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CEBU DAILY NEWS | WEDNESDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2008
Fines to fight dengue in brgys pushed CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña is asking barangay officials to impose sanctions to those who would refuse to cooperate in their anti-dengue clean up campaign. Osmeña said he wanted the example of barangay Labangon followed especially by barangays that now have the most number of dengue cases in the city. The Labangon barangay council passed a resolution mandating the imposition of a fine of P500 for those who would refuse to cooperate in their clean up campaign. A copy of the resolution will soon be submitted to the city council for approval. “That's (the passage of the barangay resolution is) very good. That is how it is done in Singapore but only that the fine is $500,” said Osmeña. Councilor Gerardo Carillo, chairman of the City Disaster Coordinating Council (CDCC), said that the passage of a resolution alone cannot mandate the imposition of fines. He said there was a need for the Cebu City Council to pass an ordinance adopting the barangay Labangon resDENGUE 39
COPYAEDITOR
Dennis B. Singson
NEWS
44 MISSING LAMPPOSTS
Ø Fabmik rep: I gave TODAY’S WEATHER
O
O
23 C to 30 C
OK to remove them by Suzzane Salva-Alueta CHIEF OF REPORTERS
A
representative of Fabmik Construction and Equipment Corp. that installed the decorative lampposts during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit admitted authorizing the "uprooting" of the 44 lampposts in Mandaue City last year. Lawyer Romy Fuentes, a representative of Fabmik Construction and Equipment Corp., visited on Monday lawyer Augustinito Hermoso, legal officer of the Department of Public Works and Highways in Central Visayas (DPWH 7). Hermoso said Fuentes admitted authorizing removing the lampposts and apologized for not informing the DPWH of his order last year. “He went there on his own, ingon siya na it was under his direction and said he felt sorry that we were not informed when they removed the posts. I told him it was a blunder on their part,” Hermoso said. The missing posts were part of the 1,860 posts in- THE FOUNDATION of one of the 44 decorative lampposts (encircled) stalled by Fabmik and is all that is left at A.C. Cortes Avenue going to the old Mactan CDN FILE PHOTO Gampik Construction in Mandaue bridge as seen in this file photo 2006 for the 12th ASEAN Summit. P300,000 each, which are suspicion that they were T h e s e a re t h e s a m e subject of an investigation overpriced. posts, priced at P85,000 to by the Ombudsman on Hermoso said Fuentes'
explanation why they removed the lampposts, worth P9.8 million, was so long. “I had a hard time comprehending his reason.” But the Fabmik official maintained that the missing lampposts were allegedly not part of the contract by DPWH. Hermoso said he also found unbelievable the claim of Fuentes that the removal of the posts was done in August 2007. “Ac c o r d i n g t o h i m dugay na kuno gipangtangtang. But I doubt that statement because lately lang man na discover nga nawagtang ang posts,” he said. He said he told Fuentes that Fabmik should have informed the DPWH when they removed the posts. “I told him (Fuentes) that those were government property,” he said. Hermoso said he also intends to write Fabmik's main office in Manila because there is a possibility that the action of their representative in Cebu City is not sanctioned by the main office. The DPWH official said they will finalize their action against the contractor after they finish their inventory of the lampposts in Mandaue City next week. “We will act when we have all the facts,” Hermoso said.
METRO CEBU Partly cloudy to at times cloudy with isolated rainshowers
METRO MANILA Partly cloudy to at times cloudy with isolated rainshowers
M E T R O D AVA O Mostly cloudy with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms
SUNRISE
SUNSET
6:22 a.m.
5:58 p.m.
LOT TO 6 / 4 2
19 10 04 24 30 16 ANY ORDER
JACKPOT PRIZE: P14,003,726.40 S U E R T R E S MID-DAY DRAW RESULT
EVENING DRAW RESULT
880
776
INSIDE 1 Main News 8 Police 10 Across The Visayas 11 Opinion 15 Islands 16 Community 17 Puzzle and Sudoku 18 Life 20 Sci-Tech 21 Showbitz 22 Horoscope 27 Enterprise 29 Shipping Guide 30 Classified 32 World 34 Sports
Lawyers to launch ‘peso campaign’ for Lozada by Nilda L. Gallo REPORTER
LOZADA
CEBU City lawyers will not only give moral support to whistleblower Rodolfo Lozada Jr. but will give also financial support to the star witness of the government's scrapped controversial broadband deal. Lawyer Democrito Barcenas, one of the board members of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Cebu City Chapter, yesterday said
the group would launch a “peso campaign” for Lozada. He said that it is already the consensus of the city lawyers to give financial support to Lozada because he does not only need moral support in testifying the “raging graft and corruption” of the administration. A drop box will be placed at the IBP office inside the Capitol compound where lawyers could drop whatever amount they could give.
