Tarlac BIR Exec Positive to Hit P900-M Goal

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

PANIQUI, Tarlac – The Revenue District Office No. 17-B Chief here of the Bureau of Internal Revenue was positive that she can hurdle the almost P900 million tax goal the government gave her to collect.

RDO Chief Maria Bernadette B. Mangaoang said that the almost P900 million assigned to her will be achievable at the end of this year after she exceeded the January to September collection.

“I am positive we can get the goal because as of January to September we exceeded it by 0.19 %,” she told this writer.

BIR BRASS. After the author's interview with BIR Revenue District Office 17-B Chief Maria Bernadette Mangaoang. He was impressed by Paniqui town, where RDO 17-B is based, Author thought the burgeoning town's commercial center was those located near SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SMPH) owned Walter Mart along the MacArthur Highway but was suprised that the center was several hundred meters away from the national highway.

Mangaoang said that RDO No. 17-B is a smaller office in terms of jurisdiction and collection target compared to the six revenue district offices in Region -1 where she came from.

She cited that her office has 40 personnel aside from her and out of it she has eight Examiners.

Assistant RDO -4 Chief Aldrin A Camba told recently this writer that RD0-4 that oversees two cities and 13 towns in central Pangasinan has 25 Examiners.  

Before Mangaoang became the top executive here of the BIR she was an Examiner, Chief Collector, and Assistant Revenue District Office in the Ilocos Region especially in the 44 towns four cities’ Pangasinan.

“My office covered 11 towns in Tarlac. Tarlac Province has two RDOs,” she stressed.

Residents Hit LGU for Lousy Xmas Preparation

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Serving his constituents does not mean he concentrates on the social services his administration renders but the joy he brings as seen on their faces like the ambitious Christmas faire he brings, Bayambang Mayor Cezar T. Quiambao told us reporters in the conference hall of the family owned Royal Mall before the opening and launching of the country’s biggest Animated Christmas Display.
The spectacular Display, which was declared last year as the biggest in the entire country, attracts thousands of people every night right at the municipal plaza.

Fancy and extravagant yuletide decorations initiated by local government units (LGUs) can be seen at the cities of Dagupan, Alaminos and San Carlos, and Mangatarem .

Because of the then lavish Christmas embellishment done by Mangaldan former mayor Bona Fe D. Parayno in her six years stint as chief executive, the administration of Mayor Marilyn Lambino  who poorly prepared for yuletide drew flak from residents who vented their ire to the mainstream and social media.

CHRISTMAS DISPLAYS. Extravagant Christmas lightning decorations at the plaza of San Carlos City, Pangasinan.

Sec. Dar to grace Urdaneta Fiesta this Sunday – So

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

URDANETA CITY – Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar will grace tomorrow (Sunday) the opening of the traditional city fiesta here, according to Urdaneta City Business Club (UCBC) President Rosendo So.

Department of Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar (third from left sitting) and pressure group Samahan ng Industriyang Agrikultura (SINAG) and Abono Party List Party Chairman Rosendo So (second from left) in a farmers related meeting.

Dar, according to Wikipidea, is a Filipino horticulturist and public servant who is the 45th Secretary of Agriculture of the Philippines. He was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte on August 5, 2019 to replace Emmanuel Piñol. Dar held the same position under President Joseph Estrada from 1998 to 1999.

President So met last Thursday business men here at the Hut Bamboo Cuisine to finalize the participation of the UCBC in the eight days' fiesta celebration is also the chairmen of the pro - business and pro - farmers pressure groups’ Samahan ng Industriyang Agrikultura (SINAG) and Abono Party List Party.

A staff of this city’s mayor Rannie Parayno said that the UCBC will join a motorcade around the city that will start at 8 Am in the national high school here.

An advisory from this city’s local government unit Facebook account announced that commuters and vehicle owners can expect heavy traffic on Sunday at 6 Am to 1 Pm in the main thoroughfares here.

The office of Mayor Parayno said that the eight days fiesta is star studded where marquee actors and actresses like Julia San Jose, Alex Gonzaga, Robi Domingo, Rayvier Cruz, Long Mejia, Ate Gay, Mark Herras, and others will entertain the residents of this burgeoning eastern Pangasinan city.

“Come and join us as we celebrate our festivity with the stars,” the office beckoned the spectators.

