Tambuling Batangas Publication January 17-23, 2018

BALITA Ang kauna-unahang session sa Sangguniang Panlalawigan ng Batangas DENR... ang pamahalaang lokal na nakapaloob sa Appropriations Ordinance No. 2017-04 ng Sangguniang Panlungsod para sa pagbili ng lote at pagpapatayo ng sariling sanitary landfill kung saan ang konstruksyon ay itatakda sa loob lamang ng anim na mula sa pahina 1.. buwan. May nakatakda na ring iskedyul para sa isasagawang “public scoping” para sa proyektong ito upang bigyang linaw ang mga katanungan ng mga nangangambang residente partikular ang mga naninirahan sa eksaktong lugar na paglalagakan ng sanitary landfill Ang panawagan lamang ng punong-lungsod sa kanyang mga kababayan ay suportahan ang lokal na pamahalaan sa masamang epekto ng walang sariling sanitary landfill. (GG/ BHABY P. DE CASTRO- PIA BATANGAS with reports MA.THERESA BUNO-CIO TANAUAN) Quezon City to host Smart Sustainable Cities component cities and is Technology Development Summit expected to give member- Office, as co-chairperson. QUEZON CITY-- Quezon City is set to host the Smart Sustainable Cities Summit scheduled 17-19 October 2018. Mayor Herbert Bautista said, Quezon City was chosen to host the annual executive meeting for being an active member of the World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization, an international organization of cities and local governments that pursues sustainable urban development based on e-Government and ICT. Bautista said Smart Sustainable Cities Summit will be participated in by highly urbanized, independent, cities and stakeholders the opportunity to explore its global network and gain exposure to a diverse array of e-government facilities and policies. In preparation for the event, Bautista issued Office Order 3-2018 creating a steering committee and a technical working committee tasked to plan, administer, implement, monitor and evaluate all activities for an efficient, effective and secure conduct of the Summit. City Administrator Aldrin C. Cuna will chair the steering committee with Reynald Paul Imjada, head of the Quezon City Information Named members of the steering committee are: Chief Supt. Guillermo Lorenzo T. Eleazar, director of the Quezon City Police District; Regina Samson, head of the QC Investments Promotions Office; Ares P. Gutierrez, head of the QC Public Affairs and Information Services Office; Elmo DG San Diego, head of the QC Department of Public Order and Safety; Karl Michael Marasigan, head of the QC Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office, and Divina Gracia Pascua, officer-in-charge of the QC Tourism Department. (QC PAISO/EPC/SDL/PIA-NCR) ‘Let me testify, prove my innocence in court’ — Mary Jane tells Pres. Duterte on her birthday By MARYA SALAMAT MANILA – Mary Jane Veloso turns 33 years old today. She is still a prisoner in an Indonesian maximum security jail. She lives on borrowed time. She knows, and her lawyers know, and her family and their friends at Migrante and everyone who came to wish her a happy birthday know, that the reprieve she got at the last minute of her scheduled execution three years ago might be lifted any time. She still needs to have her death sentence removed. However, the Indonesian government said it would await the decision of Philippine courts. In a shocking turn of events, Philippine courts have so far denied Veloso a chance to give her testimony in the case she and her parents filed against her recruiters, the couple Christina Sergio and Julius Lacanilao. Veloso presents a novel case in the Philippines – she couldn’t physically attend hearings because she is in jail in another country. She is in jail in another country because she was trafficked and did not know the luggage she was asked to carry were containing drugs. This was her consistent message, the same thing she wanted to say in the Philippine courts. The Indonesian government disallowed Veloso from leaving prison to attend a court hearing in the Philippines. It only allowed her to send a deposition – it did not even allow her to face a camera or make a recording or virtually participate in an ongoing court hearing. But the Philippine courts would not have this deposition. On January 5, the 11th Division of the Court of Appeals (CA) issued a decision affirming the injunction that barred her written testimony. This week Mary Veloso must have earned enough from