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Around 50 participants from different areas in East-ern Visayas are converging for a 4-day regional con-tingency plan formulation workshop at Hotel Alejandro this city which begins Mon-day until Thursday.

The activity is aimed at strengthening the capacity of the local government units towards disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery capabilities to re-duce risks to human life and properties as well as build re-silient communities.

Office of Civil Defense 8 acting regional director Ed-

956 high schools nationwide to receive new classrooms

The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has released P9.41 billion to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the government’s primary construction arm, to build 6,098 classrooms in 956 high schools nation-wide for the Department of Education (DepEd).

Charged under the

Gov. Nicart leads the Pledge of Peace to the members of the Provincial Peace and Order Council

—Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Albert F. del Rosario met with Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dana Hyde to discuss prospects for the 2nd Philippine Millennium Challenge Ac-count (MCA) Compact in 2016.

“On behalf of the Aquino administration, we want to ex-press our profound thanks for the great support of the MCC for the implementation of the 1st Millennium Challenge Ac-count-Philippine Compact … and we are very excited about the prospects for the 2nd Compact,” Secretary del Rosario said.

DFA, MCC discuss more projects in 2016

For her part, Ms. Hyde emphasized that both the MCC and the Philippine Government “have done quite good work together in our first Compact, particularly in ways that the program can be scaled up and taken nationally.”

Ms. Hyde cited the Secondary National Roads Project in Eastern Samar, where the resiliency standards that were built into the project can be replicated in other Compact programs.

On the potential second compact for the Philippines, Ms. Hyde explained that MCC is “very much looking for opportu-

DepEd’s Basic Educational Facilities Fund (BEFF) in the 2015 National Budget, the fund release of P9.41 billion will increase the capacity of public high schools as well as accommodate the rising number of students each year. With this release, only P61.5 million of the BEFF is still left for release pend-ing the submission of docu-

mentary requirements by the DepEd.

“We’ve already closed the classroom gap based on the 2010 backlog target, and now we’re determined to build more classrooms due to the increasing number of enrollees each year. We are also preparing for the prop-er implementation of the K to 12 program by next year,”

Budget Secretary Florencio “Butch” Abad said.

“There have been de-lays in the construction of these classrooms, due to the education agency’s exhaus-tive process in assessing their targets. However, the DepEd had to identify and validate the safety of these sites first as part of the Na-

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Social Welfare Sec. Corazon “Dinky” Soliman(center) insists that the Yolanda donations were fully accounted despite of the findings of the Commission on Audit. Photo shows Soliman with UN Representative Margaret Whlastrom who was inRegion 8 last week.

gar L. Posadas emphasized the importance of a contin-gency plan to address what-ever challenges that may come along the way in case a similar catastrophic incident like Yolanda happens again in the future.

“Planning plays a crucial role. We have to carefully map out the response to ef-fectively and more efficiently address the threats that haz-ards pose in our communi-ties and in the immediate environment,” Posadas said.

“We have to customize plans that we could effective-

Eastern Samar Bulletin2 NEWS Sept. 20-26, 2015

The Department of Ed-ucation (DepEd) continues to strengthen education re-forms to ensure a safer and learner-centered education for Filipino children, with the government’s sustained investment of the govern-ment in basic education.

“Without any second thoughts, a teacher’s first move is to protect chil-dren,” Education Secretary Br. Armin Luistro, FSC, said during the deliberation of the 2016 proposed budget for the DepEd at the House of Rep-resentatives.

The education chief said all schools are zones of peace, adding that education and children should not be casu-alties in any conflict nor be subjected to any form of vi-olence.

DepEd has adopted a comprehensive Child Protec-tion Policy that enshrines the universal rights of a child and condemns any form of threat against children in schools. In 2014, DepEd trained over 1,100 national trainers

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DepEd adopts Child Protection Policy

in child protection policy. Guidelines and procedures on the management of Chil-dren-At-Risk and Children in Conflict with the Law were also released by the depart-ment this year.

Providing more access to hard-to-reach learners through the Abot-Alam Pro-gram, Special Education, and Indigenous Peoples’ Ed-ucation (IPed) is among the agency’s last mile efforts.

As of the first quarter of 2015, among those who en-rolled are 30% of the 2.67 million out-of-school youth (OSY) mapped. To date, there are 1.2 million IP learn-ers and 470,276 Alternative Learning learners.

Luistro said there has been a 110% increase in the education budget from 2009 to 2015 - from P174.5 billion to P367.1 billion.

“We will always endeavor to make sure that every cent is spent for the rightful pur-pose,” he added.

DepEd sustains the foun-

dations of reforms by em-powering not only the learn-ers but also DepEd teachers and personnel and public schools nationwide through various programs that aim to improve learning, curric-ulum delivery and processes.

It has achieved a teach-er-to-student ratio of 1:36 for elementary public schools and 1:27 in secondary schools in 2015. It has also proposed the creation of over 60,000 teacher items for 2016.

