On CamSur, WikiLeaks: Facts, not fiction
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| Jonathan De la Cruz |
Just the facts, nothing but the facts, please. This is all that we are asking from the parties in the ongoing debates, or should we say hyperventilated discussions about two of the hottest issues in town, i.e., the proposed creation of the new province of Nueva Camarines and that global tsismis machine a.k.a. WikiLeaks. We note, for example, that the creation of Nueva Camarines out of Bicol’s biggest province, Camarines Sur, as embodied in House Bill 4820 which passed the Lower House by an overwhelming vote of 229-1 has been so muddled by loads of half truths, innuendoes and outright lies by advocates of both sides of the divide but more from the “No-To-HB 4820” crowd. It is time to clear the air and allow the public, especially those in the province itself a fuller appreciation of the merits of the proposition.
For, as the bill’s authors, namely, Deputy Speaker Noli Fuentebella and Reps. Luis Villafuerte, Rolando Andaya and Dato Arroyo, representing four of the province’s five districts have always maintained in the ultimate analysis it is their constituents not they, who will have the final say on this long overdue initiative. Thus, even if the bill is passed by the Senate and P-Noy signs it into law it will still have to be subjected to a plebiscite before it takes effect. If it does not pass muster then that’s the end of the line. The province remains intact and will probably have to wait for another batch of advocates to get it out of its slumber and meandering ways as some sectors have come to regard the current pace of its development..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110909com5.html
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