U.S Recruiter Dangles $2,000 Freebie for Applicant – Nurse

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

A recruitment company based in the United States of America entices $2,000 (PhP 117, 940) give away for a Filipino nurse who qualifies for direct employment there.

Reliable Placements for Health Care Professional (RPHP) Chief Operation Officer Gloria Alonzo-Calla told Northern Watch Newspaper that the sum is a come-on for the expenses of the applicant in the Philippines who spent for the requirements needed by the company.

A Filipino nurse in the United States. Photo credit: rphpusa.com

“We help candidates prepare their resume’ and conduct a practice interview kaya makikita ang chance na makapasa at ma-assign sa area that matches your experience,” she said.

The Florida based Alonzo-Calla said that RPHP does not require any placement fee for an applicant to be qualified for a U.S work.

The chief operation officer encourages Filipino nurses to send their resume’ to rphp.usa@gmail.com.

Upon receipt of their resume’, the job seeker “will be informed within 24 to 48 hours”.

Alonzo-Calla prodded the applicant to attend the RPHP’s website at 10 a.m and 10 p.m daily in Philippines Standard Time. The job seeker can access too the RPHP’s website at http://www.rphpusa.com/?fbclid=IwAR0uy_MeQjYZiyf9HiM2lexcGczI6ru0F0siq6d79NBRdvHkaOD-3nkDkgE or click here.

She can be contacted at phone numbers’ (386) 490-6859 and email’s rphp.usa@gmail.com while RPHP‘s Philippines contact counterpart and International Deployment Consultant Dr. Rusty L. Francisco, Ph.D, R.N can be reached at telephone numbers’ (63+) 917-791-4400.

Since the 1960s there have been over 150,000 Filipino nurses who have migrated to the United States.

The mass exodus of Filipino nurses in the U.S was due to the 1965’s Immigration and Nationality Act which allowed a larger number of English speaking immigrants from around the world to come to the mainland.

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How the Finger of God Helps Ukraine Beats the Russians

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

I was glued to the viewpoints in YouTube of retired general Frederick Benjamin "Ben" Hodges, III -  who served as commanding general, United States Army Europe -  about the psychological and strategical values of the recent counter attacks to the Russian soldiers by the Ukrainian army in the port city Kherson. It is located at the southern part of the besieged country.

 The city serves as the administrative center of Kherson Oblast located in the Black Sea and in the Dnieper River. Kherson is the home of a major ship-building industry and is a regional economic center. In 2021, it had an estimated population of 283,649. 

United States made M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) 

Hodges thesis was titled: The War in Ukraine with Lt. General Ben Hodges.

The General – who is the current Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies at the Center for European Policy Analysis - said the strikes of the Ukrainians against the Ivans have the following values:

·         Kherson is the first and only capital of an Oblast province that was captured by the Russians;

·          Tens of thousands of Russian troops that are on the right side of the Dnipro River have been trapped;

·         The three bridges in the Dnipro River have been destroyed by the Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) guided multiple launch rocket system (GMLRS) rockets of the accurate hitting United States made  M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) because of their relentless bombardments in July and August. Moscow cannot send reinforcement, water, and ammunition to these beleaguered soldiers;

·         The 25, 000 to 35,000 Russians (15% of their entire invasion force) have been snagged and trapped in the right of the River after the Ukrainian battalions from Kharkiv cut them behind – ala the famed Inchon landing of Douglas McArthur

AUTHOR (extreme right) who sports a huge tactical helmet and Kevlar vest used by the crew of HIMARS during the Balikatan (military exercise) of the Americans and the Filipinos in Clark Air Base, Pampanga. He is in this photo with the members of the United States Marines who man the GPS guided rocket system manufactured by Lockheed Martin as seen on the background.

 

With the Russians – parts of those thousands who left Kharkiv to rescue Kherson - in the left side of the Dnipro River absconding to their motherland by leaving their heavy military equipment, the Ukrainians could be 240 kilometers from Kherson to the Russian's naval base and port city’s Sevastopol of Crimea.