Education leadership and management is strengthened through the Superintendents’ Leadership Program (SLP), having trained 218 superin-tendents and other school officials deployed in 174 di-vision offices across all 17 regions.

DepEd is also enhancing its curriculum delivery and organizational processes in response to continuous en-gagement from learners and key stakeholders through the implementation of the Con-tinuous Improvement Pro-gram (CIP). (DepEd)

nities where we can leverage other private sector invest-ments and where we can cre-ate a systemic, larger change like the first Philippine Com-pact.”

Under the first Philip-pine Compact’s Revenue Ad-ministration Reform Proj-ect, Philippine Ambassador to the United States, Jose L. Cuisia Jr., conveyed that MCC’s “insistence in terms of improvement in revenue generation–which has been growing double-digit every year for the Philippines–is very much appreciated.”

Finance Undersecretary

Rosalia de Leon, the current Alternate Executive Direc-tor to the World Bank for the Philippine Constituency, opined that “precisely be-cause of the improvement in the revenue collection that we would like to pursue now dovetailing the next (Philip-pine) story on how we could use the resources produc-tively for infrastructure and social spending, and together leveraging it with private sec-tor capital.”

As part of the Compact Development process, MCC officials confirmed during the meeting that a joint Con-straints Analysis (CA) study has been concluded, the re-sults of which are being eval-

uated by a Root Cause Anal-ysis Workshop.

After a rigorous Compact Development process, the consideration for a second Compact will be decided by the MCC Board of Trustees and will go through a U.S. Congressional Notification process. Countries which are eligible for a second Compact must not only pass majority of the 20 MCC indicators, in-cluding the must-pass Con-trol-of-Corruption indicator, but also “show meaningful progress toward achieving first Compact results.”

Secretary del Rosario welcomes the upcoming vis-it of the MCC CEO to the Philippines to check on the

progress of the current MCC Compact projects which will conclude in May 2016. Ms. Hyde’s visit will be on the margins of the Asia-Pacif-ic Economic Cooperation CEO Summit scheduled in mid-November of this year.

In September 2010, the Philippines received a USD 434 million, five-year grant that covers three high-impact projects: Secondary National Roads Development Project, the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Ka-hirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services, and the Revenue Administration Reform Proj-ect. (DFA)

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ly activate as needed to re-duce the impact of devastat-ing events as well as allocate meager resources in times of disasters,” he further said.

At the beginning of the workshop, OCD-8 acting assistant regional director Rey M. Gozon discussed in detail the Philippine Disas-ter Risk Reduction (PDRR) Profile including the major disasters that hit the country and the paradigm shift in the PDRRM’s.

With the geographical location of the region, it is but timely to draw out plans

that would be responsive to the needs of the people that will ultimately save lives and properties.

After the workshop, it is expected that the partici-pants could come up with a draft integrated plan based on the prioritized hazards in the region.

The final draft plan will be submitted to the Region-al Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) for approval and this will be endorsed to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) and will serve as a regional plan to be crafted down to the LGUs.(ajc/cba/PIA-8)

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3NEWS Eastern Samar BulletinSept. 20-26, 2015

Sen. Chiz Escude-ro said the Bureau of Customs (BOC) should file smuggling charg-es against former Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Virginia Tor-res for trying to negotiate the release of P100 mil-lion worth of smuggled Thai sugar.

Escudero said the BOC should send a strong message that the administration is serious in its bid to curb smug-gling that even perceived administration allies will not be spared.

“Cases must be filed against her if indeed there’s evidence to prove that she intervened or is trying to intervene in an illegal shipment,” Escu-dero said.

The veteran law-maker said the BOC should take the cue from Malacañang’s pro-nouncement that influ-ence peddling will not tolerated by the adminis-tration.

Presidential Com-munications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. on Sunday said that if there was proof that Torres committed such prohib-ited act, then it may be acted upon in accordance

Chiz to BOC: File smuggling raps vs Torres

with the law.

“If the BOC is fas-cinated in looking into the measly ‘padala’ of our over-seas Filipi-no workers ( O F W s ) , then the more it should be

interested in pursuing the people behind the impor-tation of 64 shipping con-tainers of smuggled sugar worth more than P100 million,” said Escudero, who has been seeking a law against influence-ped-dling since 2007.

Senate Bill No. 118, which Escudero refiled in 2013, states that “it shall be unlawful for any per-son to engage in influ-ence peddling or the act of representing oneself, either orally or in writing, as being able, whether real or imagined, to influence, facilitate or assist another person having some busi-ness, transaction, applica-tion, request or contract with the government in which a public official or employee has to intervene.”

Torres reportedly last month tried to plead for

the release of the illegally imported goods, which were also not covered by import permits by the Sugar Regulatory Ad-ministration (SRA).

The said shipping containers were the sub-ject of 24 alert orders of the Intelligence Group of the BOC.

According to Escu-dero, the government should train its sights on sugar smuggling rather than targeting the “balik-bayan” boxes being sent by OFWs.

“The BOC should run after big-time smugglers instead of molesting our OFWs. The agency is being hard on our OFWs who play a major part in building the economy, but is being easy on those who are ruining it,” the senator said.

