NEWS: Comval BM lawyer sends two Comvalenyos to law school as scholars

june 1 ATTY. DEXTER LOPOZ Compostela Valley boardmember and 2000 bar exam topnotcher Dexter Lopoz is sending two of his provincemates to study law as his own scholars beginning this semester. “Comval needs more lawyers now who would serve and work for efficient administration of justice. Eleven years after the birth of our province, we only have one Regional Trial Court, abnormally saddled with over 3,000 cases, more than half of which is handled by only two lawyers of the Public Attorneys Office,” Atty. Lopoz explained the rationale of his own law scholarship. “Moreover, we have only three fiscals serving seven courts in the province and one court in Tagum City, while the Dept. of Agrarian Reform’s Bureau of Legal Assistants has only one lawyer,” he added. He said that lawyers serving these offices are heroically overworked and overstressed. By now, his law scholars Ian Enterina, a resident of far-flung barangay Casoon in Monkayo, and Francisco Maynaban, poblacion Compostela resident, are already enrolled with the newly-established law school in Tagum- the Saint Thomas More College of Law, which commences its operations this semester. As scholars, their matriculation and and tuition fees would be shouldered by the boardmember, with the two having only to pass all their subjects in each semester to maintain their scholarship. Lopoz said that his two scholars are only for the start and he planned to have one to two scholars in each year of law studies as they move on in years. The search of Lopoz law scholars had been going on two months ago and more than a dozen of applications were received from usually fresh college graduates. Lopoz picked Enterina and Maynaban as his start-up law scholars for their good grades in college and high potentials in service orientation and community leadership. The scholar must also be a bonafide resident and registered voter in the first district of Comval. The law scholarship of a boardmember is known ot be first in Mindanao and in the country. Atty. Lopoz placed Top 2 in the 2000 bar examinations and remains yet unsurpassed in his record of placing the highest thus in the bar exams as a law graduate from a law school based in Mindanao. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News)

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NEWS: No Lakas decision yet on Ramil-Maricar toss up- Chiongkee

The Lakas party in Compostela Valley has not yet made a decision on who to anoint between Vice Governor Ramil Gentugaya and Boardmember Maricar Zamora-Apsay for the District 1 congressional post for the 2010 polls, breaking the party leaders’ pledge late last year that they would announce the decision by January 2010 after a party caucus.

In a text message, Comval Lakas party provincial chairman Gov. Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy said that “it is still too early” in reference as to when the party decision would be handed down to resolve the Ramil-Maricar row over who between them becomes the Lakas standard-bearer.

Vice Gov. Gentugaya in separate text message confirmed on Monday that no party decision yet has been made on the issue.

In a news report November last year Uy was qouted as pledging that the Lakas party would convene a caucus to resolve the issue that has already become a major party headache while there has been no competition among partymates in the District 2 congressional post currently held by neophyte Cong. Rommel “Bobong” Amatong.

District 2 Cong. Manuel “Way Kurat” Zamora, father of Maricar, is serving his last term at present.

Both Gentugaya and Apsay have still one more term for reeelection in their respective posts.

Gentugaya is a kin of Uy by Chinese blood while Cong. Zamora has been a political ally of Uy.

Sources said that the issue has already tried to rock the unified Lakas party about two weeks ago during a meeting of provincial party leaders for the Uswag Comval, a local political aggrupation being pushed by the governor.

Sources said that at one time during the affair when Cong. Zamora introduced his daughter as the incoming congresswoman to affix her signature to support Uswag Comval, former Cong. Prospero Amatong stood up and said it would be Ramil as the next congressman of District 1.

The elder Amatong is a voting member-emiritus of the Comval Lakas provincial directorate.

Earlier, Uy said that both “stand in equal footing if the choice is baeed on the Lakas party rules”. He did not not enumerate the rules.