NEDA Endorses Cong Toff’s Magna Carta of Young Farmers

Rep. Christopher "Toff" De Venecia of Pangasinan’s 4th District was elated over NEDA’s endorsement for the immediate passage of his house bill, the Magna Carta of Young Farmers, which is aimed at recognizing, protecting, fulfilling, and promoting the well-being of young farmers, aged 15 to 35. “I strongly believe that the government should encourage young people to engage in agriculture by establishing mechanisms for the promotion and protection of their rights, given the fact that the average age of Filipino farmers is 57-59 years old,” he said.
Acknowledging the endorsement of NEDA to his bill, he said, “I thank the NEDA (National Economic and Development Authority) for lending its gravitas to this cause, and for its high-level advice to my fellow policy makers to pass the Magna Carta of Young Farmers immediately.” As the country’s premier socioeconomic planning body, NEDA is considered the authority in macroeconomic forecasting and policy, analysis and research.
During its recent briefing in Congress in line with the medium term socioeconomic blueprint, the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022, NEDA Deputy Director General Rosemarie G. Edillon has eyed at least a dozen bills, including the Magna Carta of Young Farmers as priority legislations in the last three years of the Duterte administration to boost economic growth.

P’gasinan Town Hit by "8.0 Magnitude Quake" – Ex Mayor

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

My early disappointment with the Waste to Work Project of the Sure Global of the Philippines, Inc. since its introduction in Dagupan City by its Chief Executive Officer Julia Courts Boughton to then mayor Belen T. Fernandez in 2014, I thought it was all lip service.

In the last one year of her administration, I did not hear from either Fernandez or Boughton how the project fared.

I was passionate writing and broadcasting glowing encomium and peroration about its advantages like conversion of plastic wastes into diesel and food wastes into compressed gas to solve our perennial gargantuan garbage problem.

In the last year of Mayor Fernandez, every time I mentioned about it I was rebuffed, over cup of coffee by fellow media men, who were pro Lim, that the Michigan, USA based proponent had that hao-shiao or farce project.

Devastation of property left recently by a strong temblor in Mindanao. (Photo Credit: CNN)

They told me the program was only drawing on the board exploited by the May 2019 reelectionist Mayor Fernandez for brownie points to win votes in a tough election she faced with the popular then Vice Mayor Brian Lim.

How could I argue with them since its inception in 2014 through that Memorandum of Agreement and the eventual resolution cum proposed contract passed by the Sangguniang Panglungsod (City Council) and signed on the proverbial dotted lines of the final contract by Fernandez and Boughton, the Fernandez Administration failed to tell all and sundry that it was a long daunting task before Sure Global starts it construction at the 28, 062 square meters land in Barangay Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City.

Xmas Hoopla in Bayambang: A Boon to Hotels in P’gasinan

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

BAYAMBANG, Pangasinan – The renowned Paskuhan sa Bayambang does not only attract tens of thousands of spectators that came from in and out of this town but a boon too with hotels outside of here.

”Pinapunta po namin sa kalapit na bayan natin na bigyan ng accommodation. Alam ko ito ang kailangan ng bayan hopefully. Soon magkakaroon din kami ng malalaking hotel,” Mayor Cezar T. Quiambao said at the conference hall of the family owned Royal Mall here before the opening and launching of the country’s biggest Animated Christmas Display.

MAMMOTH crowd from various towns and cities of Pangasinan mass to the Magical World of Disneyland at the plaza of Bayambang town.

He cited that billets like gardens and inns here could not accommodate the volume of the spectators who will attend the major events like the animated display.

The Quiambao Administration’s Magical World of Disneyland is brought to this town through the spectacular Animated Christmas Display which was declared last year as the biggest in the entire country, attracting thousands of people every night right at the heart of the municipality.

Cong. Toff Nagtapos ng Pag-Aaral sa Harvard

 Maraming magandang katangian si Congressman Toff de Venecia, isa sa mga ito ang pagiging masigasig na paunlarin ang sarili, sa pamamagitan ng pag-aaral.

Ang sabi nga ng ating magulang, ang pera ay nauubos, pero ang talino, dulot ng edukasyon ay taglay natin habang-buhay.

 Makalipas ang tatlong taong pagtitiyaga, si Congressman de Venecia ay ginawaran ng Executive Certificate in Public Leadership ng isa sa pinaka-natatanging pamantasan sa buong mundo ang Harvard Kennedy School (John F. Kennedy School of Government) ng Harvard University sa Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 Narito ang pahayag ng kongresista:

Vehicles illegally park in Dagupan City despite Duterte’s order

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

DAGUPAN CITY – The sidewalk at Barangay Tapuac is scandalously abused by vehicle owners who wrongly parked there since time immemorial despite the mayor here crowing to the public that sidewalk obstructions here had been eradicated by 95 percent.

