Following story by Gerald Naval in Malaya. Picture borrowed from Ivan Henares without his permission.
FORMER Philippine Tourism Authority (PTA) general managers Angelito Banayo and Nixon Kua yesterday asked Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano to bring charges against current PTA chief Robert Dean Barbers at the Office of the Ombudsman and the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission over the sports complex Barbers is building outside the walls of Intramuros.
Banayo and Kua said the construction is illegal and is putting the centuries-old walls of Intramuros in peril.
Historical and cultural conservationists are also raising hell over the sports complex for marring and endangering the historic walls.
“This is a clear violation of the law. It violates Presidential Decree No. 1616. It also endangers the centuries-old walls of Intramuros because it is being constructed so close to the walls,” said Banayo.
PD 1616 provides that “no structure, including stone walls, fences, light or other fixtures, steps and paving shall be erected, altered, restored, moved or demolished within Intramuros without the Intramuros Administration’s Certificate of Appropriateness as to external architectural features and its congruity with the historic district, including style, general design and arrangement, types of windows, doors, light and other fixtures and signs, material and location of advertisements and bill posters.”
The one-hectare lot where the construction is going on was a former part of the golf driving range of Club Intramuros located along Bonifacio Drive. The structure will be built a mere two meters distant from the historical walls. On the other side of the wall is the prison cell where Dr. Jose Rizal spent his last night before being executed in December 1896.
Banayo said Barbers pushed ahead with the construction without getting clearance from several offices. “He bypassed the Intramuros Administration, he bypassed the City of Manila, he even bypassed the Department of Tourism, which has control over PTA. He caught everyone by surprise, including us,” he said. Banayo, who headed the agency from 1998 to 2000.
Kua said the Intramuros Administration (IA) had already disapproved the proposed project thrice but Barbers still went ahead with the construction. The IA approval is a prerequisite before the city government of Manila approves the construction.
“Despite IA board’s disapproval of the project in its May 4, 2006 meeting, Barbers pursued the project, which was not also approved by the PTA board. Worse, he ignored three notices of stoppage from IA,” said Kua.
KuA said the project did not go through a proper bidding after it was transferred from its originally planned location in front of the Manila Bulletin building, also in Intramuros.
“The P24 million project was awarded to IA Bosque Construction in November 2005 without project approval from IA. From its original proposed site on Victoria St., Ravellin de Recolletos, Intramuros, Barbers moved the project site to the Intramuros driving range, still without the approval of the IA while the cost has already ballooned to P87 million on a “negotiated” price,” Kua said.
“Charges should be filed at the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission and to the Ombudsman. We are asking Secretary Durano to do this. If not, we will be the ones to do it as concerned citizens. It is obvious! Hindi na dapat pag-isipan kung ano ang motibo nito kundi ang kumita,” Banayo said.
The sports complex will reportedly include two floors, and courts for indoor basketball, badminton and tennis once completed.
No activity was monitored yesterday at the building site with workers and construction equipment just sitting around. – Gerard Anthony M. Naval
Click to related article in the site of Ivan Henares.
Joseph Ace Durano is another superbastos in the official family of the Tianak. He has no sense of history, only a sense of smell for money. Binastos na ni Tianak si Gat Jose Rizal sa Bagiuo noon ng harapan, at ngayon naman ay binabastos rin ni Durano ang Bayani ng talikuran!
Why is Durano ignoring all the government offices that regulate constructions in Intramuros? Who will use the sports complex, si Fuckyaw?!
Intramuros must be preserved at all cost, napakalaking bahagi iyan ay kasaysayan ng Pilipinas! No construction of other buildings should mar or endanger it, tama ang historical and cultural conservationists na tumutol sa project ni Dura(no)! TUTULAN!
Gosh, ano bang mga tao ito?! Like amo like tuta; Like tuta like amo!
Please lang, respect the Great Jose Rizal, spare the hero from your selfish ambitions!
Kailangan dito kay Ace Durano ay ibalik sa eskuwelahan at turuan ng History lesson.Ang Intramuros ay may dakilang kasaysayan sa ating mga liping Pilipino,ang tanong ko bakit sa dinami-dami ng lugar sa Kamaynilaan ay diyan pa nila itatayo ang sports complex na iyan na sa kaunting indibidual lang ang makikinabang.Kung hihimayin natin ang kasaysayan ng Intramuros from the Spanish,American and Japanese area,maraming mga alamat,nobela,dula,at tula ang mga maisusulat mg mga henyo natin sa panulat.Nandyan si Mrivera at ni Ka Enchong na ipamana sa susunod na henerasyon.Kaya itong balang na Alas na Durugas na ito ay dapat turuan bumasa ng mga sinulat ni Balagtas,dapat niyang malaman ang mga hinagpis nina Basilio at Sisa.Ang Mi Ultimo Adios ni Jose Rizal.Ang Laki sa Layaw ni Benigno.Dapat din niyang malaman na ang mga kaluluwa ng mga mahigit na isang-daang libong namatay noong liberation ng Maynila.
