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Crystal Travel 19th Annual
‘Beat the New Year’s Blues
Crystal Travel hosted an
appreciation lunch during its 19th
Annual ‘Beat the New Year’s Blues’
at the Cumberland Hotel in Marble
Arch last month with attendance of
approximately 200 guests. This is
to convey its gratitude to all airline hopes to expand its operations to
partners and friends in the travel
industry for their untiring support
to the company. Crystal Travel
Mr. John Kalia, Director and Mr. P S Kang, Managing Director, both from Crystal Travel were at hand to details of her health condition, such as, of her father, the late film actor, producer stipulation from the Commission on
welcome the guests.
has served the Filipino community
and the British general public for
over thirty (30) years. With the
acquisition of Air Travel Guide, Sam
Travel, Travel Center and the latest
Taprobane Travel—Crystal Travel
Dublin. It is the flagship travel
company of MORESAND GROUP OF
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Poe ready to submit health certificate, drug test result
DAGUPAN, Pangasinan - Unlike
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago,
Senator and presidential aspirant Grace
Poe on Friday said that she is willing
to submit her official health certificate
to prove that she is physically fit to
cope with the rigors of 90-day election
campaign period.
In a press conference at Star Plaza
Hotel in this city, Poe told journalists
that the electorate has the right to
know about the health condition of
a particular candidate, especially for
national positions.
“As for me, I’m willing to submit
a health certificate from a respected
physician certifying that I am physically
fit to run for public office,” Poe added.
Right to privacy. However, Poe said
there are certain rights that should Senator and presidential aspirant Grace Poe. Image extracted from News5 broadcast.
be respected, such as to the granular
say, blood count and cholesterol level. and director Fernando Poe Jr., where Elections (Comelec) regarding the
banners proclaimed confirmed her as “a health condition of a candidate, the poll
Aside from Cebu and Ilocos Norte, true daughter” of Pangasinan. body should issue a resolution on what
Pangasinan is the third province that constitutes being physically fit.
Poe has visited from the start of the On Thursday, Poe barnstormed the
campaign period after her proclamation province of Ilocos Norte with 372,250 Voluntary drug testing. Meanwhile,
in historic Plaza Miranda. registered voters. Poe also said every candidate should
undergo voluntary drug testing.
It is one of the vote-rich provinces No terminal illness like Miriam.
in the country like Cebu, Laguna, Poe declared pointedly that she has no “The drug test should be carried out
Cavite, Batangas, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, terminal illness, alluding to her rival, by an official and competent physician,
Quezon among others. It has 1,705,260 Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, who involving not just urine samples, but
registered voters, of which 749,071 is widely believed to be recovering from blood and hair analysis,” Poe added. n
belong to the youth bracket. Stage 4 Cancer.
Ernie Reyes / InterAksyon.com / February 12, 2016
Pangasinan is considered the home But, Poe said, since there is no
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