June 25,2010
Samaco To Provide Financial Assistance Of P5.5M To Ten Barangays
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
Maasin City,Southern Leyte-In behalf of the City Govt. of Maasin,re-electionist-elect Mayor Maloney Samaco disclosed in a block time radio program”Maasin City In Action” hosted by Zaldy Olita that he will be providing financial assistance of P5.5M to ten barangays here.
He said that each of the aforesaid barangays shall be going to receive P500, 000.00 each. While barangay Cagnituan shall be receiving P1M.
He intimated that the said amount is a fulfillment of his promise to all Barangay Captains of the 70 barangays comprising the more than 9-year-old Maasin City. This was made during the previous campaign period of the recent first automation polls on May 10, 2010 national and local elections. But only ten barangays were able to meet his condition.
In an interview at his office Samaco said, the procedures in providing the total amount of P5.5M for the aforementioned barangays will be done thru the process of legality. This is to say that concerned barangay officials have to present their respective program of works of their projects.”The presentation of their respective program of works is necessary as COA’s requirements for barangay projects”, he said.”The earlier they can submit their program of works, the earlier they can receive the financial assistance for their projects”.
He emphasized that other city barangays shall also going to receive funds for their projects. But priorities were given to the abovementioned number of barangays where he garnered 80% plus from each barangay’s total number of voters. However, he failed to disclose its respective names since he still has to look for it because it got lost in his file. He was not able to memorize it,he said.
On the other hand, the Mayor divulged that barangay Cagnituan has given him 90% plus of its total number of voting population, the reason why he’s going to grant them the P1M funds for their project or projects.
He clarified that after the submission of their program of works, it will be bided to several bidders in the province. He implied that the City Government will be choosing a bidder with lower price contract but with reliable and guaranteed works.
Samaco further informed that in barangays where he received 75% votes each, they will be his second priority list.”They shall be going to receive also financial assistance for their projects, but in lower amount”, he said. How much that lower amount, the second termer Mayor did not specify.
Moreover, he unfolded that in his oath-taking this coming June 28, 2010(including all the 8 re-elected and two newly-elected City Councilors) at past 8:00a.m. at city gymnasium, he shall be taking his oath of office before Abgao Barangay Captain Nacional “Nikko” Verrano Mercado.
He explained that he prefers to take his oath before the younger Mercado because barangay Abgao was where he got the highest percentage of votes of the entire city’s barangays.”I’m doing this to give due recognition to the efforts of barangay officials of Abgao during the recent first automation local polls”, he said.
Asked if what he will be going to do is a traditional political custom, he answered in the negative.”This is not a traditional practice, but my personal choice, a departure from the common practice where newly-elected officials will take their oath of offices before the judge”, he said.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Friday, June 25, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
SP Approves DOH-R8 MOA For Hospital Improvements Worth P10M Plus
June 24,2010
SP Approves DOH-R8’s MOA For Hospital Improvements Worth P10M Plus
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-The Sangguniang Panlalawigan has approved the Memorandum of Agreement(MOA)from the Department of Health-Regional Office for the infrastructures and medical equipments support for the two Southern Leyte District Hospitals worth P10,168,000.00.
This was revealed during the SP’s recent session held at the provincial capitol here. The two District Hospitals that were recipients of these particular projects were Anahawan District Hospital located in the Pacific towns’ area and Pintuyan District Hospital located in the Panaon Island.
SP Roberto Lagumbay, Chairman Committee on Health and Sanitations, has moved for the approval of the DOH’s MOA between the province of Southern Leyte and DOH-R8 and authorizing the Governor to sign it.
Anahawan has a total funds of P6M.The P3M is for infra structures and P3M for medical equipments. While the Pintuyan District Hospital has a total aid of P4,168,000.00.The P2M is for the infra and the remaining P2,168,00.00 is for medical equipments.
However, re-electionist Governor–elect Damian Mercado requested the members of the Provincial Board to make amendments of the DOH‘s MOA. This is to take out P2M funds from the Anahawan District Hospitals’ P3M for infra. It will be added as additional funds to buy the hospital’s equipments for a total of P5M instead of the original plan of P3M.
Vice-Governor Miguel Maamo,11 instructed the administrative office where the Governor has coursed his request, to make the necessary correction of the said MOA. He also advised DOH representative Dr. Feliciano John Matibag to “refine the MOA”.
Dr. Matibag, who could provide specific details for the infrastructures and medical equipments for the aforementioned District Hospitals, was on leave and not available for interview.
Dr.Joselito P. Trumata, Integrated Provincial Hospital Office head, who is equally knowledgeable about the DOH-R8 envolment for the projects’ funding, has provided for the related informations. He told LSDE that the Anahawan District Hospital infra projects were the constructions of Out-Patient Department building and the morgue, and the renovation of the Isolation Ward. The medical equipments that were already available at the hospital were of various kinds, he said.
