami, the Angeles University Center for Culture
and Arts and the AUF Repertory Theater.
“It’s a play about relationships of rich women with their
husbands, friendship and betrayal, mother and daughter relationship. It is a play so rich in interplay of emotions that the
a person watching can easily relate to the characters. There
are scenes that can move you to tears and there are lines
that can bring the house down with laughter,” the group said
in a statement.
Teatru Ima members had spent almost three months
practicing so as to give out the necessary depth of character needed to make the stage play worth watching. In the
cast are : Nor Pineda as Countess Flora de Lago, Cora
Manalac as Sylvia Calma, Fely Villanueva as Edith Dizon,
Beth Masngcay as Nancy Lacson, Beth Tila as Jane , Lina
Velaz as Mrs Zapanta, Michelle Ong as as Olga, Divine Tulio
as Miriam Pangilinan, Kristne Lagman as Peggy,Lovely Venzon as Little Mary and Agnes Romero as Mary.
Expect a riot of characters as Director Tony Mabesa
wields his directing power to prove to everybody that senior
ladies need not just sit down and do some knitting but they
can still go stage and act.
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Punto! Central Luzon • March 12 - 14, 2015 • Thursday - Saturday
CIAC, Robinsons Starmills, Genesis ink
pact to set up transport hub at CIA
Robinsons Starmills in
partnership with the Clark International Airport Corporation
(CIAC) and Genesis Transport
Services formally inaugurated
on Thursday the Robinsons
Starmills Transport Hub in the
City of San Fernando, Pampanga that will cater passengers and travelers to take their
flights at Clark International
Airport (CRK) vise versa.
CIAC President and CEO
Atty. Emigdio Tanjautco III
commended the efforts of the
Robinsons Starmills and the
Genesis Transport Services
for the establishment of the
hub with a ticketing lounge located at the Bus Terminal of
Robinsons Starmills Pampanga.
Tanjuatco led the signing
of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Arlene
Magtibay Senior Vice President and General Manager
of Robinsons Malls and Loren Zubia, head Marketing of
the Genesis Transport Ser-
vice that established the Robinsons Starmills Hub in Pampanga.
Tanjuatco siaid “It is fortunate that CIAC has entertained a strong partnership
with Robinsons Starmills and
Genesis with the establishment of the Transport Hub to
cater the needs of passengers and travelers taking their
flights at Clark Airport.”
“We all aim to give our customers the best service possible and one of the concerns
of the passengers right now is
the mobility of the passengers
from terminal to destinations,
and we are thankful that we
have partners such as Robinsons and Genesis to address
that concern,”
“Because now passengers will not have to think of
how they will get to their destinations when they go to the
airport and when they go from
the airport,” he added.
Tanjuatco also said that
“with this kind of a new quality
LOYALTY AWARDEES. Angeles City Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan joins the gold awardees in a photo op during
the conferring rites of this city’s loyal employees. The awardees received cash incentives, loyalty pins and
certificates as recognition to their continuous service to the city government and to the people of Angeles City.
Photo courtesy of Angeles CIO
service to our customers will
further enhance the growth
as well as the development of
Clark Airport.”
Tanjuatco also vowed to
extend support to Robinsons
and Genesis to make the partnership stronger in the long
run.
For her part, Magtibay said
“we at Robinsons malls are
very proud of this project particularly catering the needs of
our customers by providing
them a seamless travel leading to Clark Airport.”
“We are happy that we
forged a partnership with
CIAC and Genesis wherein
we can provide transportation
to passengers going to Clark
Airport as it is being geared as
the next major gateway in the
country.”
“This is a very good synergy between what we are doing here with this launching of
the shuttle service and the inter-regional transport hub because right now we already
have 500 buses from various
points of Luzon that are picking up and dropping passengers here in Robinsons,” she
added.
“Now it will be much easier
for passengers to go to Clark
Airport by using the Robinsons Transport Hub,” Magtibay said.
Clark Airport is host to several airlines such as Asiana
Airlines, Qatar Airways, Cebu
Pacific, Seair, Tiger Air, Jin
Air, Dragonair, Air Asia Berhad
and Tiger Air Singapore.
DOT pushes C. Luzon as ‘convention capital’
Punto! Central Luzon • March 12 - 14, 2015 • Thursday - Saturday
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Corp. (CDC) and the Social Security System at
the Bale Balita here last
Friday.
DOT-3 will then distribute the DVD copies
of Central Luzon MICE
documentary to major
associations and organization, he said.
Tiotuico also said
several non-government
organizations such as Lions, Kiwanis, Jaycees,
Rotary, and Soroptimist
will be given copies. According to him, the mem-
bers of these international NGOs go around the
country for regional and
national conventions and
with their international
counterparts they can
also invite them to hold
their conventions or conferences here in Central
Luzon.
Tiotuico reported that
DOT-3 extended technical assistance and support in the planning and
management of the Kiwanis Asia Pacific Convention 2015 held at the
Fontana Leisure Parks
and Resort here last
week with this year’s
theme: “Toward another century of growth and
service.”
Aside from convention
centers, the DOT regional director underscored
that both Clark and Subic
have “world-class” accommodation and support facilities like hotels,
restaurants and recreational facilities and tour
packages that tourists
can avail themselves of.
He said convention
centers like Fontana,
Holiday Inn, and Widus Hotel and Casino in
Clark and the Subic Bay
Exhibition and Convention Center in Subic are
the biggest in Central
Luzon which can accommodate 5,000 people.
Tiotuico also noted
that several hotel renovations in this freeport further
stimulated vibrant international events here such as
the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation-Senior Officials’ Meeting 1 and the
19th Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta in Clark.
“I was inspired by
the recently held APEC
meetings here. Ang ganda ng support ng mga
hotels dito sa Clark.
Nag-renovate sila because of APEC, kaya
we’re now ready (…
The support of the hotels here is praiseworthy.
They renovated because
of APEC that is why we
are now ready),” he said.
“Central Luzon is ripe
to become the convention capital, if not in the
Philippines but at least in
the Luzon area,” he added.
In June 2014, a fourday conference of the
Philippine Meetings, Incentives, Conventions
and Exhibitions/Events
or MICE was held here.
Some 600 participants
representing
airlines,
hotels, resorts, convention centers, destination
management
companies, incentive planners,
event organizers/planners, professional congress/exhibitor organizers, MICE venues, local
government units and
the media attended the
event.
– Astrud Aguinaldo,
contributor
PH’s 1st commercial rice hull-powered electric plant...
