leyte-samar daily express...a v a i l a joint venture agreement was entered by samar governor sharee...

VOL. XXXI NO. 018 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2019 P15.00 IN TACLOBAN

DAILY EXPRESSPOSITIVE l FAIR l FREE

Leyte-Samar

TACLOBAN CITY- Northern Samar Governor Jose Ong was directed by Malacañang to an-swer a complaint filed against him for his alleged frequent absences.

TACLOBAN CITY- The provincial government of Samar and the Gaisano-owned Metro Retail Stores Group Inc. (MRSGI) has entered a joint venture agreement wherein a 22-hectare property locat-ed in Catbalogan City will be converted into a mixed-use complex.

And this early, Gover-nor Sharee Ann Tan ex-pressed her optimism that the joint venture agree-ment that she entered in behalf of the provincial government will reap

Gov. Ong asked by Malacañang to explain absenteeism complaintJOEY A. GABIETA/RACHEL V. ARNAIZ

The letter, issued on January 14, was signed by lawyer Ryan Alvin Acosta, deputy executive secretary for legal affairs of the Of-fice of the President.

The order stemmed from a complaint filed by lawyer Reyzandro Unay, a resident of San Roque town in Northern Samar, on December 12,2018 before the Office of the President who alleges that Ong’s “calloused habitual absenteeism” is tanta-mount to dishonesty, mis-conduct in office and der-eliction of duty.

Thus, he is seeking the Office of the President to suspend Ong, who is serv-ing on his second term but is running as congressman in the second district of the province in this year’s midterm elections.

“So egregiously shame-less and irresponsible of a public official is respond-ent’s Ong’s absenteeism

Malacañang has directed Northern Samar Governor Jose Ong to answer a complaint against him which center on his alleged absenteeism. Ong said that the allegation is base-less.

that even during times of calamities, of which North-ern Samar is prone to, he cannot attend to the imme-diate needs of his constitu-ents,” part of Unay’s com-

plaint said.He added that in most

cases, it is Vice Gov. Gary Lavin who issues memoran-da and orders to the Provin-cial Disaster Risk Reduction

Management Office calling for the suspension of classes or works, citing as an exam-ple, a such order when the province was hit by tropical depression ‘Samuel’ on No-vember 20,2018.

“With his habitual ab-sence in the province of Northern Samar, by no stretch of imagination can respondent Ong be expect-ed to perform (his) duties and responsibilities when it is clearly physically im-possible for him to do so,” Unay said on his 14-page complaint, a copy was fur-nished to Leyte Samar Daily Express.

Unay claims that Ong, when he is not in the prov-ince, stays in Manila to at-tend his businesses and oth-er personal concerns.

And despite of his al-leged frequent absences, the governor continues to claim his salaries, travel al-lowances and other emolu-

Gov. Petilla appeals to parents to have their children immunized amid increasing measles cases in Leyte

Leyte Governor Leopoldo Dominico Petilla issues an appeal to parents to have their children receive anti-mea-sles vaccine as the province experi-ences an unprecedented increase of measles.

TACLOBAN CITY – Leyte Governor Leopoldo Dominico Petilla has called on parents to have their children immunized with the anti-measles vaccine.

ing number of persons con-tacting the measles virus in Leyte.

Records from the re-gional office of the Depart-ment of Health (DOH) disclosed that Leyte has the highest number of measles cases.

As of this week, about 312 persons, mostly chil-dren, were afflicted with measles across the province.

And of the con-firmed 16 deaths due to measles in the region, Leyte has 13, to include the four from Tacloban City.

“Those who

(it),” Petilla said.The governor said that

based on the reports re-layed to him, the measles outbreak is not only affect-ing babies or children but even adults which makes it more worrisome.

Thus, Petilla is calling even the adults to have themselves vaccinated, especially those who did not receive the vaccine, or have them inoculated as a booster.

Gov. Petilla said that parents should not be afraid to have their chil-dren vaccinated and should give priority on the well-being of their children.

Earlier, President Rod-rigo Duterte has also made a similar call to parents to have their children treated

Business complex, public terminal to be constructed Gaisano-led company enters joint

venture deal with Samar gov’tbenefits in favor of Samar’s economy and its people.

“Among the advan-tages of this joint venture is the foreseeable increase in employment rate, the economic boom, and the revenues from the op-eration of the convention center, government center with business processing outsourcing(BPO) center, and terminal will all belong to the province,” Tan said.

The governor heralded the joint venture agreement

see Gov. Ong /page 11 ...

see Gov. Petilla /page 11 ...

see Gaisano-led /page 11 ...

T h e call of the gov-e r n o r came in the wake of the increas-

have not yet re-c e i v e d the mea-sles vac-cination s h o u l d a v a i l

A joint venture agreement was entered by Samar Governor Sharee Ann Tan with Gaisano-owned Metro Retail Stores Group, Inc.that will develop a 22-hectare of lot in Catbalogan City into a mixed-use complex.

We accept:Publication for

National Newspaper Malaya Business Insight by People’s Independent Media

Contact:ALMA M. GRAFIL

Leyte Samar Daily ExpressTel. (053) 321-4833 - GLOBE (053) 888-0032 - PLDT

SMART: 09085815231 GLOBE: 09158977439Cel#

twitter.com/lsdenewsfacebook.com/leytesamar.dailynews www.leytesamardailynews.com e-mail: [email protected]

2 Leyte Samar Daily Express Saturday, February 23, 2019NEWS

Leyte Governor Leopoldo Dominico ‘Mic’ Petilla presided the 1st quarterly meeting of the Provincial Peace and Order Council and the Provincial Anti-Drug Abuse Council on Wednesday(Feb.20)held at the Governor’s Hall-Museum at the provincial capitol building. Among those who attended the meeting were Palo Mayor Remedios ‘Matin’ Petilla; Director Edgar Jubay of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency; Lt.Col. Roberto Beatisula, commanding officer of the 93rd Infantry Battalion and S/Supt. Rolando Bade, provincial police director. (GINA P. GEREZ)

CARIGARA, Leyte- The mayor of this town has filed criminal cases against the incumbent vice mayor and a coun-cilor who is running against him in this year’s midterm elections.

Mayor Eduardo Ong filed perjury and falsi-fication of public docu-ments against Vice May-or Mildred Modesto and Councilor Rachel Makabenta before the Office of the Assistant Provincial Prosecutor based this town on Feb-ruary 18.

On his affidavit-complaint, Ong claimed that both Makabenta and Modesto, running-

NAVAL, Biliran- A total of 373 teachers at-tended and participated a three- day division- based regional training for training and coaching official enhancement.

The activity was aimed at capacitating and enhancing the coaching skills of teachers who will serve as coaches in the forthcoming Eastern Visayas Regional Athletic Association (EVRAA) Meet which is set on April 7-12, 2019 in Or-moc City.

Biliran has improved its ranking during the last three years where it holds the crown in archery for the last five years.

In an interview, Ryan Remandaban, the divi-sion sports coordinator, expressed his thanks to the eight mayors of the province for supporting the sports program of Governor Gerardo J. Es-pina, Jr. and Rep. Roger

Biliran prepares for EVRAA 2019

Teachers undergo officiating

and coaching trainingEspina.

Both officials have been supporting the sports pro-gram of the Department of Education (DepEd).

The training covered all games such as archery, baseball, basketball, soft-ball, sepak takraw, taek-wondo, volleyball, boxing, chess, bowling, billiard, arnis, among others.

Resource speakers and trainers from other school divisions shared their ex-pertise on the different techniques and strategies in winning the games.

Last December, a spe-cial four- training for gym-nastics was also conducted for Biliranon gymnasts with trainers from Manila.

It was participated by elementary and secondary pupils and students who aspire to become versatile gymnasts. Biliran wants to restore back gymnas-tics along with other new games.

(REY E. FAJARDO)

Leyte mayor files perjury, falsification of public documents against his

vice mayor and councilor

Mayor Eduardo Ong

mates in this year’s elections, committed forgery using falsified documents when they filed disqualification cases against him and his son who is his run-ning mate.

Ong alleged that the witness of the complain-ants, Maritess Cantojos, denied that she signed an affidavit supporting the disqualification cases filed against Mayor Ong and his son, Eduardo, Jr.

Cantojos claimed that her signature that appeared on the com-plaint was forged.

Ong also said that lawyer Ulpiano Arpon, Jr., who was said to have notarized the disqualifi-cation cases filed against them before the Com-mission on Elections has also made a denial.

Ong, who is seek-ing for his third and last term as mayor, faces

disqualification on the grounds of residency.

Dennis Garay, spokesperson of Mayor Ong, dismissed the dis-qualification petitions saying it’s nothing but political harassment saying that Ong has been serving as mayor of Carigara for the past six years now.

Still, they will answer the petition as they re-main positive that it will eventually be dis-missed by the Comelec for lack of merit.

Mayor Ong claims residency in Barangay Sagkahan of said town. (ROEL T. AMAZONA/LIZBETH ANN A. ABELLA)

MAASIN CITY – The Department of Pub-lic Works and Highways (DPWH) has kicked off the rehabilitation and stabiliza-tion works of the landslide-hit area in Sogod, Southern Leyte to fully restore the major road section within the year.

The DPWH field of-fice here was referring to 200-meter portion of the highway in Pancho Villa village where a major land-slide occurred last March 2018, seriously damaging the road.

The infrastructure agency will utilize its P40 million allocation this year to carry out the restoration projects. Works include road reblocking, construc-tion of a slope protection wall, and disposal of debris materials.

“We instructed the con-tractor to start the work even before the approval of the 2019 infrastruc-ture program because we understand the danger it poses to the residents and travelling public. We have to address this problem

TACLOBAN CITY – The inflation rate of the re-gion at the start of the year was pegged at 4.0 percent, a report from the Philip-pine Statistics Authority – Regional Statistical Service Office VIII (PSA – RSSO 8), said.

Wilma Perante, regional director, PSA – RSSO 8, told Leyte Samar Daily Ex-press in an interview that Eastern Visayas welcomed 2019 with a 4.0 percent in-flation rate.

Perante reported that the 0.4 percentage point is lower compared with the 4.4 percent inflation rate a month ago but equal with the same period last year.

The regional inflation rate was 0.4 percentage

Landslide-hit road in Southern Leyte

undergoes major rehabimmediately,” Junia said.

The field office will apply displacement piling instal-lation method to stabilize the foundation of the land-slide site. Workers will drive piles 30 meters below un-derground to reach the sol-id ground foundation and create sheet pile afterwards.

Displacement piling installation is a method used in providing foun-dation support for build-ings and other structures through driving piles into the ground without removing any soil or other material until it reaches the stable layer of the ground.

“Once we finish stabiliz-ing the ground movement, we will introduce a slope protection technology to prevent another landslide in the future. The damaged road stretch will undergo major repair after preven-tion measures are fully completed,” the official said.

Currently, only one lane is passable in the 200-me-ter portion of the national

PSA reports of 0.4% decline of inflation rate for the month of January

point lower than the 4.4 percent national average in January 2019.

Among other regions, Eastern Visayas ranked fourth from the bottom.

Perante said that four provinces in the region reg-istered lower inflation rates in January 2019 compared with their figures in the pre-vious month.

“Eastern Samar and Northern Samar posted the highest decrease of 2.2 per-centage points each. South-ern Leyte recorded a 0.7 percentage point decrease, while Biliran registered a decrease of 0.3 percentage point from their figures a month ago. On the other hand, increases in inflation rate were noted in Samar

with 0.7 percentage point and Leyte at 0.4 percentage point. Samar recorded the highest inflation rate at 6.3 percent, while Biliran post-ed the lowest at 1.4 percent,” Perante said

Perante said that the heavily weighted food and non-alcoholic beverages

eased down to 5.3 percent in January 2019 from its previous month’s rate of 6.0 percent, a decrease of 0.7 percentage point.

This can be traced to slower price increases of majority of the food items.

see PSA /page 11 ...

see Landslide-hit /page 11 ...

3Leyte Samar Daily ExpressSaturday, February 23, 2019 NEWS

TACLOBAN CITY – As part of its peer edu-cation and youth advo-cacy initiatives, the city government of Tacloban through Mayor Cris-tina G. Romualdez and the City Population Of-fice will spearhead the Adolescent Health and Development forum at the Tacloban Training Center this, February 23, 2019.

More than a hundred peer educators, infor-mation service delivery network members and youth from non-govern-ment organization World Vision will be attending the said gathering which will be held from 8:00 to

CATBALOGAN CITY-Some 262 beneficiaries availed of the recently con-cluded Vocational Skills Training Program from the Technical Education and Skills Development Au-thority (TESDA) in Samar sponsored by the Consuelo Foundation (CF).

The training program was on bread and pastry production, and cookery with a 100 percent comple-tion rate.

The CF provided the tools, equipment, supplies and materials needed for the training.

Karen Marla Rodulfo, program director of Con-suelo Foundation said, “We, at Consuelo, always find ways on how to innovate in terms of implementing our projects. That’s why we have Consuelo on wheels.”

Consuelo Foundation’s mobile training van used by the beneficiaries for the bread and pastry production and cookery programs. (Photo courtesy of TESDA Samar)

Tacloban city gov’t spearheads Adolescent Health and Dev’t forum

12:00 pm on Saturday.

H i g h -lights in-clude the p r e s e n t a -tion of the Ta c l o b a n Young Adult Reproduc-tive Health Sexual Sur-vey Result, the Adoles-cent Health Mayor Cristina G. RomualdezDevelopment Program Initiative of Tacloban City and a talk on values formation among adoles-cents.

Under Mayor Romual-dez, the local government unit of Tacloban has come

up with policies that champion reproductive health issues and con-cerns, such as the passage of the Gender and De-velopment (GAD) Code which prioritizes gender and health, adolescent

Private firm sponsors skills training program for TESDA

CF goes to communities where most of the populace find it hard to go to school or have formal education.

CF consultant Carmelo Camon said, “Our inten-tion is to come up with a formula on how our pro-gram will be sustained in the local community. The convergence with other stakeholders is to ensure that there is sustainabil-ity of the program after the training.”

“Bread and Pastries, and Cookery is a technol-ogy homegrown, this is an engagement that they can bring into a small liveli-hood even on their own,” Camon added.

Meanwhile, Ruthelma Samonte, chief of the Busi-ness Development Division of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Samar,

said DTI and TESDA has a strong partnership.

The involvement of DTI in this endeavor is the as-sessment of graduates and provide them with further trainings for them to be-come small and medium entrepreneurs.

The multi-stakeholder collaborative efforts is in cooperation with the dif-ferent Local Government Units and some govern-ment and non-government agencies concerned.

Consuelo Foundation is a US Private Founda-tion with a mission to pro-mote the well-being of at-risk children, women and families in the Philippines, and likewise prevent some forms of abuses, neglect, and exploitation among these vulnerable groups. (NBQ/GMT/PIA-Samar)

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

This is to inform the public that JACKIELOU MORON-TOLIBAS is no longer connected with Mommy’s Diner and Catering. A complaint for Qualified Theft has been filed against her at the Tacloban City Prosecutor’s Office.

Marrieta O. SayMommy’s Diner Meals & Catering

health and training for health care service pro-viders.

The city government also created the City Im-plementation Team (CIT) for Responsible Parent-hood and Reproductive (RPRH) Law Implemen-tation.

The event will be con-ducted in partnership with World Vision, the Tacloban Peer Educators Association and the Youth for Human and Ecological Security (YHES). (HENRY JAMES ROCA/CITY INFORMATION OF-FICE)

C A T A R M A N , Northern Samar- Works for the concret-ing of a farm-to-mar-ket road in Rosario, this province, is to start as its groundbreaking was held on February 13.

The 2.96 kilometers farm-to-market road project will cover the villages of Salhag and Kailingan with a fund cost of P50 million.

The road project is a component of the Philippine Rural De-velopment Project (PRDP) of the Depart-ment of Agriculture with 80% of the fund-ing coming from the World Bank.

The provincial gov-ernment of Northern Samar, thru Gover-nor Jose Ong and the Sangguniang Panla-lawigan, shouldered the 10 percent equity amounting to P4.98 million for the said project.

The same amount was given by the na-tional government as its counterpart.

The road project is expected to re-duce travel time from and to Rosario town proper, increase traffic

In Northern SamarConstruction of a farm-to-market

road project breaks ground in Rosario town

count in the subproject area, open up potential production areas, and reduce hauling cost and transport losses of crops.

The village councils of Salhag and Rosario, whose main crops in-clude copra, rice and banana, expressed their heartfelt gratitude for the farm-to-market road project.

Present during the groundbreaking cer-emony were Mayor Gerardo Miranda and the entire members of the town council with environmental planner Retchel Depena giving the project brief.

Regional Executive Director of the Depart-ment of Agriculture-8 Milo Delos Reyes, who is also the project di-rector of PRDP, also graced the momentous event.

Mayor Miranda ex-pressed his gratitude for all officials and gov-ernment agencies that provided the support on the project.

“I am very grateful to the hardworking peo-ple of the municipality of Rosario for lobby-ing for this project and preparing the pertinent

documents to make the Salhag-Kailingan farm-to-market road a real-ity. I am also equally thankful to the pro-vincial government of Northern Samar, under the stewardship of Gov. Ong for immediately responding to our re-quest for a counterpart budget when our mu-nicipal local govern-ment unit could not al-locate the same for this (project),” he said.

Also present were Vice Governor Gary Lavin, representing Gov. Ong, and board members Vicvic Sing-son and Neil Hernan-dez, representing Reps. Edwin Ongchuan and Raul Daza, respectively.

“One thing I learned as I was visiting the far-flung areas of the province is that we lack a lot of farm-to-market roads. In fact, this is one of the rea-sons why we consist-ently rank among the poorest provinces in the country. This farm-to-market road project will contribute greatly to the economy of our province and way of life of our fellow Norteha-nons,” Lavin said.

(TITO TEPACE)

Dalmacio C. GrafilPublisher

Joey A. GabietaEditor

Aileen M. GrafilAdvertising Manager

Alma M. GrafilBusiness Manager

The Leyte Samar Daily Express ispublished with editorial and

business offices at G/F Knightsof Columbus Bldg.,

187 P. Zamora St., Tacloban City

CONTACTTel. Nos. (053) 321-4833/(053) 888-0037

Fax (053) 321-5591

WEBSITEwww.leytesamardailynews.com

EMAIL [email protected]

All rights reserved. Except as permitted by law, no part of

Leyte Samar Daily Express may be re-produced or distributed in any form or by any means stored in a database or retrieval system without its prior

written permission from the publisher.

Commentaries from readers whose identities they prefer to remain

anonymous can be accommodated as “blind items”. It will be our editorial

prerogative, however, to verify the veracity of such commentaries before publication.

Letters should be as brief as possible, and sent with the writer’s name, signature

address and phone numbers (if any) to:“Letter to the Editor”,

Leyte Samar Daily Express. They may be edited for length and clarity

Sister PublicationsSamar Weekly ExpressEastern Samar Bulletin

4 Leyte Samar Daily Express OPINION Saturday, February 23, 2019

P ress outlets this week revealed a Malacañang political plan which has resulted in varied reactions from our citizens. We sought reactions from political observers, and the

Sarah Duterte Carpio for President?

result can be summed up in- those who favor -those with reservations – meaning no com-ment as it is still 3 years to go and a good num-ber against.

Any Filipino has the right to run for public office. Sarah Duterte Carpio, the President’s daughter has that right. We can, however, take this lady to task to succeed her father who ex-actly is not the best president this country ever had. In fact that when his term ends, it is pos-sible that there will be lots of complaints to be filed against him along the issue of human

rights violations during his incumbency.Victims of extrajudicial killings may al-

ready have the chance to seek justice on inno-cent lives killed in Duterte’s “war on drugs” during his term as President.

The election of Sarah Duterte Carpio as President, certainly will protect her father from possible criminal charges to be filed. It shall be an uphill climb for the complainants.

Is the election of Sarah a step towards the establishment of a Duterte kingdom in the Re-public of Maharlika, the name to replace Phil-ippines, as thought of by Digong. A daughter taking over the reigns in governance after her father finishes his term in 2022? Are we run-ning out of gifted and qualified leaders to be the nation’s chief executive? Let this nation be vigilant of its political development.

It is not the only solu-tion to be harsh on the drug war irresponsibly waged by this adminis-tration since it assumed power, 3 and a half years ago. The campaign has re-sulted in thousands killed- a good number of them in-

Harsher War on Drugs?

nocent civilians mostly the young. The PNP reported some 4,000 victims but hu-man rights group revealed 3x more than that.

And yet the problem remains and getting worse. The “harsh” strategy did not work, so a harsher approach

certaily will not solve the problem but will surely re-sult in larger casualties that as usual- will mostly vic-timize the innocent.

-oOo-At this point in time,

Vice President Leni Ro-bredo and some senators object to the “Duterte talk of harsher war on drugs”. The Vice President sug-gested that government should go deeper in its in-vestigation on why drugs do easily enter our shores from other countries, spe-cifically China. Govern-ment should exert efforts to really identify the drug cartels, first among our people in the Phlippines and then, those in the country of origin where these drugs come from.

-oOo-We strongly suspect that

government knows who the drug lords are in our country, because we be-lieve that our intelligence operatives of government are effective in their jobs. Why these are not revealed we suspect that these could be some powerful and in-fluential officials of govern-ment who get shares in this illegal activities provided by this equally powerful and influential drug lords.

-oOo-One approach to erad-

icate drug menace is the conduct of education and information drives. Most victims of drug addiction come from the youth with some of them students. The Department of Edu-cation should include in their teaching – learning

see Harsher /page 7 ...

God, our Father, you guide everything in wisdom and love. Accept the prayers we offer for our nation, by the wisdom of our leaders and integrity of our citizens, may harmony and justice be secured and may there be lasting prosperity and peace.

Almighty and eternal God, You know the longings of our hearts and You protect our rights in your goodness, watch over those in authority, so that people everywhere may en-joy freedom, security and peace.

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever, Amen. (Courtesy of Daughters of St. Paul)

Pray the Holy Rosary daily for world peace and conversion of sinners

(The family that prays together stays together)

Prayer for the Nation and for Those who Serve in

Public Office

Saturday, February 23, 2019 Leyte Samar Daily ExpressOPINION 5

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte signed the Rice Tar-iffication bill on the last day within which he is required to approve or veto legisla-tive measures; lest, the bill, by operation of the Consti-tution, lapses into law just the same.

With the Chief Execu-tive’s approval thereof, the rest is now part of the pro-verbial water under the bridge, that even the chari-vari generated by the pro and con of the issue that has dominated the coun-try’s opinion corridors—the airwaves, the broadsheets, and the cyberspace, are now of no moment. Yes, the rice tariffication bill is now a law.

But what is tariffication? Rooted on tariff or tari-

THIS is a line from the poem, The Rainbow, by William Wordsworth. (1770-1850) It means that man is the product of his habits and behavior de-veloped in childhood. In other words, how we are as a child largely determines how we will be as a grown-up person. What we are to-day gives shape to what we will be in the future.

This, to me, is a call for us to really take care of little children, teaching them as early as possible the right things in life. Of course, there will always be differences among the different generations, but there are certain things that, irrespective of the dif-ferent generations, should remain the same.

These are the essen-tial things in life and refer

View from

SimoraRAMON GAZO CUYCO

Rice is tariffied! Are the coasts fortified?

fa, the law seeks to impose taxes on goods that are im-ported into and/or exported from a country’s customs jurisdiction. It is one of the country’s main policy in-struments related to inter-national trade in goods—the other being quantitative restrictions (QRs). Tariff directly generates revenue for the government, while QR imposes quota, licens-ing requirements, or ban certain commodities from entering the local economy aimed at protecting the lo-cal industry.

When the Philippines acceded to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, especially on the in-strument of general agree-ments on trade and tariff, we are bound by the im-

peratives of free trade, irre-spective of whether we are a net importing country or otherwise. Fortunately for our local rice farmers, the Philippines was granted special treatment in so far as rice is concerned—our chief staple was exempted because of food security issues. This special treat-ment on rice expired in 2005, extended anew, and we ask for a re-extension, but failed. All the while, our local rice industry has been protected by the spe-cial treatment accorded the Philippines, until the WTO said no more—si-lent on our request for re-extention.

Now, the country’s in-ternational trade archi-tecture had to adjust in order to comply with our international treaty com-mitment—pacta sunt serv-anda, thus, the rice tarif-fication measure was just signed by the President.

Unless struck down by the Supreme Court, tarif-fication of rice imports will now be the order of the day.

Will rice tariffication serve the interest of the Filipino nation, especially the poor farmers whose language is today rather

The child is father of the man

more to the spiritual and in-ternal things involving faith and beliefs, attitudes, habits, orientations, etc. than to the material and external things in our life.

These essential things can be expressed in differ-ent ways. In fact, each per-son will have a unique way of living them. But in their spiritual substance, they are the same and universal, applicable to everyone, ir-respective of race, religion, culture, etc. We may call these essential things as the content of what we term as natural law.

Some days ago, I happen to visit my 5-year-old and 3-year-old grandnephews. It was a very happy occa-sion that comes to me few and far between. The older one was more active, of the choleric type. The younger

one was sluggish with a very handsome smile. I called him, Shaolin, because of his chinky eyes. I had a grand time albeit a bit tiring, since there was a lot of movement and action involved.