washing the clothes of her fellow prisoners in Indonesia that she managed to call her family and friends more often. (A representative of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, Aleli Bawagan, told her supporters at today’s birthday party that Enero 17-23, 2018 1st Regular Session ng Sangguniang Panlalawigan ng Batangas for Calendar Year 2018 ISINAGAWA ng Sangguniang Panlalawigan ng Batangas ang kauna-unahan nitong sesyon para sa taong 2018 sa Apolinario M. Mabini Legislative Bldg., Capitol Site, Batangas City noong January 15, 2018. Pinangunahan ito ni Vice Gov. Nas Ona, na tumatayong Presiding Officer, kasama ang mga Bokal ng anim na distrito ng lalawigan. Tinalakay ni Committee on Appropriations Chairperson at 3rd District Board Member Fred Corona ang mga Supplemental Budgets ng buong lalawigan, samantalang pinasadahan naman ni 4th District Board Member JP Gozos and Chairperson ng Committee on Ways and Means ang mga mahalagang ordinansa ng iba’t ibang bayan sa Batangas. Sa usapin tungkol sa mga Kababaihan at Pamilya, umupo at nakiisa si 3rd District Board Member Divina Balba para sa kanyang ordinansa na bigyang prayoridad ang paglalagay ng mga breastfeeding section sa MOA... Government, sa pangunguna ni Gov. Mandanas, Vice Gov. Nas Ona at mga miyembro ng Sangguniang Panlalawigan, na pinayagan ang COA na gamitin at manatili sa napagkasunduang lote sa loob ng 50 taon, na maaari pang i-renew ng 50 pang taon. Investment ... mga pampublikong gusali at magkaroon ng karampatang multa ang mga lalabag dito. Nagbigay din ng pahayag si Senior Board Member ng 6th District Wheng Sombrano – Africa, na Chairperson naman ng Kumite ng Provincial Cooperative, Livelihood and Economic Enterprise, kung saan binalangkas niya ang isang ordinansa para sa isang kooperatiba na nangangailangan ng mga clearances sang-ayon sa batas. Bilang Chairperson ng Committee on Laws, Rules and Ordinances, ipinaliwanag naman ni 1st District Board Member Ramon Bausas ang mga ordinansa at resolusyon na kailangang matutukan ng pansin at bigyang katuparan sa taong ito. Inaasahan naman ang patuloy na kooperasyon at pagtutulungan ng Sangguniang Panlalawigan at Executive branch ng pamahalaang panlalawigan para sa walang patid na pagsulong ng buong probinsya. Jhay Jhay B. Pascua – PIO Capitol Batangas mula sa pahina 1.. Dagdag pa ng COA chief na ang ipinakitang kooperasyon ng COA at ng pamahalaang panlalawigan ng Batangas ay isang karagdagang inspirasyon para makamit ang isang matuwid na pamamahala at serbisyo publiko. Jenny Asilo Aguilera – Batangas Capitol PIO mula sa pahina 1.. State University (SLPU). Sa paglalayong mas makapanghikayat pa ng mga namumuhunan, magsasaayos ang grupo ng isang website kung saan maipapakita ang isang “walk through” na mapapanuod sa isang 3D virtual platform ang mga showcase o highlight ng pamamasyal sa buong CALABARZON. Sa pamamagitan nito, makakakuha agad ng isang magandang initial overview ang mga investors. Katuwang si RDC Vice Chairperson Luis Banua ng NEDA, inaasahang din na mas mapapalawig pa ang mga sources of income ng CALABARZON sa darating na mga panahon lalo’t higit ang Lalawigan ng Batangas. Jhay Jhay B. Pascua – PIO Capitol Batangas Veloso has been washing clothes of fellow prisoners to earn money so that she could call her family and friends in the Philippines.) In a call to friends at the Migrante International in Manila on January 9, she sent an appeal to President Duterte. S he said in Filipino, “President Duterte, my supposed execution was reprieved because Christina (Sergio) and Julius (Lacanilao) have pled their guilt and that I am innocent and had no knowledge of the drugs found in the luggage I brought.” She requested help from President Duterte so that she would be allowed to testify in the case of Christina Sergio in the Philippines “to reveal the truth so the real culprits will be held accountable.” Veloso acknowledged that President Duterte is against drugs and that he wants to crush drug syndicates for everyone’s safety. However, she asked him too, how would disallowing her to state her case in court put an end to everything that has connections to drugs? Velose ended her request to the President by saying that she and her family fully hope that President Duterte will help them be given the chance to testify in court and prove her innocence.

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