by EVMail News on August 30, 2010
MAYOR ERIC CODILLA AND TOURISM REG’L DIRECTOR KARINA ROSA TIOPES are seen here during the 1st Eastern Visayas Tourism Officers Convention held at the New Ormoc City Hall.
• Says no political motivation in booting out Sacay
MAYOR ERIC Codilla, city administrator Dennis Capuyan and Superdome manager Simon Albino Racaza, who are facing a complaint for graft and corruption filed against them by a Superdome tenant, have filed their counter-affidavits already and are asking that the case against them be “ordered dismissed for utter lack of merit”.
To recall, one Roberto “Bobby” Sacay, proprietor of Chiebob’s Corner, a restobar joint operating at the Ormoc Superdome, filed the complaint against the three, claiming his business operations were unreasonably stopped by the three allegedly for political reasons. Sacay’s mother ran in the mayor’s opposition ticket last May 10 polls.
His business permit was not renewed and then his contract to lease was cancelled, he said in his complaint. He was ordered to vacate the Superdome premises immediately after the elections. [click to continue…]
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by EVMail News on August 30, 2010
ORMOC CITY – Mayor Eric Codilla of this city, during a convention of tourism officers at the multi-purpose hall of the New Ormoc City Hall here, said media who report “bad news” are one of the “human threats” to tourism development.
He enumerated the other threats as peace and order and financial crisis or recession.
In scoring media, the mayor recounted his travels abroad to countries where “bad news” are not allowed to land in the front pages. He said this is one good way to promote a particular country or area, alluding that media that report bad news or were critical were counterproductive. [click to continue…]
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by EVMail News on August 30, 2010
NEOPHYTE CONGRESSMAN Jose Carlos “Boying” Cari hands over Dr. Jose Bacusmo, president of the Visayas State University, a check of P650,000 representing his and his mother’s, the former congresswoman and now Baybay Mayor Carmen L. Cari, financial assistance to some 260 scholars that they are helping through school in the university. Cong. Cari said he had just come from an earlier engagement in Abuyog where he also released financial assistance to another more than 200 scholars.
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by EVMail News on August 30, 2010
ORMOC CITY – The Regional Trial Court judge here who has ordered the arrest of the controversial Celso delos Angeles of the Legacy Group of Companies, who is facing several counts of syndicated estafa alongside other company executives, has allowed his hospital detention for “humanitarian reasons”.
Delos Angeles is now at the OSPA-Farmer’s Medical Center. He had been diagnosed with Stage 4 throat cancer, the tracheal tubes of which are feared as having been infected. Delos Angeles was arrested by Quezon City policeman at the St. Luke’s Hospital where he was confined and brought here to Ormoc City last Thursday in the morning.
Atty. Carl Magsoling, RTC Branch 12 Clerk of Court, said that Judge Clinton C. Nuevo has agreed to delos Angeles’ hospital detention after a meeting with jail officers on the afternoon of Friday, August 20, “provided he shoulders the expenses”. Judge Nuevo has assigned Magsoling to be his official spokesperson on the delos Angeles case. [click to continue…]
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by EVMail News on August 30, 2010
TACLOBAN CITY- Eight members of the Philippine National Police, including a junior officer, were killed in an ambush around 7:45 of Saturday, August 21, in an interior village in Catarman, capital town of Northern Samar.
Northern Samar PNP provincial director Sr. Supt. Brigido Unay, in a phone interview, said that the police troops coming from the Catarman police station led by Sr. Insp. Nicasio San Antonio were aboard a patrol car on their way to Barangay Imelda, some 10 kilometers away from the town proper, when two suspected land mines detonated, hitting the patrol car. [click to continue…]
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by EVMail News on August 30, 2010
USEC SIMEON MARFORI III (seated in the middle) in a souvenir pose with personnel of the Department of Tourism 8 headed by regional director Karina Rosa Tiopes (seated, 4th from the left).
ORMOC CITY – Tourism undersecretary Simeon P. Marfori II, who was here recently in the city to guest the 1st Eastern Visayas Tourism Officers Convention held at the New Ormoc City Hall, said he is batting for “fruit salad tourism”- his way of describing developing a tourism package that would include a little bit of everything in its array.
Marfori, who said he graduated in the ‘70’s with the big dreams of being the “it” generation that would bring the nation to greatness, said that unfortunately other Asian neighbors have overtaken the Philippines, especially in tourism. [click to continue…]
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