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OIC City Admin resigns!Ormoc City purchases medicines from radio station?

see STO. PIO p. 6see RESIGNED p. 10

Atty. Resur-reccion resigned from being OIC City Adminis-t r a t i o n e f f e c -tive September 17. She has also taken her oath as national state prosecutor of the Department of Justice.

S h e t o l d friends it was a career advance-ment for her part, but town wags are saying she is fed up with be-ing pressured to stop her reform-ist ways.

A t t y. R e s -urreccion was a government prosecutor a t Quezon City be-fore she took the plunge and ac-cepted the offer to be city administrator. In a forum with the Ormoc City Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. early on the mayor’s term, she promise to bring sweeping reforms.

“Alam ko lahat ang problema ninyo”, she told the city’s businessmen. “Just give me a short time and I will solve them”, she added, to the cheers of the skeptic busi-ness sector. She was very candid in speaking with the business sector, even to the point of revealing some juicy lapses of the past administration.

The weeks that followed saw the semblance of nor-malcy in the traffic downtown coming back, illegal vendors

SHE CAME in with a bang, resurrected confidence in Or-mocanons that some of the city’s perennial problems can still be solved, and she’s not going out with a whimper.

Atty. Irene Resurreccion, OIC City Administrator and reportedly the niece of “Tita Violy”, the wife of mayor Edward Codilla, will be sorely missed by the business sector and law-abiding Ormocanons for the reforms she has started doing at the City Hall and the city in general.

The screenshot of a text conversation with Atty. Irene Resurreccion who said “resigned na po ako”.

Shocked about Janet Lim-Napoles and bogus NGO’s?

ORMOC CITY – This one is for the books, except that the supplier has a plausible reason. The Commission on Audit (COA), in its annual audit report for the City’s transactions for the year 2009-2011 under then Mayor Eric Codilla, found out that the City Government bought medicines from a radio station.

The medicines, worth P 14.9-million in all, were part of a P 26,092,304.92 purchase of “drugs and medicines … procured from non-reputable establishments”, said the COA report.

However, Ariel Lam, prioprietor of LAM Traders and also the proprietor of Hot FM 101.1, explained there was nothing peculiar in his transactions with the City. He also clarified that LAM Traders is very much legitimate. “I have the proper permits and I was already even cleared by BIR”, he said, referring to the recent BIR policy for all businesses to surrender their OR’s

see MEDICINES p. 10

THIS SATURDAY, Septem-ber 14, 2013, the Santo Pio of Pietrilcina Exhibit Center located just at the back of the St. Peter and Paul Par-ish Church here was opened in time for the start of the novena for his feast day on September 23.

Fr. Dennis Soon said that after the feast day of Sto. Pio, the devotees would continue with the novenas, this time to celebrate the feast days of St. Michael the Archangel on September 29 and St. Francis of Asissi on October 4. The three are interconnected.

Sto. Pio was a devotee of St. Michael the Archangel who

Retracing the Catholic faith: Sto. Pio and St. Michael the Archangel

Sto. Pio devotees pose for a group shot with Fr. Dennis Soon during the opening of the exhibit center.

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2 September 9-15, 2013NEWSOrdinance temporarily suspending issuance of “CIN’s”, imposing a cap of 2,000 to new trikes passes on 2nd reading

Man shot at plaza in attempted carnapping?

ANOTHER YOUNG man is the victim of senseless shootings and killings in this city, this time at the city plaza when there were many people milling around because the weather was good.

One Edcel Tabra, 30, a resident of Poblacion in Merida was shot by two men after he refused to give them his new, shiny black Suzuki Raider X150 motorcycle. According to witnesses who refused to give their names, two men on a motorcycle approached the victim when he alighted his motorcycle and they saw what seemed an attempt to take the motorcycle away. The victim resisted and was shot, there and then.

The victim, a computer technician, however, was not killed. He was brought to the OSPA-FMC for treatment.

Investigating cops, however, expressed frustration at the actua-tions of those nearby. The victim was shot just beside a “kwek-kwek” stall, yet the vendor insists she did not see anything. The very least that the people would tell the police there is that they just heard shots fired. SOCO recovered from the scene two empty slugs of a caliber 45.

