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8 METRO John Henry Dodson, Editor Wednesday, 13 March 2019 Daily Tribune Junkie ‘celebs’ spooked PDEA has slain dealer’s contacts Alone Irene Mercado may be left with no choice but to spill the beans on her slain partner’s supplier of drugs and high-rolling clients. By Elmer N. Manuel Water concessionaires servicing Metro Manila have resorted to sending tankers in waterless communities where residents formed long queues like in hard-hit Mandaluyong City. Tankers to the rescue as long queues form. Manila Water deployed 27 tankers for round-the-clock water delivery in areas hit by the service interruption, Makati kids get ‘Go Bags’ By Gladys Mae Ablon The Makati City government has provided 38,929 students from 13 public high schools with individually packed “Go Bags” as part of its efforts to build disaster resilient and sustainable communities. A Go Bag is a portable survival kit recommended by emergency response experts to help an individual or a family survive, at least, in the next 72 hours after a disaster. A bag contains essential needs such as food and drinking water, hygiene and first aid kits, flashlight and other handy materials. Survival in 72 hours after disaster critical. “We want our youth to learn the importance of self-help and preparedness. Through this project, we are able to inculcate a culture of preparedness among young Makatizens,” Mayor Abby Binay said. “We hope that providing students with individuallypacked Go Bags will motivate parents to prepare their own Go Bags for the entire household,” Binay added. The Makati Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office started distributing the life-saving kits during the first quarter of 2018, benefiting various public elementary and high schools, city hall employees and residents living along the five barangays along the West Valley Fault. Maynilad agrees to share water Life sustaining Each Go Bag can sustain a person for at least three days. By Alvin Murcia By Raymart T. Lolo said corporate communications head Jeric Sevilla. Maynilad, which services the western half of Metro Manila, has agreed to share its supply with Manila Water. Maynilad boasts a 291-million liter holding capacity built in response to the drought spurred by the El Niño phenomenon in 2010. While most of Metro Manila’s water is sourced from the Angat Dam, which still has normal water level, the La Mesa Dam water was at 68.85 meters around 6 a.m. yesterday, below its critical level of 69 meters above sea level. 7 Chinese nabbed for kidnapping The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) presented yesterday seven Chinese nationals arrested in Pasay and Parañaque for kidnapping and serious illegal detention this week. NBI Director Dante Gierran identified the suspects as Luo Gen Jin, Cheng Yiguo, Liu Shenghui, Deng Shujin, Xiong Jinxiang, Xiong Jongpeng and Xiong Jilong. 5 suspects blundered by staying at inn where victim was held. Operatives of the NBI Special Action Unit and Task Force Against Illegal Drugs joined forces with the NBI National Capital Region The workers’ union of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Hospital yesterday denied having a hand in the bomb threat received by the medical facility. The Ugnayang Nagkakaisang Manggagawa-UST Hospital (UNM-USTH) office in acting on the complaint of the brother of kidnap victim Jian Shi Xin. Kidnapped at Okada Manila and kept under guard at Balagtas Royale Mansions in Pasay City, Jian was allowed to call his brother to relay the P200,000 ransom demand of the captors. The brother paid the ransom through wire transfer leading to the victim’s release near the City of Dreams in Parañaque City on 10 March. The NBI agents rushed to the inn where they arrested five of the suspects before rounding up the two others at the Solaire Resort and Casino in Parañaque City. All seven were positively identified by the victim as his kidnappers. They were subjected to inquest proceedings at the Pasay City Prosecutor’s Office and charged with kidnapping and serious illegal detention. issued the statement as its members assailed the hospital’s management over the collection of training fees, long working hours and failure to regularize workers. Hospital workers seeking a return to negotiating table. The group’s president Don Siazon 3 fall in sting Three drug suspects were arrested in a buy-bust operation in Marikina City before dawn Tuesday. The suspects were identified as Kingsley, alias Waray, 19; Clariz Cayetano, alias Clariz, 28; and Rolando Cayetano, 56. They were nabbed in a police operation at 12:10 a.m. a l o n g Iwahig St., ANALY LABOR Weather experts, meanwhile, said it is not advisable to conduct cloudseeding operations with the hope of spawning rains and raise the dams’ water level during summer. Cloudseeding depends on seedable clouds. Our clouds during the summer time are a bit wispy, so it’s not advisable to conduct cloudseeding, a hydrologist said on radio. Many residents have lamented the additional expenses of buying water from tankers, even as small eateries had resorted to using disposable plates and utensils. Barangay Tumana. Prior to the arrest of the suspects, anti-drug operatives received a report from an informant regarding the involvement of alias Waray in selling illegal drugs. Recovered from the suspects were 13 sachets of suspected shabu with street value of more or less P120,000, P500 buy-bust money and a 38. caliber revolver with five bullets. Neil Alcober Ortiz: Clients were high-profile like professionals, students By Pat C. Santos said “some unscrupulous elements” are trying to blame its members for the bomb and other unlawful threats made against USTH. Siazon said they will never resort to violence despite the worsening working conditions in the facility. A deadlock in the collective bargaining METRO BITS The “ghost” of slain alleged party drugs super-dealer Steven Pasion will haunt his well-off clientele, possibly including two showbiz personalities. But it’s more like agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) may do the spooking of the