Vol 13 No 15

www.punto.com.ph P 10.00 Flood control, expressway Central project to displace V 13 P N 15 unto! M - W hundreds of thousands N 18 - 20, 2019 PANANAW NG MALAYANG PILIPINO! Luzon B> D?)/ C&(+.)@&7 CITY OF SAN FERNANDO - Hundreds of thousands of informal settlers in Bataan, Navotas, and Pampanga tax amnesty ordinance Cavite are to be displaced by the P400-billion Ma- nila Bay fl ood control and expressway project of the Depart¬ment of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). Fernando Hicap, chair of the Pambansang to ease burden of RPT payers Lakas ng Kilusang Mamalakayang Pilipino (Pamalakaya), said that already, hundreds of in- CITY OF SAN FERNAN- the sangguniang pan- the burden of hard- nicipal and city treasur- formal settlers are slowly being driven out of their DO – An ordinance grant- lalawigan here. pressed, if delinquent, ers and assessors on the homes in the areas, where the DPWH and San ing tax amnesty or fi nan- Vice Gov. Lilia G. Pi- taxpayers. proposed tax amnesty Miguel Corp.’s Ma¬nila Bay Integrated Flood Con- cial relief to real property neda herself gave the This came in the ordinance. trol, Coastal Defense and Expressway Project will taxpayers in Pampanga assurance, saying the wake of earlier engage- “We understand that P./& 6 4#&.7& is certain of approval by measure seeks to ease ments of the SP with mu- P./& 6 4#&.7& Fake cigarettes deprive gov’t P22-B in revenues BOC smashes seized machines LARK FREEPORT – Counter- feit cigarettes manufactured Cin diff erent warehouses in Central Luzon deprived the government of a whopping P22 billion in revenues from 2014 to 2017. P./& 6 4#&.7& Farmers group says rice import law to shrink Duterte popularity CITY OF SAN FER- Law. Duterte, howev- NANDO - The coun- er, was reported to have try’s biggest farmers’ or- apologized for the nega- ganization has warned tive eff ects of rice import that Pres. Duterte’s up- liberalization. holding rice importation “President Duterte’s would eventually lead to feigned apology on the a plunge in his popularity. eff ects of rice liberaliza- This was the forecast tion is worthless. Mala- of the Kilusang Magbu- canang instantaneously bukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) clarifi ed news reports on after Malacanang clar- the order to suspend rice AWESOME. Sparkling stardust rains from the night sky in a fi reworks display at the launch of ifi ed that the President importation and even for- SM City Pampanga’s Biggest Lantern of Hope. The spectacular show is staged every Saturday never ordered the halting tifi ed its stance to uphold till Dec. 7. P !"!# % B!'( L)*#!' of rice importation under rice importation amid the Rice Liberalization P./& 6 4#&.7& Cebu Pacifi c to end-2019 as leading carrier in Clark LEADING Philippine lowing the launch of di- “Cebu Pacifi c has carrier Cebu Pacifi c rect commercial service taken a measured pace (PSE: CEB) will close from Clark to Guang- of expansion in Clark, 2019 as the leading car- zhou, China last No- but we have always be- rier at the Clark Interna- vember 11; and to Puer- lieved in the potential of tional Airport, with 28% to Princesa, Palawan on Clark as the aviation hub capacity share. This fol- Sunday (November 17). P./& 9 4#&.7& CLARK CAN. CebPac chief strategy offi cer Alexander Lao hands token aircraft to LIPAD Corp. CEO Bi Yong Chungunco at the launch of Cebu Pacifi c fl ights from Clark to Guangzhou and Puerto Princesa. P !"! % B!'( L)*#!' 2 rebels killed, 4 wounded, ASF kills thousand hogs 1 captured in Ecija clash in Pampanga town B• A•%"•& M. G"'"•• Rhodel Sermonia, Central Lu- brought to a funeral parlor in zon police director. Rizal town, the army reported. B• D••• C••!"•#•$ BONGABON, Nueva Ecija Two of the suspects were Agustin said the rebels - Two suspected members women, including a graduate opened a volley of fi re on gov- CLARK FREEPORT -- Thousands of pigs were reported to of the New People’s Army of the University of the Phil- ernment forces who respond- have died from African swine fl u (ASF) in a huge piggery in (NPA) were killed, four were ippines from San Jose Del ed to information fed by resi- Porac, Pampanga. wounded and one was ar- Monte, Bulacan and a regu- dents, “so, it was necessary Porac Mayor Jing Capil revealed this at the Balitaan forum rested in a clash with com- lar member of the NPA under na sumagot ng putok syempre of the Capampangan in Media at Bale Balita here last Friday.. posite team from the Nueva Kilusang Larangang Gerilya ang ating tropa.” Eric Jimenez of the public aff airs offi ce of the Clark Devel- Ecija police provincial offi ce Sierra Madre, according to Sermonia, on the other