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TACLOBAN CITY - The Duterte administration is firm in running after of-ficials involved in multi-million-peso anomalies over the implementation of the community mortgage program meant for victims of Super Typhoon Yolanda in this city.

On Friday, the Social Hous-ing Finance Corp. (SHFC) filed a case before the City Prosecutor’s Office against officials of Brigham Estate Home Owners Association for failing to remit payments of thousands of housing beneficia-ries, representing their monthly amortization.

The beneficiaries had a dia-logue with Presidential Com-munications Operations Office (PCOO) Undersecretary Lorraine Marie Badoy, who led SHFC ac-tivities here.

“The President is very con-cerned with housing projects since it has been five years after the disaster. While we file cases against corrupt officials, we have to work on completing housing projects,” Badoy said during the housing site visit.

Next week, the SHFC will file a case against Community Mortgage Program (CMP) or so-called “urban poor” commu-nity housing organizer Siony Sia and her cohorts in the SHFC for overpricing of land acquisition, non-remittance of payments, and illegal collection of fees from

AREA 4 ATHLETIC MEET. Rep. Lucy Torres-Gomez was in Palompon, Leyte this week to attend the opening rites of the Area IV Athletic Meet. With her are DepEd regional director Dr. Ramir Uytico, Leyte provincial board member Matt Torres, Palompon Vice Mayor, other Palompon officials and sister Carmen Jean Torres-Rama.

IN SABANG-BAO AND LICUMA. Photo shows Mayor Richard Gomez, councilors Nolito Quilang and Goito Yrastorza, AMUSUP director Jay Gonzales and Dr. Theody Alcantara, DepEd officials, barangay officials of Sabang-Bao (bottom) and Licuma (top) pose for posterity.

ORMOC CITY – The All Japans’ Seamen’s Union in partnership with the Associated Marine Of-ficers and Seamen’s Union of the Philippines (AMUSUP) turned over to the Department of Educa-tion, this week, two 2-classroom buildings in Brgy. Sabang Bao

and Licuma.The AMUSUP, represented by

their administrator Jay Gonzales, also turned over four computer sets and 100 plastic arm chairs to each school. The AMUSUP class

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Above photo shows the entrance to the Malasakit Center, while bottom photo shows the special opening day guest, Mr. Bong Go.

MAASIN CITY – Southern Leyteños will now have easier access to health ser-vices with the opening of the first provincial Malasakit Center in President Rodrigo Duterte’s birthplace.

On Saturday (Septem-ber 22), Special Assistant to the President Christopher “Bong” Go, together with Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Michael Dino led the launching of the Malasakit Center situated at the Salvacion Oppus-Yñi-guez Memorial Provincial Hospital in Brgy. Dongon.

The center has a unified system of extending assis-tance from the Department of Social Welfare and Devel-opment (DSWD), Depart-ment of Health (DOH), Phil-ippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCOR), and the Philippine Health Insur-ance Corp. (PhilHealth).

“It’s a one-stop-shop for our brothers and sisters here in Southern Leyte, which will cover their hos-pital bills to make it zero; second, the senior citizens and PWDs will have a pri-ority lane, and the third is that you only need to be a Filipino citizen,” Bong Go shared.

He also turned over a P5-million check in support to the hospital’s operation.

Southern Leyte Gov-ernor Christopherson Yap who personally requested

to have the center in the province from President Rodrigo Duterte said that it will be the president’s legacy for the province.

“It makes matters easier to everyone who wants to avail of the services because there is an office of the president, which provides efficient service that every-one can take advantage,” he said.

He added that as part of putting premium to health, they have modified the program by procuring a coaster that would trans-port patients with the same illnesses every week from different areas to avail of free checkup and other medical services.

“We want the people to feel that this center is for everyone not just for the people who are near the city. Before we can position our self as economically vi-able to any market, we have to also take care of our hu-man resources,” he stressed.

The province has an existing medical scholar-ship for aspiring doctors in answer to their need for local doctors.

Yap shared that they are

also planning to have their own dialysis center and intensive care unit (ICU) so patients would no longer

need to travel to Cebu or Tacloban for treatment. By Marie Tonette Grace Marticio

TACLOBAN CITY (PNA) – The remaining P80 million funds meant for the con-struction of road leading to Lake Janagdan in Ormoc City will be diverted to the rehabilitation of road networks leading to two tourism destinations.

Regional Development Council co-chairman Roy Bernard Fiel said on Mon-day the RDC approved the fund diversion to finance the road to Lake Danao in Ormoc City and Masaba Falls in Palompon, Leyte. Each site has an allocation of P40 million.

The road to Lake Danao was damaged by the magni-tude 6.5 earthquake that hit the province in the middle of last year. Masaba Falls is still hardly accessible due to the bumpy access road.

Last year, the Depart-ment of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and De-partment of Tourism (DOT) asked for some P159 million to fund to concrete the road leading to Lake Janagdan. The proposed road ends at the foothill going toward the lake.

The project was, how-ever, stopped after moun-tain climbers, who have been using the trail as en-try point to Alto Peak, ex-pressed opposition to the project. Alto Peak is the highest point in Eastern Visayas.

“Mountain climbers said the concrete road will only invite irresponsible tourists. The area is suscep-tible to landslide, according to geo-hazard maps. Janag-dan Lake is an established

Key Biodiversity Area and also a source of fresh and clean drinking water for residents of Cabintan vil-lage,” Fiel said.

Lake Danao is a gui-tar-shaped body of water covering an area of 148 hectares. It is situated in the 2,193-hectare Lake Danao Natural Park, which also includes the Amandiwin mountain range. The lake is 18 kilometers away from Ormoc City’s commercial district.

Masaba consists of sev-en cascading falls ideal for swimming and trekking. It is offered as an alterna-tive destination to tourists visiting Palompon, who will not be able to visit Ka-langgaman Island due to limited carrying capacity. The waterfalls are also a site for training of the quick response unit in the western part of Leyte province.

“The road project will improve accessibility going to Masaba Falls by 50 per-cent and it will also enhance the security of Masaba Falls visitors,” said Raoul Ba-calla, Palompon municipal environment and natural resources office chief.

Bacalla said the pro-posed road project will also provide more opportunities to 100 households in Tinabi-lan, 200 in Caduhaan, and more than 100 families in Masaba.

ORMOC CITY – Dis-trict Engineer (DE) Lino Francisco C. Gonzalez of the Department of Pub-lic Works and Highways (DPWH) Leyte Fourth Dis-trict Engineering Office (DEO) directed contractors to hasten implementation of infra projects and dis-cuss relevant issues and concerns during the coor-dination meeting held in the morning of September 21, 2018.

DE Gonzalez reminded contractors to meet the target date before the year ends. He was alarmed since some contractors were no-ticed to have implemented

slightly below the expected target output. According to DE Gonzalez, contrac-tors should take advantage of the prevailing “good weather condition” and double their performance as soon as possible because numerous tropical depres-sions may possibly hit in the last quarter of the year.

“If needed, hire more personnel and deploy extra equipment to amplify ac-complishments.” DE Gon-zalez added.

He also took the co-ordination meeting as an opportunity to praise and congratulate the top per-forming contractors. (PR)

ORMOC CITY – The Day Care Parents Federation of this city held a Family Day on September 17, 2018 at the Ormoc City Superdo-me, filling the venue with parents, Day Care teachers, and children from differ-ent barangays and districts of Ormoc.

Aside from the dance intermissions from each of the six districts, the event was also filled with learn-ings about family as Ms. Maricel R. Ngo, the event’s resource speaker, gave a talk on “Celebrate Families, Celebrate your Family”. She shared to the audience how to value a family based on her own experience with her family. She also shared what family means to her: F – Financial Health, A – Almighty God, M – Mental Health, I – Inspired You, L – Love Language, and Y – Young Again. Lastly, she shared the five love languages, which include

touch, words, gifts, ser-vice, and most importantly, time.

Gracing the event as well was Ormoc City Vice-Mayor Leo Carmelo Locsin Jr. who asked and encour-aged the parents to disci-pline their children, saying: “Mohangyo gyud mi kay diha gyud mag-sugod ang disiplina sa isig ka-pamilya. Kana nga disiplina impor-tante kaayo na sa siyudad kay once disciplined na ang mga Ormocanons ilabi na ang mga kabatan-onan, less pud ang problema sa siyudad kay walay kagubot nga mahitabo. Ma-maintain nato nga usa ta sa safest cit-ies in the country.”

Meanwhile, Ormoc City Councilor Benjamin S. Pongos xtended his grat-itude to the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) and to the attendees for coming up with such a successful event – “an activity that cel-

ebrates the most important component of the society, the family”.

Lastly, Ormoc City Mayor Richard I Gomez en-couraged the jobless parents to visit the PESO office in the city hall as there are lots of job vacancies they could find in PESO especially now that Ormoc City is continu-ously growing.

An additional high-light of the activity was the induction of the Day Care Parents Officers from the six districts. It was initiated by Mayor Gomez, who further encouraged the parent-offi-cers to always do good for the betterment of their orga-nization. “Kung maayo ang inyong organization, mas makatabang mi kaninyo. Magtinabangay kita, kina-hanglan magkahiusa kita para sa kaayohan sa atong pamilya, sa atong barangay, ug sa atong siyudad,” con-cluded the good mayor. By Dailyn Cabarse

3September 17-23, 2018

PCG nangandam sa mga kalihukan para Maritime Week 2018

Mga bag-ong plaka sa sakyanan nangabot na – LTO

Ms. Estrella Maria Serafica-Pangilinan and other OFCF members turn over to the City Government of Ormoc thru Mayor Richard I. Gomez on September 19, 2018 the four continuing projects following the recently concluded City Cultural Map-ping. These four continuing projects will help Ormocanons make full use of the City Cultural Mapping, which has a total of 62 volumes. These four projects are the following: 1) Ormoc City Museum and Exhibition Design Development, which will let the people of Ormoc, as well as tourists, know everything about the city and its heritage, history, and culture; 2) Digital Cultural Resource Library of Ormoc City, which is the digital version of the Cultural Mapping Project that can be accessed online and offline; 3) Ormoc City Tourism Development Plan, where the city’s tourism potentials were identified and the ways these potentials could be promoted; and, 4) Ormoc City Heritage Legislation and Museum Ordinance, which is an Ordinance that would help to protect and preserve the identified heritage sites in the city. (By Dailyn Cabarse)

ORMOC CITY – Domingo, Septiyembre 23, magsugod ang Maritime Week ug tungod niini, ang Philip-pine Coast Guard District Eastern Visayas (CGDEV) nakaandam na sa ilang mga kalihukan hangtud sa Biyernes.

Ang deputy command-er sa CGDEV, Cdr. Eduardo de Luna Jr., sa interbiyu sa EV Mail niingon duha ka barko sa PCG ang moanhi sa Ormoc kabahin unya sila sa himuon nga Maritime Exercises karong Septiy-embre 28, Biyernes. Usa sa mga barko nga ipadala mao ang BRP Capones sa nailhan nga 4404, usa sa mga bag-ong barko sa PCG. Gidamhan modunggo ang mga barko sa pantalan sa Septiyembre 25 ug ablihan kini sa publiko labi pa sa mga tinun-an aron mapak-ita unsa ang kapasidad sa barko ug kapabilidad para sa rescue operation.

Ang nakahan-ay nga programa mao ang coastal clean-up, fun run, scuba-surero, pagbisita sa osa

ka shipyard, ug ang dako nga kalihukan mao ang Anti-Terrorism/Piracy SAR Demonstration. Wala gisalindot sa PCG ang po-sibling panghitabo busa kinahanglan angay kining pangandaman. Sa ehersi-syu, apil dinhi ang AFP, PNP, Maritime Group, hasta ang PDEA. Makita unya sa Ormoc Bay ang barko, ug mga sakyanan sa kadagatan nga mag parade, gitawag kini ni Cdr. de Luna ug Watercraft Parade.

Tipik sa impormasyun nga gitunol ni Cdr. de Luna sa EV Mail bahin exercises, mao ang scenario kun ta-

lan-awon nga may osa ka baroto kunohay mga pirata ang sakay, unya gisugat ang osa ka barko nga puno sa mga pasahero, uban kanila mga turistang langyaw nga gipangdagit sa mga terorista. May nakatawag sa PCG, didto na sila nire-sponde, kuyog ang mili-tar, ug PDEA. Gipasabot niya ang publiko nga dili

lang mahadlok o malisang pag-abot unya sa ehersisyu kay daw tinuod kini nga responde.

Sa pangan sa ilang district commander, Capt. Giovanni Bergantin, polong ni Cdr. de Luna ilang gipas-alamatan ang tanang mga niayuda sa mga kalihukan nga mamahimong malam-poson. Ni Paul Libres

ORMOC CITY – Nipahiba-wo ang Land Transporta-tion Office (LTO) sa mga tag-iya ug mga sakyanan nga narehistro niadtong Hulyo 16, 2016 hangtud sa Desiyembre 2017 nga may mga plaka nang nangabot ug atoa kini karon sa re-gional office.

Si LTO regional direc-tor Edgar Catarongan nga nahinabi kadiyot sa EV Mail niingon mahimo na kining kuhaon sa mga tag-iya; kun dili sila makah-igayun, magpasugo sila ug tawo, magpadala lamang ug authorization letter. Wa mohatag ug gidaghanon ang LTO sa mga plaka nga nangabot, pero mahimo sila nga magpakisayud sa LTO Ormoc aron makuha ang kasarangan nga impoprma-syun aron dili malangan.

Si Emanuel “Manny” Sevilla, assistant district chief sa LTO Ormoc, niin-gon kini nga mga plaka, sa bag-o kining sakyanan nga temporary lamang ang plaka. Kini ang ikaduha nga hugna sa mga nangabot nga plaka ning tuiga. Kadtong mga plaka nga replacement, way apil niini, dugang ni

Sevilla.Sa samang higayun,

ang LTO subli nipahinum-dum sa mga motorista sa pagtahud sa mga lagda sa trapiko. Namamatud-an man gud ning uwahing mga adlaw nga subli nisiaw ang mga badlongon nga drayber. Magmaneho nga way lisensiya, may nada-kpan nagmotor nga wala marehistro ug daghan pang kalapasan. Matud ni Mr. Sevilla, dako ang multa sa mga badlongon. Ang kolo-rom nga motor, 6,000 mil pesos ang multa.

