Thursday, November 22, 2007

Kidnapping suspect

In the middle of last year a certain Dra. Puresa B. Radomes from Aranas Samar approach our Jurong field reporter looking for accommodation.

The field reporter called the Biliran Chronicle Information Center (BCIC) concerning the whereabouts of the subject. After the specifics info, Ms Puresa Radomes and May Reposar or Mayang arrived in our field reporter’s residence accompanied by Dr. Lolito Puno and a certain Engr. Ronnie Mehejia.

They reside for a week until relationship soured following Dr. Lolito borrowed $100.dollar from Engr. Ronnie without pay.

Dr. Lolito and Dra. Purisa left Singapore however our field reporter called the BCIC office on the possibilities of Puresa’s return after she receives calls from her.

For more information call our field reporter’s (Iren & Bobby) cell number: +6591479034/+6594574955 or email her: lam_nena@yahoo.com for info and comments.

Susmariosep! …It was reported that Dra. Puresa was assaulted by Dr. Lolito after the NAPOLCOM Biliran director Atty. Lolita Casas Nueve found their adulterous relationship. It was reported that Dra. Puresa is heading back to Singapore to attain the Asean summit with Gloria Arroyo and her ilk. ..huh? He he he he

In another development, our BCIC film editor’s office receive information from our field reporter in Bedok that the former board member of Biliran Atty Edgar Egano called her asking the whereabouts of her sister in-law.

A hearsay report added that Atty Egano’s sister in-law was kidnapped by a certain Ronnie Ochea and the suspect had keep the woman in Geylang Hotel.

The Biliran Chronicle Investigation Bureau (BCIB), conduct further investigation regarding the reported kidnapping however they found out that the reports are misleading.
The subject manhunt was found in a Hotel where the former vice Governor Charlie Chan and Atty. Egano resides.

The subject is a tourist and was not a victim of terrorism, brother Emet added.

Meanwhile in Dagupan City policemen arrested and charged a tricycle driver for allegedly raping and kidnapping his 13-year-old cousin.

Inspector Leo Llamas, chief of the Dagupan police's intelligence and investigation unit, identified the suspect as Jun-Jun Callanta, 24, tricycle driver and a resident of Sitio Caricaan, Callejon Extension, Pogo Chico in the city.

Callanta's relatives Marivic Castillo, Jocelyn Castillo and Argene Fernandez were also charged with kidnapping for conniving with him in abducting the girl.

Llamas said they first filed abduction charges before the City Prosecutor's Office against the suspects but the prosecutor elevated the case to kidnapping, a non-bailable offense.
SUMPAYANAN PA!

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Rolly Borrinaga’s brief…by boy rigo farma

Posted by BANGKAL NEWS at 7:10 PM - Saturday, August 11, 2007
http://bankaw.blogspot.com/

Rolly was born to a simple family in the eastern part of the country. He had 3 brothers and 4 sisters lived with their parents in barangay Padre Inocentes Naval Biliran. His father worked as a policeman who doesn’t know how to walk in military way and the family was accused of hereditary madness and that his father’s salary is not enough, so he takes-up scholarship. And it was that lack of extravagance in Rollys lives which helped shape him into a person he is today.

With no television or radio in the house their family would spend their evenings reading and talking about life and their problems. It was from that He developed hatred among his hearth. It was a tough beginning but he wouldn't trade it for anything.

Rolly and the siblings lived in a simple way of life, throughout his teenage years and discovered he had a real knack for being an ideologist and activist. He found himself a responsible man for the development of his knowledge. But when he earned that knowledge from the coconut tree he becomes more aggressive in dealing with his principles.

He got into an achievement which he is proud for; and began to yearn against people who he said “that oppressed them.” Deep down he knew that one day this people will suffer what he longed for.He struck out for his own seeking greater knowledge about his self-restraint and the world around him.

He studied religions, and upgrade his knowledge on Timothy Mc Veigh’s Oklahoma’s bombing thru his associate Philip C. Ting who lately destroy the Bankaw website. His specialty is science which he uses to acquire job as UP professor in Palo Leyte.

He takes up journalism to cover-up his hereditary madness and dig’s some Balangiga fiction stories to boast his hard earned knowledge.

Rolly can fought but cowardly and sometimes struggling against insurmountable odds, making alliances with some of the most unlikely people you could imagine. During the fought for Biliran separation from Leyte, Rolly and his team fought behind door to avoid confronting Agta who is serving a jail term.

