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VOL. LIII. No. 103
City of Tagbilaran, Bohol, Philippines
Sunday, May 18, 2008
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City water treatment
facility starts August

The much awaited water treatment facility which is needed to save the seawaters at the City Port from turning into like the dirty waters at Manila port will start construction not later than August this year.

This was the pronouncement made yesterday by City Mayor Dan Lim in the wake of mounting public clamor to address the drainage problem in the city. The project is estimated to cost P100 million which will be funded by a loan with the Development Bank of the Phils (DBP).
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NON-FUNCTIONAL. This P5 million drainage project in front of the Central Market seems not to function as flooding and foul odor are noticed in the area up to the road fronting the Island City Mall. Can City Hall explain well why flooding continues. Foto DANNY REYES

Just Before Deadline.....
Arroyo to meet Meralco chair

MANILA. Pres. Macapagal-Arroyo is willing to meet with Manuel Lopez, the Manila Electric Co.'s chair and CEO, amid an increasingly acrimonious media war between the power distribution utility and administration allies in and out of Congress.
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SPORTS
Big-time show awaits
movie, cage fans here


May 25, a Sunday is a very special day not only for die-hard movie fans here but also to our basketball fans.

The once-in-a-lifetime stint here of the popular Showbiz All-stars led by Boholano movie artist and other equally-popular actors for an exhibition game against a reinforced DYRD All-Stars in the main attraction of a twin bill offering at the HNU Gym along Lessage street, this city starting at 7 pm this coming Sunday, is expected to surpass the thrill-packed PBA Fiesta Cup game between Purefoods and Alaska at the Calape Cultural and Sports Center and the recent Ex-PBA players game against the Bohol Selection at the HNU Gym.
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Hanjin workers seek justice on SC ruling
By KIT BAGAIPO

Some 428 Boholano workers continue to demand justice after they were not paid
by Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC) despite the finality of a Supreme Court decision awarding backwages and benefits to them.
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Boholano doc's
research tops PCP

A young Boholano doctor's analytical research on iodine against pneumonia has won first place in a Philippine College of Physicians (PCP) competition after his same prolific work was adjudged among the best last year by the University of the Philippines - College of Medicine (UPCM) and Philippine General Hospital (PGH).
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ALL SET. The time capsule laying ceremony for the proposed P4.2 billion Panglao Bohol International Airport will be on this site in Tawala, Panglao where Pres. Arroyo (inset) will be the guest of honor on Tuesday, 10 a.m. Foto DANNY REYES

EDITORIAL
POOR HEALTH SERVICE:
BOHOL'S BLACK-EYE

 

Allow us to add our agitated voice to the many state of affairs in the province.

Let us stop playing cute and let's call a frigging spade a frigging spade.
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