Sa datus nga nakuha sa EV Mail gikan sa buhatan sa LTO, daghan nang mga sakyanan, ug motor ang na impound sa ilang impound-ing area didto sa barangay Airport.

Mensahe ni Sevilla sa mga drayber, ayaw pag-maneho ug sakyanan kun kolorom, dili sad mag-drayeb kun way lisensiya, ug way helmet aron malikay sa multa. Niadtong nilabay nga adlaw, dose ka motor ang na impound sa LTO kay nadakpan sa checkpoint kapulisan ang mga drayber. Ni Paul Libres

Pagpangita sa mga ‘warranted persons’ gihingusganORMOC CITY – Gihin-gusgan sa mga pulis ang ilang pagpangita sa mga warranted persons ug ka-bahin kini sa kampanya nga gitawag ug “Opera-tion: Manhunt Charlie”.

Sa nilabay nga semana, may mga nadakop sa mga pulis, osa niini ang langyaw nga gikiha sa gibiyaan ni-yang asawa. Ning uwahing mga adlaw, may nadakop na sad sa mga pulis.

Sa police station 1, na-sikop nila Ch. Insp. Roger Octaviano sa abag sa 803rd PNP Maritime Group si Al-vin Bola, osa ka drayber ug lumad nga taga Capoocan, Leyte. Ang iyang kaso kala-pasan sa PD-705 kun illegal logging ug ang warrant of

arrest giisyu ni RTC Judge Arnulfo Cabrero sa Tabaco, Albay niadto pang Agusto 23, 2007; sa laktud, onse katuig nang nagtagotago si Bola. Ang piyansa alang sa temporaryo niyang kaga-wasan 66,000 mil pesos.

Matud sa mga pulis, nasikop si Bola pasado alas nuwebe sa gabii, Septiy-embre 18, sa barangay San Pablo. Ang hepe sa 803rd Maritime Police gipangu-lohan ni Sr. Insp. Gleen Michael Amoyen, niabag sa mga pulis sa OCPO, pag-paniid sa gipoy-an ni Bola, dihang natombok na nila asa, didto na gilusad ang pagdakop kaniya. Dalhun si Bola sa Tabaco, Albay kay adto man ang husay

sa iyang kaso. Kun gusto siyang mopiyansa adto na sa korte nga niisyu ug war-rant of arrest kaniya.

Sa police station 2 sa ba-rangay Valencia, nadakop nila Insp. Melvin Malate ug Insp. Romeo Labata si Jacqueline Cruza y Aligway, taga barangay Valencia, tungod sa kasong Qualified Theft. Unom ka ihap ang kaso iyang giatubang, ang piyansa para sa iyang kaga-wasan 134,000 mil pesos.

Matud ni Insp. Labata, nakapiyansa na si Cruza dili pa dugay.

Sa police station 3 (PS3) sa Linao, nasikop sad nila niadtong Septiyembre 19, si Alvic Reyes, taga barangay San Juan, tungod sa kaso

nga Qualified Theft. Ang warrant of arrest giisyu ni Judge Mario Quinit, acting judge sa RTC branch 35. Ang hepe sa police sta-tion 3, Sr. Insp. Richard Castanares, nga nahinabi niingon, human madawat ang warrant of arrest batok kang Reyes niadtong Sep-tiyembre 17, iyang gipali-huk ang iyang mga sakop ug nasuta nga anaa sa sityu Bakante sa nahisgotang ba-rangay ang ilang dakponon. Wala hinuon kini magpak-ita ug pagsuki sa mga aw-toridad. Nirekomendar ang korte sa piyansa nga 40,000 mil pesos alang sa iyang temporaryung kagawasan. Anaa siya karon tanggong sa PS3. Ni Paul Libres

Merida Police, LGU, mga tinun-an nipahigayun og Mangrove-plantingMERIDA, LEYTE – Nagtina-bangay ang Local Govern-ment Unit (LGU), Merida Police, ug mga tinun-an sa Merida Vocational School, apil mga opisyal sa barangay Mahalit ug Benabaye ning lungsud sa pagpananum ug bakhaw didto sa katunggan sa Benabaye, Biyernes, Sep-tiyembre 21.

Tinguha sa lungsud nga palagsikon ug maayo ang plantasyun anaa sa ilang lungsud kay usa kini sa maayong poy-an sa mga isda ug ubang mananap sa dagat ug tinobdan sad kini sa kaku-haan ug pagkaon. Ang hepe sa Merida Police, Sr. Insp. Joel Clitar, ang nagiya sa iyang mga sakop, samtang si Me-rida Mayor Marton Solona ang nigiya sa mga kawani sa lungsud. Kapin osa ka gatos ang nisalmot sa Mangrove-planting ug gisakop nila hasta ang nahimutangan sa parola sa Philippine Coast Guard didto sa Benabaye.

Nagpasalamat ang mayor sa tanan niayuda sa kalihukan, samtang ang hepe nga si Sr. Insp. Clitar niingon daghan nang mga Mangrove- ug tree-planting

ang ilang natambongan, ug magpadayun silang mo-sanong sa mga gimbuhaton para sa kaayuhan sa kaliku-pan nga mapahimuslan unya sa kabataan ug sa sunod nga henerasyun.

Samtang sa siyudad sa Ormoc, nagpahigayun ug coastal clean-up Septiyem-bre 22 ang Philippine Coast Guard, PCGA, PPA, Port Police, PNP, BFP, BJMP, Phil-ippine Army ug ang lokal nga kagamhanan sa siyudad. Kini kabahin sa International Coastal Clean-up. May nan-guha ug siot ilawum sa dagat.

Ang station command-er sa Coast Guard West-ern Leyte, Cdr. Eduardo de Luna Jr., nimandar ug mga tawo aron mosalmot sa coastal clean-up. Ang CGDEV nagpadala ug daghang mga tawo aron makatabang. Sa samang higayun nangandam na sad ang PCG para sa Mari-time Week nga himuon hinapos ning buwana, kun way kakulian ang PCG magpadala ug barko dinhi sa Ormoc para sa sunod semana nga kalihukan. Ni Paul Libres

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World Rabies Day

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 marks the World Rabies Day, a global health observance, which marks a milestone in rabies pre-vention. It is spearheaded by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC). It began in 2007, that rabies awareness has been initiated among many countries to make World Rabies Day a global phenom-enon. With its life-saving rabies preven-tion messages, it has reached millions of people in over 100 different countries. This year’s theme is “Rabies: Share the Message. Save a life.”

World Rabies Day is the first and only global day of action and awareness for rabies prevention. It is an opportunity to unite as a community and for individuals, NGOs and governments to connect and share their work.

Created and coordinated annually by GARC, World Rabies Day focuses on rabies endemic countries, to increase community awareness of the disease and its preven-tion. It also raises the profile of national and local control programs and acts as a springboard for year-round capacity building and awareness. This year’s theme highlights the importance of education and awareness to prevent rabies. This includes efforts on vaccinating dogs and treating bite wounds, and dog bite prevention education for school children.

While rabies is a 100% preventable disease, thousands of people die from the disease around the world each day. Rabies is a disease with almost 100% death rate. Usually, when symptoms appear, the rabies virus has reached the brain and survival is nil. All patients diagnosed with rabies will eventually die.

Rabies is a serious public health prob-lem in our country. The Philippines is among the top 10 countries with the highest incidence of rabies in the world. Depart-ment of Health (DOH) officials estimate that about 100,000 Filipinos are treated for dog bites and 200 to 300 die from rabies annually.

Rabies is a zoonotic disease. It means it is being transmitted from animals to man. The virus is usually transmitted through animal bites – by rabies-infected dogs, cats, rats and bats. Usually, rabid dogs die

first before the bitten person dies. A rabid dog usually exhibits hypersalivation, hy-peractivity and irritability; we call “iro na buang”. These animals have the tendency to bite anyone or any animal along their path.

In the Philippines, no one has survived of rabies infection. In human infection; from the day of the animal bite, it takes 20-90 days (incubation period) before symptoms become prominent. Initial symptoms in-clude fever, weakness, loss of appetite, dizziness, vomiting, pain and/or itchiness at the site of the bite. After a few days, symptoms indicating brain involvement are manifested by hyperactivity, bizarre behavior and presence of hallucinations. It will then be followed by frequent saliva-tion, hydrophobia – fear of water (refuses to take a bath, even drinking water), aero-phobia – anxiety or fear of moving air (fan-ning or air from electric fan) and seizures. If these symptoms are manifested, death is imminent. Doctors can only give support-ive care to patients, which includes giving of IV fluids, administering of anti-seizure medications, confining the patient in a dim room, with no moving air and no noise.

Persons who are bitten by pets must thoroughly wash the site of the bite with soap and running water for 5-10 minutes. Avoid putting vinegar, nor sucking the wound. One must see a doctor so that ap-propriate anti-rabies (and anti-tentanus) vaccines can be given (at the recommended interval and number of doses, if indicated). If the bite is inflicted by a vaccinated and domesticated dog, the dog must be ob-served for 10 days, noting that the first symptoms of rabies in humans appear in more than 2 weeks after the bite. If the dog survived after 10 days of observation, the animal bite is most likely “non-rabid”. However, if the dog dies before 10 days, the victim must be vaccinated with rabies vaccines. This is why the dog must not be killed, but instead be confined for obser-vation. But, if the victim can afford rabies vaccination, which can be expensive, up to 20,000 pesos depending on the dose (the

KNOWING THAT as a human person we are patterned after Christ, we should aim at making ourselves more and more like him. This should be our constant daily concern. All our other concerns in this life, no matter how important and urgent they may be, should be subordinated to this primordial one.

To be sure, this fundamental desire does not undermine our humanity. If anything at all, it will only bring us to our human perfection. We should not be afraid to give priority to this desire, for it can only put all our other plans and ambitions in their proper order.

To be truly Christ-like would, of course, require that we know Christ through and through. This will certainly ask of us that we, at least, read and meditate on the gospel regularly, for it is where we can find Christ. As St. Jerome famously said: “Ignorance of the Scripture is ignorance of Christ.” We have to make it a daily habit to read, study and meditate on the Bible. With our new technologies, this should not be difficult to do.

To be truly Christ-like would, of course, be an endless affair. We can never say we are definitively Christ-like, since we can never exhaust the richness of Christian life no matter how much effort we exert. We just have to try and try. At least, every-day we should be able to say that we are becoming more and more like Christ in a specific aspect.

Definitely, if we want to be truly Christ-like, we should be full of goodness and love. We should reach out to everybody, no matter how difficult that would be or how undeserving the others may be of our care and attention. Like Christ, we have to be willing to empty ourselves so as to identify ourselves with everybody. We have to fan into a bursting fire this desire to serve others.

Like Christ, we have to assume the attitude of wanting to serve everybody and not to be served. We have to be wary of our tendency to fall easily to a sense of self-importance or conceit. Like Christ, we have to be willing to “wash and kiss the feet” of everybody.

Like Christ, we have to love our en-emies, and to bear the burden of everybody, willing to replicate in our life the very pas-sion and death of Christ, so that we too can join him in his resurrection. We should be willing to offer mercy to everyone as well as to ask for pardon for our own sins.

We also have to understand that our identification with Christ can be achieved sacramentally. Aside from baptism and confirmation, let us see to it that we regu-larly go to confession and receive Christ in the Eucharist.

Like Christ, we have to pray constantly, keeping an abiding conversation with our Father God. We have to learn how to pray in all situations and circumstances of our life,

THIS WEEK, the Ormoc City Police Office here and Police Station 1 were awarded in the region as most outstanding police office and station, respectively. We salute our men and women in uniform for this feat. We hope that you will continue to strive to maintain Ormoc’s ranking as No. 1 safest city in the country. Our safety is your accomplishment.

rrrHowever, despite the accolades, there

are some businessmen who’ve observed that there have been less police visibility recently. We ask city director Sr. Supt. Jose Ceazar Biso to check on this report. Our LGU is giving the police sizable allotment for gasoline so that patrol cars and motor-cycles can go around the city regularly, and we hope this is not wasted.

rrrTalking about the police, I heard this

account, which reportedly happened at St. Paul’s School. There was this father who was fetching his kid and refused to park where he was being led by the traffic enforcer. The violation forced the enforcer to issue a ticket to the driver, who merely tore it up and threw it back at the enforcer. This forced the enforcer to call the police. When the police arrived, they confiscated his license and told him to get it from the Land Transportation Office (LTO). Wow, that would be a hefty fine compared to our city ordinance. Plus, I was told the driver was literally collared by the police officer, scaring him.

I just wish our people are law-abiding and have respect for each other so these events do not happen. But some people are just so hardheaded. Kudos to the traffic enforcer for standing his ground and call-ing the police. I hope the incident teaches a lesson to that arrogant driver, and also to other people who were watching what happened. Merese!!!

rrrOn the other hand, there was an inci-

dent this Friday afternoon that kind of sent jitters to foreign nationals living in Ormoc. This was about the Rae couple in Linao who were visited by two policemen in the afternoon. After ushering the cops into their house, the two reportedly took pictures of them and the inside of their house. The visit was reportedly to make friends with them, and to tell them that they can always call on the police if they have troubles.

Their lawyer-daughter, Leticia, who is based in Manila was alarmed at the in-cident. She said the cops’ actuation scared her parents who could not understand why the need to take pictures of the inside of their house.

Anyway, she was able to talk with one of the policemen, who said they were just implementing a new order from the Or-moc City Police Office to do the rounds of foreign nationals and convey the message that just like Pinoys, they can also enlist the

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What now Senator Tony Trillanes?

MARTIAL LAW(Public Accountability)

Trusting persons as close allies should be based on

what he has done

Talking to your dog

YOU CAME out from out of the dsrkest of nights and your good looks as seen in the pages of the Manila dailies back in 2003 propelled you to the same status of a major star. But when it came out that you were involved in a mutiny of sorts, it was rather too sudden that the adulation turned out into a nightmare. This corner even wonders how it is that you decided to give up your rank and uniform to that of a civilian. Maybe, you were planning to be a senator in order to torment your mentors.

Your good looks could always pass off to that of another Rogelio dela Rosa or a Leopoldo Salcedo who were stars that hugged the headlines of movies back in the early 50’s or even 60’s. How you meta-morphosed from a lady-killer to that of a monster is beyond imagination. Why did you join the Philippine Navy in the first place if you were willing to give it all up to the stattus of any other Juan dela Cruz can not be fathomed?

