Ombudsman Denies Cases vs. Mangaldan Mayor, Top Cop

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

MANGALDAN – The criminal and the administrative cases filed against the mayor and the former chief- of- police (COP) here were dismissed recently by the Ombudsman.

BARS. Then Mangaldan Poblacion Barangay Chairman Jojo Quinto (L), presently
a town councilor, tearfully told media men  in December 3, 2014 how he
and then Council Woman Tonette Morillo, the incumbent Poblacion Barangay Chair,
were arbitrary arrested by the police. The cops threw  them to the calaboose after
they violated the 60 days preventive suspension imposed on them by Mangaldan
Mayor Bona Fe D. Parayno. 

In a joint resolution signed last July 14, 2017 by Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, she approved the recommendation of Alex P. Ramos, Graft Investigation and Prosecution Officer II, who penned that there was no criminal case of Arbitrary Detention and administrative cases of Grave Misconduct and Oppression on the complaint of former Poblacion Barangay Chairman Joselito G. Quinto and Barangay Poblacion First Council Woman Melinda P. Morillo.

“The charge for Arbitrary Detention must fail because the detention of complainants was with legal ground. Complainants’ suspension commenced on 16 October 2014 and was supposed to end on 16 December 2014. The termination of the administrative proceedings and the referral of the case to the court did not automatically lift their preventive suspension,” wrote by Ramos on January 29, 2016 in the Joint Resolution.

Prof Recalls PMA Wards Who Are Successful Politicians

By Mortz C. Ortigoza 


As a former resident of the Philippine Military Academy at Fort del Pilar Baguio City in the late 1960s and early 1970s and late 1980s, I, my younger brother (a former member of the military’s Corp of Professor), and my retired military father attended recently the Sunday Worship Service at the Evangelical Church there.

The Evangelical Church at the Philippine Military Academy in Baguio City

After the service, it amused to see that about a hundred of cadets and cadettes of PMA and four dozens of mostly military men and their kin queued for cups of brewed coffee at the two stainless canisters and three huge plastic baskets of pandesals probably to reinvigorate their spirits after we exhaustively concentrated listening to the sermon of Chaplain Major Joel Flores and singing our lungs out with hosannas to the Lord.

From Left: The famous Susan of the Batchoy Canteen, Author, Christian Caingcoy
and retired Colonel Ordindo Caingcoy. Susan, according to PMYers, is so
popular that generals in the military and police could sentimentally remember her
during their cadet's stints.

When I bumped into Retired Colonel Orlindo C. Caingcoy and daughter Christian whose husband is Commodore Sam Felix (PMA Class of 1986 where Susan of the vaunted PMA Batchoy Canteen proudly told me na “mistah ni (PNP Chief) Bato si Sam”), my kasimanwa Professor Caingcoy told me he was a frequent visitor of Dagupan City where I resided after I left my work at the Public Information Office of the Premier Military School in 1990 for a professorial job in a university in the nearby Bangus City.

“I have my former students there who are now successful politicians,” he said.

He cited Pangasinan Second District Congressman Leopoldo Bataoil (PMA 1976) and former Pangasinan Governor and now Pangasinan Fifth District Congressman Amado T. Espino, Jr (PMA Class of 1972).

“I could not forget Espino when I was still a lieutenant while he was a cadet,” cited by Caingcoy who was an Engineer in Iloilo City before he was plucked to PMA in the 1960s.

He said Cadet Espino came to him in the early 1970s and requested him to become a soccer coach of the Academy. He said he acquiesced with Espino, who was a member of the footbal team, and was amused that once upon a time he (Caingcoy) was a soccer coach of the Long Gray Line in Barangay Kias, Baguio City.

My former neighbor at the 1970s in RFC, PMA and fellow protestant now Talogtog, Mangaldan Village Chief Godfrey Carbonel told me that Caingcoy is now a missionary.

“The good colonel is now a missionary Mortz. He and his group dropped by the house here in Mangaldan a couple of years back after a church planting mission somewhere in San Fabian”.

