Goodbye JBC…Hello MMDA?

May 13 araw na lang at magwawakas na ang panahon ni JBC sa Bakoor — at sa ekseng pampilitika sa Kabite.

Eto pa.  Ayon sa aming nababalitaan sa pali-paligid, pumuputok na ang butsi ng ilan sa ating bayan, lalo na ang tropa nina JBC at Malvar.  Anila, sinasalakay na ng MMDA ang Bakoor gayung para sa kanila ay hindi dapat dahil kung sa literal na sentido ay hindi dapat manghimasok ang MMDA sa problema ng Bakoor kahit pa si Gob Ayong pa ang humiling, at si PGMA pa ang mag-utos na ayusin ang magulong sitwasyon ng trapik.  Sinasabi rin nila na siguradong may kinalaman din diumano si Mayor Strike sa umano’y “pananakop” ng MMDA sa Bakoor.

Ilan sa mga sasakyan ng MMDA na karaniwa’y ginagamit sa kampanyang Metro Gwapo na nakahimpil sa isang bakanteng lote sa Talaba.

Ilan sa mga tauhan/kaminero ng MMDA na nakitang nagbubuwag ng isang sagabal sa daan sa may Aguinaldo Highway ng Panapaan.  Kuha kahapon, Hunyo 16.

Bacoor drive set; Pasay’s Muslims appeal to prelate

Illegal structures on main roads in Bacoor, Cavite are up for demolition on Monday even as 332 Muslim families evicted in Baclaran, Pasay City last week have appealed to the Catholic hierarchy to take up their plight with Malacañan Palace.

The Metro Manila Development Authority is fielding a 150-strong crew to give way to the construction of a rotunda in Barangay Talaba.

“We have to instill sidewalk discipline,” said Robert Esquivel, chief of the agency’s Street Clearing Operations Group.

Meanwhile, Abdelmanan Tanandato, head of the group, and other Muslim leaders personally delivered their letter to Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo, housing committee chairman of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines.

“We are asking your help to send our concerns through our letter to the President,” he stated in the letter.

Tanandato said they sought the prelate’s help instead because the Office of Muslim Affairs was unable to lift a finger when the wrecking crew of the Philippine Reclamation Authority backed by anti-riot policemen tore down the shanties of settlers.

The residents claimed that despite the P30,000 “disturbance pay” offered by the authority, they opted to fight for their relocation.

According to Esquivel, the clearing drive on June 18 would start at the Coastal Road exit.

“Bacoor is an important gateway to Metro Manila. Gridlock is always heavy in the area. That’s why an executive order tasked MMDA to come up with traffic reduction measures,” he said, stressing the benefit of easing the bottleneck in the locality.

“While Las Piñas is just on Bacoor’s eastside, those from Batangas bound for Roxas Boulevard in Manila would have to pass Bacoor.”

Noting that many residential units and commercial establishments have encroached on the street’s three-meter easement, Esquivel said vehicular traffic needed more attention.

“Many developers failed to anticipate the proliferation of new subdivisions in Cavite and overlooked the need to construct more roads.” Rio N. Araja and Dennis Carcamo

Eto na ang listahan ng mga tatakbo sa bayan ng Bakoor…

Ni Guan Sheng

Salamat sa Commission on Elections Municipal Office sa bayan ng Bakoor ay nakakuha na kami ng kopya ng listahan ng mga kakandidato sa mga posisyon para sa halalan ngayong Mayo 14 dito sa bayan ng Bakoor.  Ang nakuha naming listahan ay ang mga kakandidato para sa mga posisyon ng Alkalde, Bise-Alkalde, at mga Konsehal.

Sa kabuuan ay may 33 katao ang naghain ng mga Certificate of Candidacy (COC) para sa mga naturang posisyon.  30 sa kanila ay tumatakbo na may partido, kung saan nahahati sila sa tatlong pangkat (tig-10 sa isang pangkat) at dalawang independyente o walang partido.  May isang umatras sa kanyang kandidatura para sa pagka-konsehal, kaya minarapat naming hindi na ito isama sa listahan.

Para sa kabuuang listahan, pumunta dito sa http://bacoorinsider.wordpress.com/halalan-2007/

Mula sa Journal Online — Very dead-on description

Halaw mula sa pangulong tudling ng People’s Journal noong Marso 27, 2007. Swak na swak! Kumbaga, need we say more?

Just be compliant!

THE circus is on!

Candidates are striking up the marching band, leading parades, and unfurling banners and streamers announcing their eagerness to be “of service” to the people.

But they are causing inconvenience for the rest of us who have to run faster and faster just to stay economically in place just like the hamster inside a playwheel.

