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5 HERNZ QUARRYby HERNANI Q. CUARE

CRUSH THIS

 VISA MAFIA 

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4 JANNARALLY SPEAKINGby JULMUNIR I. JANNARAL 

5 PRIVILEGED SPITSby BERTENI C. CAUSING

4 JERRY’S BLOGSby JERRY S. YAP

Congratulations,Gen. Alex Gutierrez

Air-tight proofmust be the rule

PAOCC chief Ochoa’sP300M intelligence fund

Ambassador Al Hassan, the new

Saudi’s ambassador extraordinary

and plenipotentiary!

Binondo Maa

A MAFIA that has been successful in obtaining special retirees visa has been uncovered to be operating in Binondo, Manila.

This came about after a revelation by the source of  Dyaryo Magdalo who asked not to be identied but who has personal knowledge of the fab-rication of immigration documents for the purpose of cheating the Philip-

ByBERTENI“TOTO”

CATALUÑACAUSING

  pine RetirementAuthority (PRA)into approvingapplications andissuing specialretirees visas.

The syndicate special-izes on manufacturing of documents that look like

original so that the of-cials of the PRA couldnot suspect the documentssubmitted.

This maa can evenx documents of alienseven if the foreigners whowould come to them for the x have criminal re-cords.

Actually, this maacan even manufacture

 papers issued to dual citi-zens. The customers for dual citizenship racket areoverstaying aliens whowere then issued Philip-

  pine passports to avoid paying high fees for being

overstaying.

Investigation led to proofof falsity

  Dyaryo Magdalo con-ducted investigation intothe matter after it stum-

 bled onto a fake marriagecerticate and a fake Cer -ticate of Authenticationsupposedly issued by thePhilippine Consulate Gen-eral in Xiamen, China.

Due to these fake docu-ments, the couple namedWANG YOU ZHI andYAO CHUAN ZHI suc-ceeded in obtaining spe-cial retirees visas from thePRA and enabled them toget accreditation from thecasino establishment in-side Resorts World Hotelin Villamor, Pasay City.

In an August 10, 2011letter of Jerry S. Yap to theBureau of Internal Reve-nue (BIR), he narrated theextent of wealth that has

  been accumulated by thecouple from their businessof lending to high-stake

rollers in the said casinoestablishment.

“They earn by meansof the “rolling scheme”sanctioned by the Pagcor.In this, they earn one per-cent for every amount thatthey lend. For example,a one-million-peso bet

 placed by players throughlending from them will

earn the accredited nan-ciers Ten Thousand Pesos(P10,000.00). +The latestreports I got showed thatthe couple already earnedP90 million since January2011 only. They have just

  bought a new car and anew condominium at NewPort that is beside ResortWorld in Villamor, PasayCity,” Yap said.

Due to the revelation of the source about the maathat one of its clients areWang You Zhi and YaoChuan Zhi, Dyaryo Mag-dalo advised a vericationto Yap, who is the incum-

 bent president of National

Press Club.This led the Philip-

  pine Consulate Generalto conduct an inquiry intoits les and it certied onSeptember 27, 2011 thatthere is nothing in its re-cords that show that thealleged authentication cer-ticate was issued by thesaid consular ofce.

Moreover, the certica-tion of Philippine ConsulGeneral Adelio AngelitoS. Cruz stated that eventhe purported numbers ob-scured by the red ribbonxed on authenticationcerticate show that thesewere not the numbers is-sued by the consulate for July 12, 2010.

For clarity, the said let-ter of the consul general ishereby quoted as follows:

“Further to our MIS-202-2011 dated 23 Sep-tember 2011 and withreference to your lettersdated 08 and 26 September 2011, the Philippine Con-

sulate General inXiamen wishesto inform you that  per vericationmade with theexisting recordsof this ofce, theConsulate Gen-eral did not issuean AuthenticationCerticate for the alleged Mar-riage Certicateto Chinese nation-als Wang You Zhiand Yao ChuanZhi on 12 July2010.

“Only one Au-thentication Cer -ticate was issued  by this ofce on12 July 2010 andit is not under thename of Yang youZhi and Yao Ch-uan Zhi.

“ M o r e o v e r ,the ConsulateGeneral notes that

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 Vol. II No. 71 October 17-23, 2011

 Publisher:

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 Editorial:

TOTO C. CAUSING

Editor-In-Chief

 Design & Layout:

RONALDO B. HERICO

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SAUDI GOV’T SUppORTS

FILIpINO HAjj pROGRAM

the visible numbers whichwere partly obscured bythe ribbon in the photo-copied AuthenticationCerticate in question donot correspond to whatexists in the ConsulateGeneral’s authenticationrecords for that period of time.

“The Consulate Gen-eral hopes you nd theseinformation useful.”

Criminal cases led

Because of this, Yapled criminal complaintsfor falsication of publicdocuments and use of fal-sied documents beforethe Ofce of the City Pros-ecutor of Makati becausethe spurious documentswere submitted to the PRAwhose ofce is located inMakati City.

As a result, the pros-ecutor’s ofce issuedsubpoenas commandingWang You Zhi and YaoChuan Zhi to appear to itsofce for investigation onOctober 17 and 24, 2011.

The fake authentica-

tion certicate was madeto show it was authenti-cated by then consul gen-eral to Xiamen AmbrosioBrian F. Enciso III.

Actually, the falsityin the fake marriage cer-ticate can be detected

  by looking at the AlienCerticate of RegistrationI-card issued to Yao ChuanZhi, which is ACR I-Card

 No. 219878 on March 23,2009.

In that I-Card, she stat-ed her civil status as “sin-gle” as of that March 23.

“The fake marriagecerticate says that they

were married on Novem-

Crush this visa mafa  ber 25, 2008 in JinjiangCity, Fujian Province,”Yap told Dyaryo Magdalo .

“So that it is impos-sible for them to havemarried on November 24,2008 because on a muchlater date that is March 23,2009 Yao Chuan Zhi wasstill single,” Yap stressedin his complaint led be-fore the prosecutor.

Notorious and wily alien

It was also discoveredthat Wang You Zhi was anotorious alien as he wasordered blacklisted by theBureau of Immigration.

In the BI blacklistorder, it was stated thatWang You Zhi was ar -rested by policemen andturned over to the Bureauof Immigration.

However, for whatever reasons, he managed toconvince then BI commis-sioner Marcelino Libananto issue an order lifting the

  blacklist order upon the

condition that Wang YouZhi would no longer vio-late any immigration rules.

One of the representa-tions submitted to con-vince the BI to lift the

 blacklist order was that hewould apply a new visa for the purpose of investment.

To retire is not to do busi-ness

It is elementary that theretiree visas are issued for those aliens who profess tostay in the country becausethey intend to retire here.

If the special visas that

were issued to Wang You

Zhi and Yao Chuan Zhiwere special retiree visas,then it is illogical becausethey are yet young anddoing business as casinonanciers.

The fact that theseyoung man and womanwere issued retiree visas

  prompts a question onwhether the policies andrules of the PRA are illogi-

cal.

Case for summary hearing

Yap sent a letter of re-quest for investigation tothe Department of ForeignAffairs (DFA), which, inturn, endorsed the sameto the Bureau of Immigra-tion.

The Bureau subpoe-naed the couple to answer the complaint.

Instead of submittinga sworn counter-afdavit,Wang You Zhi and YaoChuan Zhi chose to havetheir lawyer answer thecomplaint by means of aletter.

This fact that thecouple did not submita sworn statement wasseen by Yap as an act of avoiding to get chargedwith perjury becausetheir only defense wasto insist that the mar-riage certificate and theauthentication certificateare genuine when theseare proven to be spuriousas stood for by the certi-fication issued by ConsulGeneral Cruz.

Yap said that for fak -ing their marriage certi-cate and the authentication

certicate, Wang You Zhi

violated his undertaking tothe Bureau in exchange for lifting his blacklist order.

In the defense put up  by the lawyer of Wang,they contended that WangYou Zhi and Yao ChuanZhi should not be held li-able because marriage isnot required to obtain aspecial retiree visa.

Yap countered that thesaid marriage certicateand authentication cer-ticate were material be-cause Wang You Zhi andYao Chuan Zhi applied asspouses which would re-quire only singe deposit of the amount required.

“Whereas, if the twoapplied as individuals,

each must make separate

time deposits to an ac-credited bank as required

 by the law and each would

  pay separate fees,” Yapsaid.

Crush the syndicate

With these proofs of fabrication of fake im-migration documents, theBureau is being urged byYap to act on immediatelyif indeed the new ofcialsappointed by President P-

 Noy are within “Matuwid Na Daan.”

The sadness of it allis that many irregularitieshave been noted to have

  been happening in theBureau since the men of 

P-Noy have taken over.

Saudi Ambassador Abdullah bin Ibrahim Al Hassan delivers his message to the rst batch of pil - 

grims who will perform annual hajj in Mecca, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. At right is Ustadz Amer Noor, resident Arabic translator of the Embassy of the Royal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Manila.PHOTO BY JULMUNIR I. JANNARAL

THE Saudi Am-

  bassador to thePhilippines hasexpressed thefull support of 

the government of theKingdom of Saudi Ara-

  bia (KSA) to the NationalCommission on MuslimFilipinos (NCMF) on itson-going hajj (pilgrimage)

 program of overseeing andsupervising the travels of Muslim Filipino pilgrimsto the holy city of Mecca inSaudi Arabia.

Ambassador Abdullah bin Ibrahim Al Hassan per -sonally went to the NinoyAquino International Air-  port (NAIA) last October 11 and attended the tradi-tional send-off ceremony atthe NAIA Satellite lounge.

Saudi Airlines (Saudia),the KSA ag carrier, wason standby to transport350 hajj pilgrims, amongthe rst batch of the rstscheduled ight.

Ambassador Al Hassansaid the Saudi government

is supportive of the hajj program of the NCMF andhe thanked Secretary BaiOmera Dianalan-Lucmanfor inviting him to be theguest of honor during thesend-off ceremony.