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fonso, chief executive officer of the SJI iPower.
“It is generating a gross
capacity of 12 megawatts and is feeding 10.8
megawatts to the Luzon grid (of the National
Grid Corp. of the Philippines),” he added.
The remaining 1.8
MW is for in-house use
by the corporation.
The generating plant
and its appurtenant facilities are in a seven-hectare area in Barangay Tulat here. It employs 100
personnel.
“We are using 330
metric tons of rice husk
everyday to power the
plant,” Alfonso said.
“The plant is clean as it
is equipped with a facility
that limits harmful emissions way below the limit
set by the government,”
he added.
Alfonso said the rice
millers here, who buy
and mill palay not only
in many parts of Nueva
Ecija but also to as far
as Isabela, Pangasinan,
Ilocos and other nearby provinces, still have
more than enough rice
husk supply.
“That’s why we are
putting up another plant
with the same output of
12- megawatt electric
power,” he said. “It will
be set up adjacent to the
plant which we switched
on,” he added.
Among those in attendance to twin-rites Friday
here were a number of
officials and personnel
of the Department of Energy led Undersecretary
Zenaida Monzada, Rep.
Joseph Gilbert Violago
of the 2nd district of Nueva Ecija, Mayor Marivic
Belena of this city, Bishop Roberto Mallari of the
Diocese of San Jose who
blessed the facilities,
Omar Dayao who represented the president of
the corporation, and officials of the SJC iPower.
The rice husk, commonly called ipa, is considered an agricultural
waste whose proper disposition was a big problem before by the rice
millers. The corporation
is now buying it from the
member-rice millers at
P1 a kilogram.
In a project brief, it
said that the decision
by the rice millers here
to join together and harness the rice husk for
power generation was
an offshoot of the study
“Enhancing the Energy
Self Sufficiency of Rice
Mills in the Philippines”
by the EC-ASEAN Energy Facility conducted
by the Philippine Rice
Research Institute and
Full Advantage Phils. International Inc. It was at
once fully endorsed by
the local city government
headed by Mayor Marivic
Belena.
Co chipped in P1 billion for the project. He
was elected chair of the
board of the corporation here with his associate Leonardo Dayao as
president.
The project construction started in January
2013 and was completed
in October 2014. It underwent four months of
testing and fine-tuning.
Energy officials said
the ipa-powered plant
here is the first biomass
power project in the country to be launched after
the feed in-tariff (FIT)
rates were approved last
July 27, 2012. The FIT
rate is P6.63 per kilowatt
per hour (KWH).
“This plant, small it
may seem, is equivalent to 20 interruptible
load program or those to
be generated thru generators,” said DOE Undersecretary Monzada.
“This means additional
electric supply in Luzon.”
Sources said two
more ipa-powered plants
are expected to be harnessed soon. They are
the 20-megawatt rice
hull powered plant in Alicia, Isabela being put
up by the rice millers in
the area who banded together under the i-Biomass Energy Corporation (i-BEC) for the project and the 12-MW plant
in Talavera, Nueva Ecija
owned by a family corporation.
By Tonette T. Orejas
TEAMWORK. SM Olongapo Security personnel headed by Customer Relations Service
Manager Joselito Isidro conduct a cleaning, repainting and trimming of trees in Grotto of Our
Lady of Pardon in Barangay Mabayuan. PR-SMOL
SM security: Going beyond the
basics of watching out for trouble
That’s what a good security
guard should possess. Every
single day, they patrol and monitor the premises and personnel
to maintain safety and secure
environment for customers and
employees. But, as part of SM’s
Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR), SM Olongapo Security
personnel headed by CRS (Customer Relations Service) Manager Joselito Isidro conducted
a cleaning, repainting and trimming of trees in Grotto of Our
Lady of Pardon in Barangay Mabayuan on March 09, 2015, the
sacred place where Catholic
Devotees pray and pay homage
to the Lord of Pardon.
President of “Lord of Pardon
Grotto Olongapo Chapter Mr. Jaime G. Gime said, “Maraming
salamat sa SM sa inyong boluntaryong paglilinis ng Grotto, nakakatuwa isipin na ang isang malaking kumpanyang kagaya nito ay
binigyang pansin ang lugar namin.”
The volunteer effort was just
one of the CSR activities of SM
which they conduct in the different barangays in Olongapo. It can
be recalled that SM Olongapo is
involved in initiatives that benefit the community such as, Trash
to Cash, Movie treats for Persons
with Disability, Scholarship Pro-
gram, Livelihood Projects ,Adapt
a School Project ,to name a few.
Similar to this, SM also carried out some activities for
Brigada Eskwela in the various schools in the city to assist
by way of cleaning the school
premises. In addition, SM Security personnel previously received various commendations
from Olongapo City Mayor Rolen Paulino for showing Honesty
in returning lost valuable items of
customers.
According to Mr. Isidro, the
CSR activities of SM will regularly be felt by Olongapeños as
long as SM exists. –PR-SMOL
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—The board of trustees of the Giant Lantern
Festival Foundation Inc.
(GLFFI) in this Pampanga capital has requested
Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez to review
the sale of the Philippine Christmas Village
(Paskuhan) here by the
Tourism
Infrastructure
and Enterprise Zone Authority (Tieza) in December 2014. The
GLFFI
also
asked Jimenez to give
an assurance on the
“propriety” of the sale of
9.3-hectare park to the
SM Development Corp.,
the foundation said in a
Feb. 20 letter, which was
furnished to Punto! on
Saturday.
“We
entreat
you
not to contribute to the
forces that render the
Kapampangan
Christmas parol to become
dimmer and less important to the hearts of the
Filipino people,” Corazon Pamintuan, GLFFI
head of secretariat, said
in the letter. It was signed also by
City of San Fernando
Mayor Edwin Santiago,
GLFFI chair, and trustees Alfrito Mah, Lourdes
Javier, Socorro Lim,
Franco de Jesus, Mariano Castro Jr., Conrado
Pacla, Edgardo Chua,
Alex Magsino and Shirley Te. President Aquino and
Pampanga Representatives Oscar Rodriguez
and Joseller Guiao were
furnished copies of the
letter. The GLFFI leaders
told Jimenez of their “dissatisfaction and incredulity” about the sale of the
park developed by the
Department of Tourism
and the defunct Philippine Tourism Authority
and opened by the late
President Corazon Aquino on Dec. 11, 1990. “We find it incredulous for Tieza to sell the
Paskuhan Village considering that Tieza’s
mandate does not include the sale of heritage places such as the
Paskuhan Village. While
we are aware of the order for asset privatisation issued by the Governance Commission for
Government-Owned or
Controlled Corporations
we still feel the need this
purported sale because
the sale…marks the end
of an era,” they said. “We find it incredulous as well why this sale
could transpire when the
land could have most
likely been donated to
the government exclusively for the purpose
of showcasing the rich
Kapampangan
Christmas traditions, most especially the Giant Lantern,” they added. Mark Lapid, Tieza
general manager, said
in an interview last February that “everything
in the privatisation of
Paskuhan was aboveboard.” He declined to confirm the company that
won the public bidding.
