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CATARMAN, North-ern Samar – An alleged top official of the New Peo-ple’s Army (NPA) and this town’s former president of the Association of Barangay Chairmen (ABC) were ar-

CALBAYOG CITY-The Federation of Rural Electric Cooperatives in Region 8 (Frecor-8) with the support from the National Electrification Administration (NEA) recognized the electric cooperatives in the region during the first regional Lumens Awards held on Friday, July 13 here.

10 of EV’s electric coops have triple A ratings

Electric coops recognized at the regional Lumens Awards

JENNIFER SUMAGANG-ALLEGADO

PhilHealth is ‘liquid,’ official says allaying fears of reported fund depletion

TACLOBAN CITY- A top official of the Philip-pine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) allayed fears of the public that the country’s main health in-surer company is facing financial problems.

Renato Limsiaco Jr., officer-in-charge as sen-ior vice president for fund management sector, said that PhilHealth remains to be ‘liquid’ with more than enough cash position to

pay claims of its more than 50 million direct members.

“As of July 6,2018, we have P70 billion cash posi-tion. In other words, Phil-Health is very much liquid. PhilHealth has more than enough money to pay the monthly payments, so wala tayong problema,” Limsiaco said over the weekend.

“Mayroon tayong pondo para pambayad ng claims para sa taong ito. So on the report that PhilHealth has

no money, forget about

The Lumens Awards recognizes the exemplary performance of the electric cooperatives in extend-ing a valued electrification service to their consumers as well as services aside of their electrification duties.

The regional Lumens

Awards was initiated to show to the whole coun-try that Region 8 is now doing great, Edgardo Masongsong,NEA adminis-trator, said.

Among the 11 electric cooperatives in the region 10 got the rating of triple

A.These are the Don Or-estes Romualdez Electric Cooperative, Leyte II Elec-tric Cooperative, Leyte III Electric Cooperative, Leyte V Electric Cooperative, Southern Leyte Electric Co-operative, Biliran Electric

Top NPA leader, ex-ABC prexy arrested by gov’t

forces in Catarmanrested by operatives in an operation on July 13.

Arrested by police and soldiers operatives were Marieta Bartolo, 46, said to be a top official of the NPA operating in Northern Sa-

mar, and Ruth Figueroa, 56, former ABC president of the town.

Bartolo was said to be carrying the aliases of ‘Ta-wang’ and ‘Silang’ while

Leyte Governor Leopoldo Dominico “Mic” L. Petilla received a warm welcome from the farmers who graduated on July13, 2018 from the More Income in the Countryside organic compact farming, a 4-month training on high-value vegestables fruit crops and sea weeds production in Sitio Sta. Rosa,Tabango,Leyte. Behind him were Board Members Alan Ang(3rd district) and Board Member Mesias Arevalo(4th district). (GINA P. GEREZ)

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TRIPLE A. Officials of the Leyte II Electric Cooperative(Leyeco II) was named as one of the best electric cooperatives in the region during the Lumens Awards held in Calbayog City on July 13. Officials of the Leyeco II led by its general manager Fernan Paul Tan (hidden) and board of directors, Imelda Lagutan, Levita Calamaya, Dalmacio “Massey” Grafil and Gregorio Dolina and other division chiefs accepted the awards given by the National Electrification Administration through its administrator Edgardo Masongsong.Also in photo was former Interior Sec. Mel Senen Sarmiento.

2 Leyte Samar Daily Express Tuesday, July 17, 2018NEWS

Excruciating pain grips the inner systems of immediate members of the family of retired Chief Superintendent Jesus Co-bachaAlmaden, Jr. popu-larly addressed – the Gen-eral, who lost his life in an accident that happened at the highway of Tolosa, Leyte last July 10.

Jess was on his way home to Palo driving his own car from Cebu thru the Hilongossea-port when a speeding passenger jeep from Du-lagrammed hard into the side of his car that practically destroyed the driver’s side that hit Jess. He was immediately rushed to the Leyte pro-vincial hospital in Palo by those who witnessed the accident but was ren-dered lifeless on arrival.

Jess is a Philippine Military Academy gradu-ate of class 1969. Being a Peemayer he performed his task with the highest level of professionalism and confidence.

I am privy to his per-son and of his official functions when he was as-signed in the early ‘80sas Provincial Commander of the erstwhile Philip-pine Constabulary that later became PC/INP – Integrated National Police under the Martial Law years of President Ferdi-nand Marcos; in Maasin, Southern Leyte. I was then the Provincial Infor-mation Chef of the Office of Media Affairs of the same province in those years.

-oOo-He was the longest

staying Provincial Com-mander of Southern Leyte because Gover-nor Salvacion Oppus-Yñiguez and her husband Speaker NicanorYñiguez would repeatedly request PNP regional command-er to extend his service in the province, when-ever information reaches them that there will be a rigodon of assignments. The Yñiguezes were im-pressed of General Al-maden’s performance.

When Jess assumed the position as Provincial Commander in Maasin Southern Leyte in the early 80’s the New People’s Army of the CPP was re-portedly in control of sev-eral barangays in the Pa-cific towns of Anahawan, Hinundayan and Hinu-nangan. Infact the NPA’s raided the towns of Hinu-

Almaden laid to rest todayAlvin Gz. Arpon

FEATURE

nangan, Hinundayan and Anahawan and took the firearms of the town.

-oOo-His Strategy:One: He conducted

a one-on-one dialogue among the Mayors of all the towns of the Pacific area. There were sus-picions then that some Mayors were so soft to the insurgents. As a result of these dialogues they eas-ily pledged to be active performers in the anti-in-surgency program of the government.

Two: Almaden zeal-ously conducted pulong-pulongs in suspected NPA – controlled barangays.

(My role in these pu-long-pulongs was to give lecture on the evils of communism. I must con-fess that fear would grip my being for fear of the insurgents but I also feel confident we are safe on account of the security provided us in the set of pulong-pulongs.)

There were encounters and normally few govern-ment troops were killed but more insurgents got

The late Gen. Almaden & wife Jorie

killed.It did not take a long

time when insurgency was crippled. Surren-ders were happening. Then a relative peace happened. There were still rebels but has ef-fectively weakened. Their supporters with-drew and instead joined government in the Al-maden anti-insurgency campaign.

Almaden’s stint at Southern Leyte has be-come a talk of the prov-ince. He did his mission effectively and no one heard of any corruption committed.

Jess is survived by his pretty Cebuana wife, JorieBacalsoAlmade-nand have been married for 45 years. They have two lady professional offsprings: Christine Joy Almojuelawho works abroad and Dr.Marrie Joy Acol.

Jorie is a banker and retired at the Philippine National Bank.

SIR, MAY YOU REST IN PEACE!!

TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Agri-culture (DA) is stepping up the promotion of the region’s sweet variety of jackfruit citing its unique taste and market potential.

Dubbed as Eastern Visayas Integrated Agri-cultural Research Center (EVIARC) sweet variety, the fruit has its special features such as natural sweetness, thickness of the fruitlet and yellow in color, aromatic, ellipsoid in shape and contains moder-ate latex, said Department of Agriculture field opera-tions division chief Fran-cisco Dayap.

“Eastern Visayas is one of the jackfruit produc-ing regions in the Philip-pines. Aside from the re-

DA steps up sweet jackfruit promotion

gion’s climatic condition, which is favorable for the growth and development of jackfruit, the EVIARC in Abuyog, Leyte has even boosted the region’s reputa-tion with the development of its sweet variety,” Dayap said.

As of last year, the re-gion has more than 1,258 hectares planted with this variety. The target is to ex-pand the cultivated areas to 4,409 hectares by 2022.

The agriculture official is optimistic of hitting the target considering the sup-port of the national govern-ment in the past three years to develop the commodity.

Among the opportuni-ties cited by Dayap are the presence of technical ex-perts provided by DA and

Visayas State University; strong partnership between farmers and government agencies; and the great de-mand which is greater than production.

“The development of EVIARC sweet reflects the region’s goal of being the lead producer of high qual-ity fresh and processed jackfruit in the Philippines, which captures both local and domestic markets by 2022,” Dayap added.

DA has been training farmers who are affiliated to an association to help them expand the market and to increase its production. The agency has been distribut-ing planting materials and machineries to recipients. (MELVA MAE C. MENIANO)

MAASIN CITY – Easier access to tourism destinations in South-ern Leyte province for nature-loving tourists is expected with the near completion of P137 mil-lion road project.

DPWH Southern Leyte district engineer-ing office chief Ma. Mar-garita Junia said they are speeding up the con-struction of the eight ac-cess roads, up for com-pletion this quarter.

“Our reports show that six of the access roads are now almost complete while the two other roads are showing quick progress in the im-plementation. Hopefully, if problems do not arise, we will be able to finish this in due time,” Junia said.

Reports show that ac-cess road linking Bue-navista Dive Site in Pa-dre Burgos town and Calag-itan Fish Sanctu-ary in Hinunangan town posted highest accom-plishment rate at 97 per-cent followed by Mainit Hot Spring access road in Anahawan town at 95 percent.

Other ongoing pro-jects (with respective completion rate) road connecting Bitoon Beach in Liloan town and Doña Marta and Casa Isabel

The access road leading to Napantao Dive Site, one of the most striking dive sites in Southern Leyte province, completed last year, is now providing easy access for tourists who wish to experience the beau-ty of the tourist spot.

