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                    [Title] => 2 PPCRV ‘volunteers’ nabbed in Manila
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Two alleged members of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) were detained yesterday after they introduced themselves as representatives of the Commission of Elections (Comelec) in order to take away the ballots of several voters in Sampaloc, Manila.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096410 [AuthorName] => Aie Balagtas See [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 254620 [Title] => Vizcaya mayor charges bishop, 4 priests for electioneering [Summary] => BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya — A mayor of an inner town here filed electioneering charges against influential members of the Catholic Church led by Bayombong Bishop Ramon Villena in connection with the recently-concluded special elections.

Aside from Villena, Dupax Del Norte town mayor Isaias Almuete also named Fathers Tony Palina (Bayombong parish), Neal Blanco (Bayombong parish), Vicente Tiam (Solano parish), Ferdinand Lopez (Dupax Del Norte parish) and four others including the members of the municipal board of canvassers of the town in his electioneering case.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1462856 [AuthorName] => Lito Salatan [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 251792 [Title] => More cops to secure special polls in Vizcaya b’gay [Summary] => DUPAX DEL NORTE, Nueva Vizcaya — Additional policemen were sent to secure the safety of voters in Barangay Binwangan here where special elections for local positions are being held today.

Senior Superintendent Felix Caddali, provincial police director, said the additional police personnel, along with a 30-man Army contingent, were deployed amid threats of harassment of voters and poll personnel.

"We are not taking any chances. We have to send additional personnel," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 220459 [Title] => Vizcaya LTO chief axed over ‘illegal fees’ [Summary] => BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya — The provincial head of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) has been relieved amid complaints on the alleged collection of illegal fees from drug and smoke emission testing centers and insurance firms.

LTO regional director Moises Almuete said the relief of Claro Labitoria as LTO district officer here would pave the way for an investigation into the complaints.

"We have to assure the public that there would be no room for a possible whitewash of these complaints," said Almuete.
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"Definitely, we will sue him for dragging my name in the case," said Moises Almuete, LTO regional director, referring to LTO employee Ernesto Fernandez who has implicated him in the shooting of lawyer Virgil Castro.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 133025 [Title] => LTO exec in P10-M bribe axed [Summary] => TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan — After being placed in a floating status, a former head of one of the district offices of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in Cagayan Valley was finally suspended for his alleged extortion activities.

LTO chief Edgardo Abenina suspended Ernesto Fernandez, former head of LTO’s San Isidro (Isabela) district office, "for dishonesty, grave misconduct and gross neglect of duty."
[DatePublished] => 2001-09-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 129268 [Title] => Abenina clears Cagayan Valley LTO head of raps [Summary] => TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan — Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Edgardo Abenina has cleared his agency’s Cagayan Valley director of extortion and other charges and admonished that future complaints against the latter "will necessarily fail."

In a four-page resolution furnished The STAR, Abenina cleared regional LTO director Moises Almuete of accusations of imposing a "quota" on his district officers, inefficiency, nepotism and favoritism which district officer Ernesto Fernandez hurled against him.
[DatePublished] => 2001-08-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1462856 [AuthorName] => Lito Salatan [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 129043 [Title] => Cagayan Valley LTO head hits back at accuser [Summary] => TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan — The accuser has now become the accused.

Moises Almuete, Cagayan Valley director of the Land Transportation Office (LTO), has turned the tables on Ernesto Fernandez, officer-in-charge of the LTO’s San Isidro (Isabela) district office, saying, "Fernandez merely jumped the gun on me to cover up several irregularities of his own."

Fernandez, Almuete said, was accused of collecting illegal fees amounting to millions of pesos, all allegedly for non-existent seminars for LTO violators.
[DatePublished] => 2001-08-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 127523 [Title] => Explain ‘quota’ system, Alvarez orders LTO exec [Summary] => TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan — Transportation and Commmunications Secretary Pantaleon Alvarez has ordered the regional director of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to explain allegations that he has imposed a monthly P15,000 "quota" on district offices under his jurisdiction.

In a memorandum sent last Friday, Alvarez instructed LTO regional director Moises Almuete to submit documents to show that the P15,000 monthly "quota" represented legal collections from motorists.
[DatePublished] => 2001-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1462856 [AuthorName] => Lito Salatan [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 91251 [Title] => LTO regional head accused of imposing ‘quota’ system [Summary] => ROXAS, Isabela — A district officer of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) here has accused the agency’s regional director of obliging the 15 district offices under him to cough up a P15,000 monthly "quota" each, forcing flying squads to extort money from motorists.