He said it would be the Lakas provincial directorate which would decide the official bet for the post. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News)

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NEWS: Comval officials troop under Lakas-CMD

Oathtaking affair silent on Lakas-Kampi merger

nov 7

Almost all of the incumbent municipal officials and barangay captains swore in
and affirmed as members of the administration’s Lakas-Christian Muslim
Democrats (Lakas-CMD) yesterday morning in a mass oathtaking and affirmation rite held at Assumption of Nabunturan Gym in the capital town of Compostela Valley.

Comval officials lead in the oathtaking and affirmation rite of Lakas-CMD Thursday at ACN Gym in Nabunturan capital town. Almost all municipal officials and barangay captains in the province swear in for the administration party. Third from left is 1st District Cong. Manuel "Way Kurat" Zamora and at his right is Lakas-CMD regional chairman Davao del Norte Gov. Rodolfo del Rosario, and Comval provincial elder and Compostela Valley's father former Cong. Prospero Amatong (Rural Urban News photo/cha monforte)

From left: Monkayo Mayor Manuel "Junjun" Brillantes, Boardmember Dexter Lopoz, Pantukan Mayor Celso Sarenas and Mabini Mayor Amir Muñoz and other officials swear in and affirm as members of Lakas-CMD party in Compostela Valley (Rural Urban News photo/cha monforte)

Lakas-CMD provincial chairman Governor Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy said in
his keynote speech after the oathtaking and affirmation of some 361 new and old
Lakas-CMD members urged members of what appears as now a mammoth monolithic administration party in the province “to set aside personal
interests” in keeping a “real political unity” in the province .

He assured that under the Lakas-CMD “no single party mate will be left
behind unattended”.

Lakas-CMD regional chairman Gov. Rodolfo del Rosario, on the other hand, rallied new and old Lakas-CMD members to become models and examples “to
convince the poor  to make the same unity” as he witnessed a unity of
municipal and barangay officials yesterday.

Stressing on the importance of a party and unity in the progress of the
country, he expressed hope that the Lakas-CMD party would remain strong in the
county under the leadership of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

“I am confident for the victory of the Lakas-CMD national candidates as
well as the local candidates in 2010,” he said.

The Davao del Norte governor was silent on the merger of Lakas and Kampi parties where he and Speaker Prospero Nograles came to be a leading figures in a regional merger held at Davao City last June.

Neither other provincial party stalwarts talked nor explained of the merger yesterday.

The province in the last 2007 polls became a hotly contested political arena in a  feverish electoral contest between the two pro-administration parties, Lakas-CMD and Kampi, with former Gov. Jose Caballero riding on Kampi party in his failed congressional bid in the second district, and his former allies current Monkayo Manuel “Junjun” Brillantes and now Maragusan Mayor Cesar Colina Sr rowing in the first district via the minority but a pro-administration Liberal party and Kampi, respectively.

Yesterday, Brillantes and Colina mayors swore to become members of Lakas-CMD along with the rest of the Lakas reaffirmist town mayors and boardmembers.

Boardmembers Armando Codilla and Dexter Lopoz, then with Kampi, and Boardmember Neri Barte of Brillantes’ Liberal party, also swore in.

The “father of the province”, as what emcee Boardmember Maricar
Zamora-Apsay called to former Cong. Prospero Amatong, the provincial Lakas-CMD
chairman emeritus, also gave his message of asking the audience for a
pause whether yesterday’s affair was for real unity. He emphasized that real unity
comes with the “character and substance” in the leadership of the Lakas-CMD members and aims of giving service for the people.

District 1 Congressman Manuel “Way Kurat” Zamora yesterday became a
noted spectacle following serious messages of the provincial party stalwarts
when he cracked  a new Way Kurat joke of “inviting all the people of the
world to go to Monkayo” this coming November 16 for the birthday of a
letter writer that ended up to be him.

He caused the audience to stand up for his own version of the known Willie
Revillame’s hep-hep hurray standuppper to their loud awakened cheers.

District 2 Cong. Rommel Amatong earlier made his welcome remarks.

In an interview, barangay captain Wahidon Takasan of Matiao, Pantukan, however however expressed skepticism that the attained political unity could not be
threatened by partymates themselves fighting against each others when election time comes.

