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Punto! Luzon
Central
Volume 8
Number 77
Thu - Sun
April 30 - May 3, 2015
PANANAW NG MALAYANG PILIPINO!
Korean firm files slew
of cases vs. SBMA execs
Holy Wed nesd ay tak e-ov er
By Ashley Manabat
S
UBIC BAY FREEPORT— Under
cover of darkness, at the time
when the whole Christendom
was in reflection of the passion of
Christ, executives of the Subic Bay
Metropolitan Authority (SBMA),
assisted by 60 heavily armed men,
finally wrested control of a disputed
condominium-hotel here.
Page 12 please
Labor Day special
40-K local, overseas jobs
up in CL-wide job fairs
By Ding Cervantes
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO - The Department of
Labor and Employment
(DOLE) here said some
40,000 local and overseas jobs are offered by
368 companies slated to
hold job fairs in Central
Luzon on May 1, Labor
Day.
DOLE said the job
fairs would accommodate 80 recruitment
agencies looking for engineers, architects, administrative assistants,
cooks, waiters, waitresses, construction workers,
plumbers, and factory
workers.
Local employers, on
the other hand, will welcome applicants interested in jobs as managers,
supervisors,
customer service representatives, call center agents,
medical
transcriptionists, sales clerks, office
clerks, production workers, machine operators
and service workers.
Various professional positions will also be
filled up during the jobs
fair, DOLE also said.
It said the jobs fairs
on Labor Day will be held
in various SM malls in
Central Luzon, including
those in Baliuag, Marilao,
Pampanga, Clark, San
Fernando
Downtown,
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Ocean Condotel. Grabbed
from its facebook page
‘To see is to believe’
PGKM skeptical over P1.2-B Clark LCC terminal
ANGELES CITY – “To
see is to believe.”
The Pinoy Gumising
Ka Movement (PGKM)
expressed what it called
“guarded
pessimism”
over the reported sched-
uled bidding of the Clark
low cost carrier (LCC)
terminal by June, saying
many pronouncements
have been made but no
concrete actions have
been taken.
“We have a long history of announced biddings for the Clark terminal from the time of
GMA (former President
Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo) going until now,”
said PGKM chair Ruperto Cruz.
Cruz cited the P3-billion joint venture offered
by the Manila International Airport Authority, the
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More shippers now prefer Subic port
By Malou Dungog
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT
— More shipping companies and port users in
Central and Northern Luzon are now preferring
to use the Port of Subic
as transshipment hub
because of easy access
and lower cost.
The shippers lauded the advantages of
the Subic port during the
2nd Subic Bay Maritime
Conference and Exhibit,
which was held here on
Friday with no less than
500 delegates from shipping firms, trucking and
forwarding consortiums,
customs brokers, import/
export-related corporations, and other port users from Metro Manila,
Central and Northern Luzon, as well as Southern
Luzon.
The conference, with
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Cabinet Secretary Jose Almendras (left) and SBMA Chairman and
Administrator Roberto V. Garcia prepare to cut the ceremonial ribbon to
officially open the One-Stop-Shop at the New Container Terminal-1 to
fast-track port transactions inside Subic Bay Freeport Zone.
Photo by Malou Dungog
World wid e fuel supply in ex cess
Anakpawis calls for price rollback
By Ding Cervantes
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO
- The latest fuel price increases by independent oil companies in the country had no basis amid excess supply being
reported by the Department of
Energy (DOE) and situations
peculiar only to Asia, the party
list Anakpawis said yesterday.
Anakpawis Rep. Fernando
Hicap cited Platts, an Ohiobased market price provider,
saying that “gasoline and diesel continues to lose steam”
in Asia, and amid “high supply
emerging from India and North
Asia.”
“In addition, improved supply conditions and bloating
supply inventory is pushing
for the weakening of Asian
gas market compared to Europe,” Hicap quoted Platt as
reporting recently.
He noted that independent
oil companies imposed recent-
ly a P1.45 per liter increase
in gasoline, P1 for diesel and P1.05 for kerosene.
“We demand a roll back instead of increase as the prices
of oil in the world market have
remained low due to oversupply” Hicap stressed.
Hicap also cited a report of
the DOE as saying that “despite the US crude oil recovery
of five percent from almost six
months of slump in the world
market, the supply of oil has
remained relatively high with
1.5 million per barrel in excess
capacity.”
“This is why the latest oil
price hikes are baseless,” he
stressed.
Hicap noted that “given
the huge surplus of oil, the
120,000 to 140,000 barrels
per day which potentially cannot be produced due to the
trouble brewing in Yemen, will
not gravely affect the supply.”
Hicap also criticized the
Aquino government “for allowing oil companies to implement a big time oil price hike.”
“Regardless of the situation
in the Middle East, our oil companies are prone to increasing their prices immediately,
but turn into slow paced turtles
when the situation warrants a
price roll back. It is clear that
there is government collusion
with these companies, motivated by profit from the 12 percent
Value Added Tax,” he added. Mary Jane’s kin
ecstatic over reprieve
By Armand M. Galang
Dr. Ireneo “Bong” Alvaro (right), Midori Clark hotel president, presents the certificate
of availabilty of funds worth P1 million to Concepcion South Elementary School
principal Romeo Torno for the construction of school covered court during his 57th
birthday celebration at Fiona’s Farm in Magalang. Photo by Deng Pangilinan
BONG benefits 34 scholars, school
Punto! Central Luzon • April 30 - May 3, 2015 • Thursday - Sunday
By Ashley Manabat
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MAGALANG, Pampanga –
For Dr. Ireneo “Bong” Alvaro, it is in giving that we receive.
Thus, on his 57th birthday
last Monday, Alvaro handed
out scholarship grants to 34
deserving
Kapampangan
college students as well as
P1 million initial funds for a
school covered court. The
scholarship grants were
handed out through BONG
or Building Opportunities for
the New Generation.
Held at Alvaro’s Fiona’s
Farm here, the birthday
bash turned out as a gift-giving of sorts by the celebrator
himself.
First to benefit was Concepcion South Elementary
School, Alvaro’s alma mater
in Tarlac province, receiving a
check worth P1 million from
Alvaro for the school’s covered court. School principal
Romeo Torno received the
check from Alvaro.
Averell
Laquindanum,
president of the City College
of Angeles, said 22 scholars
from the city were the beneficiaries of scholarship grants
from Álvaro with tuition fully
paid from the first semester
of 2015 up to the second semester of 2019.
Laquindanum said the
courses offered for the scholars include: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science,
Bachelor of Science Information System, Bachelor of
Science in Tourism Management, Bachelor of Science in
Physical Education, Bachelor
of Technical Teacher Educa-
tion, and Accounting Technician.
Another set of 11 college scholars also received
grants from Alvaro at the
Pampanga State Agricultural College (PSAU) in Barangay Ayala here.
A scholar enrolled at
the University of the Philippines College of Medicine
in Manila got a check worth
P100,000 from Alvaro during
the birthday celebration.
Some of those present at
the affair were MMDA Chair
Francis Tolentino, Akbayan
stalwart Riza Hontiveros,
Mayors Romulo Pecson of
Magalang, Ed Pamintuan
of Angeles City, Boking Morales of Mabalacat City and
Andy Lacson of Concepcion, Tarlac, and Tarlac Rep.
Noel Villanueva.
Man hacks to death
sleeping nephew
By Ding Cervantes
PORAC, Pampanga- A 50-yearold man was arrested yesterday by the local police after he
hacked to death his sleeping
11-year-old nephew in Barangay Inararo here last Tuesday.
Town police chief Supt. Neil
Olegario Miro said at at about
5 a.m. Tuesday, suspect Allen Serrano went to his nearby nipa hut and immediately
hacked to death his nephew
Carlo Serrano, 11.
The boy, who was reportedly asleep, sustained large
wounds in the back of his head
and left shoulder, indicating he
was hacked several times.
Members of the household
who later saw the body of Carlo sought the help of barangay chair Benson King Jr. who
sought police assistance.
Responding policemen, led
by Chief Inspector Bernalese
Agpalasin, rushed the boy to
a hospital where he was declared already dead. They
found a blood stained jungle
bolo in the nipa hut.
The suspect was also
found in his nearby house,
looking dazed. He did not resist arrest.
Police probers still had to
quiz the suspect on his motive
for killing his nephew.
CABANATUAN CITY - Milagros Fiesta, 75, grandmother
of 30-year-old Mary Jane Veloso on her mother’s side, endured the burning atmosphere
of light El Nino phenomenon
and fight for the latter’s life as
she stayed day and night with
a small group of sympathizers
and “prayer warriors” in a corner near the busiest crossing
along Maharlika Highway here
Tuesday.
