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Sacrifice of the faithfuls by crucifying themselves.

Wars of ancient history were about possessions, territory, power, control, family, betrayal, lover's quarrel, politics and sometimes religion. But we are in the Modern era and supposedly more educated and enlightened . Think about this. Don't just brush off these questions. Why is RELIGION still involved in WARS? Isn't religion supposed to be about PEACE? Ask yourself; What religion always campaign to have its religious laws be accepted as government laws, always involved in wars and consistently causing WARS, yet insists that it's a religion of peace? WHY?? There are only two kinds of people who teach tolerance: The Bullies. They want you to tolerate them so they can continue to maliciously deprive you. Do not believe these bullies teaching tolerance, saying that it’s the path to prevent hatred and prejudice. The victims who are waiting for the right moment to retaliate. They can’t win yet, so they tolerate.

Cheaper flour pushes down bread, noodle prices

• Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2015/08/10/cheaper-flour-pushes-down-bread-noodle-prices-423792
• Monday, August 10, 2015

By Warren Serrano (DTI-3)

ANGELES CITY -- Good news for bread lovers.

THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) recently reported that the suggested retail prices (SRP) of bread products like Pinoy tasty and pandesal have dropped due to the steady decrease in the price of hard flour.

The Consumer Protection and Advocacy Bureau (CPAB) of DTI said that the baking industry implemented a P0.50 to P1 reduction in the price of loaf bread while the price of 10 pieces of pandesal was reduced by P1.

On the other hand, other bread sellers have increased the weight of their products for the same price to reflect their savings on the cheaper purchase price of flour.

Recent monitoring by the price monitoring team of DTI CPAB showed that the normal price of loaf bread in groceries and bakeries ranging from P47 to P60 has dropped to a range of P 46 to 59.50.

DTI-3 Director Judith Angeles noted that the agency has published new suggested retail prices (SRP) of Pinoy Tasty and Pan de Sal dated July 23, 2015.

As compared to their SRP in April 2015, the present SRP price of Pinoy Tasty is P0.50 lower, while a pack of ten pieces of Pinoy pandesal is P0.25 lower.

As compared to last year, the SRP of Pinoy Tasty has decreased by P1 while the price of pandesal fell by P0.50.

For noodles, the SRP of a 55 gram pack has decreased from P 6.70 in April 2015 to P6.45 in the July 2015 SRP schedule.

As per recent monitoring, the price of Pinoy pandesal in bag with 10 pieces is now P 22, compared to P 24 two weeks ago, in supermarkets and groceries in the region.

Pampanga village chief wants to regain lost territory

• Source: http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/pampanga-village-chief-wants-to-regain-lost-territory/
• Sunday, August 9, 2015

By Ashley Manabat

ANGELES CITY—The prosperous barangay of Balibago was downsized to prevent it from eventually separating from the city and becoming a new municipality. This in effect is what Balibago Barangay Captain Tony Mamac tried to explain at the media forum “Talk Widus” at the Prism Lounge of Widus Hotel and Casino last Wednesday organized by the Pampanga Press Club in cooperation with the hotel.

Mamac said he intends to regain his village’s lost territory after it was gerrymandered during the time of Carmelo “Tarzan” Lazatin who was city mayor from 1998 to 2007.

Mamac said Lazatin’s action, backed with the non-opposition of then-Balibago Barangay Captain Noel Flores and the late Malabanias Barangay Captain Thelmo Lalic, has solidified the then-mayor’s gerrymandering move.

Lalic, a known close supporter of Lazatin, gained from the gerrymandering with the acquisition of new territory for his barangay which included SM City Clark.

Mamac said that when SM City Clark was opened in May 2006, it acquired all its permits from Barangay Balibago.

Until now, Mamac said, SM Clark tenants unknowingly go to the Balibago Barangay Hall, less than a kilometer from SM, to get their permits only to be directed to Barangay Malabanias which is located in the downtown area or about 5 kilometers from SM.

