NDB Arman Toga Elected As The New Negros Press Club Prexy

Negros Daily Bulletin Editor Arman Toga got the president position in Saturday annual election of Negros Press Club set of officers for 2012 after getting a landslide votes against Aladdin Alas held at the NPC building, Bacolod City.

Arman Toga will run the NPC, the oldest, prestigious press club in the country, with 154 current members coming from the print, broadcast and television networks based here in Bacolod City for this year's term.

The other elected NPC officers are Edgar Lucasan, DyRL program manager as vice president; Clarence Locsin of DyWB-Bombo Radyo, secretary; Aquilino "Boy" Ciocon of DyRL, Treasurer; Chrysee Samillano of Daily Star, Auditor.

Negros Press Club: 'No Things Divide Us'

Incumbent Negros Press Club (NPC) president John Elmer Ubaldo broke his silence and reacted to ex-NPC prexy Julius Mariveles' unprecedented resignation as "public display of affection."  on the "malicious imputation" as alleged by the latter.

Follows is Ubaldo's open statement posted at The Negros Press Club facebook account in its entirety:

I'm hoping that this 'public display of affection' (hehehe, can't think of another term) for past president Julius Mariveles will reverberate to all members of the club. As incumbent president and director during his term, I am a living witness to his administration. Fact is, I'm also liable for whatever mistakes or failures that the previous administration might had committed, if there was any. As I have said no money was lost and no funds went to anybody’s pocket. All club funds were spent in the building renovation, educational seminars (sessions@theclub), social gatherings, and mutual aid to members who were hospitalized and assistance to the families of our departed colleagues.

Former Negros Press Club President Resigns

Negros Press Club is the oldest Press Organization not only here in Negros Occidental but in the whole country, now the newest Press in rift. Que pasa?

Mariveles

Julius Mariveles , who was the last year elected Negros Press Club President made a statement in the evening of Wednesday, August 24 in his Facebook account that he has resigned from NPC effective immediately, after an emergency meeting of Negros Press Club on that day.

"I have made a decision," Mariveles unequivocally expressed in NEGROS PRESS CLUB Facebook account.

He resigned as a member of the Club effective immediately. He thanked all his fellow members. "It has been a humbling experience to have serve you," Mariveles gratefully expressed at NPC FB's.

"I don't have the time for people who do not know what due process means... I have low tolerance for stupidity," explained Mariveles to one of his FBs friend Avelyn Agudon Marañon.