Nasaan ba si Nanang Lagring na mangkukulam at ipakulam ko ang Ace Durano na iyan.
Saan ba nanggaling ang Dura(an-o) na ito na wala ring batas na sinusunod?! Ipatira(dor) na lang ang yagbols niyan at ng matauhan na merong kasaysayan ang Intramuros na hindi pwedeng i-separate sa Philippine History!
Magagalit niyan si Mrs. Nakpil.
Sa English naman pala nakasulat ang PD 1616, at hindi Tagalog, kaya siguradong naunawaan ni Durano ang nilalaman nito. Ang dinig ko kasi hirap si Duranong umintindi ng Tagalog!
Sa Siquijor na ipakulam si Durano at ang mga alipores niya…Si Barbers, dapat isunod kay Durano.
O baka in Tagalog ang Phil. History noong high school pa si Durano kaya he doesn’t value any historical things at all?
From the Initial price of P24 millions now ballooning to 87 millions and still going up like the helium balloons, no wonder every government official would like to construct anything on any piece of property, even those declared Historical Sites. Now let us look at the flip side, the Kickback, isn’t it all the root cause?
What I can say?
Pinoys deserve really do deserve each other.
Things like this can’t be pinned on any one person. It’s a whole convoluted complex of mutual beneficiaries that colluded to get this project this far.
Plus of course the general apathy of the greater public.
If the law is very clear, and the case pursued in a straightforward manner, somebody would be in jail or paying hefty fines by now.
But no.
Like everything else in the Philippines, it is being drawn out and made into a circus.
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Typical.
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Kunwari pa tayo, with our quaint protests and displays of indignation. The fact of the matter is, we are a people who routinely tolerate stupidity — from the smallest pettiest things to the biggest multi-million-peso snafus.
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Benigta na naman. Anong hindi dapat sisihin ang isang tao? Sino ang sisihin sa anomalyang na naman ito? Si Jose Rizal? Si Marcos? Si Bruce Lee? Si Elvis Presley? Dahil tauhan ni tiyanak si Durano, mananagot din ang amo mong mabaho ang puwet. Sige, hugasan at dilaan mo ang puwet ng amo mo!
Artsee,
Huwag ka nang magtaka kay Benign(0), para sa kanya sa mga Pinoy dapat isisi ang lahat ng kamalian ng mga tao sa gobyerno ni Gloria. At “malinis” ang administrasyon. Puro lecture lang naman yan, wala namang maibigay na solusyon maski kailan sa lahat ng thread.
Ang gusto nya yata ay tumango na lang tayo sa lahat ng ginagawa ni Gloria kahit na mali. Tayo naman ay nandito para pumuna sa mga mali at humanap ng solusyon. At sa palagay ng karamihan sa atin ay ang pagtatapos ni Gloria ang umpisa para tayo talaga maka-MOVE-ON!
Malaking pera malamang ang mahihita ni Duraanmo sa project na ito kaya kahit ilipat pa ng lugar ay dapat matuloy. O baka naman isa siya sa may-ari ng sports complex na ito. Dapat lang i-preserve ang historical significance ng lugar na ito. Ako ay graduate ng Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila at mahalaga para sa akin ang historical value ng lugar na ito. At isa ito sa mga dinadayo ng mga local at foreign tourist at dapat pa na tulungan i-promote.
Hey, let’s not forget the promoter of this project, PTA head Robert Dean Barbers.
Elvira: Sa English naman pala nakasulat ang PD 1616, at hindi Tagalog, kaya siguradong naunawaan ni Durano ang nilalaman nito. Ang dinig ko kasi hirap si Duranong umintindi ng Tagalog!
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Kaso, Elvie, baka hindi rin nakakaintindi ng ingles. Frankly speaking, I have met a lot many Filipinos who think they can understand and speak English but they don’t. It is merely a second language and their perception is not the same as those who have been raised speaking it as a first language. Kahit nga silang mga British for example who speak with varying tones and accents oftentimes do not also understand themselves!!!
Arte lang niyang si Durano claiming he does not understand Tagalog. Plastik!
I urge everyone to stop the crooks from defiling the beauty of Intramuros that should be preserved. In fact, they should have adopted policies like those in UK where towns are preserved especially for their historical and tourism value.
Over in the center of Oxford U for example, new buildings are built in accordance with the architectural code of the city that says that they should look like the centuries-old buildings there even when the amenities inside are built in accordance with modern times! It is also the same in the town where Shakespeare was born for example that touring UK in fact can really be a pleasure!
Ito kasing mga malilibog sa Pilipinas ang alam lang ipa-tour sa mga tourists ay iyong mga prostitution dens sa Pilipinas. Hayop talaga ang mga utak nitong mga bugaw na ito!!!