For the Pintuyan District Hospital’s infra project, he said, is the current renovation of the entire hospital building plus supply of different medical equipments. He added that Hinunangan District Hospital’s building was also undergoing renovation.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
SP Approves DOH-R8’s MOA For Hospital Improvements Worth P10M Plus
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-The Sangguniang Panlalawigan has approved the Memorandum of Agreement(MOA)from the Department of Health-Regional Office for the infrastructures and medical equipments support for the two Southern Leyte District Hospitals worth P10,168,000.00.
This was revealed during the SP’s recent session held at the provincial capitol here. The two District Hospitals that were recipients of these particular projects were Anahawan District Hospital located in the Pacific towns’ area and Pintuyan District Hospital located in the Panaon Island.
SP Roberto Lagumbay, Chairman Committee on Health and Sanitations, has moved for the approval of the DOH’s MOA between the province of Southern Leyte and DOH-R8 and authorizing the Governor to sign it.
Anahawan has a total funds of P6M.The P3M is for infra structures and P3M for medical equipments. While the Pintuyan District Hospital has a total aid of P4,168,000.00.The P2M is for the infra and the remaining P2,168,00.00 is for medical equipments.
However, re-electionist Governor–elect Damian Mercado requested the members of the Provincial Board to make amendments of the DOH‘s MOA. This is to take out P2M funds from the Anahawan District Hospitals’ P3M for infra. It will be added as additional funds to buy the hospital’s equipments for a total of P5M instead of the original plan of P3M.
Vice-Governor Miguel Maamo,11 instructed the administrative office where the Governor has coursed his request, to make the necessary correction of the said MOA. He also advised DOH representative Dr. Feliciano John Matibag to “refine the MOA”.
Dr. Matibag, who could provide specific details for the infrastructures and medical equipments for the aforementioned District Hospitals, was on leave and not available for interview.
Dr.Joselito P. Trumata, Integrated Provincial Hospital Office head, who is equally knowledgeable about the DOH-R8 envolment for the projects’ funding, has provided for the related informations. He told LSDE that the Anahawan District Hospital infra projects were the constructions of Out-Patient Department building and the morgue, and the renovation of the Isolation Ward. The medical equipments that were already available at the hospital were of various kinds, he said.
For the Pintuyan District Hospital’s infra project, he said, is the current renovation of the entire hospital building plus supply of different medical equipments. He added that Hinunangan District Hospital’s building was also undergoing renovation.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Will SP Going To Approve CFI's Controversial MOA?
June 24,2010
Will SP Going To Approve CFI’s Controversial MOA?
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-Will the Sangguniang Panlalawigan going to approve Cebu Court of First Instance cooperative branch office to grant them blanket authority to automatically deduct employees’ salaries from the provincial treasurer for the amortization of their loans? This is unlikely to happen based on SP’s discussions of the matter during the two previous weekly sessions held at the provincial capitol here.
SP Florentino Fernandez informed the august body that CFI’s MOA was already referred to the Committee on Economics and Taxations and a letter-request from the employees of the different department of the provincial government.
He said the letter-request was also referred to the Committee on Laws which advised each employee that they can make individually for themselves a sort of an authority to the disbursement officers for them to deduct, but without the need of the MOA .
SP Albert Esclamado, as in their previous deliberations of the CFI’s MOA, said he was apprehensive in signing it because the bottom line is the issuance of a resolution for MOA’s approval, which is by giving the latter the blanket authority they are asking for.”This is my apprehension because there will be a conflict”, he said,” considering that we have also given the same blanket authority to the local SLEM coop, which is considered as the built-in cooperative of the province”
However, SP Teopisto Rojas,Jr. told his colleagues that several officials and employees of the province have written a strong letter asking him for reconsideration of the SP’s objection to their particular provision. The Chairman Committee on General Services has likewise believed that passing of a resolution to give CFI blanket authority is possible if he (Rojas) would waive his objection.
Although CFI is giving lower interest than the local SLEM coop, it was learned, but Vice-Governor Miguel Maamo, 11, was likewise apprehensive that “there might be a hidden agenda which we do not know yet. So we have to know thoroughly the details if the real interest is stipulated in the MOA”, he said.
Rojas further disclosed that upon his perusal of the controversial MOA, there’s no legal impediment neither a violation of any law, so the SP can legally approve the MOA.
SP Cesar Rey also suggested that before they will approve the MOA, the best way is to ask the Chairman Committee on Economics and Taxation and Laws to convene with the concerned employees and the CFI Manager with the Provincial Treasurer.
Nevertheless, Esclamado explained that although there’s no legal impediment if they will approve the CFI MOA, he believed that it is but unfair and unsound practice for the Sangguniang Panlalawigan because it requires the provincial government to have an automatic deduction of the loaners-employees salaries, the privilege which the SP has already granted to SLEMCOOP.”WE should not forget that SLEMCOOP is owned by our employees”, he said.