TACLOBAN CITY-A remarkable 100-frame Haiyan inspired art collection from Tacloban, the city hardest hit by the supertyphoon Yolanda/Haiyan, will be on display at the Temple Church in London on 8 November.

Solely created by 64-year old artist-survivor Eduardo Echavez Rompal, the unique visual anthology is coming off a successful staging of “Sketches - One Hundred faces of Yolanda” held in Tacloban last June.

Titled “Answered Prayers” in London, the art exhibi-tion falls on Remembrance Sunday where British and al-lied soldiers from the two World Wars are honored across the United Kingdom.

Chairman of Temple Church Ian Mayes, Q.C. who extended the invitation for the London exhibition, aptly explains “Haiyan is not the first time British and Filipi-nos worked alongside each other to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds. We have a shared history in Korea where both our people fought together to save another. It

“Yolanda” paintings to be displayed in London

is but fitting to hold this exhibit while re-introducing a for-gotten part of our common history 65 years ago”, he said.

Civic-initiative group One Tacloban, prime mover of Haiyan campaigns in Tacloban is grateful for the Temple Church invitation to present a local art collection.

Represented by its main convener Jeff Manibay, the group sees the London exhibition as a rare opportunity to express gratitude from their communities to the people of Great Britain - one of the biggest donors to the Haiyan hu-manitarian mission.

On a broader scale, Manibay likewise believes that the event will provide a chance for Tacloban to stand witness and underscore how international cooperation turned des-perate times into a humbling display of humanity’s finest hour. “We cannot thank everyone enough for restoring dignity to tens of thousands of Haiyan affected families across three regions. I cannot even begin to tell you how it feels to be at the receiving end of humanitarian aid in very

trying times. Heaven sent is the best way to describe them”, said Manibay.

“Answered Prayers” runs from 31 October to 15 No-vember at the 12th century Triforium of Temple Church in London. Special prayers for Haiyan victims and survivors will be offered during the 10:30am Remembrance Sunday services on 8 November. Formal opening and reception for the Tacloban exhibit follows thereafter.

To highlight the special occasion, the Temple Church choir sings classic Waray-Waray song “An Iroy Nga Tuna” (The Motherland) composed by legendary songwriter the late Illuminado Lucente. Acapella arrangement is provided by US-based musician Melvin Corpin. Both Lucente and Corpin are natives of Tacloban City.

“Answered Prayers” is supported by Mr. Wilson Chan, Gothong Southern, Tacloban Filipino Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Telmarc Corporation. For more informa-tion please visit www.templechurch.com. (PR)

QUEZON CITY-The Department of Social Welfare and Develop-ment (DSWD) said the P 1.1 billion donations it received for the rehabil-itation of supertyphoon “Yolanda”-stricken regions was used as intended.

Secretary Corazon Ju-liano-Soliman said out of the P73 billion foreign aid pledged, P45 billion were in cash and P28 billion were non-cash.

However, the Philip-pines only received P17 billion, of which P1.202 billion were in cash and 1.269 billion in non-cash were given to the govern-ment.

“The remaining P14 billion went to non-gov-ernment organizations and multilateral organizations, among others. The DSWD received P1.1 billion both in local and foreign cur-rency,” Sec. Soliman said.

As of the latest, DSWD has already disbursed 84% of the donations it has re-ceived. The amount went to transitional shelter pro-gram, cash- for- work, ready-to-eat food items

DSWD: ‘Yolanda’ donations are used

as intendedand medicines, demurrage fees, civil registry docu-ments, supplies for chil-dren, and administrative expenses, among others.

The remaining 16% is already allocated based on a work and financial plan to include a supplementary feeding and tourism pro-ject.

“To promote transpar-ency and accountability, the summary of cash dona-tions for typhoon Yolanda is available in our website,” Sec. Soliman stated.

As of September 9, a to-tal of 803,281 families from Palawan, Panay, Northern Cebu, Samar and Leyte mu-nicipalities have received their assistance out of the 966,341 target families. This is approximately 83% com-pleted.

Of this, 339,692 families out of the 449,127 families with totally damaged hous-es have received P30,000 shelter assistance amount-ing to P10.19 billion.

On the other hand, 463,589 families out of the 517,214 families with partially damaged houses have been provided their

P10,000 shelter assistance totalling to P4.63 billion.

Sec. Soliman said if there are cases that went awry, these are isolated and only constitute a small portion as indicated by the number of beneficiaries who have received their assistance without any problem.

For example, out of the more or less 400,000 fam-ilies who received the as-sistance in Panay region, DSWD only received 103 complaints with 42 already resolved.

The Secretary said the Department continues to uphold the principles of transparency and account-ability. She urges the public to immediately report any irregularity that they know of to the nearest DSWD-Field Office.

