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CURFEW MORE BARK THAN BITE

THE executive order (EO) issued by Mayor Jose Espinosa III directing the mandatory closure of all bars, nightclubs, disco bars, resto-bars, and other similar establishments at 2 a.m. lacks teeth.

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THE bodies keep piling up.The bloody war on drugs in Western Visayas

claimed the life of another suspected drug peddler in Cabatuan, Iloilo on Sept 5, 2018.

Jonathan Baron, 56, a barangay kagawad (village council member) of Jelicuon Montinola, Cabatuan is the sixth fatality in the Police Regional Office (PRO)-6’s aggressive campaign against illegal drugs in a span of nine days.

The six suspected drug personalities died in five operations, four of which were spearheaded or joint operations of the Regional Drug Enforcement Unit

(RDEU)-6, a PRO-6 unit dedicated to the anti-illegal drugs campaign.

In three previous RDEU operations, the slain sus-pects were armed with caliber .38 revolvers and hand grenades. But in Baron’s case, he allegedly wielded the smaller caliber .22 revolver and a hand grenade.

RDEU operatives and members of the Cabatuan Police Station stormed Baron’s house around 12:20 p.m. Wednesday.

Inspector Sullen Domingo, Cabatuan police chief, claimed that Baron sold a sachet of suspected shabu to a police poseur-buyer for P500.

But after he sensed that he was dealing with un-dercover cops, the suspect allegedly pulled a gun and

fired thrice.Domingo said the police poseur-buyer was quick

to evade the bullets. He then fired back, hitting Baron twice on the chest.

Police recovered from the suspect eight sachets of suspected shabu, the revolver firearm loaded with ammunition, and a grenade.

Domingo said Baron was on drugs watch list of the Cabatuan and Calinog police stations. His area of operations were Central Iloilo towns.

Baron allegedly got his supply in Metro Manila via roll on-roll ships. He usually picked up his stash at the Iloilo Terminal Market.

Barangay kagawad is latestcasualty in ‘war on drugs’

By emme rose santiagudo

A MEMBER of the Iloilo City Council declared a rabies outbreak in the city due to the sudden spike in infections.

In her committee report delivered during their regular session on Sept 4, 2018, Coun-cilor Candice Magdalane Tupas said that “there is already a rabies outbreak/emergency as the number of cases shot up from zero for the past 10 years to ten cases in a span of a few months.”

“There has been an increase in stray dogs in the city. In 2017, we have zero rabies cases but now we already have a hu-

By emme rose santiagudo

THE Iloilo City government will spend P225,000 for the repatriation of Badjaos from Mindanao who have become beggars in the city.

Jeck Conlu, head of the Iloilo City Public Safety and Transportation Management Office (PSTMO), said the money will cover the food, transportation, and other ex-

By Louine HoPe Conserva

THE executive order (EO) issued by Mayor Jose Espinosa III directing the mandatory closure of all bars, nightclubs, disco bars, resto-bars, and other similar establishments at 2 a.m. lacks teeth.

Norman Tabud, head of the Business Process and Licensing Office (BPLO), said the problem could be cured if the EO is replaced by an ordinance that will impose monetary penalties on the violators.

“Amo lang na ang isa sa challenge dira kay EO lang ni siya kag wala sang penalty nga nakabutang,” Tabud said.

EO 146 only provides administrative sanctions on violators such as cancellation of business permits and closure of the es-tablishments.

The EO was issued to stem the rash of violent incidents in nightspots like the Smallville complex in Mandurriao district.

But the effectiveness of the order is under question after a riot broke out recently in a Smallville nightclub way past the 2 a.m. curfew.

Tabud said he is meeting with task forces and departments involved in the implementation of the executive order – Task Forces on Moral Values, Anti-Smoking, and Public Safety and Transportation Management Office.

These City Hall units impose the EO in cooperation with the PNP.

The BPLO only acts on violation reports submitted by these units and imposes sanctions such as closure.

Since the EO was issued in December 2017, Tabud said they have issued notices of violation to seven businesses.

With the lack of a proper ordinance, Tabud said their actions are based on Tax Ordinance 2007-016 (Local Revenue Code of


THE Metro Boracay Police Task Force (MBPTF) is more than ready for the island’s re-opening on Oct. 26, 2018.

“Even before and during the closure, when some anticipated a possible rise in crimes against property, it did not happen. The clo-sure went smoothly. And we also believed, Boracay will re-open with no untoward incident,” said Senior Supt. Jesus Cambay Jr, MBPTF commander and concurrent Police Regional Office (PRO)-6 deputy regional director for operations.

MBPTF police were trained and instructed that the safety and security of the residents, workers, and tourists will be their utmost concern, Cambay said.

He added that the rehabilitation period has been a witness to how MBPTF maintained the peace and order situation of the island.

By being prepared, Cambay said they are not only talking about crime statistics.

“It’s more than that. We are ready because the systems are now in place as far as Boracay police is concerned,” he said.

The measures include the restructuring of the Malay Police Sta-tion initiated by former PRO-6 director Chief Superintendent Cesar Hawthorne Binag and later implemented by the current director, Chief Superintendent John Bulalacao.

The restructuring called for the transfer of Malay Police Station from the Malay town proper to Boracay Island.

From 147 personnel, the station will now have 389 officers.The Malay Police Station reorganization is considered a vital


SACHETS of suspected sabu with valued at P160,000 were recovered during an anti-narcotics operation afternoon of Sept. 5, 2018 at Muelle Loney St. in City Proper, Iloilo City.

The operatives arrested Jessie Benza, 48, of Barangay Legaspi-dela Rama, City Proper district after the sting operation.

Members of the Regional Drug Enforce-

ment Unit 6 (RDEU-6), RACAT Unit, in coordination with the Iloilo City Police Station and the Philippine Drug Enforce-ment Agency 6 (PDEA-6), carried out the operation 1:30 p.m. Wednesday while Benza was unloading lanzones from a kumpit or sailboat from Jojo, Sulu.

Benza works by processing permits for fruits that enter Iloilo City from other provinces.

He allegedly sold a sachet suspected

shabu to a poseur-buyer for P10,000.When frisked, 15 more sachets of shabu

were seized from his possession.When asked if he owned the confiscated

drugs, Benza did not directly answered but just shed tears.

But he denied using drugs.The suspect is now detained at ICPS1

lock-up cell and will be charged for viola-tion of Republic Act 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002).

RABIES OUTBREAK IN ILOILOCITY?

CURFEW MORE BARK THAN BITE

City Hall to spend P225K for Badjaos

Sailboat buy-bust yields P160K worth of shabu

Boracay cops ready for re-opening

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ROXAS CITY, Capiz – Police have gathered 393 firearms a month after launching the campaign against loose and unlicensed guns in Capiz.

According to SPO3 Donna Asmod, information officer of the Capiz Police Provincial Office (CPPO), the 393 firearms were surrendered to municipal police stations, including Roxas City.

The surrendered guns include 283 with expired licenses but undergoing renewal and 99 loose firearms or those that were never registered.

Four guns were either recovered from check-points, waiting sheds or left on the road.

Also, 4 guns were recovered from police operations while charges have been filed against the 4 persons for violation of Republic Act 10591 (Il-

legal Possession of Firearms and Am-munition).

Asmod said the surrendered and recovered firearms are in the custody of the Firearms Explosives and Guard Supervision (FESAGS) at CPPO.

She clarified that the campaign against loose firearms is to prevent upsurge of crimes using loose or unli-censed firearms.

Meanwhile, the Tapaz Municipal Police Station topped the most number of surrendered loose firearms with 118, followed by the Panay Municipal Po-lice Station with 36, Roxas City PNP-32, Dumalag PNP-32, Panit-an-30, Cuartero-21, Maayon-20, Dumarao and Jamindan-16 each, Mambusao-14, Pilar-12, Dao and Ivisan 11each, Pontevedra-10, Sapian-8, Sigma-3, and President Roxas-2.


A 57-YEAR-OLD mother, writer, and composer is Iloilo province’s outstanding woman.

Susan L. Pacheo bested four other finalists in the 2018 Search for the Outstanding Women Community Leader or Ang Ilongga Awards Year 3 of the Junior Chamber International (JCI) Iloilo

Ilang-Ilang Chapter.The awarding ceremony was held Aug 23,

2018 at SM City Iloilo, Mandurriao, Iloilo City.

Pacheo is a mother of four and an admin-istrative officer of Dueñas, Iloilo where she resides.

“I feel grateful and blessed that I was given

support and opportunity to serve the community. I am grateful to JCI for their efforts in recog-nizing accomplishments of women like me. I feel empowered and inspired to serve more,” Pacheo said.

She added that the award is an affirmation of her efforts.


FIFTY electronic tricycles (e-trikes) will be delivered to Boracay Island within the week, ac-cording to the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB)-6.

The vehicles are from the Department of Energy (DOE) and will be given to coopera-tives, said LTFRB-6 Regional Director Richard Osmeña.

Osmeña is traveling to Boracay today, Sept 6, 2018, to meet local government officials of Malay and discuss the ordinance for the phase-out of all motorized tricycles in the island.

“As of now around a thousand of motorized tricycles operate. We will take them out and re-place them with e-trikes,” Osmeña said.

Only e-trikes, which are supposed to be environmental-friendly, will be allowed to ply the island when it reopens on Oct 26. This is part of the rehabilitation plan of Boracay.

Currently, around 50 e-trikes are servicing the island. The units can carry six to eight persons at higher fares compared to the conventional tricycles.

The DOE will also provide the rechargeable batteries.

Osmeña said the motorized vehicles will be brought to Caticlan where they can operate.

Meanwhile, electronic jeepneys (e-jeeps) will also start operating next month.

A week before the reopening, the LTFRB will also conduct a dry-run as to the performance of the electronic vehicles.