The winning bidder got
Paskuhan for P939 million. Lapid made public
the documents used in
the sale: Two memoranda of understanding, two
deeds of absolute sale
for two lots and a deed
of exchange swapping a
5-hectare lot for another lot beside the first 4.3
hectares. Congressman Guiao
filed House Resolution
No. 1898 seeking an investigation into the sale. The heirs, speaking through their cousin
Jose Lazatin, said they
would “still give the Paskuhan lots in support
of Pampanga’s development.”
The park is across
Century
Properties’
Azure north. On the east
are SM Pampanga and
Robinsons Starmills. It is
beside the toll gate of the
North Luzon Expressway. Lapid said Paskuhan
was one of 13 PTA properties that were to be sold
in a privatisation process
that began in 2011. Chadaro Consortium won in
a public bidding in April
2014 to handle consultancy services. It recommended that Paskuhan, along with the Agoo
Playa Hotel, Matabungkay property and Talisay
property, be part of the
first tranche of assets
that would be on sale. “It is Tieza’s mandate
to dispose of its properties,” he said. He confirmed that
Rodriguez, while mayor
of the City of San Fernando, requested Tieza
to turn over to the city the
Paskuhan in 2011. This
was, however, turned
down by the Tieza board
because by then, the
best use of properties
were being studied.
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Foundation wants DOT chief to review Paskuhan sale
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Losing Paskuhan
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“WE ENTREAT you not to contribute to the forces
that render the Kapampangan Christmas parol to
become dimmer and less important to the hearts of
the Filipino people.”
So read a letter – dated February 20, 2015 yet but
only recently made public – the board of trustees of
the Giant Lantern Festival Foundation Inc. (GLFFI)
sent to Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez,
imploring him to review the sale of the iconic
Paskuhan Village reportedly to SM Development
Corp. by the Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise
Zone Authority (TIEZA) in December 2014. Continued the letter: “We find it incredulous for
TIEZA to sell the Paskuhan Village considering
that TIEZA’s mandate does not include the sale of
heritage places such as the Paskuhan Village. While
we are aware of the order for asset privatisation
issued by the Governance Commission for
Government-Owned or Controlled Corporations
we still feel the need to review this purported sale
because the sale…marks the end of an era.” Nothing illegal, everything aboveboard.
So declared TIEZA General Manager Mark
Lapid of the “privatization” of Paskuhan, proffering
as proof positive of this two memoranda of
understanding, two deeds of absolute sale for two
lots and a deed of exchange swapping a 5-hectare
lot for another lot beside the first 4.3 hectares. Lapid neither confirmed nor denied though that
it was SMDC that won the bidding for the price of
P939 million.
Still, the GLFFI holds: “We find it incredulous
as well why this sale could transpire when the
land could have most likely been donated to
the government exclusively for the purpose of
showcasing the rich Kapampangan Christmas
traditions, most especially the Giant Lantern.”
We, and most certainly other Kapampangans
too, join the GLFFI in its lamentation over this
apparent loss of a cultural site.
We however find it incredulous how the GLFFI
could premise its claim of Paskuhan Village “for
the purpose of showcasing the rich Kapampangan
Christmas traditions, most especially the Giant
Lantern.”
So, can anyone still remember the last time
the GLFFI held the Giant Lantern Festival at the
Paskuhan Village?
Not ever after the construction of SM City
Pampanga and Robinsons Starmills, if we
remember right. With the Sys’ mall initially hosting
the City of San Fernando’s signature fest, and
the Gokongweis’ claiming exclusive rights over it
thereafter.
Consequently, the Paskuhan Village becoming –
to use the very words of the GLFFI – “dimmer and
less important to the hearts of the Filipino people.”
Over spilled milk, we weep.
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SANGLEY AIRPORT ‘a crazy idea.’
So screamed our banner here Wednesday, reporting on dear friend Alexander
Cauguiran’s epithet for the “new Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA)”
at Sangley Point in Cavite City being shoved down the people’s gullet by the
Department of Transportation and Communications.
“No to Sangley, Clark is it!”
So cried Cauguiran in challenging Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya to a debate,
there and then, at his agency’s “consultative meeting” Monday at the Widus Hotel and Casino at
the Clark Freeport.
Knowing full well that he had not even a Chinaman’s chance to level up with Cauguiran, much
less overwhelm him, the obviously rattled Abaya could only retreat to the diplomatese of being
there “not to debate but to listen.”
Indefensible, indeed, is the Sangley airport, given the inherent craziness of its conception.
Something that has already been discussed here on June 16, 2014, albeit somewhat glossed over
by the article’s all-too-pretentious intellectual conceit title:
The Clark conundrum
An interpretation – not necessarily Marxist – of history
“HISTORY REPEATS itself, first as tragedy,
second as farce.”
The universality of the Marxist maxim – and
consequently, the continuing relevance of the
workingman’s prophet, notwithstanding the
downfall of communism – strikes into the very
pith of the Clark airport issue.
Farcical can only be the calcified mindset
of Joseph Emilio Abaya, transportation and
communications secretary, on a new Manila
international airport based at Sangley Point
with its requisite expansion by reclamation from
Manila Bay.
A notion generally deemed “crazier” than the
kindred proposal of San Miguel Corp.’s Ramon
Ang to build his own airport around CyberBay
also out of reclaimed land.
Abaya’s folly, as aviation experts are
reported to have supposed, would be “small
and cramped…wedged between the Cavite
City metropolis and Manila Bay.” Sangley is also
“too close and shares the same aerodrome as
NAIA which makes it dangerous for air traffic.”
Crazy. That was how Jose Ma. Lorenzo Tan,
chief executive officer of World Wide Fund for
Nature Philippines, described Ang’s proposed
airport for its on-coast location which shall
make it most vulnerable to storm surges as that
which devastated the similarly sited Tacloban
airport last year.
