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CITY OF SAN FERNAN-
DO—Health authorities
raised the dengue alert in this
city, following the increase in
cases of the mosquito-borne
disease this month.
Based on the report of the
Regional Epidemiology and
Surveillance Unit (RESU), the
dengue cases rose to 489 with
two deaths.
RESU chief Jesse Fantone
said the capital city has a high
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Gitnang luzon
AUGUST 8-14, 2012
Dengue cases in Pampanga rising
Pineda
intensifies
campaign
vs. TB
By Jenna luMBang
CITY OF SAN FERNAN-
DO—In a bid to improve the
province’s performance in
the fight against tuberculosis
(TB), Gov. Lilia “Nanay”
Pineda allocated P5 million
for the Directly Observed
Treatment Short (TB- DOTS)
course accreditation of all
district hospitals and rural
health units (RHUs).
During the meeting of
Pineda with the Municipal
Health Officers (MHO), City
Health Officer (CHO), and
directors of District and
Provincial Hospitals, she
has learned that some of the
government hospitals in the
province and most RHUs
are not TB DOTS certified
because of inadequate equipment
and facilities.
TB DOTS is a treatment
strategy for detection and
cure of tuberculosis recommended
by World Health Organization
(WHO). This approach
has five components:
political commitment, case
detection or sputum smear
microscopy, drug supplies
and a standardized recording
and reporting system
that allows assessment of
treatment results.
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incidence of dengue in its
communities, particularly in
barangay Quebiawan.
The report was presented
to the public health doctors
and including the municipal
health officers in various municipalities
in the province in
a recent meeting held on Saturday.
It can be recalled that the
city government previously
led the country’s observance
of the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (Asean)
Dengue Day at the Heroes
Hall here.
During the Dengue Day
observance, Health Secretary
Enrique Ona and Mayor Oscar
Rodriguez spearheaded
the launching of an antidengue
campaign dubbed as
“Sama-Sama Tayong Mag-
Aksyon, Barangay Kontra
Dengue.”
It was participated in by
hundreds of health workers,
barangay officials, and other
delegates from Central Luzon,
Calabarzon (Calamba, Laguna,
Batangas, Rizal, Quezon),
Mimaropa and Metro Manila.
Dengue is a disease caused
by the bite of Aedes aegypti
mosquito. Headache, fever,
muscle and joint pains, and
skin rashes characterized the
disease. (PNA)
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SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—Two top officials
of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority
(SBMA) have gone on indefinite leave following
allegations that SBMA officials have connived
with Freeport locators in an attempt to
smuggle into the country 420,000 sacks of
rice from India.
SBMA Chairman and Administrator Roberto
Garcia announced in a press conference
on August that the SBMA board has designated
the SBMA Committee on Governance,
headed by Philip Camara, to investigate on
the alleged conspiracy and submit the results
of its investigation to the Senate.
The two officials who went on leave are
SBMA Senior Deputy Administrator for Trade
and Investment Stefani Sano and SBMA Senior
Deputy Administrator for Port Operations
Red Tuazon.
The Bureau of Customs earlier seized
P500-million worth of illegally imported rice
here after the consignee, Metroeastern Trading
Corporation (MTC), failed to produce Allocation
and Import permits from the National
Food Authority for the shipment.
In a Senate inquiry that followed on July 31,
Cesar Bulaon, allegedly one of the owners of
MTC, said Sano had asked them to help keep
the rice in their warehouse and to look for a
buyer from the Philippines. Bulaon also said
it was Sano who introduced Protik Guha of
New Delhi-based Amira Foods India Limited
to Metroeastern, a Subic Freeport locator.
Sano, however, denied both allegations and
said he met with Bulaon, Guha and another
Freeport Locator, Vicente Cuevas, on March
Photo by deng Pangilinan
As SBMA orders probe on rice smuggling ‘conspiracy’
Subic execs go on leave
By ansBert B. Joaquin
20, 2012 in a restaurant inside the Freeport on
invitation by Cuevas only to confirm to Guha
that indeed Bulaon’s Metroeastern is a duly
registered locator in Subic Freeport and as
such is allowed to engage in importation and
transshipment business.
Sano also admitted he once assisted Amira
in looking for a warehouse inside the Freeport
but added that this was in connection with
Amira’s application to have its business registered
also inside the Freeport.
“We will be very, very transparent about
this,” Garcia said. “The (SBMA) board passed
a resolution assigning this issues for investigation
by the governance Committee and that
all documents related to that transaction be
forwarded to that committee.”