“I heard that there is going to be a Cabinet meeting in Boracay. So the secretaries will try these e-jeeps and e-trikes,” Osmeña said.

Capiz cops round up 393 guns

looSE and unlicensed firearms recovered by Tapaz police station in Capiz. (Contributed photo).

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THERE is a story about Marie An-toinette, Queen of France, who was told that the peasants have no more

bread to eat. The queen was quoted to have replied, “let them eat cakes”. This callous reply was actually not hers, but through the years this was attributed to the queen. She, of course, could have said it, but she was not the origina-tor. However, true or not, she was executed by the French revolutionary government on October 16, 1793.

The point in this attribution was her way of life of insensi-tivity to the plight of her people. She lived in opulence surrounded by intrigue so that this “give them cake” attitude became her signature in history. The phrase sum-marizes in a way the “out-of-touch” and indifference of those in power who could not feel the sufferings of others especially those to whom they, by virtue of their of-fice, must account.

Before he left for the Middle East, Presi-

dent Duterte warned rice traders against hoarding which many people suspect is the real cause of the scarcity of rice in the

market. In truth there is no scarcity, but rather that the price is high. In fact, Agri-culture Secretary Manuel Piñol considers the scarcity to be limited to the low cost National Food Authority rice. Many people however do not like the NFA variety because of its taste, but this is the rice that is within reach of most Filipinos. It is cheap because it is sub-sidized by the government

precisely to provide an alternative to what is called commercial rice.

Due to the scarcity of NFA rice, people are forced to buy commercial and true to the law of supply and demand, the price of commercial rice also went up. The situa-tion is ripe for hoarding because NFA, an agency under the DA, had failed to import rice for the period between planting and harvest. Now that the harvest is about to

start, importing rice at this time means that when the imported rice arrived, we will be in the harvest season. This will force the price of local rice to drop with disastrous consequences to future supplies.

Senator Francis Escudero is reading the situation right - there is an impending food crisis.

Unless the price of rice and other food products - fish, meat, pork, canned goods and vegetables - are kept within the capa-bility of the majority of the citizens, we will be in difficult times. In fact, not only the ordinary citizens are feeling the pinch of the high cost of food. The middle classes, the government workers, and profession-als are already dipping deeper into their pockets and wallets.

Speaker Gloria Arroyo was quick to realize this predicament - she is granting a bonus to the employees of the House of Representatives by P35,000 a month. This bonus already represents two months income of many people. She is not only insuring the House employees their bread, she is giving them cakes as well.

(The author is the dean of the University of San Agustin’s College of Law)

THE President has the power to grant amnesty with the concurrence of a majority of all the Members of the Con-gress (Art. VII Sec. 19, Philippine Constitution). Criminal

liability is totally extinguished by amnesty (Art. 89[3], Revised Penal Code).

Once granted, can an amnesty be revoked? Once totally extin-guished, can criminal liability be revived?

The nature and effect of amnesty“... the criminal liability of the appellee had been completely

extinguished by virtue of the amnesty extended him by the Am-nesty Commission, Armed Forces of the Philippines ... Amnesty is a public act of which the court should take judicial notice ...” (People v. Vera, GR No. L-26539 February 28, 19990 https://www.lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1990/feb1990/gr_l_26539_1990.html)

“Amnesty commonly denotes a general pardon to rebels for their treason or other high political of-fenses, or the forgiveness which one sovereign grants to the subjects of another, who have offended, by some breach, the law of nations. Amnesty looks backward, and abol-ishes and puts into oblivion, the of-

fense itself; it so overlooks and obliterates the offense with which he is charged, that the person released by amnesty stands before the law precisely as though he had committed no offense.

Paragraph 3 of Article 89 of the Revised Penal Code provides that criminal liability is totally extinguished by amnesty, which completely extinguishes the penalty and all its effects.” (People v. Patriarca, GR No. 135457 September 29, 2000 http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/jurisprudence/2000/sept2000/135457.htm)

Proclamation 75, the Amnesty ProclamationIn Proclamation 75, series of 2010 (http://www.officialgazette.

gov.ph/2010/11/24/proclamation-no-75-s-2010/), President Aquino granted amnesty to members of the military and police, and their supporters, who were involved in the Oakwood Mutiny, the Marines Stand-Off, and the Manila Peninsula Incident. Proc. 75 states who may avail of the amnesty, where to apply, and the period of application. It also enumerates the effects of amnesty, one of which is that “amnesty pursuant to this proclamation shall extinguish any criminal liability...”

While any person who falls under the persons described in Proc. 75 can apply for amnesty, no particular person is named therein.

Both Houses of Congress, in Concurrent Resolution No. 4, concurred with Proc. 75

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WE have to be wary of this pos-sibility. In fact, given how we are, we have a strong tendency

to hijack what is to be human and what is to be a Christian. In so many ways, we im-pose our own ideas of what is to be a man and what is to be another Christ.

It is not that we have no correct understanding of these subjects. Thanks to God, we cannot deny that we have reached a good level of what is to be human and what is to be a Christian. The problem starts when we think that we already know all about them and begin to impose our ideas on others.

We have forgotten that humanity and Christianity, no matter how well studied, known and understood, will always remain a mystery. St. Augustine said something in this regard.

“Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul?” he asked. “Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.”

Of course, St. Paul in his preaching dared not to talk about what is to be man and what is to be a Christian by using only

human wisdom. These are is words:“When I came to you, I did not come

with eloquence or human wisdom as I pro-claimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him cruci-

fied...My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.” (1 Cor 2,1-5)

Let us continue with what he said further, since his words describe very well this possibility of us hijack-ing humanity and Christian-

ity with our own cultures, ideologies, social trends, political categories, etc.

“Who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them?” he asked. “In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.”

“This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual

realities with Spirit-taught words. The per-son without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot un-derstand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

“The person with the Spirit makes judg-ments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for ‘Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?’ But we have the mind of Christ.” (10-16)

So the ideal condition for us to really know what is to be a man and what is to be a Christian is to have the very mind of Christ, just like St. Paul. It’s not that we don’t anymore need to study the doctrine of our faith as taught by the Church that is in fact regarded as the “expert in human-ity.” We should, and in fact, we also should study the relevant sciences of philosophy and theology, but all these as a function of our vital identification with Christ.

We need to follow the example of St. Paul who taught about humanity and Christianity in a very humble way, always referring himself to the Spirit so as to have the very mind of Christ. In fact, at one point he said: “Be imitators of me as I am of Christ.” (1 Cor 11,1)

This way we avoid hijacking the whole dynamic truth about what is to be human and what is to be Christian.

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WITH the President’s departure statement a strong warn-ing against cartels, the message is likewise sent to traders of other commodities and reverberates across

the corridors of power in Manila that since the beginning were the cradle that protected these cartels.

I recall a major rice shortage in 1995 that sent government and the public into a frenzy, with Senate investigations and the whole caboodle of atten-tion heaped on sudden spikes. No cartels, however, were un-masked. All other mentions in history died their natural death – buried under other news in a week’s time.

In today’s discourse on this topic, notice how no one else publicly mentions the cartels. Even the opposition in its press conference instead blames gov-ernment rather than the cartels.

Well, to pin the blame on government is what the cartels want, since it shields them from that attention scrutiny and con-

demnation they deserve. Has the opposition joined others in the bureaucracy to become the cartels’ ally? Would they prefer not to offend the cartels? You tell me.

Moving forward I would not be surprised if they would rather call out Duterte for his strong words and criticize the actions against cartels. Useless politicking is their game, while the people suffer under the evil of those they prefer not to fight.

The past governments that allowed these cartels to proliferate, smuggle, and harm our tables need to be investigated. Rooting out their influence will be arduous, since like election scammers and the drug trade, their links within the government bureaucracy are deep and well entrenched.

Sources claim that they have pockets of influence in the NFA officialdom at the national and regional levels until today that are dif-ficult to mess with. They misdeclare and divert supplies to the cartels bodegas to ramp up the supplies that will be hoarded. The cheaper imported rice is mixed with more expensive local stocks to lower their costs while they sell it at high prices in the local markets.

Moreover, their influence seems to ensure that the supply of rice is always tight, and imports tightly controlled to ensure that the supply is always short of our requirements, thereby precipi-tating a price increase. The Government to government (G2G) importation system where imports take long to be approved is a system that keeps them happy.

Nonetheless, these sources also claim that these links and pock-ets of influence are getting jittery with the attention and patterns revealed in the spike in rice prices in Zamboanga.

This Zamboanga outcome is not something they and their cartel patrons consider a positive development. They, according to sources, are a bit scared and will try to cover their tracks, since a big part of them was exposed. Worse, it is revealed that some elements of the cartels will now price on their own against the tacit agreements on fixed pricing they once held with other players.

On the other hand, boosting supply via better harvests or imports is bad for the cartels, who prefer a tight supply situation upon which a rise in prices are justified.

In the next installment of this column I will discuss new developments and results of programs that may deal a decisive blow to the cartels.

Beyond the

numBers

John Carlo Tria

Rice cartels, like drug lords, deserve their

doom

reFlectionsFr. Roy Cimagala

Hijacking the truth about humanity and Christianity

The Supreme Court has taken judicial notice of Proc. 75 and the grant of amnesty in favor of the soldiers who fig-ured in the Oakwood standoff, as well as Congress’ concur-rence with Proc. 75 (Magdalo v. COMELEC, GR No. 190793 June 19, 2012 http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/jurisprudence/2012/june2012/190793.htm). The Court underscored that “amnes-ty by Proclamation of the Chief Executive with the concurrence of Congress, is a public act of which the courts should take judicial notice”, and recognized “the express intention of both the Executive and the Legisla-tive branches, in granting the said amnesty, to promote an atmosphere conducive to at-taining peace in line with the government’s peace and rec-onciliation initiatives.”

