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Remembering Joe Tangente, martyr

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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...

Remembering Joe Tangente, martyr of the Marcos dictatorship

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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...

Remembering Joe Tangente, martyr of the Marcos dictatorship

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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...

Water calamity, really

April 28, 2016 Holland Water reminds me of Kuan Yu. Both are unqualified and thus, should have been disqualified at the outset, to join the public biddings to perform for government. Holland Water won the contract to supply areas under "water calamity" that the Iloilo City council declared second week of April. It wrangled the contract on the bid price of P220 per cubic meter. A “notice to proceed” was given it April 20 but it took it another week to start delivering water. Reason: it has no water tanker to transport water. It's "winning bid offer" of P220 per cubic meter is overpriced. MIWD charges a residential subscriber P159 per minimum consumption of 10 cubic meters monthly. That's P15.90 per cubic meter. Flo Water which has a supply contract with MIWD charges the public utility P11 per cubic meter. Let's go to Kuan Yu. Government's PSALM awarded Kuan Yu in 2013 the hefty contract of P87 M to clean up the oil spill off northern...