The area in Burgos Extension where shops like various vulcanizing services have become a magnet of vehicles like cars and motorized tricycles that avail the services there.

In his 2019 State of the Nation Address, President Rodrigo Duterte ordered Department of Interior & Local Government Secretary Eduardo M. Año to reclaim all public roads that are being used for private ends. The president added that the country loses P3.5 billion a day due to the Metro Manila traffic because of these obstructions and other traffic factors.

ILLEGAL PARKING. Motorized tricycles and even cars illegally park since time immemorial at the sidewalk of Burgos Extention in Barangay Tapuac, Dagupan City to avail the services of business establishments there. The drivers of these vehicles have been insensitive about the pedestrians who should have been using the sidewalk. Photo by Mortz C. Ortigoza

Duterte told Año also to suspend local government units’ officials who do not comply with the directive.

Memorandum Circular No. 2019-121 dated July 29, 2019 issued by Año said that “all local officials are enjoined to exercise their power essential to secure public roads which are used for private ends and in the process rid them of illegal structures and constructions”.

What sidewalk? A vegetable vendor (right) has blocked the sidewalk of the commercial center's A.B Fernandez Avenue in Dagupan City. The illegal vendor sells her commodities in broad daylight and near the city hall.

Sual gears up to become richest municipality in PH

SUAL, Pangasinan – This fast-growing town would likely pole vault to the top spot in the list of richest municipalities if the plan to put up another power plant pushes through.

According to a report released by the Commission on Audit (COA), the municipality of Sual maintained its position as the second richest municipality in the country with assets amounting to P2.037 billion.

Only Sual - among Pangasinan’s 44 municipalities – made it to COA’s top ten richest towns, besting such other first class towns as the capital town of Lingayen, Bayambang, Mangaldan, Malasiqui, Binmaley, and Calasiao.

            Among those who welcomed the news was Liga President Ramon Sabido who felt optimistic that the municipality might be able to go up even to the number one spot if the plan to put up another power plant in our town becomes a reality.

It is recalled that revenues generated from the operation of the Sual Power Plant and from the hundreds of fish cages in Sual Bay contribute to the town’s stable and strong financial performance.

“This enabled Sual to jump up from fifth class to first class municipality,” he said.

No More Floods in Some Parts of Calasiao - DPWH

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

CALASIAO – The perennial flooding this town has been enduring for several years with downpours and typhoons has been a thing of the past, 4th District Engineering Office's District Engineer Simplicio D. Gonzales of the Department of Public Works & Highway said.

He cited that in the last five weeks, flood water brought by typhoons and tropical depressions at some areas easily subsided.

Gonzales referred to areas where food chains Chowking and Jollibee are located, those at the Bureau of Internal Revenue, cockpit arena and others.

He said flood water immediately drained out because the owner of the lot in front of the Garden of Eden in the Judge Jose De Venecia Highway agreed that the DPWH constructed a temporary canal that will dump the water from this town to the Banaoang River.

Fourth District Engineering Office's District Engineer Simplicio Gonzales in his office at the Department of Public Works & Highway in Sta. Barbara, Pangasinan.

“My men work there for two days last second week of October,” Gonzales told this writer how personnel of the DPWH using heavy equipment constructed a temporary sewerage system.

SCHOOL BUILDING

 

Pangasinan Fourth District Rep, Christopher de Venecia inaugurates a three-story building with eight-classroom at Gueguesangen Integrated School in Mangaldan to be used by students for ICT at Science Laboratory classes. This is part of the congressman's week-long advanced birthday celebration spent with his constituents through a series of medical-dental missions, free haircut, manicure, pedicure, livelihood training and inauguration of big projects plus distribution of computer sets and farm equipment.

Soldiers Killed Officers Who Abused Them

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

In the past two weeks, two of my blogs cum columns went viral as based on the statistics of blogspot.com that gauge how many readers around the world opened it and read. Online techie called the number of readers that run to thousands as “hits”.

The first intriguing blog I posted was titled: Cong’womanto Resign After Naked Photos, 3-Somes Exposed. while the second was the controversial Soldiers Shot Officers Because They HazedThem – Ex General.

