violent attacks is now raging in the Biliran province by Norbing Napolis

(UPDATED)Naval Biliran – WHO CAN forget the manner in which DMP’s pugnacious attitude, unrestrained against people who he doesn’t like? Back then, it breathlessly sang the praises of tough guy image who wishes political change in Naval Biliran and eventually restore peace and order; business confidence economic growth and the well-being of the Navalean in particular and to the Biliranon in general?

But a lot had happened since then, not least a generational shift in the attitude that neither Navalean nor Biliranon politician can afford to ignore what goes on around them. If the Naval/Biliranon politician of the past embraced DPM on his tough guy image easier, politician in Naval/Biliran today won’t have any of it.

The reporter without border have bluntly called upon the Naval/Biliranon to put an end to halt on killings and give justice to the victims and for the sake of justice and to deter continued killings, murders should be investigated thoroughly and those found responsible punished under the law.

This way, perhaps, eliminate some blemished image the region has ‘till date. Consequently, foreign investments and economic assistance may be evident in the long run.

Perhaps now, the Naval/Biliranon will take serious notice and cognizance what the province has become. When media, academics, civil society and the churches denounced the killings, the administration insisted, on one hand, that a lot was being done, and accused its opposition’s of ignorance.

According to Jhune Del Rosario, on his RadioNatin program that Naval/Biliranon opposition has lost its balance in tracking the administration’s work performance. Instead, ironically resorting to summary killings of DPM on personal and political interest, however, a reliable source said, the murder was a result of the prolonged plot to end the atrocities committed by the deceased. They alleged that the deceased was a serial boxer (hingulata), susmariosep!

In another development, a bank robbery convict visited a prisoner in Naval provincial jail give five hundred pesos and ask to liquidate his brother who brutally assaulted an army officer in Palompon Leyte with a samurai sword that disabled the victim. The brother who is also rapist said; “enough is enough.”

He accuses his brother of killing two students in defunct university in Tacloban city last 1979 and move to Palompon and instigated an army officer to death.

Ricarte Ampong received blood money according to an inmate who ask not to be named receives one hundred pesos from the suspect and wants his brother to be assassinated. The brother who is now a journalist scared and is hiding in different part of the island to avoid the plot. However Jade Morillo dismisses the plot as hearsay.

Jade Morillo warn the hiding brother thru YM that Rolando Borrinaga in New York and Minnesota filled a defamation lawsuit, and that senior inspector Serapio in purgatory asking the subject for surrender however Pesyong is blocking the action as unacceptable.

As remembered Ampong’s plot to assassinate a councilor and his father were subdued and accidentally shot the brother who just arrived from Cebu city for holiday. The quarrel started due to a boundary dispute in their Caneja Street residence.

Ampong was confronted by a Morillo family in gun tow but retreat to avoid a serious blow. Atty. Villordon settled the dispute amicably.

Ampong who joint the “Guardian Brotherhood” to get some protection is now serving his jail term and accuses the councilor for executing the case that put his life in saddest term.

Some names who were mentioned is also a suspect for the assassination plot against the diseased DMP. A military contingent from Palawan base in Cotabato visited Naval to execute the plot but failed.

We called-up the former governor through telephone interview who is also an inmate refused to elaborate the issue to avoid implication. –rioters-

police chief killed in Biliran province…

First posted 03:48pm (Mla time) Nov 10, 2006 By Joey A. Gabieta
TACLOBAN CITY — The police chief of a town in Biliran province was gunned down early Friday by a former policeman over a personal grudge, police said.
Senior Inspector Noel Largadas, 48, police chief of Cabucgayan town, sustained gunshot wounds in the abdomen and left shoulder and died en route to a hospital, said Senior Superintendent Conrado Calvario, Biliran’s provincial police director.
Calvario identified the assailant as Michael Rosales, a retired policeman.
Largadas died while he was being transported to a hospital in this city, 111 kilometers from Cabucgayan, Calvario said.
Largadas and his wife were walking home at around 1:30 a.m. Friday after attending a birthday party when he was shot allegedly by Rosales as they were passing by the former policeman’s home.
Rosales, a neighbor of the Largadas, allegedly shot the police chief at close range twice using an Ingram-type pistol, Calvario said.
Rosales, who ran back inside his house after the shooting, was arrested minutes later, said Calvario.
Calvario said Rosales was holding a grudge against Largadas after the police chief filed an oral defamation case against him a year ago. The case is still pending in court, he said.
Rosales was taken Friday to Camp Ruperto Kangleon regional police headquarters located in Palo town, Leyte province, for paraffin tests. He would be brought back to Cabucgayan where he would be detained, Calvario said.
“This is an isolated case. The town is generally peaceful,” Calvario said.
Calvario said he has appointed Inspector Marianito Malibago as officer-in-charge.