In his message for the pilgrims, the Saudi ambas-sador said he was prayingfor the safe journey of allthe pilgrims and for themto perform the annual reli-gious ritual smoothly.

“I pray that your hajjto the holy city of Meccawill be accepted by theAlmighty Allah and thatyou can return to your fam-ily safely,” Ambassador 

Al Hassan said in Arabiclanguage and translated bythe Saudi Embassy residenttranslator, Ustadz Amer 

 Noor.The Saudi ambassador 

also expressed his appre-ciation to the much closer working relations betweenthe NCMF Bureau of Pil-grimage & Endowment

headed by Director Ma-sideng Salic and the SaudiConsular Section that re-sulted in the processing of the travel documents of thetotal 5,200 Muslim Fili-

  pino pilgrims who appliedfor the hajj visa granted bythe Saudi Foreign Ministrythrough the Embassy of theRoyal Kingdom of SaudiArabia in Manila.

For her part, NCMFand Chief Executive Of -cer Lucman told  Dyaryo

 Magdalo in a plane-sideinterview that she wasoverwhelmed by the fullsupport of Ambassador AlHassan.

She said the traditionalsend-off ceremony wasusually done in the past,during the time of the de-funct Ofce on MuslimAffairs. It was revived thisyear, during the second hajjseason that the NCMF su-

 pervised.“The rst ight of hajj

is unprecedented and mem-orable for all of us Muslim

Filipinos since no less thanthe Ambassador Extraor -dinary and PlenipotentiaryAbdullah bin Ibrahim AlHassan of the Royal King-dom of Saudi Arabia cameover to see off the rst

  batch of pilgrims board-ing their non-stop ight toJeddah and en route to theholy city of Mecca,” Luc-man said.

 Hajj 2011 Amirul Haj

As this developed,  NCMF Commissioner Moner Bajunaid, appoint-ed by President BenignoAquino, 3rd as the amirul

hajj (head of delegation),said he was likewise pray-ing for the safe journeyof all the Muslim Filipino

  pilgrims, majority of themcame from Muslim Mind-anao.

Bajunaid, who will rep-resent the President in allhajj-related activities whilein the Kingdom of Saudi

Arabia, also expressed histhanks to President Aquinofor giving a chance to therank of the NCMF com-missioners to be designatedas an amirul hajj, an hon-oric title conferred in the

 past to Muslim politicians.This was also agreed

upon by Solaiman Mutia,the NCMF commissioner-in-charge for Pilgrimageand Endowment who said

that the appointment of Bajunaid as the Hajj 2011amirul hajj, it has mani-fested an explicit recog-nition of the existence of the NCMF by PresidentAquino, as the governmentagency mandated under Republic Act 9997 to su-

  pervise the hajj programas one of the ve pillars of Islam.

Retired Police Gen-eral Laut Sarip, among the

  prominent pilgrims of therst Saudia hajj ight, saidhe was also praying for allthe pilgrims to success-fully perform the hajj ritual

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ByHERNZCUARE

THE Aries FullMoon at 3:00 inthe morning onTuesday, Octo-

 ber 11, shone so

low eerily in Los Baños,Laguna.So low a full moon

that it was seemingly pro-claiming of a forthcom-ing tragedy that wouldshock everybody whowoke up the next day.

It was as if the moonwas to witness the loveamong lovers and thecrimes to be done by thedevils.

Accordingly, it is the“I, You, We” full moon,a time when men look to nd the space of bal-ance. The focus was onself-honoring and others,giving voice to inspira-

tions and concerns, whileencouraging and holdingspace for others to do soas well.

Given Grace Ce- banico, who turned 19on September 23, walkedalone and felt the celes-tial force of the Aries FullMoon on the wee hour of October 11. She was

 probably humming her 

favorite love song whilecounting her steps alongDiamond Street in UmaliSubdivision, Los Baños,Laguna to the 5th of 

September Mansion, thedormitory where she usedto stay.

Hours before she en- joyed the walk under theeyes of the full moon, she

 posted on her Facebook account a meaningfulmessage of blessing andsacrice of one’s self for the benet of others.

Her Facebook postsaid: “You were born be-cause you are going to beimportant to someone.”

It was as if her premo-nition that evil was sureto cross her path hours af-ter the Facebook post. Asif it was like that if not

her as an offered sacriceto the claws of criminalsanother teen would suffer her fate.

While Given Grace, a  junior computer sciencestudent of Universityof the Philippines-LosBaños, was walking alonealong Diamond Streetat 3:00 in the morningon October 11 after her 

group meeting at her classmates dormitory, thedevil was hovering andlooking for an easy prey.

When the devil saw

Given Grace alone anddefenseless, the devilmight have whispered tothe ears of two men whohad premeditated of com-mitting a crime againstthe helpless and hapless

 beautiful woman.Tricycle driver 

Percival de Guzman, 38,and security guard Lester Ivan Lopez Rivera, 22,

 boarded a tricycle andsewed the stretch of Diamond Street until theysaw Given Grace as their right prey.

The tricycle stoppedas they blocked the pathof Given Grace.

Rivera jumped out of the tricycle and coveredthe mouth of Given Gracewith a handkerchief. Hethen forced her inside thetricycle while poking agun on her back.

Rivera and De Guz-man then brought GivenGrace to a vacant grassylot on the stretch of IPBRoad in Barangay Putho

GIVEN GRACE, RAVISHED IN

FULL MOON,GIVEN jUSTICE

 A photo of GivenGrace Cebanico

after her graduationfrom Rizal Parochial 

Science HighSchool. Her eyes

show a bright future ahead had it not been for someblood-thirsty ma- 

niacs who snuffed the life out of her together with her 

dreams.

Grace of her iPod andlaptop.

At 7:00 in the morn-ing, residents of Baran-gay Tuntungin foundher body and on a canal

along IPB Road near UP-Los Baños and Instituteof Plant Breeding.

Her mouth wasgagged with a handker-chief and her hands werehandcuffed behind her 

 back.The next day, De Guz-

man had a quarrel witha mentally-ill teener inBarangay Batong Malakein Los Baños. As a result,he was accosted by the

 barangay tanods.That act of De Guz-

man was a spate of luck for the early delivery of 

  justice. The barangaytanods recovered GivenGrace’s iPod from him ashe was being accosted.

The recovery of Grace’s iPod made iteasy for the cops to closethe book on the UP-LosBaños rape-slay. De Guz-man admitted the com-mission of the crime.

Rivera, on the other hand, hid in the house of his grandfather RenatoRivera in Floridablanca,Pampanga to whom he

conded his crime.The grandpa, who

might have been touched by an angel, confessed toAlfonso Dizon, barangaycaptain of Barangay Pal-mayo in Floridablanca.The barangay chairmanthen accosted Rivera tothe police.

The younger Riverawas arrested and he ad-mitted his participationto the rape-slay of GivenGrace.

The laptop was later traced to a pawnshop.

  Nevertheless, justicehas been served on GivenGrace as on her father 

and mother Marlene aswell as on her entirefamily. The police ledthe charge of rape withhomicide against thesuspects.

The mother, however,urged the police to secureall schools from criminalseven as her daughter was

 buried at Sto. RosarioMemorial Park in Binan-gonan, Rizal in a funeralattended by at least 6,000

mourners in white andlavender, the favoritecolors of the victim.

The case of GivenGrace is the second UP-Los Baños rape-slay.

The rst was com-mitted in 1993 by former Calauan, Laguna mayor Antonio Sanchez.

Sanchez was themastermind in the rape-slaying of Eileen Sar-menta and her boyfriendAllan Gomez who were both students of UP-LosBaños.

Sanchez tried to hidehis crime.

The mayor was said to

have released P10 millionfor the expelled presidentJoseph Estrada, P10 mil-lion for the now Senator Panlo “Ping” Lacson,and another P10 millionfor the media.

But nothing hap- pened. Justice was servedanyway.

On January 25, 1999,the court sentencedSanchez to a double lifeterm for a different caseand seven life terms for the Sarmenta-Gomezrape-slay.

Sanchez is now serv-ing his sentence totalingto 360 years jail term.

times around Kaaba or a big cube built by ProphetIbrahim (Abraham) inMasjidil Haram (Holy

Mosque) in Mecca.Likewise, Sheikh

Muhaymin Astih, a Tau-sug from Sulu and oneof the hajj guides for the

 pilgrims from Metro Ma-nila, observed that the hajjoperation now undertaken by the NCMF BPE under Director Salic has beensmooth and hassle-free,starting from the registra-tion up to the departure of the thousands of pilgrims,save for some technical

  problems not within the prerogatives of the BPE.

This has something todo with the delay in theissuance to 1,000 pilgrims

of the hajj visa. 

NCMF exerting all efforts

for additional 1,000 Visa

The NCMF has beenexerting all efforts andexploring every possibil-ity to secure these 1,000visas for Muslim Filipino

 pilgrims so that no single pilgrim will be left behindin Manila on their journeyto perform this year’s Hajj(pilgrimage) in Mecca,Saudi Arabia.

  NCMF SecretaryLucman said that shehas made ofcial requestto Saudi Arabian King

Abdullah bin AbdulazizAl-Saud, through the Phil-

ippine Embassy in Riyadh,for the additional 1,000visas for Muslim Filipinoswho have registered for this year’s Hajj.

Secretary Lucman saidthat at the same time shewrote Dr. Fouad Al-Farsy,minister of the Saudi Min-istry of Hajj and Saudi Am-

 bassador to the PhilippinesAbdullah bin Ibrahim AlHassan for the same re-quest.

Earlier, the NCMF senta Hajj mission team thatincluded Commissioner Solaiman Mutia, Bureau of Pilgrimage & EndowmentDirector Masideng Salic

and Acting Finance Direc-tor Abel Macarimpas toSaudi Arabia and signed acontract with local service

  providers for the accom-modation of 4,000 MuslimFilipinos for this year’sHajj.