Meanwhile, in Albuera town, the lone witness to the killing of an auto mechanic in what is deemed as an ongoing drug war, has left town. To recall, one Emerson Piano y Rabal, 54, was shot dead at the auto shop he was working just nearby the Municipal Hall. Police hinted the killing could be drug-related. with reports from Paul Libres

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According to the “eyewitness” Imelda Tampis, she saw a small white plane crashing into the forested area but did not fly out anymore. She told their barangay chairman who in turned reported about the alleged incident to Naval Mayor Susan Parilla.

Vice-mayor Redentor Villordon, told media late this week, that after days of searching for the alleged plane, they have called off the search.

The Phil ippine Air Force even did an aerial survey, but did not see any trace of the alleged plane.

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ORMOC CITY – A pro-posed ordinance suspending indefinitely the issuance of City Identification Numbers (CIN’s) or what is popularly known as “police numbers” when the number of tricycles in the city reach 2,000 was passed on second reading this week by the city council.

The proposed ordinance amends Ordinance No. 119, Series of 2005 which deregu-lated the application process to sky is the limit. This is the new council’s response to com-plaints of business about traffic congestion and tricycle drivers themselves who say that the huge number of tricycles has made their livelihood a cut-throat competition.

Dr. Gerardo Penserga, committee chair of the trans-portation and communica-tions, invoked the General Welfare Clause in imposing the cap, stating that LGU’s “shall ensure and support, among other things, the pres-ervation and enrichment of culture, promote health and safety, enhance the right of the people to a balanced ecology, encourage and support the development of appropriate and self-reliant scientific and technological capabilities, im-prove public morals, enhance economic prosperity and social justice, promote full employ-ment among their residents, maintain peace and order and preserve the comfort and con-venience of their inhabitants”.

The ordinance was passed for second reading after its provisions was subjected to a public hearing. The reception of the ordinance was warm, especially among the tricycle drivers and operators.

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ExEMPLARY PoLICEMEn. Three cops of the Regional Mobile Group based in Milagro, Ormoc City were awarded plaques of appreciation for apprehending an employee of Leyeco 5 who was caught in the act of pilfering electric wires just a few months ago. They are PO1 Cresencio M. Tapalla, Po1 Jimmy N. Octavo and Po2 Randolf D. de Leon (holding plaques, in no particular order. The plaques were awarded to them by the Leyeco 5 management themselves, represented by GM Juanito Jorda (2nd from right) and the Board of Directors. The awarding was held during the EC’s general assembly on September 7, held at the PIT gym in Palompon, Leyte.

is Mayor Edward Codilla and former president of OMTODA or the Ormoc Motorized Tri-cycle Operators and Drivers Association, said they wel-comed the move, admitting not only drivers were hard up with the current situation but also operators, especially those who only had one or few units.

Prior to the term of Mayor Eric Codilla who came into power in 2004, the issuance of CIN in the city was limited. At best, around 50 or 75 ad-ditional numbers were autho-rized by the Sanggunian to be issued during a 3-year period. The issuance of CIN is a de-volved function to LGU’s. At that time, there were only 750 tricycles plying the city roads, with Multicabs servicing the highways.

When he became mayor, Eric Codilla justified the de-regulation saying it would not only stop scalpers from mak-ing a killing out of the limited numbers of CIN’s but would give drivers a chance to own their own tricycles. His vision, however, fell flat.

Soon after the CIN issu-ance was deregulated, mon-eyed people poured capital into the business and acquired many tricycles. Old-time driv-ers soon found the dream of owning their own tricycle

bursting. Where they used to earn P 200.00 net per day be-fore deregulation, they found out that it was effectively re-duced to about a fifth of what they used to earn.

The situation also created a conflict with Multicab drivers, as tricycle drivers demanded to be allowed to ply on high-ways. A position paper of the Ormoc Chamber submitted to the council about how unsafe tricycles are on highways was ignored, even if during the week the public hearing was held, a truck had just run over one and killed seven passen-gers at Brgy. Ipil.

The unregulated number of tricycles caused traffic conges-tion in Ormoc, and illegal ter-minals proliferated to the woes of businesses whose frontages were taken over. Several at-tempts to come up with a workable traffic management plan did not work.

Meanwhile, another ordi-

nance that the council passed on first reading during their regular session this week was to amend another provision of Ordinance 119, Series of 2005. This time, the Liberal Party dominated council wants to put in black and white who becomes the franchising hear-ing officer of the city in case the city does not have a City Legal Officer.