Agapito “Peti” Borrinaga was brutaly murdered…

A top field CNBPNews reporter said they have already established the identities of the suspects behind the recent brutal killings of Agapito Borrinaga in Naval Biliran.

Field reporter Andrea Pitao Tan disclosed that at least one groups of suspects were involved in the killings.

Tan said criminal charges were filed against four persons, tagged as among the members of one group of suspects behind the incidents. An investigation still going on continues against the other suspects.

Borrinaga, who was drunk in time of the incident, was brutally murdered in Naval and the culprits accuse Borrinaga of provoking them.

The people of Naval are inclined to believe that the perpetrators were provoke and are not known the identity of Borrinaga.

“They have identified the suspects responsible for the killings of “Agapito “Peti” Borrinaga,“ Tan said without further elaboration.

So far, 2 confirmed Navalean were brutally murdered from September to October this year. The victims include the former governor of Biliran, and more who has not been reported.

The statistic believes that Naval Biliran crime rates are higher than other neighboring provinces in term of percentages and areas according to an official who ask for anonymity.

A CONVICTED PERSON GONE MISSING by: Peter Beltran

It has been reported that an accused person from Naval who is convicted is free to go in and outside Philippines.
His particular was withheld due to some investigation thru internet.
This particular person is very dangerous and a threat to anybody. He had been convicted of bank robbery (or theft?) last 1988 or 1989 in Naval, Biliran, his native hometown. He was serving a sentence at the provincial jail in Naval, Biliran when he breached it and gone missing. There was a warrant of arrest issued against him which, until now is not accordingly serve.
However, the subject is now free from the said prosecution thru a friend who is now a lawyer in Naval Biliran.

The subject has the following characteristics:
He is a conman, a molester and a rapist. He molested and raped many lasses including his own aunt and a cousin.
He is a drug user/pusher and a thief. He stales not only from other people but from his own family circle, as well.
He is a notorious person especially in his hometown, Naval, Biliran.
He is also a fake. He faked his relevant documents to obtain a seaman’s book from Marina that enable him to work as a seaman. He continues to deceive government agencies by presenting fake and altered documents to hide his true identity. In fact, he was able to obtain a “clearance” from NBI in spite of his derogatory records. He is very proud that he can do all these things without being apprehended even once. He is really very proud that he uses to brag these to all.
He committed many felonies which were keep by his victims because of either they for fear of their respective lives or do not want to go through the trouble with the process of law.
The reporter who requested anonymity asks the public’s valuable attention to this matter. Although he is not a threat now to the nation as a whole but HE IS towards his hometown people.
The reporter who requested to keep his identity confidential for fear of his lives and that the subject gives five hundred pesos to a prisoner in Naval Provincial jail asking to liquidate the subject. -AFP-

The BILIRAN PROVINCE, a lair of murderers by:Ma.Lourdes Cator Cababan

On the northern tip of Leyte island lies the province of Biliran named after the native grass known as Bolobiliran which covered the lands verdant plains during in the 1600s. Biliran is one of the youngest provinces in the Philippines being reconstituted to full-fledged province last May 11, 1992.
Biliran is the smallest province in Eastern Visayas both in terms of land area and population. The narrow Biliran Strait separates the province from the rest of mainland Leyte. The land transforms from flat fertile plains to rolling hills to very rough terrain. Its narrow coastal lowlands are where most of the population is concentrated.
Biliran was known as Isla de Panamao during the early years of Spanish colonization of the Philippines in the 1600s. The name Panamao is believed to refer to an ethnic form of fishing net. It was in this land where the first large-scale Spanish shipyard was constructed in the Philippines. Biliran gained its present name sometime between 1668-1712.
The province, owing much to its sheltered (and reclusive?) terrain, is virtually unspoiled by the ravaging changes of development. Beads of sparkling clean beaches are strewn along its shoreline encompassing majestic waterfalls within it almost unexplored rough interior. For many, it is the numerous islets surrounding the province that hold the most interest.
Ironically the Biliran province are now lair of coward murderers and idolaters who were brought-up by some rogue politician who wear sheep-clothing but inwardly a feroucious wolves and accused of occupying the island as Leinivkota narrated but asks her anonymity.

