LTO Cancels Penalty on Late Vehicle Registration

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

DAGUPAN CITY – Up to three months moratorium is given by the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to vehicle owners before they are penalized for their late registration, according to its Regional Director in Region-1.

“Due to the pandemic iyong mga tao hindi makalabas ng bahay kaya minabuti namin na hindi muna e - penalize iyong hindi nakapag rehistro. Inatras namin ng dalawa o tatlong buwan iyong palugit bago makapag rehistro iyong tao,” disclosed to this newspaper by Director Teofilo “Jojo” Guadiz, III.

TRANSPORT HONCHOS from left of photo is Land Transportation Office's Region-1 Director Teofilo "Jojo" Guadiz, III and Lingayen, Pangasinan LTO Chief Aileen O. Peteros.

Lingayen, Pangasinan LTO chief Aileen O. Peteros, whose office services various towns, said that registrants can save P230 to the new policy implemented by the LTO since January this year.

In the P2,430 being paid yearly by vehicle owner, the transportation office got rid of the P200 surcharge for late registration, P169 computer fee, and the P50's sticker.

“Itong O.R na na na re-receive na printed in coupon band pero may bar code,” she cited about the shift from the blue official receipt (O.R) to the white but with a bar code.

She said the P169 computer fee and the P50 sticker have just been implemented lately.

The new policy of the LTO on the cancellation of the surcharge and other fees on the errant registrants and those law abiding citizens can mitigate the negative perception since time immemorial to the public of the office known for its perceived corruption, divisive stance, and incompetence.

One of the examples of these are the non issuance of the plate numbers and the brouhaha brought by the private motor vehicle inspection centers (PMVIC).

Aside from the three months’ moratorium, Regional Director Guadiz exhorted the owners and drivers to attend the seminars sponsored by his office in the four provinces’ Region-1.

“Lahat ngayon kumukuha ng lisensiya ay hinihikayat namin na umatend ng seminar. Kasi dumarami ang aksidenti sa atin. Para naman mabawasan ang aksidenti dapat may mga road safety seminars,” he told this newspaper in the vernacular.

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BIR Western P’gasinan Tops Collection

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

ALAMINOS CITY, Pangasinan – The top honcho of the Bureau of Internal Revenue in western Pangasinan said it topped the collection in the six revenue district offices (RDOs) in the four provinces’ Region-1.

“June highest collecting office kami last month. Hindi kasi ako na me-memorize,” Revenue District Office No. 5 Chief Gil B. Vinluan told this writer about his feat in June this year that he however did not take tab how much it was on figure.

Revenue District Office No. 5 Chief Gil B. Vinluan of the Bureau of Internal Revenue

RDO No. 5 covers the towns of Agno, Anda, Bani, Bolinao, Burgos, Dasol, Infanta, Mabini and Sual. and this city in the First Congressional District, and the towns of Lingayen, Aguilar, Basista, Binmaley, Bugallon, Labrador, Mangatarem and Urbiztondo in the Second Congressional District.

Assisting Vinluan in the collection of the taxes for the national government expenditures is Assistant RDO No. 5 Chief Charlito S. Samson. Samson replaced recently ARDO Chief Marinela C. Tandoc who was assigned as ARDO Chief of RDO No. 1 based in Laoag City, Ilocos Norte.

Before being assigned in the office based in this city, Vinluan used to be the RDO Chiefs of Cabanatuan and Baguio Cities.

“Nag Examiner ako sa Calasiao way back 1994 to 1997,” he stressed.

Pacquiao Can Outclass Spence, Ugás

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

After that breaking news exploded in the boxing world at early dawn of August 12 (August 11 in the U.S) that the biggest boxing event for this year scheduled in August 21 between Super Welterweight's icons Manny Pacquiao versus Errol Spence, Jr. was off because the latter got a torn retina,  many fans were dismayed while some were furious.

“Who was that 39 years old 5’ 9" feet Cuban’s Yordenis Ugás?” I even asked myself after I read the jarring news – as if I was hit too by Manny’s phantom right cross that decked out the loquacious braggart Keith Thurman in the first round of their skirmishes.

“Can we interview you now about your pre-fight analysis between Pacquiao versus Ugas?” Bombo Radyo-Pangasinan’s Chief of Anchors Ed Abubo called me by phone while I was in my car.

“Bilis naman (Too fast)! Give me two days as I’m preoccupied overseeing the arrivals of our Davao Puyat export variety durians and class A pomelos for the huge three million populated mammoth Pangasinan market,” I answered him.

