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Govt cash handout
to the poor dubbed
monster of deception
Poverty keeps
16% of youth
aged 6 to 17
out of school
PH reviews
deployment
of vessels
in Panatag
End of impasse raises
hope in talks with Reds
Military tells
media not to
avoid security
in risky areas
WEATHER
PEOPLE in the western sec-
tion of Luzon and the Visayas
should brace for heavy rain
because tropical storm Bu-
tchoy has developed into a
typhoon, the weather bureau
said Sunday.
Expect strong rain in Metro
Butchoy exits
as a typhoon
TWO days after a magnitude
6.0 quake jolted Davao Ori-
ental and several other towns
in Mindanao, another earth-
quake hit the country early
Sunday, the government said.
This time the earthquake
shook Candelaria, Zambales,
several towns in Pangasinan,
La Union, Pampanga, Bulacan,
Luzon sways
in 6.0 quake
THE government is looking
for new ways to maintain its
presence in the West Philip-
pine Sea, a senior ofcial said
on Sunday, but it wasnt clear
if it will re-deploy the ships
that it pulled out when a ty-
phoon swept through the area
last week.
Deputy presidential spokes-
woman Abigail Valte said the
government is still in the pro-
cess of determining the sort of
presence it would maintain at
Panatag Shoal as soon as the
weather improves.
She said tropical storm Bu-
tchoy had posed a serious threat
to the safety of the two ships be-
longing to the coast guard and
the Bureau of Fisheries.
The foremost consideration
was the safety of our Coast
Guard and Bureau of Fisheries
personnel, Valte said.
The storm offered a conve-
nient opportunity for the gov-
ernment to recall its ships and
ease the tension that has fueled
By Macon Ramos-Araneta
MANY young Filipinos fail to get el-
ementary and high school education
even if free because of poverty, while
many high school graduates cannot
afford to go to college, Senator Alan
Peter Cayetano said on Sunday.
Cayetano, citing the Annual Pov-
erty Indicator Survey, said 16 percent
of Filipinos age six to 17 are out of
school and 28.9 percent of high school
graduates could not attend college be-
cause it is expensive.
He urged the Aquino Administra-
tion to make college education afford-
able to the poor and has led a bill, the
Iskolar ng Bayan Act of 2012, which
aims to help outstanding graduates of
national high schools to gain access to
colleges and universities.
By Maricel V. Cruz
LAWMAKERS on Sunday slammed the Aquino administra-
tions plan to increase the budget for its dole program to P45
billion next year, with one of them calling it a growing mon-
ster of deception in the face of the 2013 elections.
The Aquino administration is once again poised to bloat its
CCT monster of a budget for 2013, said Gabriela party-list Rep.
Emmi de Jesus, referring to the conditional cash transfer program
for which the government is spending P39.5 billion this year.
By so doing, it continues to cultivate the culture of men-
dicancy. It continues to deceive the population that CCT is the
way out of poverty, said De Jesus, vice chairman of the House
committee on population and family relations.
The program provides a monthly cash subsidy to poor fami-
lies on the condition parents send their children to school and
bring them to health centers for checkups.
This years P39.5-billion allocation for the program was a
signicant increase from lastyears P21.3-billion budget for it,
and is supposed to cover 2.3 million poor families.
Budget Secretary Florencio Abad earlier said the adminis-
tration planned to increase the programs allocation to accom-
modate half a million more poor families.
A HIGH-RANKING military
ofcial on Sunday appealed to
local and foreign reporters to ob-
serve security advisories and ac-
cept security escorts when cov-
ering high-risk areas known for
kidnap-for-ransom activities.
Lt. Gen. Noel Coballes,
commander of the Western
Mindanao Command, made
the appeal following the disap-
pearance of Jordanian journal-
ist Baker Atyani, 43, and his
Filipino companions photogra-
pher Ramil Vela and audioman
Roland Leftreiro.
Their whereabouts are still
unknown, but the military is not
By Rio N. Araja
AGRARIAN Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes on Sun-
day vowed to block an order by a Negros Occidental judge pre-
venting the Land Registration Authority from warning potential
buyers that a piece of agricultural land could be covered by the
agrarian reform program, hence should be distributed and may
not be sold.
De los Reyes said the court order was stopping his department
from stopping several landowners from selling chop-chop titles
to circumvent the the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law.
By Joyce Pangco Paares
THE government and the communist National Dem-
ocratic Front nally ended a 15-month impasse in
their peace negotiations with a a two-day informal
meeting in Oslo on June 14 and 15.
Despite the breakthrough meeting, however, the
NDF again raised its earlier demand to release 14
people that the group claims are their consultants and
are protected by the Joint Agreement on Safety and
Immunity Guarantees.
The same demand that caused the talks to bog
down more than a year ago was raised by NDF
chief negotiator Luis Jalandoni to his government
counterpart, Alexander Padilla, in a letter dated
June 15.
The government earlier declined to recognize the
NDFs claim that the 14, who it says were arrested
for various crimes, are their consultants because the
list of Jasig-protected people that the communists
stored in a oppy diskette got corrupted and could
no longer be retrieved.
The government says the list should have been in
Mall arena. Vice President Jejomar
Binay and business tycoon Henry sy
(inset) led the launching of the much-
awaited opening of the Mall of Asia
Arena. The others in photo are, from left,
Rep. Imelda Calixto of Pasay, Pasay City
Mayor Antonio Calixto, Felicidad Sy and
Hans Sy of the SM Group of Companies.
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By Francisco S. Tatad
WEEKS after President Beni-
gno Aquino IIIs celebrated vic-
tory in the Senate impeachment
trial, it remains to be seen what
the nation has gained and what it
has lost from that long, divisive
process. Supreme Court Chief
Justice Renato Corona has been
convicted and removed, the nation
now awaits the good or sad news
about the next chief justice.
Is the rest of the nation celebrat-
ing with the administration? Is
there a general feeling that good
has vanquished evil, and justice has
prevailed? Or is there a creeping
fear that the opposite has happened?
Is the nation more united, with a
clearer sense of purpose, or is it as
divided and confused as ever?
The ofcial propaganda
line says Coronas removal has
strengthened democracy, given
Aquino a new political momen-
tum, and made the country a fa-
vored destination of foreign in-
vestments. If this were all true,
then people should be wildly
toasting the President, cheering
and dancing on the streets.
But why has Mr. Aquinos
popularity rating (a unit of po-
litical measure he accepts) dropped,
according to his trusted pollsters,
by 34 points in Metro Manila, and
seven points nationwide? Why has
there emerged, no matter how non-
threatening, an Oust P-Noy Move-
ment? Is it all because of lack of
jobs, shrinking family incomes, and
galloping consumer prices?
The propaganda line is enthu-
siastically peddled in newspaper
editorials, columns, and blogs in
the country and abroad. Even some
of the more reputable foreign think
tanks uncritically regurgitate it.
For instance, a piece written online
by Ernest Bower and Prashanth
Parameswaran, director and re-
searcher respectively of the South-
east Asia Program at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies
in Washington, DC., on the eve of
Aquinos visit there, tries to pack-
age Aquino as someone who was
effectively conscripted to run for
president two years ago by a public
desperate for clean government and
good governance, and whose lat-
est trophy is Coronas conviction on
corruption charges.
Is this not pure hype? Coro-
na had been impeached on eight
charges. Five were abandoned
during the trial, leaving only three
charges. Graft and corruption was
not any of these, so the prosecu-
tion was barred by the Senate im-
peachment court from trying to
prove that offense. Corona was
ultimately found guilty of failing
to reveal all his assets in his State-
ments of Assets , Liabilities and
Net Worth (SALN)betrayal of
public trust.
Is democracy stronger after Corona?
ANALYSIS
Agrarian Dept questions
court on chop-chop titles
Govt plan to roll out electric tricycles by 2013 may suffer setback
The postponement in April
prompted the Energy Depart-
ment and the Asian Development
Bank to rush consultations with
civil society groups in May.
Since at present there is not
unanimous support to endorse the
revised investment plan, we are
postponing the deadline for approv-
ing the proposed decision, said
Patricia Bliss-Guest, an ofcial of
the Climate Investment Fund Ad-
ministrative Unit, in a letter to the
CTF Trust Fund members.
We will be consulting with the
government of the Philippines and
the ADB on when they will be in
a position to resubmit the revised
plan for endorsement.
The 16 CTF Trust Fund Com-
mittee-member countries include
the United States, United King-
dom, Turkey, Sweden, Spain,
Intl fund body holds
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By Christine F. Herrera
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino IIIs target to roll out 100,000
electric tricycles by 2013 may suffer a setback after the
Washington-based Clean Technology Fund postponed a de-
cision on the program following complaints from civil soci-
ety groups that the money earmarked for solar projects were
diverted without proper public consultation.
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The Senate verdict has been
lauded and slammed at the same
time. Many felt relieved that
Aquino, having campaigned
openly for Coronas conviction,
has been saved from becoming
a lameduck president. But
many others were aghast that
after so much bungling by the
prosecution, Corona was nally
convicted on the basis of illegally
procured evidence to prove a non-
impeachable offense contained in
an unveried complaint signed by
188 congressmen at the behest of
Malacaang, without reading the
document.
Senator Miriam Defensor San-
tiago went on to suggest that some
of her colleagues may have been
materially rewarded for their vote.
She drew a stinging rebuke from
various sources, including the
countrys most prolic writer of
novels in English. But the charge
was never withdrawn nor substan-
tiated. And some people seemed
to believe it.
A group of citizens who have
questioned the constitutionality
of Coronas impeachment from
the very start insists that Coronas
own acceptance of the Senate ver-
dict does not render their petitions
moot and academic. Lawyer and
law professor Alan Paguia and
other petitioners maintain that
the Court cannot simply ignore
raging jurisdictional and consti-
tutional issues brought before it.
The entire court could become
impeachable, if it did.
The petitioners argue that the
188 congressmen who signed the
Articles of Impeachment at the
Presidents behest, without at all
reading the document, had failed
to comply with the constitutional
verication process. So the com-
plaint was null and void from the
very start, and the Senate never
had the constitutional jurisdiction
to try Corona, much less convict.
To them, the whole thing was a
farce.
Thus, they demand a ruling
from the Court. But the Court--
-whether in its present headless
state, or even after it shall have
found a new chief justice---is not
likely to grant that wish. If at all,
it might only afrm the validity of
the Senate proceedings. The deci-
sion will not be legal but political:
the issue is now moot and aca-
demic, the nation must move on,
it will likely be said.
But this is precisely what many
people are asking: how, and in
what direction, will the nation
now move? Although Aquino
likes to talk of democracy, his de
facto control of the three branches
of government is the very denial
and antithesis of democracy, both
in theory and in praxis. It has dis-
solved the principle of separation
of powers, and checks and bal-
ances; shriveled democratic insti-
tutions and processes.
The Presidents mere wish
has now become the nations
command. He has only to whis-
per or talk in his sleep for some
people to start asking, from what
side of the top oor would he like
them to jump? The danger could
become extreme if and when he
decides that he had become infal-
lible, and no longer needs to listen
to any contrary opinion or unso-
licited advice. Hopefully, that day
is not yet here.
Sufciently chilled by Co-
ronas removal, the Justices have
approved by a vote of 11-3, the
proposed purchase by the Com-
mission on Elections of 82,000
Smartmatic PCOS (precinct
count optical scan) machines
worth P1.8 billion for the 2013
elections, without a new public
bidding, and without any showing
that the errors and technical viola-
tions committed by the same rm
in 2010 had been corrected. This
has alarmed concerned citizens
and IT industry experts.
A day before the justices dis-
missed the petitions opposing
the proposed purchase, Aquino
had expressed serious concern
over the failure of the Court to act
expeditiously on the petitions.
He was quoted as saying, there
should be no more debates over
the use of the PCOS machines in
the May 2013 elections, consid-
ering their proven capability in
the 2010 presidential elections.
Then promptly, an overwhelm-
ing majority of the now-headless
Court approved the proposed pur-
chase, despite its well-document-
ed inrmities.
Authoritative sources have
since disclosed that prior to Co-
ronas conviction, an internal
survey conducted among the 15
Justices had shown they were al-
most evenly split, 8-7, in favor of
the petitions. But after the Presi-
dent spoke, the prudent and wise
Justices, wishing not to court Co-
ronas fate, changed course.
The implications are grave. The
electronic voting system itself
presents some organic problems,
given its relative novelty and the
Comelecs lack of in-house exper-
tise to run it. But the bigger prob-
lem lies with the vendor of the
system whose past performance
invites an abundance of caution
rather than condence. The UP-
based Center for People Empow-
erment in Governance (CenPEG)
has documented the various er-
rors and offenses committed by
Smartmatic in 2010. And all the
IT experts who had monitored the
elections support CenPEG. But
none of those errors and offenses
had been paid for, or corrected.
Neither has anyone in the Com-
elec been made to account for
their own offenses. In 2010, the
Comelec, in violation of law, re-
moved the various safety features
that had been built into the PCOS
machine to ensure transparency
during the voting and counting of
votes. Smartmatic-TIM compa-
ny, a foreign private entity, ended
running the entire election, which
is a sacred constitutional right and
duty vested solely in the Comelec.
Among the vital safety features
removed from the voting machine
were the voter verication mecha-
nism, which would have allowed
every voter to know that the ma-
chine was reading his or her vote
right, the digital signature and the
ultra-violent marker so essential
to the integrity of the process. As
a result, not a single voter in that
election could have honestly said
that he or she knew or could pre-
sume to know, for a fact, that his
or her vote had been read right by
the machine.
In 2009, the German Federal
Constitutional Court declared
electronic voting unconstitutional
precisely on the same ground.
But all the objections from our
IT experts were simply junked
by the Comelec and not a single
Comelec or Smartmatic ofcial
has been made accountable for
anything. Unless all the tech-
nology problems encountered in
2010 were satisfactorily resolved
before the PCOS machines are re-
used, the next election could once
again become a big mess.
But more than anything else,
the real problem is the Presidents
grip on power. If he does not want
to sound like North Korean presi-
dent Kim Jong Un talking about
democracy, he needs to take spe-
cic and concrete steps to loosen
his control over the two other
branches of government. That
would be a giant step toward nor-
malizing the shattered constitu-
tional order.
He could start by making sure
the next chief justice is a person
of high moral probity, legal schol-
arship, experience, independent
judgment, and patriotism. The
new chief could come from either
within or outside the Court, but
not from Aquinos home court,
among those who have been sing-
ing paeans to him in the media
or acting as prosecutors appren-
tices or spokesmen during the im-
peachment trial.
Then to show that he seeks no
favors from the new chief jus-
tice, he could ask the lawyers
representing his family interests
in the Hacienda Luisita case to
withdraw now their motion for
reconsideration before the Court
seeking a P10-billion compensa-
tion to his family instead of the
P200-million xed by the Corona
court.
Understandably many sena-
tors and congressmen will want
to keep their present ties with
him as much as he himself
would like to. But to restore the
separation of powers and checks
and balances, he should give
back to Congress the power of
the purse, and leave in its hands
the impeachment process, which
is the exclusive responsibility
of Congress. He should never
again dictate upon congress-
men to impeach anyone nor urge
senators to convict anyone being
tried by the Senate.
In the sovereign national inter-
est, the President should be the
rst one to reject any attempt
by any foreign entity to use any
branch or agency of the govern-
ment to promote its own agenda
over and above our constitution
and laws, our culture, custom, and
freedom of consciences.
Is democracy...
Agrarian...
Chop-chop titles refer to land titles being sold piecemeal
by a landowner whose landholdings, usually beyond the five-
hectare limit set by law, might covered by agrarian reform.
De los Reyes said Executive Judge Renato Munez of Ca-
diz City Regional Trial Court Branch 60 acted beyond his
authority when he issued the injunction order against Land
Registration Authority in favor of landowner Remo Ramos.
He said Republic Act 6657 disallows the issuance by any
court, except the Supreme Court, of a temporary restrain-
ing order or writ of injunction against his department, the
Presidential Agrarian Reform Council or any of its duly au-
thorized or designated agencies over land covered by agrar-
ian reform.
De los Reyes said his department will seek help from the
Office of the Solicitor General to stop the Cadiz judge from
interfering in the implementation of the agrarian reform pro-
gram in Negros Occidental.
Ramos had questioned before the Cadiz court the imple-
mentation of Joint DAR-LRA Memorandum Circular 17 re-
quiring the LRA to annotate notices of coverage in land titles
to reflect the fact that a piece of land might be subject to
acquisition and distribution.
Military...
discounting the possibility
that they have been captured
by Abu Sayyaf bandits.
Earlier reports said
Malacaang and Sulu au-
thorities believed that the
three were only missing
and had not been abducted
by any group.
A separate report says the
military had offered to escort
Atyani and his group, but the
Jordanian refused.
Atyani, the Southeast Asia
bureau chief of the Al Arabiya
News Channel based in Dubai,
along with Vela and Leftreiro,
are said to have been missing
since June 12 after they failed
to return to their hostel in Jolo.
The three arrived in Sulu on
June 11, and supposedly to in-
terview one the leaders of the
Abu Sayyaf.
Coballes said reporters cov-
ering high-risk areas such as
Sulu and Basilan, which are
known lairs of the Abu Sayyaf
in Mindanao, should be very
careful.
If youre going to ask me,
personal security is paramount
in areas like Sulu where it re-
mains a security problem.
Dont tell me your freedom
of the press can save you
from criminals waiting to kill
you, Coballes said.
Past kidnappings, includ-
ing the abduction in Mind-
anao of reporter Ces Drilon
and her crew in June 2008,
had prompted the military and
police to set security rules for
journalists, but those rules are
often ignored.
It would be good if they
[reporters] will seek clear-
ance or at least talk to the
commander on the ground for
them to be secured while cov-
ering something, Coballes
said.
They should inform us so
that we can at least brief them
on the risk they will take.
Florante S. Solmerin
End...
hard copy form containing the
photographs, real names, and
aliases of all the NDF consul-
tants who enjoy safe conduct
passes.
With the contents of the dis-
kette impossible to retrieve, the
government has consistently re-
jected the NDFs offer to recon-
struct the list of Jasig-protected
persons for fear that other rebel
leaders of the New Peoples
Army who have standing arrest
warrants will be included.
But in his recent letter, Ja-
landoni reiterated the need to
reconstruct the Document of
Identication list and for the
government to allow the use of
encrypted photographs as legiti-
mate copies.
In a text message to the Ma-
nila Standard, presidential peace
adviser Teresita Deles, who is
also in Oslo for a separate fo-
rum, said the government panel
did not make any commitment
yet on the Jasig-related de-
mands.
These are the matters for fur-
ther discussion in the coming
informal talks. As you know,
we have concerns regarding this
agenda, Deles said.
Jalandoni also sought an inde-
pendent investigation of the al-
leged summary killing of NDF
political consultant Sotero Lla-
mas and the enforced disappear-
ances of Leo Velasco, Prudencio
Calubid, Rogelio Calubad and
other consultants.
Jalandoni said Padilla brought
up a proposal for a ceasere be-
tween the government and the
NationalPeoples Army, but the
NDF said the two panels could
discuss that at a latter time in
connection with the commu-
nists proposal for a truce and
alliance as a special track in
the peace talks.
Padilla earlier indicated that
the Aquino administration might
allow the creation of a policy
advisory group composed of
CPP-NDF members.
Padilla has said an alliance
with the communist group is
acceptable as long as it will not
mean a coalition government or
offering of Cabinet posts to key
CPP-NDF ofcials.
No specic date, however,
was set in the joint statement is-
sued by both negotiating teams
as to the resumption of the for-
mal peace talks in Norway.
The parties have agreed to
continue meaningful discus-
sions of concerns and issues
raised by both sides on June 14
and 15, 2012, in Oslo, to pave
the way for the resumption of
the formal talks in the peace
negotiations in order to resolve
the armed conict and attain a
just and lasting peace, the joint
statement read.
Deles said the next round of
informal talks would most likely
be set after July.
Govt...
Isabela Rep. Rodolfo Alba-
no, a minority member of the
House appropriations commit-
tee, criticized the plan, saying
the the beneciaries are not
real.
Many Filipinos are com-
plaining that they are still
poor and getting poorer, Al-
bano said.
He said the dole program
spearheaded by the Social
Welfare Department was
not helping to ease poverty,
pointing to the latest surveys
showing there were now
11.1 million people living in
poverty.
Maguindanao Rep. Simeon
Datumanong, a member of
the opposition, said the in-
crease in the number of peo-
ple who considered them-
selves poor indicated the
failure and inadequacy of
the Aquino administrations
program to alleviate the
suffering and deprivation of
the poorest of the poor.
De Jesus agreed.
The Aquino administration
has not proven any long-term
positive impact of CCT on the
lives of its beneciaries, so
why increase the budget now?
she said.
Isnt it a suspicious coinci-
dence that the proposed marked
increase comes at a time when
electoral spending will once
again shoot up?
We very well know that the
only way out of poverty is to
create and implement strate-
gic economic programs such
as building a national industry
and a genuine agrarian reform
program.
The Aquino administration
insists on throwing scraps of
food to the poor.
Butchoy...
Manila and the rest of
western Luzon and the Vi-
sayas, weatherman Sam-
uel Duran told the Manila
Standard.
But Duran said the ty-
phoon was forecast to
leave the Philippines
Monday night or Tuesday
morning to head for Oki-
nawa.
Butchoy was spotted
550 kilometers east of Ap-
arri in Cagayan and pack-
ing maximum sustained
winds of 185 kilometers
per hour near the center
and gustiness of up to 220
kph. It was moving north
at 22 kph.
Butchoy is moving
quite fast, Duran said.
Rio N. Araja
Luzon...
Cavite and Makati City, Que-
zon City, Taguig City and Pasay
City in Metro Manila, the Philip-
pine Institute of Volcanology and
Seismology said.
The agency said the quake
took place at 6:18 a.m. and was
strongest at 6.0 in Candelaria,
the quakes epicenter, while a
4.0 magnitude was felt in Makati
City and in the towns of Bolinao,
Bugallon, Villasis and Dagupan
City in Pangasinan.
The quake recorded a weaker
magnitude of 3.0 in Quezon City,
San Fernando, La Union and Iba,
Zambales, Clark and Lubao in
Pampanga, Pasay City and Que-
zon City and Taguig City, 2.0 in
Bacoor and Plaridel in Bulacan,
and 1.0 in Tagaytay City.
Agency director Renato Soli-
dum said the quake was triggered
by the movement of the Manila
Trench in the South China Sea
off Zambales.
The quake had a shallow depth
of four kilometers but lacked the
strength to generate a tsunami,
Solidum said.
Three weak aftershocks in
Luzon were recorded after the
quake.
Intl...
South Africa, Nigeria, Mo-
rocco, Japan, India, Germany,
France, Egypt, China, Brazil
and Australia.
The UK, Germany, Japan, Aus-
tralia, the United States and France
have agreed to postpone approval
of the revised Philippine invest-
ment plan until after the out-
comes of consultations have been
made available to the Trust Fund
Committee.
Germanys representative said
they wanted feedback from the
civil society groups after their
consultations with the Philippine
government.
Australia agrees with the re-
quests put forward by the United
States and Germany seeking fur-
ther evidence/clarication of how
the concerns raised by stakehold-
ers are being addressed, the Aus-
tralian representative said.
We value the continuous con-
sultation process with stakeholders
and would like to see the updated
supplemental report to address the
concerns being raised by CSOs,
Japans representative said.
Citing ofcial documents, Red
Constantino, executive director of
the Institute for Climate and Sus-
tainable Cities and Ronni Masay-
da, assistant transformation man-
ager of the NGO Forum on ADB,
said the ADBs $300-million loan
was contingent on the approval
of the CTFs $101 million in con-
cessional loans.
The Philippine government
would provide the $99 million to
complete the $500 million project.
Since December 2011, civil so-
ciety groups have been calling on
the ADB almost every month to
hold consultations with all sectors
on the e-trikes proposal, said CTF
Trust Fund Committee observer
Elpidio Peria of Aksyon Klima in
a letter to the Manila Standard.
Had the bank taken this call
seriously right away, instead of
rushing as they did only last May
21-23, it would have realized the
folly of the fund diversion and the
ill-thought project design.
Peria said the ADB made at
least four attempts to abbreviate
the consultation process.
He also reiterated the objec-
tions of civil society groups to
include local government units in
the disbursement and collection of
nancing, particularly during an
election year.
The Philippines rst tried to
tap the CTF concessional loan
for solar projects to bring savings
to about 30,000 commercial and
government buildings and facto-
ries under the Arroyo administra-
tion in 2009.
Two years later, however, the
Aquino administration sought to
revise the use of CTF funds and
pushed its e-trike program instead.
PH...
street demonstrations in Bei-
jing and Manila.
The United States, a long-
time Philippine ally, has an-
nounced it will deploy the ma-
jority of its naval forces in Asia
and the Pacic. The Philippines
and the United States have a
binding Mutual Defense Treaty.
Valte did not give details of
the sort of presence the Philip-
pines would like to maintain in
the Panatag Shoal. She said the
government was evaluating the
situation, and its deployment of
ships would depend on the sort
of presence needed in the area.
The government is watching
Beijings next move. It is part
of our evaluation, Valte said.
Joyce Pangco Paares
Poverty...
The bill seeks to enable students of public high schools who
graduate among the top 10 of their class to earn full scholarships
provided by the government in the state college or university of
their choice, Cayetano said.
About 24,905 public high school students will benet from
full scholarship once Congress passes Cayetanos bill and the
President signs it into law.
Public schools offer free elementary and high school educa-
tion, but children in the depressed areas are staying away for
lack of transportation money and basic necessities.
Senator Edgardo Angara has invited high school and college
graduates who are interested in science and technology-related
courses to apply for scholarships in South Korea.
He said he recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding
with President Yoo Jae-cheon of Sangji University that would
offer scholarships to Filipino students.
JUNE 18, 2012 MONDAY
A3 News
ManilaStandardToday mst.daydesk@gmail.com
Sale of fake drugs on the rise
Release
Moros
allies
Angara
scoffs
at money
politics
Castelo bucks plastic ban
Speaking at the Foreign Cor-
respondents Association of the
Philippines in Mandarin Hotel
in Makati City last Thursday,
Dauphin said the addresses of
the websites selling medicines
are concealed.
Dauphin said that dening the
extent of online counterfeiting of
drugs is difcult for a number of
reasons like the diversity of sources
and methods and huge variation
among regions and within countries.
Counterfeiting is greatest in
regions where regulatory and en-
forcement systems for medicines
are weakest, said Dauphin.
She warned of the erosion of of
condence in public health regu-
lators even as she admitted that
many people have died because of
the use of fake medicines.
For his part, Reiner Glood,
president of the Pharmaceuti-
cal and Healthcare Association
of the Philippines, pointed out
that the counterfeiting of both
branded and generic medicines
could have grave consequences
on health such as drug resistance,
disability and death.
Beyond the burden to the gov-
ernment from loss of tax revenue,
and sales and prot losses to cor-
porations, the public is at risk due
to the distribution of interior and
possibly dangerous false products
and service supports, he said.
Counterfeit medicines, he said,
contain active ingredients that are
either too strong or weak or may not
contain any active ingredients at all.
Many of these fake pharmaceutical
products also have hazardous con-
tents such as toxic and contaminated
chemicals, pain, and oor wax.
Pzer Global Security senior
director Scott Davis said 90%
of counterfeit medicines in the
world at some point have some
contract with the internet.
Although there have been
deaths due to online medicines
which has turned out to be fake,
Davis admitted tracking the sell-
ers is so difcult.
China remains the biggest
source of counterfeit drugs, he
said. It lords over the $75-bil-
lion drug counterfeiting global
industry.
Cop-retirees protest use of ATMs
By Joyce Pangco Paares
BUDGET Secretary Florencio
Abad has urged the National Po-
lice to switch to electronic bank-
ing for its retirement payments
and purge its database.
Abad said ghost retirees have
been defrauding the government
of around P250 million each year.
This is unacceptable and must
be stopped immediately, he said.
The Armed Forces and the Phil-
ippine Veterans Ofce have already
made the complete transition to
electronic banking for their pension
payments, Abad said.
We urge the PNP to follow suit
and make ATM payments manda-
tory for all their pensioners. Apart
from speeding up the claims pro-
cess for the beneciaries, this will
also help the police to purge its da-
tabase of ghost retirees, the budget
chief said.
As it stands, the check
payment system is already
a very time-consuming
process for the pen-
sioners. They have to
go to their banks twice
a month and stand in
line just to encash their
checks, he said.
But the Retired PNP Of-
cers Association opposes the gov-
ernments plan to switch to an ATM-
based payment system.
The group threatened to hold
a rally today (Monday June 18)
across all DBM regional ofces.
The protesters hit the DBM
for not yet releasing the funds to
support their pension increases
scheduled this month.
Abad, however, said the funds
released earlier this year to the
PNP can sufciently cover the re-
quired pension adjustment.
He said the PNP will still need
to update its list of con-
rmed pensioners before
the release can be made.
The PNP earlier
reported that at least
66 percent or 40,233
retirees in its database
have been conrmed
as genuine, while some
20,694 names have yet to
be veried.
The DBM already gave the PNP
adequate budgetary support to cover
the pension adjustments for their re-
tirees. However, because the PNP is
still in the process of cleansing its
pensioner database, the third tranche
adjustment cannot be fully imple-
mented yet. In other words, the ball
is in PNPs court. They need to n-
ish weeding out the ghost entries
from their list, and in the process,
enrol the conrmed pensioners to
an ATM account for future pension
releases, Abad said.
By Macon Araneta
MORE than 50 percent of medicines
purchased on the Internet, which is
fast becoming an emerging market, are
counterfeit, according to World Health
Organizations Technical Ofcer
Catherine Dauphin.
By Maricel V. Cruz
BANNING the use of plas-
tic bags is not the solution
to the worsening problem on
waste disposal which has been
blamed for clogging and ood-
ing during the rainy season, a
lawmaker said on Saturday.
But enforcing waste segre-
gation, recovery and recycling
can help, said Quezo City Rep.
Winston Castelo in House Res-
olution 2337.
Castelo, member for the
House committee on Metro Ma-
nila Development, said the ban-
ning of plastic bags which is be-
ing implemented in several cities
and municipalities in the country
has created new problems and
inconvenienced the people.
Castelo said some countries
have adopted a policy of regu-
lating the the use of plastic bags
instead of an outright ban.
Plastic bags are an all-purpose
material and using it in food is
safe and very convenient. Ban-
ning the use of plastic bags is
taking its toll on the industry and
the public, Castelo said.
The plastic ban has an en-
vironmental cost, Castelo said.
Producing one 183-gram cot-
ton bag requires the use of 30
gallons of water while one pa-
per bag requires one gallon of
clean water, which is all it takes
to make 116 plastic bags, he
added.
The Ecowaste Coalition said
plastic bags poses danger to
the environment than paper be-
cause plastic products are made
from petroleum, a dwindling
natural resource requiring car-
bon-intensive extraction.
THE countrys political
system is based on moneyed
personalities, Senator
Edgardo J. Angara said on
Sunday as he called for
deeper reforms in the system.
Angara, who has served
as senator for more than 20
years, said political parties
are premised on those people
who can nance political
campaigns and help pay for
the party.
He said that the Philippine
politics remains in a bad shape,
breeding poor governance
and corruption that sties the
delivery of public services.
Because of this, Angara
called for deeper reforms in the
political party system.
Angara co-authored with
Senator Jose Estrada the
proposed Political Party
Development Act which seeks
to institutionalize a strong party
system throughout the country
and promote transparency in
campaign nancing.
The measure, which has been
pending for three Congresses,
seeks to establish a Party
Development Fund to support
accredited political parties for
their party development and
campaign expenditures.
It also aims to penalize
political turncoatselected
ofcials who switch party
afliations after getting
elected. Macon Araneta
TWO alleged as-
sociates of Ameril
Umbra Kato, a
Moro commander,
asked the Supreme
Court to be released
from prison after
they were absolved
by the Regional Tri-
al Court of Midsay-
ap, Cotabato from
thirty counts of ar-
son and 56 counts
of robbery in south-
ern Mindanao.
K a m a r u d i n
Aguil Awal and
Salahudin Kanakan
Eson, through their
lawyer Berteni
Causing led last
Friday an urgent
petition for writs of
amparo and habeas
corpus for their
release from prison.
Causing said that
the freedom of Awal
and Eson had been
delayed for two
years and that there
was already an order
from the Midsayap
RTC Branch 18 on
April 16, 2010 for
their release.
The court or-
dered the release
after it granted the
motion to dismiss
led by Cyrus D.
Jurado, former law-
yer of the accused,
on September 29,
2009, Jurado said
that Kamarudin
Aguil Awal and
Salahudin Kanakan
Eson are not the
same people actu-
ally charged in the
same criminal in-
formation sheets for
arson and robbery.
The court ruled
that Awal and Eson
were wrongfully
arrested on Aug.1,
2009 at the vicinity
of Sunshine Mall in
FTI, Bicutan, Taguig
City, and that the duo
were mistaken for
two of the suspects in
arson and other cases
led against then
MILF commander
Ameril Umbra Kato.
Hernani Cuare
Abad
Opinion Adelle Chua, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
mst.lettertotheeditor@gmail.com JUNE 18, 2012 MONDAY
A4
ANTI-MINING sentiments are
growing in the Philippines for
some valid reasons. For the
most part, the emotions are
misplaced.
The Mines and Geosciences
Bureau has expressed concern
about the mounting anti-mining
sentiments, both at the civil
society level and local government
units, saying they have hurt the
economy. There is one challenge
that the minerals industry is facing.
Everthing boils down to the anti-
mining sentiments, bureau
director Leo Jasareno warned
mining companies in a forum last
week.
Unsubstantiated propaganda
by the so-called advocacy groups
and the lack of information on
the benets of mining, especially
on employment, have muddled
the legitimate issues surrounding
the sector. Compounding the
problem are the initiatives of some
local government units to pass
ordinances and local laws that
limit, if not totally prohibit, mining
in the provinces.
Fourteen provinces have already
passed anti-mining resolutions,
while more local government
units are asking Congress to
enact laws that will permanently
ban the activity. Anti-mining
groups, including the misinformed
Church, are initially succeeding
in the propaganda war. Host
communities, unfortunately, are
missing out on the opportunities
that could significantly ease
poverty in their areas.
Vi ce Pr es i dent J ej omar
Binay reminded critics about
the economic gains and social
benets from the mining industry
in a Davao City convention.
Communities that host mining
operat i ons, he says, shoul d
be granted opportunities like
education, health care, clean
wat er, and power as a bare
minimum.
Binay cited the billions of
tons of metallic and non-metallic
mineral deposits buried in the
Philippines that must be tapped.
This is the strange contradiction
that we live inso many look for
food and decent living above
groundwhile so much wealth
lies literally beneath our feet,
Binay said.
President Aquino has the task
of balancing the fears of mining
critics and the clear benefits a
host community will enjoy from a
mineral bonanza. He must ensure
responsible mining, especially
with respect to the environment,
and at the same time give host
communities a ghting chance to
improve their lot and work their
way out of poverty.
Misconceptions about mining
Aristotleas a school
year commences
IN ARISTOTLES day, science
did not mean Newton, Faraday,
Einstein, Bohr and their kin. It
meant knowing a thing through its
causes. The rather pejorative term
sophist, closely corresponding to
the unflattering Filipino moniker
pilosopo, was used by Aristotle
to refer to those who pretended
that they had
the cause, but
in fact had
s o m e t h i n g
e l s e .
E x a m p l e s
abound these
days. It is
surprising that
at a time when
i n f o r ma t i o n
is abundant
and checking
sources, no
longer as arduous a task as it used
to be, rumors and idle-talk abound.
One such sophistry that is mouthed
with the airs of science consists in
blaming the poor prices farmers
command for their agricultural
products on our membership in the
World Trade Organization. But to
know by and , the causes of
was, for Aristotle, what science
was. Once more, Aristotle hollers
across the centuries to the teachers
of araling panlipunan today.
When one such teacher extols
Lapu-lapu for having fought off
the invaders without bothering
to ask whether he did so because
they were foreigners or because
he was so aggressive about his
turf that he would have cut down
to bits any fellow Visayan who
would have waded into the very
same waters as Magellan is not
leading her pupils to the science
that Aristotle thought constituted
the knowing worth having!
By demonstration, Aristotle
refers to that reasoning (by
syllogisms) that leads to scientific
knowledge.
Whatever gives off carbon
dioxide when subjected to
combustion in an atmosphere of
oxygen is carbon.
A diamond on which the
suns rays are concentrated in
an atmosphere of oxygenand
therefore subject to combustion
gives off carbon dioxide.
Therefore: a diamond is carbon.
It is not as neat a syllogism
as the uninteresting examples
by which unimaginative logic
professors bore their students. But
it is typical of the presentation of a
chemistry or geology teacher. And
when one knows that diamond
is carbon that is truly scientific
knowledgesomething you
have to go to school to learn, or
conduct experiments to discover,
or receive by way of instruction
from an expert you trust, while
the typical reactions: Maganda,
kumukutitap, kumikislap are just
thattypical and pedestrian!
Obviously, however, to follow
through to the conclusion one must
understand that when all you have
is carbon to which heat is applied
sufficiently strong to break it
down and
what is around
is oxygen,
then what you
get is carbon
dioxide. Then,
one will have
to learn about
H u m p h r y
D a v i s
experiment in
1813 that did
just that. The
teacher need
not supply the premises. The
teacher can, with the students,
search out the premiseseven
if they may not yet seem like
premises. But what is also apparent
is that arriving at the knowledge
that diamond is carbon calls
for combinatorial powersthe
power to put together what one
may know from chemistry about
carbon subjected to combustion
in an atmosphere of oxygen and
science history, the Humphrey
Davis experiment, to construct a
demonstration that leads one to a
scientific conclusion.
Aristotle also attends to errors,
and it is as important to the teacher
to know how and where things can
go wrong! From an individual
peculiarity or idiosyncrasy you do
not draw a conclusion applicable
to all. That your neighbor has this
annoying if quaint trait of waking
up the whole neighborhood by
sneezing with such force as to
come quite close to sonic boom
allows one no conclusion about
all of ones neighbors living his
side of your house. But theres
a rub, for it is not always easy to
distinguish between a peculiarity
and an essential characteristic.
Bizarre postures may appear to
be idiosyncraticbut are in fact
essential characteristics of the
catatonic! Whatever, the point is
that errors arise when you draw
conclusions from the peculiar.
The only paltry conclusion in such
a case that you are allowed to draw
is that it is peculiar!
rannie_aquino@csu.edu.ph
rannie_aquino@sanbeda.edu.ph
rannie_aquino@yahoo.com
EDITORIAL
Surprising survey tail-enders
JUST as interesting as the list of
the potential winners among the
senatorial contenders for the May 13,
2013 elections, based on the latest
Pulse Asia survey, are the tail-enders.
Surprisingly, the list of potential
senatorial also-rans contains many
names one would think should have
figured prominently in the top 12.
The Pulse Asia survey held
May 20 to 26 is an aided survey.
Respondents were shown a list of
names of personalities who have been
mentioned as interested in running
for senator and they were asked: If
the 2013 were held today, who in
this list would you vote for senator?
Choose only 12 names.
The biggest shocker in the
list of probable losers is former
Akbayan Rep. Risa Hontiveros who
is languishing at 24th place with a
rating of 15.7 percent.
The Pulse Asia result for
Hontiveros was unexpected,
considering the fact she placed 13th
in the 2010 elections with 9,106,112
votes and was just edged out of the
winning circle of 12 by Sen. Teofisto
Guingona III.
Hontiveros is also always in the
news. She and her Akbayan take a
very visible and very noisy stand
on virtually every political issue
from the RH bill to the Corona
impeachment. Always on the side of
President Aquino, of course.
She even had a multi-million peso
ad television ad campaign endorsing
the RH bill that some people suspect
was funded by the multi-national
pharmaceutical companies who are
expected to have a bonanza once the
RH bill is made into law.
President Aquino endorses
Hontiveros senatorial bid so its
really a surprise that she is only 24th
in the Pulse Asia May survey.
Also openly endorsed by President
Aquino but also a tail ender and
even lower in the ranking than
Hontiveros is Presidential Advisor on
Environment Protection and Laguna
Lake Development Authority General
Manager Nereus Acosta, who is at
30th place. In the Pulse Asia survey,
Acosta has a single-digit rating of 9.3
percent.
Unlike Hontiveros, however, the
results for Acosta are not surprising.
Acosta is an also- ran in the 2010
senatorial election and could only
place 21st. Also, the latest media
stories about Acosta are negative.
He was in the news trying to stop the
implementation of a suspension order
by the Ombudsman because he was
implicated in a graft case involving
siphoning his pork barrel into a
foundation.
One putative senatorial
candidate who Pres. Aquino himself
announced a few weeks ago as one of
four already sure candidates of the
ruling Liberal Partywho is also not
doing well in the survey is Technical
Education and Skills Development
Authority (Tesda) Director General
Joel Villanueva.
Villanueva could only register 5.1
percent rating and is ranked 36th.
Apparently, the efforts of
Villanueva to use Tesda resources
from billboards to vans to project
himself and boost his senatorial bid
are not working.
Perhaps, Villanueva can console
himself with the fact that he is
one rank higher than actress Alma
Moreno who is in 37
th
place with 4.8
percent. Villanuevas rating looks
good compared to Alma Moreno
considering the fact that Moreno has
an 87-percent awareness rating while
only 41 percent of the respondents
are aware of Villanueva, son of Jesus
is Lord (JIL) head Brother Eddie
Villanueva.
One of the four sure LP senatorial
candidates as announced by Pres.
Aquino is Customs Commissioner
ALVIN
CAPINO
COUNTER-POINT
FR. RANHILIO
CALLANGAN AQUINO
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MY HUSBAND and I attended
a wedding with 700 guests last
Saturday. It was grand as grand can
be, pushing me to wonder why the
couple chose to be wed in June amid
great likelihood of rains, or typhoons
even. A great number of weddings are
still held in June in the Philippines
although, of late, the trend has been
shifting toward December or January
nuptials. In the western world June
is the wedding month of choice and
I always thought it was only because
June was the end of spring and
the beginning
of summer.
Thus, rains are
unlikely but the
climate is still
c o mf o r t a b l y
balmy. But
not content
with my own
assumptions, I
did a research
on the history of
June weddings.
June is the
sixth month
of the year
in the Julian
and Gregorian
calendars and
one of the
four months
with a length
of 30 days.
The month is
named after the
Roman goddess
of marriage,
Juno, wife of Jupiter. According to
Wikipedia, in both the common and
leap years, no other month begins on
the same day of the week as June.
June ends on the same day of the
week as March every year. June is
the month with the longest daylight
hours of the year in the Northern
hemisphere and the shortest daylight
hours in the Southern Hemisphere.
June, in the Northern Hemisphere, is
the seasonal equivalent of December
in the Southern Hemisphere. In the
Northern Hemisphere, the beginning
of the meteorological summer is June
1 while in the Southern Hemisphere,
the beginning of the meteorological
winter is June 1. The continents that
belong to the Northern Hemisphere
are: all of Europe, all of North
America, Central America and the
Caribbean, the vast majority of
Asia, except Indonesia and East
Timor, which are in the Southern
Hemisphere, and about two thirds of
Africa.
Despite June being named after the
Roman goddess of marriage, writer
Timothy Sexton wrote that a June
wedding is not as romantic as one
might think. Here is why, he said. In
the olden times, there was a practical
and economic side to June weddings.
A marriage in June could, most likely,
result in a conception early enough
so that the womans child would be
born in spring. That would give her
enough time to recover from birth-
giving to help during the peak farm
work months or the harvest season.
In other words, her usefulness,
more than romance, was the bigger
factor in choosing a June wedding.
Interestingly, the June wedding
tradition continues in most countries
of the world to this day, even for
career women living in cities.
For some, like the Chinese, June
weddings are popular because it is
believed that when it rains on ones
wedding day, it is a sign that good luck
and prosperity will be showered on
the couple throughout the marriage.
As for me, whatever month is
as good as any for a wedding, for
as long as the fundamentals of a
lasting and happy relationship are
present: a genuine love and respect
for each other; honest and open
communication between spouses;
a sincere willingness to help and
support each
other, morally,
e c onomi c a l l y
and emotionally,
in good times
and in bad.
***
P o s t
script on the
i mpeachment .
Almost three
weeks have
passed since
Chief Justice
Renato C.
Corona was
convicted by
the Senate as
an impeachment
court. Still,
p e o p l e ,
e s p e c i a l l y
those who
followed the
i mp e a c h me n t
trial, continue
to talk about it.
Many still debate on whether it was
a fair decision or not; whether the
ground for which the chief justice
was convicted was an impeachable
offense or not. Chief Justice Corona
had said that history will vindicate
him and prove that his conviction
was wrong. Senator Miriam Defensor
Santiago said as much, too. After
all, although impeachment is more a
political than a judicial process, there
are rules of procedure that apply
and there are specic grounds for
conviction as dened and delimited
by the Constitution. Such grounds are
collectively described as high crimes.
Yet, for all the divisiveness the
impeachment of the chief justice
has brought to the country, one
legacy it left stands out. The bar
for impeaching impeachable public
ofcers and removing elected and
appointed public servants from ofce
is now much lower. Whenever the
public sees a government ofcial
living a lifestyle beyond what his
ofcial remuneration can provide,
his SALN may be inspected; and if
he is found not to have declared all
his cash and real estate properties
properly, he may be removed from
ofce. If this becomes the standard to
be consistently followed henceforth,
the hundreds of millions spent by the
taxpayers in the impeachment process
will not have been in vain.
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June wedding
trivia
From the readers
BONG C.
AUSTERO
ARE WE THERE YET?
TODAY, Im going to cede this space
to those who have sent their feedback
and views by snail or e-mail, text or
through Facebook. The wealth of
opinions shows that every Pinoy is a
pundit.
Let me begin with this thought-
provoking piece by S. Noriel of
Malate, Manila :
I inherited 5 hectares of
farmland in Cavite of which I pay
a tax based on its assessed value of
about P200 per square meter, or P2
million per hectare. I have been told
that my land will be acquired by
the government for land reform for
which I will be paid based on the
lands tax declaration. Should that
happen, I will be P10 million richer.
I know that it will take years before
I will get paid. But thats not my
point. My point is that why would
this cash-strapped government
insist on expropriating my land
now, offer me P10 million when for
a fraction of that amount it could
improve the lives of those working
on my land? Dont get me wrong.
I am for land reform 100 percent
. But I just shudder at the thought
of the windfall those owning 20
hectares or more will get. It leads me
to conclude that the billions being
bandied about for CARP will just go
to compensate the already rich.
On our proposal that proceeds from
sin taxes partially defray the cost of the
K-to-12 education scheme, J. Pardales
of Quezon City calls on government to
raise the measly excise tax miners
pay.
Says he: Ive heard that the tax
on cigarettes will be increased by as
much as 1,000 percent. Thats ne
me with if only to stop our youth
from smoking. I understand that an
excise tax is imposed on activities
which are harmful. If that is the case,
then government should increase the
three percent excise tax on minerals
because their extraction causes a lot
of environmental damage.
On the same topic, G. Cruz of
Angeles City chimes in with this
brilliant proposal:
Congressmen claim that the
higher tax on beer and cigarettes will
be used to nance the enrollment of
the poor in PhilHealth. Why not
use the proceeds to also hire more
public school doctors, nurses and
dentists? After all, the children of the
poor go to these schools so the latter
can be rst- aid stations for those
who have no access to medical care.
Ive read somewhere that theres only
one school doctor for every 100,000
pupils.
Speaking of schools, R. Nuesca of
Baguio City has a prescription on how
to address high youth unemployment :
In your column, you made mention
of the lack of rooms, books in our
schools. You forgot to state that with
the implementation of K-12 we will
be needing vocational equipment like
sewing machines, welding shops,
kitchens. We need more of these if we
want our students to graduate from
high school with employable skills.
Our piece on the mushrooming
of politicians streamers elicited this
comment from B. Asis of Butuan
City:
Because my patience is high, I can
tolerate the tarpaulins of our politicos
although sometimes I want to burn
them. But I draw the line on advertising
bad projects like the destruction of
perfectly good roads so contractors
and their friends in high places can
make money. Long sections of the
Maharlika Highway have been torn
up when they dont have potholes. If
this is the Daang Matuwid being built,
then it is wrong.
But S. Candano of Caloocan City
says that when we ranted against
streamers we saw the trees, but not
the forest.
The problem, he writes, are
not the tarpaulins but the high cost of
elections in the country. Remember
we will be spending P7 billion next
year to hold one election. Do we
really have to spend this amount every
36 months?
T. Manubag of Cebu narrates his
experience in reacting to our column
on the search for a new chief justice:
I have sued a supplier for estafa
who ran away with money I earned
as an engineer in Saudi Arabia. I
filed the case in 1998, thats why I
call it my centennial case. Its still
being heard and the money Ive spent
for lawyers is nearing the amount I
want to recover. There are thousands
like me crying for justice and I am
lucky that I am not in prison while
my case is being tried. So I agree
with you that Coronas replacement
must not only be good at writing
decisions. He must also see to it that
the wheels of justice grind fast in
our courts.
Cheap fares and suffering passengers
I JUST got back from Polomolok,
South Cotabato where my college
friends and I traveled to over the
weekend to have a reunion in
celebration of the birthday of our
much-loved mentor. I ew in to
General Santos Citygateway to
Polomolokfrom Manila, but the
large part of the group composed of
12 people ew in from Tacloban City.
The reunion was planned as early
as last year so the group was able to
avail of a cheap fare promo from Cebu
Pacic. There were more people who
were supposed to join us in Polomolok
and who also bought plane tickets but
couldnt make it at the last minute due
to work and family constraints.
The groups return to Tacloban
City got derailed when Cebu Pacic
canceled the second leg of their travel
itinerary. After a lot of complaining
and haggling, most of the group
eventually got booked on a detour
pathGeneral Santos to Manila,
and from thereon, to Tacloban City.
The runaround route could have
been amusing; it was like going to
Divisoria from Makati via Bicol.
Unfortunately, the detour meant a
delay of almost eight hours and untold
inconvenience. Most had to cancel
appointments such as Fathers Day
celebrations with their families; those
who couldnt just had to take other
travel arrangements which cost more.
In addition, those who accepted the
compromise offered by Cebu Pacic
had to fork up additional expenses.
One would expect that in situations
like this, Cebu Pacic would have fed
them meals, put them on a connecting
ight which would have saved them
from having to retrieve baggage, line
up at check-in counters, and terminal
fees, but no cigar.
The members of the group who
bought tickets but couldnt join at the
last minute had to forfeit the money
they paid up for the tickets. Despite
Civil Aeronautics Board Resolution
Numbers 28 and 29, which supposedly
took effect June 15, the tickets were
still considered non-refundable.
Friends of mine who live in
Polomolok also suffered the same
snafu. They were booked on a
General Santos-Cebu-Tacloban return
ight for the week after next as they
plan to attend the esta in Tacloban on
June 29. Cebu Pacic representatives
called to inform them that their return
ight has been canceled. They were
also offered a detour to Manila. The
detour was unacceptable as it would
have meant longer and additional
travel time so they settled for a
Cebu-Davao City route. This means
added inconvenience and additional
expenses and as they would have to
travel four hours by land from Davao
to General Santos.
Just a few months ago, a group of
friends who were traveling to Palawan
for a conference were unilaterally
bumped off their plane because the
ight was overbooked. All 20 of them
were bumped offthe plane was
overbooked by that much. They argued
and fought and threatened lawsuits to
no avail. They missed the rst day of
the conference they were attending. A
similar incident happened to a group
of local executives who were on a
Lakbay Aral trip to Bohol last year.
I have heard more sob stories of
this nature. So yes, I think it is about
time that government step into the
picture to protect consumers.
I think the so-called business
model of the low-cost carriers offering
no-frills air travel is doing many of
our countrymen a great service. The
cheap-fare promos of these carriers
are beneting people who need
affordable means of air travel because
of family emergencies, business
matters, or other necessities. We live
in an archipelago and traveling by
plane is really the most practical mode
of getting around, particularly since
many of the roads in the provinces
pose serious health hazards and our
ships and boats have been perennially
described as oating caskets. We also
happen to be a very clannish people
we even go out of our way to invent
occasions just so we can socialize and
have fun together.
But protability does not have to
be at the expense of passengers. I
can understand why low-cost carriers
have to overbook ights to cover
passengers who dont show up. I can
empathize with the difculties and
complexities of pursuing a business
model that would ensure viability of
the industry. But surely we do not
have to make passengers suffer in the
process. Surely passenger comfort
and convenience are also important
business goals that can be pursued
hand in hand with protability and
viability.
I hope our authorities and the
industry can come up with win-win
solutions that would effectively
protect consumers from abuses such
as bumping off passengers from the
manifest, offloading of baggage, and
what has become the very common
practice of canceling or rerouting
planes, not to mention delaying
flights.
PASTOR APOLLO
QUIBOLOY
PLUMBLINE
Local Government Code which was envisioned to allow local governments greater
autonomy and increased self-sufciency, developments have reected neither the
autonomy nor self-sufciency intended by the law for its target beneciaries.
Since 1991, ve new provinces have been created, raising the total number of
provinces from 76 to 81. From 1979 to 2008, the number of cities has more than
Having a
wedding in the
month of June
is not always
as romantic as
one may think.
There are other
pragmatic,
economic and
even superstitious
reasons.
RITA LINDA
V. JIMENO
OUT OF THE BOX
PJL Group owner Ambassador Philippe Lhuillier wish-
es to put the matter of ownership of a 340-square meter
property located in Makati, as carried in media reports, in
the proper perspective.
The disputed property was offered to the company by
a broker, Mr. Kumar Harjani. It was eventually purchased
from one Ms. Maria Cristina Mendoza, who represented
herself to be the owner by showing a certied true copy of
title in her name, and other documents including a court
order lifting a Notice of Lis Pendens. These documents
were the basis for the consummation of the sale.
Unfortunately, to the surprise of Amb. Lhuilliers camp,
the court order was later found to be spurious giving rise
to the present controversy involving a Mr. Roberto Santos,
who claims to be the owner.
Ambassador Lhuillier wishes to assure all concerned that
all the legal actions pursued were in accordance with what his
company believed to be legal remedies available to him in or-
der to protect the rights of his company. It is not his intention
to prejudice anyone, as the news articles insinuate.
His company is a victim of unscrupulous businessmen
out to undermine buyers in good faith, even going to the
extent of faking ofcial documents.
Amb. Lhuillier and Mr. Santos are both victims in
this controversy. It is quite unfortunate that Amb. Lhuil-
liers stature is being taken advantage of, and the own-
ership issue is being tried in the court of public opinion.
Nonetheless, efforts are being undertaken to put this
matter to rest.
Statement from the Ofce of Ambassador Philippe J.
Lhuillier
Lhuilliers company is a victim
of unscrupulous businessmen
Ruffy Biazon who is doing better than Hontiveros and Villanueva at 16th
place and a rating of 23.2 percent.
Like Hontiveros, Biazon also ran in the 2010 senatorial elections and
placed a respectable 14th with 8,626,514 votes.
Although President Aquino already announced that his inclusion in the LP
senatorial slate is already sure, Biazon himself, according to news reports,
says he still has to make a final decision. It seems that Biazon wants his
father, former Sen. Rodolfo Biazon now representing Muntinlupa at the
House of Representatives, to run for senator and while he remains in the
Bureau of Customs.
Of the four sure LP candidates, the best performer in the Pulse Asia
survey is Rep. Edgardo Sonny Angara who is 12th in the ranking with a
rating of 28.9 percent.
All those political personalities below the top 20 in the Pulse Asia May
survey can take consolation from the fact that that at the bottom of the rating
at 42nd place is Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo
with a rating of 1.8 percent.
They can always tell jeerers that they did better than a member of the
Cabinet holding a key department in charge of governors and mayors as well
as the police, the firemen and the jail guards.