P137-M tourism road upgrade in S. Leyte nears completion

in Hinunagan town (89 percent), road leading to Hindag-an Falls in St. Bernard town (83 per-cent), road to Monte Cueva and Danao Camp Tree Park in Maasin (61 percent), and access road to Crater Lake in San Juan town (21 percent).

The infrastructure

these sites,” Junia said.The construction of

tourism access roads is part of the 0+10-point economic agenda of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte aimed at promot-ing rural and value chain development toward in-creasing agricultural and rural enterprise produc-

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agency has earmarked P137 million to upgrade access roads to identified tourism destinations in the province.

“Through our coordi-nation with Department of Tourism, we managed to identify sites that have the potential to draw more tourists in the prov-ince which would hope-fully spur development for the communities near

tivity and rural tourism.Southern Leyte prov-

ince is known for its world-class dive sites, caves, extreme adven-ture sites, waterfalls, sa-fari, river trekking crater lake trekking, fish feed-ing, rain forest tramping, scuba diving and whale shark interaction, island escapades, beach fun, and religious journeys. (PR)

3Leyte Samar Daily ExpressTuesday, July 17, 2018 NEWS

MISS CARIGARA 2018: Marrianne Niel Insigne of Barangay Parena (center) was crowned Miss Carigara 2018 on Friday night besting 10 other candidates. Others in photo from left are Dorothy Florence Caballero of Barangay Jugaban (1st runner up), Myka Cyrill Cadaro of J.L. Lloren Hardware (Miss Carigara Tu-rismo 2018), Jewel Louie Tolibas of Barangay Uyawan (Miss Carigara Kultura 2018) and Chamicaa Miles Bodo of Barangay Canlampay (2nd runner up). (JOSE ALSMITH L. SORIA)

TACLOBAN CITY- The regional Commission on Population (Popcom) joined in the marking of the World Population Day last week as it issued alarm on the rising number of unwanted pregnancies.

To date, it is estimat-ed that about 30% of the world population growth is due to unwanted or ac-cidental pregnancies.

And in actual num-bers, it is about 28 million accidental or unwanted births per year, Elnora Pulma, regional director of Popcom-8, said.

Pulma said that lack of basic sexual reproduction information, adequate family planning, access to birth control, or a combi-nation of the three things were the cited as reasons why unwanted pregnan-cies continue to occur.

The Popcom direc-tor said that the big chal-

TACLOBAN CITY –The region has the most number of learning sites and school for practical agriculture (SPA) which serves as venues for dem-onstration and promo-tion of sustainable eco-tourism through organic farming.

These schools are lo-cated in the provinces of Southern Leyte, Leyte, Biliran, and Samar, and in the cities of Ormoc and Tacloban, Director Vilma Patindol of the Agricultural Training In-stitute Regional Training Center 8 (ATI-RTC 8), said.

They serves as school for hands-on training and the farmer-owner acts as the teacher and community extension worker serves as farmers to further enhance their farming knowledge and skills as well as for those who would want to ven-ture in farming.

Among these farm schools are Canaan Hills Farm in Caibiran, Biliran;Bendicar Farm Agri-Eco Tourism in Sogod, Southern Leyte; Villa Conzoilo Com-munity Association in Jaro,Leyte; Uncle Job’s

TACLOBAN CITY-A 27-year old student in one of the government-run universities in the city was arrested in possession of suspected ‘shabu’ valued at P17,000 on Friday (July 13)noon.

Arrested by the mem-bers of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) was Francis Jay Ritchie Quitorio who re-sides in Barangay 62, BLISS, Sagkahan district, this city.

Also arrested was Qui-torio’s companion, Joven Dale Jumao-as and a resi-dent of V&G subdivision also in the city.

The two were arrested in a sting operation in Baran-

Popcom expresses alarm on increasing number of unwanted pregnancies

Elnora PulmaRegional Director

lenge for the commission is to ensure that policies and programs embrace the well-established benefits of enabling women to choose whether and when to be-come pregnant- actions and values that are integral to human rights.

Family planning is now considered as a human right as it is central to gen-der equality and women’s empowerment and a key factor in reducing poverty.

World Population Day,

held annually every July 11, seeks to draw attention to this problem as the ad-ministration of President Rodrigo Duterte is keen on attaining and sustaining unmet need and the ur-gency of other population issues- mainly, the effects of overpopulation on the world and the current rate of population growth will not be able to be sustained into the future.

In the Philippines, from 105.53 million in 2017, the country’s population will rise to 107.19 million by the end of 2018, citing projections by the Philip-pine Statistics Authority based on the latest census in 2015.

The increase would be boosted by some 1.8 mil-lion babies expected to be born this year, represent-ing a growth rate of 1.69 percent. (LIZBETH ANN A. ABELLA)

College student nabbed in a buy-bust operation

gay 31, Real Street at about 12:30 noon.

Seized from the two suspects were five sachets of suspected shabu weigh-ing 10.5 grams with a street value of P17,000.

“We have been consist-ent in our appeal to them to stop engaging in the il-legal drugs. While it is easy money, they should also realize that we continue in our campaign against ille-gal drugs,” Rogelette Urgel, PDEA-8 information of-ficer, said.

She said that she feel bad that even students like Quitorio are being arrested due to illegal drugs activity.

The school where Qui-

torio is enrolled was not divulged by Urgel.

And in a separate sting operation, one Renato Laviña,43 and a public utility vehicle driver, was arrested by PDEA opera-tives on Friday at about 4:30 pm at their village in Brgy. 86, San Jose district.

Seized from the sus-pect were 25 sachets of suspected shabu with an estimated street value of P170,000.

All three are now de-tained at the Tacloban city lock-up facilities and charged for illegal posses-sion and selling of prohib-ited drugs. (JOEY A. GABIETA)

EV has the country’s most number of farm schools

Farm in Mahaplag, Leyte; Juanito Eco Farm School for Practical Agriculture (JEFSPA) in Kananga, also in Leyte; Bendicar’s Farm & Food Products, La Caridad Farm both in Sogod; RGV Farm in Macrohon and the Mer-cedes Upland Farmers Development Associa-tion (MUFDA) in Silago, both in Southern Leyte; McKinley Integrated Di-versified Organic Farm-ing System Farmer’s As-sociation (MIDOFSFA) in Catarman, Northern Samar; Mila and Maning’s Farm in Borongan City, Aragon’s Nature Farm in Ormoc City and La Gran-ja here in Tacloban City.

Senator Cynthia Vil-lar, who chairs the com-mittee on agriculture and food, has been urging farmers’ organizations and farm owners to con-vert their farm lands into SPAs to help in the food security and in teaching other farmers on the new technology of farming to increase their production and income.

“Farmers are impor-tant part of our country that is why I want to help in improving and uplift-ing the condition by im-

proving their income. Farmers might stop culti-vating their farms if their income will not increase which may result to food security problem,” Villar said in a statement.

The senator is the main authored of Farm Tour-ism Development Act of 2016. (ROEL T. AMAZONA)

TACLOBAN CITY- The Philippine Health Insurance Corpora-tion (PhilHealth) here in the region presented the awards to winners of its sponsored poster-making contest Saturday (July 14).

Lyka Mae Piangco of Wright National High School of Samar Divi-sion in Paranas town was adjudged as first place winner, winning P10,000 cash prize.

Pianco’s poster fo-cused on the role of Phil-Health among Filipinos coming from all walks of life, and how the agency help a number of patients through the years.

Samar student bags poster-making contest sponsored by PhilHealth

The two other win-ners, Christian Holares of the Leyte National High School of the Tacloban City Division as the sec-ond placer, who received P3,000, and Desiree Di-oneza of Wright National High School also of Sa-mar Division who she received P2,000.

All winners also re-ceived certifications to-gether with their coach-es.

As the regional win-ner, Piangco’s work will be included for the 2019 PhilHealth calendar.

The PhilHealth post-er-making contest has a theme, “Ang PhilHealth sa aking mga Mata”.

The said contest was open to all grade 10 junior high schools students in all public secondary school. Par-ticipating schools were allowed to submit one poster entry made by their Grade 10 student/group of students to the Youth Formation Unit of the School Governance and Operations Division (SGOD).

Asisclo Militante Jr., regional vice president of PhilHealth-8, said that the poster-making con-test became an avenue for the students to showcase their talents in arts and express through their own eyes their gained

knowledge, awareness, and understanding about PhilHealth.

Renato Limsiaco Jr., the newly-promoted senior vice president for fund management sec-tor of PhilHealth, and Militante handed the award to the winners. (LIZBETH ANN A. ABELLA)

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t’s hard to imagine that up to now, thousands of villages oth-erwise known as sitios through-out the country are still wallow-ing in darkness come night times due to the absence of electricity.

Energizing remote villages

This problem does not only plague them with darkness at nights; it also deprives them of the multifarious benefits that electricity affords.

It must be due to the enormous task of electri-fying these numerous villages that the National Electrification Administration is already invit-ing the private sector to participate. With more than 19,000 sitios yet without electricity sup-plies across the country, NEA cannot help but invite private companies to help energize these places, knowing that with its limited manpower and resources, it cannot tackle the job alone.

Life of course can go on even without elec-tricity. This was proven during those centuries when people across the world had survived without it. But it was during those days when

life was still simple, and society was yet rid of modern inventions and gadgetry. Nowadays when technology is far advanced and almost everything requires power supplies, we cannot just live normally without it. We would be left behind in society, deprived of so many benefits.