Proclamation 572, the Amnesty RevocationIn Proclamation 572, se-

ries of 2018 President Duterte “declared void ab initio” the amnesty of Sen. Trillanes un-

der Proc. 75, “because he did not comply with the minimum requirements to qualify under the Amnesty Proclamation.” Only Trillanes is mentioned in Proc. 572.

The “Amnesty Proclama-tion” referred to in Proc. 572 is of course Proc. 75.

Two grounds are stated in Proc. 572:

- Trillanes “... did not file an Official Amnesty Application Form ...”;

- Trillanes “... never ex-pressed his guilt for the crimes ...”

Questions1. Are the grounds stated in

Proc. 572 mentioned in Proc. 75? Are they “minimum require-ments to qualify under the Am-nesty Proclamation,” Proc. 75?

If they are, and if Trillanes failed to comply with them (a big “if,” because a news report showing Trillanes applying for amnesty and expressing his guilt has surfaced), then it was erroneous for the DND to include him in the list of those granted amnesty. But if any such error exists, it cannot be

attributed to him; even Proc. 572 is silent on this matter.

2. The nature and effect of amnesty was described in People v. Vera and People v. Patriarca. And a judgment of acquittal cannot be recalled even if the same is errone-ous (People v. Alejandro, GR No. 22309 January 11, 2018 http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/pdf/web/viewer.html?file=/j u r i s p r u d e n c e / 2 0 1 8 /january2018/223099.pdf). If the DND erred (again, a big “if”) in including Trillanes’ name in the list of those granted amnesty, is this a ground for the cancellation of his amnesty?

3. Proc. 572 orders the AFP and PNP to apprehend Tril-lanes “for him to stand trial for the crimes he is charged with”. But “amnesty looks backward, and abolishes and puts into oblivion, the offense itself; it so overlooks and obliterates the offense with which he is charged, that the person released by amnesty stands before the law precisely as though he had committed no offense” (People v. Patriarca). And so:

3.a. What is the legal basis for effecting the warrantless arrest (Rule 113, Sec. 5, Rules of Criminal Procedure) of someone:

- who did not commit, is actually committing, or is at-tempting to commit an of-fense?

- if you have no probable cause based on personal knowl-edge that the person to be ar-rested has just committed an offense?

- who is not an escaped prisoner?

3.b. Under the Constitu-tion, only Judges can issue warrants of arrest. What is the legal basis for a Judge to is-sue a warrant for the arrest of someone who is not charged with any case?

3.c. What is the legal basis for a person who is not a judge to order the police and other law enforcement agencies to arrest someone, especially one who cannot be the subject of a lawful warrantless arrest or of a warrant of arrest because of the absence of any of the grounds enumerated in 3.a. and 3.b. above?

FoCus... from p.4What about the rest of the citizens?

Senator Bam Aquino was interviewed on television on Monday and he said that our inflation rate is already going high to 6% but this will rise some more by January because new taxes will take effect. While manufacturers are saying they can keep the lid on their prices, they cannot continue holding it after December. Expect then some people to start hoarding while the prices are “low” for now.

The government will continue to impose higher excise tax on fuel. This runs right into the rising cost of oil in the world mar-

ket. Considering how prices in the pumps affect everything from beer to electricity and tuition fees, we are in for some hard times.

We have not yet reached a point of rice and sugar rationing as in mid-1970s, fol-lowed by the high prices of fish and meat. Unless the President takes action rather than just warn rice traders, we may get hit again. He said he will retain Piñol but Piñol can only suggest legalizing rice smuggling. Nothing reassuring.

We are not yet in the same situation as Argentina, Venezuela, and Turkey but if our economic managers do not handle the situation right we might join their

company. Heaven forbids we will be told to eat hamburgers instead.

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BACOLOD City – Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary Martin Diño confirmed on Sept 5, 2018 that Vice Mayor Ella Garcia-Yulo of Moises Padilla, Negros Oc-cidental and her husband Felix Mathias Segundo Yulo III will surrender anytime soon.

The Yulos are subjects of an arrest warrant for illegal posses-sion of explosives and firearms.

But Diño refused to reveal when and where the couple will surrender due to security concerns.

Diño met with the vice mayor’s younger brother at a hotel here to discuss the couple’s surrender.

“Nagpadala sila ng feelers to surrender kaya nakipag-coordi-nate agad ako,” Diño said.

He added that “the surrender feelers were made in Manila, so andito na ako and I am announcing na this time DILG will take cognizance at tsaka ang Volunteers against Crime and Corruption (VACC) doon sa pagsurrender ni Vice Mayor.”

He added that the vice mayor can file a leave of absence in the meantime.

Diño said the Yulo couple sent the surrender feelers to him be- (FROM RIGHT) Dr. Marichi Ramos, DILG Undersecretary Martin Diño, and Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonar-dia lead the soft opening of the pilot office of Mango eWallet at Bonifacio St, Bacolod City on Sept 5, 2018.

By Dolly yasa

BACOLOD City – The Negros Oc-cidental provincial government will offer 100 scholarship slots through the Negros Occidental Scholarship Program (NOSP).

The Shielded Metal Arc Welding (NC I) with enhancement in Flux Cored Arc Welding training will be granted to residents of Negros Occidental who are at least 21 years old and high school graduates.

The scholarship includes free meals

and lodging allowance. Technical Education and Skills

Development Authority (TESDA)-accredited trainers will conduct the 40-day training at the POWER Foundat ion Tra in ing Center in Marapa ra He igh t s , Brgy. Ba ta

here. NOSP Head Karen Dinsay said the

program and training would prepare the applicants for work abroad, particularly in Japan.

Interested applicants may submit

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BACOLOD City – Bacolod City Evelio Leonardia urged the police on Sept 5, 2018 to strictly monitor “twerking” in bars and similar activities, especially if minors are involved.

According to the Oxford Online Dictionary, twerk is a dance move involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance.

The media sought Leonardia’s reaction after a “twerking” activity in one of the bars in the Mandalagan area here became viral on social media. The video showed five girls taking turns in “twerking” with a man seated on a chair while other bar goers watched.

Leonardia said he and Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran both agreed in a meeting that such activities should be banned.

“We feel that it is immoral and scandalous,” he added.Leonardia also expressed disappointment that minors were

involved in the “twerking” incident.

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BACOLOD City – An esti-mated P800,000 worth of sus-pected shabu were confiscated following a buy-bust opera-tion at Barangay E. Lizares, Talisay City in Negros Oc-cidental, late evening of Sept 4, 2018.

Supt. Boots Aseo, Talisay City police chief, said anti-drug operatives of Talisay and Silay City police stations jointly arrested Joven Catipay, 44, of Barangay Pitalok, San Fernando town in Cebu.

Catipay was snared after selling P500 worth of pur-ported shabu to a police poseur-buyer.

He yielded three sachets of suspected shabu, a mobile phone, and P1,000 cash.

Catipay, who is now de-tained at the Talisay City police station, was charged for illegal drug trade and possession.

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By louine Hope Conserva

BUSINESS transactions at the Iloilo City Hall could soon be done with a mere tap of electronic devices.

The city government is now working to set up an online business processing system that will include electronic payment transactions.

This is in compliance with Republic Act (RA) 11032 or the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act of 2018.

Norman Tabud, head of the Business Process and Licensing Office (BPLO) said the city still has to setup a strong internet connection.

Next, they have to acquire electronic equipment such as laptop computers, desktops, and tablets.

“Issuance of permits and payment could soon be online. The ultimate goal of the city government is for the clients to trans-act using only cellphones and laptops,” Tabud said.

Local government units (LGUs) are given three years until 2021 to establish an online business processing system.

For the meantime, the city targets to set up a one-stop shop for applications for building permits, certificate of occupancy, and business permits at the third floor of the City Hall before the end of the year. This is also in pursuance of RA 11032.

The one-stop shop will ensure seamless transactions and reduce the number of steps and days for the releasing of needed documents.

It aims to help applicants during the pre-registration period wherein they still have to acquire several documents from government agencies like the Department of Trade and Industry, Bureau of Fire Protection, and Securities and Exchange Commission, among others.

“We don’t have problem during the reg-istration period because after submission to my office, it usually takes only 30 to 45 minutes for their permit to be released,” he said.

AIRASIA has been named Asia’s Leading Low-Cost Airline for the sixth year in a row at the 2018 World Travel Award Asia and Australasia.

The airline was voted best in category by travel and tour-ism professionals worldwide for commitment to excellence in service, ahead of Air India Express, Firefly, GoAir, JetKon-nect, JetStar Airways, Lucky Air, Nok Air, Scoot, SpiceJet, Tigerair Taiwan, and West Air.

AirAsia also won Asia’s Leading Low-Cost Airline Cabin Crew, beating Air India Express, Firefly, GoAir, JetKonnect, Jetstar Airways, Lucky Air, Nok Air, SpiceJet, and West Air.

AirAsia Hong Kong and Macao CEO Celia Lao accepted the awards on behalf of AirAsia at a gala dinner and cer-emony held at the InterContinental Grand Stanford in Hong Kong on Sept 3, 2018.

AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes said, “We are thrilled to receive these awards. We have been working hard to elevate our guest experience through greater digitalisation, from check-in and boarding to online shopping to customer service, while maintaining our uniquely Asean hospitality, and this is recognition of our unceasing efforts to set the standard for low-cost air travel in the region.”

The World Travel Awards is one of the most prestigious, comprehensive and sought after awards programme in the global and tourism industry.

Established in 1993 to acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across key sectors of travel, tourism and hospitality industries, the World Travel Awards brand is now recognized globally as the ultimate hallmark of industry excellence.

airaSia Hong Kong and Macao CEO Celia Lao with the trophies for Asia’s Leading Low-Cost Airline and Asia’s Leading Low-Cost Airline Cabin Crew at the 2018 World Travel Awards Asia and Australia. (AirAsia)

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UNEMPLOYMENT rate in the Philippines dropped to 5.4 percent in July, results of the Philippine Statistics Au-thority’s Labor Force Survey showed Wednesday.

