This is a recording of Gary Granada, a Filipino singer-songwriter, airing his complaint about how he was abused by some of the powers-that-be from GMA-7 Network. His songs are both humorous and poignant. And though his songs cater to the common folk, they are accessible, easy to listen to and do not belittle his audience's intelligence nor taste. He is a BIG DEAL. So, for GMA execs to do this to him is an even BIGGER DEAL.
Champion: Tribu Paghidaet
1st: Tribu Bola-Bola
2nd: Tribu Ilonganon
3rd: Tribu Silak
4th: Tribu Himal-us
Once again Tribu Paghidaet is the Dinagyang 2009 Champion. While Tribu Bola Bola won 1st place, not bad for a comeback performance. Congratulations to all winners and participants.
Dinagyang 2009 special awards:
Best in Headress: Tribu Paghidaet
Best in Discipline: tribu Atub-atub
Best in Street dancing: Tribu Bola-Bola
Best Costume: Tribu Paghidaet
Best in Music: Tribu Paghidaet
Best in Choreography: Tribu Paghidaet
Best Performance: Tribu Paghidaet
Best choreography choreographer will receive new cellphone from Smart.
THE evidence submitted in the complaint for the murder of call center worker Lynn Vi Ebarita identified her companions on the night she disappeared.
According to the daily staff journal of the Mandaue City Police Office, Ebarita was with two other women, Jonnelle Enfectana and Evelyn Apelado, and three men identified as Wabert Diu, Arnel Babon and a certain Roxan or Raxo.
Shown a sketch of the “Tina Panganiban” who reserved Room 309 of the Nikkei Garden Hotel, three witnesses also said in their joint affidavit that the woman was Apelado. Ebarita’s body was found behind that room.
Her boyfriend in the United States also confirmed in an online chat that Ebarita was with some men and women before she was killed.
The boyfriend said he called up the victim’s cell phone three days after she failed to come home and another woman answered the phone. He also heard that woman talking to some men.
The printed chat messages between the victim’s boyfriend and Enfectana was the document she gave investigators before she was arrested.
Authorities are trying to determine if the others were involved in Ebarita’s death.
Stabbed 24 times and stuffed in a plastic bag, Ebarita was found last Jan. 22. Enfectana has since been named a respondent in a murder complaint.
Investigators recovered the victim’s wallet in Enfectana’s boarding house on the day they arrested her.
Enfectana, through her lawyer, is contesting the legality of her arrest and the search in her room, both of which were not covered by warrants.
The head of the Investigation and Detective Management Branch, Chief Insp. Eddie Recamara, said in his affidavit that the house owner approved their search and was even there when they discovered the victim’s wallet.
In the inquest proceedings, Recamara and his three investigators submitted, among others, the progress report of MCPO Director Senior Supt. Orlando Ualat; the MCPO daily staff journal prepared by PO3 Charlie Callet; the joint affidavit of three TeleTech employees; and the joint affidavit of the victim’s sister and relatives.
They also submitted the joint affidavit of the arresting officers Recamara and investigators SPO1 Arnulfo Quiachon Jr., SPO1 Rico Cabatingan and PO3 Protacio Tago Jr.
Recamara requested that the names of the witnesses be withheld, so as not to expose them to unnecessary risk.
Ualat’s progress report revealed that a certain Tina Panganiban rented Room 309 at 1 p.m. last Jan. 18.
At 9 p.m. that same day, the victim was with Enfectana, Apelado and Diu, drinking at the corner of Escario and Juana Osmeña St. in Cebu City.
The report further stated that Apelado and Diu were Enfectana’s neighbors in Tacloban City.
The staff journal named the other suspects as Babon and Rackso, from Borongan town in Samar. The two were also with the group that night.
“These names mentioned could not be contacted and never showed up during the conduct of the investigation,” the journal said.
Ualat’s report stated that at 1 a.m. on Jan. 19, hotel personnel who delivered beer to Room 309 saw the victim and “Tina Panganiban” inside.
Three TeleTech employees executed an affidavit stating that at 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 18, they met the victim, Enfectana and her cousin Apelado. The women reportedly said they were waiting for a taxi.
The call center employees said that Apelado wore a fisherman’s hat and big dark sunglasses, even if it was nighttime. “Tina Panganiban” wore the same things as well, the hotel’s front desk in-charge later told the police. (OCP)
Upon the advice of her lawyer, detained suspect Jonnelle Enfectana, 26, a co-worker and close friend of the victim, refused to sign a waiver of detention since they will question the legality of her arrest and the search on her boarding house.
Both the arrest and search were done without warrants.