Rolly accused the opposition and some political personalities as pretenders and back biters. But he realized he had to get back to his roots and with the help of his wife, a quack doctor in Jaro and the support of his relathieves, Rolly decided to try to change his personality by helping rather than poisoning.
It was only four years ago when the world wide web started making news and Rolly worked as an underpaid reporter when it struck me: the web could be used to help people and make this world a better, more peaceful place however Rolly and his megalomaniac ilk make it their place of his disappointment. And thus, ask Rolly! was born. The rest can be read into Rolly’s! Website.
It's all there and free.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Anthony Villo’s brutal murder by Christy Delis Ramagos

Posted February 04 2006 / http://reporter88.wordpress.com/page/3/

Naval/Biliran - More or less 20 years ago the brutal murder of Antonio Villo were remembered when he was whack and smashed to death by his known-assailants. He beg for his life and screamed for help however, the assailants never give mercy for unknown reasons and nobody rescued him even his brother heard the commotion outside their residence.

Anthony came home from a drinking spree not knowing that there was an earlier fight ensued by the member of his fraternity in his neighbor’s vicinity. When the other group came back to take revenge against the group of Anthony’s neighbor whose members of his fraternity, he was mistaken as one of them. He was mercilessly attacked. During the attacked, one member of the attacking group was also seriously hurt and landed in the nearby hospital.

He was brutally attacked and bit to death by more or less four known-culprits. His body was dragged for about 50 meters away from his residence. The following morning his parents were shocked to discovered his motionless body. The extreme violence of the attack is indicative of the cruelty of the perpetrators which one of them was a judge’s brother. Another brother of a policeman was in the scene when the crime was committed.

The suspects were identified however all of them were set free without bringing them to court. The murder charge against the culprits was not heard due to victim’s financial incapacity. The court case was closed without fair trial but cut-pain of the incident is still fresh.

The death of Anthony is one of a milestone of Naval Biliran injustice system while the victims cannot hire legal representative because of financial incapability. And it was equally known that Philippine justice system is generally inadequate, incompetent and hopeless how much more in the Biliran province, the report said.-naval-

Monday, October 22, 2007

Rape suspect flees from newly repaired town jail

http://archive.inquirer.net/view.php?db=1&story_id=94342
First posted 14:44:10 (Mla time) October 14, 2007
Orlando Dinoy Mindanao Bureau

HAGONOY, Davao del Sur--A rape suspect has escaped from the newly renovated municipal jail here by sawing-off the iron bars of the window of his cell.

Senior Insp. Daniel Alinas, town police chief, said Wilfredo Del Pilar, 40, and a resident of this town, had been in jail for about a month when he escaped on Friday evening.

Alinas said the jail guard on duty has been placed under investigation investigated while an operation was launched to find the missing prisoner.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Watched list

1. Dr. Annalisa Enrile, a U.S. citizen and assistant clinical professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work and national chair of Gabriela Network (GABNet) USA, when she was barred from boarding her return flight to Los Angeles on Aug. 5 because her name was on the Bureau of Immigration’s “watch list” and “hold-departure order” list.
2. Ninotchka Rosca (a critically acclaimed novelist and known Filipino activist since the Marcos dictatorship) and
3. Judith Mirkinson (a long-time women and human rights activist and researcher on international laws) who also attended the conference, were also in the list.
4. American lawyer Brian Campbell who was refused entry into the Philippines to attend the ASEAN counter-summits activities upon arriving at the Ninoy Aquino international airport. Campbell was among the foreign participants to a human rights fact-finding mission to look into the extrajudicial killings.
5. Former U.S. Attorney-General Ramsey Clark, writer and academic Michael Chossudovsky of Canada, 2005 Right Livelihood (parallel Nobel Prize)
6. Awardees Irene Fernandez of Malaysia (also a juror in the recent Permanent People’s Tribunal [PPT] Second Session on the Philippines),
7. Norwegian diplomat Oystein Tveter (also a juror in the recent PPT session on the Philippines which found the Bush and Arroyo governments guilty of crimes against the Filipino people), acclaimed
8. novelist Ninotchka Rosca and;
9. Rev. Barry Naylor of the Anglican Church in the UK. Rev. and was the spokesperson of the International Solidarity Mission of August 2005 that looked into the spate of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.

