City fire station to get 
new equipment – mayor

BY FELIPE CELINO

ROXAS City — The Roxas City Fire Station will soon receive a water tanker from this city government and two fire trucks from the national government, assured Mayor Angel Alan Celino.

In a recent press conference, the city fire chief, Fire Insp. Kenneth Lester Gemotea, admitted that their firefighting equipment are already obsolete.

Celino was saddened with what happened to the two families whose houses were gutted down by fire last month.

A 15-year-old student got killed after being trapped inside the room of one of the razed houses.

The Bureau of Fire Protection’s (BFP) three fire trucks are already over three decades old. Its “most recent” truck was acquired 19 years ago yet, Gemotea revealed.

“It’s time to upgrade our firefighting equipment,” said Gimotea, who has been heading the BFP here since 2009.

He also said firemen lack protective boots and jackets.

Gimotea made the admission after Marilyn Cabaña-Pantaleon blamed the BFP for the death of her daughter Jacqueline.

The Pantaleon residence was razed by fire on February 16.

The firemen came 30 minutes after the first fire alarm, said Pantaleon.

Two of Pantaleon’s neighbors, Voltaire Bernardino and Antonio Felipe, attested to the delayed response of the BFP.

Gimotea, however, denied this. He said they received the fire alarm about 2:04 a.m. The fire truck reached the fire scene in three minutes, he insisted.

“I was willing to give up my life just to save my daughter. No mother could let her daughter die,” said an emotional Pantaleon in a press conference at the Filamer Christian University where Jacqueline attended as a third year high school student.

“I have a lot of dreams for Jacqueline. She was an intelligent girl, jolly and beautiful,” Pantaleon said.

The fire may have started from an abandoned room on the ground floor of the house, according to Pantaleon’s boarder Rosalie Soriaso./PN

   

   
City gov’t may employ repatriated Pinoys

ROXAS City — This city government is willing to employ repatriated Filipinos who were affected by the political unrest in other nations, particularly the Arab countries.

Filipinos, especially from this city, who were repatriated because of the trouble overseas could be taken in as city government employees, Mayor Angel Alan Celino said.

But Celino said it “depends on them if they are willing to work in the city government with a salary that is much less than what they earn abroad.”

He assured that the city government is ready to accept their services.

Getting repatriated Filipinos in the city government, Celino said, is part of his commitment to provide their needed assistance.

He also directed Milagros Barquin of the city’s Public Employment Service Office to closely coordinate with the Department of Labor and Employment to get the list of Roxas City residents who are in Libya and some Arab countries.

The mayor also said they will establish an Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Help Desk here after the City Council gave him the authority to enter into a memorandum of agreement with the OWWA.

According to Barquin, as of March 11, the OWWA and the Department of Labor and Employment said there were 34 Capiceños identified as working in Libya.

Of the identified overseas Filipino workers from Libya, four of whom were already repatriated, Barquin revealed, adding that one is from Brgy. Baybay. (Jemin B. Guillermo/PIA/PN


   
Man found dead

BY FELIPE CELINO

ROXAS City — A caretaker of an organic fertilizer farm was found dead in Ivisan, Capiz recently.

Police identified the man as Fernando dela Cruz of Brgy. Tiza here.

He was found at an organic fertilizer farm in Sitio Tagudtud, Brgy. Poblacion Norte, Ivisan town.

According to the police, dela Cruz might have died due to cardiac arrest.

But a post mortem examination will be conducted on the man’s body, police said.

On the same day, a motorcycle driver accidentally hit an old woman while the latter was crossing a street in Brgy. Parian, Sigma, Capiz.

Police said the driver, 42-year-old Hernani Capilit — he was allegedly drunk during the incident — of Brgy. Mianay, Ivisan town died.

Seventy-four-year-old Erminia Villarico of Brgy. Parian sustained injuries on the head and hand.
She is curr


   
Man found dead

BY FELIPE CELINO

ROXAS City — A caretaker of an organic fertilizer farm was found dead in Ivisan, Capiz recently.