Esclamado further elucidated:”It’s enough that we give them business permit. This is what I see considering that right at the start they are already trying to kill SLEM because they are offering lower interest. What will happen in the next few months or years? There will be a buy out of all the loans and eventually SLEM will be losing because all CFI have to do is to campaign to all SLEM members to provide them credit and buy out their loans from SLEM”.
But Cesar Rey opposed saying that he doesn’t think CFI’s MOA will be going to kill SLEMCOOP.”If we will not approve its MOA with the provincial government we are depriving our provincial employees the right and desire to have a loan from another cooperative with lower interest than that of a bank or other cooperative”, he said.
But Esclamado, a former Limasawa Mayor, strongly disagreed and said that if they will not approve CFI’s foremost intention to have an equal authority with that of SLEM’s,it doesn’t mean that “we are depriving our employees the right to lend money from CFI”.”They can still borrow”, he said, “but to incorporate a provision that there will be an automatic salaries deduction, that I believed is unfair because in lending business, a small difference in interest can create an exodus of borrowers to another party and I’m sure it will happen. There would be a bank run because CFI h as a big capitalization.Again, if we will not approve the MOA, it does not mean that we deprive every lender of the right to do lending with the CFI. It is enough that we are giving them business permit to operate”.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Will SP Going To Approve CFI’s Controversial MOA?
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-Will the Sangguniang Panlalawigan going to approve Cebu Court of First Instance cooperative branch office to grant them blanket authority to automatically deduct employees’ salaries from the provincial treasurer for the amortization of their loans? This is unlikely to happen based on SP’s discussions of the matter during the two previous weekly sessions held at the provincial capitol here.
SP Florentino Fernandez informed the august body that CFI’s MOA was already referred to the Committee on Economics and Taxations and a letter-request from the employees of the different department of the provincial government.
He said the letter-request was also referred to the Committee on Laws which advised each employee that they can make individually for themselves a sort of an authority to the disbursement officers for them to deduct, but without the need of the MOA .
SP Albert Esclamado, as in their previous deliberations of the CFI’s MOA, said he was apprehensive in signing it because the bottom line is the issuance of a resolution for MOA’s approval, which is by giving the latter the blanket authority they are asking for.”This is my apprehension because there will be a conflict”, he said,” considering that we have also given the same blanket authority to the local SLEM coop, which is considered as the built-in cooperative of the province”
However, SP Teopisto Rojas,Jr. told his colleagues that several officials and employees of the province have written a strong letter asking him for reconsideration of the SP’s objection to their particular provision. The Chairman Committee on General Services has likewise believed that passing of a resolution to give CFI blanket authority is possible if he (Rojas) would waive his objection.
Although CFI is giving lower interest than the local SLEM coop, it was learned, but Vice-Governor Miguel Maamo, 11, was likewise apprehensive that “there might be a hidden agenda which we do not know yet. So we have to know thoroughly the details if the real interest is stipulated in the MOA”, he said.
Rojas further disclosed that upon his perusal of the controversial MOA, there’s no legal impediment neither a violation of any law, so the SP can legally approve the MOA.
SP Cesar Rey also suggested that before they will approve the MOA, the best way is to ask the Chairman Committee on Economics and Taxation and Laws to convene with the concerned employees and the CFI Manager with the Provincial Treasurer.
Nevertheless, Esclamado explained that although there’s no legal impediment if they will approve the CFI MOA, he believed that it is but unfair and unsound practice for the Sangguniang Panlalawigan because it requires the provincial government to have an automatic deduction of the loaners-employees salaries, the privilege which the SP has already granted to SLEMCOOP.”WE should not forget that SLEMCOOP is owned by our employees”, he said.
Esclamado further elucidated:”It’s enough that we give them business permit. This is what I see considering that right at the start they are already trying to kill SLEM because they are offering lower interest. What will happen in the next few months or years? There will be a buy out of all the loans and eventually SLEM will be losing because all CFI have to do is to campaign to all SLEM members to provide them credit and buy out their loans from SLEM”.
But Cesar Rey opposed saying that he doesn’t think CFI’s MOA will be going to kill SLEMCOOP.”If we will not approve its MOA with the provincial government we are depriving our provincial employees the right and desire to have a loan from another cooperative with lower interest than that of a bank or other cooperative”, he said.