Anti-Terrorism Council:
Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez,
National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales,
Cesar Garcia of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA).
Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr.

Sunday, August 26, 2007

8 kids psychologically tortured by military

By Julie Alipala - Mindanao Bureau
ZAMBOANGA CITY--Eight children, ages 4 to 16 years old, were allegedly subjected to psychological torture by government soldiers in Indanan, Sulu.
Bai Racma Imam, secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DSWD-ARMM), was furious after receiving reports of the arrest and psychological torture of the children. "[These] big boys are not just committing human rights violations, they are also committing child abuse," Imam said.
She was referring to members of the Joint Special Operations Force under Brig. Ruperto Pabustan as the "big boys."
Imam said she was trying to know the whereabouts of the children and their parents "so charges can be filed against those who did the abuse." And, Imam said, the soldiers involved "should be educated on human rights and child's rights."
Temojen Tulawie of the Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society (CBCC), said the children were arrested with their parents from their homes in Indanan town in Sulu on August 19.
All eight children and six other adults were brought to Camp Teodulo Bautista, main base of Task Force Comet, 104th Army Brigade and Joint Special Operations Force in the capital town of Jolo, Tulawie said.
Tulawie said CBC took custody of the children and women after their release and turnover to Governor Abdusakur Tan a day after the arrest. "That's when we discovered their ordeal."
A 13-year-old girl (name withheld) told CBCC members that she and two other children witnessed how soldiers tortured their fathers. "Tinutukan ng baril sa ulo ang tatay nila sa harap nila mismo habang napapaluha ang mga tatay nila," Tulawie said. [They witnessed guns being pointed at the heads of their crying fathers.]
The girl also described how the soldiers treated them. "Tinutukan din sila ng patalim sa leeg nila kasama yung 6 at 4 years old na mga bata. Naka-bonnet mask ang mga sundalo. Tinanong sila kung nasaan ang baril ng tatay nila at pinagsabihan pa sila na maghukay na ng kanilang libingan," Tulawie added. [A jungle knife was thrust against the necks of the children, even the six and four-year-olds. The soldiers were wearing bonnet masks. The kids were asked where their fathers’ guns were being hidden and they were told to dig up their graves.]
Tulawie said the victims, out of fear, immediately left Sulu. "All of them had left Sulu. The children stopped schooling because of trauma," he said.
Jose Manuel Mamauag, regional director of the Commission of Human Rights, said they were still gathering information regarding the the alleged arrest and psychological torture, "but what the soldiers committed, if found true, is psychological torture."
But Maj. Gen. Reuben Rafael of Task Force Comet, in a phone interview, denied allegations that there was torture, physical or psychological, on those arrested.
But Rafael confirmed that there were arrests during the implementation of a gun ban in the province, and that those arrested were only interrogated and released later.
He, however, admitted that five persons remained in their custody "because they are suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf Group."

THE PHILIPPINE COMMUNISM

Our main problem in this country is the problem of social justice.
How are we to ensure that in this country whoever can work and wishes to work will find work, and will receive just compensation for his work, so that he can support himself and his family by his work as befits the basic needs and dignity of human beings?
How we are to ensure that the leadership elite of this country will have an effective concern for the basic needs of the vast majority of our people, and will employ the vast resources of which they have effective control not in wasteful consumption, but in constructive agricultural and industrial development beneficial not to a few but to all.

In short: how are we to establish in this country, so long exploited by both foreign and native oppressors, a society of justice and peace, based on cordial cooperation among all ranks and levels?
To this crucial question the Communist Party of the Philippines had a clear and definite reply; a set of goal, a plan, and a timetable.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Saturday, August 11, 2007

move on...

The most precious thing anyone, man or business, anybody or anything, can have the goodwill of others and you are only good yourself, but the cause of goodness in others..

Saturday, August 04, 2007

Philippines 'on the brink of war'

By Veronica Pedrosa and Marga Ortigas in the Philippines
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CDD9EC9F-0236-453C-951B-981EA641A947.htm
The southern Philippines could be on the brink of a new wave of violence. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the government are preparing in case the four-year-old ceasefire breaks down.