Mamac said it was also during Lazatin’s time when Barangay Pulung Maragul, located at the eastern border of Balibago, also gained the latter’s territory including Don Bonifacio Subdivision.

Just recently, the raging controversy over the location of the Capilion Corp. Pte. Ltd. project at the main gate of the Clark Freeport revealed that SM City Clark and the Bayanihan Park are actually excluded from the free port by virtue of Republic Act (RA) 9400 which amended RA 7227, or the Bases Conversion and Development Act.

RA 9400 provides that the 22-hectare commercial area that is now occupied by SM City Clark and another 7.5 hectares covering the Bayanihan Park are excluded from the free port. Armed with this information, Mamac said he intends to reclaim his barangay’s lost territory.

He said RA 7160, or the Local Government Code of the Philippines, states that the territory of a barangay cannot be altered without a corresponding city ordinance and a plebiscite. The law states that as the basic political unit, “the barangay may be created, divided, merged, abolished, or its boundary substantially altered, by law or by an ordinance of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan or Sangguniang Panlungsod, subject to approval by a majority of the votes cast in a plebiscite to be conducted by the Comelec…shall be necessary.”

Mamac, who won his first term in 2007, said he is now studying his next move to reclaim Balibago’s lost territories. According to the law, “a municipality may be created, divided, merged, abolished, or its boundary substantially altered only by an act of Congress and subject to the approval by a majority of the votes cast in a plebiscite to be conducted by the Comelec…” The law also states that “a municipality may be created if it has an average annual income, as certified by the provincial treasurer, of at least P2.5 million for the last two consecutive years based on the 1991 constant prices; a population of at least 25,000 inhabitants as certified by the National Statistics Office; and a contiguous territory of at least 50 square kilometers as certified by the Lands Management Bureau.”

Barangay Balibago has a daytime population of 45,000 to 48,000, which doubles up during nighttime and weekends since it is the main entertainment district not only of the city but the province, as well. The infamous Fields Avenue is located in the village.

Balibago’s land area has been reduced to only 160 hectares even as it presently hosts majority of the hotels in the city, Pagcor’s Casino Filipino, hundreds of restaurants, banks, malls and upscale residential subdivisions with an annual income of P23 million as of last year. Barangay Balibago has a higher income and population than at least six other Pampanga towns—Santo Tomas, Sasmuan, Santa Rita, Santa Ana, San Luis and San Simon.

CDC: P7-B Clark project to benefit local economy

• Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2015/08/08/cdc-p7-b-clark-project-benefit-local-economy-423463
• Saturday, August 8, 2015

By Reynaldo G. Navales

CLARK FREEPORT -- The Clark Development Corporation (CDC) stated that the P7-billion Clark Green Frontier (CGF), which is being handled by Singapore-based Capilion Corporation Incorporated, will benefit the local economy.

This was gleaned in a Question and Answer (Q&A) released by the state-owned corporation in a bid to inform the public about the mixed-use facility, which will be constructed at the freeport’s main entrance.

The CDC said that CGF’s employment capacity is massive with 75,000 projected jobs at its peak in about five years.

This is the largest job generation by a single firm in Clark and probably in the whole Central Luzon, according to CDC.

This is contrary to the claims of Councilor Max Sangil and Pinoy Gumising Ka Movement (PGKM) head Ruperto Cruz that the giant commercial facility will compete with local businesses and hurt the local economy, the CDC said.

The CDC disclosed that “the government also stands to benefit enormously in the payment of lease which rates are believed to be the highest for any investment projects inside the Clark Freeport.”

There are also direct benefits from payment of Gross Income Earned (GIE) as required of Clark locators, according to CDC.

For host communities, CDC said there are also actual benefits from payment of business and other permits, income and other forms of taxes.

On the traffic issue, CDC bared that it requires Capilion to submit a Traffic Impact Assessment (TIA).

Capilion has commissioned the University of the Philippine (UP) National Center for Transportation Studies (UPNCTS) to prepare the required TIA.

