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[In the news] Rising number of trafficked fishermen alarms Tawi-Tawi authorities -InterAksyon.com

Rising number of trafficked fishermen alarms Tawi-Tawi authorities
By: Jake Soriano, VERA Files, InterAksyon.com
April 20, 2014

BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi—Tawi-Tawi authorities are alarmed at the growing number of fishermen from the Visayas who end up here after being recruited by human trafficking syndicates to engage in dangerous compressor diving.

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The latest case involves 13 fishermen rescued from a fishing village here on March 15 by a team composed of the Tawi-Tawi Provincial Police Office (PPO), Philippine Marines and the Bongao Inter-agency Task Force Against Trafficking in Persons (BIATFAT).

The case is the eighth recorded by BIATFAT since December 2012, and brings the total number of rescued fishermen to 80, all of them from Cebu and Bohol.

“They have taken a huge risk in accepting compressor diving work here,” said Inspector Elmira Relox, chief of the Tawi-Tawi PPO Women and Children Protection Desk, who led the rescue.

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[In the news] Votes for sale: From P100 to P3,500 per person -INQUIRER.net

Votes for sale: From P100 to P3,500 per person
By Philip C. Tubeza, Philippine Daily Inquirer
May 11, 2013

inquirerHow much is a Filipino’s vote worth these days?

According to the National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel), candidates are offering up to P3,500 for a single vote in Ilocos Norte, P3,000 in neighboring Ilocos Sur, P2,000 in Zamboanga Sibugay, and P100 in Tawi-Tawi.

In a letter sent to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Thursday, Namfrel chair Corazon de la Paz-Bernardo said reports from the group’s volunteers showed that vote-buying—either with cash, groceries, and even farm implements—is expected to intensify as Election Day nears, with some candidates even resorting to “bidding” to corner votes.

Comelec Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr.’s advice to voters: Take the money and junk the candidates.

“Take it but junk those who give you money. That’s the only way to do it so that the next time these people will not give away money because they know they will lose,” Brillantes said in an interview on Friday.
The Comelec tried to fight vote-buying by prohibiting bank withdrawals in excess of P100,000 and carrying cash worth more than P500,000, but President Benigno Aquino III rejected the strategy on Thursday, saying it was bad for the economy, and the Supreme Court, acting on a petition brought by bankers, stopped it on Friday and called for oral arguments.

Brillantes said vote-buying had become more rampant because politicians had fewer means to “manipulate” the vote after the automation of elections in 2010.
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[In the news] Police rescue 47 human trafficking victims | Sun.Star

Police rescue 47 human trafficking victims | Sun.Star.

By Bong Garcia
August 3, 2012

THE police rescued 47 victims of human trafficking and arrested two suspects on two separate operations in the province of Tawi-Tawi, officials said Friday.

Of the total number of rescued victims, 27 are females, including two minors, and the remaining 20 are males, two of them are also minors.

Tawi-Tawi police director Senior Superintendent Rodelio Jocson said that 25 victims — 20 males and five females — were intercepted on Tuesday at the port of Bongao town, the capital of Tawi-Tawi province.

The victims had just disembarked from the boat that came from Zamboanga City when they were intercepted by policemen and port officials, Jocson added.

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[Isyung HR] Para kang Impeachment…Baket? Baket? Nakakainit ka kasi ng ulo!

Isyung HR: Para kang Impeachment…Baket? Baket? Nakakainit ka kasi ng ulo!

by Mokong
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Weh!!!

Missed ko na ang mga pick-up lines ni Madam. Palagi na lang kasing pang hypertension ang eksena niya these past few days.  It seems that it’s less fun to have impeachment in the Philippines especially with prosecutors that we have.  Hmp!

We can’t blame them to take the impeachment seriously, it’s their job anyway, and it’s supposed to be for the people, for the country (saying this while hands on the chest) pero for mokongs mukhang the impeachment trial only exposes how vast ang kamokongan nilang lahat. Hahaha!

Imagine Senator Meriam uses her pick-up lines to our on spotlight prosecutors and defense teams.

Sen Meriam: Prosecutor ka ba? (Addressing to head prosecutor Tupaz)

Tupaz: Yes your honor baket baket?

Sen Meriam: Hindi halata a.

[The senator judges would cheer.] wooohhh!

Sen Meriam: Sana macho dancer ka na lang

Tupaz: Baket baket

Sen Meriam: Para hindi sayang pag-iinit ng dugo ko sa inyo!

[The senator judges remain quiet except for somebody from the audience. Guess who?] woowoot.

Sen Meriam: What the F_ck is wrong with you? Sinubukan ka ba i-abort ng nanay mo? Bakit nagkaganyan takbo ng utak mo?

Sen Meriam: “Kapag nagkabentahan ng utak, malaki ang kikitain mo sa utak mo”

Tupaz: “Talaga?”

Sen Meriam: “oo,kasi hindi mo man lang nagagamit eh,bagong bago pa rin”

Sen Meriam: (to Sen Lapid) Para kang nanggaling sa giyera?

Sen Lapid: Baket?

Sen Meriam: Duguan ka kasi… Nose bleed!

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Isang Governor sa isang probinsiya sa Mindanao ang nagpower trip. Using all his available resources and might to implicate a human rights defender to a bombing incident.  Madami pang mga katulad ng HRD na ito ang naglalakas ng loob to defend the people against sa mga trapo at aabusadong violators of human rights.

Ganyan daw madalas, kapag hindi mahuli ang tunay na may sala, ang mga HRDs na open sa pagtuligsa sa pamamalakad ang ididiin.

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According to a press statement issued by the DOT “The Tawi-Tawi incident is considered unfortunate and could have been avoided had the visitors taken necessary precautions many European tourists usually take in heed of these advisories.” O sisihin ba naman ang mga turista.

A mokong proposed that DOT slogan be changed into “It’s more fun in the Philippines except in areas where kidnappers operate.” Kahit mahaba atleast tourists are warned. Hahaha!

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Lovelife of PNoy again hits the headline like Ondoy and Impeachment.  A mokong friend commented it’s like seeing aswang daw during elections. Pampalamig daw ng ulo. Pampakalma ng hysteria. Effective! Hahaha!

Pag tinanong mo na daw ngayon si PNoy “How’s your lovelife?” PNoy would answer “Wow, maganda and  It’s more fun now.”

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Mokong of the world unite! Occupy their brains!

[In the news] 58 human trafficking victims rescued in Sibugay, Tawi-tawi – InterAksyon.com

58 human trafficking victims rescued in Sibugay, Tawi-tawi
Abigail Kwok, InterAksyon.com

MANILA – Fifty-eight potential victims of human trafficking were rescued by elements of the Philippine Center for Transnational Crimes in various operations in Zamboanga Sibugay and Tawi-Tawi last June, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) reported Sunday.

In a statement, the DILG said the victims, 41 of whom were women, were to be shipped off the Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Jordan, Lebanon, and Qatar.

Citing a report submitted to him by PCTC executive director Felizardo Serapio Jr., DILG secretary Jesse Robredo said 15 women were rescued in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay last June 22 while 26 women and 17 men were rescued in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi last June 17. Three of the victims were children.

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