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Noy backers: ‘Tanim-bala’ hatched to make Mar lose By Joyce pangco pañares
SUPPORTERS of the Aquino administration accused the political opposition of planting bullets in the luggage of travelers at the airport to embarrass the government and to discredit the Liberal Party standard bearer Manuel Roxas II.
Singer and Black and White Movement co-convenor Leah Navarro described the scam which has victimized tourists and overseas Filipino workers as a “project” to shame the Aquino administration. “Whoever is behind this ‘tanim-bala’ project: remember, you don’t just shame the admin, you shame all Filipinos, including yourselves,” Navarro said in her Facebook account. “And then there are those WW2 memorabilia collectors [smugglers?]. Could they
be adding to a growing hysteria over laglagbala?” she added. Another administration supporter and actress Cynthia Patag said the growing scandal over an extortion syndicate at the airport was nothing but a “cheap trick” aimed at bringing down the ratings of President Benigno Aquino III and Roxas. “Can’t you tell? Dagdag-bala is a demolition job by THE MALEVOLENT MINIONS ordered by their demonyo leaders to
discredit the Aquino administration, ultimately the LP’s presidential candidate Mar Roxas. C’mon,” Patag wrote in her Facebook account. But lawyer Jong de Guzman, whose sister fell victim to the scam, posted a rejoiner to Patag and Navarro. “I do not know you, Ms. Cynthia Patag, but apparently we have mutual friends mostly from the LP [Liberal Party], including the President himself. I take exception Next page
Remembering the dead. A relative of a victim of Typhoon ‘Yolanda’ visits the graveyard in Tacloban City on Nov. 1, almost two years after the howler killed more than 7,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands. Mel Caspe
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‘Dinky lying about Yolanda rehab progress’ By Rio N. araja A GROUP of Typhoon “Yolanda” survivors on Sunday slammed Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman for lying about the progress of rehabilitation work in Eastern Visayas. “Dinky is a liar,” People Surge secretary-general Marissa Cabaljao said,
referring to Soliman by her nickname. People Surge, an alliance of the typhoon survivors in Eastern Visayas, said Soliman deliberately deceived the public when she said there would no longer be any bunkhouses in Tacloban City by the end of October. “This is far from reality,” Cabaljao said in a statement. “On the last day of
October, People Surge visited the IPI [International Pharmaceutical Inc.] bunkhouse at Caibaan, one of the bunkhouses in Tacloban. What we witnessed were more or less 400 families still living in bunkhouses. Dinky Soliman broke another promise to the hundreds of families who have long been waiting for Next page permanent shelter.”