Just like the man-portable air-defense system’s FIM-92 Stinger, tactical air-to-surface anti-radiation’s AGM-88 HARM missiles, and advanced anti-tank weapon system and the fire and forget U.S made Javelin and British and Sweden manufactured N-LAW shoulder carried rockets that flushed out the Russian soldiers on their failed invasion of capital city’s Kyiev in February to April 2022 that cost them 22, 000 dead and 460 tanks and over 2,000 other armoured vehicles destroyed (Oryx), the surgical hitting HIMARS – dubbed by military experts as “The “C” forming Fore Finger God”   have been another game changer in President Volodymyr O. Zelensky's successful counterattacks not only in Kherson but in Kharkiv and the city of Izium early and middle of this month. The capture of Izium was a major tactical setback to Russian President Vladimir Putin as the city is a major logistical railway hub of the Russian's military juggernaut as it connects to the Russian's city of Belgorod Oblast.

The head of Russia's administration in Kharkiv told residents to evacuate the province and flee to Russia to "save lives," TASS reported. Witnesses described traffic jams of cars with people leaving Russian-held territory.

What will be the implication to Moscow and Putin if the dozens of HIMARs come near Crimea – invaded and annexed by Russia in February 27, 2014? What will the implication of this Finger of God as the Ukrainian combatants inch to Donbas and Luhansk?

Just like what the accurate GPS navigating rocket of the HIMARs – that can fire its six rockets in a pod  every 14 seconds – at a range of 92 kilometers, the Russian soldiers will be deprived again of their gas and ammunition because their depots can be accurately blasted to smithereens by these long range Lockheed Martin's manufactured rockets.

“How can the guided rockets of HIMARS hit the Chinese warships if one of this is posted at one of the islets of the Philippines at the South China Sea?” I asked one of the camouflage clad U.S Marines who manned one of them being displayed at Clark Air Base in April 2016 during the Balikatan (military exercise) among the Yanks and the Filipinos.
“They would be GPS guided,” he retorted as he set the huge  fatigue’s Kevlar helmet and the pocketfuls' bulletproof vest intended for the operator of the HIMARS on my head and body for our photo-op (SEE OUR PHOTO SOMEWHERE IN THIS BLOG).

“Is the price of this monster (Himars) $5.1 million apiece?” I posed.

“Naah, its $6 million apiece now”.
“Philippine government should buy some these so we can sink those ships of the Chinks,”I added.

The secret of Ukraine victories against the Ivans is to quote what Oscar Johnson – a researcher of the Swedish Defense University, said:

“This is Ukraine cleverly spotty on the Russian lines with bad opportunities for redeployment coupled with new longer range capabilities (smart rockets like HIMARS) that can impact on Russian forces”.

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Lingayen Vaunted Market Day to Return

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – Because of the generosity of a landed Filipino-American, the people of this capital town will experience again the once a week customary agew na tienda or big market day  lost from them for countless of decades.

California based Silvestre “Silver” A. Rayos, Jr. will donate 700 square meters’ parcel of land behind the back of McDonald to be used as public utility vehicles’ terminal and venue for a market day to be held either on Saturday or Sunday.

DONOR. Silver A. Rayos (right) poses with Lingayen Mayor Pol Bataoil in Chattanooga Restaurant in the capital town. Rayos donated a right of way in the poblacion area to be used by the constituents of the Mayor and will be giving a 700 square meters real property to be used as terminal of the public utility vehicles and venue for the agew na tienda or market day that was lost for decades in the coastal town.

“Nagdonate na ako ng right of way. In the meantime, pag natapos iyong right of way magkakaroon kami ng MOA between me and the municipality of a 7,000 sqm na gagawin na parking lot ng Lingayen. Sa likod ng McDo in between with the old market connecting to the new reclamation site. From there on every Sunday magiging ano iyong farmer’s market. Doon magtitinda iyong mga taga barrio at malalapit na lugar para ma stimulate ang economy ng Lingayen,” Rayos told this newspaper.

With a market day, producers as far as San Carlos City can sell their goods directly to the buyers for a cheaper price instead of vendors selling through middlemen.

