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The Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod has set the final
deadline for all offers for a new city hall site for Bacolod City
on February 13, in an omnibus resolution it passed Thursday.
The SP also set the public hearing on the offers
for a new government center on Feb. 17. Bacolod Councilor Lyndon
Caņa, is the proponent of the resolution. The SP members agreed
to hold the public hearing at 1:30 p.m. at the Liga ng mga Barangay
Hall at San Juan Street, Bacolod City.
The proposed dates were moved upon the request
of Councilors Dindo Ramos, Al Victor Espino and other members of
the SP, who suggested that the deadline and the public hearing be
set earlier.
The City Hall Committee, chaired by City Administrator
Lorendo Dilag, submitted to the SP Thursday its evaluation of the
first eight proposals offered or considered probable sites for a
new city hall. The committee has received about 15 proposals, aside
from the other offers submitted to the SP.*CGS
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Cable
theft incidents cases
rising nationwide -- PCTA
Legitimate cable companies have become victims of
the growing cable piracy problem in the country, a press release
from SKY Cable said yesterday.
A resident of Barangay Olympia, Makati City,
identified only as Aling Ella, a longtime cable subscriber, recently
noticed that her cable TV reception seems to have deteriorated although
not once has she missed paying her bills. Aling Ella said the cable
service seemed better years ago when the signal was clear. Without
knowing it, however, legitimate subscribers like Aling Ella are
the real victims of the growing cable piracy problem in the country.
Cable companies may have been bleeding financially,
but it is the subscribers who are at the losing end in the cable
piracy crisis, Elpidio Paras, vice-chairman and former president
of the Philippine Cable Television Association, said in the press
release.
Paras added that illegal cable connections cause
30 to 40 percent degradation in cable signals resulting in ghost
images, static lines, blurred pictures, hissing noises, sudden flickers
on screen and surges of static noise that can damage the TV set.
Cable theft in Metro Manila have become rampant that the number
of illegal connections has surpassed the total number of subscribers
of all the cable companies combined, the press release said. "Without
realizing they've been had, the legitimate subscribers are paying
for these illegal connections and they get nothing in return," Paras
said.
Paras encouraged subscribers to report cable
theft incidents and bogus linemen offering free cable in their neighborhood.
"One tell-tale sign is the presence of multi-channel
splitters in the electric post, near the main cable line," he explained.
"Cable companies don't use three-way splitters or octopus connections.
We keep our cable connections seamless, so all you can see is one
cable wire connecting the subscriber to the main cable line."
Subscribers, Paras added, should call their cable
company's hotline whenever they see a splitter.
"Subscribers should take part in the battle against
illegal connections because ultimately, they are the ones being
robbed, not the cable companies," Paras said in the press release.*
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US
Veterans Affairs to hold
outreach program in Bacolod
The Manila Regional Office of the United States Department
of Veterans Affairs will hold an outreach program for veterans and
their dependents in Western Visayas on Feb. 16, 8 to 12 a.m, at
the BAYS Center, in Bacolod City, a city hall press release said
yesterday.
Two representatives from the USD-VA will conduct
interviews, discuss benefits of veterans and answer related queries,
among others, in the event to be held in coordination with the City
Mayor's Sectoral Concerns office under Executive Assistant Alex
Coloso. All officers of the American Legion, Veterans Federation
of the Philippines, Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Inc., Veterans
of Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans in Bacolod City
and Negros Occidental are advised to call Jeff Esperanzate at the
Office of Sectoral Concerns located at the Bacolod public plaza,
at 433-8666, for more details, the press release added.*
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Cable
theft incidents cases rising nationwide -- PCTA