Controversial and intriguing are two words I learned in my almost three decades column writing as bait for the number of curious readers to gravitate in a column and thus spike the number of hits, and of course the ads there teh he, when I became online writer sometimes in years 2010s.

A soldier fires his service hand gun.

When former two-star police general Leopoldo Bataoil became a source on my second blog, he told me about his and members of the Triple A or the Philippine Military Academy Alumni Association (PMAAA) pep talk with cadets of the PMA after the brutal killing through hazing of Cadet 4^th Class Darwin Dormitorio. Some of Bataoil, now a mayor of Lingayen, Pangasinan, remarks tackled too the physical abuses of officers who were either graduates of PMA and Officer Candidates School to the soldiers in the field.

Those who want to read the various comments from soldiers affirming and collaborating with their posts that these abuses ensued can go to the comment section at the bottom of that second blog.

Here however are the selected comments of those active and retired officers and non-officers that the verbal, psychological, sexual, and physical abuses of officers cost them their lives:

VERBAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSES

A grim incident ensued in 1997 at a building in the Logistic Command of the General Staff College in Fort Andres Bonifacio, Taguig. 
Coldwell Guevara said that after the gun firing of the officers and enlisted men of the GSC at the firing range, a Scout Ranger’s master sergeant of the deputy of the GSC went back to the building to get the gasoline card of the latter. He was ridiculed by a Navy Commander or a rank equivalent of a Lieutenant Colonel in the army.

“Sabi ng commander na may hawak ng gas card hinde  ba Scout Ranger ka master. “Yes sir sagot ng EM. Pinahiya sa maraming tao. Sayang ang pagka Scout Ranger mo dami mo AWOL na bala. Hinde nakayanan ni master sergeant ang bugso ng damdamin dahil sa pagkapahiya bumunot ng cal.45 si master sergeant at pinutokan ang opisyal sa ulo ang tama”

When the office sergeant, a Marine, saw that the Scout Ranger shot the naval officer he opened his drawer to get his .45 handgun and fired to the ranger. The ranger retaliated and both of them including the commander died there.

“Baron ng PMA class ang napatay na navy officer,” Guevarra said.

Alfred P Bazar said a commanding officer (CO) was shot dead because he did not allow the Army’s private first class (PFC) to have a pass for his wedding.

“Meron nangyari na nagpaalam yong PFC sa CO niya dahil ikakasal siya. Hindi pinayagan dahil uunahin niya pa daw iyon kasal niya kaysa operation. Instead na unawain yong PFC pinagalitan pa. Iyon binaril ng PFC iyong CO niya habang nasa operation. Iyon ang isa sa mga officers na mahina ang leadership. Sabi nga: Always Look for the Welfare of your men”.

Here was a condescending and brusque Naval Commander who came from the Department of National Defense (DND) and was the former aide- de- camp (ADC) of then Defense Secretary Fidel V. Ramos, popularly known as FVR, who later became Philippines president.

“Hambog at mayabang kamo na officer. Kawawa ang mga sundalo minumura lang niya, sinisigawan, at kinatakutan din siya doon. Galing siya sa DND ADC dati ni FVR sa DND nalipat sa LOGCOM. Siga pa rin. Isang hapon nag paalam ang master sergeant ng emergency pass may namatay ata sa family niya. Pero tinanggihan siya ng officer, sinigawan, minaliit dahil sundalo lang sa harap ng military and CE staff ng office nila. Napahiya ng husto ang master sergeant”.

The senior sergeant, according to Bazar, went out and came back menacingly wielding an M-16 automatic assault rifle. He peppered with bullets the high handed officer who died. After he emptied the bullets in the magazine of the M-16 he reloaded with another 30 bullets' magazine and shot again with a volley his superior.

“Pagkatapos nag surrender. Ayon ang pangit sa officer na mayabang at nanghuhusga komo officer siya,” Bazar deplored.

“Totoo iyan nangyari iyan sa unit namin noon doon sa Sibuco, Zambo Norte. Pinapahiya ng officer ang EP (enlisted man) napikon ang EP umuwi kumuha ng M16 at binaril buti hindi napuruhan pero na disable,” Nestor Bernido agreed on the narration of Bazar.

Another massacre of officers happened when a private first class ran amuck inside the conference hall of the Philippine Marines in Fort Bonifacio in the 1990s, according the Coldwell Guevarra.

“Maysakit ang asawa niya imbes na tulungan minimura at pinagsabihan ng masasakit na salita. Five opisyal patay. Iyong mabait sa PFC hindi niya binaril pinadapa lang,” he cited.