Intramuros should be preserved! I bet you that Doroy Valencia who spearheaded the cleaning up and preservation of the Intramuros, Paco Cemetery, etc. must be fidgetting in his grave for these callousness and lack of historical concern by these crooks who only think of how much they can profit from these projects.
Banayo should check if the Pidal guy is the promoter of these projects as I am told that he is most responsible for selling a lot of these projects where he can profit indirectly to these greedy tongressmen, and local government officials. Tang….ummmmmmph! Tongue T, pakimura na nga!!!
“This is a clear violation of the law. It violates Presidential Decree No. 1616. It also endangers the centuries-old walls of Intramuros…PD 1616 provides that no structure, including stone walls, fences, light or other fixtures, steps and paving shall be erected, altered, restored, moved or demolished within Intramuros…”
It’s a simple case, as I see it. If it’s a violation of the law, why not just hang or shoot both Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano and PTA chief Robert Dean Barbers, since they ain’t about to do anything to correct the situation. It’s seems the only way to get justice in the Philippines is for the citizens to do it themselves. Can’t depend on the law to protect their sovereign rights, so why not. Lets have it out once and for all. We’ve been talking about all these for years, time to end it. Either, to let it get worsen, if we are not there yet or have a showdown at high noon.
I’m sure everyone in the blog and many of our kababayans are getting tired of hearing the same old abuses day after day, yet nothing has been done. Of course, to depend on illegitimate-bogus Gloria is just like waiting for hell to freeze over. Ain’t going to happen. Mutineer Gloria already got her major shares stashed away in San Francisco, Germany and strong vaults.
We are like a broken record!
Ah, itong si Robert Dean Barbers, ang promotor ng kagaguhang ito ay siguradong ligtas sa demanda, kung ang magdedemanda lang ay si Duraanmo. Pareho lang ang kanilang amo, at siguradong sa itaas ang pinakamalaking parte sa porsiento. Magkano kaya ang hati ni Barbers at Duraanmo at mukhang wala ng makakapigil sa proyektong ito na yumuyurak sa kasaysayan ng Pilipinas. Korapsyon ang ugat ng minamadaling building, ano pa?!
Pinoy ba ang Barbers? Galing siguro sa Barbero na ginawang ‘merkano’ ang tunog.
PTA head Robert Dean Barbers is a member of untouchable. You need Ka Roger’s army to get near him. He might look like a stupid individual, but I’m sure he ain’t that dumb. Time is just being wasted of even discussing this problem, Barbers will get his way. He’ll make his millions and some for the boys to go around. He knows how the game is being played and who the right person(s) to get close to when he wants things done. It’s the same all crowd making the bucks and the poor is getting poorer. This is an old tiring song, that need to be changed yesterday. Time for the citizens to rise up to the occasion. NPA and Military ain’t about to do it, so who else, but the people themselves.
Pansin ko lang:
There are many here who seem to be the type who would rather purge Pinoy heritage of all traces of our colonial heritage. These are also the same “maka-bayan” types who love deriding the descendants of our Castillian conquerors (they usually throw in our Chinoy industrialists as well into this rhetoric) as the oppressors of the masa.
It’s that familiar populist sentiment that catapulted Erap to the presidency, remember? It’s also that same populist sentiment that leftist groups like Bayan Muna keep shoving down peoples’ throats to lure them into their favourite street politics exercises.
And yet here we are stomping our feet and pointing fingers at people to protest the “desecration” of the very citadel of our Spanish colonial heritage.
Ano ba talaga?
Is this another one of those skeletons that everyone knew about long before but is only being exposed now because it is currently convenient for the political posturing of a few characters?
Look at the picture above.
Site works like that don’t get to that point in a matter of days. Obviously this thing’s been going on long before alarm bells were raised. Where were the regulators? Where were the people who even remotely cared about Intramuros?
Why raise the alarm bells only now?
Pinoy nga naman talaga.
Panay breakdown maintenance lang ang alam.
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Why wouldn’t Durano deface Cebu where he hails from instead of destroying the historical sites in Manila. How many buildings with historical value has Manila lost in the hands of Atienza? Now this Cebuano wants to insult the Manileños.
I was part of the Intramuros Administration, a vlunteer who worked for free to bring Intramuros back to its historical self. I feel insulted by Atienza’s acts and is even more insulted by Durano’s latest project.
Pilipinos doesn’t love Philippines! It came from an outsider visiting Philippines. He said, just look around you, nobody seems to care of the filt, dirt, debris, people just urinating everywhere most convenience, squatters living without plumbing facilities with open unprotected septic, structures being neglected, etc. His last words was, it’s a doggone shame how you Pilipinos lived. I guess, Intramoros is one prime example of how the like of Barbers and Durano would rather make the bucks than to preserve our most precious past. It’s all about money!
schumey,
bakit kaya maraming mga cebuano na at mga taga Bisayas ang nagko-convert na sa Islam?