At least it’s a good thing that NEA is doing something to address this enormous need, even if it means delegating the work to the private sector. To the people in those areas, it doesn’t matter who provides the needed services; it’s the fact that they are finally to be energized af-ter years of delay that matters most, thanks to the directive of no less than the president of the country, Pres. Rodrigo Duterte.

If done soon enough, this electrification of remote areas could be another monumental ac-complishment of the present administration knowing that, for decades ago, no such project was implemented by the past regimes. House-holds in those areas may now start to expect ex-ceeding improvements in their mode of living.

I mentioned, in my previous column, that superhumans are in the making, courtesy of the transhumanist move-ment. This is exactly what the transhumanists are trying to pursue, and

Man-machine mergerit could be summed up as a technological effort to eradicate ageing, to aug-ment the human body and mind, to remake mankind, and to merge humans with machines.

This concept is noth-

ing new, as evidenced by such devices as false teeth, wooden arms/legs, hearing aids, and eye glasses. But it is get-ting sophisticated nowa-days. Take for example the implants that could augment the senses and boost cognitive process-es. These are higher ver-sions of man-machine merger that could result in longer lifespans, in-creased intelligence, and supernatural strength—much like the attributes of the gods.

In the Bible we learn that God created man in His own image, but tran-shumanism is remaking man in the image ofhis own ideals. That’s why

this movement is faced with ethical problems and dilemmas for going beyond natural limita-tions constituting ordi-nary human beings. It is a very ambitious quest viewed by some as tan-tamount to rebellion against the creator, al-though in the eyes of the world, it’s just raising up intellectual agenda.

Given technology’s consistent track re-cord of making pro-cesses more and more sophisticated, there is no doubt that human enhancement can be achieved. In fact, many of these wearables and implants are already in

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Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Leyte Samar Daily ExpressOPINION 5

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

To concentrate on Charter Change – changing of our present unitary gov-ernment system to federalism is a poor excuse to cancel the May 2019 mid-term elections.

The conduct of elec-tions is a significant ac-tivity in our democrat-ic system. It is a very strong concept and an indicator that indeed sovereignty resides in the people.

Elections provide our people the role and an opportunity to hand down verdicts or judgments on who they want to put offi-cials who will work to run government op-

Cancel May 2019 mid-term elections –

A Speaker’s Proposalerations – to work for the advancement of the land towards economic development, social justice, educational ad-vancement, national security and what have you.

-oOo-Postponement of

elections is largely to the advantage only of in-cumbent elected officials but unfair to the sover-eign people. The people lose the chance to boot out ineffective officials, the corrupt and others who deserve to be oust-ed, via elections.

-oOo-A lot of ordinary

citizens and tax payers are seriously wonder-ing why is the Duterte

administration so hot in changing this style of governance to shift to Federalism. Now par-ty mates of the Presi-dent are even initiating noelections(no-el) for the present officials to focus and concentrate their efforts to help re-alize federalism as a new form of govern-ance. They already have plans how the change be done. The President had tasked a Constitu-tional Commission to write a draft and now already in his hands.

Ok it’s already there- the draft that will be re-viewed by Congress and the Senate. It will there-fore take time before it is going to be presented to the people for accept-ance in a plebiscite.

A nationwide infor-mation drive about the context of the new Char-ter should bedone seri-ously. And that will take time.

But the govern-ment should NOT can-cel elections. It should be conducted because people are interested more in elections. Dis-cussions on federalism may proceed but that must beafter the elec-tions already.

IF only to be able to talk in the same wave-length as the young ones who are usually techies, I thought of familiarizing myself with some digital terms that would some-how capture the things I wanted to tell them. And I discovered at least two terms that seem to serve the purpose.

One is the term, algo-rithm, which in the digi-tal world means “the set of ‘rules’ a search engine may use to determine the relevance of a webpage, and therefore its search engine ranking.”

In other words, if we are a search engine, like Google, and we want to search for a particular product, we should come up with some formula such that we can get the relevant particular web-pages in their proper ranking, with the first one as being the most rel-evant for our needs.

The other term is ma-trix, which again in the digital world means “a vast sea of computing resources that can be visualized by the user, is accessible at many lev-els, and is lit up more intensely in the areas of greatest activity.”

With all the many and complex information, data and things being fed into our brain because of the new technologies, we need to have some means to be more keenly discerning as to which

A God-favoring algorithm and matrix

ones have priority over the others so we do not get confused and lost and can still maintain a good sense of direction and purpose.

Knowing how to for-mulate an algorithm that is useful to us and to learn how to cruise in the very complex matrix of data is certainly an important and even an indispensa-ble skill that we now need to acquire.

And we should make sure that in all the ac-tivities and operations we now do in our cyber-world, we should always give God the highest pri-ority so as to avoid get-ting lost in that intoxicat-ing environment.

Yes, God has to be given the highest prior-ity for after all he is the Creator of the whole uni-verse, including our digi-tal culture, the author of what is real, the ultimate standard of what is true, good and beautiful.

We should be wary of the strong possibility of being seduced by some worldly values that, while having their legitimate place in the sun, can only lead us to a lot of dangers when not inspired, root-ed and directed towards

God.We should never for-

get what Christ once said: “For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul.” (Mk 8,36) Let us always re-member that we are meant to be with God from whom we came and to whom we belong in a way that is so inti-mate as to enter into a living communion with him.

We cannot deny that the new technologies can hijack our sense of religion, our love-char-acterized relation with God and with every-body else, such that we end up not only indiffer-ent to God and to others but also hostile to him and to everybody else.

It’s true that we have to be immersed in the things of the world, since they in fact are the means for us to enter heaven to be with God in our definitive state of life. But we should be properly immersed in them.

And that means that while we are immersed in the things of the world, we should also be immersed in God. In fact, the more immersed we are in the world, the more immersed we should also be in God. Otherwise, there is no other way but to get lost.

We need to devise an algorithm that will al-ways lead us to God re-gardless of what we are doing in the world. We also need to know how to handle the matrix of information, data and other resources so that we would always be led to God.

existence and are used by the elderly and the endured, even by the healthy youngsters who are boosting their per-formance in various ac-tivities such as athletics. They can replace healthy limbs with carbon-fibre blades to win gold med-als in the Olympics.

Again, this is the idea of replacing natu-ral body parts with ar-tificial ones that could allow one to perform better, or live longer. Imagine yourself hav-ing electronic and ultra-sonic abilities. You can

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interface with your com-puter in Tacloban, even if you are in Manila.Instead of relying on your frail body, you can have it re-done, your flesh, blood, and bones replaced by longer-lasting, high-tech artificial versions.

While transhu-manist scientists are awaiting this life-en-hancing, life-extending technology to reach per-fection, they want to have their bodies stored in liq-uid preservatives in case they die so that they can be revived and resurrect-ed later. There are houses now in the US and other countries whose refriger-ators can store hundreds

of dead bodies that await physiological resurrec-tion.

This, again, contra-dicts God’s concept of resurrection. Human bodies can be resur-rected, enhanced, and augmented, but it is for sure they will not live for eternity; they will still die in the end. But the resur-rected body that God can give us will live forever, the Lord Jesus Christ be-ing its first fruit. Since his resurrection, he is still alive until now, and will never taste death any-more. That’s the kind of body enhancement and augmentation that we should all desire to have.

Commentaries from readers whose indentities they prefer to remain anony-mous 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, sig-nature address and phone numbers (if any) to: “Letter to the Editor”, Leyte Samar Daily Express.

They may be edited for length and clarity

6 Leyte Samar Daily Express Tuesday, July 17, 2018NOTICES

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH CONTRACT TO SELLNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Godofredo E. Leonor extra-

judicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a house and lot described as: House a one (1) storey residential house erected on Lot 14, Block 10, located at Brgy. 82, Marasbaras, Tacloban City, covered by Tax Dec. No. 2012-01-0009-05854, with floor area of 22 square meters and lot, a parcel of land designated as Lot 14, Block 10, Pcs-08-000536-D, situated at Brgy. Marasbaras, City of Tacloban,, Province of Leyte, covered by TCT No. T-51289 containing an area of 54 square meters and heirs have agreed to sell their share in favor of Glenda Leonor-Contillo as vendee; per Doc. No. 166, Page No. 33, Book No. XIX, Series of 2017 of NotaryPublic Atty. Asterio A. Villero. LSDE July 10, 17 & 24, 2018

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLRMENT WITH ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heir of the late Ariston Bibera and Quintina Regis extra-

judicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land under Tax Dec. No. 08-06-0030-00677, designated as Lot No. 1714-Part, situated at Brgy. Tabunok, Bato, Leyte with an area of 233,011 square meters. A Deed of Sale was executed a portion of 2,149 square meters from the above-described property in favor of Sps. EligioJavar and Demetria Javar as vendee; per Doc. No. 464, Page No. 93, Book No. XV, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Josenilo Marquez Reoma. LSDE July 3, 10 & 17, 2018

SELF ADJUDICATION WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that CerilaMoldez Antonio heir of the late Angela V. Mol-

dez, executed a Deed of Self-Adjudication over a parcel of land covered under O.C.T. No. P-31930, Lot No. 984, Case 42, Cad 519-D, situated in Brgy. San Juan, Palompon, Leyte, containing an area of 3,352 square meters, more or less. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Sps. Jeffrey I. Lucero and Mary Cris Estrera-Lucero as vendee for a portion of 300 square meters from the above-described property; per Doc. No. 366, Page No. 74, Book No. XXIX, Series of 2012 of Notary Public Atty. Donna Villa M. Gaspan-Cerna. LSDE July 3, 10 & 17, 2018