There was just one thing that bothered me. They had, to my mind, too many toys such that they paid more attention to the toys than to me who, I imagine, they seldom see.

They already had digital gadgets, remote-controlled toys that roll, walk, run and fly. I can see that they were all fascinated by these toys. And I must say that their vocabulary was much richer than what I remem-ber mine was when I was at their age. They were quite articulate already, but quite impatient too. They, for ex-ample, wanted their gadg-ets to get fully charged in 5 seconds only. The older one was literally counting the seconds.

Thing is when I re-strained one of them from doing something for fear that he might break a pre-cious house décor, he threw a terrible tantrum, shriek-ing aloud and giving me dagger looks. I was taken aback.

I know it’s not good to compare, but I don’t re-member behaving like that

When I was a new graduate from U.P Tacloban in 1979, my first employment was with the Ministry of Human Set-tlements (MHS) headed by then First lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos. The MHS was an umbrella organization of all hous-ing agencies including National Housing Au-thority (NHA), Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB), National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation (NHMFC) and the Pag-Ibig Fund. Eventually, I transferred to Pag-Ibig Fund in 1982

Plenty of prophecies in the Bible are being fulfilled nowadays, one of which is detailed in Ezekiel 38-39 in which the prophet Ezekiel described in detail an inva-sion force that will assemble in the last days. These in-vaders, according to Ezeki-el, will come from the north of Israel (Ezekiel 38:2-6). Below are the participating nations, with their modern-day names:

Rosh = RussiaMagog = Kazakhstan,

Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan

Persia = IranCush = SudanPut = LibyaMeshech, Tubal, Gomer,

and Beth-togarmah = Tur-key

Three of the most pow-erful nations on the list - Russia, Iran, and Turkey

The Department of Human Settlements

and was pioneer of the Pag-Ibig Fund, Tacloban Exten-sion Office with my close friend, Alan Cam. Unfortu-nately, after the 1986 EDSA Revolution, the Ministry of Human Settlements was dissolved by the Aquino Administration.

Today, President Duterte signed a new law creating a new agency named the De-partment of Human Settle-ments and Urban Develop-ment. All housing agencies will now be placed under the administrative supervi-sion of this new agency in-cluding NHA, NHMFC and Pag-Ibig Fund.

Merging these housing agencies is meant to elimi-nate redundancies and pro-mote efficiency. The new department will modify the floated housing bureau-cracy. This new department should ensure that contrac-tors are not being picked mainly from their connec-tions but on proven track record in efficient delivery of goods and services.

Shelter is a basic need and millions of Filipinos still lack decent housing. This new department will be in charge of one of the most critical components in alleviating poverty and im-proving the quality of life.

Hopefully, this depart-ment will give us a more comprehensive way of ad-dressing the housing needs of people. How I wish to be part of this new department but time is catching up with me as a senior citizen who once dreamed to head this department in this part of region.

Good luck to the new Department of Human Set-tlements and Urban Devel-opment!!!

Prophecy fulfilled– are now participating in Syria’s civil war. The U.S. announced last December 2018 it is pulling its troops out of Syria, perhaps as a part of that prophetic fulfil-ment. Why? Their absence will increase the influence in Syria of these three na-

tions. They’ll consolidate their power until this na-tion becomes their de facto province.

In fact, their military forces are now cooperat-ing closely in Syria, putting their joint military forces right on Israel’s border to the north. Yes, not just any border—Israel’s northern border, exactly like Ezekiel said that this invasion force will come from the north (Ezekiel 38:15; Ezekiel 39:2). Three most power-ful nations in Gog’s invad-ing force now cooperating with one another, and sta-tioned on Israel’s northern border. Coincidence or prophecy fulfilled?

see Rice /page 11 ...

see Prophecy /page 11 ...

see The child /page 14 ...

6 Leyte Samar Daily Express Saturday, February 23, 2019NOTICESAFFIDAVIT OF SELF-ADJUDICATION BY SOLE HEIR

NOTICE is hereby given that Anthony Sevillano Talaña the surviving spouse of Portia Kay Bantilan Talaña who died intestate on October 6, 2018 at Divine Word Hospital, Ave-nida Veteranos, Tacloban City executed an affidavit of Self-Adjudicaiton over two conjugal real properties to wit: A) A certain parcel of land covered by TCT No. TE-3617 and Deed of Absolute Sale dated 11 May 2015 notarized before Atty. Edson G. Piczon, as Doc. No. 316, Page No. 64, Book No. I, Series of 2015 and more particularly described as follows: A parcel of land, Lot 22, Bsd-08-000195 (OLT), being a portion of Psu-63588, situated at Barangay Bato, Municipality of Biliran, containing an area of 7,401 square meters; B) A certain of land covered by TCT No. T-69390 and Deed of Absolute Sale dated 30 March 2016 notarized before Atty. Jose Joannes S. Bagulaya, as Doc. No. 140, Page No. 28, Book No. I, Series of 2016, and more particularly described as follows: A parcel of land designated as Lot 1, Block 29 of the consolidation-subdivision of Pcs-08-000527-D, being a portion of Lots 4997, Cad-220, situated in the Barangay of Abucay, City of Tacloban, Province of Leyte, containing an area of 55 square meters, more or less; per Doc. No. 9, Page No. 3, Book No. 1, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Iris Carpina-Maglasang. LSDE: February 9, 16 & 23, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH WAIVER AND QUITCLAIMNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Benjamin S. Alar, Jr. extrajudicially set-

tled, partitioned and adjudicated over parcel of Lot No. 2671, covered by TCT No. T-814, located at Brgy. Campesao, Borongan, Eastern Samar, containing an area of 11,627 square meters, more or less and heirs hereby waive and transfer and assigned the aforesaid real property in favor of their mother, MARILYN S. ALAR; per Doc. No. 322, Page No. 66, Book No. XX, Series of 2016 of Notary Public Atty. Daniel J. Alviar.LSDE: February 9, 16 & 23, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH WAIVERNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Leon Balotabot extrajudicially set-

tled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of residential land and house constructed thereon situated at Brgy. 2, Poblacion San Julian, Eastern Samar, covered by OCT No. 2018000063, Lot No. 355, containing an area of 212 square metes, and heirs hereby waive their rights, interest and participation over the above-described property in favor of co-heir ROLANDO BALOTABOT; per Doc. No. 248, Page No. 050, Book No. 003, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Jesus C. Apelado, Jr. LSDE: February 9, 16 & 23, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Aniano Guarde extrajudicially settled,

partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land situated at Brgy. Trinidad, Calbayog City, containing an area of 649 square meters, more or less. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Joselito C. Lumod as vendee for the above-described property; per Doc. No. 56, Page No. 12, Book No. XXIX, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Alex R. Gelera.LSDE: February 9, 16 & 23, 2019

DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL DECLARATION OF HEIRS WITH SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Baltazar Sarmiento extrajudicially set-

tled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcels of land described as: 1) Parcel of land, Lot No. 2889, situated in Brgy. Matobato, Calbayog City, Samar, containing an area of 3,271 square meters, more or less, under Tax Dec. No. 99-0101-00036; 2) Lot No. 163-B situ-ated in Brgy. Cagbayong, Oquendo District, Calbayog City, Samar, containing an area of 34,423.50 square meters, more or less under Tax Dec. No. 99-02031-00411; 3) Lot No. 670, situated in Brgy. Caybago, Oquendo District, Calbayog City, Samar, containing ana rea of 70,174 square meters, more or less under Tax Dec. No. 99-02033-00087; 4) Lot 4910, situated in San Policarpo, Calbayog City, Samar, containing an area of 831 square meters, more or less under Tax Dec. No. 99-01017-00270; 5) Residential Blgd. situated in Brgy. Matobato, Calbayog City, Samar, containing an area of 40 square meters, under Tax Dec. No. 99-01016-00600. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Christopher Nicholas Chan married to Maria Jessica Concepcion P. Chan as vendor for Parcel No. 1, Lot No. 2889; per Doc. No. 417, Page No. 85, Book No. XL, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Aileen Reyes Maglana and Doc. No. 305, Page No. 61, Book No. 105, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Jose L. Mario, Jr. LSDE: February 9, 16 & 23, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL PARTITIONED WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the deceased LEON R. PISCOS who died on

June 19, 2007 at San Isidro, Leyte extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of agricultural land, Cadastral Lot No. 7, situated in Brgy. Hacienda Maria, San Isidro, Leyte under Tax Dec. No. 08-33-0012-0047, containing an area of 7,158 square meters, more or less. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Liezel Lajoila Trojo for the above-described parcel of land; per Doc. No. 110, Page No. 22, Book No. LII, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Octavius L. Labtic. LSDE: February 9, 16 & 23, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF THE ESTATE OF THE DECEASED MARIA GLEMA

NOTICE is hereby given that Federico P. Vallar, Jr. one of the only legitimate of the late Estela Perez Vallar and sole heir of the late Maria Glema extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of residential and riceland situated at Balud, Capoocan, Leyte, under Tax Dec. No. 279 with an area of 9,615 square meters of the residential land and 2,403 square meters of the riceland, under Cadastral Lot No. 67 P-6590; per Doc. N o. 835, Page No. 69, Book No. 9, Series of 1996 of Notary Public Atty. Lorenzo B. Caballero. LSDE: February 9, 16 & 23, 2019

Publication NoticeRA 9048

Republic of the PhilippinesCity Civil Registry Office

Province of Eastern SamarCity of Borongan

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

In compliance with Section 7 of R.A. 9048, a no-tice is hereby serve to the public that RODOLFO D. DELOS SANTOS, has filed with this Office a Petition for Change of Child’s first name from RICKY to RODOLFO in the Birth Certificate of RICKY DURAN DELOS SANTOS, who was on August 21, 1970 at Borongan, Eastern Samar and whose parents are PRIMA ARIAS DURAN and ROSALEO A. DELOS SANTOS.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file written opposition with this office not later than 25 Feb. 2019.

(Sgd.) MA. LUISA M. AZUL III City Civil Registrar LSDE: Feb. 16 & 23, 2019





In compliance with Section 7 of R.A. 9048, a no-tice is hereby serve to the public that CARMELITA A. ANASARIAS, has filed with this Office a Petition for Change of Child’s first name from GEOFFREY to GEOFFREY DEAN in the Birth Certificate of GEOFFREY ALFREDO ANASARIAS, who was on October 26, 1984 at Borongan, Eastern Samar and whose parents are CARMELITA E. ALFREDO and RODOLFO A. ANASARIAS.


(Sgd.) MA. LUISA M. AZUL III City Civil Registrar LSDE: Feb. 16 & 23, 2019





In compliance with Section 7 of R.A. 9048, a no-tice is hereby serve to the public that EDUARDO B. DURANGO, has filed with this Office a Petition for Change of Child’s first name from RENATO to EDUARDO in the Birth Certificate of RENATO BARES DORANGO, who was on September 1, 1962 at Borongan, Eastern Samar and whose parents are LORENZA APURA BARIS and JULIO BULA DURANGO.


(Sgd.) MA. LUISA M. AZUL III City Civil Registrar

LSDE: Feb. 16 & 23, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH WAIVER OF RIGHT AND SALE OF PORTION

NOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Sps. Mariano L. Bormate and Rosa-rio G. Bormate extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land situated at Brgy. 01, Llorente, Eastern Samar, containing an area of 6,029 square meters, more or less, covered by Katibayan ng Original na Titulo Blg. P-12573 and heirs hereby waive, renounce and Quitclaim rights, interest and participation in favor of co-heir NIDA BORMATE-CAMORA, a waivee for a portion of 635 square meters identified as Lot 89-B and a Deed of Sale was executed by Nida Bormate-Camora in favor of Sps. Nestor Boco and Rosita Boco as vendee for a portion of 635 square meters from the above-described property; per Doc. No. 344, Page No. 70, Book No. 1, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Richell A. Fuentes. LSDE: February 9, 16 & 23, 2019

AFFIDAVIT OF SELF-ADJUDICATIONNOTICE is hereby given that Rosario M. Francisco the surviving Spouse of Anselmo

E. Francisco, who died intestate on August 1, 2006 executed an affidavit of Self-Adjudi-cation over a parcel of land situated in Barangay District IV, Poblacion, Pastrana, Leyte, with an area of 100 square meters covered by Original Certificate of Title No. P-96805, now particularly described as follows: A parcel of residential land, Lot No. 4923, Case 4, Cad-821-D, situated in Barangay District IV, Poblacion, Pastrana, Leyte with an area of 100 square meters, covered by OCT No. P-96805; per Doc. No. 245, Page No. 50, Book No. XVII, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Maila C.N. Andrade. LSDE: February 9, 16 & 23, 2019

LSDE: Feb. 16 & 23, 2019

RA 9048/10172 Form No. 10.1 (LCRO)

Republic of the PhilippinesLocal Civil Registry Office

Province of Northern SamarMunicipality of San Isidro


In compliance with Section 7 of R.A. No. 10172, a notice is hereby served to the pub-lic that JOAN B. MENDOZA has filed with this Office a petition for correction of gender from “MALE” to “FEMALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth of JOAN C. CLERIGO who was born on 05 NOVEMBER 1990 at BALITE, SAN ISIDRO, N. SA-MAR and whose parents are ELIZA C. CLERIGO and MELECIO, JR. S. BANAYAG.

Any person adversely affected by said peti-tion may file his written opposition with this of-fice not later than February 28, 2019.

(Sgd.) EULALIO O. SOLA Municipal Civil Registrar

RA 9048/10172 Form No. 10.1 (LCRO)


Province of Northern SamarMunicipality of San Isidro


In compliance with Section 7 of R.A. No. 10172, a notice is hereby served to the public that GILBERTO B. LAGANZA has filed with this Office a petition for correction of gender from “FEMALE” to “MALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth of GILBERTO BAREBE LAGANZA who was born on 12 APRIL 1978 at CAGLANIPAO, SAN ISIDRO, N. SAMAR and whose parents are CORETA BAREBE and GUILLERMO LAGANZA.

Any person adversely affected by said peti-tion may file his written opposition with this of-fice not later than February 28, 2019.

(Sgd.) EULALIO O. SOLA Municipal Civil RegistrarLSDE: Feb. 16 & 23, 2019

R.A. Form No. 10.1 (LCRO)


Province of LeyteMunicipality of Babatngon


In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that GARRY A. COLLERA, has filed with this Office a peti-tion for change of first name from “MARK” to “GARRY” in the birth certificate of MARK ACOY COLLERA, who was on 23 JULY 1994 at BABATNGON, LEYTE and whose parents are PABLO LACABA and GORITA VERZOSA AGOY.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file written opposition with this Office not later than February 28, 2019.

(Sgd.) NILO C. CAÑETE, JR. Municipal Civil Registrar LSDE: Feb. 16 & 23, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Gerardo Andaliza Artiga extrajudicially

settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of commercial land, with bldg. thereon, located along Cor. San Juan St. and Sevilla St., Brgy. F, Borongan City, Eastern Samar designated under Tax Dec./A.R.P. No. 08-007-00087, Lot No. 124-A, containing an area of 61.75 square meters; per Doc. No. 341, Page No. 70, Book No. XV, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Rhoda Montes Cebricus. LSDE: February 16, 23 & March 2, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Teresita Limpin-Tenefrancia and Carlos

Prisno Tenefrancia extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over: 1) A parcel of land, designated as Lot 2, BLock 5, Pcs-08-000101, situated in the Brgy. of Caibaan, City of Tacloban, Province of Leyte, containing an area of 180 square meters, more or less, covered by T.C.T. No. T-6350; 2) A parcel of land designated as Lot 295, Pls-163, (FPA-12-1-127), situated in the Barrio of Dampigan, Sta. Rita, Samar, containing an area of 5,188 square meters, more or less, covered by TCT No. T-11477; 3) Parcel of land, designated as Lot No. 308, Pls-163 (FV 56696) situated in the Barrio of Dampigan, Sta. Rita, Samar, containing an area of 22,289 square meters, more or less, covered by T.C.T. No. T-11355; 4) Lot No. 307-Pls-163, situated at Brgy. San Juan, Sta. Rita, Samar, containing an area of 19,350 square meters, more or less, covered by Original na Titulo Blg. 22924; per Doc. No. 3230, Page No. 664, Book No. XXXI, Series of 2012 of Notary Public Atty. Pedro B. Panis. LSDE: February 16, 23 & March 2, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH CONFIRMATION OF QUITCLAIM AND WAIVER OF RIGHTS

NOTICE is hereby given that Ma. Nora Linbert A. Lloren, Felixberto A. Lloren Jr., Marsha Lindy L. Sabondo, Leoner Gilbert A. Lloren, Lindy Ann L. Madriaga, Linbert A. Lloren, Genalyn O. Lloren executed an Extrajudicial Settlement with Confirmation of Quit-claim and Waiver of Rights in favor of HERBERT A. LLOREN over a parcel of residen-tial land with all the improvements thereon situated at Poponton, Brgy. Taboc, Borongan, Eastern Samar, under A.R.P. No. 08-052-00711, denominated as PIN 037-230-052-12-068, Survey No. 3645 PRT-E, containing an area of 178 square meters; per Doc. No. 252, Page No. 51, Book No. II, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Arturo D. Macabasag. LSDE: February 16, 23 & March 2, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE(PORTION)

NOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Isidro S. Montilla, Sr. extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of agricultural land situated at Brgy. San Isidro, Palompon, Leyte, Lot No. 1936, containing an area of 1,791 square meters, covered by Katibayan ng Original na Titulo Blg. P-43787. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of IRWIN JUERG L. ROBLE married to Cherrylen S. Roble as vendee for a portion of 606 square meters from the above-described property; per Doc. No. 48, Page No. 11, Book No. 57, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Elroy Raymond S. Bertulfo.LSDE: Feb. 16, 23 & March 2, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL PARTITIONNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Sps. Maximo Uy Tonolete and Maria

Ester C. Casaul-Tonolete extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over parcels of land described as: 1) Lot No. 1154, Case 2, Cad 557-D, containing an area of 2,293 square meters, more or less, situated at Brgy. San Isidro, Biliran, Biliran covered by Kati-bayan ng Original na Titulo Blg. P-694; 2) Lot No. 1155, Case 2, Cad 557-D, containing an area of 819 square meters, more or less, situated at Brgy. San Isidro Biliran, Biliran, covered by Katibayan ng Original na Titulo Blg. P-1862; per Doc. No. 6601, Page No. 728, Book No. X. Series of 2008 of Notary Public Atty. Mario Lydinno R. Opeña.LSDE: Feb. 16, 23 & March 2, 2019

AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTSNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Leonilo S. Erodias executed an af-

fidavit of Claim with waiver of Rights over a Savings Deposit Account in the Philippine Veterans Bank -Tacloban Branch under Savings Account No. 25039763100 with a balance of P125,136.46 and heirs hereby request to release the balance of said deposit account in favor of Sarah M. Erodias or to transfer the balance to her name and having waived their rights in her favor; per Doc. No. 192, Page No. 39, Book No. XI, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Evita Grace Ty-Roa. LSDE: Feb. 16, 23 & March 2, 2019


NAVAL, Biliran– A newly-completed 1-sto-rey 2-classroom in Baran-gay Cabibihan was turned over to the teachers and administration of Cabibi-han Elementary School by the Department of Pub-lic Works and Highways (DPWH) – Biliran District Engineering Office (DEO) on February 11, 2019.

Present during the turn-over ceremony were Rep.Rogelio J. Espina, As-sistant District Engineer Alfredo L. Bollido, Caibi-ran Mayor Eulalio Mader-azo, the contractor of MKB Builders, school principal Bella Salentes, teachers and parents of the pupils.

Marilyn Gervacio, pub-lic schools district super-visor (PSDS), who also graced the event gave a words of challenge for the school building users.

“I am posing a chal-lenge to the teachers and parents to maintain the usefulness of this building for a number of years so that it can still be used by our children in the coming years”.

Meanwhile, Salentes

The Cabibihan Elementary school in Caibiran, Biliran was a re-cipient of a classroom building from the Department of Public Works and Highways- Biliran Engineering District Office. Among those who attended the turn over held on Feb.11 were Rep. Ro-gelio Espina(2nd from right), assistant district engineer Alfredo Bollido and school principal Bella Salentes.

The officials of the Presidential Communi-cations Operations Office (PCOO) sent to Europe are part of the govern-ment’s official delegation to clarify the issue on “involuntary disappear-ances,” anti-communist terrorist groups, among others.

PCOO, being a com-mittee member of the National Task Force (NTF) to End Commu-nist Armed Conflict pur-suant to Executive Order 70, provides communica-tions support in terms of messaging and content to the anti-Communist Ter-rorist Groups efforts. The engagement of PCOO in the NTF alongside rel-evant agencies of gov’t in the security cluster is necessary in the adop-tion of a National peace framework as directed by the President by put-ting together the con-text, messaging and communication plan for the whole-of-nation ap-proach to be executed by

B O R O N G A N CITY-The Eastern Sa-mar State University (ESSU) is set to host anew the 6th interna-tional conference on integrative disaster risk reduction manage-ment on Sept. 3-5 at the Teatro Ibabawnon with a theme, “Resil-ience Means Changing Lifestyle in a Changing Global Climate.”

Since 2014, ESSU had been organizing and conducting this an-nual event as its legacy to the world that is con-tinually threatened by natural and manmade (anthropogenic) disas-ters.

Thus far, there had already been over 100 research papers pre-sented with more than a thousand participants coming from various fields and nationalities.

Last year’s confer-ence on ICIDRRM with the theme, “Plan. Act. Live.” attracted the most number of par-

StatementSecretary Jose Ruperto Martin

M. Andanar, Presidential Communications Operations Office

the NTF.In the same NTF mis-

sion, PCOO found it an opportune time to bring the Press Freedom Caravan in Brussels and Geneva to maximize the official trip. The Communications De-partment has been holding Press Freedom caravans lo-cally and internationally to bring government to Fili-pinos even those in the in-ternational community. The first caravan in a foreign country was conducted in Bangkok, Thailand, last Jan-uary 2019.

The caravan is a side event in-between official meetings with officials from the EU Parliament, Belgian Ministry of Foreign Af-fairs, UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), European Commission, and leaders of the Filipino com-munity.

Meanwhile, the arrest of Ms. Maria Ressa happened two days after the official delegation left for Europe. Nobody from the delega-tion was aware it was com-

ing. In any case, it is just natural for me to instruct the PCOO officials in Eu-rope to answer possible queries about Ms. Ressa.

My radio interview was taken out of context. I only used Ressa’s case as an ex-ample of what might be raised in the caravan; we didn’t know much about the Ressa case when we prepared for this trip.

Rest assured no public funds are wasted in this of-ficial mission which came about from a directive from the National Secu-rity Council. All engage-ments in Bosnia, Brussels and Geneva are all part of PCOO mandate to deliver and disseminate informa-tion relation to policies, programs, and achieve-ments of the President and Executive Branch. In so doing, the PCOO may also set up and maintain local and international field offices to ensure that accurate information from the President and the Ex-ecutive Branch is promptly and efficiently relayed.

DPWH in Biliran turns over classroom building to a

public elementary school

expressed gratitude to Rep. Espina and to the DPWH for the school building project and hopes for more school buildings to rise in the school.

“We are hoping for more buildings to come because it is projected that more school children will flock to our school after today, next years and the years to come because of the rapid population growth of Brgy. Cabibihan”.

Children of the recipi-ents of the on-going hous-

ing projects of the Na-tional Housing Authority (NHA) in Brgy. Cabibihan is anticipated to flock be-cause of the geographical location of the school.

The new school build-ing with two classrooms and adjoining toilets are to be occupied by Kinder-garten and Grade 3 pupils.

This building is de-signed to provide the pu-pils a well-ventilated, reli-able and disaster resilient school buildings. (PR)

ESSU to host 6th international meet on disaster management

ticipants from the aca-deme, government and non-government sec-tors which makes ESSU as one of the leading ad-vocates in disaster man-agement.

The 3-day event aims to attain the following: 1) collaborate and co-opti-mize on effective climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies such as land use planning, uti-lization of alternative and renewable energy, among others, in order to limit global warming to safer levels; 2) embark on pro-active studies to improve the resilience of people on the adverse effects of climate change on food production, health and economic security; and 3) serve as hub in pursuing an enabling environment of change geared toward mitigating the risks asso-ciated with disasters.

Welcome address will be delivered by ESSU president Edmundo Campoto.

One of the highlights

of the conference is the awarding rites aptly called, “Gawad Dakila” in recognition of ex-traordinary men and women who took part in the rehabilitation and relief operations in times of calamities and disas-ters and those who con-ducted exemplary work as media practitioner, researcher, extension or community worker in the field on DRRM.

Registration fee per participant is only P6,000 inclusive of conference kit, meals, snacks, certificate and visit to selected sites in-cluding the iconic Bal-angiga Bells in Balangi-ga, Eastern Samar.

Interested parties are advised to contact Eva Palada, conference chair and VP for Plan-ning, Research and Ex-tension at 09991540358, 09269028516 or email to [email protected].

