Power
rate hike looms
By
KIT BAGAIPO | | | Bohol
Light Company Inc. (BLCI) will soon impose a 26.24 centavos per kilowatt-hour
(kw/h) increase even as consumers face a 40-percent water rate hike implemented
by its sister utility company Bohol Water Utilities Inc. (BWUI).
Bohol
Light's petition for increase which is now pending at the Energy Regulatory Commission
(ERC) is met with even more resistance by its concessionaires and City Mayor Dan
Lim after the ERC's notice of hearing was served late.
Mayor
Lim vowed to contest the power rate adjustment as he has done with the 40-percent
water rate hike of Bohol Water.
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| | | Just
Before Deadline.... |
Solon,
bodyguard
gunned down in QC
MANILA.
Congressman Luis "Chito" Bersamin Jr. of the lone district of Abra province
had just attended a relative's wedding at the Mount Carmel Church on Doña
Juana Rodriguez (formerly Broadway) Street, New Manila, Quezon City at around
5:15 p.m. yesterday when two unidentified suspects gunned him down in an ambush.
Quezon
City Police District (QCPD) director Senior Superintendent Magtanggol Gatdula
said the lawmaker was walking toward his car outside the church when one of the
suspects fired at a bodyguard, Senior Police Officer 1 Adelfo Ortega, then shot
the congressman, killing both.
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| | 85%
Boholanos oppose Con-con
By
KIT BAGAIPO
Eighty-five
percent of the Boholanos are against the new proposal of Malacañang and
the House of Representatives to convene a constitutional convention (Con-con).
This
even as Pres. Arroyo backed out last Thursday her call for either ConCon or Constituent
assembly (ConAss).
FULL
STORY | | |  | | | Miss
BAMMI heats up Dec. count
By
DOVIC TIROL
Close
to 300 members of the Bohol Association of Metro Manila Inc. (BAMMI) representing
15 active town associations trooped to the Cardinal Sin Gymnasium on Dec. 9, for
the second canvassing of the Search for Miss BAMMI 2007.
The
Miss BAMMI search gained added momentum as five new candidates from Tagbilaran
City, Sierra Bullones, Guindulman, Bien Unido and Ubay joined the tilt for the
crown. Altogether, 13 muses were at hand during the canvassing, which also saw
the association's cumulative take rising to P127,785.
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| | | EDITORIAL | | | GOODBYE
LEO, WELCOME LEO| | |  | | In
Latin, Leo means Lion, the avowed King of the Jungle, who rules with majesty and
might. The Lion is feared by his enemies and loved by those he protects. |
It
is therefore, not mere coincidence, that the changing of the guards as the Bishop
of the Diocese of Tagbilaran, a diocese of 50 parishes and close to half a million
faithful Catholics ends and begins with a Leo.
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