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH ABSOLUTE SALE

NOTICE is hereby given that heir of the late Ariston Bib-era and Quintina Regis extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land under Tax Dec. No. 08-06-0030-00650 R13, designated as Lot No. 1717 Part, situated at Brgy. Tabunok, Bato, Leyte, with an area of 243,942square meters. A Deed of Sale was executed a portion of 500 square meters from the above-described property in favor of Sps. Jaime B. Mendoza and RhealynDacallos Mendoza as vendee; per Doc. No. 62, Page No. 13, Book No. XX, Series of 2016 of Notary Public Atty. Josenilo Marquez Reoma. LSDE July 3, 10 & 17,2018

AFFIDAVIT OF ADJUDICATION WITH ABSOLUTE SALE

NOTICE is hereby given that Benita BascugGarde-Sug-cang heir of the late Concordia Bascug and RestitutoBascug-Garde executed an affidavit of Adjudication over a parcel of land, under Tax Dec. No. 08-27-0022-00485, covered by Kati-bayanngOrihinalnaTituloBlg. P-81421, designated as Lot 2100, Case 8, Cad. 967-D, containing an area of 24,605 square meters. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of ELVIRA A. PAJULIO married to ERIC S. PAJULIO as vendee for the above-described property together with all the improvements thereon: per Doc. No. 226, Page No. 46, Book No. X, Series of 2017 of Notary Public Atty. Josenilo Marquez Reoma. LSDE July 3, 10 & 17, 2018

AFFIDAVIT OF SELF-ADJUDICATION WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE

NOTICE is hereby given that Marcita C. David heir of late Federico Concillado ex-ecuted an Affidavit of Self-Adjudication over a parcel of land identified as Cad. Lot No. 1545 located at Brgy. Doosdel Sur, Hindang, Leyte, under Tax Dec. No. 08-15010-00474, with an area of 9,637.43 square meters, more or less. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Robert Nathaniel A. Concillado as vendee for the above-described property; per Doc. No. 441, Page No. 89, Book No. XXXVIII, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Rosarie A. Peteros-Phua. LSDE July 3, 10 & 17, 2018

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Dioleta Daaco extrajudicially settled,

partitioned and adjudicated over one-half (1/2) share of a parcel of land, located at Sagka-han, Tacloban City, designated as Lot No. 1012, containing an area of 3,224 square meters, more or less and embraced in T.C.T. No. T-38635; per Doc. No. 447, Page No. 75, Book No. VI, Series of 2016 of Notary Public Atty. Ultimo C. Servande.LSDE July 3, 10 & 17, 2018

Republic of the PhilippinesOffice of the President

HOUSING AND LAND USE REGULATORY BOARDCentral Visayas Region, Cebu City

N O T I C ENotice is hereby given that COMMUNITIES LEYTE INC. of

Block 1, Lot 6 Camella Leyte, Brgy. Campetic, Palo, Leyte has/have filed with the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board a sworn registration statement for the sale of subdivision house and lot in CAMELLA LEYTE PHASE 3 located at Brgy. Campetic, Palo, Leyte and more particularly described as Lots 9951 and 9955; and covered by OCT No. P-67467 and P-73154 respec-tively.

The foregoing project is utilizing LUMINA CARCAR PHASE 2 located at Brgy. Perrelos, Carcar City, Cebu as its compliance pursuant to Section 18 of Republic Act No. 7279.

All papers relative thereto, shall upon request and payment of processing fee, be available for inspection during business hours by any person having legal interest thereon.

Absent any legal impediment, the above-cited project is deemed registered and a certificate, in evidence thereof, shall forthwith be issued after five (5) days from the last day of pub-lication.

Cebu City, Philippines, 28th of June 2018.

FRANCIS D. ORDENIZA Regional DirectorLSDE: July 10 & 17, 2018

Republic of the PhilippinesOffice of the President

HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT COORDINATING COUNCILHousing and Land Use Regulatory Board

Central Visayas Region

(P A U N A W A)Ipinagbibigay-alam na si COMMUNITIES LEYTE INC., ng

Block 1, Lot 6 Camella Leyte, Brgy. Campetic, Palo, Leyte ay na-ghain sa Tanggapang ito ng sinumpaang aplikasyon para sa pag-bebenta ng mga lote, bahay at lote sa CAMELLA LEYTE PHASE 3 na matatagpuan sa Brgy. Campetic, Palo, Leyte at sinasakop ng mga Lote 9951 at 9955; sa ilalim ng mga sumusunod na OCT No. P-67467 at P-73154.

Ang nasasabing proyekto ay ginagamit ang LUMINA CAR-CAR PHASE 2 na matatagpuan sa Brgy. Perrelos, Carcar City, Cebu pagtupad sa Seksyon 18 ng Batas ng Republika Blg. 7279.

Lahat ng mga kasulatang kaugnay nito ay maaaring suriin ng sinuman na nagtataglay ng legal na interes dito matapos hu-miling ng pagsusuri at magbayad ng kaukulang halaga sa tang-gapang ito.

Kapag walang sagabal na legal, ang proyektong nabanggit ay ituturing na rehistrado at maari nang bigya ng sertipiko bilang katibayan nito, pagkalipas ng limang (5) araw mula sa huling paglalathala.

Bayan ng Cebu, Pilipinas, 28 ng Hunyo 2018.

FRANCIS D. ORDENIZA Regional DirectorLSDE: July 10 & 17, 2018

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Mateo Ayllon, Sr. extrajudicially set-

tled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of agricultural land, covered by Katibayan ng Original na Titulo No. P-4971, containing an area of 16,140 square meters; per Doc. No. 602, Page No. 100, Book No. 11, Series of 2017 of Notary Public Atty. Clotilde Japzon-Baltazar. LSDE July 10, 17 & 24, 2018

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH SALE

NOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Maximino Icao extrajudicially set-tled, partitioned and adjudicated over a par-cel of agricultural land, situated at Suribao, Borongan City, Eastern Samar, covered by O.C.T. No. 589, containing an area of 4,966 square meters with Survey No. 7369, Case 8, Cad 434-D, A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Janice V. Lombrio as vendee for the above-described property; per Doc. No. 371, Page No. 56, Book No. V, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Charles B. Culo, CPA.LSDE July 10, 17 & 24, 2018

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Sps. Elpidio Gabiane and Vicenta

Darunday extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land, situated at Sitio Balbagan, Barrio of Pagsa-ogan, Paranas, Samar covered and embraced by O.C.T. No. 9164, Lot No. 1992, Pls-658-D, containing an area of 20,178 square meters. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Sps. Gerardo N. Mabulac and Imelda Lucas-Mabulac as vendee for the above-described property; per Doc. No. 003, Page No. 002, Book No. 411, Series of 2017 of Notary Public Atty. Medino L. Acuba. LSDE July 10, 17 & 24, 2018

Publication NoticeRA 10172

Republic of the PhilippinesProvince of Eastern Samar

Municipality of GuiuanOFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Date: June 18, 2018

In compliance with the publication requirements and pursuant to OCRG memorandum Circular No. 2013-1 Guidelines in the Implementation of the Admin-istrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that GERARDO MERCURIO GARADO has filed with this Office, a pe-tition for change of first name from “GERARDA” to “GERARDO” and correction of entry in sex from: “FE-MALE” to “MALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth of GERARDA MERCURIO GARADO, born on October 10, 1983 at Guiuan, Eastern Samar and whose parents are Santiago B. Garado and Lilian M. Mercurio

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this office not later than July 23, 2018. (Sgd.) ESTER R. GERMINAL Mun. Civil RegistrarLSDE: July 10 & 17, 2018

DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Lucilo C. Laude extrajudicially settled,

partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land, designated as Lot 8, Block 5, situated at Brgy. Caibaan, Tacloban City, containing an area of 75 square meters covered by T.C.T No. T-70127. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of EVELYN M. COSTELO as vendee for the above-described property; per Doc. No. 467, Page No. 95, Book No. I, Series of 2017 of Notary Public Atty. Eric T. De Veyra. LSDE July 3, 10 & 17, 2018

DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNOTICE is hereby given that heir of the late Perfecto Villarminoextrajudicially set-

tled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land situated in Brgy. Himarco, Palompon, Leyte, Lot 1670, with an area of 6,095 square meters, covered under KatibayanngOrihi-nalnaTituloBlg. P-82191; per Doc. No. 205, Page No. 42, Book No. 28, Series of 2017 of Notary Public Atty. Dante Luz N. Viacrucis. LSDE July 3, 10 & 17, 2018

AFFIDAVIT OF ADJUDICATIONNOTICE is hereby given that Conrado

Curiano Obregon heir of the late Higina Curiano executed an affidavit of adjudica-tion over a parcel of land Lot No. 1093, with improvements thereon, situated in the Barrio of San Roque Buri, Municipality of Catbalogan, Samar (now Catbalogan City) containing an area of 5,435 square meters, more or less, covered by O.C.T. No. 1352; per Doc. No. 440, Page No. 089, Book No. 358, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Medino L. Acuba. LSDE July 10, 17 & 24, 2018

