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Tuesday, 9 April <strong>2019</strong><br />
Daily Tribune NATION<br />
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Contraband Cocaine bricks keep washing ashore in various areas off Philippine waters.<br />
More ‘mystery’ cocaine bricks wash ashore<br />
The bricks were brought to the Burgos municipal police<br />
station<br />
By Miguel Togonon<br />
Police authorities yesterday reported<br />
that another cocaine stash was discovered<br />
on Philippine waters, this time, in Burgos,<br />
Surigao del Norte.<br />
Initial reports from the Police Regional<br />
By Alvin Murcia<br />
The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the Manila<br />
City Regional Trial Court Branch 5 to reinstate the<br />
criminal case for reckless imprudence against a<br />
ranking official of the Sulpicio Lines Inc. (SLI),<br />
in connection with the 2008 M/V Princess of the<br />
Stars tragedy that killed 227 passengers.<br />
The ill-fated M/V Princess of the<br />
Stars owned by<br />
SLI capsized<br />
off the coast of<br />
San Fernando,<br />
Romblon at the<br />
height of Typhoon<br />
Frank on 21 June 2008.<br />
In a 20-page decision<br />
penned by Justice Jose<br />
Office-13 revealed that at least 40 bricks of<br />
suspected cocaine floating in the waters<br />
were recovered by fishermen around 4:30<br />
p.m. Sunday.<br />
Probers noted that the recently recovered<br />
bricks had the same markings with those<br />
that were found in Barangay Pacifico in<br />
Reyes, Jr., the Court’s Third Division granted<br />
the consolidated petitions of the victims’ and<br />
their families.<br />
It also reversed and set aside the 22 March<br />
2013 decision and the 8 January 2014 resolution<br />
of the Court of Appeals (CA) that ruled in favor of<br />
respondent Edgar Go, SLI first vice president for<br />
administration and team leader of the company’s<br />
crisis management committee.<br />
The ill-fated M/V Princess of the Stars owned<br />
by SLI capsized off the coast of San Fernando,<br />
Romblon at the height of<br />
San Isidro, which were wrapped with<br />
fishnet.<br />
The bricks were brought to the Burgos<br />
municipal police station and will later<br />
be turned over to the provincial crime<br />
laboratory office.<br />
To recall, authorities had been<br />
recovering millions of pesos worth<br />
of cocaine in the waters off several<br />
provinces, especially in the eastern<br />
seaboard of the country, which prompted<br />
President Rodrigo Duterte to order an<br />
Justice for sunken ship’s victims proceeds<br />
typhoon “Frank” on 21 June 2008.<br />
At least 227 died and 592 were still missing and<br />
only 32 survived from the 849 persons on board at<br />
the time of the tragedy.<br />
“In this case, the criminal action instituted<br />
against respondent involved exclusively the criminal<br />
and civil liability of the latter arising from his<br />
criminal negligence as responsible officer of SLI,”<br />
the decision said.<br />
“The civil action against a shipowner for breach<br />
of contract of carriage does not preclude criminal<br />
prosecution against its employees whose negligence<br />
resulted in the death of or injuries to passengers,”<br />
the High Court held.<br />
immediate investigation.<br />
The President previously disclosed<br />
that international drug syndicates were<br />
behind these cocaine bricks that are<br />
being discovered floating in waters across<br />
the country<br />
The Philippine National Police<br />
said it was in close coordination with<br />
international counterparts to track the<br />
source of the drug packages.<br />
“The news that you hear every day<br />
about the floating drugs all around the<br />
By Mario Mallari<br />
The government has allotted<br />
a whooping P46 billion for the<br />
implementation of Republic Act<br />
1<strong>09</strong>31 or the Universal Access to<br />
Quality Tertiary Education Act<br />
this year.<br />
The amount will be used for<br />
tuition and miscellaneous fees of<br />
students in 112 state universities<br />
and colleges, 78 local universities<br />
and colleges and all government-run<br />
technical-vocational schools<br />
nationwide.<br />
country is that really we have confirmed<br />
that (Sinaloa) and the Medellin cartels<br />
are in the trade now. And it’s cocaine. It<br />