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In my supposed analysis of the Pacquiao -Spence fight, I found it easier since in the last four tussles of Spence (Carlos Ocampo June 6, 2018; Mikey Garcia March 16, 2019; Shawn Porter August 28, 2019; and Danny Garcia December 5, 2020) he fought a haymaker – just like the whirling dervish Filipino Senator sans his heavy punches – Porter.

Spence struggled how to deal with Porter in their 2019 World Boxing Council and International Boxing Federation's Welterweight diadem that without the right hook knockdown that hit the latter face in Round 11, Porter chalked up a draw to the judges or even won that brawl before the eyes of many boxing aficionados.

When Spence fought Danny Garcia – after the former survived a horrific Ferrari car accident in 2019 - he was slower (than his 2019 outing with Porter) to a calculating Danny.

“Bakit bumagal ito, epekto ng car crash? (Why he was slower, was it an effect of the car crash?),” I quipped when I first saw their battle.

Manny would gobble him in case they consumed their contracted August 21 competition, I added.

***

Despite my busy schedule juggling my editorial work at Northern Watch Newspaper and supervising the family business – damn, I browsed the last four matches of Ugas in BoxRec and this yokel smiled.

I ain’t need to watch his tussles with Omar Figueroa Jr., Mike Dallas Jr., and Abel Ramos, because the other one was the exciting Shawn Porter himself who attack ferociously the enemies like Pacquiao.

Porter got a split decision with Ugas.

Many boxing kibitzers said that the deft Cuban won that fight because of his clean punches, his propensity to hit by his heavy uppercuts the body of Porter, and his counter punching that slowed down his opponent who fought like a devil against Thurman, Spence, and Garcia.

He lost because he was a challenger in the first defense of Porter of that March 2019’s Welterweight crown for the World Boxing Council in Dignity Health Sports Park , Carson City, Nevada.

“The lighter punching Porter even shook him in the second half of the rounds,” I told myself while watching the duo in their chess match.

Ugas lost because he did not aggressively pursue Porter. A challenger must be truculent to hit the defending champion unless his name is Floyd Mayweather or Juan Manuel Márquez who gave jarring clean punches to the face and torso of Pacquiao and muster the ring generalship to win the favors of the three judges.

Or an oppoent whose name is Jeff Horn who – damn the torpedoes – mixed in a dog fight with Pacquiao where the latter lost in a unanimous decision.

(But Terence Allan "Bud" Crawford easily handled Horn (Technical Knocked Out (TKO)) - after the Pacquiao's tussle - like Horn transformed into a neophyte by Crawford quick counter punches and foot speed that could outclass Pacquiao and Spence. But that’s another column for you folks, te-he!)

Although Ugas is the defending champ after the WBA crown was stripped off from Pacquiao in January 29, 2020 (the Flips, er Filipinos’ presidential candidate won’t defend it), he should triple his hitting activity against Porter when he and Manny fight next week.

Although Ugas, a Cuban Olympian, is no fluke compared to the likes of Adrien Broner, Lucas Martin Matthysse, Jessie Vargas, and Jorge Solis, he is not at the league of Manny’s lightning hand and foot speed.

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Dads Hit for Feeding Media False Infos

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

AGUILAR, Pangasinan – A supporter vehemently defended the mayor of this town against some members of the Sangguniang Bayan (municipal legislature) who allegedly fed false information to broadcasters in Dagupan City to undermine him.

Professor Arnel Montemayor exhorted the voters in this town not to vote in the coming election these opposition members of the SB because of their malicious reporting to the media.

“May mga nakaupong Konsehales sa Aguilar naghahanap ng radio announcers uupahan para lang siraan ang masipag na Mayor ng bayan. Mga kababayan sa Aguilar, huwag na ninyong iboto ang mga ito. Malinaw, ito na mapanirang puri. Saan kukuha ng pera na gagamitin sa paninira? Lahat ng naipangako ni Mayor Boyet Sagles sa bayan, tinupad niya, one word is enough for a true public servant. You will get the dose of your own medicine ba Konsehal at sa iyo Boss?” he said.

ACTION MAN. Mayor Roldan “Boyet” Sagles of Aguilar town is seen distributing aid to distress constituents while his supportive wife Vil Sagles (second from left), a former village chief, assists the mayor in his everyday’s functions. Mayor Sagles is a registered dentist. 

Montemayor cited that these lawmakers are facing criminal charges at the Ombudsman.

One of the issues raised by them was Mayor Roldan Sagles did not function in his office as mandated by law.

Sagles told his newspaper that he was doing his duties like signing documents despite going to the hospital for his dialysis.