Sa Singapore, pwede ka mag-invoke dun na freethinker.
pero dito lang sa blog ni ellen, iba na agad ang persepsyon kapag may orientasyon ka ng freethinking.
>I guess, Intramoros is one prime example of how the like
>of Barbers and Durano would rather make the bucks than to
>preserve our most precious past. It’s all about money!
true!
nuong nag-aral ang mga yan, tinuruan lang ang mga ito na mag-bow at magsabi ng “yes sir, yes ma’am”.
wala silang pakialam sa mga taong nasasakupan, basta ang mahalaga ay pagsilbihan ang kani-kanilang mga patron!
The old Pilipino song, “Government is Negligent” for not doing the job. How many times have we heard this old song?
It’s now the time to think of alternatives. Our Philippines govt is a total waste, it’s a system without a future, and totally design for the thieves. The system is just too corrupt. Nothing matter anymore but the money that can be had, dishonestly. I never met anyone in the Philippines govt that I can trust yet. Everyone in the govt appeared to have some type of gimmicks to make a quick bucks.
mukhang matagal-tagal na ang trabaho dyan, ah. may pundasyon na! ngayon lang may umangal? baka hindi nabahaginan!
hmmmmm…..na-alala ko tuloy ang BATAAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Bataan Nuclear Power Plant was ordered in the early 1970s by Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos in response to the 1973 oil crisis. The oil embargo had put a heavy strain on the economy and Marcos saw nuclear power as the best way forward in terms of meeting the country’s future power needs and lessening the nation’s reliance on imported oil.
A Westinghouse light water reactor, it was designed to produce 621 MW of electricity. Construction began in 1976 and was completed in 1984 at a cost of $600 million. However, due to alleged corruption, the project cost went up to $2.3 billion.
When Marcos was overthrown by the so-called People Power Revolution in early 1986 a team of international inspectors visited the site and declared it unsafe and inoperable as it was built near major earthquake fault lines and near the Pinatubo volcano which at the time was dormant. (AT SUMABOG NGA ANG MOUNT PINATUBO! DIYOS KO PO!)
The administration of Corazon Aquino refused to operate the plant, citing its lack of safety. A study was conducted and it showed the plant had more than 4,000 defects. In response, the government sued Westinghouse for overpricing and bribery but was ultimately rejected by an American court. This even as it continued to pay the company for the cost of building the plant.
NEARLY 30 years after work began on the Bataan nuclear power plant just north of Manila, Filipino taxpayers are still paying 155,000 dollars a day in interest on a structure that has never produced one watt of power.
Hindi naman yata dito sa Pilipinas nag-aral iyang si Robert Dean Barbers kaya wala siyang kamuwangan sa kahalagahan ng Intramuros sa kasaysayan ng Pilipinas.
Wala siyang pinag-kaiba kay Atienza na lahat ng historical sites sa Maynila ay kanyang binubuwag at pinatatayuan ng mga malls.
Ano pa ang ipamamana natin sa susunod na saling-lahi (ating mga apo) na mga historical sites na nasa aklat na lamang nila sa eskuwelahan makikita at mababasa?
mga kalamidad, pagputok ng bulkan, pagguho ng lupa, sinalanta ng bagyo, epidemya at kung anu-ano ay pinagkakakitaan!
Eh yung mega-dike projects nga sa Pampanga ay ginawang pagkakakitaan imbes na pagsilbihan ang mga tatamaan ng lahar noong 1990’s , ano ang ginawa?
TUMATAAS ANG BUWIS DITO SA PILIPINAS PERO ANG KALIDAD NG BUHAY AT SERBISYO NG GOBYERNO AY HINDI NAMAN TUMATAAS!
Question: BAKIT nakalusot si durano at si barbers samantalang alam ng lahat na hindi ito pwede?
May alam ang itaas, at protektado, kaya ganun.
Hence, command responsibility ito.
Dagdag ito sa lumalago at humahabang listahan ng mga kasalanan ni glue sa Bayan!
ANUBA?????
What broken record is this guy talking about? When a person cannot understand something important that should be done, you don’t become a broken record telling the person what should be done even 10 times.
I have actually met a lot many Filipinos coming to me for help, but can’t seem to understand what I am trying to tell them especially in the context by which a law in Japan, for example, has been passed and implemented. Kahit nga laws ng Pilipinas, lalo na, they find difficult to comprehend. Thus, the need to hammer such matters into their head. It is far from being a broken record, I may say.
Ang hirap kasi sa mga pilipino, ang daming nagdunung-dunungan, kamote naman. Ang alam lang mag-kabisote. Tapos, sasabihin matalino na kahit na ang utak ay utak daga naman pala. Buti pa iyong Taho malasa-lasa!!!
Taipan88,
May nagsabi sa akin tungkol sa projects na ibinebenta daw ni Pidal sa mga Tongressman at local government officials para may taga din siya. Tapos sasabihin ng gunggong na abogago niya na hindi siya public figure.