During the interview with this writer, Rayos and Lingayen Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil reminisced the traditional robust market day held every Saturday at the Rizal Park here.

Even in the United States, Silver Rayos maintains friendship with Pangasinan media practitioners. He met them through the social media's Facebook where he opines on political issues actively there. Rayos (second from right) is seen with bicycle legend and Sunday Punch's sports writer Jess Garcia (extreme left) and Northern Watch Newspaper's columnist Arnel Montemayor (2nd from left) where they exchange pleasantries over bottles of beers and sea foods at the Chattanooga in Lingayen complements of the Filipino-American.

The 50 something years old Lingayen born Rayos, who left the coastal town for the U.S when he was 21 years old, deplored that when Magic Mall built there during the administration of Mayor Nolan Evangelista the market day disappeared.

He said during the halcyon days vendors from various municipalities and cities in Pangasinan brought their wares for the market day.

“Minsan mga galing sa San Carlos doon nagtitinda ng goods nila mga bamboo production. Kung minsan pati iyong bakang pinaghahakot ng mga kuwan binebenta na rin. Uuwi (sila) ng dala pera na lang”.

Because of the 700 sqm donation, the vaunted agew na tienda, Rayos said the merchants will be happy with him.

Beleaguered Reporters Face Nuances of Libel

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Many reporters and broadcasters in Manila and in Pangasinan have been sued with the criminal cyber libel cases in the months that stretch to the May 9, 2022 national and local elections.

Before one of them – a blowhard- was sued, he kept crowing to us fellow practitioners how he earned a windfall from national, provincial, and local candidates who paid him monthly as block timer and their apologist in his radio programs.

A MUG SHOT in a police station of an arrested person sued with cyber libel in the Philippines. (Photo credit: Youtube 

Because of his bravados to impress his patrons – and add for more willing pay sponsors – he scathingly attacks with his microphone without even basis the political nemesis and rivals of his benefactors.

A government executive sued him with cyber libel because he bludgeoned him regularly in his broadcast program how the official enriched himself by funneling funds from his post to build his palatial mansion.

I asked my 58 years old pal if he has basis like official receipts that the executive indulged to corruption. He honestly told me he had nothing.

I told him there is a big chance he will be convicted with those online defamation (the unpopular radio station with a modicum of listeners (that can occupy a phone booth) piggyback on Facebook) that mete a penalty of prision mayor of more than eight years’ jail time.

“You’ll go to the calaboose after you battle that case from the Regional Trial Court, Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court. Your braggadocio that you earn tens of thousands of pesos monthly in the last election will be nothing,” I said.

He confidently told me that his sponsor furnished him a private lawyer – who was all paid - where he would be exonerated later.

Lately, he called me how the process to file a bail bond because of a pending warrant of arrest.

“You asked your lawyer to assist you because you can even ask the judge of a reduce bail of P5,000 from the P10,000 bail for cyber libel,” this op-ed writer – who was sued in the past with regular libel  - advise him.

He deplored that he would be seeking the legal gratis services of the lawyer from the public attorney’s office (PA).

“Matutuluyan ka niyan sa Muntinlupa pag PAO ang kinuha mo. Madaming kasong hawak iyan dahil libre sila hindi matutukan mabuti iyang kaso mo!” I exclaimed on the phone.

The lesson with this bragging reporter-friend – who even exaggerated (to the envy of his colleague hahaha-  how much he received from the pulitiko – and other broadcasters – for- sale: The remuneration given to you by your sponsors will be useless in the long grinding legal struggle filed by the complainants – who have enough doughs -  to see you cringe into financial misery and the cold floor of the brig later.

Many reporters who fought tooth and nail with their benefactors in an election have been absconded by the latter and left pathetically to the care of the PAO lawyers.

Was my broadcaster friend left to the care of the PAO? Will see when the regular trial starts.

***

While writing this column, a publisher friend called me this Saturday with an info: One of the three radio announcers sued with libel by a mayor was incarcerated.