Talking about coach, I overheard my father telling old timers there about a contemporary and PMA Boxing Mentor ”Wonder Boy” Doyaoen.

When I worked at the Academy in the late 1980s I saw the rugged but courteous Doyaoen with his military and civilian sons working together at the P.E Department located at the Jurado Hall.

Another coach I saw at the office there was Taekwondo Instructor Jeff Tamayo who should be general if not then President Joseph Estrada, where he was a closed in bodyguard, was ousted from office and whose daughter became my student in a college at the University of Perpetual Help System in Las Pinas City, Metro Manila.

UPHS and its other chains of universities all over Luzon are owned by the Tamayos of Malasiqui, Pangasinan.

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My Debate with a De Venecia on the City Hall's Brouhahas

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

As I browsed my book (International Law) at McDonald –Tapuac in Dagupan City, former City Councilor Alex de Venecia, the nephew of former Speaker Joe de Venecia, stopped by at my table and asked me why I’m reading a law book.
I told him, in a mixed of Pangasinan and Tagalog, that as a political columnist I should be one step ahead with other sensible columnists on issues with international bearing.
“When I was a councilor many city hall officials and some media men hated your guts. They told me “hindi naman iyan taga dito dayo lang iyan,” Alex, who said me he just arrived from New York City.

Perspective of the New City Hall in Dagupan.

I chuckled about that branding as “dayo lang” and I cited former Pangasinan Congressmen Mark Cojuangco, Gina de Venecia, and Rachel Arenas who are also “dayo lang in Pangasinan”.

Q & A: “Urbanized first before any airport, harbour become possible” – Business Tycoon Quiambao

Political Columnist and Blogger Mortz C. Ortigoza sat recently with Business Tycoon and Bayambang, Pangasinan Mayor Cezar T. Quiambao who discusses the future of the Information Technology - Business Process Outsourcing (IT- BPO) like the vaunted Call Centers, Knowledge Process Outsourcing, and Back Offices in the province, the expensive minimum wage in Mainland China, the industrialization and urbanization of Pangasinan and her cities for the constructions of an airport and a harbor.

Quiambao through Strategic Development Alliance Corporation (Stradec) is the controlling shareholders of Stradcom Corporation.  The Quezon City based Stradcom, according to Bloomberg, owns, and operates information technology infrastructure projects for government under the Build-Operate-Transfer law in Philippines. It also designs websites for insurance companies and private emission testing centers, as well as provides mobile services, including insurance SMS for information on authentication, inquiries, tips, and procedures. EXCERPTS OF THE INTERVIEW:

 

TYCOON - Business Tycoon and Pangasinan Mayor Cezar T. Quiambao (Left) and Political Columnist Mortz C. Ortigoza in one of the interviews of the latter to the former.

MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA: Sir, you mentioned in your last State of the City Address (SOCA) to catapult your town as the Documents Capital of the Philippines. How about hosting of other sub-sectors of BPO –IT? It’s a P50 billion industry in year 2020. That’s the thrust now of Dagupan City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez after the Philippines Economics Zone Authority (PEZA) approved the inclusion of the growth center of the City.

CEZAR QUIAMBAO: We don’t have enough communication network and higher-speed broadband. They need back up provided by Smarts, Globe, PLDT, others. They need fiber optic technology.

 Then you have to coordinate with the executives of these telecommunication providers I surmised you know them?

 Yes, but they should have a line here to put fiber optic telecommunication networks.

Kailangan ng telecommunication iyan, kailangan may back up to “transfer large amounts of information at very fast speed” para sa satellites (The telecommunication need that, they need back up to “transfer large amounts of information at very fast speed” for the satellites.

So ano ang mangyayari sa Dagupan City, the investors, they have to talk with the telcos (So what will happen to Dagupan City, the investors, they have to talk with the telecommunication companies)?

 Yes they have to convince Smart, PLDT, Globe in Dagupan City.