Of the total 71.56-million population of 15 years old and above, 5.4 percent are jobless compared with 5.6 percent in July 2017.

In a separate statement, the National Economic and De-velopment Authority (NEDA) said the recent unemployment numbers are the lowest unem-ployment rates recorded for all surveys conducted in July since 2008.

“An average of 1.17 mil-lion in additional employment has been created so far in the first three rounds of the Labor Force Survey. And this puts the government on track in meeting its target of 900,000-1.1 million employment generation for 2018,” NEDA chief and Socio-economic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia said.

The employment rate rose to 94.6 percent in July 2018, from 94.4 percent in July 2017.

This is the highest among previous July rounds in the last 10 years and similar to July 2016, with an estimated net generated employment of 488,000, and total employment reaching 40.7 million, accord-ing to NEDA.

Higher employment and lower unemployment figures are a welcome development amid the rising inflation, Bud-get Secretary Benjamin Diokno said during his weekly break-fast forum with reporters on Wednesday.

“People are more tolerant of rising prices when they have jobs, rather than having no jobs,” Diokno said.

Inflation clocked in at 6.4 percent in August, the fastest in over nine years since it came in at 6.6 percent in March 2009.

“We are confident that em-ployment will really improve. We know that with Build, Build, Build going full blast, we are going to create a lot of jobs,” Diokno said.

The services sector ac-counted for more than half of the country’s total employ-ment, contributing additional employment of more than 1.1 million.

The industry sector also recorded positive employ-ment growth of 2.2 percent, or 172,000 workers.

Among the industry sub-sec-tors, manufacturing contributed the most to employment.

“Moreover, the shares of industry and manufacturing to total employment of 19.4 percent and 9.0 percent, respec-tively, are the highest in a

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NOW on its second year, “Hair for Hope” continues to em-power cancer patients through

its hair donation event last Aug 31, 2018 at SM City Iloilo North Wing, Mandurriao, Iloilo City.

Top Ilongga hairstylist, Ziggy Her-mosura together with London trained hairstylists led the event by providing free cut and hairstyling to 111 hair do-nors who participated in the event.

The hair that was gathered in the event will be turned into wigs to be given to the recipients of the partner hospital, Iloilo Doctors Hospital.

For Hermosura, empowering can-cer patients through the “Hair for Hope” event is more of a personal

advocacy.“This is very significant because

my parents died because of cancer. It’s my personal advocacy and I want to give back to the community by giving hope to cancer patients,” Hermosura said.

According to Pamela Pedroche, Hair for Hope ambassador, they wanted to change the negative con-notation that goes with the patients suffering from cancer.

“It’s not just for the improvement of your physical appearance; it’s for the improvement of the emotional aspect. The cancer itself in general for many is so negative and hopeless but for you to recover you have to be positive about your outlook in life and that starts when you feel good about

yourself,” Pedroche said.“Hair for Hope” is the charity event

of HEADS by volu-Med Inc. HEADS by volu-med is a salon

and hair replacement center based in Makati that caters to customers’ hair problems such as hair loss. They offer organic treatments for scalp and line of natural looking hair pieces.

For the past two years, the group has already donated around 300 wigs to cancer patients all over the country while partnering with top hospitals, universities, institutions, and youth organizations.

Hermosura revealed that they plan to go to different provinces and they want to target the other parts of Panay such as Kalibo, Capiz, Antique, and Guimaras.

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LAND FROM GOD (Lugta Ke Tamama) is officially selected by the Busan International Film Festival to have its

world premiere this October in Busan, South Korea. This documentary written and directed by Kevin Pison Piamonte, together with his directors of photography Ruperto Quitag and Emmanual Lerona, all come from the Univer-sity of the Philippines Visayas. This highly re-garded achievement is a pride for the Ilonggos in the field of documentary filmmaking since the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) is the biggest film festival in Asia.

The full-length documentary tackles the struggles of the Ati tribe in its quest to pre-serve its culture in world-renowned Boracay, an island that underwent rapid modernization, commercialization, and environmental exploi-tation. It also underscores the challenges that the Atis are confronting to acquire education in order to attain recognition and inclusion in modern society.

Filmed in the paradise island just months before it was closed to the public as ordered by President Duterte, the subject matter of the documentary rises up to the relevance and timeliness of the discussion on the current state of Boracay and the indigenous people (IPs) that have been marginalized there. This film was shown to a select audience mostly composed of high school and college students back in March of 2018 at the UPV Auditorium. The film received critical acclaim as reviewed by film critics and scholars who also served as reactors in the IP Conference which followed the film launch.

The filmmakers hope that this ground-breaking entry to the BIFF will give the film more opportunity to get its message across particularly in the campaign for awareness

‘Hair for Hope’champions in empowering cancer patients

all SMilES. Ziggy Hermosura with the proud hair donor. (SM City Iloilo Facebook page)

inSPirinG hoPE. London-trained and local hairstylists converge to offer free haircut and hair styling to hair donors. (SM City Iloilo Facebook page)

ILONGGO LOVE. Hair donors from Iloilo line up to help in empowering cancer pa-tients. (SM City Iloilo Facebook page)

ParticiPantS get a free treat from local and London trained hairstylists. (SM City Iloilo Facebook page)

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about the situation of our Ati brothers and sisters in Boracay. This film is also made possible through the collective talents of the production team, headed by the Executive Producer, Susan Mila Alvarez-Tosalem, Producers Robert Rodriguez and Maria Re-gina Madrid-Montevirgen, Editor is Ruperto Quitag, Musical Scor-ing by Maria Christine Muyco, Production Assistance by Martin

Trompeta and Interpreter Kyara Michelle Vlahov. The production is also funded by the Commission on Higher Education.

LAND FROM GOD has been selected by the BIFF under the Wide Angle Category which is a section dedicated to showing out-standing short films, animations, documentaries, and experimental films that offer broad cinematic viewpoints and a distinct vision.

ati children playing at the beachfront of Brgy Manok-Manok in Boracay

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sion plans of manufacturing firms as a result of a more positive employment outlook for the period,” it said.

Youth unemployment, however, remains high at 14.1 percent.

“The share of inactive youth remains a concern. The government must equip stu-dents with industry-relevant competencies as well as increase their opportunities for work experience. A stronger academe-industry linkage should orient students better on career prospects,” Pernia said.

Underemployment, or full-time workers seeking additional hours of work, increased to 17.2 percent or an estimated 7.0 million workers in July 2018. This is higher com-pared with 16.3 percent or about 6.5 million underemployed workers in July 2017.

“In order to meet our employment targets, government should provide an environ-ment that is conducive to creating more

and better jobs. It should prioritize policies and programs that address the issues of unutilized youth, unemployed youth, un-deremployment, and vulnerable workers,” Pernia said.

He called for reforms that will benefit workers, including access to skills develop-ment.

“This package of reforms should include unemployment insurance as an additional safety net and important complement to labor market flexibility,” Pernia said.

“In other words, we need to keep the labor market agile such that more workers and em-ployers can take better advantage of growth opportunities, while still looking after our workers’ welfare,” he said.

The LFS is a nationwide quarterly survey of households to gather data on the demo-graphic and socioeconomic characteristics of the population, and provide statistics on trends of employment, unemployment, and underemployment. (GMA News)

The one-stop shop features zero-contact policy and ‘one-time assess-ment, one-time payment.’

RA11032 mandates the LGUs to release the needed documents for simple applications within three days; five days for complex transactions; and seven to 20 days for highly technical applications.

The shop is also designed to avoid fixers.

SANcTioNSTabud warned LGUs as the law

only requires a two-strike policy for non-compliance.

First offense is 60 days suspension for frontliners. Second is dismissal from office and forfeiture of benefits.

“Even the local chief executive may be held accountable if it is found out that there is a deficiency in the releasing of documents,” Tabud added.

You and the family need to balance tasks with playtime today. A little compromise can allow some of both.

You have talent for creating pretty word pictures, intuitively tuning into what will sound most harmonious. You avoid harshness or unpleasantness.

If you focus on what you want and don’t have, today will be frustrating. Clarify your financial goals and move toward them. Power and passion are central today. Strive to control yourself (sensibly) rather than trying to control the actions of anyone else.

Too much focus on the past keeps you there. Learn from what has been, but plan for what lies ahead.

You need to bounce some ideas off a friend. Don’t try to decide on your own. Seek additional info.

Your moods vary a lot at work today: from totally dedicated to laughing and kicking back. Be aware of when the boss is watching!

Be careful in mixing work and friendship. Keep a clear separation between what is personal and what is professional.

A note of appreciation goes over big. The simple act of telling someone how they’ve helped reaps great dividends.

Independent relationships are featured today. You feel a strong need for space, or a friend or partner goes off into their own pursuits.

Your aesthetic judgment might be useful at work, or you’re in a position to help someone in trouble or needing emotional support.

Today you can be very goal directed. What you set your heart and mind upon, you will accomplish.

ROBI Domingo acknowledged that the experience of hosting a pageant with ex-girlfriend Gretchen Ho went less “awkward than expected.”

The former couple were tapped to be this year’s host of the Mr. and Miss Chi-natown pageant held at Mall of Asia Arena Sunday.

Two days later, Domingo was asked about whether they ran into trouble given their tricky past during his “Tonight With Boy Abunda” interview on Tuesday. “Pero dahil sobrang galing ni Gretchen, naging OK na OK. Smooth sailing iyong event namin,” he explained.

He maintained that they are “OK,” and that they even shared a chat on the sidelines of the event. He also said that he’s more than willing to be her friend, and that he’s proud of her accomplishments. (ABS-CBN News)

NOW it can be revealed: Angelica Panganiban and Carlo Aquino rekindled their relation-ship but broke up for a sec-ond time during their younger years.