“He did not have the money to pay the P10, 700 bail bond,” the mestizo looking lothario-publisher – emphatically said.

He explained the P700 was for the documentary stamps, and other legal fees required by the executive judge.

“Where are his provincial politicians’ patrons whom he fought rabidly during the campaign period of the election?” I posed.

In my decades of journalistic practice, members of the fourth-estate are vulnerable to bribes and highest bidding moneyed politicians.

The financial hardship among the practitioners – a prestigious job but lacks lucrativeness – made them a diehard defender to their benefactors who wet their whistle. The downside: Either they are sued criminally or shoot –to-death by the hire hands of the nemesis of their patrons.

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Crim. Case vs. Mamasapano Actors Should be Dismissed

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

The Special Action Force (SAF) criminally sued the actors of the film’s Mamasapano. They were charged with Illegal Use of Uniform or Insignia which has an imprisonment term of arresto mayor or one month and one day to six months’ jail time.

Its producer lawyer Ferdinand Topacio – who sued former President Noynoy Aquino, et al. on the botched SAF raid in Mamasapano in Maguindano - wondered that despite the flick's entity asked permission from the former SAF’s commanding officer Brig. Gen. Amando Clifton Empiso his successor still charged actors Paolo Gumabao, Rico Barrera and others.

BELEAGUERED ACTORS Paolo Gumabao, Rico Barrera, and Aljur Abrenica. Photo Credit: Bandera

If the prosecutor (called in the past as “fiscal) who handles the case is worth his salt, this case should go in the dustbin.

A criminal case provided in Section 179 of the Revised Penal Code is inferior to the actors’ constitutional rights of freedom of expression enshrined in Section 3 of the Philippines Constitution “no law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech, of expression, or of the press”.

Even annotator Luis B. Reyes of the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines cited that “The provision (Section 179) is not applicable to the using and wearing of such insignia, badge or emblem of rank in playhouse or theater or in moving picture films” when he cited the similar special law provided by Republic Act 493.

It says: Prohibits the unauthorized use of titles and wearing of insignia, badge or emblem or rank of members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine Constabulary (now the Philippine National Police).

Even the complainant charged the actors of not requesting his acquiescence or of the PNP, the wordings of the law did not say the defendants must ask for.

Other social media commenters acrimoniously said that the defendant failed to ask the imprimatur of the cops.

Ubi lex non distinguit, nec nos distinguere debemus (Where the law does not distinguish, nor the interpreter must distinguish) as what a Latin maxim says.

Even R.A 9167 (An Act Creating the Film Development Council of the Philippines) supports these beleaguered actors. It says on its Section 1’s clause:

Pursuant to the constitutional guarantee on freedom of expression, the State shall promote and support the development and growth of the local film industry as a medium or the upliftment aesthetics, cultural and social values or the better understanding and appreciation of the Filipino identity (Section 1).

It’s a different story however if the complainant and the defendant collude to file this ridiculous nonsense case if what in their minds are for the gullible moviegoers to talk about the flick and rush to buy tickets for the celluloid screen.

As what they said in tinsel town: Bad publicity is good publicity.

 Oscar Wilde collaborates this with his quote: The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

And this yokel op-ed writer is already a victim of this agenda as he discusses this brouhaha in these countless paragraphs’ column, hahaha!

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Scoundrels at the DENR, the Lands They Sold

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Binmaley Mayor Pete Merrera blamed the collusion of soldiers and officials of the Department of Environment & Natural Resources by allowing illegal settlers to occupy parts of the 19, 1479 hectares’ military reservation of Camp Andres Malong in this part of Pangasinan.

“Kasabwat iyong mga sundalo kasabwat mga taga DENR kasi ang releasing ay DENR,” Merrera told this newspaper that the certificates of right (CoR) have been distributed by the knaves at the DENR for countless of years for buyers who willingly shell-out millions of pesos for a certain parcel of land there.

 Camp Andres Malong Military Reservation in Binmaley, Pangasinan. Photo is internet grabbed

“Milyon milyon diyan. P5,000 to P10,000 per square meter,” he said about the price of every parcel per square meter (psm) paid by the vendees to these miscreants.

