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Press statement Statement on the assault on Atty. Merbehn Lumbo December 8, 2016 The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) Panay expresses its grave concern on the highhandedness displayed by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) this morning for roughing up, arresting, handcuffing and detaining a colleague in the legal profession, Atty. Marbehn Lumbo, who was only exercising his professional duty of protecting a client. Atty. Lumbo has rightly responded to his client, Melvin Odicta Jr., who sought his legal aid when PDEA agents raided his residence in Molo, Iloilo City. He had not done anything to stop the law enforcers from conducting the raid: all he asked was to read the copy of the search warrant, if any. The raiders answered that the warrant was only for illegal drugs allegedly kept at the residence of his client . However, on seeing cash and jewelries being collected by the raiders instead of illegal drugs, Atty. Lumbo vehemently objected and ...

Nov. 11, 2016 Meeting Iloilo Provincial Committee on VAWC (violence against women and their children) The second semester of last year (July - December 2015), the Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) reported 452 cases of physical assaults, 18 instances of “economic abuse” (deprivation of financial support), 124 incidents of “psychological abuses” (threats, verbal shaming) in Iloilo’s 42 towns and one component city (Passi). In the same period, 45 were sexually assaulted, 18 of whom raped. INSP. MONEVA All victims are women or their children and the perpetrators are husbands, live-in partners or males with whom the women victims had past dating relationship, explains Insp. Mary Grace Ceballos Moneba, chief of the women’s and children’s desk (WCD) of the IPPO. Each PNP station in the towns or cities has its own WCD that investigates cases of abuses against women and minors and, if warranted, file criminal charges against perpetrators. The second semester ...

November 15, 2016 Iloilo City Iloilo Province is "blessed" with enormous mineral wealth but only a handful or even none of its 1.9 million people may enjoy them. Worse this Central Philippine province may be reaping the curse if giant mining firms were to have their way of plundering its mineral wealth. The mining companies have applied to mine 10,000 hectares of its foreshore for palladium, platinum, silver "and other associated mineral deposits", SP Jeneda Salcedo-Orendain Three applicants filed their applications before the central office of the Mines and Geo-science Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) which is a step to process its "exploration permit application" (EPA) that in turn, if the exploratory tests turn positive, would pave the way for the "financial and technical assistance agreement" (FTAA) a nice sounding gobbledygook which simply means a license to proceed with the plunder that i...

draft of Tangent's letter addressed to then Defense Sec. Juan Ponce Enrile, Aug. 10, 1976. Jose Aquilino Tronco Tangente, college graduation photo, St. Vincent Ferrer Seminary, Jaro, Iloilo City Ka Baran and Ka Randa [I initially intended to write about Joe Tangente (October 9, 1949 - August 28, 1987), only but in the course of my interview with his younger brother Orvillo Tangente, 65,   I realized that his martyrdom in the anti-Marcos resistance, merely unlocks more participants crying to be recalled, particularly, his wife who-predeceased him,  Elma Villaron, daughter of a Tumandok...

Jose Aquilino Tronco Tangente, college graduation photo, St. Vincent Ferrer Seminary, Jaro, Iloilo City [I initially intended to write about Joe Tangente (October 9, 1949 - August 28, 1987), only but in the course of my interview with his younger brother Orvillo Tangente  I realized that he ’s martyrdom in the anti-Marcos resistance, merely unlocks more participants crying to be recalled, particularly, his wife who-predeceased him,  Elma Villaron, daughter of a Tumandok tribal leader in the highlands of Tapaz town, Capiz Province. Ka Randa, as her brother-in-l...

Jose Aquilino Tronco Tangente, college graduation photo, St. Vincent Ferrer Seminary, Jaro, Iloilo City [I initially intended to write about Joe Tangente (October 9, 1949 - August 28, 1987), only but in the course of my interview with his younger brother Orvillo Tangente  I realized that he ’s martyrdom in the anti-Marcos resistance, merely unlocks more participants crying to be recalled, particularly, his wife who-predeceased him,  Elma Villaron, daughter of a Tumandok tribal leader in the highlands of Tapaz town, Capiz Province. Ka Randa, as her brother-in-l...