Published May 16, 2018, 7:07 PM
By Ellson Quismorio
The construction company that built the collapsed wooden bridge in Barangay Rio Hondo, Zamboanga City has owned up to its mistake but gave investigating congressmen a rather flimsy excuse for it Wednesday.
Published May 14, 2018, 6:24 PM
By Ben Rosario
The House committee on housing and urban development opens on Tuesday its inquiry into the irregularities that tainted the housing projects for victims of the 2013 Zamboanga City siege.
Negros Occidental Rep. Alfredo “Albee” Benitez, committee chairman, said the House panel has invited officials of the National Housing Authority and contractors of the Zamboanga City housing projects.
Mon, 05/07/2018
ABU BEN ADHEM - Some folks may have addressed him as a Political Butterfly, that is hopping from one political affiliation to the other, but I believe this guy has a personality like no other. Apart from being a scion of family with reputation and integrity beyond reproach, he exemplifies a characteristic and personality, so to speak, that resembles not just an ordinary honeybee, a kind of flying social insect that catalyzes pollination which is a vital process in food reproduction.
When carrying the nectar back to the hive, Honeybee breaks down the complex sucrose of the nectar into two simple sugars, called in our Chemistry class as fructose and glucose. Tucking it neatly into a honeycomb cell, the bee will then beat its wings furiously over top of this syrupy sweet liquid to fan out the moisture and thicken the substance. When it is complete, the bee will cap that cell with beeswax, sealing the perfected honey for consumption in the future days. Such action is a kind of self-sacrifice that epitomizes other-centeredness.
I don’t’ have any connection - personal, social or political- with Cong. Albee Benitez, except that of being a fellow Victoriahanon. But even we are townmates, I don’t even have communication with him since he rose to prominence in the third district and province of Negros Occidental. However, my regard and respect to him surfaced after his risky sortie in Mindanao where he figured in a bridge breakdown that almost jeopardized his life. Thanks goodness, he was not seriously injured. It goes to show he has yet a gargantuan task to perform ahead as he journeys to achieve his dream of helping alleviate the economic well-being and welfare of his fellowmen.
Friday, May 4, 2018
Government doctors and nurses from 12 public hospitals joined a two-day surgical mission in the 5th and 6th districts of Negros Occidental recently, that benefited 168 indigent patients.
Fri, 05/04/2018
NIKKI CARES brings together government doctors and nurses from 12 public hospitals to provide free services for indigent patients.
NIKKI CARES volunteers with Kabankalan Mayor Isidro Zayco, Board Member Pedro
Zayco, Nikki Benitez, Dr. Claudelia Josefa Pabillo, Mary Ann Dino
April 30, 2018
Sunday , April 29, 2018
WHILE it was not a pretty sight that some officials led by Negros Occidental Third District Representative Alfredo Benitez fell into the murky water after the wooden footbridge collapsed at Sitio Hongkong in Barangay Rio Honda, Zamboanga City on Thursday, it is somehow a blessing in disguise.
Sunday , April 29, 2018
By Teresa D. Ellera
NEGROS Occidental Third District Representative Alfredo Benitez said his fall into the murky water with other officials due to the collapsed of a wooden bridge in Sitio Hongkong, Rio Hondo, Zamboanga City on Thursday is an eye opener about the housing problem in the country.
Roel Pareño, Jess Diaz (The Philippine Star) - April 28, 2018 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — A day after falling into murky water while inspecting a resettlement site in Zamboanga City, the chairman of the House committee on housing and urban development vowed to look into all projects undertaken by the National Housing Authority (NHA).
Leizel Lacastesantos , ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 27 2018 04:44 PM
ZAMBOANGA CITY - The local government unit immediately fixed a footbridge that sent lawmakers and local officials into murky waters when it collapsed Thursday.
The new footbridge was still made of wooden planks.
Officials were inspecting housing projects of the Zamboanga Roadmap to Recovery and Reconstruction program when the wooden footbridge collapsed.
Among the officials who fell into the water were Representative Albee Benitez, Mayor Beng Climaco Salazar, Rep. Celso Lobregat, national housing authority officials and their staff.
Ang isa sa akon mga handom para sa Bacolod.
Ako ang kapitan sg sini nga barko. Indi ini magkadto sa wala ukon sa tuo, kundi derecho sa direksyon sang pagbag-o sang gobyerno para sa kaayuhan sang Bacolodnon.
