FREE BAGS IN BINMALEY

Thousands of bags for pupils in Binmaley, Pangasinan occupied the hallway of the second floor of the Municipal Hall. According to the staff of Mayor Sam Rosario the hizzoner still await the supplier of the bags to complete the 14, 000 bags he ordered for distribution to public schools students in the town. MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA

Camacho, Dads Court Plunder Case - So

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

BAYAMBANG – Incase this town’s officials consummate the swapping deal between the 3.1 hectares P520 million Bayambang Central School and the P152 million relocation site, they will be courting a non-bailable Plunder Case.

PLUNDER CASE. Abono Party-List Chairman Rosendo So told media men in Bayambang, Pangasinan that the onerous swap deal contract between the owner of a 2 hectares relocation site and the 3.1 hectares prime land Bayambang Central School being cooked by Bayambang Mayor Ricardo Camacho and the Members of the Sangguniang Bayan would make them liable in the Plunder Law incase they consummate it with the site owner Businessman William Chua.

With Engineer So is Town Councilor Chato Junio (extreme right) who denounced all her colleagues in the Council in dragging the town in an illegal transaction. MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA  

According to Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura  (SINAG) President Rosendo So he just found at the records of the Senate and House of Representatives that the two-hectare relocation site in Barangay Bical here occupied by the  teachers and more than 2000 pupils of the Central School was bought for P150, 000 only by William Chua. Chua had declared that the property and improvement he introduced on the site reached P152 million.
“Itong nakalagay dito sa First Party and Second Party na iyong property niya doon ay P152 million, ang layo doon sa P150,000 and nakikita natin dito sa document na dahil two hectares lang siya, iyong additional na 1.1 hectares babayaran lang ng P30 million,” he stressed in a press conference here.
So said that the 3.1 hectares BCS is worth P16,700 per square meter (PSM) as based on the purchased price of the owner of a commercial edifice to a lot just in front of the school.
“This is P520 million,” he emphatically referred to the fair market value of the the real property in BCS.
He warned local officials, that includes Mayor Ricardo Camacho and most members of the Sangguniang Bayan (Town Council), that they would be courting a plunder case incase they successfully conspired to conclude a contract with businessman Chua in an onerous Memorandum of Exchange.
Plunder Law states that a public official can be charged with plunder if the accused has accumulated wealth amounting to at least P50 million through any of the following methods: “By the illegal or fraudulent conveyance or disposition of assets belonging to the national government or any of its subdivisions, agencies or instrumentalities or government-owned or -controlled corporations and their subsidiaries”.
Aside from the Plunder Law, officials here would be liable too to the Anti-Graft & Corrupt Practices Act. It provides in one of its subsections: “Entering, on behalf of the Government, into any contract or transaction manifestly and grossly disadvantageous to the same, whether or not the public officer profited or will profit thereby”.
According to this town Councilor Chato Junio, initially the Council passed an emergency resolution for the transfer of the mentors and pupils in BCS after the school was gutted by fire and threatened by flood and dengue. It was later followed by another resolution empowering the mayor for the temporary transfer of the teachers and pupils who were recalcitrant to go to the almost two kilometers new school site.
The parents of these students reasoned out, according to Filipina Alcantara, president of the Parents Teachers Association, that they could not afford the daily P20 tricycle fares.
“Three months palang akong  konsehal hindi na po ako sumasang-ayon doon sa pag-transfer at ano  pang mga negotiations. Sapagkat nalalaman natin ay mali. Ang tama ay tama hangang kailan,” Junio assailed all his colleagues in the August Body in a press conference she attended with So.
Councilor Junio cited that even Congresswoman Rosemarie Arenas (3rd District, Pangasinan) warned Camacho and the councilors to forego their plan because of the repercussion that await them.
“Nagpunta po kami lahat sa Congress at hinarap po kami ni Congresswoman Arenas. Paliwanag niya na huwag paki-alaman  especially ni Mayor na huwag ilipat kasi baka ika-pahamak ninyong lahat”.
So said Superintendent Ruby Torio of the Department of Education’s Pangasinan-1 told him that the DepEd opposes the transfer but was obliged under the fear of contempt of court. Mayor Camacho sued the teachers with a mandamus case at the Branch 56 Regional Trial Court in San Carlos City to oblige them to transfer in a school site the teachers said was not recognized by the Dep Ed.
The case is still pending at the sala of Judge Hermogenes Fernandez after he issued an indefinite mandatory injunction to the occupants of the BCS until he resolves the case.
So said that until now his source at the municipal hall and the acting principal of the new school told him that they have not received the demand letter of Chua to Camacho for the latter to sign the Deed of Exchange within 15 days otherwise he (Chua) would order the mentors and the pupils to return to the school.
“Wala pa daw natangap as of kahapon (November 5). May e-mail lang silang natangap pero walang opisyal na dumating na letter”.
As precautionary measure to the ultimatum, So and former Congressman Mark Cojuangco donated P400 thousand and P1 million, respectively, for the immediate repair of the BCS where doors, ceilings, iron grills, black boards, chairs, and other parts of the building were vandalized and pillaged with impunity by thieves.
The stashing of properties ensued because the former principal Danilo Lopez and the local government unit here did not put any security guard.
So, chairman also of the Abono Party-list, said he got a pledge of 2000 arm chairs and 50 teachers' tables from different individuals and organizations in the country for the bellied out school.
He said that incase Chua, owner of the chains of 168 malls in Pangasinan, is found as an illegal alien, the contract the latter and the officialdom here have been cooking would be null and void if they both signed it.
The BCS’s American era Gabaldon Building had been gutted by fire in a mysterious way last June 2012.
Camacho and the Council said the place would be converted to a central terminal and a mall owned by Chua.
But Alcantara told media men that another interest of government officials is the Japanese treasures buried underneath the 3.1 hectares land. 

