ORMOC CITY– A man was found dead inside a KTV bar here where he worked as a caretaker with the police eyeing love triangle as a possible angle.
Lemuel Tapalla,47 and single, was discovered with stabbed wounds in the different parts of his body last Thursday(Feb.2) at about 9 pm inside a KTV bar located in Barangay District 5, this city.
Case investigator Police Cpl. Sherwin Silvano in an interview disclosed that their station received a call from a concerned citizen that there was a stabbing incident at the said KTV Bar.
He said that they immediately proceeded to say the place and learned based on the testimonies that the said victim was with a woman in one of the rooms of the said establishment.
Silvano further said quoting some witnesses, that at about 8:55 pm, an unidentified man wearing a black jacket arrived at the desk and asked if his wife was at the said place.
Suddenly the suspect went to Room 3 and stabbed the victim several times causing him to fall to the floor. After the incident, the suspect immediately fled.
Silvano said that they already have a person of interest in connection with the killing of Tapalla.
He suspects that the love triangle is the motive in the killing as the woman who was with the victim was a widower and said to have another lover. (ROBERT DEJON)
Travel and tours operators and specialty establishments from the region joined the first ever ay Mindanao Trade Expo held in Davao City that concluded on Jan.31.Tourism Regional Director Karina Rosa Tiopes led the Eastern Visayas delegation. (DOT-8)
TACLOBAN CITY – Travel and tour operators from the region joined the first-ever Mindanao Tourism Expo held at the SMX Convention Center in SM Lanang Premier in Davao City.
Travel and tours operators and specialty establishments from the region joined the first ever ay Mindanao Trade Expo held in Davao City that concluded on Jan.31.Tourism Regional Director Karina Rosa Tiopes led the Eastern Visayas delegation. (DOT-8)
Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco graced the event, saying that the launching of the Mindanao Travel Expo is to further the goal of reopening Mindanao to tourism which features its rich and diverse regions, emerging destinations, and deeply rooted heritage and culture but faces various challenges which hamper its full development.
“(The Department of Tourism(DOT) will reach out to these regions, to exert the services, the talents, the expertise of the members of the department to ensure that they receive the appropriate training, promotion, and marketability that they should have and will have moving forward,” Garcia said.
The delegation from the region, headed by Tourism Regional Director Karina Rosa Tiopes, presented during the expo from January 27 to 29 the enhanced, market-ready, and protocols compliant tourism products to Mindanao-based tour operators to reinforce the tourism restart initiatives of the DOT and build back the volume of visitors arrivals in the region that declined due to the pandemic caused by coronavirus disease (COVID-190.
The event also served as a venue for benchmarking for Region 8 on the good practices of tourism site managers and local government units from all over the country.
The delegation showcased and promoted tour packages at their Pintados-inspired and banig-designed booth.
Among the promoted tourism sites of the region during the event were the Kalanggaman Island, Canigao, and Cuatro Islas in Leyte province; Sambawan in Biliran province; San Pablo in Southern Leyte province; Biri Island in Northern Samar, the Ulot River Boat Ride and Sohoton Cave in Samar, including the San Juanico Cruises, and Leyte’s City Tour.
The tour operators which joined the event were able to have a combined 68 leads and 56 linkages and generated around P70, 000 sales and several orders during the three-day event. (ROEL T. AMAZONA)
PALOMPON, LEYTE – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) – Leyte 4th District Engineering Office (DEO) maintenance crew repaints bridges and guardrails in Brgy. Taberna, Palompon, Leyte to increase the structures’ visibility to drivers and enhance local road safety. This repainting activity provides added protection against the elements, increasing the lifespan of the infrastrucures, and improve their overall appearance. (PR)
CAMP RUPERTO KANGLEON, PALO, Leyte– The new set of Police Regional Office 8 (PRO-8) Press Corps officers took their oath of office before police regional director Brigadier General Rommel Francisco Marbil on Saturday (Feb.4).
The newly-elected officials are Ioannes Paulos Omang, DyVL Aksyon Radyo (president); Rommel Rutor, DyMS Aksyon Radyo-Catbalogan City (vice president, internal affairs); Jade Nombrado, DyDM-Maasin City (vice president, external affairs); Consuelo “Sol” Alarcon, Philippine Information Office 8 (secretary); Justine Traya, RMN News Tacloban City (treasurer); and Evelyn Baccol, ATV-24 (auditor).
Also elected were Jimmy Angayangay, DyVL Aksyon Radyo (representative, Leyte); Rene Castino, DyMS Aksyon Radyo-Catbalogan (representative, Samar); Elvie Roa, Philippine News Agency (representative, Ormoc City); Roel Amazona, CNN Philippines/PNA/Leyte Samar Daily Express (representative, Tacloban); and Dahlia Orit, Radyo Pilipinas-Sogod (representative, Southern Leyte).
“We are very thankful to the PRO 8 Press Corps for your continued support in the programs and projects of the Philippine National Police in Eastern Visayas. Thank you for the trust and goodwill,” Marbil said during the induction program at the Matapat Hall of the police regional command here.