Vice-mayor Toto Locsin Jr. said that in the past, the role was “automatically” taken over by the city licensing of-ficer. However, a perusal of its content shows that only the City Legal Officer can be the hearing officer, unless other-wise specified.

The vice-mayor said that during his incumbency, he and his party mates want the letter of the law followed and would not tolerate “short cuts”. The Liberal Party is the council’s dominant party. By Lalaine M. Jimenea

3September 9-15, 2013 NEWS

EBR Group of Companies marks 40

CALUbIAn, LEYTE – A total of 164 graduates from 11 certificate programs walked on the stage at the Calubian Gymnasium during the 15th Commencement Exercises of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority-Calubian national Vocational School (TESDA – CnVS) this month.

The 164 graduates were composed of students who took up the following certificate programs: bread and pastry production NC II with commercial cooking NC II (13), food and beverage services NC II (8), housekeeping NC II (6), food processing NC II (1), massage therapy NC II (1), automotive servicing NC II (19), automotive servicing NC II with driving NC II (17), mo-torcycle/small engine servicing NC II (17), consumer electronics servicing NC II (8), electrical installation and maintenance NC II (18), shielded metal arc welding NC II (56).

In his keynote address, Mr. Emmanuel Licup, Managing Director of SC Global Food Products, urged the graduates to work hard and master their skills to create a better future not only for themselves but also for their families.

“I want to share three salient points to all of you. These are: one, in everything you do, pray; two, love your family for they are the ones that you will always have especially during rough times; and lastly, exert effort and master that you have acquired from TESDA-CNVS. And always remember that your faith

164 graduate from TESDA’s vocational school in Calubian

The graduates as they sing their graduation song “Whenever You Remember” by Carrie Underwood.

see CALUBIAN p. 7

ORMOC’S HOMEGROWN EBR Group of Companies, a conglomerate of varied con-cerns that grew over four decades from the vision of one “estranhero” from Cebu, marked its 40th anniversary this Saturday, September 14. The day also coincided with the 66th birthday of Ernie B. Rizarri, EBR founder and President.

In his speech before his guests during a dinner party in the Hacienda Banquet Hall at Ormoc Villa Hotel, Ernie thanked his wife Milagros “Daya” Rizarri for being the wind beneath his wings, his sons and daughters for joining him in running the company now that he is more than a senior, his suppliers and “busi-ness partners” who stuck with him through the years, his more than 300 employees especially the “origs” who are still with him and the friends he has made through his jour-ney called life.

EBR or “Boss Ernie” as he is fondly called by friends related how he started out in Ormoc more than 40 years ago. When he came here, he was just an ordinary sales-man. To scrimp on travelling allowance, he’d hitch on sugar trucks, not knowing that one day he would have his own

Mr. Ernie B. Rizarri (right) is presented a plaque of appreciation for his loyalty over the years to Goodyear Phils. by Ron Castro, President and Managing Director of the company.

The EBR Team was also this year’s team champion.

fleet, too. In a previous interview,

he laughingly recalls how he would have to outrun dogs when visiting potential cus-tomers. He then meets his would-be wife and is faced with the reality that he had to do better than just be a sales-man.

The avenue to become an entrepreneur opened up when he was offered the distributor-ship for Atlas fertilizers. With the guts of a young blood, EBR soon cut his way to glory

see EBR p. 7

see VIEW FROM ORMOC p. 10

4 September 9-15, 2013

see FR. ROY p. 9

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see MERCADO p. 9

Goodbye, Jan & Atty. Irene!

MY FATHER was a lawyer, and as early as when I was in Grade 5 or 6, I already started helping around in his office which actually was in our house also.

That’s when I discovered I was pretty good at typing some papers, but quite a disaster when it came to filing them. My father finally gave up on me in the latter, but was happy with me in the former. He had a good typist who offered his services gratis et amore.

Those where very memorable years when aside from learning things in school, I had the feeling I was learning a lot more in my father’s office. I felt I had the edge over my classmates in school because of what I got from my father’s office.

There were times we had to sleep late to finish some job, and I sacrificed a little of my youthful preferences just to be with my father whom I idolized. But I was convinced it was all worth it. I actually did not miss anything from life in the streets and movie houses with my friends.

There were also amusing moments. Many of my father’s clients were simple people from the towns and mountains of Bohol. They even would often stay in our house and would take their meals with us.

