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VOL. 20 NO. 42 ORMOC CITY P 15.00 at the newsstands NOVEMBER 11-17, 2019 Website address: www.evmailnews.net For feedback/inquiries: e-mail [email protected] “The cat is out of the bag” Goma and Lucy to switch, another Locsin for VM BY EV MAIL EDITORIAL TEAM ORMOC CITY – Mayor Richard I. Gomez has already publicly announced the future political plans of the Or- moc Development Team. This includes him switching posts with Rep. Lucy Torres-Gomez, and that it will be another Locsin as Vice Mayor. The mayor’s first audience sin Jr. is now on his third and last was the officials of Brgy. Quezon term. He said that he will be run- Jr. led by Punong Barangay Don ning for councilor. The younger Fidel Manigao during the group’s Locsin has also confirmed it will visit to the village to distribute be his dad who will run. “Defi- food packs in the anti-dengue nitely, it will be my dad,” he said. food-for-work program. The older Locsin, on the other Mayor Gomez said they are hand, has started his public appear- baring their future political plans ances. This week, he was a speaker early to put a stop to speculations. at the anniversary of the Eastern Vi- The Ormoc Development Team re- sayas State University (EVSU), which mains strong and united, he added. started as the Ormoc City School of Brgy. Quezon Jr., considered Arts and Trade (OCSAT) that he es- bailiwick of the Codillas in the past, tablished when he was congressman. delivered a 13-0 win for the ODT A Pasidungog Awardee, a last elections. In the same meeting, Garbo sa Ormoc awards for non- the officials, including those aligned natives who have made a lasting Left photo shows Mayor Richard Gomez and Congw. Lucy Torres-Gomez for a Preview magazine interview and with the opposition, pledged their contribution in the city, Locsin photoshoot while right photo shows former Mayor and Congressman Carmelo Locsin Sr. delivering a speech during support to Gomez, saying they are once said that when he was con- the EVSU-Ormoc City Campus anniversary. seeing a lot of good happening in gressman, he was appalled to their barangay and they cannot turn learn that only Ormoc had no their back against development. state college or university. That is Mayor Richard Gomez said why he filed the bill to establish that in the next local elections, he OCSAT, which later became the President Duterte commends bravery of will be switching posts with Lucy. Ormoc external campus of EVSU. He will run for Congress, while The Ormoc Development Team soldiers in Nov. 11 Borongan encounter Lucy will run for mayor. will have four last-termers in 2022. Their vice-mayor will be With the vice-mayor running for TACLOBAN CITY – President The president led the award- heavily armed New People’s Army Carmelo Locsin Sr. who was a council, this brings the vacancy to Rodrigo Duterte saluted the brav- ing of the Order of Lapu-Lapu (NPA) rebels in Sitio Bangon, previous 3-term congressman and three but already, potential candidates ery of seven critically wounded (Rank of Kampilan) to the wound- Barangay Pinana-an, Borongan, mayor of Ormoc City. have been identified from the same soldiers and one police officer ed soldiers who were involved in Eastern Samar, evening of Monday, Vice Mayor Leo Carmelo Loc- families of the last term candidates. on Friday, November 15, during a 30-minute gun battle between November 11, which also led to his visit to Divine Word Hospi- three platoons of the Alpha and the death of 6 soldiers and 1 still tal (DWH) in this city where the Charlie companies of the 14th In- unidentified guerilla rebel. wounded are recuperating. fantry Battalion (14IB) and some 50 Captain Reynaldo Aragones, Philippine Army’s 8th Infantry President Duterte salutes Sgt. Kenneth John T. Arcina, who lost his eyesight Division (8ID) Public Affairs in the November 11 Borongan encounter with NPAs. Officer, identified the wounded soldiers as Sgt. Kenneth John T. Arcina, Cpl. Linlito C. Donayre, PFC Albert C. Abegonia, Pvt. Darwin D. Aborquez, Pvt. Joshua M. Pacuan, Cpl. Aljon P. Aguilos and PFC Rex A. Batis Jr. RICE NO LIMIT!!! Dr. Gil Asoy, the Medical Direc- ... and more Filipino favorites tor of DWH, said the soldiers are now in stable condition, but 3 of MILAGRINA them have already lost their eyesight, and 2 have suffered leg fractures. RESTAURANT Pvt. Pacuan narrated that they now with a better and were about to leave the area after a fresher ambiance. 