(V. Agda, Director for Extension, ESSU/PR)

TACLOBAN CITY- Police Regional Director, Chief Supt. Dionardo Car-los, is aiming for a ‘gunless and peaceful’ May 13 elec-tions through the launching of “Safekeeping of Firearms Caravan” on March 4.

“The overall success of the upcoming elections measures up how effective we are as partners of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), Philippine Ar-my-8th Infantry Division, and other concerned gov-ernment agencies. So by all means, we will do the nec-essary steps to make every-thing smooth,” said Carlos.

The police director said the caravan is an important intervention to “eradicate election-related crimes and improve public safety op-erations before, during, and after elections.”

“This caravan is concep-tualized as an adaptation to national headquarters’ concept of 5Ps (predict, prevent, prepare, perform and post-action and assess-ment) of crisis management in the implementation of security and safety coverage for the 2019 midterm elec-

PNP to stage caravan as part of its campaign for a peaceful

elections in the regiontions,” Carlos said.

The police regional di-rector said that they are not discounting the possibility of same intense rivalry that might happen again on May 13 midterm elections not-ing that conduct of ballot-ing in some parts of the re-gion is always marked with intense political rivalries.

“Most likely, the services of criminal gang or crimi-nal terrorist groups may be employed to undertake ne-farious activities so as to in-fluence the outcome of the elections,” said Carlos.

Earlier, the Comelec in the region identified 70 out of the 4,390 barangays as “areas of concern.”

The number, however, is smaller compared to 284 barangays compared to last year’s barangay elections.

According to the Come-lec, “areas of concern” will be declared if the commu-nities have election-related violent incidents and in-tense political rivalry.

While “areas of im-mediate concern” exhibit armed threat by New Peo-ple’s Army (NPA), Moro rebels, and other lawless

forces, and “areas of grave concern” are those where the two above-mentioned categories are found which may “warrant the motu propio declaration of Comelec control.”

Of the 701 election hotspots in the country, the PNP headquarters in Manila identified three “areas of grave concern” in Eastern Visayas last week. (RONALD O. REYES)

processes the ill-effects of drug addiction.

Well-meaning civic clubs to include religious organizations must come into the picture by con-ducting youth forum on specifically anti-drug in-formation drive.

We also respectfully caution President Duterte to stop quarrelimg with the Catholic church. It is a potent religioua sect of over 90% of the popula-tion are members, and they are also taxpayers - his constituents. They are willing to help. LETS DO IT !!!

Harsher......from Page 4

8 Leyte Samar Daily Express Saturday, February 23, 2019NOTICES

Republic of thePhilippines

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

8th Judicial RegionBranch 34 (46)

Bulwagan ng Katarungan

Magsaysay Boulevard, Tacloban City

IN RE: Settlement of the Intestate Estate of the Late CHARLES

“CHARLIE” MOON-EY GRAY,

RINGO WAYNE ALIDO GRAY,

JENNIFER HELENA A. GRAY-RODRIGUEZ, MA.

SOCORRO AMELISSA D.

GRAY-ATIS and STEPHANY HOPE

OCADO GRAY, are all represented by TRINI-DAD ALIDO GRAY-

CLOCK,Petitioners.SPECIAL

PROCEEDINGS CASE NO. R-TAC-19-00058-

SPFOR: Settlement of

the Intestate Estate of CHARLES

“CHARLIE” MOONEY GRAY, with Prayer for the

Appointment of Executor or

Administratorx- - - - - - - - - - -x

INITIAL ORDERThis is a verified Peti-

tion for the Settlement of the Intestate Estate of Charles “Charlie” Mooney Gray with Prayer for the Appointment of Executor or Administrator filed by petitioners (Ringo Wayne Alido Gray, Jennifer Helena A. Gray-Rodriguez, Ma. Socorro Amelissa D. Gray-Atis and Stephany Hope Ocado Gray, who are all represented by Trinidad Alido Gray-Clock) through their counsels, praying for the following:

1. the appointment of Trinidad Alido Gray-Clock and Francis Lim as the ex-ecutor/administrator of the Intestate Estate of Charles Mooney Gray;

2. divide and award the above-mentioned instestate among the lawful heirs of the deceased, after payment of just debts, if any, existing at the time of death of the de-cedent;

3. the cost of the herein proceeding, namely the Fifty Thousand Pesos Acceptance Fee, Fifty Thousand Pesos as Litigation Expense/Cost of Litigation, and all proven Acceptance Fees, be either charged to the estate and

subsequently be apportioned among the heirs mentioned, in accordance with the value of the estate that may be awarded to each, respectively; and

4. grant such other reliefs as may be deemed just and eq-uitable.

Notice is hereby given that the initial hearing of the Petition is set on MAY 9, 2019 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning before RTC, Branch 46, sitting at Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Magsaysay Blvd., Tacloban City. Any interested persons, heirs, creditors or third per-sons may appear on said time and date and there file his/her opposition thereto if any and to show cause why said “Settlement of the Intestate Estate of CHARLES “CHAR-LIE” MOONEY GRAY, with Prayer for the Appointment of Executor or Administrator” be not issued in their favor.

Let a copy of this Order be published in newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Leyte including the City of Tacloban once a week for three (3) successive weeks at the expense of the petitioners. Further, let a copy of this Order and a copy of the Petition together with its an-nexes be personally served if practicable to Charles Moon-ey Gray’s compulsory heirs, at least ten (10) days before the day of hearing. But if the ser-vice is by mail, the Order and copy of the Petition should be mailed to the said compulsory heirs in the post office with the postage thereon prepaid at least twenty (20) days before the scheduled hearing, to wit:

1.) Charles Nestor Alido Gray - 1022 S Magnolia Ave Ontaio California 91762, USA; 2.) Ringo Wayne Alido Gray - 493 Shrode Avenue, Duarte, California 91010, USA; 3.) Jaquiline Loretta Alido Gray-Valentine - 60 Huntington Bay Road, Hun-tington, New York 11743, USA; 4.) Jennifer Helen Alido Gray-Rodriguez - 5530 Nagle Avenue, Sherman Oaks, Cali-fornia 91401, USA; 5.) Ma. Socorro Amelissa D. Gray-Atis - 198-G Ortigas Avenue Ext., Brgy. Sta. Lucia, Pasig City; 6.) Bessie Melancholy Brazil Gray - Brgy. 71, Naga Naga, Tacloban City; 7.) Carla Nostalgia Brazil Gray - Brgy. 71, Naga Naga, Tacloban City; 8.) Stephany Hope Oc-ado Gray - Pardo, Cebu City.

Furnish also a copy of this Order to petitioner’s counsels, Atty. Von Kaisser P. Soro and Atty. Luningning M. Soro at their address on record and to the petitioners.

SO ORDERED.GIVEN this 21st day of

January, 2019 at the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Tacloban City.

(Sgd.) LOLITA R. MERCADO

Presiding JudgeLSDE: Feb. 16, 23 & March 2, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Reynaldo Ricalde Dagu-

man executed an Extrajudicial Settlement with waiver of Rights as benefi-ciaries in the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) as named her mother Priscila R. Daguman as his beneficiaries but the latter is already dead; and during his lifetime was not able to update his named beneficiaries with the GSIS despite having married to Celerina Tinay Daguman with whome he had 3 minor children, and parties do hereby WAIVE, RELINQUISH and Abandon the above-described benefits in favor of Cerelina Tinay Daguman, Khaye Fatima Daguman, Kiesha Cyrene T. Daguman and Krizelle Niña T. Daguman; per Doc. No. 2339, Page No. 468, Book No. V, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Maricar R. Lucero, RSW. LSDE: February 16, 23 & March 2, 2019

AFFIDAVIT OF SOLE HEIRNOTICE is hereby given that Clemente M. Octaviano executed an

affidavit of sole heir of the late Encarnacion Octaviano who later filed a peti-tion for Adoption and pursuant dated Sept. 27, 1958, under S.P. Proc. No. 834, it granted the petition of Encarnacion Octaviano for Adoption and the only surviving heir/son of the late Encarnacion Octaviano who died intestate on November 10, 1968 in Tacloban City; per Document Notarized by Pros-ecutor Percival P. Dolina. LSDE: February 16, 23 & March 2, 2019

DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that Adelfa A. Chong married to Charles P.

Chong of Naval, Biliran executed a Deed of Absolute Sale of a parcel of commercial land designated as Cad. Lot/Survey No. 148, situated in Brgy. Smo. Rosario, Naval, Biliran, containing an area of 658 square meters, more or less and all the improvements situated thereon, under Tax Dec. No.00158, PIN No. 074-08-0022-005-12 in favor of Suzanne Sembrano Fan as vendee/buyer for the above-described property; per Doc. No. 239, Page No. 48, Book No. III, Series of 2016 of Notary Public Atty. Melvin O. Vaporoso.LSDE: Feb. 16, 23 & March 2, 2019

AFFIDAVIT OF ADJUDICATIONNOTICE is hereby given that Lourdes Cabaul Cula heir of the late Ave-

lino Dolina Cula executed an affidavit of Adjudication over a one half (1/2) share of a parcel of land known as Lot 2074, Cad 1018-D, situated at Brgy. Balaquid, Cabucgayan, Biliran, containing an area of 10,523 square meters, more or less covered by O.C.T. No. 3114 and hereby agree to waive, demise, renounce, cede, transfer and convey and forever quit the above-described property in favor of Karl Kevin T. Yap; per Doc. No. 6609, Page No. 728, Book No. X, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Mario Lydinno Opeña. LSDE: Feb. 16, 23 & March 2, 2019

DEED OF PARTITION WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTSNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Jesus Abordo extrajudicially settled, partitioned and

adjudicated over a parcel of residential land, located at Evangelista St., Marvel, Isabel, Leyte covered by Tax Dec. No. 17001-00049 and Cad. Lot No. 705, containing an area of 365 square meters, and their mother, Victoria B. Abordo hereby waive all her rights, interest and participation in favor of her son Jimmy Abordo, containing an area of 182.5 square meters and parties namely Jimmy Abordo, Evelyn A. Libo-on, Jenelyn Abordo and Jessievic Abordo hereby agreed their respective shares will be waived in favor of their oldest sister MA. DELIA A. SALVACION, the other one-half (1/2) share, area of 182.5 square meters; per Doc. No. 723, Page No. 45, Book No. XXXIX, Series of 1998 of Notary Public Atty. Bernardita R. Clemente. LSDE: Feb. 16, 23 & March 2, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Mario Alimangohan extrajudicially settled, partitioned

and adjudicated over a certain parcel of residential land located at Brgy. Buri, Palo, Leyte, Cad. Lot No. 469, covered by Tax Dec. No. 08-30-0001-00030, containing an area of 269 square meters, more or less. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Delia C. Alimangohan-Pilola as vendee for the above-described property with all the improvements thereon; per Doc. No. 72, Page No. 17, Book No. II, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Sharon R. Villones. LSDE: Feb. 16, 23 & March 2, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Sps. Eleuterio Merino and

Estelita Villaflor extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land located at Brgy. Paa, Hilongos, Leyte, Lot No. 3964, under Tax Dec. No. 14030-00031 R-13, containing an area of 10,109 square meters. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Bernabe A. Flores as vendee for the above-described property; per Doc. No. 289, Page No. 88, Book No. XXVI, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Josenilo Marquez Reoma. LSDE: Feb. 16, 23 & March 2, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Sps. Santiago C. Ramirez

and Vivencia Gomez-Ramirez extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudi-cated over a parcel of land, Lot 10405-J, Csd-08-002557-D (OLT) situated at Brgy. Poblacion, Kananga, Leyte, covered by O.C.T. No. 115-R02015000322 (OE-7880), containing an area of 14,152 square meters; 2) Lot 10405-K, Csd-08-002557-D, (OLT), situated at Brgy. Poblacion, Kananga, Leyte, containing an area of 377 square meters. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Sps. Ronald G. Juban and Maria Kim O. Marquez-Juban as vendee for about 137.134 square meters about 36.528 square meters is taken from OCT No. 115-R02015 000322 (OE-7880) described as Lot 10405-J now Lot 10405-A-10 and about 100.606 square meters is taken from OCT No. 115-R02015000323 (OE-7881) described as Lot 10405-K now Lot 10405-A-11; per Doc. No. 71, Page No. 15, Book No. LXXXI, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Allan R. Castro. LSDE: Feb. 16, 23 & March 2, 2019

Republic of thePhilippines

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

8th Judicial RegionBranches 6, 7, 8, 9, 34,

43 & 44Bulwagan ng Katarungan

Tacloban CityOFFICE OF THE

CLERK OF COURT & EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF

OF LEYTEHOME DEVELOP-

MENT MUTUAL FUND (PAG-IBIG)

(HMDF)Mortgagee/s,

-versus-PRUDENCIO L.

VARELA MARRIED TO RAZMA F. VARELA,

Mortgagor/s,EJF No. 4175

For: EXTRA JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE OF

REAL ESTATE/PERSONAL PROPERTY

MORTGAGE UNDER ACT 3135

x- - - - - - - - -xNOTICE OF EXTRA-

JUDICIAL SALEUpon extra-judicial peti-

tion for sale under Act 3135, as amended, executed by PRUDENCIO L. VARELA married to RAZMA F. VARE-LA with postal address at Lot 1, Block 23, Kassel-Kristina, Naga-naga, Tacloban City in favor of HOME DEVELOP-

MENT MUTUAL FUND (PAG-IBIG FUND) with prin-cipal office at Room 3520, 35th Floor, Petron Mega Pla-za, 358 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave-nue, Makati City, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of August 31, 2018 amount-ed to EIGHT HUNDRED SIXTY ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED PESOS AND 45/100 (P861,500.45) in Philippine Currency, in-cluding interest and penalty charges, but excluding ad-ditional interest and penalty charges until fully paid, ex-penses of collection, 10% of the total indebtedness as At-torney’s Fees, plus expense of the Foreclosure, Sheriff’s Lawful fees, and Expenses for conducting the PUBLIC AUCTION SALE thereof, the UNDERSIGNED EXECUT-ING SHERIFF WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION on March 7, 2019 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at entrance lobby of Regional Trial Court, Bul-wagan ng Katarungan ng Ka-tarungan, Magsaysay Blvd., Tacloban City, to the highest bidder for cash and in Philip-pine Currency, the following properties with all its im-provements, if any to wit:

TCT No. T-66417A PARCEL OF LAND

DESIGNATED AS LOT 1, BLOCK 23, OF THE SUB-DIVISION OF PSD-08-009496-D, BEING A POR-TION OF LOT 2186, CAD. 220, SITUATED IN THE BARANGAY OF NAGA-NA-GA, CITY OF TACLOBAN, PROVINCE OF LEYTE, IS-LAND OF LEYTE, BOUND-ED ON THE:

NW., ALONG LINE 1-2-

3 BY ROAD LOT 12 (6.50 M WIDE); ON THE

NE., ALONG LINE 3-4 BY ROAD LOT 13 (6.50 M WIDE); ON THE

SE., ALONG LINE 4-5 BY LOT 3, BLOCK 23; AND ON THE

SW., ALONG LINE 5-1 BY LOT 2 BLK. 23 ALL OF THIS SUBDIVISION.CONTAINING AN AREA OF FORTY ONE (41) SQUARE METERS, MORE OR LESS...

“Including the house/building(s) and other im-provements now erected or hereafter maybe erected upon.”

PROSPECTIVE BID-DERS AND BUYERS MAY INVESTIGATE FOR THEM-SELVES THE TITLE AND ENCUMBRANCES, HERE-IN ABOVE-DESCRIBED REAL PROPERTIES IF ANY THERE BE.

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

In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be held on March 14, 2019.

Magsaysay Blvd., Tacloban City, Leyte, Philip-pines.

January 17, 2019.FOR THE CLERK OF

COURT & EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF(Sgd.) NEIL FLORO J.

LOPEGASheriff IVRTC-OCC,

Tacloban CityLSDE: Feb. 16, 23 & March 2, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Rufino L. Muldera, Jr. extrajudicially settled, parti-

tioned and adjudicated over a one-half (1/2) parcel of land, with residential house erected thereon situated at Brgy. Guintagbucan, Abuyog, Leyte, the whole portion containing an area of 322 square meters, more or less, covered by Tax Dec. No. 08-01005-01075 and residential building covered by Tax Dec. No. 08-01005-00396. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Manuelito R. Sy, as vendee for the above described one-half (1/2) portion property; per Doc. No. 42, Page No. 10, Book No. LV, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Mark Gil M. Tadena. LSDE: Feb. 16, 23 & March 2, 2019

Republic of the PhilippinesDepartment of Transportation

and CommunicationLAND TRANSPORTATION

FRANCHISING AND REGULATORY BOARD

Regional Office No. VIIIPalo, Leyte

R8-EV-FC-2019-02-20141562Case No. VIII-2014-1562

Application for Extension of Validityof a Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a FILCAB service

PRESCILA B. MANDIA, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x

NOTICE OF HEARINGApplicant is a grantee of a Reconstituted

Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a FILCAB service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: TACLOBAN CITY-MARASBARAS & VICE VERSA with the use of TWO (2) unit/s

which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until JUNE 26, 2019.

In the present application, applicant request authority for extension of validity of the said certificate using the same number of unit/s.

NOTICE is hereby given that this application will be heard by this Board on MARCH 6, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. at its office of the above address.

At least TEN (10) days prior to the above date, applicant/s shall cause the publication of this Notice of Hearing once in a newspaper of local circulation.

This application will be acted upon by this Board on the basis of its records and documentary evidence submitted by the parties, unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documentary and/or oral evidence.

WITNESS the Honorable GUALBERTO N. GUALBERTO, Regional Director, this 15th

day of FEBRUARY, 2019.

(Sgd.) GUALBERTO N. GUALBERTORegional Director





R8-EV/PA-FC-2019-02-20141468Case No. VIII-2014-1468


REY G. ESPLANADA, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x


Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a FILCAB service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: TACLOBAN-ST. PAUL’S-CAMPETIC & VICE VERSA with the use of TWO (2) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until JULY 3, 2019.












R8-EV-PJ-2019-02-20142967Case No. VIII-2014-2967

Application for Extension of Validityof a Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a PUJ service

DELIA P. AGUIRRE, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x


Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a PUJ service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: TACLOBAN CITY-SAN JUANICO & VICE VERSA with the use of ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until AUGUST 26, 2019.












R8-EV/PA-UV-2019-02-20140411Case No. VIII-2014-0411

Application for Extension of Validityof a Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a UV EXPRESS service

BRENDA P. MANGAPIS, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x


Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a UV EXPRESS service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: PALOMPON-ORMOC CITY & VICE VERSA with the use of ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until MAY 28, 2019.












R8-EV/PA-PJ-2019-02-20142164Case No. VIII-2014-2164


JOSE DEFFIE T. COLAMBOT, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x


Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a PUJ service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: MAASIN CITY-MALITBOG-SOGOD & VICE VERSA with the use of ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until JULY 16, 2019.














DOMINADOR E. PERCILA, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x


Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a PUJ service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: TACLOBAN CITY-PALANOG & VICE VERSA with the use of

ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until JUNE 11, 2019.









TACLOBAN CITY -- The New People’s Army (NPA) is struggling to re-cover its former strong-holds in Leyte province, despite its intensified ef-forts, due to lack of support in far-flung communities, an official of the Philippine Army said.

Of the 1,393 villages in Leyte, only 178 are still af-fected by operations of the NPA- Leyte front commit-tee. Seventeen had been categorized as influenced, 50 of these are less influ-enced, and 111 others are considered threatened.

“They are trying to beef up manpower by looking for potential recruits, but they’re not that success-ful as people report to us of their sightings,” said Lt. Col. Roberto Beatisula, commander of the Philip-pine Army’s 93rd Infantry Battalion (IB), during the provincial peace and order council meeting here on Wednesday (Feb.20).

Since last year, the mili-tary only recorded 16 activ-ities of communist rebels such as movements, meet-ings, and extortion even if they have been exerting ef-forts to “recover dwindling mass bases”.

“They have been striv-ing to conceal their move-ments in far-flung areas and mountainous areas of the province to avoid con-frontation with govern-ment forces to preserve their ranks,” Beatisula add-ed.

The NPA in Leyte has 75 active members with 40 classified as political and 35

MILITARY’S OUTREACH PROGRAM. Soldiers of the Philippine Army’s 93rd Infantry Battalion join a tree-plant-ing activity in an upland village in Ormoc City. Participating in outreach programs is seen as one of the strategies to combat insurgency. (Photo courtesy of Army 93rd IB)

TACLOBAN CITY-Red tide-causing organism has been found along the coastal areas of Basey and Marabut, Samar within San Pedro Bay, said the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) office in the Samar province on Thursday (February 21).

Jaime Salazar, the pro-vincial fishery officer, said that Pyrodinium ba-hamense variety com-pressum, a toxic micro-organism that causes paralytic shellfish poison-ing is recorded in the two

Reds struggle to regain former strongholds

in Leyte: Army

as armed with light weap-ons.

Recently, rebels have been sighted in upland ar-eas of Baybay City, Inopa-can, Hindang, Hilongos, Mahaplag, Albuera, Burau-en, La Paz, Macarthur, Or-moc City, Carigara, Jaro, Leyte, Tabango, and Ca-lubian towns.

The latest clash in Leyte was reported on Dec. 13, 2018, when soldiers abort-ed a bi-annual meeting in Anislagan village, Calubian town, which was attended by 20 communist rebels.

Acting on intelligence report, two platoons raided the village and engaged the rebels in a gun battle. No one was hurt on the mili-tary side while the number of casualties on the enemy side remained undeter-mined.

Also recovered were mobile phones, tablets, food items, and several per-sonal belongings of rebels.

Based in Kananga, Leyte, the military activat-

ed the 93rd IB last year to reinforce military units in the more aggressive fight against communist rebels in the region. The battal-ion, considered as one of the Army’s elite force, is composed of well-trained army officers and enlisted military personnel.

The military unit is just one of the 10 new battal-ions created nationwide as announced by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenza-na to augment the existing government forces in the fight against insurgency and terrorism.

The Communist Party of the Philippines - NPA is listed as a terrorist or-ganization by the United States and European Un-ion. The communist rebels have been battling govern-ment forces for 50 years. The communist rebellion in the Philippines is one of Asia’s longest-running insurgencies. (SARWELL Q. MENIANO/PNA)

Red tide up in Basey, Marabut Bay areas

areas based on the labora-tory examination of water samples conducted by the BFAR 8 Regional Marine Biotoxin Laboratory in Tacloban City.

“To safeguard human lives while waiting for the result of confirmatory test of shellfish samples sent to BFAR Central Marine Biotoxin Laboratory in Manila, we are issuing this warning as a precautionary advice to the public to re-frain from gathering, sell-ing, and eating all types of shellfishes and Acetes sp.

locally known as “alamang or hipon” from the said ar-eas to avoid possible shell-fish poisoning,” Salazar said in a statement.

“Fish, squid, crab, and shrimp can be eaten but all entrails must be re-moved and washed thor-oughly before cooking,” he added

According to the BFAR officer, their office is con-tinuously monitoring the said areas to safeguard public health and protect shellfish industry. (RONALD O. REYES)

CARIGARA, Leyte - The Department of Pub-lic Works and Highways (DPWH)- Leyte 2nd dis-trict engineering office has rolled out the new document tracking system (DoTS) for civil works.

DoTS is an electronic dynamic routing slip de-veloped to monitor the status and track down slow-moving documents.

It can also pinpoint those responsible for the delay in the processing.

The DPWH aims to fast track the comple-tion of projects and boost transparency with its op-erations in the processing of documents in the pro-

DPWH in Leyte’s second engineering office starts use of document

tracking systemcurement and implementa-tion of local and foreign-as-sisted civil works projects.

“As of this week, we have entered and completed a total of 141 documents since we started its process in November 2018,” Leonel Molleda, in charge of the district’s DoTS center, said in an interview.

The contractors and other stakeholders of the office could now access and track their documents even without personal appear-ance.

The system enables doc-uments to be logged into the system; stores dates re-ceived, sent and returned, and allows viewing of all

incoming, ongoing and outgoing documents and assigns routes and target dates for the documents.

The initiative is in line with Department Order 148 or the “Implementation of the Document Tracking System (DoTS) for Civil Works Projects”.

For 2019, the DPWH in Leyte is tasked to imple-ment 93 infrastructure pro-jects with a total funding of P1.56 billion.

On top of regular pro-jects, the agency also builds classrooms, farm-to-market roads, rainwater collections system, and roads leading to conflict-stricken areas. (LIZBETH ANN A. ABELLA)

Republic of the PhilippinesDEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT

Regional Office No. VIII

February 20, 2019Date

NOTICE OF FILING OF APPLICATION FOR ALIEN EMPLOYMENT PERMIT (AEP) Notice is hereby given that the following employer(s) have filed with the Regional Office application/s for AEPs. Name and Name and Nationality Position and Brief Monthly Salary Address of of Foreign National Description of Duties and Qualifications Range & Other Employer Functions benefits, if there are any

578 Resources, Inc. SHI, YINGMIAO Warehouse and Logistic Manager College Level Php 30,000.00 Rovic Bldg., M.H. Chinese - responsible for the overall suppply chain Del Pilar St. - responsible for organizing, mentoring, Tacloban City storage and distribution of goods.