“Efforts will be under-taken to improve service delivery to disaster victims, especially that the Aquino Administration has vowed to pour in more budget to implement rehabilitation programs, as indicated in the 2016 National Budget,” Sec. Soliman said. (PR)

OPINIONEDITORIAL

Eastern Samar Bulletin

COMMENTARY:By Fr Roy Cimagala

Email: roycimagala@gmail.com

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Dalmacio C. GrafilPublisher

Romeo CebrerosOIC

Brgy. Songco, Borongan City Eastern Samar

(055) 261-3319

Aljim Denver M. ArcuenoEditor-in-Chief

“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”

—Virginia Woolf

Sept. 20-26, 2015

THE parable of the prodigal son has a side story worth meditating on. I believe it contains rich and very relevant lessons for all of us to learn, especially during these that tend to lead us to rash judgments and self-righteousness.

It’s the story of the other son, the brother of the prod-igal son, who remained with his father and who appeared to be faithful to him, until the wayward brother came back and somehow caused trouble to him.

Like this other son, we can appear good and faithful, but sad to say, in appearance or in name only. The real goodness and fidelity are actually absent. When a return-ing sinner or person in error appears at home and is wel-comed by God, our Father, that sad reality appears too.

More concretely, this can happen when all our interest and eagerness for what is true and good would make us hateful of those who are in error or in some bad state. It’s a sense of righteousness that fails to include mercy and the cost that such mercy requires.

This is not so with God as epitomized by Christ him-self. He is all true and good. He is the very canon of holi-ness. And yet what does he do with those who go against him? There is justice and punishment, of course. But in the end, there is mercy.

He sent his very own Son to us. Becoming man, the Son ultimately offered his life on the cross as a ransom for all of us. Mercy is the prevailing divine sentiment, going beyond the demands of justice.

In the parable of the prodigal son, we have the con-soling thought that the errant character regretted what he did, and decided to go back to his father, asking for for-giveness.

But in some other parts of the gospel, we also learn that Christ forgave those who did not even ask for forgiveness. For example, he asked for forgiveness for those who cru-cified him. “Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they are doing.” (Lk 23,34).

St. Paul expressed this sentiment of Christ by saying, “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Cor 5,21)

In his Letter to the Romans, he said: “God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.” (5,7)

It’s very important that we understand these words very well, so that even as we ought to know and follow what is right and avoid what is wrong, and even as we, of course, also have to comply with the demands of justice, we still should have to go beyond these levels, and reach the point of mercy and reconciliation.

This is what true righteousness is. We should avoid get-ting stuck at the level of justice alone, which in our human ways can never reach the justice of God that includes his mercy.

This was the problem with the other son, the brother of the prodigal son. He got stuck with his human concept of justice. And so the father, who in this parable is the image of God, had to tell him:

“Son, you have always been with me, and all that is mine is yours. But we had to celebrate and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has begun to live, and was lost and has been found.” (Lk 15,31-32)

This is not going to be easy, of course. Christ himself said that if any person wants to follow him, “he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.” (Lk 9,23)

Our human justice is usually stuck with the merely pu-nitive. That it redresses the wrong done is more incidental than anything. That it is restorative and medicinal to both

The other son

the victim and the guilty party can only be at best acciden-tal.

We need to have the justice of God, which can only happen when we would completely identify ourselves with Christ and do the revolutionary thing of denying ourselves and carrying the cross. Short of this, we can only be like the other son of the parable of the prodigal son.

We have to be careful that in our pursuit for what is true, good, fair in our dealings with others, we don’t fall into our own self-righteousness, missing the righteousness that is of God. The former avoids the cross. The latter re-quires it.

We have to understand then that the cross is necessary in our life, both in good times and in bad.

E lection overspending is a tragic phenomenon in the conduct of elections in our Philippine dem-

Elections Overspending

ocratic system of governance. Tragic in a sense that majority of our elected officials now holding elective position spent so much just to be where they are now.

It cannot be denied that it is normal for winning candidates once they officially assume office to have their first agenda how to recover fantabulous election ex-penses. Their salaries and other legal perks in office cannot recov-er the expenses they incurred. So, graft and corruption is committed that results in overspending, and waste of financialresources in pro-

ject implementation which could have been used for our benefit.

Elections over spending had been a scourge in our electoral process since time immemorial. Something has to be done by civic organizations, and patriotic Filipi-nosto band up together in a seri-ous campaign for our voters not to accept election bribes.

The Commission on Elections should design ways and means to stop prostituting the ballot.

There are so many among us who are better prepared and more sincere to serve the nation via elections but cannot for lack of substantial funds to “win”.

5NOTICES Eastern Samar BulletinSept. 20-26, 2015

Republic of the PhilippinesREGIONAL TRIAL

COURTEight (8th) Judicial Region

Branch 5Oras, Eastern Samar

IN THE MATTER OF THE CORRECTION OF EN-TRIES IN THE CERTIF-ICATE OF MARRIAGE UNDER LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY NO. 2000-23Spec. Proc. Case No. 677

For: Correction of Entries in the Civil Registry

MARY ANN M. ESPO-NILLA,

Petitioner,-versus-

THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OF ARTECHE, EASTERN SAMAR, THE ADMINISTRATOR AND CIVIL RIGISTRAR GEN-

ERAL OF THEN NATION-AL STATISTICS OFFICE AND ALL INTERESTED

PERSONS,Respondents.