Police identified the man as Fernando dela Cruz of Brgy. Tiza here.

He was found at an organic fertilizer farm in Sitio Tagudtud, Brgy. Poblacion Norte, Ivisan town.

According to the police, dela Cruz might have died due to cardiac arrest.

But a post mortem examination will be conducted on the man’s body, police said.

On the same day, a motorcycle driver accidentally hit an old woman while the latter was crossing a street in Brgy. Parian, Sigma, Capiz.

Police said the driver, 42-year-old Hernani Capilit — he was allegedly drunk during the incident — of Brgy. Mianay, Ivisan town died.

Seventy-four-year-old Erminia Villarico of Brgy. Parian sustained injuries on the head and hand.
She is currently confined in the Roxas Memorial Hospital here./PN


Rebels kill soldier

BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO and FELIPE CELINO

ROXAS City – The New People’s Army (NPA) killed a Philippine Army corporal in Brgy. Artuz, Tapaz, Capiz.

The body of Joebert Glendro of the 3rd Infantry Division was found yesterday morning near a cemetery in Brgy. Artuz.

He was last seen alive on Sunday around 5 p.m.

Glendo was on his way home to Brgy. Camburanan, Tapaz when around 30 fully armed rebels forcibly took him away, witnesses said.

Witnesses claimed to have seen the rebels handcuffing him.

Gledro’s death has orphaned his seven children. His eldest had just finished his college degree in Nursing. His youngest was only seven years old.

According to Major John Andrada, acting commanding officer of the 3rd Civil Military Operations Battalion, the group of Francisco “Ka Tonying” Balois operating in central Panay was responsible for Glendro’s death.

Prior to his death, Andrada said, Glendro negotiated for the surrender of an NPA member.
Andrada denounced the NPA’s atrocity, noting that it happened while the government and the communists were negotiating for peace.

“Balois’ group is not for peace,” Andrada said.

But even as the military condemned this latest rebel killing, it remains confident that the incident won’t discourage rebels who have earlier expressed plans to lay down their arms.

The 3rd Infantry Division under Major General Vicente Porto said peaceful resolutions to the insurgency would triumph over armed struggle./PN

ently confined in the Roxas Memorial Hospital here./PN


City fire station to get 
new equipment – mayor

BY FELIPE CELINO

ROXAS City — The Roxas City Fire Station will soon receive a water tanker from this city government and two fire trucks from the national government, assured Mayor Angel Alan Celino.

In a recent press conference, the city fire chief, Fire Insp. Kenneth Lester Gemotea, admitted that their firefighting equipment are already obsolete.

Celino was saddened with what happened to the two families whose houses were gutted down by fire last month.

A 15-year-old student got killed after being trapped inside the room of one of the razed houses.

The Bureau of Fire Protection’s (BFP) three fire trucks are already over three decades old. Its “most recent” truck was acquired 19 years ago yet, Gemotea revealed.

“It’s time to upgrade our firefighting equipment,” said Gimotea, who has been heading the BFP here since 2009.

He also said firemen lack protective boots and jackets.

Gimotea made the admission after Marilyn Cabaña-Pantaleon blamed the BFP for the death of her daughter Jacqueline.

The Pantaleon residence was razed by fire on February 16.

The firemen came 30 minutes after the first fire alarm, said Pantaleon.

Two of Pantaleon’s neighbors, Voltaire Bernardino and Antonio Felipe, attested to the delayed response of the BFP.

Gimotea, however, denied this. He said they received the fire alarm about 2:04 a.m. The fire truck reached the fire scene in three minutes, he insisted.

“I was willing to give up my life just to save my daughter. No mother could let her daughter die,” said an emotional Pantaleon in a press conference at the Filamer Christian University where Jacqueline attended as a third year high school student.

“I have a lot of dreams for Jacqueline. She was an intelligent girl, jolly and beautiful,” Pantaleon said.

The fire may have started from an abandoned room on the ground floor of the house, according to Pantaleon’s boarder Rosalie Soriaso./PN

 






 

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