On August 7 this year, 2^nd District Congressman Mark O. Cojuangco requested with expediency the DENR for a cease and desist order of the senseless construction of human structures in the Binmaley’s Baywalk, the portion of military Camp Andres Malong, and along the stretches of Lingayen Gulf pending determination of the legality of their status.

Cojuangco’s letter was addressed to Forester Frank Vincent D. Danglose of the Community Environment and Natural Resources (CENR) of the DENR based in Dagupan City.   

During the administration of Merrera’s mayor-father, he said the shorelines and the areas of the military reservation were squatters-free.

The military camp is under the supervision of 104th Community Defense Center.

An associate of the mayor – who asked for conditioned of anonymity – told this writer that some incumbent and former officials of this town owned a land there.

The newly elected Merrera cited the names of those possessors he said he did not know personally. 

Their surnames are Mejia, Banaciada, Herrera, Lucero, Vinluan to name a few.

“Akalain mo ang acquired property nila diyan sa may kasundaluhan may 570, 1,1080, 16, 170 square meters,” he said about the threatened military reservation.

Merrera disclosed that some of them have even an approved “titles” dated in 1996 and 1997.

The military reservation and the stretches of the shoreline of the Lingayen Gulf are public domain owned by the government.

Foreshore lease law of the Philippines does not allow a builder to construct a permanent structure anywhere within 30 meters from the high tide mark of the sea water.

The tax declarations from the Bureau of Internal Revenue waved by these possessors in the military reservation and the shoreline to the public do not hold water as they are not land titles.

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Ugly Politicians in this City

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

The majority of the opposition councilors in the Sangguniang Panlungsod (lawmaking body) identified with Dagupan City's former mayor Brian Lim had shown lately to Mayor Belen T. Fernandez and her allied solons who’s the boss in the august chamber by not confirming the appointment of her Administrator.

Before the seven opposition Dads assumed office in June 30, I wrote that it would only take two of them to desert in a quid pro quo (like being paid by hefty sums – damn, could be millions of dough - or given a share of some projects where the duo could get a cut) to succumb and eventually joined the party of Fernandez to make the equation in the SP 7-5 in favor to the party of former Mayor Belen.

Photo credit: Quotesgram.com

The present political equation of the minority in the august chamber is three regular Councilors plus the ex-officio members of the Presidents of the Liga ng mga Barangays and the Samahang Kabataan Federation of five legislatures allied with Mayor Belen while those loyal to former Mayor Lim are seven dads.

In the sideline of the inauguration of Mayor Fernandez in June 30, 2022 one of the three minority councilors came to my table for a tête-à-tête.

I told him that they need to persuade two of the dads in the Lim’s party to turncoat so the executive department could implement its programs and avoid any legislative conundrums.

The Councilor – one of the few intelligent Dads – told me he is looking too for that “vulnerable” Councilor in Lim’s Party to go on leave every time there is a votation of a resolution or ordinance needed by the Fernandez Administration.

But I differed to him.

“Pangit naman iyong kada botohan mag li-leave of absence iyong isa o iyong dalawang councilors na sinasabi ninyo”.

I advised him to instigate that Dad to defect to their party instead of taking leave of absence every time there is a division of the house.

“Oo nga, ano?!” he quipped.

He said the lawmaker I’d referred used to be their party mate.

But until now the that particular Dad did not budge. It only shows that money is not everything in this city whose gullible voters have been perennially known to vote for the highest bidder.

Geez, was it John Lennon or Paul McCartney who shouted the first stanza of that rock song’s Can’t Buy Me Love?

That love is his uncompromising loyalty to former Mayor Brian and the mother and daughter Councilors Celia and Irene Lim-Acosta - the bastoneros of the Sanggunian.

