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n the first week of the launch of her new program, reelectionist Senator Loren Legarda has already brought her LOREN sa Bawat Barangay to Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. “We have already brought LOREN sa Bawat Barangay to Baguio City, Butuan City and Mandaue City in the first three days of launching the program. My aim SEN. LOREN LEGARDA is to bring it to more areas in the country so that our citizens will be informed about the livelihood and employment “Our laws will only be opportunities available to effective if they are them,” said Legarda. implemented well and LOREN, which means Livelihood Opportunities to implementation includes Raise Employment information and education Nationwide, is a consultation campaign. Not everyone is with various sectors of aware of these laws on society and concerned local livelihood and employment, government agencies on how and LOREN sa Bawat to create more employment Barangay aims to inform our and entrepreneurship citizens that we have these opportunities through various laws that can help them get related laws—the Public employed and have better Employment Service Office income,” she explained. “This program also aims (PESO) Act, the Magna Carta for Micro, Small and Medium to strengthen employment Enterprises (MSME), the creation, facilitation, and Barangay Kabuhayan Act, and enhancement, which must all the Agri-Agra Reform Credit be embedded as part of local Legarda Act, which were all authored governance,” by Legarda. concluded.***
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The Most ... From page 1 Thanks to the new comers who claim to be rich and claim they can afford to spend super money. But not all, some super rich claim they come from poor beginnings. Who didn’t? There could be some major reasons why suddenly, election vote-buying has quickly skyrocketed in Negros Oriental. Firstly, due to early pre-election campaign which started as early as October last year or a good seven months of media airtime buys, fiesta , sports tournaments and beauty contest sponsorships and countless more events that lead to no other than promotion of one’s candidacies. But the two biggest reasons is the political hiatus and.,,,,moooney, man! Political hiatus was unique in that both governor and vice governorelects succumbed in almost rapid succession just when elections were over in 2010. That gave enough time for wannabes to position themselves for the next elections. SUPER-Mooney factor is at stake here. The three leading gubernatorial bets are said to have their money bags ready in four stages: now; on preelection week , day-before , and D-day. One politician said: P300 to P500 was the max Negros Oriental can afford in buying votes in the past. On May 13, it could reach to P1000 per head or more. Still that is lower than the vote-buying prices of Siquijor and Dipolog which could run to P3000 per voter! That’s already the height of stupidity. Only stupid bets and voters buy at such price. Don’t get people wrong: it could still reach P4000 to P5000 per leader here if the candidates are provoked enough. Of course, first, you have to have your picture taken on digital cam, and sign a voucher in three installments. Wow! Puede passport or facebook foto na lang? Mind you, they have their
sources of funds. One bet claims to have funding from kins and relatives abroad (as if working for dollars is peanuts); another got funding from the family business; and another got it from real estate properties; and a fourth one sold his last cow! We don’t want to elaborate. Just keep guessing. If the worst scenario comes along, the foursome are said to be ready with that. AS TO WHO IS BLUFFING, remains to be seen. Looters are ready on the sidelines to pocket election funds instead of giving it out to the voters. Just watch how the watchers are playing their roles on their watch list. Who are the election officers who are living beyond their means? Try to investigate and look around. Visit their mansions. But they always say that it came from honest sources. Of course, it came from honest politicians who desperately wanted to win honestly. SPOKESPERSONS Blocktimers do not own the air lanes and air time but they lease (not buy ) from the radio stations. The air lane is not for sale. It is owned by the State. Government still regulates the air lanes. KBP is the private agency while NTC is the government agency tasked to regulate broadcasting in radio or TV. Cable TV providers are independent. Barkers should know this example: if you rent a house, you have no right to vandalize the house. You will be sued and expelled. If you rent a van or taxi, you have no right to damage its seat covers and canopies. So when you rent air time on a radio station, you are subject to house rules which may vary from station to station PLUS those KBP and NTC rules on ethics. If you violate those house rules as a spokesperson, you deserve to be out although some are tolerated. The barker is not even the payor. The politician is the usual payor and or his alter ego. The
Villar pushes for anti-no exam bill
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ORMER Las Pinas Rep. Cynthia Villar on has vowed to pursue the proposed measure f iled by her husband, outgoing Senator Manny Villar, which prohibits colleges and universities from preventing students to take examinations over unpaid tuition and other school fees. MRS. CHYNTHIA VILLAR The former congresswoman, who is running for senator under the Nacionalista Party-Team reading in the House of PNoy, said this will be Representatives. The senator ’s wife, among her priorities in case she wins a senate seat in the widely-known as “Misis Hanep Buhay,” said it is coming May elections. Sen. Villar belongs to the lamentable this ‘unfortunate’ so-called “graduating incident happened to a young senators” whose term of “Iskolar ng Bayan” at UP Manila, who could be the office ends in June 2013. Sometime in October ‘key’ to take out of 2011, Sen. Villar, a former poverty her parents and four House Speaker and Senate younger siblings. “Another life was President, filed a bill to keep higher educational institutions wasted due to poverty,” said from implementing “No Villar who has also been Permit, No Exam” policies, advocating jobs for saying it amounts to depriving everybody to lead a students the right to take comfortable life. examinations. To avoid another case of Villar’s bill, however, Kristel Tejada, who allows schools to withhold committed suicide after she grades and clearances of was forced to file a leave of students, and keep them from absence (LOA) due to unpaid enrolling again until they settle tuition fees, former Rep. their accounts. But Villar’s Villar also underscored the bill was not passed in the need to revisit and review Senate although it was the policies of our State referred to the Senate Universities and Colleges committee on education (SUCs) to which UP Manila chaired by Senator Edgardo belongs, and the other Angara. It’s counterpart bill educational institutions in the was approved on third country. disclaimers of those stations do not diminish a bit any of the house rules. Pity the morons who cannot understand that. You as a voter should not vote for the candidates whom these vulgar and unethical
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speakers represent and drumbeat for. Just imagine how government will look and sound like with them. And hey, how come they landed in a beautiful place like Dumaguete? Who is responsible for this?