Any person in the Philippines who is competent, able and willing to perform the services for which the foreign national is desired may file an objection at the DOLE Regional Office within 30 days after this publication.

Please inform the DOLE Regional Office if you have any information on criminal offense committed by the foreign national(s).

YAHYA A. CENTE Regional Director

TACLOBAN CITY – A total of 26 local govern-ment chief executives here in the region were ordered by Interior Secretary Ed-uardo Año to explain their absence while their areas were being hit by typhoon ‘Usman’ last December.

This was disclosed by Adrian Thomas Colasito, assistant division chief for local government moni-toring of the regional office of the Department of In-terior and Local Govern-ment (DILG).

Colasito, however, did not revealed the names of the local chief executives as they still conduct their own investigation on the matter.

“They were given five days to make their reply and some of them have al-ready complied,” he said.

The concerned local officials received the letter from Sec. Año sometime last week.

Colasito added that it

Sec. Año told 26 local officials in the region to answer absence

during ‘Usman’ disaster

Interior Secretary Eduardo Año

will depend on Sec. Año on what action to be taken against the ‘missing’ local officials.

He added that if proven negligent or remiss of their duties as chairpersons of their respective disaster council, they have to pro-vide a written explanation or justification within five days counting from the re-ceipt of the order why they should not be sanction.

“This doesn’t mean that these local government of-ficials are already guilty be-cause they were made to ex-

plain. They were just asked to explain; for all we know they have valid reason for not being in their jurisdic-tion,” Colasito said.

He said that in particu-lar, these missing local of-ficials should answer as to why they were not at their areas during the onslaught of Usman and what actions they undertook.

Last January 4, Sec. Año issued a memorandum re-calling travel orders during times of disaster to local government officials from

see Sec. Año /page 20 ...

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM Tunay na Pagbabago sa Repormang Agraryo

Please be informed that the landholdings described below had been placed under coverage of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) per Notice of Coverage as indicated below:

In this connection, may we invite you or your authorized representative to participate in the Conduct of Joint Field Investigation as scheduled on the above date at 8:00 in the morning. Your failure to participate in the Field Investigation shall be a waiver on your part to question the findings thereof. We anticipate your full cooperation and support. Thank you. (Sgd.) PAULINA S. CANALES PARPO I / OIC PARPO II

LANDOWNER DATE NOC PUBLISHED TITLE NO LOT NO AREA PER TITLE

MUNICIPALITY / PROVINCE BARANGAY DATE OF FIELD

INVESTIGATION

1. ABOITIZ & CO., INC. JUNE 23, 2014 / THE PHIL. STAR OCT-21449 3757 2.9030 BAYBAY, LEYTE SAN JUAN MARCH 11, 2019

2. MIGUEL LACERNA DECEMBER 12, 2012 / MANILA BULLETIN T-4961 11283 6.0767 BAYBAY, LEYTE GUBANG (NOW ZACARITO) MARCH 11, 2019

3. CLEMENTE GO JUNE 23, 2014 / THE PHIL. STAR T-9258 3981 2.3948 JARO, LEYTE STA. CRUZ MARCH 19, 2019

4. DR. VIRGINIA E. CHAN JUNE 19, 2014 / THE PHIL. STAR T-22559 5261-C 2.8179 JARO, LEYTE SARI-SARI MARCH 20, 2019

5. EMILIANO UBAY JULY 7, 2013 / PHIL. DAILY INQUIRER T-2745 46 19.0383 LEYTE, LEYTE BAGABAO MARCH 25, 2019

6. H. SERAFICA & SONS CORPORATION JUNE 24, 2014 / MANILA BULLETIN T-3068 10385 7.2372 KANANGA, LEYTE POBLACION MARCH 27, 2019

7. RURAL BANK OF TACLOBAN CITY, INC. FEBRUARY 18, 2013 / PHIL. DAILY INQUIRER TCT-T-9177 1364 2.8830 CAPOOCAN, LEYTE POTOT APRIL 22, 2019

8. JUAN CAMILLER JUNE 7, 2014 / THE PHIL. STAR P-14543 4128 2.0794 JARO, LEYTE SARI-SARI APRIL 23, 2019

9. ALEJANDRO CAMILLER JUNE 7, 2014 / THE PHIL. STAR OCT-14637 4856 2.0158 JARO, LEYTE STA. CRUZ APRIL 23, 2019

10. ALEJANDRO CAMILLER JUNE 7, 2014 / THE PHIL. STAR OCT-14637 4057 6.3021 JARO, LEYTE SARI-SARI APRIL 24, 2019






R8-EV/CN/PA-FC-2019-02-20140852Case No. VIII-2014-0852

Application for Extension of ValidityWith Petition for Change of NameDue to Change of Status of a Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a FILCAB service

MA. ANGELICA IBAÑEZ BACALLA, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x


Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a FILCAB service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: TACLOBAN CITY-MARASBARAS & VICE VERSA with the use of ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until JULY 25, 2019.





WITNESS the Honorable GUALBERTO N. GUALBERTO, Regional Director, this 13th day of FEBRUARY, 2019.








EVELYN G. GRANADOS, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x

NOTICE OF HEARING

Applicant is a grantee of a Reconstituted Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a UV EXPRESS service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: ISABEL-ORMOC CITY-MAASIN CITY VIA BAYBAY CITY & VICE VERSA with the use of ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until FEBRUARY 5, 2019.









Republic of the PhilippinesProvince of Eastern Samar

Municipality of Guiuan

OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATIONIn Compliance with the publication requirement and

pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1, Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172) , Notice is hereby served to the public that JOANNE ECLEOLACANDAZO, has filed with this Office a petition for cor-rection of entry in sex from “FEMALE” to “MALE” in the certificate of live birth of JOANNE ECLEO LACANDAZO, born on January 17, 1994 at Guiuan, Eastern Samar and whose parents are Jonas A. Lacandazo and Ma-rina S. Ecleo.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than March 7, 2019. (Sgd.) ESTER R. GERMINAL Mun. Civil Registrar

LSDE: Feb. 23 & March 2, 2019

ERRATUMThe Extrajudicial Set-

tlement with Confirmation of Quitclaim and Waiver of Rights, that was published last Feb. 16, 2019 should read as LEONER GILBERT A. LLOREN not LEONOR GILBERT A. LLOREN.

We regret the error. ED


Republic of the PhilippinesOFFICE OF THE CITY CIVIL REGISTRAR

Tacloban City

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION In compliance to Section 5 of R.A. 9048, a notice

is hereby served to the public that NIKKO CABRERA ADVINCULA has filed with

this Office, a Petition for change of first name from BB BOY to NIKKO in Birth

Certificate of BB. BOY CABRERA ADVINCULA who was born on SEPTEMBER 24, 1999 at Tacloban City and whose parents are EVELINA A. CABRERA and EDILBERTO B. ADVINCULA.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than March 7, 2019

(Sgd.) IMELDA A. ROA City Civil Registrar

(Complete name of petitioner)

(New first name to be adopted)(First name to be changed)

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Nicasio Advincula extrajudicially

settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land Lot No. 2474 situated in Brgy. Opong, Tolosa, Leyte, containing an area of 2,684 square meters, more or less, covered by Tax Dec. No. 2466, A Deed of Sale was executed a portion of 1,121 square meters, more or less from the above-described property, known as Lot 2474-A in favor of GENEROSO C. SOLOMON as vendee; per Doc. No. 8, Page No. 2, Book No. 112, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Dexter L. Aguilar. LSDE: Feb. 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Narcisa A. Panal-Kuske, Lorenzo A.

Panal and Teodocio Panal extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land, Cad. Lot No. 432, located at Brgy. Ma-asin, Hindang, Leyte under Tax Dec. No. 08-15015-00527, covered by Katibayan ng Original na Titulo Blg. P-74180, with an area of 3,892 square meters. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of EVANGELINE PANAL as vendee for the above-described property; per Doc. No. 224, Page No. 45, Book No. LIV, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Rosarie Peteros-Phua. LSDE: Feb. 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Basilisa M. Estillore extrajudicially set-

tled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land, under Tax Dec. No. 06000500165 situated at Brgy. Tinago, Bato, Leyte, designated as Ass. Lot No. 1135, containing an area of 4,257 square meters; A Deed of Sale was executed a portion of 100 square meters from the above-described property in favor of Gerlita Luar Lico as vendee; per Doc. No. 206, page No. 42, Book No. XXV, Series of 2108 of Notary Public Atty. Josenilo Marquez Reoma. LSDE: Feb. 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Basilisa M. Estillore extrajudi-

cially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land, under Tax Dec. No. 06000500165 situated at Brgy. Tinago, Bato, Leyte, designated as Ass. Lot No. 1135, containing an area of 4,257 square meters. A Deed of Sale was executed a portion of 100 square meters from the above-described property in favor of Sps. Jerry G. Cadavez and Sheryl S. Cadavez as vendee; per Doc. No. 126, Page No. 26, Book No. XXI, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Josenilo Marquez Reoma. LSDE: Feb. 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH DEED OF SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Alberta Villarante extrajudicially settled,

partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land, covered by T.C.T. No. T-24246, situated in Dulag, Leyte; A Deed of Sale was executed a portion of 283 square meters in favor of Evan-geline I. Biliran married to Eduardo A. Biliran as vendee, for a portion of a certain parcel of land together with all the improvements found thereon; per Doc. No. 133, Page No. 23, Book No. V, Series of 2019 of Atty. Anna Louisa P. Apolinar. LSDE: Feb. 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Segundino Ludo extrajudicially settled,

partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land situated in Brgy. San Jose, Dulag, Leyte, designated as Lot No. 6581, Pls-788 and covered by O.C.T. No. P-20526 and Free Patent No. 436410, containing an area of 974 square meters. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Evangeline I. Biliran as vendee for the above-described property; per Doc. No. 123, Page No. 26, Book No. 9, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Vicente B. Cañas. LSDE: Feb. 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

AFFIDAVIT OF ADJUDICATION WITH SALENOTICE is hereby given that Capistrano V. Llanera heir of the late Leonora Llanera

Tolibat and late Mariano Tolibat executed an affidavit of Adjudication over a parcel of land, situated in Catbalogan, covered by O.C.T. No. 12743, Lot No. 2635, Pls-833-B, con-taining an area of 150,704 square meters; per Doc. No. 5102, Page No. 76, Book No. XVIII, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Pedro M. Labid.LSDE: Feb. 23, March 2 & 9, 2019


ments, thus he is guilty of dishonesty, he alleged.

Unay said that he is seeking for Ong’s preven-tive suspension in the con-duct of investigation to ensure that he could not influence possible witness-es against him.

Reached for his com-ment, Gov. Ong dismissed the complaint saying it smack with political mo-tive as Unay is running for congressman against him.

Ong, however, said that he filed his answer to the complaint through his lawyers on Wednesday (Feb.20).

He also contended that whenever he is outside the province, he could still carry out his obligations as

Gov. Ong......from Page 1

governor. “I can still function as

governor even when I am outside the province. I al-ways give formal authori-zation to Vice Gov. Lavin assigning him as officer-in-charge to ensure that transactions will remain smooth,” Ong said in a phone interview.

He also said that when-ever he is outside the prov-ince and there is a threat of calamity, he was the one who direct Lavin to declare suspension of classes or works.

Ong also said that when-ever he is in Manila, he was there to follow up some of-ficial transactions, adding that under Local Govern-ment Code, he is allowed to have absences of not more than 15 working days.

with anti-measles vaccine amid the ballooning of measles cases in the coun-try, with several region Eastern Visayas, declaring an outbreak.

The rise of measles in the province and the rest of the country was due to the scare brought by the

Gov. Petilla......from Page 1

saying it will kick start on the economic develop-ment of Samar.

It was learned that based on the joint ven-ture agreement, MRSGI will construct and oper-ate a department store, supermarket with a movie theater, a convention cent-er, a government center with BPO space, and a ho-tel complex in Barangay 7 in Catbalogan City.

Also to be constructed inside the 22-hectare com-plex is a transport termi-nal.

It was learned that MRSGI has earmarked a total budget of more than P472.9 million to develop the area while the pro-vincial government will provide the needed space where the mixed-use com-plex will be constructed.

Dengvaxia scare.Dengvaxia is an antidote

for dengue fever but was surrounded with contro-versy after several parents came out and claimed that their children died after re-ceiving the said medicine.

The DOH has banned Dengvaxia as an anti-den-gue fever vaccine in the country due to the contro-versy. (RESTITUTO A. CAYUBIT)

Gaisano-led......from Page 1

The project is expected to start immediately af-ter the provincial govern-ment formally turn over the property to MRSGI.

On its disclosure be-fore the Philippine Stocks Exchange (PSE), MRSGI promised to complete the first phase which includes the department store, the supermarket with a theater and the hotel.

And as part of the deal, both the provincial govern-ment and MRSGI agreed to share in the monthly gross revenue and gross rent, without value-added tax, sourced from the operation of the department store and the supermarket.

MRSGI is to turn over the ownership of the de-partment store, supermar-ket and the leasable spaces, to the provincial govern-ment after the agreed 30 year period. (JOEY A. GABIETA)

Fruits index registered a negative inflation rate at 1.3 percent, from 2.1 per-cent in December 2018.

Inflation rate for trans-port also went down by 0.5 percentage point, from 3.0 percent in December 2018 to 2.5 percent in January 2019. This can be traced to the slower inflation rate seen in the index for oper-ation of personal transport equipment.

PSA......from Page 2

The Purchasing Power of Peso (PPP) of the re-gion was recorded at P0.80 in January 2019, slightly weaker than the P0.81 PPP a month ago.

PPP implies that goods and services worth P100 in January 2019 costs P80 only in 2012.

Biliran and Eastern Sa-mar registered a 0.01 cen-tavo decrease each in PPP compared with their figures in December 2018, while Southern Leyte recorded a 0.01 centavo increase from

its PPP a month ago.The rest of the prov-

inces sustained their PPP last month. Leyte recorded the strongest PPP at P0.83. Biliran and Southern Leyte ranked second at P0.82, fol-lowed by Eastern Samar at P0.77. Northern Samar and Samar posted the weakest PPP at P0.76. (RESTITUTO A. CAYUBIT)

highway in Pancho Villa village.

The DPWH Southern Leyte chief advised the pub-lic bound for Benit Port in San Ricardo town to take safer alternate routes while threats along the highway in Sogod town is not yet fully addressed.

Travelers bound for Be-nit Port may take Tacloban-Mahaplag-Baybay-Bato-B o n t o c - S o g o d - D a a n g Maharlika-Liloan-San Ri-cardo road for the mean-time. The port is the region’s gateway to Mindanao.

(PR/FMMT)

Landslide-hit......from Page 2

than their prosperity for the morrow?

Advocates of globaliza-tion argue that tariffication is, on the long-term, ben-eficial to the country’s trade and commerce. It is posited to be so, essentially, because, import restrictions im-pede the flow of commerce. Many economies have now shifted to a liberalized re-gime. And with the increas-ing velocity of globalization, no member-economy can afford to isolate itself from the dynamics of the more than 180 countries that do business under the regime of the WTO without being left out of the beneficial ef-fects of globalization. Thus, any attempt at isolationism will only succeed in isolat-ing ourselves from the trade dynamics of the global community.

But, will not the unim-peded entry of this chief staple—the main com-ponent of the poor man’s meal—prejudice our local produce, whose protected status is reputed to give a breather not only to our lo-cal rice farmers, but to the poor consumers as well?

It should be recalled that, of late—last quarter of 2018, the convergence of the shortfall in produc-tion of rice due to severe weather disturbances that hit our rice producing re-gions, the spike in the price of oil in the world market, the reported hoarding of

Rice......from Page 5

rice stocks, and the activa-tion of the usual political noise machines among oth-ers, collectively contributed to the adverse effects—or were, in fact, the causes of inflation. Resultantly, con-gressional probes ensued resulting in the renewed call for the lifting of the quanti-tative restrictions on rice importation.

And it came to pass—rice is now tariffied.

Today, anyone who brings in rice will be sub-jected to 35% duties when brought in from ASEAN countries pursuant to ASE-AN Trade In Goods Agree-ment (ATIGA), or 50% du-ties when brought in from non-ASEAN countries. And the revenue derived from this tariffication will be ploughed back to the lo-cal rice industry translated into farm mechanization, R&D on improved seeds propagation, credit access, and extension services. And Congress saw to it that dur-ing the first five years of the law’s implementation, Php10B/year is appropriat-ed as security the rice com-petitiveness enhancement fund (RCEF).

Apropos, we ask con-comitant questions: is our border control capability up to par? Are the port author-ities capable of addressing the logical repercussions of tariffication? With the Phil-ippines having the 3rd or 4th longest coastline in the world, are we adequately protected from the surrep-titious entry of this chief staple? Put differently: are we “port-ified”?

On the issue of border control capability of the Customs bureau—its ports and subports—in address-ing the likely evils of “mis-declaration”, “misclassifica-tion”, “over-quantity”, and the like, ask any “trader”, “player”, or “facilitator” of imported rice operating in the port zones and s/he will tell you that the amount of duties under the above-cited percentages is astro-nomical.

Those who have long stayed in port areas have been made aware of the various malpractices resort-ed to by the “key players” of the rice trade—misdeclara-tion, misclassification, over-quatity, and other schemes just to lessen tax obliga-tions. And these wrongful practices did not happen without the border control officials turning a blind eye, if not conveniently acqui-escing thereto either be-cause of the flawed pretext of revenue collection and trade facilitation, or they’re

simply inadequately tooled that they’re outwitted by the “wizards of the ports.”

In decades past, rice importation were normally brought in as bulk or break bulk cargoes. Of recent vintage, a new modality was adapted—container-ized rice shipment. And the reason for this is not nec-essarily protection of the commodity from the waves of the seas, but more as a scheming devise to evade from the hordes of port au-thorities.

In the bulk and break bulk cargoes, a load port survey (LPS) report done by pre-accredited load port surveyors may come in handy for the customs au-thorities to determine the correct quantity—virtu-ally eliminating the evils of “over-quantity” for purpos-es of avoiding the correct amount of duties. On the other hand, imported rice brought in by way of con-tainer vans do not pass LPS for obvious reasons—thus, one can report that a twen-ty equivalent units (TEU) containerized van contains three hundred fifty (350) 50kg-sacks of rice when the van actually contains more than 400, 450, or even more.

In the break bulk car-goes, the LPS will readily tell you in advance what the shipments really are; in the containerized shipment they can be deliberately “mis-declared” as com-modities that carry lesser rate of tariff—or even those of the zero rated commodi-ties. There was a time when thousands of containers were brought in and de-clared for customs purposes as mung beans—an unpro-cessed agricultural product, when actually they were loaded with rice—certainly, a staggering fraud on cus-toms.

And any port habitué honed in good governance will tell us that “something is fishy in Denmark” when-

ever rice are brought in through shipping contain-ers—misdeclaration, mis-classification, over-quanti-ty or their variants.

Still fresh in the public’s memory was the revelation of former Customs chief Nicanor Faeldon that out of 10,000 containers that are cleared through the customs zone every day, only 1,200 pass through the BOC’s non-intrusive x-ray scanners, leaving the rest—8,800—virtually un-checked or unexamined.

So, is this the kind of unimpeded flow of im-ports that the rice tariffica-tion law wishes to pursue? Or, has Congress ever fac-tored this gaping hole in the process?

Is the border control capability of our port per-sonnel ready—rebooted, reconfigured, retooled—for a deregulated influx of rice import in relation to the evils of “misdeclara-tion”, “misclassification”, or “overquantity”—all heavily taking their toll on revenue collection?

Is this kind of ease embraced in the concept of ease of doing business (EODB) that is advocated by globalization?

And we are not even talking about unchecked or un-Xrayed containers stuffed with anti-social goods, i.e., knock off prod-ucts, or worse, toxic gar-bage, or drugs, or firearms and explosives of terrorist groups.

Yes, this dangerous sneaking in of anti-social articles regularly happens even before the liberat-ing rice tariffication law; but, we can just imagine if the evil minds will now resort to their nefarious trades using the laxity of clearing cargoes brought about by the new regime— “uncontained”entry of containerized rice imports.

Should we not fortify our ports and coasts as well?

No time in history have the military forces of these three nations been on Isra-el’s northern border, at the same time. And the history of the world has no record that these three have ever cooperated militarily. Until now...during which Bible said it would happen, and here we are to see it.

Indeed, the stage seems ready now for the fulfilment of Ezekiel 38-39 prophe-cies. As prophesied, Russia, Iran, Turkey, and the other nations in the Gog-Magog alliance will be sending an overwhelming invasion force to attack Israel (Eze-kiel 38:8-9). No, the world

Prophecy......from Page 5

won’t come to Israel’s de-fense (Ezekiel 38:15-16). But God will, and shall put His full power on display to miraculously destroy Israel’s enemies (Ezekiel 38:18-23).

What’s the implication of all this? Well, it means more and more events will take place in Syria to fulfil Ezekiel’s account. This al-liance will get closer. Then Israel will become more isolated as other nations on earth that Ezekiel cited will join Russia, Iran, and Turkey.

Well, we’re now in the last days (Ezekiel 38:8; Ezekiel 39:25-29), and we can just expect the soon return of Jesus Christ.

12 Leyte Samar Daily Express Saturday, February 23, 2019ORDINANCERepublic of the PhilippinesProvince of Eastern Samar

Municipality of Salcedo

OFFICE OF THE SANGGUNIANG BAYAN-oOo-

EXCERPTS FROM THE MINUTES OF THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE SANGGUNIANG BAYAN OF SALCEDO, E. SAMAR HELD ON FEBRUARY 18, 2019 AT THE SB SESSION HALL, THIS MUNICIPALITY.

Present: Hon. Maricris D. Fabillar ….. Vice Mayor/Presiding Officer Hon. Flora T. Badanoy ….. SB Member Hon. Noel S. Abunales ….. SB Member Hon. Rosario A. Palconite ….. SB Member Hon. Susan M. Sumook ….. SB Member Hon. Charles O. Cabus ….. SB Member Hon. Juanito D. Waniwan ….. SB Member Hon. Victoria L. Pelicano ….. SB Member Hon. Adam L. Ranit ….. SB Member Hon. Romualdo G. Estor ….. ABC Pres./Ex-Officio Member Hon. Janelo Phillip N. Abrugar…..SK Fed. Pres./Ex-Officio MemberAbsent: None

Municipal Ordinance No. 2019-01Series of 2019

AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE USE, SALE, DISTRIBUTION AND ADVERTISE-MENT OF CIGARETTES AND OTHER TOBACCO PPRODUCTS, AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES, IN CERTAIN PLACES, IMPOSING PENALLTIES FOR VIOLATORS THEREOF AND PROVIDING FUNDS THEREOF, TO INSTILL HEALTH CONSCIOUS-NESS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

WHEREAS, the 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines declares that the State shall protect and promote the right to health of the people and instill health consciousness among them;

WHEREAS, the Local Government Code states that local governments may impose reasonable fees and charges on businesses and occupations;

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED, AS IT IS HEREBY ENACTEDby the Sang-guniang Bayanof Salcedo, Eastern Samar by virtue of the powers vested in it by law, in session assembled that:

Section 1.Brief Title - This Ordinance shall be known as “COMPREHENSIVE ANTI-SMOKING ORDINANCE OF SALCEDO, EASTERN SAMAR”.

Section 2. Purpose - It is the purpose of this Ordinance to safeguard public health and ensure the well-being of all its constituents by protecting them from the harmful effects of smoking and tobacco consumption.

Section 3. Coverage - This Ordinance shall apply to all persons, whether natural or juridical, whether resident or not, and in all places, found within the territorial jurisdiction of Salcedo Eastern Samar.