So, I got familiar with the idiosyncrasies of the different people, especially their accents, their sense of humor, their simple ways, etc. I laughed most of the time with them, but there were times when I also cried with them. The human drama of their cases was more absorbing than what I read in novels or saw in movies.

The evening before a trial, my father would usually rehearse the clients on how to answer the possible queries during the hearing. In this area, most of the time I had fun just watching the simple folks grapple with the intricacies of logic and legal defense. But there were also moments when I asked myself whether what my father did was right.

I was not at that time into spiritual exercises or pious practices, and much less was I clear about moral principles. But something told me there were things that did not sound quite right.

Like when the client would earnestly give his answer to a question my father asked, which I considered to be the real answer, and my father would tell him to modify it or simply to keep quiet on a certain point.

I didn’t like the idea that my father would earn his living for us, a big family of 11 children, by tampering with the truth. I preferred to sell fish in the market than to do that. But I did not know how to confront him.

Finally, when I gathered enough courage, I asked him about my doubts, and surprisingly he was very happy to engage me with what I considered as a very paternal explanation of his legal profession. My father also had a very tender heart.

He assured me everything was ethical, and that he was not doing anything wrong just to provide for the family. And then very patiently he told me about what lawyers were supposed to do with their clients, especially those whom my father already suspected or was even sure were guilty of the accusation.

He told me everyone has to the right to be defended, even the one who is guilty. And the

THE PERSISTEnT problem of security and peace posed by Muslim rebel groups in Min-danao has erupted again after armed groups affiliated with Nur Misuari’s Moro National Liberation Group (MnLF) attacked and laid siege to six barangays in Zamboanga City. The MnLF armed raiders were able to oc-cupy the 6 barangays that caused some police casualties, including a number of civilians, and they rounded up nearly 200 hostages to be used as their guides and human shields to prevent the army and the police from using force to expel them from Zamboanga. The MnLF raiders have also caused panic among the city residents and business owners who fled the city and halted commercial activities, making Zamboanga almost a ghost city.

Nur Misuari’s group launched the armed at-tack after he openly criticized the government’s peace deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the proposed creation of a

new Bangsamoro Autonomous Region to re-place the existing ARMM. Misuari also declared his objection to the proposed peace agreement by gov’t with the MILF since his MNLF group was not included in the negotiations and he felt left out. He also condemned the gov’t for not implementing some provisions in the 1996 peace agreement forged with his MNLF group during the administration of President Fidel Ramos.

This armed incursion into Zamboanga City is not the first time that Nur Misuari’s armed group created havoc and violence to express his disenchantment with the government’s treatment of the peace agreement the MNLF signed. Misuari’s group attacked Jolo a few years back that resulted in several hundred

see MARCOS p. 9

“HISToRY REPEATS itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” That plays out in those five notebooks that surfaced in the still-unfolding pork barrel scam.

The notebooks record dealings of detained Janet Lim-Napoles from 2012 up to August 2013 , Whistleblower No 11 told probers. They list cash doleouts, properties, bank accounts ( over 400 at last count ) to “other information” Such as?

Code names for one .” ‘Kuya’ and ‘Sexy’ are the handles for Sen. Jinggoy Estrada. ”An entry in one note says P20 million had been alloted for ‘Kuya’ and ‘Sexy’. ‘Pogi ’ is used for Sen. Ramon Revilla. Smile Bong.. Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, 89, is dubbed “Tanda”. That means “Old Man.”

Probers got an overview of Napoles prop-erties in the second notebook, with red cover. That includes 28 houses, scattered from Forbes Park, Punta Fuego in Nasugbu and California. ( Eat your heart out Ampatuans. They only had 24 mansions.)

In the list are 30 cars. The Justice Depart-ment says the models are varied: :Mercedes Benz, , BMW, snazzy Porsches to the humble Toyota Vios. Are the Napoles’ three yatchs,

which suddenly lifted anchor, recorded too?.The third notebook is blue and lists “docu-

ments received by the whistle-blowers on behalf of their boss” These range from credit card numbers and details of credit-card transactions. The fourth notebook is red. This contains the names of contact persons and their phone numbers. The fifth notebook is blue-green serves as an “organizer” of those who turned whistle-blowers.

Where did we hear this farce before as tragedy?

