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By Bingo Dejaresco III It is not our imagination, folks. It is the United Nation's Food Council who drew the number. There are one billion hungry men in Planet Earth today. One of six earthlings suffer from malnutrition today. Last year in 2008, there were only 915 million recorded hungry earthlings then. War and political instability, drought and food crisis had brought this tragedy to us. When food production stabilized late last year, the global financial crisis however, in turn, lowered income levels and prejudiced access of men to food instead. This, aside from the fact, that food prices in the world had really effectively increased by 24%, a hot ratio, from 2006 to 2008. Malnutrition means a person receives less than 1,800 calories a day. This depravity, according to the UN, caused food riots in 30 countries recently. Malnutrition leads to slow death in that it weakens the immune system against battling germs that cause sickness and diseases. Malnutrition kills man softly.

"My critics are seeing ghosts where there are  none." Thus declared City Mayor Dan Neri Lim in reaction to a paid advertisement sent by the group of lawyer Victor de la Serna casting aspersions to a supplemental budget he submitted to the Sangguniang Panglungsud in its session last Friday. Drawing analogy of his detractors  seeing ghosts although there were none, Lim said his critics should be sure  of their facts before engaging in vilification of  their enemy. The budget that amounted to P 40.7 million was sent for SP approval without discussion and support document or S.O.D., this according to the topnotch lawyer. Belying  de la Serna's allegations saying that he was out of touch of legislative processes, Mayor Lim said that the amount requested will pass scrutiny of the proper SP committee. The body where the request will undergo a thorough scrutiny is the committee on appropriation.  According to Mayor Lim, from the proper committee,  it will then be submitted to

By Sunday Post          Do not be distracted by negative people.      This was the message of Tagbilaran Mayor Dan Lim as the city approaches the observance of its 43rd year as a Charter City.      "People who grumble and complain are the ones who are left behind," Lim said yesterday.      The mayor issued the statement as he acknowledged that the bad publicity against him will intensify with the elections barely 11 months away.      "If you think you have heard every trash spoken against me, it is nothing to what my political opponents will throw at me in the next few months," he added.      Lim said that there are people who will do anything just to remove him from office and they will resort to anything, "through fair means or foul" just to do it.      "Of course, I will not take it sitting down," he warned.      The mayor said that if his critics want a fight, they have it.      He said he lamented the fact that the city and the people are