It is possible that you gave up your commission as Navy LtSG (Lieutenant Senior Grade), which is the equivalent of a Colonel in the Army (?). Now that you are a senator you can shout out to any General or even the President; after all, the President is just a co-equal of the Legislator to which you belong and the Chief Justice of the Ju-diciary. Executive – Legislative – Judiciary are co-equals in our government. There can be no greater drama than this!

There was a time when you can pound the gavel on your rostrum with the loud-est of bang and yet get away with it. But this was once upon a time. Now, it seems you are now on the defensive and, like a mongrel, hiding your tail between your

two legs. You have used the premises of the Senate as your temporary residence because you were afraid that you might be arrested by soldiers or even the police as soon as you leave the premises. You were perhaps afraid that you will be reverted back to your former rank and face military court despite your insistence that you are now a civilian. We know that the military court is entirely different to that of a civil-ian court.

It is unfortunate that you have the good looks of a movie star that can make the fans frenzied in hero-worship and even carry-ing you on their shoulders. But you will be facing an entirely different ballgame. What you used to do with those being investigated will happen to you. What can you invoke? There was a time when you would pound any Juan dela Cruz into a pulp at the end of your fingers and now it is your turn. In other words, there is always the time when what you would do to others would be done to you. What is the golden rule? Do unto others what you want oth-ers to do to you? Or is it another way, do unto others before they do it to you? This corner forgot the name of the Chinaman who professed this saying.

Harry Roque, spokesman of President Rody, was quoted to have said that Senator Trillanes is in a state of paranoia for com-plaining that his CCTV showed that his residence is being watched by a car seen to be making rounds around his neighbor-hood. He now knows how it is to be on the short end of being investigated. He is used to do it himself. No doubt the tables are turned his way.

DO DOGS really know what people are saying? I have always had dogs and I am convinced that all of them can understand what I am saying – no matter what lan-guage it is. After all, if I say “bread” or “iring” in practically another room, my dog will either zoom to my side to beg for food, or run around to look for the cat.

A scientific study proves that I could be right and it’s not just my imagination. My dog knows not only what I am saying, but the tone I use to say it.

Researchers trained dogs to lie still in an fMRI scanner while researchers moni-tored their brain activity. While in the scan-ner, dogs listened to different combinations of words and tones that indicated praise or neutrality. Their trainers spoke praise words (like “super” or “good boy”) with a neutral tone, praise words with a praising tone, neutral words (like “however” or “nevertheless”) with a praising tone, and neutral words with a neutral tone. Mean-while, the scanner was picking up the dogs’ brain activity to see how they processed what they were hearing.

The study found that dogs process both the vocabulary and the intonation of the words they heard. And they process that information just like humans do, in the left hemisphere of their brains for vocabulary and the right hemisphere of the brain for intonation. Reward centers of their brains lit up the most in the scanner when prais-ing words were met with a praising tone, which makes sense.

As dog owners might predict, the re-ward centers of the dogs’ brains responded when positive words were spoken in high-pitched, cheerful tones. But the really amazing part is that they could actually distinguish between words, even when they were spoken with the same intonation.

This shows that dogs not only separate what we say from how we say it, but also that they can combine the two for a correct interpretation of what those words really meant, researchers concluded.

But bashers think your dog still might respond happily if you say something mean in a happy voice, but that might be because it’s factoring in your body language and fa-cial expressions, too. So if you keep saying “bad dog”, but in a way that appears happy, you might unintentionally be training your pet to think “bad dog” means “good dog.”

A lot of people could swear their dogs recognize their tone of voice and even some words. But to what extent is this true, and to what extent are we projecting? I might be called crazy for talking to my dogs. They might not understand every word I say, but they’ve got the meaning.

The results of the study are a “first step to understanding how dogs interpret human speech”, but more research is likely needed to confirm and expand upon the findings.

The study concludes by saying that what makes words uniquely human is not the ability to understand them, “but the invention of using them”.

Dear Atty. Golo,Ngano daghan man dili ganahan og

“martial law?” Tinood daghan gi “salvaged”? Naa poy moingon nga nindot ang batas militar aron ma disiplina ta. Dali na kono ta mouli sa atoa. Dili na magsoroy-soroy og gabii. Naglibog man ko. Si VP Leni, sige lang og panaway sa Martial Law, “never again” kono. Si Sexetary Mukha pod sige’g kasayop “mistake again”. Ang atong kinakusgan, wa’g tuo ang balikas. “again and again”. Natakdan ang bukid, sige lang og “landslide”. Looy kaayo ang mga biktima. Onse man kono ka Mayor sa Abra wa didto adtong tongora. Nag “vacation” sila? Paita, ang mga tawo nangamatay, ang mga politico nagpahayahay.

Matinahuron, Marcial

Dear Mars, “Civilian authority is at all times supreme

over the military” (Art. II, Sec. 3, 1987 Constitu-tion). Kini tungod kay ang “military” armado. Kon sila ang hawod, kuyaw mag-abuso. Mao nga ang atong governo kinahanglan dumala-hon sa mga “civilian” pareha nimo. Ang pag-saway “essence” sa demokrasya. Ang pagka sayop, “challenge” aron ma “improve”. Apan ang “landslide” bunga sa “corruption”. Hapit “for sale” ang tanan, gikan sa boto hangtod sa “permit”. “Feeling” sa mayor nga namalit og boto, dili na sila matulisok sa katawhan kay human na sila nabayran. Dili jud nato ibaligya ang atong boto, aron ang mga Mayor kanato moalagad og mo respeto.

Imong amigo, Manny G. Golo

September 30, 2018Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mark 9:34-43, 45, 47-48At that time, John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we

saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.”

Jesus replied, “Do not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me. For whoever

is not against us is for us. Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward.

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire.

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut if off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna.

And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna, where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’”

WHEN WE commemorate a historic event that took place in the country, several conflicting controversies are brought out by that occasion. The 46th anniversary of the declaration of martial law on September 21 took place with several protest rallies or-ganized by student activists, victims of martial law and by some political leaders who warned that democracy in this country is being threatened again by some sectors who favor an authoritarian regime as a solution to the many problems facing the country. There are groups also who staunchly believe that martial law has brought some benefits to the country contrary to the claims of the protesters that it brought many harm and difficulties to the people.

It should be noted by us that there were a number of persons who were part of the martial law administration of President Marcos who benefitted largely and became well-off or even attained multi-millionaire status up to this day. People like former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, who was granted several forest logging conces-sions while in office; coconut-levy administrator Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco who was able to garner and own San Miguel Corporation; and his brother-in-law, former Leyte Governor and US Ambassador Benjamin “Kokoy” Romualdez.

Johnny Enrile is talking now of many invented stories that no one was

“arrested, tortured or killed on the basis of their political beliefs during martial law” while he was the martial law administrator and its chief imple-mentor.

Aside from his being aged at 94 now to attempt to being cozy with Bongbong Marcos, Enrile should re-member that he turned to rebel against his former boss when his plan to form a junta to grab power to put him on top was found out by Marcos’ intelligence men and he run to Camp Aguinaldo for cover and he was protected by a mass of people summoned by Cardinal Sin. What Enrile did to his former presi-dent, he almost succeeded as Defense Secretary in toppling his new boss President Cory Cojuangco Aquino in an armed coup de etat that cost a number of military men killed. Lucky for him that he was just kicked out from the Cory government and did not face any mutiny charges filed against him, un-like his closest lieutenant former Colo-nel and now Senator Gringo Honasan who was on the run for some time being hunted by government agents.

So former Senator Bongbong Mar-cos should watch out for this new at-tempt by Mr. Enrile to cozy up to him and his family to repair whatever dam-age Enrile has done and caused to them in the hope that Bongbong eventually may become president. Enrile’s actua-tions do not inspire trust as shown by past deeds he has done.

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dose is dependent of the weight; so the heavier the victim, the more vaccines he/she needs). It is very important to report the animal bite incidents to the local animal bite centers, which tally the cases and provide rabies vaccine to victims if stocks are available. There are about 480 animal bite centers nationwide. The national rabies laboratory is located at the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine.

To help reduce this risk for rabies infection, pets should be routinely vaccinated; and it is always wise to consult our friendly veterinarians; coupled with ‘responsible pet owner-ship’. Eighty percent (80%) of dog bites occurs in the home. We have to maintain control of our pets by keeping them indoors; and keeping dogs under direct supervision when outdoors.

Immunizing our pets can not only protect our neighbors, but also both ourselves and the members of our family from rabies.

Several cities and towns have passed ordinances allowing the impounding of stray dogs and strictly penalizing dog owners who fail to keep their dogs within their homes. Those dogs roaming around the neighborhood are likely to be bitten by rabid dogs, thus, can also transmit the rabies virus. In this light, rabies prevention starts at home. And if one is bitten by either a pet or stray animal, it should not be ignored. One should immedi-ately seek consult from the nearest animal bite center for proper man-agement and treatment.

Dr. Doydora is a visiting in-ternist-pulmonologist at OSPA, Gatchalian and Ormoc Doctors’ Hospitals.

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be it happy or sad, light or heavy.Like Christ, we have to have

a sharp hunger for souls. The apostolic dimension of our life should be considered essential and indispensable. Wherever we are, whatever be our situation, the apostolic concern should al-ways be in our mind and heart. We should always be praying for souls and thinking of how we can help them get back to God.

Like Christ, we have to of-fer everything in our life to God. We have to learn to give up everything for God, to live true detachment from earthly things even as we continue to use them. We have to reach that point that we are willing to offer our life to God, unafraid of death and all the suffering that goes with dying. All these to a heroic degree!

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gay because more tourists are now coming to Ormoc.

Ormoc City Mayor Richard I. Gomez, meanwhile, donated blood during the bloodletting ac-tivity that happened prior to the start of the program, encouraging the residents to do the same, say-ing the act “not only saves lives, but also promotes a healthier you”.

He further encouraged ev-eryone not to hesitate to air their queries and concerns, as all “gov-ernment offices and departments are in their barangay for the whole

day”. He also encouraged those

who are jobless to apply for jobs at PESO, as accordingly, Ormoc City being a growing city, is now a tar-get of big business establishments and investors, offering many job vacancies to Ormocanons.

“Ang tanang serbisyo sa si-yudad, nianhi karong adlawa, andam nga motabang sa mga lumulupyo diri sa Brgy. San Pablo. So pahimusli kini nga higayon kay para ra gyud ni ninyo,” said MRG. By Dailyn Cabarse

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Relaxing Thai Chin Spa opens in OrmocORMOC CITY – A new spa re-cently opened its doors in the city of beautiful people, all for our pampering pleasures.

Thai Chin Spa has come to show off their unique services to Ormocanons, as they offi-cially starts operations on the 18th of September. The Spa of-fers a “feel-at-home” and relax-ing atmosphere coupled with a group of customer-friendly attendants, unique interiors, and music that are sure to make customers rest comfortably like they are just at home.

The Spa has four rooms, a waiting area and a room for facial services. It offers beauty services that, accord-ingly, only use tested quality products that are safe for the customers and employ highly trained personnel to handle the customers.

Their Spa services include: relaxing massage, manicure-pedicure, which they have three chairs for, and facial. The massage room is equipped with memory pillows with a scent of lavender for a more relaxing mood.

The owner, Rosary Mae

Chin, to whom Thai Chin was named after, and her business partner, Interior and Landscape Designer Heig Gomez, who did the interior design of the Spa, shared: “We want to make our customers feel comfortable while sitting on our sofa, while being massaged and while availing of our services, through our relaxing music and emotion-friendly co-lours, lights and interior design.”

In addition, the Spa offers a

This is the Spa’s facial pampering room.

20% discount in all of its services from September 18 to October 18 and free iced tea for waiting cus-tomers, as their opening month offering to potential clients.

Thai Chin Spa is located on the second floor of the IAL Lodge building. The staff and owners are encouraging Ormo-canons to give their services a try. They assure only the best care and pampering. By Krista May Gubalane

A happy opening day customer and, inset, Thai Chin Spa’s comfortable waiting lounge.

EVBA: Emerald Ormoc’s “bullet shot” brought home the “win”ORMOC CITY – A buzzer beater-like 3-point bullet shot of Em-erald Ormoc ended the Eastern Visayas Basketball Association or EVBA’s First Conference Founders Cup 2018 Opening game against OCCCI Kananga, 75-62.

Ormoc fans cheered as a shot from Lobrez ‘nailed’ the game around 8pm of September 20, 2018 inside the Ormoc City Super-dome.

The event’s opening ceremonies was graced by Ormoc City Mayor Richard I. Gomez and was participated by the Naval Cor-sairs, Team Isabel, OCCCI Kananga and Emerald Ormoc. It kicked off with the introduction of all the participants and their muses, fol-lowed by the opening remarks by Albert Ti and guest speaker, Arturo Valenzona, olympian/coach, and, then, an oath of sportsmanship led by Benjamin Da Jose Jr., EVBA Commissioner.

The LGBT Ormoc Basketball Club was also in attendance and served as the ‘preliminary game’.

The Superdome was flooded with basketball fans who showed their support to their bet team.

Emerald Ormoc’s assistant coach Gino Tobias said in an in-terview that they are happy for a job well done by their team and thankful for the winning start of the game that will continue until October. As promised, he added that they will play for the fans, as they were so thankful for their support.

The next game is set to happen on September 23, Sunday, by OCCCI Kananga vs. Team Isabel. The future schedules include (Round 1): September 28, Friday: Naval Corsairs vs. Emerald Ormoc; September 30, Sunday: Emerald Ormoc vs. Team Isabel; October 9, Tuesday: OCCCI Kananga vs. Naval Corsairs; and October 12, Friday: Team Isabel vs. Naval Corsairs.

Round 2 game schedules, meanwhile, are: October 13, Sat-urday: Team Isabel vs. OCCCI Kananga; October 14, Sunday: Emerald Ormoc vs. Naval Corsairs; October 20, Saturday: Naval Corsairs vs. OCCCI Kananga; October 21, Sunday: Team Isabel vs. Emerald Ormoc; October 27, Saturday: OCCCI Kananga vs. Emerald Ormoc; and October 28, Sunday: Naval Corsairs vs. Team Isabel.

Accordingly, game time is always set at 6:00 P.M. while the venue is said to be at the Ormoc Superdome still, but the organiz-ers would like fans to know that schedule and venue could change; and thus, to always be updated by following the EVBA Facebook page. By Krista May Gubalane

Top photo shows an intermission number during the games’ opening ceremonies while bottom photo shows the conference’s amiable referees.

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are now trying to correct through enhanced protocols and practices.