Sabi kasi ng mga (according to) bigwigs ng mga BPO in the country sa Summit nila sa Dagupan City last year the BPO would be generating five thousand jobs in the City in the next three years. But Mayor Fernandez who read this on my blog told me it could be 20,000 direct and indirect jobs in the three new growth centers in the city.

Puwede naman kung may enough telecommunication networks.

CITY CONDUCTS POVERTY REDUCTION SEMINAR

DAGUPAN CITY – To address hunger and malnutrition and provide additional source of income for identified poor households, the city conducted an orientation seminar to 60 households on Integrated Community Food Production (ICFP) of the National Anti-Poverty Commission at the city museum on August 3.

EMPLOYER’S FORUM – Dagupan City’s Public Employment and Services Office (PESO) in partnership with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Canada, Asian Development Bank and the Bureau of Local Employment initiates a JobStart employers’ forum at CSI Stadia on August 3 which seeks to strengthen PESO's capacity to offer timely, accurate information on job vacancies and needed skills and assist with job searches. In photo are (from left) city’s PESO manager Joy Siapno, City Administrator Farah Marie G. Decano, Mayor Belen T. Fernandez, DOLE Region 1 Director Nathaniel Lacambra and DOLE Pangasinan Field Office Head Engracio Bailon. (CIO photo by Jojo Tamay

The 60 households were from barangays Bacayao Sur, Caranglaan, Mayombo, Malued, Mangin, Tebeng, Mamalingling, Pugaro, Calmay, Bonuan Gueset, and Bonuan Binloc. They were considered recipients of the program because they have children who are nutritionally at risk.

CHO IS GIVING FREE VACCINES TO PUBLIC SCHOOL PUPILS IN DAGUPAN

The City Health Office (CHO) under the Alagang Balon Dagupan of Mayor Belen T. Fernandez is now making rounds in all the public schools in connection with its School Based Immunization (SBI) program for grades one and four pupils.

CHO doctors and nurses led by City Health Officer Dr. Ophelia T. Rivera had been to nine schools since August 1 where they administered free tetanus-diphtheria and measles-rubella vaccines to grade one pupils and free human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV) to grade four pupils (girls).

HPV prevents cervical cancer to women and costs P2,850 to P3,000 if availed of in private hospitals.

Fernandez is encouraging all parents to have their children undergo vaccination which is being given free by the city.

“Sana pabakunahan natin ang ating mga anak para sila ay malayo sa sakit at manatili silang malusog sa lahat ng panahon,” said Fernandez.

Halalan barangay, teka muna ulit?

Ni KITZ BASILA

WALANG nabanggit na halalan sa barangay, sa katatapos na State of the Nation Address (SONA), ni Pangulong Rodrigo Roa Duterte, noong July 24, sa Batasan Pambansa, na lunan ng Mababang Kongreso ng Pilipinas.

PINANOOD na may pagaabang sa ihahayag na magaganap na halalan, na naitakdang gawin kung matutuloy ay sa buwan ng Oktobre nitong taon na ito, makalipas na ‘teka muna’ noong nakaraang taon.

BULUNGBULUNGAN tuloy na baka raw ‘teka muna’ muli ang hakbang ng Duterte administration dahil sa mga sala-salaba’t na dahilan na may buhol-buhol na katwiran para di-matutuloy.

ANG TANONG, sinu-sino ang mga matutuwa? Papaano naman daw ang mga uma-aligaga? Eh, ang ilan na buwisit na sa siste at huwego ng konsehong-pasaway?

Abay! Swerteng konseho ni Kapitan, hinihinog ng paulit-ulit na pagpapaliban.

Kabayan, manaig sana ang makabuluhang katwiran kapag muli ay ipagpapaliban ang halalan pam-barangay sa taong ito.

Nawa ay ang ikabubuti ng mas nakararami ang sangkalan na dahilan. At manawari, ang kalugod-lugod sa mas nakararami ang lulutang na tugon nito.

IKAW, gusto mo bang halalan ay ganapin na sa taong ito?