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Panaglukat tobacco trading season, grupo dagiti mannalon, StopEx, nagrali Balikatan Exercises narugian a maisayangkat iti Sinait, Salcedo BANTAY, Ilocos Sur Impatalged ti maysa nga opisial ti Balikatan Exercises nga awan ti actual military exercises a maisayangkat iti Sinait ken Salcedo no di laeng “humanitarian assistance”. Kinunana ni Major Antonio Burton, media relations officer, CMO Balikatan, bayat ti naangay a media briefing iti Camp Elpidio Quirino, Bulag, Bantay idi Pebrero 10, a sabali a paset ti pagilian partikular iti Cavite ti pakaisayangkatan ti Field Training Exercise a pakairamanan ti infantry, EOD, mortar, scout ken dadduma pay a panagsanay. Innayonna a sabali pay a paset ti Balikatan ti panagsanay iti Crisis Action Planning kas panagsagana no adda mapasamak a ginggined iti Metro Manila kasta metten ti counter terrorism ken interoperability. Kabayatanna, segun ken ni Burton, maisayangkat ti civil military operations ti napagtipon a puersa ti Armed Forces of the Philippines ken dagiti kameng ti US Military ket agduduma a proyekto para iti komunidad ti maipasdek partikular iti sumagmamano a barangay iti Sinait ken Salcedo, Ilocos Sur. Iti Sinait, karaman kadagiti ipasdekda ti sumagmamano a
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CANDON CITY - Napateg nga aldaw kadagiti mannalon ti tabako ken dagiti traders ti Pebrero 15 ta daytoy ti mangipasidumaag ti panangrugi iti pormal a panaggatangan iti berde a balitok. Ngem kagiddan met daytoy ti panangisayangkat dagiti mannalon ken dagiti kameng ti Solidarity of Peasants Against Exploitation (StopEx) Ilocos Sur ti maysa a rally tapno yarungaingda ti nangatngato a presio ti tabako. Agarup 50 a mannalon manipud iti nadumaduma nga ili iti Ilocos Sur ti nangisayangkat iti agarup maysa nga oras a rally idiay Candon Plaza iti daytoy nga aldaw. Kinuna ni Zaldy Alfiler, agdama a secretary general ti StopEx-Ilocos Sur nga insayangkatda ti rally tapno
PANAGTATABAKO MANEN. Madama a sibsibugan ni Mang Cipriano Frando ti Poblacion, Santiago, Ilocos Sur dagiti mulana a tabako, idinto a mangnamnama iti napintas a presio ti tabako itoy a panagtatabako. (teksto:Mancielito S. Tacadena/ladawan:Dante Tacata)
Aquino welcomes Villar’s acceptance; calls for meeting to finalize debate LP standard bearer Noynoy Aquino welcomed NP bet Manny Villar’s acceptance of his challenge to a one-on-one debate and called for a meeting of representatives from both camps to iron out details of the event. Aquino issued the challenge after Villar failed to attend the presidential forum of the
16 ili ti Abra, hot spot: PNP provincial director BANGUED, Abra -Sangapulo ket innem nga ili ti maibilang a hotspots ditoy a probinsia, daytoy ti impakaammo ti PNP provincial director bayat ti naangay a forum para iti nadalus ken natalna nga eleksion ditoy itay nabiit. Segun ken ni OIC Provincial Director P/Supt. Lawrence Coop, karaman dagiti hot spots ditoy probinsia ti Bangued, Bucay, Boliney, Dolores, Danglas, Tabuk, Lagangilang, Penarubia, Tayum, Tubo, Tineg, La Paz, Lagayan, San Juan, Malibcong ken Sallapadan. Inadmitir met ni CAR PNP Deputy Regional Director for Operations P/S Supt. Elmer Soria nga adda maysa a kumpirmado nga armado a grupo iti Abra idinto a tallo a sabsabali pay ti madama a sipsiputanda. “Ammo metten ti amin ti kaso diay Tineg. Adda aganay 10 katao nga armado a mainanaig ken ni Mayor
Edwin Crisologo,” kinuna ni Soria. Babaen ti initiatibo ti Zenarosa Commission ken Abrenian Partners for Peace and Development (APPD), naangay idi Pebrero 12 ti maysa a citizens’ forum maikontra iti armed violence ken private armed groups tapno maaddaan ti nadalus ken natalna nga eleksion iti probinsia ti Abra. Idauluan ni Justice Monina Zenarosa ti Zenarosa Commission ket da Jaime Echeverria, Dante Jimenez, Herman Basba Ho, Bishop Juan de Dios Pueblos, Mahmod Mala Adilao ken Virtus Gil dagiti commissioners ken Edilberto Adan, permanent adviser. Inatenderan dagiti politiko manipud iti nadumaduma nga ili iti Abra, youth, religious sects, akademia, propesional, grupo dagiti babbai, mannalon, NGOs, business ken dadduma pay a sektor ti ko-
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Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP). The Senator from Tarlac earlier lamented that the formats for previous presidential debates had constraints that didn’t allow a candidate to “go beyond the sound bite.” A one-on-one debate, Aquino said, would give voters the opportunity to compare their platforms and allow both candidates to elaborate on their positions on key governance issues. He said the meeting will