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From A4
A6 | MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012
CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES AND BRILLIANTES, Sixto, Jr., S. Chairman
PERIODS OF PROHIBITED ACTS SARMIENTO, Rene V., Commissioner
IN CONNECTION WITH THE JULY TAGLE, Lucenito N., Commissioner
21, 2012 PLEBISCITE TO RATIFY VELASCO, Armando C., Commissioner
THE CONVERSION OF THE YUSOPH, Elias R., Commissioner
MUNICIPALITY OF MABALACAT, LIM, Christian Robert S. Commissioner
PROVINCE OF PAMPANGA INTO
A COMPONENT CITY PURSUANT
TO REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10164
DATED MAY 15, 2012.
x-------------------------------------------------x
Promulgated : June 15, 2012

RESOLUTION NO. 9448
Pursuant to the powers vested in it by the Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines,
the Omnibus Election Code and Republic Act No. 7166, 6466, 10164 and other election laws,
the Commission on Elections, has RESOLVED to adopt, as it hereby RESOLVES to adopt, the
following CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES AND PERIODS OF PROHIBITED ACTS in connection
with the July 21, 2012 Plebiscite to ratify the conversion of the Municipality of Mabalacat,
Province of Pampanga into a component city, as follows:
DATE/PERIOD ACTIVITIES PROHIBITED ACTS
June 18, 2012 (MON)
to July 21, 2012 (SAT)
Posting of the Computerized
Voters List as of the April 16,
2012 ERB Hearing.
June 18, 2012 (MON) Submission to Commission
by the heads of reaction/
strike forces or similar forces
of a complete list of all its
members.
June 18, 2012 (MON)
to July 26, 2012 (THU)
PLEBISCITE PERIOD Bearing, carrying or transporting
frearms or other deadly weapons
in public places, including any
building, street, park, private
vehicle or public conveyance,
or even if licensed to possess or
carry the same, unless authorized
in writing by the Commission (Sec.
261 (p) (q) OEC as amended by
Sec. 32, RA 7166;
Suspension of local elective
offcials (Sec. 261 (x), OEC)
Transfer of offcers and employees
in the civil service (Sec. 261 (h),
OEC);
Alteration of territory of a precinct
or establishment of a new precinct
(Sec. 5, R.A.. 8189)
Organizing or maintaining
reaction/strike forces or similar
forces (Sec.261, (u), OEC)
Illegal release of prisoners (Sec.
261 (n), OEC)
Use of security personnel or
bodyguards by candidates,
whether or not such bodyguards
are regular members or offcers
of the Philippine National Police
or Armed Forces of the Philippines
or other law enforcement agency
(Sec. 261 (t), OEC, as amended
by Sec. 33, RA 7166)
June 18, 2012 (MON)
to July 21, 2012 (SAT)
Raising of funds through dances,
lotteries, cockfghts, etc. (Sec. 97,
OEC)
Issuance of appointments,
promotions, creation of new
positions, flling of new positions,
or giving of salary increases in
government offces, agencies or
instrumentalities (Sec. 261 (g)
OEC);
Release, disbursement or
expenditures of public funds (Sec.
261 (v), OEC);
Construction of public works,
delivery of materials for public
works and issuance of treasury
warrants or similar devices for a
future undertaking chargeable
against public funds (Sec. 261,
(w) OEC
July 5, 2012 (THU) to
July 19, 2012 (THU)
July 13, 2012 (FRI)
INFORMATION
CAMPAIGN PERIOD
Last day to constitute the
Plebiscite Committees
Last day to constitute
the Plebiscite Board of
Canvassers
Making any donation or gift in cash
or in kind, etc. (Sec. 104, OEC).
Use of armored/ land/ water/ air
craft. (Sec. 261 (r), OEC).
Appointing or using special
policemen, special/ confdential
agents or the like. (Sec. 261
(m), OEC).
July 20, 2012 (FRI)
July 21, 2012 (SAT)
July 26, 2012
(THURS)
EVE OF PLEBISCITE DAY
PLEBISCITE DAY
Casting of votes- (from 7:00
a.m. to 3:00 p.m.);
Convening of the Municipal
Plebiscite Board of
Canvassers (6:00 p.m.)
LAST DAY OF PLEBISCITE
PERIOD
Campaigning (Sec. 3, OEC);
Giving, accepting free
transportation, foods, drinks, and
things of value (Sec. 89, OEC);
Selling, furnishing, offering, buying,
serving or taking intoxicating liquor
(Sec. 261 (dd), (1), OEC).
(NOTE: Acts mentioned in the
three (3) preceding paragraphs
are prohibited until election day.)
Vote-buying and vote selling (Sec.
261 (a), OEC).
Voting more than once or in
substitution of another (Sec. 261
(z) (2) and (3), OEC).
Campaigning (Sec. 3, OEC).
Soliciting votes or undertaking any
propaganda for or against any
candidate or any political party
within the polling place or within
thirty (30) meters thereof (Sec. 261
(CC) (6), OEC).
Selling, furnishing, offering, buying,
serving or taking intoxicating liquor,
etc. (Sec. 261 (dd) (1), OEC).
Opening of booths or stalls for the
sale, etc., of wares, merchandise
or refreshments, within thirty (30)
meters radius from the polling
place. (Sec. 261 (dd) (2) OEC).
Giving and/or accepting free
transportation, food, drinks and
things of value (Sec. 89, OEC).
Holding of fairs, cockfghts, boxing,
horse races or similar sports. (Sec.
261 (dd) (3), OEC).
Let this Resolution be published in two (2) daily newspapers of general circulation in the
Philippines, and in one (1) local newspaper of general circulation in the Municipality of Mabalacat,
Pampanga. The Deputy Executive Director for Operations shall furnish the Regional Election
Director of Region III, the Provincial Election Supervisor of Pampanga, the Election Offcer of
Mabalacat, Pampanga, the Secretary of the Department of Interior and Local Government,
the Secretary of the Department of Justice, the Secretary of the Department of Education, the
Provincial Governor of Pampanga, the Municipal Mayor of Mabalacat, Pampanga, the DepEd
Supervisor of Mabalacat, Pampanga with a copy of this Resolution.
The Regional Election Director of Region III, the Provincial Election Supervisor of
Pampanga and the Election Offcer of Mabalacat, Pampanga shall give this Resolution the widest
dissemination.
This Resolution shall take effect upon its publication in two (2) daily newspapers of general
circulation.
SO ORDERED.
SIXTO S. BRILLANTES, JR.
Chairman
RENE V. SARMIENTO LUCENITO N. TAGLE
Commissioner Commissioner
ARMANDO C. VELASCO ELIAS R. YUSOPH
CHRISTIAN ROBERT S.LIM
Commissioner
Republic of the Philippines
COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS
M a n i l a
M a n i l a
RULES AND REGULATIONS BRILLANTES, JR., SIXTO S., Chairman
GOVERNING THE CONDUCT SARMIENTO, RENE V., Commissioner
OF THE JULY 21, 2012 TAGLE, LUCENITO N., Commissioner
PLEBISCITE TO RATIFY VELASCO, ARMANDO C., Commissioner
THE CONVERSION OF THE YUSOPH, ELIAS R., Commissioner
MUNICIPALITY OF MABALACAT LIM, CHRISTIAN ROBERT, S. Commissioner
IN THE PROVINCE OF PAMPANGA
INTO A COMPONENT CITY
PURSUANT TO REPUBLIC ACT
NO. 10164 DATED MAY 15, 2012.
x-------------------------------------------------x Promulgated : June 15, 2012
RESOLUTION NO. 9449
The Commission on Elections, by virtue of the powers conferred upon it by the Constitution,
the Omnibus Election Code, the Local Government Code of 1991, Republic Act No. 7166, and other
election laws, RESOLVED to promulgate, as it hereby RESOLVES to promulgate, the following
rules and regulations to govern the conduct of the July 21, 2012 Plebiscite to ratify the conversion
of the Municipality of Mabalacat in the Province of Pampanga into a component city, pursuant to
Republic Act No. 10164, approved on May 15, 2012:
SECTION 1. Supervision and control. - The Commission on Elections shall have direct
control and supervision over the conduct of the plebiscite.
SEC. 2. Expenses and election forms and paraphernalia. - The expenses in holding the
plebiscite, which shall include the printing of offcial ballots, plebiscite returns and other forms; the
procurement of supplies and paraphernalia; the per diems of the members of the PlebCom, the overtime
compensation of the Plebiscite Boards of Canvassers (PBOC), Sub-canvassing Committees and their
support staff; other operational and incidental expenses; and the costs of publication of resolutions and
information materials, shall be borne by the Municipality of Mabalacat, Pampanga.
For this purpose, the Deputy Executive Director for Operations (ODEDO) shall prepare the
budgetary requirements and require the proponents to immediately appropriate and remit the
necessary amount.
SEC. 3. Posting of Republic Act No.10164, dated May 15, 2012. At least ten (10)
days prior to the day of the plebiscite, the Election Offcer, hereinafter referred to as EO, of the
Municipality of Mabalacat shall cause the posting of a copy of Republic Act No. 10164, approved on
May 15, 2012, in all the polling places.
SEC. 4. Information campaign. An objective information campaign on the plebiscite shall
be conducted from July 5, 2012 to July 19, 2012. During this period, civic, professional, religious,
business, youth and any other similar organizations may hold symposia, public rallies or meetings
to enlighten the voters of the said municipality on the plebiscite issues, and to campaign for or
against the ratifcation of Republic Act No. 10164. Constructive discussions and debates shall
be encouraged and the voters assured of the freedom to voice their opinion regarding the issues,
advantages or disadvantages thereof.
The EO of the Municipality of Mabalacat, in coordination with the local government offcials,
mass media, NGOs and religious groups shall convene barangay assemblies or pulong-pulongs
for such constructive discussions and debates.
SEC. 5. Date of plebiscite and voting hours. The plebiscite shall be held on July 21,
2012 (Saturday). The voting shall start at seven oclock in the morning and end at three oclock in
the afternoon.
SEC. 6. Area of coverage. The plebiscite shall be held in the whole Municipality of
Mabalacat, Pampanga.
SEC. 7. Who may vote. All qualifed and duly registered voters of the Municipality of
Mabalacat, Pampanga, after the April 2012 Election Registration Board (ERB) hearing, are eligible
to vote in the plebiscite.
The Information Technology Department (ITD), shall prepare the lists of voters for use in the
plebiscite in accordance with Section 11 hereof.
SEC. 8. PlebCom Composition, Compensation, Duties and Functions. The voting and
counting of votes shall be conducted in each polling place by a PlebCom composed of a Chairman,
a Poll Clerk and a Third Member who shall all be public school teachers, to be appointed by the
Commission through the EO.
Each member of the PlebCom shall be entitled to a per diem of Three Thousand Pesos
(Php3,000.00) for services rendered in connection with the plebiscite.
The PlebCom shall have the following powers and duties:
(a) Supervise and conduct the voting in the polling place on July 21, 2012;
(b) Count the votes and thereafter prepare the plebiscite returns and other required
documents/reports and distribute the same as herein provided;
(c) Furnish watchers certifcate of votes upon request;
(d) Act as deputies of the Commission in the supervision and control of the plebiscite in the
polling places wherein they are assigned to ensure the holding of free, orderly, honest,
peaceful and credible plebiscite;
(e) Maintain order within the polling place and its premises, to keep access thereto, open
and unobstructed, and to enforce obedience to its lawful orders.
If any person shall refuse to obey lawful orders of the PlebCom or shall conduct himself
in a disorderly manner in its presence or within its hearing thereby interrupting or
disturbing its proceedings, the PlebCom may issue an order in writing directing any
peace offcer to take such person into custody until the adjournment of the meeting, but
such order shall not be executed as to prevent the person so taken into custody from
exercising his right to vote. Such order shall be executed by any peace offcer to whom it
may be delivered, but if none is present, by any other person deputized by the PlebCom
in writing; and
(f) Perform such other functions/duties as may be prescribed by the Commission.
SEC. 9. Disqualifcations. - No person shall serve as chairman or member of the PlebCom if he
is related within the fourth civil degree of consanguinity or affnity to any member of the same PlebCom.
No member of the PlebCom shall engage, directly or indirectly, in any partisan political activity
or take part in the plebiscite, except to discharge his duties as such, and to vote, provided he is a
registered voter of the Municipality of Mabalacat, Pampanga.
SEC. 10. Precincts and polling places. For purposes of the July 21, 2012 plebiscite, the
precincts established after the April 2012 Election and Registration Board Hearing, and clustered
based on the Guidelines in the Clustering/Grouping of Precincts for Purposes of the October 25,
2010 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Elections, shall be adopted.
SEC.11. Posted Computerized Voters List (PCVL); Election Day Computerized Voters
List (EDCVL). - The ITD shall print three (3) copies of the PCVL which shall be certifed by the
Election Registration Board (ERB).
One (1) copy of the PCVL shall be given to the PlebCom for use on plebiscite day. The other
two (2) copies of the PCVL shall be distributed as follows:
(a) One copy for posting at the Offce of the EO;
(b) One copy for posting at the bulletin boards of the Municipality of Mabalacat, Pampanga.
The ITD shall also print two (2) copies of the EDCVL which shall likewise be certifed by the
Election Registration Board.
Sec. 12. Distribution of Plebiscite Forms and Supplies. - The Municipal Treasurer shall, in
coordination with the EO concerned, distribute the plebiscite forms and supplies to the PlebComs in the
morning of the day of the plebiscite. The EO or his authorized representatives shall release the PCVLs to
the School Principal concerned who shall in turn release them to the PlebComs.
The Provincial Election Supervisor of Pampanga is hereby authorized to approve requests for
early delivery of plebiscite forms and supplies, subject to the following conditions:
a. That there is considerable distance between the Offce of the Municipal Treasurer and
the location of the polling place;
b. That there is lack or diffculty of means of transportation in the area;
c. That the total number of precincts in the municipality is such that if the delivery of the
offcial ballots, election returns, other plebiscite forms and paraphernalia is done early in the
morning of plebiscite day, not all the PlebComs may be able to receive said documents and
paraphernalia in time for the opening of polls at 7:00 a.m. of plebiscite day; or
d. That the peace and order conditions in the area justify such advance delivery in order
to ensure the security of the forms, documents and paraphernalia, and safety of the
members of the PlebComs.
SEC. 13. Offcial ballots. The offcial ballot shall be distributed at the ratio of one ballot per voter.
The offcial ballots shall bear the following heading OFFICIAL BALLOT; PLEBISCITE;
JULY 21, 2012; MUNICIPALITY OF MABALACAT, PAMPANGA; and underneath the following
instructions: Fill out this ballot secretly inside the booth. Do not put any distinctive mark on
any part of this ballot.
The following question shall be provided in the offcial ballot:
DO YOU APPROVE OF THE CONVERSION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF
MABALACAT, PROVINCE OF PAMPANGA INTO A COMPONENT CITY, OF SAME
PROVINCE, PURSUANT TO REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10164 DATED MAY 15, 2012?
The voter who will vote for its approval shall write the word YES or OO in the blank box
after the question, or if he will vote for its rejection, the word NO or HINDI shall be written in the
blank box after the question.
SEC. 14. Preliminaries to the Counting of Votes. - (a) The PlebCom shall clear the table of
all unnecessary writing paraphernalia.
(b) The PlebCom shall open the ballot box, take out the ballots from the compartment for valid
ballots and, without unfolding or exposing their contents, examine them using the following guidelines:
1. Ballots folded together - The PlebCom shall ascertain that each fold consists of a single ballot.
If in the course of the examination, ballots are found folded together before they were
deposited in the ballot box, they shall be placed in an envelope for excess ballots.
2. Excess ballots - The PlebCom shall count the ballots and compare the number of ballots
with the number of voters who actually voted.
If there are more ballots than the number of voters who actually voted, follow the
procedures provided for in Sec. 16 hereof.
3. Ballots with detachable coupons In case ballots with their detachable coupon are found
in the box, the coupon shall be detached and deposited in the compartment for spoiled
ballots, and the ballots shall be included in the pile of valid ballots.
4. Ballots with the word spoiled - If ballots with the word spoiled should be found, they
shall be placed in the compartment for spoiled ballots.
The ballots deposited in the compartment for spoiled ballots shall be presumed to be
spoiled ballots, whether or not they contain such notation; but if the PlebCom should fnd
that during the voting any valid ballot was erroneously deposited in this compartment,
or if any ballot separated as excess or marked had been erroneously deposited therein,
the PlebCom shall open said compartment after the voting and before the counting of
votes for the sole purpose of drawing out the ballots erroneously deposited therein. It
shall then prepare and sign a statement of such fact and lock the box with its three
keys immediately thereafter. The valid ballots so withdrawn shall be mixed with the other
valid ballots, and the excess or marked ballots shall be placed in their proper envelopes
which shall for such purposes be opened and again labeled, sealed, signed and kept as
hereinafter provided.
(b) Excess and spoiled ballots shall not be read in the counting of votes.
(d) The poll clerk shall take hold of the plebiscite returns and the third member shall tack the
tally board on the blackboard or any available space within the plain view of the PlebCom, watchers
and the public.
SEC. 15. Manner of Counting of Votes. - The counting of votes shall be public, without
interruption or delay until completed, and shall proceed as follows:
(a) The PlebCom shall open the ballot box, take out the ballots and without unfolding them or
exposing their contents except so far as to ascertain that each ballot is single, compare the number
of ballots in the box with the number of voters who actually voted as recorded in the Minutes of
Voting and Counting.
(b) If there are more ballots found than there are voters who actually voted, all the ballots
shall be returned inside the box and thoroughly mixed therein. The Poll Clerk, without seeing the
ballots and with his back to the box, shall publicly draw out as many ballots as may be equal to
the excess, and without unfolding them, place them in an envelope which shall be marked excess
ballots, sealed and signed by the PlebCom.
(c) If there are no excess or the excess has been taken out, the PlebCom shall form separate
piles of 100 ballots each which shall be held together by rubber band.
(d) The Chairman shall take the ballots of the frst pile and read the ballots one by one, while
the Poll Clerk and Third Member shall simultaneously record on the plebiscite returns and tally
board, respectively, each vote as it is read by the Chairman.
(e) Each vote shall be recorded by a vertical line, except every ffth vote, which shall be
recorded by a diagonal line crossing the previous four vertical lines for the same answer.
(f) After fnishing the frst pile, the PlebCom shall count the tallies for the Affrmative and
Negative votes and record the sub-totals in the column immediately after the last tara recorded in
the plebiscite returns and tally board, respectively.
(g) The Poll Clerk and the Third Member shall compare the tallies refected in the plebiscite
returns and tally board.
(h) In case of discrepancy, a recount shall be made. The ballots shall again be grouped
together as before the reading.
(i) Thereafter, the same procedures shall be followed with the second and subsequent piles
of ballots.
(j) After all the ballots for the precinct have been counted, the PlebCom shall:
1. Sum up the sub-totals of recorded Affrmative and Negative Votes and enter the
grand total in words and in fgure in the plebiscite returns and tally board;
2. See to it that the entries in the frst copy of the plebiscite returns are clearly
impressed and refected properly in the other two (2) copies;
3. Sign and affx their thumb marks on the certifcation portion printed at the bottom of
the plebiscite returns and tally board; and
4. Place the counted ballots in an envelope provided for the purpose, close the
envelope with a serially numbered paper seal, sign and deposit the same in the
compartment for valid ballots. The accomplished tally board, certifed by the
PlebCom, shall also be deposited in the compartment for valid ballots.
SEC. 16. Appreciation of Ballots. - The provisions of Sec. 211 of the Omnibus Election
Code whenever applicable, shall govern the appreciation of ballots. Any question on the
appreciation of ballots shall be decided by majority vote of the PlebCom.
No watcher or any other person inside the polling place shall be allowed to participate in
the appreciation of ballots. However, any watcher may fle a protest, which shall be recorded in
the Minutes.
SEC. 17. Plebiscite Returns and Distribution of Copies Thereof. Plebiscite returns
shall be prepared in three (3) copies. All the members of the PlebCom shall sign the certifcation
printed at the bottom of the plebiscite returns and affx their respective thumb marks on the space
provided.
Upon completion of the plebiscite returns, each copy shall be placed in separate envelopes
provided for the purpose, and the PlebCom shall immediately distribute the same under proper
receipt, as follows:
(a) The frst copy, to the Municipal Plebiscite Board of Canvassers;
(b) The second copy, to the Election Records and Statistics Department of the
Commission in Manila; and
(c) The third copy shall be deposited inside the ballot box.
SEC. 18. Announcement of Results. - Upon completion of the plebiscite returns, the
Chairman of the PlebCom shall orally and publicly announce the total number of Affrmative and
Negative Votes cast and counted in the precinct.
SEC. 19. Alterations and Corrections of Plebiscite Returns. - Any correction or alteration
made in the plebiscite returns by the PlebCom before the announcement of the results of the
plebiscite in the polling place shall be duly initialed by all the members thereof.
After the announcement of the results of the plebiscite, the PlebCom shall not make any
alteration or amendment in any of the copies of the returns, unless ordered by the Commission.
SEC. 20. Certifcates of Votes; Wrapping the lid of the ballot box. - Before leaving the
precinct, the PlebCom shall issue a Certifcate of Votes to the watchers upon the latters request.
The PlebComs shall also ensure that before the delivery of the ballot box to the Municipal
Treasurer, they shall seal the lid of the ballot box with packaging tapes in such a way that the
lid cannot be opened without destroying the packaging tapes, and with all the members of the
PlebComs and all watchers affxing their signatures on said packaging tapes.
SEC. 21. Delivery of the Ballot Boxes, and Other Supplies and Documents,
Preservation of Voting Records, Ballot Boxes and their Keys, and their Disposition. -
The provisions of Section 217, 218 and 219 of the Omnibus Election Code on delivery of ballot
boxes, keys and election supplies and documents, preservation of the voting records and ballot
boxes, and their keys and disposition of their contents shall apply to the plebiscite governed by
this Resolution.
Sec. 22. Municipal Plebiscite Board of Canvassers (MPBOC). There shall be a
Municipal Plebiscite Board of Canvassers (MPBOC), assisted by eighteen (18) Sub-canvassing
Committees, which shall canvass the plebiscite returns submitted by the PlebComs. The MPBOC
shall be composed of the EO of the Municipality of Mabalacat, as Chairman, the Municipal
Treasurer as Vice-Chairman, and the DepEd Superintendent, as Member-Secretary. The Sub-
canvassing Committees shall be composed of public school teachers to be recommended by the
Principal concerned through the EO.
At least fve (5) days before the day of the plebiscite, the chairman shall issue a written
notice to the other members of the Board, separate from the written notice given by the chairman
as to the convening of the MPBOC, that it shall convene at six oclock in the afternoon of the
plebiscite day to canvass the plebiscite returns. Notice of said convening shall also be posted in
three (3) conspicuous places in the Municipal Hall and other public places in the Municipality of
Mabalacat. The MPBOC shall meet at the Session Hall of the Municipality of Mabalacat not later
than six oclock in the afternoon of plebiscite day and shall canvass the plebiscite returns and
shall not adjourn until the canvass is completed.
SEC. 23. Supervision and Control over the Board. - The Commission shall have direct
control of and supervision over the Board and may motu proprio relieve at any time any member
thereof for cause and may substitute him in accordance with Sec. 26 hereof.
SEC. 24. Absence of a Regular Member. - In case of absence of a regular member, the
members present shall frst verify whether or not the notice stating the date, time and place of
canvassing has been duly served on the absent regular member.
In the absence of such notice, one shall be immediately sent to the absent member. If the
latter cannot be located, or his whereabouts are unknown, he shall then be substituted. These
facts shall be recorded in the respective minutes of the MPBOC. As soon as the absent member
appears, the substitute member shall relinquish his seat to the regular member.
SEC. 25. Incapacitated Regular Member. - In case of sickness or serious injury of
the regular member, a sworn medical certifcate shall be required attesting to the incapacity of
said member. Upon submission of the medical certifcate, a substitute shall be appointed. Said
certifcate shall be recorded in the Minutes of the MPBOC.
SEC. 26. Substitution of Chairman and Members. - In case of non-availability, absence,
disqualifcation due to relationship, or incapacity for any cause of the MPBOC Chairman, the
Regional Election Director of Region III shall appoint a lawyer of the Commission as substitute.
With respect to the other members of the MPBOC, the Regional Election Director of Region III
shall appoint as substitute the following in the order named: the Municipal Administrator, the
Municipal Assessor, the Clerk of Court nominated by the Executive Judge or any other available
appointive municipal offcial.
SEC. 27. Prohibition Against Leaving Offcial Station. - During the period beginning
July 21, 2012, until the completion of the canvass, no member or substitute member of the
MPBOC shall be transferred, assigned or detailed outside of his offcial station nor shall he leave
his station without prior authority of the Commission.
SEC. 28. Quorum. - A majority of the members of the MPBOC shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business. A majority vote of all the members thereof shall be necessary
to render a decision.
SEC. 29. Watchers: Rights and Duties. - The proponents and oppositions, registered
political parties or coalition of political parties, the citizens arm of the Commission, if any, and other
accredited groups or organizations may appoint watchers during the voting, counting and canvassing.
Aperson who is not a registered voter of the municipality, of questionable reputation, or who has been
convicted of an election offense or any other crime shall not be appointed as watcher. Barangay
offcials, including barangay tanods, are disqualifed to serve as watchers.
The watchers shall have the right to:
(a) be present at, and take note of all the proceedings;
(b) read the plebiscite returns without touching them; and
(c) fle a protest against any irregularity noted in the plebiscite return or in the proceedings
of the Board and obtain the resolution thereon in writing.
The watcher shall not be allowed to participate in the deliberation of the Board.
SEC. 30. Right to be Present and to Counsel. - Proponents or oppositors have the
right to be present and to counsel during the canvass of the returns. Only one counsel shall
argue for the proponents or oppositors. In case there are several counsels for the proponents or
oppositors, they shall agree among themselves who will argue for them.
SEC. 31. Internal Canvassing Procedures. - The MPBOC shall canvass the plebiscite
returns in the following manner:
(a) The Chairman of the MPBOC shall list sequentially all precincts in the Statement
of Votes By Precinct (SOVP) and ensure that every precinct in the project of precincts of the
municipality is listed therein. All the Plebiscite Returns submitted to the MPBOC shall be placed
in a ballot box or ballot boxes, if not all of plebiscite returns can be accommodated in one ballot
box . The MPBOC Chairman shall produce before the members, the ballot box(es) containing
said plebiscite returns;
(b) Before opening a ballot box, the MPBOC shall record its condition and its serial
number, and the serial number of the self-locking fxed length seal securing the ballot box;
(c) The Chairman of the MPBOC shall then open the ballot box, retrieve the envelopes
containing plebiscite returns and record in its Minutes of Canvass, the conditions and serial
numbers of the envelopes and their paper seals;
(d) The Chairman of the MPBOC shall open the envelope one at a time, record the condition
and serial number of the returns and its paper seal, and forthwith open the same for canvassing.
(e) Only such number of envelopes containing plebiscite returns that can be canvassed
during the meeting of the MPBOC shall be opened which number shall be recorded in the Minutes
of Canvass.
(f) Entries in the SOVP shall be made every time a plebiscite return is canvassed. Once
all the columns of the SOVP are flled up, the members of the MPBOC shall sum up the number
of precincts canvassed, the number of registered voters, the number of voters who actually voted,
and the total Affrmative and Negative votes therein and thereafter affx their initials below their
names appearing at the certifcation portion of the form;
(g) In case its copy of a plebiscite returns is missing, the MPBOC shall obtain such
missing returns from the PlebCom concerned. If said returns have been lost or destroyed, the
MPBOC, upon prior authority of the Regional Election Director of Region III may use any of the
authentic copies of said returns or a certifed copy thereof issued by the Commission. Forthwith,
the MPBOC shall refer the case for investigation to the Regional Election Director of Region III
who shall report his fndings to the Commission;
(h) Each time the MPBOC suspends its meetings or adjourns for the purpose of awaiting
for the other plebiscite returns, it shall:
1. Determine the totals of all Affrmative and Negative votes canvassed;
2. Accomplish the SOVP and close the same with the initials of the members following
the last entry of Affrmative and Negative votes;
3. Place the SOVP in an envelope, which shall be sealed with a serially numbered paper
seal and signed by the members in the presence of all the members of the board and
the watchers; and
4. Place the plebiscite returns already canvassed, the remaining unopened envelopes,
and envelope containing a copy of the SOVP inside a ballot box which shall be locked
with three padlocks and a self-locking metal seal, the serial number of which shall be
duly recorded in the Minutes of Canvass.
Each member of the MPBOC shall keep a key to the three padlocks of a ballot box,
so that it cannot be opened without all of them being present. The ballot box shall be
deposited in a secured room for safekeeping until the resumption of its meeting.
(i) At the resumption of the canvass, the secretary of the MPBOC shall:
1. Get the ballot box from the secured room and verify the condition of the ballot box, the
three padlocks and the self-locking serially numbered fxed length seal;
2. Enter in the Minutes a description of the condition thereof, as well as the serial number
of the self-locking serially numbered fxed length seals;
3. Destroy the self-locking serially numbered fxed length seals in the presence of the
other members of the board and watchers; and
4. Present to the MPBOC the remaining unopened envelopes containing plebiscite
returns and the offcial SOV contained in a duly sealed and signed envelope.
(j) After all the plebiscite returns assigned to it have been canvassed, the MPBOC shall:
1. Prepare a tally of the total affrmative and negative votes, including the data on the
number of registered voters, number of voters who actually voted, and the total
number of precincts it has canvassed; and
2. Place the plebiscite returns copy for the MPBOC in their respective envelopes and
deposit the same inside the ballot box which shall be locked with three padlocks and
sealed with a self-locking metal seal.
3. Each member of the MPBOC shall keep a key corresponding to the three padlocks
of the ballot box.
SEC. 32. Documents and articles omitted or erroneously placed inside the ballot box;
Authority to open ballot box. If after the delivery of the keys of the ballot box to the proper
authorities, the PlebCom shall discover that some documents or articles required to be placed
in the ballot box were not placed therein, the PlebCom, instead of opening the ballot box in
order to place therein said documents or articles, shall deliver the same to the Election Offcer of
Mabalacat, Pampanga. In no instance shall the ballot box be reopened to place therein or take
out therefrom any document or article except to retrieve copies of the plebiscite returns which
will be needed in the canvass and in such excepted instances, the members of the PlebCom
and watchers shall be notifed of the time and place of the opening of said ballot box: Provided,
however, That if there are other copies of the plebiscite returns outside of the ballot box which
can be used in canvass, such copies of the plebiscite returns shall be used in said canvass and
the opening of the ballot box to retrieve copies of the plebiscite returns placed therein shall then
be dispensed with.
The Provincial Election Supervisor of Pampanga is hereby authorized to act on requests to open
ballot boxes to retrieve the plebiscite returns erroneously placed therein needed in the canvass.
SEC. 33. Minutes of the Canvass of the MPBOC. - The MPBOC shall prepare two (2)
copies of the Minutes of the Canvass.
The frst copy shall be submitted by the Secretary of the MPBOC to the Law Department
of the Commission within ten (10) days from termination of canvass. The second copy shall be
deposited inside the ballot box.
SEC. 34. Completion of the Canvass. - The MPBOC shall sign the certifcation and affx
their thumbmarks at the bottom of each SOVP, and, using a separate SOVP, consolidate the data
including the total Affrmative and Negative votes. Thereafter, it shall prepare a Certifcate of
Canvass and Proclamation (COCP).
The COCP shall be supported by an SOVP. The members of the MPBOC shall print their
full names and affx their signatures and thumbmarks in the proper space at the bottom of both
forms and certify under oath that the entries therein are true and correct.
SEC. 35. Distribution of the COCP. - The COCP shall be prepared in four (4) copies,
supported by a Statement of Votes by Precinct, and distributed as follows:
(a) The original shall, within three (3) days from proclamation, be sent to the Election
Records and Statistics Department (ERSD) of the Commission;
(b) The second copy shall be fled in the Offce of the EO;
(c) The third copy shall be submitted to the Secretary of the Department of the Interior
and Local Government; and
(d) The fourth copy shall be submitted to the Municipal Mayor of Mabalacat.
SEC. 36. Applicability of the Omnibus Election Code and Other Election Laws. - The
pertinent provisions of the Omnibus Election Code, Republic Act No. 7160 and other election
laws and resolutions of the Commission which are not inconsistent herewith shall, as far as
practicable, apply to the plebiscite subject of this Resolution.
SEC. 37. Implementation. The Offce of the Executive Director, the Offce of the Deputy
Executive Director for Operations, assisted by the Plebiscite Working Committees, shall implement this
Resolution to ensure the holding of a free, orderly, honest, peaceful and credible plebiscite.
The Deputy Executive Director for Operations assisted by the Regional Election Director of
Region III shall supervise the conduct of the plebiscite.
SEC. 38. Dissemination. - The Deputy Executive Director for Operations shall furnish the
Regional Election Director of Region III, the Provincial Election Supervisor of Pampanga, the
EO of the Municipality of Mabalacat, the Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local
Government, the Secretary of the Department of Education, the Secretary of the Department
of Justice, the Municipal Mayor, the Municipal Treasurer and the DepEd Superintendent of
Mabalacat, with a copy of this Resolution.
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The EO of the Municipality of Mabalacat shall give this Resolution the widest dissemination
in Mabalacat, Pampanga.
SEC. 39. Effectivity. - This Resolution shall take effect on the 7
th
day after its publication
in two (2) daily newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines and in one (1) newspaper of
local circulation in Mabalacat, Pampanga.
SO ORDERED.
Chairman
Commissioner
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M a n i l a
DEPUTATION OF THE DEPARTMENT BRILLANTES JR., SIXTO S., Chairman
OF EDUCATION, THE DEPARTMENT SARMIENTO, RENE V., Commissioner
OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS, TAGLE, LUCENITO N., Commissioner
THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR VELASCO, ARMANDO C., Commissioner
AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT, AND THE YUSOPH, ELIAS R., Commissioner
PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE, FOR LIM, CHRISTIAN ROBERT S. Commissioner
THE PURPOSE OF ENSURING FREE,
ORDERLY, HONEST, PEACEFUL AND
CREDIBLE CONDUCT OF THE
JULY 21, 2012 PLEBISCITE TO RATIFY
THE CONVERSION OF THE
MUNICIPALITY OF MABALACAT IN
THE PROVINCE OF PAMPANGA INTO
A COMPONENT CITY PURSUANT TO
R.A. 10164 DATED MAY 15, 2012.
x-------------------------------------------------------x Promulgated : June 15, 2012
RESOLUTION NO. 9450

WHEREAS, Section 2, (4) C, Article IX, of the Constitution, empowers the Commission
on Elections to deputize instrumentalities of the government, and with the concurrence of the
President, the Philippine National Police (PNP) and other law enforcement agencies, for the
purpose of ensuring free, orderly, honest, peaceful and credible elections, plebiscites and other
electoral exercises.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Commission on Elections, by virtue of the powers vested in it by
the Constitution, the Omnibus Election Code, the Local Government Code (Republic Act No.
7160), Republic Act No. 7166, and other election laws, RESOLVED to promulgate, as it hereby
RESOLVES to promulgate, as follows:
SECTION 1. Deputation. - The Department of Education, the Department of Public
Works and Highways, the Department of the Interior and Local Government, and the PNP are
hereby deputized by the Commission on Elections (Commission) for the purpose of ensuring
free, orderly, honest, peaceful and credible conduct of the July 21, 2012 Plebiscite to ratify the
conversion of the Municipality of Mabalacat in the Province of Pampanga into a component city,
pursuant to Republic Act 101640, approved on May 15, 2012.
SEC. 2. Duties and functions. The abovenamed agencies shall, as deputies of the
Commission and insofar as applicable, perform the same duties and functions as described
in: (1) Comelec Resolution No. 9391 dated 13 April 2012 entitled Deputation of Certain
Departments Under the Executive Branch, Government-Owned and Controlled Corporation and
Financial Institutions In Connection With the June 2, 2012 Special Elections for Member, House
of Representatives, Fifth Legislative District of the Province of Negros Occidental; (2) Comelec
Resolution No. 9390 dated 13 April 2012 entitled Deputation of the Department of the Interior
and Local Government, Including the National Police Commission and the Philippine National
Police, and Other Law Enforcement Agencies For the Purpose of Ensuring Free, Honest,
Peaceful and Credible Conduct of the June 2, 2012 Special Elections for Member, House of
Representatives, Fifth Legislative District of the Province of Negros Occidental.
SEC. 3. Effectivity. This Resolution shall take effect on the 7
th
day after its publication
in two (2) daily newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines and in one (1) newspaper of
local circulation in the Municipality of Mabalacat, Province of Pampanga.
SEC. 4. Dissemination. - The Executive Director shall furnish copies of this Resolution to
the Offce of the President and Secretaries of the Departments/Agencies herein deputized. The
Regional Election Director of the Region III and the Provincial Election Supervisor of Pampanga
shall coordinate with the above departments and agencies for effective implementation hereof,
and, with the Election Offcer of the Municipality of Mabalacat, give this Resolution the widest
dissemination possible.
SO ORDERED.
Chairman
Commissioner
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M a n i l a
ENFORCEMENT OF THE PROHIBITION BRILLANTES, JR., SIXTO S., Chairman
AGAINST APPOINTMENT OR HIRING OF SARMIENTO, RENE V., Commissioner
NEW EMPLOYEES; CREATION OR FILLING TAGLE, LUCENITO N., Commissioner
UP OF NEW POSITIONS; GIVING SALARY VELASCO, ARMANDO C., Commissioner
INCREASES; TRANSFERRING/DETAILING YUSOPH, ELIAS R., Commissioner
CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES IN LIM, CHRISTIAN ROBERT S. Commissioner
CONNECTION WITH THE JULY 21, 2012
PLEBISCITE TO RATIFY THE CONVERSION
OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF MABALACAT
IN THE PROVINCE OF PAMPANGA INTO
A COMPONENT CITY PURSUANT TO R.A.
10164 DATED MAY 15, 2012.
x-------------------------------------------------------------------x Promulgated: June 15, 2012
RESOLUTION NO. 9452
WHEREAS, Sec. 261 (g), (h) and (x) of the Omnibus Election Code of the Philippines
provides that:
The following shall be guilty of an election offense:
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(g) Appointment of new employees, creation of new position, promotion, or
giving salary increases. During the period of forty-fve days before a regular election
and thirty days before a special election, (1) any head, offcial or appointing offcer
of a government offce, agency or instrumentality, x x x x x , whether provisional,
temporary or casual, or creates and flls any new positions, except upon prior authority
of the Commission. The Commission shall not grant the authority sought unless, it is
satisfed that the position to be flled is essential to the proper functioning of the offce or
agency concerned, and that the position shall not be flled in a manner that may infuence
the election.
As an exception to the foregoing provisions, a new employee may be appointed in
case of urgent need: Provided, however, that notice of the appointment shall be given to
the Commission within three days from the date of the appointment. Any appointment or
hiring in violation of this provision shall be null and void.
(2) Any government offcial who promotes, or gives any increase of salary or
remuneration or privilege to any government offcial or employee, including those in
government-owned or controlled corporations.
(h) Transfer of offcers and employees in the civil service. - Any public offcial who
makes or causes any transfer or detail whatever of any offcer or employee in the civil
service including public school teachers, within the election period except upon approval
of the Commission.
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(x) Suspension of elective city or barangay offcer. The provisions of law to the
contrary notwithstanding during the election period, any public offcial who suspends,
without prior approval of the Commission, any elective city or barangay offcer, unless
said suspension will be for purposes of applying the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act
in relation to the suspension and removal of elective offcials; in which case the provision
of this section shall be inapplicable.
WHEREAS, to enforce effectively the foregoing provisions, there is a need to promulgate the
necessary rules for the guidance of all concerned.
NOW THEREFORE, the Commission on Elections, pursuant to the powers vested in it by
the Constitution, the Omnibus Election Code, and other election laws, RESOLVED to promulgate,
as it hereby RESOLVES to promulgate, the following rules to implement the provisions of Section
261, subsections (g), (h) and (x) of the Omnibus Election Code, in connection with the July 21, 2012
Plebiscite in the Municipality of Mabalacat, Pampanga:
Section 1. Scope. This Resolution shall cover acts involving the whole Municipality of
Mabalacat, Pampanga.
Section 2. Prohibited acts. (a) During the plebiscite period from June 18, 2012 until July 21,
2012, no public offcial shall, except upon prior written authority of the Commission:
1. Make or cause any transfer/detail whatsoever of any offcer or employee in the civil service,
including public school teachers.
Transfer as used in this provision shall be construed as any personnel movement from
one government agency to another or from one department, division, geographical unit
or subdivision of a government agency to another with or without the issuance of an
appointment.
2. Suspend any elective municipal or barangay offcer, unless the suspension will be for
purposes of applying the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act in relation to the suspension
and removal of elective offcials.
(b) Beginning June 18, 2012 to July 21, 2012:

1. No appointing offcer shall, except upon prior authority of the Commission:
b.1. Appoint or hire any new employee, whether permanent, provisional, temporary,
substitute or casual; or
b.2. Create or fll any new position.
2. No government offcial shall promote or give any increase of salary or remuneration or
privilege to any government offcial or employee, including those in government-owned or controlled
corporations.

Sec. 3. Request for authority of the Commission; How to fle. (a) Requests for authority to
make or cause any transfer or detail of any offcer or employee in the civil service shall be in writing
and fled with the Offce of the Regional Election Director of Region III.
Said requests shall indicate: (1) the offce and place to which the offcer or employee is proposed
to be transferred/detailed or otherwise moved; and (2) stating the reasons therefor.

(b) Requests for authority to appoint or hire new employees, shall be submitted in writing to
the Offce of the Regional Election Director of Region III where the vacancy exists, stating all the
necessary data and reasons for the same.

(c) Requests for authority to create and fll new positions shall be submitted to the Offce of the
Regional Election Director, Region III.

The Commission shall not grant the authority unless it is satisfed that the position to be flled is
essential to the proper functioning of the offce or agency concerned; and that the flling up of such
position shall not in any manner infuence the results of the elections.
(d) Renewal of appointments of temporary, casual, substitute and contractual personnel are
not covered by this prohibition and therefore will no longer need prior authority of the Commission.
However, the appointing authority shall furnish the Commission, through its Regional Director of
Region III, and through the Law Department for main offce positions, a complete list of employees
whose appointments were renewed indicating their position, item number, salary grade and station.
(e) Requests for authority to suspend an elective municipal or barangay offcer shall be submitted to
the Law Department of the Commission, supported by a copy of a formal complaint executed under oath
and containing the specifc charges therefor.
(f) The Law Department shall submit all requests received by it, together with its recommendation,
to the Commission for approval or disapproval.
(g) The Regional Election Director of Region III shall approve or disapprove all requests received by
him, and submit a report on the requests acted upon by him to the Law Department, within seventy-two
(72) hours from his action thereon, by the fastest means of communication: Provided, that all actions of
the Regional Election Director granting the requests for exemptions from the coverage of the ban herein
involved are subject to review by the Commission and shall remain valid and effective unless otherwise
rescinded or nullifed by the Commission.
Sec. 4. Urgent need to appoint new employees. Where there is urgent need to appoint or
hire new employees, the same may be allowed without the need for a prior request for authority from
the Commission provided that within three (3) days from the date of the appointment or hiring, the
Commission, through the Offce of the Regional Election Director of Region III, shall be notifed in writing,
stating therein the exact date when the position sought to be flled became vacant, the cause of vacancy,
reason/s for said appointment or hiring and all the necessary data or information regarding the same.
The appointment or hiring of new employees shall be valid unless the same is found by the
Commission: (1) to have been made to infuence in any manner the results of the plebiscite; (2) to have
been issued without the required notice; and (3) that there is no urgent need for the appointment.
The need to fll up a vacant position by a new employee may be considered urgent if the position
to be flled is essential to the proper functioning of the offce or agency concerned and that the position
sought to be flled has been vacated either by the death, retirement, resignation, promotion or transfer of
the regular incumbent; provided, that the appointment is issued within sixty (60) days from occurrence
of the vacancy, and that the same cannot be flled by promotion or transfer of insiders within the same
period; and provided further, that the position shall not be flled in a manner that may infuence the election.
Appointment to a position which has been vacant for more than sixty (60) days before the issuance
of appointment shall not be considered urgent and must, therefore, require prior written authority from the
Commission or the Regional Election Director of Region III.
Sec. 5. Total ban on promotion, salary increases, granting privileges. Promotion, or giving
any increase of salary, remuneration, or privilege to any government offcial or employee including those
in government-owned or controlled corporations, is strictly prohibited without exception whatsoever.
Promotion as used in this provision shall mean the advancement of an employee from one position
to another with an increase in duties and responsibilities as authorized by law, and usually accompanied
by increase in salary. Promotion may be from one department or agency to another or from one
organizational unit to another within the same department or agency.
Sec 6. Injunction. The Civil Service Commission (CSC), including all its feld offces, is hereby
enjoined not to approve the appointment of new employees where no prior written approval of the Commission
or its regional offces is presented by the appointing authority concerned or proof that the required notice
within the 3-day reglementary period as provided in Section 3 hereof has been complied with.
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and the Commission on Audit (COA), including
all their feld offces, shall not release or authorize the release of any appropriation, or pass in audit,
payments or expenditures of public funds that may be directly or indirectly used in violation of the
foregoing prohibitions.
All feld offces of the CSC are directed to submit immediately to the Commission a written report on
any violation of said provisions of the Omnibus Election Code.
Sec. 7. Penalty. Any violation of the provisions of this Resolution shall constitute an election
offense and shall be punishable by imprisonment of not less than one (1) year but not more than six (6)
years, among other penalties provided by law.
Sec. 8. Effectivity. This Resolution shall take effect on the 7
th
day after its publication in two (2)
daily newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines and in one (1) newspaper of local circulation in
the Municipality of Mabalacat, Pampanga.
Sec. 9. Dissemination. The Offce of the Deputy Executive Director for Operations shall furnish
the Regional Election Director of Region III, the Provincial Election Supervisor of Pampanga, the
Election Offcer of the Municipality of Mabalacat, and the Municipal Mayor of Mabalacat, with a copy
of this Resolution. The Regional Election Director of Region III, the Provincial Election Supervisor of
Pampanga and the Election Offcer of the Municipality of Mabalacat shall give this Resolution the widest
dissemination possible.
SO ORDERED.
Chairman
Commissioner
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M a n i l a
RULESAND REGULATIONS ON THE BRILLANTES, JR., SIXTOS., Chairman
LIQUOR BAN IN CONNECTION WITH SARMIENTO, RENE V., Commissioner
THE JULY 21, 2012 PLEBISCITE TO TAGLE, LUCENITON., Commissioner
RATIFY THE CONVERSION OF THE VELASCO, ARMANDOC., Commissioner
MUNICIPALITY OF MABALACAT IN YUSOPH, ELIAS R., Commissioner
THE PROVINCE OF PAMPANGAINTO LIM, CHRISTIAN ROBERT S. Commissioner
ACOMPONENT CITY PURSUANT TO
R.A. 10164 DATED MAY 15, 2012.
x----------------------------------------------x Promulgated: June 15, 2012
RESOLUTION NO. 9453

WHEREAS, the Omnibus Election Code of the Philippines provides:
Sec. 261. Prohibited Acts. The following shall be guilty of an election offense:

xxx xxx xxx
dd) Other prohibitions
(1) Any person who sells, furnishes, offers, buys, serves or takes intoxicating liquor x x x
on the day before the election or on election day: Provided, That hotels and other establishments
duly certifed by the (Department) of Tourism as tourist-oriented and habitually in the business
of catering to foreign tourists may be exempted for justifable reasons upon prior authority of the
Commission. Provided, further, That foreign tourists taking intoxicating liquor in said authorized
hotels or establishments are exempted from the provisions of this subparagraph.
WHEREAS, violation of said prohibited acts shall be punishable with imprisonment of not less than
one year but not more than six years and shall not be subject to probation, and in addition, the guilty party
shall suffer disqualifcation to hold public offce and deprivation of the right of suffrage;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Commission on Elections (Commission) pursuant to the powers vested in
it by the Constitution, the Omnibus Election Code, and other election laws, has RESOLVED, as it hereby
RESOLVES, to promulgate the following implementing rules and regulations:
SECTION 1. Prohibited Acts and Period. - It shall be unlawful for any person, including owners and
managers of hotels and other establishments to sell, furnish, offer, buy, serve, or take intoxicating liquor
anywhere in the whole Municipality of Mabalacat, Pampanga from July 20, 2012, the day before the
plebiscite, to July 21, 2012, the day of the plebiscite.
SEC. 2. Exemption. - Hotels and other establishments in Mabalacat, Pampanga, duly certifed by
the Department of Tourism as tourist-oriented and habitually in the business of catering to foreign tourists
may be exempted for justifable reasons from the liquor ban, provided they have prior written authority
from the Commission.
Foreign tourists taking intoxicating liquor in said authorized hotels and establishments are
also exempted.

SEC. 3. Where to apply for and secure exemption. Applications for exemption, together with the
required supporting documents, shall be fled with, and duly acted upon by the Regional Election Director
of Region III.
SEC. 4. Conditions for the grant of exemption. Exemption may be granted only upon compliance
with and submission of the following:
1. Arequest for exemption which must be under oath and which must contain a statement that the
hotel/establishment operators/owners have not been convicted for an election offense;
2. ACertifcation from the Department of Tourism that the requesting hotel or establishment:
a) is tourist-oriented and is habitually in the business of catering to foreign tourists;
b) is currently licensed to do business; and

c) has paid the required taxes and/or fees imposed by the government or any of its agencies
or instrumentalities.

SEC. 5. Revocation.- The exemption granted may be revoked or withdrawn by the Commission
upon petition of any interested party on showing, among others, that the reason upon which the
exemption was made does not exist or is not justifable, or that the requesting party or applicant has
committed misrepresentation in the application, or introduced or submitted falsifed documents.

SEC. 6. Who shall implement: The Philippine National Police (PNP) shall implement this Resolution.

SEC. 7. Effectivity. This Resolution shall take effect on the seventh (7
th
) day after its publication
in two daily (2) newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines and in one (1) newspaper of local
circulation in Mabalacat, Pampanga.

SEC. 8. Dissemination. - The Offce of the Deputy Executive Director for Operations shall
furnish copies thereof to the Philippine National Police in Mabalacat, Pampanga, the Municipal
Mayor of Mabalacat, the Regional Election Director of Region III, the Provincial Election Supervisor of
Pampanga, and the Election Offcer of the Municipality of Mabalacat who shall give this Resolution widest
dissemination.

SO ORDERED.

Chairman
Commissioner
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M a n i l a
RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING BRILLANTES JR., SIXTO S., Chairman
PUBLIC WORKS BAN AND RELEASE, SARMIENTO, RENE V., Commissioner
DISBURSEMENT AND EXPENDITURES OF TAGLE, LUCENITO N., Commissioner
PUBLIC FUNDS IN CONNECTION WITH VELASCO, ARMANDO C., Commissioner
THE JULY 21, 2012 PLEBISCITE TO RATIFY YUSOPH, ELIAS R., Commissioner
THE CONVERSION OF THE MUNICIPALITY LIM, CHRISTIAN ROBERT S. Commissioner
OF MABALACAT IN THE PROVINCE OF
PAMPANGA INTO A COMPONENT CITY
PURSUANT TO R.A. 10164 DATED
MAY 15, 2012.
x-----------------------------------------------x PROMULGATED: June 15, 2012

RESOLUTION No. 9454

The Commission on Elections, pursuant to the powers vested in it by the Constitution, the
Omnibus Election Code, and other election laws, has RESOLVED, as it hereby RESOLVES to
promulgate, the following rules to enforce the provisions of Section 261, subsections (v) and
(w) of the Omnibus Election Code in connection with the conduct of the July 21, 2012 Plebiscite
to ratify the conversion of the Municipality of Mabalacat in the Province of Pampanga into a
component city, pursuant to Republic Act No. 10164, approved on May 15, 2012:
SECTION 1. (A) Prohibition on Release, Disbursement or Expenditure of Public Funds.
Effective June 18, 2012 until July 21, 2012, no public offcial or employee including barangay offcials
and those of government-owned or controlled corporations and their subsidiaries concerned, shall
release, disburse or expend any public funds for:

1. Any and all kinds of public works, except the following:

(a) Maintenance of existing and/or completed public works project: Provided, that not more
than the average number of laborers or employees already employed therein during the
six-month period immediately prior to June 18, 2012, shall be permitted to work during
such time: Provided, further, That no additional laborers shall be employed for maintenance
work starting June 18, 2012 until July 21, 2012;

(b) Work undertaken by contract through public bidding held, or by negotiated contract awarded,
before June 18, 2012: Provided, That for the purpose of this Section work undertaken under
the so-called takay or paquiao system shall not be considered as work by contract;

(c) Payment for the usual cost of preparation for working drawings, specifcations, bills of materials,
estimates, and other procedures preparatory to actual construction including the purchase
of materials and equipment, and all incidental expenses for wages of watchmen and other
laborers employed for such work in the central offce and feld storehouses before June 18,
2012: Provided, That the number of such laborers shall not be increased over the number
hired when the project or projects were commenced; and

(d) Emergency work necessitated by the occurrence of a public calamity, but such work shall
be limited to the restoration of the damaged facility.

