Outfall of drainage
opened

Environment Management Bureau (EMB) Director Rolando Luego told the Chronicle last Friday there was no Discharge Permit issued by his office which is required to ensure pollution control measures before allowing liquid wastes to be released.
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FLOODING seems to get solved along CPG Avenue with the opening of the drainage outfall last Thursday. But, middle-left photo shows the bigger problem with the black, odorous water which puts to risk the seawaters fronting the City Port. Top photo shows city consultant Cecil Corloncito and GSO

EDITORIAL
TEMPORARY RELIEF FROM DRAINAGE WOES

Thanks to a perilous Typhoon Signal No. 1 and two successive typhoons - the Office of the City Mayor - finally - did something right

But it is just a temporary relief - a band-aid solution - for a gaping wound that remains un-addressed. The whole caboodle of inter-related problems is not even one-third solved. FULL TEXT

No "double entry"of 20M equipment budget - PBO

The Provincial Budget Office has issued clarification over the alleged "double entry" of P20,836,000 allocation for equipment acquisition included in the provincial Supplemental Budget (SB) No. 03, series of 2008 amounting to a total of PhP48,617,985.66.

Provincial budget officer Valeria Orig said that the inclusion of P20,836,000 in SB No. 03 could not be considered as "double entry" because the other budget of P168 million earlier proposed for a fleet of equipment has already been corrected to P148 million. FULL STORY


Bohol Division presscon opens

The Department of Education, Division of Bohol holds the 2008 Division Schools Press Conference this week at the Bohol Cultural Center, with the secondary level to start today and caps on Nov. 11 and the elementary level, Nov. 12 to 14.

To be participated by student writers province-wide, the annual gab is a three-day activity of lecture-discussions and workshop sessions, highlighted with competitions in individual/group writing and in radio broadcasting. The winners will represent the province in the regional level.
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SPORTS
Ready, Set, RORO!
2008 kicks off here
Ten teams. Nine destinations. One million pesos.

The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) turns up the heat of competition in the third run of the "Ready, Set, RORO!" DBP Interisland Race this year, an action-packed, P1-million adventure race that kicked off last Friday in Bohol, home to the famous Chocolate Hills and the island paradise of Panglao. FULL STORY

Just Before Deadline.....
Malacañang names
choices for president
MANILA. Despite his consistent high rating in polls, Vice President Noli de Castro is not the only choice of Malacañang for president in the 2010 national elections, an official said yesterday.

Apart from De Castro, Malacañang's choices also include Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro, Senator Richard Gordon, Chairman Bayani Fernando of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, and Quezon City Mayor Feliciano Belmonte. FULL STORY

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