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

A verified petition for the Correction of Entry in the Certificate of Marriage un-der Local Civil Registry No. 2000-23 of MARY ANN M. ESPONILLA, was filed on July 23, 2015 praying that after due notice, publication and hear-ing, this Honorable Court ad-judged that petitioner’s date of birth be changed from “MAY 13, 1973” in the certificate of Marriage at the National Sta-tistics Office, Manila and like-wise at the Local Civil Regis-trar, Arteche, Eastern Samar.

Finding the petition to

Republic of the Philip-pines

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

8th Judicial RegionBranch 42

Balangiga, Eastern Samar

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR THE ADOPTION OF MINOR SAMANTHA JEAN ABUCEJO CUE-

VAS,LEONARD WANIWAN

VALDEMOROAnd JEANELE ABUCE-

JO VALDEMORO,Petitioners

SPEC. PROC. NO. 0139For:

ADOPTIONx- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

- - -xORDER

Before this Court is a Petition for Adoption filed by Spouses Leonard Wani-wan Valdemoro and Jeanele Abucejo Valdemoro, praying of this Honorable Court that after due notice, publication and hearing, a judgment be rendered ordering the De-partment Social Welfare and Development, Borongan Provincial Office, Borongan City, Eastern Samar, thru the DSWD, Quinapondan, East-ern Samar, to forthwith sub-mit to this Honorable Court a Child and Home Study Re-port on both the petitioners and the child to be adopted; granting the herein petition for adoption and declaring that SAMANTHA JEAN ABUCEJO CUEVAS be con-sidered, for all intents and purposes, as the adopted child of herein petitioners to be en-titled to all the privileges and benefits arising out and as a consequence of the approval of this petition for adoption; ordering the Local Civil Regis-trar of Quinapondan, Eastern Samar, and the National Sta-tistics Office (NSO) that the middle name and surname of the adopted child be changed from “ABUCEJO CUEVAS” to “ABUCEJO VALDEMORO” in the attached Certificate of Live Birth of Samantha Jean Abucejo Cuevas; to issue a certificate of birth which shall not bear any notation that it is a new and amended certificate

and which shall show, among others, the registry number, date of registration, name of child, sex, date of birth, place of birth, name of citizenship of the adoptive mother and father and the date and place of marriage; and further-more, ordering the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Quinapondan, Eastern Samar, to annotate on the adoptee’s original Certificate of Live Birth the decree of adoption within thirty (30) days from receipt of the Certificate of Finality.

It appearing that the pe-tition is sufficient in form and substance, let the hear-ing of the petition be set on 10 November 2015 at 8:30 in the morning, in the Session Hall of this Court, Balangiga, Eastern Samar. Let a copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of general circu-lation in Region VIII and the Province of Eastern Samar at the expense of the petition-er, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks prior to the date of hearing to afford any person or persons who may have opposition thereto to file the same, stating among others the ground or grounds why said Petition should not be granted, and, attend on said hearing at the date, time and place as above-stated.

The Social Welfare and Development Officer of Quinapondan, Eastern Samar is hereby ordered to conduct a Child and Home Study Re-port on the would-be adoptee and submit the same before the hearing on 10 November 2015.

Let a copy of this Order be furnished to the Office of the Solicitor General, the So-cial Welfare and Development Offier of Quinapondan, East-ern Samar, the petitioners and their counsel for their proper information and guidance.

SO ORDERED in chambers.

8 September 2015, Balangiga, Eastern Sa-mar.

(Sgd.) ROLANDO M. LACDO-O

Acting Presiding JudgeESB: Sept. 20-26, 27- Oct. 03, 04-10

be sufficient in form and sub-stance the court hereby orders that the petition be set for hearing on October 6, 2015 at 1:30 o’clock in the afternoon at which date, time and place all persons interested may appear and show cause why the peti-tion should not be granted.

A copy of this order shall be published at the expense of the petitioner once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circu-lation in the province of East-ern Samar with the last pub-lication at least one (1) week prior to the date set for initial hearing.

Furnish copy of this Or-der: The Office of the Solic-itor General, 134 Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village, Makati City; Office of the Provincial Prosecutor, Oras, Eastern Sa-mar; The Local Civil Registrar, Arteche, Eastern Samar; The Civil Registrar General, Na-tional Statistics Office, EDSA, Quezon City, Metro Manila; And Petitioner’s counsel, Atty. Robert John M. Tejero, of Public Attorney’s Office, Oras District Office, Oras, Eastern Samar.

The petitioner is directed to furnish copy the aforesaid offices each with a copy of the petition.

SO ORDERED.Done in Chambers this

30th day of July 2015, Oras, Eastern Samar.

