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VOL. LIII. No. 082
City of Tagbilaran, Bohol, Philippines
 Wednesday, March 5, 2008
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TRICYCLES FRANCHISE FEE HIKE. Hundreds of tricycle operators jammed City Hall yesterday afternoon to voice their objection to the proposed increase in franchise fees to be collected by the government. City Kagawad Nerio Zamora III presided the public hearing while other lawmakers, Kagawads Lucio Balbin, Edgar Bompat and Kit Oppus were also present to listen to the reactions of the tricycle operators.

 

City targets P24M
from cab operators
 

The city government is targeting to generate P24 million from tricycle operators in the city as the franchise fee will be increased once it will be approved by the Sangguniang Panlungsod.

This expected income is computed once proposed Ordinance No. 02-08, which mandates franchise fee of P12,000 (for five years), gets approved by the city lawmakers.
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Just Before Deadline
Supreme Court finds
loopholes in Neri defense

Supreme Court justices found loopholes in the petition of former Socio-Economic Planning director-general Romulo Neri to prevent the Senate from arresting him, raising the likelihood that the status quo order earlier issued by the high tribunal will be lifted.

This means Neri will be compelled to attend the Senate hearings.

Lawyers for Neri succumbed to the arguments raised by the magistrates that he had wrongly invoked executive privilege to avoid testifying in the Senate and that the former NEDA secretary failed to exhaust other remedies to stop the arrest warrant issued to him by the Senate.
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Editorial
 

DISTINGUISHING SYMPTOMS
FROM THE DISEASE
 

Political quack doctors with analytical myopia tragically mistake the symptoms from the disease in this country.

They rumble that the "political noise" and "rambunctious rallies" scare away investors and cause destabilization. They are wrong in both counts.
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LET'S COORDINATE. Provl PNP Director Edgardo Ingking talks with Col. Raolo Reyes of the Phil Army and former LMP Pres., Provl BM Josephine Jumamoy (back of camera) after the joint meeting last Monday. Foto DANNY REYES
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