It is okay if they hold their activities in plazas, squares, and other open spaces which can accommodate crowds.

But when these politicians do their thing along busy streets and avenues, they slow down the conduct of commerce and lead to the loss of business or income to people who have far more important things to do than listen to the same political rhetoric and campaign pledges which are more honored in breach than in fulfillment.

There ought to be reasonable limits to these kinds of activities.

Aside from regulations on the acceptable campaign events, the Commission on Elections should also keep a tight watch against the use of government properties in strictly personal political activities of incumbents seeking re-election or another elective office when they have finished out their allowable terms.

In one town in Cavite yesterday, traffic on the main road leading to Metro Manila slowed and eventually screeched to a halt when the incumbent mayor led a parade towards the town hall where he presumably held a rally to announce his candidacy for congressman and his wife as candidate for mayor.

Outgoing Bacoor mayor Jessie B. Castillo led his supporters and followers as they marched towards the town hall accompanied by a uniformed marching band with leggy majorettes and musicians in uniform.

Castillo smiled, pressed flesh, and waved at passers-by and people looking out their windows to see what the racket was all about.

Behind them were some SUVs, jeepneys, and tricycles whose drivers were instructing motorists to make way for the convoy.

We would not have raised a hoot if all of these vehicles were privately owned.

But some, in fact, many of them were government vehicles as shown by their red plates.

Is this permitted by law?

Just be compliant, Jessie.

“Ang lakas ng loob mong mangdikit ng malalaki mong litrato (akala mo iniisip mo ang gwapo mo), pero paano pa kaya kung mukha mo ang dikitan, ano kaya ang maiisip mo?”

Ipinakikilala: Jessie B. Castillo for Kangkongresman!

Ni Hitokiri Battousai

Tulad ng aming nabanggit sa unang tudling ng blog na ito, aming ipakikilala sa inyo ang mga kandidato para sa darating na halalan para sa bayan ng Bakoor, upang magabayan namin kayo sa inyong pagpili sa mga magiging lider ng ating mahal na bayan

Kaya simulan na natin ang init!

Ating kilalanin ng mabuti ang isa sa mga tatakbo bilang Tongressman, este Kongresman ng unang distrito, walang iba kundi si…

JESSIE B. CASTILLO alyas JBC! Ang kasalukuyang meyor ng Bakoor! At ang may misis na nais humalili sa kanya sa pamamagitan ng pagtakbo nito (Mrs. Ner Castillo) bilang meyor ng Bakoor!

Hayaan nating ang Wikipedia (isang Internet-based encyclopedia) na ang magpakilala sa kanya…

Jessie Banayad Castillo (born June 15, 1956 in Bacoor, Cavite, Philippines) is a Filipino politician. He is the incumbent mayor of Bacoor, a position he has held since 1998.

Castillo earned both his undergraduate and masteral degree from De La Salle University in Manila Before entering politics, he served different positions in financing companies, and worked as a Special Assistant to then Cavite Governor Juanito Remulla. In 1992, he ran for congressman under the Remulla ticket but lost; then in 1995 he vied for the mayorship of Bacoor but got the same result, being defeated by the late Victor Miranda. However, just four months before the 1998 elections, he was declared the duly-elected mayor after the court upheld his complaint of vote-rigging.

Outside politics, he is also said to own Island Cove, a popular world-class resort park and tourist destination located in Binakayan, Kawit, Cavite with the Remulla family. He also chairs the Southern Luzon (Region IV-A) cluster of the Peace and Order Development Council, a position bestowed by appointment of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, in 2004.

Police station padlocking incident

On February 7, 2007, Castillo made national headlines after he ordered the closure of the town’s police headquarters and its four other detachments and confiscated all the force’s seemingly-dilapidated vehicles and radio equipment donated to them after receiving information that his right-hand man, municipal police chief Chief Insp. Alex Borja, and the entire police force, would be replaced in a reshuffle in connection with the 2007 midterm elections.

Castillo, already in the twilight of his term, justified his move and blamed his local arch-rival, Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. as the brains behind the supposed move (Bong’s brother, Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office Board Director Strike Revilla, is challenging the term-limited mayor’s wife, the former Minerva “Ner” Gomez, for his position), alleging that the senator wanted to replace the police force with policemen loyal to Revilla. Also, instead of challenging his boss and on willful orders of the former, Borja ordered his men to camp outside the police detachments.

The siege ended when Castillo agreed to repoen the locked-up police stations and return the confiscated vehicles to the local police two days later, after a meeting with local government and police officials. However, on February 28, the Cavite police leadership and the Department of the Interior and Local Government filed sedition charges against Castillo, Borja and their supporters. The DILG also stood by its earlier decision stripping Castillo of powers over the local police.