Section 4. Definition of Terms - As used in this Ordinance, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section. Any words or terms not defined shall be given their plain and customary meanings, unless the context requires otherwise, and shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with the purpose and spirit of this Ordinance.

a) Advertising and Promotion – means any form of commercial communica-tion, recommendation or action with the aim, effect or likely effect of promoting a tobacco product or tobacco use either directly or indirectly. Forpurposes of this ordinance, it shall likewise apply to Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS)

b) Civil society organization (CSO) - a legally constituted voluntary civic and social organization or institution created with no participation of government, including but not limited to, charities, development non-governmental organiza-tions (NGOs), corn munity groups, women’s organizations, faith-based organiza-tions, professional associations, coalitions and advocacy groups. As used in this Ordinance, CSOs do not include organizations or associations related to or con-nected with the tobacco industry in any way;

c) Designated Smoking/Vaping Area –refers to an outdoor space, duly ap-proved by the Municipal Health Officer, where smoking and/ or vaping, may be allowed without violating this ordinance by complying its requirements.

d) Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) which shall include Electron-ic Non-Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENNDS) for purposes of this regulations}means any device such as electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), electronic shisha (e-shisha), vapes, vape pen, Heat-Not-Burn products, and other similar devices, whether or not it is used to deliver nicotine and/or other components to the user, which may be through the act of vaping or that which resembles smoking, and may have the outward appearance of smoking products.

e) Enclosed or Partially Enclosed - being covered by a roof or enclosed by one or more walls or sides, regardless of the type of material used for the roof, wall or sides, and regardless of whether the structure is permanent or temporary;

f) Minor - any person below eighteen (18) years old;g) Outdoor advertisement - any sign, model, placard, board, billboard, ban-

ner, bunting, light display, device, structure or representation employed outdoors wholly or partially to advertise or promote a tobacco product to the public;

h) Persons in charge - In case of public places, public outdoor spaces, or oth-er establishments, this refers to the president or manager in case of a company, corporation or association, the owner/proprietor as well as the operator in case of single proprietorship, or the administrator in case of government property, of-fice or building is involved. In case of a publicconveyance, the owner, the driver, the conductor, and the captain of a public conveyance. In case of workplaces, the employer who may be an individual employer, or a sole proprietor, or if the employer is a corporation, all the corporate officials;

i) Point of Sale - any location at which an individual can purchase or other-wise obtain tobacco products;

j) Public Conveyance -any vehicle, whether mobile or stationary, available to the public as a mode of transport, such as but not limited to elevators, airplanes, ships, jeepneys, buses, taxicabs, trains, light rail transits, tricycles and other simi-lar vehicles;

k) Public places - all places, fixed or mobile, that are accessible or open to the public or places for collectible use, regardless of ownership or right to access, including, but limited to establishments that provide food and drinks, accommo-dation, merchandise, professional services, entertainment or other services. It also includes outdoor spaces where facilities are available for the public or where a crowd of people would gather, such as but not limited to playgrounds, sports grounds or centers, church grounds, health/hospital compounds, transportation terminals, markets, parks, resorts, walkways, entrance ways, waiting areas, and the like;

l) Second-hand Smoke - the smoke emitted from the burning end of a ciga-rette or from other tobacco products usually in combination with the smoke ex-haled by the smoker;

m) Smoking - being in possession or control of a lit tobacco product, regard-less of whether the smoke is being actively inhaled or exhaled;

n)Smoke Free Air- (for purposes of this ordinance) is air that is 100% free from tobacco smoke. This definition includes, but is not limited to, air in which tobacco smoke cannot be seen, smelled, sensed or measured.

o) Sponsorship –means any form of contribution to any event, activity or individual with the aim, effect or likely effect of promoting a tobacco product or tobacco use either directly or indirectly.

p) Tobacco Advertising and Promotion - any form of commercial communi-cation, recommendation or action with the aim, effect or likely effect of promot-ing a tobacco product or tobacco use directly or indirectly, including but not lim-ited to ay message or image promoting smoking, tobacco products, brand names, or tobacco company names or any material or structure that contains these such as posters, streamers, signages, standees, billboards, fliers, umbrellas, parasols, CD, film, caps, shirts, towels, mugs, candies, stickers, etc.

q) Tobacco Industry - organizations, entities, associations, and individuals that work for or in-behalf of the tobacco industry, such as but not limited to tobac-co manufacturers, wholesale distributors, importers of tobacco products, tobacco retailers, front groups and any other individuals or organizations, including but not limited to lawyers, scientists and lobbyist that work to further the interests of the tobacco industry.

r) Tobacco Industry Interference – refers to a broad array of tactics and strat-egies used by the tobacco industry to interfere with the setting and implementa-tion of tobacco control measures.

s)Tobacco Products - products entirely or partly made of tobacco leaf as raw material which is manufactured to be used for smoking, sucking, chewing or snuff-ing such as but not limited to cigars, cigarettes, and cigarillos.

t) Vaping- refers to the act of inhaling and exhaling aerosols or vapor pro-duced by any Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS)/Electronic Non-Nico-tine Delivery System (ENNDS) or other electronic device whether ornot it is used to deliver nicotine to the user, and mimics the act of smoking.

u) Workplaces - any place used by people during their employment or work, including not only work done for compensation, but also voluntary work, if it is of the type for which compensation is, normally paid; including all attached or associ-ated places commonly used by the workers in the course of their work including, for example, corridors, elevators, stairwells, cafeterias, toilets, lobbies, lounges. Vehicles used in the course of work are considered workplaces.

Section 5. Prohibited Acts - The following acts are declared unlawful and pro-hibited by this Ordinance:

a) Smoking or vaping in any part of any enclosed or partially enclosed public place, workplace, public conveyance (whether mobile or stationary), or other public places, such as enumerated under Section 4 (k), except in DSVA (Designating Smok-ing/Vaping Area).

b) For persons-in-charge to allow, abet or tolerate smoking or vaping in places enumerated in the preceding paragraph, outside of approved Designated Smoking/Vaping Area under Section 6 of this Ordinance;

c) Selling or distributing tobacco products and/ or ENDS to minors;d) Purchasing tobacco products and/or from minors;e) Ordering, instructing or compelling a minor to use, light up, buy, sell, distrib-

ute, deliver, advertise or promote tobacco products and/or ENDS;f) Selling, distributing, advertising and promoting tobacco products and/or END-

Sin a school, public playground or any other facility frequented by minors,offices of the Department of Health (DOH) and attached agencies, hospitals and health facili-ties or within one hundred (100) meters from any point in the perimeter of these places.

g) Selling of tobacco products and/or ENDS within premises of a government facility, and establishment that serve food and drinks or provide accommodation and entertainment;

h) Selling tobacco productsand/ or ENDSwithout a municipal permit or license to sell tobacco products or ENDS

i) Selling of tobacco products and/or ENDS as individual pieces or per stick, or in tobacco products packs containing less than 20 sticks/pieces;

j) Selling tobacco products and/or ENDS removed from its original product packaging or without the proper government-regulated and approved health warning.

k) Selling tobacco products and/or ENDS by ambulant or street vendors, includ-ing other mobile or temporary stalls, kiosks, stations or units;

l) Selling or distributing of sweets, snacks, toys or any other objects in the form of tobacco products and/or ENDS which may appeal to minors or bearing resem-blance to their logo/indicia/packaging;

m) Placing cinema or outdoor advertisements of tobacco products and/or ENDS;n)Placing, posting, displaying or distributing advertisement and promotional

materials of tobacco products or ENDS, such as but not limited to leaflets, posted, display structures and other materials within an establishment when such establish-ment or its location is prohibited from selling tobacco products and/or ENDS;

o) Placing, posting, displaying or distributing advertisement and promotional materials of tobacco products or ENDS, such as but not limited to leaflets, posted, display structures and other materials that show a tobacco/ENDS brand’s name (in-cluding company name), logo or indicia, such as in a point-of-sale establishment, where minors are allowed entry.

p) Conducting promotional activities, campaigns, events, products sampling, and the like, where the establishment or its location is prohibited from selling or unauthorized to sell tobacco products and/ or ENDS, and/ or where minors are al-lowed entry;

q) Displaying and placing tobacco products and/ or ENDS in open store shelves/racks, except in enclosed, opaque and single-colored storages/containments;

r) Facilitation, participation or partnership engaged by any government official or personnel of LGU Salcedo, E. Samar regardless of employment status (permanent, casual, contractual, job order, consultant or special appointment) if any form of con-tribution, sponsorship or corporate social responsibility (CSR) activity, event, program or project by a tobacco/ENDS company, tobacco/ENDS industry interest, executed for or within the territorial jurisdiction of the Salcedo, E. Samar, with the aim, effect or likely effect of promoting a tobacco products and/or ENDS, its use either directly or indirectly.

Persons-in-charge shall be held similarly liable for the above acts if they are found to have allowed, abetted, or tolerated the same.

Section 6. Designation of Smoking/Vaping Area - The Local Chief Executive shall designate a smoking/vaping area within their sphere of jurisdiction.

1. It shall be located in an open-space outside the building with no permanent or temporary roof or walls in an outdoor area.

2. It is not located in or within ten (10) meters from entrances, exits, or any place where people pass or congregate, or air intake ducts.

3. It shall not have an area larger than 10 square meters.4. Food or drinks are not served in the designated smoking/vaping area.5. No building shall have more than one designated smoking/vaping area.6. Minors or persons below the age of 18 shall not be allowed inside.7. Designated smoking/vaping area has the following signage highly visible and

prominently displayed:a) “Smoking Area”/”Vaping Area” signage with message showing “Minors not

allowed within these premises”b) Graphic health warnings on the effects/harms of tobacco/ENDS use or ex-

posurec) Information on cessation hotline and/ or cessation clinic/services8. It shall not be located in places where absolute smoking bans are in effect,

such as, but not limited to: centers of youth activity such as playschools, prepara-tory, schools, elementary schools, high schools, colleges and university, youth hos-tels and recreational facilities for persons under eighteen (18) years old; elevators and stairwells; locations in which fire hazards are present, including gas stations and storage areas for flammable liquids, gas, explosives or combustible materials; within the building and premises of public and private hospitals, medical, dental, and optical clinic, health centers, nursing homes, dispensaries and laboratories; food preparation areas; public conveyances and in enclosed, partially enclosed and out-door areas of transport terminals that are near entrances and exits or where people pass or congregate; within the buildings of all government facilities and premises of all offices of the Department of Health, Department of Education, Commission on Higher Education, Department of Social Welfare and Development and the Civil Service Commission, and shall likewise include parks, plazas, playgrounds, sports and recreational facilities, and other facilities where an absolute smoking ban is imposed under special laws, ordinances, administrative and executive orders, memorandum circulars and related policies.

Section 7. Duties and Obligations of Establishments and Persons in Charge - In all public places, workplaces, or public conveyances, and other public places asde-fined in Section 4 above, establishments and Persons in charge shall:

a) Prominently post and display the “No Smoking” signage, in the locations, most visible to the public in the areas where smoking is prohibited. At the very least, the “No Smoking” signage must be posted at the entrance to the area, which shall be at least 8x11 inches in size, where the symbol shall occupy no less than 60% of the signage, while the remaining 40% of the signage shall show the pertinent informa-tion, as follow:

ex. or as a combine symbol

“STRICTLY NO SMOKING AND NO VAPING”as per MUNICIPAL ORDINANCE NO. 2019-01

Violators can be fined up to ₱ 2,500.00Report violations to [hotline number optional]

As for the DSA, after complying with the specifications in Section 6, prominently display the following elements in the signage:

“DESIGNATED SMOKING/VAPING AREA” or “SMOKING/VAPING AREA”“Minors not allowed within these premises”

[place Graphic/Picture-Based Health Warning on the effects of tobacco use within the signage]

[If available, place number of Smoking Cessation Hotline]

b) For all public conveyances: Prominently post and display “NO SMOKING”and “NO VAPING” signage in the most conspicuous location within the public convey-ance. At the very least a 3.5 sq.m. inch “No Smoking and “No Vaping” signage shall be placed on the windshield and a 10 square inch “No Smoking” and “No Vaping” at the driver’s back seat.

c) Ashtrays and any other receptacles for disposing of cigarette or other tobacco product refuse must be provided in the approved Designated Smoking/Vaping Areas, and shall be removed from all places where smoking/vaping is prohibited.

d) For persons-in-charge of government premises intending to establish a DSAs/DVAs: must secure a certification/permit from the duly authorized officer or repre-sentative of the Civil Service Commission.

e) For persons in-charge of commercial establishments/buildings or other non-

government facilities intending to establish a DSA/DVA: must secure a certification/permit from the Building/Engineering Office and Health Office after complying with the requirements for a DSA/DVA, as stated in Section 6.

f) For persons in-charge of schools, public playgrounds or other facilities fre-quented by minors, offices of the DOH and attached agencies, hospitals and health facilities, post the following statement in a clear and conspicuous manner:

SELLING OF CIGARETTES OR OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS NOT ALLOWED WITHIN 100 METERS FROM ANY POINT IN THE PERIMETER OF:

[name of school/playground/facility for minors/health facility/etc.]g) For persons in-charge of schools, public playgrounds or other facilities fre-

quented by minors, offices of the DOH and attached agencies, hospitals and health facilities: must report to the Smoke Free Task force any tobacco products/ENDS selling, advertising and/or promotion located within 100 meters from its perim-eters.

h) For persons-in-charge of establishments intending to sell tobacco products and/or ENDS: must secure a permit to retail/wholesale from the Business Permit and Licensing Office.

i) For persons in-charge of approved point-of-sale establishments, post the following statement/notice, together with a graphic/picture-based health waring on the health consequences of tobacco use, as prescribed by the Municipal Health Office in a clear and conspicuous manner:“SALE/DISTRIBUTION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND E-CIGARETTES TO MINORS

IS UNLAWFUL”j) For persons-in-charge of point-of-sale establishments, remove all forms of

tobacco or ENDS advertisement/ promotions paraphernalia deemed prohibited by this Ordinance;

k) For persons-in-charge of point-of-sale establishments, secure approval from the Municipal Health Office for storages or containments of tobacco products and/or ENDS. Only a listing of available tobacco and/or ENDS. Only a listing of available tobacco and/or ENDS brands/variants sold at the point-of-sale establishment are allowed to appear outside of the storage or containment, where such listing shall only be written/printed in any plain font, and devoid of any recognizable product or brand typefaces, logo, indicia or markings. Such list shall not occupy more than (25%) of the exposed side of the storage or containment;

l) For persons-in-charge of point-of-sale establishments, ensure that storages or containments of tobacco products and/or ENDS are only opened by a store per-sonnel/manager at the counter during actual purchase by an adult customer, or when being replenished, cleaned or inspected;

m) Establish internal procedure and measures through which this Ordinance shall be implemented and enforced within the area of which he/or she is in charge. This includes compliance to the sales, distribution, advertising and promotions re-strictions, ie. warning smoking/vaping violators in banned areas and requesting them to stop smoking/vaping, and if they refuse to comply, asking them to leave the premises, and if they still refuse to comply, reporting the incident to the Mu-nicipal Health Office, the nearest peace officer, or to any member of the Smoke Free Task through its hotline or by other means;

n) Ensure that all the employees in the establishments are aware of this Ordi-nance and the procedure and measures for implementing and enforcing it;

o) Allow inspectors acting under Sections 14 and 15 hereof, which may include other members of the Task Force and the designated civil society organization un-der Section 16, entry into the establishment or public conveyance during regular business hours for the purpose of inspecting its compliance with this Ordinance;

p) For all signage required to be posted under (a), (b), (e), and (h) above, pro-vide for versions of them in the local dialect or in English;

Section 8. Persons Liable - The following persons/individuals are deemed li-able under this Ordinance:

a) Any person who commits the prohibited acts enumerated in Section 5 hereof;

b) Persons in charge who knowingly allow, abet, or tolerate the prohibited acts enumerated in Section 5 or who otherwise fail to fulfill the duties and obligations as enumerated in Section 7 of this Ordinance; and

c) Establishments that fail to comply or found to be noncompliant with the requirements under Sec 7.

d) If the violators is a minor, the enforcer of this Ordinance shall report the in-cident to the school principal/dean exercising jurisdiction over the minor-offender where he shall be required to comply with disciplinary measures under the school where he/she is enrolled, and/or to the Municipal Social Welfare and Develop-ment Office for appropriate action or intervention, pursuant to Republic Act 9344. Should the school have no policy for offenses committed by their pupils outside school premises or if the minor is an out-of-school youth, the enforcer shall present the minor to the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office, which may likewise involve the parents or guardians and/ or a Barangay Official where the minor is a resident.

Section 9. Penalties - The following penalties shall be imposed on violators of this Ordinance:

a. Violation of Section 5(a), (b) Smoking or Vaping and Section 7:First Offense : Reprimand + 2 hours community serviceSecond Offense : Fine of Php 1,000.00Third and Subsequent Offenses : Fine of Php 2,500.00or imprisonment of up to one (1) month or both, at the discretion of the court.Suspension or revocation of business license or permit may be prescribed (in case of a business entity or establishment), if applicable.

b. Violation of Section 5 ( c ) to (q) Sales/Access Restriction andAdvertising and Promotions Ban:

First Offense : Reprimand + 2 hours community serviceSecond Offense : Fine of Php 2,000.00Third and Subsequent Offenses: Fine of Php2,500.00or imprisonment of up to one (1) month or both, at the discretion of the court.Suspension or revocation of business license or permit may be prescribed ( in

case of a business entity or establishment), if applicable.c. Violation of Section 5 ( r) Sponsorship/Contribution/Partnership with the

Tobacco Industry Involving Government Officials/Personnel:Apply Rules and sanctions are prescribed by the CSC-DOH Joint Memorandum

Circular 2010-01 pursuant to RA 3019, RA 6713, and the Revised Penal Code (1932).d. Closure Order: The Health Department shall recommend to the appropriate

office, Municipal Mayor, immediate closure of establishments that:1.Continue operations despite the suspension of the license/permit;2. Fail to take corrective action despite the receipt of two (2) notices in the

form of warnings or citation tickets, within (10) calendar days from the receipt of the second notice; or

3. Reinstall or re-post/distribute a removed/confiscated tobacco advertisinge. If the violator of the prohibited acts enumerated in this Ordinance is a mi-

nor: he/she shall be properly dealt with in accord with the provisions of the Child and Youth Welfare Code and Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006.

f. If the violator of this Ordinance is the operator and/or driver of any public conveyance: the imposition of penalties enumerated under Section 9 hereof shall not prejudice the imposition of penalties as provided under Memorandum Circular dated 2009-036 of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LT-FRB), Re: “100% Smoke Free Public Utility Vehicles (PUV’s) and Public Land Trans-portation Terminals”.

g. If the violator of is a government official or employee, in addition to the applicable penalties provided under this Section, he/she shall be dealt with admin-istrative sanction, as per CSC MC No. 17, series of 2009.

h. Revocation or Suspension of License/Permit: The license/permit to sell to-bacco products’/ENDS) or to operate of any establishment or of any public con-veyance covered by this Ordinance shall be suspended for at least one (1) week but not more than one (1) month, or revoked, should the same fail to perform the necessary action within fifteen (15) days upon receipt of violation notice or fail to pay within seven (7) working days the corresponding penalty as stated in the Citation Ticket for the violation committed. Should the license/permit found to be in violation of this ordinance, fall outside of the jurisdiction of the respective Local Government Unit (LGU), the recommendation for revocation or suspension of license/permit shall be forwarded to the appropriate LGU, agency or governing body. The suspension or revocation of the license/permit of the erring establish-ment or public conveyance shall only be lifted once all the requirements set forth upon re-inspection and evaluation of the Health Office, Building/Engineering Of-fice, Business Permits and Licensing Office and/or the appropriate agency or gov-

13Leyte Samar Daily ExpressSaturday, February 23, 2019 ORDINANCEerning body has been fully complied with. Any Task Force Member may recom-mend the revocation or suspension of license or permit of an erring establishment to the appropriate office.

i. Community Service: If a violator is unable to pay the fines impose, he or she may choose to render community service within the municipality. For every hour of community service rendered, his/her outstanding fine shall be reduced by an amount equivalent to triple the hourly minimum wage (or other computations/fixed amount per hour for the total number of hours needed to be rendered) in the municipality.

j. Confiscation or Removal: Tobacco product, ENDS and their advertising/pro-motions paraphernalia associated with any violation of the prohibited acts in this ordinance may be subject to confiscation and/or removal.

k. No Contest Provision: Persons liable who have been apprehended or cited for violation of any of the prohibited acts of this Ordinance, except for Section 5 ( r), and who do not wish to contest the violation, and is willing to pay voluntarily the administrative penalty imposed upon him/her for the first and second offenses enumerated in Section 8 a. and penalty b. prior to the filing of formal c h a r g e s with the proper court shall be allowed to pay the penalty with the Municipal Treas-urer’s Office, within five (5) regular business days from apprehension, to avoid be-ing criminally prosecuted. Otherwise, the case shall be prosecuted in court. The “No Contest Provision” can no longer be availed for third and subsequent offense. The proceeds from payment of the herein penalties imposed shall be subjected to the provisions on Funding in Section 37 of this Ordinance.

l. Subsidiary Imprisonment Provision. Subsidiary imprisonment may be im-posed by the court in the event that the offender, who is found guilty of violating the provisions of this Ordinance, is unable to pay the fine which he is sentenced to pay.

m. Proper Identification. Persons found in violation of this ordinance must present correct and valid identification. In case any valid and sufficient form of identification is not presented, he/she shall be brought to the nearest police sta-tion for proper identification, then to the Smoke Free Task Force for the pay-ments of penalty or rendition of community service.

Section 10. LIFTING OF THE SUSPENSION/ CLOSURE ORDER - Such order shall be lifted only after the erring establishment or public land transport terminal has complied with the following requirements:

a) submission of a written request to the Health Department for re-inspection;b) payment of re-inspection fee of Php100.00c) upon re-inspection, the establishment must be in full compliance with the

Ordinance;d) secure from the Health Department an endorsement to lift the suspension/

closure order to be forwarded to the proper office for approval.Section 11. Clearance for New Buildings/ Establishments - All New Buildings/

Establishments that propose to sell/advertise tobacco products or establish des-ignated smoking areas shall secure a clearance from the Tobacco Control Board prior to their application for business/building permits and submit specifications for the DSA along with their application for building permits. The Building Officer shall consider this clearance as an additional requirement for the issuance of build-ing permits and shall include the requirements of this Ordinance in his inspection checklist.

Section 12. Compliance to the Ordinance as Additional Requirement of Health Department Sanitation Standards - Compliance to the Ordinance shall be made an additional requirement of Health Department Sanitation Standards. The Health Department shall prepare a separate checklist based on the foregoing re-quirements. Establishments found in violation of the Ordinance are considered to be below sanitation standards.

Section 13. Compliance to the Ordinance as Additional Requirement of Busi-ness Permits and License Applications & Renewals - Compliance to the Ordinance shall be made an additional requirement for the issuance of business permits and licenses. Compliance with the requirements of this Ordinance shall form part of the checklist of requirements for application of permits/licenses.

a) Establishments found in violation of the Ordinance or fail to comply with the requirements thereof shall not be issued permits/license to operate,

b) Establishments within the 100 meter perimeter of schools, playgrounds and facilities frequented by minors shall not be allowed to sell or advertise tobacco products.

c) All Business Permits and Licenses shall be stamped/marked with the follow-ing notations, where applicable:

“STRICT PROHIBITIONS:• Smoking• Selling, Distributing, or Promoting Tobacco Products to Minors• Tobacco advertising except inside the premises of an authorized/licensed

retail establishment• Selling within the 100 Meter Perimeter of the School, Playground or facility

frequented by Minor (or where the establishment is identified to be within the restricted zone, “This establishment is strictly prohibited from selling/ advertising tobacco products”)

SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM:

Section 14. Smoking Cessation and Livelihood Assistance Programs – The Municipal Health Officer, with the assistance of the Health Education and Promo-tion Officer, or other members of the Smoke Free Task Force, which include the CSO representative designated under Section 16 hereof, shall develop, promote and implement a Smoking Cessation Program and encourage the participation therein of public and private facilities which may be able to provide for its require-ments. Smokers who are willing to quit including those who may be dual users of tobacco or ENDS products, or ENDS products users who may have developed de-pendence, and those found violating this Ordinance may be referred to the Smok-ing Cessation Program and its facilities.

Persons involved in selling prior to the effectivity of this ordinance, such as ambulant vendors whose economic activity shall be affected or displaced by the prohibitions on sales, shall be referred for enrollment and given assistance in the livelihood programs of the municipality or other appropriate agency, subject to availability of funds.

CITATION TICKET SYSTEM:

Section 15. The Citation Ticket System - Liable persons in-charge and indi-vidual persons shall be informed of their alleged violation and the penalty cor-responding with such violation by means of a Citation Ticket System with the fol-lowing guidelines:

a) The Citation Ticket Booklet shall be issued by the Treasurer’s Office and distributed by the Health Office to its deputies and others in charge of enforcing the Ordinance.

b) A citation ticket shall be prepared in triplicate form in different colors. The first copy shall be issued to the person/s liable for any violation of this Ordinance which in turn shall be the copy to be presented to the local treasury office for the settlement of the fine imposed therein. The second copy shall be given by the ar-restingofficer to the PNP for purposes of filing a case; and the third copy shall be submitted to the local health office for database and monitoring.

c) Within fifteen (15) days of the effectivity of this Ordinance, the Health Offic-er shall promulgate the design to be used for the Citation Ticket. The Citation Ticket design should, at the very minimum, contain a checklist of the venous violations under this Ordinance, the lines associated with it, and the due date for compliance with the obligations imposed by the ticket. This design shall be forwarded to the Information Officer for printing.

d) A Citation Ticket is issued to the persons liable for any violation under the Ordinance. It shall contain:

1. The specific violations;2. The corresponding penalties; and3. The due date for compliance in accordance with the Ordinance.c) Enforcers and deputies authorized to issue citation tickets shall submit du-

plicates of the issuances to their principal within three (3) business days.d) Within fifteen (15) days of the effectivity of this Ordinance, the Legal Officer

shall, upon approval of the Office of the Mayor and the Health Officer, promulgate rules of procedure in order to enable persons who wish to contest the violations stated in the Citation Tickets to do so. These rules must be summary in nature; shall allow no more than seven (7) days from start to finish; shall not allow postpone-ments or extensions for any reason; shall not allow the presence of counsel; shall be conducted by means of position papers; and any testimony shall be taken by submission of sworn affidavits. The non-promulgation of the rules of procedure shall not prevent the effectivity of this Ordinance.

