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A
media-friendly PNP chief
The
PNP was right in making CSC President Adolfo
Bagadiong as their guest speaker during its 10th
foundation anniversary last Saturday.
A
non-politician is just what the PNP needs at a
moment like this when the elections is just
around the corner. And, miracle of miracles,
Gov. Sanchez, in his short talk, did not mouth
anything about election and did not hit his
mortal political foe.
And
he was right. Everything has its own time and
place. There's a time and place to rage and
rattle, and a time to be rational. The occasion
was not the right forum. It's good the governor
knows that.
For
the first time in local history, all the editors
of the four provincial newspapers and their
columnists covered PNP's 10th anniversary. Plus
some broadcasters.
Does
it mean that Provincial Director Freddie O.
Panen has excellent media relations? Even James
P. Hernandez, station manager of MBC's Radyo
Natin 107.1 FM, was there. Of the three local
radio stations, only DZAA FM was unrepresented.
Incidentally,
James has disclosed that his station will
operate as FM and AM, content-wise. Politicians
can avail themselves of blocktime.
"Sometimes,
the BIR collects taxes more than the cost of the
land," says Virac chief assessor Elvira S.
Panti.
This
is the reason why some real property owners do
not sell their land, or sell their land but
avoid the BIR. By that it means, they simply
register the sale with the assessor's office
only to secure a tax declaration.
Perhaps,
the Department of Finance could correct the
exorbitant tax collected via the capital gains
tax. The CGT is necessary in acquiring a land
title. But what buyers simply do is to secure
only a tax declaration and avoid the land title
due to sky-high CGT.
In
short, time will come when land buyers will go
as far as securing tax declaration only and
dispense with the land title. Their evidence of
ownership will only be the deed of absolute sale
and the tax declaration.
Will
the BIR bring this matter to the Department of
Finance, the department where the BIR belongs?
The
senators and congressman have approved a law
declaring them "unresigned" upon the
filing of certificate of candidacy.
If
they are to run for the same position, that law
should have been in order. But many are running
for a different position! That is not only
unethical but also definitely unconscionable.
Imagine,
you'll make a law that would favor you. That is
kaswapangan of the highest degree!
Virac
COP Rande Rosero was adjudged the best chief of
police of 2000. As to what criteria used in
arriving at that conclusion, we do not know. But
the people of Virac know better than who gave
him that award.
Illegal
gambling is very much alive. Illegal logging is
as furious as before. Blast fishing, right
beyond the Virac pier, is a common occurrence!
What
shall we do as citizens? Simply inform the
police. What if the police has no patrol boat to
arrest the illegal fishers? Let them swim!
That's how helpless the police is!
The
entire residents of barangay Sto. Domingo here
in Virac are rejoicing over the decision
rendered by MTC Judge Nieto Tresvalles, the
"provincial" MTC judge.
Judge
Tresvalles has "dismissed for lack of
merit" the civil case filed by Dennis
Ignacio against some 26 people who occupied the
former Sto. Domingo school site.
Most
of these 26 residents formerly lived along the
Sto. Domingo riverbanks and creeks, victims of
floods. Since their lives were always in danger
whenever typhoons create rampaging floods, they
decided to move to higher grounds, more than a
hundred of them.
As
a result of the dismissal, Dennis Ignacio was
ordered by Judge Tresvalles to "indemnify
each and every defendant FIVE THOUSAND
(P5,000.00) as litigation expenses and likewise
to indemnify each and everyone of said
defendants the amount of FIVE THOUSAND
(P5,000.00) as moral damages," or a total
of P10,000 each defendant.
That
means Dennis Ignacio will have to raise some
P260,000 to pay the 26 defendants. You get what
you deserve - the street guy says "what you
do comes back to you."
Despite
the voluminuous cases filed with the sala of
Judge Tresvalles and his being the only MTC
Judge of all the 11 towns of Catanduanes, it
took him a little over four years to render a
decision. That is a record time! Other civil
cases drag as far as a decade.
We
wish to congratulate Judge Tresvalles for the
well-argued decision.
My
good friend Dulce Suarez, whose wife Betty was
our high school classmate at the Catanduanes
College, paid me a visit and pleaded me to go
easy on Joseph Santiago.
I
told him that if I argued against his alliance
with the governor, it was because I personally
care. But since for him the die is cast, let him
enjoy his company.
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