Meanwhile, the families have already filed cases for multiple homicide against the 16 army per-sonnel involved in the misencoun-ter, but the army has not officially received the complaint yet.

“Madaling masabi ang mag-patawad pero sa ngayon hindi ko pa masasabi na napatawad ko na sila, baka paglipas ng panahon pero ngayong naclarify na ‘yung side ng army nabawasan na ‘yung sakit,” Graciel, the wife of PO1 Julie Escalo said.

She added that she has not yet fully moved on from the incident and they are just entrusting their fate with the process.

Farnacio said that there is also an ongoing pretrial proceed-ing against them before the army court.

“Mahirap itong healing pro-cess kung kailan ‘yung acceptance doon lang natin masasabi dahil ang propesyon namin, investment dito ay buhay so kaparte talaga ‘yung accident na nangyayari,” he ended. By Marie Tonette Grace Marticio

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ernment’s peace and development agenda.

20-year old Ram (not his real name) was only 18 and was in 4th year high school when he was recruited to join the New People’s Army (NPA).

“Sinubukan ko lang kasi inosente ako kung ano talaga ‘yung nangyayari doon sa kanila. Nasubukan ko lang iyon pero hindi ko gaanong nagustuhan iyong pamalakad doon, ngayong naexperience ko na ayaw ko na. Minsan gutom, mahirap ang kal-agayan doon,” shared Ram.

He was captured during an encounter with the army on March 26, 2017. He was charged with frustrated murder and was detained for three months where he met PCI Frederick Señal who was then the company com-mander of the Samar Provincial Police Security Company (PPSC).

“Dahil maganda ang trato nila sa akin noong nahuli ako, sabi ni Sir Señal hanapin ko daw siya kapag nakalabas ako kung gusto ko magsurrender,” he said.

“Nakikita ko na normal ang pamumuhay ng mga tao at gusto ko ako rin kaya gusto ko malinis ang pangalan ko sa gobyerno. Sana maging maayos ang pamu-muhay ko at makilala ako bilang sibilyan, hindi na bilang isang NPA, at maipatupad nila ‘yung

programa para sa amin para din maipakita sa mga dati kong kagrupo at makumbinsi din sila,” added Ram.

After hearing the news that Ram surrendered, Dan, 30 (not his real name), a team leader and intelligence officer of the group for 12 years, also decided to go home to his family and surrender. “Lalong tumatagal, lalo akong nahihirapan sa loob ko na gusto ko ng umuwi at makasama ang pamilya ko. Naramdaman ko din na walang magandang mangyayari sa mga buhay namin doon at unti-unti ko ng naisip na umuwi at magbalik-loob kaya pumunta rin ako dito,” he said.

Ram also turned in his caliber .38 revolver, which according to him is one of the reasons why he joined the rebel group. “Magandang pakinggan para sa isang kagaya kong tambay at 1st year high school lang ang natapos. Para lang sumali sa kanila, eenggan-yuhin ka ng mga gamit nila kagaya ng mga baril para mamundok ka,” he revealed.

Meanwhile, Mukaw (not his real name), 29, stayed with the rebels for almost 15 years. He only completed Grade 2, and was left with no choice but to help his parents cultivate a parcel of land in the mountain.

“Nirecruit kami doon sa aming taniman kasi daw bata pa ako at mabagsik. Tinanong ako kung bolun-taryong sasapi sa rebolusyon. Dahil bata pa ako, naniwala naman ako sa ibang pinaglalaban ng grupo,” he

confessed.Mukaw came across one

of the flyers being distributed by the police, which convinced him to surrender, also to pro-tect his family because his wife has just recently given birth to their first child and she does not know that she is a member of the NPA.

“Heto na ako nagbalik-loob dahil gusto ko lang ng maayos na pamumuhay. Hin-di ko na maibabalik ang dati pero sana ipatupad nila ‘yung mga programa para sa amin. Sa mga dati kong kagrupo sana hindi kayo magdalawa-ng-isip na magbalik-loob o magtanong kung saan kayo pwedeng lumapit,” he said.

PCI Señal assured the former rebels that they would provide them with security for at least three years, while their livelihood, assistance checks and firearms remuneration are being processed.

They are likewise being given psycho-social interven-tion by experts through coun-seling and stress debriefings, as well as moral recovery with the assistance from the reli-gious sector to prepare them for integration to mainstream society. By Marie Tonette Grace Marticio

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NGCP empowers partner communities through disaster risk-reduction trainingsTHE PHILIPPINES has seen its fair share of natural calamities in the past years, with typhoons and earthquakes frequently occurring in the Pacific area. With intensified efforts to prevent the devastating effects of these calamities to hard-hit areas across the country, NGCP has spearheaded disaster risk reduction trainings for its partner communities.

These training programs aim to enhance the knowledge and capacities of 120 selected NGCP partner communities in dealing with disasters, thereby lessening the risks posed by these calamities and protecting more lives.

“The overall goal of these di-saster risk reduction trainings is to improve the current state of disaster preparedness and resiliency of our partner communities. Typhoons, earthquakes, and other kinds of ca-lamities strike at any given time. We want to equip them with the proper knowledge and training to address this, and to prevent the loss of lives and community assets when these hazards occur,” said NGCP.

Among the topics discussed with the barangays are: a) how to

identify different kinds of hazards; b) what to do during typhoons and earthquakes; c) hazard map-ping within the barangay; d) es-tablishing early warning systems, communication and evacuation protocols; and e) simulation drills. At the same time, transmission line safety and anti-pilferage topics are also shared with the communities.

As early as March this year, NGCP, together with A2D Project – Research Group for Alternatives to Development, Inc., an organization specializing in disaster risk man-agement and community develop-ment, already began conducting the three-day training to different barangays from Isabela and Ifugao up north, to Samar in the South.

For the rest of the year, NGCP will be reaching out to over 60 more barangays in Albay, South-ern Leyte, and Surigao provinces to conduct these training sessions.

NGCP is a Filipino-led, pri-vately owned company in charge of operating, maintaining, and developing the country’s power grid, led by majority shareholders Henry Sy, Jr. and Robert Coyiuto, Jr. (PR)

Genaro B. Lureñana NHS is champion in Leyte’s first Geo 24/7 Semi-finals Battle of the Brains

ORMOC CITY – The first Geo 24/7 Battle of the Brains in Leyte, 2nd semi-finals round, led by geothermal leader Ener-gy Development Corporation (EDC) happened last Septem-ber 21, 2018 at the New Ormoc City National High School.

It was Genaro B. Lure-ñana National High School that brought home the cham-pionship, followed by Ormoc Se San School Inc. as first runner-up, and Valencia Na-tional High School as second runner-up.

Acordingly, the three win-ners will be competing for the championship round against

Leyte Division’s three other win-ners: Holy Cross College of Cari-gara, Jugaban National High School and Agapito Amado National High School, which competed last Sep-tember 20, 2018 in a separate venue.

The contest in Ormoc, mean-while, started with an opening re-marks by Erwin B. Magallanes, head of EDC’s Corporate Social Responsi-bility Department in Leyte, saying: “I hope that this quiz bee will be the first step in fighting climate change and saving the environment.”

It was then followed by the ac-knowledgement of schools, as they introduced the 20 competitors; fol-lowed by the introduction of judges, who are: Engr. Keelvin Dajao, Dr.

Paciencia Milan, Danilo B. Dacillo, and Erwin B. Magallanes.

Winners will be receiv-ing cash prizes and will be named as the first ever Geo 24/7 Battle of the Brains Grand Champion in Leyte. The grand finals will be on October 2018 in Ormoc City.

Per EDC: “This contest aims to empower the youth of Leyte Island with useful knowledge on renewable energy and sustainabil-ity, and how they can help lessen the effects of climate change.” By Krista May Gubalane

Winners and participants to the First Geo 24/7 Battle of the Brains in Leyte.

Automation poses gender problem in PHMORE WOMEN than men are at risk of being affected by the rise of the fourth in-dustrial revolution (FIRe) in the Philippines.

This was revealed by Dr. Jose Ramon Albert, senior research fellow at the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), dur-ing a press conference held early September 2018 in connection with the celebration of the Development Policy Research Month (DPRM).

Citing a 2018 study of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Albert explained this may be because female workers usu-ally assume low-skilled, routine tasks, which are expected to be adversely affected by automation.

“Repetitive tasks can be programmed into computers, and what is not codified today may be codified tomorrow, especially with the artificial intelligence,” he explained.

In the case of the Philippines, these repetitive tasks are prevalent in the textile, clothing, and footwear sector, which pre-dominantly employs women, according to Jose Roland Moya, director-general of the Employers Confederation of the Philippines.

This makes the displacement in this sector “gendered”, he added.

Still, he highlighted that the entry of emerging technologies, particularly 3D print-ing, enables textile firms to improve their productivity and output at lesser costs and reduce errors.

Rooted in education, trainingFor Love Basillote, executive director

of the Philippine Business for Education, this gendered-displacement can be rooted in the culture of the educational system in the country.

Apparently, women are the minority in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses in colleges and universi-ties, according to Basillote.

“You need a lot of technological know-how to do cutting-edge research. Given women are in the minority, they may find it hard to take part in FIRe,” she explained.

With this, she urged the government to improve women participation in STEM courses.

“Only by encouraging our girls to try STEM can we have qualified women to work in a STEM profession,” she added.

Meanwhile, Dr. Rafaelita Aldaba, assis-tant secretary at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), raised the need to capacitate workers this early, especially those who might be displaced by the intensified use of machines in labor.

“We are working together with the private sector in terms of coming up with training programs to identify the needs of industries in the future,” the DTI official explained.

sEE GENDER P. 8

8 September 17-23, 2018

Extrajudicial Settlement with Deed of Absolute Sale

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the property of the late SPS. WENC-ESLAO CENIZA AND SHERLITA JABON CENIZA re a parcel of land covered under TD No. 08-03-0014-00415 designated as Lot No. 2670 containing an area of 6,088 sq. m. was settled among their heirs and 222 sq. m. sold in favor of JONA M. GENCIANOS per Doc. No. 23; Page No. 5; Book No. CXII; Series of 2017 of Notary Public Aleah Rafel G. Bataan-Tolibao. EV Mail Sept. 3-9, 10-16, 17-23, 2018

Affidavit of Self Adjudication NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the property of the late SPS. CRIS-TOBAL S. MENDOLA and DOLORES ERASMO re a parcel of land Lot 5380 covered by TCT No. 15414, containing an area of 16,111 sq. m. was adjudicated unto herself by RUVINIEU E. MENDOLA per Doc. No. 199; Page No. 40; Book No. CVXVI; Series of 2018 Notary Public Conrad P. Conopio. EV Mail Sept. 3-9, 10-16, 17-23, 2018Amended Extra-Judicial Settlement

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the property of the late SPS. LUIS VIOVICENTE and MARGARITA CAPA-ROSO re a parcel of land OCT No. P-52842, PSU-08-001626, containing an area of 35,726 sq. m. situated at Matag-ob, Leyte was settled among their heirs per Doc. No. 448; Page No. 90; Book No. XXIV; Series of 2018 Notary Public Maria Kim O. Marquez, Juban. EV Mail Sept. 3-9, 10-16, 17-23, 2018Extrajudicial Settlement with Deed of

Absolute Sale NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the late JULITO E. ALBARICO had left a motor vehicle make: Suzuki Series: Pick-up; Type of Body: Canopy; Motor No. : F6A-6339852; Serial/Chassis No.: DC51t-411364; Plate No. : YAS115; File No.: 0760-08000099262; C.R. No. 2942211-6 was settled among his heirs and sold in favor of ALFREDO C. BANZON and BEBERLITA B. BANZON per Doc. No. 424; Page No. 85; Book No. XVI; Series of 2018 Notary Public Jose REnante R. Terre. EV Mail Sept. 10-16, 17-23, & 24-30, 2018

Extrajudicial Settlement and Partition

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the property of the late SPS. BER-NANDINO JOSEF PAYO and MAMERTA BAYRON-PAYO re a parcel of agricultural land situated at Barangay Tubod, Isabel, Leyte designated as Survey No. 3699, covered by TD No. 17-0023-00318-R13, containing an area of 6,440 sq. m. TD No. 17-0023-00318-R13 was settled and partitioned among their heirs per Doc. No. 301; Page No. 61; Book No. 83; Series of 2017 Notary Public Wilma Cordeño-Matuguina, CPA. EV Mail Sept. 10-16, 17-23, & 24-30, 2018Affidavit of Adjudication with Sale of

a motor vehicle NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the personal property of the late MARIVIC L. BATION re a motor ve-hicle make- KAWASAKI, Denomina-tion – MCLE WITHOUT SIDE CAR, Series – BC175H, Type of Body- MOTORCYCLE, Engine No./Motor No.- BC175AEB27361, Serial/ Chassis No.- BC175H-B51898, Certificate of Registration No. – 307883004, Official Receipt No. – 1257959091, MV File No. – 080-00000159025, and Plate No. – 080105 was adjudicated unto himself by RODRIGO OLACAO BATION and sold in favor of EMELITA LAUDE LAURITO per Doc. No. 309; Page No. 62; Book No. 92; Series of 2018 of Notary Public Wilma Cordeño – Matuguina, CPA . EV Mail Sept. 17-23, 24-30, & Oct. 1-7, 2018Deed of Extrajudicial Settlement with

Absolute Sale NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the property of the late ARISTON BIBERA re parcel of an agricultural land situated at Brgy. Tugas, Bato, Leyte under TD No. 06003200036, Cad Lot No. 3373 containing an area of 15.3971 has was settled among his heirs and sold in favor of SPS. DIONESIO JR. and LUOR MABALE per Doc. No. 70; Page No. 13; Book No. 46; Series of 2018 Notary Public Rico E. Aureo. EV Mail Sept. 17-23, 24-30, & Oct. 1-7, 2018

Extrajudicial Settlement NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the late MARIANO D. MAJESTRA-DO had left a cash deposits with Land Bank of the Philippines – Baybay City, Saving Account No. 3571001208; and at the Metrobank – Baybay City, under Savings Account No. 3-356-02919-5 were settlement among his heirs per Doc. No. 50; Page No. 10; Book No. XXXVII; Series of 2018 of Notary Public Gloriosa M. Cayunda Guinocor. EV Mail Sept. 17-23, 24-30, & Oct. 1-7, 2018

Extrajudicial Settlement NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the estate of CASIANO RECOMES affecting Lot 13396 in Brgy. Ponponan, Baybay City, had been extra-judicially settled among his surviving heirs in an instrument known as extrajudicial settlement of the estate on January 17, 2018, notarized before Atty. Rene Allan G. Jervoso of Baybay City, per Doc. No. 516; Page No. 116; Book No. LI; Series of 2018. EV Mail Sept. 17- 23, 24-30, & Oct. 1-7, 2018

Addendum to Extrajudicial Settlement with Waiver and

Quitclaim NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the late RODRIGO LILIO SANO had left a HONDA TC HIRE re MAKE- HONDA, BODY TYPE- TC HIRE, SERIES- TMX1559, ENGINE NO. – KB509E013457, CHASSIS NO. – KB509013452, PLATE NO. – HY6554, MV FILE NO. – 0832-00001522057, Cert. of Registration No. – 7892556-0, Official Receipt No. – 700930263 was settled among his heirs and waived in favor of JENNIFER T. SANO. EV Mail Sept. 17-23, 24-30, & Oct. 1-7, 2018EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF

ESTATE WITH SALE OF A REAL PROPERTY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the property of the late ROY CALVO re a parcel of residential land situated at Brgy. Bato, Borongan City, Eastern Samar, covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-1176, containing an area of 458 sq. m. under Lot No. 3401-A, CSD- 08-000693 was settled among his heirs and sold in favor of NORMA B. YLANAN married to RODULFO YLANAN

Republic of the Philippines

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

8th Judicial Region Branch 18, Hilongos,

Leyte EJF NO. H-41-2018

For:Extrajudicial

Foreclosure and Sale under Act 3135 as

Amended HILONGOS

MULTI-PURPOSE COOPERATIVE

(HMPC) Herein represented by its General Manager, Jo

Dinah F. Viterbo, Petitioner- Mortgagee.