INFORMATION DRIVE:

Section 16. Dissemination to all enforcers - Within sixty (60) days of the effectiv-ity of this Ordinance, the Health Office, in coordination with the Office of the Mayor, shall provide:

a) at least two (2) copies of this Ordinance to every Philippine National Police (PNP) station or precinct within the LGU ;

b) a primer on this Ordinance for every enforcer in the LGU; and c) briefings to all enforcers of the provisions of Ordinance and of their responsi-

bility to see to its enforcement.Section 17. Posting of Billboards & Information Campaign - The Engineering’s

office shall put up billboards in conspicuous places in the LGU to notify the public of the restrictions and sanctions provided in this Ordinance. The Public Information Office shall, upon the effectivity of this act, immediately issue notices regarding the individual obligations under this Ordinance. This notice shall be disseminated at the barangay level. The Tobacco Control Board shall undertake an Information and Educa-tion Campaign to ensure compliance with the law.

Section 18. Dissemination to Establishments and Public Conveyances - Within sixty (60) days after the effectivity of this Ordinance, the Health Officer shall, in co-ordination with, the Business Permits & Licenses Office, give a brief notice of this Ordinance to all existing establishments that are open to the public and to every es-tablishment applying for a new license to operate. He/She shall also, in coordination with the Information Office, provide the same to all operators of public conveyances in the LGU.

ENFORCEMENT:

Section 19. Smoke Free Task Force. – A Task Force shall be created to aid in the implementation, enforcement and monitoring of this Ordinance, and to protect the same form tobacco/ENDS industry interference at all times, as well as to conduct educational awareness campaigns, information dissemination programs, that will in-form the constituents and train enforcement officers.

The Task Force chaired by the Mayor shall have the following as members and may designate a vice-chair to serve as overall coordinator:

a. Health Officer ;b. Health Education and Promotion Officer/or equivalent designate;c. Building/Engineering Officer;d. Legal Officer;e. Information Officer;f. Business Permits and Licensing Officer;g. Representative/s of one or more civil society organizations (CSO) designated

by the Health Officer, under Section 16, hereof;h. Philippine National Police (PNP Chief of Police;i. Treasurer;j. Environment and Natural Resources Officer (ENRO) form the LGU or from

DENR;k. Representative\s from DepED, CHED and/ or academic institution;l. Local President of the Liga ng mga Barangay ng Pilipinas;m. Public Order and Safety Officer;n. Social Welfare and Development Officero. Human Resources Management Officerp. City/Municipal Administratorq. Coordinator of the Task Force Unit or Office (if other than the above officers)r. Other member/s identified by the chair or vice-chair (whose specific function

in the LGU and role may serve to effectively implement this Ordinance).The Task Force shall not include as its member any person or entity upholding or

accommodating tobacco industry interest or is connected in any way to the tobacco/ENDS industry, in order to protect the primary health objectives of this Ordinance from any and all interests prejudicial to tobacco control policies and to preserve its integrity. No member of the Task Force shall also receive for himself or for other individuals, beneficiaries or groups, any contribution or compensation, directly or indirectly, whether financial or otherwise, form the tobacco/ENDS industry. Non-compliance of this provision, governing the Task Force, shall serve as grounds for the removal of the erring Task Force member/s. if the erring Task Force member is like-wise a public officials or government personnel, he/she shall be subject to sanctions prescribed under the CSC-DOH Joint Memorandum Circular 2010-001.

Section 20. Duties and Responsibilities of the Task Force – Other than (1) re-ceiving, reviewing and processing reports and complaints, serving of citations and notices, and filing of appropriate charges for violations under this Ordinance (2) at-tending regular Task Force Meetings, and (3) deputizing enforcers, and enforcing the other provisions of this Ordinance, the Task Force, headed by the Mayor, shall have the following respective duties and responsibilities;

Section 21. Creation of Barangay Tobacco Control Committees - The Barangay Tobacco Control Committee shall have the following duties and responsibilities:

a. Formulate tobacco control program consistent with city/ municipality plan;b. Disseminate information in barangay;c. Assist with enforcement of the ordinance.Section 22. Composition - No member of the board shall represent or receive

any contribution or compensation, directly or indirectly, whether financial or other-wise, from the tobacco industry. The Barangay Tobacco Control Committees shall be composed of the following:

a. Barangay Captain — Chairb. One(1)kagawadc. BK chaird. Public/private school principals or representativese. One (1) Parents and Teachers president or representativef. One (1) Religious organization representativeg. One (1) Environmental NGO representativeSection 23. Enforcement on Individuals.–Members of the PNP and/or persons

duly deputized by the Mayor/Task Force shall apprehend and issue Citation Tickets against persons found in violation or have failed to comply with any provision enu-merated under Section 5 and 6 hereof. They shall forward copies of the tickets they issue violators to the Treasurer’s Office regularly or per week. If the violator is a minor (person below 18), he orshe must turned over for dispensation of appropriate action to the nearest Social Welfare and Development Office or its appointed designates, subject to RA 9344 (Juvenile Justice and Welfare Law), and/ or to the school authori-ties at the school where the minor is enrolled, and/or to the Barangay Office where the minor is a resident, where the parents or guardians maybe called. In case any valid or sufficient form of identification is not presented, he/she shall be brought to the nearest to the nearest police station for proper identification, then to the Smoke Free Force for the payment of penalty or rendition of community service.

Section 24. Enforcement on Public Conveyances. - Members of the PNP and/or persons duly deputized by the Task Force shall inspect public conveyances during their regular hours of operation and shall issue Citation Tickets upon discovery of any violation of this Ordinance. They shall forward copies of the tickets they issue viola-tors to the Health Office regularly, at least thrice a week.

Section 25. Enforcement on Establishments.- Ninety (9O) calendar days after the effectivity of this Ordinance, an inspection team composed of representatives from the Health Office, the Engineers Office, and the Permits and License Office, shall conduct inspections of establishments and buildings to determine their compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance.

Regular inspection shall thereafter be conducted at least once every month or simultaneously with other regular inspections done by the [LGU], whichever is more frequent, during normal hours of operation of the establishment.

The inspection team shall issue a Citation Ticket against the establishment upon finding of non-compliance with or of any violation of this Ordinance. A Citation Ticket maybe issued for each day that the establishment is found to be non-compliant.

Re-inspection of the establishment shall be done on any day after the issuance of the Citation Ticket, hut in no case more than ten (10) calendar days after such issuance, If the establishment fails to comply with the obligations stated in the Cita-tion Ticket upon re-inspection, the inspection team shall recommend the suspension of the license to operate of the establishment, consistent with Section 9 (a) hereof.

Section 26. Apprehension of Violators - Enforcers shall issue Citation Tickets as appropriate. A Citation Ticket may be issued for each day that the establishment is found to be non-compliant with the Ordinance.

Enforcers shall, in addition to issuing citation tickets, remove/confiscate any to-bacco advertising except those inside the premises of the retail establishments and all tobacco products/advertising found within 100 meter of the perimeter of schools, playgrounds, and places frequented by minors.

In the course of the inspection of establishments or conveyances, the enforc-ers may issue Citation Tickets/ apprehend individual violators and request the as-sistance of the PNP as necessary.

Unless otherwise specified in this Ordinance, violators shall be apprehended in accordance with rules and laws adopted by the concerned local office or agency.

Section 27. Utilization of Proceeds of Penalties Paid by Violators - Fines col-lected by the LGU shall be divided, as follows:

a. For the Municipality- 25%b. For the Barangay- 25%c. For the PNP Station concerned- 25%d. For the individual enforcer concerned- 25%The Treasurer shall devise mechanisms to ensure the proper distribution of

the proceeds.Section 28. Conduct of Orientation Seminars and Trainings - Within sixty (60)

calendar days from the effectivity of this Ordinance and periodically thereafter, the Health Officer, with the assistance of the Health Education and Promotion Officer and the CSO representative, shall develop and conduct a series of orientation semi-nars and trainings for the enforcers of this Ordinance, at least one for each group, including but not limited to, deputized enforcers like Barangay Health Workers and the Barangay Tanod, and the local PNP.

FEES:

Section 29. Inspection Fees - Every owner/operator of establishments in the hospitality, entertainment, and retail industry/business shall be charged an Annual Inspection Fee of P20 for monitoring and compliance in accordance with this Or-dinance.

Re-inspection Fees of P200 shall be charged where appropriate in cases of violations.

Section 30. License Fees - Every owner/operator of establishments in the hos-pitality, entertainment, and retail industry/business that is licensed to sell/adver-tise tobacco products shall be charged an Annual License Fee of 25% of the Annual Business Permit Fee for selling/advertising tobacco products.

Section 31. Designated Smoking Area Permits - Owners/operators of estab-lishments seeking to establish a Designated Smoking/Vaping Area shall secure a permit from the Business Permits and Licensing Office upon clearance from the Building Office and the Tobacco Control Board. A Permit Fee of Php 20.00 per square meter of the DSA shall be charged.

Section 32. Utilization of Fees - Inspection and Re-inspection Fees collected in accordance with this Ordinance shall be earmarked to supplement the operational funds of the Office or Task Force. It shall be remitted automatically without further request by the Treasurer to a separate trust fund for this purpose.

The Permit Fees shall be earmarked for the establishment and operation of a Smoking Cessation and Counseling Program.

FINANCING:

Section 33. Financial Mechanisms - Funding will be needed to defray the costs of information and educational materials, briefing, meals, transportation and allowances for the enforcers and other program expenses to implement the Ordinance.

i. Seed Funding: Initial funds shall be sourced from the appropriations of the General Fund to defray costs incidental to the initial implementation of this Ordi-nance and the operation of the task force.

ii. Trust Funds: Subsequently, funds shall be sourced from Annual Inspection Fees and 50% percent of the proceeds from the administrative fines that shall be remitted to a Municipal Trust Fund, with counterpartTrust Funds established by the municipality, and earmarkedexclusively for the implementation of this Ordinance and the operation of the Tobacco Control Board in relation thereto.

iii. Mandatory Funds: The Municipal Government shall ensure the manda-tory funding of the Tobacco Control Ordinance, as a municipal commitment, to be sourced from the 20% of the Development Fund. The Municipal Tobacco Control Board through the Municipal Health Office shall submit an Annual Work and Fi-nancial Program to the Municipal Planning and Development Office which shall be incorporated to the Annual Investment Program of the municipality. The Annual Work and Financial Program shall contain the Programs, Projects, and activities with their corresponding Outputs and Funding Requirements to implement the Ordinance.

iv. Other Funds: The Municipal Tobacco Control Board shall also access funds from other sources such as national government agencies, foundations or funding institutions provided such funding organizations are not connected in any way with the tobacco industry.

Section 34. Repealing Clause- All Ordinances contrary to or inconsistent with this Ordinance are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

Section 35. Separability Clause - If any provision of this Ordinance is declared unconstitutional or illegal, the same shall not affect the validity and effectivity of the other provisions hereof.

Section 36. Effectivity Clause - This Ordinance shall take effect after fifteen (15) days following its full publication in a newspaper of local or general circulation or posting in at least two (2) conspicuous places in the LGU.

ENACTED & APPROVED: February 18, 2019at Salcedo, Eastern Samar.

WE HEREBY CERTIFY to the correctness of the foregoing Ordinance.

BIBIANA A. TORRES SB Secretary

HON. FLORA T. BADANOY HON. NOEL S. ABUNALES SB Member SB Member

HON. ROSARIO A. PALCONITE HON. SUSAN M. SUMOOK SB Member SB Member

HON. CHARLES O. CABUS HON. JUANITO D. WANIWAN SB Member SB Member

HON. VICTORIA L. PELICANO HON. ADAM L. RANIT SB Member SB Member

HON. ROMUALDO G. ESTOR HON. JANELO PHILLIP N. ABRUGAR ABC Pres. /Ex-Officio Member SK Fed. Pres. /Ex-Officio Member

Attested:

HON. MARICRIS D. FABILLAR Municipal Vice Mayor

Approved:

ATTY. MELCHOR L. MERGALMunicipal Mayor


when I was a child and when what I wanted at the moment was frustrated. What I also remember was that I had very few toys, and I was more attentive to the persons around me than to the toys.

And so I told my sister to please sweet talk these little boys so as to learn to give more attention to the persons with them than to the toys. They have to learn how to control their tem-per.

I believe that this ob-servation of mine is not an isolated one. I hear the

The child......from Page 5

same things from many people who come to me for a chat. Yes, something has to be done. We need to study the matter more closely and come out with strategies to address this issue properly.

We need to help many parents in their task of forming their children at an early stage. If the child is fa-ther of the man, we can just imagine the kind of soci-ety we will be having in the near future if the children of today fail to learn the basics of filial piety, respect and cordiality, social skills, etc.

This, I think, is a serious matter that should not be taken lightly.





R8-EV-FC-2019-02-20140633Case No. VIII-2014-0633


PROBO M. GABION, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x


Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a FILCAB service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: BRGY. BINOLHO (JAVIER)-ABUYOG & VICE VERSA with the use of ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until MAY 20, 2019.













AMANCIO B. JORDAN, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x


Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a PUJ service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: TACLOBAN CITY-SAN JOSE-AIRPORT & VICE VERSA with the use of ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until JULY 24, 2019.














MATILDE G. BORNILLA, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x


Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a UV EXPRESS service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: CAIBIRAN-TACLOBAN CITY & VICE VERSA with the use of ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until SEPTEMBER 25, 2019.












R8-EV/PA-2019-02-20140361Case No. VIII-2014-0361


SONNY SARMIENTO, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x


Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a PUJ service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: CATARMAN-ALLEN & VICE VERSA with the use of ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until AUGUST 12, 2019.














MERLE N. GRAVADOR, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x


Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a FILCAB service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: TACLOBAN CITY-MARASBARAS & VICE VERSA with the use of ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until JUNE 13, 2019.













VICTORIO ABODE, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x


Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a FILCAB service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: TACLOBAN CITY-PHHC-DIIT & VICE VERSA with the use of TWO (2) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until MAY 5, 2019.














RIZALINO C. BALDO, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x

NOTICE OF HEARING

Applicant is a grantee of a Reconstituted Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a FILCAB service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: TACLOBAN CITY-DIIT & VICE VERSA with the use of ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until APRIL 30, 2019.














ROGEL O. CAORES, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x

NOTICE OF HEARING

Applicant is a grantee of a Reconstituted Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a FILCAB service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: TACLOBAN CITY-ST. PAUL’S-CAMPETIC & VICE VERSA with the use of ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until JULY 24, 2019.














ISADORA M. ABEDEJOS, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x


Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a FILCAB service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: INOPACAN-HILONGOS & VICE VERSA with the use of TWO (2) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until AUGUST 20, 2019.














LEOPOLDO B. CULANAG, JR., Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x


Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a FILCAB service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: TACLOBAN CITY-DIIT & VICE VERSA with the use of ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until JULY 17, 2019.












R8-NC-TH-2019-02-0016Case No. VIII-2019-0016

Application for Issuance of a Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a TRUCK FOR HIRE servicewith prayer to adopt trade name

MICHAEL V. MELO, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x

NOTICE OF HEARINGApplicant request authority for the

Issuance of a Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a TRUCK FOR HIRE for the transportation of passengers and freights along the line: FROM TANAUAN, LEYTE TO ANY POINT IN REGION VIII with the use of TWO (2) unit/s.




WITNESS the Honorable GUALBERTO N. GUALBERTO, Regional Director, this 21ST









MANUEL L. CIOCSON, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x


Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a PUJ service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: TACLOBAN CITY-JARO & VICE VERSA with the use of ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until JULY 1, 2019.














ELIXER V. PALOMO, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x

NOTICE OF HEARING

Applicant is a grantee of a Reconstituted Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a FILCAB service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: TACLOBAN CITY-MARASBARAS & VICE

VERSA with the use of ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until JULY 18, 2019.








EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late PAZ DEL ROSARIO extrajudicially set-

tled, partitioned and adjudicated over 2 parcels of land described as: 1) A parcel of land Lot 505-B-3-E, Psd-286135, situated in the Poblacion Municipality of Catbalogan, Province of Samar, containing an area of 160 square meters, more or less covered by TCT No. 5863 and; 2) Parcel of land Lot 505-B-3-D Psd-286135 LRC Cad Rec. No. 1378 covered by TCT 5862 situated in the Municipality of Catbalogan, Province of Samar containing an area of 500 square meters, more or less. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Ronelio S. Laygo as vendee for a portion of 29 square meters from Lot 505-B-3-E and portion of 85 square meters from the Lot No. 505-B-3-D from the above-described properties; per Doc. No. 2886, Page No. 12, Book No. XV, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Pedro M. Labid. LSDE: Feb. 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH WAIVERNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Luisa P. Duran extrajudicially settled,

partitioned and adjudicated over a parcels of land all situated in San Jose, Palo, Leyte, described as: 1) A parcel of land Cad. Lot No. 7306 with a total area of .2458 hectares; 2) Parcel of land, designated as Cad. Lot No. 7285, with a total area of .0261 hectares; 3) Parcel of land, designated as Lot No. 7278 with a total area of .0386 hectares; 4) Parcel of land designated as Cad Lot No. 7295 with a total area of .5658 hectares and heirs hereby waive and quitclaim all their rights and participation over the same in favor of Teresita D. Negradas, over the parcel of land, Lot No. 7306, area of .2458 hectares and for 3 parcels Cad Lots No. 7285, 7278 & 7295 in favor of Oswald Duran and Greggy Oswald Duran; per Doc. No. 244, Page No. 50, Book No. III, Series of 2005.LSDE: Feb. 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL ADJUDICATION OF MOTORCYCLENOTICE is hereby given that EVA C. CORDERO, heir of the late Arnulfo M. Cordero

extrajudicially settled, and adjudicate over a Tricycle described as: Make: Rusi; Series: TC 150-Z; Chassis No.: RFCPCKXJ9EB055234; Engine No.: RF 162FMJE06055234; Year Model: 2014; Plate No.: HY5695; Denomination: Tricycle; MV File No.: 0201-00000232914; per Doc. No. 131, Page No. 6, Book No. XC, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Edgardo M. Enerlan. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH WAIVERNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Alfredo Portula, Sr. heir of the late Mi-

lagros O. Portula extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a one-half (1/2) conjugal share of a parcel of land, covered under O.C.T. No. 36944, Cad. Lot No. 9491, Tax Dec. No. 00241 R13, with an area of 4,266 square meters, located at Brgy. Teraza, Palo, Leyte. A Deed of Sale was executed a portion of 400 square meters from the above-described propert in favor of Alfredo R. Regaña and Nelicia C. Regaña; That heir Enriqueto O. Portula do hereby waive and renounce their share, interest and participation in favor of Dante O. Portula and heirs hereby constitutes and appoint NONILON O. PORTULA as their Attorney-in-fact and authorized to sign this extrajudicial settlement; per Doc. No. 221, Page No. 46, Book No. LXVII, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Ronnan Christian M. Reposar. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

15Leyte Samar Daily ExpressSaturday, February 23, 2019

CARPER LAD Form N0. 51(Revised Carp-LAD Form N0. 51)

Republic of the PhilippinesDEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM

Provincial Agrarian Reform OfficeLiceo del Verbo Divino, Former Law Building

Avenida Veteranos, Tacloban City

NOTICE OF LAND VALUATION AND ACQUISITIONNovember 27, 2018

FRANCISCO CATIS, married to Maria SagayaBrgy. Tag-abaca, Leyte, Leyte

Sir/Madam

This refers to your agricultural land covered by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) pursuant to Republic Act (R.A.) No. 6657, as amended by R.A. No. 9700, particularly described as follows:

OCT/TCT No. : TCT-T-5042 TD No. : 08-23024-00014 Lot No. : 169-B-1 & 2 Approved Survey No. : Psd-08-038968 (AR) Area per OCT/TCT/TD No. (has) : 4.4228 Has. Area acquired per ASP : 4.3599 Has. Location : Brgy. Tag-abaca, Leyte, Leyte

Please be informed that out of the total area indicated in the aforesaid title of Tax Declaration an area of 4.3599 hectares is subject to immediate acquisition and distribution to qualified agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) under ( )Voluntary Offer to Sell ( x )Compulsory Acquisition.

On the basis of the value determined by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) per attached Memorandum of Valu-ation (MOV) and Land Valuation Worksheet (LVW), the compensation for your landholding amounts to THREE HUN-DRED EIGHTY THREE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FIVE PESOS AND 02/100 (Php 383,305.02) covering 4.3599 hectares, including improvements thereon, if any.

We have already requested the LBP, with address at: Sagkahan Street, Tacloban City to deposit in your name the said amount, in cash and bonds. The release of payments shall be effected or may be withdrawn upon your submission of all documents required by LBP on the release of claims.

Please accomplish the attached CARPER LAD Form 53 (Landowner’s Reply to NLVA) within thirty (30) days upon re-ceipt of this Notice and return it to the DAR Provincial Office.

In case you reject the compensation offered for your property or fail to reply to this notice within thirty (30) days from receipt thereof, we shall advise the Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board (DARAB), with address at DAR Regional Office Compound, Sto. Niño Extension Tacloban City to conduct summary administrative proceedings on the matter. In the event that you subsequently accept the value as computed by the LBP based on existing valuation guidelines, you should manifest in writing with respect to such acceptance of the original value, or jointly with LBP manifest in writing with respect to the recomputed value by the LBP, with the DARAB or the regular court.

The DAR shall take immediate possession of the property upon issuance of a Certification of Deposit (COD) by LBP and the concomitant transfer of the title to the landholding in the name of the Republic of the Philippines.

Very truly yours,

(Sgd.) PAULINA S. CANALESOIC, Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II

ATTACHMENTS:CARPER LAD Form No. 50 (Memorandum of Valuation) with Land Valuation WorksheetCARPER LAD Form No. 53 (LO’s Reply to NLVA)

Copy Distribution:Original - LODuplicate - LBPTriplicate - DARPOQuadruplicate - DARMO






ROPO BASALLAJE, married to Filomena Cerantec/o Antonio MendozaBrgy. Tag-abaca, Leyte, Leyte

Sir/Madam

This refers to your agricultural land covered by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) pursuant to Re-public Act (R.A.) No. 6657, as amended by R.A. No. 9700, particularly described as follows:

OCT/TCT No. : OCT-P-19324 TD No. : 08-23024-00012 Lot No. : 435 Approved Survey No. : Psd-08-038733 (AR) Area per OCT/TCT/TD No. (has) : 13.4303 Has. Area acquired per ASP : 13.4303 Has. Location : Brgy. Tag-abaca, Leyte, Leyte


On the basis of the value determined by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) per attached Memorandum of Valua-tion (MOV) and Land Valuation Worksheet (LVW), the compensation for your landholding amounts to SIX HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED NINETY EIGHT PESOS AND 04/100 (Php 610,698.04) covering 13.4303 hectares, including improvements thereon, if any.


Please accomplish the attached CARPER LAD Form 53 (Landowner’s Reply to NLVA) within thirty (30) days upon receipt of this Notice and return it to the DAR Provincial Office.



Very truly yours,









TOMAS BATION, married to Eustaquia FielBrgy. Bagaba-o, Leyte, Leyte

Sir/Madam


OCT/TCT No. : TCT-T-1787 TD No. : 08-23004-00015 Lot No. : 63-B & E Approved Survey No. : Psd-08-038804 (AR) Area per OCT/TCT/TD No. (has) : 8.4671 Has. Area acquired per ASP : 3.3987 Has. Location : Brgy. Bagaba-o, Leyte, Leyte


On the basis of the value determined by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) per attached Memorandum of Valu-ation (MOV) and Land Valuation Worksheet (LVW), the compensation for your landholding amounts to THREE HUN-DRED THIRTY TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE PESOS AND 92/100 (Php 332,725.92) covering 3.3987 hectares, including improvements thereon, if any.





Very truly yours,








NOTICE OF LAND VALUATION AND ACQUISITIONFRANCISCO COSTINBrgy. Balinsasayao, Abuyog, Leyte

Sir/Madam


OCT/TCT No. : OCT-P-11408 TD No. : 08-01028-00331 Lot No. : 5085-A Approved Survey No. : Psd-08-038741 (AR) Area per OCT/TCT/TD No. (has) : 0.4989 Ha. Area acquired per ASP : 0.4431 Has. Location : Brgy. Capili-an, Abuyog, Leyte


On the basis of the value determined by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) per attached Memorandum of Valua-tion (MOV) and Land Valuation Worksheet (LVW), the compensation for your landholding amounts to TWENTY THREE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE PESOS AND 24/100 (Php 23,335.24) covering 0.4431 hectares, including improvements thereon, if any.





Very truly yours,




16 Leyte Samar Daily Express Saturday, February 23, 2019





NOTICE OF LAND VALUATION AND ACQUISITIONJanuary 3, 2019

DAMIAN V. ALDABATacloban City

Sir/Madam

This refers to your agricultural land covered by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) pursuant to Republic Act (R.A.) No. 6657, as amended by R.A. No. 9700, particularly described as follows: OCT/TCT No. : TCT-T-825 TD No. : 08-02-038-00048 Lot No. : 1435-B Approved Survey No. : Psd-08-039060 (AR) Area per OCT/TCT/TD No. (has) : 1.0166 Has. Area acquired per ASP : 0.8720 Ha. Location : Brgy. Mudboron, Alangalang, LeytePlease be informed that out of the total area indicated in the aforesaid title of Tax Declaration an area of 0.8720 hectares is subject to immediate acquisition and distribution to qualified agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) under ( )Voluntary Offer to Sell ( x )Compulsory Acquisition.