No payment shall be made within fve (5) days before the date of the plebiscite to laborers
who have rendered services in projects or works except those falling under subparagraphs (a),
(b), (c), and (d), of this Section.

The prohibition shall not apply to on-going public works projects commenced before the
plebiscite period or similar projects under foreign agreements. For purposes of this provision, it
shall be the duty of the government offcials or agencies concerned to report to the Commission
the list of all such projects undertaken by them as provided for under Sec. 2 of this Resolution.

2. The Department of Social Welfare and Development and any other offce in other
departments of the government performing functions similar to said department, except
for salaries of personnel, and for such other routine and normal expenses, and for such
other expenses as the Commission may authorize after due notice and hearing. Should
a calamity or disaster occur, all releases normally or usually coursed through the said
departments and offces of other departments shall be turned over to, and administered
and disbursed by, the Philippine National Red Cross, subject to the supervision of the
Commission on Audit (COA) or its representatives; and

3. The Human and Urban Development Coordinating Council and any other offce in any
other department of the government performing functions similar to said department,
except for salaries of personnel and for such other necessary administrative or other
expenses as the Commission may authorize after due notice and hearing.

(B) Prohibition against construction of public works, Delivery of Materials for Public
Works and Issuance of Treasury Warrants and Similar Devices or maintenance of municipal
and barangay-funded roads and bridges. Effective June 18, 2012 to July 21, 2012:

(1) the construction of any public works, except for projects or works exempted in the
preceding Section; or

(2) the issuance, use or avail of treasury warrants or any device undertaking future delivery
of money, goods, or other things of value chargeable against public funds in the Municipality of
Mabalacat , Pampanga , shall be prohibited.

SEC. 2. Submission to the Commission of lists of authorized public works projects.
On or before June 18, 2012, the Secretary of Public Works and Highways, the Municipal Mayor
of Mabalacat, Pampanga and the punong barangays therein, shall submit to the Commission in
Manila thru the Provincial Election Supervisor of Pampanga , a certifed list of all on-going public
works, projects under foreign agreements and those undertaken by contract through public bidding,
negotiated contract undertaken in the Municipality of Mabalacat, Pampanga before June 18, 2012.

Any public works not included in the list herein required to be submitted by the Secretary
of Public Works and Highways, the Municipal Mayor of Mabalacat, Pampanga and the punong
barangays therein, which are not among the exceptions under Section 261, subsection (v) of the
Omnibus Election Code shall be considered as falling under the public works ban.

SEC. 3. Immediate payment of laborers required. Any laborer who may have worked on
construction and maintenance of municipal and barangay-funded roads and bridges which have
to be suspended pursuant to the public works ban shall be paid immediately his complete earned
wage upon the suspension of said projects. In no case shall the earned wage or any portion thereof
be retained to be paid only within fve (5) days before or on the day of the plebiscite.
SEC. 4. Injunction. The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and the Commission
on Audit (COA), including its feld offces concerned, are hereby enjoined not to release or authorize
the release of any appropriation, or to pass in audit payments or expenditures of public funds that
may directly or indirectly be used in violation of the prohibitions contained in Section 261 (v) and
(w) of the Omnibus Election Code and Section 1 hereof.

The Provincial Election Supervisor of Pampanga and the Election Offcer of the Municipality
of Mabalacat are directed to monitor compliance with the requirements under Sec. 2 hereof by the
local executive offcers in the aforesaid municipality, and submit immediately to the Commission a
written report on any violation of said provisions.

SEC. 5. Penalty. Any violation of the provisions of this Resolution shall, consistent with
Sections 261 and 264 of the Omnibus Election Code, constitute an election offense and shall be
punishable by imprisonment of not less than one (1) year but not more than six (6) years, among
other penalties provided for by law.

SEC. 6. Effectivity. This Resolution shall take effect on the seventh (7th) day after its
publication in two (2) daily newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines.

SEC. 7. Dissemination. The Education and Information Department shall cause the
publication of this resolution in two (2) daily newspapers of general circulation, immediately after
promulgation hereof.

The Deputy Executive Director for Operations shall furnish the Secretary of Public Works and
Highways, the DBM and COA, the Regional Election Director of Region III, the Provincial Election
Supervisor of Pampanga, the Election Offcer of Mabalacat and the Municipal Mayor of Mabalacat,
Pampanga, with a copy of this Resolution.

SO ORDERED.
Chairman
Commissioner
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M a n i l a
RULES AND REGULATIONS ON THE BEARING, BRILLANTES, Jr., Sixto S., Chairman
CARRYING OR TRANSPORTING OF FIREARMS SARMIENTO, Rene V., Commissioner
OR OTHER DEADLY WEAPONS IN CONNECTION TAGLE, Lucenito N., Commissioner
WITH THE JULY 21, 2012 PLEBISCITE TORATIFY VELASCO, Armando C., Commissioner
THE CONVERSION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF YUSOPH, Elias R., Commissioner
MABALACAT IN THE PROVINCE OF PAMPANGA LIM, Christian Robert S. Commissioner
INTO A COMPONENT CITY PURSUANT TO
R.A. 10164 DATED MAY 15, 2012.
x-----------------------------------------x Promulgated: June 15, 2012
RESOLUTION No. 9455
WHEREAS, Sections 32 of Republic Act No. 7166 provides:
SEC. 32. Who May Bear Firearms. During the election period, no person shall bear, carry or
transport frearms or other deadly weapons in public places, including any building, street, park, private
vehicle or public conveyance, even if licensed to possess or carry the same, unless authorized in writing
by the Commission. The issuance of frearms licenses shall be suspended during the election period.
Only regular members of the Philippine National Police, the Armed Forces of the Philippines
and other law enforcement agencies of the Government who are duly deputized in writing by the
Commission for election duty may be authorized to carry and possess frearms during the election
period: Provided, That, when in the possession of frearms, the deputized law enforcement offcer must
be: (a) in full uniform showing clearly and legibly his name, rank and serial number, which shall remain
visible at all times, and (b) in the actual performance of his election duty in the specifc area designated
by the Commission.
WHEREAS, in connection with the May 10, 2010 Automated National and Local elections, the
October 25, 2010 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections, and for the June 2, 2012 special
election for Member, House of Representatives, 5
th
District, Negros Occidental, the Commission
promulgated Resolution 8714, and 9028, 9392, respectively, providing for the rules and regulations
implementing Sections 32 and 33 of Republic Act No. 7166;
NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to the powers vested in it by the Constitution of the Republic of
the Philippines, the Omnibus Election Code (B.P. Blg. 881), Republic Acts No. 6646, 7166, and other
elections laws, the Commission RESOLVED, as it hereby RESOLVES, to ADOPT Resolution 8714,
dated December 16, 2009, Resolution No. 9028, dated September 20, 2010, Resolution No. 9392,
dated April 13, 2012, and the other Resolutions issued by the Commission in connection therewith,
insofar as they are applicable, for purposes of the conduct of the July 21, 2012 Plebiscite to ratify
the conversion of the Municipality of Mabalacat in the Province of Pampanga into a component city,
pursuant to Republic Act 10164, approved on May 15, 2012, subject to the following amendments/
modifcations:
Section 1. Period and Scope of Effectivity. The ban shall be effective in the whole of the
Municipality of Mabalacat, Pampanga during the plebiscite period which is from June 18, 2012 to
July 26, 2012.
Sec. 2. Firearm; Deadly weapon. The term frearm shall refer to the frearm as defned in
existing laws, rules and regulations. The term also includes airguns and airsoft guns.
Deadly weapon includes bladed instrument, hand grenades or other explosives, except
pyrotechnics.
Abladed instrument is not covered by the prohibition when possession of the bladed instrument is
necessary to the occupation of the possessor or when it is used as a tool for legitimate activity.
Sec. 3. Status of authority to bear, carry or transport frearms issued pursuant to
Resolution No. 8714, dated December 16, 2009, Resolution No. 9028, dated 20 September 2010,
and other Resolutions issued in implementation thereof. - All authority to bear, carry or transport
frearms issued pursuant to Resolution No. 8714, dated December 16, 2009, Resolution No. 9028,
dated September 20, 2010, and the other Resolutions implementing Resolution 8714, and 9028 are
hereby recognized as valid and effective in relation to the conduct of the July 21, 2012 plebiscite in
the Municipality of Mabalacat, Pampanga, provided that the conditions for the grant of the authority
are complied with. In case of new personnel or new frearms not covered by previous authority, the
procedures for the issuance of authority under Resolution No. 8714 shall be followed, except that the
evaluation and approval shall be made by the Regional Joint Security Control Center (RJSCC) of
Region III.
SEC. 4. Transport of explosives and its components. The transport of explosives and/or
its components by (1) those engaged in the importation, exportation, purchase and sale of explosives
and/or its components; or (2) those involving the transportation of explosives and/or its components,
may be authorized by the Director General of the Philippine National Police (PNP) through a validly
issued permit, and giving prior notice to the Commission by having the original of said permit stamped
approved by the RJSCC of Region IV and submitting a certifed true copy thereof.
The explosives and/or its components must be immediately transported to the Firearms and
Explosives Division (FED), Civil Security Group (CSG), PNP, or to the intended place of destination,
employment and/or utilization, and authorized by the FED, CSG, PNP, as the case may be.
SEC. 5. Guidelines for security, protective, investigative, or intelligence agencies. For
orderly implementation of the ban on frearms, the following guidelines are hereby provided for security,
protective, investigative, or intelligence agencies:
a. For single posting, the security guard assigned is prohibited to transport his frearm from duty
area to his residence;
b. Firearms stationed in armored trucks are exempted provided they are duly licensed frearms
and being used during the regular course of business of the security agencies;
c. In case of new posting or termination of posting which entail the transport of frearms to the
area of assignment or return of frearms to the security agencys offce, the security agency
may be granted permission to transport the frearms on a one-time, one-way basis only upon
prior notice to the RJSCC.
SEC. 6. Reporting requirements. The RJSCC shall submit to the Committee on the Ban of
Firearms and Security Personnel (CBFSP) a bi-weekly report on the implementation of this Resolution,
which shall include the following:
a. Current status of the enforcement (i.e. number of arrests, names of persons involved,
number of confscated frearms, categorized into licensed or unlicensed) of the ban on
frearms and security personnel; and
b. The peace and order situation in various parts of the country, especially in the areas where
the plebiscite shall take place, including insurgency, the existence and size of private armies,
the intensity of political rivalries and other circumstances, that may affect the conduct of the
plebiscite.
The CBFSP shall consolidate all weekly reports submitted by the RJSCC and submit the same to
the Commission en banc.
SEC. 7. Prohibition and penalties. Any violation of this Resolution shall be punished with
imprisonment of not less than one (1) year but not more than six (6) years and shall not be subject to
probation. In addition, the guilty party shall be sentenced to suffer disqualifcation to hold public offce
and deprivation of the right of suffrage. If he is a foreigner, he shall be sentenced to deportation which
shall be enforced after the prison term has been served.
SEC. 8. Effectivity, publication and dissemination. - This Resolution shall take effect seven (7)
days after its publication in two (2) daily newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines.
The Education and Information Department shall cause the publication of this Resolution and shall
furnish copies thereof the Regional Election Director of Region III, the Provincial Election Supervisor of
Pampanga, the Election Offcer of the Municipality of Mabalacat, the PNP, the AFP and all other law
enforcement agencies.
SO ORDERED.
Chairman
Commissioner
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ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION
San Miguel Avenue, Pasig City
IN THE MATTER OF THE
APPLICATION FOR THE APPROVAL
OF THE SALE OF VARIOUS SUB-
TRANSMISSION LINES/ASSETS OF
THE NATIONAL TRANSMISSION
CORPORATION (TRANSCO) TO
MANILA ELECTRIC COMPANY
(MERALCO), AS COVERED BY A
CONTRACT TO SELL, WITH
PRAYER FOR PROVISIONAL
AUTHORITY
ERC CASE NO. 2012-062 RC
NATIONAL TRANSMISSION
CORPORATION (TRANSCO) and
MANILA ELECTRIC COMPANY
(MERALCO),
Applicants.
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -x
NOTI CE OF PUBLI C HEARI NG
TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES:
Notice is hereby given that on April 17, 2012, the National
Transmission Corporation (TRANSCO) and the Manila Electric
Company (MERALCO) fled with the Commission a joint application
for approval of the sale of various subtransmission lines/assets of
TRANSCO within the franchise area of MERALCO as covered by a
Contract to Sell, with prayer for provisional authority .
In the said application, TRANSCO and MERALCO alleged,
among others, that:
1. TRANSCO is a government-owned and controlled corporation
created and existing by virtue of Republic Act (RA) No. 9136,
otherwise known as the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of
2001 (EPIRA), with principal offce address at the TRANSCO
Main Building, Quezon Avenue corner BIR Road, Diliman,
Quezon City. It may be served with pleadings, notices, orders
and other documents through its undersigned counsel at its
principal offce address;
2. MERALCO is an electric distribution utility (DU), organized and
existing under the laws of the Republic of the Philippines with
principal offce address at Lopez Building, Meralco Center,
Ortigas Avenue, Pasig City. It is duly authorized to construct,
operate and maintain an electric power distribution system
within its franchise area as delineated by its legislative franchise
(Republic Act No. 9209). It may be served with pleadings, notices,
orders and other documents through its undersigned counsel;
3. By virtue of Section 8 of the EPIRA, TRANSCO assumed
the electrical transmission functions of the National Power
Corporation (NPC) and it was authorized and made to assume
the responsibility of NPC for the planning, construction
and centralized operation and maintenance of high voltage
transmission facilities, including grid interconnections and
ancillary services;
4. Section 8 of the EPIRA and Rule 6, Section 8 (e) of the EPIRA
Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) also mandate the
segregation of the transmission and subtransmission functions
and assets for transparency and disposal, and authorize
TRANSCO to negotiate, and to transfer such subtransmission
assets (STAs) and facilities to qualifed distribution utilities (DUs);
5. Pursuant thereto, the Commission promulgated the Guidelines
on the Sale and Transfer of the TRANSCOs Subtransmission
Assets and the Franchising of Qualifed Consortiums (ERC
Guidelines) dated October 17,2003;
Consistent with the ERC Guidelines, TRANSCO has adopted
its own Guidelines on the Sale of Subtransmission Assets
(TRANSCO Guidelines) as approved by TRANSCO Board
Resolution No. TC- 2003-067 dated November 28, 2003, as
further amended by TRANSCO Board Resolution No. TC-2004-
009 dated March 16, 2004;
Copies of the TRANSCO Guidelines and TRANSCO Board
Resolution Nos. TC-2003-067 and TC-2004-009 are hereto
attached as Annexes A, A-1 and A-2, respectively;
6. On July 6, 2011, the ERC issued Resolution No. 15, Series
of 2011 entitled, A Resolution Adopting the Amended Rules
for the Approval of the Sale and Transfer of TRANSCOs
Subtransmission Assets and the Acquisition by Qualified
Consortiums;
7. In accordance with the aforesaid ERC Guidelines, TRANSCO
has evaluated that the following assets meet the criteria as STAs:
(a) Dasmarias - Rosario - Abubot 115 kV Line;
(b) Rosario Substation;
(c) Tayabas 115 kV Switchyard; and
(d) Ternate Substation Equipment.
Copies of the Report that the assets for sale meet the criteria for
STAs, List of STAs for sale and the electrical diagram are hereto
attached as Annexes B, C and D, respectively;
8. TRANSCO has evaluated and established that MERALCO
possesses the technical and fnancial capabilities to purchase,
operate, maintain, upgrade and expand the subject STAs;
Copies of the Technical and Financial Qualifcation Evaluations
conducted by TRANSCO as well as the Description of the
Franchise Area being served by the subject assets are attached
as Annexes E, F and G, respectively;
To further bolster the above, hereto attached as Annex H and
I, respectively, are the Audited Income Statement and Balance
Sheet of MERALCO as of December 31, 2010;
9. On December 12, 2011, TRANSCO and MERALCO concluded
a Contract to Sell (Annex J) covering the subject STAs;
10. Under the Contract, the total purchase price of Three
Hundred Eighty Million Nine Hundred Thirty-Six Thousand
Nine Hundred Seventy-Nine and 47/100, Philippine Currency
(PhP380,936,979.47) shall be paid by MERALCO in cash or
in the form of managers or cashiers check within sixty (60)
calendar days from its receipt of the Notice of the ERC's approval
of the Contract;
11 Subsequently, the applicants executed an Amendment to the
Contract to Sell dated March 22, 2012 covering only Item 2 of
the subject Contract on the price provision, to make it read, as
follows:
2. PURCHASE PRICE
In consideration of the sale and purchase of the
Assets listed in Annex G in accordance with
this Contract, MERALCO shall pay TRANSCO
the amount of THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-
FOUR MILLION SIX HUNDRED SEVENTEEN
THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED NI NETEEN
PESOS & 47/100, Philippine Currency (PhP37
4,617,119.47), subject to further adjustments
for any major capital improvements, expansions
and additions, such as, but not limited to, the
replacement of poles, breakers and equipment
which are undertaken from the execution of the
Contract up to the fnal approval thereof by the
Energy Regulatory Commission, but not yet
included or recognized in the TRANSCO books,
until the transfer of ownership of the assets to
MERALCO. Provided however, that if the Parties
cannot agree on any price adjustment, the same
shall be submitted to ERC for resolution, but it shall
not in any way affect the effectivity of this Contract
A copy of the said Amendment to the Contract to
Sell dated March 22, 2012 is hereto attached as
Annex J-1;
12. The subject STAs are valued in reference to the Sinclair Knight
Merz (SKM) valuation pursuant to ERC Resolution No 1, Series
of 2009, as Amended. An excerpt from the report of SKM
showing the value of the subject assets is hereto attached as
Annex K;
13. MERALCO is the only DU utilizing the subject assets, except for
the Dasmarias-Rosario-Abubot 115 KV Line and the Rosario
Substation, where a waiver of its right to purchase the said
asset was issued by the Philippine Economic Zone Authority in
favor of MERALCO (Annex L). Moreover, there are no other
existing directly connected customers to the said STAs (Annex
M);
14. They also submit the following documents as part of the
requirements provided in the ERC Guidelines:
a. Billing Determinants (Annex N); and
b. Draft Deed of Sale (Annex 0);
15. Furthermore, in support of the application and the prayer for
provisional authority, attached as Annex P is the Judicial
Affdavit of Mr. RENATO P. NAVARRA, Manager and Team
Leader of MERALCOs Subtransmission Asset Planning,
showing the benefts that the public would enjoy as a result of
the approval of this joint application;
16. The proposed sale has satisfied all of the requirements
and criteria set by the EPIRA and its IRR, as well as this
Commissions Guidelines and TRANSCOs Guidelines on the
Sale of Subtransmission Assets;
17. The approval by the Commission of the instant joint application
shall pave the way for the attainment of a reformed electricity
industry under the EPIRA, which would ultimately best serve
the interest of the consuming public; and
18. They pray that the instant application for the approval of the sale
of TRANSCOs STAs in favor of MERALCO under the terms
provided in the Contract to Sell dated December 12, 2011, and
the Amendment thereto dated March 12, 2012 be approved.
The Commission has set the application for jurisdictional hearing,
expository presentation, pre-trial conference and evidentiary hearing
on July 4, 2012 (Wednesday) at ten oclock in the morning (10:00
A.M.) at the ERC Hearing Room, 15th Floor, Pacifc Center Building,
San Miguel Avenue, Pasig City.
All persons who have an interest in the subject matter of the
proceeding may become a party by fling, at least fve (5) days prior to
the initial hearing and subject to the requirements in the ERCs Rules
of Practice and Procedure, a verifed petition with the Commission
giving the docket number and title of the proceeding and stating:
(1) the petitioners name and address; (2) the nature of petitioners
interest in the subject matter of the proceeding, and the way and
manner in which such interest is affected by the issues involved in
the proceeding; and (3) a statement of the relief desired.
All other persons who may want their views known to the
Commission withrespect to the subject matter of the proceeding may
fle their opposition to the application or comment thereon at any stage
of the proceeding before the applicants conclude the presentation
of their evidence. No particular form of opposition or comment is
required, but the document, letter or writing should contain the name
and address of such person and a concise statement of the opposition
or comment and the grounds relied upon.
All such persons who may wish to have a copy of the application
may request the applicants, prior to the date of the initial hearing, that
they be furnished with a copy of the application. The applicants are
hereby directed to furnish all those making such request with copies
of the application and its attachments, subject to reimbursement of
reasonable photocopying costs. Likewise, any such person may
examine the application and other pertinent records fled with the
Commission during the usual offce hours.
WITNESS, the Honorable Chairperson, ZENAIDA G. CRUZ-
DUCUT, and the Honorable Commissioners, MARIA TERESA A.R.
CASTAEDA, JOSE C. REYES, ALREDO J. NON and GLORIA
VICTORIA C. YAP-TARUC, Energy Regulatory Commission, this 4th
day of June, 2012 at Pasig City.
ATTY. FRANCIS SATURNINO C. JUAN
Executive Director III
(June 11 & 18, 2012)
Isko misses forum
for Manila leaders
Being the biggest city in the metro,
we really have to expect bigger and big-
ger enrolment every year, and we must
do everything to accommodate the en-
rollees, said Bautista, adding that they
are now negotiating with the Metropoli-
tan Waterworks and Sewerage System
over a possible site at the Novaliches
(La Mesa) Reservoir.
Bautista said they are seeking to
forge a usufruct agreement with the wa-
terworks regulator so that it could use
a 5,129-square-meter parcel in the oc-
cupied area to build additional school
buildings.
About 9,000 square meters of the
MWSS property is already being used
for public elementary and high school
By Rio N. Araja
QUEZON City needs more land for school sites
and ofcials are now broadening their search
for prospective properties that can help ease the
classroom shortage in the city, Mayor Herbert
Bautista said on Sunday.
campuses, a multi-purpose covered
court, a police precinct and access ways
to inner areas, the mayor added.
Bautista said President Aquino him-
self is aware of the urgency of building
more schools in the city, particularly af-
ter 10,000 students in Quezon City were
placed under its home study program
because of the classroom shortage.
Quezon City has the largest number
of elementary and secondary schools in
Metro Manila and 60 percent of its stu-
dent population is from second congres-
sional district, which covers the Novali-
ches district, according to city school
superintendent Dr. Corazon Rubio.
Rubio said the QC school division,
one of the largest in the country, has
placed around 10,000 students on home
schooling program and the city allocated
P20 million for the purpose.
Home schooling is one of the alter-
natives the Department of Education
recommended for schools exceeding its
enrollment capacity.
Under the program, students study
prepared modules at home and meet
with their teachers only on Saturdays.
They graduate with a high school diplo-
ma just like any regular student.
The Quezon City schools implement-
ing the program this school year are
Batasan Hills National High School,
Commonwealth High School, Holy
Spirit National High School, Doa Ro-
sario High School, North Fairview High
School and Judge Feliciano Belmonte
Sr. High School.
Quezon City is the only school divi-
sion implementing the program this year
although the education department start-
ed the program in 2002. Bautista
Yasay hits foes
in church dispute
By Hernani Cuare
FORMER Securities and Ex-
change Commission chairman
Perfecto Yasay Jr. assailed a group
of pastors of the Cosmopolitan
Church on Taft Avenue in Manila
for claiming that the church fac-
tion that he leads seized control
of the facility when they were ac-
tually removed from ofce by the
leadership of the United Church
of Christ in the Philippines.
Replying to the public state-
ments of former Cosmopolitan
Church senior pastor Phoebe Da-
kanay, Yasay said Dakanay and
four other pastors were removed
by the UCCP general secretary,
conference minister, jurisdic-
tional bishop and the duly-con-
stituted management committee
in compliance with the orders of
the UCCP discipline and arbitra-
tion commission.
Why you deceptively omit-
ted these signicant and relevant
facts and instead spitefuly as-
serted unrelated and immaterial
falsehoods in your press release
also bafes me, Yasay said in a
letter to Dacanay.
Yasay said the standards Da-
kanay and her group wanted to
impose on aspiring leaders of
the Cosmopolitan Church were
opinionated and judgmental...
despite the Scriptural exhortation
that men are sinners and have
fallen short of Gods glory.
Yasay further asserted that
Dakanay and her group only
wanted to purge the Cosmopoli-
tan Church of people who did
not support her new theology
so she could take the churchs as-
sets, properties and funds for the
sinister intent of establishing a
new religious fellowship.
The situation in Cosmopoli-
tan Church became so volatile
and explosive where a policy
of maximum tolerance in han-
dling the uprising was met with
ridicule, mocking and deri-
sion, Yasay said in an article he
wrote to explain the crisis at the
church.
The dispute emerged in 2010
when a conict arose on the eli-
gibility of certain church mem-
bers to run for the churchs coun-
cil of elders based on their lack
of good moral character, but the
conict was defused when the
disputed candidates agreed not to
run on the understanding that the
divisive practise would no longer
be repeated.
But last year, the churchs
nomination and election com-
mittee again rejected candidates
on the same grounds and com-
pelled the use of purportedly
self-incriminatory nominees
self-disclosure form as basis to
punish members without obser-
vance of due process.
MANILA Mayor Alfredo S. Lim
and three of the citys congress-
men on Sunday reported their ac-
complishments to the people dur-
ing a Catholic church-organized
forum but Vice Mayor Isko More-
no did not show up at the venue
where they were expected to come
face to face for the rst time since
Moreno allied himself with ousted
President Joseph Estrada.
Lim arrived at the forum,
dubbed Ulat sa Lungsod 2012,
two hours ahead of Manila Rep-
resentatives Naida Angping (third
district), Atong Asilo (rst district)
and Carlo Lopez (2nd district).
Moreno, on the other hand,
failed to show up and the orga-
nizers announcement that the
vice mayor sent a letter saying he
had a previous engagement was
met with boos, particularly after
it was announced that the invita-
tions were sent as early as April.
The forum was organized by
the Immaculate Conception Par-
ish, led by parish priest Monsi-
gnor Matt Garcia, episcopal vic-
ar forane Monsignor Jay Norriel
Bandojo and public affairs min-
istry head Marianito Racelis.
Racelis said they have been
holding the forum for over the
past years and it was the rst
time that an invited guest did
not show up.
The forum was aimed at giv-
ing the citys elected ofcials a
chance to present to their constit-
uents what they have done and
still intend to do during their re-
maining days in ofce or in case
they get reelected into ofce.
By Jonathan Fernandez
THE Land Transportation Of-
ces supplier of drivers li-
censes Amalgamated Motors
Philippines Inc. apologized to
the public on Sunday for the de-
layed release of the licenses and
welcomed any investigation that
may be undertaken by the De-
partment of Transportation and
Communication.
We apologize to the general
public for causing this inconve-
nience, said AMPI spokeswom-
an Melanie Cuevas, adding that
a DOTC investigation will help
establish what really caused the
stoppage in the issuance of li-
censes since Monday.
Cuevas said the stoppage in the
issuance of licenses was due to a
temporary technical glitch that oc-
cured when AMPI upgraded its
old servers and relocated them to
a very secure primary site.
Another cause for the inter-
ruption in was a technical prob-
lem encountered by AMPIs In-
ternet Service Provider, Cuevas
stressed. The glitch, she said,
lasted only three hours.
She claried that AMPI has
not released any new license
cards since the new designs were
only at the testing phase and are
expected to be revised and modi-
ed, she said. AMPI will not is-
sue the new license cards unless
given the go-signal by LTO.
THURSDAY
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Department of Public Works and Highways
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER
Camarines Sur 3
rd
Engineering (4
th
Congressional) District Offce
Caraycayon, Tigaon, Camarines Sur
Tel.# 452-3430 / 3411
INVITATION TO BID

The Department of Public Works and Highways, Camarines Sur 3
rd
Engineering
District, Caraycayon, Tigaon, Camarines Sur, through its Bids and Awards Committee
(BAC), invites contractors to apply to bid for the following contract(s):

1. Contract ID# PROJECT ID#12FF0021
Contract Name Repair/Rehab./Improvement of Pili-Tigaon-
Albay Boundary Road,
Contract Location Gingaroy, Tigaon, Camarines Sur
K0482+520-K0582+868
and K0475+756-K0476+258
Scope of works Bituminous Tack Coat/Bituminous Concrete
Surface Course/Pavement Markings
Approved Budget for the Contract
(ABC)
Php 9,900,000.00
Contract Duration 10 C.D.
Cost of Tender Documents Php 10,000.00

Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures in
accordance with R.A. 9184 and its Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations.

To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI), and
must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with DPWH, (b) Filipino
citizen or 75% Filipino-Owned partnership, corporation, cooperative, or joint venture,
with PCAB License applicable to the type and cost of this contract, (c) completion of
a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and (d)
Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment
at least 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the
eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids.

Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their application for registration
to the DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline for the receipt of LOI. The
DPWH -Central Offce will only process contractors application for registration, with
complete requirements and issued the Contractors Certifcate of Registration (CRC).
Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph.
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below:
1. Receipt of LOI from Prospective
Bidders
Deadline 12:00 Noon June 29, 2012
2. Issuance of Bid Documents June 15 - July 05, 2012 @10:00 A.M.
3. Pre-Bid Conference June 22, 2012 @ 10:00 A.M.
4. Receipt of Bids/Opening of Bids July 05, 2012
a) Dropping of Bids Until 10:00 A.M.
b) Opening of Bids At 2:00 P.M.
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH, Camarines
Sur 3
rd
Engineering District Offce, Tigaon, Camarines Sur, upon payment of non-
refundable amount as stated above. Prospective bidders may also download the BDs,
if available from DPWH Website, shall pay the said fees on or before the submission
of their documents. Bids must accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and
acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.

Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished form as specifed in the
BDs in two (2) separate sealed envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The frst envelope
shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include the eligibility
requirements. The second envelope shall contain the fnancial component of the bid.
Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in
the bid evaluation and the post-qualifcation.

The DPWH Camarines Sur 3
rd
Engineering District Offce, Tigaon, Camarines Sur,
reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bid and to annul the bidding process
anytime before Contract Award, without incurring any liability to the affected bidders.

(Sgd.) ALICE B. MAGISTRADO
Engineer III
(BAC Chairman)
NOTED:
(Sgd.) EDUARDO S. NIETO
District Engineer
(MST-June 18, 2012)
Compostela Valley District Engineering Offce
Nabunturan, Comval Province
INVITATION TO BID
No. 2012-Goods 07
The Department of Public Works and Highways through its Bid and Awards
Committee (BAC), invites prospective suppliers/bidders to apply to bid :
1. Purchase Request No. 12-06-284
Contract Name: Construction of Multi-purpose Building
Contract Location:(DPWH) Poblacion, Nabunturan, ComVal
A B C:
Cost of Bid Documents:
Source of Fund:
Contract Duration: 10 cal. days
The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the Revised
IRR 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at the
opening of bid.

To bid for this contract, a bidder must meet the following criteria: (a) prior
registration with the DPWH, (b.)Filipino Citizen, sole proprietorships,corporations/
partnerships/organizations with at least sixty percent (60%) interest of outstanding
capital stock belongs to the citizens of the Philippines,(c) completed similar contract
whose value must be at least 50% of the ABC within a period of fve (5)years and (d)
Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC or Credit Line Commitment
for at least 10% of the ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in
the eligibility check preliminary examination of bid.

Unregistered suppliers/bidders, however, shall submit their application for
registration to the BAC before the deadline for submission and opening of bids. The
BAC for Goods, DPWH Regional Offce, Region XI, Davao City will only process
suppliers applications for registration with the complete requirements, and issue
the Suppliers Registration Certifcate (SRC), registration form may be secured
from the BAC for Goods, DPWH, Compostela Valley District Engineering Offce,
Nabunturan,ComVal Province.
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below.
Issuance of Bidding Documents June 18, 2012 to June 28, 2012
Pre-bid Conference June 19, 2012 at 10:00 A.M.
Submission and Receipt of Bids June 28, 2012 at 10:00 A.M.
Opening of Bids June 28, 2012 at 10:00 A.M.
Pre-bid conference will be held at DPWH, Conference room, Compostela Valley
District Engineering Offce, Nabunturan, ComVal Province
The BAC will also issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at the BAC
Secretariat, DPWH, Nabunruran, ComVal Province upon payment of the said fees.
Prospective bidders may also download the BDs, if available, from the DPWH
Website. Prospective bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH Website
shall pay the said fees a day before the submission of their bid documents. Bid must
be accompanied by the bid security in an amount and acceptable forms, as stated in
section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.

Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed in
the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes. The frst envelopes shall contain
the Technical component of the bid, which shall include the eligibility requirements.
The second envelop shall contain the fnancial component of the bid. These
envelopes shall be enclosed in one single envelope submitted to the BAC Chairman.
Late bids shall not be accepted. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Responsive
Bid as determine in the bid evaluation and the post qualifcation.

The Department of Public Works and Highways, Compostela Valley District
Engineering Offce, Nabunturan, ComVal Province reserves the right to accept or
reject any bid, to annul the bidding process anytime prior to Contract Award, without
thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidders.
For futher information please refer to:
EDWIN M. ORTIZ
Engineer II
BAC Secretariat
e-mail address:dpwh_bacnab@yahoo.com

(Sgd.) EVA M. DEL FIERRO
Chief, Materials Quality Control section
BAC Chairman
(MST-June 18, 2012)
Region XIII Caraga
PROVINCE OF SURIGAO DEL NORTE
Surigao City
INVITATION TO BID
for the CONSTRUCTION OF PROVINCIAL COMMUNITY TRAINING AND
LIVELIHOOD CENTER DORMITORY
The Provincial Government of Surigao del Norte through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC)
invites bids for Construction of Provincial Community Training & Livelihood Center Dormitory
with the description of works hereunder specifed. Bidders should have completed, within ten (10)
years from the date of submission and receipt of bids, at least one (1) contract similar to the contract
to be bid and ffty percent (50%) of the ABC to be bid. The description of an eligible bidder is
contained in the Bidding Documents, particularly, in the instruction to Bidders. Bids received in
excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening.
Name of Contract Construction of Provincial Community Training &
Livelihood Center Dormitory
Location Bad-as, Municipality of Placer, Surigao de Norte
Brief Description The project will involve the Construction of two (2) storey
building with the following scope of works; Earthworks,
Reinforced Concrete works, Masonry works, Roof Framing
Works, Roofng (Tinsmithry) Works, Ceiling Works, Doors &
Windows, Tileworks, Painting, Carpentry & Railing, Electrical
works and Plumbing works.
Approved Budget for the
Contract (ABC)
Php 8,901,130.82
Source of Fund Trust Fund
Contract Duration 150 Calendar days
Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using of non-discretionary
pass/fail criterion as specifed in the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act
9184 (RA 9184) as amended, otherwise known as the Government Procurement Reform Act.
Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with at
least seventy fve percent (75%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizen of the
Philippines. Interested bidders may obtain further information from the Provincial Engineers Offce
and inspect the Bidding Documents at the same address on the date specifed. Complete set of
Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders from the same address upon payment
of a non-refundable fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount of Four Thousand Five Hundred
Pesos (Php 4,500.00).
BAC ACTIVITIES Schedule
Posting of Invitation to Bid/Request for Expression of Interest June 18-24, 2012
Receipt of Letter of Intent/Expression of Interest Not later than July 6, 2012
Issuance/Inspection of Bid Documents June 25 July 6, 2012
Pre-bid Conference June 28, 2012
Receipt of Bids/Eligibility Documents July 10, 2012 @ 2:00PM
Opening of Bids/Eligibility Documents July 10, 2012 @ 3:00PM
The Bids and Awards Committee this province will hold a Pre-Bid Conference on the date specifed.
The Pre-Bid conference when conducted shall be open only to all interested parties who have
purchased the Bidding Documents. Bids must be delivered on the same address above and on the
date specifed and must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable forms and in the
amount stated in Instruction to Bidders and Bid Data Sheet. Bids will be opened in the presence
of the bidders representatives who choose to attend at the same address. Late bids shall not be
accepted.

The Province of Surigao del Norte reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding
process, and to reject all bids at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any
liability to the affected bidder or bidders.

