Edgar Cadagat
Local News: One or More Detractors Come Out in the Open vs Bacolod City Mayor
Three now strongly unified detractors of primarily, Mayor Evelio Leonardia, held a press conference at a local hotel in the city, with various but related issues which could in the long run, damage the political career of the Bacolod City chief executive, although their having come together was the result of a confluence of events.
Local News: Angry Union Members Claim Hospital Management Reneged on Commitment
The management of Our Lady of Mercy Hospital (BOLMH) has reneged on its commitment to reinstate 16 of the employees who had spearheaded the protest action and struke against it, but has once more dismissed them soon after the Seventh Division of the National Labor Relations in Cebu City reversed the decision of NLRC-Bacolod, reinstating them to their jobs and with mandated wages and benefits for all of them and employees of the hospital, who have chosen to become union members.
16 hospital employees were terminated from work as Bacolod Our Lady of Mercy
Specialty Hospital after Chief Executive Dr. Evangeline Johnson reversed an
earlier decision of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) from Cebu
reinstating them to work. Most of the workers who were terminated are members of
labor union. *(Owen S. Bayog/NDB photo)
Opinion: Whistleblowers Two (Part Two)
OTHERS JUMPING SINKING SHIP? Recently, two other whistleblowers apart from
the regulars Sarah Teresa Esguerra and retired Police Chief Insp. Victor
Eduardo, have come out with guns blazing against Bacolod City Mayor Bing
Leonardia and exposing alleged irregularities.
Both men are deemed studies in contrast; Reynaldo "Butch" Ebreo is a former Philippine Navy official, somewhat a quiet, studious-looking man, while the other voluble Romy Niere, a stormy petrel and very vocal at that, is an excitable man. But one thing I can say about Romy is that the man has lived a colorful life since decades and years ago.
Local News: ‘Rats’ in Leonardia Sinking Ship Now Jumping Out?
The saying that rats jumped out of sinking ships may be true in the case of Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia, as another whistleblower has publicly declared a relative Butch Ebreo has once more exposed what he said were irregularities, done by Bacolod’s chief executive during the period he was with city hall as an employee.
Local News: Agila Building Without Permit Set to Open Soon?
Construction of the Agila Glasscom building which is blatantly violating provisions of the National Building Code, continues without let-up, with the owner and contractor, one Lloyd Uy, acting as if everything is normal, a highly-reliable source who said if this continues, those who intent to erect buildings in Bacolod City might as well violate the law setting back by three meters building on sidewalks to allow space for pedestrians and motor vehicles.
Opinion: The NIA Irrigation System
PURPOSELY HIDDEN? An issue regarding the Provincial National Irrigation
Office (PIO), has lately cropped up and to many people’s chagrin has actually
dragged on for more than ten (10) years.
All of the employees but with a select, courageous few have complained to former Visayas Deputy Ombudsman Virginia Palanca-Santiago that Provincial Irrigation Officer Joel Basiao has been renting heavy equipment in behalf of the NIA, and has not recorded nor reported these to the NIA’s regional office in Tacas Village, Jaro, Iloilo City. This subsequently means that without him reporting to the NIA regional office, he would not, therefore, be held accountable for fund allocation for heavy equipment rentals, to the regional office. And how many years has Basiao been renting heavy equipment in behalf of the regional and local NIA?
PERIODIC REPAIRS. For farmers and the media alike, the Bago River Irrigation System (BRIS) is always subject to yearly regular repair.
Local News: Legal Counsels Needed by Detained Filipinos Abroad
Filipinos who are imprisoned on charges of drug smuggling in foreign countries, are allegedly not provided legal counsels by Philippine embassies abroad which does not allow them to properly prepare for their defense, and which in the process, results in their convictions, Bayan Muna Congressman Neri Colmenares lamented in a press conference over the weekend.
Opinion: A Four-way Collaboration?
BY THE MILITARY, POLICE SARROSA AND THE REBEL RETURNEE. The arrest of
innocent members of the perfectly legal organizations, Bayan-Negros and the
leaders of organizations under its umbrella, is truly criminal and a travesty of
justice because they have not carried out the alleged raid on the fishpond of
Joseph Sarrosa in Hda. Bulanon, Sagay City on July 16, 2010. Nor participated in
it.
National news: CJ Corona’s Goose Cooked, Colmenares Avers
Even if Chief Justice Renato Corona is able to prove that his various dollar accounts in banks do not amount to $10-M, as witnesses have claimed specifically, the National Ombudsman, former SC Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales, but either smaller or bigger than that claimed by the various parties in the impeachment complaint being now heard before senator-judges who have comprised itself into the impeachment court, his goose will still be cooked, prosecutor and Congressman Neri Colmenares said in an interview yesterday morning at the Organic Restaurant.
Opinion: We Do Not Have Strong Military Because we Are a Puppet State
POSTURING. So many people, Filipinos, especially those in government are
posturing over the conflict in the Spratlys Island and in the Panatag
Scarborough Shoal which is clearly owned by the country and is part of the
territory, even when one calculates its distance from our country’s nearest
point.
But the saying might is right, still holds true and it is the strong who can intimidate the weak. The strong is China and the weak, the Philippines.