On the basis of the value determined by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) per attached Memorandum of Valu-ation (MOV) and Land Valuation Worksheet (LVW), the compensation for your landholding amounts to SEVENTY EIGHT THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SEVENTY SEVEN PESOS AND 80/100 (Php 78,677.80) covering 0.8720 hectares, including improvements thereon, if any.

We have already requested the LBP, with address at: Sagkahan Street, Tacloban City to deposit in your name the said amount, in cash and bonds. The release of payments shall be effected or may be withdrawn upon your submis-sion of all documents required by LBP on the release of claims.


In case you reject the compensation offered for your property or fail to reply to this notice within thirty (30) days from receipt thereof, we shall advise the Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board (DARAB), with address at DAR Regional Office Compound, Sto. Niño Extension Tacloban City to conduct summary administrative proceed-ings on the matter. In the event that you subsequently accept the value as computed by the LBP based on existing valuation guidelines, you should manifest in writing with respect to such acceptance of the original value, or jointly with LBP manifest in writing with respect to the recomputed value by the LBP, with the DARAB or the regular court.


Very truly yours,


ATTACHMENTS:CARPER LAD Form No. 50 (Memorandum of Valuation) with Land Valuation WorksheetCARPER LAD Form No. 53 (LO’s Reply to NLVA)Copy Distribution:Original - LODuplicate - LBP

Triplicate - DARPOQuadruplicate - DARMO






POLICARPO AYO, married to JOAQUINA MARGATE andAURELIA AYO, the wife of ANICETO GARRATAPoblacion, Alangalang, Leyte

Sir/Madam


OCT/TCT No. : OCT-30065 TD No. : 08-02-037-00005 & 08-02-037-00003 Lot No. : 4669-B, C, E, F, G & H Approved Survey No. : Psd-08-039021 (AR) Area per OCT/TCT/TD No. (has) : 13.1807 Has. Area acquired per ASP : 4.5119 Has. Location : Brgy. Magsaysay, Alangalang, Leyte

Please be informed that out of the total area indicated in the aforesaid title of Tax Declaration an area of 4.5119 hectares is subject to immediate acquisition and distribution to qualified agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) under ( )Voluntary Offer to Sell ( x )Compulsory Acquisition.On the basis of the value determined by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) per attached Memorandum of Valu-ation (MOV) and Land Valuation Worksheet (LVW), the compensation for your landholding amounts to TWO HUN-DRED FIFTY SEVEN THOUSAND NINETEEN PESOS AND 57/100 (Php 257,019.57) covering 4.5119 hectares, including improvements thereon, if any.We have already requested the LBP, with address at: Sagkahan Street, Tacloban City to deposit in your name the said amount, in cash and bonds. The release of payments shall be effected or may be withdrawn upon your submission of all documents required by LBP on the release of claims.Please accomplish the attached CARPER LAD Form 53 (Landowner’s Reply to NLVA) within thirty (30) days upon re-ceipt of this Notice and return it to the DAR Provincial Office.In case you reject the compensation offered for your property or fail to reply to this notice within thirty (30) days from receipt thereof, we shall advise the Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board (DARAB), with address at DAR Regional Office Compound, Sto. Niño Extension Tacloban City to conduct summary administrative proceedings on the matter. In the event that you subsequently accept the value as computed by the LBP based on existing valuation guidelines, you should manifest in writing with respect to such acceptance of the original value, or jointly with LBP manifest in writing with respect to the recomputed value by the LBP, with the DARAB or the regular court.The DAR shall take immediate possession of the property upon issuance of a Certification of Deposit (COD) by LBP and the concomitant transfer of the title to the landholding in the name of the Republic of the Philippines.

Very truly yours,


ATTACHMENTS:CARPER LAD Form No. 50 (Memorandum of Valuation) with Land Valuation WorksheetCARPER LAD Form No. 53 (LO’s Reply to NLVA)Copy Distribution:Original - LODuplicate - LBP







JUAN PLA AND SEVERINA DALORABrgy. Binongtoan, Alangalang, Leyte

Sir/Madam


OCT/TCT No. : TCT-T-2364 TD No. : 08-02-012-00114 Lot No. : 3612-C, F, G & J Approved Survey No. : Psd-08-039016 (AR) Area per OCT/TCT/TD No. (has) : 3.5408 Has. Area acquired per ASP : 1.0323 Has. Location : Brgy. Binongtoan, Alangalang, Leyte


On the basis of the value determined by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) per attached Memorandum of Valua-tion (MOV) and Land Valuation Worksheet (LVW), the compensation for your landholding amounts to EIGHTY THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY THREE PESOS AND 95/100 (Php 83,573.95) covering 1.0323 hectares, includ-ing improvements thereon, if any.





Very truly yours,



Copy Distribution:Original - LODuplicate - LBP







JESUS M. PASAGUI, married to Julieta Dumdoma PasaguiPastrana, Leyte

Sir/Madam


OCT/TCT No. : TCT-T-20553 TD No. : 08-30-0028-00256 & 08-30-0028-00251 Lot No. : 2-A, B, D, E, F, G, H & I Approved Survey No. : Psd-08-039176 (AR) Area per OCT/TCT/TD No. (has) : 6.1675 Has. Area acquired per ASP : 6.0746 Has. Location : Brgy. San Agustin, Palo, Leyte


On the basis of the value determined by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) per attached Memorandum of Valuation (MOV) and Land Valuation Worksheet (LVW), the compensation for your landholding amounts to ONE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED FORTY SEVEN THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY NINE PESOS AND 59/100 (Php 1,447,729.59) covering 6.0746 hectares, including improvements thereon, if any.





Very truly yours,




17Leyte Samar Daily ExpressSaturday, February 23, 2019





NOTICE OF LAND VALUATION AND ACQUISITIONFebruary 11, 2019

ANTONIO C. AVILA, married to Amparo JacaPoblacion, Tanauan, Leyte

Sir/Madam

This refers to your agricultural land covered by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) pursuant to Republic Act (R.A.) No. 6657, as amended by R.A. No. 9700, particularly described as follows: OCT/TCT No. : OCT-P-19043 TD No. : 08-38040-00439 Lot No. : 3, 8, 10, 11 & 12 Approved Survey No. : Psd-08-039405 (AR) Area per OCT/TCT/TD No. (has) : 5.4111 Has. Area acquired per ASP : 5.1560 Has. Location : Brgy. Maribi, Tanauan, LeytePlease be informed that out of the total area indicated in the aforesaid title of Tax Declaration an area of 5.1560 hectares is subject to immediate acquisition and distribution to qualified agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) under ( )Voluntary Offer to Sell ( x )Compulsory Acquisition.On the basis of the value determined by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) per attached Memorandum of Val-uation (MOV) and Land Valuation Worksheet (LVW), the compensation for your landholding amounts to THREE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY NINE PESOS AND 05/100 (Php 350,589.05) covering 5.1560 hectares, including improvements thereon, if any.We have already requested the LBP, with address at: Sagkahan Street, Tacloban City to deposit in your name the said amount, in cash and bonds. The release of payments shall be effected or may be withdrawn upon your submission of all documents required by LBP on the release of claims.Please accomplish the attached CARPER LAD Form 53 (Landowner’s Reply to NLVA) within thirty (30) days upon re-ceipt of this Notice and return it to the DAR Provincial Office.In case you reject the compensation offered for your property or fail to reply to this notice within thirty (30) days from receipt thereof, we shall advise the Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board (DARAB), with address at DAR Regional Office Compound, Sto. Niño Extension Tacloban City to conduct summary administrative proceed-ings on the matter. In the event that you subsequently accept the value as computed by the LBP based on existing valuation guidelines, you should manifest in writing with respect to such acceptance of the original value, or jointly with LBP manifest in writing with respect to the recomputed value by the LBP, with the DARAB or the regular court.The DAR shall take immediate possession of the property upon issuance of a Certification of Deposit (COD) by LBP and the concomitant transfer of the title to the landholding in the name of the Republic of the Philippines.

Very truly yours,



Copy Distribution:Original - LODuplicate - LBP






NOTICE OF LAND VALUATION AND ACQUISITIONFebruary 11, 2019

CARIDAD M. ORTEGA, married to Ignacio OrtegaBrgy. Buri, Palo, Leyte

Sir/Madam


OCT/TCT No. : OCT-P-33428 TD No. : 08-30-0018-00262 Lot No. : 5101-A Approved Survey No. : Psd-08-039319 (AR) Area per OCT/TCT/TD No. (has) : 0.8555 Ha. Area acquired per ASP : 0.8513 Ha. Location : Brgy. Canhidoc, Palo, Leyte

Please be informed that out of the total area indicated in the aforesaid title of Tax Declaration an area of 0.8513 hectares is subject to immediate acquisition and distribution to qualified agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) under ( ) Voluntary Offer to Sell ( x )Compulsory Acquisition.

On the basis of the value determined by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) per attached Memorandum of Valua-tion (MOV) and Land Valuation Worksheet (LVW), the compensation for your landholding amounts to TWO HUNDRED TWENTY FOUR THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED FORTY FOUR PESOS AND 75/100 (Php 224,844.75) covering 0.8513 hectares, including improvements thereon, if any.





Very truly yours,

(Sgd.) PAULINA S. CANALESOIC, Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer IIATTACHMENTS:CARPER LAD Form No. 50 (Memorandum of Valuation) with Land Valuation WorksheetCARPER LAD Form No. 53 (LO’s Reply to NLVA)Copy Distribution:Original - LODuplicate - LBPTriplicate - DARPOQuadruplicate - DARMO






MELINDA G. GABARDABrgy. Mahait, Calubian, Leyte

Sir/Madam


OCT/TCT No. : TCT-T-22870 TD No. : 08-09-0046-00039 Lot No. : F-1-A-1 & 5 Approved Survey No. : Psd-08-038806 (AR) Area per OCT/TCT/TD No. (has) : 7.5515 Has. Area acquired per ASP : 2.2929 Has. Location : Brgy. Railes, Calubian, Leyte


On the basis of the value determined by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) per attached Memorandum of Valua-tion (MOV) and Land Valuation Worksheet (LVW), the compensation for your landholding amounts to ONE HUNDRED FORTY FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SIXTY SIX PESOS AND 97/100 (Php 145,666.97) covering 2.2929 hectares, including improvements thereon, if any.



In case you reject the compensation offered for your property or fail to reply to this notice within thirty (30) days from receipt thereof, we shall advise the Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board (DARAB), with address at DAR Regional Office Compound, Sto. Niño Extension Tacloban City to conduct summary administrative proceedings on the matter. In the event that you subsequently accept the value as computed by the LBP based on existing valuation guide-lines, you should manifest in writing with respect to such acceptance of the original value, or jointly with LBP manifest in writing with respect to the recomputed value by the LBP, with the DARAB or the regular court.


Very truly yours,








NOTICE OF LAND VALUATION AND ACQUISITION

AUREA T. GARSOTA, married to Felomino TanBrgy. Nalibunan, Abuyog, Leyte

Sir/Madam


OCT/TCT No. : OCT-P-744 TD No. : 08-01011-00049 Lot No. : 393-A, D, F, G & H Approved Survey No. : Psd-08-039019 (AR) Area per OCT/TCT/TD No. (has) : 1.9247 Has. Area acquired per ASP : 1.5253 Has. Location : Brgy. Anibongon, Abuyog, Leyte


On the basis of the value determined by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) per attached Memorandum of Valua-tion (MOV) and Land Valuation Worksheet (LVW), the compensation for your landholding amounts to SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY TWO PESOS AND 84/100 (Php 75,832.84) covering 1.5253 hectares, including improvements thereon, if any.





Very truly yours,




18 Leyte Samar Daily Express Saturday, February 23, 2019NOTICES

NOTICE OF AUCTION All unredeemed pledges left during the month of October 2018 of the ff CE-

BUANA LHUILLIER PAWNSHOP branches will be sold at Public Auction on March 1, 2019 at Palengke Central, Calanipawan Road, Barangay Calanipawan, Tacloban City, Leyte (7:00 am) o Palengke Central, Calanipawan Road, Barangay Calanipawan, Tacloban City, Leyte o 219 M.H. del Pilar St., Tacloban City, Leyte o National Highway, Brgy 77, Marasbaras, Tacloban City o Rodolfo Miralles Bldg., Real St., Barangay 56 Sagcahan, Tacloban City o Brgy 84. San Jose, Tacloban City o Duptours Compound, Door 3, Rodolfo Hotel, Sto. Niño St., Bargy 24, Tacloban City, Leyte o LEVEL 3 l3-354, Abucay, Tacloban, Leyte o 66 P. Gomez St., Tacloban City o 39 P. Zamora St., Tacloban City o Rovic Bldg. Cor. P. Zamora & M.H. Del Pilar Sts., Tacloban City at #18 C. Real St., Brgy. Nalibunan, Abuyog, Leyte (8:30 am) o #18 C. Real St., Brgy. Nalibunan, Abuyog, Leyte o 37 Real St., Nalibunan, Abuyog, Leyte at 576 Real St., Brgy Baybay, Carigara, Leyte (8:00 am) o 576 Real St., Brgy Baybay, Carigara, Leyte o Real Street, Baybay, Carigara, Leyte at San Jose St., Brgy. 6, Guiuan, Eastern Samar (8:00 am) o San Jose St., Brgy. 6, Guiuan, Eastern Samar o San Nicolas St., Guiuan, Eastern Samar at Rizal Street, Poblacion, Hinunangan, Southern Leyte (8:00 am) o Rizal Street, Poblacion, Hinunangan, Southern Leyte o National Highway, Poblacion, Hinunangan, Southern Leyte at Abad St., Brgy. Smo. Rosario, Naval, Biliran (8:30 am) o Abad St., Brgy. Smo. Rosario, Naval, Biliran o Vicentillo St., Naval, Biliran o G/F Unit 6 Prince Superstore, Caneja St., Padre Inocentes Garcia, Naval, Biliran o Padre Inocentes St., Naval, Biliran, Leyte at Real St., Brgy. Sto Niño Alang-Alang, Leyte (8:00 am) at DZ Romualdez St., Brgy. Poblacion, District IV, Babatngon, Leyte (8:00 am) at San Lorenzo St. Brgy 5, Balangiga Eastern Samar (7:00 am) at Door #3 Burgos St. corner Peñaranda St., District V, Barugo, Leyte (8:00 am) at San Roque St., Burauen,Leyte (8:00 am) at National Highway, Brgy Poblacion, Culaba, Biliran (8:00 am) at Cor. Capt. Cidad & Kempis Sts., Market Site, Dulag, Leyte (8:00 am) at San Jose St., Barangay 6, Poblacion, General Mc Arthur, Eastern Samar (8:00 am) at National Highway, Brgy 8, Giporlos, Eastern Samar (8:00 am) at 1234 Real St., Pob. District II, La Paz, Leyte (8:00 am) at Acebedo Ave., Brgy. Cavite East, Palo, Leyte (8:00 am) o Acebedo Ave., Brgy. Cavite East, Palo, Leyte o Unit 7A WH Building , corner National Highway and Maharlika Highway, Brgy. Pawing, Palo, Leyte at Navy Road, Brgy 6 Poblacion, Salcedo, Eastern Samar (8:00 am) at Bungcaras Cor. Rizal Sts., Poblacion, San Juan, Southern, Leyte (7:30 am) at Real St., Brgy. San Roque, Tanauan, Leyte (8:30 am) at Rizal St., Brgy. District II Poblacion, Hinundayan, Southern Leyte (8:00 am) at Unit No. 2 Marcus Navalta Commercial Building, National Highway San Isidro, Biliran, Biliran (7:00 am) at Lotao Zone, Barangay Himatagon, Saint Bernard, Southern Leyte (7:00 am) at 215 Zone 1 Barangay Lemon, Capoocan, Leyte (8:00am) at Serafin Marabut St, Brgy. Baybay, Basey, Samar (8:00am) at 1 Abenis Street, Brgy. D-2, Borongan, Eastern Samar (8:30 am) o 1 Abenis Street, Brgy. D-2, Borongan, Eastern Samar o Real St., Brgy E, Borongan City, Eastern Samar o P. Limbauan St., Brgy. H, Borongan City, Eastern Samar at RC Bldg., Magsaysay Blvd., P-1, East Awang, Calbayog City, Western Samar (8:30 am) o RC Bldg., Magsaysay Blvd., P-1, East Awang, Calbayog City, Western Samar o Cinemar 2 Bldg., Phase 2 Magsaysay Blvd., Brgy. Balud Calbayog City Western Samar o J.D. Avelino St., Brgy Central, Calbayog City o Navarro St. Brgy. Central, Calbayog City, Samar at J.P. Rizal St., Barangay Lapu-lapu, Catarman, Northern Samar (8:00 am) o J.P. Rizal St., Barangay Lapu-lapu, Catarman, Northern Samar o 121 Emilio Jacinto St., Brgy. Molave, Catarman, Northern Samar o Veterans St., Brgy. Narra, Catarman, Northern Samar o Lot 42, Block 2, Capitol Road, Brgy. Dalakit, Catarman, Northern Samar at Del Rosario Street Catbalogan City Western Samar. (8:30 am) o Del Rosario Street Catbalogan City Western Samar o Allen Ave., Brgy. 3, Catbalogan City, Western Samar o San Bartolome St., Catbalogan, Western Samar at Maharlika Highway, Brgy Rawis, 2nd District, Laoang, N. Samar (8:00 am) o Maharlika Highway, Brgy Rawis, 2nd District, Laoang, N. Samar o Dulay St., Brgy., Baybay, Laoang, Norhern Samar at Rizal St., Kinabranan 1, Allen, Northern Samar (8:30 am) at Brgy 5, Poblacion, Calbiga, Western Samar (8:30 am) at National Road, Brgy 4, Can-avid, Eastern Samar (8:30 am) at 443 543rd ECB St., Poblacion, Dolores, Eastern Samar (8:30 am) at San Roque St., Brgy Burabod 2, Gandara, Western Samar (8:30 am) at #211 Salvacion St., Adriatico Complex, Brgy Cataogan, Lavezares, Northern Samar (8:30 am)at Cor. Osmena & Loste Sts. Brgy 5 Pob., Llorente Eastern Samar (8:30 am) at Brgy Tiguib, Oras, Eastern Samar (8:30 am) at Brgy Buray, Paranas, W. Samar (8:30 am) at Maharlika Highway, Brgy. Dolores, Pinabacdao, Western Samar (8:30 am) at Maharlika Highway, Brgy Alegria, San Isidro Northern Samar (8:30 am) at Brgy West, San Jose, Northern Samar (8:30 am) at San Isidro St., Poblacion Zone 6, 2nd District, San Roque N. Samar (8:30 am) at Desoloc St., Brgy. Mara-mara, Sulat, Eastern Samar (8:30 am) at Real St., Brgy 2, Taft, Eastern Samar (7:00 am) at F. De Asis St., Brgy. 1, Poblacion, Catubig, Northern Samar (8:00 am)

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Ariston Bibera and Quintina Regis ex-

trajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land under Tax Dec. No. 06003000048, Lot No. 1713 situated at Brgy. Tabunok, Bato, Leyte, with an area of 43,582 square meters. A Deed of Sale was executed a portion of 1,624 square meters from the above-described property in favor of Marissa C. Gertos as vendee; per Doc. No. 305, Page No. 61, Book No. XXVIII, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Josenilo Marquez Reoma.LSDE: Feb. 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Ariston Bibera and Quintina Regis ex-

trajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land under Tax Dec. No. 06003000048, Lot No. 1713 situated at Brgy. Tabunok, Bato, Leyte, with an area of 43,582 square meters. A Deed of Sale was executed a portion of 3000 square meters from the above-described property in favor of Marissa C. Gertos as vendee; per Doc. No. 302, Page No. 61, Book NO. XXVIII, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Josenilo Marquez Reoma.LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTSNOTICE is hereby given that heirs/parents of the late Deo B. Bantilan extrajudicially

settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a salary savings deposit with ATM No. 0607 0641 80 with the LandBank of the Philippines, Catbalogan Branch, Catbalogan City with out-standing balance of P22,000.00 as of February 12, 2019 and heir/Father do hereby WAIVE and TRANSFER his share, rights and participation in favor of NORMA BARRERA-BAN-TILAN; per Document notarized by Atty. Medino L. Acuba.LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL PARTITION WITH CONFIRMATION OF SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Fedelina Distajo married to Lucresio

Peñalosa Sr., the sole heir of late Jorge Distrajo executed an Extrajudicial Partition over a parcel of land located at Sitio Bugho, Brgy. Tiguib, Basey, Samar, containing an area of one-half of the 1/7 share or 0-17-95 square meters, more or less and sold the one-half por-tion in favor of Luz Elemento married to the late Venerando Elemente as vendee and hereby confirmed the said sale in favor of the vendor; per Doc. No. 05, Book No. 1, Page No. 2, Series of 2017 of Notary Public Atty. Filotea B.M. Estorninos.LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Benjamin Q. Tentativa extrajudicially

settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land situated at Brgy. Calingnan, Ca-tubig, Northern Samar, covered by T.C.T. No. T-3187, containing an area of 53,274 square meters; per Doc. No. 468, Page No. 95, Book No. IV, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Ricardo E. Amos. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Cecilia Gabon extrajudicially settled,

partitioned and adjudicated over a conjugal share of a parcel of land and the improvements thereon, denominated as Lot No. 792, Pls 658-D, situated in Brgy. Buray, Paranas, Samar covered by TCT No. T-5156, containing an area of 21,311 square meters. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Eduardo Daradal married to Aida Mabulay Daradal as vendee; per Doc. No. 104, Page No. 022, Book No.______, Series of 2007 of Notary Public Atty. Jose M. Mendiola. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019







RUEL R. LUCEÑOS, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x


Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a FILCAB service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: ORMOC CITY-MERIDA & VICE VERSA with the use of ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until MARCH 4, 2019.













RODULFO L. MIRANTE, Applicant/sx- - - - - - - - - - - - -x


Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a UV EXPRESS service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: TACLOBAN CITY-GUIUAN & VICE VERSA with the use of ONE (1) unit/s which Certificate is still valid and subsisting until MARCH 24, 2019.








EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Petrona Gerodias extrajudicially set-

tled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of agricultural land, situated at Brgy. Lunang, Hilongos, Leyte, under Tax Dec. No. 14024 00392 R-13, with Lot No. 3, Ccs-08-267-D, containing an area of .5626 has.; A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of ALMA LUMA-PAS BECK as vendee for the above-described propert; per Doc. No. 490, Page No. 98, Book No. 46, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Rico E. Aureo. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Leoncio Kuizon extrajudicially settled,

partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land situated at Brgy. Lunang, Hilongos, Leyte under Tax Dec. No. 14024 00390 R-13, with Lot No. 1 CCS-08-000 267-D, Lot No. 12352, containing an area of .5625 has.; A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of ALMA LUMA-PAS BECK as vendee for the above-described property; per Doc. No. 488, Page No. 98, Book No. 46, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Rico E. Aureo. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Florentino P. Ligutan extrajudicially set-

tled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land designated as Lot No. 31, Pls 600-D, located in Lemon, Capoocan, Leyte containing an area of 23,680 square meters, covered by Katibayan ng Original na Titulo Blg. P-47694; per Doc. No. 496, Page No. 100, Book No. LXXI, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Allan R. Castro. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Severino delos Santos extrajudicially

settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land, situated at San Pablo, Naval Biliran under Tax Dec. No. 00297, with an area of 0.334200 ha., Survey No. 2733-D, market value of P34,246.39. A Deed of Sale was executed a portion of 112.73 square meters from the above-described parcel of land in favor of Victoria Corpin delos Santos; per Doc. No. 338, Page No. 68, Book No. X, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Mario Lydinno R. Opeña. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH CONFIRMATION OF SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Dionisia Vencio extrajudicially settled,

partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land situated at Brgy. San Rafael, Dulag, Leyte, under OCT No. P-80428, Tax Dec. No. 0041-0046 with Lot No. 5841, having an area of 982 square meters, more or less; A parcel of land, Lot No. 5752, situated at San Rafael, Dulag, Leyte, with OCT # P-80427, containing an area of 3,116 square meters and heirs hereby confirm and affirm to the sale in favor of the Municipal Government of Dulag, Leyte, duly Represented by Atty. Mildred Joy P. Que, Mayor of Dulag, the above-described 2 parcels of land; per Doc. No. 143, Page No. 39, Book No. 1, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Ambrocio B. Lacaba, Jr. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Sps. Pedro Montezon and Valintina

Labada Montezon extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land, Lot No. 4777, Cad. 220 covered by Tax Dec. No. 2012-02-0002-00390, with an area of 382 square meters, situated at Brgy. Apitong, Tacloban City. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Jessie C. Catienza as vendee for the above-described property with all the improve-ments existing thereon; per Doc. No. 353, Page No. 72, Book No. III, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Marie Ronette Salve E. Barreda. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Julian Murillo extrajudicially settled,

partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land, Lot No. 9772, Cad. 407-C-9, situated at Brgy. Campetic, Palo, Leyte, containing an area of 6,101 square meters. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Rodolfo M. Matoza as vendee for the above-described parcel of land; per Doc. No. 139, Page No. 28, Book No. 16, Series of 2012 of Notary Public Atty. Samuel C. Lagunzad. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

AFFIDAVIT OF ADJUDICATION WITH ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that Rosario U. Yap, heir of the late Leonardo Yap, Jr. ex-

ecuted an Affidavit of Adjudication over a parcel of land situated at Brgy. Tugas, Bato, Leyte, covered by O.C.T. No. P-29917 designated as Lot No. 3220, Case 12, Cad. 7745-D, under Tax Dec. No. 06003200329 with an area of 14,868 square meters. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of VICTOR EMAN Y. YAP as vendee for the above-described property with all the improvements thereon; per Doc. No. 351, Page No. 71, Book No. XXI, Series of 2016 of Notary Public Atty. Josenilo Marquez Reoma. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Crispino Bentulan extrajudicially settled,

partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land located at Brgy. Bontoc, Hindang, Leyte, designated as Lot No. 2901, containing an area of 3903.47 square meters, more or less, cov-ered by Tax Dec. No. 02-15006-00238. The subject of this instrument is only the residential land with an area of 3,500 square meters; per Doc. No. 854, Page No. 171, Book No. XI, Series of 2006 of Notary Public Atty. Rolf Allan R. Oriel. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH PARTITIONWITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE

NOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Simplicio C. Incila and Emiliana A. Incila extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land, Cad. Lot No. 1924, containing an area of 3,980 square meters, covered by O.C.T. No. P-29200. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Sps. Agapito I. Suarez and Anabel C. Suarez as vendee for the above-described property; per Doc. No. 365, Page No. 58, Book No. LIV, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Rosarie A. Peteros-Phua. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

SELF-ADJUDICATION WITH SALENOTICE is hereby given that Patrocenia P. Testor heir of the late William S. Testor

executed a Deed of Self-Adjudication over 3 parcels of land, described as: 1) Parcel of agri-cultural land situated at Brgy. Baja, Oquendo District, Calbayog City, designated as Lot No. 12459, containing an area of 32,322 square meters, under Tax Dec. No. 99-02029-00185; 2) Parcel of Agricultural land situated at Brgy. Cagbilwang, Oquendo District, Calbayog City, Cad. Lot No. 12459, containing an area of 36,976 square meters, under Tax Dec. No. 99-02008-00122; 3) A parcel of residential lot situated at Brgy. Trinidad, Calbayog District, Calbayog City, Cad. Lot No. 5518, containing an area of 241 square meters, under Tax Dec. No. 99-01020-00688 including the residential bldg. containing an area of 100 square meters, under Tax Dec. No. 99-01020-00689. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of LEDA T. VILLANUEVA as vendee for the 2 parcels of land and residential house and lot described above; per Doc. No. 200, Page No. 40, Book No. XXVIII, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Alex R. Gelera. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

DEED OF ADJUDICATION WITH ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Venustiano T. Cuyco extrajudicially set-

tled, partitioned and adjudicated over parcels of land, described as: 1) A parcel of residential land (with residential house constructed on a semi concrete 36 square meters floor area) located at the Corner of Sta. Maria and Justo Sts. Brgy. Occidental II, Gamay, Northern Sa-mar, containing an area of 120 square meters and covered by Tax Dec. No. 6433, Assessors Lot No. 4144 part; 2) Parcel of Agricultural land located in Sitio Can-Pico, Brgy. Burabod, Gamay, N. Samar, Lot No. 1620, Cad. 1098-D, C-10. containing an area of 42,600 square meters, covered by Katibayan ng Original na Titulo Blg. CARP 2015000092. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Venir T. Cuyco as vendee/buyer for the above-described properties; per Doc. No. 175, Page No. 36, Book No. III, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Ana Lea H. Uy. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

AFFIDAVIT OF ADJUDICATIONNOTICE is hereby given that Mirasol S. Babiano heir of the late Raul P. Sales executed

an affidavit of Self-Adjudication over a BDO Savings Deposit with Savings Account No. 010580008525; per Doc. No. 421, Page No. 86, Book No. III, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Marie Ronette Salve E. Barreda. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Narcisa Barca-Samson extrajudicially

settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a conjugal share of a parcel of land, situated at Brgy. Buenavista, Jaro, Leyte, Cad. Lot No. 3025, covered by TCT No. T-19287, contain-ing an area of 15,093 square meters; per Doc. No. 183, Page No. 38, Book No. IV, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Alvaro P. Loreno. Jr. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

Republic of the PhilippinesProvince of Samar

Municipality of Daram

OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRARR.A. 9048/10172 Form No. 10.1 (LCRO)

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION In compliance with Section 7 of R.A. No. 10172,

a notice is hereby served to the public that JEFFREY R. ARISGADO has filed with this

Office, a Petition for correction of clerical error par-ticularly the GENDER from “FEMALE” to

“MALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth

JEFFREY RESCO ARISGADO who was born on January 8, 1978 at Brgy. Cagboboto, Daram,

Samar and whose parents are Dominador A. Arisgado and Adelfa V. Resco.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than March 7, 2019. (Sgd.)EMMANUEL M. LOZANO Municipal Civil RegistrarLSDE: Feb. 23 & March 2, 2019


(Clerical error to be corrected) (Gender to be changed)

(New gender to be adopted)

(Complete name of document owner)

(Complete date of birth)

(Name of father) (Name of mother)


MARITIME INDUSTRY AUTHORITYMARINA REGIONAL OFFICE NO. VIII

G/F Uytingkoc Building Senator Enage St., Tacloban City

RE: Application for first (1st) amendment of Certificate of Public Convenience (CPC) pursuant to the 2014 Amendments to the Revised Rules and Regulations Implementing R.A. No. 9295 or the IRR of 2014 to effect the Permanent Addition of Ships to Applicant’s Fleet.

CASE NO. TMRO 18-038

INDUSTRY MOVERS CORPORATION, Applicant x- - - - - - - - - - - - - -x

ORDERBefore us is the above-entitled case which

was filed with this Office on 20 February 2019 docketed under Case No. TMRO-18-038, to wit: NAME OF EXISTING SERVICE TO SHIP BE OFFERED MTug “IMC 02”NAME OF ADDED SHIPSMTug “IMC 10” For the carriageMTug “IMC 11” of freight/cargoesMTug “IMC 12” only LcT “IMC 14”

ROUTE TO BE SERVEDTacloban City to any port in the Philippines

Notice is hereby given that Applicant shall present the jurisdictional, qualification, and documentary requirements in a hearing to be conducted on 01 March 2019, Friday, at 10:00 o’clock in the morning at this Office, G/F Uytingkoc Bldg., Senator Enage Street, Tacloban City.

The applicant shall publish this Order once in any newspaper of general or regional circulation in the Philippines at least five (5) days before the hearing.

The applicant shall submit a written Formal Offer of Evidence (FOE) during the hearing or five (5) days thereafter.

WITNESS, the Honorable Administrator, this 21st day of February 2019 at Tacloban City, Philippines.

(Sgd.) ENGR. RODULFO P. PANEROIC-Regional Director

COPY FURNISHED:Applicant, Industry Movers Corporation, Brgy. Linao, Ormoc CityOffice of the Solicitor General, 134 Amorsolo St., Legaspi Vill., Makati, MMFile ZCM/MMCSFSU Issuance No. NOH-2019 - 014Reference No. TMRO 19-014


Republic of the PhilippinesOFFICE OF THE CITY CIVIL REGISTRAR

Tacloban City

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION In compliance to Section 5 of R.A. 9048, a notice

is hereby served to the public that NORMA O. MACATANGAY has filed with this

Office, a Petition for change of first name from BETTY to NORMA in Birth

Certificate of BETTY OTIDA who was born on DECEMBER 13, 1957 at Tacloban City and whose parents are AGATONA MAGALLON and FELIX OTIDA.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than March 6, 2019. (Sgd.) IMELDA A. ROA City Civil Registrar


(New first name to be adopted)(First name to be changed)


TACLOBAN CITY- Drivers of motorcycle-for-hire (MCH) plying the streets of this city were warned not to collect the P9 fare unless they have a copy of a matrix issued by the city government.

Only those with the new fare matrix are al-lowed to demand the new minimum fare rate, Vice Mayor Jerry ‘Sambo’ Ya-okasin said.

Those found to be vio-lating Ordinance Num-ber 2018-13-32 would be sanctioned accordingly which include a fine of P500 and a possible revo-cation of franchise.

“They can only collect the new fare rate if they have a copy of the matrix. Otherwise, if they insist in charging the P9 from their passengers, the passengers could file a complaint be-fore the police or Tomeco

TACLOBAN CITY - The Philippine National Police (PNP) regional office here has assured that the two police officers arrested for illegal drugs trade last week will face sanctions as part of the organization’s internal cleansing.

The arrest of policemen in a buy-bust operation in Ormoc City is very disap-pointing as this would taint peace and order gains of the police force in the region, Chief Supt. Ariel Arcinas, PNP Eastern Visayas depu-ty regional director, said in an interview Thursday.

On Feb. 15, authorities nabbed Police Officers 1 Ronelo Felizarta, 36; and Pelboy Lopez, 31, in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Macabug, Ormoc City.

After 22 years, the state-run Social Security System (SSS) now has a new char-ter as President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law Re-public Act 11199 otherwise known as the Social Secu-rity Act of 2018.

“This is a huge suc-cess for the pension fund. This new law will breathe in new life to SSS so that it can continue to serve its stakeholders, members, and pensioners. And we sincerely express our grati-tude to President Duterte for acknowledging the long overdue need for this amendment and signing this into law,” SSS President and Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel F. Dooc said.

“We would also like to take this chance to thank our dear lawmakers, Senate President Vicente Sotto III and House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for their leadership in both cham-bers; our SSS Champion in the Senate, our principal au-thor and sponsor, Sen. Rich-ard Gordon; and our Sen-ate and House contingents – Senators Ralph Recto, Franklin Drilon, Sherwin Gatchalian, and Representa-tives Prospero Pichay and Mark Go,” Dooc added.

The new law, RA 11199, repealed RA 1161 as amended by RA 8282, mainly aims to strengthen the pension fund through its salient features such as the rationalization of the powers of the Social Secu-rity Commission, the poli-cy-making body of the SSS, allowing it to expand the in-vesting capacity of the pen-sion fund to generate better income for the benefit of its members and pensioners.

The law is also expected to generate additional fund-ing for the pension fund as

SSS thanks President Duterte, lawmakers for SS Act of 2018

President Rodrigo Duterte

it imposes the implementa-tion of the gradual increase of monthly contributions from the current 11 percent to an additional 1 percent-age point starting on the year of implementation un-til it reaches 15 percent in 2025, and the gradual ad-justment of the minimum and maximum monthly sal-ary credit.

Further, under the re-vised SS Law, members will enjoy an additional benefit from the current six types with the introduction of unemployment insurance. Covered qualified employed individuals who may suffer from involuntary separa-tion from work, will be pro-tected from a sudden loss of income as the law has a pro-vision for unemployment insurance.

“Under the law, dis-placed workers will get fi-nancial assistance from SSS in the form of cash equiva-lent to half of their average monthly salary credit for two months,” Dooc said.

At present, SSS members are covered with sickness, maternity, disability, retire-ment, funeral, and death/survivor benefits.

The law also provides protection for the growing number of Filipinos work-ing abroad as it made so-

cial security coverage of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) mandatory.

“Filipinos who work outside the country are more prone to risks as they are engaged in unfamiliar environment while they are trying to earn for their family. Our goal here is to ensure that all OFWs will be protected under the SSS,” Dooc said.

Gordon, the principal author and sponsor of the law, said that the new law emphasizes the value of work, save, invest and pros-per among its members.

“The bill does not promise an abundance of wealth but to secure people in case they would encoun-ter unwanted situations in their lives through a lifeline that they themselves creat-ed through their contribu-tion,” Gordon said.

Further, the newly-signed law also lowered the penalty rate for late pay-ment of contributions to 2 percent from the current 3 percent, and condonation of penalties will no longer require Malacañang’s ap-proval under the law.

The new law now awaits for the Implementing Rules and Regulations after its publication in the Official Gazette last Monday. (PR)

Yaokasin says P9 MCH rate only applies with matrix

Vice Mayor Jerry ‘Sambo’ Yaokasin

(Traffic Operations, Man-agement, Enforcement and Control Office),” Yaokasin said.

Passengers in the city have complained that MCH drivers collect the new fare though they don’t have the fare rate matrix, some ask-ing even for P10.

Copy of the fare rate matrix should be displayed prominently inside the MCH units.

It was learned that out of the more than 2,200 MCH units oper-ating in the city, only about 1,500 of them have been so far issued of the matrix fare rate copies.

The new P9 fare rate took effect on December 16,2018 after the ordinance was approved by the city council on December 1.

The increase of the MCH fare in the city was triggered with the increase of gaso-line, among other reasons.

Prior to the new fare rate, the fare rate for MCH in the city was pegged at P7 though in reality the drivers collected P8.

(JOEY A. GABIETA)

PNP steps up internal cleansing after narco cops’ arrest

A civilian listed on illegal drugs watch list was also ar-rested during the operation.

Confiscated from the police officers were sachets of suspected methamphet-amine hydrochloride or shabu, cash, mobile phones, and service firearms.

Felizarta, a resident of Ormoc City, has been as-signed at San Vicente, Northern Samar police sta-tion. Lopez is from Palo, Leyte and assigned at Northern Samar Police Mo-bile Force Company.

“The arrest of these po-licemen proves that we are relentless in our internal cleansing campaign.

We will not tolerate this kind of illegal activity as those arrested will face criminal and administrative

charges,” Arcinas said.He told reporters that

the process is ongoing at PNP regional and main headquarters to facilitate the stoppage of salary and benefits meant for the two errant policemen.

Police scalawags will likely face the most serious consequence – imprison-ment and dismissal from service.

The PNP official said po-licemen still get involved in illegal activities even with the salary increase due to poor financial management and womanizing.

Arcinas said they are stepping up intelligence gathering to identify errant policemen. (SARWELL Q.MENIANO/PNA)

TACLOBAN CITY- Measles cases in the region continue to in-crease with its con-firmed deaths due to the same ailment has now reached to 16.

As of Tuesday(Feb.19), the regional office of the Department of Health (DOH) has reported of 463 measles cases across the region.

Last year, DOH mon-itored 241 measles cases in the region with five

Measles cases in EV continue to increase; fatalities now reach to 16 deaths.

John Paul Roca, DOH regional information of-ficer, said that of the 16 deaths due to measles, 9 were in Leyte; four in Tacloban City; and 3 in Samar.

The latest to die was a one-year old girl from Alangalang, Leyte who died on Feb.16 while be-ing confined at the East-ern Visayas Regional Medical Center (EVM-RC), based here.

Roca said that of the

463 measles cases of the region, Leyte has the highest with 191 followed by Samar province,102 and Tacloban with 98 cases.

But while the measles cases of the region have already exceeded its cas-es last year, the regional DOH sees a silver lining as the number of mothers who want their babies to be vaccinated appears to be increasing.

“The high number of measles of the region has

become a positive of sort as the number of mothers allowing their children be vaccinated is increas-ing,” Roca said.

Aside from rural health centers, vaccina-tion is also being admin-istered by DOH in public gymnasiums, barangay centers, and schools.

About 1,000 nurses hired by the department are helping on this cam-paign, Roca said.

For the region, they are targeting around

478,900 children below 59 months old.

Roca, however, could not say yet as to how many of these targeted children have been vacci-nated with anti-measles.

But he said with the high interest now of the parents to have their chil-dren vaccinated, they are optimistic that they could reach at least 85 percent of the targeted children.

It was learned from Roca that last year, their vaccination level only

reached 55 percent.The low immuniza-

tion was partly blamed due to Dengvaxia scare as parents refused to have their children vac-cinated.

(JOEY A. GABIETA)


ELECTRONIC BINGOToday is your lucky day!!!

Try your Luck, Relax and Feel the Excitement of the Games...!

Enjoy and have more fun...Opens 9:30 AM to 2AM the

following day2nd Level YT Bldg., Justice

Romualdez St., Tacloban City

JLK SPAThe newest place to unwind...

Services offered:Head Massage, Hand Massage Body Massage, Foot MassageManicure, Pedicure, Foot SPAOpens: Monday to Saturday

2:00 PM to 10:30 PM2nd Level YT Bldg., Justice

Romualdez St., Tacloban City

Maasin City Main Office(053) 570-8236

BRANCHES:Tacloban: 523-8383 325-6363Palo: 832-1991Baybay: 563-9120/563-9010Sogod: (053) 577-8527Hilongos: (053) 567-8184Ormoc: (053) 561-6818

Paruparong Bukid is a one stop Organic Shop that will cater

to your needs.

Our restaurant serves healthy foods - free of preservatives, no msg. & other food enhancers.

We serve veganfood, rawfood vegan, Lacto-Ovo vegetarian, Semi-vegitarian, organic meat &

poultry & health drinks

It offers a salon services, skin care services & spa to relax and rejuverate your body.

Visit us at P. Zamora corner Juan Luan Sts., Tacloban City beside Sto. Niño Church

Business hours: 10:00 AM - 9 PMTel. Nos. : 0910804 3086 / 09209296880

Mayor Cristina G. Romualdez talks to Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) branch manager Igmideo Ponay, Jr. during the latter’s visit at the City Hall. Ponay who was accompanied by GSIS special business unit insurance group and housing head, Engr. Rosilo Estudillo, discussed with Mayor Romualdez during the meeting the services of the state pension fund for government workers. Also present during the visit was executive assistant, Atty. Marie Ronette Salve Barreda. (CIO)

governors, mayors, baran-gay chairmen and provin-cial board members who chairmanship peace and order and crisis manage-ment, disaster and risk reduction management, social welfare and develop-ment, and women, youth, children and indigenous peoples (IPs) including the chief of the local disaster risk reduction office.

Sec. Año......from Page 9

The memorandum also orders city and municipal mayors to recall travel or-der of their vice mayors, to include Sangguniang mem-bers who chair the commit-tees on peace and order and crisis management, disaster and risk reduction manage-ment, social welfare and development, and women, youth, children and IPs in-cluding the chief of the lo-cal disaster risk reduction office.(ROEL T. AMAZONA)

TACLOBAN CITY – East-ern Visayas with its various tour-ist attractions is among the areas in the country that is being pro-moted by the group behind the operations of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport.

This was disclosed by Aines Librado, head for airlines mar-keting and tourism development of the GMR Megawide Cebu Airport Corporation (GMCAC).

Last Wednesday (Feb.20), Librado headed a sales mission here in the city, as part of their sales campaign.

“Eastern Visayas is a beauti-ful place yet most of the places are still unexplored and worth promoting,” Librado.

The sales mission is one of the GMCAC’s marketing ini-tiatives to keep tourism stake-holders, particularly travel and tour operators, informed of the recent developments at the Mactan-Cebu International Air-port (MCIA) highlighting the many destinations and the con-venience that it offers to passen-gers who will use the airport as their transit point.

Tour operators and travel agencies from various cities and provinces in the region par-ticipated the event which was also graced by representatives from major airline companies, namely, the Philippines Airlines (PAL), Cebu Pacific, Air Asia in-cluding foreign airlines like Ca-thay Pacific and China Eastern Airlines.

CONFIRMATION OF DONATIONNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Caridad Oliver executed a Confirmation of Donation over a parcel of land covered by

OCT No. P-33220, registered in the name of hrs. of Caridad N. Oliver, represented by Milagros O. Portula, having an area of 4,512 square meters, located at Brgy. Teraza, Palo, Leyte decided to voluntarily give, transfer and convey by way of Donation unto ALFREDO O. POR-TULA, JR., the above-described property, together with all the improvements found thereon, and heirs hereby waive and renounce their rights, participation and interest over the said parcel in favor of Alfredo O. Portula,Jr.; and hereby confirm the said Donation; per Doc. No. 222, Page No. 46, Book No. LXVI, Series of 2019 of Notary Public Atty. Ronnan Christian M. Reposar. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

Publication NoticeR.A. No. 10172

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

CCE-0002-2019 R.A. 10172 Date: February 22, 2019

In compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1 Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that RICHAEL ESPINOLA PURIGAY has filed with this petition for correction of entry in sex from “FEMALE” to “MALE” in the certificate of live birth of RICHAEL ESPINOLA PURIGAY at ROSARIO, NORTHERN SAMAR and whose parents are ELENA LAZARO ESPINOLA and RICARDO GAPIDO PURIGAY.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this office not later than March 5, 2019. (Sgd.) VIDA T. ABATA Municipal Civil RegistrarLSDE: Feb. 23 & March 2, 2019

Cebu airport operator pushes EV as a prime tourist destination

“Every time we go out of the country and promote Mactan-Cebu International Airport we al-ways tell them that there are other places aside from Cebu that are worth exploring,” Librado said.

“We want them to go to places that are not popular yet because we wanted that when they go back to their countries they can share it to their families and friends,” she added.

Librado said that based on their record, Korean tourists re-main to be on top with more than 2,000 arrivals every year or an av-erage 20% increase a year. They are followed by Japanese, North-ern Americans, Australians and Europeans.

Top performer in tourist ar-rivals are the Chinese, which in the first three quarters of 2018 reached a total of 972,550 making them with the high-speed growth of 34.9 percent growth.

The Chinese tourists’ popu-lation is a big leap from a zero Chinese tourist arrival three years ago, according to Librado.

“If you see the number of tourists coming from this country, their population is huge and most of them only visits Cebu and Bo-hol. We tell them that there other destinations that are worth ex-ploring,” Librado shares.

Aside from Chinese tourists, the MCIA is marketing the airport to Indian tourists to be their gate-way to the Philippines.

Tacloban, as the regional center of Eastern Visayas that has

a population of more than 4.4 mil-lion, have the great potential for tourism, Librado said.

Having a daily flights from Cebu to Tacloban is an advantage because it makes easier for tour-ists to access the region through plane which only takes less than an hour of travel.

Tacloban’s Daniel Z. Romual-dez (DZR) Airport is among the top 10 performers for Cebu domestic traffic with more than 198,000 passengers in 2018 or a 40% increase compare to 2017 passenger population.

Based on Civil Aviation Au-thority of the Philippines (CAAP) schedule of flights of February, Cebu-Tacloban has a total of five flights a day.

In the morning Cebu Pacific and PAL have one flight each while two flights for Cebu Pacific and one flight for PAL in the af-ternoon.

“We want to contribute in ex-tending and communicating to our foreign market the destinations in the region because they are worth promoting,” Librado said.

Among the top tourist desti-nations of the region include the Kalanggaman Island in Palom-pon, Leyte; Biri Rock Formation in Biri, Northern Samar; South-ern Leyte for its diving sites, Cua-tro Islas in Inopacan and Hindang and the Linta-on Peak in Baybay City, all in Leyte.

(ROEL T. AMAZONA)

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Jesus Almaden Sr. extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over parcels of land

described as: 1) A rice-cocoland located at Tacuranga, Palo, Leyte, designated as Lot No. 4766 with an area of 39,526 square meters, cov-ered by Tax Dec. No. 11731 assessed value at P8,360.00; 2) Cocoland located at Tacurangan, Palo, Leyte, designated as Lot No. 4163, with an area of 4,163 square meters, under Tax Dec. No. 11732, assessed at P1,020.00; 3) Residential lot located at Cor. Filipinas and Bonifacio Sts. Naga-Naga, Palo, Leyte designated as Lot No. 734, containing an area of 742 square meters, assessed at P10,240.00; 4) Residential lot at Filipinas St., Naga-Naga, Palo, Leyte, designated as Lot No. 736, covered by Tax Dec. No. 8515, with an area of 70 square meters, assessed at P840.00; 5) An unirrigated riceland located at Camansihay, Palo, Leyte, designated as Lot No. 7676 with an area of 16,416 square meters, Tax Dec. No. 4117, assessed at P2,080.00; per Doc. No. 14, Page No. 80, Book No. XXI, Series of 1992 of Notary Public Atty. Francisco M. Villamor. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

AFFIDAVIT OF ADJUDICATIONNOTICE is hereby given that Lolita Alabarca Dela Peña heir of the late Sps. Leode-

gario Alabarca Sr. and Maria Catigbe Alabarca executed an affidavit of Adjudication over a parcel of agricultural land, bearing Tax Dec. No. 00009 (R-11) located at Brgy. Agpangi, Naval Biliran, Survey Lot No. 1650, containing an area of 1,522 square meters, assessed value of P4,070.00; per Doc. No. 174, Page No. 35, Book No. VI, Series of 2019 of Atty. Macario Lydinno R. Opeña. LSDE: February 23, March 2 & 9, 2019

leyte-samar daily express...a v a i l a joint venture agreement was entered by samar governor sharee...

Documents