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'They come to steal
city's runway lights'
By SEN GUINGGUING

Even a well-guarded facility like the Tagbilaran City airport is no longer safe to thieves.

The latest case of thievery in this city was the latest addition to the growing list of theft cases, most of them still unsolved.

The break-in of the city airport came at a time when Tagbilaran was tagged by a local paper as crime city in reference to the series of killings, snatchings and robberies.
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With Representatives Edgar Chatto of the first district and Adam Relson Jala of the third district as guarantors, the Coop Funeral Homes finally released Friday afternoon last week the decomposing cadaver of a British man who was about to marry a lass from Candijay after holding it for 64 days for unpaid embalming and other services.

British national George William Dawson was finally given due funeral rites at Dampas cemetery in Tagbilaran City Friday afternoon, in a land miles away from his homeland exactly two months and four days since his death on November 28 last year.
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For failure to file his statement of assets and liabilities when he was still vice-mayor, former Panglao Mayor Doloreich Dumaluan has been haled to court for violation of the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees.

In an eight-page resolution, graft investigator Sarah Jo Vergara found sufficient evidence tending to prove that Dumaluan failed to file his sworn statement of assets and liabilities and net worth (SALN) for the years 2001 to 2003 during his term as vice mayor.
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EDITORIAL
Change

ECERTAINLY ONE OF THE MOST ENGROSSING TOPICS these days is the projected showdown in Congress over the looming coup against Speaker Jose de Venecia. As to whether de Venecia will be able to weather the storm is anybody's guess.

This is perhaps the most serious threat to de Venecia's stranglehold on the speakership. It is not so much because de Venecia has accomplished much as speaker but because he has mastered the art of horse-trading to the hilt.
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