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of

the late Sps. Luis Perpiñan and Alejandra Diaz extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land Lot No. 2683, situated in the Bo. of Sagcahan, Mu-nicipality of Tacloban City, containing an area of 2,165 square meters, more or less and a portion of 200 square meters has been sold in favor to Sps. Emilio Sorima and Rebecca Salutan Surima as vendee from the above-described property; per Doc. No. 517, Page No. 105, Book No. VIII, Series of 2017 of Notary Public Atty. Jerry S. Uy. LSDE July 10, 17 & 24, 2018

Republic of thePhilippines

SUPREME COURTREGIONAL TRIAL

COURTEighth Judicial Region

Branch 11Calubian, Leyte

IN THE MATTER OF PETITION FOR

CORRECTION OF ENTRIES IN THE

LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF SAN ISIDRO, LEYTE AND NATIONAL STATIS-

TICS AND CIVIL REGISTRAR GENERAL

PHILIPPINE STATISTIC

AUTHORITY (PSA)CHARLITA ARROFO

MISAPetitioner,-versus-

THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF SAN ISIDRO, LEYTE AND

THE NATIONAL STATISTICIAN AND CIVIL REGISTRAR GENERAL PHILIP-

PINE STATISTICS AUTHORITY (PSA)

RespondentsSP. PROC. NO. SP-

CN-154For:

x- - - - - - - - - -xAMENDED ORDER

A verified petition for Correction of Entries has been filed by petitioner through counsel before this Court, praying that after due no-tice, publication and hearing, judgment be rendered order-ing the respondent the Local Civil Registrar of San Isidro, Leyte, to correct the entries in the Certificate of Live Birth of petitioner CHARLITA AR-ROFO MISA, to wit:

(a) Item No. 1, Middle Name from P to ARROFO;

(b) Item No. 6. Middle Name from A to P;

(c) Item No. 6, Last Maid-en Name, from PUNAY to ARROFO;

(d) Item No. 12. Date of Marriage, from November 15, 1966 to November 24, 1966;

(e) Item No. 12, Place of Marriage from San Isidro, Leyte to Maya, Daangban-tayan, Cebu.

WHEREFORE, finding the said petition to be suffi-

cient in form and substance, notice is hereby given to all parties concerned that the initial hearing of this petition is set on August 20, 2018 at 1:30 in the afternoon before this Court at the Hall of Jus-tice, Calubian, Leyte at the aforesaid date, any interested person may appear and show cause therebe any, why said petition should not be granted.

Let copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the re-gion at least once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner and let copies of the petition and Order be furnished the Honorable Solicitor General, 134 Amorsolo St. Legaspi Village, Makati City, the Na-tional Statistics Office, Ma-nila, the Assistant Provincial Prosecutor of Calubian, Leyte and the Local Civil Registrar of San Isidro, for them to ap-pear for the government.

SO ORDERED.IN CHAMBERS this 25th

day of June 2018 at Hall of Justice, Calubian, Leyte(Sgd.) WENIFREDO C.

CUATONPresiding Judge

LSDE: July 10, 17 & 24, 2018

Republic of the PhilippinesMUNICIPALITY OF CATARMAN

Province of Northern Samar-oOo-

BIDS & AWARDS COMMITTEEINVITATION TO BID

The Local Government of Catarman, Northern Samar invites interested parties/contractors to Apply for Eligibility and to Bid for the hereunder contract/projects to wit:Solicitation Number : 2018-30Project Name : Supply and Delivery of PPE for DOLE-LGU TUPAD BeneficiariesABC : P479,950.00Location : Brgy. Acacia, Catarman, N. SamarSource of Fund : LGU-SPADelivery Period : 30 CDSolicitation Number : 2018-31Project Name : Supply and Delivery of Rice & Rice Retailing Materials for Livelihood Assistance to Brgy. Baybay FisherfolksABC : P405,750.00Location : Catarman, N. SamarSource of Fund : DOLEDelivery Period : 30 daysSolicitation Number : 2018-32Project Name : Supply and Delivery of Rice & Rice Retailing Materials for Livelihood Assistance to Senior CitizensABC : P 138,000.00Location : Catarman, N. SamarSource of Fund : DOLEDelivery Period : 30 days ACTIVITIES SCHEDULE* Start of submission of LOI and Issuance of Eligibility/ July 17, 2018 Pre-qualification Forms/Bidding Documents* Pre-bid Conference July 26, 2018, 2:00 p.m., Office of the Mayor Conference Hall1* Dropping of Bid Closing Date & Time August 07, 2018, 2:00 p.m., Office of the Opening of Bid Mayor Conference Hall1

Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening. Bids should be in Philip-pines PESO Currency. The description of an eligible bidder is contained in the Bidding Documents, particularly in Section II, Instruction to Bidders.

Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using a non-discretionary “pass/fail” criterion as specified in the implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act (RA) 9184, otherwise known as the “Government Procurement Reform Act”

Eligibility/Pre-qualification Forms and Bid Documents maybe purchased by interested bidders at the Mu-nicipal Engineering Office, 2nd Floor, Catarman Municipal Hall on the dates shown above and upon payment of non-refundable amount of P500.00, P1,000.00, P4,000.00 respectively.

The Local Government of Catarman, Northern Samar, reserves the right to reject any bids, waive any minor defect therein, and accept the offer most advantageous to the Local Government Unit.

The Local Government of Catarman, Northern Samar assumes no responsibility whatsoever to compensate of indemnify the bidders to any expenses incurred in the preparation of bid.

For further information , please refer to:ATTY. HAROLD M. HORCASITASMunicipal Administrator/BAC ChairmanTelefax (055) 500-9215ENGR. CARLITO O. DANQUEMunicipal Engineer/BAC Vice-ChairmanTel. No. (055) 500-92552nd Floor, Catarman Municipal HallCatarman, N. Samar

ATTY. HAROLD M. HORCASITASMunicipal Administrator/BAC Chairman

7Leyte Samar Daily ExpressTuesday, July 17, 2018 NEWS

BURAUEN, Leyte – For decades, Gredy Manidlan-gan, has been tilling fields, but this time, his daily grind is more worthwhile as he prepares an area for planting of vegetables meant for malnourished children in their village.

The 43-year-old ben-eficiary of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Pro-gram (4Ps), said the job is tiring, but knowing that he’s contributing to the ef-fort to arrest malnutrition, motivated him to work more.

“Our work here is a proof that 4Ps beneficiar-ies are not lazy. We want to be known as profitable citi-zens and not just recipients of the government’s cash grants,” the farmer said.

Since 2010, he has been receiving P1,200 monthly from the Department of Social Welfare and Devel-opment (DSWD) to sup-port his children’s educa-tion.

Manidlangan, who earns an average income of P100 daily from cultivating coconut and other crops, is just one of the 56 4Ps re-cipients in Barangay Ano-nang tapped to work in a communal garden. The upland village is about 18 kilometers from the town center passing through a hilly road.

The garden will cul-tivate vegetables as main ingredients of pinakbet, a Filipino vegetable stew made of different veg-etables, pork and shrimp paste.

The dish usually in-cludes bitter melon, egg-plant, tomato, okra, string beans, chili peppers, squash, winged beans, and others.

Anonang Elementary School agriculture teacher Dexter Villote said 43 mal-nourished children out of the 158 students enrolled in their school will ben-efit from the school-based feeding program.

The initiative primar-ily aims to improve the nutritional status of the beneficiaries by at least 70 percent at the end of 120 feeding days.

Secondarily, it aims to increase classroom attend-ance by 85 percent to 100 percent and improve the children’s health and nutri-tion values and behavior.

“Through gardening, we hope to capacitate more

4Ps recipients tapped for school gardening

LIEZEL R. RECAMADAS

beneficiaries into empow-ered community members who are able to help in the development,” Manidlan-gan said.

Village council member Flora Alere, 52, said her participation in the project is a way of paying debt of gratitude for the govern-ment’s grants.

“I am always happy to help because the govern-ment has supported the education of some of my six children since 2010,” Alere shared.

“Gardening is a good opportunity for us to fos-ter camaraderie as we share seedlings from backyard farms and agree to work to-gether to maintain this or-ganic farm,” she added.

DSWD Regional Direc-tor Restituto Macuto said that 4Ps families have been taught to maintain gardens to address malnutrition, save budget for food, and earn additional income.

“Based on the monitor-ing of our municipal links, our 4Ps beneficiaries are not lazy since they were taught to be diligent during family development sessions,” Ma-cuto said.

Eastern Visayas region has 280,000 4Ps beneficiar-ies in six provinces.

The conditional cash transfer program locally known as 4Ps, is a govern-ment program that provides conditional cash grants to the poorest of the poor in the country.

The program aims to break the cycle of poverty by keeping children aged 0-18 healthy and in school, so they can have a better fu-ture.

Households receive cash grants if children stay in school and get regular health check-ups, have their growth monitored, and re-ceive vaccines. Pregnant women must get pre-natal care, with their births at-tended to by professional health workers.

Parents or guardians are required to participate in monthly community-based family development ses-sions to learn about positive child discipline, disaster preparedness, and women’s rights. (The author is the school head of the Anonang Elementary School in Ba-rangay Anonang, Burauen, Leyte)

MAASIN CITY- The voice of the people that will be expressed through a plebiscite is the final deci-sion on whether they like, or do not like, the Philip-pines to shift to the federal system of government.

And the referendum-plebiscite can be done si-multaneously with the mid-term elections sched-uled in May next year to save on costs.