He cited the Local Government Code that says “When the mayor is temporarily incapacitated to perform his duties for physical or legal reasons such as, but not limited to, leave of absence, travel abroad, and suspension from office, the vice-mayor, or the highest ranking sangguniang barangay member shall automatically exercise the powers and perform the duties and functions of the local chief executive concerned, except the power to appoint, suspend, or dismiss employees which can only be exercised if the period of temporary incapacity exceeds thirty working days”.

He said he is not incapacitated to allow the vice mayor to substitute him.

Even if he is in his house, he still do what the laws expect him to function.

Sagles did not even travel and leave his town for three consecutive days.

The LGC says that when the incumbent local chief executive is traveling within the country but outside his territorial jurisdiction for a period not exceeding three consecutive days, he may designate in writing the officer-in-charge of the office.

In the almost three years of Sagles’ mayorship stint, this once lethargic town saw improvement like procurement of new dump truck, new firetruck, new ambulance, new municipal warehouse, and solar street lights, construction of the P30 million evacuation center in Barangay Buer, newly designed plaza, more farm to market roads, Corona Virus Disease-19 building, and distribution late this year of 16 Isuzu utility vans to each of the 16 barangays.

SM City Rosales hosts COVID-19 vaccination venue

SM Supermalls has partnered with different local government units (LGUs) to open the multi-mall vaccination program. As of August 8, a total of 2,075,327 vaccine doses have been administered at SM malls vaccination sites nationwide. This is to support the community in their endeavor to vaccinate the public against the Corona Virus Disease-19 (COVID-19).

In Rosales, Pangasinan, the total doses of Covid-19 vaccine administered is 5,801 since vaccination began on March 19, 2021. To date, 1,996 vaccine doses were administered at SM City Rosales. This is made possible through the teamwork of Rosales Rural Health Unit, Rosales' private hospitals, and Rosales, Pangasinan's LGU.

SM City Rosales continues to support the municipality’s effort to vaccinate the citizens by providing a venue, electrical power supply, Wi-Fi connection, and other necessary resources in order to make sure vaccinations are administered safely and correctly to as many as possible. The mall also ensures social distancing among vaccinees while SM security personnel are also in place to assist the city and the health workers to properly lead the crowds. SM City Rosales also began featuring the “Vax, Shop, and Dine” promotions which rewards individuals who have gotten their vaccine with discounts, freebies, or special offers from restaurants and shops. This is also through the action of the private sector-led campaign, Ingat Angat Bakuna Lahat. SM Supermalls hopes to encourage citizens to take their vaccines as a way to not only protect themselves, but also our fellow community. The mall has also recently earned their safety seal from the Local Government of Rosales; the badge is a testament of the strict implementation and compliance of the minimum public health standards to operate a business during the COVID-19 pandemic. “It has always been our commitment to ensure the health and safety of the public, that is why we will continue providing convenient and accessible venues where our communities can get vaccinated safely. We will roll out more vaccination centers nationwide to help expedite the administration of COVID-19 vaccines and curb the spread of the virus,” said SM Supermalls president Steven Tan.

Bataoil Takes Exception to Inaction of Congressmen

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – A former member of the House of Representatives took exception to the apathy of former and present solons to create more congressional districts in Pangasinan despite her burgeoning population that reached recently into more than three million.

“For the record, I sponsored a bill creating additional districts for our province during my time as Congressman in support to the SP (Sanguniang Panlalawigan) Resolution of former Provincial Board Member, Manong Alfie Bince, though it did not prosper for various reasons. Perk was not my priority but people’s need. I’m proud of our constituents, majority of them are intelligent and patriotic,” he commented on the online version of this newspaper's titled Greedy Member of Congress?

The present mayor of capital town Lingayen said that in early 2000s he filed a bill for additional two districts in the province on top of the six congressional districts under the Reorganization Committee chaired by then Six District Rep. Marlyn Primicias-Agabas.

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“When I filed a bill (in 2013) creating additional districts. After filing it supposed to go to series of stages of first reading, second reading, third reading”.

He did not know what happen after he submitted it for the First Reading in the Committee of Agabas.

“Oo, tanungin mo what happened to that bill to former Congresswoman Agabas,” Bataoil told this newspaper on the bill he sponsored.

He said that then Board Member Bince filed a resolution in the early 2000s at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (provincial legislature) about the creation of additional congressional districts.

On July 8, 2013, the SB approved Provincial Resolution No. 293-2013 of BM Bince titled: Creating An Ad Hoc Committee To Study The Feasibility of Redistricting The Province of Pangasinan Into Eight (8) Legislative Districts.

In August 2014 for the third time the proposal to create two more congressional districts have been discussed in the provincial legislature of Pangasinan.