“Walang ganyan sa amin sa 2 ID, PA pero may nabalitaan kami na officer na nabaril sa likod,” according to Erick Parlat Manalo.

He said one of their officers was treacherously shot at the back. He was a finance officer who pocketed some salaries and allowances of the soldiers.

“Lalo na ang savings sa subsistence allowances at delay na release na combat pay. Pag reklamador ka daw sa pera ang ganti sa iyo ayaw kang payagan kahit three days’ passes,” Manalo added.

SEXUAL ACT WITH SOLDIER’S WIFE

Salvador Shigyo Limsiaco, a company officer of the 2 LAB, cited two incidents of molestation and carnal knowledge by officers to the wives of enlisted personnel:

 “I remember an incident where an enlisted man from 27IB shot and killed an officer at Camp San Gabriel, Davao City because the officer molested his wife. Another incident was a former CO of 39IB stationed then in Lebak - Kalamansig was shot to death by his own man because that officer was ‘playing fire" with the enlisted man’s wife’s aside from money matters”.

The unsolicited advice of Limsiaco to officers to take good care of their men’s morale and welfare.

“Wag ninyo pakialaman ang asawa ng tao ninyo at give what is due to them. They will die for you if you are a good officer,” he said.

PHYSICAL ABUSES

Six military commissioned officials died after a soldier, humiliated after an officer slapped him in front of his family, unleashed a volley of gun fire.

According to Jose Parcia Jr.: “May nangyari niyan sa Pamplona, Cam Sur kung di ako nagkamali 1986 yon, niratrat ng isang EP ang mga officers sa conference room kung saan six yata ang namatay noon, tapos nagbaril siya sa sarili, quits na. Nag ugat din yon sa pananampal ng isang opisyal sa EP habang kasama ang pamilya. Hindi ko na e mention kung anong unit iyon at branch of service, pero iyong mabait na opisyal pinadapa daw muna bago rumatrat”.

“l agree to that sir may insidenteng ganyan katulad noong after Rebulusyon sir labde pa tayo that time. Si Major Alias Pistolero binaril at napatay ni PFC Cabading dahil pinahiya niya sa harap ng gf niya sir,” Rogelio Fuerte said.

“Si Captain Cabrillos iyon si Cabaquing laya na siya,” Benjamin Biala retorted.

A company commander mauled a private in an Army headquarter in Jolo, Sulu. The private shot to death the young first lieutenant and those around him, according to Nick Diaz.

“Mas matindi nangyari sa amin 1978 headquarter 18th Infantry Battalion, San Raymundo, Jolo Sulu. Radio man naming Private Samiao binugbog ng company commander namin. Iyon binaril niya company commanding officer 1LT Renato Bagasol Company Ex O, 2LT Dante Grafil Class 78 PMA. First Sergeant Staff Sergeant Joves, Draftee Renato Pingen, PFC Edgar Madamba. Lahat patay at marami wounded muntik ako nakasali buti na lang naka alis dahil perimeter guard ako. Ang nag imbestiga si Brigadier General Jose Magno ng 1st Infantry Division noon na nasa Busbus, Jolo, Sulu”.

A soldier begged his commanding officer (CO) to punish him after his family left the camp but the official still slapped him infront of the lowly enlisted man’s wife and child, according to Rolle Mario.

 “Ito ay sa kabila ng pakiusap sa kanyang CO na pagmakauwi na pamilya niya ay saka na lang siya parusahan kung ano man kasalanan nya, pinahiya sa harap ng pamilya niya kaya nagdilim ang pag iisip noong ka batch ko kaya tinira ng M -14 sa ulo ang CO niya”.

Rolle Mario said the lamentable incident happened in a Naval Station in Ulugan, Palawan.

“Dumalaw iyong pamilya ng ka batch ko dahil matagal nang hinde nakakauwi ang ka-batch ko dahil sa call of duty. Pinahiya at sinampal ng CO sa harap ng pamilya”.   He said the gunman was incarcerated but later acquitted by the court and still retired  with a pension in the uniform service.