This was stated cate-gorically by Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel in a hud-dle with local media last week at the DILG provin-

People have final say on federalism, Sen. Pimentel says

cial office, on the sidelines of his visit as administering officer for the swearing-in of newly elected barangay officials.

Asked if the majority of the senators were enthu-siastic on the federalism idea, the senator was can-did enough to admit that only three others shared his passion, namely, Senate President Tito Sotto and Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri and Manny Pacquiao.

“But this may change, given that the constitu-tional committee tasked to draft the federal constitu-

tion has finished its task,” Pimentel quickly added.

Pimentel also said the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is not keen on holding the plebiscite to-gether with next year’s polls, without giving de-tails.

In any case, the pro-posed change will have to be submitted to the people in a plebiscite, whether it is joined with the elections or held at a separate date, Pimentel emphasized. (MARCELO M.PEDALINO/PIA8-Southern Leyte)

TACLOBAN CITY-“Even in your retirement years, you should not for-get that you were once part of DENR and that your contribution has already made a mark. But I believe that you still have what it takes to passionately con-tribute for the protection of the environment,” said RD Atty. Crizaldy M. Bar-celo, during his message to the retirees of the Depart-ment. He challenged them to continue their environ-mental advocacies in sup-port of the Department’s mandate.

Responding to the chal-lenge, the retirees organ-ized themselves into an association that will closely coordinate with the De-partment. In particular, it will serve as support group from among the retirees

DENR retirees pledged to continue their environmental advocacies

and will be the official link to the Department. They will also be coming up with a Memorandum of Agree-ment with the DENR for them to avail and imple-ment some of its programs in the region such as the National Greening Pro-gram (NGP).

Among the retirees who answered the call and were voted as officers of the as-sociation were Forester Manolito Ragub, former Regional Executive Direc-tor (RED) as President; Forester Leo Poculan, for-mer Supervising Forest Management Specialist of the Watershed Philippine Model Forest, as Vice-president for External and Mr. Romeo Golong, former Legal Officer, as Vice-presi-dent for Internal.

“We are fortunate that

our present leadership in the Department recogniz-es the contribution of our former officers and em-ployees because we cannot be what we are today with-out you, our retirees. We have evolved from your humble beginnings and we draw inspiration from your previous services,” shared RD Atty. Barcelo as he thanked the retirees for their support.

The “DENR Retirees Homecoming 2018” was a venue for them to remi-nisce their years of service for the environment and as a way of paying tribute to their contributions to the Department. This was held on July 25, 2018 at the Graduate School Function Hall of the Eastern Visayas State University (EVSU) in Tacloban City. (PR)

PALO, Leyte- The De-partment of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Bu-reau of Maintenance from the central office in Manila, represented by Engr. Diana Maria P. Balani, conducted a walk the line inspection and validation of the dis-trict’s road conditions and other maintenance activi-ties.

Rectification of road de-fects was done in some areas of the first district of Leyte such as Palo-Carigara-Or-moc Road, Daang Maha-rlika Road, Government Center Road, Bagahupi-Ba-batngon-Sta.Cruz-Barugo Carigara Road, Leyte Sa-

DPWH-BOM inspects and validates roads within the first district of Leyte

mar Interprovincial Roads, Tacloban-Baybay South Road, Pawing-Campetic Road and Tigbao-Pulak Sta. Fe Road.

Engr. Balani pointed out some tips in order for the district to obtain a perfect rating as far as road mainte-nance is concerned.

She elaborated the im-portance of well-main-tained roadways as it crucially contributes to economic development and growth and brings im-portant social benefits. Un-wanted road accidents will also be prevented.

Engr. Balani also ex-plained that if insufficient

maintenance is carried out, roads can need replacing or major repairs after just a few years which may result in another soaring costs and a major financial impact on the department.

Lesser potholes were ob-served in this semester com-pared to the previous one. However, it is advised to aim for a zero pothole roads. Re-painting of guardrails is also necessary to make it more visible to the riding public as it is designed to keep peo-ple or vehicles from straying into dangerous or off-limits areas.

Engr. Balani also ad-dressed the districts com-

mendable road widening projects and its clean and visible road safety signage. Roads open up more ar-eas and stimulate economic and social development

which makes them the most important of all pub-lic assets, thus, maintain-ing it is strongly necessary. (DESSA T. MALIBAN, PIO-Alternate/PR)

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late George F. Lee extrajudicially settled,

partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land, Lot No. 974, situated in Brgy. Kan-ipa, Baybay, Leyte, containing an area of 7,174 square meters, more or less and covered by TCT No. T-19123; per Doc. No. 440, Pag No. 89, Book No. LVII, Series of 2016 of Notary Public Atty. Edwin G. Condaya. LSDE July 17, 24 & 31, 2018

8 Leyte Samar Daily Express Tuesday, July 17, 2018

RA Form No. 10.1 (LCRO)Republic of the Philippines

Local Civil RegistryProvince: Leyte

City/Municipality: Carigara

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION In compliance to Section 5 of R.A. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that Milven Mabuti has

filed with this office a petition for change of first name from MARIA BELEN to BELEN in the birth of

certificate of Maria Belen Florendo who was born on December 27, 1951 at Guindapunan, Carigara, Leyte and whose parents are Traslacion Florendo and N.A.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than July 27, 2018. (Sgd.) MA. LILIBETH D. ESCOBEJA City/Municipal Civil Registrar

(Complete name of petitioner)

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

LSDE: July 17 & 24, 2018

AFFIDAVIT OF SELF-ADJUDICATION WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE

NOTICE is hereby given that Marcita C. David heir of the late TeresitaConcillado executed an Affidavit of Adjudication over a parcel of land, identified as Cad. No. 1355, located at Brgy. Tabok, Hindang, Leyte, under Tax Dec. No. 08-15019-00487, containing an area of 2,281.22 square meters. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Robert Nathaniel A. Concillado as vendee for a portion of 1,240.61 square meters from the above-described property; per Doc. No. 437, Page No. 88, Book No. XXXVIII, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Rosarie A. Peteros-Phua. LSDE July 3, 10 & 17, 2018

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Bevencia Orgel Espinosa extrajudicially

settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a bank deposit with METROBANK Savings, Ac-count No. 493-3-49329 354-1; per Doc. No. 11608, Page No. 513, Book No. X, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Mario Lydinno R. Opeña. LSDE July 3, 10 & 17, 2018

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Marciano Sacay Dagatan extrajudicially

settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land, Lot 21, Pls. 131, Case 2, situated at Brgy. Benolho, Municipality of Albuera, Province of Leyte, covered by Tax Dec. No. 03-0004-00126, containing an area of 13,866 square meters. A Deed of Sale was executed in favor of Eriel Guerta Dejero as vendee for the above-described property; per Doc. No. 415, Page No. 83, Book No. 1, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Christopher Ryan P. Rosal.LSDE July 17, 24 & 31, 2018

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH ABSOLUTE SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Sps. Calixtro Costorio & Juana Arceo-

Costorio extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land, situated at Brgy. Barayong, Abuyog, Leyte, designated as Lot 3525, Pls-645, containing an area of 34,453 square meters, covered by O.C.T No. P-7146; A Deed of Sale was executed by Rosalina C. Ellaser a portion of 11,484.3333 square meters, as her share from the above-described property; per Doc. No. 368, Page No. 75, Book No. 25, Series of 2017 of Notary Public Atty. Erwin V. Belleza. LSDE July 17, 24 & 31, 2018

DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL PARTITION/SETTLEMENTNOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Clara P. Sasing & Rolando Boticalao

extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land situated at Brgy. Co-matin, Javier, Leyte containing an area of 40,326 square meters designated as Lot No. 3297, covered by T.C.T. No. TC-1535, covered by Tax Dec. No. 08-19012-00353; per Doc. no. 166, Page No. 35, Book No. 25, Series of 2017 of Notary Public Atty. Erwin V. Belleza. LSDE July 17, 24 & 31, 2018

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH SALENOTICE is hereby given that heirs of the late Sps. Sergio and Bienvenida Baltazar

extrajudicially settled, partitioned and adjudicated over a parcel of land, situated at Brgy. Binulho, Javier, Leyte, containing an area of 39,757 square meters, designated as Lot No. 600, covered by Tax Dec. No. 99-19006-00060. A Deed of Sale was executed by Amelita B. Capilitan as vendee for a portion of 150 square meters from the above-described property; in favor of Analiza Abuda Malto married to Edwin E. Malto as vendee; per Doc. No. 444, Page No. 90, Book No. 18, Series of 2012 of Notary Public Atty. Erwin V. Belleza. LSDE July 17, 24 & 31, 2018

AFFIDAVIT OF ADJUDICATIONNOTICE is hereby given that ANAFE MABUTOL GABORNI heir of the late Es-

peranza Mabutol executed an affidavit of Adjudication over a parcel of land, designated as Lot No. 13-A, Block 8, Pcs-5296, situated in Catbalogan City, Samar, covered by TCT No. T-7891, containing an area of 72 square meters, more or less; per Doc. No. 259, Page No. 57, Book No. 44, Series of 2018 of Notary Public Atty. Edilberto Morales. LSDE July 17, 24 & 31, 2018

Amandangay El-ementary School is one of the barrio schools of Tabontabon District, Ta-bontabon, Leyte. Before it has only one teacher with 2 grade levels.

Due to the rapid in-crease of enrolment in these two grade, which were the Grade 1 and Grade 2 and because of the opening of the Kin-dergarten class, the two grade levels became a mono-grade. Hence new teachers were hired.