The former couple made the candid admission during a press conference Tuesday for their upcoming film “Exes Baggage,” the maiden offering of ABS-CBN Films’ Black Sheep.

“Naging kami ta’s naghi-walay kami — taon din ‘yun,” Panganiban said, when asked what caused their breakup. “Ganyan ‘yung ginawa niya sa akin, iyong nagpa-cute ulit, ta’s ito na naman ako, tuwang-tuwa ako, ayun na-fall ako, naging kami ulit. Dalawang beses nag-ing kami.”

Dubbed “CarGel,” the on-screen tandem of Panganiban and Aquino rose to popularity in 1999, when they first co-starred in the youth-oriented TV series “G-mik.” They went on to become real-life sweet-hearts as their “love team” flourished onscreen.

Without detailing the time-line, Panganiban shared that their second chance at love didn’t last long.

“Iyong pangalawang beses, hindi na siya sure. ‘Di ba? Ano ba?” she said, turning to Aquino, who was seated beside her. “Hindi na niya alam kung iyon ‘yung gusto niya, kung ito pa rin ba ang gusto niya.”

Panganiban had previously said, in an April 2013 interview, that her relationship with Aqui-no lasted six years. It’s unclear if the count included the gap between their first breakup and their reconciliation.

Aquino readily pointed at Panganiban when they were

asked which of them fought harder to keep the relation-ship.

Panganiban answered: “Laging ako. Pero siyempre hindi naman laging siya ‘yung mali. Ano kaya ‘yon, hindi ako nagkamali? Ano ako, Mama Mary? Perfect? Siyempre, may mga nagawa rin ako, may mga pinagselosan din siya.”

“Siyempre, bata kami noon, e. Nakaka-excite pag may nanligaw sa ‘yo, pag may na-gandahan sa’yong iba. Gano’n lang siguro ‘yun, bata pa kami noon.”

Panganiban’s response aligned with her 2013 interview with StarStudio magazine, in which she surmised that, due to their young age then, their relationship didn’t deepen and mature.

“Siyempre iniisip namin noon seryoso na kami. Parang feeling namin noon, magpa-paksal kami, kami na forever. Pero eventually, ngayon ‘pag tinitingnan mo, ibang-iba pala siya sa talagang relationship na meron kami ni Carlo,” she said at the time.

Panganiban and Aquino have managed to stay friends over the years, and have notice-ably become closer in recent months, going by their sweet photos on Instagram.

Despite their affection through words (in captions) and touch (their arms were comfort-ably tangled during the media launch at one point), Aquino clarified that they are not ro-mantically involved now.

“Hindi, hindi ako nanlili-gaw,” he said, prompting a playful response from Pan-ganiban: “Ouch.” (ABS-CBN News)

Robi shares experience of hosting pageant with ex Gretchen

Awkward? Angelica, Carlo took second chance but broke up again

‘Hindi na siya sure’

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public Act 10743 and UNESCO have designated Oct 5 of every year as National Teachers Day (NTD) and World Teachers’ Day (WTD) to honor teachers and the central role they play in guiding children, youth, and adults through the life-long learning process.

PHLPost target is to reach wider cluster of public and private schools in order to effectively promote and de-velop young student’s skills in composition. Schools are also encouraged to include letter writing activities in their events and programs.

MANILA – The mayor of Ronda town in the southwestern part of Cebu province was shot dead by unidentified men inside the town hall on Wednesday dawn.

Mayor Mariano Blanco III was pro-nounced dead on arrival at 2:25 a.m. after being rushed to a hospital in nearby Barili town.

Senior Insp. Junior Falcon, the town’s police chief, confirmed the news to ABS-CBN News.

SPO2 Rafael Alvero of Ronda Police Station said the shooting took place inside Blanco’s office at 1:28 a.m.

Armed men disembarked from a van and barged into the mayor’s office. Following a burst of gunfire, the assailants immediately left the premises.

Blanco was stripped of authority over local police in 2017 for his alleged involve-ment in the illegal drug trade.

He was also among the 3 local chief executives who were not invited to a meet-ing with President Rodrigo Duterte in Cebu last May. Duterte is currently in Israel for a 4-day visit.

Blanco’s nephew, Ronda Vice Mayor

Jonah John Ungab, was killed in Febru-ary.

Ungab was shot by unidentified men after attending the court hearing of his cli-ent, self-confessed drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa.

Ungab represented Espinosa, son of slain Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Es-pinosa Sr., for a Comelec gun ban case. The younger Espinosa is facing charges of murder and illegal possession of firearms before a lower court.

Blanco was the 16th elected official killed under the Duterte administration.

Below is a list of mayors and vice may-ors killed under Duterte’s administration.

1. Vice Mayor Aaron Sampaga of Pam-plona town, Cagayan - August 5, 2016

2. Mayor Samsudin Dimaukom of Datu Saudi Ampatuan town, Maguindanao - Oc-tober 28, 2016

3. Mayor Rolando Espinosa of Albuera town, Leyte - November 5, 2016

4. Vice Mayor Anwar Sindatuk of Datu Saudi-Ampatuan town, Maguindanao - November 27, 2016

5. Mayor Mohammad Limbona of

Pantar town, Lanao del Norte - December 30, 2016

6. Mayor Arsenio Agustin of Marcos town, Ilocos Norte - June 3, 2017

7. Mayor Joven Hidalgo of Balete town, Batangas - June 10, 2017

8. Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog of Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental - July 30, 2017

9. Vice Mayor Jackson Dy of Roxas town, Oriental Mindoro - September 23, 2017

10. Vice Mayor Jonah John Ungab of Ronda town, Cebu - February 19, 2018

11. Mayor Ronald Tirol of Buenavista town, Bohol - May 27, 2018

12. Mayor Antonio Halili of Tanauan City, Batangas - July 2, 2018

13. Mayor Ferdinand Bote of General Tinio town, Nueva Ecija - July 3, 2018

14. Vice Mayor Alex Lubigan of Trece Martires town, Cavite - July 7, 2018

15. Vice Mayor Al-Rashid Mohammad Ali of Sapa-Sapa town, Tawi-Tawi - July 11, 2018

16. Mayor Mariano Blanco III of Ronda town, Cebu - September 5, 2018 (ABS-CBN News)

SEnator Antonio Trillanes IV (photo from web)

SENATOR Antonio Trillanes IV said Wednesday he will ques-tion before the Supreme Court (SC) the proclamation issued by President Rodrigo Duterte revoking his amnesty.

“Basura ang proclamation na ito. Mag-file kami ng petition for TRO (temporary restraining order) sa SC. This goes beyond political lines,” he said in a press conference.

“We will be questioning the whole presidential proclamation, questioning its validity,” he said.

The senator again denied the government’s claim that he did not file an application for amnesty and did not admit his guilt for his role in uprisings to overthrow the Arroyo government when he was still a Navy officer.

Trillanes also presented copies of the court decisions stating that the rebellion and coup d’etat charges filed against him have been dismissed in 2011.

Duterte signed Proclamation No. 572 on August 31 revoking the amnesty granted Trillanes and saying the senator did not comply with the “minimum requirements to qualify under the amnesty proclamation.”

He also ordered the arrest of Trillanes “so that he can be recom-mitted to the detention facility where he had been incarcerated for him to stand trial for crimes he is charged with.” (GMA News)

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINESDepartment of Transportation and Communications

LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING AND REGULATORY BOARDRegion VI, Iloilo City

lizA d. MAlAcAPo CASE NO.: RVi-eV-PJ-2018-09-96-1218-iloApplicant/Petitioner (1996-VI-1218-ILO)

NoTice of heARiNGPetitioner requests authority for the EXTENSION OF VALIDITY of CPC with Provisional

Authority to operate a PUJ service on the line; iloilo ciTY - uNGkA (iTGSi) ViA AQuiNo AVeNue - TANzA and vice versa, with the use of ONE (1) unit/s.

This application/petition shall be considered by the Board on September 25, 2018 at 9:30 a.m, at its Office at LTFRB Building, Quintin Salas, Jaro, Iloilo City, on which date applicant/petitioner shall formally submit all pieces of evidences.

At least fiVe ( 5 ) days prior to the date of hearing, applicant/petitioner shall publish this NOTICE once in any newspaper of general circulation in Western Visayas (Region VI).

Parties opposed to the granting of this application/petition must file their written opposition supported by the documentary evidence unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documentary and /or oral evidence.

WITNESS the Honorable RICHARD Z. OSMEÑA, Regional Director, this day 4th day of SePTeMBeR, 2018 at Iloilo City, Philippines.

(sgd.) ATTY. MA. JoSceT BuYco-ABellAR Hearing Officer



NeMiA M. GePilANGo CASE NO.: RVi-eV-PJ-2018-09-99-306-iloApplicant/Petitioner (1999-VI-306-ILO)


Authority to operate a PUJ service on the line; iloilo ciTY - (VillA) - AReVAlo and vice versa, with the use of ONE (1) unit/s.








JeSuSA Sioco CASE NO.: RVi-eV-PJ-2018-09-Mf98-049-AkApplicant/Petitioner (MF-1998-VI-049-AK)


Authority to operate a PUJ service on the line; kAliBo - NeW WAShiNGToN and vice versa, with the use of ONE (1) unit/s.








NeMiA M. GePilANGo CASE NO.: RVi-eV-PJ-2018-09-88-1845-iloApplicant/Petitioner (1988-VI-1845-ILO-A)


Authority to operate a PUJ service on the line; iloilo ciTY - (VillA) - AReVAlo and vice versa, with the use of ONE (1) unit/s.








MA TheReSA M. BAlTeRo CASE NO.: RVi-eV-PJ-2018-09-Mf98-019-cAPApplicant/Petitioner (MF-1998-VI-019-CAP)


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NoTice of heARiNGPetitioner requests authority for the EXTENSION OF VALIDITY of CPC to operate a TAXI service

with Conversion of unit from LPG Fed Taxi to a Regular (gasoline fed) Taxi to operate on the line; within iloilo ciTY To ANY PoiNT iN PANAY, with the use of ONE (1) unit/s.