Consider: The reclamation of “only” 148
hectares of the Manila Goldcoast Reclamation
Project along Manila Bay would – in the expert
estimate of Dr. Kelvin Rodolfo, environmental
sciences professor at the University of Illinois
– already “poses lethal risks to many people
including danger of land subsidence, storm
surges, storm waves and further ecological
damage to coastal ecosystem.”
Think how greater the risk, aye, how deadlier
the peril, posed by the reclamation of over a
thousand hectares to base either of Abaya’s
delusion or Ang’s illusion?
Global earthwatchers have long warned
too that “further reclamation would not only
damage the remaining coastal habitat and ecosystem but will also effectively block the natural
pathways of the river system flowing into the
bay, thus increasing the threats of massive
flooding in Metro Manila.” Typhoon Ondoy
is too recent, too devastating, as to be easily
forgotten.
Not mere inconvenient, but terrifying, truths
there for the Filipino people.
Really crazy, the proposals of Abaya and
Ang, given the reality of Clark – 2,500-hectare
aviation area, 3.2-kilometer parallel runways,
flood-free high-elevation, etc.
Calling it the “real low-hanging fruit,”
Dr. Avelino DL. Zapanta, president and
CEO of the Southeast Asian Airlines, said
“The only thing needed now about Clark is
decisiveness and political will, on the part
of government. The time for action is now.”
Still, government would rather take its own
sweet time for, and give all ears to Ang and
Abaya.
Abaya’s Sangley advocacy is readily
misgiven as driven by interests both parochial
– he is from Cavite where Sangley lies, and
familial – he is brother to Peter Anthony Abaya,
head honcho of the Philippine Reclamation
Authority, which naturally assumes a key role
in the Sangley airport project, once given the
go signal. Beyond vested interests, I sense a rerun of
history here, aye, the tragedy of the Philippine
Revolution impacting here. Of Aguinaldo and
Bonifacio redux. Of the Caviteno snatching
revolutionary glory from and snuffing the very
life of the Kapampangan. (Or haven’t you
heard of studies tracing Bonifacio’s forebears
as natives of Masantol, where up to this day a
thousand bear their name as against none in
Tondo which history books tagged as the Great
Plebeian’s home ground?) History, as tragedy, reels out now…The
salvaging – in today’s parlance – of Bonifacio
in the mountains of Maragondon, Cavite. The
Caviteno’s extreme prejudice against the
Kapampangan finding lethal translation in
Aguinaldo’s troops burning Macabebe’s San
Nicolas de Tolentino parish church where a
large number of the townsfolk sought refuge,
and unwittingly gained their heavenly passage.
In turn, the Macebebe Scouts used by
the Americans in the capture of Aguinaldo,
definitively ending the “insurrection” against
the then emergent imperialist US of A. History, turning to farce, now: More than a
century hence, the Caviteno’s hatred of the
Kapampangan finds manifest in Aguinaldo’s
great grandson Abaya exacting revenge – by
pushing Sangley and stunting the development
of Clark as the country’s premier international
gateway thereby sabotaging the socioeconomic uplift of the Kapampangan race. And with no less than President BS Aquino
III, a Kapampangan, playing out the farce.
That’s the greater tragedy. Come to think of it though, history really
repeating itself here – first, the tragedy of Ninoy;
second, the farce that is PNoy.
Marx is not only right. Marx is god.
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Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship.
Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to
let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let
them go their way. –Real Live Preacher
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself,
under the condition of retaining the separateness and
integrity of one’s own self. –Erich Fromm
Halo-halo
Ding Cervantes
Prophecies via Pedro Regis
Visionary Pedro Regis was already introduced in this column as a visionary
who first allegedly saw the Blessed Virgin Mary in his hometown in Brazil way
back in 1987. He has become famous for the precision of the fulfilment of some prophecies allegedly conveyed by the Blessed Mother through him.
The prophecies have been rather largely
terrifying. But then, the Bible had never been
short of dire warnings premised on repentance
from sin as reversing factor.
There have been so many prophecies
(should they be better construed as warnings?)
coursed through Pedro that still have not
happened.
Early this month, the Blessed Mother
allegedly told him that ‘’long years of trials’’ still
lay ahead for mankind. One can only speculate
on the number of years or even decades.
Here are some of the prophecies, each
tagged with dates on when they were conveyed
to Pedro.
It would seem that at least two of them
are unfolding and this I leave to the reader to
find out. One prophecy in 2010 happened the
following year, specifically the great earthquake
that pushed a devastating tsunami in Japan.
Direct quotes as follows.
• Difficult days are coming for you. You will
be tried by great difficulties, but count on The
Lord. My Jesus will never abandon you. He will
be your comfort in difficult moments. You will
find a great battle in your path. The church will
confront a great storm and much will be lost.
9/18/2009
• The earth will pass through great and painful
transformations. People will be confounded,
because they have put themselves in the
place of The Creator. There will be inexplicable
phenomena on earth, and learned men will not
find answers. 10/9/2009
• The force of nature will provoke
phenomenon never seen before. Objects will
be thrown from the earth by a force that no one
can explain. Forces will arise from the depths
of the earth that leave men preoccupied, but I
want to tell you that God will not abandon His
people. Pray. You will yet see things that human
eyes have never seen. 10/31/2009
• A great discovery will happen for the good
of mankind. It will be the object of one of the
miracles of My Son Jesus. 11/7/2009
• If people are not converted, a terrible
punishment will fall upon humanity. Rivers
of fire will flow on the earth. The waters will
be contaminated and in many regions of the
world My poor children will carry a heavy cross.
11/22/2009
• Something frightening will happen in
Europe and three countries will be struck at
the same time. People will have to weep and
lament. 11/28/2009
• The day will come when people will
receive a great Grace. A great miracle of God
will transform hardened hearts. Each one will
see his errors and will receive the Grace of
repentance. It will be a great opportunity that
The Lord will give to His wayward children.
12/8/2009
• Days of suffering are coming. Don´t lose
confidence. The prophets who have gone
will return to announce the day of the great
warning. God will give you a chance to repent.
Pay attention. 12/12/2009
• Science will advance and create a manner
of transportation frightening to the eyes of man.
What is visible will become invisible to human
eyes. Behold difficult times for humanity.