The UPNCTS will work closely with CDC regarding the preparation of this requirement.

The traffic impact assessment will be prepared in consultation with the Angeles City government. It will include an analysis of traffic situation in the project’s various stages of development.

The TIA will also identify locations that would be prone to traffic congestion or conflict points, the CDC stated.

The study is also expected to recommend remedial measures to overcome potential traffic problems.

Sangil earlier said that the facility will create monstrous traffic jam in the area particularly during rush hours and peak seasons.

Trader to bring more Japanese firms to Clark

• Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2015/08/07/trader-bring-more-japanese-firms-clark-423344
• Friday, August 7, 2015

By Reynaldo G. Navales

CLARK FREEPORT -- A top executive of a Japanese firm here expressed his intention to bring more Japanese firms in Clark.

Clark Premiere Industrial Park Inc. (CPIP) president and Chief Executive Officer Hiroyasu Yaguchi cited the Freeports' potential in terms of business and tourism.

Yaguchi said the industrial park is willing to contribute to Clark by enticing Japanese investors to put up manufacturing plants inside the Freeport.

The effort is part of an understanding forged between the Business Development Group of Clark Development Corporation and the Japan Economic Trade Organization (JETRO) Network.

Japanese firms occupy the 8.1-hectare industrial park.

CPIP accommodates four hi-tech industries including Nanox Philippines Inc., L & K Industries Philippines Inc., Aderans Philippines Inc. and SMK Electronics Phils. Corp.

JETRO spearheads the investment promotion by receiving appointment requests and providing comprehensive information on the Philippines' investment climate.

It also acts as support center by accommodating inquiries and application for tenancy.

Aside from the investment incentives, high quality work force and strategic location of the Philippines as a business destination makes Clark an attractive investment destination, Yaguchi said.

Yaguchi said CPIP is aiming on reinventing innovative solutions to help Japanese companies relocate in Clark.

He added that this could be done through building the necessary environment such as easy business registration processing and full assistance until the firm is well established.

Yaguchi added that they would continue to assist Japanese companies in entering the Philippines, especially in Clark.

CPIP provides multi-faceted support, including one-stop services, as the first contact point for overseas companies interested in expansion to the Philippines.

Operating for more than 17 years, CPIP has its domestic office located at Industrial Estate 5, M. A. Roxas Highway, Clark Freeport Zone.

700 children benefit from retirees organization's medical mission

• Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2015/08/05/700-children-benefit-retirees-organizations-medical-mission-422897
• Wednesday, August 5, 2015

By Reynaldo G. Navales

ANGELES CITY -- More than 700 children in Barangay Capaya and other villages in this city benefitted from a medical mission conducted by the Returned and Services League (RSL) of Australia Angeles City Chapter recently.

Barangay Balibago Chairman Rodelio Mamac, coordinator of RSL Angeles City Chapter, said that they also distributed free medicines and vitamins to the kids.

Aside from this, the RSL officers and members led by their president lawyer James Curtis Smith (father of actress Anne Curtis) donated wheelchairs to at least five physically challenged children.

The beneficiaries include Raven Lee Gahoy, 5, of Capaya 2; Jamaica Faith Valencia, 5, of Pineda Compound Capaya 2; Zach Singian, 9, of LNS Subdivision Barangay Santo Domingo; Justine Mallari, 10, of Magsaysay Street Capaya 2; and Daniel Cano, 7 of Purok 3 Capaya 1.

Mamac said the group was able to extend assistance to children with illnesses and disabilities from several barangays in the city.

Other selected villages, including EPZA and Cutcut and others, were among the venues of the RSL’s monthly medical mission, according to Mamac.

The organization is committed to provide medical assistance to help the communities of Angeles City and Pampanga, the village chief added.

"We have donated wheelchairs, hearing aids, medicines and vitamins to indigent children. We will continue our program that will benefit our less fortunate constituents," Mamac said.