THE House of Representatives on Tuesday approved on third and final reading a measure seeking to extend paid ma-ternity leave to 100 days for women working in govern-ment and the private sector.

Voting 191-0, the chamber approved House Bill 4113, which also provides an option to extend maternity leave by another 30 days without pay.

The provisions of the bill do not discriminate regard-

ing civil status and whether it is a case of miscarriage, or abortion after termination, as well as women workers in the informal economy, those with pending administrative case and those who are non-members of the Social Secu-rity System (SSS).

The measure emphasizes that female workers cannot be demoted in employment or terminated on the basis of maternity leave and assures

them of security of tenure.SSS members who paid at

least three monthly contribu-tions in the 12 months before the semester of childbirth or miscarriage will be paid their maternity benefit.

This will be computed based on the average monthly salary credit for 100 days, regardless if the delivery was normal or caesarian but sub-ject to conditions provided in the bill.

At the same time, women in the private sector taking maternity leave and its accom-panying benefits must receive not less than two-thirds of their regular monthly wage.

Employers are responsible for the salary differential be-tween the actual cash benefits received from the SSS and their average weekly or regu-lar wages for the duration of the ordinary maternity leave. (GMA News)

House oKs extended paidmaternity leave to 100 days

Mayor slain inside Cebu town hallTrillanes to question proclamation revoking amnesty before SC

GivinG time... from p.13volunteer and visit GRACES Home for the Aged where she also celebrated her birthday in advance. DJ Chacha has been doing this for six years now. Accompanied by her fans club mem-bers, DJ Chacha provided food, entertainment, and gave donations in kind consisting ofblankets and new clothes.

DJ Chacha recognizes the loneliness the el-derly feel being without their families. “I want to make them feel that they are remembered and loved even by strangers like us,” she said.

“I am grateful for all the blessings I am receiv-ing from our Lord and in return, I wanted to share it with other people. I’ve always had a soft spot for the elders as I don’t have grandparents any-more. Visiting GRACES makes me happy and I will do it over and over again,” she said.

DJ Chacha added: “Some have wealth, some have talents, some have time. Whatever gifts we

have been given, large or small, we should share generously. When we do, we make the world better for someone else and find true meaning and satisfaction in our own lives.”

To date, Globe and Disney’s Time Please program has reached over 13 million volunteer hours through small acts of kindness nationwide. This is a testament to the Filipinos’ sense of malasakit and bayanihan.

As Yoly Crisanto, Globe Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications said: “We are grateful to all volunteers who shared their time and talent to help others in need. We hope our collective ef-fort will truly make a difference to the lives of all beneficiaries.”

Time Please provides a platform for volun-teering activities that match individuals or groups of volunteers with various opportunities around the country.

MANILA - Aviation authorities are pushing for the passage of two laws that will modernize the country’s airports, an of-ficial said Wednesday during a congressional investigation on the Xiamen Airlines mishap.

The measures will establish the Philippine Airport Development Corp and the Philippine Transporta-tion Safety Board, said Civil Avia-tion Authority of the Philippines director general Jim Sydiongco.

“Both laws would help us ra-tionalize the development of our airports,” Sydiongko said.

The Ninoy Aquino Internation-

al Airport was closed for nearly 2 days in August after a a Xiamen Airlines Boeing 737 overshot the runway upon landing.

Sydiongco said the NAIA had long operated above capacity.

“Ramming in these bigger aircraft and you did not design originally that infrastructure from before then of course uu-kol, bubukol. That’s where it’s going at,” he said.

The establishment of the Philip-pine Transportation Safety Board will ensure budget allocation for a multi-model transportation indus-try, he said. (ABS-CBN News)

Authorities push for 2laws to modernize airports

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IN LINE with the celebration of its 38-year anniversary, the Negros Occidental Private Schools Sports, Cultural, and Educational Association (NOPSSCEA) inducted set of officers of the newly-formed NOPSSCEA Press Club.

The creation of the press club aims to strengthen its partnership with various organizations to ensure that NOPSSCEA will be at par with its counterparts across the country.

NOPSSCEA headed by its President Ryan Mark Molina of STI-West Negros University, who is also the Western Visayas PRISSAA president, inducted the NOPSS-CEA Press Club.

Elected as NOPSSCEA Press Club President is Watchmen Daily Journal’s Je-rome Galunan Jr; Negros Daily Bulletin’s Owen Bayog as Vice-President; and RMN-DYHB’s Yves Montecillo as Secretary.

Board of Directors are Jeremiah ‘Mymy’ Alagaban – Watchmen Daily Journal; James Toga – Negros Daily Bulletin; Henceboy Cestina – DYRL Abyan Radyo; Mary Liza Yorac – Kapawa News; Henry Doble – SunStar Bacolod; Stephen Tan – Negros Weekly; and Visayan Daily Star’s Allen del Carmen, Nida Buenafe, and Mark Garcia.

Serving as advisers are Molina and NOPSSCEA Auditor Dr. Jose Lizael Lampinez from John B. Lacson Colleges Foundation – Bacolod.

“We envisioned NOPSSCEA to commit

and intensify partnership and collaboration among member schools through education, culture, sports and social responsibilities. We wanted to strengthen NOPSSCEA’s core values of spirituality, compassion, excellence, nationalism and teamwork,” shared Molina.

For Galunan, he also said that the cre-ation of the NOPSSCEA Press Corps is historical.

“We, sport journs have been covering NOPSSECA for decades and written many related stories. We have been NOPSS-CEA’s partner in promoting its programs for years and have turned big leagues’ radars on NOPSSCEA’s top athletes. Some of them have already donned the national colors,” he added.

THE experience of making a difference in the lives of other people is an opportunity not given to many but through Time Please, a volunteering program of Globe Telecom, thousands of volunteers were able to do just that.

Be BeAuTifulLifestyle blogger Marj-

Sia, together with Make-A-Wish Foundation, had her first ever volunteering experience through “Be Bold and Beautiful with MarjSia,” where 10 kids from the Philippine General Hospital who are diagnosed with cancer were treated to a day of make-up session. Marj was assisted by 25 other volun-teers composed of some of her friends and fellow bloggers.

Make-A-Wish Foundation is an international non-profit organization that organiz-es experiences for children with life-threatening medical

conditions by granting their wishes.

The objective is to create an uplifting and positive mindset while going through the ses-sions. The girls are reminded in a fun way that they are beautiful inside and out, and nothing can stop them from feeling pretty.After the session, Marj and her friends distributed make-up kits to the girls.

When asked if she would volunteer again,Marj said: “Absolutely. I also recommend that people do this kind of advocacy in their life. I think I have achieved most of the things I want in this life but it’s a different kind of feeling to bring joy to others.”

One of the beneficiaries, 14-year-old Arabella, was glad to have made this experience with other girls and newfound “Ates.”

“Naging Masaya ako na may nakasama akong ibang

bata, at may nakilalang bagong mga Ate. Naging Masaya ako na natutunan ko ng konting bagay tungkol sa makeup at mas excited nang mag-ayos ng sarili,” said Arabella, who has sarcoma, a tumor that affects the connective tissue.

Arabella is in Grade 8 and spends most of her time in the hospital. Her only interaction was with other patients her age. The visit from Marj and other volunteers provided her with a different perspective on life. She is more confident now and sees beyond her illness. Like many teen girls, Arabella now has developed a liking for makeup and feeling good about herself.

GiViNG BAckRadio jock DJ Chacha of

MOR 101.9, for her part, has a soft spot for the elderly and signed up for Time Please to

thE cartoon-style colored postage stamp designed by PHLPost graphic artist Rodine Teodoro illustrating a teacher “patiently guiding and teach-ing her student for a better future”. (PHLPost)

THE Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) in coordination with the Department of Education (DepEd) and Metrobank Foundation unveiled the 2018 National Teachers’ Month (NTM) special commemorative stamp and official logo design for this year’s teachers’ day celebration from Sept 5 – Oct 5, 2018.

PHLPost also launched the “Salamat Po Teacher” letter writing for young people to effectively promote the value of gratitude to teachers and the important role they play in the lives of the students and society.

Despite the existence of modern means of communications like mobile phones and the social network, PHLPost hopes to bring back the passion of letter writing in today’s generation through a nationwide campaign involving students, teachers and educators who shaped the country’s future.

“Through letters and stamps, we pay tribute to our beloved and hardworking teachers who play an important role in shaping the future of the students under their guidance and care,” Postmaster General Joel Otarra said.

The cartoon-style colored postage stamps were designed by PHLPost graphic artist Rodine Teodoro illustrating a teacher “patiently guiding and teaching her student for a better future”. PHLPost has printed 50,000 copies of the stamp to be sold at P12 each. The stamps are now available at the Postshop, Manila Central Post Office in Liwasang Bonifacio.

PhlPost is inviting students to join the nationwide “Salamat Po Teacher” letter writing raffle promo and competition both local and international in collaboration with the Department of Edu-cation (DepEd) and Universal Postal Union. The letter writing mechanics will be forwarded to DepEd regional offices and can be seen in Facebook social media page: https://www.facebook.com/SalamatPoLetterWriting/.

coMElEc SatEllitE rEGiStration. Personnel of the Commission on Elections in Passi City, Iloilo conduct onsite registration for qualified in-mates at Passi City District Jail now headed by jail warden Senior Inspector Jimmy Britanico (right). There are more than 60 qualified inmates voters in the detention facility. (JonalynZabala, PCDJCRS)

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PHLPost issues National Teachers’ Month Stamp

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DJ Chacha brings entertain-ment and gifts to the elderly

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He urged the public to report such activities as the police cannot totally monitor the bars and other nightlife areas in the city.

Leonardia also asked the vil-lage chiefs to help monitor night-spots in their communities.