The South China Morning Post provides a clue in a recent cover story: “Embarrassment of Riches” That relates how the eldest daughter of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos “inadvertently” left behind, in the People Power uproar ,“a very interesting notebook.”

“The book contained lists of vast secret holdings belonging to Imee’s father and held by dummy nominees in various corporations.” Marcos had dummies everywhere: coconut,

THIS WEEK, I lose a good friend to the Great Beyond. Mr. Jan Collander who’s been writing “The Foreign Eye” for the EV Mail for almost a decade of its 13 years, succumbed to a heart attack evening of Tuesday, September 10. He was 74 and left behind his wife, Inday Rodriguez-Collander, daughters Mutya and bubbles and sons Axel and Ragnar.

He also had two sons from a previous mar-riage in Sweden. Mr. Collander was Swedish but decided to plant himself in Ormoc after he fell head over heels for Inday. He also loved Ormoc with a passion more than some self-righteous pureblooded Ormocanons do.

His columns ranged on a variety of subjects – from the mundane to comparison of cultures and languages. During his youth, he was well travelled, going about the world as adventurous “whites” do, something that we timid Pinoys would not dare. I remember him telling me he had a stint as a deckhand of a cargo vessel, just so he could reach and see foreign shores.

On the other hand, Pinoys go abroad because we look for jobs but Jan and his people, in those times when territorial boundaries between countries didn’t matter much, would hop from job to job just to “see the world”.

He would also give us some lessons on lin-guistics, being a linguist himself. If my memory serves me right, he graduated majoring in Greek studies with languages as his minor. He loved delving into the etymology of words. He would write us columns that we needed to read twice before what he wanted to convey would sink in.

He was also an environmentalist, and he was frustrated that much as he would have loved to stop smoking to take to heart and put to practice his ideals “100 percent”, he could not. I consoled him by joking that by continu-ing to smoke, he was ensuring the livelihood of tobacco farmers. He would let out a guffaw and grin impishly, “Right, right!”. We would see each other mostly on Tuesdays at the office.

Now, we would miss his kakulitan. I would miss seeing his numbered notes on yellowed paper that he’s hoarded through the years on topics and suggestions he’d like to discuss with me. He was also a fountain of curiosity.

Some people who knew him would describe him as “eccentric”. I negate. He was just pas-sionate about everything he believed in. Yes, he was not a perfect person. Nobody will ever be. But he was a perfect colleague.

Jan, wherever you are, we thank you for touching our lives. I was looking forward to exchanging notes with you about Europe but alas, we weren’t able to. Godspeed!

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Things are getting pretty interesting here in the home front. I had barely gotten back my bearings from a two-week trip when the news of Atty. Irene Resurreccion, OIC City Administra-tor, resigning broke out.

Well, she was one lady who came with a bang and who is going out with a bang!

In just so short a time, she made her mark and made every Ormocanon, yano and dili yano, believe that the new mayor, or at least his city

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5September 9-15, 2013

The Gospel on Sunday

SEPTEMBER 22,201325th Sunday in Ordinary Time

see CAING p. 11

Luke 16: 1 - 13He also said to the disciples, “There was

a rich man who had a steward, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his goods. And he called him and said to him, `What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.’

And the steward said to himself, `What shall I do, since my master is taking the stewardship away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that people may receive me into their houses when I am put out of the stewardship.’

So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, `How much do you owe my master?’ He said, `A hundred measures of oil.’ And he said to him, `Take

your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ Then he said to another, `And how much do you owe?’ He said, `A hundred measures of wheat.’ He said to him, `Take your bill, and write eighty.’

The master commended the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light. And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations.

“He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?

No servant can serve two masters; for ei-ther he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”

I REGULARLY go to church and it is always a keen experience. but it is not listening to sermons or praying that makes me happy. It is the church-based friends and intimate social networks there that encourage me go back. That’s why I am not very eager to at-tend mass in churches where I hardly know the people and even the priest.

Religion can be a positive force in our lives and good for our health, according to the lat-est studies, which show that churchgoers are happier and more satisfied with their lives than those who don’t attend services.

Researchers found that 33% of those who attended religious services every week and reported having close friends at church said they were extremely satisfied with their lives, while only 19% of those who went to church but had no close connections to the congregation reported the same satisfaction.

The idea of social connectedness is common among Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical religions and even Mormons and Jewish be-lievers as well. Scientists stress that the sense of community that religion promotes is an im-portant part of helping people to feel involved and worthwhile.