Like the other relatives of
Mary Jane, she went hysterical every time she heard news
that the execution of Mary
Jane and other drug convicts in Indonesia would push
trough. In front of her was a
TV monitor beaming developments on scheduled execution
from time to time.
The news that the execution of Mary Jane was delayed
came sweetest to her ears, reviving hope that one day Mary
Jane, her dear grandchild,
would come home, very much
alive.
“Umaasa ako na mapapatunayan na na wala siyang
kasalanan at magkakasama-sama na kami uli,” Fiesta said. She reiterated belief that Mary Jane, a mother of two who got married at
the age of 16, from Barangay
Caudillo here was a victim of
human trafficking and a drug
syndicate. She also expressed
hope that she can continue
her simple life back here.
Imelda
Magday,
Mary
Jane’s aunt, said the delay in
execution was a ray of home
for their family which found her
ordeal a nightmare they can
never recover from. “Pag namatay si Mary Jane, hindi lang
siya ang namatay, lahat kami,”
she said.
She, however, called on
the government to exert further action to have Mary Jane
back home alive.
ANGELES CITY – The fight
of the century is on and Angeleños will have the opportunity to witness the much awaited bout between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather,
Jr. on Sunday, May 3, 2015,
live and for free.
Angeles City Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan urged his
friends to help in providing
free, live pay-per-view to all
the 33 barangays of Angeles
City.
“Not everyone could afford to pay the pay-per-view
and they will only wait for the
free viewing provided by local
channels after the fight. This
is an opportunity to be one
with our people in showing
our support to our Pambansang Kamao, who is going
out to fight for our country,”
Pamintuan said.
“Bigyan natin ng pagkakataon ang lahat ng Angelenyo na masaksihan ng LIVE
ang laban na ito, kasama na
ang ating mga kababayan na
nasa Angeles City Jail”, he
added.
In all recent Pacquiao
fights, the inmates of the Angeles City District Jail are
among the beneficiaries of
live and free telecast.
Pamintuan urged all barangay chief executives to
take this opportunity and provide the appropriate venue
where more people can watch
and enjoy the match. Some
of the available venues being
considered include the barangay halls, barangay covered
courts or public spaces available.
This project is made possible through the partnership
with ACCTN, Friends of Ed,
Inc. and the Association of
Barangay Captains of Angeles City.
Other venues include the
Pampang Public Market,
San Nicolas Public Market,
EPZA Resettlement in Pulung
Cacutud and Northville 15 in
Cutud. –Angeles CIO
Angeleños to enjoy
free, live telecast of
Pac-May mega fight
Festive Flair
Ning Cordero
MAJESTIC BLUE. Azzurro Hotel stands tall and proud
at the heart of the Balibago entertainment district.
Photo by Bong Lacson
The business center of Angeles City is aglow with the
new Azzurro Hotel, up-allnight intensity and calming
vibe make a better alternative
hotel for travelers either leisure or business trip.
On April 24 Azzurro formally opens in good taste, perfect
setting and with great friends.
A traditional cake-cutting ceremony was held to celebrate
the beginning of the new business venture led by the hotel
owners Albert and Josephina
Mallari joined by Angeles City
Mayor Ed Pamintuan, Pampanga Representative Joseller
“ Yeng” Guiao, DOT regional
director Ronaldo “Ronnie” Tiotuico, HARP president Mirasol
Simon and renowned hotelier
Azzurro’s general manager
Noli Reyes. Later an intimate
luncheon at the rooftop featured the delicious flavors of
both regional and international
cuisine with a twist, delightfully
prepared by famous food specialist and culinary extraordinaire Azzuro’s executive chef
consultant Editha Singian.
“The changing landscape
of the business center in Angeles has the most beautiful
view of Mt. Arayat and Clark.
Plus the removal of the spaghetti wires, it is the best place
to construct a building. Before
my term ends you’ll not only
have the City’s vast landscape
but a beautiful skyline. My
congratulations to Azzurro Hotel,” quipped Mayor Pamintuan during an interview at the
grand opening.
Azzurro hums with instant
gratification and confident cool
that the guests will take pleasure in the hotel’s unique features. Capri lobby bar and
restaurant serves delicious
snacks, sandwiches and mixed
drinks with live entertainment
nightly just a perfect place to
meet for a cocktail or intense
mingling. Terrazza rooftop bar
and restaurant offers a totally different food experience
featuring the hotel’s signature
dishes created by chef consultant Singian and a homey
ambiance at the rooftop with a
beautiful panoramic view of the
legendary Mt. Arayat.
In addition to comfortable
and well-designed 118 rooms
and suites, Azzurro also offers
stylish and unique options for
meetings, special occasions
and events. It houses the stunning Italia Banquet Hall, a fully-equipped function hall that
can comfortably accommodate 50 to 400 guests.
For relaxation or fitness,
no need to travel far, enjoy the
hotel’s Jacuzzi bubble jet pool,
sauna and gym. You may also
want to boost up and try some
healthy drinks at the bar.
All facilities offer state-ofthe-art audio and video telecommunication capabilities.
The hotel offers other services
and amenities suitable for every need.
“I can describe this hotel in
three words superb service,
perfect ambiance and scrumptious food. So I would like to
invite everyone to visit Azzurro
Hotel stay with us and feel at
home”, Reyes shared.
Azzurro Hotel is located at
4895 Mon Tang Avenue, Balibago, Angeles City for booking call (045) 331-1333 or visit
www.azzurrohotel.com.
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Cake-cutting ceremony with (L-R) Pampanga Rep. Yeng
Guiao, HARP President Mirasol Simon, Angeles City
Mayor Ed Pamintuan, Azzurro Hotel owners Albert and
Josephina Mallari, DOT Regional Director Ronnie Tiotuico
and GM Noli Reyes.
Azzurro Hotel
opens its doors in style
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FLAVOR FEST. Taking center stage at SM City Clark are the winners in the Hotels and Restaurants Association of Pampanga-Department of
Tourism Flavors of the Philippines Cook-Off Challenge 2 – Champion: Century Hotel; Runner-up: Widus Hotel; and 2nd Runner-up Lewis Grand
Hotel with members of the Board of Judges Atching Lilian Borromeo, RainforestKitchene Chef Vince, and Edna Eufemio along with Tourism
Director Ronnie Tiotuico and HARP President Sol Miranda-Simon. Contributed photo
Printers: Unabated paper imports killing local industry
By Ding Cervantes
Punto! Central Luzon • April 30 - May 3, 2015 • Thursday - Sunday
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO - A group
of printers and publishers in Central Luzon has urged the government
to clamp down on “unabated influx of
cheap imported papers” as they expressed fear that otherwise, the country’s paper industry would collapse and
thousands of workers would lose jobs.
The group calling itself People’s
Publishers and Printers (PPP), described the situation as “serious” as it
urged the government to “immediately
impose specific tax on imported newsprint that threatens the survival of local
newsprint manufacturers.”
The Tariff Commission had recommended last February 23 to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) the
imposition of a specific tax of P2,470
per metric ton of imported newsprint
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based on earlier petition made by the
local newsprint manufacturing industry .
The tax will be effective for three
years, from 2015 to 2018.
“The safeguard we seek is only
temporary,” the group said, and is
“aimed to protect the industry from the
fire sale strategy being implemented
by foreign mills and to give the local
industry a chance to implement its adjustment plans.”
But the DTI has yet to act on the
recommendation, the PPP lamented.
“We urge the DTI to implement the
recommendation of the Tariff Commission whose decision was a result of exhaustive investigation,” it said, citing
“the need to operate in an equal and
level playing field.”
The PPP stressed that “the industry needs the safeguard measure in or-
der to survive the onslaught of cheap
imported newsprint being rolled out by
the so-called fire sales strategy resorted to by hurting mills abroad.”
It cited reports that major foreign
mills selling newsprint in the Philippines are up for sale.
Currently, around 87 percent of
newsprint supply in the country comes
from abroad – mostly from South Korea. South Korea’s biggest newsprint
producer, Jeonju, sells 30 percent of its
annual output of 1 million metric tons to
the Philippines, flooding the local market with cheap newsprint, PPP noted.
Records show that from a volume
of about 3,000 metric tons in 2007, imports skyrocketed to 19,000 metric tons
in 2009 and nearly tripled to 50,000
tons in 2013, the group also said.
PPP cited industry sources said
that the fire sales strategy has even
lured some influential companies into
over-importing newsprint and then surreptitiously selling excess volume to local users.