Pilgrimage Director Salic said the NCMF basedsuch target number on theaverage number of Filipi-nos joining the annual Hajj.

However, the latest tallyof the registered applicantssubmitted by the differentsheiks (Hajj guides) shows5,156 people have actuallyregistered, exceeding theagreed number of 4,000 for 

Saudi gov’t supports...From page 1

this year’s Hajj, accordingto Salic.

Through their respec-tive sheiks, all these appli-cants have also purchased

  plane tickets and paid for their mutawiff (accommo-dation, food and transpor-tation cost).

The pilgrimage director also reported that 3,974 of the applicants have already

 been issued visas and 2,682of them have already ownto Saudi Arabia.

There are 1,292 wait-ing for their ights, leaving1,182 in the waiting for hajjvisas.

Secretary Lucman like-wise emphasized that Re-

 public Act No. 9997 man-

dates the NCMF to manageand supervise the participa-tion of Filipino pilgrims inthe annual Hajj and umrah(optional pilgrimage).

The same Act also pro-vides for an “open airline”

  policy, thus allowing theFilipino Hajj pilgrims tochoose their carrier and di-rectly purchase their planetickets or through their re-spective sheiks, she added.

 Hajj as one of the FivePillars of Islam

Hajj is a religious ex-ercise done annually bynancially capable and

  physically-t Muslim.Hajj is one of the ve

 pillars of Islam that should be performed at least oncein a lifetime of every Mus-lim, by visiting the Kaabaat the Masjidil Haram(holy mosque) in the Cityof Makkah in Saudi Ara-

 bia.Kaaba is a structure

shaped like a big cube.According to Islamic his-tory, it was built by ProphetIbrahim (Abraham).

 Kaaba, the House of Allah

This   Dyaryo Magdalocolumnist has visited Kaa-

  ba twice in an interval of four years.

Kaaba is considered bythe Muslims as the Houseof Allah and the center of Islamic faith situated inMakkah, Saudi Arabia. Itis covered by a black clothknown as “kiswa,” whichis produced and changedevery year during hajjtime.

A special factory istasked to design the mak-ing of kiswa costing ap-  proximately 17 millionin Saudi riyals. The black cloth is adorned with 670kilograms of silver anddyed black.

About 120 kilograms of  pure gold and 50 kilograms

of silver are used in writ-ing the Quranic verses

over the cloth. The totalarea of the cloth is 658square meters.

Aleem Said AhmadBasher, chairman of theImam Council of thePhilippines, said it is alsoadjacent to Kaaba whereHagar the wife of Proph-et Ibrahim gave birth toProphet Ishmael, the elder son of Prophet Ibrahim.

Aleem Basher saidone of the highlights of hajj ritual is the obser-vance of Uqof or standingin the valley of Mt. Arafatin Mecca, which is con-sidered as the paramounthajj ritual that would take

 place on November 5.The Al Azhar-educat-

ed Imam warned that “if you have not observedthe Uqof in Arafat, your 

 performance of hajj is in-valid.”

After Uqof has tak -en place and manda-torily observed by all

  pilgrims, the rest of theMuslims worldwide willnow perform the Eidl’lAdha prayer on the earlymorning of November 6, which by operationof law is now one of thenational holidays in thePhilippines, Aleem Bash-er further explained.

Tuntungin, Los Baños,Laguna.

Upon reaching an un-inhabited lot, the tricyclestopped and the criminals

disembarked with their victim.As said, Rivera

 punched Given Grace onthe stomach and strippedher naked. The two thentook turns in satisfyingtheir lust.

After quenchingtheir thirst, Ri-vera drew his.38 revolver,and red it,“bang!”GivenGrace

sprawled lifeless with a bullet embedded in her  back.

Rivera and De Guz-man then robbed Given

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Ambassador Al Hassan, the new Saudi’s

ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary!

Congrats, Gen. Alex Gutierrez

CHIEF Supt. Alex

Gutierrez is the newdistrict director of 

the Manila Police

District (MPD). Hereplaced Gen. RobertRongavilla.

Gutierrez’s newassignment sends

MPD’s rank and le tocheers. As perceived,

MPD men and women

have been disgruntled

for years.

  Now, they believe

that Gutierrez willimplement changes

for the better at MPD.Anyway, what to

  be watched over by

PNP chief, Dir. Gen. Nick Bartolome, is the

  posting of new MPD

Deputy Director.

It is not alien to

Gen. Nick that someelements at MPD are

lurking and waiting

for a chance to make

 poisonous bites.Anyway, congratula-

tions again, Gen. Guti.It is hoped that pret-

ty soon a star will shine

on your shoulder.

The Feast of BettyChuhuahua and AnnieSey; Atty. Roy Ledes-ma’s new post

It’s an ear-to-ear smile for Betty Chuhua-

hua and Anna Sey, the

two who have been said

 by many Bureau of Im-migration insiders as

notorious xers in thatmost graft-ridden ofceof the government not

even a feisty Miriam

Defensor Santiago can

overhaul.

The reason of the

feast is the appointment

of their best friend,

Atty. Roy Ledesma, to

the top post of Bureauof Immigration-Alien

Registration Division

(ARD).

Ledesma’s lordingover at the BI-ARD

simply means an insur-

mountable number of 

work for Betty and An-

nie Sey.

But more important-

ly, it means more mil-

lions of pesos for their 

 pockets.

Betty and Annie Sey

are close, too close, to

Ledesma’s godmother who the xers alwaystreat to a lunch-out.

Indeed, planting

is protable. If you  plant, you reap. Betty

Chuhuahua and AnnieSey have proved this

true.

Lucky are those who

have BFF at BI-ARD

who also have inu-

ence at BI-IntelligenceDivision.

My unsolicited ad-

vice to Commissioner Ric David:

If you want not to be

like other former com-

missioners damned by

BI employees because

of their money-hungry

attitude, then be wise in

trusting your own men.

Commissioner Da-

vid should be cunning

as a dove in monitoring

the activities of the two

known witches or no-torious BI xers: BettyChuhuahua and AnnaSey.

Commissioner Da-

vid should not feel con-

tented of just pasting

his butts in the four cor-

ners of his ofce.It is a ripe for him to

make a round of Sher-

lock Holme’s act: in-

vestigate with witch-fuland watchful eyes.

 

400 % tax hike inParañaque

 

Parañaque CityMayor Florencio Bern-

abe Jr. and the Sanggu-

niang Panglungsod are

allegedly not rushing in

implementing the 400%tax hike in the city.

Mayor Jun Bernabe

told his constituents,

  particularly the home-

owners, that the taxhike implementation

can wait.

For the information

of Parañaque voters,

the man that sponsored

the City Ordinance on400% tax hike is JunRomey and those who

approved are Coun-

cilors JASON WEBB,

RICO GOLEZ and

FLORENCIO BERN-ABE III.

Yes, they are not ina rush, but 400 per centtax hike is revolting!

SONNABAGAN!Today, Parañaque

homeowners are paying

P1,000 to P1,500 real

 property tax per squaremeter.

If ever the 400 per cent tax hike is imple-

mented, the homeown-

ers have to pay P20,000

 per square meter!

Mayor Bernabe rea-soned out that Para-

ñaque City comparedto other cities has been

left behind in hiking

real property tax.Mayor Bernabe said

that since 1992 when

Parañaque was de-

clared a city, there has

never been an increase

in real property tax

(RPT).He added that in

three years, the in-

crease on real prop-

erty tax was staggeredso that he said Para-

ñaquenos should not

 be disturbed.

Mayor Bernabe’s“staggered” reason

is alien to us who re-

side in Parañaque.

Our concern here isthe staggering 400 per cent RPT.

Mayor Bernabe,

why not you rst col-lect 400 per cent taxhike from your rela-

tives and friends liv-

ing in mansions at

BF homes, Tahanan

Village and Multina-

tional Village?

As said by Kapam-

 pangans: “Subukan

 pamu para mabalu.”

Jerry’s Blogs

By Jerry S. Yap

JannarallyspeakingBy JULMUNIR I. JANNARAL

J A N N A R A L L YSPEAKING, thiscolumn is born again

after it went on unex-

 pected hibernation for 

a number of months.

So, here we are again

discussing point by

  point and blow by

  blow every hot issue

in town that could be

useful not only for 

the information of 

our local and nation-

al readers, but also

those from among our readers in the foreign

lands that have access

to   Dyaryo Magdalo 

Online Edition.Just last week, this

columnist was one of 

the two members of 

the media who cov-

ered the traditional

send-off ceremony

of the rst batch of the Muslim Filipino

  pilgrims to the HolyCity of Makkah inthe Kingdom of Saudi

Arabia.

Hajj, being one of the Five Pillars of Is-

lam, is performed by

adult male or female

nancially capable tothe high cost of travel

and other incidental

costs; and physically

t to undergo the rig-

id religious rituals.

The Uqof, consid-

ered as the highlight

of the hajj rituals

where billion of pil-

grims throughout the

world stand in solemn

 prayer at the valley of 

Mt. Arafat in Makkah,

falls on November 5.

The following day is

the Eid’l Adha (Feastof Sacrice), now oneof the Philippines’ na-

tional holidays.

The send-off cere-

mony was one tradition

implemented by the de-

funct Ofce on MuslimAffairs or OMA. It isresumed by its succes-

sor, the National Com-

mission on Muslim Fil-

ipinos (NCMF), headed by Secretary and Chief Executive Ofcer Bai (Princess) OmeraDimakuta Dianalan-

Lucman, daughter of 

the late Sultan Omar Dianalan, popularly

known as SOD, a for -mer Assemblyman of 

the Batasang Pambansa

representing Lanao del

Sur.

