His Detention Deprives Bolante To Enjoy His Wealth
The moment Akelco implements the new approved EPPA, the present rate of Akelco energy will increase by P2.10 per kilowatt hour.
Hon. Glenn Sucro proposed a resolution opposing it with the Kalibo Sangguniang Bayan. The said resolution was unanimously approved during its regular session on September 14.
Expect for approval of similar resolutions from other towns to follow.
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In the Olongapo Rape Case, Nicole was dismayed of public prosecutors assisting her in the case. She formally requested the Department of Justice to change them because "they are incompetent".
Those public prosecutors, mostly, women, felt bitter. They ground their teeth with tears.
Nicole does not need to dismiss those public prosecutors. She can always hire the best and the brightest lawyers of her choice.
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There was a shouting session between a group of senators on one hand and Atty. Camilo Sabio of the PCGG on the other during a senate hearing in the Committee on Government Corporations and Public Services.
Sabio was arrested and detained by the Senate for snubbing the Senate inquiry into the alleged losses of government – sequestered corporations.
Sabio, 70, was arrested on Tuesday, September 12. He appeared in the Senate hearing on Thursday, September 14 but refused to answer questions. His refusal resulted to a shouting session. After it calmed, Senator Richard Gordon offered Sabio a bottle of drinking water and tapped his shoulder.
On the other hand, the Supreme Court of the Philippines gave due course to Sabio’s petition for Habeas Corpus. The Supreme Court ordered the Senate to produce Camilo Sabio on Thursday, September 21 at the Supreme Court for hearing and oral argument.
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Last Tuesday night, September 11, two Australian pilots refused to take off their shoes at the final security check at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Metro Manila. The pilots were bound for Sydney, Australia.
They refuse to take off their shoes for two reasons: 1. the floor was dirty, and 2. there was no chair to sit on to put on their shoes.
What a slap on the Filipinos! Are we dirty with no chairs? That was an insult to the Filipinos and refusal to obey international order and security.
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The local government of Guimaras is fast preparing criminal charges against Petron Corporation and owners of Solar I vessel, which sank, spilled oil and polluted Guimaras. According to Atty. Plaridel Nava II, provincial legal officer, they will charge the two firms against violations of RA 9274 or Clean Air Act of 2004; RA 8749 – Clean Air Act of 1999; and RA 9003 – Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000.
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Inspite of his wealth, Mr. Jocelyn Bolante cannot enjoy with it. Mr. Bolante owns a fleet of luxury cars, palacial house and multi-million peso cash. Since July 7, 2006, Bolante was deprived to enjoy those, as he has been languishing inside the Kenosha County Detention Center, Wisconsin, USA.
Bolante was arrested at Los Angeles Airport, California as he arrived on July 7, 2006. The US Embassy in Manila has cancelled his visa to enter the United States after the Philippine Senate issued a warrant for his arrest because Bolante defied the invitation to attend the Senate Committee on Agriculture hearing regarding the P728 million alleged fertilizer fund scam.
Bolante used to be a number 4 officer of the US based worldwide Rotary International (RI) with headquarters in Evanston, Illinois. Will RI bail Bolante out?
If Bolante was an American in the Philippines, he could have been out of detention as fast as he was sent in. But Bolante is a Filipino in the USA.
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Lezo, Aklan has new municipal mayor. By operation of law, Vice Mayor Victor Fernandez assumed the position of the mayor of Lezo after the incumbent Mayor Alfredo Arcenio was not able to report to his office since Friday, September 8.
Mayor Aercenio is facing a murder charge in connection with the untimely death in November 13, 2004 of Herson Hinolan who at the time of his death was station manager of DYIN, Bombo Radyo.
Mayor Arcenio is the prime suspect of Hinolan’s death and a warrant of his arrest was issued on September 7, 2006. His arrest is dependent upon the capabilities of the Aklan PNP under the leadership of Provincial Director William Macavinta.
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"There is no unproductive land, only unproductive farmer", Mr. Ramon Peñalosa of Bacolod City declared. Peñalosa owns a 2,500 square meters land where he is now producing a net gain of P1 million a year out of multi cropping and livestocking. Peñalosa produces his crops and livestock via highly recommended scientific methods.
Peñalosa firmly believes that "His people suffer because they lack knowledge". As I listen to him and saw his farm, Peñalosa appears rich with knowledge, especially on scientific farming and the economics of it.
Peñalosa is market oriented. He produces crops or livestocks including fish, which are highly marketable. He plants glutinous rice highly demanded at high but reasonable price. He grows and produces temperate vegetables like broccoli and sells it with good margin of profit.
All farm waste is process into organic fertilizers for his crops. He grows azolla for feed. Peñalosa has his pigs, which produces not only pork but also fertilizer and liquefied petroleum gas. His energy requirement is supplied by his hogs.
Believe not what I write about Ramon Peñalosa in this column. You need not believe me. But believe only after you have visited his projects and after talking to him. Better still, you should emulate his farm and marketing practices. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
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