focus on the venue, date, format, and other details of the debate. “I think it’s time to end the proxy war. This would give Sen. Villar a chance to do what he wasn’t able to do on the Senate floor: take direct questions regarding the Senate’s findings on the C-5 deal and other issues
that have remained unanswered by him,” he said. Aquino, on the other hand, welcomed the opportunity to PAGE 6
iyarungaingda ti pannakaipatungpal ti P95 tunggal kilo a presio ti tabako nga awan klasipikasion. Kinuna ni Alfiler a naggapu idiay Cabugao, Candon City, Santa Lucia ken dadduma pay nga ili dagiti mannalon a nakipartisipar iti rali. Inlawlawagna a kas maibasar iti kuentada a magasto ti mannalon iti produksion, mayannatup laeng ti presio a P95 tunggal kilo nga awan klasipikasion dagiti bulong. Ngem inlawlawag ni Estrella de Peralta, Officer-In-Charge ti
National Tobacco Administration iti Candon City Branch nga agdepende ti presio ti tabako iti kalidadda. “No awan klasipikasion ti bulong ti tabako, amangan no didanton agmula pay iti de-
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Binay: We’ll spread Makati’s success to other cities United Opposition vice presidential candidate and Makati Mayor Jojo Binay said the success of the city as the premier business and financial hub in the Philippines could be replicated in other parts of the country. “Magagawa po iyan basta may political will. Nagawa na ng Makati, magagawa po iyan sa buong bansa,” Binay told a radio interview in Cebu. When Binay was appointed officer-in-charge of Makati in February 1986 after the EDSA People Power 1, the local government was saddled with P200-million debt. By the end of that year, however, Makati posted P30 billion in savings, the first in the local government’s history, and purged
3,000 ghost employees, which translated to savings of P2.4 million every month, under Binay’s leadership. Political will, financial disciple, reforms to improve tax collection efficiency and investment in social services are beginning to pay off, Binay said. Now, the country’s financial center is home to a 22-storey world-class city hall and host to 40 percent of top 1,000 multinational and local corporations, 54 embassies and consulates, and big international organizations. Literacy rate in Makati is 99.3 percent, one of the highest in the Philippines, owing it to the government’s free education
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JPE: interest groups delay passage of power reduction bills Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile suspects that powerful interest groups are still pushing the House of Representatives to delay the passage of crucial legislation he has put forward to bring down the cost of electricity in the country. Enrile, who is seeking another term under the Partido ng Masang Pilipino, filed last year the proposed bills to slash
power rates to benefit industries, commercial establishments and individual consumers, but none of the proposals were approved at the end of the congressional sessions last February 3. “Palagay ko malakas ang lobby ng mga may interes diyan,” Enrile said during a radio interview in Davao when
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Veterans equity compensation: over 12,800 vets have received P7.2-B February 16, 2010 was the final day for Filipino WWII veterans to apply for one-time benefits created by the 2009 Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation provision of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. As of February 16, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
(USDVA) had approved the applications of 12,846 eligible Filipino WWII veterans; these qualified veterans or their widows have been paid a total of nearly P7.2 billion. Between February 17, 2009 and February 16, 2010, USDVA held 22 outreach events in PAGE 6
FR. JOSE BURGOS MONUMENT CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. Nagpaala iti retrato da Mayor Eva Marie S. Medina, Vice Mayor Franz Ranches, Fr. Roque Reyes, dagiti konsehal a pakaibilangan da Kon. Loreto Quibilan, Maximo Alves, Benjo Verzosa, Ever Molina, Hermenigildo Apelin, George Villanueva, ABC Pres. John Patrick Singson ken dagiti police officers kalpasan ti panangiruknoyda iti sabong iti monumento (ngato) a naipasdek idi Pebrero 17, 1910 kas pammadayaw ken ni Fr. Jose Burgos. (Salvador A. Espejo)