The Brutal Murder of Elmer Callosa

Naval Biliran – A popular Elmer Callosa of Caneja Street Naval Biliran was murdered by a policeman and a Brgy Captain. The 27-year-old during the incident has been killed in cold blooded murder, according to our field reporter Andrea Pitao Tan.

The murder took place in Caneja Street adjacent to the house of Mr. Vicente Curso Sr. and near the house of late Maning Bontes of Naval Biliran.

Mr. Callosa was shot to death by a policeman which now serving a jail term in killing a Coast Guard base in Naval Biliran.

Mr. Callosa who is a suspect of multiple thieves raises his hands for surrender was shot to death by a policeman and the Brgy Captain. Five bullets struck to Mr. Callosa’s body and pronounce dead at the scene. The gunmen reportedly also tried to blast the head with bullets, but the gun failed to hit.

The brutal murder of Elmer Callosa is a worthwhile history with no justice serves up.

Ex-governor shot to death thru Ma.Lourdes Cator Cababan

By Jovy S. Taghoy Sun.Star Staff Reporter With Jujemay G. Awi
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2006/09/08/news/ex.governor.shot.to.death.html

The former governor of Biliran Province was shot in Cebu City as he was about to leave a commercial vessel early yesterday morning, casting doubts on port security as Cebu gets ready for an international summit just three months away.
Former Biliran governor Danilo Parilla died of a single gunshot in the head. He was rushed to the emergency room of the Chong Hua Hospital but died at 7:23 a.m. The lawyer was 52.
Alleged triggerman Eugenio N. Corpin, 56, of Barangay San Isidro, Naval, Biliran, was arrested by a team from the Mobile Patrol Group (MPG) minutes after the attack occurred past 5 a.m. inside the MV Cagayan Princess.
The vessel arrived at Pier 4 in Cebu City from Naval, Biliran with Parilla, his wife Susan and Corpin aboard.
Police confirmed that Corpin used to work for the family of Naval Mayor Gerardo Espina Sr., who defeated Parilla for the mayor’s office. But police have found no reason, so far, to suspect politics was behind the attack.
At City Hall, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmena called on the authorities to tighten port security, which he found too lax.
“Dili man sila istrikto sa mga barko. Labi na og daghan kaayo tawo. (They’re not strict enough aboard ships, especially when there are plenty of passengers.) They really should tighten security there, especially now,” he said.

PRECAUTION
Ship captain Gregorio Mabitad Sr. said they did conduct an inspection. In an ABS-CBN interview, Mabitad said he is also willing to have his crew investigated to determine who committed any security lapses.
He added that had they known of the threat to Parilla’s life, they would have kept him in a safe place and asked for police assistance before he was allowed to disembark from the ship.
Corpin, in an interview, denied killing Parilla. His face was badly bruised and one eye was bloodshot.
He said “a sympathetic friend” whom he identified as Norberto “Norbing” Napules was responsible for the killing. Parilla’s family could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Several witnesses, including a 28-year-old female passenger, pointed to Corpin as the one who killed Parilla.

WITNESSES
The witness, in her affidavit, claimed she was only about one meter away from where Parilla was killed. Corpin even pushed her aside because she was blocking his way.
Another female witness said she heard Parilla’s wife Susan asking Corpin, “Gene, nganong gipusil man nimo akong bana? (Gene, why have you shot my husband?)”
A Mobile Patrol team—composed of PO3 Jaime Aparre, PO1s Rommel Mediodia, Junicar Esteneso and Sir Abatayo— arrested Corpin. They also found a .45 pistol loaded with eight bullets kept inside his backpack.
A spare magazine filled with eight more bullets was also found inside the bag.
Initial information gathered by the Homicide Section of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) indicated that the killing may have been triggered by Corpin’s grudge against Parilla.
CCPO Director Melvin Gayotin, however, ordered investigators to look deeper into the other possible motives.

GRUDGE
While he admitted harboring a grudge against Parilla, Corpin told Sun.Star Cebu it has never occurred to him to kill the former governor. He said he did not even know Parilla was in the same ship.
It was only when he and Napules were about to disembark from the vessel when the latter allegedly told him about the former governor’s presence. Napules allegedly told Corpin that he would kill Parilla.
After shooting Parilla, Corpin said, Napules passed the handgun to him, which he stashed inside his backpack.
“Kon gusto nako siyang patyon, didto na lang sa Naval, dili na nako paabton dinhi sa Cebu (Had I wanted to kill him, I could have done so in Naval. Why would I wait till we arrived in Cebu?),” Corpin said.
Robert Juve Yao Ang, the agency manager of MV Cagayan Princess, disputed the suspect’s claim he had no idea the former governor was in the same trip. Ang knew both the victim and suspect.

