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DELAY OF WORK RESUMPTION SEEN
Agora consortium
partner backs out

The eyesore generated by the unfinished Agora will remain just that-eyesore, after one of the consortium partners reportedly backed out from participating to its completion. It was pleasant to hear during the Mayor's Report last week when City Mayor Dan Neri Lim announced that resumption of work in the Agora would start the week after. But nothing of that nature came into view as the Agora remains the same old, unfinished structure. Agora watchers were expecting a beehive of construction activities since last week in

First District Rep. Edgar Chatto initiated the tandem of government and private sectors in the effort to protect the remaining breed of tarsiers, world's smallest and oldest living primate found only in Bohol.

In a meeting here Friday last week, regional and provincial officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and officers of the Philippine Tarsier Foundation, Incorporated (PTFI) agreed on a coordinated execution of projects and programs funded by the first district's share in the now refined pork barrel through Chatto, an allocation in the General Appropriations Act (GAA) released annually starting 2007.
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ECO-CULTURAL tourism was then an unthinkable word, until the Boholanos showed what it is.

Entirely packaging a tourism that is a spin-off from the traditional definitions, Bohol's eco-tourism has made it a model for the country, admits Secretary Joseph Ace Durano, during awarding ceremonies of the Department of Tourism (DOT) Turismo Mismo grantees in Magtangtang Danao, Bohol, May 1.
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EDITORIAL
Divine justice

If there is any lesson worth learning from the Vivian Dumaluan rape-murder case, it is the assurance that even the best laid plans can go awry. It is also showing that the passing of time will bury the ghosts of the crime.

By normal reckoning, four years is a long time. So much can happen within that period. The evidences that would be crucial to the case should have been virtually unrecognizable if not completely gone by this time.
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