OK, hindi siya public figure. Pablid PIGyur lang!!!
Dapat na maipaliwanag din sa Media ang mga tulad ng Fort San Pedro sa Cebu City at itong Fort San Felipe sa Cavite City.
Iyan Dean Barbers ang kailan lang na nagdramang kamuntik na daw siyang ma-kidnap sa daan, pero lumabas sa imbestigasion ng NBI na hindi. May nakaaway lang pala sa daan at nagkataong mga pulis.
Emilio:
Kamag-anak ng asawa ng pinsan ko ang mga Barbers. Dating “Barbero” from Abra ang mga iyan. Nang maging US citizen, pinalitan ang apelyido na magmukhang kano kuno. Mga Ilocano with roots likewise in Ilocos Sur. Baka pa nga kamag-anak ni Singson ang mga iyan.
Arte lang iyan. Nagtatanga-tangahan about Philippine history para makalusot lang sila. Definitely no sense of history ang mga ungas. Umiiral ang kaswapangan!!!
What Banayo should really try to find out is the connection with the projects that Fatso has been plugging in to members of Congress and local governments para may taga din siya according to my source.
Lamentably, the crooks have become bolder with their appointees controlling the justice department, military and police. Tignan mo nga na walang isang Senator except Nene Pimentel, or Congressman protesting against the presence of soldiers in barangays, etc. in Manila, etc. that should have been the jurisdiction of the local government and the local police. Problema kasi e binigay sa military ang pagpapatakbo ng pulis like the “kempeitai” before and during WWII. Bobo rin, di ba?
Emilio:
Kamag-anak ng asawa ng pinsan ko ang mga Barbers. Dating “Barbero” from Abra ang mga iyan. Nang maging US citizen, pinalitan ang apelyido na magmukhang kano kuno. Mga Ilocano with roots likewise in Ilocos Sur. Baka pa nga kamag-anak ni Singson ang mga iyan.
Arte lang iyan. Nagtatanga-tangahan about Philippine history para makalusot lang sila. Definitely no sense of history ang mga ungas. Umiiral ang kaswapangan!!!
What Banayo should really try to find out is the connection with the projects that Fatso has been plugging in to members of Congress and local governments para may taga din siya according to my source.
Lamentably, the crooks have become bolder with their appointees controlling the justice department, military and police. Tignan mo nga na walang isang Senator except Nene Pimentel, or Congressman protesting against the presence of soldiers in barangays, etc. in Manila, etc. that should have been the jurisdiction of the local government and the local police. Problema kasi e binigay sa military ang pagpapatakbo ng pulis like the “kempeitai” before and during WWII. Bobo rin, di ba?
Ellen,
I like the format of your blog just now. Hopefully, it will be less susceptible to the blocking devises of the Internet Brigade of the Bansot. The daughter I understand is into this operation that have made a lot many blogs critical of her mother and father to disappear without trace from Cyberspace. i
It is in fact suppression of international press freedom. Ang tindi ng kawalanghiyaan sa totoo lang!
bakit hindi ang malakanyang na lamang ang gibain at patayuan ng mall ang kinalalagyan para naman pakinabangan ang lugar?
puro ulalo kasi ang laman ng sentido ng mga nakaupo sa gobyerno ng baliw na babaing ito. lahat sila parepareho. walang hindi sisirain magkamal lamang sila habang nasa puwesto.
isunod na rin nila na alisin ang bantayog ni rizal sa luneta, tutal hindi naman nangyari ang sinabi niyang ang kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan dahil du’n sa batang pinangaralan ng ama na huwag maging sinungaling dahil hindi tatangkad, kakapal ang gilagid at uusli ang ngipin.
What the Internet Brigaders are trying to do even in this blog is mis-information, and attempt to confuse people who are pepped up to courage When they read the truths and perhaps even untruths that they can refute as a matter of fact posted by bloggers here, both pros and cons the Tiyanak Theft squatting at the palace by the murky river.
Yakkity-yakkity yak lang daw ang bloggers dito! But what about the Tyanak who did a yakkity-yakkity yak and getting caught the she did not even understand what she had been yakkity-yakkity yakking about! If that is not being stupid, what is? Buti nga sa kanya. Puro yabang lang! 😛
>bakit hindi ang malakanyang na lamang ang gibain at patayuan ng mall
>ang kinalalagyan para naman pakinabangan ang lugar?
ayan talaga ang gusto kong ipunto nuon pa!
bakit may mga Pilipinong handang sirain at gibain(i-demolish) ang mga iskwater lalo na ang mga illegal vendor, samantalang ang illegal occupants na nasa Malacañang ay hindi magawa?
Yung mga nangde-demolish ng mga bahay dito sa ka-iskwateran ng Kamaynilaan(at meron din dyan sa may Batangas), bakit handa silang magpagamit samantalang mga kauri o kabaro din naman nila itong dine-demolish nila?
