PETITION-LETTER

The conduct of land use plan is paramount or dominant for proper disposition of land and water as this is mandated to the LGU. To adopt the said comprehensive land and water use plan (CLWUP) must be in consonant or in agreement with the will and welfare of the people. It is the LGU who must determine what land must be provided for institutions like schools, hospitals etc. including gov't centers, barangay, municipal, provincial and national offices which likewise include commercial residential areas. Cadastral survey should conform with zoning of land which provides for policies and guidelines. Unless these are well participated in by general public and stakeholders, cadastral survey will be baseless and premature if not suspicious to implement. Claim of land for individual ownership will thus be subjective and neglect public, and the people should be inform properly in truth as the LGU is duty bound to adhere to the principle of government of the people, for the people, by the people.




A PETITION-LETTER TO THE HONORABLE LITO ATIENZA, SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES (DENR)


WE, THE UNDERSIGNED LOCAL OFFICIALS, STAKEHOLDERS, AND CONCERNED CITIZENS IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF CULION, PROVINCE OF PALAWAN MOST RESPECTFULLY AND EARNESTLY PETITION THE HONORABLE LITO ATIENZA, SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES (DENR) TO IMMEDIATELY HOLD IN ABEYANCE THE ONGOING CONDUCT OF CADASTRAL SURVEY IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF CULION, PROVINCE OF PALAWAN PENDING EXHAUSTIVE PUBLIC CONSULATIONS AND THE REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND & WATER USE PLAN OF CULION, PALAWAN AND ITS IMPLEMENTING ZONING ORDINANCE BY THE SANGGUNIANG PANLALAWIGAN OF PALAWAN IN THE LIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING RATIONALIZATIONS, TO WIT:

WHEREAS, Task Force Culion, an inter-agency body, was created to provide plans and policy direction regarding the implementation of Section 5 of Republic Act No. 9032 and to recommend land disposition guidelines to be promulgated and implemented in the Municipality of Culion;

WHEREAS, the Municipality of Culion through its Sangguniang Bayan and concerned committees is mandated to formulate a comprehensive land and water use plan (CLWUP) and zoning ordinance (ZO) which shall determine policy guidelines, rules and regulations that shall ensure the maximum and best utilization of land and water resources of Culion;

WHEREAS, CLWUP and ZO require public participation through consultation, hearings, and information campaigns prior to their adoption and approval by the provincial government;

WHEREAS, the Sangguniang Bayan in its formulation of the ZO which shall implement the CLWUP failed to inform the people prior to its adoption;

WHEREAS, the provincial government of Palawan has yet to review and approve the ZO of the Municipality of Culion;

WHEREAS, the public has the right to be informed by the municipal government of its formulated CLWUP & ZO;

WHEREAS, the DENR through the CENRO-Coron will now commence the conduct of cadastral survey upon the request of the municipal government of Culion pending the approval of the CLWUP & ZO and proper public consultation and information;

WHEREAS, the LGU fails to abide with Section 5 of R.A. 9032 which provides that within six (6) months from the effectivity of this Act, the municipal government of Culion, in coordination with the DENR, DOH, DAR, Representative of the First Congressional District of Palawan, the Province of Palawan, and the PCSD, shall determine the areas which shall remain with the DOH, belong to the public domain, be alienable and disposable, become the property of the Municipality of Culion, become the property of the Province of Palawan.

WHEREAS, present land claims in Culion is only based upon the previous rights accorded by the DOH without any legal basis for homestead, stewardship, or probable miscellaneous sale or free patent which are DENR's instrument in granting land ownership to titles; Highly hoping and praying that he petition aforementioned be urgently given due course of action by your good office. Hearing from you soonest in this regard will be profoundly appreciated.


we are opposing the conduct of the "Cadastral Survey" on the ground that the people have not been properly informed of what is going to happen and that there is strong suspicion that land grabbers headed by the reigning local administration officials are out to steal the peoples' future the LGU administration has failed to explain (or purposely denied information) to the people what is happening so that lands will be claimed by the land grabbers..

Best regards and more power!

AT CULION, PALAWAN THIS 20TH OF OCTOBER, 2009.