CALL FOR HELP
Ang, in his affidavit, said that at 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, he saw Corpin board the vessel.
Corpin allegedly advised the ticket collector to wait until he confirmed if his companion was already on board. After meeting his male companion, Corpin bought a ticket.
Knowing that Corpin and Parilla earlier fought in Naval, Ang said he advised the suspect not to initiate “any unlawful acts against Parilla and even advised him to settle their differences.”
After talking to Corpin, Ang said he also informed Parilla about the other man’s presence and advised the former governor to transfer to a cabin, for his safety. The next thing Ang knew, Parilla had already been shot.
At 5 a.m. yesterday, the Mobile Patrol in Cebu City received a call for protection at the Pier 4 area, as former governor Parilla’s life was at risk.

SUSPECT
PO3 Aparre and PO1s Mediodia, Esteneso and Abatayo arrived at the port area minutes before the vessel docked. Just as some passengers started to disembark, a single gunshot rang out, prompting the police to rush inside.
Aparre said that when they were approaching the gangplank, he came across Corpin, who even told him, “Naay gipusil didto (Someone’s been shot).” Aparre, however, got suspicious, and stopped Corpin in his tracks. At that point, a witness identified Corpin as the one who shot Parilla.
While Aparre accosted and handcuffed Corpin, the other policemen went inside the vessel and found Parilla slumped on the floor, right in front of the door leading to the gangplank. CCPO Director Gayotin and Vice Control Section Chief George Ylanan, who was the staff duty officer when the attack occurred, said they will also determine why the shipping company failed to detect the firearm Corpin carried.

LAWYERS
Gayotin agreed with Mayor Osmena’s statement to enforce stricter security in the port area, particularly in inspecting passengers’ luggage.
Corpin, for his part, accused the police of beating him black and blue when he was arrested. Corpin said he could identify the policemen who mauled him if given the chance to see them again.
However, when Corpin met with the four responding policemen, he said he could not remember their faces.
News of the former governor’s death saddened his Cebu-based compañeros at the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP).
IBP Cebu City Chapter president Alex Tolentino said they will try to finish today the organization’s resolution on the killing. Tolentino remembered Parilla as “an active, jolly fellow who was nice to talk to and had firm decision-making capabilities.”
Parilla was a member of the Young Lawyers Association of Cebu in the early 1990s, before becoming vice governor of Biliran. He was an associate of lawyer Adelino Sitoy.

Legacy by Dra. Mamerta Ragtag M.D.

FIVE years ago a conference on the legacies of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship, the fall of which the nation will mark tomorrow, was held under the auspices of seven organizations at the Ateneo de Manila University. A participant questioned the use of the word “legacies” in referring to the things inherited from the Marcos dictatorship. He said that a “legacy” is a good thing handed down from one generation to another, but most of the things Marcos left were certainly anything but good.
For most people, Marcos’ worst legacy was the economy. Marcos pillaged the economy to amass billions of dollars. He acquired international notoriety, and was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records under the title “biggest robbery.” Guinness said that “the total wealth taken by the [First] Couple was believed to be $5-$10 billion.”
Economists said that because Marcos, his relatives and cronies plundered the economy, the Filipinos became poorer and the nation became the basket case of the region. The debt-driven growth during the Marcos dictatorship was not sustainable and primarily benefited Marcos, his relatives and cronies.

Up to now the country is struggling to get out of the debt trap into which it was plunged by Marcos. The billions of pesos that are being used to pay the foreign debts that were accumulated during the Marcos regime could have been put to better use to provide social services and public infrastructure to the people.

Caesar Octavius Parlade, who used to be research director of the Presidential Commission on Good Government, said Marcos got a 15-percent cut on dollar-denominated projects and 20 percent on yen-denominated ones. While Marcos, his relatives and cronies amassed ill-gotten wealth through many “creative” means, the foreign debt ballooned, reaching a total of $27 billion shortly before the Conjugal Dictatorship was deposed.