Later on, the school heads of Tabontabon district decided to open Grades 3 and 4 classes and later Grades 5 and 6 due to rapid increase of enrolment, completing the elementary levels in the process in 2016.

Now, it has already a population of 132 school

Dream High For Our SchoolROGER C. MELO

children, mostly 4Ps (Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program) mem-bers. There are 5 teachers with one school head.

Since the stakeholders are supportive in what-ever plans, projects and programs of our school, we, the teachers and school head are inspired to do more for the good of our school children

and the entire school.So, last year we de-

cided to organize our own school band. We in-formed the parents imme-diately and many of them were excited with the idea and many of them signify that they will let their kids join.

But then there were a lot of problems that we encountered along the way, mostly on financial aspect.

For one, we need to

hire a trainer to teach our band members at a cost of P10,000. But due to our efforts, we were able to raise the said amount.

Then we lack instru-ments for the band. Of course, the band uni-forms. Some of the par-ents who were willing to let their children join have no enough budget to buy the instrument/s and uni-

forms for their kids.But then all these did

not stop all of us for really making our dream in or-ganizing our own school band. We continued our practices even if others have no band instrument yet. Those who have no instrument yet used the desks and empty water containers as their drums.

Until such time when our trainer decided to get a video of them and post-ed it in social media. Many shared his post. Then one of his friends saw the vid-eo and got pity with these school children. She is Cora – Corpin Dadison from Palo, Leyte. Then she has also a friend who is from Villaba, Leyte and is now based in America, Mercy Grace Veloso Sen-dras. She too felt pity with these children.

She invited me to see her last June 17, 2018.We met at Robinsons Mall. I told her more about our school and discussed further about our school band. She promised to donate band instruments for our school. Now, we are still waiting and hop-ing that this person with a good heart will fulfill her promise.

(The author is teacher of the Amandangay Elemen-tary School in Tabontabon, Leyte).

it.We have lots of money to pay the claims of our mem-bers,” he added.

Limsiaco said that the fund stability of PhilHealth was assured by its president, Roy Ferrer.

And on top of their own fund, PhilHealth has just received notice of cash al-location from the Bureau of Treasury of P27 billion on July 5 for this year.

Limsiaco said that Phil-Health monthly payout is about P8 billion.

And for this year, Phil-Health paid P51.8 million,

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representing 5.3 million claims at an average of P9,811 per member or pa-tient.

Earlier, fears that the funds of PhilHealth will be depleted came about amid report of the P10.6 billion diversion of funds used for the construction of health centers during the previ-ous administration.

The said fund was in-tended for the premiums for senior citizens covering the 2015 period.

The reported diversion of the P10.6 billion is now being investigated by the Senate. (JOEY A. GABIETA)

Figueroa is the incumbent chairwoman of Barangay Zone 3 of the University of Eastern Philippines (UEP), former ABC president of the town.

Chief Inspector Rafael Tayaban, civil relations of-ficer of the Northern Sa-mar Police Provincial Of-fice, said that the two were arrested at about 6 pm in Barangay Bankerojan, this town, on board a vehicle owned by Figueroa.

Also arrested were their companions identified as Emboy Loberiano, 21, sin-gle, resident of Brgy.Cal-ig-ang; Danny Basiloy,35, sin-gle, resident of Brgy.UEP Zone 3 and Gil Mijares, resident of Brgy. Ipil-ipil, driver of the vehicle.

The operatives flagged down the vehicle where the suspects and their compan-ions were on board to effect the warrants issued by local courts against Bartolo.

However, instead of heeding the authorities, the driver of the vehicle did not stop which resulted for

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them to hit the tires of the vehicle, Tayaban said.

The warrants issued by different local courts against the alleged top NPA leader involved for murder, double murder, and frus-trated murder.

Bartolo and her com-panions were arrested by joint elements of the Catar-man Police Station, the Northern Samar Police Provincial Investigation Bureau (NSPIB), the Re-gional Intelligence Unit 8 (RIU8) and the 803rd Bri-gade Philippine Army.

Captain Ryan Velez, civil military officer of the 803rd Infantry Brigade, said that Bartolo had been under surveillance by the police and the Philippine Army for a long time be-fore they executed her ar-rest.

“This (arrest) is the product of long planning

and surveillance... we re-ceived information that she was about to travel so we conducted the appre-hension.” Velez said.

The Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) recov-ered six firearms and cash worth P330,000; bags of bread and some personal belongings.

Velez said they will file charges for illegal posses-sion of firearms against Bartolo and all her com-panions.

Except for Figueroa who was brought to the Northern Samar Provin-cial Hospital after she felt ill while being investigated inside the Northern Samar Police Provincial Office in Camp Carlos Delgado, all the suspects are now detained at the local up cell of the provincial PNP headquarters.

(RACHEL V. ARNAIZ)

TACLOBAN CITY -- The National Electrifica-tion Administration (NEA) is upbeat on the expansion of broadband access in the country, providing all pow-er consumers a chance to access the internet.

Department of Informa-tion and Communications Technology (DICT) acting Secretary Eliseo Rio, Jr. will present the government’s National Broadband Plan in a gathering of all key offi-cials of electric cooperatives (ECs) nationwide in Manila on August 7.

This will be the second

NEA upbeat on internet expansion through power lines

big step on broadband ac-cess expansion initiatives after initial discussions be-tween NEA and DICT offi-cials early this month, said NEA Administrator Edgar-do Masongsong in a press briefing here late Thursday afternoon.

“After the gathering we will form a technical group to study the details of the project and come up with a timeline,” he said.

The group will draft the framework agreement, which will include the fi-nancial arrangement with the ECs that have existing

fiber optic cables in their distribution lines and pos-sible funding for power utilities.

“This is very important because NEA has already access to 95 percent of households, especially in rural areas,” Rio said in a statement. ECs supervised by the NEA can be internet service providers in their respective coverage areas.

“We’ll give you the in-ternet access and you can bring it to your client. Then, they can now enjoy their electricity and they

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Cooperative, Samar I Elec-tric Cooperative, Samar II Electric Cooperative, and Eastern Samar Electric Cooperative.

Leyeco III general manager Allan Laniba, in his state of the electric cooperatives address, said that Frecor-8 is positive that by next year all of the eleven cooperatives in-cluding Norsamelco will recieve triple A rating.

Leyeco II, Leyeco III, and Leyeco V were recog-nized as the only electric cooperatives in the region with the single digit sys-tems loss award.

Laniba further stressed that all of the eleven elec-tric cooperatives in the region are typhoon-resil-ient.

Soleco and Leyeco IV received an excellence award for consistent A+ and triple A for 10 con-

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secutive years.Dorelco, Samelco 1 and

Belico were acknowledged as the most improved elec-tric cooperatives.

In his message, Cal-bayog City Mayor Ronaldo Aquino stated that electric cooperatives has an active role in local economic de-velopment and in nation-building.

“Many local govern-ment units made electric cooperatives as an indis-pensable partners in the development efforts,” May-or Aquino said.

Aquino further added that the awards received by the electric cooperatives will help the local govern-ment units attract more investors to invest in the locality.

Meanwhile, NEA ad-ministrator Edgardo Ma-songsong was amazed on how Frecor-8 was doing to help electric cooperatives rise especially those which are not doing well.

“I have been pronounc-ing that we should follow what Frecor- 8 had been doing, in helping the region be the most improved,” Masongsong said.

He further acknowl-edged the organization for taking over in behalf of NEA in recognizing out-standing performance of the electric cooperatives.

Masongsong added that electricity is essential in de-velopment.

“Government agencies should look at electric co-operatives doing the provi-sion of the power so there will be development in each and every locality,” the NEA administrator said.

“This will serve and will definitely encourage other regions to struggle to realize of becoming out-standing EC,” Masongsong added.

He likewise hope to stage another regional Lu-mens Awards in Eastern Visayas next year.

AFFIDAVIT OF SELF-ADJUDICATION

NOTICE is hereby given that Orencio F. Oliver heir of the late Sps. Pedro Oliver and Alberta Fumar executed an affidavit of Self-Adjudication over parcels of land described as: a) A parcel of lot located at Brgy. Teraza, Municipality of Palo, Prov-ince of Leyte with Lot No. 8191, consist-ing of 3,336 square meters classified as agricultural lot, with Tax Declaration No. 08-30-0035-00201; b) A parcel of lot lo-cated at Brgy. Anahaway, Municipality of Palo, Province of Leyte with Lot No. 9124 consisting of 8,028 square meters classified as agricultural lot, with Tax Declaration No.. 08-30-0007-00285; c) A parcel of lot located at Brgy. Anahaway, Municipality of Palo, Province of Leyte with Lot No. 8112 consisting of 5,175 square meters classified as agricultural lot, with Tax Dec. No. 08-30-0007-00278; d) A parcel of lot located at Brgy. Anahaway, Municipality of Palo, Province of Leyte with Lot No. 9245 con-sisting of 4,150 square meters classified as agricultural lot, with Tax Declaration No. 08-30-0007-00284; e) A parcel of lot lo-cated at Brgy. Anahaway, Municipality of Palo, Province of Leyte with Lot No. 9327 consisting of 1,764 square meters classified as agricultural lot, with Tax Declaration No. 08-30-0007-00283; per Doc. No. 115, Page No. 23, Book No. XIII, Series of 2017 of Notary Public Atty. Enrico D. Asis, CPA. LSDE July 17, 24 & 31, 2018

TACLOBAN CITY-acloban City – Hundreds of Taclobanons who are now living abroad attended the recently-held ‘Balik-Tacloban Night,’ one of the highlights of the annual fi-esta of Tacloban.

