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Booy seaman
dies in Japan
1 of 5 Pinoy casualties in 3-ship collision
By LEO P. UDTOHAN and CESAR CAPANGPANGAN

HE HAS BIG DREAMS for his family. One of them was to be home in one piece later this month. But it was not destined to be that way. Indeed, he will be home, this time, inside a sealed crate. He is dead.

The death of Alexander Mercader, 33, of Booy district, this city, happened Wednesday night when the vessel he was on board collided with two other ships in the seawaters off Kobe, Japan.
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BOTH the dreaded rice tungro (characterized by yellowish stunted plants) and rice blast diseases (matamata) have invaded a rising number of paddies in Bohol, particularly in the towns of Antequera, Loon, Pilar, Dagohoy, San Miguel and Ubay, resulting to almost 80-percent drop in farm yields.

Among the susceptible rice varieties are NSIC Rc 144, 130, 116H (Mestizo 3) and IR 60.
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Governor Erico Aumentado joined other provincial officials and executives of Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) in leading the inauguration rites for the Language Skills Institute regional site in Jagna on March 1.

TESDA executives who graced the rites were Deputy Director General Rogelio Peyuan TESDA Regional Director Rosanna Urdaneta and Bohol Provincial Director Francisca Opog who joined First District Rep. Edgar Chatto, former third district representative Eladio Jala, Provincial Board Member Esther Corazon Galbreath of the third district, Jagna Mayor Exuperio Lloren, Jagna Parish Priest Msgr. Orencio Jubac, and the members of Jagna's 6th Sangguniang Bayan.
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EDITORIAL
Punishment

Will the corruption ever stop? This is the question people asked when they read about the reported anomaly hounding even pro-people projects operated by cooperatives in the province.

It is truly sad because these are projects that were intended to benefit people in the grassroots, people who should be given priority attention by the government.
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