That Marcos, his relatives and cronies robbed the country blind is a well-known fact. But what many people, especially the young, do not realize is that Marcos left a legacy far worse than plunder. He destroyed, corrupted or degraded most of the country’s political institutions. He closed down Congress and later reopened it as the Batasang Pambansa [National Legislature] but made it his personal rubber stamp. He degraded the Judiciary and made it do his bidding. A chief justice of the Supreme Court was reduced to holding the umbrella for the First Lady.
Marcos coddled and corrupted the Armed Forces and the police. If the nation is suffering from occasional military adventurism and coup jitters now, it is because the concept of civilian superiority over the military was destroyed during Marcos’ time. Marcos used the military and the police to commit human rights abuses against thousands of political dissidents, protesters and youth leaders.
Marcos prevented young, promising people from rising and becoming leaders of the nation by arresting and detaining them or, worse, ordering their execution. More than economic plunder, the intellectual, spiritual and psychological corruption of the nation and its institutions is the worse crime and is the most evil “legacy” of Marcos to the Filipino people. Mainly because of his “legacies,” the nation finds itself bogged down in a mire of poverty, misery and despondency.
The ill-gotten wealth cases are just some of the cases that the nation has not finally resolved in the nearly two decades that have passed since the fall of Marcos. Other cases are those involving thousands of victims of human rights violations. Many of the military and police officers who killed or tortured political dissidents during the Marcos dictatorship are now occupying high positions in government.

It is said that the past is past; that what happened during the Marcos dictatorship should be forgotten so that the nation can start afresh. The cry is for reconciliation, for unity. But how can there be reconciliation when there is no admission and no justice? Before there can be forgiveness there must be confession and contrition.

The nation has to be constantly reminded of the “legacies” of the Marcos dictatorship until all the cases shall have been given a proper closure. The nation’s memory needs to be constantly jogged and the truth has to be told and retold until the nation shall have obtained justice for the wrongs that Marcos and his people have done to it.

THE HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE by:Ma.Lourdes Cator Cababan

The former governor Jose Casas Gonzales is the founding father of the Biliran Province and Biliran became a regular province on May 11, 1992 after a plebiscite was conducted in accordance with R.A. 7160. The island province, which was formerly a sub-province of Leyte, belongs to the Eastern Visayas region (Region 8). It is bounded on the north by the Visayas Sea, on the south by the Carigara Bay, on the east by the Samar Sea, and on the west by the Strait of Biliran.
The province of Biliran consists of 8 municipalities and 132 barangays. It is a lone congressional district. The seat of government is in Naval, the capital town.
The main island has slightly flat to rolling and rough terrain. It has narrow coastal areas or lowlands with mountainous interiors except for the municipalities of Naval and Caibiran that have wider plains and rolling terrain extending about 7 km from the coast. Mountain ranges occupy the major portion of the island municipality of Maripipi.
Biliran has a combination of warm and cool climatic zones, thus the prevailing climate is ideal for the cultivation of a wide range of agricultural crops. There is no distinct dry season but the heavy wet season generally occurs in December.

Internet Bullies by Crisanta Bermoy

It is unbelievable what we experience, we’d heard plenty of stories about school bullies before, but never would we imagine that a University of the Philippines professor use bully to hurt his constituencies.

We can ask ourselves why that UP institution has of this kind of teacher like Rolly Borringa who is in abnormal in character. Perhaps the institution never teaches their employees to stand bullies and help those being bullied. But this should be done with the mentality of an eye for an eye or we would be stooping to their level.

In a recent independent survey conducted by a researcher who asks for anonymity, nearly 95per cent of people in Naval Biliran Province said they experience bullying in the net.

But while majority were victims of verbal bullying such as teasing and named calling, cases of physical bullying such as kicked, hit or pushed by others were also reported.

Most common places bullying occurs in schools are in the classroom and canteen, but Rolly Borrinaga uses the internet to humiliate people.

The researcher said that victim of bullying often exhibit symptoms of anger and sadness, often leading to low esteem. And they are not the victim of a process and worldwide researchers have proven that bullies have a greater tendency to turn to crime between ages of 17 and 30’s and above. But what really goes through a bully’s mind when he actually picks on someone.

A professor in Australia said, “There can be many motives, sometimes occurring at the same time. These include enjoying a sense of dominating and humiliating someone of getting even. Sometimes they simply feel that other people deserve to be given a hard time.”

While it is compulsory for school in the countries like Australia and the United States to have an anti-bullying program in place, but this is not the case of Rolly Boriinaga’s bullying in the net.

A registered psychologist said; “for physical harm, you might see bruises of an individual, so that’s one obvious sign. But it’s not easy to tell when one has been emotionally abused.”