VOL. XXI NO. 77 Treated unfairly by newspapers June 1- 7, 2019 ISSN 0119-7487 that refuse to publish your Notice To The Public response? Write us. Want to know more about the PPI cult – Jehowah’s Witness? Visit www.carm.org/jehovahs-witnesses Philippine Press Council c/o Philippine Press Institute This advertisement is paid for Rm. 206 BF Cond. Bldg. by Pastor Jules Samaniego of A. Soriano Ave. WEEKEND the Good Samaritan Everlasting Intramuros, Manila Christian Ministry Email : Tel. No. 5279632 or 5274478 Fax 527-3390 [email protected] Email - [email protected] MABUHAY ANG PILIPINO!!! BAGUIO CITY AND BENGUET LONG LIVE THE FILIPINO!!! Baguio’s finance committee told to rectify financial records AGUIO CITY - The Local Finance Committee and other Bdepartment heads in the city government of Baguio were directed to review the city’s financial statement ending December 31, 2018 after state auditors issued a qualified observation on five transactions. Mayor Mauricio Domogan issued Memorandum No. 156, series of 2019, after receiving the Commission on Audit’s report on May 24, 2019 expressing its qualified opinion on “the fairness of presentation of the financial statements of the city due to uncertainty in the validity and accuracy of the balance of the Property, Plant and Equipment (PPE) account amounting to P1,868,705,928.71 due to a net dis- crepancy of P152,277,389.29 between the accounting and property records.” Domogan directed city officials to immediately review and conduct measures to rectify the audit observations as pointed by COA within 60 days upon receipt of his order. The audit commission was uncertain on the unaccounted balance of the PPE marked as “for reconciliation” amounting to P181.619 million in the financial statements of the city PREPARING FOR ANY EVENTUALITY - Members of the Baguio City Disaster Risk Re- government. duction Management Office (CDRRMO) led by LDRRMC Officer III Engr. Yolanda Munar and It was also observed that a property was recorded in the LDRRMC Officer II and Incident Management Team-Cordillera president Louie Glenn Lardiz- General Ledger but not in the Report of Count of Property, abal conducts inspection of tools and equipment to save lives and properties in preparation for Plant and Equipment (RCPPE) amounting to P181.158 million. any emergency specially this coming rainy season./Bong Cayabyab Cont. on page 3 Likewise, COA noted an unrecord- • More than 100,000 troop Cordillera public schoolspage 3 • to school in Baguio •page 8 all set for 370K students page 8 City doing best efforts to maintain 10,611 kids of poor families 10,000 streetlights •page 8 drop out of school •page 2 • 900 cases filed with city Jeepneys urged to serve page 8 page 3 •page 2 • prosecutor’s office commuters until 10 pm Burnham Park bike concessionaires told to CSC-Cordillera resets deadline •page 2 of filing for Aug. 4 exam •page 3 remove cooking, sleeping quarters • Renovated Baguio City Hall park to 5-year master plan for city’s page 2 reflect UNESCO creative status •page 3 drainage system underway The Junction News DISPATCH FROM CRAME Jewry, Due Process 101 and CJ Further thoughts on the incident Rene Corona involving former Ombudsman By: Rene Saguisag (www. page 4 Morales www.junctionnews.com •page 5 manilatimes.com) • By: Sen. Leila De Lima The JUNCTION June 1- 7, 2019 2 WEEKEND NEWS Burnham Park bike concessionaires told toAGUIO remove CITY - The cooking, city sleeping quarters government of Baguio residence” to any safeguard- report. Bissued a stern warning to ed landscapes including He furthered that a look at the bike concessionaires Burnham Park. the site from the Children’s at Burnham Park after Ruben Cervantes, head Park area presents a shan- receiving a report that some of CEPMO said putting up ty-like picture of the city’s of the sheds have been turned of sleeping facilities, kitchen prime park. into sleeping quarters with and wash area within the In response to the report, cooking activities. sheds of bike concessionaires Mayor Mauricio Domogan The City Environment and is in violation of the contract issued Memorandum no. 163 Parks Management Office of lease with the city govern- series of 2019 directing no monitored majority of the 17 ment. other than CEPMO to cause adult bike concessionaires at “Since the stalls are the voluntary demolition of Burnham Park have put up covered, the workers are the temporary walls from the temporary wall coverings free to install television set sheds of the bike concession- on their sheds using galva- and have karaoke or sing- aires immediately. nized iron, tarpaulin and along, have their drinking Domogan also ordered the SK ACHIEVERS – City Hall led by outgoing city mayor Mauricio Domogan other materials to hide their spree inside the sheds, smoke revocation of the concession- and Councilors Benny Bomogao, Lilia Farinas and SKF Baguio President Levy sleeping nooks and electrical inside the sheds which is a aires’ special business permit Lloyd Orcales fetes Sangguniang Kabataan officials adjudged as outstanding cooking