But Esclamado, a former Limasawa Mayor, strongly disagreed and said that if they will not approve CFI’s foremost intention to have an equal authority with that of SLEM’s,it doesn’t mean that “we are depriving our employees the right to lend money from CFI”.”They can still borrow”, he said, “but to incorporate a provision that there will be an automatic salaries deduction, that I believed is unfair because in lending business, a small difference in interest can create an exodus of borrowers to another party and I’m sure it will happen. There would be a bank run because CFI h as a big capitalization.Again, if we will not approve the MOA, it does not mean that we deprive every lender of the right to do lending with the CFI. It is enough that we are giving them business permit to operate”.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Surveys On Candidates During Elections Should Be Banned
June 15,2010
Surveys On Candidates During Elections Should Be Banned
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
When was this so-called survey on candidates started in the Philippines? Who initiated it? As long as I can remember since I became a voter, it was only during the recent years that survey on the popularity of a candidate or candidates have began. However, this kind of survey that survey agencies have utilized is not satisfying if any person would look at its procedure in collecting “specimen” for interviews. With respondents of less than three thousands gathered from various places to gauge a presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates’ popularity rate could not really represent the bulk of majority of the 50M plus Filipino voters. Yet this was the way we were led to believe by the survey agencies that conducted the surveys of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates during the recent and the first automated polls on May 10,2010 national and local elections.
How can such popularity rate results of percentages taken from the selected respondents for the two highest positions of the Republic of the Philippines represents the voices, the minds and the sentiments of the rest of the 50M plus Filipino voters in the country? There are still many municipalities and cities in the entire archipelago that were not covered by the survey agencies. The surveys cannot make me believe on the explanations, equations and ratios in survey results. I have the belief and the conviction that logical and analytical thinkers could not also believe nor accept their kind of report or explanations regarding their system.
However, this scheme has pre-conditioned some voters’ mind with a “lean on decision” out of convenience and have stopped using their brains to really analyze and evaluate the given survey results which were based only on a very small fraction of the entire population. This is the reason that survey results could not be relied upon. It has only provided a mindset that has no firm grasp on the real condition of those candidates running for either the presidential or Vice-presidential seat.
The better ways to anchor on our personal choices of candidates running for the highest down to the lowest positions in the government service is to dig deep on their family background, characteristic traits, academic side, track records and the agenda or programs of government if they will be elected in the positions they are aspiring for. These are the most effective ways that every wise voter must take into consideration during elections. Let us not allow ourselves to be influenced by survey results even if such kind of measure on the candidates popularity is branded as “survey science” or science survey” whatever that means.
Is the conduct of surveys on candidates’ popularity in selected areas a voluntary job? Or is a presidential or Vice-presidential candidate/s pay for it? If a candidate or candidates seeking for the highest position of the Land have paid for the conduct of surveys, how are they paying it? Conducting of political surveys with payments is disadvantageous to candidates who have limited funds to spend. But more serious is that only a few places were subjected to surveys while huge chunks of the country’s population remain untouched by the survey agencies. Hence, this system is considered as unfair and unjust to other candidates and also to the voters themselves who need to be properly informed. Because of this, I would like to suggest to the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) that surveys on candidates running for president and Vice-president and other government positions should be banned or abolished.
On the other hand, we can have surveys on the health conditions of our people, population rate, nutrition, employment, migration, diseases, and breastfeeding of babies and non-breastfeeding of babies, agriculture, educational system, povery level, among other things.
If a law is necessary to effect the banning or the abolition of political surveys, our legislators in Congress should consider enacting such kind of law. In other words, let us go back to the most basic measures in choosing and electing competent candidates who run for public offices. Let us also stop selling our votes for a thousand or several hundred of pesos come election time. Our politicians in turn should also stop buying votes. Who were those politicians in the past who initiated the buying of votes from the electorate during elections? They should realize that what they have done is a great disservice to the country. It was reportedly revealed that two of the provinces that were the highest spenders during the first automation polls on May 10, 2010 elections were Sarangani and Southern Leyte. The buying and selling of votes has become a bad habit. Some voters who used to receive money during elections from some politicians would not go anymore to the precinct to cast their ballots, if not a single politician or candidate has given them money, three, two or one day before voting time. I have stated this because some voters by their own volition have revealed this to me.
Nevertheless, if each and every one of us, voters, would resolve to really stop selling our votes by refusing to accept money from the politicians during elections, we can do it.Yes, we can do it. If we give more importance to our right of suffrage and keep our dignities intact, considering that our right is sacred and priceless, then we can stop now selling our votes. Accepting money from any politician or candidate during elections-that is three, two or one day before voting time, means that you are selling your vote and you lose half of your dignity as a voter.
Do you not know that politicians who have spend millions and millions of money during elections to buy votes are not happy after all? Let us pity and be kind to the politicians.Yes, let us pity and be kind to them, also. Much more let us pity and be kind to ourselves, too. They are only force to do it because they want to win in the elections. They want to serve the Filipino people for some purpose that they themselves know, coupled with personal interest of course, which is but natural for every person in any kind of endeavour.They want to build names for themselves to be remember well after their passing by the following generations. We only hope that they choose to build good names rather than bad names that can reap for themselves curses instead of blessings. We also hope that trustworthy service to the nation is the topmost part of their intentions and priorities in seeking for elective positions in the Government.