Michael Enriquez, Enfectana’s lawyer, asked to be placed on record that the suspect was brought to the Mandaue City Prosecutor’s Office after the 36-hour reglamentary period already lapsed.
Prosecutor Bienvenido Mabanto, during the inquest, gave the suspect a chance to submit controverting evidences but Enfectana, through her lawyer, declined to do so.
Based on the evidence submitted by the police, Mabanto promised to resolve the case next week.
Enfectana will remain detained at the Subangdaku Police Station.
The suspect was arrested last Wednesday for the killing of Ebarita, whose body was found last Jan. 22 with 24 stab wounds and placed in two sealed garbage bags at
the Nikkei Garden Hotel in Mandaue City.
Ebarita, a single mother of a seven-year-old child and Enfectana’s supervisor at call center firm TeleTech, was believed to have been killed last Jan. 18 or 19 while
drinking with Enfectana’s relatives inside the hotel.
She is believed to have refused to have group sex with the suspects.
Ebarita’s father said he has forgiven the suspect and he just wants to let the law take its course.
“Kung di man ugaling siya (Enfectana), motug-an na lang siya kung kinsa (If she didn’t kill my daughter, she should just identify the culprits),” he told Sun.Star Cebu.
Enriquez, in an interview after inquest, said his client did not sign the waiver of detention since they will question the validity of the arrest and the eventual detention of his client.
“If we sign a waiver, it would necessarily follow nga mamatay among claim for an illegal arrest,” Enriquez said.
Enriquez also said the evidence against his client are all circumstantial and not enough to link her to the crime.
“There was never an instance and no witness that (could point that) she (Enfectana) was in the hotel when the crime was committed,” he said.
On the police’s possible use of the printout of the chat messages between Enfectana and Ebarita’s boyfriend a day or days after her death, Enriquez said there are rulings and standards to be followed on the use of electronic evidence.
He said it is up to the prosecutor to assess if the rules apply.
He said the justifications given by the police on the arrest of Enfectana without a warrant would not suffice to qualify their operation as a “hot pursuit.”
He also described as illegal the absence of a warrant during the search on Enfectana’s boarding house. Police found Ebarita’s wallet there.
He said his client shared the room with another boarder. Also, many people had access to the common wash area where the victim’s wallet was found.
Mabanto said he had asked the suspect during the inquest proceedings, which started at 8:30 a.m. and ended at 3:40 p.m. yesterday, if there was an instance when her co-boarder and Ebarita met before the crime was committed.
Enfectana said no.
With regard to the search that led to the discovery of the victim’s wallet in Enfectana’s boarding house, Chief Insp. Eddie Recamara explained to Mabanto that they secured the permission of the house owner.
Together with the complaint sheet the police submitted to the prosecutor’s office were affidavits of three TeleTech employees who saw Enfectana and Ebarita during the Sinulog; the suspect’s landlady; the victim’s sister; the victim’s neighbors; the investigators and arresting officers.
THE boyfriend of a slain call center supervisor will return to the Philippines to testify against her close friend, identified by police as the primary suspect in her killing.
Jonnelle Enfectana, primary suspect in the killing of Lynn Vi Ebarita, has denied involvement in the crime. Her lawyer said he will question the search of Enfectana’s room and her arrest inside a hospital Wednesday afternoon, which were done without warrants.
Police are also not yet ruling out the possibility that Ebarita’s office mates may have been involved in her killing.
Chief Insp. Eddie Reca-mara of the Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO) said they already have the names of two of the four alleged accomplices of Enfectana. The two are from Boro-ngan town in Eastern Visayas. Police have yet to identify the two other accomplices, a man and a woman.
Recamara said printouts of online chat conversations and the recovery of Eba-rita’s wallet from Enfecta-na’s boarding house are strong pieces of evidence against her.
Recamara said Eba-rita’s boyfriend assured police via a long-distance call that he will return to the Philippines to testify against Enfectana.
Ebarita and her boyfriend were co-workers in a call center in Lapu-Lapu City. They then transferred to another business process outsourcing company in Mandaue City before the boyfriend left for the US and Ebarita joined TeleTech.
Police said that one thing that provoked the boyfriend’s suspicion was Enfectana’s use of a nickname that only his girlfriend knew and used.
Investigators believed that Enfectana gave police printouts of chat sessions between Ebarita and her boyfriend and between the boyfriend and Enfectana, to mislead police.
MCPO Deputy Director for Operations Bernard Tambaoan told reporters that Enfectana once applied for a P15,000 loan with Ebarita as guarantor. He said Enfectana again applied for a loan but Ebarita declined to be the guarantor. He said this angered Enfectana.