VERY GRATEFULLY YOURS,


1. John Nono Lisboa
publicis graphics
Salmiya, Kuwait

2. Wilmer N. Naceno
Test Coordinator
Asian Psychological Services & Assessment Inc
2657 Bautista Street,
Malate, Manila

3. JOSEPH JOEL CABUGON,MT(AMT)
KK Women's and Children's Hospital
Singapore

4. Mary Ann P. Sapad
Puerto Princesa Palawan Phil.

5. ELEAZAR FABIAN T. LUNASCO
Al Abdullatif Industrial Investment Company
+966 1 2658888 - Tel
+966 1 2659988 - Fax
+966 55 0739949 - Mob
P.O. Box 859
Riyadh 11421
Saudi Arabia

6. CARLO BUNADO
WEST AFRICA, HONGKONG

7. Cynthia Marquez-Evangelista
New York University Langone Medical Center
New York, New York USA

8. ALLAN S. FAMI
KOMBATAN CULION-Chief Instructor
Lakan Pito -IPMAF-Kombatan

9. MARJOE M. MANATAD

10. Humphrey James B.. Natividad, CE, MSME
COST CONTROL ENGINEER
Engineering Contracting Company L.L.C.

J320 Smart Heights Project - DAMAC
TECOM Dubai U.A.E.
P.O. Box 62393 Dubai - U.A.E.
Tel.: +971 (04) 361-8683
Fax: +971 (04) 361-8783
Mobile : +971 (050) 93-45-45-8
eMail: hjnatividad@yahoo.com.ph
Website: http://www.eccdubai.com/

11. Rene Yala
Suema Viaggi
Milan Italy

12. Karen Fami
13. Cyril Payong
14. Arlene Joyce Payong

15. Francisco M. Calivo
16. Nancy Mae Lisboa
17. Megan L. Calivo
18. Raphael Velasco
Riyadh Saudi Arabia


...

(on the issue of suspected land grabbing and its true share)

Comprehensive land and water use plan (CLWUP) and zoning ordinance (ZO) ARE IMPORTANT for future dev't to prosper and promote the welfare of the people of Culion so everybody will benefit and have its own share on this proper planning.. For those people who sacrificed their lives and their time, talents & services to Culion. We need to prioritize this people. Including the old settlers like the 'cuyonon' or those who've been staying in Culion for long time and helped developed the place, their own piece of land in 'destino' especially for their children. Except for those who already sell their lot that doesn't belong to land category A & D.

Most specially to consider the former patients, their family & children who has been brought to Culion and died or succumb to the disease & stigma. Their family and children who because of their parents illness were forced to live there especially those who are staying in small and dangerous areas and places...

We intend (PETITION) to reserve LOTS FOR THIS PEOPLE. Also considering others who have none, including the "IP's" or the 'tangays'. We need to give them some kind of resettlement as we can see how they've been displaced of their own original territories and preserve this places for them. We need to give criteria who should have their due lot like housing programs and the like, for the present - short & midterm plan of Culion.

So hoping that we could also get support of culionaires abroad. And if ever our land and water use plan may consider providing even small home-lot for those father, mother or grandparents who had served in Culion. The family or siblings may have place there as a token of gratitude. They have contributed for the good of our beloved town. Strange that strangers who became powerful and have money are the only one who will benefit for the sacrifices of our forefathers in helping this great place we call now Isla Culion.

And as for the PITOGO especially its ordinance, practically we won already it's just the areas of preservation that should be define properly as the present admins were trying to distort the ordinance and the whole area that should be preserve. HINDI LAMANG KAPIRANGGOT.. using this pitogo for their cadastral survey advantages of titling the lands so our suspicion that they only want to claim their lots near the places. This is our continued vigilance to protect and preserve our heritage and identity.

CULION: Correct and proper town planning

peace,

please help enlighten our people we beg...

...

Correct and proper town planning
(CULION)

DENR will have a meeting of stakeholder the plans of mapping including jardin, baldat and patag. A political gain for present admin abused of power… because majority of them will gain from this stakeholder of land titling at the expense of future plan which is culion land use plan (CLUP). A repetition of a "kind of dam if you do and dam if you don't". Many worked hard to come up with land use plan, especially the past lgu having to appropriate land for locals and for institutional like schools, church, gov't centers, barangay municipal reservations.

Present land claim is individually distributed either for agriculture or related purposes. Nothing has been allocated for public interests, parks, markets and other commercial use. We have the great opportunity of correct and productive town planning. If this power hunger claimants push and continue to give lands for the (illegal?) claimants by land titling, we will lose a great chance to put the right zoning and right use of land and places around our beloved town…

As a concerned citizen we can demand public information of the plans. Yet there are still no zoning and they're blocking this proper action of governance and service to for by the people. What is happening is they're now pushing the individual claim and if they'll measure these properties like the pitogo farms or lands and making titling of the lands the ordinance for the rare specie will create confusions. So we still need to preserve the land and prioritize the right things to do. First things first, Meaning correct planning and right CLUP. What about those people who've been there since the beginning of time yet they don't have papers to claim their land? Can't we give them a chance and share? So we need to define these concerns! Equal distributions and equal shares of stakeholders...