Previously, some 90-95 percent of
newsprint requirements in the country
was produced by local manufacturers, it added.
“Since the 1990s, the deleterious
impact of low-priced newsprint has
been such that about 14 paper mills
have since gone out of business, putting thousands of jobs and killing a
number of small business like trucking
services and small junk shops in the
process,” PPP said.
It also said “the industry stakeholders fear the worst” and that “delaying
any further the implementation of a tariff duty on imported newsprint as recommended may spell the death knell
for the local paper industry.”
Angeles hosts NCCA’s
‘Yugyugan’ dance rally
Bluebee’s Pizzeria now open at SM Pampanga
A tasty variety that will
tickle your taste buds is now
open at SM City Pampanga. Bluebee’s Pizzeria and
Restaurant opened its first
ever mall branch at SM City
Pampanga with its wide array of choices for Italian and
American food lovers out
there. A true homegrown
restaurant owned by Resty Delos Reyes, of Minalin
Pampanga.
Big servings in reasonable prices is what it’s all
about with Bluebee’s. Have
a filling choices from soups
to appetizers, baby back
ribs, pasta, desserts and
even breakfast all-day.
Choices of tasty wings in
various flavors of Salt & Pepper, Honey Glazed, Spicy
Sweet Thai, Seoul Chili, Jack
Daniels and House Fire for as
low as P199.
A mouth-watering choices of gourmet burgers in New
Orleans, Philly Cheeseburger, Jack Daniels Burger, Pizza-ger, Dennis ‘D Menace,
Johnny Bravo and Blue Angus Burger raging from P125
to P295.
Try the best-seller Gourmet
Pizzas in variety of choices of
Vegan Bianca, Queen Elizabeth Herbs, Honolulu Slice,
Mediterranean, Tropicana Adventure, Milano Chicken, Buf-
falo Ride, El Mancini Supreme, Vancouver Connection and Sicilian-style Seafood raging from P350 to
P625.
What’s more, affordable
group bundles are available
for greater taste ranging from
P1, 250 to P1, 650 good for
6-8 persons. Now that’s
something new to look forward to at your favorite shopping Pampanga mall with its
additional unique food concept.
Visit Bluebee’s Pizzeria
and Restaurant at Annex 1
near The Event Center (beside Cabalen) of SM City
Pampanga.
ANGELES CITY – Hundreds
of dance artists from Pampanga trooped to this city’s Heritage District in Barangay Sto.
Rosario to join performing arts
groups from all over Philippines in drumming up awareness on cultural heritage preservation.
The dance rally, dubbed
“Yugyugan Para sa Kultura ng
Bayan”, is spearheaded by the
National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) to
raise consciousness on preserving culture and tradition
through a “dance rally”.
This is also the country’s
participation in the celebration
of the National Dance Week
and the International Dance
Day (IDD) 2015 done April 29
annualy and created under the
auspices of United Nations
Educational, Scientific, and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Angeles-based culture and
arts advocate and NCCA Vice
Head on Dance, Peter De
Vera, said that “Yugyugan” will
be one of the commission’s
annual events which will also
be a venue for performing artists to advocate, express and
“dance out” their sentiments.
“Angeles City is very lucky
to be one of the only seven
key cities and provinces where
“Yugyugan” will be staged”,
said De Vera.
“The commission sees the
response and support it has
been getting from this city –
and this si one of the main
reasons as to why why Angeles was chosen as one of the
hosts.” De Vera added.
Aside from Angeles City,
the advocacy rally was simultaneously held in Cagayan de
Oro City, Iloilo City, Baguio
City, Batangas, Cebu City, and
Manila.
At 6:00pm, performers
danced in unison to the tune
of “Filipino Ako, Filipino Tayo”
which was choreographed by
the national working committee for “Yugyugan”. Performances from the participating groups followed after the
opening salvo.
For his part, Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan expressed his
enthusiasm to further support
projects that will raise responsiveness to the preservation of
the Philippines’ tangible and
intangible heritage.
“We were deeply overwhelmed with the people’s response to the dance rally. It
goes to show that Angeleños
are now more concerned with
culture, tradition, and heritage,” said Mayor Pamintuan.
–Angeles CIO
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CEB Group flies 1.5 million passengers in March 2015
while Tigerair Philippines
launched Manila-Legazpi and
Cebu-Puerto Princesa flights.
“We look forward to serving more guests and stimulating travel in more markets this
year. CEB has set its sights
on Doha, Qatar, which we will
launch on June 4, and continues to explore adding flight
frequencies or seat capacity
to popular destinations,” said
CEB VP for Marketing and
Distribution Candice Iyog.
CEB recently ramped up
select Hong Kong and Sin-
gapore services from Manila,
with additional seat capacity
(from 180-seater Airbus A320
to 436-seater A330 aircraft).
To further stimulate travel,
the airline also offers a 50%
off seat sale until May 3, 2015
or until seats last, for travel from July 1, 2015 to March
15, 2016. This is available on
any of its 34 domestic destinations, and includes inter-island
flights such as Cebu-Tandag,
Zamboanga-Tawi-Tawi, and
Davao-Bacolod.
The 50% off seat sale is
also available on CEB’s international destinations, which
includes Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Hanoi, Jakarta, Phuket,
Brunei, Dubai, Hong Kong
and Singapore. Those traveling between Manila and Sydney can avail of P4,999 all-in
seats.
For bookings, passengers
can visit www.cebupacificair.
com or reservation hotlines
(02)7020-888 or (032)2308888. They may also download the Cebu Pacific official
mobile app on the App Store
SM City Gapo sponsors
summer meals for kids
It’s been a fun day for the underprivileged kids of Barangay New Cabalan
during the feeding program of SM Olongapo recently.
“Our desire to give hope to children
and families in the community by giving
them the nourishment they need to make it
through another day will not happen if not
for the help of benevolent company like
SM,” barangay New Cabalan chairman
Raffy Lim said in an interview. Through the
efforts of SM City Olongapo, a total of 70
children ages 3 to 8 benefited the feeding
program in Brgy. New Cabalan Covered
Court.
It can be recalled that part of the UN
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is
the enhancement of the health and education status of children. Through partnership with the community SM were able to
achieve MDG and help alleviate short-term
Seventy underprivileged kids aged 3-8 of Brgy. New Cabalan
receive meals from SM Olongapo staff during their feeding
program recently. PR-SMOL
hunger, improve nutrition and cognition of
children.
The Department of Education (DepEd)
on the other hand, has been conducting
School-Based Feeding Programs (SBFP)
since 2010. DepEd works with LGUs and
private partners like SM for other feeding
programs outside SBFP.
Aside from this activity SM across the
country under SM Foundation also offers
college scholarships, medical missions,
farmers’ trainings and builds, donates and
maintains classrooms and school buildings
to public schools. The Foundation also renovates and maintains wellness centers in
public hospitals and health care centers.
Under the SM Cares Program, a division
of SM Foundation, persons with disability,
the elderly, youth, women, Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and their families are
also part of the program. –PR-SMOL
Holiday Inn events
up this summer
AFFIDAVIT OF LOSS
By Ding Cervantes
I, ALICIA T. CASTRO, Filipino, of legal age, widow, and with postal address at 3rd Street,
Back of Magliman Elementary School, Brgy. Magliman, City of San Fernando, Pampanga, after
being duly sworn, depose and state:
1. I am the surviving spouse of the late Gregorio M. Castro, the registered owner of one
(1) share of stock of Baguio Country Club, bearing Certificate Number 5156.
2. Since my husband passed away, I have been the custodian of the original copy of said
Baguio Country Club Stock Certificate Number 5156, which I keep in my personal files at home.
3. Sometime in 2011, when I was supposed to settle the Estate of my late husband,
Gregorio M. Castro, I gathered all documents needed to pay the Estate Tax. That was when I
realized that the original copy of said Baguio Country Club Stock Certificate Number 5156 was not
in my personal files. Despite diligent efforts I have exerted to locate the same, my efforts proved
futile.
4. I am executing this Affidavit to attest to the fact of the loss of Baguio Country Club
Stock Certificate Number 5156; to request the Baguio Country Club Management to issue a new
copy of the Stock Certificate Number 5156 in lieu of the lost one, and for whatever legal purpose
this may serve.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of March, 2015 in the
City of San Fernando, Pampanga.
CLARK FREEPORT -- There’s
much at Holiday Inn-Clark
these long weeks of summer.
Topping the list is the much
awaited Fight of the Millennium between Manny Pacquiao
and Floyd Mayweather which
can be watched on live telecast starting 8 a.m. on May 3,
inclusive of buffet breakfast for
only P1,800 per person.