Last Jan. 18, some of Enfectana’s male relatives reportedly came to see her for the Sinulog. Investigators said the suspect may have arranged for a group sex session but that the victim refused.
Four days later, Eba-rita’s body was discovered stuffed inside a plastic bag.
Up until last Tuesday, police provided Enfectana with security because she said she received death threats. She collapsed on that day before she could sign a confession detailing her role in Ebarita’s death.
But when her lawyer Michael Enriquez came to see her on Tuesday night, Enfectana changed her mind and no confession was signed.
During the search at her boarding house, police found among Enfectana’s things Ebarita’s wallet, which contained her TeleTech card, a PhilHealth card, a North General Hospital card and credit cards.
Tambaoan said these were enough “circumstantial evidence” to arrest Enfectana.
CEBU CITY -- Police arrested Wednesday a friend of the call center agent whose body was found outside a hotel room, after investigators recovered the victim’s wallet inside the friend’s boarding house.
Jonnelle Enfectana, 26, initially volunteered to sign a confession, but changed her mind Tuesday night and refused to cooperate further with Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO) investigators.
At 3:30 p.m., police arrested her inside the private ward of the Mandaue City hospital, where she was resting a day after being admitted. Investigators brought her to the MCPO and prepared a murder case against her.
Police already have the names of two possible accomplices and have asked the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in Tacloban for assistance.
Chief Inspector Eddie Recamara of the MCPO and his team recovered Lynn Vi Ebarita’s wallet, containing her identification cards, inside a room Enfectana rented in Florimer Subdivision, Barangay Banilad, Cebu City.
Recamara said they secured the homeowner’s consent for the search and that the arrest, while warrantless, was legal because it formed part of their pursuit operations.
A radio report, however, quoted lawyer Michael Enriquez as saying he will question the validity of the search and arrest.
Asked about the motive, Recamara said he believed envy may have triggered the attack.
Last January 18, some of Enfectana’s male relatives reportedly came to see her for the Sinulog. One of the investigators’ theories is that the suspect arranged for a group sex session, but that the victim refused.
Four days later, Ebarita’s body was discovered stuffed inside a plastic bag.
From then on, Recamara said the police relied on leads provided by Enfectana, including printouts of chat conversations between Ebarita and her US-based boyfriend, and between the boyfriend and Enfectana.
One thing that provoked the boyfriend’s suspicion was Enfectana’s use of a nickname that only his girlfriend knew and use.
Up until last Tuesday, police provided Enfectana with security because she said she received death threats. She collapsed on that day before she could sign a confession detailing her role in Ebarita’s death.
But when her lawyer Michael Enriquez came to see her last Tuesday night, Enfectana changed her mind. No confession was signed.
During the search at noon Wednesday, police found among Enfectana’s things Ebarita’s wallet, which contained her TeleTech card, a PhilHealth card, a North General Hospital card and credit cards.
Deputy director for operations Bernard Tambaoan said that was enough “circumstantial evidence” to arrest Enfectana.
Tambaoan also said they have two witnesses who are willing to execute affidavits to pin down the suspects.
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POLICE now consider the best friend of slain call center agent Lynn Vi Ebarita as one of the suspects in her killing.
Police are withholding the name of the friend pending confirmation.
The killers reportedly took all of the victim’s personal items except for her sandals.
He also said his daughter’s friend suddenly changed after her death.
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[Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins ]
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells are being starved.
o obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
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Batchoy was concocted by Ilonggo culinary entrepreneur
Federico Guillergan
in 1938 as a hot soup mixed with meat stock flavored with local condiments, herbs, and spices. His invention became an instant hit and hungry customers crowded his makeshift carinderia inside the La Paz public market in Iloilo.