Our proposals was to have the municipal gov't apply for the large property and distribute according to proper use as mentioned above. Confusions? Once people knows who will benefit from land titling and learned they can have titled there's no stopping on it. especially those who are in power now have their claims. They'll forget the original CULION LAND USE PLAN… Again it is a question of true development maximizing the proper distribution of wealth, properties and services of culion since time immemorial…

Bantayan natin ang ating bayan!! Please.
tama na ang pagbabagong paurong...

blessings
jong
culionaire

prayers

a reflective activism (culion)

......paradox......
a reflective activism
(being subjective;)

what my heart desires?
i think i know but really don't know. i think i'm upright but i'm not. i think i believe but often times i doubt and do not believe...
these difficulties were my inordinate attachments of blindness & foolishness loss of wisdom, forgetting the very treasure of the presence of the Almighty the possibility to possess (and to reach the unreachable star even they're impossible).


thanks to the objectivity.. another one bites the dust. lol... :)))
looking forward for the people's council hearing and the public hearing regarding our concerns for Culion in general! a dialogue, an ordinate champion of interaction and communications. to commit or even marching storm-mud-floods or hell for that heavenly cause and reach the unreachable dream of Culion as first class municipality!!! then i'll take the risk of this emptiness and see if i can receive the mystery contained in this future...


7go is only the beginning... the emptying?



p.s.
i love the suggestion of the SB of culion..
save KASOY fruit TREE! ;) i think now i know.


will there be a veto? will the mayor sign it? this is the benefit of doubt. But on this side of eternity, doubt is part of the human predicament a kind of storm or typhoon even confusions. And doubt is the absence of something; it is not a positive value. Insofar as it influences & animates believers from acting on the demands of faith, doubt is a fatal weakness.


so courage
jong
courage
culionaire



this journey is already (our) my destiny!
alas... yet i really don't know
oops





let's just protect kasoy.. please


.......



KAPIRANGGOT



tuloy natin ang laban... oktobre 21 :)
isang pampublikong pagpupulong para sa pitogo, pag-asa ng ating bayan para sa pagbabagong PASULONG - TAMA NA ang pagbabagong PAURONG!!!
ano ang kahahantungan ng pagsasabatas patungkol dito? isusulong ba ng mga kagawad ang bagong kautusan para sa pitogo? maisasakatuparan na ba ang mga pinag-usapan noong huling pulong? ano ba talaga ang saluobin ng ating mga pinuno lalo ng mayora? maibabalik pa ba ang mga binunot na halamang pitogo na inilagay sa coron?? patuloy pa rin ba ang pag-aangkin sa mga nasabing lugar at pagbabakod nito? sino-sino ang mga representante ng COG? mahuhusgahan na ba ito sa darating na miyerkules? limitado lamang ba sa mga inaakala nilang sukat sa lugar nito? gaano kalawak ang lupaing pasasakop ng pambihirang halamang ito upang siya ay maproteksyonan?

KAPIRANGGOT lamang ba?!! bantayan natin ang ating bayan... ngayon na po


aha malamang nga
inaakalang walang punong kasoy ang mga lugar doon
kaya hindi maisagawa ang pagsasakatuparang ito...
ito ba'y pagpapatuloy nang isang kalamangang kamangmangang paurong??!

The Culture Change (Culion)

The Culture Change
(an allegations?)

Different attitude brings different norm and people may follow a different path. It was used to be that people in Culion are heard. The sensitivity of the elected officials to the constituent follows a define way that people follow. The chieftain listens, they got to understand for they were made part or passed along the same way that the people came from. Same experience means same knowledge. Same knowledge converges on the same goals. Everybody plays a part for the real and generally productive goal brings unity beyond individual differences.

