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Concha confers with counsel Janne Baterna of the National Union of Peoples' Lawyers (NUPL) inside her detention cell, actually a portion of the office of the warden. KALIBO, AKLAN August 30, 2015 This is one of the rare incidents where both the State and accused joined together at the hearing here August 28 (2015) in opposing a third party motion to transfer the detention of Panay Red leader Concha Araneta-Bocala. Atty. Dogelio, warden of the Aklan BJMP jail in this town, have moved for the transfer of Araneta to the Iloilo Provincial Integrated Jail, a facility under the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology. He told the court, “we could no longer guarantee her safety”. Concha flanked by two female guards at her arraignment At the pre-marking of exhibits at the chamber. Defense and State panels facing each other. Tension at the court already subsided and the parties are now trading humor. His facility has only 28-strong personnel incl...

ILOILO CITY August 22, 2015 Somebody should advise the person concerned to tear down tarp streamers congratulating himself as “most outstanding local chief executive” in the “highly urbanized city” category because it is misleading as it is ridiculuous. These streamers are all over Yrong-Yrong and these are embarrassing -- as embarrassing as the acceptance by retired Gen. Douglas MacArthur of the title "Field Marshall" of Filipino troops in 1935. (Pres. Manuel L. Quezon, according R. Constantino, offered the title to the retiree to spite him and expose him as a nutcase. A field marshall commands over 200,000 troops. The Philippine Scouts, the country's standing army then, was only 10,000-strong.) First off, the field of contest is only Region 6 which recently has shrunk to only Panay and Guimaras Islands, after Negros Occidental across the strait moved out to join Negros Oriental and form the Negros Island Region (NIR). There used to be two “highly urbanized ...

 Is it proper to kick out a female student or faculty member from school because she got pregnant outside wedlock? It is not proper but it still happens today sadly. Four college scholars of the Iloilo Provincial Government met that fate. For educators of the schools, state-owned at that, the four hapless girls deserve that for committing that shameful and immoral act of premarital sex. The secretariat of the provincial school board, from the human resource office of Iloilo Province, appealed to the schools in behalf of the teenagers to reconsider but to no avail. I got wind of those cases by accident though: that fine day, the provincial legal office had no representative to the forum on Gender and Development (GAD) organized by Capitol for its own employees and those of the component city and towns. I was picked to attend it by chance, which turned out to be enlightening. Every school year, Iloilo Province selects 25 graduates from public high schools, five per c...