Monday, June 25, 2007

NIT’s application for university status now in Senate – Dr. Genson

Posted By RODRIGO S. VICTORIA, PIA-Biliran; March 21, 2006
NAVAL, Biliran – The application for university status of Naval Institute of Technology (NIT) appears brighter after several years of delay in the House of Representatives as it is now in the Senate, said Dr. Edita S. Genson, President of the college.
In a letter sent to the different national government agencies in the province of Biliran, Dr. Genson informed that the application for conversion of NIT into Biliran State University (Bilsu) authored by Congressman Gerry Boy Espina, Jr. of the Lone District of Biliran has already been approved by the House of Representatives through House Bill No. 4918.
House Bill 4918 is entitled “An Act Converting Naval Institute of Technology in the Municipality of Naval, Province of Biliran into a State University to be known as the Biliran State University, Integrating therewith the Biliran National Agricultural College in the Municipality of Biliran and Appropriating Funds Therefore”.
Dr. Genson said that the college’s application for university status is now in the Senate Committee on Education chaired by Senator Juan M. Flavier.
It was also mentioned in the letter the record and performance in the field of education of the college that would warrant the conversion of NIT into a state university such as the consistent rating of Noteworthy and Very Satisfactory of the College of Maritime every year since its International Standard Operation (ISO) Certification by the Det Norkes Veritas (DNV) on Rules on Maritime Academies in the year 2000 based on its findings on the annual DNV Surveillance Audit and other educational achievements of the college.
In order to further strengthen the application of NIT for a university status, Dr. Genson sought the support of the different sectors and high ranking government officials in the province of Biliran and region 8 by signing an endorsement paper to be submitted to Senate President Franklin M. Drilon for the early passage of the bill into law in the Senate.
Meanwhile, in a previous interview with Congressman Gerry Boy Espina in one of his visits here, he said that converting NIT into a state university is his top priority being the representative of the people in Biliran province.
Congressman Espina said that he only continued what was started by his father, former Congressman Gerardo S. Espina, Sr. now mayor of Naval, who also worked hard for the conversion of NIT into a state university.
The young representative further said that the realization of the university status of NIT is the biggest thing he can contribute for the improvement of the educational status of the Biliranons and which can also contribute to the economic development of the province as a whole.

Sunday, May 20, 2007

To Help Student "Rediscover Hope", Teachers Should:

by: Chynthia Almansor Naval Correspondence

Help student believe they are competent, present tasks that are not too easy. Do not be cruel to the student, actively involves student in the learning process. Avoid student involves in business selling & buying tickets, personally demonstrate, in obvious way, a genuine energy and love of the subject and for teaching. Communicate to students that classroom activities and goals are real and not gimmicks, Present lessons that are fun, enjoyable and avoid any discrimination among student. Welcome student into school and classroom, help student feel that they belong in school. And Make personal connection with student and pay attention to, and plan for motivation.

The teacher fosters the child's individuality, security and self-respect. Emphasis is on utilizing the student potential to resolve his or her emotional conflicts, and support the child's movement towards emotional adjustment and not by assaulting and rejecting. Psychodynamic theory is the best to determine a dynamic intraphychic relationship between teachers and student.

Aggression and violent acts between teachers and student become more frequent in public schools. Because lack of teachers self-discipline. Some student become frustrated, defensive, followed by aggressive act and the student regain self-control and have an impact on student future.

In U.S., gun shooting in school premises is harsher and the subject is a schoolteacher's. We hope this will not transpire in Naval/Biliran province.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