Hindinapinoy:
Umandar na naman iyang pagkabusero mo.Nasa Intramuros tayo at hindi sa Bataan.Inililihis mo na naman iyang usapan.Mayroon ka bang originality sa pagsulat o puro kopya na lang.Alam na namin iyan kung baga sa kanin kahapon pa panis at kahit na nga aso ay ayaw kainin.Pag maghanda ka ng pagkain iyong mainit-init naman.
Ellen,
I would be supportive of a project called “Defacing Gloria Tiyanak and her Pggy husband” anytime!
anna,
tanong ko lang?
Meron kasing featured article ngayon sa BBC si Mark Mardell tungkol sa “Hypocrisy in different parts of Europe”(March 15,2007)
nelbar says: “bakit handa silang magpagamit samantalang mga kauri o kabaro din naman nila itong dine-demolish nila?”
nelbar, ‘yan ang uri ng mga taong manhid na nagpapagamit. mga taong sipsip na gugustuhing mabuhay kahit sa paanong paraan sukdulang magmukhang kasumpa sumpa sa harap ng kanilang kauring pinagmamalupitan.
isang kalakarang itinanim ng mga ganid na nasa kapangyarihang sinusuportahan ng mga henyong ang utak ay nilugaw ng pagkabulag sa katotohanan.
cocoy,
dapat bulatlatin ang nakaraan dahil hindi natututo ang pinoy. tingnan mo ang nagyayari sa intramuros, nakatayo na ang pundasyon bago umangal. wala man lang bang nag-rally sa harapan nito nang mag-umpisang maghukay? ang pinag-uusapan dito ay maling CONSTRUCTION. ang bataan nuclear power plant ay maling CONSTRUCTION at dapat i-compare dito. gayun din ang mga CONSTRUCTIONS sa metro manila tulad ng baywalk na balita ko ay milyon-milyon (overpriced) ang halaga ng mga ilaw. ang CONSTRUCTION sa avenida/carriedo/plaza miranda na lalong pumangit ang lugar at ginawang commercial. basta’t may CONSTRUCTION, malaking pera ang kita nila. sa ibang bansa, plano pa lang pinag-mi-mitingan na ng buong bayan. nagsasagawa sila ng ‘townhall’ meeting at kung makakasira sa lugar, umaangal ang taong bayan at hindi itinutuloy.
cocoy,
hindi pa panis ang kaso ng bataan nuclear power plant.
nagbabayad pa ang pilipinas hanggang ngayon: $155,000 a day!
$155,000 X 49 = PHP 7,595,000
ang napanis ay ang pagpapagawa / pag-ayos ng mga ospital, eskwelahan. dyan dapat mapunta ang perang yan!
Hindinapinoy;
Iyang utang na sinasabi mong binabayaran araw-araw ay inililista lang iyan sa log book ng kinautangan.Kung baga sa sugal at wala ng pera ang kalaro mo ay—-MO! na ang labanan.Mga promissory note lang iyan.Kahit pa nga aabutin ng mga ilang trillion iyan ay walang cash na ibinabyad d’yan.
Panahon pa ni Marcos iyan at marami ng Presidente ang nagdaan,”Dead Horse”issue na iyan.May kasabihan sa Ilocano na ganito”two mistakes won’t make one right”.Ngayon pag iyan ang gawin mong eksampol na ang nakaraan,delikado iyan kasi iyan ang pagbabasihang rason ng mga kukurakot ngayon,gagawing excuse at sasabihin pa sa iyo–Bakit ang Bataan ay nangyari at hindi pupuwede ito–Ang mga decission ng mga kaso sa korte ay hinahango sa precedent case.Mga desisyon ng nagdaan,ikinukumpara doon at mahaba ang argumento ng mga Abogado.
It’s no longer called the walls of intramuros. It now renamed the walls of Durano-Barbers sports complex. These Gloria Arroyo officials have no sense of history. Filipino freedom fighters from Spain colonial era up to Japanese occupation in 1942 were imprisoned, tortured and many died in the walls of intramuros. Every brick stones in the walls of intramuros are sacred because blood had been spilled for their quest for freedom. They have no right to deface our national heritage.
cocoy Says:
March 16th, 2007 at 4:21 am
Hindinapinoy;
Iyang utang na sinasabi mong binabayaran araw-araw ay inililista lang iyan sa log book ng kinautangan.Kung baga sa sugal at wala ng pera ang kalaro mo ay—-MO!
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cocoy,
mali ang impormasyon mo….
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Criminal, immoral and sometimes moronic
Rep. Eduardo Zialcita (1st District, Parañaque City) was even more stinging against the government policy on debt servicing. He said for every one peso the government shells out for debt payments, 48 centavos go to interest payment of loans, which he described as fraudulent and criminal loans.
He said next year, 58 centavos of every one peso the government allocates for debt payment will go to payment of interest alone.