JULIANA ADALIM WHITE

Presiding Judge

ESB: Sept. 13-19, 20-26, 27- Oct. 03, 2015

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

EIGHT (8th) JUDICIAL REGION

CITY OF BORONGAN, EASTERN SAMAR

BRANCH 2CYNTHIA CAPACITE

JABAGAT,Petitioner,

-versus-THE CITY CIVIL

REGISTRAR, BORON-GAN CITY, EASTERN

SAMARRespondent

SP.PROC. NO. 175-15x----------------------x

ORDERThis is a verified petition

for cancellation of the reg-istered birth certificate and correction of entries in the original record of birth filed by petitioner Cynthia Capac-ite Jabagat, through counsel, praying that after due notice, publication and hearing, judg-ment be rendered (1) ordering the cancellation of petitioner’s late registration Live Birth Certificate (Annex “A”) under Registry No. 2007-2192 regis-tered on November 9, 2007 in the Civil Register of Borongan City, Eastern Samar; and (2) ordering the correction of the following erroneous entries in the original Live Birth Certifi-cate of petitioner (under Reg-istry No. 236) to wit: (a) the name CYNTHIA BORDIOS CAPACITY to CYNTHIA BORDIOS CAPACITE, (b) the name IGMEDIO DISTA CAPACITY to IGMEDIO DISTA CAPACITE; (c) the date of birth of petitioner from September 12, 1973 to September 13, 1973.

Finding the petition to be in due form and substance, set this case for hearing on Jan-uary 19, 2016, at 8:30 o’clock in the morning, at the Session Hall of this Court. Any person having or claiming any inter-est under the entries in the re-cord of birth the cancellation or correction of which is being sought may, within fifteen (15) days from notice of the peti-tion or from the last date of publication of this Order, file his opposition thereto.

Let a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circu-lation and duly accredited to publish judicial or legal notic-es in the province of Eastern Samar at the expense of the petitioner.

Send a copy of this Order, together with a copy of the pe-tition to the Office of the So-licitor General, 134 Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village, Makati City, and to the City Civil Reg-istrar, Borongan City, Eastern Samar, the Civil Registrar General, National Statistics Office, Manila and to petition-er and her counsel.

SO ORDERED, In Chambers.

BoronganCity, East-ern Samar,

01 September 2015.Sgd. NATHANIEL E.

BALDONOPresiding Judge

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Republic of the Phil-ippines

Eight (8th) Judicial Region

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

Branch 01Borongan City, East-

ern Samar

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR THE ADOPTION OF

MINOR MATTEO DAWN

SPEC. PROC. NO. 176-15

SPS. ZALDY M. OBAR & MYLENE JADE S.

OBAR AND CONCEP-CION B. TABINAS

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

ORDERThis is a verified petition

for Adoption of minor Mat-teo Dawn filed by the spous-es Zaldy M. Obar and Myl-ene Jade S. Obar petitioners. Through counsel Atty. Eduar-do Q. Ang Jr. praying that after due notice, publication and hearing judgment be rendered declaring Matteo Dawn, the child of petitioners for all legal intents and purposes and as a consequence of his adoption the child’s name be changed to MatteoSacmar-Obar.

The petition alleges that petitioners are husband and wife, of legal age, and resi-dents of Rawis Road, Brgy. Alang-alang Borongan City, E. Samar, that both are qual-ified to adopt; That they were married on October 27, 2003 and to date spouses do not have any children; That peti-tioners are more than sixteen (16) years older than the mi-nor child; That the petition-ers desire to adopt minor child, Matteo Dawn; That the baby was abandoned and was brought to the hospital in ear-ly morning of July 19, 2012 where he stayed at the Neona-tal Intensive Care Unit for two (2) months; That no one came to claim the baby named Mat-teo meaning “God Sent” and surnamed Dawn since he was admitted in the early morning; That the petitioner Mylene Jade S. Obar is a nurse who took pity on the bay and de-cided to bring the baby home; That the DSWD gave petition-ers Foster Parent Authority and Foster Parent License to take temporary care and cus-tody of the child; That Matteo Dawn has been living with petitioners since his release from the Neo Intensive Care Unit of the Eastern Samar Provincial Hospital; That the bay grew up with his adoptive parents; That he is emotionally attached to Petitioner Mylene; That the child is now 2 years

and 11months old and is pres-ently enrolled at the Boron-gan City Learning School as a nursery pupil; That petitioners are physically, psychologically, morally and financially pre-pared to care for and love the child as they have been doing so all these years that Matteo Dawn has stayed with them. That they are in possession of full civil capacity and has not been found to be guilty of any charge involving moral turpitude. That petitioners are financially stable as both are employed. That Mylene Jade works as a nurse at the ESPH with a basic monthly salary of Php 19,000.00. That Zaldy is Marine Engineer earning a monthly salary 348,000.00; That the couples are in the best position to afford the child a decent and comfortable life; That adoption of the child Matteo Dawn would serve the best interest and welfare of the child.