opment Corp. (CDC) said that during the forum, Capil iden- (NEPPO) and the Army’s 7th Agustin. hand, lauded the police-mili- tifi ed the aff ected piggery farm as A1 reportedly owned by a Infantry Division in Barangay The four wounded sus- tary interoperability as well as Chinese businessman. Estella, Rizal, Nueva Ecija at pects were brought initially to the support of the populace in “As per Mayor Jing Capil, thousands of pigs died due to around 2;30 p.m. Thursday Fort Magsaysay Hospital but the government’s campaign ASF. He said the name of the farm is A1 Farm owned by a last week. had to be transferred to Caba- against insurgency. Chinese businessman. He gave no other details,” Jimenez On Friday, two M16 rifl es, natuan City for further medical He expressed hope to said after attending the gathering. three .45 pistols and several treatment, Agustin said. have Central Luzon as the fi rst The latest update from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Or- rounds of ammunitions con- The fatalities, on the other region to totally eradicate in- ganization (FAO) shows that ASF has continued to spread in fi scated from the rebels were hand, were identifi ed as Mi- surgency in line with President Asia, with confi rmation expected soon of the fi rst cases in In- presented to media jointly by chael Ledesma and one alias Duterte’s goal to fi nish the donesia. 7ID commander Major Gen. Michael, both regular NPA problem before he steps down The update reveals new outbreaks were recorded in Viet- Lenard Agustin and Brig. Gen. regulars. Their bodies were from Malacañang. nam, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, and South Korea and on the Russian side of the Chinese border during the fi rst week of November. The FAO has reported that some 5,700,000 pigs have already been culled as disease has spread across all 63 re- Former UP-Clark stude among gions in Vietnam since the fi rst outbreak was reported in Feb- ruary 2019. The offi cial ASF fi gures in China put the number of infect- ed herds at 161 across 32 provinces, with 1,192,000 pigs NPA members wounded in clash culled. However, government fi gures show the Chinese pig herd has declined by 40 percent since last year, with Rabo- B• D••• C••!"•#•$ bank estimating the herd has fallen from in excess of 400 million prior to August 2018 to around 200 million as a result of CLARK FREEPORT – A for- the disease and herd liquidations. mer student of the University FAO has also reported that in the Philippines there have of the Philippines-Clark here been a total of 24 ASF outbreaks in nine provinces and cities was one of the members of on Luzon Island, with nearly 70,000 pigs culled. New cases the New People’s army (NPA) have been found in Caloocan City and Malabon City in Metro in a fi refi ght with government Manila. troopers in Barangay Estrella The cases in Porac are among the latest ASF cases to be in Rizal, Nueva Ecija last Nov. reported. 14. The student was identifi ed by the military as Redsa Bala- tan, 33, alias Lea, Sinin or Ju- lia, who was allegedly a politi- cal instructor of the NPA’s Ki- HRD Korea seeks lusang Larangang Guerilla Si- erra Madre operating in north- ern Nueva Ecija and parts of Aurora. Lt. Col. Honorato Pascual Gov. Delta’s help Jr., commander of 84th Infan- try Battalion, said Balatan was CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, the minimum amount of insur- the wife of Gerald Salonga, Pampanga – Human Resourc- ance that a worker returnee alias Geary, who died in anoth- es Development (HRD) of Ko- could claim is 400,000 won. er encounter in September 2, rea asked the assistance of While the highest amount is 2018 in Barangay Villa, Maria, Governor Dennis ‘Delta’ Pi- 5 million won and their equiv- Aurora Province. neda to help Kapampangan alence depends on the ex- “The two were students of workers under the Employ- change rate. the University of the Philip- ment Permit System (EPS) get “To properly assess, may pines – Extension Program in their unclaimed insurances in be in the beginning of the year, Pampanga (UPDEPP). Geary Korea. we tried to call everybody on before his death was fi rst ar- This came after HRD Ko- our list, not only the ones from rested in August 2014 with rea Director Yun Jiwon visited Pampanga, but we didn’t get another NPA, Guiller Cada- Governor Delta to personally any answer. We also tried no. At that time, they claimed ask his assistance in tracing to email them with the regis- that they were activists from the whereabouts of at least tered email, but there’s still Kabataan Partylist and Anak- 100 Kapampangans among none.

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