It was found out that the bar’s permit was only intended

for a coffee establishment.Earlier, the PNP Women

and Children Protection Desk (WCPD), Department of Social Services and Development (DSSD), and the Permits and Licensing Division (PLD) said they are taking steps against establishments that promote or tolerate “indecent” activities involving women.

Inspector Arlyn Torrendon,

WCPD head, said the viral “twerking” video was degrad-ing to women.

Torrendon added that the WCPD, DSSD, and the PLD would inspect the concerned bar and other nightspots in the area to validate reports of indecent shows.

They will also talk with the owners, in coordination with the barangay officials.

their Bio-data sheet, NSO birth certificate, high school

diploma, Form 137 or 138, six pieces passport size, and two pieces 1x1 (in corporate attire) photo, Certificate of

Indigency, and medical tests (X-ray, Hepa-B, Drug test) to the NOSP or PIO offices at the Capitol building.

ing the head of the VACC.“Andami ko nang na handle

na case na ganito dito sa Ne-gros, pa-check natin yung case nila. Yung concern po natin yung safety nila,” he added.

Diño said he coordinated the couple’s surrender with PNP officials in the region.

“Kaya ina-arrange na ang kanilang pag-surrender sa kay PNP Regional Director Chief Supt. John Bulalacao. But as to other details I cannot divulge to you dahil confidential yun para sa security ni vice mayor.”

He added that the VACC would look into the couple’s

case after they cried foul over the manner of their arrest late last year.

The Yulos’ legal woes began when the Moises Padilla police led by Chief Inspector Allan Reloj seized grenades, guns, and suspected shabu inside the couple’s car during a po-lice checkpoint in December 2017.

They were later charged for alleged violation of Republic Act (RA) 9516 (Illegal Posses-sion of Explosives).

La Carlota City Regional Trial Court Branch 63 Judge Cyclamen Jison-Fernandez is-sued the arrest warrants against the couple on Aug 20, 2018.

The Yulos claimed that the police “planted” the explosives inside their car.

The court also ordered the couple’s arrest for violation of RA 10591 (Illegal Possession of Firearms and Ammunition).

The couple was spared from illegal drug charges after the suspected shabu seized from their vehicle turned out to be “fake” based on crime labora-tory test results.

While the court recom-mended a P200,000 bail to each of the couple for the illegal gun possession case, they were not allowed to post bail for the explosives-related charge.

Pacheo is the former Munic-ipal Tourism Officer, Informa-tion Officer, Local Economic and investments Officer, One Town-One Product Coordina-tor, and Community Technol-ogy and Education Coordinator of Dueñas.

She also wrote the history of Dueñas aside from composing Dayawon ka Dueñas, the mu-nicipality’s hymn; the festival song of Anihan Festival; and the folk song Habol Dueñas.

She also helped establish the Dueñas Loom Weaving In-dustry Development; Museum of Cultural History; and the revival of Dueñas Worldwide Association Library.

JCI Iloilo Ilang-Ilang presi-dent Atty. Lenore Angeline Divinagracia said that as a group of young active citizens,

they aim to recognize women leaders from the grassroots.

“These women dedicate their lives in service to the com-munity by empowering their fellow women in need. These community leaders are the true treasures of humanity for they labor without seeking valida-tion and applause. They can go the extra mile with their limited resources and are resilient in their principals and beliefs,” Divinagracia said.

Pacheo received P5,000 cash, a trophy, medal, and gift checks from the sponsors.

The finalists underwent panel interview in July 2018 wherein Pacheo got the high-est scores.

The criteria for judging are:

-leadership (30%)-women empowerment

(30%)

-community and civic in-volvement (20%)

-social impact (30%)The other finalists are Viden

Elpos of Concepcion (1st run-ner-up) and Mercedita Cubar of Pototan (2nd runner-up).

Elpos received P3,000 while Cubar got P2,000. They also received medals and gift checks.

Other nominees include Jocelyn Espia and Marjori Hervo. They also received cash prizes, medals, certificate, and gift checks.

Ang Ilongga Awards is an annual search of JCI Iloilo Ilang-Ilang which seeks to identify and give recognition to women leaders with extraor-dinary accomplishments, have created positive change and sustainable solutions to issues and concerns affecting their communities.

Baron underwent the De-partment of Health’s drug reha-bilitation program after surren-dering through Oplan Tokhang in 2016.

But police learned that he kept selling drugs while in rehabilitation.

Despite his alleged involvement in drugs, Baron snatched a second term as village council member in the May 2018 elections.

Domingo admitted that it took them a while before they can pin down the suspect.

Baron was also a member of the notorious Prion Group, a suspected-crime group based in Cabatuan, Iloilo that was tagged in highway robbery, cattle rustling, and gun-for-hire activities.

But the group went inactive into after its leader Joel Prion was killed in 2006.

Joel’s brothers, including Lougen Prion, took over the group but they were also ar-rested and jailed.

Baron is the sixth fatality in PRO-6’s anti-drug campaign since August 2018 and the 64th

since July 2016.The five other fatalities are:-Alex Blanca Sr on Aug 27,

at Barangay Boulevard, Molo, Iloilo City;

-Richard Montefrio Gregori on Aug 29 at Barangay Ungka 2, Pavia, Iloilo;

-Gabriel Poblacion on Sept 2 at Zone 3, Barangay Tacas, Jaro, Iloilo City;

-Jennifer Gobatanga, 32, and his cousin, Gayrell Go-batanga, 38, both natives of La Paz, Iloilo City, on Sept 3 at Barangay San Pedro in San Jose, Antique.

penses of the Badjaos on their trip back home.

“Ready na ang funds for release so pwede na kami ka reach out sa mga Badjaos any time this week. Hindi ni siya pag ihatag na cash sa ila. Amo ni siya i-gastos for pamasahe nila kung magpauli sila, bu-long kag other nila nga needs,” Conlu said.

But Conlu clarified that the budget is for adult Badjaos only.

Concerned city hall depart-ments will provide services to the members of one of the big-gest indigenous people’s group in the country before they are sent home to Mindanao.

“Ang amon na request is P3,000 per head pero for mga adults lang gid and based sa amon inventory, 75 Badjaos

and ini sila paga-reach out naton, check-upon sang City Health, sang City Social and Welfare Development Office (CSWDO), kung ano kakulan-gan nila,” he added.

According to Conlu, they are coordinating with the local government units (LGUs) to as-sure that the Badjaos will arrive safely to their home province and will not return to the city.

He also added that the CSW-DO would prepare a case study report which will be handed over to their respective local government units.

“Ang report sang aton CSW-DO amo ni siya ang i-hand in naton sa ila LGU para mabal-an man sang LGU nila kung ano ang reasons nga gakadto di ang ila mga constituents. Once nga may coordination kita sa ila LGU so possibly ma-assure naton nga hindi na sila kabalik

di kung may intervention na sang LGU,” he mentioned.

The Badjaos, who thrive as mendicants, usually stay in vacant lots in La Paz, Iloilo City and under several bridges at Buhang, Jaro, and Pavia.

The Badjaos keep coming back to the city despite efforts by the PSTMO to gather and send them back home.

Aside from affecting the city’s sanitation because of their unhygienic ways, Conlu said Badjaos riding in jeepneys and crossing the streets could cause danger to both motorists and passengers.

Also known as the “Sea Gypsies” of the Sulu and Cele-bes Seas, the Badjaos are from the coastal areas of Tawi-Tawi, Sulu, Basilan, and some coastal municipalities of Zamboanga del Sur.

man death case from Lanit. In fact, we were supposed to be proclaimed by DOH (Depart-ment of Health) as rabies-free but because of our human rabies case we didn’t pass,” Tupas added.

The report also said that from January to July 2018, the Regional Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture detected eight positive animal rabies cases in Iloilo City.

The shortage of anti-rabies is also a factor in the purported outbreak.

With the Iloilo City govern-ment running out of vaccines, the City Veterinarian’s (CVO) and Health Offices (CHO) must adopt a paradigm shift – addressing the source of the infection.

Tupas reported that the Sto. Rosario Health Center in City Proper district proposed the paradigm shift that focuses on the elimination of animals that could spread the deadly infection.

The health center is the designated animal bite center in the city.

“Paradigm shift meaning responsible pet ownership, de-creasing the number of strays, and implementing the powers of City Veterinarian Office to actually terminate the strays,”

Tupas said.Aside from prevention and

elimination of stray animals, the center also suggested ani-mal population control and registration of pets so that the owner will be properly identi-fied and held responsible for the treatment of animal bite victims.

It also encouraged respon-sible pet ownership through registration and vaccination of the animals and make pet owners liable for the rabies treatment of bite victims.

The strict implementation of the Human Rabies Act, especially provisions for the responsibilities of pet owners, should also be observed.

The Human Rabies act re-quires the pet owners to pay for the medical expenses of victims bitten by their pets.

SHORTAGEThe City Council recently

revealed that the local govern-ment lacks anti-rabies vac-cine.

The shortage is due to prob-lems in the production of two types of rabies vaccines pre-qualified by the World Health Organization (WHO) – Rabipur and Verorab.

Last February, the Depart-ment of Health (DOH) issued a memorandum saying that Rabipur’s production was tem-porarily suspended and the sup-

plies recalled from the market because of bacterial residues.

Verorab also suffered pro-duction failure due to shortage in raw materials.

With the vaccine shortage since February 2018, the Sto. Rosario Health Center can only give one free dose instead of four free doses.

Tupas explained that there is a higher compliance rate of 100% if the free dose is given on Day 3 after the bite, com-pared to the free dose on Day 1, which has an 8% compliance rate.

“The giving of vaccines is first come, first serve basis and depending on how the patient was bitten or the gravity of illness. The center is not able to follow up the patient when the free dose is given on Day 1, unlike when it is given on Day 3 wherein the center can keep track of patient records,” she added.

