OF ROUND-SHAPED FRUITS AND FIRECRACKERS. All of Christen-dom welcome the new year with firecracker's bang and round-shaped fruits. At left is a group of firecracker vendors apparently oblivious of the ban of Mayor Lim prohibiting the sale of pyrotechnic materials in malls and other outlets. In strategic places of the city, fruit vendors have a field day selling fruits of all tastes and sizes. FOTOS SEN GUINGUING.

Front Page News
A RAPE-SLAY THAT SHOOK the island town of Panglao town more than three years ago, finally reached the office of the provincial prosecutor implicating the brother of former mayor Doloriech Dumaluan as one of the suspects of the gruesome crime.

It was a long and tedious route for a case so celebrated that even after three years, it was still the talk of the town since prominent names were dragged into the incident.
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News Plus
Province eyes shut down
of losing gov't hospitals

Facing the challenge to at least break even with operational expenses amid the mandate to deliver quality yet affordable health services to the people, the ten devolved government hospitals in Bohol have to catch up with economic strategies to sustain. And, the monitoring count-down starts at the opening of 2008.

Anchored on the issue of low occupancy rate, the Committee on Appropriations of the Provincial Board Member raised the pressure on primary hospitals to justify with performance, the millions of pesos that the province spends every year for their maintenance and personnel services.
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News Around Bohol
Mabini mayor wins three
derbies in quick succession

Winning in a derby is an ordinary feat if it happens once in a blue moon. But winning it in quick succession?

Especially if the young breeder is into it just past the beginner's luck stage.

This is the experience and the excitement felt by Mabini Mayor Stephen Rances when his entry Skena was one of the derby champions of the 4-cock P400,000 purse derby sponsored by the Lim Juanay Memorial Cockpit Arena last December 18-20.
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EDITORIAL
Christmas without Christ

  Can people really celebrate Christmas without Christ in the center of it all?

The thought is confusing as it is disturbing. It is confusing because like many holiday celebrations, the event has lost
its meaning to many people. It is disturbing because unlike most holiday celebrations, the event should be all about Christ.
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