“Karon uban pa apan pag-abot na sa panahon bisag way oposisyon basig mag-unay na tungod kay normal gyud nga may ambisyon. Unsay sulbad ani?,” he said.

His brother Boardmember Moran Takasan also said: “Seguro uban pa ta karon kay layo pa, pero basig pag-abot sa panahon di na”.

He said that the prospect could not be impossible saying that people in fact always change daily. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News) http://ruralurbanews.blogspot.com

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NEWS: Kabir, a political animal no more- Comval Pagro

oct 20

The kabir chicken that former Compostela Valley Gov. Jose “Joecab” Caballero had then been massively reproducing and dispersing in droves of thousands to the farmers in the province is political animal no more under the administration of Gov. Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy.

In an interview, provincial agriculturist Dr. Rolando Simene said that the provincial government is no longer dispersing kabir but only maintaining about 400 kabirs at the Lamdag center for breeding with the local bisaya and other chicken breeds for experimentation.

He said that Uy remained committed to develop further the sprawling 97-hectare Lamdag agri-eco-tourism center of the provincial government at Pasian, Monkayo.

He added that the governor is actively pursuing to develop more the fresh milk production from the buffalo stock at the agricultural center in view of the melamine scare in the country.

In early 2000s Caballero started the development of the Lamdag center which was then lying as idle, neglected provincial farm barn since when the province was not yet separated from Davao del Norte.

There was one time that the former governor was named by the monicker “Cabirero” by his oppositionists including the present governor, who was then serving as the senior boardmember during Caballero’s third term.

Uy before becoming a boardmember ran but was defeated by the recent birthday celebrator last Saturday, provincial elder Prospero Amatong during the 1999 toss up for the district 1 congressional post. They had only a margin of over 1,000 votes in the election where Uy was then allied with Caballero.

Earlier reports said that Caballero would be running for a “comeback either-or”, meaning either as congressman in District 1 where he was defeated by Cong. Rommel “Bobong” Amatong in the last polls, or as governor.

This developed as reports also said that District 1 Cong. Manuel “Way Kurat” Zamora is also entertaining to run as governor in the province, besides eyeing to run as mayor in Compostela town.

If Joecab’s comeback is realized, he would no longer have thousands of kabirs in his hand. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News) http://ruralurbanews.blogspot.com

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NEWS: Born-again BM prays over to Ramil, Maricar

oct 6

COMPOSTELA VALLEY- District 1 Boardmember Paul Galicia, who is known to be a born-again Christian, has called on everyone to pray for an  enlightened decision in resolving who should be anointed between Lakas partymates Vice Gov. Ramil Gentugaya and Boardmember Maricar Zamora-Apsay for the congressional post they have been vying at this early for the 2010 polls.

Galicia said that he has since then been praying hard for Gentugaya and
Apsay “kay prayer na lang gyud ang pag-asa ani” in reference to the early row between Gentugaya and Apsay that is becoming divisive to the so-called Comval unity in the present political configurations.

He denied earlier Sidlak reports that he has already sided with Apsay
saying that he is treating the two in the same respect- Gentugaya, who is his “kadugo kay may dugong Insik ug Ilonggo like me” and to Apsay, who is his “igso”.

He said that the consensus reached by his colleagues and Governor
Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy was that whoever is endorsed and chosen by Lakas party as the administration standard bearer for the post will be respected by them.

As to his reported verbal wrangling with Boardmember Moran Takasan in
the past week over the issue on “shadow slates” of both congressional wannabes, he said that those were just made in friendly jests as colleagues in the provincial board.

He said they are taking as just normal the broadside “kantyawans” occurring within them from time to time.

Galicia also bared that he has already initiated spiritual and moral
recovery and development program in the province’s 11 municipalities as
encouraged by the executive order issued by Gov. Uy.

Following his advocacy, the governor’s directive has resulted to the
formation of spiritual and moral development councils in municipal government units, he said.

Galicia is civil engineer in profession and a preacher of Forever Life Ministry, a born-again Christian group. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News) http://ruralurbanews.blogspot.com

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