Based on her committee report, the vaccine brands are not interchangeable. Once they started to administer Verorab on Day 1, it must be the only type of vaccine used for the remain-ing days of treatment.

While other animal bite cen-ters provide Speeda (another type of vaccine), once it is ad-ministered to the patient on Day 1, they cannot anymore avail of the Day 3 free dose of Verorab offered by the center.

Iloilo City). Upon the issuance of the

first notice, violators are given 10 days to explain personally or in writing. If they fail to respond, the BPLO issues a second notice, which gives

them another three days to explain.

For the final notice, the man-agement has two more days to explain.

“After 15 days, that is the time that our office will rec-ommend the establishment for closure. It is the City Mayor,

through the City Legal Office that will implement the clo-sure,” he said.

While they have yet to receive a formal complaint, Tabud said they have monitored one establishment in Jaro dis-trict where partygoers proceed after the 2 a.m. curfew.

preventive measure in the law enforcement and security op-erations in Boracay.

While the police station has been transferred to the island in August yet, the deployment of the 389 police officers would be completed by first week of October.

Along with the transfer of Malay Police Station, the PRO-6 also abolished the Bo-racay Tourist Assistance Center (BTAC) because of its dysfunc-tion, Cambay said.

Instead of having a tourist police unit, PRO-6’s goal in restructuring Malay Police Sta-

tion is to have a “world class, highly-capable tourist and environment-oriented police force responsive to the current and emerging challenge.”

Cambay said they are cur-rently training 39 personnel to form part of the Special Weapon and Tactics (SWAT) team.

Malay police officers will also undergo training on explo-sives ordnance identification.

The training program on Tourist Oriented Police aims to empower more PNP per-sonnel assigned in different tourist destinations in Western Visayas.

The MBPTF will eventually

be disbanded when the Boracay rehabilitation is over.

Personnel who will not be assigned to the Malay Police Station or with the Aklan Mo-bile Force Company will return to their mother units.

MBPTF, which took over the security concerns during the Boracay’s 6-month closure, deployed 630 police personnel. But the augmentation is only 158 officers to another police task force and the defunct BTAC.

The augmentation force includes 138 for the Civil Dis-turbance Management (CDM) or anti-riot company while 20 are administrative staffers.

Philippine University (CPU), after she was included in the national team that will compete in the 2018 World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Taiwan on Nov. 15-18, 2018.

“I asked and prayed nga tani maka-perform ako maayo and safe kami nga ma tapos ang amon evaluation. The evalua-tion was a hard process. I’ve been in the training pool for two years, but this time after the initial evaluation last Nov. 2017, we had three additional evaluation and this week was

the last one and I am blessed to be selected. We invested a lot of resources, financially, physically, emotionally, and psychologically until I finally got this shot,” said Diasnes of Jaro, Iloilo City.

According to her coach Floramie Navales, their dream for Diasnes has been realized.

“This is one of our dreams. We always include this in our prayers. We prayed and we worked to produce a player to represent the Philippines in the international arena with the rest of the Philippine national team. God’s timing is always

the best,” Navales said. Diasnes had won count-

less medals in both local and national competitions. The mainstay of A. Diasnes Gym Taekwondo Learning Center and a 2nd Dan Blackbelter is a national referee, too.

She is a member of the Phil-ippine National Poomsae Team Member -Training Pool. She also captured numerous medals in the National Poomsae since 2014.

During the 2018 CPJ Poom-sae, she bagged the silver medal. The 2-time Palarong Pambansa athlete is also a varsity player of CPU Golden Lions.

It sure seemed at the shock-ing outset as if Nadal was somehow unprepared for this step up in competition. Thiem collected 24 of the opening set’s 31 points, thanks in large

part to a 13-3 edge in win-ners.

Hard to not think back to 24 hours earlier, when Na-dal’s great rival, No. 2 seed Roger Federer, was upset in the fourth round during similarly muggy conditions.

Nadal was sweating so much in the 90-degree heat and 50-percent humidity that a mountain of white towels formed next to his change-over bench.

Thiem made him work for this win. And how. (AP)

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Serena into US open semis as champion Stephens exitsNEW YORK – Six-time champion Serena Williams shook off a sluggish start to power past eighth-seeded Karolina Pliskova 6-4, 6-3 on Tuesday and into the US Open semi-finals.

The US superstar, chasing a record-equalling 24th major title, sur-rendered an early break to Pliskova, but she roared back with a streak of eight straight games to put away the opening set and take a 4-0 lead in the second against the woman who beat her in the semi-finals at Flushing Meadows in 2016.

“I just wanted to play better,” Williams said of her mindset as she trailed 3-1 in the first. “I was thinking, you know, I can play better, so that was the good news.”

Williams did indeed cut down on the errors, and came up with the big serves when she needed them.

She finished the match with 13 aces and will take on Anastasija Sevastova for a place in the final after the 19th-seeded Latvian toppled defending champion Sloane Stephens 6-2, 6-3.

Pliskova, who managed to convert just two of 12 break point chances in the contest, said Williams was simply too good in the important moments.

“She hit all first serves on the break points, which is always a little bit tougher to return,” Pliskova said.

“The second set, she was just mixing the serve. She was go-ing a lot of wide. Not much that I could do on the break points.”

Williams did drop her serve once in the second, coughing up one of her five double faults on break point as Pliskova narrowed the gap to 4-1.

But when she fell behind 0-40 in the seventh game she rescued herself with 112 mph (180 Km/h) service winner followed by a another service winner and an ace.

Pliskova got another chance when Williams batted a forehand into the

SERENA WILLIAMS

of the United States serves to

Karolina Pliskova of Czech Republic

in a quarter-final match on day nine

of the 2018 U.S. Open tennis tour-nament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis

Center. (Danielle Parhizkaran,

USA TODAY SPORTS/Reu-

ters)

NEW YORK — Rafael Nadal began his U.S. Open quarterfinal as poorly as possible, shut out in a set by a 6-0 score for only the fourth time in 282 career Grand Slam matches.

On the previous three such occasions, he’d lost. On this one, he managed to come back to win, although it took 4 hours, 49 minutes and never did get easy for him.

The defending champion and No. 1 seed at Flushing Meadows recovered from his disastrous start and other stumbles along the way to beat No. 9 Dominic Thiem 0-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5) for a semifinal berth at a third consecutive Grand Slam tournament, winning a physical, back-and-forth tussle that stretched across and concluded after 2 a.m. Wednesday.

How tense and tight was this one? Not only was Nadal two points from losing at 5-all in the closing tiebreaker, but he finished with fewer total points, 171-166.

When it ended, on an overhead by Thiem that sailed long, Nadal climbed over net to hug his opponent and whisper words of encouragement.

“I’m very sorry for Dominic,” Nadal told a rowdy crowd in Arthur Ashe Stadium. “He’s a close friend on tour. He’s a great guy. A great player.”

This rematch of the French Open final in June, won by Nadal, was his first match against a top-20 opponent at the U.S. Open since 2013, when he beat then-No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the final.

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KAYA FC-Iloilo forward Jo-vin Bedic of Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo is included in the Philip-pine Azkals’ training camp in Bahrain.

Aside from Bedic, Premier League keeper Neil Etheridge, forward Angel Guirado, and fullback Stephan Schrock are also in the list.

The training camp is part of the Azkals’ preparations for the AFF Suzuki Cup 2018 and the AFC Asian Cup 2019.

Other players who made it to the list are:

Amani AguinaldoFitch ArboledaLouie Michael CasasDylan De BruyckerCarlos De MurgaPatrick Deyto

Curt Jordan Dizon Hikaru Minegishi Paul MuldersJunior MuñozManuel OttMike Rigoberto OttPatrick Reichelt Daisuke Sato Adam TullLuke WoodlandNathanael Ace VillanuevaPhilip James Younghus-

bandAmin Nazari, Alvaro Silva

and John-Patrick Straus will also train with the team this month.

As part of the camp, the Azkals will have a friendly with Bahrain at Bahrain National Stadium in Riffa on Thursday. (ABS-CBN News)

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THE volleyball teams of Central Philippine University (CPU) and Bacolod Tay Tung High School (BTTHS) booked two victories in the opening of the Rebisco Volleyball League 2018 Western Visayas Regional Finals at the University of St. La Salle (USLS)-Bacolod covered gym, Sept. 4.

The CPU Golden Lions lead Pool B with two wins already. In the first match, they defeated USLS-Bacolod, 2-1.

USLS-Bacolod gave the Centralians a hard time in the first set as they claimed the win, 26-24.

But the visitors equalized matters via a 24-22 drubbing of the host team in the second set before sealing the win the third, 25-20.

CPU earned their second win by sweeping St. John’s Institute (SJI), 25-16, 25-20.

Meanwhile, Tay Tung topped Pool A after winning two games in a row against Livingstones International School (LIS), 25-6, 25-20, and Bingawan National High School (BNS), 25-12, 25-11.

In other matches, Palanguia National High School (PNS) survived SJI in three sets, 23-25, 25-17, 25-11.

LIS staged a comeback against Silliman University (SIU), 25-21, 23-25, 25-20.

St. Louis School of Don Bosco, Inc. (SLS) also opened the games with a blowout win against PNS, 25-11, 25-17.

Ten volleyball teams across Western Visayas joined the regional tournament, which will culminate today, Sept 6, at the USLS covered gym.

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“THE training every morning and evening, weightlifting sometime, the body aches, tears, and sweat during train-ing paid off. I also have doubts if kaya ko or hindi. Madala ko or hindi pero gin butang ko gid sa mind ko ang family ko nga ga gastos sa akon kag ga support gid pirmi sa akon. Ang mga coaches ko nga ga-push sa akon sa limits ko and syempre to God who is giving me a rea-son to continue my journey in taekwondo.”

These were the words of Cindy Joy Diasnes, a Grade 10 student-athlete of Central

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