Fabricanians called to
emergency meetinge

On my behalf as acting president of the Fabricanians, I am calling an emergency meeting of the Fabricanians and the former foundation officers Friday noon at the McDonalds Restaurant along North drive corner La Salle Avenue.

This has to do with the latest flood that visited Fabrica and Paraiso of Sagay City early this week.

The Fabricanians had undertaken two sorties in Paraiso and Fabrica and Fabrica just last week to provide additional relief assistance to the affected flood victims.

Last time, several families of Paraiso and Fabrica were given relief assistance. The Fabricanians also helped rehabilitate and provide educational materials to the Cabungahan Day Center which was devastated by the floods last month.

I have asked Reynaldo Espina, former president of the Northern Negros Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Inc., and director for the Fabricanians, to invite Bert Porras, president of the former Fabricanian Foundation to meet.

Actually, the Fabricanians and the Foundation have almost the same officials.

The Fabricanians have almost exhausted their reserved funds in the two relief operation to the affected barangays of Sagay City.

Fabrica is the generic term applied to barangay Paraiso, Fabrica, Tadlung, and Malok and Piok which are beside the Himogaan Rivers.

President Joy Sato, who should be at the helm of the organization, is still in Australia to visit her sister who is sick of cancer.

I am aware that the meeting will intrude on the Holy Week observance by the officers of the group. But the question is that this is an emergency situation. And our help is needed. So, the emergency meeting.

Please come to the Friday noon meeting.

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The President of Legacy Bank died last Monday of throat cancer. And thousands of depositors and investors in his dubious activities remain holding the bag.

So with the Nation Bank depositors of Negros Occidental. Thousands more from other parts of the country had been victimized by the bank and its ancillary firms. Now, as I had pointed out, most are now holding the empty bag.

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Senator Antonio Trillanes yesterday called for the resignation of Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras for the Mindanao power fiasco. This is creating havoc with the economy of the most promising region of the country and barring its advancement needed to bring about peace and stability in the troubled region.

Well, Negrenses, too, have reason to demand that Almendras crack down on his erring subordinates.

It’s almost a year since Undersecretary Layug had informed Negrenses that DOE surveys had found various violations of the calibrating rule for gasoline stations in province. It is only just recently, this week for that matter, that the task force for gasoline stations of Vice Mayor Thaddy Sayson had reported the discovery of several gas stations under-delivering the amount of motor fuel. This is Bacolod.

Unfortunately, as in the case of USEC Layug, their identities have yet to be revealed, although their descriptions had been furnished the media.

Still, the more important thing is for Layug to publicize through media the identity the erring gas stations.

And, there is the question of the unresolved issue asked of the DOE by local motorists and fuel users asking why the price of gasoline and other motor in province is higher than that of Manila and, other provinces.

After repeated demands, I supposed there is no more reason for the DOE to main impervious to these demands by the Negrense public.

The silence of the DOE gives rise to suspicions that something is not right with the agency.*

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