But this kind of business activity (vote buying and vote selling) between the politicians and the voters are both bad and deplorable. If we really need real change, genuine change, let us discourage the politicians to buy our votes. What is three or four days pleasure and enjoyment after casting your votes? This is just short term and temporary relief but not a solution to our poverty and the ills of our society as a whole. It is quite enough that some of us can approach some incumbent politicians who are kind and generous and have granted our requests for financial assistance for our hospitalization problems, and in some occasions, to buy medicines we badly needed. We should not add burden to them anymore by allowing them to spend millions and millions of pesos to buy our votes during election time. This is a bad habit and should be eradicated now in our system and character as a people. Enough is enough .If they have good track records /good performances during their office tenures and they would run for re-elections, then we should re-elect them.. It is much better, appreciable and meaningful if the millions and millions of money spent by the politicians to buy votes during election time will be used instead to buy plenty of the most needed medicines for our hospitals nationwide so that all confined patients, particularly the indigents and the admitted PhilHealth and non-PhilHealth members, including us (in case we get sick), can be provided with the intended prescribed medicines for theirs and our sicknesses and diseases. We should stop selling our votes now starting the next election of 2013.We must do it now. And we can if we will. (Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Surveys On Candidates During Elections Should Be Banned
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
When was this so-called survey on candidates started in the Philippines? Who initiated it? As long as I can remember since I became a voter, it was only during the recent years that survey on the popularity of a candidate or candidates have began. However, this kind of survey that survey agencies have utilized is not satisfying if any person would look at its procedure in collecting “specimen” for interviews. With respondents of less than three thousands gathered from various places to gauge a presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates’ popularity rate could not really represent the bulk of majority of the 50M plus Filipino voters. Yet this was the way we were led to believe by the survey agencies that conducted the surveys of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates during the recent and the first automated polls on May 10,2010 national and local elections.
How can such popularity rate results of percentages taken from the selected respondents for the two highest positions of the Republic of the Philippines represents the voices, the minds and the sentiments of the rest of the 50M plus Filipino voters in the country? There are still many municipalities and cities in the entire archipelago that were not covered by the survey agencies. The surveys cannot make me believe on the explanations, equations and ratios in survey results. I have the belief and the conviction that logical and analytical thinkers could not also believe nor accept their kind of report or explanations regarding their system.
However, this scheme has pre-conditioned some voters’ mind with a “lean on decision” out of convenience and have stopped using their brains to really analyze and evaluate the given survey results which were based only on a very small fraction of the entire population. This is the reason that survey results could not be relied upon. It has only provided a mindset that has no firm grasp on the real condition of those candidates running for either the presidential or Vice-presidential seat.
The better ways to anchor on our personal choices of candidates running for the highest down to the lowest positions in the government service is to dig deep on their family background, characteristic traits, academic side, track records and the agenda or programs of government if they will be elected in the positions they are aspiring for. These are the most effective ways that every wise voter must take into consideration during elections. Let us not allow ourselves to be influenced by survey results even if such kind of measure on the candidates popularity is branded as “survey science” or science survey” whatever that means.
Is the conduct of surveys on candidates’ popularity in selected areas a voluntary job? Or is a presidential or Vice-presidential candidate/s pay for it? If a candidate or candidates seeking for the highest position of the Land have paid for the conduct of surveys, how are they paying it? Conducting of political surveys with payments is disadvantageous to candidates who have limited funds to spend. But more serious is that only a few places were subjected to surveys while huge chunks of the country’s population remain untouched by the survey agencies. Hence, this system is considered as unfair and unjust to other candidates and also to the voters themselves who need to be properly informed. Because of this, I would like to suggest to the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) that surveys on candidates running for president and Vice-president and other government positions should be banned or abolished.
On the other hand, we can have surveys on the health conditions of our people, population rate, nutrition, employment, migration, diseases, and breastfeeding of babies and non-breastfeeding of babies, agriculture, educational system, povery level, among other things.
If a law is necessary to effect the banning or the abolition of political surveys, our legislators in Congress should consider enacting such kind of law. In other words, let us go back to the most basic measures in choosing and electing competent candidates who run for public offices. Let us also stop selling our votes for a thousand or several hundred of pesos come election time. Our politicians in turn should also stop buying votes. Who were those politicians in the past who initiated the buying of votes from the electorate during elections? They should realize that what they have done is a great disservice to the country. It was reportedly revealed that two of the provinces that were the highest spenders during the first automation polls on May 10, 2010 elections were Sarangani and Southern Leyte. The buying and selling of votes has become a bad habit. Some voters who used to receive money during elections from some politicians would not go anymore to the precinct to cast their ballots, if not a single politician or candidate has given them money, three, two or one day before voting time. I have stated this because some voters by their own volition have revealed this to me.
Nevertheless, if each and every one of us, voters, would resolve to really stop selling our votes by refusing to accept money from the politicians during elections, we can do it.Yes, we can do it. If we give more importance to our right of suffrage and keep our dignities intact, considering that our right is sacred and priceless, then we can stop now selling our votes. Accepting money from any politician or candidate during elections-that is three, two or one day before voting time, means that you are selling your vote and you lose half of your dignity as a voter.
