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VOL. LIV No. 064
City of Tagbilaran, Bohol, Philippines
Sunday, August 23, 2009
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HUMAN TRAFFICKING. The nine victims of illegal recruitment interrogated at the Coast Guard's office at the City Port by Prov'l BM Aster Piollo and PO3 Melinda Basalo right after the recruits were barred from boarding Superferry bound for Manila midnight Thursday. Foto DANNY REYES

UNLIQUIDATED CASH ADVANCES
SP majority bloc
sees no anomaly


Administration city councilors do not see any irregularity in the still unsettled cash advances of several city officials and employees.

Administration City Kagawad Oscar Glovasa answered allegations of City Vice Mayor Jose Antonio Veloso and fellow lawmakers belonging to the minority that unliquidated cash advances amounting to P6.4 million in 2007 and over P20 million in 2008 are anomalous.FULL STORY

"HARMLESS" would be the quick description of Prony's caretaker, Jing Salibay while she recalled that the world's youngest and largest python, Prony, thriving in captivity at Albur town was only five feet long when it was captured in 1996 by his brother-in-law Sofronio Salibay in their backyard. Prony weighs over 300 kilos, measuring 26 feet long and still growing. The python can devour a 60-kilo live pig or two live goats.

EDITORIAL
A COMEDY OF ERRORS

 

The government-paid radio program of the City Mayor yesterday was a blockbuster hit.

Because it appeared like starting out as a serious film orchestrated by a renowned serious director

like a Maryo de los Reyes and ended like a comedy flick by Dolphy. Not that the actors did not try - they, in fact, almost died trying. FULL TEXT

OPINIONS

 

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Inabanga students under
close watch on A(H1N1)


Provincial and national health officials have placed the students of St. Paul High School of Inabanga town under close watch after they have taken random swab tests of 15 out of reported 32 students affected by flu, said Dr. Fruserma Mary A. Uy of the Provincial Health Office.

Uy, who headed the epidermatology surveillance unit, rushed to Inabanga last week responding to reports that students have been downed by A(H1N1). FULL STORY


Two Boholanas win China math Olympiad

At about the same time the members of the Powerade-Team Pilipinas led by coach Yeng Guiao were sweating it out in their games in the 25th FIBA Asia World Championship in Tianjin, China, our country's young mathematicians faced their counterparts from China, Hongkong, Macau, Singapore and Taiwan for the 2009 China Junior High School Math Olympiad held on August 5 to 9, and the 2009 China Primary Math Olympiad for elementary pupils last August 9 to 13.
FULL STORY

Just Before Deadline.....
Aquino surge in LP puts
Roxas in awkward place


MANILA. The outpouring of public sentiment over the death of former President Corazon Aquino and the consequent clamor for her son, Senator Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, to run for higher office may have added luster to the Liberal Party.

But it has placed Senator Manuel "Mar" Roxas, until Cory Aquino's death early this month the acknowledged presidential standard-bearer of the LP, in a somewhat awkward position. FULL STORY
SPORTS
Donaire eyes Montiel as next foe


Boholano boxing champ Nonito Donaire Jr. is eyeing Mexican champion Fernando Montiel to be his next foe.

Doanire cited yesterday, "We have unfinished business to settle," during the press conference hosted by GMA Network as a tribute to the boxer who made the country proud by winning over Panamanian Rafael "El Torito" Concepcion last Sunday. FULL STORY

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