OFFICIALS of the Bocaue Tennis Club in Bulacan questions the legality of documents presented by a land grabbing individual wanting to take apart of their town’s sports heritage as interviewed by www.diaryongtagalog.net and DZRJ 810 Khz. AM yesterday July 15, 2015 at Bgy. Bagumbayan in Bocaue, Bulacan.

According to Mr. Ding Cotaco, President of the Bocaue Tennis Club  Mrs. Teresita Madulid, wife of one of their members at the Bocaue Tennis Club has no legal rights to take apart or any part of the historic Bocaue Tennis Club situated in this barangay at the back of the Bocaue Central School.

Madulid alleged that part of the land where the tennis court is currently situated belongs to her and she has to secure her property by having it fenced so she applied for a fencing permit at the Bocaue Local Government Unit where she was denied of her application due to lack of sufficient evidence that the said property really belongs to her.

“What we need for her to do is to furnish the authentic documents stating that she really owns the property because right now, I don’t think she has that kind of documents” Cotaco and another officer of the club said in a media interview conducted by both www.diaryongtagalog.net and DZRJ 810 Khz.

In another story related to it on an interview with another source in the Tennis Club, Mrs. Madulid applied for a building permit but instead of constructing the proposed clubhouse inside the court that is the reason for securing a building permit, she allegedly brought goons and put up fences with barb wires at the Bocaue Tennis Court which is a government property owned by the Municipal Government of Bocaue.

In an official correspondence answered by the Bocaue Municipal Administrator Atty. Virginia S. Jose to Mrs. Teresita Madulid dated July 15, 2015 she reiterated that the fencing permit and building permit on the property infringing the Bocaue Tennis Court will not be granted because the Court is a government property therefore a cease and desist order is thereby imposed suspending all construction on the premises and police presence is currently posted at the vicinity of the court.

The tennis court is an integral part of Bocaue and Bulacan’s sports heritage because it is the only Tennis Court in the province to host the Bulacan Private Schools Association (BULPRISA) and Central Luzon Regional Athletic Association (CLRAA), Schools either elementary, High School or College and even Tennis Aficionado’s all over the province come to practice and compete in the Bocaue Tennis Court and some apply for membership at the Bocaue Tennis Club the reason why the officials of the club are very eager to prevent anyone trying to suppress their rights to play the game in the said court moreover to take away the court through illegal means.

The Bocaue Tennis Club officers exhaust all possible means to contact the Avendanos from Plaridel but to no avail so Cotaco and the rest of the officers with the Bocaue LGU is spearheading the fight to preserve the right of Bocauenos to play tennis at the Bocaue Tennis Court. /// written by Michael Balaguer with details from CLMABC Photojournalist Bernie “Kojack” Manansala and Broadcaster MJ “jane olvina” Balaguer

Binuhay muli ng Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development ng Department of Science and Technology (PCAARRD-DOST) ang kanilang mga consortium sa ibat-ibang rehiyon ng bansa at kanilang ipinakilala ang pinakabata ngunit pinakamalaking consortia ng Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources sa Pilipinas, ang nasa Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)  Sa Temang “Enhancing Alliances, optimizing Outcomes”.

Ito ang kabilang sa naging kaganapan kamakalawa sa Philippine International Convention Center kung saan pinangunahan ng pangunahing konseho ng bansa ukol sa sector agrikultura, pangisdaan at likas yaman ang kung saan.

Nagsilbing panauhing pandangal si DOST Secretary Mario G. Montejo na kinatawan ni Usec Amelia Guevarra kasama si Senator Cynthia Villar na kinatawan naman ng anak nitong si Congressman Mark Villar. si Senator Villar ang Chair ng Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food kaya malimit siyang makitang nakikibahagi at nakikisalamuha sa ating kagawaran ng agrikultura at sa mga stakeholders nito gaya ng paghahayupan at pangisdaan.

Nakilala siya sa mga proyekto at lehislasyon na nagsusulong ng pagkakaroon ng negosyo o hanapbuhay sa mga mahihirap .

Nabigyan ng parangal ang ilan sa mga consortium Directors buhat sa Kabisayaan at nabigyan ng pondo para sa kanilang mga pagsasaliksik at kasabay rin nito ang pagpapakilala sa pinakabata at pinakamalaking consortium ng PCAARRD sa Mindanao o sa ARMM sa pangunguna ng DOST ARMM Secretary Myra Alih.

Bukod sa ilang mga pangunahing bisita ay nakibahagi rin ang mga representante ng ibat-ibang consortia ng konseho at ang dati nilang Executive Director na si Dr. Pat Faylon./// Michael. Balaguer

Muling isinagawa ng Philippine Council for Agriculture Aquatic and natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) ng Department of Science and Technology (DOST) ang kanilang programang Technology to People forum kung saan humarap ang kanilang bagong Acting Executive Director Dr. Reynaldo Ebora ukol sa samut-saring tanong na may kaugnayan sa nakalatag na programa ng konseho para sa sector.

Kabilang ang ibat-ibang mga miyembro ng pamamahayag ay dumalo ang mga bisita sa forum na halong pulong balitaan na rin at naitanong ng www.diaryongtagalog.net kung itutuloy pa ng konseho ang programa nilang Magsasaka Siyentista kung saan sila ang nakilala na nanguna rito at nagsilbing napaka epektibo, natuto ang mga nakibahagi at ngayon ay nasa ilalim na nang Department of Agriculture (DA) ayon kay Dr. Ebora, kanilang itutuloy ito sa iba bang pangalan ngunit pareho lang ng paraan.

Dagdag ng director, kailangan nilang muling maibalik ang mga consortia sa kadahilanang mas mapai igting nito ang pagsasama sama at pagtutulungan ng mga stakeholders sa sector agrikultural at nabanggit ang pangangailangan sa Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

Sa pagtatanong ng www.diaryongtagalog.net kung ano ang mangyyari sa consortia sakaling mapalitan ng Bangsamoro Basi c Law (BBL) ang kasalukuyang ARMM, ang sagot ng PCAARRD ay halos wala namang maging pagkakaiba, kung ano ang magsilbing programa at proyektong gagawinsa kasalukuyang ARMM ay ganoon rin sa magiging BBL dahil ang mag iba lamang ay ang istrukturang political at mga katawagan sa pamunuan at hindi naman ang mga magiging programa. (Michael Balaguer)