-versus- ADONES LUZON,

Mortgagor. x-----------------------x

SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SALE

Upon extrajudicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended filed by HILONGOS MULTI-PURPOSE CO-OPERATIVE (HMPC), with principal address at Hi longos , Leyte , herein represented by its General Manager, Jo Dinah F. Viterbo, against ADONES LUZON of Brgy. Naval, Hilongos, Leyte, to satisfy the mort-gage indebtedness which as of July 10, 2018, in the total amount of ONE HUNDRED THIRTY N I N E T H O U S A N D and EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY EIGHT PESOS, (P139,888.00) Philippine Currency, representing interest penalties, ex-cluding expenses of the foreclosure attorney’s fees, the undersigned will SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION on OCTOBER 26, 2018, at 9:00 o’clock in the morning until 4:00 PM. or soon thereafter at the Regional Trial Court, Branch 18, Hilongos, Leyte for CASH and in the Philippine Currency, the following property with all the improve-ments found thereon, hereunder described as follows:

“1. A parcel fo land designated as Lot No. 701 located at Barangay Naval, Hilongos, Leyte, containing an area of 2,332 square meters more or less and covered by Katibayan ng Orihinal na Titulo Blg. P-70891.

2. A parcel of land designated as Lot No. 700 located at Barangay Naval, Hilongos, Leyte, containing an area of 811 square meters more or less and covered by Katibayan ng Orihinal na Titulo Blg. P-70892.”

All sealed bids must be submitted to the un-dersigned on the above-stated date and time.

In the event the public auction should not take place due to fortuitous event on said date, it shall be held on November 9, 2018 at the same time and place.

Hilongos, Leyte, August 13, 2018.

FOR THE EX-OFFI-CIO SHERIFF: (Sgd.) GERMELINA S.

PACAANAS Sheriff IV

Noted by: ( S g d . ) A T T Y.

CHRISTIAN S. VILLAS Clerk of Court VI Copy furnished: HMPC Hilongos, Leyte Adones Luzon Brgy. Naval Hilongos, Leyte EV Mail c/oMaritess Masendo-

Tayum Hilongos, Leyte EV Mail Sept. 3-9,

10-16, & 17-23, 2018

Republic of the Philippines

SUPREME COURT 8th Judicial Region REGIONAL TRIAL

COURT Branch 36

Carigara, Leyte -o0o-

SPEC. PROC. No. RTC-2018-014

IN RE; PETITION FOR CANCELLATION OF DOUBLE ENTRY OF

LIVE BIRTH, ROMEO ROJAS

RODA, Petitioner, -versus-

THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF

CAPOOCAN, LEYTE, PHILIPPINE STATISTICS

AUTHORITY, et, al. x----------------------//

ORDER In the previous or-

der dated August 22, 2018, this Court gave the State, through the duly authorized repre-sentative of the Solicitor General 10 days from notice to comment on the amended petition filed by the petitioner. None was filed. Acting on the motion to admit amended petition filed by petitioner through counsel, and finding it tenable, the same is hereby GRANTED and the Amended Petition is hereby ADMITTED to form part of the case record.

After due consider-ation of the allegations in the amended petition, the same is found to be sufficient in form and substance. Considering that petitions of the na-ture are summary on nature, set this case for initial hearing on Octo-ber 11, 2018 at 8:30 in the morning on which time and date, any per-son having interest may show cause why the peti-tion should not be given due course. Failure to appear shall be construed as waiver on the part to do so and the Court shall act accordingly. The peti-tioner is also ordered to cause the publication of this Order in a newspa-per of general circulation in the Province of Leyte. The Sheriff of the Court is also ordered to post cop-ies of this Order in three (3) conspicuous places, namely: (1) the Bulletin Board of Brgy. Libertad, Capoocan, Leyte; (2) the Bulletin Board of the Mu-nicipal Hall; Capoocan, Leyte; and (3) the Bulletin Board of the Court. Certi-fication about such post-ing must be secured and submitted to the Court before said scheduled initial hearing.

Furnish copies of this Order to the peti-tioner, through counsel and to the Honorable Solicitor general.

SO ORDERED. GIVEN in Cham-

bers on this 5th day of September 2018, at Cari-gara, Leyte, Philippines.

(Sgd.) LAURO A. P. CASTILLO, JR.

Judge EV Mail Sept. 3-9,

10-16, 17-23, 2018

Republic of the PhilippinesCITY CIVIL REGISTRY OFFICEBorongan City, Eastern SamarNOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

In compliance with the publication requirements and pursuant to OCRG memorandum Circular No. 2013-1 Guidelines in the implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1 Se-ries of 2012, a notice is hereby serve to the public that JOGIE C. ABRATIQUE has filed with this Office a Petition for Correction of clerical error on Child’s SEX from FEMALE to MALE in the Certificate of Live Birth of JOGIE C. ABRATIQUE who was born on November 25, 1977 at Borongan, Eastern Samar and whose par-ents are BELEN C. CAINTO and DOMINGO A. ABRATIQUE.

Any person adversely af-fected by said petition may file written opposition with this of-fice not later than September 28, 2018.(Sgd.) MA. LUISA M. AZUL III

City Civil RegistrarEV Mail Sept. 10-16, &

17-23, 2018

Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office

Province of Leyte MUNICIPALITY OF KANANGA

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION 05 September 2018 In compliance with Sec-

tion 5 of R.A. Act No. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that EVELYN F. SISON, petitioner, has filed with this Office a petition for CHANGE OF FIRST NAME from “BELEN” to “EV-ELYN” in the Certificate of Live Birth of BELEN FUENTES SISON who was born on December 19, 1978 at TUGBONG, KANANGA, LEYTE whose parents are CRIS-TITA ODAN FUENTES and SE-GUNDO CEILO SISON bearing registry number 145.

Any person adversely af-fected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this Office not later than September 25, 2018.

(Sgd.) ENGR. NEWTON A. ISAAC

Municipal Civil Registrar EV Mail Sept. 10-16, &

17-23, 2018

Republic of the Philippines

SUPREME COURT 8th Judicial Region REGIONAL TRIAL

COURT Branch 7 (FAMILY

COURT) Bulwagan ng Katarungan

Magsaysay Boulevard, Tacloban City

-o0o- SP. PROC. CASE NO.

R-TAC-18-00690-CV FOR: Adoption

IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF MINOR JOEL GAVIN

REPOSO VALENZONA,

SPS. DENNIS V. BERENGUER AND

HERMINIA V. BERENGUER

Petitioner. x----------------------x

ORDER Filed in court is a

Compliance of the peti-tioner through counsel dated August 17, 2018 and received on August 20, 2018.

Petitioner is compli-ance with the order of the court dated August 6, 2018 and pursuant to the requirements under AM No. 02-6-02-SC, hereby submits the (a) Affidavit of Consent to the Adop-tion of the biological parents, Sps. Joel Petilla Valenzona and Maria Del Amor Pundavela Reposo Valenzona, the biological parents of the child to be adopted; b) Affidavit of Consent of Valerie Bernadette V. Berenguer, 19 years old, only child of the adopting parents; and (c) proof of service of copies of the Petition sent to the Office of the Solicitor General and the prosecution Office.

Acting thereon, the filing thereof is NOTED.

Accordingly, find-ing the petition being sufficient in form and substance, it is hereby ordered that it be set for hearing on December 11, 2018 at 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon, on which time and date all persons who have objection to the petition may appear and show cause why the same should not be granted.

Let this order be published at the expense of the petitioner in a duly accredited newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Leyte and in the City of Tacloban to be selected by raffle under the supervision of the Executive Judge of this Court, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks with the last pub-lication to be made before December 11, 2018.

Let copies of the petition be served upon the Office of the Solicitor General, the DSWD Re-gion VIII, Tacloban City and the Social Worker of this Court Ms. No-rie Villero, Office of the Clerk of Court, Tacloban City who is hereby di-rected to conduct a home study on the prospective adoptive parents and the child study on the minor sought to be adopted and her biological parents. The Reports with her recommendations must be submitted to the court on or before the date of hearing.

Notify the petition-ers and their counsel, the Solicitor General, the Re-gional Director, DSWD, Region VIII, Tacloban City and Ms. Norie Vil-lero, Social Worker, Of-fice of the Clerk of Court, Tacloban City.

SO ORDERED.

GIVEN in Cham-bers on this 3rd day of September, 2018 at Bul-wagan ng Katarungan, TAcloban City, Leyte, Philippines. (Sgd.) GEORGINA UY

PEREZ Acting presiding Judge

EV Mail Sept. 10-16, 17-23, & 24-30, 2018

Republic of the Philippines

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

8th Judicial Region Branch 18, Hilongos,

Leyte SP. PROC. NO. H-607

FOR: ADOPTION IN THE MATTER

OF ADOPTION OF MINOR CARLIT CRIS

PANDO SPS. ARGIE and TITA

ACASIO Petitioners.

x------------------xORDER

P E T I T I O N E R – SPS. ARGIE and TITA ACASIO by and through counsel filed a Petition for Adoption of minor Carlit Cris Pando. In sup-port of their petition, the petitioner avers, THAT: petitioners are spouses of legal age, Filipino, residence at Brgy. Ana-hawan, Bato, Leyte; that petitioners are in posses-sion of their full capacity, to sue and to be sued; that the petitioners have their desire to jointly adopt a minor Carlit Cris Pando born on April 22, 2009 at Hilongos, Leyte, that the said child is the daughter of Sps. Chris-topher and Nimfa Pando the sister of the petitioner wife Tita Casinillo Acasio who executed and Af-fidavit of Consent of the adoption; that petition-ers have all the qualifi-cation and none of the disqualifications to adopt a child under the law and that the adoption of Carlit Cris Pando is to his best interest and welfare; that spouses petitioners prayed that this adop-tion be granted and the minor Carlit Cris Pando be freed from all the legal obligations of obedience and maintenance with respect to his biological relatives and all intents and purposes be declared the child of the spouses petitioners.

W H E R E F O R E , finding the Verified Peti-tion to be sufficient in FORM and SUBSTANCE, the same is set for initial hearing on March 26, 2019 at 8:30 in the morn-ing at which date, time and place anyone that may be prejudiced by the approval of the instant Petition may come to court in this first op-portunity.

Published this Or-der in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Leyte at least once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner.

Furnished copy of this Order to the Office of the Solicitor General being the general counsel of the Republic at 134 Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village, Makati City; Re-gional Director of DSWD for that office to conduct a social case study report, conduct a home study re-port, and to submit other relevant papers within 60 days, to the natural parent of to be adopted, petitioner and their coun-sel for them to be present on the scheduled initial hearing.

SO ORDERED. IN CHAMBERS,

this 5th day of September

2018, Hilongos, Leyte, Philippines.

(Sgd.) EPHREM SUAREZ ABANDO

Executive Judge EV Mail Sept. 10-16,

17-23, & 24-30, 2018

Republic of the Philippines

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

8th Judicial Region Branch 18, Hilongos,

Leyte SP. PROC. NO. H-609

FOR: ADOPTION IN THE MATTER OF

ADOPTION OF MINOR ZHAIRA NICOLE ANN J. NEPOMUCENO

SPS. NOLAN AND MARIA RIZZA APILAR

Petitioners. x--------- /ORDER

PETITIONER- SPS. NOLAN and MARIA RIZZA APILAR by and through counsel filed a Petition for Adoption of minor Zhaira Nicole J. Nepumuceno. In sup-port of their petition, the petitioner avers, THAT: petitioners are spouses of legal age, Filipino, resi-dence at Brgy. Guerrero, Bato, Leyte; that petition-ers are in possession of their full capacity, to sue and to be sued; that the petitioners have their desire to jointly adopt a minor Zhaira Nicole Ann J. Nepomuceno born on July 22, 2009 in Marikina City; that the said child is an illegitimate daughter of herein petitioner wife Maria Rizza Apilar; that petitioners have all the qualification and none of the disqualifications to adopt a child under the law and that the adop-tion of Zhaira Nicole Ann J. Nepomuceno is to her best interest and welfare; that spouses pe-titioners prayed that this adoption be granted and the minor Zhaira Nicole Ann J. Nepomuceno be f reed from all the legal obligations of obedience and maintenance with respect to his biologi-cal relatives except her mother and all intents and purposes be declared the child of the spouses petitioners.

W H E R E F O R E , finding the Verified Peti-tion to be sufficient in FORM and SUBSTANCE, the same is set for initial hearing on March 26, 2019 at 8:30 in the morn-ing at which date, time and place anyone that may be prejudiced by the approval of the instant Petition may come to court in this first op-portunity.

Publish this Order in a newspaper of gen-eral circulation in the Province of Leyte at least once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner.