appliances. clear circumvention of the if they refuse to remove their SK performers as per Resolution 142 series of 2019 authored by Orcales. The The Environment Code of Comprehensive Anti-Smok- covering materials./Jessa outstanding SK chairpersons were Carla Joy M. Cacho of Irisan Barangay, most Baguio prohibits “unautho- ing ordinance, gambling and Mardy Polonio-Samidan outstanding; Van Paulo C. Sanchez of Brookspoint, Jeric M. Sinner (Gibraltar rized sleeping or camping at other non-conforming activ- night or otherwise taking up ities,” Cervantes stated in his Barangay); Daniel M. Seguin (City Camp Proper); and Mark Anthony Y. Alvar (Lower Lourdes Subd.) The most exemplary SK Kagawad was Thom Bryan Buclay of Kias. District 12 (Kias, Loakan-Apugan, Loakan Proper, Loakan Liwanag, Fort 10,611 kids of poor families Del Pilar, Atok Trail) was the most exemplary SK district; Aloisius Nyk Aldea of Among the provinces District 5, most exemplary district coordinator. – Aileen P. Refuerzo in the Cordillera Abra recorded the highest number drop out of school in student dropouts with 2, 900 cases filed with city AGUIO CITY – The various reasons will go back 314 followed by Ifugao with of the provisions Beducation and social to school as part of the com- 2,297, Benguet with 2,1117, of Republic Act welfare departments pliance of their families to the Kalinga – 1,583, Apayao – prosecutor’s office recorded some 10,611 conditions of the program. 1,437, Mountain Province – Of the 745 cases that (RA) 9262 or the Anti-Vi- 831 and Baguio city with 736. AGUIO CITY – The were filed through regular olence Against Women and children of beneficiaries of She claimed that among City Prosecutor’s Office the government’s Pantawid the identified reasons for According to her, appro- B filing, Sagsago claimed that Children – 26 cases, violation priate coordinations are now disclosed that more than 505 cases were filed in the of child protection laws – 17 Pamilyang Pilipino Program the children abandoning nine hundred criminal cases (4Ps) reportedly dropped their classes include peer being done with the parents different courts supported cases, rape – 16 cases, theft – of the student dropouts were either filed through by the necessary information 14 cases, illegal recruitment out from school during the pressure, child work to help regular filing or inquest pro- previous schoolyear which is their parents earn income to through their family devel- while 36 cases still pending and robbery – 7 cases each, opment sessions to inform ceedings with the said office resolution with the assigned carnapping – 6 cases, cyber- considered to be a violation uplift the living condition of for the first four months of of the conditions of the their families and the desire them of the need to keep prosecutors. crime and tax violations – 5 their children in school as this year. Among the cases that were cases each, illegal posses- enrolment of their families of their parents to be part of City Prosecutor Elmer in the said poverty alleviation the members of the family part of their compliance to coursed through regular sion of dangerous drugs, the conditions of their being Manuel Sagsago said that filing with the city prose- murder, illegal logging and initiative. who will earn for them. 745 cases were filed through Fatima Florenda, regional “Part of the conditions of enrolled in the poverty alle- cutor’s office include estafa illegal possession of firearms, viation program so that they regular filing while 155 cases – 270 cases, violation of ammunitions and explosives program coordinator of the the families being enrolled were filed through inquest 4Ps under the Cordille- under the program is that will not be suspended or Batas Pambansa Bilang 22 – 2 cases each and homicide eventually delisted from the proceedings during the said or the Anti-Bouncing Check and kidnapping with 1 case ra office of Department of to ensure that their school period of the current year. Social Welfare and Devel- aged children will be in list of beneficiaries receiving Law – 123 cases, violation Cont. on page 7 opment (DSWD-CAR), school attending classes for the financial assistance from said that it is the primary them to be able to acquire a the concerned government objective of the agencies higher level education that agencies. 5-year master plan for city’s involved to ensure that the they could use in helping The DSWD-CAR regional said children of the 4Ps ben- improve the living condition program coordinator claimed eficiaries who previously of their families in the future,” that the agency is not yet drainage system underway dropped out from school for Florendo stressed. replacing the ones that were AGUIO CITY – The preparing the short- ers to provide the required delisted in the list of bene- Bcity government is term comprehensive funds for the implementa- The The Junction is printed and published ficiaries because there is no the completion of the survey master development plan tion of the programmed JUNCTION by Farco Trimedia Ventures, Inc.