Then celebrate Mother’s
Day with WOW, that is, Woman of Wonder Facebook (FB)
contest which offers as prize
dinner for two at the Mequeni
restaurant which is known for
themed nights and sumptuous
desserts, or at the Rodizio,
the Churascarria-style rooftop
grill that boasts of fire-roasted
delicacies on swords, complemented with Mongolian barbecue. Rodizio is the only restaurant in Northern Luzon that offers certified Angus beef as
part of its buffet.
ALICIA T. CASTRO
Affiant
Senior Citizen ID No. 1895557
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SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 14th day of April, 2015 in the City of San
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WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL, on the date and place above written.
VICTOR B. ROQUE
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Until December 31, 2015
Roll of Atty. No. 35650
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Book No. 9
Series of 2015.
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Punto! Central Luzon • April 30 - May 3, 2015 • Thursday - Sunday
The Philippines’ leading carrier, Cebu Pacific Air
(PSE:CEB),and its wholly
owned subsidiary Tigerair Philippines, flew over 1.5 million
passengers in March 2015, a
growth of 11.7% compared to
the same period last year.
Last month, the CEB
Group operated approximately 2,800 weekly flights, utilizing a fleet of 55 aircraft, one of
the most modern fleets in the
world. During this time, CEB
launched direct Kalibo-Hong
Kong and Cebu-Tokyo flights,
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Editorial
Punto! Central Luzon • April 30 - May 3, 2015 • Thursday - Sunday
Heartless
10
THE NATIONAL Union of Journalists of the Philippines
is deeply appalled by the callous way GMA-7 is
retrenching hundreds of its regional employees in
the guise of the network’s “strategic streamlining”
geared toward “increasing ratings and revenues.”
While GMA-7 said it is not closing down any
regional station, all the other offices other than in
Cebu, Iloilo, Davao and Dagupan will be converted
into satellite selling stations. This play on words
belies the grim reality that almost all employees in
regional news desks of the network will lose their
jobs.
For a network that prides itself as “Kapuso,” the
GMA-7 management heartlessly laid off hundreds of
employees without sufficient warning.
In one swoop last Friday and Saturday, the
management put in peril the future of the families of
hundreds of its employees and talents many of whom
have spent many years of their lives dedicated to the
company and the public that they serve.
Let us make no mistake. GMA-7 is not on the
brink of bankruptcy with no recourse but to let go of
its employees to stay afloat.
GMA-7 is not in the red. It is not bleeding. It
reported a net income of P1.01 billion in 2014 and at
least a billion pesos yearly in 2012 and 2013. Based
on a compensation filing made by the network, its top
five executives received a total of P141.716 million
last year. The hundreds of regional employees who
will lose their jobs, unfortunately, do not enjoy the
same.
Clearly, hundreds of jobs and lives have been put
in the altar of sacrifice for more profits for its owners
and investors at the expense of loyal and dedicated
employees and talents.
We stand with our colleagues who lost their
jobs. What happened to them can happen to
any media worker in the country who despite our
noble profession, many continue to be treated as
dispensable pawns.
We call on our colleagues to close ranks and
defend our rights and welfare and defend the dignity
of journalists and the press.
The network’s management has denied that the
retrenchments are connected to the acquisition of
shares of Mr. Ramon Ang, top honcho of San Miguel
Corp., who has acquired a 30-percent stake of GMA7.
But is this really so?
We call on Mr. Ang to look closer on the situation. Mr.
Ang has always prided himself as putting a premium
on the welfare of his employees. More importantly,
he has always been vocal about supporting a vibrant
and democratic press.
Mr. Ang should give this partnership with GMA-7
a second hard look: would he really want to team up
with a company that does not think twice of letting its
people go for the sake of revenues alone?
(Statement of the NUJP dated 27 April, 2015 finding greatest
relevance in the celebration of Labor Day)
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Bong Z. Lacson
Ode to Labor Day
WORK ‘TILL you drop. Stop. Drop. Get up. Do it again.
Work. Underpaid? Bereft of benefits? No job security? Work. Be thankful to be
working. Work harder.
Work ‘till you drop. Stop. Drop. Get up. Do
it again.
Give quality time – not to the growing
children, but all to work. Keep bills paid. Years
pass. Chances pass. Lucky, work you have. Be
glad. Thank God.
Work ‘till you drop. Stop. Drop. Get up. Do
it again.
Get older. Get scared to work less hard.
Work harder. Prove you still can.
No time for neighbors, community, friends,
or the laziness of leisure. No riches. No home
left.
Work ‘till you drop. Stop. Drop. Get up. Do
it again.
No savings. No pension. All spent staying
barely healthy enough to work harder.
Holidays a time for silent desperation. Of
work deprivation. Why stop?
Work. Don’t stop. Drop. Get up. Do it again.
Or maybe go to sales at the stores where
workers are working ‘till they drop, reminders
of just another working day. Don’t be sorry for
them. They work. You don’t. Envy them.
No job here. Work somewhere – sweat to
your last drop in Saudi, Dubai, Bahrain, even
in war-torn Libya and Yemen. Work in any way
– nanny in Singapore, caregiver in London,
domestic in Hong Kong and Malaysia, duped to
be drug mule to Indonesia. Do anything. Stay
alive. Keep the family back home alive.
Work ‘till you drop. Stop. Drop. Get up. Do
it again.
Rich people and bosses have no guilt about
holidays, no fear in a nap.
Workers have no need for holidays, all fear
in a wink.
Work ‘till you drop. Stop. Drop. Get up, get
up, get up, get up. Do it again.
Pay your taxes. Pay your bills. Pay their
taxes. Pay their bills. You’ve lost everything that
you valued anyway. Loser. Loner. Lazy. That’s
how the power class sees us all. We are tools
of their greed, and the fools who lost all dreams.
They are far, far smarter than we. Whoopee.
Labor Day?
Why are you not working? No job? Lost it?
A day off? Why are you not working? At least,
with the little left in your pockets – if any – go
buy something that will swell the profits and
power of those who find us all so pliable, so
pitiful, so useable, so exploitable, so workable.
Listen for the call. It may be the need for profits
calling. If so, get up. Now.
Work ‘till you drop. Stop. Drop. Get up. Do
it again.
Then stop. When you finally expire –
literally and figuratively. Unless the wealthy
and the powerful figure out a way to prolong
our lives a little longer to make a few more
pesos as they inject us with pain killers and
tranquilizers so we cannot even scream on
the way out of their profit-making agendas.
Physically, emotionally all spent. No savings.
No pensions. No hope.
Labor Day?
That’s all day, every day, in every way.
The Philippines is a country of holidays
– special, national, local, working and nonworking. But certainly not for workers or those
who wish they were. We labor for the wealthy
and the powerful to have their holidays, every
day.
Aye, we are their holidays.
(By Donna Smith, executive director of the Health Care for All Colorado Foundation. Published on
September 05, 2011 by Common Dreams.org. With minimal alterations/additions by this columnist
to fit into Philippine setting)
Today in Philippine history
Source: www.kahimyang.info
The naval battle between the United States
and Spain takes place in Manila Bay
On May 1, 1898, the naval
battle between a squadron of
the United States led by Admiral Geroge Dewey and a Spanish fleet under Admiral Montojo took place in Manila Bay,
destroying the Spanish fleet.
Soon after, the Spanish Governor-General intimated his
willingness to surrender Manila but Dewey had no enough
force to occupy the city.
On August 7, a few months
later, and after several contigents of Americans have arrived, General Wesley Merritt and Admiral Dewey jointly
sent the Spanish commander
the following notice:
“... the operations of the land
and naval forces of the United States against the defenses of Manila may begin at any
time after the expiration of forty-eight hours (August 9) from
the hour of receipt by you of
this communication, or sooner
if made necessary by attack on
your part. This notice is given in
order to afford you an opportunity to remove all non-combatants from the city ...”
Manila surrendered on August 13, 1898 after a brief and
actually only a token bombardment of the outer fortifications
by the fleet and an attack by
the troops. This event is re-
ferred to by some Filipino historians as the “Mock Battle of
Manila”.
General Arthur MacArthur
was appointed Provost-Marshal-General and Civil Governor of the city.
During the next four years
the government established
by the Americans in the Philippines was headed by four successive Military Governors, all
Major-Generals, Merritt, Otis,
MacArthur, and Chaffee, although civil administration by
Americans under the direction
of the military commanders
began immediately after the
occupation of Manila.