However, whatadded signicant mo-

ment to the ceremony

was the presence of no

less than the Ambas-sador Extraordinaryand Plenipotentiary of 

the Royal Embassy of 

the Kingdom of Saudi

Arabia, His ExcellencyAmbassador Abdullah

 bin Ibrahim Al Hassan.He personally wentto the Ninoy Aquino

International Airport

(NAIA) to see off the

350 pilgrims board

their Saudi Airlines

(Saudia) Flight SV-869

that departed the tarmac

of the NAIA at 3:00 pm

last October 11.In his brief message

at the NAIA Satellite

lounge where the Sau-

dia, the KSA ag car -rier was on standby to

transport the rst batchof the pilgrims in Sau-dia’s rst ight, Am-

  bassador Al Hassan,who spoke in Arabic

language but was trans-

lated by the Saudi Em-

  bassy resident transla-

tor, Ustadz Amer Hadji  Noor, said the Saudi

government is support-

ive of the hajj program

of the NCMF. He alsothanked Secretary Luc-

man for inviting him as

the guest of honor.

In his message, for 

the pilgrims, the Saudi

ambassador said he was  praying for the safe

  journey of all the pil-

grims and for them to

 perform the annual reli-

gious rituals smoothly.

“I pray that your 

Hajj to the Holy City of Mecca will be accepted

  by the Almighty Allah

and that you can return

to your family safely,”

Ambassador Al Hassansolemnly said.

Somehow, Secretary

Lucman told this col-

umnist she was over-

whelmed by the full

support of Ambassador 

Al Hassan. He took time out from his hectic

diplomatic schedules at

the Saudi Embassy to

  personally go to NAIA

to say his prayer and  pray for a happy and

safe journey for the pil-

grims, some are going

to perform their Hajjfor the rst time.

“The rst ight of hajj is unprecedented

and memorable for all

of us Muslim Filipinos

since no less than the

Ambassador Extraor -dinary and Plenipoten-

tiary Abdullah bin Ibra-

him Al Hassan of theEmbassy of the Royal

Kingdom of Saudi Ara-

  bia who came over tosee off the rst batch of   pilgrims boarding their 

non-stop ight to Jed-

dah and en route to the

Holy City of Mecca,”Lucman told this Col-umnist.

***

Paging NAIA Beat

Reporters and Fotogs!

In the second para-

graph of this column,

I mentioned that I am

one of the “only” two

members of the media

and regular members of 

the National Press Club(NPC) who coveredthe Hajj 2011 Send-Off Ceremony. The other colleague who was

with me covering the

event was Edd K. Us-

man, news reporter of Manila Bulletin and,

like this columnist,

one of the few Muslim

  journalists in the coun-

try today.

Brother Edd and I

observed that for an

event like this involving

Muslims, not one from

any of the NAIA beat

reporters of the several

newspapers covering

the airport had lifted

their ngers to cover the event. Not one from

the news photographers

of the broadsheets andtabloids assigned at the

  NAIA showed up to

click their hi-tech digi-

talized cameras.

Brod Edd and I were

not at all surprised. Per-

haps it was not news-

worthy to them, or, as

I quote my good friend

Edd: “They will cover 

only kung may gulo

ang mga Muslim.” (if 

there is chaos among

Muslims).

He may be right inhis observation.

Just like what is hap-

  pening in Mindanao

every time there is war,

our media colleagues

from Manila would not

mind going to Mind-

anao despite the danger 

to their lives and limbs.

“Is it necessary that

we have to create trou-

  ble to be noticed or to

attract the attention of 

national media,” one of 

the pilgrims asked.

***

POSTSCRIPT:  Dyaryo

 Magdalo through this

column would like to

congratulate Dr. Julia

M. Moreno for defend-

ing her doctoral dis-

sertation with yingcolors. Dr, Moreno

who teaches at the Cen-

tro Escolar University(CEU) on Mendiola,Manila is also a Fund

Assistance to Private

Education (FAPE)

scholar. More power to

you! From: Your circleof friends, including

this columnist.Congratulations to:

  NCMF Commissioner Moner Bajunaid who is

the amirul hajj (head of 

delegation) of the Hajj2011.

Commissioner Ba-

  junaid was appointed

  by President Benigno

Aquino, 3rd to repre-

sent the President in all

the Hajj-related activi-ties while in the King-

dom of Saudi Arabia.

  NCMF Commis-

sioner-in-Charge for 

Pilgrimage Solaiman

C. Mutia observedthat the appointment

signed by PNoy for 

Amirul Hajj Bajunaidis a manifestation of 

the President’s rec-

ognition of the role of 

  NCMF commission-ers.

Previously, this

honoric title wasgiven only to Muslim

leaders and politi-

cians.

Happy birthday tomy good friends at the

  National Broadcast-

ing Network (NBN-4)who are celebrating

their birthdays in this

month of October likeLita Arada, the NBN-

4 News Librarian;Amiel Rufo, NBN-4  News VTR Editor;

and Joel Mamaril, an-

other friend.

This columnist

would like to say

  belated happy birth-

day to NBN-4 Gen-

eral Manager RenatoCaluag. I learnedthis from my fel-

low Philippine Law

School alumnus Jet

Garcia who I met atthe corridor of this

government station

last week, who said

that he came to see

GM Caluag becauseit was his birthday!

Jet is now with the

Presidential Commu-

nications Coordinat-ing Ofce (PCCO) inMalacañang Palace.

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Air-tight proof must be the rule

P300 million a year is alarge amount to consid-er, but this is thrown byPresident Benigno Sime-on “Noynoy” Aquino IIIfor the intelligence fundof the Presidential AntiOrganized Crime Com-mission (PAOCC) tocounter the high-prolesyndicated crimes, in-cluding kidnapping, bank 

robbery, smuggling, ille-gal drugs and other formor organized crimes.

And this P300 millionis entrusted by PNoy for the spending of his trust-ed man, PAOCC bossand Executive SecretaryPaquito Ochoa.

It was in June 2011when Ochoa, throughPNoy’s Executive Or -der 46 , was appointedas lord of the anti-crime

 body. But since then, wehave not heard a deaf-ening accomplishmentof his anti-crime per-formance. If indeed hehas spent judiciously his

multi-million intelligencefund, it appears otherwise.

It must be noted thatintelligence fund is freefrom audit, or, for clarity,spending these millionsfree from inquiry.

As we scratch the re-cord of PAOCC followingthe appointment of Ochoa,we are faced with nothing.Yes, nothing to talk of its

accomplishment.If there is no accom- plishment, then what hap-  pened to the intelligencemillions that had been si- phoned off by the PAOCCof Ochoa?

In fact, instead of re-  port of accomplishments by PAOCC, rumors spreadthat it never fought againstsmuggling, and that it has

 perfected a “take” from theillegal deals.

The rumors might not be true, but the silence of Ochoa’s PAOCC seeming-ly stands to conform withit. For in not performingthe gigantic task assigned

to the agency is equal to burying the same to an un-noticed grave of forgetful-

ness.And the effort of bury-

ing the PAOCC will de-nitely result in buryingwith it the P300 million in-telligence fund that is freefrom audit. Nothing left for the Filipino people to see asingle cent.

As said by PNoy, thePAOCC is strengthened

  purportedly to divide thework between him andOchoa.

Actually, PNoy insistedthat the division of labor will ensure that there will

 be focus in the anti-crimeefforts not like in the pre-vious administration that

PAOCC was chaired by the president.

PNoy is right that

crimes are to be handledmore on a day-to-day basisand he cannot do it alone.

As months unfold, wesee the division of labor 

  but there is no labor per-formance to talk about for PAOCC is likely doingnothing.

PNoy wanted the PA-OCC to chair and superviseefforts to combat the pro-liferation of drugs, point-ing out that the PhilippineDrug Enforcement Agen-cy is short on resources.However, in all operationagainst illegal drugs byPDEA, the PAOCC wasnever in the line of credits.

PAOCC was never beenmentioned of having anink of intelligence network 

that had worked with theanti-drugs agency.

We agree with PNoythat PAOCC has to alsoaddress carjacking andkidnapping, especially inMindanao, but for morethan a quarter of the year,the once most powerfulagency during the reign of former President JosephEstrada, turns crippled,useless against crime ele-ments in Mindanao.

As we take note, in-deed, there is no con-crete accomplishment byOchoa’s PAOCC despiteits huge intelligence fund.

Under the P1.5-trillion

2011 national budget,the PAOCC is allocatedP18,977,000 for “personalservices,” the budget lan-guage for salaries, andP355,879,000 for mainte-nance and other operationexpenses (MOOE), P300million of which is for con-dential and intelligenceexpenses.

Under Ochoa’s PA-

OCC are the Ofce of theSpecial Envoy on Transna-tional Crime and the Phil-ippine Center for Transna-tional Crime.

Accordingly, the PA-OCC was a creation of former President FidelRamos, who named thenVice-President Estrada asits chairman.

Estrada created under PAOCC two operatingtask forces – one led bythen police colonel andnow Sen. Panlo Lacsonand another by ReynaldoBerroya, then also a policecolonel.

Estrada himself would

later arrest Berroya for alleged involvement inthe kidnapping of Chi-nese national Jack Chou.

It was Sen. JuanPonce Enrile and thensenator John Osmeñawho gave PAOCC aP500-million intelli-gence budget largelyin recognition of thegains achieved by the

Lacson task force in theght against kidnappinggroups.

During Estrada’stime, he appointed Lac-son as head of the Presi-dential Anti-OrganizedCrime Task Force (PA-OCTF) under PAOCCand later as Philippine

  National Police (PNP)chief.

The PAOCTF gaineda notorious tag as “Ber-dugo” for its killing of the members of the RedScorpion Group and theKuratong Baleleng kid-nap for ransom syndi-cate.

THIS is urging JusticeSecretary Leila De Limato adopt the “air-tightevidence” rule in decid-

ing whether to charge a person in court.This is necessary

in the face of rampantabuse by the prosecutorsof the phrase “probablecause” and the fact thatmajority of the peoplehave lost trust in the

  prosecutors they call“x-cals.”