“We will give him financial support especially that he (Lozada) already returned the P500,000 given by the government,”said Barcenas. Barcenas, a human rights lawyer said that to formalize their “peso campaign” he would draft a resolutio. Barcenas said the IBP will write a check equivalent to the money earned from peso campaign to the so-called "sanctuary fund" for Lozada – AMRSP (Association of
Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines) Sanctuary Fund. “After four days, the AMRSP Sanctuary Fund to support witnesses like Jun Lozada has now reached 500K (P500,0000),” Sen. Francis Pangilinan said. At the first hearing of the Senate at which Lozada appeared, Pangilinan had requested for the setting up of such a fund for the witness’ legal defense. Aside from the IBP Cebu
City Chapter's peso campaign, the lawyer's group also condemned through a resolution the reported abduction of Lozada, at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Feb. 5 by policemen. Cebu City lawyers headed by Briccio Joseph Boholst described the alleged abduction as a “brazen display of naked power, a blatant violation of human rights, a LAWYERS 39
CEBU DAILY NEWS | WEDNESDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2008
Fines to fight dengue in brgys pushed CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña is asking barangay officials to impose sanctions to those who would refuse to cooperate in their anti-dengue clean up campaign. Osmeña said he wanted the example of barangay Labangon followed especially by barangays that now have the most number of dengue cases in the city. The Labangon barangay council passed a resolution mandating the imposition of a fine of P500 for those who would refuse to cooperate in their clean up campaign. A copy of the resolution will soon be submitted to the city council for approval. “That's (the passage of the barangay resolution is) very good. That is how it is done in Singapore but only that the fine is $500,” said Osmeña. Councilor Gerardo Carillo, chairman of the City Disaster Coordinating Council (CDCC), said that the passage of a resolution alone cannot mandate the imposition of fines. He said there was a need for the Cebu City Council to pass an ordinance adopting the barangay Labangon resDENGUE 39
COPYAEDITOR
Dennis B. Singson
NEWS
44 MISSING LAMPPOSTS
Ø Fabmik rep: I gave TODAY’S WEATHER
O
O
23 C to 30 C
OK to remove them by Suzzane Salva-Alueta CHIEF OF REPORTERS
A
representative of Fabmik Construction and Equipment Corp. that installed the decorative lampposts during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit admitted authorizing the "uprooting" of the 44 lampposts in Mandaue City last year. Lawyer Romy Fuentes, a representative of Fabmik Construction and Equipment Corp., visited on Monday lawyer Augustinito Hermoso, legal officer of the Department of Public Works and Highways in Central Visayas (DPWH 7). Hermoso said Fuentes admitted authorizing removing the lampposts and apologized for not informing the DPWH of his order last year. “He went there on his own, ingon siya na it was under his direction and said he felt sorry that we were not informed when they removed the posts. I told him it was a blunder on their part,” Hermoso said. The missing posts were part of the 1,860 posts in- THE FOUNDATION of one of the 44 decorative lampposts (encircled) stalled by Fabmik and is all that is left at A.C. Cortes Avenue going to the old Mactan CDN FILE PHOTO Gampik Construction in Mandaue bridge as seen in this file photo 2006 for the 12th ASEAN Summit. P300,000 each, which are suspicion that they were T h e s e a re t h e s a m e subject of an investigation overpriced. posts, priced at P85,000 to by the Ombudsman on Hermoso said Fuentes'
explanation why they removed the lampposts, worth P9.8 million, was so long. “I had a hard time comprehending his reason.” But the Fabmik official maintained that the missing lampposts were allegedly not part of the contract by DPWH. Hermoso said he also found unbelievable the claim of Fuentes that the removal of the posts was done in August 2007. “Ac c o r d i n g t o h i m dugay na kuno gipangtangtang. But I doubt that statement because lately lang man na discover nga nawagtang ang posts,” he said. He said he told Fuentes that Fabmik should have informed the DPWH when they removed the posts. “I told him (Fuentes) that those were government property,” he said. Hermoso said he also intends to write Fabmik's main office in Manila because there is a possibility that the action of their representative in Cebu City is not sanctioned by the main office. The DPWH official said they will finalize their action against the contractor after they finish their inventory of the lampposts in Mandaue City next week. “We will act when we have all the facts,” Hermoso said.
METRO CEBU Partly cloudy to at times cloudy with isolated rainshowers
METRO MANILA Partly cloudy to at times cloudy with isolated rainshowers
M E T R O D AVA O Mostly cloudy with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms
SUNRISE
SUNSET
6:22 a.m.
5:58 p.m.
LOT TO 6 / 4 2
19 10 04 24 30 16 ANY ORDER
JACKPOT PRIZE: P14,003,726.40 S U E R T R E S MID-DAY DRAW RESULT
EVENING DRAW RESULT
880
776
INSIDE 1 Main News 8 Police 10 Across The Visayas 11 Opinion 15 Islands 16 Community 17 Puzzle and Sudoku 18 Life 20 Sci-Tech 21 Showbitz 22 Horoscope 27 Enterprise 29 Shipping Guide 30 Classified 32 World 34 Sports
Lawyers to launch ‘peso campaign’ for Lozada by Nilda L. Gallo REPORTER
LOZADA
CEBU City lawyers will not only give moral support to whistleblower Rodolfo Lozada Jr. but will give also financial support to the star witness of the government's scrapped controversial broadband deal. Lawyer Democrito Barcenas, one of the board members of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Cebu City Chapter, yesterday said
the group would launch a “peso campaign” for Lozada. He said that it is already the consensus of the city lawyers to give financial support to Lozada because he does not only need moral support in testifying the “raging graft and corruption” of the administration. A drop box will be placed at the IBP office inside the Capitol compound where lawyers could drop whatever amount they could give.
“We will give him financial support especially that he (Lozada) already returned the P500,000 given by the government,”said Barcenas. Barcenas, a human rights lawyer said that to formalize their “peso campaign” he would draft a resolutio. Barcenas said the IBP will write a check equivalent to the money earned from peso campaign to the so-called "sanctuary fund" for Lozada – AMRSP (Association of
Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines) Sanctuary Fund. “After four days, the AMRSP Sanctuary Fund to support witnesses like Jun Lozada has now reached 500K (P500,0000),” Sen. Francis Pangilinan said. At the first hearing of the Senate at which Lozada appeared, Pangilinan had requested for the setting up of such a fund for the witness’ legal defense. Aside from the IBP Cebu
City Chapter's peso campaign, the lawyer's group also condemned through a resolution the reported abduction of Lozada, at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Feb. 5 by policemen. Cebu City lawyers headed by Briccio Joseph Boholst described the alleged abduction as a “brazen display of naked power, a blatant violation of human rights, a LAWYERS 39