The first Labor Day in the Philippines
On May 1, 1903, the first Labor Day celebration in the Philippines took place. It was organized by the Union Obrera Democratica de Filipinas,
the first labor federation in the
country. Thousands of workers marched from Plaza Moriones in Tondo to Malacañang
to demand complete independence, while chanting anti
American capitalism and imperialism.
The Union Obrero Democratica de Filipinas formerly
known as the Union Obrera
Democratica was founded on
February 2, 1902 by Isabelo
delos Reyes and Herminigildo
Cruz. It advocated the rights
of the labor force during the
American occupation of the
Philippines. Delos Reyes who
was arrested on August 1902
for sedition, rebellion and
“conspiracy to the raise the
price of labor” was succeeded
by Dominador Gomez. It was
Gomez who led the first Labor
Day celebration.
Later on April 8, 1908, the
Philippine Assembly passed
a bill making the first day of
May Labor Day, a national
holiday.
Today, Labor Day (or Araw
ng Manggagawa) in the Philippines is commemorated not
only with parades and other
forms of celebration, but also
with rallies and demonstrations of the labor sector.
The celebration highlights
the reality that the country’s
workers have proven to be
partners of government for
economic development and
positive social changes.
Halo-halo
Ding Cervantes
A vision of the
Final Resurrection
If there is anything in the divinely inspired works of Maria Valtorta that I keep
on reading and rereading, it’s her vision of the final resurrection, after the end of
the world. I have written briefly about Maria Valtorta in my past columns and so
for those who are not familiar with her, I suggest going back to my previous piece.
Or Google her.
The final judgment portion of her writings,
based on her visions, petrifies me, perhaps with
fear, but in a way that excites. Where would be
my place there, so far into the future? I could
only pray to the Divine Mercy.
The following words are Valtorta’s on that
future event.
“A vast expanse of soil, so boundless as to
be like a sea. I say “soil” because there is soil
as on the fields and on the streets. But there
are no trees, not a stalk, not a blade of grass. Dust, just dust.
“I see this in a light that is not light. A barely
sketched, wan glimmer, of a greenish violet as
can be seen at times of very strong storms or
total eclipses. A frightening light of burnt-out
stars. That’s it: the sky is starless, there is no
moon, no sun. The sky is empty, as the earth
is empty. The one has been stripped of its
flowers of light, the other of its plant and animal
life. Both are huge sloughs of what used to be.
“I have all the time to see this desolate
vision of the universe’s death. I think it will
look the same as at the first moment, when
sky and earth already existed, but the sky was
void of heavenly bodies, and earth was bare of
life. It was an already solidified globe but still
uninhabited, hurtling in space, waiting for the
Creator’s finger to give it herbs and animals.
“Why do I understand the vision to be that of
the universe’s death? Because of one of those
‘other voices.’ I do not know whom they come
from, but they do in me what the chorus does
in the ancient tragedies. They point out special
aspects of the play that the protagonists do not
explain. This is precisely what I would like to tell
you and which I will tell you after.
“As I look around on this desolate scene,
the need of which I do not understand, I see,
springing up from I don’t know where, standing
in the middle of the endless plain, I see Death. A
skeleton laughing with its uncovered teeth and
its empty eye-sockets. Sovereign of that dead
world, wrapped up in its winding-sheet as in a
cloak. It has no scythe. It has already reaped
everything. It casts its empty gaze around on
its harvest and sneers.
“It has its arms joined on its chest. Then
it opens them, these skeletal arms, and opens
its hands, nothing more than bare bones;
and, because it is a gigantic figure present
everywhere--better to say near everything-it leans a finger, its right forefinger, onto my
forehead. I feel the ice of the sharp bone that
seems to pierce through my forehead and go in
my head like an ice-needle. But I understand
that this has no other meaning than that of
calling my attention to what is happening.
“Sure enough with its left arm it gestures
at the desolate sweep on which we rise, it the
sovereign, I the only living being. Upon its
silent bidding, given with its left hand’s skeletal
fingers and by rhythmically turning its head
right and left, the soil cracks into thousands of
clefts. And in the bottom of these dark gullies,
scattered white things shine white, but I do not
understand what they are. “As I strain to decide what they are, Death
goes on furrowing the clods with its gaze and
command, as with a ploughshare. The clods
cleave open more and more, as far away as
the horizon, and Death ploughs the waves of
the sail-less seas, and the waters gape open,
forming liquid abysses.
“Then from the earth-gullies and from
the sea-furrows, the white things, which I
saw scattered and unbound, come up and
reassemble. Millions upon millions upon
millions of skeletons emerge from the oceans
and stand up from the ground. Skeletons of all
sizes: from tiny infant-skeletons with tiny hands
like little dusty spiders, to adult skeletons,
even gigantic ones whose bulk evokes some
antediluvian beings. And they are amazed,
somewhat shaking, like people waking up with
a start from a deep sleep, who cannot make out
where they are.
“The sight of all these skeletal bodies,
shining white in this Apocalyptic ‘non-light’, is
frightful.
“Then a cloudiness not unlike fog rises
from the open ground and open seas, and
slowly condenses around these skeletons. Taking shape and becoming opaque, it turns
to flesh, bodies like ours who now live. Eye
sockets are filled with eyes and irises, cheek
bones are covered with cheeks, over bare jaws
gums now stretch and lips are remade and hair
grows again on skulls and arms are fleshed out
and fingers turn nimble and the whole bodies
become alive again, just like ours.
“Though like ours, the new bodies look
different. Some are wonderfully beautiful, with
a perfection in shape and colors which make
them like art masterpieces. Others are hideous,
not on account of lameness or real deformities,
but on account of their overall appearance more
beastly than human: sidelong eyes, twisted
faces, looks of a wild beast and, what strikes
me the most, a darkness given off by those
bodies which increases the leaden color of
the air around them. Whereas the wonderfully
beautiful ones have smiling eyes, peaceful
faces, pleasant looks, and shed a brightness
that makes a halo around their whole being
from head to toe and spreads to the inside.
“If all were like the murky ones, darkness
would be so complete as to hide everything. But because of the other ones, brightness not
only lasts, it increases, so much that I can see
everything as one should.
“The ugly ones’ cursed destiny is not in
doubt, because this curse is marked on their
foreheads. They say nothing, casting around
them frightened, sidelong glances with their
faces lowered, and they gather to one side,
upon an inmost command which I cannot hear
but must have been given by someone and
heard by the risen. The wonderfully beautiful
ones also gather, smiling at one another and
looking at the ugly ones with pity mixed with
horror. And these exceedingly beautiful ones
sing, singing to God a slow, tender hymn of
blessing.
“I can see nothing else. I understand I just
saw the final resurrection.” Napaguusapan
Lang
Felix M. Garcia
(Kaugne ning pang-(73) pitung pulu’t atlung banuang Aldo
nang Kematayan Jose Basco Abad Santos, a pete ring Hapon
karin king Malabang, Lanao ketang Mayo 2, 1942 pauli ning
e ya bisang pailalam king gamat da reti, at mas birian na pa
ing mate kesa king sumpa yang ‘allegiance’ king kapamalan
da, ya pamu ing ngeni kekayu mi yampang antimong ‘tribute’
king keyang kabayanian).
Jose Abad Santos:
Bayaning
Kapampangan
Budning Jose Abad Santos ning Indu kung Kapampangan
Pupugayan daka ngeni king aldo mung kematayan;
King bistama’t maluat na kang migpaynawa king kutkutan,
Busten mu ing ibusni ke ing istorya mung melakuan;
Ban keta ing kekang lagyu at bitbit nang kabayanian
King pusu ring kabalen mu, e ne matda kapilan man.
Balikan tang’ pasibayu ing bilungan ning panauun
Iniang ikang Sekretaryu ning Justisya ketang napun,
Lalam nang gubyernu nitang Manuel Quezon a peka-pun
King ba’ya mung e mabihag king gamat ding lilung Hapon,
Tiniplad ya, at karin king Australia ya migsantung;
At ika ing keyang likuan ban sikasu ampon lingun.
Dapot uling deting dintang kumpletu la karing gamit
Kilub na ning pilan bulan mesambut ta’ at melupig;
At uli ning masangil la at milalu king kabangis
Ing Indung Balen tang’ tibuan binalut de king pasakit;
Itang sadia tamung tula miyalilan sindak, tangis
King gamat ding alang pusu at alang Dios a Hapones!
Simsam da ring palamara itang sadia tamung laya
At kildas de ketang tagdan ing Bandera na ning Bansa;
Kagnan na ning king gubyernu ila na ring menibala
Kabiayan ta’ at pibandian, peniamsam da at pemangua;
Kaibat na pemate ro’ pa ding king imbut da e bisa
Karing kalulung babai, king e maka-taung gawa.