Marbil also lauded the leadership and initiative of police regional spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Bella Rentuaya, the Regional Public Information Office (RPIO) staff, and former PRO 8 Press Corps president Amazona “for bridging the police to the communities.” (RONALD O. REYES)
PNP-8 Regional Director B/Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil swore in the newly-elected officials of the PNP-8 Press Corps on Saturday (Feb.4). Ioannes Paulos Omang of DyVL Aksyon Radyo was elected president, replacing Roel Amazona of this paper and CNN-Philippines. (RONALD O. REYES)
PNP-8 Regional Director B/Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil swore in the newly-elected officials of the PNP-8 Press Corps on Saturday (Feb.4). Ioannes Paulos Omang of DyVL Aksyon Radyo was elected president, replacing Roel Amazona of this paper and CNN-Philippines. (RONALD O. REYES)
PFRMJR sees a fruitful campaign
TACLOBAN CITY– The push for federalism continues under the administration of President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos, Jr.as a new group has been formed for such purpose.
The group, People’s Federal Reform Movement for Justice and Reconciliation (PFRMJR), was launched last January 21, 2023 at the Cebu Parklane International Hotel in Cebu City with lawyer Joseph T. Entero elected as president.
Undersecretary Mark Roa Gimenez of the Presidential Management Staff (PMS), who swore in the officials of the PFRMJR, was also named as the group’s national chairman.
Gimenez, a former mayor of Tanauan, Leyte, and chairman of the Tingog Party-List since 2012, accepted the post.
The group, aside from backing all the programs and initiatives of the Marcos administration, is also pushing for the conversion of the present form of government to federalism as a ‘viable structure of governance to promote inclusive growth and development of the country,’ Engr. Billy Roseño, the group’s secretary-general and a known political organizer in Tacloban City said.
“The PFRMJR is envisioned to promote a federal system of government as the answer to the lingering problems that beset our country and its people today by consolidating and organizing a solid and strong national alliance of movements, groups, and community leaders that are advocates of federalism,” he added.
He also stressed that their movement is committed to continue to support the administration of Pres. Marcos, Jr. to ensure that the country will have a developed economy.
“Our officers and members who are political leaders and campaigners in their own right and which come from different political spectrums of our society have decided to come together for one common purpose-to support and help the present administration of Pres. Marcos Jr. on his present and future programs and projects for the betterment of the lives of the Filipino people,” Larry Menzon, the group’s deputy secretary-general and town councilor of Babatngon, Leyte, said.
The group said that with a federal system of government, national wealth can be ‘evenly distributed’ and will not be controlled by so-called ‘Imperial Manila’ as it will also decentralize the power to the regions and ‘states.’
Some lingering problems of the country like armed conflict in Mindanao and communist insurgency is also seen to be solved under the federal system, the group said.
Pushing towards federalism has been waged in the past but without success due to opposition by some groups and even officials.
Roseño and Menzon hope that this time, their campaign will prosper this time.
PFRMJR is confident that the federalism movement will succeed since we have consolidated early to conduct information disseminations and consultative assemblies in the barangays and most of the Filipinos are already fully aware of its advantages.
Aside from Roseño and Menzon, other officials elected were provincial board member of Iloilo Matt Palabrica as executive vice-president; newly appointed NAPC Lead Convenor Dr. Lope Santos III as vice president for Luzon; NAPC Deputy Director – General Dr. Girlie Amarillo, vice president for National Capital Region; Atty. Gerardo Carillo, vice president for the Visayas; Wilfredo Guerra, vice president for Mindanao; CDA Asec. Pendatun Disimban as vice president for BARMM; Ernest Evangelista, treasurer; Richard Tumulak, auditor; Nestor Abrematea, media and information officer; and Atty. Allan Legaspi, general legal counsel.
The PFRMJR National Secretariat is composed of Jeffrey Aribal, Paul Alvin Fajardo, Carolyn Iglesias and Archimedes Lungay.
For lack of permit, a quarrying operator was directed to stop its operations in Barangay Basper on Thursday(Feb.2) by the Business Permit and Licensing Division. (TCIO)
For lack of permit, a quarrying operator was directed to stop its operations in Barangay Basper on Thursday(Feb.2) by the Business Permit and Licensing Division. (TCIO)
TACLOBAN CITY– A team of the Business Permit and Licensing Division (BPLD) ordered the halt of quarrying operations on a site in Barangay Basper, this city, on Thursday, February 2, 2023.
According to BPLD Chief Gemafiel R. Gaspay, the contractor of the quarrying operations on the mountainside of the said barangay doesn’t have the required quarrying permit, which is why they enforced the closure order.
Perusal of the available documents indicates that a certain “Patpat” de la Peña is the contractor of the excavation and hauling activity, which the personnel in the area alleged is being used as filling materials for a local government project.
A representative of the contractor was instructed to secure the necessary permit before quarry activities could resume in the area. (HENRY JAMES ROCA/TCIO)