“The government’s debt policy is a criminal act, immoral and sometimes moronic,” Zialcite said. “Why can’t the government choose life over debt and if necessary repudiate these anomalous loans. It must be stopped and the government should pursue accountability of public officials behind those bad and anomalous debts.”
The Parañaque congressman, a convenor of Alliance of Legislators Against Regressive Taxes (Alert), also lambasted the government’s debt policy on the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) and cited it as an example on how the government had wasted taxpayers money.
He said the government is spending roughly P210 million a month or P2.4 billion a year for interest payment of the controversial nuclear power plant in Morong, Bataan.
It would take a lifetime to the BNPP loans unless the government negotiate or renegotiate the mode of payment in our own people’s terms or better repudiate payment of outstanding debts, Zialcita said.
Hindinapinoy;
Pinagdebatihan lang nila iyan at kahit na singko dyan sa pagkakautang ay wala pa sila naibayad.Ngayon kung makumbinsi mo ako na may katibayan na binabayaran nila,siguro tama ka.Ika nga,–A check is still a check unless you cash it.–
cocoy,
kung ganyan ang interpretation mo sa utang ng pilipinas, sana totoo. umutang na lang ng umutang at huwag magbayad.
On the Proposed 2006 National Budget: Creditors favored over the interest of the people
For every second we breathe, the amount we spend for debt service is
equivalent to the amount of salary a common wage earner receives in
three months because of the government’s refusal to change its borrowing
and debt payments policies, a militant non-governmental organization
said after Malacañang submitted the proposed 2006 National Budget to
Congress last Wednesday.
The Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) said that for every second, more
than P22,000 is automatically appropriated for both the interest and
principal payments of the national government’s P4 trillion debt. This
translates to a whooping P1.37 million per minute. This year, the
government allocated P1.2 million per minute for debt service, the group
added.
The proposed interest payments are P38.3 billion or 12.7 percent higher
than the current P301.7 billion, while the off-budget principal
payments are P37.6 billion or 10.9 percent higher than this year’s
P344.1 billion.
The total debt service will increase by P75.9 billion or 11.75 percent
next year, again at the expense of delivering basic services to the
people, said FDC secretary-general Milo Tanchuling. The government
must act quickly to address the issue of the country’s ballooning debt
if it is really sincere in dealing with the worsening crisis and
poverty,he said.
Tanchuling outlined possible steps in addressing the debt burden:
* Audit all the debts;
* Repeal the automatic appropriations law on debt servicing;
* Stop paying all illegitimate debts such as the mothballed Bataan
Nuclear Power Plant, the controversial World Bank-funded Small Coconut
Farm Development Program and all the behest loans incurred during the
Marcos period;
* And, cancel onerous contracts and agreements awarded to some
independent power producers (IPPs) like the Casecnan Power Project.
The Arroyo’s administration again fails the people by reducing further
the budget for the country. We in FDC had hoped that the proposed budget
would serve the interests of the people, on the contrary, the Arroyo
regime sees it fit that our money benefits the creditors first,
Tanchuling lamented.
It can be recalled that early this year, FDC claimed that the passage of
the 2005 national budget would contribute to the worsening of the
current fiscal crisis into full-blown economic and social crisis. This
year’s budget followed a pattern in the last five years of diminished
spending for social and economic services.
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In conclusion, the group urged Congress to ensure that the proposed 2006
budget will benefit not Mrs. Arroyo nor the creditors, but the people.
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mabuti pa ang nigeria……
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Friday, 21 April 2006, 15:33 GMT 16:33 UK
Nigeria settles Paris Club debt
Nigeria has paid off its multi- billion dollar Paris Club debt, becoming the first African nation to settle with its official lenders.
The move may clear the way for greater government spending on infrastructure, healthcare and education, and is hoped will prompt greater foreign investment.
Nigeria has undertaken a programme of economic reforms and the oil exporter has been helped by record crude prices.
The Paris Club is a group of 19 lenders including the UK, Russia, and Germany.
Hindinapinoy:
Hindi iyan ang punto ko,Ikaw! hinihila mo ang usapan sa ibang lugar.Pinag-uusapan dito ay Intramuros,Kung ano na lang ang topic iyon na lang.Ngayon pag ang utang ng Pilipinas ang topic natin,saka mo ilabas iyan.Nawawala ka sa uso.Kaya tuloy iyong inaak ko sa Montreal ay di siya makatulog sa iyo.Kahit tanungin mo pa siya.
Ngayon dinala mo na naman sa Nigeria ang usapan.Sino bang Pilipino ang interesadong makinig dyan.
cocoy,
heto pa ang isang maling CONSTRUCTION. magugustuhan mo ito dahil panahon ito ni gloria.