Do you not know that politicians who have spend millions and millions of money during elections to buy votes are not happy after all? Let us pity and be kind to the politicians.Yes, let us pity and be kind to them, also. Much more let us pity and be kind to ourselves, too. They are only force to do it because they want to win in the elections. They want to serve the Filipino people for some purpose that they themselves know, coupled with personal interest of course, which is but natural for every person in any kind of endeavour.They want to build names for themselves to be remember well after their passing by the following generations. We only hope that they choose to build good names rather than bad names that can reap for themselves curses instead of blessings. We also hope that trustworthy service to the nation is the topmost part of their intentions and priorities in seeking for elective positions in the Government.
But this kind of business activity (vote buying and vote selling) between the politicians and the voters are both bad and deplorable. If we really need real change, genuine change, let us discourage the politicians to buy our votes. What is three or four days pleasure and enjoyment after casting your votes? This is just short term and temporary relief but not a solution to our poverty and the ills of our society as a whole. It is quite enough that some of us can approach some incumbent politicians who are kind and generous and have granted our requests for financial assistance for our hospitalization problems, and in some occasions, to buy medicines we badly needed. We should not add burden to them anymore by allowing them to spend millions and millions of pesos to buy our votes during election time. This is a bad habit and should be eradicated now in our system and character as a people. Enough is enough .If they have good track records /good performances during their office tenures and they would run for re-elections, then we should re-elect them.. It is much better, appreciable and meaningful if the millions and millions of money spent by the politicians to buy votes during election time will be used instead to buy plenty of the most needed medicines for our hospitals nationwide so that all confined patients, particularly the indigents and the admitted PhilHealth and non-PhilHealth members, including us (in case we get sick), can be provided with the intended prescribed medicines for theirs and our sicknesses and diseases. We should stop selling our votes now starting the next election of 2013.We must do it now. And we can if we will. (Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Provl Govt. To Construct P380M Provl Hospital In Dungon
June 15,2010
Provincial Government To Construct P380M Prov’l Hospital In Dungon
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-The Provincial Govt. of Southern Leyte thru the initiative of incumbent second-termer Governor Damian Mercado will construct in a one hectare lot, with additional financial assistance from Congressman Roger Mercado, a new P380M provincial hospital in brgy. Dungon here.Brgy. Dungon is less than 15 minutes drive by a four-wheel vehicle from the city proper.
This was revealed by the Provincial Administrator Crispin Arong,Jr. in an interview recently.
He disclosed that the use of the one hectare lot intended for the new provincial hospital has ample spaces for parking lot and for further expansion of other additional infrastructures when there’s the urgency. This is in contrast to the old provincial hospital in brgy, Manahan where any expansion of infrastructure would be difficult to achieve because it is constructed near a hill and houses.
He said that the provincial government has purchased 3.6 hectares worth P10M from the V&G Housing Corporation whose interest for the proposed housing units Subdivision in brgy.Dungon was aborted due to the previous economic slump when buying of real estate properties have lulled.
Arong said that the contractor of the project has now started to fence the lot and digging of holes will follow for the building’s foundations.
He said the project’s construction has two phases. Phase one work has a budget of P100M for the first floor with ward rooms. Phase two with a budget of P280M which is the second floor of the new hospital will house the allied health services, administrative offices and additional wards that can accommodate from 150 to 200 beds in its totality.
The Provincial Administrator said the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) has already submitted the plan to the Department of Health regional Office.However, the health office was asking for the blueprint of the 2 separate buildings for the laundry and the motor pool.
He said approximately a few days after IPHO could submit the other requirements, it would take less than a week to approve and grant them the permit to start constructing the new two-storey edifice.
He said that part of the budget was set aside for the Provincial Engineers Office personnel who will supervise and monitor the project’s construction until its completion.
Although he could not tell exactly how many months or years would it take to finish the construction of the new provincial hospital, he said. But once the entire construction of the two-storey building would be finished, some operating room’s equipments at the old ones would be transferred to Dungon.
He pointed out the provincial government want the tertiary level 2 hospital to reach level 3 by providing improved health services to the public in the near future .He implied that they shall also be hiring additional doctors who could help realized their goals and expectations to man the new provincial hospital.
He said the provincial government shall also be buying new medical equipments and will provide training for personnel to make them knowledgeable and competent in handling the equipments.
He emphasized that the old hospital will remain operational for patients of minor cases but major cases would be referred to the new provincial hospital which was located along the road.
Furthermore, he said that the remaining 2.6 hectares vacant lot are reserved for whatever projects the provincial government intends to do in the future.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Provincial Government To Construct P380M Prov’l Hospital In Dungon
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-The Provincial Govt. of Southern Leyte thru the initiative of incumbent second-termer Governor Damian Mercado will construct in a one hectare lot, with additional financial assistance from Congressman Roger Mercado, a new P380M provincial hospital in brgy. Dungon here.Brgy. Dungon is less than 15 minutes drive by a four-wheel vehicle from the city proper.