4 fake NBI agents yield 6 guns, 94 live ammo

• Source: http://www.journal.com.ph/news/provincial/4-fake-nbi-agents-yield-6-guns-94-live-ammo
• Tuesday, August 4, 2015

By Bernard Galang

ANGELES City -- Five pistols, several magazines and 94 live ammunition for calibers .45 and .40 firearms were seized from four bogus National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agents who were arrested by the Pampanga Criminal Investigation and Detection Team (CIDT) and city police here last Monday night.

Chief Insp. Ferdinand Aguilar, CIDT head, identified the suspects as Edgar Allan Rivera, Jover Roque, Lito Valdez and Teofilo Soriano Jr., who all claimed to be NBI agents assigned in Nueva Ecija.

The four armed men were arrested after the Pampanga CIDT received information that a group of alleged NBI agents had been roaming around the Korean Town in Bgy. Malabanias here and randomly inspecting establishments for violation of the Anti-Human Trafficking Law.

Aguilar said he was informed that the suspects had allegedly been extorting money and drinking alcoholic beverages in different bars without paying their bills.

CIDT operatives, along with elements of Police Station 4, rushed to the Hwangjini KTV Bar to accost the suspects but they were no longer there. After an hour, the operatives received a call that the armed men were at Don’t Tell Mama KTV Bar and proceeded there.

The operatives chanced upon Rivera, who tried but failed to flee. He yielded a cal. .45 Colt pistol and seven live ammunition but could not present documents for the firearm.

Minutes later, his companions went out of the bar and introduced themselves to the lawmen as NBI agents.

The suspects were then brought to the CIDT office. Upon verification with the NBI Regional Office in the City of San Fernando, it was learned that they were not members of the NBI so they were detained.

Police confiscated a cal. .40 Taurus pistol with 12 live ammunition from Roque; a cal. .45 Norinco and unbranded .45 pistols and 54 live ammunition from Valdez; and cals. .45 Llama and .45 Armscor and 33 live ammunition from Soriano.

The suspects, who were using a maroon Mitsubishi Adventure (DVG-499), are facing charges for violation of Republic Act 10591 or the Comprehensive Law on Firearms and Ammunition of 2013 and for usurpation of authority.

SC’s mobile courts free 8,500 inmates

• Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/709866/scs-mobile-courts-free-8500-inmates
• Monday, August 3, 2015 1:47 am

By Tonette Orejas (Inquirer Central Luzon)

ANGELES CITY—Some 8,500 inmates from various jails in the country had been freed through hearings in mobile courts under the Enhanced Justice on Wheels (EJOW) of the Supreme Court (SC) since its launch in December 2004, Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo said on Friday.

Their release saved the government P552,000 daily in food allowance alone, said Del Castillo, chair of the SC’s committee on EJOW. The program was started during the term of former Chief Justice Reynato Puno.

Jayron Bacusmo was the first inmate acquitted by a mobile court here on Friday, during EJOW’s second visit in Angeles City since 2011. Bacusmo, 28, a father of three, was cleared of illegal drugs possession after staying in jail for almost six years.

He shed tears when a clerk read Executive Judge Omar Viola’s decision finding him innocent. “I’d like to see my kids in Bicol,” said Bacusmo, a native of Mabalacat City in Pampanga.

The cases of 65 male detainees and 13 female inmates were set to be resolved on Friday, Viola said.

The Supreme Court has nine buses that double up as mobile courts around the country.

Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan, a human rights lawyer during martial law, said EJOW helps ease decongestion at the Angeles City jail. At least 65 local inmates were released through EJOW in 2011.

The facility, run by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology here, hosts 1,957 men and 306 women, said wardens Supt. Florante Nisperos and Chief Insp. Rebecca Tiguelo.

The jail, good for only 250 prisoners, is among the most congested in the country.

“EJOW is a big help in decongesting jails and in expediting [resolution of] cases,” Nisperos told the Inquirer.