Furnished copy of this Order to the Office of the Solicitor General being the general coun-sel of the Republic at 134 Amorsolo St., Legal Village, Makati City; Re-gional Director of DSWD for that office to conduct a social case study report, conduct a home study re-port; and to submit other relevant papers within 60 days, to the natural parent of to be adopted, petitioner and their coun-sel for them to be present on the scheduled initial hearing.

SO ORDERED. IN CHAMBERS,

this 5th day of September 2018, Hilongos, Leyte, Philippines.

(Sgd.) EPHREM

SUAREZ ABANDO Executive Judge ESA/ilf EV Mail Sept. 10-16,

17-23, & 24-30, 2018

per Doc. No. 427; Page No. 87; Book No. VI; Series of 2018 of Notary Public Charles B. Culo. EV Mail Sept. 17-23, 24-30, & Oct. 1-7, 2018

Extrajudicial Settlement NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the properties of the late SPS. SATURNINO & BARDA AVELLANA re parcels of land Lot No. 877-C-6, covered by TCT No. T-20601, containing an area of 9,111 sq. m. situated in Poblacion, Baybay Leyte and Lot 9340, covered by OCT No. 23434, containing an area of 18,495 sq. m. were settled among their heirs per Doc. No. 103; Page No. 21; Book No. LXI; Series of 2014 of Notary Public Joseph Carnel M. Bandalan. EV Mail Sept. 17- 23, 24-30, & Oct. 1-7, 2018

Republic of the Philippines

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

8th Judicial Region Branch 18, Hilongos,

Leyte SP. RPOC. NO. H-608

FOR: ADOPTION IN THE MATTER OF

ADOPTION OF MINOR NHATE DHAMYAEN P.

ALBARIDA TO BE KNOWN AS JOHN

KILMERIN ROA MICHAEL RED ROA

Petitioners, x--------------------------x

ORDER PETITIONER- MI-

CHAEL RED ROA by and through counsel filed a Petition for Adoption of minor Nhate Dhamyaen P. Albarida to be known as John Kilmerin Roa. In support of their peti-tion, the petitioner avers, THAT: petitioner is of legal age, Filipino, single residence at Jundis Vil-lage, Brgy. tinago, Bato, Leyte; that the petitioner has desire to adopt a minor Nhate Dhamyaen P. Albarida born on Sep-tember 27, 2012 to the parent Jessie Albarida and Janice Pepito who executed an Affidavit of Consent to the Adoption; that the said child was in entrusted to the peti-tioner since the subject child was at the age of eight (8) months old that petitioners have all the qualification and none of the disqualifications to adopt a child under the law and that the adop-tion of Nhate Dhamyaen P. Albarida is to his best interest and welfare; that petitioner prayed that this adoption be granted and the minor Nhate Dhamyaen P. Albarida be freed from all the legal obligations of obedience and maintenance with respect to his biological relatives and all intents and purposes be declared the child of the petitioner. Further, prayed that the first name of the child from Nhate Dhamyaen to John Kilmen which such name of the said child has been using and known of.

W H E R E F O R E , finding the Verified Peti-tion to be sufficient in FORM and SUBSTANCE, the same is set for initial hearing on March 26, 2019 at 8:30 in the morn-ing at which date, time and place anyone that may be prejudiced by the

approval of the instant Petition may come to court in this first op-portunity.

Published this Or-der in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Leyte at least once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner.

Furnished copy of this Order to the Office of the Solicitor General being the general counsel of the Republic at 134 Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village, Makati City; Re-gional Director of DSWD for that office to conduct a social case study report, conduct a home study re-port; and to submit other relevant papers within 60 days, to the natural parent of to be adopted, petitioner and their coun-sel for them to be present on the scheduled initial hearing.

SO ORDERED. IN CHAMBERS,

this 5th day of September 2018, Hilongos, Leyte, Philippines.

(Sgd.) EPHREM SUAREZ ABANDO

Executive Judge ESA/ilf EV Mail Sept. 10-16,

17-23, & 24-30, 2018

“Hopefully, these programs can make our workers FIRe-ready,” she added.

Aldaba also pointed out the need to balance between automation and labor-intensive activities, such as those in the women-dominated textile sector.

“We are still promoting these labor-intensive jobs, but we are providing human resource development and training programs to improve our workers’ capability and productivity,” she explained.

The press conference was part of a series of events PIDS has organized throughout the month of September in line with the celebration of the 16thDevelopment Policy Research Month (DPRM).

The DPRM is celebrated across the country every September in view of Malacañang Proclamation No. 247 issued in 2002. The proclamation declares the observance of DPRM to promote and draw public awareness and appreciation of the importance of policy research in the formulation of sound policies, programs, and projects. It also designated PIDS as the lead government agency in the yearly celebration of the DPRM.

With the theme, “Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Creating Our Future Today”, this year’s DPRM centers on the FIRe and the role of evidence-based research in crafting policies related to the emerging technologies. (PR)

GENDER ... from P. 7

9September 17-23, 2018

Republic of the Philippines

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

8th Judicial Region Branch 18, Hilongos,

Leyte CIVIL CASE NO.

H-964 CHARRY ANN

PAYOT CELLONA –SEROY, Plaintiff, -versus-

JOHN PAUL GOMEZ SEROY,

Defendant X--------------X

ORDER TO: JOHN PAUL

GOMEZ SEROY 551 Sitio Katam-

bisan Brgy. San Isidro Ormoc City A DECLARATION

OF NULLITY OF MAR-RIAGE was filed against you by JOHN PAUL GOMEZ SEROY on the grounds of psychological incapacity under Article 36 of the Family Code The plaintiff in filling the petition for declaration of nullity of marriage is praying that after due notice and hearing this Honorable Court will render judgment declar-ing the marriage a nul-

lity for evident absence of formal requisite of marriage and psycho-logical incapacity of the defendant to perform his essential marital ob-ligations ordering the local civil register of Baybay City, Leyte to effect the cancellation of plaintiffs records of marriage to defendant and correspondingly to effect a cancellation of her marriage record in the National Statistic Of-fice and further praying for such other reliefs and remedies deemed just and equitable under the circumstances.

WHEREFORE, on the basis of the afore-mentioned grounds you are hereby summoned and required to file and serve our sworn answer to the Complaint within thirty (30) days from the last issue of publication.

SO ORDERED. GIVEN, this 20th

day of August 2018, Hi-longos, Leyte, Philip-pines.

(EPHREM SUAREZ ABANDO

Executive Judge EV Mail Sept. 10-16

& 17-23, 2018

Republic of the Philippines

SUPREME COURT REGIONAL TRIAL

COURT 8th Judicial Region

Branch 47, Ormoc City SP. PROC. CASE NO. R-ORM-18-00018-SP IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR RECOGNITION OF

FOREIGN DIVORCE/CANCELLATION OF

THE ENTRY OF MARRIAGE IN THE

CIVIL REGISTRY. RICHELLE ALONZO

DELA CRUZ, Petitioner, -versus-

The Civil Registrar (Or-moc of the Local Civil Registrar), Philippine Statistics Authority

(PSA) represented by the National Statisti-

cian and Civil Registrar General, and Brendan

James Ian Curtis, Respondents.

ORDER Filed is an amended

petition for judicial rec-ognition and enforce-ment of the foreign di-vorce decree of petition-er, RICHELLE ALONZO DELA CRUZ, through counsel praying that af-ter due notice and hear-

ing in accordance with the Rules of Court, this Honorable Court would give due course to the petition and judgment be rendered RECOGNIZ-ING the Foreign Divorce Decree issued by the Federal Circuit Court of Australia; DISSOLVING the marriage contracted by the petitioner with Brendan James Curtis in Ormoc City, Leyte on June 15, 2014; RECOG-NIZING and ENFORC-ING the Certificate of Divorce issued by the Federal Circuit Court of Australia; and ORDER-ING the Civil Registrar General to cancel the entry of marriage of these parties from its Books of Marriage.

Finding the petition to be sufficient in form and substance, set the hearing thereof on 09 January 2019 at 8:30 in the morning before this Court, at which date, time and place, any inter-ested party may appear and show cause if any, why the petition should not be granted. Accord-ingly, let a copy of this Order be published at the expense of petitioner once a week for two (2)

consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Prov-ince of Leyte qualified to publish judicial notices and be posted at the bul-letin boards of the New City Hall of Ormoc City, Leyte and of this Court before the scheduled date of hearing.

Further, let a copy thereof be furnished the Department of Foreign Affairs, Civil Registrar of Ormoc City, City Pros-ecutor’s Office of Ormoc city, the Civil Registrar General in the Philip-pine Statistics Authority, Sta. Mesa, Manila, the Office of the Solicitor General, Makati city and the Australian Embassy for their information and appropriate action.

SO ORDERED. In Chambers, Or-

moc City, Philippines, 10 August 2018.

(Sgd.) MARIA CORAZON S.

VERGAR-NARAJA Presiding Judge Copy furnished:ATTY. CONRAD P.

CONOPIO Conopio Law Office Anubing St., Brgy.

Cogon Ormoc City

Philippine Statistics Authority

Solicarel Bldg., Ra-mon Magsaysay Blvd.,

Sta. Mesa, Manila RTC-OCC, Ormoc

City hall of Justice, Or-

moc City Office of the Solici-

tor General 134 Amorsolo St.,

Legazpi Village Makati City City Prosecutor ’s

Office Hall of Justice, Or-

moc City Office of the Local

Civil Registrar Ormoc City Hall,

Ormoc City Department of For-

eign Affairs 2330 Roxas Boule-

vard Pasay City Australian Embassy Level 23-Tower 2,

RCBC Plaza 6819 Ayala Avenue Makati City 1200 Office of the Civil

Registrar General 3/F Vibal Bldg.,

Times Street, Cor. EDSA, West

Triangle Quezon City EV Mail Sept. 10-16,

17-23, & 24-30, 2018

Republic of the Philippines

SUPREME COURT REGIONAL TRIAL

COURT Eighth Judicial Region

Branch II Calubian, Leyte

SP. PROC. NO. SP-CN-157

For: IN THE MATTER OF

ADOPTION OF MINOR CHILD

BRIALUZ SALSVADO CANONEO AND TO

JUDICIALLY DECLARE HER AVAILABLE FOR

ADOPTION, WITH PRAYER FOR

ADOPTION WITH PRAYER COR

CHANGE OF NAME OF BRIALUZ

SALVADO SULLIVANSPS. BRIEN SEAN

SULLIVAN and LUCIA SALVADO

SULLIVAN Petitioners

x----------------xORDER

A verified petition filed by herein petition-ers, Sps. Brien Sean Sul-livan and Lucia Salvado Sullivan, through coun-sel praying, among oth-ers, to judicially declare Brialuz Salvado Canoneo available for Adoption with Prayer for a change of name to BRIALUZ SALVADO SULLIVAN and it appearing that the same is sufficient in form and substance, the same is hereby set for initial hearing on December 12, 2018 at 9:00 o’clock in the morning before this Court. Hall of Justice Calubian, Leyte at which date aforesaid, any inter-ested person may appear and show cause, if there be any, why said petition should not be granted.

The Office of the Department of Social Welfare and Develop-ment (DSWD) of the

Province of Leyte is here-by ordered to conduct Child Study and Home Study on the adoptee and her biological par-ents and Home Study on the adopters who are aliens by a foreign adop-tion agency duly accred-ited by the Inter-Country Adoption Board (ICAB), Importantly, the HSR on the adopters must show the aliens legal capacity to adopt and declares or contains a certification that their government al-lows the adoptee to enter the alien’s country as the alien’s adopted child. The Child Study Report (CSR) and Home Study Report (HSR) separately on the biological parents and alien adopters, with respective recommenda-tions thereof should be submitted before the date of the hearing directly to the Court as the same are strictly confidential.

Let copy of the pe-tition and this Order be published in a newspa-per of general circula-tion at least once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner and that copies of the petition and Order be furnished the Honorable Solicitor Gen-eral at 134 Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village, Makati City, the Philippine Sta-tistics Authority, Manila, the Assistant Provincial Prosecutor of Calubian, Leyte and the Local Civil Registrar of San Isidro, Leyte for them to appear for the government.

SO ORDERED. IN CHAMBERS this

20th day of June 2018 at Halls of Justice, Calu-bian, Leyte Philippines. (Sgd.) WENIFREDO C.

CUATON Judge

EV Mail Sept. 10-16, 17-23, & 24-30, 2018

Republic of the Philippines

SUPREME COURT Eight Judicial Region Regional Trial Court

Branch 17 Palompon, Leyte

SP. PROC. CASE NO. R-PAL-18-0454-SP

IN THE MATTER OF PETITION FOR

JUDICIAL RECOGNITION OF

FOREIGN DIVORCE AN JELYN ELIM

DALMAN represented by Attorney-in-fact

AMY ELIM DALMAN Petitioner, -versus –

LOCL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF

PALOMPON, LEYTE AND PHILIPPINE

STATISTICS AUTHORITY Respondent. x-----------x

ORDER A verified petition

for judicial recognition of foreign divorce, has been filed with this Court by the petitioner, through counsel, Atty. Donna Villa M. Gaspan-Cerna, praying that after due publication, notice and hearing, judgement be rendered recognizing the Judgment of Absolute Divorce issued on July 14, 2014 rendered by the Circuit Court for Queen Anne’s County, Mary-land, U.S.A. in favor of petitioner , directing the Local Civil Regis-trar of Palompon, Leyte to record the said Unit-ed States of America’s Judgement of Absolute Divorce in favor of peti-tioner and directing the Office of the Administra-tor and Civil Registrar General in the Philippine Statistics Authority to cancel the registration of marriage between An Jelyn Elim Dalman and Benjamin W. Cater in the National Indices of Marriages.

As the petition ap-pears to be sufficient in form and substance, the same is hereby set for ini-tial hearing, pursuant to Section 4, Rule 108 of the Revised Rules of Court on December 7, 2018 at 8:30 o’clock in the morn-ing at the Hall of Justice, Regional Trial Court, Branch 17, Palompon, Leyte at which date, time and place, any person may appear and show

cause, if any why the petition should not be granted.

Let a copy of this Order be published at the expense of the peti-tioner in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Leyte, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, with the last publication to be made at least one week prior to the date set for initial hearing.

Furnish copies of the Petition and of this Order to the Office of the Solicitor General, the Local Civil Regis-trar of Palompon, Leyte, Office of the Assistant Provincial Prosecutor of Leyte, Atty. Donna Villa M. Gaspan-Cerna, Phil-ippine Statistics Office and the petitioner.