“The Governance Committee will enlist
the services of relevant government agencies
like the National Bureau of Investigation or
the Department of Finance in its investigation
and submit its report to the Senate hearing
the case, so that everything is above board,”
he added.
Admitting that the shipment was an illegal
shipment, Garcia emphasized that the ongoing
investigation will “not spare anybody who
has committed infraction of the rules or has
participated in this illegal shipment.”
Tuazon, on the other hand, explained that
he allowed the discharge of the cargo which
arrived April 4, 2012, based on the representation
made by Metroeastern that the NFA
Allocation and Import Permit is being processed.
He, however, added that when Metroeastern
failed to produce the NFA permit within
CL farmers ask PNoy:
implement ‘genuine’
land reform
By Charlene a. CayaByaB
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—Farmers
from the Alyansa ng mga Magbubukid
sa Gitnang Luson (AMGL) in
Central Luzon challenged President Benigno
Aquino III to abandon interest on
Hacienda Luisita and implement “genuine”
land reform by junking the Comprehensive
Agrarian Reform Program
Extension with “Reforms” (CARPer) and
passing House Bill 374 or the Genuine
Agrarian Reform Bill (GARB).
More than 100 farmers from Tarlac,
Nueva Ecija, Pangasinan and Pampanga
protested in front of the Department of
Agrarian Reform (DAR) central office in
Quezon City, joining farmers from other
regions under the Kilusang Magbubukid
ng Pilipinas (KMP) and Anakpawis Partylist.
The following day, the farmers protested
at Mendiola bridge to challenge
the Aquino government. CARPer or
Republic Act 9700 is on its third year
implementation after former president
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed it on
August 7, 2009.
“Aquino and everyone in the country
should accept that without genuine land
reform, there would be no social justice
and fundamental reforms and all deception
and lies about CARPer would be
exposed and its multi-billion budget allocation
would all go to waste or to the
pocket of rich landlords,” AMGL Chairperson
Joseph Canlas said.
AMGL primarily demanded Aquino
to abandon his and his family’s interest
on Hacienda Luisita and immediately
order its distribution to the 6,296 farm
worker-beneficiaries (FWBs) as ordered
by the Supreme Court.
“Aquino is sending a wrong signal by
delaying the distribution of Hacienda
Luisita. He and the Cojuangco-Aquinos
promised to follow the law but when the
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the prescribed period of 30 days, the shipment
was declared an importation contrary
to law, and the Bureau of Customs issued the
seizure order.
“The important thing is that there was
enough safeguard. So we held the goods. In
fact it was very clear that our action was the
reason why the BOC was able to seize the shipment”
he stressed.
Garcia also clarified that “the cargo was not
concealed but was properly declared, properly
manifested, the Customs was informed, and
we have secured it. When it is not in accordance
with rules allowed by law, we have given
the BOC the legal basis for the seizure.”
“I want to assure everybody that the
(SBMA) board is quite serious about this issue,
and we want to make sure that if there is
anybody (found to be) at fault, we will prosecute
him to the fullest extent of the legal remedies
available to us,” the SBMA Chair said in
the press conference which was, for the first
time in the history of SBMA, attended by no
less than 12 members of the SBMA board.•
NOTICE OF EXTRA JUDICIAL
SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH SALE
Notice is hereby given that an Extra-Judicial Settlement with Deed
of Absolute Sale was executed by Ma. Cristina C. Salazar, the sole
heir of the late Romana Cruz Salazar who died intestate on June 10,
2012 at Guagua, Pampanga, over a parcel of land in Bo. Sto. Nino,
Guagua, Pampanga with a total land area of One Hundred Fifty One
(151) Square Meters and covered by TCT No. 377381of the Register of
Deeds in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga.
Said Ma. Cristina C. Salazar, the sole and only compulsory heir to
the deceased has effected to SELL, TRANSFER and CONVEY by way
of absolute sale said property to LUIGI MARI C. CARLOS, for and in
consideration of the amount of Two Hundred Twenty Nine Thousand
Two Hundred Ninety Philippine Peso (Php 229,290.00).
Said instrument has been docketed under Doc. No. 300; Page No.
61; Book No. VIII; Series of 2012 of Notary Public, Atty. Herminio Z.
Canlas in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga.
(Headline Gitnang Luzon; August 13,15 & 17, 2012)