10-day operation when they heard explosions. He was hit by shrapnel Located at on different parts of his body. 134 Real St., His mother, Elizabeth, con- Ormoc City SEE DUTERTE P. 12 2 NOVEMBER 11-17, 2019 Ormoc passes ordinance regulating internet cafes Ormoc eyes bank loans to finance THE CITY Council of Or- and minors, it “justifies the moc, this week, passed an need to regulate the entry of Php 2-Billion water project ordinance regulating the minors and students to these establishment and opera- internet cafes and similar ORMOC CITY (PNA) – told reporters in an interview The major components ful quake that rocked Leyte tions of internet cafes and establishments.” The city government here at his office on Thursday, of the project include the Island in mid-2017. other similar businesses, to The author added that is eyeing loans from state- November 14. development of a new wa- The present water sys- include movie funhouses/ the ordinance is consistent run banks to finance its The target is to sign the ter source from Lake Da- tem is run by 26 pumping funways, with the end in with the Anti-Child Por- Php 2 billion long-term loan agreement before the nao, construction of four stations with a low over- view of protecting children nography Act, and also the water supply project. end of the year. concrete ground reservoirs head water reservoir, result- and minors from internet ad- Revised Child Welfare Code Mayor Richard Gomez Target fund sources are that would serve as pres- ing in very limited water diction and accessing porno- that regulates the exposure said they have to find ways Land Bank of the Philippines, sure breakers and water pressure, depriving many graphic sites, among others. of children to adult materi- to implement the project Development Bank of the storage, and construction of the residents of their The ordinance also pro- als and from spending too even without funding sup- Philippines, or the Municipal of 90,000-cubic meter per needed water, according to vides penalties for violators. much time in cafes, to the port from the central gov- Development Fund Office un- day water-treatment plants. the city government. The ordinance is en- detriment of their studies. ernment considering that der the Department of Finance. The Ormoc waterworks The existing water sys- titled, “An ordinance regu- The ordinance prohibits increased water supply is The undertaking will system will “completely over- tem only supplies less than lating the establishment the operations of such cafes an urgent need of Ormoc’s focus on developing the haul, rehabilitate and expand 70 percent of the require- and operations of internet and businesses without first growing population. city’s Lake Danao, the re- the existing water system of ment of the city’s 23,000 cafes, pisonets/sinconets, securing the appropriate “The Regional Develop- gion’s biggest, as a major the entire city of Ormoc into water concessionaires, ac- wifi vending machines, and business license. New appli- ment Council endorsed the source of water to address one system,” he said. cording to the mayor. movie funhouses/funways cants are not to be allowed to project in 2017, but there’s still the shortage being experi- The completion of the “When the city estab- in Ormoc City providing operate within the distance of no update from the national enced by residents. project will shut down the lished the water system, there penalties for violation there- 50 meters from schools. government. The business The lake has been one existing 26 pumping sta- are sub-villages that were of and for other purposes.” Operators are also model is already there and of the sources of water of six tions and convert these inhabited. Today, these areas Authored and spon- strictly prohibited from al- we have been talking with Leyte towns and Tacloban City, into standby water sources. are populated. The demand sored by councilor Nolito lowing minors to loiter or banks. We’re just waiting for but it has not been tapped to These pumping stations for water will continue to Quilang, the ordinance ac- stay in their establishments some documents,” Gomez provide water for Ormoc. were damaged by a power- increase,” Gomez added. knowledges that the internet during class hours. is “undeniably a dynamic “Movie funhouses” were pillar of today’s global soci- included in the ordinance ety and economy” but since after social workers revealed it is also an important tool for learning by students See CAFES P. 12 PhilHealth now refining mechanism for UHC implementation in 2020 TACLOBAN CITY – The to “preventive, promotive, Philippine Health Insur- curative and rehabilita- 17TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PFLCW. Ormoc City, represented by Councilor Lalaine Marcos (6th from left), together with Sangguniang Panlungsod staff Camila Corro, Analyn, and Amelita Pepito and representatives ance Corporation Regional tive” health service deliv- from other cities and towns in Eastern Visayas, pose for posterity with Cabinet Secretary Karlo Alexei Nograles and Office VIII (PhilHealth- ery, upon automatic enroll- the leadership of the Philippine Federation of the Local Council of Women.