Paring Bol-anon

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dear edgar, i am leaving for carmen today and i am afraid internet may not be very available there so i passed by the internet cafe beside darunday manor where i am staying. it’s monsignor darunday family’s hotel sort of w/ only 8 rooms. they are expanding to third floor with another 8 rooms. just in front of the cathedral. small but very comfortable serving organic foods… i have not contacted fr. gil yet. maybe the next time i go to cebu sometime next week. selling timeshare can be hard. so just be ready. why not a beach house in bohol. there’s still lots for sale in panglao… maybe you can write something on ecology and environment. bohol is filled with tourists because of it’s natural beauty, pristine beaches, slow pace of life, friendly and religious people. this attraction is being eroded by rising criminality (tulis has been a monthly thing already), prostitution and drugs (although not in an alarming scale yet). but the most dangerous is the industrialization and modernization  of bohol: a domestic airport with int’l standards will be built right in the heart of panglao. pres. arroyo, governor aumentado, mr. fonacier (owner of bohol beach club) financed mr alcala to oust mayor dumaluan who was opposed to the airport in the last elections. now that mayor dumaluan is gone, the airport construction would probably start early next year. goodbye to pristine panglao and wow bohol… phil sinter corporation is blasting limestone mountains in garcia-hernandez, bohol to feed kawasaki plant in cagayan de oro with limestone to make iron ore shipped to japan for cars and other steel products. this has been going on for more than thirty years. naupaw na ang bukid, putol mga kahoy, floods starting in downtown g-hernandez. nobody raises a finger because of money and politics. that part of the province is no longer wow bohol. malaysians are also coming with their oil palm plants. hundreds of hectares in interior bohol, including carmen, are now planted with an oil palm not native to bohol but malaysia to be processed into oil for different uses. fertilizer and insecticides for these palms destroy the land and water springs because bohol is based on limestone and those chemicals easily creep underground polluting our underground springs and water sources. oil palms compete with the already growing and native coconuts. monocropping is dangerous for a pristine area that boasts of different forest trees, bushes, and shrubs which make bohol what it is. there’s a lot to be done to conserve ecology and environment here in bohol. some of our ecology activists have given up. i will discover more the longer i stay here but i will keep you posted. sigue, padayon!