Ing balen tang’ sawingpalad, makanian ing keyang bili
King gamat da retang Hapon, keti sinakup, mig-ari;
Ika budning Abad Santos – iting balen tamung sawi,
E me likuan saglit mu man king lingap mung e matati;
Ligtas man at maniaman ing karin Amerika muli,
Dapot e mu belakan man ing kang Quezon ka taluki!
Uli nitang melakuan ka, kaibat nita, ding bakukak
Ika itang penintun da ban arakap at abihag;
At mekad uling biasa ka… ing karelang apibalak
Pilit dakang amuyutan ban karela makilangkap;
King dake na ning justisya uling ikang peka-matas
Yabe ra kang gumubyernu mabilug a Pilipinas.
Dapot king gubyernong Hapon, maging “puppet” e mu buri
King babie rang katungkulan pipiling ka at tinanggi;
At uling pakamalan mong’ bina ding kekang kalipi
King ba’ kang e maging taksil, kareti e ka linimpi;
“Tupad ka o kaya mate,” kanian dapat kang mamili:
Pinili mu kamatayan kesa painggulut king lahi!
Ing anak mung kayantabe, malulunus, mipakiak ya
Kabud misaldak ing atul, ing ika pin paten da ka;
Inaru me y Pepito, e ka kikiak ngamu keya,
Ipakit mu karing Hapon ing ika man matapang ka!
Kaibat sinabi mu kaya: “Iti, pamikatagun na,
Ban ing bie ku ayampang ke para king balen tang’ sinta.”
Kaibat nita, ikong adua miyabe kong’ mig-Orasyun
Mekabulad, merandam na itang “kura” susun-susun!
Ika Suging Abad Santos, tahimik ka at maratun,
Tinaid daka at dela ketang makasadiang aun;
Pilan penandit kanita, merandam na itang akbung
Mitimbuang ka’t timbunan da ketang makasadiang aun.
Oyan ngeni ing anak mu, oh Indu ming Kapampangan
Ing anak mung mapuri at uliran keng katapangan;
A e mu ing sarili na ing maliaring mipalamang
King uli na dapat tamung pagmaragul kaninu man
Itang ya Kapampangan ya’t Kapampangan tamu naman,
Inia karapat-dapat mung ngeni at king kapilan man,
Lagyung JOSE ABAD SANTOS e ya dapat makalinguan!
Punto! Central Luzon • April 30 - May 3, 2015 • Thursday - Sunday
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Korean firm files slew of cases vs. SBMA execs
From page 1
The forcible take-over
by SBMA executives of
the Ocean Condotel happened exactly at 11:15
p.m. on Holy Wednesday (April 1) when work
in both government and
private offices have been
suspended for the Lenten break.
As a result, the Freeport Elite Resort, Inc.
(FERI), a Korean firm
which operates the condotel, filed a slew of
charges against the raiding team and their principals ranging from criminal, civil and administra-
tive cases.
Named respondents
in an administrative case
before of the Office of
the Ombudsman for Luzon for “grave misconduct and grave abuse
of authority” are Roberto Garcia, SBMA chair
and administrator; Randy Escolango, deputy
director for legal affairs;
Von Rodriguez, legal
department
manager;
Ruel John Kabigting of
the regulatory monitoring unit; and Orlando
Maddela Jr., chief of the
law enforcement department.
A criminal complaint
for “grave coercion and
usurpation of authority”
was also filed before the
Ombudsman against the
same SBMA executives
Rodriguez, Escolangco,
Kabigting and Maddela;
and Filipinos Benito Natividad, Luis Umali and
Jun Gallardo; Koreans
Kang Il Chan and Choi
Byung Kyu as well as
their legal counsels Atty.
Leonard Subiela and
Atty. Leonardo Bernabe.
A civil case for “forcible entry and damages
with prayer for preliminary mandatory injunction” was also filed before
the Municipal Trial Court
(MTC) in Olongapo City
against Kang, Choi, Natividad, Young Jung W.
Kim, Rianna D. Borres
and all persons claiming
rights under them.
The
respondents
helped install another
Korean investor (Kang)
at Ocean Condotel who
took over its operations
from the complainants
without a proper court
order.
The criminal and administrative cases were
filed in the Office of the
Ombudsman on April 16
while the civil case was
filed before the MTC on
April 20. FERI autho-
40-K local, overseas jobs up...
From page 1
Tarlac, and Olongapo.
The other May 1 job
fairs will also be held
in SM Megacenter and
Freedom Park of the Old
Capitol in Cabanatuan
City, the Capitol grounds
in Baler, Aurora, and at
the municipal hall of Masinloc, Zambales.
A similar job fair will
be held on May 6 at the
People’s Center in Balanga City, DOLE added.
“I would like to appeal to our jobseekers
to wear the proper attire when joining our job
fairs. Please bring multiple copies of your resumes, certificates of
employment, transcript
of records, clearance,
photos, and other pertinent pre-employment
documents needed by
employers,” DOLE Regional Director Ana Dione said.
She also said appli-
cants are also encouraged to pre-register at
www.phil-job.net or at
their respective Public
Employment Service Offices to avoid the hassle
of filling-up Skills Registration System Forms
during the job fairs.
DOLE said that its attached agencies such
as Overseas Workers
Welfare Administration,
Philippine Overseas Employment Administration
and Technical Educa-
tion and Skills Development Authority as well as
other government agencies including National
Bureau of Investigation,
PhilHealth, Social Security System, Department
of Foreign Affairs, and
Philippine Statistics Authority will assist during
the job fairs.
This year’s Labor
Day celebration carries
the theme “Disenteng
Trabaho at Kabuhayan,
Alay Natin sa Bayan.”
More shippers now prefer Subic port
Punto! Central Luzon • April 30 - May 3, 2015 • Thursday - Sunday
From page 1
12
the theme “Subic Bay:
Your Gateway to Central and Northern Luzon,”
was organized by the
Subic Bay Metropolitan
Authority (SBMA) in cooperation with Subic Bay
International
Terminal
Corp. (SBITC).
Cabinet
Secretary
Jose Rene Almendras,
who was keynote speaker in the event, said that
“Most people are moving
north and the number is
up tremendously.”
Almendras, who is
also head of the Cabinet
Cluster on Port Decongestion, noted the successful transformation of
Subic from a mere seaport with well-maintained
facilities into an international seaport hub and
the role it played at the
height of the port congestion crisis and truck
ban in Manila.
“The important part
of the success in moving resources is the port.
And when we turned to
Subic in those times of
crisis, there is no way
turning back,” he said.
He said that delays
in processing goods in
Manila during the crisis
had made companies
turn to Subic in order to
ship their replenishment
stocks in less than two
weeks.
Meanwhile, Vincent
Gottman,
operations
manager of Hansa Creation, said that since they
started using the Port of
Subic for shipping in raw
materials and transporting finished products to
a factory in Manila, they
never encountered a single problem.
“Since using Subic,
our deliveries always
arrived on time,” said
Gottman whose company based in the Clark
Freeport supplies toys
to many zoos and wild
parks worldwide.
He added that the
government should tell
stakeholders in the shipping industry about the
changes that the Port of
Subic underwent to provide better services, and
to convince more companies to use Subic for
their export and import
operations.
For his part, Gary Algodon, the procurement
manager of San Miguel
Brewery, told delegates
that as of 2014 San Miguel Brewery’s port operations had moved its
transshipment to Subic
because of the ease in
moving goods in and out
of the container yard.
“There was no problem that we encountered
in transporting our shipments. Instead, we have
a bonus from Subic and
that is cost-saving,” Algodon said.
He noted that using
Subic is more economical because of its easy
access to Northern Luzon, adding that the
company is now moving
80 percent of its product supply in Luzon, with
only 20 percent contracted to Manila.
“Hopefully, this year,
we can make that 100
percent,” he added.
For Anthony Eugenio, operations manager
of Atlas Brokerage and
Express Padala, Inc., using the port of Subic for
receiving “Balikbayan”
boxes from the United States has the same
cost as in Manila—“Except that in Subic there
is no problem about traffic and the threat of port
congestion that might
put the company’s service to test.”
Philippine
Exporters Confederation Inc.
(PECI) in Region III
president Cris Venzon,
who spoke in behalf of
his group, announced
that PECI is supporting
the initiatives of SBMA
in improving the Port of
Subic.