“With more congressmen, there will be more funds for infrastructure, school buildings and employment for [our] province mates,” BM Bince announced in a privilege speech.

The proposal to break up Pangasinan into more than six districts was first introduced in 2008 by then First, Second and Third District Representatives Art Celeste, Victor Agbayani, and Rachel Arenas, respectively.

Just like the later attempts by the SB and Bataoil, that 2008 proposal went into oblivion.

“Hingin mo ang copy ng resolution. Si Atty. Verna ( Nava-Perez, SB- Secretary). Siya ang nagbigay ng resolution ni Board Member Bince redistricting from six to eight ang recommendation ko e ni file ko na iyan,” the former Police General turned Solon told this writer.

Based on the latest May 1, 2020 Census of Pangasinan done by the Philippines Statistics Authority (PSA), the massive province has 3,163, 190 population.

With more than three million people living in Pangasinan, it can have 12 congressional districts. It means additional six from the present six districts.

Section 5 (3) Article VI of the 1987 Constitution provides that “

Each city… or each province” with a population of at least 250,000 shall have at least one representative. (4) Within three years following the return of every census, the Congress shall make a reapportionment of legislative districts based on the standards provided in this section”.

New congressional district means specific allocation of a yearly budget for government infrastructures that runs up to one billion pesos.

With a billion pesos appropriation to every district given by the Manila based government – that collected the funds from our people’s taxes – there will be P12 billion annually that enter the Northern Luzon’s province compared to the P6 billion in the present six districts.

A Congressman on conditioned of anonymity told this newspaper that there are several members of the House of Representatives that will not sign for the sponsorship bill on the creation of more districts in the province after President Rodrigo Duterte ascended to power in June 2016.

One of their recalcitrance is to see that the billion pesos allocation yearly in their turf could be reduced too as their district is disfigured by the constitutional edict.

Allocation of that amount is subjected to anomalous transaction where the contractor of the project gives an S.O.P or cut to the solon from twenty to ten percent of a certain infrastructure.

This newspaper assailed these opposing solons for their greed and narrow mindedness.

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Filipino Senators Cannot be Trusted

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

I used to write in my columns and blogs about Filipino Senators cannot be trusted in the passing of the law for the opening of our economy to foreign investors like what China, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam had done.

This economic strategy was a linchpin why these countries soared into progress while we Flips sulk for our lethargy where we have the pathetic export numbers in the Association of Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Economic liberalization will see our local industries compete with their foreign counterparts at the same time providing jobs to our people -where more than two million of them scampered abroad to eked out a living for the survival of their families. Many of them there are abused too by their employers.

Depiction of the death of Julius Caesar in the hands of Roman Senators.

The amendment of the Public Service Act despite being approved by the House of Representatives since the time of President Gloria Arroyo could not hurdle a Senate's imprimatur because many Senators - I surmised - who are seeking an expensive re-election or the election of their family members to the August Chamber succumbed to the lobby monies of big Filipino businessmen. These oligarchs are into aviation, telecommunication, malls, manufacturing, shipping, and whatchamacallit.

INDEED OUR SENATORS CANNOT BE TRUSTED. THANKS BUT NO THANKS TO THEIR AVARICE, UH, GREED.

Here's Max V. Soliven on why Senators can be treacherous, too.

"Remember the story of Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.) who was warned by an old soothsayer in the street: "Beware the Ides of March!" This soothsayer’s admonition was not a figment of William Shakespeare’s rich imagination, incorporated into the Bard’s famous play, but had been mentioned by several Roman writers, including Suetonius, Plutarch and Appian.

Caesar, knowing he was hated for his growing power, the suspicion he wanted to destroy the republic and proclaim himself king, actually hesitated to attend the Senate meeting that day, but was persuaded by Decimus Brutus to go.

On the way there this time we defer to Shakespeare, he spotted the same soothsayer. He told the old man, "well, the Ides of March have come." (Meaning, I suppose, okay, the deadline came, but nothing happened). To which the soothsayer replied: "Aye, Caesar – but not yet gone!"

Indeed, when Caesar walked into the Senate, the conspirators were waiting for him. The first to strike was Senator Tillius Cimber, who leaned forward towards Caesar as if to ask a question. Casca, a Senate tribune, closed in on him from behind, and drawing a dagger from under his toga, stabbed him under the throat. Cassius stabbed him in the face.

Marcos Brutus – not to be confused with Decimus – one of Caesar’s own protegés, pushed in and stabbed him in the groin. ("Et tu, Brute!" Caesar groaned – "you, too, Brutus!"). Brutus was even reputed to be Caesar’s illegitimate son. Thus, some writers – the "columnists" I suppose at that time – claim the dying Caesar’s last words were uttered in Greek – "kai su teknon!" –or "You, too, my child!" In any event, with 21 stab wounds, Caesar fell dead – ironically, it’s said, right in front of the statue of his mortal enemy, whom he had defeated, the late Pompey the Great (106-48 B.C.).