This was revealed by the Provincial Administrator Crispin Arong,Jr. in an interview recently.
He disclosed that the use of the one hectare lot intended for the new provincial hospital has ample spaces for parking lot and for further expansion of other additional infrastructures when there’s the urgency. This is in contrast to the old provincial hospital in brgy, Manahan where any expansion of infrastructure would be difficult to achieve because it is constructed near a hill and houses.
He said that the provincial government has purchased 3.6 hectares worth P10M from the V&G Housing Corporation whose interest for the proposed housing units Subdivision in brgy.Dungon was aborted due to the previous economic slump when buying of real estate properties have lulled.
Arong said that the contractor of the project has now started to fence the lot and digging of holes will follow for the building’s foundations.
He said the project’s construction has two phases. Phase one work has a budget of P100M for the first floor with ward rooms. Phase two with a budget of P280M which is the second floor of the new hospital will house the allied health services, administrative offices and additional wards that can accommodate from 150 to 200 beds in its totality.
The Provincial Administrator said the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) has already submitted the plan to the Department of Health regional Office.However, the health office was asking for the blueprint of the 2 separate buildings for the laundry and the motor pool.
He said approximately a few days after IPHO could submit the other requirements, it would take less than a week to approve and grant them the permit to start constructing the new two-storey edifice.
He said that part of the budget was set aside for the Provincial Engineers Office personnel who will supervise and monitor the project’s construction until its completion.
Although he could not tell exactly how many months or years would it take to finish the construction of the new provincial hospital, he said. But once the entire construction of the two-storey building would be finished, some operating room’s equipments at the old ones would be transferred to Dungon.
He pointed out the provincial government want the tertiary level 2 hospital to reach level 3 by providing improved health services to the public in the near future .He implied that they shall also be hiring additional doctors who could help realized their goals and expectations to man the new provincial hospital.
He said the provincial government shall also be buying new medical equipments and will provide training for personnel to make them knowledgeable and competent in handling the equipments.
He emphasized that the old hospital will remain operational for patients of minor cases but major cases would be referred to the new provincial hospital which was located along the road.
Furthermore, he said that the remaining 2.6 hectares vacant lot are reserved for whatever projects the provincial government intends to do in the future.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Lightning Burns P300,000.00 Worth Resthouse
June 15,2010
Lightning Burns P300, 00.00 Worth Resthouse
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-A bursting-sounding lightning that roared the open sky and jolted sleeping people one gloomy early morning ,released a fireball that burnt a cogon-roofed resthouse as it passed by it before hitting a coconut tree nearby in brgy. Maria Clara here recently. The damage reached a total of P300, 000.00 including properties put inside the resthouse.
This was disclosed by a new Islam convert and Arson Investigator Achmad “Joel”Jarabe in an interview at the Maasin Fire Station.
Jarabe said that a certain Elementary school teacher by the name of Teresa Telen-Galos, 32 years old, married was the one who called up the fire station to inform about the incident.
He said that the three-bedroom resthouse, with dinning and kitchen burnt by the passing fireball, was owned by a certain Christopher Plateros whose permanent residence was in brgy. Tunga-Tunga.AT the time the house was burning, he said, they were not in the resthouse.They usually go there on weekends to relax and rest.
The Arson Investigator further informed that according to Maria Clara Chief Tanod Vicente Fernandez, he saw a fireball passing by atop the cogon-roofed resthouse then hit a coconut tree nearby.”Ang resthouse nasunog dayon paglabay sa bolang kalayo ibabaw sa atop ug mingkuyanap sa tibuok balay .Ang lubi nga naigo sa liti napikas sa tunga”, he said in Cebuano.(The resthouse after it caught fire was burned right away and it spreads quickly. And the coconut tree hit by the fireball was cut in half.)
Jarabe said that when they have arrived at the fire scene, the burning house could no longer be saved.”What we did instead was we aimed our hoses towards the nearby houses and sprayed it with voluminous water to prevent the fire from spreading”, he said.
Earlier in the morning prior to the incident, there were series of thunderstorms and lightnings that roared and jolted the heavens, somewhat creating a sense-surround effects before heavy rains have fallen.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Lightning Burns P300, 00.00 Worth Resthouse
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-A bursting-sounding lightning that roared the open sky and jolted sleeping people one gloomy early morning ,released a fireball that burnt a cogon-roofed resthouse as it passed by it before hitting a coconut tree nearby in brgy. Maria Clara here recently. The damage reached a total of P300, 000.00 including properties put inside the resthouse.
This was disclosed by a new Islam convert and Arson Investigator Achmad “Joel”Jarabe in an interview at the Maasin Fire Station.
Jarabe said that a certain Elementary school teacher by the name of Teresa Telen-Galos, 32 years old, married was the one who called up the fire station to inform about the incident.