These premises are the precept of the people in Culion. They believe that Culion must pursue its dream as build up by the past they called ‘Golden days’. The people who labored for its wonderful existence knowing that it is for us to share what was then, what was now and what tomorrow may bring. The fruit of the labor of those who sacrificed that Culion maybe what it is now must be share by those who followed their footstep and not to be drastically change by whomever now says they have better vision - a vision founded not on the people’s mind but rather on those who believe from their own experience outside of Culion.. Their ideas are no t only apart to the people; it is rather contrary to the well being of the populace. It does not conform to the principle of equity and justice. It will not give the people its rightful share in the distribution of its resources, particularly the land, nor will it give those who hope because they were part of the past equal opportunity to those who now advocate changes they now lead. That mandate was taken advantage by them instead of the people who once believe that it is their will that must be prospered and promulgated.

Now these unbeatable foes have the edge in grabbing lands and taking advantage of the opportunities build from the labor of the people of Culion. Now they are adopting their own strategies learned from their own experience in another but rather bizarre place. They saw what they could gain out of the innocence of the people. Never giving a damn how these innocent people of Culion has the greater needs and thus must have greater chance of having their share of dreams of land, livelihood and other economic opportunity. We are that people, and we cannot let others lead us to their own self-destructive visions. We hoped for self-determination as the people who once started to begin that dream. It is our dream, and not their self-will. And this is our land. As for the betterment of the people, we must find our way towards that fulfillment of our dream.

Now this unrightable wrong culture change continues, invading the hearts and minds of poor innocent people. Ask anyone who transformed this and who actually implement it? The answer is definitely not the executive. Nor is it the legislative, which has the power of the first. It is therefore not the desire or will of the people alike. It is strange but true that this is the command of somebody who wanted to impose their egocentric vision than what the ordinary people of culion willed and dream. We started a quest to follow that vision but it is not only ignored but also maybe deemed by them who are in power. The greatest irony is they now impose their visions without consultation or giving a damn to what or who may benefit from it.

Gone are the days when people can readily approach and become critical to elected official. They blocked the communications and possible involvement of our people or people to take charge key offices that are locals. They hailed from the former or we may even assume present residence of the executive. Talk about who is in power now, and everybody knows it is not the elected mayor... this is not an adviser, but more precisely the power behind who is now creating a culture of their own. Strange to the people, but nevertheless what they dictated or wanted to impose.

In ‘Golden days’ even bef ore they came, Culion was a conservative close knit family of people with the dynamic outlook in the future whose children are not only highly educated, but with some already in the pinnacle of success here and abroad. Others who sometime in their lives may come back not only to reminisce the past good life here, but rather to find a rightful place in Culion as they deserve, and contribute in a way in its metamorphosis as a community and as a maturing municipality.

We should have learned the lesson of Boracay, Isla verde and other tourist haven they call paradise. These may seem success story and the pride of our country’s tourism industry. But beneath the glitter of grandeur lies a bitter reality for the locals. They become the virtual slave of the establishment resort owners or the actual strangers in their own land. They are neither the entertainer or comfort giver of the moneyed guest who come and go to experience the promised satisfaction the owners had visualized. Others are the waiters and the laborer makes that the business run and profit. Thanks to the introduction of entrepreneurship, of eco-tourism this threat of slavery will be anticipated and conquered..

This tragedy of the people’s stolen power is the story of our culture. A culture lost in the quagmire of ignorance and sheer poverty. Taking advantage of what they call “mahirap makinig ang t aong walang laman ang tiyan”.. The indolence of the Filipino people as once described and spoken of by Rizal. True freedom can only be achieve if ignorance is gone and this may only be achieved if the system we have come to know as our government becomes aware of the real need of the people. These will never happen if the same leaders who want to rule, live in another world of their self-inflicted culture. A culture bourn out of their experience that needs honesty, integrity and an unwavering fidelity to the principles of justice entrusted to them, the elite and the alienated minds of these masters.

Is this the culture of Culion now?

Are we so naïve as to ignore this threat that may happen to Culion, to us? Or to our people and our place? We’ve been thrown out to the sea from our baroto?

Can you imagine Culion Pitogo becomes Coron Pitogo?


Then… let us commit ourselves
PLEASE ATTEND the public hearing on Wednesday morning, October 7, 2009 (today) at
the Legislative Hall CULION PALAWAN. We need the community support…
and continue our journey to true change and development amidst the storms
and exercise our people empowerment.