SO ORDERED. Given in Chambers

this 22nd day of August, 2018 at the Hall of Justice of Palompon, Leyte, Phil-ippines.

(Sgd.) MARIO O. QUINIT

Presiding Judge EV Mail Sept. 10-16,

17-23, & 24-30, 2018

Republic of the Philippines

SUPREME COURT Eight Judicial Region Regional Trial Court

Branch 17 Palompon, Leyte

SP. PROC. CASE NO. R-PAL-18-0453-SP

FOR: PETITION FOR DECLARATION OF

HEIRSHIP IN RE: PETITION FOR

DECLARATION OF HEIRSHIP OF THE DECEASED JUVILS

SANCHEZ RODADO A.K.A JUVILS

SANCHEZ RANDADO ESTELITA SANCHEZ

RODADO Petitioner,

x----------------------------xORDER

A verified Petition for declaration of heir-ship of the deceased Juvils Sanchez Rodado a.k.a Juvils Sanchez Radado has been filed with this Court by the petitioner through coun-sel, Atty. Donna Villa M. Gaspan-Cerna, praying that after due publica-tion, notice and hearing, judgment be rendered declaring Estelita San-chez Rodado as Compul-

sory secondary heir and Pedrito Sanchez Rodado, Joel Sanchez Rodado, and Jayson Sanchez Ro-dado as collateral heirs to the intestate estate of deceased Juvils Sanchez Rodado.

As the petition ap-pears to be sufficient in form and substance, the same is hereby set for initial hearing on De-cember 7, 2018 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning at the Hall of Justice, Regional Trial Court, Branch 17, Palompon, Leyte at which date, time and place, any person may appear and show cause, if any why the petition should not be granted.

Let a copy of this Order be published at the expense of the peti-tioner in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Leyte, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, with the last publication to be made at least once week prior to the date set for initial hearing.

Furnish also a copy of this Order to the peti-tioner, Atty. Donna Villa Gaspan Cerna, Pedrito S. Rodado, Joel Sanchez Ro-dado and Jayson Sanchez Rodado.

SO ORDERED. Given in Chambers

this 22nd day of August, 2018 at the Hall of Justice of Palompon, Leyte, Phil-ippines.

(Sgd.) MARIO O. QUINIT

Presiding Judge Copy furnished: 1. Atty. Donna

Villa M. Gaspan-Cerna-Palompon, Leyte

2. E s t e l i t a S . Rodado – Brgy. Cruz, Palompon, Leyte

3. Pedrito S. Ro-dado – 613 Raja Matanda St. Tondo, Manila

4. Joel S. Rodado – Brgy. Cruz, Palompon, Leyte

5. J a y s o n S . Rodado – Brgy. Cruz, Palompon, Leyte

6. EV Mail – Or-moc

jmoq/arp EV Mail Sept. 10-16,

17-23, & 24-30, 2018

Republic of the Philippines

SUPREME COURT Eight Judicial Region Regional Trial Court

Branch 17Palompon, Leyte

SP. PROC. CASE NO. R-PAL-18-0452-SP

IN THE MATTER OF THE GUARDIANSHIP OF MINORS ULPIANO

M. MOSQUITE III ULYSSES JUNEL M. MOSQUITE AND

UNICE JHENELLE M. MOSQUITE AND TO SELL OR ENCUMBER THE PROPERTY OF

THE MINOR CHILDREN

JENNIFER M. MOSQUITE

Petitioner. x----------------x

ORDER A verified petition

for guardianship, filed by petitioner Jennifer M. Mosquite, through coun-sel, Atty. Burt J. Pades, praying that after due notice and hearing an Or-der be issued appointing Jennifer M. Mosquite as the legal guardian of her minor children Ulpiano M. Mosquite III, Ulysses Junel M. Mosquite and Unice Jhenelle M. Mos-quite and petitioner be given an authority to encumber the share of said minor children the parcel of land designated as Cad Lot No. 213-A located at Brgy. Ipil III, Palompon, Leyte covered Transfer Certificate of Title No. 115-2018000808 and Tax Declaration No. 08-31008-00363 R13 and/or sell portion/share of the properties of the mi-nor children for benefit.

As the petition ap-pears to be sufficient in form and substance, pursuant to Sec. 3 Rule 93, let this case be set for hearing on October 12, 2018 at 8:00 o’clock in the morning at the Hall of Justice, Regional Trial Court, Branch 17, Palom-pon, Leyte at which date, time and place, any per-son may appear and show cause, if any why the petition should not be granted.

Let a copy of this Order be published at the expense of the peti-tioner in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Leyte, once a week for three (3) con-

secutive weeks, with the last publication to made at least one week prior to the date of hearing.

Furnish copies of the Petition and of this Order to the Office of the Solicitor General and the Department of Social Welfare and Develop-ment of Ormoc, City, the latter is hereby ordered to conduct and submit a Child Study and Home Study on the minor child and the petitioner.

Furnish copies of this Order and Petition to the Office of the Solicitor General and to Pros, Paul Florian Dolina, Assistant Provincial Prosecutor, Palompon, Leyte.

Furnish copy o this Order to the petitioner and her counsel.

SO ORDERED. GIVEN IN CHAM-

BERS, this 22nd day of August, 2018 at Palom-pon, Leyte, Philippines.

(Sgd.) MARIO O. QUINIT

Executive Judge Copy furnished: 1. Atty. Burt J.

Pades – San Isidro, Or-moc City

2. Office of the Solicitor General

3. Pros. Paul Flo-rian P. Dolina – Palom-pon, Leyte

4. Jenni fer M. Mosquite – San Fran-cisco St. Brgy. Ipil III, Palompon, Leyte

5. DSWD Ormoc City

6. EV Mail Ordermoq/arpd EV Mail Sept. 10-16,

17-23, & 24-30, 2018

Republic of the Philippines

SUPREME COURT 8th Judicial Region REGIONAL TRIAL

COURT Branch 13

Carigara, Leyte -o0o-

Sp. Proc. No. RTC-2018-015-SP

IN THE MATTER FOR THE CORRECTION OF ENTRIES IN THE

CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH OF SOPHIA BEATRIZ VELOSO

WITH REGISTRY No. 2003-659,

ERA LOU VELOSO NAVIA,

Petitioner, -versus-

EDWINA VELOSO,

DANILO NEGADO THE OFFICE OF THE

LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF

BARUGO, LEYTE And the PHILIPPINE

STATISTICS AUTHORITY (PSA)

STA, MESA MANILA x--------------------------x

ORDER Filed with the Court

by Era Lou Veloso Navia, of legal age, Filipino, divorced and a resident of 203 Gate 16, Guadala-jara Village, Guadalupe, Cebu City, Philippines, thru her counsel Atty. Roberto S. Rublico, is a Verified Petition for Correction of Entry in the record of birth kept by the Local Civil Reg-istrar of Barugo, Leyte particularly, Entry box child, name from Sophia Beatriz Veloso to Sophia Beatriz Navia, place of birth from Barugo, Leyte to Ormoc Maternity and Children’s Hospital, Ormoc City, Entry box father, name of father from Danilo Negado to Unknown, Citizenship from Filipino to Delete, Religion from Roman Catholic to Delete oc-cupation from Business-man to Delete age at the time of this birth from 45 to Delete, Entry box mother, name of mother from Edwina Veloso to Era Lou Veloso Navia, Number of children born Alive from 4 to 1, number of children still living including this birth from 4 to 1, occupation from businesswoman to student, age at the time of this birth from 46 to 22. Date and place of mar-riage of parents from not married to delete Entry 20 informant from with signature to delete, name in print from Edwina Veloso to Era Lou Veloso. Delete page 2 of said Cer-tificate of Live Birth with Registry No. 2003-659 containing the Affidavit of Acknowledgement of Paternity.

Finding the Peti-tion to be sufficient in form and substance, it is hereby ordered that said Petition be set for hearing on October 30, 2018 at 8:30 o’clock in the morn-ing at the session hall of Regional Trial Court, Branch 13, Carigara, Leyte where all inter-

ested parties may appear in Court and show cause why the Petition should not be granted.

Let this Order to-gether with the Petition, be published at the ex-pense of the Petition in a local newspaper of gen-eral circulation in the Province of Leyte, Samar & Biliran once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks. Moreover, let this Order, together with a copy of the Petition, be posted at the Bulletin Boards of this Court, Proivincial Capitol, Ta-cloban City and the Mu-nicipal Hall of Barugo, Leyte, at least thirty (30) days before the initial hearing.

Furnish copy of this

Order to the Solicitor General, at 134 Amoro-solo St., Legazpi Village, Makati City, the Local Civil Registrar of Barugo, Leyte, the Civil Regis-trar General, Philippine Statistics Office, West Triangle, Quezon City, the Petitioner and her counsel, the Assistant Provincial Prosecutor of Carigara, Leyte.

SO ORDERED. DONE IN CHAM-

BERS, on this 16th day of August 2018 at the Bul-wagan ng Katarungan, Carigara, Leyte.

(Sgd.) EMELINDA R. MAQUILAN

Presiding Judge EV Mail Sept. 17-23,

24-30, & Oct. 1-7, 2018

Republic of the PhilippinesProvince of Leyte

MUNICIPALITY OF PALOMPON-oOo-

OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR

Petition No.: CFN-0010-2018PETITION FOR CHANGE OF

FIRST NAMEIN THE CERTIFICATE OF LIVE

BIRTHI , C O R A Z O N A Q -

UILES OLORVIDA, of legal age, Filipino, and a resident of BarangayMazawalo,Palompon, Leyte, after having been duly sworn to in accordance with law, hereby declare that:

1) I am the petitioner seek-ing the CHANGE OF FIRST NAME in:

b. the Certificate of live birthof GENITA ESTRERA AQ-UILES who is my sister

2) She was born on April 20, 1964 at Palompon, Leyte, Philippines

3) The birth was recorded under registry number74

4) The first name to be changed is from JOSEPHINE to GENITA

5) The grounds/facts for filing this petition is that he has habitually and continuously used ALBIN and he is publicly known in the community with that first name

6) I submit the follow-ing documents to support this petition:

a) Certificate of Live Birth (SECPA & CRS Form No. 1A)

b ) C e r t i f i c a t e o f Baptism,Form 137-A & Elem. School Permanent Cumulative Record

c)Barangay, Police & NBI Clearances&Affidavit of Unem-ployment

d) Cert. from the Clerk of Court, Valid ID’s, Marriage Contract & COLB of the Children

7) I have not filed any similar petition and that, to the best of my knowledge, no other similar petition is pending with any LCRO, Court or Philippine Consulate.

8) I have no pending crimi-nal, civil or administrative case in any court or any quasi-judicial body.

9) I am filing this petition at the Local Civil Registrar of Palompon, Leyte in accordance with R.A. 9048 and its implement-ing rules and regulations.

(SGD.) CORAZON AQUILES OLORVIDAPetitioner

VERIFICATIONI,CORAZON AQUILES

OLORVIDA, the petitioner, here-by certify that the allegations herein are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

(SGD.)CORAZON AQUILES OLORVIDAPetitioner

S U B S C R I E D A N D SWORN to before me this 14thday of September 2018 in the municipality of Palompon, Leyte, petitioner exhibiting her Com-munity Tax Cert. No. 15713299 issued at Palompon, Leyte on Sept. 14, 2018.

(SGD.)ANNABELLE P. MARQUEZ

Municipal Civil RegistrarEV Mail Sept. 17-23, &

24-30, 2018

10 September 17-23, 2018

Republic of the Philippines LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY

Province: Leyte City/Municipality Matag-ob Petition No. CCE-41-2018/

RA 10172 Republic of the Philippines )

Province of Leyte) Municipality of Matag-ob) S.S

PETITION FOR CORRECTION OF CLERICAL ERROR

IN THE CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH

I, GENEVA L. OMEGA, of legal age, Filipino and a resident of Villaba, Leyte, after having been duly sworn to in accordance with the law, hereby declare that:

1.) I am the petitioner seeking correction of the cleri-cal error in:

b) The Certificate of Live Birth of EVELYN LOREMAS OMEGA who is my SISTER

2.) She was born on Janu-ary 17, 1962 at Matag-ob, Leyte, Philippines

3.) The birth was record under registry number 62-89

4.) The clerical error(s) to be corrected is (are):

5. The facts/reasons for filing this petition are the following:

To correct the clerical er-ror in the certificate of Live Birth of “EVELYN L. OMEGA” whose Childs name/Child Date of Birth entered/ recorded in the certifi-cate of Live Birth of “EVELYN” L. OMEGA” from “EVELIN” instead of “EVELYN” and Date of Birth from “January 17, 1962” to “Janu-ary 19, 1962” the correct being used in the Marriage Cert. Voters I.D., Baptismal Cert. and etc.

6.) I submit the follow-ing documents to support this petition:

a.) BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF THE CHILD PSA/LCRO

b.) MARRIAGE CERTIFI-CATE

c.) BAPTISMAL CERTIFI-CATE

d.) VOTERS I.D. e.) POLICE/NBI CLEAR-

ANCE 7.) I have not filed any

similar petition and that, to the best of may knowledge, no other similar petition is pending with any LCRO, Court or Philippines

ITEM NO. DESCRIPTION FROM TO 1.a Childs name EVELIN EVELYN Child’s Date of Birth January 17, 1962 January 19, 1962

Consulate. 8.) I am filing this petition

at the LCRO of Matag-ob, Leyte in accordance with R.A. No. 9048 and its implementing rules and regulations.

(Sgd.) GENEVA L. OMEGA Petition

VERIFICATION I, GENEVA L. OMEGA,

the petitioner, hereby certify that the allegations herein are True and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

(Sgd.) GENEVA L. OMEGA Petitioner

S U B S C R I B E D A N D SWORN to before me this 12th day of SEPTEMBER, 2018 in the City/Municipality of Matag-ob, Leyte, petitioner exhibiting his Community Tax Certificate No. 27302613 issued at Matag-ob, Leyte on January 5, 2018

(Sgd.) ENGR. AGUSTIN D. PEDRANO JR.

Administering Officer EV Mail Sept. 17-23, &

24-30, 2018

An Waray basket fest starts October

HOUSING ... from P. 1million-peso funds are un-accounted (for). President Rodrigo Duterte wants to punish those behind this corruption activity. We hope to file cases within the year so we can take over these projects and complete these projects within the term of the President,” said SHFC Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling in a press briefing Friday night.