has always been cocaine from Mexico,”<br />
Duterte said in a speech in Malacañang.<br />
The Sinaloa drug cartel was formerly<br />
led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who<br />
was found guilty by a US court last week<br />
of operating a criminal enterprise.<br />
The Medellin cartel of the late drug<br />
lord Pablo Escobar, meanwhile, was based<br />
in Colombia.<br />
P46B stimulates<br />
free tertiary education<br />
The amount is the biggest<br />
budget for free college<br />
education in the country’s<br />
history.<br />
Reelectionist Sen. Sonny<br />
Angara, chairman of the Senate<br />
Committee on Ways and Means and<br />
vice chairman of the Committee<br />
on Finance, said the amount is<br />
the biggest budget for free college<br />
education in the country’s history.<br />
Stressing that education is the<br />
great socioeconomic equalizer,<br />
Angara urged students to take<br />
advantage of the free education by<br />
studying hard to become productive<br />
citizens in the future.<br />
“As students, your responsibility<br />
is to study hard because that’s your<br />
passport to employment and good<br />
life,” he said.<br />
“Education is a great<br />
socioeconomic equalizer and a<br />
stepping stone to something higher<br />
and brighter,” Angara added.<br />
Star-crossed Families of the victims who perished in the ill-fated M/V Princess of the Stars still have a chance to obtain justice for their<br />
loved ones.<br />
By Hananeel Bordey<br />
The recent clash between the<br />
Moro Islamic Liberation Front<br />
(MILF) and the police commando<br />
forces in Lanao del Sur will not<br />
affect the implementation of the<br />
Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL)<br />
in the restive Mindanao region.<br />
Administration senatorial<br />
bet and Maguindanao Rep. Zajid<br />
“Dong” Mangudadatu issued the<br />
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statement yesterday even<br />
as he stressed that the<br />
said incident will undergo<br />
appropriate and<br />
thorough investigation.<br />
“From my point of<br />
view, we have due process,<br />
there’s ongoing investigation.<br />
It will all depend on the outcome of<br />
the investigation of the Philippine<br />
National Police and the Armed<br />
Forces of the Philippines,” he told<br />
Native food This meat display is among the<br />
featured indigenous delicacies in an ongoing<br />
food exhibit in Baguio City.<br />
AQuitasol<br />
the reporters.<br />
Mangudadatu<br />
clarified the<br />
framers of BOL<br />
had considered the<br />
MILF along with the<br />
preferences of different groups<br />
in Mindanao.<br />
He added the implementation<br />
of the BOL should come with the<br />
execution of the devolution of power<br />
under the Republic Act 9054 as this<br />
By Aldwin Quitasol<br />
will be advantageous to the newlyestablished<br />
Bangsamoro Autonomous<br />
Region in Muslim Mindanao.<br />
Under Section 3, Article III of<br />
RA 9054, the regional government is<br />
mandated to adopt policies on local<br />
autonomy where regional powers<br />
shall be decentralized to local<br />
government units particularly in<br />
areas of education, health, human<br />
resource, science and technology<br />
and people empowerment.<br />
Food exhibit features<br />
highland delicacies<br />
The Department of Tourism-Cordillera yesterday<br />
opened a food exhibit dubbed Mangan Taku in<br />
Baguio City, featuring native Igorot dishes and<br />
traditional menus that were preserved and nurtured<br />
through generations.<br />
The cook will process the meat then boil it<br />
adding only ginger and salt.<br />
One of the main features in the exhibit is the<br />
pinikpikan which is a regular menu in every<br />
table of the region’s indigenous peoples whether<br />
during special occasions or ordinary days.<br />
It is also the “ritual food” of the natives in<br />
which the elders lead in prayers and chanting<br />
while a chicken was being presented as the<br />
sacrificial offering to their gods and spirits.<br />
In preparing the pinikpikan, the chicken has<br />
to undergo an ordeal in which its body and joints<br />
are hit hard until blood clots are visible, before<br />
being placed in an open fire to remove its feathers.<br />
The cook will process the meat then boil it<br />
adding only ginger and salt.