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Gov. Espino receives Pangasinan’s 5th SGLG award

 Governor Amado I. Espino. III (center) receives the fifth Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) award for the Provincial Government of Pangasinan from DILG Secretary Eduardo S. Año (second from left) last November 4 at the Fiesta Pavilion, The Manila Hotel. Pangasinan is among the five provinces in the entire country which have consistently passed the prestigious award since 2015. Joining Pangasinan in the 5-peat Hall of Fame award are the provinces of Isabela, Bulacan, Quirino and Aklan. Pangasinan posted the most number of LGU passers with 21 municipalities and two cities.  Each awardee received an SGLG marker and will be given the Performance Challenge Fund (PCF) amounting to P4.5 Million for a province, P3.5-M for a city and P2.5-M for a municipality. With the governor during the awarding were Provincial Planning and Development Office Coordinator Benita Pizarro (2^nd from right) and Pangasinan DILG OIC Provincial Director Randy Dela Rosa (right). Assisting the interior and local government secretary in conferring the award was Undersecretary Marivel Sacendoncillo (left). (Photo by Meinard Sadim/RRB

Sual Mayor Calugay eyes formulation of CLUP

SUAL, Pangasinan – The plan of Mayor Lizeldo “Dong” Calugay to come up with a comprehensive land use plan (CLUP) to speed up the economic growth of Sual augurs well with his policy of attracting more investors.

“The planned CLUP sits well with the mayor’s thrust of attracting more investors to put up more big-ticket projects in our town,” a statement says from Sual Pro-Progress, a large group of residents who support the construction of another power plant.

Mayor Dong Calugay

In his recent State of the Municipality Address, Mayor Calugay said that one of his top priorities is the formulation of Sual’s CLUP considering the numerous offers of foreign and domestic investors to put up power plants, factories, seaport, ship building facilities and other industries worth billions of US dollars.

He said this would make it easier for investors to come in as well as achieve for the municipality a balanced and sustainable economic growth.

Soldiers Shot Officers Because They Hazed Them – Ex-General

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Military and police officers during warfare were treacherously shot at the back by their men because they hazed them, according to a former general.

Lingayen Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil, a former police general and advocate of No To Hazing, told this writer that maltreatment is not confined alone at the Philippine Military Academy in Baguio City but even in the field with soldiers and policemen.

“Haze iyan to accomplish a mission. There were several cases on the parts of PMAers and Non-PMAers they were shot at the back by their soldiers,” he told this newspaper.

He said to deter non-officers, who are sergeant to private, not to fail in the next mission officers physically hurt them.

A soldier being maltreated by his superiors.

Physical here was not how former Defense Secretary Fidel V. Ramos, a West Pointer, had done to the putchists who failed to oust then President Cory Aquino when he asked them to give him 50 pushed ups in exchange of the amnesty offered by the government.

Physical is that one-sided punches given by boxing icon Manny Pacquiao to his defenseless opponents or those chopping kicks unleashed by Jacky Chan to the villains in the flicks.

“You’re to accomplish a mission just to expect them to follow you. You’re going to earn their respect and love and obedience. If you’ll be able to get that level of loyalty by not hazing them,” remarked by Bataoil, a former nine years’ congressman, to this writer.

The former solon said he and Cavaliers of the PMA Alumni Association (PMAAA) had a dialogue with the brass and cadets of the PMA in Baguio City on how to thwart hazing after the brutal death of Cadet Fourth Class Darwin Dormitorio at the hands of his upper classmen.
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BIR Fines SM-Dagupan's Stalls for "Failure to Register"

                       OPERATOR SAYS SM PRESSURED THEM TO OPEN

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

DAGUPAN CITY -  SM Center Dagupan pressured each of its stall owners to simultaneously open last October 4 this year that resulted to many of them to be fined P20,000 each by the Bureau of Internal Revenue because they fail to register.

According Assistant Revenue District Office  (RDO) No. 4 Chief Aldrin A. Camba a group of BIR personnel based in Calasiao, Pangasinan led by their supervisor Cherry Wong combed the two-floor newly opened SM Center Dagupan here after a report that a milk tea stall there did not issue an official receipt to their customers.
A source cited that it has more than 70 stalls and kiosks there.

SM Center Dagupan 

“Hinde nila inexpect na mag oopen kaagad.  Ang alam nila parang matagal pa. So sila iyong mga business establishments relax muna sila. Nagpu process lang pero hinde pa iyong talaga full processing. E biglang sinabi ng SM mag oopen na tayo ganitong date. Kung hinde kayo makikiano kayo sa amin sa opening mape-penalty kayo,” he quoted one of the operators there who came to his office to explain his infraction.

The threat from SM could not be a reason for the unregistered stall owners to cave in because they violated the tax law of the country, Camba explained to this writer.

Commercial stalls at SM Center Dagupan.