suspected high-class drug users as their contact numbers and messages were recovered from Pasion’s mobile phone. Purportedly the top supplier of party drugs in Metro Manila, Pasion was gunned down near his condominium unit in Sta. Cruz, Manila Monday evening after trying to escape aboard his sports utility vehicle. Pasion’s live-in partner Irene Mercado was arrested during the buy-bust. A search of their residence led to the discovery of about a kilo of shabu with a street value of about P6 million. The “celebrities” — a man and a woman who regularly appear on television — were regulars of Pasion, with one recently placing an order for 200 pieces of the party drug ecstasy. PDEA special enforcement services (SES) acting director Levi Ortiz said they will check out the numbers found on Pasion’s phone and do case build-ups. “Their clients were high-profile, like professionals, students and celebrities,” Ortiz said. The PDEA official refused to name the celebrities due to the possibility that their names had only been used as aliases by Pasion’s clients. Pasion was killed when he allegedly fought off operatives of the PDEA and the Manila Police’s drug enforcement unit. Meanwhile, a newly freed convict was nabbed for possession of P6.8 million worth of shabu at Tutuban Center in Manila. The suspect was identified as Jerome T. Reyes who was arrested with a friend while they were transacting drugs with a poseur-buyer. Victimizing their own The seven Chinese charged with kidnapping by the NBI. UST union disowns bomb threat negotiations and allegations of Labor Code violations had led to the filing by the union of two notices of strike. “We have exercised restraint, treated our management counterparts with respect and have followed the process set out by the Labor Code and our laws. We ask for the same,” Siazon said. Carnappers killed Antipolo City policemen shot dead three carnapping and robbery suspects, according to Rizal police provincial director Senior Supt. Lou Frias Evangelista. Killed were Rammil Escio, alias Ronron. Two of the suspects were unidentified at press time. Retrieved from them were a shotgun, a 9mm pistol and a cal. 38 revolver. The suspects were on board a white taxi at about 10:30 p.m. Monday along Marcos Highway, Sitio Painuman, Barangay Inarawan when intercepted by policemen. N. Alcober Road closure YUMMIE DINGDING The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will partially close the Estrella Service Road in Makati City to give way to the ongoing rehabilitation of the Estrella-Pantaleon Bridge. MMDA general manager Jojo Garcia said the closure from Gumamela Street to JP Rizal Street, will take effect on 23 March, Saturday, at 11 p.m. The rehabilitation of the Estrella-Pantaleon Bridge aims to widen it to four lanes from its present two lanes. Based on the DPWH timeline, the project will be completed in 2021. Alvin Murcia
MOST INNOVATIVE BROADSHEET 2018 44TH PHILIPPINES BUSINESS EXPO RACE LEADER‘S DOGS QUIT SCENT OF CONFIDENCE CASH-RICH BTr SNUBS TAP OPTION P13 P17 P10 Jun Vallecera, Editor Wednesday, 13 March 2019 Daily Tribune BUSINESS 9 Trade deficit widens as imports rebound THE trade imbalance widened further in January to a deficit totaling $3.76 billion from only $3.16 billion a year ago, trade statistics show. By AJ Bajo The country’s balance of trade in goods stood as a deficit of $3.76 billion in January, wider than the imbalance of $3.16 billion in the same month last year, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Tuesday. This was also a notch higher than the deficit of $3.75 billion recorded in December last year. Total external trade reached $14.31 billion, up by 2.9 percent from the $13.91 billion in the January 2018. Exports made up 36.9 percent or $5.28 billion of the total external trade, while imports accounted for 63.1 percent or $9.03 billion of the total. The Department of Agriculture is currently in talks with Singapore, Russia and Monaco for possible arrangements to increase Philippine agricultural export products to these countries The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) linked the trade imbalance during the month to a rebound in imports, aided by increases in the import values of consumer goods, capital goods, raw materials and intermediate goods. Imports went up by 5.8 percent to $9.03 billion in January 2019, owing to growth in eight of the top 10 major import commodities. Exports declined by 1.7 percent to $5.28 billion, which NEDA attributed to lower receipts from manufactures and minerals offsetting the gains in exports of forest and total agro-based products. “The Department of Agriculture is currently in talks with Singapore, Russia and Monaco for possible arrangements to increase Philippine agricultural export products to these countries,” Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia said in a statement. NEDA is also banking on the planned conclusion of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement this year to open up market opportunities for exporters. “The RCEP would significantly benefit exporters considering that its member economies — which include ASEAN countries, Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea and New Zealand — constitute a third of global output and more than a quarter of the world’s population,” Pernia added. On the other hand, NEDA said that the delayed approval of the 2019 national budget and the election-spending ban is expected to stall imports growth. Japan ranked first in exports value, amounting to $884.95 million or 16.8 percent of the total exports in January 2019. This is 3.0 percent lower than the value in the same month, 2017. The United States of America, Hong Kong, China and Singapore were also among the top export destinations in January. Imports from China accounted for 22.2 percent of the total, a 24.5 percent increase from January of 2018. Other top importers were Korea, Japan, US and Thailand. 2018 DOT PROPERTY PHILIPPINES AWARDS 2018 LAROSSA CAPITOL HILLS BY PRIMEHOMES BEST RESIDENTIAL BOTANICAL DEVELOPMENT www.dotpropertyawards.com
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