For further information, please refer to:

Engr. Alwin T. Pono
Acting Provincial Engineer
Provincial Engineers Offce
Capitol Site, Surigao City
Tel. No. (086)2317024
(Sgd.) PREMOLITO B. PLAZA
Provincial Administrator
BAC Chairman
June 14, 2012 (MST-June 18, 2012)
A9 Sports Riera U. Mallari, Editor
ManilaStandardToday
sports_mstandard@yahoo.com
Tiger Woods simply got battered.
In the 33 times he has started
a round atop the leaderboard at a
major, Woods never had a tougher
struggle with par than Saturday
at the US Opena 5-over 75
that made his uphill climb to the
majestic clubhouse overlooking
San Francisco feel a lot longer.
Thanks to late birdies by
McDowell and Furyk, it wont get
any easier Sunday.
McDowell showed the kind of
ght that won him a U.S. Open
two years ago down the coast
at Pebble Beach. He scratched
out pars and nished with a
4-foot birdie putt that gave him
a 2-under 68 and a share of the
lead going into the nal round at
The Olympic Club.
Probably for the rst time this
Pacquiaos third trilogy
a done deal?
Furyk, Graeme show way
SAN FRANCISCOGraeme McDowell
and Jim Furyk, a pair of US Open
champions, managed to beat par at The
Olympic Club.
TRILOGY in the horizon, you say?
What are you, a jerk? Turkey.
Its a done deal. Almost
literally, that is.
As early as 2011, the Pacquiao-
Bradley Trilogy has been booked;
up to 2013, if you still dont know
it, fellers.
After that split decision robbery of
a win by Bradley on June 10 (Manila
Time), Bradley ghts Pacquiao again
on Nov. 11 (Manila Time).
Mark my word: Pacquiao will win
that one to make it dead even at 1-1.
Whether Pacquiao wins it by
knockout or not, it wont matter. A
third ght is almost as sure as today
ending at the stroke of 12 oclock
midnight. The decider is going to
happen most likely in June 2013.
OK, you want more ashback?
After Manny Pacquiaos majority
decision victory over Juan Manuel
Marquez last November, Bradley
was immediately ordered to step for-
ward for the introductions.
Yes Sir, yes Sir, reporting for
duty, Sir! he said. My name is
Timothy Bradley Jr., the junior
welterweight champion of the
world, Sir.
Is there anything more special about
you worth considering, soldier?
I am unbeaten in 28 ghts, Sir!
Umm, you deserve a second
look. At ease, while I attend to an
unnished business.
For the record, Bob Arum handles
both Pacquiao and Bradley.
Now, my lips are sealed?
Nyet.
Bob Arum, while he leaves
Bradley momentarily, pursues Floyd
Mayweather Jr. a third time. Make
or break, so to speak.
Still, no dice, though, for Arum,
fellers.
Mayweather is adamant. He
sticks to his guns; thumbs down
Arums conditions. Whatever are
Mayweathers reasons for repeat-
edly shooting down a Mayweather-
Pacquiao ght, even the gods of
boxing couldnt gure out.
Meanwhile, The Money rejecting
Arum a third time is heaven both for
Bradley and PacMan. Read on.
We dont know the full details of
the last Arum-Mayweather talks.
But from my ever reliable legman,
this: The main meat of that meeting
was, Arum will get only 40 percent
or less from a Pacquiao-Mayweather
ght. Arum was told to share the
loot with Mayweather, Oscar De La
Hoya and, yes, Pacquiao.
You cant do that to Arum. At this
stage of Arums career, the eightyish
Arum is not supposed to take a
slice of the cake almost equal
to that of the pack. Half of the
whole, yes to him maybe; but
lesser than that?
Mohamed doesnt go up
the mountain; the mountain
goes down to Mohamed.
Arum is so grizzled a
veteran all this time that no one, not
even Lee Kuan Yew I should say,
could outfox him.
And so, despite his perorations
that the Pacquiao-Bradley had a
ludicrous result in an oblique
assault on the two judges
decision giving the ght to Bradley,
the trilogy is on.
To be sure, there had been
trilogies before, the most
famous one, of course, involved
Muhammad Ali and the late Joe
Frazier. Frazier won the rst on
March 8, 1971 by unanimous
decision after ooring Ali with a
left hook in the 15
th
. Ali evened
the score on Jan. 28, 1974 with a
similar victory on points. Then
in their third meeting that was
arguably the greatest ght of all
time, Ali won by a 14
th
-round TKO
in the Thrilla in Manila on Oct.
1, 1975, when Fraziers trainer,
Eddie Futch, ordered Frazier to
stay seated at the corner when the
bell rang for the 15
th
.
And get this: Arum also played a
key role in the Thrilla in Manila.
Pacquiao himself is no stranger to
trilogies. He beat Erik Morales 2-1,
losing the first on points and winning
the last two both by knockout. Against
Marquez, Pacquiao settled for a draw
in the first after decking the Mexican
three times in the first round before
winning the last two on points.
Thus, if history be the gauge,
Pacquiao should win his next two
ghts against Bradley.
And for that to happen,
Pacquiao must beat Bradley on
Nov. 11, its certainty seemingly
written in the stars already if we
go by what the events tell us as
early as last year yet.
Simply put, the script must be
followed to the letter, whether the
incarcerated Mayweather wins a
plea for house arrest or not.
What Arum wants, he gets it.
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Kia has remained as the Azkals
choice of ride, according to Kia
president Ginia Domingo. Cheers!
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ALL THE WAY
week, I actually enjoyed the round
of golf, McDowell said.
Furyk, also bidding for another
trophy from golfs toughest test,
outclassed Woods in the nal
pairing with key bunker saves and
an 8-foot birdie putt on the 17
th
for
a 70, making him the only player
who has yet to have a round over
par.
They were at 1-under 139, the
only survivors against par.
Obviously, I like being up
front in the position Im in, Furyk
said. The golf course will take
its effect on a bunch of people.
And the guys that go out there and
deal with the conditions and the
situations the best ... those are the
guys that are have some success
and have an opportunity to win the
last few holes.
Woods sure didnt look like one
of those guys in the third round.
Wearing a key lime shirt, he turned
in a lemon.
He fell out of the lead with two
bogeys in the rst three holes,
couldnt make a birdie on the
stretch of holes that Olympic
allows players to make up ground,
and ended with a sloppy bogey
on the 18th for a 75. Only eight
players had a higher score. AP
HAVING a good eye for talent,
new Philippine rie coach
Miguel Tajuelo Rodriguez
believes the Filipino shooters,
especially the young ones,
have what it takes to become a
major force in the region in the
near future.
The multi-titled member of
the Spanish team for 23 years
said he was impressed with the
performance of the Philippine
team the recent South East
Asian Shooting Association
Championships in Malaysia
where it produced a gold, two
silver and three bronze medals.
I have no doubt about
the quality of the Philippines
shooters and I was surprised
with the high quality of their
training. Their recent showing
was impressive said Rodriguez,
who was tapped by Philippine
National Shooting Association
president Mikee Romero to
handle the team starting in May.
Celdon Arellano, Jayson
Valdez, Ylvana Dy, Joelle
Panganiban, Monica Yang,
Frances Nicole Medina, Amparo
Acuna, Venus Lovelyn Tan and
Shanin Lyn Gonzalez are some
of the shooters he said have the
potential to shine.
PH shooters
impress
Spanish star
JULIO Cesar Chavez Jr. continued
to slowly but impressively move
out of the shadow of his legendary
father Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. and
took one more step in carving his
own name with a seventh-round
technical knockout over former
Olympian Andy Lee at the Sun
Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas.
Lee, who was the taller ghter,
used his left jab to keep the
bigger Chavez Jr at bay in the
early rounds before the World
Boxing Council middleweight
champion picked up the tempo
in the fourth round and hurt Lee
with some big body shots and
clubbing right hands.
Chavez Jr demonstrated his
strength and power as the ght
progressed and it was only a
matter of time before referee
Laurence Cole would step in and
call a halt which he did at 2:21 of
the seventh round.
Meanwhile, World Boxing
Organization super yweight
champion Marvelous Marvin
Sonsona has been forced to pullout
of his scheduled bout with WBO
Latino featherweight champion
Orlando Cruz scheduled for July
6 at the Hard Rock Hotel and
Casino in Las Vegas.
Promoter Sammy Gello-ani told
the Manila Standard that Sonsona
was suffering from a lumbar
sprain and strain according to
Chiropractor Roger Anderson
who examined Sonsona who was
complaining of back pains last
June 12. Ronnie Nathanielsz
Chavez Jr. retains WBC middleweight title
Olympic partner. Philippine Olympic team chief of mission Manny Lopez (second from right) and
Petron president Eric O. Recto shake hands while displaying the agreement making Petron as an ofcial
partner of the London-bound Philippine team. With them are Petron senior vice president and CFO Em-
manuel Erana (left) and PH team administrative ofcer Arsenic Lacson. The other entities backing the
Filipino athletes are International Container Terminal Services Inc., Bank of Philippine Islands, Mizuno,
Samsonite and Procter and Gamble.
sports@manilastandardtoday.com sports_mstandard@yahoo.com
Sports
Manila Standard TODAY
Run United 2 draws record cast
HBO poll shows 91% believe Pacman beat Bradley
THERE is really no stopping Unilab
Active Health and RunRio Inc. in
outpacing themselves at every Run
United event. Run United 2 on Sun-
day did not only break the record
number of participants, particularly
in the 21km category, it also ex-
ceeded participants expectations in
terms of fun and excitement.
There was a high turnout
of participants in all the race
categoriesthe 500m dash for
kids, 3k, 5k, 10k and 21k, proving
yet again that running is now the
most popular sports and tness
activity in the country.
The participants support of
our vision of providing activities
to help engage the Filipino family
in an active and healthy lifestyle is
overwhelming. It makes us more
inspired and enthusiastic to do better
in Run United 3 and other upcoming
events, said Alex Panlilio, Head of
Unilab Active Health.
Run United 3 will be held on
Sept. 16 and will be followed shortly
on Oct. 28 by the much-anticipated
Run United Philippine Marathon
which is Run Uniteds rst-ever full
marathon or 42.195K race.
Newbie runners raced alongside
elite runners along the routes
of Run United 2. All categories
except for 21k started and nished
at the SM Mall of Asia grounds.
The 21ks gun start was at
Bonifacio Global City and nish
line was at SM Mall of Asia.
According to RunRio President,
Rio dela Cruz, Run United 2 turned
out as the biggest 21km race in the
Philippines, so far. We are happy
that despite the huge turnout, the
race went smoothly with no major
hassles. A safe and orderly run race
has always been our priority and
we achieved that at Run United 2.
We thank all the runners for their
continued cooperation and support,
said Coach Rio.
A10
The league-leading Elasto Painters
drew a double-gure production from four
chargers.
Jeff Chan showed his consistency with a
game-high 19 points, while Jamelle Cornley
scored 18 markers. Gabe Norwood got
Rain or Shine on a quickstart as he
scored 11 of his 15 points in the rst
half and Jireh Ibanes was the spark
off the bench with a conference-
high 11 points.
The victory pushed the seminals-
bound Rain or Shine in solo rst place at 6-1,
with two games remaining in its elimination-
round campaign, while Barako Bull saw its
two-game winning streak snapped as it fell in a
three-way tie at fourth place with Petron Blaze
and Barangay Ginebra.
We did a great job closing out quarters,
thats why we were able to protect our lead.
I am happy with our defense and our shots
went in tonight. Gabe (Norwood) and Jireh
(Ibanes) did a great job on Hickerson,
said Rain or Shine coach Yeng Guiao.
Rain or Shine had several 19-point leads
in the nal period as those advantages
proved to be their biggest spread.
Leroy Hickerson scored a game-high 24
points for Barako Bull but it was only him
and Doug Kramer (16 points), who showed
up to play for the Energy.
Rain or Shine ace guard Paul Lee left the
game in the second quarter after he hurt his
left shoulder. He did not return, but Guiao
said that it wasnt a serious injury.
Paul (Lee) had some problems with
his shoulders but I dont think its serious
and hindi naman na siya kailangan ipasok
nung second half, said Guiao.
B-MEG (5-1), which is currently playing
the Boosters as of this writing, can gain a
share of the lead with another win.
Riera U. Mallari, Editor
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Painters
grab lead
Lim wins
Indonesian
net meet
THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD AJ
Lim scored a pair of upset wins
Saturday to win the 16-under
boys singles title in the 2012
Thamrin International Junior
Tennis Championships in
Jakarta, Indonesia.
Lim scored a 6-0, 6-1
triumph over third seed Irfani
Handrawan in the seminals,
before coming up with a
6-0, 3-6, 7-6 (10-50) victory
over top-seeded Armando
Soemarno in the nals.
This was Lims second best
nish in an international meet
after he made it to the 12-under
nals of the Orange Bowl
junior netfest in Coral Gables,
Florida last year.
His coach Manny Tecson
said AJ played very solid and
his game got stronger each day
of competition.
The nals was a different
story because, that time, AJ
played an opponent, who
was more mature in his shot
selections and has reached the
third round of the main draw of
the ITF 18 under tournament
of the Thamrin Cup, wrote
Tecson in an email to the
Manila Standar d.
Over at Halle, Germany,
Filipino-American netter Treat
Huey and his British partner
Scott Lipsky advanced to the
seminals of the 2012 Gerry
Weber Open, but missed a
showdown against former
world no. 1 player Rafael
Nadal. Peter Atencio
PH paddlers settle for 2
nd
HAIYANG, ChinaFrustrated
twice in one day by Asian Games
champion Indonesia, the Philippine
dragon boat team snared a silver
medal in the heart-stopping 10-man
crew, 500-meter race of the Asian
Beach Games.
On the rebound after coming up
dry in the 2011 Southeast Asian
Games in their home turf, the
Indonesians drove the dragon head
a mere half second ahead of the
Filipinos in the four-nation nale,
clocking an impressive 1:52.477
against RPs 1:52.927. Thailand
upstaged host China (1:55.667) for
third with a 1:54.088.
Indonesia also staved off the
Filipinos in the morning eliminations
of group A with a 1:53 against the
latters 1:55 thus rushing to claim
a nals seat along with Thailand
which outlasted China in the other
group of a total eight bidders.
Forced to a repechage against
Vietnam and Hong Kong, the
Filipinos handily ruled the extra
round in 1:57, while China turned
back the challenge of Japan and
Macau to complete the nal cast.
Though able to cut a handsome
four seconds and take the lead with
just about 20 meters left in the
nal run, the Filipinos lost steam
in the last 10 meters to yield the
gold which likewise eluded their
bronze-medallist predecessors in
the rst Asian Beach Games six
years ago.
Sayang talaga, we had done
everything according to plan,
blurted coach Len Escollante, while
commending the squad which
visibly gave it all in this young
yet tough as nails international
competition among 45 members of
the Olympic Council of Asia.
Conrming the splendid
performance of the Filipinos was
a technical delegate of the Asian
Dragon Boat Federation who
commented, the performance of
Indonesia was expected but the
Philippines was spectacular.
By Jeric Lopez

RAIN or Shine regained sole possession of rst
place after it listed its second straight victorya
masterful 100-90 conquest of Barako Bull in the
2012 Philippine Basketball Association Governors
Cup at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum yesterday.
Fathers Day Run. Runner dads pounded the pavement on
Fathers Day at Run United 2. Some ran with their children in
the shorter distance categories (500m dash, 3K and 5K), while
others went for the 10K and the half marathon. Run United
set a recordthe biggest number of participants in the 21K
category ever. Run United 3 will be held on Sept. 16.
Miami Heat
know what
to expect
MIAMIAt this point a
year ago, LeBron James and
Dwyane Wade were using
words like urgency and
desperation.
And thats exactly what
the Miami Heat expect the
Oklahoma City Thunder to
bring into Game 3 of this
years NBA Finals.
So far, this championship
series has followed the same
script as a year ago, with
the home team winning the
opening matchup, then falling
in Game 2 to lose the home-
court edge. Miami took the
sting of that into Dallas last
year and used it as fuel to
win Game 3and the Heat
will look to ensure that trend
doesnt repeat itself when the
title matchup resumes on their
home oor Sunday night.
Youve got the two best
teams in the league right now
going against each other,
Wade said Saturday, when
practices resumed after a day
off for both clubs. So its
going to be a very tough game,
but we have to nd a way to
win it. And its about taking,
like I said, one possession at a
time, one second, one minute
at a time to make sure we reach
our goal and thats to win the
game.
A Game 3 victory assures
nothing, a lesson the Heat
learned the hard way last
year. That win in Dallas was
Miamis nal victory of the
season. AP
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
ONE of the sidelights of HBO Sports
television coverage of the World Boxing
Council middleweight title ght between
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Andy Lee
was the poll conducted, asking ght fans
who they thought won the World Boxing
Organization welterweight title ght
between Manny Pacquiao and undefeated
Timothy Bradley last June 9.
HBO Sports replayed the Pacquiao-
Bradley ght earlier in the evening.
From among those, who watched the
ght, a huge 91 percent believed Pacquiao
won, while only 7 percent believed that
Bradley won and 2 percent believed the
ght was a draw.
The poll results reected a world-wide
consensus on the results of the ght, which
spawned international condemnation
of the ghts judgesCJ Ross, Duane
Ford and Jerry Roth and demands for a
sweeping change in how the Nevada State
Athletic Commission chooses its ring
ofcials.
There cant be a rematch (with
Bradley). Its very, very hard to sell a
rematch because it was a one-sided
ght, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum
told the Manila Standar d.
Arum said they are looking at a
possible Pacquiao ght against Juan
Manuel Marquez in November, but that
he would discuss the possibility when
the Filipino returns to Los Angeles next
week after attending to the needs of the
people of Sarangani, who were hard hit by
rampaging ood waters earlier this week.
Pacquiao fought a very close,
controversial ght with Marquez that
some people felt Marquez won. He
fought a ght with Bradley that nobody
thought he lost, other than the two
judges, the promoter noted, referring
to the judges as blind mice.
Arum added: I cant make any plans
for Manny until I meet with him when
he comes back. I will meet with him and
well decide (about staging the ght)
either in the United States or Mexico or
some place else. Well sit down and have
an intelligent discussion.
Arum admitted that promoting a
Pacquiao-Marquez ght in Mexico is
going to cost a lot of money and that big-
time Mexican promoter Fernando Beltran
told him, somebodys got to help out in
Mexico to come up with the dollars, not
the pesos.
Defense sporting
arms show turns 20
PRESIDENT Neri Dionio, of the Association of Firearms
and Ammunitions Dealers, leads the 20
th
Defense and
Sporting Arms Show on July 19 at the SM Megamall in
Mandaluyong City.
This years event will occupy 3,878 square meters of space
of MegaTrade Halls 1, 2 and 3, being the latest addition of
display area, he said.
During the ve-day gun show, AFAD will also launch the
rst DSAS Right to Live Media Awards for the best news
and feature articles on the rearms industry.
According to Dionisio, the opening day will the AFAD Hall
of Philippine World Champions to honor the countrys top gun
personalities, who excelled in local and international shooting events.
Also lined up are DSAS Through the Years memorabilia and
Art in Arms: Antique Firearms, Sculptures, Paintings and others.
Tradeshow International Inc., the event manager, will hold
the Best Booth Competition for exhibitors and daily rafe for
lucky DSAS visitors.
Sponsors include Manila Bulletin, Philippine Star, Manila
Times, Peoples Journal, Daily Tribune, dwIZ 88.2, Home
Radio 97.9, dzRH 666 khz, Aksiyon Radio, 105.1 Crossover,
Total Security Systems Inc., Brightstar Electronics and
Imaging Resources, Pioneer, SM Tickets, SM Cinema, Snack
Time and Taytan International Corp.
NBA SCHEDULE
GAME 3 OF FINALS
OKLAHOMA VS
MIAMI HEAT
(8 a.m.)
Rain or Shines Paul Lee (right) tries to maneuver his way around Barako Bulls Celino Cruz in a PBA Governors
Cup game won by the Elastro Painters, 100-90.
Business
B1
Ray S. Eano, Editor mst_biz@manilastandardtoday.com
Roderick T. dela Cruz, Assistant Editor extrastory2000@gmail.com
Rich countries bully PH on farm trade deal
Villar
company
declares
dividend
Jollibee plans 300 new stores
Citi: PPP
crucial in
creating
more jobs
EDCs geothermal projects secure clearance
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By Alena Mae S. Flores
THE Energy Department approved the application
of Energy Development Corp. to pursue more
geothermal energy projects in ve areas with a
combined capacity of 130 megawatts.
EDC, the geothermal energy unit of
the Lopez Group, secured clearance for
geothermal development contracts that
involve a 30-MW capacity at Mt. Ampiro in
Misamis Occidental; 20 MW in Balingasag,
Misamis Occidental; 40 MW at Lakewood
geothermal project in Negros Occidental; 20
MW in Mandalagan, Negros Occidental; and
20 MW at Mt. Zion in North Cotabato.
The company is working on several
geothermal projects that will add 230 MW of
capacity to its geothermal portfolio over the
next ve years.
These include the 20-MW Nasulo and 40-
MW Dauin geothermal projects in Negros
Oriental, 50-MW Mindanao 3 project in
Cotabato, 30-MW Cabalian project in Southern
Leyte and the 40-MW Bacman 3 and 50-MW
Kayabon project both in Sorsogon.
Our domestic expansion projects have total
estimated capacity of 230 MW spread across
several modest-sized projects, EDC president
and chief operating ofcer Richard Tantoco said
earlier.
EDC has more than 1,400 megawatts
under its green power portfolio, following
the acquisition of a hydropower project and
wind power projects.
The company set a capital expenditure
of P20 billion this year, of which P6 billion
has been allocated for the planned 86-MW
Burgos wind project.
Tantoco said the company would nance its
capex from internally-generated cash. We
have around P10 billion in cash...we do not need
additional funding this year, Tantoco said.
The company had also set aside P14 billion
for internal projects, P1.4 billion for the
Bac-Man rehabilitation, P500 million for the
capital expenditure of Green Core Geothermal
Inc., P2 billion for the acquisition of two new
geothermal exploration rigs, P2.2 billion for
the replacement of new wells, and funding for
the transfer of the Northern Negros geothermal
project to Nasulo in southern Negros.
By Othel V. Campos
FARMER groups and civil
society organizations have urged
the government to push for the
extension of a tariff protection on
rice and refused any concession
demanded by the United States,
Canada and Australia on livestock
and poultry.
Its a shame that rich
countries like the US, Canada
and Australia will bully a poor
country like the Philippines to
get their unfair trade demands
on basic food commodities, such
as rice and livestock that are
critical to the livelihood of poor
Filipinos, Aurora Regalado,
convenor of Rice Watch and
Action Network, said in a joint
statement with the other groups.
The rice farmers to be affected
by liberalized importation are
also small and backyard hogs
and poultry growers who should
be defended by the government
at all cost, the groups said.
The statement was signed by
both farmers and civil society
groups and sent to Agriculture
Secretary Proceso Alcala on June
14. The government is negotiating
for the extension of the quantitative
restriction on rice which is due to
expire this month.
The groups said the
government should not allow any
more movement in the countrys
commitments in the tariff rate
quota, in-quota tariff rate and
country-specic quotas on rice
because this will injure the
local industry and endanger the
survival of poor rice farmers.
The Philippines was allowed
to impose a 50-percent tariff on
imported rice under the World
Trade Organization Uruguay
Round agreement in 1995.
The Philippines wanted to
extend the protection by another
ve years, but several countries
wanted a compromise on other
products. Australia, for one,
asked the Philippines to reduce its
import tariff on pork and poultry
by up to 5 percent in exchange for
the continuance of the restrictive
policy on rice.
The United States and Canada
had also tried to block the
extension and demanded that the
Philippines stop the
implementation of
Ad mi n i s t r a t i v e
Order 22 setting the
rules and regulations
on the handling of
frozen and chilled meat and meat
products to ensure better quality
and safety.
The farmers groups supported
the position of livestock and
poultry sector to enforce a single
tariff rate in all products, and
raise the tariff on offals to avoid
technical smuggling.
The groups expressed concern
that once the government gave up
the ght for the extension of the
quantitative restriction on rice, its
plan for rice self-sufciency by
2013 will be compromised.
PUBLICLY-LISTED Vista
Land and Lifescapes Inc., the
Villar-led homebuilder, has
declared a special cash dividend
of P0.04 per share amounting to
P340 million.
The companys board of
directors, shortly after Vista Lands
annual stockholders meeting on
June 15, approved the declaration
of a special cash dividend
amounting to about 10 percent of
the companys consolidated net
income last year.
The record date for the special
dividend is on July 2, while
the payment date will be on
July 26.
Vista Land earlier reported a
net income of P1.06 billion in
the rst quarter, up by 22 percent
from P873 million a year ago,
while revenues exceeded P4
billion.
In view of Vista Lands
excellent performance and
strongly positive outlook,
we are pleased to once again
reward our loyal shareholders
with a special cash dividend
as we had done last year,
said Vista Land president and
chief executive Manuel Paolo
Villar.
Lailany P. Gomez
North Harbor terminal. The construction of a passenger terminal building at the North Harbor started as part of the commitment of the Transportation
Department and the Philippine Ports Authority to modernize the pier and provide the sea-traveling public with a world-class facility. At the groundbreaking rites are
(from left) Manila North Harbor Port Inc. ofcials Edwin Jeremillo, Richard Barclay, Clarissa Ignacio, Constante Farias Jr., Ramon Atayde and Nicasio Conti, PPA general
manager Juan Sta. Ana, Manila district collector Ricardo Belmonte and PPA assistant general managers Raul Santos, Tomas Carlos and Dave Simon.
By Lailany P. Gomez
JOLLIBEE Foods Corp., the largest fastfood chain in the country, is
set to open 300 new stores this year as it aims to continue
expanding operations in the Philippines and abroad, its
chairman said over the weekend.
Jollibee chairman Tony Tan Caktiong told
reporters his company would add 150 new stores
in the country and another 150 in parts of the US,
Middle East and China.
Still we are expanding in the Philippines, as
we all know the Philippines is now booming. In
terms of future expansion, we are still focused
on the Philippines, China and Vietnam, US, the
usual markets. We are bullish on the economy.
We expect a double-digit growth in our income,
Caktiong said.
The fastfood chain disclosed to the stock
exchange it allotted at least P5.8 billion for capital
expenditure this year.
Jollibee as of March 2012 was operating 2,004
stores in the Philippines and
509 stores overseas, including
China, the United States,
Vietnam, Brunei, Jeddah, Hong
Kong, Qatar, Kuwait, Dubai and
Indonesia.
Jollibee also owns food chains
Greenwich, Red Ribbon, Mang
Inasal, Burger King and Chowking.
The Jollibee group owns several
restaurants in China, including
Yonghe King, Hong Zhuang Yuan,
Ping Wang and Chow Fun.
Jollibee earlier reported first-
quarter net income grew 8.2 percent to P682
million from P631 million a year ago, boosted
by strong sales from domestic and overseas
stores.
A wholly-owned subsidiary, Golden Plate
Pte. Ltd., signed an agreement
with Beeworks Inc. to put up a
new company that would own and
operate Jollibee stores in Singapore
with an initial funding of $1
million.
Beeworks is owned by
Singaporean businessmen with
extensive presence in the retail and
hospitality sector.
Golden Plate will have 60 percent
of the joint venture while Beeworks
will hold the balance of 40 percent
under the agreement.
Jollibee said Golden Plate would
have full management control of the
joint venture while leveraging on
Beeworks experience, reputation and
network to establish the Jollibee brand in Singapore.
By Elaine R. Alanguilan