College gunman disturbed teachers, classmates

BY: MSNBC and NBC News THRU CEZAR CABANILLAS

The gunman who shot 32 people to death before killing himself at a Virginia university was described Tuesday as a depressed and deeply disturbed young man whose “grotesque” creative writing projects led a professor to refer him for psychological counseling.
A day after the man, a 23-year-old senior English major, carried out the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, President Bush joined dozens of state and campus leaders to bring comfort to the students, faculty and staff of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. “This is a day of sadness for our entire nation,” the president said.
Thirty-three people were confirmed dead after the bloodbath Monday, including the gunman, whom police identified as Cho Seung-Hui (pronounced Choh Suhng-whee), of Centreville, Va., a resident alien who immigrated to the United States from South Korea in 1992. Nine students remained in hospitals in stable condition Tuesday, MSNBC-TV’s Tucker Carlson reported.
Col. Steven Flaherty, superintendent of the Virginia State Police, said investigators searched Cho’s room in Harper Residence Hall and took away numerous documents. He would not describe the nature of the documents but said there was no evidence that Cho had left behind a suicide note.
The Washington Post and The New York Times, citing law enforcement sources, reported on their Web sites Tuesday night that investigators had found a rambling and somewhat incoherent note in Cho’s dorm room. “It’s sort of a manifesto” attacking rich, spoiled students, one of the sources told The Post.
A second note was found near Cho’s body, also containing obscenities and denunciations of “rich kids,” the source told The Post.
It could not immediately be determined when the notes were written.
In a court affidavit seeking the search warrant, investigators said that when they discovered Cho’s body Monday in the classroom building where most of his victims were killed, they also found a “bomb threat note ... directed at engineering school department buildings.”
Police said Tuesday that there had been bomb threats on campus over the past two weeks but that they had not determined a link to the shootings.
After the shootings, all campus entrances were closed, and classes were canceled for the rest of the week.
Parents
ignored administrators’ requestst to stay away for now and flooded into Blacksburg to be with their children, NBC News’ Don Teague reported. Every hotel room within miles of the campus was booked Tuesday.
Man alarmed instructors, classmates
A Virginia Tech professor told NBC News that Cho’s creative writing was so disturbing that she referred him to the school’s counseling service, but he would not go. The professor, Lucinda Roy, the English Department’s director of creative writing, would not comment at length on Cho’s writings, saying only that in general they “seemed very angry.” “I kept saying, ‘Please go to counseling; I will take you to counseling,’ because he was so depressed,” Roy said. But “I was told [by counselors] that you can’t force anybody to go over ... so their hands were tied, too.”
Fellow students in a playwriting class with Cho also noticed the dark and disturbing nature of his compositions. “His writing, the plays, were really morbid and grotesque,” Stephanie Derry, a senior English major, told the campus newspaper, The Collegiate Times. “I remember one of them very well. It was about a son who hated his stepfather. In the play, the boy threw a chainsaw around and hammers at him. But the play ended with the boy violently suffocating the father with a Rice Krispy treat,” Derry said.
Otherwise, Cho was a young man who apparently left little impression in the Virginia Tech community. Few of his fellow residents of Harper Hall said they knew the gunman, who kept to himself. “He can’t have been an outgoing kind of person,” Meredith Daly, 19, of Danville, Va., told MSNBC.com’s Bill Dedman.
In Centreville, the suburb of Washington where Cho’s family lived in an off-white, two-story townhouse, people who knew Cho concurred that he kept to himself. “He was very quiet, always by himself,” said Abdul Shash, a neighbor. Shash said Cho spent a lot of his free time playing basketball and would not respond if someone greeted him. He described the family as quiet.
Rod Wells, a postal worker, said that characterization of Cho did not fit the man’s parents, who worked at a dry cleaners. He described them as “always polite, always kind to me, very quiet, always smiling. Just sweet, sweet people.” “I talk to particularly everybody here,” Wells told NBC News. “So I guess nobody had any intimation that he was like that. I don’t think the parents did, because they were quite the opposite.”

Sunday, February 11, 2007

I’m not going back to Naval/Biliran; I’m staying here for good

I came to this country because I was hungry.
To get my shirt dirty and pay my dues, And I know I’m not you.
I wasn’t born here, without the fear of not feeding my family.
Some people can’t stand to see me walk around the city,
But I’m not the enemy they paint me out to be.
I work more than nine to five to survive,
I slave for twelve hour days to pay the rent.
To put smiles on my children’s faces.
To send my relatives money in different places.

My husband's a chamber maid, Making less than minimum wage.
But this is our way to go, We work harder than any citizen we know
Because we’ve seen worse, We were cursed, Brought up in poverty.
I left my country to make a life better for my family,
I don’t know why they so scared of me.
We have furthered a society, And we do it quietly.
We work the jobs they won’t do, We clean a pools, and schools.
Pick the fruit that sits on a tables
We clean stables, Groom and lawn
And we’re still pawned by politics
They don’t want us to drive, Or further our lives
They just want us to work and barely get paid
No social security , No health care Just slavery in a bigger cage.
We help, Not hurt a country or a place,
Were lucky we don’t just get up and leave.
Because then they have to rake your own leaves,
They have to bus their own dishes
Make their own sandwiches
They never once mention their advantages,
They just want to get a bigger edge.
A larger slice of our small piece of pie,
But I’ve worked hard to be here, And I’ve done my work with pride.
I’m not going back to Naval/Biliran.
I’m staying here for good, unless you know a cheaper mechanic,
that can pop that dent out of their hood.

Ok nako bah? he he he
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