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VOL. LIII. No. 108
City of Tagbilaran, Bohol, Philippines
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
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RIGID CHECK. PNP Prov'l Director Edgardo Ingking and BDRC Warden Ret. Col. Raul Mendez (photos above) supervise the body count while all cells were rigidly checked by the police. Photo at left shows the inmates waiting for directives when they could go back to their respective cells. Foto BRUZE ZABALA


 

1 killed in jail recoup
By KIT BAGAIPO

 

One person was killed as absolute control and management of the Bohol Detention and Rehabilitation Center (BDRC) was regained by provincial jail authorities yesterday following a swift pre-emptive strike by a composite team of the Bohol Provincial Police Office, the PNP Regional Special Reaction Unit and the Philippine Army.
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BDRC "ASSAULT." Left photo shows the lifeless body of inmate Nilo Corbeta (with revolver) is checked by a member of the SWAT team which entered the Bohol Detention & Rehabilitation Center (BDRC) past 5 o'clock yesterday morning. Right photo shows the inmates on their belly at the open ground with their hands tied to make sure no one escapes while the body count was being conducted. Fotos KIT BAGAIPO/DANNY REYES/ BRUCE ZABALA

Just Before Deadline
Drive to phase out
incandescent bulbs
MANILA. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday said it is set to launch a program to distribute about nine million compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) to low-income Filipino families as part of a plan to phase out incandescent bulbs in the country by 2010.
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PHILIPPINE "INDEPENDENCE" DAY

 

The "damaged" Filipino culture of today is said to be the product of 400 years of Spain and 50 years of Hollywood.

Spain brought us Christianity that bordered on the ritualistic, sometimes pagan rites and the almost deification of the clergy. The Spanish bureaucrats and the soldiers subjugated the tribes into small fiefdoms and then ruled them.
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