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Dec. 12 - 17, 2016
Vol. 1, No. 9
No to embankment
By Elmer V. Recuerdo
TACLOBAN CITY
– Some 2,000 Yolanda
survivors from different communities
of Leyte and Eastern
Samar, in a show of
mass discontent over
Jovie replaced
the continuing implementation of the tide
embankment project,
marched from Tacloban City to the Regional Office of the
Department of Public
Works and Highways
(DPWH) in Palo last
Prof. Pascualito Ilagan
December 12 to express their strong opposition to the project.
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The marchers belong to
various sectoral survivors organizations aligned with the
Community of Yolanda Survivors and Partners (CYSP),
an alliance of 163 community
organizations of survivors
and 10 non-government organizations.
Throughout their almost
7 kilometer march, which
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Palo, Leyte – From a
small-town chief to city director.
After two Senate hearings where he was queried
about his links to self-confessed drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa, Gen. Bato’s
confidence in him faltering
for a few moments, Albuera
Police Chief Jovie Espenido
suddenly finds himself promoted. A recent order from
Camp Crame police central
headquarters has appointed
him to be the new police
chief of Ozamis City, one of
the country’s drug hot spots.
The controversial cop,
a self-confessed killer of an
innocent youth in the late
‘90s and other criminals,
comes from a deeply troubled town of Albuera, a few
months ago the seat of the
region’s drug kingpins, the
Espinosa family. After a
successful raid of the Espinosa residences which netted a cache of arms and ammunition, 11 kilos of shabu
and other drug parapher-
nalia, and the surrender of
Kerwin’s trusted lieutenants, Espenido is confident
that he has disbanded the
Espinosa drug network.
In the process, he has
caused the late mayor to
sign affidavits which implicated more than 200
personalities, including top
police officers and elected
officials in the region, for
which he was hit by some
quarters because the affidavits were accordingly
taken under duress. This,
too, came out in the Senate
hearings, but since the signatory was already dead,
the questioning on the issue stopped.
Regional Police Director Chief Supt. Elmer
Beltejar in an interview
told The Weekly Vanguard
that Espenido’s latest assignment was not actually
a demotion but a promotion, the dismantling of the
region’s biggest syndicate
being credited to him. Es-
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