12/25/2009
• Something sorrowful will happen in the land
of the queen (England) and will be repeated in
the capital of Brazil. 12/26/2009
• The crust of the earth will split in many
regions of the earth. Energy coming from the
interior of the earth will bring suffering to many
of My poor children. 12/29/2009
• Death will appear in Guatemala and My
poor children will carry a heavy cross. 1/14/2010
• Great suffering will come for the inhabitants
of Chile. Similar suffering also will come for
those who dwell in Lisbon. 1/16/2010
• Europe will be poor and there will be great
despair everywhere. 1/26/2010
• The Middle East will shake with great
atomic holocaust. 1/28/2010
• Something sorrowful will happen in the
House of The Lord and people will have to weep
and lament. Enemies will open the doors and
bearded men will act with great fury. 1/31/2010
• Death will go through Asia and My poor
children will weep and lament. Waters will
rise and humanity will live moments of pain.
California will face a heavy cross. The ground
will rise and the mountains will descend.
2/2/2010
• The day will come when an apparently
good and just man will appear. He will deceive
many people, for he will realize great prodigies.
He will come from the southern hemisphere
and many people will consider him as a savior.
Pay attention and don´t be deceived. 2/6/2010
• The calvary of humanity will begin on a
Friday 2/13/2010
Way to ruin a weekend God. At least we
know what day it will start... now if only we knew
when...
• The eagle (U.S.) will not fly tranquilly. Its
nest will tremble and there will be great fear.
2/16/2010
• A frightening event will happen in Spain
and will spread to various countries of Europe.
France will drink a cup bitter with pain which I
announced in the past. 2/20/2010
• Those who dwell in a great city in Brazil will
live moments of great tribulations. Scientists will
give the warning and everybody will flee. The
discovery of a great gap will get the attention of
the whole world. 3/6/2010
• From the depths of the earth will come
immense rivers of fire. Many regions will be
completely devastated and the destruction will
cross over many countries. 3/9/2010
• A megaquake will shake Japan and My
poor children will weep and lament. Greater
pain never existed. 3/20/2010
• I ask you to keep on praying for the
Church. The fury of the enemies will affect the
Church and many who were fervent in faith will
become indifferent. The Church will be taken
to calvary and the faithful will see the death of
many consecrated persons. 4/2/2010
• A shocking event will happen in Germany.
Death will pass through and My poor children
will experience a heavy cross. • A devastating force will cross Europe
causing destruction and death. 4/7/2010
And again...
• You will yet see horrors on earth. The
evil of men will bring suffering and pain to My
chosen ones, but don´t lose heart. Stay with
the Church. The weight of sorrow will be great
for the Church, but it will not be defeated. The
triumph of the Church will be great and its
enemies will fall to the ground. 4/10/2010
• Humanity will drink the bitter cup of
suffering. A frightening event will happen to
Iran, in Pakistan and in Angra dos Reis. The
happenings will be in different times, but will
be alike. My poor children will live moments of
anxiety. I suffer because of what awaits you.
4/11/2010
• Those who live in the land of riches will
experience a heavy cross. The earth will shake
and death will be present. The will drink the
bitter cup of sorrow. In the west, near the Pacific,
shouts and wailing will be heard. 4/13/2010
• A sleeping giant will arise in Indonesia
and My poor children will drink the bitter cup of
pain. No greater tragedy existed. Be strong and
firm in faith. I will always be with you. A great
destruction will be seen in Japan. 4/17/2010
• When all seems lost a great victory of God
will arise for you. There will be no defeat for
My chosen ones. The hour of calvary will come
to humanity. Great and sorrowful happenings
will come to you, but don´t lose heart. The
angels of The Lord will come from heaven and
His chosen ones will not experience physical
pains. In the great and final tribulation people
will see the powerful hand of God in action.
4/22/2010
Napaguusapan
Lang
Felix M. Garcia
EdPam awarded
muli bilang
Best Mayor
(Karugtong ng sinundang isyu)
NA NAKAMIT nitong Lungsod ng Angeles
Dahil sa talino’t husay ni Mayor Ed,
Sa pamamahala at pagiging ‘the best’
Sa ikabubuti ng kanyang ‘constituents’
Kaya marapat lang sa puntong naturan
Ang siya ay ating muling palakpakan
At magawaran ng dagdag na parangal
Sa mga natamong papuri at dangal
Bilang lingkod-bayan na kumikilala
At naniniwalang lahat makakaya’ng
Gawin ng sinumang ‘public official’ na
May puso’t damdamin, saka kaluluwa.
At inu-una ang marapat tutukan
Kaysa ibang bagay na hindi kailangang
Gawin para lamang may maipakitang
Proyektong nagawa sa panunungkulan
Kung saan si Mayor kusang lumalabas
Sa kanyang tanggapan kahit anong oras
Para lamang niya lubos na maharap
Ang tungkuling naka-atang sa balikat
At maipagawa ng administrasyon niya,
Gaya ng ngayon ay ‘under construction’ na,
Ang ‘beautification’ sa pinaka-plaza
At ‘heritage district’ – at saka iba pa
Na kagaya r’yan ng kanyang pina-alis
Na mga kable ng kuryenteng nagsabit
Sa poste’t animo’y spaghetti’t pansit,
Upang ang nasabing ‘area’ ay luminis.
At di maging ‘eyesore’ sa mata ng madlang
Sa ‘heritage district’ at plaza ng bayan
Sabik makarating para mapasyalan
Ang lungsod sa panahon ni Mayor EdPam
Na ngayon ay lubha ng kaaya-aya
Ang sa lugar na ito ating makikita,
Dahil ang pangit na mga istraktura
Sa panahong ito pawang giniba na.
Sanhi na rin nitong nagawang baguhin
Ni Mayor ang dati’y pangit na tanawin,
Sa may harapan ng dati ay gusaling
Pambayan at saka nitong Simbahan din.
At ang ‘spaghetti wires’ sa lugar na yan
Ay nagawa nga pong itago ni EdPam
Sa ‘underground’ kundi man sa pamaraang
Pagbaon sa lupa o ‘highly technical’
(Na klaseng koneksyon na di mapanganib
At garantisadong ligtas ang pag-gamit
Ng kuryente kahit malubog sa tubig
Ang ‘electric current’ nating ginagamit?)
Malalo’t madali, sa mga programang
Pinasimulan ni Mayor Ed Pamintuan,
Gaya nitong ‘renovation’ na naturan
Sa ‘heritage district’ tuloy-tuloy na yan
At inaasahang matatapos lahat
Pati na iba pang balakin sa siyudad
Ng ‘multi-awarded’ at ‘World Class City Dad,’
Na si Ed Pamintuan (nitong Pilipinas!)
Bago matapos ang kanyang ‘terms of office,’
At bago ang 2016 ay sumapit;
Kung saan aywan lang kung tatakbo ulit,
At kung sino ang posibleng maka-tiket.0
Pagkat malayo pa naman ang halalan
Upang ito aniya ang siyang pag-uusapan;
At ang seryoso n’yang sagot noong minsan:
“Trabaho muna bago ang na ‘yan”!
