Headlines:
THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, meeting en banc last
Thursday, ordered both the camps of Mayor Dennis
Socrates and the proponents of the recall election
to submit their respective written memoranda prior
to handing down its decision.
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OPPOSITION LEADER Agustin Rocamora last week accused
the City government of entering into an anomalous
transaction in the purchace of a steam boiler and
units of hand held radios.
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LOCAL MILLERS have lodged several accusations against
the National Food Authority (NFA) Palawan Branch
Manager Dick Asi for alleged unjust treatment to
the local millers.
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Another environmental violation was raised and
associated with the municipal chief executive of
Roxas, Palawan following the authorities’
confiscation of approximately eleven thousand (11,000)
board feet of lumber of various species and a boat’s
hull in Barangay Antonino, Roxas, Palawan last week.
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ENGR. ROGELIO C. ABIOG of Sofronio Española
Municipal Planning and Development Office (MPDO)
and the Environmental and Sustainable Development
Office (ESDO) recently clarified the issue that
came out in the Palawan Sun that he was the cause
of the delay of the filing of the case against an
illegally constructed fishpond in Bgy. Isumbo of
the said municipality.
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ENVIRONMENTALISTS’ lawyers, led by former
PCSDS Executive Director Atty. Joselito Alisuag
and the local-based environmental groups, last week
proposed and urged the Department of Justice to
deputize and assign special prosecutors in Palawan
who will solely hear and litigate cases against
environmental violations.
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