Del Castillo said EJOW also provided medical and dental aid to 20,358 inmates and gave legal assistance to 5,748 detainees.

KDF offers free cleft lip, palate operations

• Source: http://punto.com.ph/News/Article/23110/Volume-9-No-8/Headlines/KDF-offers-free-cleft-lip-palate-operations
• Sunday, August 2, 2015 9:15 pm

By Ashley Manabat

CLARK FREEPORT – The Kapampangan Development Foundation (KDF) is offering free cleft lip and cleft palate operation for babies and children aged six months to two years old.

KDF Executive Director Sylvia M. Ordoñez said patients in Luzon affected by the birth defects can go to the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) Gymnasium on August 5 for the final screening and scheduling of surgical operations on board the US Navy Mercy Ship.

Ordonez also said free transportation to Subic will be provided to patients and their care-givers or companions during the media forum dubbed “Inn the News CAMI” organized by the Capampangan in Media, Inc. (CAMI) in cooperation with the Clark Development Corp. (CDC), the Social Security System (SSS) and the Holiday Inn at the hotel’s Molave room last Friday.

Patients and their companions can also go to the KDF-Jesus A. Datu Medical Center (JADMC) in Barangay San Vicente, Bacolor, Pampanga on Aug. 5 for free transportation, she added.

May Shilton, past president of the Rotary Club of Mabalacat and overall mission coordinator, said the KDF can also be accessed through telephone numbers 045-4580027; 0917563314 and 09998847060 for further inquiries.

Indigent patients and their care-giver/companions will also be sheltered for free at the SBMA Convention Center before and after the surgery, Ordonez said.

She clarified that the mission is giving priority to cleft lip and cleft palate patients aged six months to two years old “because those operated at an early age have a better chance of recovering their ability to speak 100 percent.”

Shilton said the mission is ready to provide surgical operation on for at least 200 patients aboard the US Navy Mercy Ship presently winding up a medical mercy mission in Roxas City.

Ordonez said “this is the reason why we’re asking everybody to spread this news to help as many individuals as possible.”

She also encouraged older and other cleft lip and cleft palate patients to register for free surgery that will be undertaken at the cleft lip/palate center that the KDF will start operating this September at the JADMC.

This center, the first of its kind in Asia-Pacific, will continue to be supported by Operation Smile, Ordonez said.

Next month’s mission for cleft lip and cleft palate patients is a joint undertaking of the KDF, Operation Smile, the Rotary Club and SBMA.

Angeles council lauds AUF's Confucius Institute

• Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/opinion/2015/08/01/angeles-council-lauds-aufs-confucius-institute-422205
• Saturday, August 1, 2015

By Ian Ocampo Flora

ANGELES CITY -- The Angeles City Council has approved Resolution 7211 as it moved to recognize the contributions of Angeles University Foundation-Confucius Institute (AUF-CI) in promoting friendly relations with China and the Philippines through education, culture and the arts.

Also recognized in the resolution were AUF-CI's Philippine Director Dr. Lourdes Tanhueco-Nepomuceno and Chinese Director Dr. Zhang Shifang. The resolution said that AUF-CI and the two directors have brought prestige to Angeles City through their endeavors.

The resolution, sponsored by Councilors Bryan Nepomuceno and Max Sangil, said that AUF-CI has spearheaded the inclusion of Chinese Mandarin in the Philippine basic education system since 2011 as well as the continuing training of local teachers of Chinese mandarin and the development and adoption of teaching materials customized for Filipino students.

The AUF-CI has been cited by the Confucius Institute Headquarters or Hanban as one of the Most Outstanding Confucius Institutes in the World for two years, 2011 and 2013. In 2014, the AUF-CI was named Overseas Chinese Test center of the year by Hanban.

In January 2013, the Department of Education officially designated the AUF-CI as the Center for Nurturing and Training Local Filipino Chinese Teachers.

Copies of the resolution honoring the contributions of AUF-CI were presented to the institute’s officers recently.