With the non-confirmation of the city administrator who is a lawyer and some muscle flexing of the majority like torpedoing a proposed ordinance to lower the boatmen’s fee sponsored by the minority lawmaker who heeded the call of the mayor as urgent bill. After killing it, they (the majority) sponsored it in a committee hearing so they could take credit, salamabit, when it becomes a law. This only showed their gross abuse of power. We call it the Tyranny of the Majority, their sheer hubris to perpetuate their whims and caprices. They wanted to show too to Mayor Belen that dark days’ loom for her administration just like what her then majority councilors put schism on legislation and barred Mayor Brian Lim to function effectively.

One of the darkest hours of Lim was when the dominant dads under the perceive influence of Fernandez – a former six years’ mayor – procrastinate to approve the P1.38 billion 2022 budget of Lim. They approved it only when Fernandez defeated Lim in the May 22 election.

Fernandez and her Dads defanged Lim to implement his 20 percent development fund allocated yearly for infrastructure construction and those other appropriations intended for the social services of the people of Dagupan City.

With the table now turned against Mayor Belen, the opposition SB members relish how the former will suffer just like what she and her dads had done to their patron. Expect to see the Fernandez Administration reels with no new budget for fiscal year 2023 and probably up to year 2025 – the year she and Lim will have their rubber match.

“You reap what you sow” says of a trite adage.

But their constituents salamabit – the 174, 302 million populations (2020 census) – become a collateral damage for the absences of any new infras and services as their bickering and power play worsen.

Woe to the Dagupenos, they have to bear with the schism of their ugly politicians who have score to settle.

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Bataoil wants Airport to be Converted like Iloilo’s Business District

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – In case the national government approved the conversion of the old airport of the capital town here, its mayor wanted to emulate the “Iloilo City’s Experience” in economically transforming its old airport to a thriving business hub.

“We will follow the Iloilo experience. Ang sinasabi nila doon old airport nila ang ginawa nilang commercial district. Now you’ll see beautiful commercial establishments and even five – star hotels in the areas. Investors, locators, foreign investors, and local investors andoon sila. Ang ganda!” Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil said.

The Iloilo Business Park is situated where the old airport was located in Iloilo City’s Mandurriao district. Photo and texts credit: Watchmen Daily Journal

He said how the southern city transformed immensely when the country’s mammoth commercial firms’ Megaworld Corporation, Ayala Land, SM Prime Holdings' SM Iloilo Complex; and Gaisano Group of Companies started in 2007 to relocate in Manduriao.

Bataoil wanted the old airport transferred to the 184 hectares’ real properties in the western barangays here because of a presidential decree that could host it and the acquiescence of former House Speaker Joe de Venecia to donate a large portion of his lands there for the construction of the new airport.

The former police general said that the present airport located in Barangay Libsong endangers the safety of bigger aircraft and their passengers because of the cross wind.

The airport is located near the shoreline of Lingayen Gulf.

Cross wind means a strong wind that blows across the direction that vehicles, boats, or aircraft are travelling in, and that makes it difficult for them to keep moving steadily forward. (Collins Dictionary)

“If we relocated the existing airport because the airport is not compliant with the specific of commercial or even domestic airport therefore we have to – if you asked me – will recommend it in fact I recommended it to the DOTR (Department of Transportation) the relocation of the said airport because it’s being used for training purposes na lang”.

The conversion of the old Iloilo Airport resulted to Megaworld Corporation’s procurement of 72-hectare (180-acre) of the Iloilo Business Park; Ayala Land’s occupation of 32-hectare (79-acre) at the Atria Park District; SM Prime Holdings' SM Iloilo Complex; and Gaisano Group of Companies’s providing 16-hectare (40-acre) Iloilo City Center. South of the Atria Park District is the Smallville Business Complex, Iloilo's nightlife capital and a popular dining and entertainment hub. These townships are adjacent to each other, resulting in the formation of a single large CBD in one area being named Iloilo Midtown CBD.

Mandurriao, Wikipedia cited, also has the highest concentration of high-rise buildings in Iloilo City. Besides the high structures, it has a remarkable aesthetic and a reputation as the central amusement hub of the metro. Trade and commerce continue to soar in the district. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies, upscale hotels, residential towers, large malls, parks, and offices are sprouting everywhere within the district.