Also, on March 6, police said that they will file additional charges against the mayor for releasing a paid one-page advertisement on national broadsheets which justified his actions on locking-up the police stations and which even accused the police and a politician which he did not name for conspiring in an attempt to unseat him, which the police said is baseless and potentially libelous.

Congressional Bid

After completing three terms as mayor, Castillo announced that he is running for congressman representing the first district of Cavite (which aside from Bacoor includes Cavite City, Kawit, Noveleta, and Rosario). He faces incumbent Joseph Emilio Abaya, whom he thinks to be behind the unsuccessful bid of Bacoor to become one of the nation’s newest cities. This will be his second attempt for Congress representing the same district.

At the same time, he wants his wife, Ner, to succeed him, with incumbent councilor Lorenzo “Uring” Nolasco as her running-mate.

Both Castillos are running under the Nacionalista Party banner (headed by re-electionist Senator Manny Villar), although their local ticket is inclined to support Team Unity senatorial candidates.

Personal Life

Castillo is the son of Arsenio Castillo, a post-war mayor of Bacoor, and the former Amalia Banayad, a housewife (both deceased). He and his wife, also a De La Salle product, have three daughters, one of whom is now deceased. His eldest, Macy, is the municipal president of the Sangguniang Kabataan Federation of Bacoor.

Castillo and his family currently resides in Ayala Alabang Village, Muntinlupa City.

O ayan. Buti pa ang Wikipedia, me tudling pa ukol sa naganap na pagpapasara nito sa himpilan ng pulisya dito sa Bakoor nito lang Pebrero. Nakakatarantado isipin, nakakahiya tuloy ang labas ng Bakoor sa mga taga-ibang bayan dito sa Pilipinas. Nakakahiya, kumbaga! Kayo ba, naaalala pa ninyo ang insidenteng yan? Pero, hindi pa nila alam (silang mga taga-labas ng Bakoor maliban na lang sa mga taga-Kabite) ang sari-saring kabulastugan ng UNGAS na ito habang nakapwesto bilang meyor, syang dahilan ng hindi pag-angat ng Bakoor at ang tuluyang paglubog nito sa kumunoy sa ilalim ng pamamahala nito (tignan ninyo na-alpasan pa tayo ng Imus, Dasmariñas, at maging ng Rosario at General Trias!)!

Naipakita na namin ang ilang mahahalagang impormasyon tungkol sa nagpapakilala na syang mananlo umano sa Mayo 14. Nasa sa inyo na yan kung sa huli ay iboboto nyo sya o ibabasura.

JBC: “Tignan nyo, napaka-gwapo ko ano! Kaya iboto nyo ako! Kasi sa kagwapuhan ko napaangat ko ang Bacoor!”

Abaya: (sabay tingin sa taas) “Sagwapo naman nito eh!”

Nakalilito

Nalalapit na naman ang halalan. Halos isang buwan na lang.

Kung tutuusin habang tumatagal ang pangangampanya ay nakakarinig na tayo ng mga buladas mula sa iba’t-ibang kandidato na ang nais ay ating ibigay ang pagtitiwala sa kanila upang pamahalaan ang Bakoor.

Na kesyo sila ay may malasakit at direksyon umano sa panunungkulan, na kesyo subok na sila makalipas ang ilang taon ng serbisyo, na kesyo sila ay makapagbibigay ng pagbabago para sa ating mahal na bayan, at iba’t iba pang pang-akit na pwede pang maisip.

Ngunit ang totoong pagsubok ay darating sa panahong ilang araw na lang ang nalalabi para sa pangangampanya ng mga kandidato, dahil dito ay magsisimula nang mag-isip ng masisinsinan tayong mga botante sa kung sinu-sino na talaga ang ating iboboto. Kung minsa’y mauuwi pa sa pagkaliyo dahil sa kakulangan ng kaalaman sa plataporma ng mga ito, baka mauwi na naman sa kung kelan nasa presinto na’t lahat ay kung sinu-sino na lang ang ilalagay natin sa balota, isang bagay na maituturing ko na kasayangan lang ng boto dahil winawaldas natin ang pagkakataon para sa isang maayos na kinabukasan ng Bakoor.

Sa totoo lang, sa mga panahong ito ay nakalilito pang isipin. Ngunit habang patagal ng patagal ang pangangampanya at palapit ng palapit ang halalan ay hayaan ninyong ang Bacoor Insider ang makatulong upang punan ang inyong kaalaman ukol sa mga platapormang ipiprisinta ng mga kandidato at nang sa gayon ay makabuo kayo ng matatag na desisyon.

Hindi namin hahayaang magbulag-bulagan na lang tayong mga botante, lalo na sa mga panahong ito.