THE government needs to build
more infrastructure projects
under the so-called public-
private partnership program
to create more jobs and keep
the unemployment rate below
7 percent, according to the
research unit of American
nancial giant Citi.
We may be at the cusp of a
structural change to lower the
jobless rate to below 7 percent
conditional on sustained
industrial sector job creation
mainly from construction.
Execution of the infrastructure
program under this years
budget has to be sustained,
said Jun Trinidad, an economist
at Citi Asia Economics.
Trinidad noted that
governance measures, on top
of collection efciency gains,
enabled the government to
pursue a strong scal agenda
that resulted in a jobless rate
below 7 percent, the second
time during the Aquino
administration, without causing
a scal decit blowout.
Public-private partnership
project rollout and
implementation starting the
fourth quarter of the year bode
well for construction jobs.
Passage of sin tax reforms
within the year would also
lift tax collections and help
sustain the virtuous cycle of
job and income creation, he
said.
BCDA dismisses raps
STATE-RUN Bases Conversion and
Development Authority dismissed the perjury
complaint led against BCDA president
Arnel Paciano Casanova by Camp John Hay
Development Corp., saying it is a form of
harassment and will not stop the agency from
protecting the interest of the government.
Obviously, this perjury complaint against
BCDA president and [chief executive] Arnel
Casanova is intended to derail BCDAs
efforts in holding CJHDevco accountable for
its acts and omissions, BCDA legal counsel
Demetrio Custodio Jr. said in a statement over
the weekend.
The ling of this harassment suit, however,
will not deter BCDA from performing its duty
to uphold and protect the rights and interests
of the government and the Filipino people,
BCDA corporate secretary Peter Paul Flores
said.
Manuel Ubarra Jr., CJHDevco vice president
for litigation, alleged that Casanova wrongly
accused CJHDevco ofcials of using false
pretenses to deceive and induce the agency to
enter into a dacion en pago agreement on May
27, 2011 to settle its outstanding obligation
with BCDA.
But Custodio said BCDA exercised due
diligence and did not deliberately and willfully
omit facts when it led the estafa complaint against
Robert John Sobrepea and other responsible
ofcers of CJHDevco. Julito G. Rada
PMFTC offers help
PMFTC Inc., the countrys largest cigarette
maker, said the government can improve tax
administration even without the tobacco stamp
security system.
I think they [Bureau of Internal Revenue
and Finance Department] can improve tax
administration without stamps, and I think that
is something they can work on, and we can
assist, PMFTC Inc. president Chris Nelson
said in an interview.
PMFTC, which controls 94 percent of
domestic tobacco market, earlier expressed
support to the BIRs stamp tax project on
incorporating revenue stamps on the design
of the cigarette packs, but the tax agency
rejected the proposal due to a conict of
interest.
The scheme aims to curb smuggling as
tobacco prices are expected to surge within
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WEEKLY MOST TRADED
STOCKS VOLUME
IP E-Game Ventures Inc. 1,141,200,000
Philodrill Corp. À 1,075,200,000
Manila Mining À 460,820,000
Megaworld Corp. 281,984,000
Abra Mining 268,000,000
United Paragon 253,400,000
Manila Mining `B 224,910,000
Lepanto À 178,705,000
Oriental Pet. À 152,100,000
Alliance Global Inc. 141,642,600
STOCKS VALUE
PLDT Common 2,205,369,040.00
Alliance Global Inc. 1,633,074,768.00
Universal Robina 1,190,179,674.00
Aboitiz Equity 1,103,571,363.50
Metrobank 1,053,677,863.00
Calata Corp. 1,050,184,168.00
Aboitiz Power Corp. 1,040,832,165.00
Ayala Land `B 945,734,431.00
SM Investments Inc. 898,140,895.00
DMCI Holdings 741,282,813.00
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WEEKLY STOCKS REVIEW
JUNE 11-15, 2012 JUNE 4-8, 2012
STOCKS CLOSE VOLUME VALUE CLOSE VOLUME VALUE
FINANCIAL
Banco de Oro Unibank Inc. 61.05 7,872,370 494,486,696.00 61.20 21,173,710 1,396,027,915.00
Bank of PI 68.60 3,607,410 248,243,977.00 68.00 6,719,070 452,106,956.00
Bankard, Inc. 0.70 120,000 84,840.00 0.70 80,000 55,600.00
China Bank 555.00 56,890 31,814,090.00 555.50 42,480 23,493,275.00
BDO Leasing & Fin. Inc. 1.78 70,000 122,620.00 1.72 26,000 44,840.00
COL Financial 23.2 199,900 4,625,360.00 23.2 428,300 9,837,645.00
Eastwest Bank 18.6 2,605,200 48,873,702.00 18.86 12,041,400 228,888,054.00
Filipino Fund Inc. 9.42 1,200 11,414 9.40 2,700 25,284
First Abacus 0.71 489,000 352,990.00 0.73 55,000 40,150.00
First Metro Inv. 68 5,970 417,370.00 72 220 15,230.00
I-Remit Inc. 2.37 42,000 99,030.00 2.32 654,000 1,520,620.00
Manulife Fin. Corp. 455.00 1,020 470,320.00 470.00 2,420 1,140,580.00
Maybank ATR KE 38.15 156,200 6,058,730.00 38.65 443,200 16,630,145.00
Metrobank 88.45 11,906,220 1,053,677,863.00 86.40 8,140,790 699,757,029.00
Natl Reinsurance Corp. 2.05 281,000 552,580.00 1.94 173,000 357,870.00
Phil Bank of Comm 69.00 50 3,450.00 69.00 3,000 207,000.00
Phil. National Bank 71.50 992,770 70,256,497.00 69.70 1,720,090 119,876,281.00
Phil. Savings Bank 82.00 660 54,121.00 82.00 1,570 128,760.00
Philippine Trust Co. 61.00 1,000 61,000.00
PSE Inc. 350 32,740 11,437,630.00 349 33,920 11,863,580.00
RCBC À 43 1,266,900.00 54,676,460.00 43.3 1,512,600.00 64,996,340.00
Security Bank 136 3,185,700 439,917,385.00 129.9 1,355,970 176,087,615.00
Sun Life Financial 900.00 100 90,800.00 970.00 660 604,770.00
Union Bank 104.00 987,380 100,022,211.00 100.00 1,334,660 130,645,202.00
Vantage Equities 1.78 273,000 485,940.00 1.78 957,000 1,707,560.00
INDUSTRIAL
Aboitiz Power Corp. 31.8 32,302,900 1,040,832,165.00 33.8 10,812,800 365,234,555.00
Agrinurture Inc. 8.95 416,300 3,881,520.00 11.14 1,530,600 17,086,864.00
Alaska Milk Corp. 19 26,700 513,532.00 23.5 34,400 809,000.00
Alliance Tuna Intl Inc. 1.38 866,000 1,196,240.00 1.39 640,000 704,870.00
Alphaland Corp. 28.95 3,200 88,645.00 29.4 13,000 350,885.00
Alsons Cons. 1.28 1,141,000 1,473,420.00 1.30 1,805,000 2,334,070.00
Asiabest Group 21.9 357,500 8,110,375.00 23.7 486,200 11,623,290.00
Bogo Medellin 59.95 90 5,399.50 59.95 1,390 75,376.00
Bloomberry 8.25 31,946,100 267,149,286.00 8.74 30,252,900 258,694,689.00
C. Azuc De Tarlac 15.00 100 1,500.00 15.00 416,200 6,375,950.00
Calapan Venture 2.68 5,039,000 13,882,320.00 2.31 151,000 357,480.00
Chemrez Technologies Inc. 2.45 731,000 1,807,790.00 2.48 440,400 1,411,580.00
Cirtek Holdings (Chips) 9.25 1,350,900 12,159,527.00 9 3,044,900 26,314,775.00
Energy Devt. Corp. (EDC) 5.88 92,825,300 543,360,386.00 5.82 64,032,800 368,359,463.00
EEI 6.08 4,191,700 25,856,226.00 6.00 12,398,800 74,128,035.00
Euro-Med Lab. 1.94 13,000 24,680.00 1.84 379,000 725,990.00
Federal Chemicals 10.00 16,100 158,612.00 10.02 34,200 350,488.00
First Gen Corp. 16.16 30,186,000 490,653,292.00 16 21,287,300 338,648,588.00
First Holdings A 69.3 2,403,720 168,386,817.00 70.9 2,900,670 202,810,384.50
Ginebra San Miguel Inc. 20.90 21,100 440,790.00 20.90 39,300 814,630.00
Greenergy 0.0130 53,700,000 729,800.00 0.0140 145,600,000 1,935,500.00
Holcim Philippines Inc. 11.10 43,100 475,706.00 11.40 537,700 6,157,498.00
Integ. Micro-Electronics 3.9 148,000 585,540.00 4.01 668,000 2,669,640.00
Ionics Inc 0.770 3,044,000 3,802,400.00 1.660 4,551,000 7,698,930.00
Jollibee Foods Corp. 101.20 2,428,470 253,153,416.00 108.30 1,214,110 128,950,759.00
Liberty Flour 52.50 830 43,575.00 52.90 160 8,464.00
LMG Chemicals 1.55 3,043,000 4,689,380.00 1.64 5,339,000 9,016,960.00
Mabuhay Vinyl Corp. 1.5 659,000 988,220.00 1.6 205,000 307,930.00
Manchester Intl. A 1.66 35,000 59,200.00 1.76 58,000 105,080.00
Manila Water Co. Inc. 23 19,932,000 481,689,690.00 24.7 12,755,400 311,861,145.00
Mariwasa MFG. Inc. 2.63 31,000 82,010.00 2.8 101,000 291,360.00
Megawide 16.92 617,500 10,675,058.00 17.60 2,367,400 40,593,538.00
Mla. Elect. Co À 238.00 618,120 150,060,916.00 242.00 940,730 223,489,618.00
Pepsi-Cola Products Phil. 2.71 6,991,000 19,257,790.00 2.75 4,553,000 12,605,910.00
Petron Corporation 10.00 11,059,400 112,110,385.00 10.20 11,038,400 113,051,546.00
Phinma Corporation 10.26 11,900 122,758.00 10.26 4,613,000 50,734,346.00
Phoenix Petroleum Phils. 8.09 311,800 2,544,640.00 8.30 783,800 6,493,865.00
Republic Cement À 8.50 71,100 633,739.00 8.90 87,000 752,435.00
RFM Corporation 2.92 6,862,000 20,179,720.00 2.92 24,083,000 71,546,290.00
Roxas and Co. 1.51 1,000 1,510.00 1.51 2,000 3,020.00
Roxas Holdings 2.54 27,000 69,300.00 2.57 3,000 7,740.00
San Miguel Brewery Inc. 29.00 10,000 289,200.00 29.00 8,800 255,040.00
San Miguel Corp À 114.00 2,586,790 295,577,794.00 114.00 1,876,140 212,373,632.00
Seacem 1.75 11,425,000 19,808,350.00 1.75 7,023,000 12,374,770.00
Splash Corporation 1.85 164,000 303,580.00 1.86 78,000 144,800.00
Swift Foods, Inc. 0.127 1,320,000 168,630.00 0.131 5,413,000 861,910.00
Tanduay Holdings 3.89 11,102,000 43,171,110.00 3.89 1,348,000 5,215,300.00
TKC Steel Corp. 2.18 858,000 1,801,710.00 2.12 463,000 985,800.00
Trans-Asia Oil 1.21 2,531,000 3,061,490.00 1.23 3,879,000 4,765,450.00
Universal Robina 58.50 18,981,530 1,190,179,674.00 61.50 8,296,000 504,751,314.50
Victorias Milling 1.49 69,921,000 111,033,390.00 1.63 132,653,000 250,920,770.00
Vitarich Corp. 0.690 1,725,000 1,222,200.00 0.720 12,756,000 9,289,370.00
Vivant Corp. 10.98 400 4,496.00 10.20 49,500 565,016.00
Vulcan Indl. 0.91 446,000 407,810.00 0.92 590,000 442,090.00
HOLDING FIRMS
Abacus Cons. À 0.69 1,161,000 806,420.00 0.69 571,000 393,370.00
Aboitiz Equity 45.00 23,979,570 1,103,571,363.50 50.00 6,449,300 315,048,875.00
Alcorn Gold Res. 0.0160 23,000,000 365,000.00 0.0150 18,700,000 266,000.00
Alliance Global Inc. 11.40 141,642,600 1,633,074,768.00 11.68 130,410,600 1,551,628,840.00
Anglo Holdings A 2.00 83,000 165,520.00 2.00 710,000 1,416,550.00
Anscor À 4.55 1,512,000 6,940,040.00 4.50 2,411,000 10,608,210.00
Asia Amalgamated A 5.05 2,936,900 15,230,513.00 4.71 518,000 2,373,160.00
ATN Holdings A 1.87 88,000 153,120.00 1.87 113,000 204,540.00
Ayala Corp À 447 1,531,260 679,743,864.00 437 1,664,430 718,166,740.00
DMCI Holdings 54.90 13,386,740 741,282,813.00 56.00 21,604,200 1,171,497,044.00
F&J Prince A 2.6 198,000 497,000.00 2.5 193,000 495,500.00
Filinvest Dev. Corp. 3.95 2,879,000 11,406,100.00 4.00 2,662,000 45,647,550.00
GT Capital 482 250,960 121,547,188.00 481 494,940 236,922,452.00
House of Inv. 4.38 566,000 2,467,350.00 4.34 1,017,000 4,507,170.00
JG Summit Holdings 33.00 4,044,000 134,218,855.00 32.50 6,559,800 210,163,030.00
Jolliville Holdings 2.97 187,000 531,590.00 2.77 11,000 25,810.00
Lopez Holdings Corp. 5.94 9,632,700 56,648,581.00 5.84 5,799,800 33,843,243.00
Lodestar Invt. Holdg.Corp. 1.05 1,453,000 1,533,800.00 1.08 4,821,000 5,016,460.00
Mabuhay Holdings À 0.425 260,000 110,900.00 0.430 330,000 143,600.00
Marcventures Hldgs., Inc. 2.46 4,101,000 10,046,760.00 2.42 14,745,000 37,210,190.00
Metro Pacic Inv. Corp. 3.92 63,870,000 258,863,030.00 4.10 52,326,700 224,085,100.00
Minerales Industrias Corp. 4.75 114,000 531,780.00 4.65 51,000 234,040.00
MJCI Investments Inc. 5.59 31,800 168,661.00 5.47 77,000 343,480.00
Pacica À 0.0450 5,120,000 257,410.00 0.0510 10,840,000 557,860.00
Prime Media Hldg 1.350 130,000 181,140.00 1.320 467,000 658,500.00
Prime Orion 0.440 450,000 201,000.00 0.450 1,450,000 657,300.00
Republic Glass A 2.1 39,000 81,900.00 2.07 2,000 4,140.00
Seafront À 1.64 1,000 1,640.00 1.38 156,000 214,180.00
Sinophil Corp. 0.320 640,000 205,300.00 0.325 2,070,000 668,450.00
SM Investments Inc. 689.50 1,278,380 898,140,895.00 685.00 2,971,360 2,019,466,650.00
Solid Group Inc. 1.31 662,000 887,340.00 1.37 1,094,000 1,533,140.00
South China Res. Inc. 1.18 834,000 991,480.00 1.26 418,000 508,080.00
Transgrid 500.00 20 10,000.00
Unioil Res. & Hldgs 0.2250 170,000 37,900.00 0.2200 870,000 206,540.00
Wellex Industries 0.3450 6,510,000 2,294,000.00 0.3650 16,050,000 5,776,550.00
Zeus Holdings 0.500 10,308,000 5,555,990.00 0.530 11,284,000 5,742,630.00
P R O P E R T Y
Anchor Land Holdings Inc. 39.45 7,100 248,865.00 40.45 1,800 68,560.00
A. Brown Co., Inc. 2.57 27,000 69,350.00 2.80 58,000 162,250.00
Araneta Prop À 0.630 107,000 70,530.00 0.660 566,000 378,580.00
Arthaland Corp. 0.164 50,000 8,200.00 0.167 2,500,000 415,050.00
Ayala Land `B 21.90 44,080,200 945,734,431.00 20.00 33,343,900 656,312,396.00
Belle Corp. À 4.62 3,148,000 14,836,910.00 4.71 3,265,000 15,430,980.00
Cebu Holdings 5.62 731,200 4,275,308.00 5.9 1,716,300 10,249,731.00
Cebu Prop. À 5 7,700 38,500.00 5 30,000 150,000.00
Centennial City 1.45 3,502,000 5,043,780.00 1.47 6,219,000 9,015,760.00
City & Land Dev. 2.48 536,000 1,290,240.00 2.40 103,000 246,280.00
Cityland Dev. À 1.23 185,000 216,760.00 1.26 692,000 812,270.00
Crown Equities Inc. 0.078 17,510,000 1,350,280.00 0.078 3,850,000 302,400.00
Cyber Bay Corp. 0.79 2,317,000 1,834,600.00 0.81 2,737,000 2,143,150.00
Empire East Land 0.690 19,563,000 13,769,630.00 0.700 44,475,000 31,805,480.00
Ever Gotesco 0.175 370,000 59,850.00 0.170 2,020,000 338,570.00
Global-Estate 1.70 9,260,000 15,853,870.00 1.75 22,116,000 38,276,750.00
Filinvest Land,Inc. 1.19 103,926,000 124,571,120.00 1.20 85,083,000 103,885,260.00
Highlands Prime 1.71 115,000 197,570.00 1.77 306,000 563,840.00
Interport À 1.06 112,000 122,570.00 1.06 975,000 1,029,540.00
Keppel Properties 2.10 22,000 44,900.00 1.93 12,000 23,630.00
Megaworld Corp. 1.97 281,984,000 551,041,590.00 1.91 258,879,000 502,605,070.00
MRC Allied Ind. 0.1810 35,030,000 6,410,650.00 0.1920 13,350,000 2,428,530.00
Phil. Estates Corp. 0.6800 28,930,000 19,847,650.00 0.6900 102,023,000 70,418,620.00
Phil. Realty À 0.490 120,000 58,800.00 0.480 240,000 115,100.00
Phil. Tob. Flue Cur & Redry 14.58 2,700 39,406.00 14.60 1,000 14,960.00
Polar Property Holdings 3.97 899,000 3,455,240.00 3.8 4,567,000 18,277,730.00
Robinsons Land `B 16.00 8,022,300 133,382,252.00 16.38 18,776,800 308,735,332.00
Rockwell 3.08 458,000 1,442,090.00 3.15 1,275,000 4,049,880.00
Shang Properties Inc. 2.45 318,000 791,310.00 2.50 1,451,000 3,638,790.00
SM Development À 6.29 7,084,400 43,679,609.00 6.13 3,031,500 18,406,966.00
SM Prime Holdings 12.10 32,230,700 402,381,990.00 12.22 40,366,800 505,168,518.00
Sta. Lucia Land Inc. 0.68 359,000 244,270.00 0.68 954,000 640,190.00
Suntrust Home Dev. Inc. 0.510 34,000 17,570.00 0.510 603,000 307,530.00
Vista Land & Lifescapes 3.970 44,847,000 175,076,280.00 4.100 26,761,000 106,816,540.00
S E R V I C E S
2GO Group 1.8 81,000 156,490.00 1.8 21,000 39,160.00
ABS-CBN 34.9 60,300 2,132,595.00 35.5 59,000 2,092,170.00
Acesite Hotel 14.3 981,600 14,488,444.00 14.94 712,900 10,805,704.00
APC Group, Inc. 0.690 1,508,000 1,001,370.00 0.690 1,828,000 1,180,120.00
Boulevard Holdings 0.1410 52,560,000 7,587,870.00 0.1440 72,010,000 10,709,220.00
Calata Corp. 9.95 81,414,800 1,050,184,168.00 12.4 111,465,600 1,789,038,110.00
Cebu Air Inc. (5J) 62.00 3,114,990 198,849,653.00 66.70 574,180 38,737,456.00
Centro Esc. Univ. 10.3 4,500 46,350.00 10.1 1,200 12,120.00
DFNN Inc. 6.65 1,317,100 8,513,534.00 6.05 503,100 2,978,774.00
Easy Call Common 3.26 6,000 19,560.00 3.25 85,000 316,570.00
FEUI 975 50 48,600.00 985 620 599,150.00
Globe Telecom 1000.00 694,890 714,488,300.00 1062.00 272,720 289,034,885.00
GMA Network Inc. 10.00 4,801,500 48,358,332.00 10.00 7,046,800 71,515,364.00
I.C.T.S.I. 68 3,419,630 246,780,953.50 69.8 4,345,550 301,267,018.50
Information Capital Tech. 0.435 300,000 125,000.00 0.445 1,150,000 476,500.00
Imperial Res. À 8.50 1,100 9,356 8.70 2,100 18,300
IPeople Inc. À 5.25 32,700 173,245.00 5.5 195,900 1,100,870.00
IP Converge 4.21 14,265,000 59,933,170.00 4.12 3,066,000 12,972,490.00
IP E-Game Ventures Inc. 0.045 1,141,200,000 48,262,400.00 0.042 224,500,000 9,575,600.00
IPVG Corp. 1.05 786,000 832,790.00 1.07 1,466,000 1,540,940.00
Island Info 0.0520 1,520,000 76,000.00 0.0500 1,710,000 82,700.00
ISM Communications 2.5500 157,000 409,210.00 2.6000 345,000 904,100.00
JTH Davies Holdings Inc. 2.5 354,000 889,940.00 2.46 210,000 499,600.00
Leisure & Resorts 6.50 2,350,400 15,429,500.00 6.56 867,800 5,740,453.00
Liberty Telecom 2.78 230,000 625,970.00 2.85 178,000 492,960.00
Lorenzo Shipping 1.45 10,000 14,500.00 1.6 26,000 44,000.00
Macroasia Corp. 2.80 68,000 193,200.00 2.85 91,000 263,620.00
Manila Bulletin 0.68 44,000 29,920.00 0.68 157,000 108,160.00
Manila Jockey 2.1 3,754,000 8,204,320.00 2.2 8,770,000 18,271,690.00
Metro Pacic Tollways 7.00 9,100 61,955.00 7.35 9,500 69,778.00
Pacic Online Sys. Corp. 20 139,600 2,792,400.00 20 80,200 1,609,479.00
PAL Holdings Inc. 7.20 210,900 1,520,491 7.20 170,700 1,232,163
Paxys Inc. 2.86 3,491,000 10,181,010.00 2.9 4,780,000 13,597,280.00
Phil. Racing Club 9.48 157,000 1,489,160.00 9.01 42,200 383,844.00
Phil. Seven Corp. 42.00 57,800 2,427,600.00 42.00 194,900 8,185,595.00
Philweb.Com Inc. 14.02 3,771,800 53,810,770.00 15.40 1,572,000 24,246,570.00
PLDT Common 2360.00 913,735 2,205,369,040.00 2430.00 814,290 1,967,310,000.00
PremiereHorizon 0.315 2,060,000 645,100.00 0.310 2,240,000 713,650.00
Puregold 24.95 12,864,300 329,753,145.00 24.60 8,984,300 220,078,240.00
Touch Solutions 3.8 147,000 557,920.00 3.55 10,000 35,500.00
Transpacic Broadcast 2.7 67,000 175,690.00 2.55 33,000 84,800.00
Waterfront Phils. 0.435 950,000 412,100.00 0.440 3,940,000 1,659,500.00
MINING & OIL
Abra Mining 0.0039 268,000,000 1,076,100.00 0.0041 404,000,000 1,669,300.00
Apex À 4.84 34,000 163,090.00 4.79 312,000 1,471,750.00
Atlas Cons. À 17.18 4,725,000 82,095,714.00 17.46 3,082,200 54,095,048.00
Atok-Big Wedge À 29.90 6,000 179,320.00 29.90 9,700 287,560.00
Basic Energy Corp. 0.245 840,000 204,150.00 0.240 10,950,000 2,656,560.00
Benguet Corp À 22.5 133,800 3,059,485.00 21.65 301,800 6,653,405.00
Benguet Corp `B 22.2 45,000 1,014,105.00 21.85 154,500 3,425,440.00
Century Peak Metals Hldgs 1.4 980,000 1,400,370.00 1.45 952,000 1,395,330.00
Dizon 30.05 844,600 26,129,320.00 32.50 2,070,400 67,304,785.00
Geograce Res. Phil. Inc. 0.68 5,649,000 3,863,250.00 0.7 10,252,000 7,136,660.00
Lepanto À 1.380 178,705,000 255,128,480.00 1.420 203,643,000 273,277,730.00
Lepanto `B 1.450 93,752,000 141,895,570.00 1.510 89,480,000 124,792,920.00
Manila Mining À 0.0650 460,820,000 30,973,510.00 0.0660 674,890,000 42,716,900.00
Manila Mining `B 0.0650 224,910,000 15,142,360.00 0.0660 680,320,000 44,176,490.00
Nickelasia 31.35 6,111,400 191,141,050.00 30 4,360,400 128,964,785.00
Nihao Mineral Resources 8.47 2,018,500 17,332,134.00 8.75 2,897,200 25,628,086.00
Omico 0.7300 3,207,000 2,245,800.00 0.6900 888,000 620,040.00
Oriental Peninsula Res. 5.040 4,448,900 22,774,425.00 5.120 8,323,700 42,469,368.00
Oriental Pet. À 0.0160 152,100,000 2,584,100.00 0.0170 212,000,000 3,573,000.00
Oriental Pet. `B 0.0170 17,000,000 303,700.00 0.0180 48,100,000 872,200.00
Petroenergy Res. Corp. 6.30 5,500 33,206.00 6.00 31,500 189,000.00
Philex À 22.50 9,170,500 216,860,270.00 23.70 11,649,100 274,990,880.00
PhilexPetroleum 36 1,797,100 67,458,960.00 38.45 5,810,600 220,724,500.00
Philodrill Corp. À 0.042 1,075,200,000 44,715,800.00 0.042 1,663,600,000 70,913,300.00
Semirara Corp. 200.00 1,542,770 325,860,692.00 219.60 728,830 160,901,852.00
United Paragon 0.0180 253,400,000 4,350,800.00 0.0180 92,900,000 1,663,900.00
PREFERRED
ABS-CBN Holdings Corp. 33 830,300 27,879,650.00 37.45 111,100 4,169,035.00
Ayala Corp. Pref À 544 3,310 1,800,640.00 544 2,860 1,556,560.00
First Gen G 100.9 47,260 4,774,882.00 100.8 655,180 66,030,827.00
First Phil. Hldgs.-Pref. 105.00 180 18,820.00 104.10 30 3,141.00
GMA Holdings Inc. 10 15,389,200 154,292,171.00 10 13,788,300 138,447,848.00
PCOR-Preferred 111.1 13,900 1,543,273.00 111 80,900 8,989,955.00
SMC Preferred 1 75.5 53,090 4,001,823.00 75.1 20,530 1,542,618.00
SMPFC Preferred 1017 40,045 40,899,730.00 1019 18,520 18,916,565.00
Swift Pref 1.04 9,000 9,280.00 1.05 20,000 21,000.00
WARRANTS & BONDS
IRC Properties W 0.1 10,000,000 1,000,000.00
Megaworld Corp. Warrants 0.98 2,780,000 2,711,020.00 0.98 2,922,000 2,577,080.00
Stocks expected
to recover losses
Meralco: Subic coal plant stays
THE campaign to convince the world that its more
fun in the Philippines will nd that the Chinese tourist
market is huge, cash-rich, growing and particularly
difcult.
Insight to Chinese tourists
Why this should be so is suggested in The Grand
Tour, published April 2011 in The New Yorker
by Evan Osnos, the magazines Beijing-based staff
writer. His statistics are dated, but their magnitudes
are indicative, and his insights worth keeping in
mind. In particular:
For centuries, the Chinese were discouraged by
sages from Confucius to Mao Zedong, from traveling
for pleasure. That has changed, with Maos death
and Chinas afuence. Osnos reports that 57 million
Chinese traveled abroad in 2010. (The estimate for
2012 is close to 80 million.) Early on, they visited Hong
Kong, Macau, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.
Today the highest-rated destination is Europe.
Thats Europenot France, Italy, or Spain; its
been found that the best single brand to market is
Europe, by bundling as many countries as possible
in a single week. (Osnos joined a bus tour of ve
countries in 10 days.)
As more Chinese ock to Europe, tour prices
have dropped. Travel agents book in bulk, bargain
mercilessly with hotels in distant suburbs, select
routes based on the cheapest ights. Their hosts
have responded by adding Mandarin-speaking
staff, Chinese programs on television, and bedroom
layouts that conform to feng-shui.
The Chinese tourist is urban, middle class, and
buys over US$1,000 worth of tax-free goodsmore
luxury bags, watches and designer clothes than any
other nationality including the Japanese. Not always
for personal consumption; some samples are to be
replicated at home, into knockoffs for export, bearing
designer logos.
The Chinese admire Europes preservation of classic
architecture, which keeps central Paris skyscraper-free,
unlike Shanghai which is all tall buildings. They nd
Europes Chinese food inferior, though they hardly eat
anything else for lunch or dinner.
Admiration for Europes sense of style is
accompanied by defensive bemusement: when a people
wake up slowly make a cup of espresso, take in
the aroma how can their economies keep growing?
Yet, when Europe was ruling the world [centuries
ago], China was strong . Why did we fall behind?
The tourists own answer is a narrative of victimhood
foreign invasion and control sanctioned by unequal
treaties; the ill-considered rejection of Confucianism
and other core values; the missteps of socialism under
Mao. Today, with discipline and drive under an elite
one-party system, China thrives while messier and
more clamorous economies are in decline.
The most daunting feature then of Chinese
tourism is its geopolitical slant. Vanuatu, an island
nation whose chief lure is scuba diving, became
an approved destination in 2005 after it withheld
diplomatic recognition from Taiwan. The German
city of Trier is a Chinese mecca because it is Karl
Marxs birthplace. At Versailles, the tour guide
reminds his wards that a blue porcelain vase in Marie
Antoinettes Salon des Nobles was stolen from us
and brought here.
Hence it is no surprise that Chinese travel agencies
stopped sending tour groups to the Philippines in mid-
May. The ostensible reason is concern for safety, amid
warnings of massive anti-China demonstrations.
Which havent happened, of course; Beijing is simply
showing its displeasure and nancial clout over the
Scarborough/Panatag shoal standoff.
An uphill struggle
Even after the brouhaha simmers down, wooing
the Chinese will be an uphill struggle in which we
have limited resources. Given our archipelagic
nature, its impractical to offer the Philippines as one
of ve countries to zip through in 10 days. Were
not exactly known for high-end designer labels, and
the cheap knockoffs sold in 168 are probably made
in China anyway. Weve erected no shrine in Joma
Sisons birthplace, and never will.
Our best prospects will probably be the younger
generation of touristsstill middle class and
urban, and likely to be captivated by sand, sea and
Underground River, but different from their elders
in other respects. They are, in Osnos anecdotes,
less ideologically attached to Marx and Mao, more
willing to travel solo instead of the full busloads
kept in line by approved tour guides, and more apt to
linger, sample the local cuisine, and even stray into
(gasp!) McDonalds.
Dr. Ong teaches marketing management at the
Ramon V. del Rosario College of Business, and
literature at the College of Liberal Arts of De La
Salle University. He can be reached at jaime.ong@
dlsu.edu.ph.
The views expressed above are the authors and do
not necessarily reect the ofcial position of DLSU,
its faculty, and its administration.
JAIME S. ONG
GREEN LIGHT
By Alena Mae S. Flores
MERALCO PowerGen Corp., a
unit of Manila Electric Co., has
no plans to move the proposed
600-megawatt coal-red power
plant out of the Subic Bay
Freeport, a company ofcial
said over the weekend.
We have no plans to move,
RPE is committed to SBMA,
Meralco PowerGen executive
vice president and general
manager Aaron Domingo said,
when asked to comment about
the reported letter of the Subic
Bay Metropolitan Authority
asking the company to relocate
the power project elsewhere.
Meralco PowerGen is the
controlling shareholder of
Redondo Peninsula Energy
Inc., the proponent of the coal
project.
Meralco PowerGen holds 50
percent plus two shares in RP
Energy while Aboitiz-controlled
Therma Power Inc. and Taiwan
Cogeneration International
Corp. own the remaining shares
in equal proportion.
RPE has an existing valid
lease development agreement
with SBMA. RPE has relied on
this LDA and spent signicant
amount of money in developing
that site based on this LDA,
Domingo said.
The Subic project aims to
use two single high-efciency
300-MW units for a total net
generating capacity of 600 MW.
The entire project is estimated to
cost $1.28 billion.
RPE is condent that SBMA
will honor its commitments
in the LDA and allow us to
continue nishing our power
plant, he said.
The Subic coal plant has
met strong opposition due to
environmental concerns.
Meralco PowerGen has applied
with the Board of Investments
to avail of incentives for the
project.
Meralco president and chief
executive Oscar Reyes earlier
said the Subic project was still
waiting for approval from the
investments body. BoI-registered
projects are exempted from
income tax and enjoy duty-free
importation of equipment.
Reyes said Meralco PowerGen
was also in discussions with
transmission network operator
National Grid Corp. to connect
the power plant to the Luzon
grid. He said Meralco PowerGen
was committed to bring the plant
to commercial operations by
2015.
Reyes said the company is also
sticking to the traditional sources
of fuel such as coal, natural gas,
liqueed natural gas, hydro and
wind for its power projects but
rejected nuclear because it is
something the whole world is
still reviewing.
By Lailany P. Gomez
STOCKS are expected to rebound this
week, as investors may engage in bargain
hunting following last weeks risk aversion
that pulled down the benchmark index
below the 5,000-point mark.
BPI Asset Management said in
a research note investors appetite
for emerging market assets may be
revived by the positive outcome
of the Greek elections.
Given that Greek elections are
closing in, a slight rally can occur
if economic indicators improve
next week. For the xed income
and currency markets, demand
for safety assets could continue
to ease this week if news from
Greece turns out to be positive
ahead of the scheduled election,
the fund manager said.
The fund manager noted that
concerns on the health of the
global economy pulled down the
Philippine Stock Exchange index
last week.
The 30-company benchmark
lost 63 points or 1.3 percent
over last weeks four-day market
trading to close at 4,930.63 on
Friday, its lowest since June 5.
The peso and local bonds,
however, advanced as the
Philippine economy proved to be
resilient amid uncertainties in the
global economy.
Security Bank said in a
separate note stocks would
remain range-bound with a slight
upward momentum. Aside
from the Greek elections this
weekend, market will watch for
US industrial output, Michigan
sentiment, it said.
The peso is expected to trade
at a range of 42.30 to 42.70 per
dollar this week.
Security Bank noted the local
currency has overperformed
against the rest of the region on
the possibility of a credit rating
upgrade for the Philippines.
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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS
Region I
Ilocos Sur 2
nd
District Engineering Offce
Candon City, Ilocos Sur
I NVI TATI ON TO BI D
(MST-June 18, 2012)
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Ilocos Sur 2
nd
District Engineering
Offce, invites contractors to bid for the aforementioned project:
Contract ID No. : 12AD0085
Contract Name : Constructi on of Mul ti -purpose Bui l di ng, (Phase
III) Sta. Cruz Savings & Development Cooperative
(SACDECO),
Contract Location : Poblacion Este, Sta. Cruz, Ilocos Sur
Brief Description : Construction of Multi-purpose Building, (Phase III)
Approved Budget for : P 7,759,992.74
The Contract
Source of Fund : SARO No. BMB-A-12-T00000383
Contract Duration : 180 calendar days
Cost of Bid Documents : P 10,000.00
The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the Revised IRR
of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at
the opening of bid.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI), purchase
bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration
with DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership, corporation,
cooperative, or joint venture, (c) with PCAB License applicable to the type and cost of
this contract, (d) completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a
period of 10 years, and (e) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC,
or credit line commitment for at least 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary
pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration to the
DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline for the receipt of LOI. The DPWH
POCW-Central Offce will only process contractors applications for registration, with
complete requirements, and issue the Contractors Certifcate of Registration (CRC).
Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph.
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents : From June 15, to July 10, 2012
2. Pre-bid Conference : June 29, 2012 @ 10:00 A.M. , BAC Offce
3. Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders : From June 15 to July 5, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids : July 10, 2012 until 10:00 A.M.
5. Opening of Bids : July 10, 2012 @ 2:00 P.M.
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at Ilocos Sur 2
nd

District Engineering Offce, upon payment of a non-refundable fee as stated.
Prospective bidders may also download the BDs, if available, from the DPWH web
site. Prospective bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall
pay the said fees on or before the submission of their bids Documents. The Pre-bid
Conference shall be open only to interested parties who have purchased the BDs.
Bids must be accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as
stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed in the BDs
in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The frst envelope
shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include a copy of the
CRC. The second envelope shall contain the fnancial component of the bid. Contract
will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in the bid
evaluation and the post-qualifcation.
The Ilocos Sur 2
nd
District Engineering Offce reserves the right to accept or reject any
or all bid and to annul the bidding process anytime before Contract award, without
incurring any liability to the affected bidders.

Approved by:
(SGD) RENATO G. GAGNO
BAC Chairman
Noted:
(SGD) RAY A. ELAYDO
District Engineer
Region 7, Central Visayas
Siquijor District Engineering Offce
Larena, Siquijor
(MST-June 18, 2012)
DPWH INFRA-07 Standard Advertisement-Revised IRR
The DPWH-Siquijor District Engineering Offce, Larena, Siquijor, through its
Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), invites contractors to apply to bid for the
following contract(s):

1. Contract ID : 12HM-0024
Contract Name : Construction of Drainage Facility along Siquijor
Circumferential Road (Intermittent Section)
Contract Location : Siquijor
Scope of Work : Fo u n d at i o n Fi l l ; Pi p e Cu l v er t & Dr ai n
Excavation(Soft); Pipe Culvert and Drain Excavation
(Hard); Aggregate Base Course; Reinforcing Steel;
St r uct ur al Concr et e Cl ass A ; Mobi l i zat i on/
Demobilization; Construction Safety and Health
Approved Budget for the Contact (ABC): Php 22,740,900.00
Contract Duration : 210 calendar days
Non-refundable payment for bid forms & plans: Php 20,000.00
Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures
in accordance with R.A. 9184 and its Revised Implementing Rules and
Regulations.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) and must
meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with DWPH, (b) Filipino
citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership, corporation, cooperative, or joint
venture with PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of this contract, (c)
completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10
years, and (d) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit
line commitment for at least 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary
pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration
to the DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the Deadline for the receipt of LOI.
The DPWH-POCW Central Offce will only process contractors applications for
registration, with complete requirements, and issue the Contractors Certifcate
of Registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH
website www.dpwh.gov.ph.
1. Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders July 04, 2012
2. Issuance of Bidding Documents June 18 July 10, 2012
3. Pre-Bid Conference Time and Date 10:00 A.M. June 29, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids Deadline:10:00 A.M.
July 10, 2012
5. Opening of Bids 10:00 A.M.
July 10, 2012

The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH-Siquijor
District Engineering Offce, Larena, Siquijor , upon payment of a non-refundable
fee of Php20,000.00 for Bidding Documents as stated above. Prospective
bidders may also download the BDs, if available, from the DPWH website.
Prospective bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall
pay the said fees on or before the submission of their bids Documents. Bids
must accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as
stated in section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The frst
envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include
the eligibility requirements. The second envelope shall contain the fnancial
component of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated
Responsive Bid as determined in the bid evaluation and the post-qualifcation.
The DPWH-Siquijor District Engineering Offce reserves the right to accept or
reject any or all bid and to annul the bidding process anytime before Contract
award, without incurring any liability to the affected bidders.

Approved by:
JERAULD M. VILLAVERDE
Engineer III
(For the BAC Chairman)

Misamis Occidental 2
nd
Tangub City
(MST-June 18, 2012)
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Misamis Occidental 2
nd
District
Engineering Offce, Tangub City, invites contractors to apply to bid for the projects:
[1] Contract ID : 12KJ0029
Name of Project : Repair/Rehab/Improvement of Roads
Location : Ozamiz-Oroquieta Road, Tudela Section
K1708+536-K1709+000 with exception
Brief Description : Concreting of 334.42 Ln.m road
Approved Budget For the Contract : P 9,899,673.15
Contract Duration : Ninety (90) CD
Cost of Plans & Bid Documents : P 10,000.00
[2] Contract ID : 12KJ0030
Name of Project : Repair/Rehab/Improvement of Roads
Location : Ozamiz-Oroquieta Road, Tudela Section
K1708+000-K1709+000 with exception
Brief Description : Concreting of 334.42 Ln.m road
Approved Budget For the Contract : P 9,899,673.15
Contract Duration : Ninety (90) CD
Cost of Plans & Bid Documents : P 10,000.00
The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the Revised
Implementing Rules and Regulations of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the
ABC shall be automatically rejected at the opening of bid.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI), purchase
bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with
DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership, corporation, cooperative,
or joint venture, (c) with PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of this contract,
(d) completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10
years, and (e) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to the ABC, or credit
line commitment for at least 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/
fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration,
to the DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline for the receipt of LOI. The
DPWH-POCW Central Offce will only process contractors applications for registra-
tion with complete requirements and issue the Contractors Certifcate of Registration
(CRC). Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.
gov.ph.
Activities Schedule
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents June 13, 2012 to July 3, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference June 20, 2012 at 10:00 AM
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from
Prospective Bidders
June 27, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids July 3, 2012 until 10:00 AM
5. Opening of Bids July 3, 2012 at 02:00 PM
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH-Misamis
Occidental 2
nd
District Engineering Offce, Tangub City, upon payment of a non-
refundable fee as stated above. Prospective bidders may also download the BDs
from the DPWH website, if available. Prospective bidders that will download the BDs
from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees on or before the submission of their
bids Documents. The Pre-Bid Conference shall be open only to interested parties who
have purchased the BDs. Bids must accompanied by a bid security, in the amount
and acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The frst
envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include a copy
of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain the fnancial component of the bid.
Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in
the bid evaluation and post-qualifcation.
The DPWH-Mi sami s Occi dental 2
nd
District Engineering Offce, Tangub
City reserves the right to accept or reject any bid and to annul the bidding process
at anytime prior contract award, without incurring any liability to the affected bidder/s.
(SGD.) RAMISIS JAIMAR Y. BICOY
Engineer III
BAC-Chairman
NOTED:
(SGD.) DARIO C. PUSOD
OIC-District Engineer
Department of Public Works ind Highways
Region IV-A
Batangas 1
st
Kumintang Ilaya, Batangas City
Tel. No. 043-402-5900/Fax No. 043-723-7934
(MST-June 18, 2012)
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Batangas 1 District
Engineering Offce. Batangas City, through its Bids and Awards Committee
(BAC), invites contractors to bid for the following contract(s):
Contract ID : 12DB095
Contract Name : Repair/Rehab, and Improvement (Asphalt
Overlay) along Nasugbu-Lian-Calatagan Road
Contract Location : K0108+500-K0110+000 w/ exception
Scope of Works : Asphalt Overlay
Approved Budget for the Contract: Php 9,900,000.00
Contract Duration : 45 c.d.
Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures in
accordance with the Revi sed Impl ementi ng Rul es and Regul ati ons of
Republic Act No. 9184.
To bid for the contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) and
must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with DPWH, (b)
Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino owned partnership, corporation, cooperative, or
joint venture with PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of this contract,
(c) completion of similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period
often (10) years, and (d) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to
ABC, or credit line commitment for a least equal to 10% of the ABC. The BAC
will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary
examination of bids.
1 Receipt of LOIs from Prospective Bidders : June 15 to 25,2012 2:00 oclock P.M.
2 Issuance of Bidding Documents to
registered contractors : June 21 to 28, 2012, 2:00 oclock P.M.
3. Pre-Bid Conference : June 22,2012 at 10:00 oclock, A. M.
4. Receipt of bids : July 4, 2012, until 10:00 A.M.
5. Opening of Bids : July 4, 2012, 2011 after 2:00 P.M.
to the DPWH-CPO Central Offce before the deadline set for the receipt of LOIs.
The DPWH-CPO Central Offce will only process contractors applications,
with complete requirements, for registration and to be issued the Contractors
Certifcate of Registration (CRC).
the bidding documents (BDs) in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the
BAC Chairman, DPWH, Batangas 1 District Engineering Offce, Batangas City.
The frst envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, including
the eligibility requirements. The second envelope shall contain the fnancial
component of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated
Responsive Bid as determined in the bid evaluation and post-qualifcation.
Prospective bidders may download the Registration Form from the DPWH
website www.dpwh.gov.ph. The BAC will issue hard copies of Bid Documents
at DPWH, Batangas 1 District Engineering Offce, BAC Secretariat Offce,
Kumintang llaya, Batangas City, upon payment of a non-refundable fee of
Php 10,000.00 for Bidding Documents. Bidders that will download the BDs from
the DPWH website shall pay the said fees on or before the submission of bids.
All bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any acceptable forms in the
amount stated in Section. 27.2 of the Revised IRR. The Pre-Bid Conference
shall be open only to interested parties who have purchased the Bid Documents.
Interested contractors are also required to present the originals of their PCAB
License and Contractors Registration Certifcate to the BAC for authentication.
The DPWH, Batangas 1 District Engineering Offce, Batangas City reserves
the right to accept or reject any bid and to annul the bidding process anytime
before Contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected
Bidder or Bidders.
(Sgd.) GODOFREDO C. DE VILLA
OIC-Chief, Construction Section
BAC-Chairman
(Sgd.) ROSAURO A. ADAPON
District Engineer
Region IV-B, MIMAROPA
Marinduque Engineering District
Boac, Marinduque
INVlTATION TO BID
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the DPWH Marinduque
Engineering District Offce, Boac; Marinduque, through the SARO No. BMB-
A-12-(l006924 dtd. May 16, 2012 invites contractors to bid aforementioned
projects.
Contract ID: 12EA0015
Contract Name: Repair/Rehab./ lmprovement of Dr. Damian Reyes
Mem. Rd. (Boac Rd.)
Contract Location: Km. 20+000 - Km. 20+810 w/e, Boac, Marinduque
Scope or Work: Conc. of 810 l.m. x 6.10 l.m.
Budget for the Contract (ABC): Php 9,899,941.44
Contract Duration: 60 calendar days
The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the
Revised IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be
automatically rejected at the opening of bid.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of lntent (LOI),
purchase bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a)
prior registration with DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino- owned
partnership, corporation, cooperative, or joint venture, (c) with PCAB
license applicable to the type and cost of this contract, (d) completion
of a similar contract costing at least 50 % of ABC within a period of 10
years, and (e) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC,
or credit line commitment at least equal to 10% of ABC. The BAC will use
non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary
examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for
registration to the DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline for
the receipt of LOI. The DPWH Central Offce will only process contractors
applications for registration with complete requirements and issue the
Contractors Certifcate of Registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be
downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph.
The signifcant times and deadlines for procurement are shown below:
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents June 13, 2012 July 4, 2012
2. Pre-Bid Conference June 20, 2012 / 9:00 A.M.
3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from Prospective
Bidders
June 19, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids July 4, 2012 / 2:00 P.M.
5. Opening of Bids July 4, 2012 / 2:00 P.M.
The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BD s) at DPWH
Marinduque District Engineering Offce, Boac, Marinduque upon payment
of a non-refundable fee of P 10,000.00 for (BD s).
Prospective bidders may also download the BDs from the DPWH-Website.
Prospective bidders that will download the BDs from DPWH Website shall
pay the said fees on or before the submission of their Bid Documents.
The Pre-Bid Conference shall be open only to interested parties who have
purchased the BD s. Bids must accompanied by a bid security, in the
amount and acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed
in the BDs in two (2) separate bid envelops to the BAC Chairman. The
frst envelop shall contain the technical component. of the bid which shall
include the eligibility requirements. The second envelop shall contain the
fnancial component of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest
Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in the bid evaluation and post
qualifcation.
DPWH, Marinduque Engineering Offce reserves the right to accept or
reject any or all bid and to annul the bidding process at any time before
Contract award, without incurring any liability to the affected bidder/s.
Approved by:
(Sgd.) RAMEL J. NARANJO
BAC Vice-Chairman
(MST-June 14 & 18, 2012)
INVITATION TO BID
The DPWH, Negros Oriental 1st District Engineering Offce, through the Bids and
Awards Committee (BAC), invites contractors to apply to bid for the contract(s);
1.) Contract ID 012HJ0003
Contract Name Installation, Application and Construction of Road Safety
Devices
Contract Location Along Dumaguete North Road (DNR) and Vallehermoso La
Castellana Road (VLCR)
Scope of Works (620) Road Sign (Hazard Markers Chevron), (605) Road
Sign, (612) Refectorized Thermoplastic Pavement Marking
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) P 9,900,000.00
Duration 130 Calendar Days
Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures in
accordance with R.A. 9184 and its Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations.
To bid for the contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI), purchased
bid documents and must meet the following major criteria; (a) prior registration with
DPWH, (b) Filipino Citizen owned partnership, corporation, cooperative, or venture (c)
with PCAB License applicable to the type and the cost of this contract, (d) completion of
a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC, or credit line commitment at least equal
to 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fll criteria in the eligibility
check and preliminary examination of bids.
to the DPWH-POCW Central Offce will only process contractors applications for
the registration with complete requirements and issue the Contractors Certifcate of
Registration (CCR). Registration forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website.
www.dpwh.gov.ph
The signifcant time and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below:
1. Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders Deadline: June 18, 2012
2. Issuance of Bidding Documents June 18, 2012 to July 10, 2012
3. Pre-Bid Conference June 26, 2012 @ 10:30 A.M.
4. Receipt of Bids July 10, 2012
5. Opening of Bids July 10, 2012 at 1:30 P.M.