Finding the petition to be sufficient in form and sub-stance let the hearing of the petition be set on December 8, 2015, at 8:30 o’clock in the morning at the Session Hall of the Regional Trial Court, Brand 01, Borongan City, Eastern Samar where all in-terested parties may appear in court and show cause why the said petition should not be granted.

Let this order be pub-lished at the expense of the petitioner in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Eastern Samar and accredited by this court to publish legal notices, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks before the scheduled hearing. The Provincial Office of the DSWD is hereby direct-ed to submit to the court a Home Study Report and Case Study Report of the child and the petitioners duly approved by the Regional Director of the said Office prior to the scheduled hearing in coordi-nation with Mrs. Ma. Lourdes S. Cales, Social Welfare Officer of this Court.

Furnish copy of this order to the Solicitor General, 134 Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village, Makati City, the Local Civil Registrar of the City of Bo-rongan, E. Samar, petitioner’s counsel, the petitioner, the Civil Registrar general, Na-tional Statistics Office (NSO), Manila and the Provincial Prosecutor of the Province of Eastern Samar,

SO ORDERED.In Chambers, Au-

gust 17, 2015, Borongan, Eastern Samar.

Sgd. ELVIE P. LIMPresiding Judge

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Republic of the Phil-ippines

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

Eighth (8th) Judicial Region

BRANCH 2Borongan, Eastern

SamarIN THE MATTER OF PETITION FOR COR-RECTION OF ENTRY,Spec Proc. No. 170-14ALMA ADAO-CEBRE-

ROS,Petitioner

-versus-THE CEBU CTY CIVIL REGISTRAR and the

NSOx---------------------x

ORDERThis is verified amended

petition for correction of en-tries filed by petitioner Alma Adao-Cebreros through coun-sel, praying that after due no-tice, publication and hearing, judgment be rendered correct-ing: (1) the entry of her name in her Certificate of Live Birth of ALMA CALO or change her surname therein so that her name should read as ALMA CALO ADAO, following the surname of her father Agus-tin Adao (deceased) instead of ALMA CALO, (2) her date of birth be likewise changed from March 16 193 to March 16, 1953, (3) the name of her mother reflected therein as “JOSEFA CLARO” be changed to “JOSEFINA CALO”, and (4) the name of her father AGUS-TIN ADAO be recorded in the

space provided for the name of the father, and his citizenship as Filipino.

Finding the petition to be sufficient in form and sub-stance set this case for hearing on November 23, 2015, at 8:30 0’clock in the morning at the Session Hall of this Court. Any person having or claim-ing any interest under the en-tries in the record of birth the correction of which is being sought may, within fifteen (15) days from notice of the peti-tion or from the last date of the publication of this Order, file his/her opposition thereto.

Let a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circu-lation and duly accredited to publish judicial and legal no-tices in the province of Eastern Samar at the expense of the petitioner.

Send a copy of this Or-der, together with a copy of the petition to the Office of the Solicitor General, (OSG) 134 Amorsolo Street, Legaspi Village, Makati City, and to the Cebu City Civil Registrar, Borongan, the Civil Registrar General, National Statistics Office, Manila, and to the pe-titioner and her counsel

SO ORDERED.Borongan City, East-

ern Samar, July 20, 2015.Sgd. NATHANIEL E.

BALDONOPresiding Judge

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Eastern Samar Bulletin6 NEWS

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Registered voters whose biometrics have not been cap-tured must undergo validation on or before October 31, 2015, otherwise they will not be allowed to vote on May 9, 2016 National and Local Elections.

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TACLOBAN CITY- Even in a disaster, media workers should always at all times observe proper decorum and sensitivity.

Thus said Rowena Paran, secretary gener-al of the National Un-ion of Journalists of the Philippines(NUJP) who discussed on disaster re-porting during a seminar attended by local media workers from the region sponsored by the Philip-pine Press Institute(PPI) held last September 21, this city.

According to Paran, while it is the duty of me-

Reporters told to be sensitive in covering disaster stories

dia workers to inform the public on what happens during a disaster, this does not mean that they will not observe proper decorum.

“Treat every victim that you approach in a tragedy with sensitivi-ty, dignity and respect,” she said during the civic journalism on disaster forum.

She also said that con-sidering the sensitivity of the situation and the pro-spective subjects are still in a state of pain, media workers should be care-ful in posing questions to

them. “Do everything pos-

sible to avoid violating someone’s private griev-ing. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t re-cord photos of emotion on public scenes. How-ever, do not intrude upon someone’s private property or disturb vic-tims during their griev-ing process,” Paran said.

Publishing or show-ing sensitive or disturb-ing photos should at all times be discussed by the reporter and his ed-itor or superior.

Meantime, Paran said

—While the country commemorates the 12th Na-tional Peace Consciousness Month, the National Youth Commission (NYC) resonate its appeal to stop violence affecting the indigenous communities particularly in Mindanao.

“We condemn the atroc-ities in indigenous commu-nities that are allegedly per-petuated by violent groups which sowed fear and anxiety among the tribal communi-ties. Again, the best interest of young people in such sati-ation is being compromised,” said Asec Earl Saavedra, NYC Commissioner Repre-senting Mindanao.