Abuse of probablecause:

“Probable cause”is the most abused andmost misunderstood le-gal phrase in criminallaw, at least in the Phil-

ippines where the power to say there is “probablecause” to hail a person tocourt is in the hands of a

 prosecutor.Actually, the same is

the denition of “prob-able cause” in the UnitedStates of America wherethe power to say thereis “probable cause” isin the hands of a grand

 jury, a group of ordinarylaymen, not lawyers,rafed and interviewedfrom the communitywhose faces and namesare hidden while theyserve for six months.

If no complaint is

heard about “probablecause” abuse from theUSA, complaints about“probable cause” abuseis plenty in the Philip-

  pines where fairness isthe exception.

Who abuse “prob-able cause” in the Phil-ippines?

Primarily, it is abused  by the prosecutors whoare so bold in doing so

  because they believethat the law that makesit their exclusive power to do so protects their works that no one canquestion them in their exercise of their sole

 power.

Courts’ abdication of duty:

These abuses oftencome unchecked because

of the actual happeningof the tradition of respectgiven by judges to the

 prosecutors.Contrary to their obli-

gations to Section 2 of Ar-ticle III of the PhilippineConstitution, that is theequivalent of the FourthAmendment of the USConstitution, the courtsalmost automatically ap-

  prove the criminal infor-mation sheets led by the

 prosecutors.What does Section 2 of 

Article III of the Consti-tution say that is materialto the issue of “probablecause”?

This is the statementin that section that says:“…no search warrant or warrant of arrest shallissue except upon prob-able cause to be deter-mined personally by the  judge after examinationunder oath or afrma-tion of the complainantand the witnesses he may

  produce, and particularlydescribing the place to besearched and the personsor things to be seized.”

The command of theconstitution is very clear.

This provision clearlysays that “probable cause”must be determined “per-

sonally” by the judge after examination under oathor afrmation of the com-

 plainant and the witnesseshe may produce.

With this commandof the Constitution, the

  people unfairly charged  by the prosecutors couldhave been protected by the

 judges who could rule therewas no “probable cause” tohold the accused for trialand detain him as long asthe trial and the judgmentare not completed.

If that is the commandof the Constitution thatis the highest law of theland, why is it that thecourts in the country are

  behaving otherwise andnot taking pains to exam-ine rst all the cases led

 by the prosecutors?This author cannot an-

swer this question exceptfor stating the nearest hecan think of: respect bythe judge to the prosecu-

tors and to the prosecu-tors’ exclusive power todetermine who they wantto hail to court.

In other occasions, itis conspiracy that com-

  pelled the judges to ap-  prove immediately thecharges even without ex-amining the complainant,the witnesses, and other evidence.

It is sad. The judgeswho are supposed to bethe rst court protector against injustices are ab-dicating their duties toguard against abuses bythe prosecutors. This isthe real thing.

Given the fact of lifethat the judges respect the  prosecutors’ words, it iswith more reason that the

 prosecutors should be pru-dent, conscientious, and

unbiased.This is what the pros-

ecutors should be in de-ciding whether to hail tocourt the persons beingaccused, either by meansof an arrest made by the

 police or other law enforc-ers, or by means of a regu-lar preliminary investiga-tion initiated by privatecomplainants.

Prosecutors can destroylife:

Sigh. The abusive  prosecutors sit comfort-ably on the thought thatthe “probable cause” they

 proclaim is too tricky and

too abstract to be under-stood by laymen and toohard to be undone even bya judge. Among the dif-cult questions is whether aset of evidence presentedis sufcient to say whether there is “probable cause”to charge a person in courtand hold him for trial.

Because of these re-alities, the prosecutors caneasily take advantage of the lack of understanding

 by the laymen if the pros-

ecutors want to le a casein court against personsfor motives of money, de-fense of ego, or defense of the reputation of a class of 

 persons or a group.The abuse of “prob-

able cause” is also done by prosecutors who never care that their decisionsare products of guess-works due to laziness or lack of intellectual capac-ity to discern issues of facts.

In other words, evenwith just little probabilitythat one person could have

 been the perpetrator of anycrime that is punishable

with life imprisonment or reclusion perpetua, our 

  prosecutors can destroyone’s life by just ling anycase that accuses of an of-fense.

Much more destruc-tion would be caused to

  persons charged by the  prosecutors with criminaloffense that do not allow

  bail for a temporary lib-erty.

Imagine the conse-quence of being chargedwith a non-bailable of-fense!

A person has to surren-der and consent to be de-tained as long as the case isnot terminated if he wants

to prove his innocence tothe charge of murder or   parricide led by the con-cerned prosecutor.

Much more revoltingit becomes upon knowingthat the case would run toat least one year and thismeans one year of deten-tion of the innocent. If the person succeeded in

  proving his innocence,how can the honor andfreedom lost be recov-ered?

So that it is seen howa prosecutor becomes amenace of the societywhen he gets mad at any-

  body and he say there is“probable cause” out of fabricated or insufcienttestimonies and docu-ments to impugn the worstassault against the man heis angry at.

He is equally an instru-ment of evil even if the

 prosecutor is honest but hedoes not care whether hisdecision is correct or not.

Cases of Lacson andWebb:

Look at Senator Pan-lo Lacson.

Lacson hid because if he faced the accusationsthat he allegedly master-minded the murders of 

  publicist Salvador “Bub- by” Dacer and the latter’sdriver Emmanuel Corbito,it meant Lacson must beimprisoned rst while hiscase was being tried.

And if Lacson is in-deed innocent, it is devas-tating to his person, to hisfamily, and to his honor to be charged with doublemurder that does not allow

 bail for temporary liberty.Knowing that the

Court of Appeals threw

out the case against Lac-son that the appellate tri-

  bunal found there was no  probable cause that Lac-

son could have killed Dac-er and Corbito, it meansthat the CA was not con-vinced that the evidence

 presented by the prosecu-tors have not been enoughto say there was “probablecause” that the senator isguilty.

In other words, it con-rms the argument of thelawmaker that he was onlycharged because his politi-cal opponents, Gloria Ar -royo and Mike Arroyo, or-dered the state prosecutorsto do so as the couple’s re-venge for exposing “JosePidal” scandals and manyothers.

So that if Lacson ranand hid, it shows morenow that it does not neces-sarily follow, or it is nonsequitor, that he is guilty.From that, we say it is afallacy to state that ightmeans guilt and to say thatthe innocent is bold as alion. Rather, these phrases

  born by time are not truefor all cases.

Supposing Lacson didnot hide and he squarelyfaced the charges but hehad to be jailed, can wesay there is a good reasonto justify his detention af-ter the Court of Appealsdeclared there was no suf-

cient evidence to provethe case against him?

See Hubert Webb andassume that the decisionof the Supreme Court ac-quitting him is correct.

Will it be justice to bedetained for the long timethat his case was yet be-ing tried by the ParañaqueRegional Trial Court onlyto be proclaimed as “in-nocent” by the SupremeCourt after 15 years?

If persons possessedof power and wealth likeLacson and Webb have be-come victims, how muchworse would happen to or-dinary individuals?

The bottom line here is

conscience.Air-tight evidencestandard:

This means that if a prosecutor decides tole a case of murder or other case that carriesnon-bailable offense, the

  prosecutor must satisfyhis impartial consciencethat he is more or lessconvinced that he hasa good chance to getconviction. Otherwise,even if he knows that thewhole mass of evidencehe has are not enough,he will be pricked by therevolt in his mind and of the upright’s.

The judges mustalso now do their dutyto examine and approve

or disapprove what the  prosecutors are feedingthem. Else, it will be arepetition of injusticeand an abdication of their constitutional dutyto determine personally“probable cause” to jus-tify holding the accusedin detention while thetrial is going on.

If ever there is a le-gal standard that is fol-lowed to avoid charging

 persons of crimes even if there is lack of evidence,American jurisprudencesays that the grand juriesmust satisfy their con-science that the evidence

 presented to them by the prosecutor are just a lit-tle less than the amountneeded to convict.

In the mind of thiswriter, the fair stan-dard shall be one wherethe available pieces of evidence stand a goodchance to win convic-tion. By this way, atleast the prosecutioncannot be pricked byhis conscience even if it turns out that the bestof his evidence was notenough to convict. Tofollow a standard lower than this will result ininjustice.

Privileged spits

By Toto C. Causing

Hernz quarry

By Hernani Q. Cuare

PAOCC chief Ochoa’s P300M intelligence fund

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 Vol. II No. 71 October 17-23, 2011

Simplifed Libel Law 

in the PhilippinesBy BERTENI “TOTO” CATALUÑA CAUSING

A

S in all other crimes, the defense of lack of element is a complete defense in itself.

Remember that all crimes have ele-

ments. These elements are determined bythe denition of the crime as dened bylaws.

If we talk about theft, the elements as taken from

the denition given by the Revised Penal Code are:(a) the act of taking the thing that is movable or le-

gally meant as “personal property”; (b) the thing be-longs to another; (c) the taking must have no consent

from the owner of the thing; (d) the manner of taking

must not be one attended by force, intimidation or violence; (e) the taking was with intent to gain.

So that if there was taking without permission

from the owner, there is no crime of theft as long asthe element of “intent to gain” is not proven beyond

reasonable doubt.So that even if it was proven that the taking of the

thing was done by the person other than the owner of 

the thing, there is still no crime of theft of the pros-

ecution cannot prove lack of permission from theowner.

Similar is the rule in libel.There are only four elements in the crime of li-

 bel and these are simple to remember as having been

taught in Chapter II. Just remember the acronym“DIMP.”

“D” stands for defamation, or a word or a group

of words that put one person in shame before thosewho happen to read or heard of the publication of 

such word or group of word.

“I” stands for identication. This means that the  person put to shame was named in the published

item. Sometimes, even if not identied by name, the person put to shame can be identied by the descrip-

tions given in the published item.

“M” stands for malice. This means that the author or the publisher of the published item had the inten-

tion to put to shame the person named or describedin the publication.