The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) upon payment of a
non-refundable fee of P 5,000.00 per Contract ID.
Prospective bidders may also download the BDs from the DPWH website, if
available. Prospective bidders that will download form the DPWH website shall pay the
said fees on or before the submission of their documents. Bids must be accomplished
by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as started in Section 27.2 of the
Revised IRR
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specifed in the
BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The frst envelope
shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include a copy of the CRC.
The second envelope shall contain the fnancial component of the bid. Contract will be
awarded to the lowest calculated responsive bid as determined in the bid evaluation
and post-qualifcation.
The DPWH, Negros Oriental 1st District Engineering District Offce reserves
the right to accept or reject any or all bid and annul the bidding process anytime before
contract award, without incurring any liability to the affected bidders.

Approved:

(Sgd.) JESSIE C. PAQUIBO
(BAC Chairman)
(MST-June 4 & 18, 2012)
Kagawaran ng Pagawain at Lansangang Pambayan
Tanggapan ng Distrito Inhenyero
Telefax (035) 231-3184; 336-1124; 336-1125
Negros Oriental 1st District Engineering District Offce
Bindoy, Negros Oriental, Rehiyon VII
Quick response. 1st Lt. Nestor Valenzuela, commander, Alpha Company of the 73rd Infantry
Battalion, and Haggai for Peace Project pastors help distribute relief bags for ood victims of
barangay Cross on June 16 and also in Pangyan, Small Margus, Big Margus and Laguimit from
Vice President Jejomar Binay, GMA Kapuso Foundation, Sarangani capitol, Glan town, 1002nd
Brigade, Philippine Air Force, Alpha Phi Omega Alumni Association Glan Chapter, Youth for Peace
of Gensan and other government and private organizations. BON-BON QUIO SIO
Cebu 1st District Engineering Ofce
Regional Equipment Services Compound
V. Sotto Street, Cebu City
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Department of Public
Works and Highways, Cebu I
st
District Engineering Ofce, through
its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), invites contractors to bid for the
aforementioned project :
Item No. 1
Contract ID : 12HD0020
Contract Name : Construction/Repair/Rehabilitation of Cebu
1
st
Engineering Ofce (Phase I)
Contract Location : Medellin, Cebu
Scope of Work : Concreting of Footings, Columns and Tie
Beam
Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) : Php7,274,378.78
Contract Duration : 90 Calendar Days
Funding Source : FY 2012
Bid Document Fee : Php10,000.00
Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding
procedures in accordance with R.A. 9184 and its Revised Implementing
Rules and Regulations.
To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent
(LOI) and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with
DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership, corporation,
cooperative, or joint venture with PCAB license applicable to the type and
cost of this contract, (c) completion of a similar contract costing at least
50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and (d) Net Financial Contracting
Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment for at least 10%
of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility
check and preliminary examination of bids.
Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for
registration to the DPWH-POCW Central Offce before the deadline for
the receipt of LO. The DPWH-POCW Central Offce will only process
contractors applications for registration, with complete requirements, and
issue the Contractor's Registration Certifcate (CRC). Registration Forms
may be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph
The signifcant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown
below:
1. Issuance of Bidding Documents : June 12, 2012 to June 21, 2012
2. Pre-bid Conference : June 14, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.
3. Receipt of LOIs from Prospective
Bidders
: June 15 2012 to June 19, 2012
4. Receipt of Bids : June 26, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
5. Opening of Bids : June 26, 2012 at 11:00 a.m.
Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accompanied forms as
specifed in the BD's in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC
Chairman. The frst envelope shall contain the technical component of the
bid, which shall include the eligibility requirements. The second envelope
shall contain the fnancial component of the bid. Contract will be awarded
to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in the evaluation
and the post qualifcation.

The Department of Public Works and Highways Cebu I
st
District
Engineering Ofhce reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bid
and to annul the bidding process anytime before Contract award, without
incurring any liability the affected bidders.
Approved by:
(Sgd.) RICHEL A. VILLEGAS
BAC Chairman
NOTED:
(Sgd.) WILFREDO AV. ENCISO, CEO VI
District Engineer
(MST-June 12 & 18, 2012) (MST-June 18, 2012)
Ofce of the President
of the Philippines
Malacaang
BIDS AND AWARDS COMMITTEE
The Offce of the President, through the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) hereby invites a
interested Phil-GEPS registered manufacturers, suppliers, dealers, automotive manufacturer
and authorized franchised dealers to submit bids for the following projects, to wit:
Purchase
Request (PR)
No.
Project Approved Budget for
the Contract
Non-Refundable
Bid Fees
12-06-5042
1. Procurement of Four (4) Units
Protocular Vehicles for visiting
Foreign Dignitaries
Php8,700,000.00 Php8,700.00
12-05-5002
2. Procurement of Vehicle Parts &
Accessories for Installation to
Security Vehicles
Php2,499.825 00 Php2,500,00
12-05-4965
3. One (1) Lot Supply & Delivery of
Electric Supplies for the
Air-conditioning Units at the
Premier Guest House
Php1,824,157.00

Php1 ,900.00
12-06-5027
4. One (1) Lot Vehicle Repair,
Parts & Maintenance for the
Twenty Eight (28) Security
Vehicles of the President
P101,538,044.23

Php1,600.00

Bid Documents are available from June 15 - July 5, 2012 upon payment of non-refundable
fees stated above, from 8.00AM to 12:00N and from 1:00PM to 5:00PM, Monday to Friday,
and up to 9AM on the last day of the issuance and acquisition of bid docs, at the BAC
Secretariat Offce, RM 118, First Floor Mezzanine, Mabini Hall Bldg., JP Laurel St.,San
Miguel, Malacaang, Manila (Tel. No. 784-42-86 loc. 4161).
A pre-bid conference for the purpose will be held on June 21, 2012 at 2:00 PM at the
Executive Secretaries Hall and Gallery, 4
th
Floor, Mabini Hall Building, Malacaang, Manila.
Only those who have purchased bidding documents will be allowed to participate in the
pre-bid conference.
Deadline for the submission of the Bid/Tender Documents/Forms is on July 5, 2012
Thursday at 10:00AM at the BAC Secretariat Ofce, RM 118 First Floor Mezzanine, Mabini
Hall Bldg., JP Laurel St.,San Miguel, Malacaang, Manila. The opening of bids will be held
on the same day July 5, 2012, Thursday at 10:05AM at the Executive Secretaries Hall
and Gallery 4
th
/F Mabini Hall Bldg., Malacaang, Manila.
Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures usingpass/fail
criterion as specifed in the Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic
Act (RA) 9184, otherwise known as the Government Procurement Reform Act. Bids
received in excess of the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) shall be automatically
rejected at bid opening.
All particulars relative to eligibility screening, bid security, performance security, pre-bid
conference/s, evaluation of bids, post-qualifcation and award of contracts shall be governed
by the pertinent provisions of RA 9184 and its Revised IRR.
The Offce of the President-Bids and Awards Committee reserves the right to accept or reject
any bid to annul the bidding process, and to reject all bids at any time prior to contract award,
without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders.
(Sgd.) Atty. MICHAEL G. AGUINALDO
Chairman, Bids and Awards Committee
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
National Irrigation Administration
(Pambansang Pangasiwaan ng Patubig)
UPPER PAMPANGA RIVER INTEGRATED IRRIGATION SYSTEMS
OFFICE ADDRESS: NIA- UPRIIS Compound TELEPHONE No. : (044) 464-0050
Cabanatuan City TELEFAX No. : (044) 463-1350
TIN No.: 005-154-569
INVITATION TO BID No. UPRIIS-2012-12
(MST-June 18, 2012)
The National Irrigation Administration, Upper Pampanga River Integrated Irrigation Systems
(NIA-UPRIIS) Maharlika Highway, Cabanatuan City, hereby invite Contractors/Bidders to apply for
eligibility and to bid for the Implementation of CY 2012 projects under UPRIIS Division IV Service Area.
Pack.
No.
Name of Project Location Approved
Budget
PCAB
Category
Contract
Duration
Amount of Bid
Documents
(Php)
CDIV-24 Construction of By-Pass
Canal @ Lat eral G-2
(Length=2.050km.)
UPRIIS Div. IV
Service Area
23,529,000.00 Medium A 120 CD 25,000.00
Prospective bidders should be PhilGEPS Registered and have experience in undertaking a similar
project within the last two (2) years with an amount of at least 50% of the proposed project for bid-
ding, and have key personnel and equipment (owned, leased or under purchase) available for the
prosecution of the project. The list of minimum equipment requirement is indicated in the Eligibility
Forms. The Eligibility Check/Screening as well as the Preliminary
Examination of Bids shall use non-discretionary "pass/fail criteria. Post-qualifcation of the lowest
calculated bid shall be conducted.
All particulars relative to Eligibility Statement and Screening, Bid Security, Performance Security,
Pre-Bidding Conference(s), Evaluation of Bids, Post-Qualifcation and Award of Contract shall be
governed by the pertinent provisions of R.A.9184 and its implementing Rules & Regulation (IRR).
Minimum Equipment Requirements:
5-units Dumptruck 1-unit Bar Cutter 1-unit Grader
2-units Backhoe 1-unit Compactor 1-unit Dozer
1-unit Pay Loader 1-unit Water Truck 1-unit Service Vehicle

The complete schedule of activities is listed, as follows:
1. Letter of Intent June 18 22, 2012
2. Issuance of Bid Documents June 25 July 13, 2012
3. Pre-Bid Conference July 2, 2012 @ 2:00 PM
4. Deadline of Submission of Bids July 16, 2012 @ 8:30 AM
5. Opening of Bids July 16, 2012 @ 9:00 AM
Bid Documents will be available to prospective bidders upon payment of non-refundable amount
to the Cashier.

The NIA-UPRIIS assume no responsibility whatsoever to compensate or indemnity bidders for any
expenses incurred in the preparation of the bid. It likewise reserved the right to reject any all bids,
or any part thereof, to waive any defect in the bid/s received without thereby incurring any liability
to the affected bidder or bidders, and to accept such bid/s considered most advantageous to the
government. The decision of the BAC in the evaluation of bids/quotations is fnal.

For additional information, interested parties may inquire at the above offce.

Approved by: Noted by:

ROSALINDA B. BOTE JOSEPHINE B. SALAZAR
Chairman, Bids and Awards Committee Acting Department Manager A, NIA-UPRIIS
Phi l i ppi ne Amusement & Gami ng Corporati on
A Sure Bet for Progress in Gaming, Entertainment and Nation Building
(MST-June 18, 2012)
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) is inviting all interested bidders in its
forthcoming public bidding for the SuppIy and DeIivery of Two (2) Lots UmbreIIa Giveaways under
ITB No.: 06-21-2012.
Description Lot 1: ReguIar UmbreIIas: Twenty-Four (24) inches, SingIe
Canopy = Fifteen Thousand (15,000) pieces
Lot 2: GoIf UmbreIIas: Thirty (30) inches, SingIe Canopy =
Fifteen Thousand (15,000) pieces
Delivery Schedule For Lot Nos. 1 and 2:
1
st
DeIivery: Five Thousand (5,000) pieces - within forty ve (45)
caIendar days from the effectivity date specied
in the Notice to Proceed
2
nd
DeIivery: Ten Thousand (10,000) pieces - within fteen (15)
caIendar days from the rst (1
st
) deIivery
Approved Budget for the Con-
tract:
Lot 1: Two Million Seven Hundred Thousand Pesos
(PhP 2,700,000.00), VAT ExcIusive, Zero Rated Transaction
Lot 2: Four Million Two Hundred Thousand Pesos
(PhP 4,200,000.00), VAT ExcIusive, Zero Rated Transaction
Source of Fund: Internally Funded
NOTE: Bidders may bid on any or all lots
This bidding is open to all suppliers; provided that the winning bidder should be registered with PAGCOR
prior to award of contract. Unregistered suppliers must register at the Suppliers Registration & Evaluation
Section (SRES), Procurement Department (PD), 2nd Floor PAGCOR House, 1330 Roxas Blvd., Ermita,
Manila, Tel. No. 526-0573.
Bidders should have completed, within the last three (3) years prior to the deadline for the Submission
and Receipt of Bids, a contract similar to the Project. The description of an eligible bidder is contained
in the Bidding Documents, particularly, in Section II. Instructions to Bidders. Bidding will be conducted
through open competitive bidding procedures using a non-discretionary "pass/fail criterion as specifed
in the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act (RA) 9184, otherwise known as the
Government Procurement Reform Act.
Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with at least
sixty percent (60%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines, and to
citizens or organizations of a country the laws or regulations of which grant similar rights or privileges to
Filipino citizens, pursuant to RA 5183 and subject to Commonwealth Act 138.
All particulars relative to Pre-Bid Conference, Evaluation of Bids, Post-Qualifcation and Award of Contract
shall be governed by the pertinent provisions of R.A. 9184 and its IRR.
The schedule of activities is listed, as follows:
Activities Schedule
1. Issuance of Bid Documents 18 June 2012 (Mon) to 4 July 2012 (Wed)
2. Pre-Bid Conference 22 June 2012 (Fri) (2:00 p.m.)
3. Deadline for the Submission and Receipt of Bids 4 July 2012 (Wed) (2:00 p.m.)
4. Opening and Preliminary Examination of Bids 4 July 2012 (Wed) (2:00 p.m.onwards)
Complete details of the project are indicated in the bid documents which will be available to prospective
bidders at the BAC Secretariat Unit, Procurement Department (BSU-PD), upon payment of a non-
refundable bidding fee of: Three Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty Pesos, (PhP 3,780.00) for Lot
1 and Five Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty Pesos (PhP 5,880.00) for Lot 2.
Prospective bidders may also download the Bidding Documents free of charge from the following
websites: www.pagcor.ph and www.philgeps.net and may be allowed to submit bids provided that
bidders shall pay the non-refundable bidding fee not later than the date of the submission of bids. The
Pre-bid Conference is open to all interested bidders. Prospective bidders should present to PAGCORs
Cashier at 6th foor, PAGCOR Corporate Offce, M.H. del Pilar cor. Pedro Gil Sts., Malate, Manila either
the Bidding Fee Slip which may be secured from the BSU-PD or a copy of this ITB in effecting payment
for the Bidding Documents. All Bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable
forms and in the amount stated in ITB Clause 18.
PAGCOR assumes no responsibility whatsoever to compensate or indemnify bidders for any expenses
incurred in the preparation of their bids.
PAGCOR reserves the right to accept or reject any Bid, and to annul the bidding process and reject all Bids
at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders.
Please address all communications to the Bids and Awards Committee thru the BAC Secretariat Unit,
Room 205, Second Floor, PAGCOR House, 1330 Roxas Boulevard, Ermita, Manila, Tel No.: 524-3911,
521-1542 local 223/571.
(SGD) ROBERTO L. CASTRO, JR.
Chairperson
BIDS AND AWARDS COMMITTEE 4
INVITATION TO BID FOR THE SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF TWO (2) LOTS
UMBRELLA GIVEAWAYS UNDER ITB NO.: 06-21-2012
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Provinces
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Irrigation targets
90% job completion
High-tech scan for rural folk
IN BRIEF
Agusan mayors
told to explain
log ban lapse
Tollways class act
THE Manila North Tollways Corp., builder and
concessionaire of North Luzon Expressway,
inaugurated three newly-renovated classrooms
in the Lourdes Northwest Elementary School
in Angeles City.
MNTC president Rodrigo Franco vowed
assistance to communities hosting the rms
infrastructure projects in the region.
NLEX will continue to partner with
government not only in modernizing
expressways, but also in improving educational
facilities especially in public schools, he said.
The outreach is part of the Adopt-A-
School program of Pampanga 1st district
Rep. Carmelo Lazatin that aims to promote
higher levels of literacy and competency to
meet employment needs of business locators.
With Clark Freeport as investment hub,
the province continuous to draw trade and
commerce in key cities and localities.
At the blessing and turnover were Lourdes
principal Conchita Aquino, Angeles City
Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan, Vice Mayor
Vicky Vega-Cabigting, and Schools Division
Supervisor Corazon Capitolo.
Safe water in schools
EDUCATION authorities have guidelines to
protect the health of students amid the presence
of vendors selling street food and drinks.
Going to school has always been a
challenge to average Filipinos due to
challenges such as the lack of classrooms
among other things particularly for those in
the provinces, says Carson Tan, GQWEST
Inc. chief executive.
He said the ordeal is worsened by a school
season coinciding with the rainy months.
Illnesses like diarrhea, cholera, and
typhoid are common in rural areas due to the
relatively antiquated water supply network and
the reliance on deep wells which can easily be
contaminated, Tan said.
He said Aquabest structured water is made
available in about 200 provinces where safe
drinking water is needed especially during oods
amid overowing polluted waterways and canals.
Besides the reverse osmosis ltration used in
NASA space missions, Aquabests multi-stage
ltration traps bacteria, viral chemical and other
contaminants through the Grander technology
developed in Austria and exclusively licensed
to GQWEST in the country.
By Roman S. Baldovino
HEALTH Undersecretary Teodoro Herbosa
said the universal healthcare program is
gaining momentum with the acquisition
of Toshiba Alexion CT scanners for nine
state-owned hospitals, including the
Orthopedic Center.
These machines have cost us
a fortune, but they were acquired
through proper competitive
bidding, he said. Evangelista
praised Secretary Enrique Ona
over his health reform blueprint
that enabled the procurement to
be open and transparent.
The Toshiba Alexion multi-
slice scanners will be installed in
Dr. Paulino J. Garcia Memorial
Research and Medical Center in
Cabanatuan City; Jose B. Lingad
Memorial Regional Hospital,
City of San Fernando, Pampanga;
Bicol Regional Training and
Teaching Hospital, Legaspi
City; Eastern Visayas Regional
Medical Center, Tacloban City;
Davao Regional Medical Center,
Tagum City; Occidental Mindoro
Provincial Hospital in Tayaman
Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro;
and Luis Hora Memorial
Regional Hospital in Bauko, Mt.
Province.
The Toshiba Alexion Commuted
Tomography features the latest
Adaptive Iterative Dose Reduction
technology to achieve up to 75
percent, the lowest for a CT scan
exam in the industry.
Herbosa welcomed Philippine
Medical Systems Inc., the rst
private partner of the DOH in
delivering affordable, quality
health care.
PMSI president Honesto
Evangelista said he was impressed
by Onas reforms to serve the
poorest segment of society.
As a result, the DOH saved
enough money to buy two more
Alexion scanners on top of the
seven in the shopping list. PMSI
is the exclusive distributor of
Toshibas diagnostic equipment
and solutions.
For his excellent stewardship
of the DOH, Ona was recently
named Health Leader for 2012
by the Harvard University.
NATIONAL Irrigation
Administration head
Antonio Nangel said the
agency is targetting 80 to
90 percent of its goals under
the present administration.
We have done a lot
but there are still a lot of
things to be done specially
in the countryside, he told
reporters in his ofce on the
eve of NIAs 47th founding
year.
Nangel expressed full
support to the rice sufciency
program of Agriculture
Secretary Proceso Alcala.
NIA is under his department
which oversees the countrys
irrigation system.
Alcala told Malacaang
that there would no longer
any need to buy rice abroad
next year since production
will be enough to feed more
than 96 million Filipinos.
Aside from being
sufcient, we may start
exporting rice in our
neighboring countries by
2014, he was quoted as
saying.
Under Nangels leadership,
more than 500,000 hectares
of rice land have been
irrigated nationwide.
By December this year,
our irrigation system that
will also serve as mini-
hydro power plants will
be able to deliver 600,000
megawatts of power in
the Visayas and Mindanao
areas.
Nangel said the agency has
targetted about ve million
fruit trees planted by 2016
under the administrations
National Greening Program.
Gigi Muoz David
INTERIOR Secretary Jesse
Robredo has ordered ve mayors
of Agusan to explain their failure
to seize P16 million worth of
illegally-cut logs that allegedly
passed through their towns.
Covered by the directive are
Mayor Leonida Manpatilan of
Esperanza, Ronaldo Corvera of San
Luis, Isaias Masendo of Talacogon,
Abrosio Lim of La Paz, and
Reinario Rosales of Las Nieves.
Also being investigated are
environment employees who
were at the checkpoints in the
ve towns.
He gave no credence to the claim
of Victoriano Vidal, consultant of
the Manobo-Banwaon-Higaonon
Tribal Council of Elders of Agusan
del Sur, who said the logs are owned
by them having come from ancestral
domain. Jonathan Fernandez
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SCHOOL is suddenly cool once kids have outgrown
wearing uniforms and start wearing their choice of
clothes. Teens will have fun not only learning from their
books but also the basics of great style when they go
back to school.
Going beyond its great fashion nds, SM shares some
tips on how to be a campus standout:
Love that layer ing. Layering is every school girl
and boys best friend. It allows them endless forms of
self expression with a myriad of colors and textures.
Pretty oral blazers and knit cardigans from SM not
only add an extra layer of warmth, but also makes any
outt doubly cool.
Its in the mix. Mixing patterns and textures,
brights and prints puts a lot of creativity and playfulness
in dressing.
Look into the bottom line. Color is the big news
in pants, so add a brightly colored pair to your staple of
jeans and chinos to update your look.
Go gr aphic. Graphic tees not only blaze youth
speak, but are also edgy back to school options.
The Back to School Collection is available at the Girls
and Boys Teens Wear Department of all SM Stores.
Style 101
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YOU may need about $4,000 to go to Brazil
(thats roughly the cost of a round-trip tick-
et) but Filipinos denitely love Brazil, from
its models to its ip ops. But more than the
gorgeous models, we have denitely fallen
in love with the comfortable and colorful
Havaianas ip ops.
Aside from being a long-standing icon of sum-
mer, Havaianas also banners Brazils spirits through
its eclectic designs and dazzling colors. Its vibrant
varieties have complemented the charm of countries
that are blessed with sunshine all year long, like the
Philippines, said Ammiel de Leon, marketing head
of Havaianas Philippines.
When we were young, rubber ip ops were only
to be worn at home or on the beach. We would have
been reprimanded if we had worn rubber slippers to
church or to attend a party.
The footwear scene has changed so that
Havaianas are worn everywhere from school to the
mall. Havaianas collectors, called Havaianaticos
in the Philippines, own hundreds of pairs. Celebrity
mom Pia Magalona is a proud Havainatico with
about 300 pairs, many of them limited edition.
For Havaianaticos, the biggest event every year
is the Make Your Own Havaianas, which is usually
held at the Rockwell Tent, where people line up for
hours for their ip op x.
Havaianas Philippines recently staged its 7
th
Make
Your Own Havaianas, a ve-day event at Rockwell
Tent. During the media launch, Anne Gonzalez,
managing director of Havaianas Philippines, of-
cially started the ball rolling by thanking everybody
who came to celebrate
Havaianas gold-
en anniversary.
The brand was
born in Brazil in
1962.
We be-
lieve that every
Havaianas pair
you own has a
story to tell, and
all those stories
combined from
our fervent support-
ers play a big part in the
brands history. For this reason, Make Your Own
Havaianas will not just be a branding event where
they can design their own pair, but a gathering that
will honor everything that contributed in making
the brand what it is now, said Gonzalez.
Of course, the fun is in choosing the perfect
color combination for the ip ops. This year,
there was a variety of colors for the bases and
straps that can cover the color spectrum, from
tangerine to aubergine; the new Estampas base
which comes in brown (for Top) and off-white
(for Slim); and of course 12 new pinsthe Hap-
piness pin, 1962 pin, a soccer ball, embellished
bow tie, aviators, a parrot, buttery, heart, moon,
crown, crystal and the Brasilipinas pin.
For every purchase of the Happiness pin, P100 is
donated to Operation Smile, a charity for children
that provides free surgery to repair cleft lip, cleft
palate and other facial deformities of children.
FANCY
By Dinna Chan Vasquez
f lip f lops,
ANYONE?
Its in the mix. A green printed sleeveless top, a green cotton cardigan,
and white eyelet shorts for her.
A class act. Shes all sweetness and light in this soft chiffon outt
with buttery prints; hes got campus leader style in a pin stripes long
sleeved shirt, a dark gray blazer, and cuffed dress shorts.
THE UNIQLO EXPERIENCE
Uniqlo offers its ne products
and a world-class shopping
experience to thousands of
Filipinos who look for high
quality casual, functional and
affordable apparel to suit their
lifestyle and character.
CHIC AND COMFY
Juicy Couture is a favorite
closet staple even for
Hollywood celebrities. In
Manila, three stylish ladies
show us how you can balance
work and play and still look
fabulous in doing so.
The sole
marking
Havaianas
50th
anniversary as
a brand.
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ANSWER TOMORROW
64 Smudge
65 Catchall abbr.
66 Heidis mountains
67 Mother-of-pearl
68 Not just one
69 Quiz, e.g.
Down
1 Body art, for short
2 Tennis great Arthur
3 Dear, in Bologna
4 Warm-up act
5 Heaven forbid
6 Magnate Onassis
7 Rapper whose name
sounds like a refreshing
beverage
8 Tie, as shoes
9 Usual procedure
10 The Simpsons
storekeeper
11 Heat, as water
12 Captivated by
13 Egg holder
18 Chevy Volt or Nissan
Leaf
19 Kick out
24 Most certain
26 Danish toy block
maker
ANSWER
TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
Across
1 Filled tortilla
5 __ to the Chief
9 Lincolns legendary
log home
14 Pronto! initials
15 Killer whale
16 Barely ahead in the
game
17 Elegant business
garb
LOS ANGELES
TIMES
CROSSWORD
20 Spirited meeting?
21 Cell phone message
22 Building site
23 Seemingly forever
25 Office seeker, briefly
27 Elegant business
dinner
34 Tolkien tree creature
35 Concerning a heart
chamber
36 New York NFL team,
familiarly
38 __ is human ...
40 Down with the mouth
41 __, girl!: words of
encouragement
42 __-American
43 Quick on the uptake
45 Down in the mouth
46 Elegant business
accommodations
49 Diplomats HQ
50 Captain of the
Nautilus
51 Imitate
54 Pub order
57 Increase, as
production
61 Elegant business
reward
27 Greek cheese
28 Wall switch words
29 Wombs
30 Cowboys rope
31 Galileo was the first
to observe its rings
32 Cause to chuckle
33 Okay, in law
37 Okays with a head
bob
39 Wander
41 Naval petty officer
43 Comparable in size
44 Wealthy group
47 __ State Building
48 Alley prowler
51 Part of NBA: Abbr.
52 Soft cotton
53 One in business
who is no stranger to
the elegant things in
this puzzle
55 Feeling no pain
56 The Musketeers,
e.g.
58 Global extremity
59 Strike callers
60 Annoying one
62 At a distance
63 Superlative suffix
JUNE 18, 2012
beauty
memo
beauty
memo
By Ed Biado
AN ensemble isnt complete without
a scent, an integral part of the ward-
robe because it lends an olfactory
aspect to something thats otherwise
exclusively visual. A signature fra-
grance worn on all instances isnt all
that fashionable. Just like in outts,
every stylish guy should have a dif-
ferent scent option for ev-
ery day of the week, time
of the day and occasion.
The latest addition
to my own collection
is Decibel, the new fra-
grance for men by Az-
zaro. Launched last week
at Prive Luxury Club,
dB is, in a nutshell,
your inner rockstar in a bottle; thus,
the ultra-hip design that assumes the
appearance of a microphone. It was
created with the younger male de-
mographic in mind, taking a slightly
different path from the image of the
brands previous offerings.
The scent is characterized as re-
bellious, seductive and dark.
It opens with a burst of heavy cit-
rus, courtesy of Green Italian Tan-
gerine and an overdose of Alde-
hydes. Its cool and pungent at rst
and quickly turns into something
warm, bordering on hot, and pow-
dery. Thats Violet under a cloud of
Incense. At the same time, theres
a touch of sweetness provided
by Licorice. The infusion gives a
thumping impression on the nose,
just like the behavior of an equal-
izer at a high-octane concert. What
is retained like the ringing sound
of an electric guitar riff is Haitian
Vetiver, Tonka Bean and Vanilla
a virile, somewhat lethal, decidedly
more mature, condent and utterly
masculine combinationexuding
more warmth and a
steady and lasting af-
tershock.
Decibel smells ex-
actly like what its name
defines and accurately
describes being a rock-
star in olfactory terms. It
would make 30-some-
thing men feel youthful
while those in their 20s would appreci-
ate the retro Rock of Ages vibe.
With these metaphors, its obvious
that Decibel isnt a fresh and Zen-ish-
ly modern scent. Its nuanced, com-
plicated and jumps from one mood to
the next with agility. And thats what
makes it young, potent and vibrantly
loud. Id say its a great match to dark
jeans, black leather jackets and studs.
Best worn on Friday nights.
Decibel by Azzaro in eau de toi-
lette spray bottle, distributed in the
Philippines by Midas Brand Man-
agement, is available at Fresh Fra-
grance Bar, Art of Scent and lead-
ing department stores for P3,600
(100mL) and P2,440 (50mL).
Scent of loudness
A FILIPINO actress known for her beauti-
ful skin once famously revealed that she only
uses oil on her body and this is a secret passed
on by her mother. The actress said her mom
taught them to apply baby oil on their bodies
after a shower then pat dry with a towel. The
actress is not the only person who uses baby
oil instead of body lotion. Thus, Ive always
been in search of the perfect body oil. Unfor-
tunately, I havent been lucky. The oils avail-
able in the Philippines dont suit me while the
ones that I prefer are only available abroad.
I bought a bottle of The Body Shop
Beautifying Oil in Shea. This is one of the
brands newest products. The Beautifying
Oils are made from three lightweight oils,
including Kukui nut oil extracted from
Hawaiis Candlenut tree is packed
with omegas 3, 6 and 9; sweet almond
oil contains concentrated vitamin E
levels; and community Fair Trade
marula nut oil from Namibia which
moisturizes skin.
Before buying a bottle, I rst tried
a few drop on my forearm, telling the
sales person that I would be back with-
in an hour if I like it. I was pleasantly
surprised that the texture of the oil is
dry, not wet, and that it was easily
absorbed by the skin. It wasnt stick
or tacky at all and this was in summer
when the heat was almost unbearable.
The Beautifying Oils, which come in
different scents like Shea, Chocomania,,
Moringa, Olive, Strawberry, Satsuma,
can be used on the face, body and hair.
Ive never used this oil on my face or hair
but as a body oil, its just perfect.
These oils contain up to 99.6 percent natu-
ral ingredients. The dry oil formula absorbs
quickly without feeling greasy so it can be
used alone or layered with your moisturizer.
I layer the oil in Shea with The Body Shop
Shea Body Butter to make the fragrance last
longer.
FROM jackets to jeans and on pension-
ers to presidents, denim has found its
way into all walks of life. The denim
has become a classic that people love
and adore as the one outt that can be
worn in any season or occasion.
This June, Giordano makes denim
the fashion statement of the month with
its new line. Wear the classic American
fabric in three styles: chambray shirts
sold at P1,799 to P1,899 apiece, denim
jackets at P2,399 to P2,499, or essential
jeans, available in Audrey cut for ladies
and tapered for men, both at P1,499 to
P1,799.
Bring back the blues with Giordano
denims, now available at all Giordano
branches nationwide.
ManilaStandardToday
Choose to
CHEW
With Pascual Laboratories,
Inc.s breakthrough innovation,
however, drinking milk has now
become a thing of the past. This
is a comofrting thought if you are
someone who doesn't like the taste
of milk.
CalChews is the rst and only
calcium product which provides
our daily dose of calcium in a con-
venient and surprisingly delicious
way. Taking two pieces of these
chewy calcium candies in any of
two avors, Rich Chocolate and
Cream Caramel, a day is enough to
meet your daily calcium needs.
Calcium is essential for healthy
bones and is a denitive factor for
various activities inside our bodies
such as muscle contraction, heart
action, nervous system mainte-
nance, and normal blood clotting.
However CalChews does not
only provide our bodies with
calcium, but it actually hits two
birds with one chewy piece of
candy. Being a fundamental di-
etary supplement which plays a
major role in our nerve, muscle
and immune systems, CalChews
also contains 400 IU of Vitamin
D3. Other than this, CalChews
also has a good amount of the
underrated Vitamin K to balance
out and complement our calcium
intake.
Known as a mega antioxidant,
Vitamin K is shown to be an effec-
tive element preventing bone loss
as it regulates calcium by keeping
it in the bones and out of our ar-
teries which can lead to heart at-
SINCE childhood, we have always been re-
minded to drink milk for healthier bones. As
we grow older, we either leave this practice in
our childhood memories or we reinforce it by
drinking milk specially made for adults
Next time you pop a
calcium supplement
in your mouth, choose
to chew instead. And
because CalChews
is both delicious and
nutritious, its sure to be
your new daily calcium
habit.
Not only does CalChews come in two soft and
chewy candy avors Rich Chocolate and Creamy
Caramel it is also fortied with equally essential
Vitamins D and K for optimum bone health
MEDICard, the pioneering HMO
in the country, marked its 25th suc-
cessful year by staging the rst ever
MediRun. Thousands of running and
tness enthusiasts converged at the
Bonifacio Global City to take part in
the 10K, 5K and 3K race categories.
To complete the family experience, a
100-meter dash for children was also
featured, giving kids an early intro-
duction into the joys of running.
MediRun is MEDICards way
of getting as many people into the
running habit and enjoy its various
health-giving benets.
The health benets of running
cannot be emphasized enough. Apart
from beneting the cardiovascular
system, running also offers a great
and healthy alternative to socialize
and bond with friends and family,
says MEDICard president Dr. Nicky
Montoya, who joined the other 5K
runners.
What made MediRun distinct from
all the other races is that its the only
one that offered free and discounted
medical services to benet running
enthusiasts and their families. Pre-race
check-up vouchers were given to par-
ticipants, which entitled them to special
rates for select running-related tests in
MEDICard clinics. These included free
cholesterol screening, free triglycerides
test and free check-up with primary
care physician. These were comple-
mented by discounts on lipid proling
and treadmill/stress test. Toddlers who
ran the 100-meter kiddie dash also re-
ceived a free complete blood count test.
Before and after the race, partici-
pants also enjoyed the various treats
offered at the different booths by
Gardenia, Kelloggs, Pocari Sweat,
Summit, C-Lium, Globe, Resorts
World Manila, San Marino, Generika,
Clium Fiber, Freshman Masculine
Wash, Diabetasol and other sponsors.
Race nishers likewise received a
loot bag lled with lots of freebies, as
Lotion or oil?
Oils
Free medical check-ups, challenging races in rst ever MediRun
well as a 4GB USB. Moreover, Medi-
Run showed MEDICards dedication
to corporate citizenship, as P500,000
was turned over to the MEDICard
Foundation Inc. The money will be
used to fund MFIs various health-re-
lated and outreach programs that help
alleviate the lives of disadvantaged
people via a committed and compas-
sionate response.
Kids had a blast during the event.
Denim makes
a comeback
By Bettina Zaragoza Bernabe
tacks, ultimately preventing the unfortunate case
of calcium build up.
Vitamin K can also be found in green leafy veg-
etables, broccoli and Brussels sprouts but if you
want a sweeter alternative with further benets,
theres no harm in just simply taking CalChews
for it!
CalChews is available in all major drugstores.
KNOWN for its delicious col-
ors and comfortable tracksuits,
Juicy Couture is a favorite closet
staple even for Hollywood ce-
lebrities. In Manila, three styl-
ish ladies show us how you can
balance work and play and still
look fabulous in doing so.
Model, host, actress, maga-
zine editor and beauty columnist
Kelly Misa keeps her wardrobe
comfortable yet stylish. De-
scribing her work wear as Ca-
sual Luxe, shes drawn to luxu-
rious and soft fabrics that arent
fussy or high maintenance. Ive
found that writing becomes so
much easier when I dont have
to worry about my clothes. So
on days off or when I need to
write, expect me to be in a soft
tee shirt, shorts or jeans and a
plush jacket, Kelly says. I
am perpetually cold and always
need to feel comfy, my style
must-have is the Juicy Couture
hoodie in a bold color like cobalt
blue, she adds.
Apart from juggling various ac-
tivities, Kellys also busy prepar-
ing for her wedding day.
Looking at the fresh-faced Pat-
ty Laurel, one wont easily think
that shes a college professor,
As a teacher, she tries to dress
conservatively by wearing skinny
jeans and ballet ats and comple-
menting it with a dressy top and
cardigan or jacket to inject a bit
of her personal style. Aside from
being a teacher, Patty is also a
model and a professional events/
TV host.
When Im hosting and mod-
eling, I like to keep things sub-
tle and sexy by putting a more
polished and fashion forward
look. Recently engaged, Patty
says shes blessed to have fam-
ily and friends helping them
from day one,
For stylist Alyanna Mar tinez,
juggling 10 things at once is a typ-
ical work day/ week for her,
My ofce is always mobile so
a roomy and stylish bag that can
t all my essentials for the day, in-
cluding my laptop, phonea (with
their chargers) and foldable ats I
can easily change into if my toes
are dying from running around
in heels all day, is my style must
have, she explains.
Pulling out clothes and working
at shoots is no joke which is why
Alyanna usually wears a long top
with leggings and avoids outts
that are uncomfortable or cumber-
some because it can greatly affect
her job. She winds down, in her
Turning ones passion
into a career
As KIDS, we used to have activities and hobbies that
kept us occupied all summer. Some keep these hobbies
even as they mature, honing and nurturing the skill.
Sometimes, this passion defines their future.
Gr eer Lee, for example, the founder of Evea Couture
loved dressmaking even as a kid. At the same time, hav-
ing a family who loves dressing up contributed to her
interest in dress-making. Couture for her wasnt so much
a career choice as it was part of everyday life.
As a child, I already enjoyed making clothes for Bar-
bie dolls. As I grew up, I also designed and made my own
dresses. Back then, people were already consulting me
for fashion advice. I realized that I loved styling other
people as much as I like to dress up, says
Lee.
Lee has a degree in Management but she
started her career by working for some of
the leading clothing retailers in the coun-
try. This experience increased her interest
to break new ground in the local industry.
She established Evea to capitalize on her
passion for fashion as well as to further
hone her craft. With the brand, Lee not only
provides a valued creation, but is also able
to express her distinct design philosophy.
She describes her Evea designs as time-
less.
We make contemporary designs that
are fashionable today and yet several years
from now, it will still be in style. Evea
also prides itself in being fashion for every
woman. Our creations are tailor-fitted to
complement the clients specific personal-
ity, style and appeal, shares Lee.
Lee actively involves every client in finishing their
gown and entourages dresses.
It is their day so it s important to engage them in the
entire process. You have to come up with something that
they want and at the same time be honest in your assess-
ment of their preferences. Sometimes what a bride wants
and what will look good on her are two separate things,
but EVEA will make it work, she says.Joba Botana
Chic and comfy
CELEBRITY STYLE
Working behind-the-scenes and being in front of the camera usually has model, host, actress
and beauty columnist/editor Kelly Misa running all over the place. To keep herself comfortable,
she prefers clothes that are super soft on her skin.
Stylist Alyanna Martinez juggles 10 things at
once which is why she likes to wear out-
ts that are comfortable to help her move
around fast and freely.
Greer Lee, owner
of Evea Couture
Global clothing brand
opens with bonanza
of discounts
usual get-up of a cute hoodie, tank top and
tted skirt or leggings, by walking her cute
dogs, catching the last screening at the cine-