Cabling, a former coun-cilor of Davao City, who handled the city council’s housing committee, said five SHFC lawyers have been coming to the city to gather evidences and talk to victims.

“We want to make sure the case is very tight be-cause we really want to serve justice to ‘Yolanda’ victims. Let us fight corrup-tion together as we work to strengthen the project to make houses truly livable, adequate, and inclusive for poor Filipinos,” Cabling said.

Aside from Brigham Estate in Bagacay village, the SHFC is also investigat-ing six other housing sites, also handled by Mineland Shelter Foundation owned by Sia.

There are about 2,500 beneficiaries in these anom-alous housing projects in the city, according to SHFC.

Sia, whose accredita-tion as mobilizer has been

revoked by SHFC, cannot be reached for comment, but in earlier media inter-views, she denied all ac-cusations.

Under CMP, the SHFC buys the lot for accredited housing association mem-bers. The beneficiaries will pay to SHFC in more than two decades.

Under its loan enti-tlement, the SHFC raised the loan package from PHP165,000 to PHP250,000. Of the amount, PHP100,000 is for lot acquisi t ion, PHP30,000 for site devel-opment, and PHP120 for housing materials.

The loan is payable in 25 years with a monthly amortization of PHP474 and at an annual interest rate of 6 percent based on the outstanding balance.

The community-based housing project is managed by the homeowners’ associ-ation, with a CMP mobilizer assisting the community associations in availing of the program for their lot acquisition, site develop-ment and housing fund assistance with the SHFC.

Cabling said SHFC has established measures to strengthen communication between the agency and the communities, through de-centralization and stream-lining of its processes to ex-pedite shelter assistance to the underprivileged. PNA

room buildings were also equipped with electric fans for the comfort of the chil-dren, had comfort rooms, and a concave blackboard to enable those seated at the back to see the writings on the board clearly.

Gonzales, in his turn-over speech, said that they hoped their classroom buildings will become the “gold standard” of the classroom designs and construction of all DepEd school, guaranteeing that no shortcuts were taken in the construction and it was of sturdy build.

Gonzales, however, said there was a slight de-viation of their standard design for the Rustico Ca-pahi Memorial Elementary School in Sabang-bao on the principal’s request. Mrs. Catalina Pedong, school principal, requested that the middle wall between the two classrooms are col-lapsible to turn the building into a covered activity area if needed.

Mrs. Pedong, in accept-ing the classroom said they will take care of AMUSUP’s “gift” to their school and the children. She also proudly announced that they had just also been informed that they are were the only school in the region who got a 100 percent rating of their Balik Eskwela program. They are the region’s bet for the national contest.

Mayor Richard Gomez, who was present during the two turnover ceremonies, thanked AMUSUP for their donation. He also appealed to the group to put in more schools in the city, espe-cially at the Eastern Visayas State University – Ormoc Campus, which is sorely lacking classrooms.

Also present during the turnovers were Dr. Manuel Albaño, Ormoc DepEd su-perintendent; Dr. Theody Alcantara of AMUSUP; Engr. Alvin Kuan Gela of contractor Gela Construc-tion; Dr. Ethel Salinas and Dr. Joel Zartiga of DepEd; and city councilors Nolito Quilang and Goito Yrastor-za.

The Sabang Bao turn-over was also witnessed by barangay officials led by chairman Nicanor Ca-sunggay while the Licuma turnover was witnessed by barangay officials led by chairman Jessie Araneta.

In Licuma, the school was accepted by the school principal Amor Monsanto who said it was an an-swered prayer for their school. “Dugay ra ni nga among gipangayo, gitubag gyod,” she said, adding that she was also excited to learn that aside from the AMUSUP donation, they will also get 2-storey classroom building from the national government through the efforts of Rep.

AMUSUP ... from P. 1

Lucy Torres-Gomez.AMUSUP is a 100,000-strong organization

of Filipino seafarers. The organization takes care of the welfare of seafarer members, help ensure that their Collection Bargaining Agree-ment and employee’s contracts are enforced, and even has hospitals serving them and family members.

ORMOC CITY – The “An Waray Cup” regional bas-ketball fest will kick off on October 13 at the Super-dome here, it was learned during an organizational meeting of coaches and referees of the Eastern Visayas Basketball League (EVBL) held at the Pongos Hotel on Saturday, Sep-tember 21.

An Waray partylist, represented by former Con-gressman Bem Noel during the meeting, has pledged to put up the prizes and also the uniforms of the athletes. First prize is P 150,000.00, second prize P 100,000.00, and, third P 50,000.00.

Noel’s wife, Victoria Noel, is incumbent An Wa-ray representative.

As of the present, there are six teams which have joined the league. They are Ormoc, Isabel, Albuera, Tacloban, Palo, and Eastern Samar. Since the teams rep-resent a city or municipality, Noel has also pledged to give P 3-million worth of schoolbuildings to the LGU of the first prize winner.

EVBL president Rey Evangelista, a former star player of the Purefoods PBA team, said their group is separate and distinct from the Eastern Visayas Bas-

Former An Waray Rep. Bem Noel (4th from left, seated) is the EVBL’s guest during their organizational meeting to discuss internal rules to professionalize the conduct of their games and conferences. ketball Association (EVBA) that kicked off their first game this week.

Evangelista said they organized the league to spur interest in basketball among Leyteños and Sa-mareños beyond the com-mercial basketball games during fiestas.

They are thankful for the support given by An Waray to the endeavor, and hopes to attract more spon-sors as time progresses.

Together with other basketball enthusiasts, Evangelista said EVBL hopes to hold competitions

year round so that young-sters will be encourage to practice their basketball skills and those with tal-ents can be picked up by national teams.

He said EVBL games would be rotated among the LGUs of those who joined. The first conference will be run from October to Decem-ber. By bringing the games to the member LGUs, Evan-gelista said they hoped to revive the good old days when people would troop to the basketball courts to watch their hometown players and root for them.

The organizational meeting, which was pre-sided by Paul Advincula, a Taclobanon who was once coach of the Malaysian na-tional team, went smoothly.

The group agreed on some internal rules that would professionalize the conduct of their games and conferences.

Evangelista said they were on the process of reg-istering their organization with the Securities and Ex-change Commission (SEC). By Lalaine Marcos

EBR GROUP OF COMPANIES turned 45 on Saturday, Sept. 22 while owner Ernesto B. Rizarri (in photo) celebrated his 71st natal day. The businessman recalls how, at 26 years old, he put up EBR Marketing. The company has grown then, with more than 200 employees and business interests ranging from fertilizer supplies, auto dealership and allied businesses, gas stations, to poultry. Indeed, the salesman from Cebu who used to hitch on sugarcane trucks have come a long way!

help of the police. The pictures, they said, were just to document their visitation.

This is a nice move for the PNP to make foreign nationals feel safe in the country. How-ever, it is also wise to instruct the boys clearly on what to do. There should be protocols set, because in the effort to make them feel safe, the visiting police might scare them instead. Cer-tainly, taking pictures of the insides of a home is already tantamount to an invasion of privacy and we hope this will not happen again.

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12 September 17-23, 2018

June 25, 2018 Misencounter Update: Families of slain policemen receives assistance from Philippine Army

BFAR intensifies campaign against illegal, undocumented and unreported fishing

City Hall on Wheels visits Barangay San Pablo

4 former rebels express hope, changed lives

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Ms. Rose Ann A. Prias receives a Plaque of Appreciation from the City Government of Ormoc for winning the Grand Prize of the PLDT Home Fibr Broadband Quiz 2018 National Level for the Teacher Category held on September 14 at SM Mega-mall, Mandaluyong City. Also in the picture were the Master Trainers: Alvin S. Sosmeña (Division IT Officer I & Division ICT Coordinator) and Rosemarie B. Lequin (Teacher III of NOCNHS, School ICT Coordinator). By Dailyn Cabarse

The Ormoc City Dance Sports Team (L-R: Ma. Cameli Campos, Ivan Kent Taboada, Lind-say Guntiñas Lumanta, and Mark Dave Consancio) paid a courtesy call to Ormoc City Mayor Richard I. Gomez, after winning three gold medals and one silver medal during the recently concluded 4th Pilipinas Open International Dance Championship held at the Marriott Grand Ballroom, Resorts World Manila. By Dailyn Cabarse

TACLOBAN CITY – 95% of the 32,000 commercial fishing vessels in Eastern Visayas is illegal, says the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) regional office 8.

BFAR 8 regional di-rector Juan Albaladejo re-ported that because of their intensified enforcement of RA10654, the total yield has decreased by 49% this year, but this was offset by the 39% increase in aquaculture production.

“We have stepped up in our campaign against illegal, undocumented and unreported fishing (IUU), like ‘hulbot-hulbot’, troll and ring nets na pumapasok lahat sa municipal waters. Pagkahigpit lahat sila na-glie-low and hulbot-hulbot is almost gone,” he said dur-ing the opening of the 55th Fish Conservation Week on Monday (September 17).

The official disclosed

that they have also forged partnerships with other law enforcement agencies to sustain their campaign in support of Fisheries Admin-istrative Order No. 246-1, which amended FAO 246 on the Banning of Operation of Danish Seine and Modified Danish Seine or ‘hulbot-hulbot’ and ‘buli-buli’ in Philippine waters.

Said order states that “mere possession of Danish Seine and Modified Danish Seine and/or its parapher-nalia by a fisher folk or by any person in a fishing ground or inside a fishing vessel shall constitute a pri-ma facie evidence that the fisher folk or the person has committed this violation.”

“When the fishing ves-sels dock, nawawala ‘yung (illegal) fishing gears so hinahanap namin how to solve that problem by ac-tivating our Regional Law Enforcement Coordinating

Committee-Subcommit-tee on Fishing and Marine Environment Protection (RLECC-SFMEP),” ex -plained RD Albaladejo.

RLECC-SFMEP is re-sponsible for identifying priority or hot spot areas for joint law enforcement activities, as well as delin-eating policies and thrusts in the effective implemen-tation of law enforcement functions. It is composed of representatives from vari-ous regional offices such as the Department of Interior Local Government (DILG), Philippine National Police (PNP), Maritime Indus-try Authority (MARINA), Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), Department of En-vironment and Natural Re-sources (DENR), Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Depart-ment of Agriculture (DA).

Albaladejo added that they would also be im-

posing a closed season for small pelagics such as the nemipterus, short mackerel, big-eye scad, sardines and some demersal fish species in Samar Sea between the months of April to July next year. The closure aims to al-low fishes to spawn as soon as they forge an agreement with the Samar Sea Alliance.

The Samar Sea is tagged as the bedrock of biodi-versity situated between the Bicol region and East-ern Visayas. It covers the coastal waters of Almagro, Tagapul-an, Sto. Niño, Gandara, Sta. Margarita, Tarangnan, Daram, Pag-sangjan and Zumarraga in Samar province.

Meanwhile, RD Al-baladejo said that BFAR will introduce massive shellfish production as alternative sources of income fisher-men who will be affected by the closure. By Marie Tonette Grace Marticio

ORMOC CITY – On Sep-tember 18, the City Govern-ment of Ormoc conducted a Barangay Consultative As-sembly in Brgy. San Pablo, this city, as part of its “City Hall on Wheels: Bringing the Government Closer to the People” program.

Different LGU offices came to the venue to cater to the needs and queries of the people of San Pablo. These agencies were the Philip-pine National Red Cross (PNRC); City Health Office (CHO); City Engineering Office (CEO); Integrated Population Gender & De-velopment Office (IPG-DO); City Veterinary Office (CVO); Ormoc Waterworks Office (ORWASA); Office of the Building Official (OBO); City General Services Of-fice (CGSO); Local Civil Registrar (LCR); City Social Welfare & Development Office (CSWDO); City Trea-surer’s Office (CTO); Public Employment Service Office (PESO); Office of the Senior Citizens Affairs (OSCA); Public Attorney’s Office (PAO), and the Philippine National Police (PNP).

Estrella B. Cortez, Pu-

nong Barangay of San Pab-lo, thanked the city govern-ment for finally coming to their barangay.

Meanwhile, Ormoc City Councilor Nolito M. Quilang, Councilor-in-Charge of the barangay, also thanked the residents of San Pablo for their full sup-port to the event. He also encouraged the residents to grab “this opportunity” and really make use of the time that the City Govern-ment is in their barangay to cater their needs, saying: “Karong adlawa, para ra gyud ninyo ang City Hall. Make the most out of this day because this is for the San Pablo residents.”

On the other hand, Or-moc City Vice-Mayor Leo Carmelo Locsin Jr. asked the residents to continue doing what’s best for Ormoc City, especially instilling disci-pline in one another as this is a great help in maintain-ing the peacefulness of the city. He also mentioned the “discipline” in maintaining the cleanliness of the baran-

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PALO, LEYTE – Families of six junior police officers killed during the misen-counter with the army on June 25 received P60,000 assistance from the Phil-ippine Army 8th Infantry Division (ID).

8th ID Chief Major Gen-eral Raul Farnacio disclosed during the joint PNP-AFP dialogue on Wednesday (September 19) that the nine seriously and slight-ly wounded policemen also received P33,000 and P10,000, respectively.

“We deemed it neces-sary na pulungin ‘yung families kasama ‘yung ibang mga ahensiya para maicommit natin ‘yung mga dapat ideliver para sa kanila,” he said.

The assistance from the army is part of the compre-hensive assistance program from various agencies and foundations, which include financial assistance, liveli-hood, scholarships and housing for the families of the slain policemen.

“Pangalawang tranche

na ito voluntarily from the AFP, nagbigay na kami noong una at nagpass the hat din kami para maipakita na continuing itong healing process natin,” Farnacio added.

With regards to the re-sult of the investigation of the Board of Inquiry, Farnacio maintained that there has been miscoordina-tion on both the AFP and PNP troops, which they

QUINAPONDAN, EAST-ERN SAMAR – Four for-mer rebels who recently returned to the folds of society through the 2nd Eastern Samar Provincial Mobile Force Company situated in Brgy. Buenavis-ta here expressed hope to avail of the government’s assistance, and be able to live “normal lives”.

All surrenderers from Basey, Samar under the Jorge Bolito Command op-erating in Sta. Rita, Basey

and Marabut in Samar and parts of Eastern Samar wish to be part of the Enhanced Comprehensive Localized Integration Program (E-CLIP) of the government.

The E-CLIP is a stra-tegic flagship program of the Duterte administration under the Department of Interior and Local Govern-ment (DILG) as an effective means of achieving the gov-

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