NOW NA!



p.s.
(facts again)
let us consider at how they manage to change our dream/s. Upon assumption of power they drastically change their priorities. First they put up intelligence fund despite the fact that peace and security was never an issue in Culion. Then a larger extent to the province of Palawan. Once they got this controversial intel fund, they centralized the budget and putting it all if not the majority of the budget to the executive fund. These were translated into building parks, improving pulang lupa, which is just adjacent to their own parcel of lot, which is also in controversy as to how they were able to acquire it. Then they build a park that once was the playground of the people. They labored to beautify culion to presumably attract visitors, at the expense of socio economic dev’t of the people. They remove scholarship for the children of Culion. Likewise they more than focused on traveling and inviting people outside to showcase their program, and to show the natural beauty of the place. Charged to intel fund or not it still defines their abrupt change in attitude. It used to be that the municipality helps indigent in medical care or hospitaliz ation. It used to be that majority of the youth are scholars or being assisted in their schooling. It used to be that the goal of the municipality is towards land ownership for the constituent. It used to be that the municipality provides fund for livelihood program, environmental protection and other socio economic development.


Heavy equipment was purchased to follow their vision for Culion. Now some if not most of it are either needing repair or out of service. It was acquired thru loan. And the burden of maintaining it or making it operational greatly affects the budget and the 20 percent dev’t fund of the municipality.

...


Culion: Kulturang Inaanay

Bawat ugali o kilos ay nagsisilang ng ibat’t ibang kaasalan. Bawat indibidual ay tmatahak sa magkakaibang landas ng kanyang buhay.

Ang bayan ng Culion ay kilala sa ganitong sistema. Sama-sama sa pagkilos, lahat nakatugon sa direksyon ng pag-unlad at pagbabagong pasulong ng komunidad. Lahat umaasam ng kapaki-pakinabang na pagbabago. Mapag-isip sa pagpili ng mga opisyal na manumuno sa kanila. Mula nang ang culion ay maging munisipalidad, lahat ay nakinig sa kanilang hinaing, naging sensitibo sa kanilang pangangailangan, karugtong sa pananaw at pandama at katono sa pag-iisip. Sapagkat lahat ng iniluklok na lider ay mga taga-culion. Pareho ng mga pinagdaanan, karanasan, kasaysayan at karunungan. Lahat ay kumakain sa palad ng kalikasan, walang minamasama, walang pinupuri lahat ay iisa-magkakapatid. Ang paniwalang ganito ay naging batas ng mga mamamayan. Pinanindigan nilang dapat ipagpatuloy ang kanilang nakaraan. Ayon sa pinapangarap ng nga naghirap upang ibahagi ang naging nakaraan, kasalukuyan at haharapin pa ng bayan. Ayon lamang sa kumikilala sa mga gumawa at nagdanas nang parehong sakrispisyo gaya ng mga naghirap dati ang siya lamang may karapatang makibahagi sa magandang bungang inaani ngayon. Sa anumang bungang ito ay hindi dapat pitasin o palitan ng kung sinumang makasariling pamunuan. Mga magdudunong-dunungan sa kabila ng katotohanang ay pangarap nila para sa Culion ang kanilang inuna. Anumang pagbabagong inaalay ng mga taong iyon ay hindi lang panganib sa culion kundi taliwas pa sa kaisipan ng nga mamayan dito. Hindi naaayon sa katuwiran at katarungan. Hindi pagkakaisa kundi pagkakahati-hati. Wala sa kanilang balak ang pantay-pantay na pagbabahaginan ng mga likas na kayamanan ng Culion, lao na ang lupain. Karamihan sa kanilang mga nasa pwesto ngayon ay estranghero sa culion pero sila ang gustong manlamang. Pagkakaitan nila maging iyong mga dating nagtrabaho para sa culion.
Malinaw na ang ginagawa nila ngayon ay samantalahin ang pakakataon. Anihin ang hindi nila pinaghirapan. Sapagkat nagtagumpay ang mga maitim at baluktot na pangangamkam sa ibang bayan, muli din naman nila itong ginawa sa culion. Hindi nila iniisip na pangarap din ng mga inosente at mahihirap na mamamayan ay nagkalupa, makapagtrabaho at magkaroon ng kabuhayan. Sila kasi ang higit na may karapatan sapagkat anak at apo sila ng mga nagpawis ng dugo para sa progresibong culion.

Tayo ang mga lehetimong taga culion. Huwag tayong magpaakay sa mga banyagang kaisipan patungo sa ating sariling libingan na sila ang humuhukay. Pangarap natin ang lupain ng culion ay para sa atin at sa mga mahal natin. Hanapin natin ang daan at paraan para ang ganitong pangarap ay maganap. Ito ay hangad natin, para sa atin. Lupain natin ito. Ang hangad lamang nila ay angkinin ang para sa atin. Hindi tayo papayag sa kapritsong ito.