"I sympathize with members of the flying squads who are in the forefront of extorting from innocent drivers just to meet the ‘quotong’ system," said Ernesto Fernandez, LTO-Roxas district officer.
[DatePublished] => 2001-07-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1462856 [AuthorName] => Lito Salatan [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => 2 PPCRV ‘volunteers’ nabbed in Manila
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Two alleged members of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) were detained yesterday after they introduced themselves as representatives of the Commission of Elections (Comelec) in order to take away the ballots of several voters in Sampaloc, Manila.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096410 [AuthorName] => Aie Balagtas See [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 254620 [Title] => Vizcaya mayor charges bishop, 4 priests for electioneering [Summary] => BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya — A mayor of an inner town here filed electioneering charges against influential members of the Catholic Church led by Bayombong Bishop Ramon Villena in connection with the recently-concluded special elections.

Aside from Villena, Dupax Del Norte town mayor Isaias Almuete also named Fathers Tony Palina (Bayombong parish), Neal Blanco (Bayombong parish), Vicente Tiam (Solano parish), Ferdinand Lopez (Dupax Del Norte parish) and four others including the members of the municipal board of canvassers of the town in his electioneering case.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1462856 [AuthorName] => Lito Salatan [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 251792 [Title] => More cops to secure special polls in Vizcaya b’gay [Summary] => DUPAX DEL NORTE, Nueva Vizcaya — Additional policemen were sent to secure the safety of voters in Barangay Binwangan here where special elections for local positions are being held today.

Senior Superintendent Felix Caddali, provincial police director, said the additional police personnel, along with a 30-man Army contingent, were deployed amid threats of harassment of voters and poll personnel.

"We are not taking any chances. We have to send additional personnel," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 220459 [Title] => Vizcaya LTO chief axed over ‘illegal fees’ [Summary] => BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya — The provincial head of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) has been relieved amid complaints on the alleged collection of illegal fees from drug and smoke emission testing centers and insurance firms.

LTO regional director Moises Almuete said the relief of Claro Labitoria as LTO district officer here would pave the way for an investigation into the complaints.

"We have to assure the public that there would be no room for a possible whitewash of these complaints," said Almuete.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 172010 [Title] => LTO regional head to file libel suit vs accuser [Summary] => BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya — The Cagayan Valley director of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) is poised to file a P120-million libel suit against an LTO employee in Roxas, Isabela for tagging him as the alleged mastermind of the shooting of a prominent lawyer here last July 18.

"Definitely, we will sue him for dragging my name in the case," said Moises Almuete, LTO regional director, referring to LTO employee Ernesto Fernandez who has implicated him in the shooting of lawyer Virgil Castro.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 133025 [Title] => LTO exec in P10-M bribe axed [Summary] => TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan — After being placed in a floating status, a former head of one of the district offices of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in Cagayan Valley was finally suspended for his alleged extortion activities.

LTO chief Edgardo Abenina suspended Ernesto Fernandez, former head of LTO’s San Isidro (Isabela) district office, "for dishonesty, grave misconduct and gross neglect of duty."
[DatePublished] => 2001-09-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 129268 [Title] => Abenina clears Cagayan Valley LTO head of raps [Summary] => TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan — Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Edgardo Abenina has cleared his agency’s Cagayan Valley director of extortion and other charges and admonished that future complaints against the latter "will necessarily fail."

In a four-page resolution furnished The STAR, Abenina cleared regional LTO director Moises Almuete of accusations of imposing a "quota" on his district officers, inefficiency, nepotism and favoritism which district officer Ernesto Fernandez hurled against him.
[DatePublished] => 2001-08-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1462856 [AuthorName] => Lito Salatan [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 129043 [Title] => Cagayan Valley LTO head hits back at accuser [Summary] => TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan — The accuser has now become the accused.

Moises Almuete, Cagayan Valley director of the Land Transportation Office (LTO), has turned the tables on Ernesto Fernandez, officer-in-charge of the LTO’s San Isidro (Isabela) district office, saying, "Fernandez merely jumped the gun on me to cover up several irregularities of his own."

Fernandez, Almuete said, was accused of collecting illegal fees amounting to millions of pesos, all allegedly for non-existent seminars for LTO violators.
[DatePublished] => 2001-08-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 127523 [Title] => Explain ‘quota’ system, Alvarez orders LTO exec [Summary] => TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan — Transportation and Commmunications Secretary Pantaleon Alvarez has ordered the regional director of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to explain allegations that he has imposed a monthly P15,000 "quota" on district offices under his jurisdiction.

In a memorandum sent last Friday, Alvarez instructed LTO regional director Moises Almuete to submit documents to show that the P15,000 monthly "quota" represented legal collections from motorists.
[DatePublished] => 2001-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1462856 [AuthorName] => Lito Salatan [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 91251 [Title] => LTO regional head accused of imposing ‘quota’ system [Summary] => ROXAS, Isabela — A district officer of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) here has accused the agency’s regional director of obliging the 15 district offices under him to cough up a P15,000 monthly "quota" each, forcing flying squads to extort money from motorists.

"I sympathize with members of the flying squads who are in the forefront of extorting from innocent drivers just to meet the ‘quotong’ system," said Ernesto Fernandez, LTO-Roxas district officer.
[DatePublished] => 2001-07-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1462856 [AuthorName] => Lito Salatan [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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