Cuckold’s Liability After Cutting Penis of Wife’s B.F

By MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA

Recently, a fisherman in Pangasinan cut-off the dick of the paramour (kabit) of his wife after they were caught inflagrante delicto (caught in the act) having sexual intercourse.
Bolinao, Pangasinan Chief of Police Superintendent Marcos Anod said the 40-year-old fisherman had long suspected that his partner had been seeing another man.
The fisherman told his wife that he would go to the high sea to fish. Unknown to the spouse, the former hid at the back of the house until the paramour – a young man – arrived.
When confronted the wife jumped and ran naked while the young man was caught literally with his pants down in his knee that restrained him to run.
He asked the guy whether he chopped his head above or his tiny head below, that shrunk to an inch according to Anod. The paramour chose the latter.

 Here's my take to Bombo Bogs Toribio who discussed the liability of the cuckold (tina-taihan ni Mrs. Sa ulo) fisherman.
“Hi Bogs, maabsuelto iyang namutol ng ari ng kalaguyo ng missis niya. kahit nga pinatay niya pa iyong tao DESTIERRO (exile) lang punishment niya ayon sa Section 247 ng Revised Penal Code. Normal lang sa police na mag file ng Mutilation sa suspect, trabaho kasi nila iyon. Bahala na ang Fiscal mag dismiss o iyong Judge mag dismiss sa kaso”
***
Feeling bored the other day, I asked a friend to accompany me to the office of a local government unit’s official.
The official told me that the mayor earns X million pesos a month from the number game Meridian (successor of Jueteng).
“Maliit iyan kung iipunin niya for 2016 election. Maraming bisyo at babae si mayor,” he said.
I told him the mayor can still steal through S.O.P from the 30% infrastructure projects under his yearly budget.
“Maliit pa rin iyon”.
He told me that the advisers of the mayor are cooking for something big: An X million pesos loan in a bank! 
“Diyan 20% or X Pesos Million na si mayor pang –gastos na iyan sa election”.
He said the LGU’s folks did not know that their mayor screws them. 
“Pang project daw iyong uutangin, e wala pang approval iyong DENR (Department of Environment & Natural Resources".
Aside from the hundreds of million pesos, the residents are paying for the balance of X million pesos the mayor borrowed in the past in a government bank.
Susmariosep, more yearly amortizations in the banks because of the loans means shortage for school buildings, chairs, medicines in the LGU’s hospital, village roads, social services, and others in the budgeting.
***
I met Davao Regional Trial Court 's Judge Magnolia Velez when she was then with the Office of the Solicitor General. "Asa ka na maasign karon 'day (where will be your new assignment, sister)," this Ilonggo pen pusher asked Atty. Velez in his off-tune Cebuano when she was lawyering for our beleaguered Pangasinan Police Director S/Supt. Marlou Chan in 2012.
She told me she would be assigned as an RTC Judge in Davao. Sannamagan, I just read the Inquirer that she now handles the case of former Davao del Sur Governor  Douglas Cagas (NOTE:  The present Governor Claude P.Bautista and politician father hailed from Binmaley, Pangasinan as what I told Rep. Pol Bataoil (2nd District, Pangasinan) when I saw years ago the office of Congressman Bautista in Congress) Judge Velez would be the one to issue a warrant of arrest in a non-bailable murder charge against a former governor after the latter was implicated on the killing of a journalist based in Digos City.
 High profile case kini Inday Magnolia! 