ma or call for a home spa service. A self-con-
fessed fan of Juicy Couture, she even bought
her rst toy poodle a hoodie, vinyl raincoat
and bag,
I like Juicy Couture because its young,
fun and comfortable without having to com-
promise style. I have always been a big fan
of their bags and accessories; I have been
collecting all the juicy charms since I was in
high school, says Alyanna, the daughter of
actor Alber t Mar tinez and his wife Liezl.
In the Philippines, Juicy Couture is exclu-
sively distributed by Stores Specialists, Inc.
(SSI) and is located at Greenbelt 5, Rustans
Makati, and Rustans Tower.
All roads led to the sprawling SM Mall
of Asia (MOA) in Pasay City last Fri-
day as renowned Japanese clothing
line Uniqlo opened its doors for the
rst time in Manila.
UNIQLO, Japans leading fashion
brand, offered a slew of products as
well as a world-class shopping expe-
rience to thousands of Filipinos who
look for high quality casual, function-
al and affordable apparel to suit
their lifestyle and character.
UNIQLO offes excit-
ing freebies and huge
discounts. Various
UNIQLO prod-
ucts like its popu-
lar UT (Uniqlo
T-shirts, Regular
Price P790),
Jeans(Regular Price P990), Dry Pique
Polo Shirt(Regular Price P990), and Bra
Top(Bra Camisole Tunic, Regular Price
P990) can be purchased at a really low
price of P590.
Discount offers last until June
21..
For more about UNIQLO,
visit www.uniqlo.com.ph or
the UNIQLO Philip-
pines Facebook page
at www.facebook.com/
uniqlo.ph.
Catch the denim fever
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ANSWER TOMORROW
64 Smudge
65 Catchall abbr.
66 Heidis mountains
67 Mother-of-pearl
68 Not just one
69 Quiz, e.g.
Down
1 Body art, for short
2 Tennis great Arthur
3 Dear, in Bologna
4 Warm-up act
5 Heaven forbid
6 Magnate Onassis
7 Rapper whose name
sounds like a refreshing
beverage
8 Tie, as shoes
9 Usual procedure
10 The Simpsons
storekeeper
11 Heat, as water
12 Captivated by
13 Egg holder
18 Chevy Volt or Nissan
Leaf
19 Kick out
24 Most certain
26 Danish toy block
maker
ANSWER
TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
Across
1 Filled tortilla
5 __ to the Chief
9 Lincolns legendary
log home
14 Pronto! initials
15 Killer whale
16 Barely ahead in the
game
17 Elegant business
garb
LOS ANGELES
TIMES
CROSSWORD
20 Spirited meeting?
21 Cell phone message
22 Building site
23 Seemingly forever
25 Office seeker, briefly
27 Elegant business
dinner
34 Tolkien tree creature
35 Concerning a heart
chamber
36 New York NFL team,
familiarly
38 __ is human ...
40 Down with the mouth
41 __, girl!: words of
encouragement
42 __-American
43 Quick on the uptake
45 Down in the mouth
46 Elegant business
accommodations
49 Diplomats HQ
50 Captain of the
Nautilus
51 Imitate
54 Pub order
57 Increase, as
production
61 Elegant business
reward
27 Greek cheese
28 Wall switch words
29 Wombs
30 Cowboys rope
31 Galileo was the first
to observe its rings
32 Cause to chuckle
33 Okay, in law
37 Okays with a head
bob
39 Wander
41 Naval petty officer
43 Comparable in size
44 Wealthy group
47 __ State Building
48 Alley prowler
51 Part of NBA: Abbr.
52 Soft cotton
53 One in business
who is no stranger to
the elegant things in
this puzzle
55 Feeling no pain
56 The Musketeers,
e.g.
58 Global extremity
59 Strike callers
60 Annoying one
62 At a distance
63 Superlative suffix
JUNE 18, 2012
beauty
memo
beauty
memo
By Ed Biado
AN ensemble isnt complete without
a scent, an integral part of the ward-
robe because it lends an olfactory
aspect to something thats otherwise
exclusively visual. A signature fra-
grance worn on all instances isnt all
that fashionable. Just like in outts,
every stylish guy should have a dif-
ferent scent option for ev-
ery day of the week, time
of the day and occasion.
The latest addition
to my own collection
is Decibel, the new fra-
grance for men by Az-
zaro. Launched last week
at Prive Luxury Club,
dB is, in a nutshell,
your inner rockstar in a bottle; thus,
the ultra-hip design that assumes the
appearance of a microphone. It was
created with the younger male de-
mographic in mind, taking a slightly
different path from the image of the
brands previous offerings.
The scent is characterized as re-
bellious, seductive and dark.
It opens with a burst of heavy cit-
rus, courtesy of Green Italian Tan-
gerine and an overdose of Alde-
hydes. Its cool and pungent at rst
and quickly turns into something
warm, bordering on hot, and pow-
dery. Thats Violet under a cloud of
Incense. At the same time, theres
a touch of sweetness provided
by Licorice. The infusion gives a
thumping impression on the nose,
just like the behavior of an equal-
izer at a high-octane concert. What
is retained like the ringing sound
of an electric guitar riff is Haitian
Vetiver, Tonka Bean and Vanilla
a virile, somewhat lethal, decidedly
more mature, condent and utterly
masculine combinationexuding
more warmth and a
steady and lasting af-
tershock.
Decibel smells ex-
actly like what its name
defines and accurately
describes being a rock-
star in olfactory terms. It
would make 30-some-
thing men feel youthful
while those in their 20s would appreci-
ate the retro Rock of Ages vibe.
With these metaphors, its obvious
that Decibel isnt a fresh and Zen-ish-
ly modern scent. Its nuanced, com-
plicated and jumps from one mood to
the next with agility. And thats what
makes it young, potent and vibrantly
loud. Id say its a great match to dark
jeans, black leather jackets and studs.
Best worn on Friday nights.
Decibel by Azzaro in eau de toi-
lette spray bottle, distributed in the
Philippines by Midas Brand Man-
agement, is available at Fresh Fra-
grance Bar, Art of Scent and lead-
ing department stores for P3,600
(100mL) and P2,440 (50mL).
Scent of loudness
A FILIPINO actress known for her beauti-
ful skin once famously revealed that she only
uses oil on her body and this is a secret passed
on by her mother. The actress said her mom
taught them to apply baby oil on their bodies
after a shower then pat dry with a towel. The
actress is not the only person who uses baby
oil instead of body lotion. Thus, Ive always
been in search of the perfect body oil. Unfor-
tunately, I havent been lucky. The oils avail-
able in the Philippines dont suit me while the
ones that I prefer are only available abroad.
I bought a bottle of The Body Shop
Beautifying Oil in Shea. This is one of the
brands newest products. The Beautifying
Oils are made from three lightweight oils,
including Kukui nut oil extracted from
Hawaiis Candlenut tree is packed
with omegas 3, 6 and 9; sweet almond
oil contains concentrated vitamin E
levels; and community Fair Trade
marula nut oil from Namibia which
moisturizes skin.
Before buying a bottle, I rst tried
a few drop on my forearm, telling the
sales person that I would be back with-
in an hour if I like it. I was pleasantly
surprised that the texture of the oil is
dry, not wet, and that it was easily
absorbed by the skin. It wasnt stick
or tacky at all and this was in summer
when the heat was almost unbearable.
The Beautifying Oils, which come in
different scents like Shea, Chocomania,,
Moringa, Olive, Strawberry, Satsuma,
can be used on the face, body and hair.
Ive never used this oil on my face or hair
but as a body oil, its just perfect.
These oils contain up to 99.6 percent natu-
ral ingredients. The dry oil formula absorbs
quickly without feeling greasy so it can be
used alone or layered with your moisturizer.
I layer the oil in Shea with The Body Shop
Shea Body Butter to make the fragrance last
longer.
FROM jackets to jeans and on pension-
ers to presidents, denim has found its
way into all walks of life. The denim
has become a classic that people love
and adore as the one outt that can be
worn in any season or occasion.
This June, Giordano makes denim
the fashion statement of the month with
its new line. Wear the classic American
fabric in three styles: chambray shirts
sold at P1,799 to P1,899 apiece, denim
jackets at P2,399 to P2,499, or essential
jeans, available in Audrey cut for ladies
and tapered for men, both at P1,499 to
P1,799.
Bring back the blues with Giordano
denims, now available at all Giordano
branches nationwide.
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CHEW
With Pascual Laboratories,
Inc.s breakthrough innovation,
however, drinking milk has now
become a thing of the past. This
is a comofrting thought if you are
someone who doesn't like the taste
of milk.
CalChews is the rst and only
calcium product which provides
our daily dose of calcium in a con-
venient and surprisingly delicious
way. Taking two pieces of these
chewy calcium candies in any of
two avors, Rich Chocolate and
Cream Caramel, a day is enough to
meet your daily calcium needs.
Calcium is essential for healthy
bones and is a denitive factor for
various activities inside our bodies
such as muscle contraction, heart
action, nervous system mainte-
nance, and normal blood clotting.
However CalChews does not
only provide our bodies with cal-
cium, but it actually hits two birds
with one chewy piece of candy.
Being a fundamental dietary sup-
plement which plays a major role
in our nerve, muscle and immune
systems, CalChews also contains
400 IU of Vitamin D3. Other than
this, CalChews also has a good
amount of the underrated Vitamin
K to balance out and complement
our calcium intake.
Known as a mega antioxidant,
Vitamin K is shown to be an effec-
tive element preventing bone loss
as it regulates calcium by keeping
it in the bones and out of our ar-
teries which can lead to heart at-
tacks, ultimately preventing the
SINCE childhood, we have always been re-
minded to drink milk for healthier bones. As
we grow older, we either leave this practice in
our childhood memories or we reinforce it by
drinking milk specially made for adults
Next time you pop a
calcium supplement
in your mouth, choose
to chew instead. And
because CalChews
is both delicious and
nutritious, its sure to be
your new daily calcium
habit.
Not only does CalChews come in two soft and
chewy candy avors Rich Chocolate and Creamy
Caramel it is also fortied with equally essential
Vitamins D and K for optimum bone health
MEDICard, the pioneering HMO
in the country, marked its 25th suc-
cessful year by staging the rst ever
MediRun. Thousands of running and
tness enthusiasts converged at the
Bonifacio Global City to take part in
the 10K, 5K and 3K race categories.
To complete the family experience, a
100-meter dash for children was also
featured, giving kids an early intro-
duction into the joys of running.
MediRun is MEDICards way
of getting as many people into the
running habit and enjoy its various
health-giving benets.
The health benets of running
cannot be emphasized enough. Apart
from beneting the cardiovascular
system, running also offers a great
and healthy alternative to socialize
and bond with friends and family,
says MEDICard president Dr. Nicky
Montoya, who joined the other 5K
runners.
What made MediRun distinct from
all the other races is that its the only
one that offered free and discounted
medical services to benet running
enthusiasts and their families. Pre-race
check-up vouchers were given to par-
ticipants, which entitled them to special
rates for select running-related tests in
MEDICard clinics. These included free
cholesterol screening, free triglycerides
test and free check-up with primary
care physician. These were comple-
mented by discounts on lipid proling
and treadmill/stress test. Toddlers who
ran the 100-meter kiddie dash also re-
ceived a free complete blood count test.
Before and after the race, partici-
pants also enjoyed the various treats
offered at the different booths by
Gardenia, Kelloggs, Pocari Sweat,
Summit, C-Lium, Globe, Resorts
World Manila, San Marino, Generika,
Clium Fiber, Freshman Masculine
Wash, Diabetasol and other sponsors.
Race nishers likewise received a
loot bag lled with lots of freebies, as
Lotion or oil?
Oils
Free medical check-ups, challenging races in rst ever MediRun
well as a 4GB USB. Moreover, Medi-
Run showed MEDICards dedication
to corporate citizenship, as P500,000
was turned over to the MEDICard
Foundation Inc. The money will be
used to fund MFIs various health-re-
lated and outreach programs that help
alleviate the lives of disadvantaged
people via a committed and compas-
sionate response.
Kids had a blast during the event.
Denim makes
a comeback
By Bettina Zaragoza Bernabe
unfortunate case of calcium build up.
Vitamin K can also be found in green leafy veg-
etables, broccoli and Brussels sprouts but if you
want a sweeter alternative with further benets,
theres no harm in just simply taking CalChews
for it!
CalChews is available in all major drugstores.
KNOWN for its delicious col-
ors and comfortable tracksuits,
Juicy Couture is a favorite closet
staple even for Hollywood ce-
lebrities. In Manila, three styl-
ish ladies show us how you can
balance work and play and still
look fabulous in doing so.
Model, host, actress, maga-
zine editor and beauty columnist
Kelly Misa keeps her wardrobe
comfortable yet stylish. De-
scribing her work wear as Ca-
sual Luxe, shes drawn to luxu-
rious and soft fabrics that arent
fussy or high maintenance. Ive
found that writing becomes so
much easier when I dont have
to worry about my clothes. So
on days off or when I need to
write, expect me to be in a soft
tee shirt, shorts or jeans and a
plush jacket, Kelly says. I
am perpetually cold and always
need to feel comfy, my style
must-have is the Juicy Couture
hoodie in a bold color like cobalt
blue, she adds.
Apart from juggling various ac-
tivities, Kellys also busy prepar-
ing for her wedding day.
Looking at the fresh-faced Pat-
ty Laurel, one wont easily think
that shes a college professor,
As a teacher, she tries to dress
conservatively by wearing skinny
jeans and ballet ats and comple-
menting it with a dressy top and
cardigan or jacket to inject a bit
of her personal style. Aside from
being a teacher, Patty is also a
model and a professional events/
TV host.
When Im hosting and mod-
eling, I like to keep things sub-
tle and sexy by putting a more
polished and fashion forward
look. Recently engaged, Patty
says shes blessed to have fam-
ily and friends helping them
from day one,
For stylist Alyanna Mar tinez,
juggling 10 things at once is a typ-
ical work day/ week for her,
My ofce is always mobile so
a roomy and stylish bag that can
t all my essentials for the day, in-
cluding my laptop, phonea (with
their chargers) and foldable ats I
can easily change into if my toes
are dying from running around
in heels all day, is my style must
have, she explains.
Pulling out clothes and working
at shoots is no joke which is why
Alyanna usually wears a long top
with leggings and avoids outts
that are uncomfortable or cumber-
some because it can greatly affect
her job. She winds down, in her
Turning ones passion
into a career
As KIDS, we used to have activities and hobbies that
kept us occupied all summer. Some keep these hobbies
even as they mature, honing and nurturing the skill.
Sometimes, this passion defines their future.
Gr eer Lee, for example, the founder of Evea Couture
loved dressmaking even as a kid. At the same time, hav-
ing a family who loves dressing up contributed to her
interest in dress-making. Couture for her wasnt so much
a career choice as it was part of everyday life.
As a child, I already enjoyed making clothes for Bar-
bie dolls. As I grew up, I also designed and made my own
dresses. Back then, people were already consulting me
for fashion advice. I realized that I loved styling other
people as much as I like to dress up, says
Lee.
Lee has a degree in Management but she
started her career by working for some of
the leading clothing retailers in the coun-
try. This experience increased her interest
to break new ground in the local industry.
She established Evea to capitalize on her
passion for fashion as well as to further
hone her craft. With the brand, Lee not only
provides a valued creation, but is also able
to express her distinct design philosophy.
She describes her Evea designs as time-
less.
We make contemporary designs that
are fashionable today and yet several years
from now, it will still be in style. Evea
also prides itself in being fashion for every
woman. Our creations are tailor-fitted to
complement the clients specific personal-
ity, style and appeal, shares Lee.
Lee actively involves every client in finishing their
gown and entourages dresses.
It is their day so it s important to engage them in the
entire process. You have to come up with something that
they want and at the same time be honest in your assess-
ment of their preferences. Sometimes what a bride wants
and what will look good on her are two separate things,
but EVEA will make it work, she says.Joba Botana
Chic and comfy
CELEBRITY STYLE
Working behind-the-scenes and being in front of the camera usually has model, host, actress
and beauty columnist/editor Kelly Misa running all over the place. To keep herself comfortable,
she prefers clothes that are super soft on her skin.
Stylist Alyanna Martinez juggles 10 things at
once which is why she likes to wear out-
ts that are comfortable to help her move
around fast and freely.
Greer Lee, owner
of Evea Couture
Global clothing brand
opens with bonanza
of discounts
usual get-up of a cute hoodie, tank top and
tted skirt or leggings, by walking her cute
dogs, catching the last screening at the cine-
ma or call for a home spa service. A self-con-
fessed fan of Juicy Couture, she even bought
her rst toy poodle a hoodie, vinyl raincoat
and bag,
I like Juicy Couture because its young,
fun and comfortable without having to com-
promise style. I have always been a big fan
of their bags and accessories; I have been
collecting all the juicy charms since I was in
high school, says Alyanna, the daughter of
actor Alber t Mar tinez and his wife Liezl.
In the Philippines, Juicy Couture is exclu-
sively distributed by Stores Specialists, Inc.
(SSI) and is located at Greenbelt 5, Rustans
Makati, and Rustans Tower.
All roads led to the sprawling SM Mall
of Asia (MOA) in Pasay City last Fri-
day as renowned Japanese clothing
line Uniqlo opened its doors for the
rst time in Manila.
UNIQLO, Japans leading fashion
brand, offered a slew of products as
well as a world-class shopping expe-
rience to thousands of Filipinos who
look for high quality casual, function-
al and affordable apparel to suit
their lifestyle and character.
UNIQLO offes excit-
ing freebies and huge
discounts. Various
UNIQLO prod-
ucts like its popu-
lar UT (Uniqlo
T-shirts, Regular
Price P790),
Jeans(Regular Price P990), Dry Pique
Polo Shirt(Regular Price P990), and Bra
Top(Bra Camisole Tunic, Regular Price
P990) can be purchased at a really low
price of P590.
Discount offers last until June
21..
For more about UNIQLO,
visit www.uniqlo.com.ph or
the UNIQLO Philip-
pines Facebook page
at www.facebook.com/
uniqlo.ph.
Catch the denim fever
Lindsay
Lohan
for Jag
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ISAH V.
RED
SIMPLY RED
Three seven feet-tall mystery vaults
swathed in red fabric, each hinted a sur-
prise, piqued the interest of mall goers
all day. Hosts Rizza Diaz and Andrei
Felix called on everyone to repeatedly
scream O, Wow! at the top of their
voice, hitting top level of the decibel meter
as the dancers unlocked the rst vault of O,
so sweet! surprise revealing a smiling singer /
actress Julie Ann San Jose followed by Pinoy rock
band Callalily headed by Kean Cipriano and last-
ly, Elmo Magalona, Oishis new ambassador.
Elmo, the heir to his singer-rapper father
Francis Magalonas throne, expressively con-
fessed to the media that he has been an Oishi
muncher since he was a kid and is more than ex-
cited to have been singled out as the new Oishi
brand ambassador.
Im really happy to be part of the Oishi
family. Ive been enjoying their products since
I was a kid. And now Im looking forward to
all the work that I will be doing with them,
Elmo enthused.
Also, a mysterious O, Wow! Box of Treats
with an accompanying decibel meter strategi-
cally situated inside the mall challenged mall
goers to hit top level for more treats by yelling
O, Wow!
Julie Ann pumped up the crowd with her O, Wow!
performance of Nicky Minajs Super Bass. Elmo
later joined Julie Ann to a duet of All of the Lights.
Elmo also surprise and thrilled his fans with
a rendition of What Makes You Beautiful by
One Direction followed by his signature Teach
Me How to Dougie. The concert was capped
with a rock blasting performance by Callalily.
Elmo Magalona was also recently awarded Prom-
ising Male Singer/Performer at the Guillermo
Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation 43
rd
Box-Ofce Entertainment Awards held The event
will be held at the RCBC Plaza in Makati City
Over the years, Oishi has evolved to become
a force to reckon with in the fun snack cat-
egory and with Elmo at the forefront of the
O, Wow! movement, more and more
people will surely get into the Oishi
bandwagon and experience a differ-
ent kind of high with every pouch of
high quality Oishi products.
Bankable actor
Rocco Nacino, named Sec-
ond Prince at the conclusion of Star-
Struck V, must have felt odd a b o u t
the title he earned. Some people could
have gotten the impression that he is destined
for second-ddle jobs.
Wait!
In February 2012 we saw Rocco playing the
lead role in a drama series. He was leading man
to Kylie Padilla. He played Darwin Alejandro,
described as the rebellious love interest and ally
to the troubled Bea Guevarra (Kylie).
The series also starred Raymond Bagatsing,
Alicia Mayer, and Max Collins. Its plot revolved
around Bea whose mother dies, after which her
father remarries and brings home a stepmother
she disapproves of.
Nacino is fast pulling away, gaining
grounds after delivering good performances for
signicant roles awarded him.
He
p l a y e d
Jose Rizal
in Pluma,
danced his
way as Jason
in the gender-
bending Time
Of My Life, and
played a crucial
part in Mistaken
Identity, the rst
morning drama series
produced by the GMA
ETV group.
He also had remarkable
stints in Amaya and Guma-
pang Ka Sa Lusak.
Now, producers are looking
at him as a dramatic actor and a
bankable comic act as well. He
is regularly seen in Bubble Gang
sharing screen time with Michael V
and Ogie Alcasid.
Recently he stood as Tadijack, spoof
of Jack Dawson in James Camerons
Titanic, for the documentary
about the doomed
ship for the
Drew Arel-
lano-hosted program
Aha!
One of GMA Artist Centers
heartthrobs, Rocco is displaying great
dance moves in Party Pilipinas on Sundays.
Serbisyong Totoo in Davao
It was more than another day in the ofce. More
so, it was an opportunity for Philippine televisions
resident Sumbungan ng Bayan to rein-
force its commitment to genuine public
service as
Imbest i gador
himself, Mike
Enriquez, visited
Davao for Imbestigador,
Sumbungan ng Bayan with
Serbisyong Totoo Activities.
Davaoeos hours before the actual
start of registration had formed a long
queu. Held at Purok 7 Covered Court,
Brgy. 76-A Bucana in Davao City, the
Imbestigador event brought in almost
500 participants from Barangay Bu-
cana and its neighbouring towns.
Some of the services made avail-
able during the event include free
legal consultations, with the help
of the Integrated Bar of the
Philippines-Davao Chapter.
The National Statistics Of-
ce assisted Kapusong
Davaoeos in the pro-
cessing of their birth
and marriage cer-
ticates.
Passpor t
a p p l i -
cant s
also en-
joyed free
assistance from
the Department of
Foreign Affairs.
Enriquez, who personally
attended to some of the complaints,
said, It feels good to be able to reach out
to Davaoeos and also learn about their needs.
For me, this was another opportunity to give
public service, which has always been the goal
of Imbestigador.
The daylong activity was in partnership with
the Integrated Bar of the Philippines-Davao
Chapter, the National Statistics Ofce Region
XI, the Department of Foreign
Affairs Ofce Region XI, and
the local government of Ba-
rangay 76-A Bucana in
Davao City.
Catholic Media joins
RiteMed campaign
RiteMed, the leading unibranded line of med-
icines in the country, marks another milestone in
its Right to Health campaign.
The company forged a partnership with the Cath-
olic Media Network (CMN) to increase awareness
of the Filipinos right to health. The collaboration
includes a nationwide program that will reach out
to various sectors of the society to enable access to
quality and affordable healthcare.
Recently, CMN launched a radio program in
cooperation with the International Co-Productions
of the Deutsche Welle of Bonn Germany regarding
the health situation in the Philippines. The network
believes that Filipinos should consider health as a
priority. Those who came to witness the event were
Ariel Ayala, CMNs Chief News Anchor, Nicandro
A. Salud, Sales and Marketing Head of RiteMed,
Fr. Francis Lucas, CMNs President and Chief Ex-
ecutive Ofcer and Jose Maria A. Ochave, Senior
Vice President of United Laboratories, Inc.
Lifetime Distinguished
Achievement
GMA Network Chairman and CEO Atty.
Felipe L. Gozon made it to the elite circle of
this years Lifetime Distinguished Achievement
Awardees named by the University of the Philip-
pines Alumni Association (UPAA).
The alumni association recognized Gozons
prolic background as an accomplished lawyer
and media mogul that matches the four general
criteria for the award, namely, service orienta-
tion, leadership, impact, and integrity.
Credited for rebuilding the 1970s cash-strapped
Republic Broadcasting System (RBS)-TV into the
leading multimedia conglomerate today.
He has been the Chairman of the
c o u n - trys no.1 station, GMA
Network, Inc. (GMA)
since 1975.
T h e
a w a r d
adds up to
Gozons list
of recognitions
for meritorious
work in law, media,
public service, and business, in-
cluding the prestigious Chief Justice Spe-
cial Award given by the Chief Justice of the Phil-
ippines (1991), the Presidential Award of Merit
given by the Philippine Bar Association (1990
and 1993), CEO of the Year Award given by the
Uno Magazine (2004), People of the Year Award
by People Asia Magazine (2005), and Tycoon of
the Decade Award by Biz News Asia (2011).
Gozon was rst recognized by UPAA as an
Outstanding Professional Awardee in Mass
Communication in 2003.
Gozon holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from
UP (1962) and a Master of Laws degree from
Yale University (1965) and is a member of many
local and international honor societies and bar
associations. Gozon was an honor student (Phi
Kappa Phi, Order of the Purple Father) and
placed 13
th
in the 1962 Bar Examinations.
The award will be conferred during the 2012
General Alumni-Faculty Homecoming and Re-
union on June 23 at the Ang Bahay ng Alumni in
the UP-Diliman campus.
EVERYONE has that one favorite pair of
jeans, the one that, no matter how many
pair of jeans you own, you always auto-
matically reach for at the start of the day;
and with good reason. A pair of jeans can
tell you a lot about a person. From t to
nish, this fashion staple is a looking glass
into someones lifestylewhat kind of
music someone listens to, who their style
icons are, and maybe even what their line
of work is. Jag Jeans is in the business of
helping everyone nd their favorite pair
and making them their own.
If there is one thing that Jag does irre-
vocably well, its recognizing the role of
denim in everybodys lives. Reaching out
to the jeans enthusiasts in Manila, Jag an-
nually sells over two million pairs of den-
im jeans alone with new stores popping up
every month and new designs being con-
ceptualized and nalized every week.
Putting the most importance in the
quality of their products, Jag has habitu-
ally imported most of their materials and
applies their utmost expertise on denim
ingenuity with every design. Even a spe-
cial type of stitching is used to create their
jeans. Jags skinny jeans are arguably the
most popular pair of skinny jeans avail-
able in the Philippine market as they have
a push up feature, which accentuates a
womans curves perfectly and gives the
illusion of thinner thighs. Though their de-
signs have been tried, tested and proven in
the market, Jag looked to push its capabili-
ties even further.
Jag started 2012 with a big market-
ing campaign entitled Jag: Confes-
sions of Young Hollywood featuring
Lindsay Lohan as their poster child.
By all means, Lohans campaign be-
gan when the Hollywood A-List actress
reached out to Jag out of pure interest
in the brand. With an impressive design
background, Lohan was responsible for
styling and conceptualizing her own
photo campaign, shot by Yu Tsai, which
resulted in chic and attention grabbing
billboards all over the metro.
Now, with over 30 years in the busi-
ness and Philippine Fashion Week Holi-
day Season 2012 at its doorstep, Jag
launches itself into a new campaign, the
Free Speech campaign, with one goal in
mind: re-introducing itself into the mar-
ket and putting more effort into commu-
nicating with the younger, fashionable
generation. To do this, Jag tapped into
their roots as a denim brand and revived
their most iconic packaging: their rst
logo from 1976, Jag Red.
In addition to bringing back their
most loved and recognized packag-
ing, Jag is set to make an impression at
Fashion Week with the release of four
different collections for their Holiday
2012 line. The rst of the four is the Jag
Hollywood collection. With Lindsay
Lohan being featured, this collection is
all about the casual Los Angeles vibe in-
nate in the culture of young Hollywood.
Lohans choice of clothing is reected
in this collection with cheeky shorts
and catwalk are taking the main stage
alongside crochet and sheer tops.
Jags second collection in their Holi-
day 2012 show is Jag Black. Playing with
highly industrialized fabric, this collection
focuses on a streamlined and androgynous
silhouette more than anything else. The
jeans will feature the use of coated fabric,
which gives the denim a gleaming effect,
and also extreme attention paid to the
subtle details such as stitching. Sticking
to their roots, Jag Classic will be the third
line showcased on the runways this sea-
son. Chinos and cargos will be a staple in
this collection alongside varsity inspired
clothing such as jerseys and lightweight
tops, perfect for our tropical weather.
Last, but certainly not the least, Jag
dives into the heritage of denim through
their nal collection of the season, Jag
Red. Looking to showcase what they do
best, this collection will see an exhibit-
ing of all the best denim washes that Jag
has in its repertoire. Alongside the vin-
tage washes, onlookers will see catwalk
are and low crotch jeans with Aztec in-
spired designs being sent down the run-
way. The tops in the Jag Red collection
also reect the Aztec inspiration as they
feature neutral and muted tones. Camel
colored leather jackets included also add
to the collections vintage feel.
Elmo
Magalona
Fans thrilled to see
IT was pandemonium at the activity center
of the Trinoma Mall as Oishi, the brand that
has been bringing fun snacks to Pinoys of all
ages for more than three decades, recently
treated thousands of ecstatic fans to a surprise
concert, unveiling its newest brand
ambassador.
Elmo Magalona:
Oishi O Wow!
Brand Ambassador
GMAAC talent Rocco Nacino
Lindsay Lohan looks stunning in her new campaign for Jag Jeans

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