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Abaya says French design for Clark terminal too big
From page 1
In a consultative
meeting on developments at the Clark International Airport here
Monday, Abaya said that
the design, funded from
a grant from the French
government, was “on
the larger side, but we
will defend it before the
board of the NEDA (National Economic Development Authority).”
“Thinking long-term
is the way to go,” he
said, but added that
should the DOTC be
required to “trim down”
the design, “we will be
ready with a feasibility
study, we are ready for
both alternatives.” The
design, finished in November last year, was
initially for a terminal
that would cost less at
P7.5 billion.
Abaya said, howev-
er, that once approved,
the terminal would probably be finished in 2018,
beyond the term of Pres.
Aquino.
“We are not putting
up a waiting shed here.
There are huge infrastructure and the size
would really take time,”
he said, expressing
hope that NEDA would
approve the project by
the end of the year.
This, even as Abaya
also said that the government is “working with
JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency)
for a new gateway at
Sangley”, referring the
coastal Sangley Point, a
former US military facility in Cavite.
“I don’t know when
reclamation could be
started,” he said, again
noting that the project is not expected to
be launched within the
DOTC chief insists Clark flights cheaper...
From page 1
airport had to shell out
$300 more to go to
Dubai as compared to
NAIA.
Balikbayans from the
US returning via Asiana Airlines through the
Clark International Airport (CIA) pay more for
their airline tickets as
compared to landing at
NAIA 1, 2 or 3.
Gilda Padua, former
president of the Association of Travel and Tours
of Pampanga (ATTAP)
and proprietor of Ties
That Travel at SM City
Clark, said you cannot
compare “apple to apple” for air fares using
CIA and NAIA because
there are considerably
less flights in the former.
She said a trip to
Dubai from CIA costs
more because Qatar airways (the only Middle
East airline at CIA) will
first land in Doha before boarding a connecting flight to Dubai which
costs around P47,752
including travel tax, terminal fee and 30-kilogram baggage as compared to a direct flight
to Dubai from Manila via
Cebu Pacific, a budget
airline, which costs only
P16,550 including travel
tax.
The PGKM had noted that restrictive government policies against
Clark are also being implemented to allegedly
hamper its development
like strict immigration
policies against tourists
flying to the CIA.
Indians
Widus Hotel and Casino general manager
Alfred Reyes said Indian tourists arriving at
the NAIA 1, 2 or 3 in Manila are granted visa-upon-arrival
privileges
while Indians who want
to fly directly to Clark are
required to get visas in
the Philippine Embassy
in India before they can
even buy a ticket for a
Clark destination.
Reyes even showed
a recent text message
from Bureau of Immigration (BI) - Clark officer
Atty. Pio Rodulfo III confirming this policy.
But Abaya denied
this. “I don’t think this is
accurate,” he said. “As
a manager, he (Reyes)
should know what the
accurate policy is. Again
this unimaginable,” he
added.
“We should pressure
at the right point for the
right reason. Me, I am a
person who would rather
encourage… put incentives… in that way the
stakeholders are always
part of the decision of
selling Clark,” Abaya
reasoned.
The PGKM said the
national
government
should aggressively pursue inviting airlines to
use Clark by offering tax
and other incentives on
top of pushing for the full
and immediate development of the CIA.
The Kapampangan
advocacy group said
NAIA and even Metro
Manila will be decongested with the CIA becoming online as a dual
airport system with the
former.
At present, the CIA
has only 104 flights per
week serviced by eight
carriers including Asiana
Airlines, Qatar Airways,
Cebu Pacific, Tigerair,
Air Asia Berhad, Jin Air
and Dragon Air.
In 2014, only 800,000
airline passengers were
recorded at the CIA despite its published capacity of four million
passengers annually.
Aquino administration.
“I hope they (in the next
administration) pick it up
once they assume office,” he added.
Abaya stressed that
there should be no conflict between Clark,
NAIA and a new gateway at Sangley which
he referred to as a “new
NAIA.”
He also said “we
are not sure if we will
close NAIA if Sangley
becomes operational.
There are two schools
of thought here.”
At the same time, the
Clark International Airport Corp. (CIAC) has
proposed five measures
to boost the airport
here. The measures include the issuance of a
“government policy direction” for the development of the Clark airport, a charter for the
airport, incentives for
airlines to fly to Clark including the granting of
fifth and sixth freedom
traffic rights, incentives
for Filipino travellers to
fly via Clark including a
three-year moratorium
on travel tax, and inclusion of CIAC in the Philippine Negotiating Panel in international airlines meetings.
Notice of Extrajudicial Settlement
Notice is hereby given that the heirs of Antonio P. Bondoc who
died intestate on December 14, 2014 in Angeles City executed an Affidavit of
Extrajudicial Settlement of his estate, more particularly described as follows:
Transfer Certificate of Title No. 695373-R
Register of Deeds for the Province of Pampanga
A parcel of land (Lot 10, Blk. 45 of the cons. subd. plan Pcs03-015720 being a portion of Lots 3008-P-4, 3008-P-5, 3008-P-7,
Psd-141126; Lots 3008-P-6-A, 3008-P-6-B, 3008-P-6-C, 3008-P-6-D,
3008-P-6-E, 3008-P-6-F, 3008-P-6-G, 3008-P-6-H, Psd-03-159018,
LRC Rec. No. ) situated in the Brgy. of Calibutbut, Mun. of Bacolor,
Prov. of Pamp.
Transfer Certificate of Title No. 042-2014017403
Registry of Deeds for San Fernando, Pampanga
A parcel of land (Lot C-12 of the subd. plan, Psd-03-126983,
being a portion of Lot C, BSD-035408-003423 (OLT) LRC Rec. No.)
situated in the Bo. of San Roque, Dau, Mun. of Lubao, Prov. of Pamp.
Bank Savings Account
BDO Bank with Account Number 004920140579 amounting to
P1,462,653.23
before Notary Public Rogelio T. Reyes as per Doc No. 408, Page No. 82, Book
No. 209, Series of 2015.
