Happy Holidays to all members of this site. I am Robert Soriano, the Chief of the Task Force Abra and I wish to communicate with you thru this forum or privately. I know you are fed up with the peace and order situation in Abra. Part to be blamed is the law enforcement agencies which the PNP belongs.
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134. Everytime Jendricks would do a project I would remind him and the treasurer that such a project always required legislative approval, since his proposed project was not part of Lagayan’s Annual Investment Plan (AIP) as well as its Medium Development Plan. Too, I would remind them that any project whose cost exceeds P50,000.00 requires a public bidding, pursuant to the new Government Procurement Act, RA 9184. I know this to be a fact as vice chair of the Municipal Bids and Awards Committee (BAC). 135. But he would have none of it; he’d insist on something that would allow him to immediately cash out on the project. By Atty. Cesar B. Bigornia, Ateneo Law ‘84
Impeachment is a fundamental constitutional power belonging to Congress to formally charge a serving government official with an impeachable offense. It is a safeguard against corruption and the ultimate check on abuse of power. By providing this power to Congress, the framers of the Constitution drew on a long tradition of democratic skepticism about leaders. These provisions ensure that leaders will serve the people only so long as they respect the law and their offices. In this sense, the power of impeachment stands ready to thwart tyranny.  The gunman and lookouts were caught on a photograph By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES
BANGUED, Abra.—Five years ago today, the then highest-ranking politician of Abra province was shot dead outside a church in Quezon City in broad daylight, signaling the fall of one of Abra’s most prominent families and the rise of other political dynasties. The killing also ushered in a period of intensified violence that has made the province one of the country’s most dangerous places, its capital Bangued the so-called “murder capital of the north.” The slain politician was Rep. Luis Bersamin Jr., who was shot in the head after standing as one of the principal sponsors at his niece’s wedding at the Mount Carmel Church in New Manila on Dec. 16, 2006. Charged and arrested for his murder was his erstwhile childhood friend and ally Vicente Valera, who has been behind bars since September 2009 and is facing trial at the Branch 94 of the Regional Trial Court in Quezon City. Valera has entered a plea of “not guilty.” The whimsicality of Lagayan politics
1. The 2010 elections came. We now have a new mayor – an 82 or 78-year old woman, depending on who’s saying what her age is. Here’s how it happened. 2. Cecilia Luna was now running for re-election to the House of Representatives. Jendricks was also up for re-election as mayor. His brother Cromwell, a resident of Bangued, Abra and a registered voter there, decided to transfer residency in Tineg so he could run for mayor there. Transferring of voter’s records for them is very easy as even local authorities in Abra are afraid of them because they are in power. Meanwhile in Bangued his brother Ryan was candidate for mayor too and in the town of Villaviciosa, Leonidas Seareas, Jr., Cecilia’s brother, was candidate for vice mayor. When my work as Lagayan’s MPDO began
27. I started working as Lagayan’s Municipal Planning and Development Officer in August 3, 1998 under then Mayor Cecilia Seares Luna. My parents, who were her political supporters, lobbied hard so I could land the job. Not that I had little faith in my own qualifications: I am a college graduate, with a degree in Business Administration which I earned in 1988 from the Divine Word College in Bangued, Abra. by Maritess B. Beñas
BANGUED, Abra, Nov. 27 (PIA) -- Mayor Ryan S. Luna expressed gratitude to PSSupt. Benjamin B. Magalong, regional director of the Police Regional Office – Cordillera (PRO-COR) for attending the special meeting of the Municipal Peace and Order Council (MPOC) here in efforts to abate criminality and attain peace in this capital town . Council members deliberated on the issues brought about by the passing of two resolutions by the Provincial POC during their meeting in the morning of the same day at the Provincial Capitol Social Hall. | Author ArchivesApril 2012 CategoriesAll |
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