August 13 to 19, 2012

Free for now. A student steps out calmly in a single line. Some students were readily welcomed by waiting parents. Meanwhile, some parents resolved that they will not send their kids to school until after the Broce-Ledesma storm has cleared.  

Prison-school. Barangay VI Captain Reynaldo Batusin convinces Dean Isabelita Perigua that no one will attack them if they open the gate to let out the students. Batusin stood guard till the last faculty member stepped out to the street of broken glass.

Round 2: Broce vs. Ledesma battle over CNC

Ledesmas 

re-occupy CNC 

August 17, Friday-By virtue of the Writ of Preliminary Mandatory Injunction, Ma. Socorro Broce-Ledesma and husband Mario are now back in Central Negros College (CNC).

After two failed attempts to serve the order that mandates Margarito Broce, sister Lourdes Adelwisa, son Orven Keith, and daughter Elaine Fatima "to vacate the school premises," Sheriff Romulo P. Daniel successfully handed the order on August 17, just 15 minutes to noon.

Vendors vent concerns 

during Market Code talk

Market vendors vented their years-long grievances during the public hearing turned open forum at the Sangguniang Panlungsod Session Hall on August 17.

The SP Committee on Market and Abattoir called the public hearing for the proposed Market Code of the City.

With SP Members Victoriana Cabili, Fleur de Lis Mascuñana, Hernan Antonio and Criston Carmona, Vice-Mayor Edgardo Quisumbing, City Treasurer Amy Grace Bolivar, and Public Market and Slaughterhouse Department Head Stella Mamac in attendance, vendors expressed their dismay over the system of collecting surrender fee from business owners who closed their stores and, in their absence, from new business owners who want to open stores in abandoned booths.

SP to pass 

Sanitation Code

Sangguniang Panglungsod's Committee on Health is now fine tuning the city's Sanitation Code.

SP Member Phillip Gerard Maisog, led the council members of the committee during the public hearing on August 14 at the SP Session Hall. Before an audience of less than 20, the committee presented the proposed City Ordinance based on Presidential Decree No. 856 or the Sanitation Code of the Philippines.

No Baby Talk

By Georgene Rhena P. Quilaton-Tambiga

Best ever

The CNC fiasco is one of the best moments I've had by far as a community journalist.

All the right ingredients for a front page story were there-violence, conflict, prominence, controversy, victims, guns and goons, bombs and bottles, controversy and corruption.

For a journalist in a quiet town, what a thrill!

Soldier's Pen

By BGen. Alexander Cabales (Ret.)

Intervene if you must

Apprehension is defined by Daniel Webster as a state of uneasiness over anticipated ill or undesirable conditions. 

This is exactly the feeling of a number of students and parents and employees of a private school in the city that is embroiled in a family feud over control and ownership of the said institution.   Many fear for their safety because of an extended tug-of-war- between siblings abetted by a spouse of one of them over the physical control (and most importantly the financial control, to put it very bluntly) of the said school.  It is the talk of the town not only because of the impending trouble it would further cause if the problem is not resolved soonest but also the seeming nonchalant attitude of our local leaders to prevent a future disaster in this "most livable city of the world."

Bantay Banat

Ni Rics Cañisarez

El or no el

Usa ka balaodnon nga giduso ni Senador Bong Revilla didto sa senado nga ang barangay election idungan sa Presidential Election sa umaabot nga 2016.

Wala pa hinuoy siguro kon makalapos ba kini kay kon idungan, matawag pa ba kini nga non-political? Ug labot pa nga ang termino sa mga barangay officials mosobra pa hinuon sa termino sa congressman, gobernador, mayor, ug mga konsehal kay silang tanan unom ra man ka tuig ang pagpungko sa katungdanan usa mag-eleksyon na pud.

Pikpik sa Abaga

Ni Henry Sandoval

Letter

Adunay kisaw sa mga kanhi barangay kapitan ug ang ubang kapitan hangtud karon sa Lungsod sa Calatrava mahitungod sa Tracer Letter sa Commission on Audit, Special Services Section, Special Audit Office. Kini mahitungod sa Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) ni Congressman Julio Ledesma IV.