“P” stands for publication. This means that the

word or the group of words that put another person

to shame was published. By “publication,” it meansthat the word or the group of words was read by at

least one person who is other than the person whowas put to shame by this word or group of words.

If any of these four elements is not proven or is

absent, there is no libel.To understand this defense of lack of element

 better, the author deems it best to present examples,hypothetical or true-to-life story.

First example: Lack of identication

Assume that this is a news article, to wit:

“A congressman from the South was caught

 pumping on top of his mistress atop a bed whenthe woman’s husband surprised them at a roomin Manila Hotel the other day.

“The solon is the incumbent representativeof one of the four districts of Davao City andallied with the political party of the President.

“Outraged by what he saw, the husbandwho is a military ofcer poked his gun on

the lovers and ordered the lawmaker torun naked on the hallway in the fourth

oor of the hotel.“The husband was cooled down by

his companions and he let the

congressman go and con-

tented himself by berating his wife.”

There is no doubt that this report put this congressman to shame.

However, the descriptions provided in the story cannot pinpoint who is this

congressman considering there are four districts and at least two districts have acongressman who is a man.

As such, there is the lack of the element of identication.And if there is no element of identication, there is no libel.

Second example: Lack of publication

Lack of publication means that the story that shamed a person was not pub-lished.

By saying “not published,” it means it was not published in a newspaper or 

not posted on Facebook or other online platforms that can be opened and read byother people.

By saying it was not published, it also means that it was not aired on television

or radio, or not sent through letters or text messages to persons other the person being defamed, or not faxed to another person.

This means that even if the message is damaging, as long as this was sent onlyto the person being shamed, there is no libel.

But remember that although the person who was the one shamed was the only

 person who read the message cannot le a libel case, that person case can still re -cover by ling a case for moral damages, exemplary damages, and attorney’s fees.An example may be this:“The mayor of Quezon City was caught red-handed in a drug buy-bust opera -

tion conducted by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) last

night inside a VIP room of a night club in the city.”

 Now, this story was not published in a newspaper or not broadcast in any tele-vision or radio station. It was not also sent to as a text message or was not postedon any website.

There is no doubt that this statement is damaging to the mayor; he was identi-ed; and there was malice for it was not true. However, it was not published. Assuch, there is no libel.

But if this is a text message and was sent to the cellular phone alone of thesaid mayor and it was only that mayor who read that, the mayor can still le a suitfor damages. But this damage cannot be based on libel but the emotional stresscaused by the message sent privately.

Third example: Lack of malice

The lack of malice aspect is actually the most contentious issue in libel. But

there are a few occasions that occur where it is very clear that the author has nomalice or no intention to put another person to shame.

This is common in reporting what happened in an ofcial proceeding. The pro -

ceeding might be about a Senate or House inquiry into jueteng where one witnessnamed a governor, for example Governor Chavit Singson of Ilocos Sur, as thenancier and protector of jueteng in his province and that he was also the one col -

lecting protection money from other gambling lords in the rest of the Philippines.Because a report is only a plain report of what happened by quoting what the

witness testied to, on the part of the reporter and the newspaper there is clearlyno intention to destroy Chavit Singson.

This example may be this:“Former Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz testied yesterday before

the Senate inquiry into jueteng that Ilocos Sur Governor Chavit Singson has beenthe one nancing and protecting illegal gambling in his province and has also beenthe one collecting gambling protection money from all other lords of illegal lotter-ies in the rest of the country.”

 Now, if it is true that a Senate inquiry occurred “yesterday,” that the bishoptestied, that his testimony is this, then it is very clear that the reporter or publisher was merely reporting what happened in that ofcial proceeding.

Another example may be a police operation, a kind of ofcial proceeding. Itmay be like this:

“Police operatives declared yesterday in their after-operation afdavit that theysaw the vice mayor of Timbuktu City as among the armed men who shot it outwith the lawmen after the robbers barged inside Logarta Bank on Dinero St.”

A police response that resulted in a shootout is an ofcial proceeding. The ex -

ecution or the signing of after-operation report narrating the events that occurred

in the said police response is a part of that ofcial proceeding.As such, it is very clear that the reporter and his publisher did not have any

intention of maligning the honor of the vice-mayor for they just reported only what

happened in the said ofcial proceedings.

Chapter IVDefense of Lack of Element

Fourth example: Lack of defamation

Another contentious issue in the discussion of 

libel is the presence or the absence of defamation.Defamation may be any word that may cast

shame on one person. Sometimes, what is defaming

to one person is not defaming to another. But the keyto know whether one published word or statement

is defaming is to consider the person to whom the

word or group of words was ascribed and to gaugethis against his personal circumstances.

An example of this is this:“Multi-awarded swimmer Akiko Thomson was

removed from the national team due to dismal per-

formance in her training for the past three months.”For Akiko, this may be shameful because this is

humiliating for a person like her who has registered

tremendous performance in almost all internationalmeets.

But if the same is said of an upcoming swimmer 

who tried out for the national team, it is not as hu-

miliating.And if it is humiliating in the case of Akiko, then

there is defamation.But if it is not humiliating in the case of another 

 person, then there is no defamation.

Summary

In sum, just remember that the absence of any

of the four elements of libel, which are coined as

“DIMP,” means there is no libel.An advice to a writer, therefore, is this: if there

is no document to support the allegations, although

the allegations are true as the writer knows these al-legations personally, it is safer to avoid a case by not

giving the identity of the subject of the allegations.

It is also advised to all writers or reporters that if they do not have documents to support they should

avoid mentioning the names of persons involved inexplosive exposes, even if they personally know or witnessed with their own eyes any violation of the

law, or any act of immorality.In this case, the best thing to do, as obligations

of dutiful citizens, is to le proper complaints andalleged everything that they know even if they didnot have documentary evidence to support the alle-

gations.

After all, allegations that can stand cross exami-nations can sufce to convict or prove guilt in certaincases.

After the complaint is led, then a reporter canreport the ling of the complaint and the contentstherein.

And in reporting the ofcial event of ling andthe content of the event there is no libel.

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Humble the work of myhands,

Let me see clearly withunpolluted heart,

Understand fellow hu-mans in truth.

Everything recognizes ahumble heart,

Everyone knows theheight of humanity is hu-mility,

Humble the hand thatwrites these words,

  The voice that readsthese symbols of expression,

Let the proud fall fromhis or her sky,

Surprise evil-wishers withlove upon their lips,

Let the needy taste theabundance of the humanheart,

  The greedy see thewealth of love he or shemay share,

Let the murderer see thatto kill is to take his or herown life,

 To murder a thousand isto kill himself or herself athousand times more,

Washing the dishes sothe tired wife may rest

Is the way of an enlight-ened heart,

 The child who tries to dogood in school

 To please his or her par-ents manifests love and un-derstanding,

  The accused who admitshis or her wrong-doing

And hates his or her oldways

By beginning to do the op-posite exhibits true seeing.

Let my sins now melt inthe ink,

Meld into the work of myheart

In an act of sharing mymortality,

 The world knows it’s com-ing to an end someday,

But, the self shall continue,Having vibrated in spaceSelf in pure self vibratingAlong the elliptical course

of its existence,It will survive even after all

the histories, The faults, the pains, the

forgiveness,After all it has been

through,

After the fears, the bound-aries of one’s construct

It will continue self to self With the memories it

wants to remember.

Eastern-ward as the sunMust make a pause,A long pause before de-

claring itself the sun, The love that holds every-

thing togetherMust also pause, pray for

reasons, To dawn, explain, save the

screamFrom waking a world so

used to its own dream,Pray for light to un-cease

its flow  Through the bends and

turns of space, To reach a dark corner,  To touch the hand that

has hidden itself For so long now, to caress

the faceBombarded with miseries

and silence, To evade the name givenAnd at last just to be hu-

man, feeling the brutal pains.

I have chosen you amongthe many,

I shall hold your hand andwalk through your door,

Enter the house, home of your humble hopes,

Sit on a wooden chair,strong and heavy,

Once in a list of things tobe covered by the next pay-check,

 Taste the coffee you offer,Light a cigarette and listen

to your casual expressions,And listen, too, to the si-

lence there, To the dreams that hound-

ed you,Why you missed your as-

signed roomBy one floor, yes, I shall

listen to those dreams  That have tortured you,

and the kindnessAppropriated to your age

and achievements,  The heartaches that your

poet’s heartNeeded to bear, you shall

walk me To your memories, I shall

dine with your friends,

Oh, they shall see mycrooked smile

And whisper about it, youhave my attention.

I am here.

Muse you have followedall this lifetime,

Brilliant star in your wak-ing hours,

Romancing, blessing yoursolitude with warm light,

I salute her, adore herin so many ways

For accompanying apoor poet in his many jour-neys,

Guiding his strides to themany good life can offer,

 To the many wisdom suchpen holds,

Brightest in the midnightthe angel-muse

Gives you that terrific kiss,  That first and last kiss

you treasure forever,Like a surgeon the hands

of my mindExtra careful, gentle and

preciseAs I summon the images

with the scalpel of the word,

Visit hid-den corners for traces of pain,

Endure the sadistic worldyou have memorized by touch,

  There I create awound upon the wound,

Part the tall leaves of grass where

Once you’ve found your-self lost,

Smell the scent of yourfootprints in the cold earth,

You’ve been here alright,your shadow directs

Me towards the city, yourscent still alive in the air,

Your words still in thewind,

Your voice still violentlyshattering the silence,

While the silver moon

borrows the city lights, The fog thick and hid-

eous concealing  The mouth of a cave

so hidden from view,Yet always there with

minotaurSo defeated and de-

stroyed, its greedReduced to shades of 

dreams,Beneath the microscope

of versesI see the skies my father

has followedAs a young man, saw

glimpses  Through his youthful

eyes,Sending me back to the

place and timeBeyond my hour of birth,

 There, beneath the bor-rowed light,

 The city lost its heroes.