Baldoz Awed by the Capitol

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz (2^nd from left) is amazed with the transformation of the Capitol under the leadership of Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. as Provincial Administrator Rafael Howard F. Baraan (2^nd from right) toured her around the building last November 6.   The DOLE Secretary saw the huge improvement of Pangasinan from the time she last visited the province between the years 2000 to 2008 when she was still a POEA administrator.  Also in photo are (from left): DOLE Undersecretary Reydeluz Conferido and Cong. Leopoldo N. Bataoil. /MVS

Macanlalay Bares Projects under his P180M Budget

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

CALASIAO – The mayor of this burgeoning town bares the projects his administration has been implementing under the P180 million municipal budgets for this year.

Calasiao Mayor Mark Macanlalay (5th from left) and former Congress-
man Mark Cojuangco (3rd from left) oversee the distribution of
relief goods the latter gave to the flooded villages in the town.

Mayor Mark Roy Macanlalay said the biggest allocation has been given to the construction and maintenance of farm-to-market roads.

“Sa infra iyong mga improvements ng FMR (farm-to-market road) iyon kasi mang-gagaling iyan sa 30% development fund (in the P180 million budget) doon kasi manga-galing funds natin panggastos natin doon”.

He said some of this year’s budget has been appropriated to bleachers for the usage and embellishment of this town plaza.

He cited that their constructions are still being studied as not to block the façade of the municipal hall.

Construction of the common food center has been undertaken so it can cater to people who reside in and outside of this town, covered courts for all elementary schools and construction and maintenance of municipal roads.

“And improvement din ng iba pang mga kalsada, counterpart natin sa 2.5% para doon sa bottoms up budgeting naman”.

He said that aside from the allocation from the budget for the farm-to-market road, the provincial government has re-graveled some village roads and repaired and constructed several public schools’ classrooms.

Out of the P180 million budgets this year, the mayor said P120 million came from the internal revenue allotment (IRA) while P60 million came from local taxes.

He said it is not good to compare the collection of taxes this year versus last year since 2013 was a year where the new market had just been finished, the Marusay Bridge, avenue for vehicles that enter and exit this town, had been closed for more than a year.

He said a better basis for comparison if the local revenue collection spikes will be this year and next year.

‘We did not violate any law’ – PA Baraan

Lingayen-- "We did not violate any law in the implementation of that project."

Pangasinan Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan (R)
and Governor Amado T. Espino.

Thus said Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan as he delivered a speech during the provincial employees Flag-Raising Ceremony held at the Capitol Plaza in Lingayen on November 3.

He was referring to the eco-tourism zone project where a golf course was supposed to have been built. However its construction had been put on hold after complainants filed a case before the office of the Ombudsman alleging that magnetite sand had been illegally extracted from the shores of Barangay Sabangan.

Baraan lamented, "As far as we know, we were doing everything within the bounds of the law and according to all regulations."

He stressed that had the implementation of the eco-tourism zone been completed, it would have spurred investment, increased influx of tourists arrivals and generated jobs to benefit the people of Pangasinan.

Despite this, the Office of the Ombudsman indicted Governor Amado T. Espino and 13 others for allegedly “engaging in the illegal black sand mining trade in the Lingayen Gulf area.”

Baraan, therefore, expressed grief that they have been indicted for the wrong reasons and that there is nothing to rectify as far as he is concerned.

"Gov. Espino has been trying his very best to really bring progress and prosperity in the province and to bring good things for the poor," he said.

“You have seen how he has tremendously improved our hospital operations and how he has laboured to provide livelihood opportunities for our people, “Baraan stressed.

Baraan added that the governor was not able to attend the ceremony because his mother -- who was again gravely affected by the recent turn of events -- had to be rushed to a hospital's ICU and that the governor was arranging for her transfer to a better hospital somewhere in Manila.

Pangasinan Bags Best NSM Province

 Provincial Planning and Development Office Coordinator Benny Pizarro  (front row, 8^th from left) flashes the number one sign with other winning Pangasinan delegates after the province was adjudged as the region’s Best Province for the 2014 National Statistics Month (NSM) celebration during the awarding ceremonies held at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas in San Fernando, La Union last October 30.  Pangasinan contingents won major awards in various NSM contests such as: slogan-poster making, oratorical, essay writing, and first runner-up in statistical quiz.  The plaque was presented by National Economic and Development Authority Asst. Regional Dir. Nestor Rillon (front row, 7