Some of his assassins had been Senators – like Cassius – whom he had "forgiven" and whose lives he had spared, despite their support for Pompey.

The late US President John F. Kennedy was right. He once said: "You can forgive your enemies, but you must never forget their names."

As for Senators, it’s no wonder, up to now, they can’t always be trusted. It’s not only in Caesar’s time that they couldn’t even trust each other.

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BIR Central P’gasinan to Revise Zonal Valuation of Properties

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

To collect more taxes to fund the operation of the government, the Bureau of Internal Revenue in Central Pangasinan revises its zonal valuation.

“Program namin revised ang zonal valuation natin. Last zonal valutation 2017 kaya we are on the process of revision of zonal valuation also ma revisit natin,” Revenue District Office No. 4 Chief Ernesto Mangabat said.

Under the 1997 Tax Code, as amended by TRAIN law, the commissioner of Internal Revenue is authorized to divide the Philippines into different zones or areas, and shall determine the fair market value of real properties located in each zone or area, upon mandatory consultation with competent appraisers, both from the private and public sectors. Under the law, this is supposed to be subject to automatic adjustment once every three years.  However, over the last three years, record of the Department of Finance shows that only 60 percent of Revenue District Offices under the BIR have updated their zonal values.

Revenue District Office No. 4 Chief Ernesto Mangabat.

One of the sources of the BIR in creation of funds for the government is through the Capital Gain Tax (CGT).

CGT from the sale of real property located in the country classified as capital assets by individuals are subject to a tax of six (6) percent based on gross selling price or the current fair market value, whichever is higher at the time of sale.

The highest price of per square meter (PSM) of land in the fourteen towns and two cities' RDO No. 4 is in Dagupan City.

The highest is Fifty Five Thousand Pesos (P55,000) per square meter that can be found in Barangay -1 in Dagupan City,” Mangabat told this newspaper.

He cited that the other PSM with zonal valuation prices of P35,000, P32,000, and P30,000 can be found in Rizal, Fernandez, and Rizal Extension Streets, respectively.

Mangabat said lands in the premier Dagupan City are expensive compared to other provinces like Ilocos Sur.

“Dagupan is Dagupan,” he quipped.

Meanwhile, RDO-4 exceeded its year-on-year goal by P54, 785,479.83 from its January to June 2021 collection of P2, 030, 702, 479. 83.

Mangabat said its collection for the same period last year was P1,975,917,000. 00.

A Friendly Police Prov’l Dir. for this Gov’ship Tandem

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

If the gubernatorial election will be held today in Pangasinan where either Governor Amado Espino, III or his father and namesake clashes with Fifth District Congressman Ramon “Monmon” Guico, III, the latter will be gobbled by either of the Espinos.

Credit is due to their formidable political machinery and the surname that is already a household name in the almost three million registered voters in Pangasinan where the independent component city Dagupan is excluded.

Just like the other challengers the Espinos “bludgeoned” in the past elections, Guico is not yet known among the voters in Central and Western Pangasinan.

But there is this factor that could make the Espinos apprehensive. A source on conditioned of anonymity told me that as the May 9, 2022 election comes near a massive reshuffle of the police provincial directors in the country loom.

“After Major General (Vic) Danao becomes PNP Chief, (Senator) Bong Go will be interfering for a Guico friendly PD in Pangasinan,” my spook told me.

He said the one who intercedes for this to materialize is a retiring General who is being convinced by the opposition to run for the mayorship in one of the 44 towns of the province.

Recently, the opposition group's ULOPAN or United Lights of Pangasinan launched late of July this year the governorship and vice governorship bid of Guico and Vice Governor Mark Lambino.

 A huge portrait in a tarp of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio was at the backdrop of the stage in the gym of Guico's owned aviation college in Binalonan where a manifesto was read urging the Mayor to run for President in the next year’s presidential election.

The group is under the tutelage and protection of Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA) and Presidential Adviser for Northern Luzon Secretary Raul Lambino – the Praetorian Guard of President Rodrigo Duterte and the “Pangulo’s  Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP–Laban for brevity) – where Senator Bong Go – Duterte’s factotum nonpareil – is now the party’s nominee for the presidential post in the next year’s poll.

Pundits and perceptive political kibitzers know that the one who has control of the top cop in the province has the comparative advantage in tightening the screw of the movements of the opponent and his supporters especially as election day comes nearer. 

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