Punto! Central Luzon: March 6, 13 & 20, 2015
Notice of Extrajudicial Settlement
Notice is hereby given that the heirs of John Ronald Stuntz who
died intestate on February 21, 2015 in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga
executed an Affidavit of Extrajudicial Settlement of his estate, more particularly
described as a Savings Account (US Dollars) with the Bank of Commerce,
019-Balibago, Angeles City Branch, under Account No. 019-21-001537-2
USD in the amount of Ten Thousand Eighty Eight and 79/100 US Dollars (US$
10,088.79), before Notary Public Anthonie K. Langit as per Doc No. 360, Page
No. 14, Book No. XXV, Series of 2015.
Punto! Central Luzon: March 6, 13 & 20, 2015
Notice of Extrajudicial Settlement
Punto! Central Luzon • March 12 - 14, 2015 • Thursday - Saturday
Notice is hereby given that the heirs of Gloria Ocampo-Concepcion
who died intestate on February 23, 2015 in Sacred Heart Medical Center,
McArthur Highway, Sto. Domingo, Angeles City executed an Affidavit of
Extrajudicial Settlement with Special Power of Attorney of her estate, more
particularly described as a Peso Deposit with the PNB General Insurers Co.,
Inc., Angeles Branch RBU, Branch Code 1302, Passbook No. 699521, Account
No. 177790400026 in the amount of Eighty Four Thousand One Hundred
Seventy Four and 44/100 Pesos (Php 84,174.44), before Notary Public Rodolfo
S. Uyengco as per Doc No. 406, Page No. 103, Book No. XLI, Series of 2015.
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Notice of Extrajudicial Settlement
Notice is hereby given that the heirs of Primitiva De Guzman who died
intestate on June 20, 2008 executed an Affidavit of Extrajudicial Settlement
with Sale of her estate, more particularly described as Holy Mary Memorial Lot
situated at Angeles City under Certificate of Ownership No. 8631, Holy Mary
Memorial Park, Inc. (Lot No. 7, Block No. 25, Garden Paradise), before Notary
Public Rodolfo S. Uyengco as per Doc No. 386, Page No. 99, Book No. XLI,
Series of 2015.
MORE FUN IN LUBAO. Tourism Director Ronnie Tiotuico and LIBF head Noel Castro guarantee
more balloons, more activities at the Lubao balloon fest. Photo by Bong Lacson
All set for 2nd Lubao hot air balloon festival
From page 1
Platter Restaurant here.
Tiotuico was joined
by Noel Castro, LIBF
chair, who said the
neighboring towns of
Hermosa and Dinalupihan in Bataan have also
been anticipating the influx of people in Barangay Prado Siongco by
posting signs and guiding motorists to the area.
The Pilipinas International Balloon Festival
Inc. (PIBF) together with
the Arts, Culture and
Tourism Office (ACTO)
and the Pampanga Provincial Government is
spearheading this year’s
LIBF set on March 2629, at Pradera Verde,
Prado Siongco, Lubao
town.
It will be the biggest annual hot air balloon festival in Southeast Asia that will feature
more than 40 colorful hot
air balloons coming from
different countries all
over the world including
14 special shaped balloons like Darth Vader,
Yoda, Humpty Dumpty,
Frog, etc.
But aside from the
majestic balloons that
are all set to soar, there
are other activities such
as cultural presentation,
water balloon fight, motor paragliding, paint ball
exhibition, night glow
and fireworks display.
Local
concessionaires will also be featured and will coincide
with the carnival and kiddie activities - making
LIBF 2015 a family-oriented event and a great
attraction for tourists.
Known
celebrities
and bands such as Kamikazee, Mitoy with the
Draybers and The Voice
of the Philippines Season 2 – Final 4 will be
performing in this fourday event.
Tickets for the festival are priced at P250
and can purchase at SM
ticket booth outlets located at SM Cinema area or
visit www.smtickets.com
for online purchase.
Details of the event
can be checked at www.
lubaoibf.com or thru our
social media accounts
such as Facebook: www.
facebook.com/lubaoibf,
Instagram:
@lubaoibf
and Twitter: @lubaoibf
LIBF 2015 is sponsored by San Miguel
Corporation, San Miguel
Beer, Petron, Purefoods
Tender Juicy Hotdog,
Magnolia Ice Cream Best
of the Philippines, Magnolia Pure Water, Victory Liner, Resorts World
Manila, Click the City,
and Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office.
Supported by our official
media partners: Inquirer.net, Diva and Universal Channel, Lifespots
Magazine, Mellow 94.7,
wheninmanila.com, Philippine Bloggers Network, Inquirer LIBRE
and BANDERA.
–Ashley Manabat
Punto! Central Luzon: March 6, 13 & 20, 2015
Notice of Extrajudicial Settlement
Notice is hereby given that the heirs of Oscar E. Serrano who died
intestate on December 12, 2013 in 06 Doña Adela Subd., Phase 2, Sta. Cruz,
Porac, Pampanga executed an Affidavit of Extrajudicial Settlement with Waiver
of Rights of his Motor Vehicles, more particularly described as follows:
Make
:
Isuzu
Type
:
Elf-HSPUR
Motor Number :
4BE1-231860
Serial Number :
NKR58E-7196781
Plate Number
:
WGU 297
File Number
:
1312-170634
Make
:
Isuzu
Type
:
Truck
Motor Number :
4BE1298047
Serial Number :
NPR58L7135557
Plate Number
:
XBJ 603
File Number
:
1368-153381
before Notary Public Rodolfo S. Uyengco as per Doc No. 1825, Page No. 10,
Book No. XLI, Series of 2014.
Punto! Central Luzon: March 6, 13 & 20, 2015
Notice of Extrajudicial Settlement
Notice is hereby given that the heirs of Ireneo Lugtu Bognot who
died intestate on April 28, 2009 and Ramona Manalo Bognot who died
intestate on November 26, 2012, both in Angeles City, executed an Affidavit of
Extrajudicial Settlement with Waiver of Rights of their estate, more particularly
described as a parcel of land (Lot 21, Block 16) located in the Barrio of Pandan,
City of Angeles and covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. 90663 of the
Registry of Deeds of Pampanga, before Notary Public Reymon E. Fabros as per
Doc No. 51, Page No. 86, Book No. VII, Series of 2015.
Punto! Central Luzon: March 6, 13 & 20, 2015
The Gossipmiller
Cesar Pambid
Claudine Barretto nakipag-ayos na kay Marjorie
UMAGAW siyempre ng eksena ang presence ni Claudine Barretto sa debut ng pamangkin na si Julia Barretto last Tuesday sa Rizal Ballroom ng Makati Shangri-La
Hotel.
Napawi bigla ang brouhaha ng Barretto sisters kung saan magkakampi sina Gretchen at Marjorie habang ang ina na si Inday Barretto ang kakampi ni Clau during
those batuhan in public ng kanilang dirty linens.