Much better is whenthe prosecutors and the

 judges follow the standardof “air-tight” evidence.This is the standard thatretired Supreme CourtJustice Conchita CarpioMorales said she woulduse in dispensing her du-ties as the Ombudsman.

I quote what she saidin her rst press confer -ence: “You just don’t go  berserk in ling a case if you believe the case doesnot merit conviction justto please the public ex-

 pectation.” In determining

whether to le a criminalcase in court, she addeda caution not to rely toomuch on witnesses whosometimes are “barkingleft and right.”

Weakness of the system:

This “probable cause”abuse can be blamed onthe natural weakness of the system of decidingwho to charge in court,which system exposes the  prosecutors to inuencesof money, power andfear. The same vulner-

ability opens one-judgecourt to the same forceswhen deciding the fate of the accused, as to the ap-

  proval or disapproval of the “probable cause” be-ing recommended by the

  prosecutors and as to theconviction or acquittal.

One thing is sure here,though. The system of grand juries removes al-most all possibilities for inuences to dictate onhow “probable cause” isdecided by the 23 persons

  because their names andfaces are hidden from the

 public.The system of trial jury

 puts up a very high obsta-cle for the rich or power-ful accused or accuser totry to inuence the jurors.

One reason why trial  jury is almost air-tightagainst inuence is thatonce the trial begins, itwas only at that time when

  jurors are seen by thosewho attend court hearings.

The hearing contin-ues daily until the jurorsgive their decision and the

 judge applies punishments  based on the ndings of 

the jury.Besides, jurors are kept

in a secret place if those in-volved in the case are big

  personalities like the Am- patuans to remove virtuallyall opportunities to get intouch with the jurors.

Other justications for air-tight evidence rule:

This is not invokingthe setting aside of the ruleof detention while the casefor a heinous crime is be-ing tried. This is becauseits purpose is noble and

that is to protect the rest of the citizens from the dan-gers posed by criminals.

However, it must berecognized also that it ismore injustice to detain aninnocent person than com-mitting murder or another heinous crime.

It must still be recog-nized that it is better to leta hundred criminals roamthe streets than imprisonone innocent man.

It must also be recog-nized that in deciding tocharge one person in courtfor a heinous crime, the

  prosecutors must recog-nize the need to think over a thousand times wheth-er they can consciencecharging one person for a heinous crime in courtconsidering that theywould be detaining these

  persons for years whilethe cases are being tried.

Perhaps, for the prose-cutors to better understandthe call of conscience,they should place their selves in the shoes of theaccused and think a thou-sand times whether theywill not revolt in injustice.

Air-tight proof must be the rule

P    oetry

R    eality

In this excerpt of the epic poem in progress,“Ten Thousand Lines Project for World Peace,”author Edwin M. Cordevilla obviously nds him-self in a soliloquy of sort, as if talking to the onehe worships as his hero to guide him through adarkness of anger.

Edwin nds himself in an occasion where he

hardly controls his revolting ego. It is like he ismad at a woman. So he is seeking the power of humility to make him humble that to the contrary

 brings him to glory in eternity.That power brings him to reason to defeat his

anger. It beckons in his mind that to do things inthe opposite of reasons achieves the purpose bet-ter.

So he thinks that to kill is to kill one’s self. Tomurder a thousand times more is to murder one’sself as many times. He thinks to do laundry thatis not a man’s role is to give the needed rest to the

wife as the sun that rests at night.One that illustrates this “theory of the opposite”

 better is when Jose Rizal surrendered his mortal body to the whims and caprices of the Spaniard,leading his death expressed in a too powerfulmessage of “Mi Ultimo Adios” to give birth to aman that is ying high forever in the memory of 

millions of years, giving life and strength to thestruggle that yearned for freedom as an indepen-dent nation.

Edwin espouses that in a feat of anger one canhardly see the light. But the guidance given by the“opposite rule” leads him to see through the blind-ing maze of anger. When he searches through thedimly-lit shadows, he nds that hidden hand thatcaresses that he brings with him as part of him, asone he walks with forever, as one he assures “I amhere.” Is this a battery?

So the lovely love still goes on. This time the

horror of anger revisits him, leading him to vowinto regrets and reassure that love once found may

 pause but love, as life, must remain. In this mo-ment, he is reminded by memories of his father hecalls his lost hero.

So read the poem and see the power of thecombination of thoughts presented in a manner 

that is hardly un-derstood by thosewho do not knowhow to see whatdoes not meet theeye. But when un-derstood one canfeel the warmth and the

 power of his emotion andreasons blending together to achieve peace of themind.

Editor’s brief review of the poem entitled “Humble the Work”:

Humble the Work 

The root of their ght istheir respective men.

It was said that GeneralPeñaor’s men who arecontractual were unrulyand arrogant.

It also said that the menof Major Delos Santos areall organic Airport policeofcers.

Anyway, it is hoped

that GM BODET HON-RADO would x the dis-

 pute between the two “pa-suways.”

Else, the next encoun-ter would convert the

  NAIA into a la Mindanao  battleground between thetwo groups.

IS B/GEN. PEÑAFLOR“ALREADY MADE”?

 Many MIAA employ-

ees are so envious of re-tired GEN. BADONG

Sexytary Booba & her two lovers ...From page 8 PEÑAFLOR because by

his form alone he lookslike “already made” even

 before he came to MIAA.They said that he is the

only person tagged along  by Bodet Honrado whenthe latter assumed the postof MIAA General Manager who was already “made namade.”

Peñaor sports a RO-

LEX SOLID GOLD DAY-TONA that costs morethan P1 million. He drivesHyundai Sonata.

Whoa! He is indeed“already made.”

He is not like one re-tired general who wears a

 plastic wristwatch.By the way, Sir Ba-

dong, there is a law, RA6713, and an executiveorder that prohibits displayof lavish lifestyle.

Additionaly, Article 25of the Civil Code prohibits

a thoughtless display of extravagance in times of crisis.

It is up to you, Sir Ba-dong. We are only con-cerned that P-Noy mighttake a peep on you.

Many MIAA employ-ees are asking how it hap-

 pened that Sir Badong be-came rich.

Did it come from “pa-

 baon”?Just asking, Sir Ba-

dong!

UPDATE ON SEXYTARYBOOBA & HER TWOLOVERS

We learned that LESBO(t-bird) already knew thather rival for her love bird,“SEXYTARY BOOBA,”isone alias D’ MAX, a sharpshooter.

We also learned LES-BO bought a gun to be

  prepared that in the even-tuality of “kapag puno naang salop” she can shootthe man who she describedas the one who “tomoto-rotot sa kanya” and this isD’MAX.

We learned that Lesboeven warned: “ISANGBALA ka lang din.”

Even if she would bekilled, Lesbo warned that

she will make it sure thatshe and D’MAX will dietogether!

Tsk tsk tsk...Are we expecting a

crime of passion in the Bu-reau of Immigration in thenear future?

Anyway, we learnedthat this “Sexytary Booba”is super “sucker” to aliasD’Max.

She even requested for her Lesbo lover to be trans-ferred to NAIA T-3 from

 NAIA T-1.

Of course, she wantedthat the duty time of Lesbowould be night time to giveher long bonding momentswith D’Max.

Rare indeed is the cha-risma of this “SexytaryBooba.”

Come to think of it, two  persons of the Bureau of Immigration are mad likedogs for her beauty!

They said that the per-formance level of Booba isa la DIVA.

But seriously speaking,I would like to remind thesethree BI lovers they are allviolating the BI CODE OFCONDUCT, specically the  provision on MORALITYIN THE PUBLIC SER -VICE under Rule V Section1, which says:

“The highest degree of morality shall be expectedand practiced by all of-cials & employees. Hence,illicit relationships, dis-graceful and immoral con-duct and corruption shall

not be tolerated and willnot remain unpunished.”

Is this clear, friends?

GUESS WHO: IMMIGRA-TION OFFICIAL NOSE-BLEEDING IN ENGLISH

This madam is superbin form. Sophisticated,strict and a little bit respect-able when seen.

If you don’t know her,you would be held in awe by her rened moves.

You pair her moveswith her tailored Immigra-tion uniform you will ndyourself breathless. Muchmore if you know that“Madam Kulot” is a chief of ofce.

But not all that glittersis gold.

She is only a matter of form and not of substance.

If we talk about meet-ings and conferences, youwill see and hear her nose-

 bleeding in her English.Hak hak hak!

There could have beenno problem if Madam Ku-lot were not an ofce chief.

And since the Bureauof Immigration is dealingwith the movements of for-eigners, speaking correctEnglish is necessary.

They discovered later that the reasons why MadamKulot was shunning awayfrom meetings was this fear in talking with foreigners.

Everytime there would be a meeting, she would al-

ways keep quiet. Her Eng-lish is not so good.

Maybe Madam Kulot“needs cash” to make her English very nice?

You can match it with“Speech Power” training,Madam.

What can you say, Ex-ecutive Director D’Max?Do you know her?

CLUE: She is so known  by Atty. Tonette Mangro- bang.

Get it?

Edwin Cordevilla 

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SE X Y TARY BOOBA & HER T WO LOV ERS;M A DA M KULOT’S NOSE-BLEEDING ENGLISH

WHERE is a SAMPOLof check and balance atBI-NAIA!

Bureau of Immigrationemployees at the NinoyAquino International Air-

  port (NAIA) thought thatthe FERDIE SAMPOL-style of administration is

already “those were thedays” for their public ser-

that are in direct and clear conict with each other.

During the time of GMA, Sampol was thehead of both the BI-NAIAand MCMG. The resultwas demoralized Immigra-tion ofcers (IOs), mainly

 because it was only the in-ner circle of Sampol who

were HAPPY!Tsk tsk tsk.

vid na ginagano’n-gano’nlang siya nina Sampol atGueverro?”

Many are also taunt-ing that for this STYLE toend, Commissioner Davidshould impose a LIFE-STYLE CHECK and NO-LEAVE policies on the twoto show his authority.