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Asean scam: 2 lamppost suppliers almost fully paid
Ombudsman: ‘Almost a done deal’
By Jolene Bulambot, Jhunnex Napallacan
Inquirer
Last updated 04:37am (Mla time) 03/16/2007
CEBU CITY— The Visayas Ombudsman has stopped the payment of allegedly overpriced lampposts installed in three Metro Cebu cities in December last year for the Association of Southeast Asian (Asean) leaders’ summit, but the order might have come too late: it turns out the project is almost fully paid.
Of the P120 million that the Department of Public Works and Highways allotted for the project, only 15 percent, or about P18 million, have yet to be paid to the two suppliers of the lampposts, the Ombudsman found.
It was “almost a done deal,” Ombudsman Director Virginia Santiago said.
Dapat ang titulo dito ay “Defacing Tiyanak”. Pero ano pa ang ide-deface sa kanya eh pinakapangit na siya!
This is a mere copy and paste but relevant to the thread:
Intramuros a warehouse?
LANDSCAPE: By Gemma Cruz Araneta
Manila Bulletin, March 15, 2007
LAST Tuesday, a good fifteen minutes before my radio program (“Krus na daan” DZRJ 810 khz) began, I decided to wait at the AM booth even if Nildo Pable was still winding up his bombastic news and public service program. He was
lambasting Dean Barbers, general manager of the Philippine Tourism Authority
(PTA) for constructing a sports complex shoulder to shoulder with the walls of Intramuros, in blatant violation of an existing law, PD 1616.
In his colorful style, Mr. Pable said that as far as he knew, Intramuros, in particular the Fort Santiago area, is not a bodega, as claimed by GM Dean Barbers who he must have interviewed by phone patch minutes before I entered
the room. If it were a warehouse, he asked in the vernacular, why did he see a lot of “singkit” visiting the place? Mr. Pable was referring to Asian tourists who usually flock to view Rizal’s shrine at Fort Santiago. After
his show, I confirmed that Intramuros is definitely not an abandoned warehouse; perhaps, it is a living bodega of history, but I was sure GM
Barbers was not speaking figuratively. The PTA head, who defied the board of directors headed by the tourism secretary, was trying to justify his flagrant violation of the law.
Frankly, I did not expect someone like Nildo Pable to even care about Intramuros but I confess to being pleasantly surprised that GM Barber’s transgression provoked his rage and ire. That can only mean Intramuros is not just a historical landmark, it has, in fact, become iconic and
emblematic despite the “historia negra” woven around it. That is hopeful because Nildo Pable’s radio listeners are definitely mass-based.
GM Barber’s arrogant defiance of the existing Philippine legislation is an unfortunate reminder that education in this republic has deteriorated and that there is no rule of law. To all appearances, constitutions, executive
orders, presidential decrees, enabling acts, and other legislative devices which form the body of laws are not self-executory, which means that citizens, even if they are informed about the law feel that they can violate
these with impunity until somehow constrained by ex-post facto judicial action. Aren’t responsible citizens (especially if they are government officials) supposed to obey the law even when no one is looking? What a
shameful example, GM Barbers! No wonder the Philippines is perceived as the most corrupt country in Asia.
(gemma@heritage. org.ph)
Hello people of this forum, there’s so many issues I already missed. For being on the ground right here on the frontline where the excitement is, the ‘internet brigade’ got me all right. Don’t worry, they cannot touch many of you out there. For two weeks my phone was dead. I don’t know if I messed up with anyone.
At the start of the campaign, an overzealous glue boy plastered a political calendar with a grinning face at my door alongside earlier pictures of a stolen pug from my dog walkers circle. Like a kid I mischievously enhanced the ears on the face to be in cadence with the pug. Efforts from certain quarters to remove it failed for sometime because I guarded it ferociously. Other poster on my street were cleaned up. But I wanted all on my busy street to see the lost “dogs”. I amused friends on the email with a digital captioned FOR DOGS ONLY. That might have inspired the A.S.O. jingle. Somehow they stole my door.
My phone went dead when I called up the COMELEC. In a few days they burned the COMELEC. Napikon siguro sila. After I got back my landline just this Friday not without unkind words to some people up there, I have to scan so many interesting posts in various fora. And here I am, looking at the intramurals reliving past construction corruptions from the failed nuke plant to the sports complex. Well, The PD1616 has that little insignificant word “within” and the complex is outside. Smart guy, that Barbers, eh? He may be young but his wisdom trails back along a dynasty that has been keeping track of the Yamashita treasure. Remember some decades ago, large treasure diggings were authorized at the walls. This midterm election may be a do or die for the administration to get at the suspected cache just two meters away and under the wall.
I am glad the P87m is now on hold. It can help out on my more favorite obsession that of a Boracay bridge. You see I can not swim like many others and good or bad weather might one day sink a ferry there. Ask any seasoned chief mate to calculate the capsizing moments of any fully laden outriggered banca and you’ll think twice before you go on your next holiday with your loved ones riding on similar contraption as a passenger. The Hinatuan passage incident might still be fresh with the Barbers’.