| Sinulog-Based (SB) | |
| 1st Prize | Sinanduloy-Tangub City |
| 2nd Prize | Don Sergio Osmeña Sr. Memorial NHS |
| 3rd Prize | Silaw Culture and Arts, Carcar City |
| 4th Prize | Alcoy Siloy Festival, Alcoy, Cebu |
| 5th Prize | Pakol Festival, Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental |
| Best in Costume (SB) | Don Sergio Osmeña Sr. Memorial NHS |
| Free Interpretation (FI) | |
| 1st Prize | Tribu Buyoganon, Abuyog, Leyte |
| 2nd Prize | Lumad Basakanon, Basak, Cebu City |
| 3rd Prize | Municipality of Carmen |
| 4th Prize | Land of Beauty&Bounty, Lanao del Norte |
| 5th Prize | Karatong Festival, Dulag, Leyte |
| Best in Costume (FI) | Lanao del Norte |
| Street Dancing | |
| Champion | Sinanduloy-Tangub City |
| 1st runner-up | Lumad Basakanon |
| 2nd runner-up | Municipality of Carmen |
| Best in Musicality | Municipality of Carmen |
| Higante | |
| 1st Prize | Giovanni Abos |
| 2nd Prize | Florentina Tabaco |
| 3rd Prize | Tribu Magta |
| Puppeteers | |
| 1st Prize | Alfred Bayon-on (Mr. Bean) |
| 2nd Prize | Pierre Famador (Cool Lolo) |
| 3rd Prize | Noelito Famador (Hello My Boy) |
| Float | |
| 1st Prize | International Pharmaceuticals Inc. (IPI) |
| 2nd Prize | Lacto Pafi |
| 3rd Prize | Seacrest Maritime Foundation Inc./SWU |
| Sinulog Festival Queen 2009 | Ms. Iris Mae Linganay, Sinanduloy (Tangub City) |
| 1st Runner Up | Ms. Ariane May Briones, Karatong Festival (Dulag, Leyte) |
| 2nd Runner Up | Ms. Alfe Marie Nathaniel Uy, Pakol Festival (Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental) |
| 3rd Runner Up | Ms. Chelo Mae Timtim, Siloy Festival (Alcoy, Cebu) |
| 4th Runner Up | Ms. Rotahmae Verano, Tribu-Arthro (Abellana National High School) |
| Best in Musicality | Tribu Arthro, Abellana National High School |
| Best Solo Performer | Ms. Ariane May Briones, Karatong Festival (Dulag, Leyte) |
| Best in Production | Karatong Festival (Dulag, Leyte) |
THE body of a 26-year-old female call center agent was found stuffed in two garbage bags in a hotel in Barangay Subangdaku, Mandaue City late Thursday night.
Homicide police said Lynn “Vi” Ebarita, a TeleTech employee, was stabbed 22 times by around three persons she had a drinking session with inside a room in the Nikkei Garden Hotel. She was believed to have been killed inside the comfort room around Jan. 18 or 19.
The killing appeared to be premeditated and investigators are looking at a “love triangle” as the possible motive of the attackers, said Homicide Section Chief Jorge Aniñon.
Police are communicating with the officemates and friends of Ebarita, a single parent of a seven-year-old child. The victim and her child lived with her parents in Barangay Cubacub, Mandaue City.
Hotel personnel discovered the body at 9 p.m. Thursday after a guest complained of the stench even after being transferred to another room.
Cleaned up
Ebarita’s body was stuffed in two garbage bags—one containing the lower limbs and another one the upper portions—that were left at the back and outside room 309. The room had no trace of blood.
Aniñon said packaging tape was used to seal the bags.
The neatness of the crime scene, the washing of the body, the disappearance of the victim’s personal belongings and cell phones, the use of fictitious names when registering and the use of garbage bags and tapes made Aniñon and his direct superior, Chief Insp. Eddie Recamara, conclude that the killing was carefully planned.
Aniñon said it was a certain Tina Panganiban, not the victim, who checked in at the hotel last Jan 18 at 1 p.m.
Panganiban reportedly paid P3,000 in two installments that afternoon for a two-day stay.
But initial investigation revealed that Ebarita was invited to go to the hotel by a friend named Edna, who reportedly booked the room using another name.
Missing
The victim’s officemates and close friends claimed they had not seen Edna personally. But they told the police that Edna was interested in the victim as she was the one who befriended her.
Police also learned there was another lady who was very much interested to see Ebarita and had scheduled a meeting with her before the Sinulog celebration on Jan. 18.
Ebarita reportedly arrived at the hotel in the evening of Jan. 18 to join Edna in the room.
At 1 a.m., they ordered beer and the waiter claimed seeing two ladies in the room when he served their order.
Some 30 minutes later, a room occupant ordered food. This time, the waiter said he only shoved the tray through the half-open door.
Full house
Investigators believe another person or persons joined the two ladies in the room since Ebarita’s officemate claimed receiving a text message from her saying that she was at the hotel and “full house na mi.”
On Jan, 20, a hotel staff found the room empty so he cleaned it.
According to a blotter report, one of the victim’s friends, Jonnelle Infectana, reported that Ebarita was missing. She claimed that she received a text message from Ebarita that she was at the hotel but did not find her there.
PNP Crime Laboratory medico-legal official Nestor Sator has yet to reveal his autopsy findings. But investigators believe she was already dead for four days when her body was discovered.
Police also believe that Ebarita knew her attacker or attackers, said Aniñon, as she voluntarily went to the hotel.
