Headlines:
PROPONENTS OF THE RECALL-ELECTION SCORED against
the incumbent administration of Mayor Dennis Socrates
when they successfully drew a substantial number
of the City’s barangay officials in a Preparatory
Recall Assembly held at the San Jose Covered Gym
in Barangay San Jose, this City Tuesday this week.
At least three hundred forty-seven (347) barangay
officials of the City’s sixty-six (66) barangays
have allegedly supported, approved and affixed their
signatures in a resolution calling for a recall
election of Atty. V. Dennis Socrates as City Mayor.
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RCBC PUERTO PRINCESA Manager Mr. Benjamin Cabrera
last week vehemently denied triple A Foundation’s
claim that the money intended for their member-beneficiaries
in Palawan will be channeled through the RCBC.
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EX-OFFICIO AND City Councilor Luis Marcaida III
of the Sangguniang Panlungsod last week defended
and justified his move of shifting to the present
administration side particularly on the issue of
the controversial recall election move against the
incumbent City Mayor Dennis Socrates.
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THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT has vowed to bring the
public consultations regarding the draft of the
Memorandum of Agreement on gas down to the grassroots
level following a meeting with Governor Joel T.
Reyes, Vice Governor Dave Ponce de Leon and Bishop
Pedro Arigo of the Catholic Church recently.
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[First of two parts]
FORTY PERCENT OF a thing isn’t much if that
thing is only a hundred pesos. Indeed what things
can we buy if we had even four hundred pesos? But
what if we have forty percent of a hundred million
pesos? Still, compared to a billion, forty million
might seem a lot smaller particularly if we have
much to spend for and especially if the amount is
in dollars not pesos.
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THE SANGGUNIANG PANLALAWIGAN last week ratified
and confirmed the validity and legality of the approved
municipal ordinance of the Municipality of El Nido,
Palawan recently that seeks to provide reward-incentives
to groups or individuals responsible for the apprehension
of the illegal fishermen-poachers within their municipal
waters-jurisdiction. Said approved municipal ordinance
was submitted before the Provincial Board for approval
and confirmation.
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