Recent reports show-cased the public clamour to obtain justice for the killings of three Lumad leaders who were at the forefront of en-suring that children in the far flung indigenous commu-nities also receive education

NYC supports move to create space for lasting peace

Justice to the Lumads

that they are entitled to.“The Lumad People are

those belonging to the mul-tiple ethno-linguistic groups in Mindanao that include the T’boli, Tiruray, Bagobo, Dib-abawon, Mandaya, etc. They are among the marginalized in our country,”Saavedra added.

“We should always strive to let the culture of peace and non- violence engulf our communities especially in areas where there are vul-nerable groups like children and young people. We can only create peaceful co-exis-tence if we start to propagate peaceful means to commu-nicate and reach out to our indigenous communities, “added Undersecretary Gre-gorio Ramon Tingson, NYC Chairperson.

The National Youth Com-mission values the role of In-digenous Groups in building peaceful communities. The

agency also believes that the Indigenous People are the foundations of Mindanao.

Under its Mindanao Youth Agenda, NYC em-phasized the need to create safe and secure environ-ment thru cultural preser-vation, appreciation and understanding. It echoed its message of support on the celebration of the 12th National Peace Conscious-ness Month by committing the role of the youth sector as pro-active participants in establishing peace with intentions to help end vi-olence through a unified voice against armed con-flict.

“It is best to allow the creation of space for lasting peace as this will help pave the way to realize the coun-try’s development goals. Let us remember that Peace is tantamount to progress.” Saavedra said. (NYC)

tional Government’s ‘Build Back Better’ strategy,” Abad said.

Of the 15 regions, Region IV-A (CALABARZON) will have the highest allocation, with P2.17 billion to build 1,349 classrooms. This is fol-lowed by the National Capi-tal Region (NCR), with P1.29 billion for 751 classrooms and Region VI with P1.2 bil-lion for 835 classrooms.

Aside from the alloca-tion for the classrooms above amounting to P9.33 billion, the releases also include buf-fer funds of P82.6 million to ensure there would be appro-priate budgetary support for additional foundation works

if needed. The education agen-

cy received P377.7 billion this year, the highest budget among all departments and agencies. It will continue to have the largest allocation in the 2016 proposed bud-get with P435.9 billion, an increase of 15.4 percent or P58.2 billion from last year to cover its various programs and projects.

“With 99.87 percent of the BEFF already released, the National Government can now focus on achieving our construction targets for the year. More important, the building of these school facil-ities will help us improve the quality of education to better prepare our graduates for work or higher education,” the budget chief said.

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- A peace agreement will be signed by security and elective officials of Samar as a way to combat the series of killing incidents that have rocked the province for the past months now.

The signing of the peace agreement is scheduled on October 1 in Calbayog City where most of these inci-dents took place.

During a peace dialogue held in this city last Sept.12, those present of the said oc-casion have agreed to come up with an agreement in hopes of solving the killing incidents.

Present during the said peace dialogue with Gov-ernor Sharee Ann Tan were Calbayog City Mayor Ron-aldo Aquino and the mayors of Gandara, Matuguinao, San Jorge, Santa Margarita and Almagro.

The scheduled peace agreement was agreed in the wake of a shooting incident on September 15 in Calbay-

Samar officials to sign peace agreement

that reporters should al-ways be ready and pre-pared when covering a disaster story.

They should also in-form their editors or even their colleagues on where they are heading and how they could best contact their sources of information. (JOEY A. GABIETA)

og killing five people, two of them were children.

The seven perpetrators were said to be members of a private armed group.

Since the start of the year until this month, 34 shooting incidents have been reported with 22 deaths, most of them barangay officials.

Gov. Tan and Mayor Aquino, who belong to dif-ferent political camps, said that they want to see an end of violence rocking their province.

“I’m very positive that with the signing of a peace agreement, we could achieve peace, particularly in Calbay-og where most of the inci-dents happened,” Tan said.

Aquino said that he want to see the end of killing inci-

dents in his city.“Nothing will happen to

us if these killing incidents will not stop. We want to have a peaceful and better Sa-mar,” Aquino, who chairs the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC), said.

Samar, particularly in Calbayog, has always been identified as “concerned area” during election time due to the presence of armed men reportedly maintained by some local politicians.

Both Aquino and Tan have denied that they have armed groups.

Police Regional Director Chief Supt. Asher Dolina and Major Gen. Jet Velarm-ino, commanding general of the 8th Infantry Division, have also vowed to break the

private armed groups in the province.

Both security officials said that for them to achieve their goal in ensuring peace will prevail in Samar, officials of the province, to include in the barangays, should extend their cooperation and sup-port on their campaign.

“We need your help to stop these killings. You are from Samar, you must show your concern to your prov-ince like how we in the law enforcement agency show our eagerness to solve the problem in this place,” Ve-larmino said.

“We don’t like to see peo-ple die just because of misun-derstanding and indifferenc-es in our political view,” he added.