The balikbayans en-joyed not just mingled with their friends but more so enjoyed the taste of native food delicacies, old songs played by the Tacloban City Band and ball room dances held at Patio Victoria in San Jose, this city.

Mayor Cristina G.

have internet access. This is also an added income,” the DICT official added.

The NEA chief said some ECs, particularly those in Mindanao, already have fiber-optic infrastruc-ture in place so it would be easier for them to provide internet services to com-munities they serve.

Last June 8, DICT signed a tripartite agreement with the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) and the National Transmis-sion Corp. (TransCo) for the utilization of spare op-tical fiber to accelerate the implementation of the Na-tional Broadband Plan.

Under the agreement, the DICT is given the right to use and access certain

spare fiber optic cores, vacant lots, tower spaces and related facilities of the NGCP, the current concessionaire of the TransCo-owned grid. (SARWELL Q. MENIANO/PNA)

Mayor Romualdez welcomes Taclobanons now residing abroad

during a balikbayan event

Romualdez, in her short message during the event, welcome the balikbayans to Tacloban, home to the hap-piest people in the world lives.

“Those old familiar fac-es are most welcome yearly in this special occasion in-tended for you. I know you missed the camaraderie of old friends enjoy the night, this is for you!” she said.

The lady chief executive together with the officers of the Sangyaw Foundation Inc. headed by President Girlie Anido entertained

the visitors with stories, hopped from one table to the other for posterity sake.

Former mayor Alfredo “Bejo” Romualdez came also to see friends from California. “I see old fa-miliar faces who have been away out of Tacloban for quite some time,” the for-mer mayor said.

The balikbayans who attended the occasion are now mostly residing in the United States, Canada, Middle East, and Austral-ia. (GAY GASPAY, TISAT)

TACLOBAN CITY – One of the country’s lead-ing coffee shop chains is planning to open more outlets here in Leyte, no-tably here in the city.

Their planned expan-sion is a testament that the economy of Tacloban, in particular, is booming, Steve Benitez, founder and president of Bo’s Cof-fee, said.

Benitez was in the city on July 13 to lead in the opening of the new Bo’s Coffee outlet located along Avenida Veterenos.

The said outlet is con-sidered to be Bo’s Coffee

One of the country’s top coffee shop brands to open

more outlets in Leytebiggest in terms of capac-ity among its branches in the country. The two-lev-el outlet could accommo-date 120 people.

Benitez also said that he welcome the reported coming in of new play-ers in the industry in Tacloban.

“I think that shows that Tacloban is really growing and that’s a positive side of it. If the city grows big-ger there is always a room for more players,” he said.

It was learned from Eddie Uy and his broth-er Wilson Uy, franchise holders of Bo’s Coffee in

the city, that new outlets will be put up at the Dan-iel Z. Romualdez Airport and near the Government Center in Palo, Leyte.

At present, there are two Bo’s Coffee outlets in the city with one outlet each in the cities of Or-moc and Calbayog.

Bo’s Coffee sources their coffee beans from farmers in the Philip-pines, from highlands of Sagada and in Bukidnon and Benguet, Mt Apo, Mt. Kitanglad and Mt. Matutum in South Cota-bato. (ROEL T. AMAZONA)

Garcia assured the Mamanwas that there will be a portion of lot near their community where they can use for organic farming after the comple-tion of their training on or-ganic farming.

“You will have an organic produce of your own where you can sold to establish-ments and people who uti-lized organic farm produce,” Garcia told the Mamanwas who just depend on crude farming as primary means of livelihood.

Likewise, Hazel Torre-fiel, administrative officer V of the National Commis-sion on Indigenous People (NCIP)-Visayas Cluster who was present during

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the launching of the train-ing program, vowed to bestow to the Mamanwa community the commu-nity based-forest manage-ment (CBFM) with the DENR provincial office so they can have a permanent land of their own to culti-vate and develop in their agriculture farming

Good Samaritans are also helping the members

of the Mamanwa commu-nity who are undergoing the organic farming train-ing as the local government unit of Almeria through Mayor Richard Jaguros and the town council notably Councilor Lloyd Labagala, who chairs the committee on agriculture and tourism, provided three sacks of rice and one box sardines to the family of the Mamanwa

trainees.Biliran Governor

Gerardo J. Espina Jr. also gave five sacks of rice and one box of biscuits. Rep. Rogelio J. Espina will send his help to the Mamanwa community who are un-dergoing training before the organic farming train-ing will end on July 20. (RODRIGO VICTORIA, PIA-Biliran)

Officials of the Leyte II Electric Cooperative(Leyeco II) projected a victorious smile as the said electric cooperatives recieved several awards during the July 13 regional Lumens Awards held at Ciriaco Hotel in Calbayog City.

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Last July 2, 2018, Gov. Dominico Petilla Dance Scholars together w/ the Dance Students of Bro. Odon Sabarre performed in RTR Plaza for the Clos-ing Rites of Leyte Pinta-dos Kasadyaan Festivities chaired by Mayor Remedi-os “Matin” Petilla of Palo.

Dances performed were the Prayer, Hukilao, Brown Gal, Gentlemen Psy, Samba and Bang Bang.

Highlight of the show was Swan Lake Act II which was heavily ap-plauded. By the way, the story of Swan Lake is about a princess named Odette, together with her Ladies in waiting, were transformed into Swans by an evil Ma-

Bro. Odon Sabarre’s Dance Students, perform for the closing rites of Leyte

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gician, Rothbard and only a vow of eternal love can relinquish the Curse. Al-liah Sabarre portrayed the role of Odette and John Vincent Sabarre portrayed the evil Magician.

Bro. Odon wants to thank Mayor Matin Petilla for her generous support in the development of Fitness and Dance Program for the Region and she started the Program whom she was the Governor of Leyte and was continued by the next Governors, Sec. Jericho Petilla and at present, Gov. Mic Petilla.

Bro. Odon wants to thank also, Atty. Martin and Congresswoman Yed-da Romualdez, Congress-man Henry Ong, Donya

Nydia Yap, Ms. Dettie Panis, Atty. Ida Kierulf, Dra. Adellia Lay, Sis. Eva Lay, Sis. Brenda Banzon, Sis. Nelia Go, Bro. Carl Aldrich, Sis. Elizabeth Uy, Mrs. Lee Hua Go, Mrs. Lucy Uy, and Ms. Joy Ma-tubis who made the beau-tiful Swan Lake costumes.

Mr. Sabarre announces that talented students can apply as Gov. Mic Petilla Dance Scholars every Sat-urday at 9AM to 11:45. For particulars, call 0918 630 9225.

Bro. Odon offered their performance that night to his beloved Patroness of the Arts Madam Imelda R. Marcos who celebrated her 89th birthday that day.

Mayor Matin Petilla is w/ Bro. Odon & Alliah Sabarre and his Dance Students

Jazz and Hip-Hop Dance Students

The Prayer Rothbard & his captured “Swans”

Bro. Odon’s beloved Patroness of the Arts & Former First Lady, Madame Imelda Marcos together w/ his Dance Students in one of her birthday celebration in Olot, Tolosa.

NAVAL, Biliran-It’s like exploring an old world by bringing along with new method of farm-ing to the only group of indigenous people in the province of Biliran - the Mamanwa.

The Mamanwa first settled in Sitio Palayan in 2004, an upland commu-nity found at the foot of Mount Panamao in Ba-rangay Caucab in Almeria town, a place abundant with abaca and palay.

“Ang gihatag nga train-ing sa TESDA, dako kaayo ug ikatabang sa among komunidad sa Mamanwa” (the training provided by TESDA is a big help in our Mamanwa community), the Cebuano speaking JR Calinawan, a Mamanwa leader, said in an inter-

TESDA teaches Mamanwa tribe members organic farming

view during the launching of the training.

In almost six dec-ades, the Mamanwa never thought that government, with its battle cry of not leaving behind anybody in the mainstream of de-velopment, will set foot at their place with the people from the provincial office of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) in Bil-iran province, taking the initiative to introduce a life changing skills-organic farming.

Priority sector“The indigenous people

(IP) is a priority sector of TESDA under the leader-ship of Director-General Guiling Mamondiong,” Elizabeth P. Garcia, pro-vincial director of TES-

DA-Biliran, said during the launching of the free 8-day training on Produce Organic Vegetables and another 8-day training on Produce Organic Concoc-tion and Extract (Leading to Organic Agriculture Production NCII) at the Palayan Elementary School on June 27.

The 43 members of the Mamanwa tribe will re-ceive P100 each within the duration of the training plus a toolkit each after the completion of the training, Garcia added to ensure sus-tainability of the free train-ing program.

The 16-day training is facilitated by the Espinazo brothers, Jeffrey, the farm manager and Sandro, in-structor of Canaan Hill Farms of Caibiran, Biliran.

Canaan Hill Farm is the first accredited farm school of TESDA in Eastern Visayas and the only farm school of TESDA in Biliran province.

Prior to the training on organic farming, TES-DA-Cabucgayan National School of Arts and Trades (CNSAT), a TESDA ac-credited vocational-tech-nical training school in Biliran province, also pro-vided the Mamanwa with a month training on cook hot meals.

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