DoJ task force files charges vs mayor
By Ted Boehnert 01/23/2011BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya — The multi-sectoral task force formed by the Department of Justice (DoJ) has recommended the filing of administrative charges against the mayor of Tuguegarao City and nine others in connection with last month’s hotel fire which claimed the lives of 16 persons.
According to lawyer Rommel Baligod, the panel recommended the filing of administrative charges against Mayor Delfin Ting for reasons of command responsibility, while the charges against the others were negligence in preventing the fire that killed 10 nursing graduates from a Catholic university in Santiago City, Isabela.
The nursing graduate victims from the University of La Salette (ULS) were billeted at the ill-fated Bed and Breakfast Pension House which went up in fire last Dec. 19 just as they were about to take that week their nursing licensure examinations.
Five members and a maid of the Fondevilla family which owned the hotel were also killed in the tragedy..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110123nat1.html
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