Paano nila winawasak ang katuparan ng pangarap natin? Ganito: Simula pa lamang ng kanilang pamumuno, ang prayoridad nila ay nadama agad. Naglaan sila ng Inteligence Fund. Ang Culion po ay zero crime rate. Walang problema ng Insurgency. Ano at sino ang dpat manmanan? Para saan ang Intelligence Fund? Hindi kasi ito ino-audit. Hindi na kailangan ipaliwanag king paano ginastos. Inilagay ay pondo sa Executive Func at ginamit para pagandahin ang mga plaza lalo na sa Pulang lupa na malapit sa luping kanilang pag-aari na lubhang nakapagtataka nga kung paano ito naging kanila. Ipinagyayabang nila na kaakit-akit ang culion para sa turismo. Hindi batid ng mga turistang ito na mga mamamayan ang isinakripisyo. Wala nang pondo para sa scholarship ng mga kabataan ng culion. Abala ang mga nakaupo sa pagkamal ng pogi points at papuri ng mga taga labas, pagbibyahe at kaluhuan. Pinakikita nila ang magagandang kalikasan ng culion. Gamit man ang Intelligence Fund o hindi, kayabangan pa rin ito at mamayan ang ginawang biktima.
Dati: may pondo para sa Gamot at papa-ospital ng mga mahihirap nating kababayan; Dati: maraming kabataan ang kung hindi man FULL scholar ay may ayuda mula sa local nating pamahalaan; Dati; ang ninanais ng Munisipyo ay magkatitulong lupa ang mga mamayan; Dati: May malaking pondo para sa pangkabuhayan, proteksyon ng kapaligiran at pagpapaunlad ng Ekonomiya. Dati yon. Ngayong sila na ang nappaptakbo ng munisipyo, iba na ang pryoridad. May nabago nga. Naging masama ang layunin. Mga adhikaing nakabalot sa pangako na walang aksyon. Nag iba na ang kultura ng Culion, nabubulok! Kasi nasa puno ang anay.
Alamin natin. Kanino kayang utak ang nagmamando ng para dahan-dahang pabulukin ang dakila nating kultura? Hindi ang lehekutibo. Hindi po. Kasi walang ganung abilidad yon. May makapangyarihang estranghero ang ina-iimplementa ng gnaitong pagbabago. May invinsible na kamay na humahawak ssa manibela at batid nating sa kanal tayo ibubulid.
Winalwang kwenta kung anuman ang maganda nating pangarap. Pinaiiral kung ano ang maibigan nila nang wala man lang konsultasyon o pakialam sa kung sino kaya ang higit na makikinabang sa mga nais nilang ipagawa.
Sa kagustuhang mapabilis ang didikasyong pagpapaganda ng culion. Bimili sila ng mga Heavy Equipments, Pinenturahan para maghitsurang brand new. Subalit marami sa mga Heavy Equipment na yon, sapagkat second hand lang, ang hindi napakinabangan. Ang iba ay nagamit lamang ng ilang oras o araw at nasira na rin. Ang pagpapaayos at pagmamantino ng mga kagamitang ito ay sumisipsip nang husto sa budget para sa tao at sa 20% ng Development Fund.
Ilang mamamayan lang ban ng Culion ang nakakalapit sa mga naghaharing estranghero? Kakaunti. Iyon lamang mga malalapit sa kanila. Totoo sa kanila ang kasabihang “ Iyon lamang nasa tabi ng ilog ang nalalamigan” . Dati-rati, sinuman sa atin ang nakakapagbigay puna sa mga elected officials. Ngayon, pag pinuna mo sila, kalaban ka na..
Ang hindi alam ng marami. Ang nagpapatakbo ng Culion ay hindi ang nakaupong lider, kundi si DADDY. Si DADDY ang nagdidikta ng ginagawa at gagawin pa ng kasalukuyang mommy ng Culion. Bakit kultura ni DADDY ang ating susundin e may sarili na tayong kultura na angkop sa atin? Hindi tayo dapat gawing estranghero sa sariling lugar.
Tao ang mga mamamayan ng Culion, hindi mga pitogo na dapat bakuran at gawing sariling pag-aari. Mga kababayan, mga ka-culion, masakpal ang buhay pag nagkalat sa bayan natin ang HAYOP na nga, PLASTIC PA!!!. Baka tuluyan nang maging Pulang Lupa ang paligid.