“We want to ship out
(our products) through
Subic,” Venzon said,
adding that doing so will
save them time and the
cost of transportations
compared to using Manila ports.
He explained that
from anywhere in Central Luzon, Subic is accessible through major
road networks, which are
now undergoing widening and improvement to
address the imminent increase of trucks and forwarders plying to Subic
from various origins in
the region.
For his part, SBMA
Chairman Roberto Garcia said that the continuous improvement of the
Port of Subic has already
resulted in the entry of
four more shipping lines.
Garcia said that the
Japan-based Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) Line,
one of the largest shipping companies in the
world, made its first direct route to the Port of
Subic from Kaohsiung,
Taipei in November last
year with its MV Jakarta
Towers.
China-based
SITC
Container Lines (Phils.),
Inc. has also opened a
direct route from Xiamen, China to Subic.
Maersk Line, listed
among the largest container shipping companies in the world,
brought to this premier
free port the first good
news for 2015, as MV
Stadt Dresden marked
its maiden voyage—a
direct route from Singapore to Subic.
“Subic, today, is the
most preferred and most
competitive
gateway
to Central Luzon and
Northern Luzon with its
newly opened One-StopShop Center at the New
Container Terminal 1 that
can connect shippers to
the SBMA-Bureau of
Customs and SBITC for
faster transactions,” Garcia also told the conference delegates.
rized one of its directors,
Jo Kwang Rae, to file the
cases in court in behalf
of the corporation.
Jo said the FERIowned Ocean Condotel
was forcibly and illegally
taken over by co-director
Kang on April 1, with the
assistance of Rodriguez,
Escolango,
Kabigting
and Maddela, together
with 50 armed SBMA law
enforcers and 10 security guards.
Jo said SBMA officials facilitated the takeover by Kang of the condotel in the absence of a
court sheriff and without
a court-issued writ of execution.
The
takeover
stemmed from a March
16 decision by the Olongapo City Regional Trial
Court Branch 72 favoring
Kang, one of the Korean
directors of FERI, recog-
nizing his right to inspect
the books of the corporation.
The court also ordered the annulment and
deduction of a significant
portion of former FERI
president and director
Cho Han Choon’s shares
of stock in the corporation.
Kang and his Filipino
companions attempted to
take over the operation of
the condotel from March
18 to 20 and March 30 to
31 but were prevented by
FERI legal counsel Atty.
Roseller Logronio, who
insisted on the necessity
of a writ of execution and
the presence of a court
sheriff.
Logronio clarified that
the court decision never mentioned that Kang
could take over the management and operations
of the hotel.
‘To see is to believe’
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Philippine
Amusement
and Gaming Corp., and
the Bureau of Immigration; the $1.2-billion proposal from ALMAL Investments Co. of Kuwait;
the $150-million offer of
Malaysia’s Bristeel Overseas Ventures, Inc.; and
the proposal of the Philco
Aero Inc. of Filipino business moguls Ramon Ang
and Manny V. Pangilinan.
“All announcements,
all coming to nothing,”
Cruz said. “Now could
you blame us for being
pessimistic?”
On
Wednesday,
Clark International Airport Corp. (CIAC) President-CEO Atty. Emigdio
“Dino” Tanjuatco III said
the National Economic and Development
Authority (NEDA) - Investment Coordination
Committee approved the
P1.2-billion LCC passenger terminal building, designed by Aeroport De Paris of France
which can accommodate
a maximum of 15 million
passengers annually.
According to published reports, the project is set to be presented
before the NEDA board,
chaired by President
Aquino, next week.
Tanjuatco said upon
the president’s approval,
the bidding for the project will start by the middle of this year as he remains optimistic that the
new LCC Clark terminal
building will boost the
development of the Clark
airport and attract more
airlines and investors.
However, the PGKM
cautioned that Tanjuatco’s
pronouncement
could just be a propaganda ploy because the
Clark airport is a good
material for the 2016
election campaign. Cruz
pointed out that Trans-
portation and Communications Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya is the
president of the Liberal
Party (LP).
“People from Northern and Central Luzon
as well as those from
the CAR will surely be
interested to any positive announcements concerning the Clark airport.
Thus, its projected development can translate to
positive image of the party in power,” said Cruz.
“This could also be
used to generate campaign funds for the LP,”
observed Cruz.
“The Aquino administration is in its last two
minutes that is why we
remain skeptical,” he
added.
With this in mind,
the P7.2 billion fund for
the Clark LCC terminal
building remains to be
seen, Cruz said.
“For one, is the announced P1.2 billion up
for bidding a part of the
P7.2 billion? They are
not saying, so we have
to really be watchful
over all these announcements,” Cruz said.
At present, airlines
operating at Clark International Airport (CIA)
include Qatar Airways,
Seair International, Cebu
Pacific, Tigerair Air ,
Jin Air, Asiana Airlines,
Dragon Air and Air Asia
Berhad.
The said airlines
mount flights to Hong
Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Macau, Pudong,
Incheon, Doha, Dubai,
Davao, Cebu and Kalibo.
Reports from the
Bureau of Immigration
showed however a “continuous downtrend” in
passenger volume at
the CIA, from 1.3 million
in 2012, to 1.2 million in
2013, and “only” 877,757
in 2014.
–Ashley Manabat
The Gossipmiller
Cesar Pambid
Derek Ramsay lalaking walang pahinga
Hindi totoo ang tsismis na lilipat si Derek Ramsay sa ABS-CBN. He just renewed his contract with TV5 for another three years in the presence of TV5 prexyCEO Noel Lorenzana and entertainment head Wilma Galvante. “It’s true that I’ve finished a new movie with Star Cinema,” he says. “An action-thriller directed by Toto
Natividad, ‘Pangil’, where I’m up against a giant crocodile. Then I’m doing another movie with Coleen Garcia. But on TV, sa TV5 pa rin ako because I’m so happy
here. I signed up with them in 2012 and during that time, I was able to do two seasons of ‘Amazing Race’, the superhero series ‘Kidlat’ na tumatak talaga sa tao and
introduced me to kids hanggang sa dulo ng Palawan, the action series ‘Undercover’, the mini-series ‘For Love or Money’, the telemovie ‘Bawat Sandali’ with Angel
Aquino that they’re now planning to release theatrically with some reshoots, and now, the hit comedy ‘Mac & Chiz’ and the action show, ‘Extreme Series’. I really can’t
complain. They’ve been taking very good care of me.”
So what’s the plan of TV5 for him for his new contract?
“Tuloy ang ‘Mac & Chiz’ and ‘Extreme Series’ in their second seasons,” says Ms. Galvante. “We’re happy with his work in ‘Extreme’ where he does very dangerous
stunts like going on top of a crane 230 feet above the ground. But we’ll also give him a noontime show on weekends and we’ll produce a movie for him.”
What will the movie be about? “We’ll have to sit down and plan it together,” says Derek. “The nice thing about TV5 is they always ask for my opinion in the projects
I do with them. We work hand in hand and they don’t just tell me, ‘gawin mo yan.’ They also don’t hold me down but allow me to grow as an artist by letting me work
with other movie companies. Sa dami ng work ko ngayon, ako na talaga ang lalaking walang pahinga. But I really enjoy working hard. The dangerous stunts I do in
‘Extreme’ give me the adrenalin rush I need and working with comedians like Empoy, John Lapuz and Jojo Alejar is helping me hone my own comedic skills.”
They didn’t renew the contract of several big stars who have worked with them. How come they renewed that of Derek? TV5 president. Lorenzana says: “He’s
really the best personality to represent TV5. He’s a great guy, easy to work with, advertisers support his shows, so he’s the one best suited to be our ambassador.”
Tomboy ba ang other side of Glaiza D e Castro?
WALANG relasyon sina Glaiza de Castro at Benjamin Alves. Ang common denominator nila ay nang magsama sila sa GMA series na Dading. Pero sa self-produced
album ng singer-actress na Synthesis, si Benjamin ang nagbigay ng titulo ng album.
“Humingi ako sa kanya ng tulong sa mga word na puwede kong gamitin. Other terms for collaboration, fusion,
mixture. So, nag-send siya sa akin ng list of words. Literature kasi siya kaya alam kong mabibigyan niya ako
ng magandang salita,” pahayag ni Glaiza nang ipa-interview ng GMA sa Runner’s Kitchen kung saan partowner siya.
Bukod kay Ben, tinutulungan din siya ng ilang showbiz friends na sina Chynna Ortaleza, Alessandra de
Rossi at Angelica Panganiban na sinulat ang Barcelona at Waiting Shed.