For sure, it cannot bedenied Ferdie Sampol has

and CEO of LOCKHEED.He is not a PMAer but

he is an alumnus of Philip- pine College of Criminol-ogy (PCCr).

He is the father of onevice-governor of EasternVisayas who ran and wonin the last elections under 

Liberal Party, the party of P-Noy.

Let us see if under Lockheed’s watch the se-curity and safety at the

 NAIA will improve.Let us also see if Lock-

eed’s entry will bring upthe IMAGE of the NAIA

  before international agen-cies monitoring the situa-tions of airports around theworld.

Remember that beforeone traveler’s blog postedthat NAIA Terminal 1 isthe worst in the world,MIAA has been dying toget an upgrade in ratingto Category 1 of the US

Federal Aviation Adminis-tration.

Before MIAA canachieve this, it has to passthe requisites laid down byInternational Civil Avia-tion Organization (ICAO).

It could be recalled thatin 2008, NAIA was down-graded to Category 2.

Until now, it has failedto regain the rating despitethe efforts of MIAA.

Hopefully, MIAA canconvince ICAO and US-FAA to upgrade NAIA

  back to the top category.If it succeeds, it will be a big boost to the country’stourism.

Is it not, Mr. Dante“Worst Airport Manager”Basanta?

 ESCUDERO OPPOSES ‘OTPAY’ OF IMMIGRATIONWORKERS?

 One who is strongly

opposing the implementa-tion of the OVERTIMEPAY for Immigration em-  ployees is Sen. CHIZ ES-CUDERO.

It cannot be understoodwhy Escudero is mad atOT pay of Immigrationemployees.

When during the timeof Rep. Rufus Rodriguezas BI Commissioner heworked hard for the grantto Immigration employeesof hard-earned “OT pay”,

it puzzles why other GOV-ERNMENT OFFICIALSare now mad at the work-ers getting it.

Sen. CHIZ, it is not like“HINOG NA BAYABAS”that Juan Tamad wouldonly wait for its fall on hismouth. Immigration em-

  ployees worked hard for that OT.

Okay, let it be done thisway. Let us make a lawfor the P120-milion PORK BARREL of Senator Chizwill be used to pay for theOT pay of Immigrationemployees.

Will you agree, Senator Chiz?

For one to understand  better is to experienceabout the thing one isagainst at.

Let Senator Chiz work as an immigration employ-ee to be compelled to work in the wee hours to servethe passengers of dawnights.

One thing more, whywill Senator Chiz crowabout payments for theOTs when it is the airlinesthat pay for and that thisimmigration fees werealready charged by theairlines from their passen-gers?

INTEL OFFICER IV POSTAT BI HOTLY CONTESTED It is learned that WIL-

LY POQUE este POQUEZhas retired from the onlyIntelligence Ofcer IV

 plantilla position at the Bu-reau of Immigration.

This is the reason con-fusion is now reigningat the ofce of BI Intel-ligence Ofce chief Atty.Tonette Mangrobang.

It is gathered that At-torney Mangrobang andJerome Gabulsa este Gabi-onza were the rst to applyfor this position.

But somebody was said

to be aspiring for this posi-tion and he was identiedas a certain Col. OROPEL.

He sounds as an out-sider!

Are there other wan-nabes?

If there is ever one whohas the edge, the loud-est name is that of Atty.Tonette Mangrobang be-cause she is super strong toDefense Secretary VoltaireGazmin.

According to a pinch-er at the BI main ofce:“What Tonette wants,Tonette gets!”

Let’s just wait and see!

DAVID WILL FIGHT FOR“OT PAY” OF IMMIGRA-TION EMPLOYEES

 

In the last ag-raisingceremony, Commissioner Ric David stood rm onhis position to ght for theOVERTIME PAY of theemployees of the Bureauof Immigration.

He made it clear to hismen and women that heis at the forefront of thisght.

He stated he will notallow that this privilegeenjoyed by Immigrationemployees will vanish intothin air during his term atthe BI.

Well, it is one shame-ful history for the BI if during his term the OT

 pay is lost after it has beenenjoyed by BI employeesduring the previous ad-ministrations.

For one, it is in the lawthat the employees are en-titled to enjoy it.

Well, Commissioner David, what you haveshown is a good exampleof leadership.

At last, the BI rank &le employees heard thatright from your mouth.

With that, the employ-ees will not feel that youare just another politicalduck who only wanteda position in the govern-ment.

If you succeed, that isthe best way of provingto Immigration employeesthat you want to leave alegacy.

Show it to them thatyou yourself is the onelobbying for the retentionof the OT pay in the Con-gress.

And if I am not mis-taken, BI Associate Com-missioner Siegfred Misonis preparing for the posi-tion paper of the bureau for your lobbying.

Mabuhay ka, Commis-sioner David!

We are one in that ghtof yours.

RECALL ‘TRES MARIAS’FROM DAVAO-IMMIGRA-TION

We will not won-der why the syndicate of “AMOY KAMBING” inDavao City lives on.

Why?In Davao it was learned

that TRES MARIASnamed “Ave Maria,” “Lu-ningning” and alias “PIT-SA” are stomping their feet that held others inhelpless awe.

This is the reason thatthe three are smiling inhigh heavens, Commis-sioner Ric David.

We will not also won-der why illegal Indianstroop to Davao. This is

 because they press buttons

and ‘tongpats’ to TRESMARIAS.For what?Well, alias AVE MA-

RIA has always been seensoaking in a casino be-cause money overows outof their pockets.

The “Tres Marias” arethe “CALL-A-FRIEND”

  buddies of two notoriousIndian human trafck -ers known as “JIMMYDAVAO a.k.a. BALBIR SINGH” and “TONYDAVAO aka INDERJITSINGH.”

This is just a sugges-tion, Commissioner David:subject the Tres Marias to

LIFESTYLE checks.With the big illegalincome of the three, youwould be shocked Com.David to see what richesdo the TRES MARIAShave now.

Keep them in a box,Commissioner Ric or intheir next deal you wouldexplode.

Go, Commissioner David!

RETIRED GENERAL PEÑA-FLOR VS. MAJOR DELOSSANTOS

 The news exploded

in Barangay NAIA and it

said that a battle cannot  be stopped between twoofcials.

It is a ght betweenMIAA IID-Pass ControlChief retired B/Gen. Sal-vador Peñaor and IIDChief Major Delos San-tos.

Last week, employ-ees at the NAIA wereshocked before their eyeswhen these two ofcialsshouted invectives at eachother.

Luckily, the two “cow-  boys” cooled down later.Otherwise, blood wouldood the NAIA Terminal 1.

i-Watch columnist Jerry S. Yap poses with the two brave Lims: Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim and Bureau of Customs Deputy Director for Intelligence Danilo Lim.

vice with the coming of thenew ofcials appointed bythe champion of “Matuwid

 Na Daan.”But the employees are

wrong and wronged!It shows there is no

such a thing as CHECK and BALANCE there.

How can there be check and balance if BI’s chief of its NAIA Airport Op-erations Division (AOD) isLINA ANDAMAN PELIAwhen she is also at thesame time the chief of BI’sTravel Control Enforce-ment Unit (TCEU)?

By the law of natureand mandate, the TCEUis supposed to watch over the Immigration countersto ensure no non-allowable

 passengers slip out of thecountry.

It is the duty of theTCEU to stop Filipino pas-sengers from departing thecountry if they look more

as “POSSIBLE CANDI-DATES” for human traf-cking.

It is just like putting acat and a mouse in one per-son. How can a cat watch amouse if they both refer tothe same person?

If not awkward it isdownright illogical to as-sign only one person tohead two ofces whereone is designed to watchthe other.

There is no belittlingthe professional compe-tence of Pelia in runningBI-NAIA. Rather, it iscriticizing and defendingeither of the two interest

That is the question of the IOs to this DEADLINEBEATER.

Can Mrs. Pelia handlethe two conicting divi-sions she heads?

  Nevertheless, this factis established. The realquestion here is: “Where is

walang korap walang ma-hirap doctrine?”

Please answer this, BIExecutive Director EricDimaculangan!

NEVER-ENDING LEAVE OFSAMPOL & GUEVERRO?

What news is this thatsays that the leave of for-mer BI-NAIA chief FerdieSampol and his aide Jon- jon Gueverro will run untilOctober 31?

It was said that one“tongressman” éste con-gressman lobbied for theapproval of “leave with-out end” of Sampol and

Gueverro.It was also learned that

Sampol and Gueverro arestill intending to extendtheir leave while they con-tinuously receive salariesfrom the bureau.

With the long leave thatthey have already enjoyed,it is amazing to think if they still have leave creditsleft.

With this fact, manyare asking the main BIofce on what will Com-missioner Ric David do tothis STYLE of Sampol andGueverro.

They ask: “Papayag  ba si Commissioner Da-

displayed thoughtless ex-travagance since the timewhen his “call-a-friend”  buddy, ex-president’s sonMikey Arroyo, was still in

 power, a lifestyle that canhardly be supported by hissalaries.

Sampol was really ooz-

ing with luck during thetime of Gloria.

Has Sampol been in-cluded when Mikey andhis wife Angela werecharged with tax evasion? No, he hasn’t.

Lady Luck smiled atMr. ex-Glamour Boy incountless times then—andnow!

Come to think of it: hehas been enjoying a verylong vacation with leave!

Is he testing or playingaround with Commission-er David?

I-SAMPOL NGA!

PASSCOR OUT, LOCK-

HEED IN

If we are not mistaken,this October 21 was thelast day of the TOUR OFDUTY of the securityguards of PASSCOR at the

 NAIA.Ofcially, Lockheed

Detective and WatchmanAgency, Inc. has started itsduties as the new security

 provider of the NAIA.This means that 80 per-

cent of PASSCOR secu-rity guards would lose jobsfrom the airport for thesewill go to LOCKHEED.

Col. ESTEBAN UY, Jr.is the chairman, president