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As I have written earlier, Kuan Yu, the contractor awarded the P 87 M job of cleaning up the shore of Estancia from the oil spill, is a fraud. A big fraud. Baldog gid. It has no track record in oil spill clean up nor salvaging of sunken or  grounded vessels. Dalan sa Brgy Daan Banwa, Estancia,Iloilo., Ang mga Bunker fuel nga ginkuha sa shoreline sang etancia ginpanambakan sa brgy road. Ngareklamo ang mga pumuluyo tungod sa kabaho sang bunker fuel. pipila diri, ginpanambakan sa lubak sang dalan. (photos by Ilonggo Pamuklat) The spill started Nov. 8, 2013 when supertyphoon Yolanda lashed northern Iloilo. Storm surges brought by the typhoon battered Power Barge 103 of the National Power Corporation (Napocor) and grounded it on the rocky shore of Brgy. Botongon, Estancia, Iloilo, and puncturing its hull in the process. Until now, the clean up is not yet done. One worker, a refugee from the storm and oil spill, already died -- his asthma aggravated from the benzene fumes, among o...

Bwisit nga Frank Drilon! Kuan Yu Global Technologies, Corp. dungol gid: it has no equipment nor trained manpower, how could a water purifier and bottler wrest a multi-million contract? Leo Amisco, a teacher of Botongon Elementary school is grumbling against the ineptness of Kuan Yu, the lucky contractor which wrested the P87 M job of cleaning up the oil spill. Brgy. Botongon is the worst hit when Napocor’s Power Barge 103 was battered by storm surges on the rocky shore of the fishing village that supertyphoon Yolanda whipped up November 8, 2013.   Kuan Yu’s latest caper enrages the school community: it helped itself to the school pump, took out its PVC pipe and attached it to its pump to draw seawater with which  to spray on oil sludge on rocks and concrete pavement. The pipe could no longer be used to draw potable water from the school well. (Note: In our consultation with victims in Estancia, January 23 at the town center itself, Botongon still reeks of se...

Iloilo Capitol 02 January 14 ILOILO Province top agenda for 2014 is still the “immedite rehabilitation” of victims of typhoon Yolanda, Gov. Arthur D. Defensor Sr. declares this morning, his first official press briefing with members of the Iloilo Press Corps for the year. Defensor: Yoland refugees top concern. He vows to reject future donations from PSALM and Kuan Yu. Northern Iloilo, particularly the towns of Carles, Estancia, Batad, San Dionisio and Concepcion sustained the heaviest losses in lives and properties in the province – some 170,000 families displaced, 90,000 houses totally destroyed, 80,000 partially, 215 dead and one missing, according to Jerry Bionat, secretary-general of the Iloilo Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. Yolanda left a vast swath of destruction in the central Philippines group of islands Visayas 08 November 13. Northern Iloilo residents though prefer to receive fishing boats instead of houses saying they can build th...