“Nu’ng time kasing ’yon, kailangan niya ibuhos ang mga emosyon niyang itinatago. Ganoon talaga
siya. Mahilig sumulat,” saad pa niya.
Hindi naman daw nakikipag-compete si Glaiza sa ibang singers ngayong nailabas na niya ang gusto
niyang gawin sa career bukod sa pag-arte.
“Gusto ko lang talaga siyang i-share. Nai-excite ako sa idea katulad ni Angelica o ni Alex, hindi
alam ng tao na kumakanta o nagsusulat ng kanta. There are other sides of them na hindi alam ng tao.
Through this album, malalaman ng tao ang other side of me,” rason niya.
Nag-aambisyon din ba siyang mag-concert sa Araneta Coliseum gaya ni Alex Gonzaga?
“Hahaha! Puwede! Sa ngayon po, hindi ko pa nakikita ang sarili ko na Araneta level! Hahaha!
Pang-Philippine Arena po ako, joke! Hahaha!” birong tugon ni Glaiza.
Matapos ang album, mapapanood si Glaiza sa bagong series ng GMA na The Rich Man’s
Daughter.
Lipstick ang dating niya dahil babae siyang tingnan sa labas, pero may pusong lalaki.
Diin ni Glaiza sa bagong role, “Hindi ko sila masisisi kung may maglabasang ganoon. Pero
secure ako sa sarili ko na babae ako, hahaha!”
Hindi naman niya itinago na nalungkot siya nang mawala si Marian Rivera sa series.
Ayon kay Glaiza, si Marian ang nakipaglaban sa kanya upang magsama muli sila sa series after
Temptation of Wife at Amaya.
“Naiintindihan ko si Marian and we will be always here for her and her coming baby,” sabi ni
Glaiza sa kaibigan.
HUMARAP sa entertainment media sina Sen. Loren Legarda, Cannes best director an si
Brillante Mendoza at ang superstar na si Nora Aunor para sa Cannes-bound movie na “Taklub”
na pinagbibidahan ni Guy (Nora) mula sa direksiyon ng award-winning director.
Ang “Taklub” ay hango sa disaster sanhi ng super typhoon “Yolanda” sa Tacloban na
kumitil ng maraming buhay at sumira ng mga inprastraktura, mga bahay, buildings at
kabuhayan ng mga taga Eastern Visayas particularly Tacloban at mga karatig-lugar sa
Leyte at Samar.
Ang “Taklub” ay kuwento ng mga Yolanda survivor at kung paano sila naka-survive
at nagpatuloy ng buhay sa pamamagitan ng panalangin, paniniwala, patuloy na pag-asa
at pagpupursige. Ang pelikula ay produced ng Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR) sa pakikipagtulungan with the Presidential Communications Operations
Office – Philippine Information Agency (PCOOO-PIA). Ito’y may kinalaman para sa patuloy
na pagpapalaganap ng disaster risk reduction (DRR).
Ang “Taklub” ay isa sa mga official na kalahok sa ilalim ng Un Certain Regard section ng ika
68th Cannes International Film Festival na nakatakdang ganapin sa darating na May 13 – 24,
2015 sa Cannes, France.
Ang “Taklub” ay second movie ni Nora na napasama sa prestigious film festival. Nauna na rito
ang “Bona” in 1980 na dinirek ng yumaong premyadong director na si Lino Brocka.
It took 35 years bago muling nagkaroon sa Cannes ng isang Nora Aunor-topbilled movie.
Ang team-up nina Sen. Loren Legarda at Direk Brillante ay nagsimula sa iba’t ibang documentaries
na may kinalaman sa kalikasan tulad ng “Buhos,” “Ligtas,” “Philippine Marine Biodiversity” at “Antique: Coral
Restoration Program.
Naniniwala pareho sina Sen. Loren at Direk Brillante na mas maraming tao ang magiging aware kung
gagawing full-length na pelikula ang “Taklub” para sa disaster-prevention and preparedness campaign.
Reaction ni Bimby sa pagpapa-sexy ni Kris…
“It’s gross!”
“It’s gross!” ang reaksyon ni Bimby sa swimsuit photos ng inang si Kris Aquino. Nag-pose kasi ang TV
host-actress para sa isang magazine kung saan ay nakasuot siya ng swim wear at bilang patikim ay nag-post
si Tetay ng mga larawan sa kanyang IG account.
Tila hindi sanay si Bimby na makita ang ina sa ganu’ng pose kaya super react ang bagets sa Kris TV at ang
dialogue nga ay “it’s gross!”
Super explain naman si Kris sa anak at say niya, paano niya ipapakita ang beauty ng beach sa Coron,
Palawan, kung hindi siya naka-swimsuit?
Nag-promise naman ang TV host sa anak na last time na niyang gagawin iyon.
“Mas strict pa kaya sa mga kapatid ko, dinaig pa pati mommy ko,” sabi ni Kris.
Kahit nag-explain na si Kris, maya-maya ay inulit na naman ni Bimby, “I’m still mad at you wearing a bathing
suit.”
Panay naman ang sorry ni Kris.
“Moms should not wear bathing suit,” say pa ni Bimby.
Explain naman ni Kris na si Jeniffer Lopez ay mom din pero nagsusuot ng bathing suit, gayundin sina Jessica Alba
at Heidi Klum.
Glaiza De Castro
Punto! Central Luzon • April 30 - May 3, 2015 • Thursday - Sunday
Nora Aunor Cannes-bound na naman
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Fab moms,
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Punto! Central Luzon • April 30 - May 3, 2015 • Thursday - Sunday
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SUBIC BAY FREEPORT ZONE -- A parade of beautiful
and fabulous mothers and married women from all over
the country took their chance to be part of one of the country’s biggest beauty pageants, the Mrs. Philippines Globe
2015 during a press presentation at Camayan Beach Resort, this freeport, Wednesday afternoon. Camayan Resort General Manager Antonio Damiane
welcomed 20 candidates who made the final cut out of the
numerous hopefuls to be empowered.
According to national pageant director Morena Carla
Cabrera-Quimpo, “this year’s Mrs. Philippines-Globe candidates embody the real strength of a Filipina mother - a
woman who’s not confined by stereotypical notions, but
rather a strong and bold individual who can fulfil her responsibilities as a mother and a wife without compromising her own dreams.”
Founded in 1996, Mrs. Globe is touted as one of the
biggest international beauty pageants for married women
and single mothers.
“It celebrates beauty, goodwill, and tourism awareness
through pageantry and competition; but more importantly,
it promotes and supports the admirable strength of mothers by giving them a chance to step up, to reinvent and
unleash their greater versions, and to communicate the
deeper strength of every woman,” Quimpo said.
In adherence to the vision and heritage of Mrs. Globe,
the local pageant dubbed Mrs. Philippines-Globe opened
it doors to Filipinas in 2012. Now on its fourth year, this prestigious pageant continues to recognize married women of substance, mothers and single moms as movers of society, and a symbol
of inspiration, and beauty through their achievements, life
stories and charitable cause.
This year, Mrs. Philippine-Globe’s set of lovely candidates include: Victoria Hamisch, Joana Krisanta La Madrid, Maria Aishelle Hwang, Sherry Lou Villasenor, Yolanda Llamas, Joann Rosales, Jhunie Grace Lagman, Carina
Guevarra, Almira Zapanta, Maria Engracia Maniago, Jonalyn Agustin, Ruby Liboon, Jennifer Umali, Marilou Weir,
Estrella Bobruk, Roscel Tala, Joe Ann Smith, Alodia Solis,
Mary Ann Temora and Grace Albonia.
The winner of Mrs. Philippine-Globe 2015 will receive
up to P200,000 worth of prizes. She will also represent
the Philippines in the prestigious Mrs. Globe 2016 World
Finals at Shenzhen, China in November 2015.
Aside from the title of Mrs. Philippine-Globe itself,
the candidates will also vie for the coveted Woman of
Substance title alongside other special awards such as
Achievement of the Year, Charity or Advocacy of the Year,
Best Talent of the Year, Career Woman of the Year, Most
Beautiful Face, Darling of the Press, Entrepreneur of the
Year, Mrs. Body Beautiful, Most Elegant Woman/Designer
of the Year, Personality of the Year, Calchews Supermodel Mom and Solane Mother of the Year.
The Mrs. Philippine-Glove 2015 coronation night will take
place on June 20, 2015 at the Subic Bay Convention Center.
Mrs. Philippines-Globe is presented by Camayan Beach
Resort, Ocean Adventure, Calchews, Bio Oil, Working
Mom, Easy Rock 96.3, Solane, Island Rose and Subic
Bay Metropolitan Authority.