Thursday, August 25, 2005 (Philippines)

CARDINAL VIDAL.The Archdiocese will produce a primer for Cebuanos to know the pros and cons of the issue.(Sun.star Cebu photo) Officials of Poro town in the Camotes group of islands were asked to refund immediately 92 percent of the P4,999,500 they used to buy liquid organic fertilizer, which the Commission on Audit (COA) considered excessive and overpriced by 1,092 percent. In their 2004 report on the operations of the fifth-class town in northern Cebu, auditors revealed that an overpayment of P4,580.375 was made for the transaction. The town could have bought the fertilizer at P125.75 per bottle, instead of the P1,500 per bottle it paid to Perzebros Co. [full story]