He said that the three-bedroom resthouse, with dinning and kitchen burnt by the passing fireball, was owned by a certain Christopher Plateros whose permanent residence was in brgy. Tunga-Tunga.AT the time the house was burning, he said, they were not in the resthouse.They usually go there on weekends to relax and rest.
The Arson Investigator further informed that according to Maria Clara Chief Tanod Vicente Fernandez, he saw a fireball passing by atop the cogon-roofed resthouse then hit a coconut tree nearby.”Ang resthouse nasunog dayon paglabay sa bolang kalayo ibabaw sa atop ug mingkuyanap sa tibuok balay .Ang lubi nga naigo sa liti napikas sa tunga”, he said in Cebuano.(The resthouse after it caught fire was burned right away and it spreads quickly. And the coconut tree hit by the fireball was cut in half.)
Jarabe said that when they have arrived at the fire scene, the burning house could no longer be saved.”What we did instead was we aimed our hoses towards the nearby houses and sprayed it with voluminous water to prevent the fire from spreading”, he said.
Earlier in the morning prior to the incident, there were series of thunderstorms and lightnings that roared and jolted the heavens, somewhat creating a sense-surround effects before heavy rains have fallen.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Former AFP-ISAF Member Shoot Dead By Unidentified Gunman
June 8,2010
Former AFP-ISAF Member Shoot Dead By Unidentified Gunman
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-A former member of the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Intelligence Special Action Force(AFP-ISAF)was shoot dead at brgy .Tawid less than 10 kilometers away from here by an unidentified gunman on his way from Malitbog to Hilongos ,Leyte during the recent Tuesday.
The victim was identified as Lito Cabasisi Figura, 41 years old, married and a resident of brgy.Binit, Malitbog of this province.
The victim’s wife Corazon Garces Figura, 48 years old, a secondary school teacher told Chief Investigator Rolando Mejares Paloma that she and her husband were riding on a single Kawasaki motorcycle. She said they were bound for Hilongos,Leyte .When they have reached brgy.Tawid after passing by Maasin,she said, she noticed that another blue-colored single motorcycle with two persons riding on was following them closely.
As they speed along the highway, the other single motorcycle likewise sped up until they were overtaken, she said. And the backrider started firing at her husband several times, hitting him in different parts of his body and died instantaneously, she told the police. Another police officer said that one of the bullets hit the victim’s head.
Earlier, a concerned citizen of the place called the Maasin Police Station to report the incident.Maasin new Chief of Police Hector Flores Enage, Chief Investigator Paloma and the responding police team rushed to the crime scene to investigate.
Discovered at the crime scene were 3 empty shells of a .45 caliber pistol. The wife informed police that she did not know personally the gunman. She described him as standing at 5 feet tall, medium built and was wearing a black jacket and a bull cap. After the shooting the overtaking motorcycle speed away.
The dead victim was later brought to St.Peter Funeral Homes in brgy. Pasay, where its new office was located ,for embalming. His remains were then brought by SPFH’s car to their residence in brgy. Binit, Malitbog.
The police investigator sad that the motive of the killing is unknown and they were still investigating the case.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Former AFP-ISAF Member Shoot Dead By Unidentified Gunman
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-A former member of the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Intelligence Special Action Force(AFP-ISAF)was shoot dead at brgy .Tawid less than 10 kilometers away from here by an unidentified gunman on his way from Malitbog to Hilongos ,Leyte during the recent Tuesday.
The victim was identified as Lito Cabasisi Figura, 41 years old, married and a resident of brgy.Binit, Malitbog of this province.
The victim’s wife Corazon Garces Figura, 48 years old, a secondary school teacher told Chief Investigator Rolando Mejares Paloma that she and her husband were riding on a single Kawasaki motorcycle. She said they were bound for Hilongos,Leyte .When they have reached brgy.Tawid after passing by Maasin,she said, she noticed that another blue-colored single motorcycle with two persons riding on was following them closely.
As they speed along the highway, the other single motorcycle likewise sped up until they were overtaken, she said. And the backrider started firing at her husband several times, hitting him in different parts of his body and died instantaneously, she told the police. Another police officer said that one of the bullets hit the victim’s head.
Earlier, a concerned citizen of the place called the Maasin Police Station to report the incident.Maasin new Chief of Police Hector Flores Enage, Chief Investigator Paloma and the responding police team rushed to the crime scene to investigate.
Discovered at the crime scene were 3 empty shells of a .45 caliber pistol. The wife informed police that she did not know personally the gunman. She described him as standing at 5 feet tall, medium built and was wearing a black jacket and a bull cap. After the shooting the overtaking motorcycle speed away.
The dead victim was later brought to St.Peter Funeral Homes in brgy. Pasay, where its new office was located ,for embalming. His remains were then brought by SPFH’s car to their residence in brgy. Binit, Malitbog.
The police investigator sad that the motive of the killing is unknown and they were still investigating the case.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
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