Kahit wala si Gretchen, na mas piniling lumipad patungong London para dun mag-celebrate ng kanyang birthday kasama ang anak na si Dominique, enough na
rin ang presence ni Claudine upang maipakita sa publiko na all is well with her and Marj.
Maganda nga naman tingnan sa kamera ’yon, lalo na’t isang TV special ang inilaan ng ABS-CBN sa okasyong ito ni Julia.
Ang isa pang magandang tingnan sa camera ay ang first dance ni Julia sa amang si Dennis Padilla. Family picture kahit na nga prior to that, eh, batuhan sila
nang batuhan ng unsavory words.
Present din sa party ang bagong loveteam na si Liza Soberano at Enrique Gil na kahit galing sa taping ay sumagsag pa sa party.
Gayunpaman, hindi pa rin mawawala ang comparison kina Julia at Liza kahit palabasin na close sila.
Dumalo rin sa party si Janella Salvador, ang isa pang sinasabing “karibal” ni Julia sa ABS-CBN.
PALAISIPAN ang Facebook status ni Sharon Cuneta kahapon ilang oras bago niya inanunsiyo na malapit na siyang bumalik sa limelight.
Blind item ang pagbi-vent ng Megastar sa FB at hindi pinangalanan ang subject ng mahabang pag-e-emote.
Aniya, “I have been going through so much emotionally these past few weeks. It seems that it is the
people you have loved, especially all your life, who are the first to disappoint you, let you down, then
leave you, throw you away.
“Sometimes only because of a question? I cannot believe that I mattered so little (and no,
this is not my husband!). And I have abandonment issues. The ones I have loved the most
(and they are so few) in my lifetime are the ones who hurt me the most.
“Also, I have realized that in the past two decades, it is people I have trusted who
have neglected me or my interests and investments, caused me to lose money, taken
advantage of me and any kindness I offered. Horrible. And it is some people you have
come to love and trust as part of your family who turn out to be expert liars, betray
you, steal from you. I am much more careful now.
“All this pain is little compared to all that happened last year, but it is still pain, and
still absolutely heartbreaking. And of course all that heartbreak and brain-wracking
had to manifest in the physical -- which is why I think that, aside from a virus that
seems to be going around -- I have been down with the flu and a really bad cough
because of this (I could live with the flu anytime, but a cough is the worst! Can’t
sleep.
“You take a sip of water and when you swallow, it feels as if there’s a rock in
your throat. You cough and it feels like an alien is coming out of your mouth! It
HURTS. Like someone takes a cheese grater to my throat each time.)
“Frankie got sick first, my poor baby. Brought her to her doctor in Makati Med,
and that evening, I started coughing. Then Miel. Everyone with fever in the 38s and
39s. Last night, my son got sick too. He couldn’t sleep so well beside me because
of his coughing. Such high fever, too. It breaks your heart when you see your babies
having such a difficult time. AND I have to say -- I would otherwise be doing cartwheels
and my happy dance right now despite all these things!
“There is one GIFT that is saving my heart and keeping it from falling into pieces! Okay, I’m
starting a countdown now, even if I am not yet at my ideal weight but getting there surely, and
fast.
“Thank you, Lord Jesus, for teaching me to be wary of wolves in sheep’s clothing, to
be loving without forgetting to love myself, too. To have my babies who are so loving
and affectionate and close to me and always beside me, around me, almost never
leaving my side (like now.:-)), thank you!
“And thank you, God, for new beginnings with people who truly have a place in my
heart. Thank you for your blessings and grace. I love you!
“I love you too, my friends and family. God bless all of us! Catch you later.”
Samantala, gaya ng sabi ni Sharon, nag-umpisa na nga ang countdown sa muli
niyang pagtatrabaho sa TV.
Hindi man direktang binanggit at wala mang dagdag na detalyeng pinakawalan,
marami ang naniniwalang sa ABS-CBN babalik ang singer-actress matapos
magpa-release sa kontrata niya sa TV5 kamakailan.
Carmina Villarroel
nakipag-lalapan;
nakipagkangkangan!
Claudine Barretto
Sobrang daring ni Carmina Villarroel bilang
lover ni Paulo Avelino sa Bridges Of Love. For
the first time in her career, she agreed to do a
love scene with someone. “Sobrang kinabahan
ako kasi ang tagal ko na sa industriya, pero
ngayon ko lang ginawa ito,” sabi niya. “Kaya
pala kinailangang mag-rest ako ng one year kasi my last soap
was ‘Got to Believe’ pa, kasi ganitong project ang isusunod ko. Kung
kailan pa naman may dalawa na akong anak, saka ko gumawa ng ganito.”
Earlier headlines of column items about her say: “Carmina, nakipaglaplapan,
nakipaglampungan kay Paulo Avelino.” “Sobra naman. Hindi naman ganun kagrabe.
TV ito, ano? Hanggang smack lang. Pero someone who hasn’t done anything like it
ever before, kakaiba ito. Meron ding scene na binubugbog ako ni Lorenzo Mara, who
plays my abusive husband. Yun, totoo. Nasaktan talaga ako. Nung makita ko kung
gaano siya ka-intense, natakot na ako. Kaya ‘yung pinakita ko roong sobrang takot
ako, di na ako uma-acting. Takot na takot na talaga ako. Yung mga aray ko, totoo yun.
And this is why na-in love ako kay Paulo, kasi he saved me from being emotionally
and physically abused. Ibinigay ko sa kanya ang lahat, akala ko, love niya talaga
ako. E, nakilala niya si Maja Salvador.”
Does she have to ask her husband Zoren Legaspi’s permission to do intimate
scenes with Paulo? “Busy siya sa ‘Forevermore’,” she laughs. “No need to make
paalam, wala kaming ganon kasi pareho kaming artista at alam naman niya,
maging ng mga anak namin na, oo, trabaho lang ito but I know my limitations. Sa
mga anak ko naman, huwag na lang nila panoorin, but they know na it’s part of
my work. I’m very honest naman with my kids and I’m sure they will understand,
pero ‘di na nila kailangang panoorin pa. But I’m very thankful because ako ‘yung
kinuha nila to portray Alexa, so feeling bagets ako kasi this time, hindi another
mother role ang ginagampanan ko. Si Paulo naman, napakamagalang. Ate ang
tawag sa’kin, pinupupo ako, humihingi pa ng permiso kung puwede niya kong
hawakan sa eksena.”
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Sharon Cuneta emotera sa FB
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