How do you distinguish between the lawless and the lawmen?

This was the question bugging at least three car owners whose vehicles were confiscated on suspicion that they were stolen.

Despite the three's vehement protestations, a composite team of Traffic Management Group (TMG) operatives seized the vehicles in separate operations.

The three were all Mitsubishi Adventures and owned by Handel Sarabosing and Isidro Manalo, all of Dauis town and Nilo Sapong of Remolador Ext., this city.
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Tagbilaran Mayor Dan Lim yesterday said the Blue Card anomaly at the Medical Mission Group of Hospitals and Health Services Cooperative was accomplished through fraudulent claims.

"The abuse was not a matter of overcharging hospital bills like overcharging of medicines and supplies, lodging cost, laboratory fees and professional fees," he noted.
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JAGNA-The health agenda of the municipal government, under the leadership of Mayor Exuperio Lloren, recently got a boost after sending four local officials to a three-day seminar on health that the Provincial Health Office (PHO) facilitated with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAid)-Philippines.

Mayor Lloren, who is also the president of the League of Municipalities in the Philippines (LMP) Bohol-chapter, sent Municipal Health Officer (MHO) Dr. Arnold Dasio Cagulada, Sangguniang Bayan (SB) Committee on Health and Social Services Chair Senen Lloren, Municipal Planning and Development Officer (MPDO) Gerry Araneta, and Assistant Municipal Budget Officer Belly Aceron to the workshop conference held on September 11 to 13 at the Bohol Plaza, in Dauis.
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EDITORIAL
Paying for a ride

The other week, Bohol was jolted by the report that it has become a dumping ground of hot cars. The heat had nothing to do with the sun as with the fact that these cars took on new identities courtesy of carnapping syndicates.

At least eight vehicles were seized by an over-zealous team from the Traffic Management Group (TMG) and impounded in Camp Dagohoy . Four of them were subsequently shipped to Cebu City to undergo laboratory crime analysis.
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