Religion can then be a source of comfort that improves wellbeing. But some kinds of religiosity could be a sign of deeper mental health issues.

There are some kids whose religious obser-vances require a deeper look. For these children, a fanatical practice of their faith may be a sign of an underlying mental health issue or a cop-ing mechanism for dealing with unaddressed trauma or stress.

Therapists report that they are seeing chil-dren and teens across a range of faiths whose re-

ligious practice can be problematic. The amount of time they spend praying, or in other acts of spiritual practice, is not as important, they say, as the quality of this devotion, and whether it helps the children or instead isolates them and damages their schoolwork and relationships. Children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), for example, may rigidly repeat holy verses, say Hail Mary’s or focus on other rituals less out of a deeper sense of faith but more as an expression of their disorder.

Such ritualistic behavior may also reflect a child’s way of coping with anxiety, and in reality could be no more spiritual than obsessive hand washing or fearing to walk on cracks. These kids fear that if they do not obey their religious rules perfectly, God will punish them.

Strictness to religious practices may not seem so harmful. But seeing and hearing things that are not there can be symptoms of manic-depressive, bipolar disorder, or early onset schizophrenia. But parents may be less sensitive to such unhealthy behavior when it occurs in the pretext of faith.

If the religious practices and rituals seem to be overtaking their daily lives, and displacing their normal activities, experts suggest taking steps to understand what is causing the focus on faith.

Religious families need not worry that therapy will draw their child away from their faith. What is needed is for their child to develop a more positive view of God, of other people and oneself. Instead of being weighed down by guilt and anxiety, the child’s spiritual life must be a source of comfort and joy. And that’s the role religion should have for people of faith.

Dear Atty. Golo,Niadto, ang solusyon kono sa korapsyon,

punggotan sa liog ang tanang tawo nag-edad og 10 anyos pataas. Kuyawan ko kay maapil ko, hasta pud ka. Peru karon nga nahibaw-an ang mga senador og congressman diay ang nangorakot sa “pork barrel” sila na lang ang putlan sa liog. Apan wa pa man sila ma preso! Ang akong pag-umangkon nangawat lang og baktin, na preso. Minilyon man kono ang PDAF nga ilang gikawat, pila man katuig ang silot? Kon ma preso na ang mga politico, mokatawa jud ko bisan wa koy ngipon, he..he..he..

Matinahuron, Pangag

Dear Pangs,Kon molapas sa 50 milyones ka pesos ang

nakurakot, ang silot mao ang pagkabilango sa tibook kinabuhi (Sec. 2, RA 7080). Ang imong pag-umangkon na preso tungod kay una siyang nasakpan. Duna man guy proceso nga tumanon sama sa pagpatubag sa mga gikiha sa dili pa isang-at ang kaso sa korte. Ayaw kabalaka. Ang governo naningkamot dili lang pagpreso sa mga korakot kon dili aron pod mabawi ang kwarta nga ilang gisor-ikbot. Maayo na lang ikapalit nimo og postiso aron mokatawa ka og hu..hu..hu..

Imong amigo, Maning Golo 09155595449 e.g.gololaw@gmail.com

LISTEnInG To U.S. President barack obama on TV trying to convince the public that attacking Syria is the right thing to do gave me a chilling reminder that world events can significantly change a leader’s view of an issue given the compelling information available at hand.

I have followed the president since he was still a struggling senator from Illinois; he came across to me as moderate when it comes to wielding military force in overseas conflicts as compared to past presidents Kennedy, Reagan or Bush. However, the killing of Bin Laden and the troop surge in Afghanistan, among a few other reasons, unraveled all of my personal view on the man.

Although American defense sources would not openly admit, there were intelligence intercepts and corroborated data that media eventually got hold of pointing to the Syrian government’s involvement in the deployment of sarin gas and possibly other chemical agents that killed at least 400 civilians.

The biggest question facing American con-science now is- can such tragic events justify a country to attack and punish another? These are moral, legal and ethical dilemmas any occupant in the White House will find very daunting to address. But it appears Obama has made his de-cision and he is selling this idea to congress that Syria’s transgressions must not go unpunished.

Now I am worried if congress agrees to go to war. The anemic economic recovery is sty-mied and may even go back to its 2008 levels of stagnation. The possibility of skyrocketing fuel prices and reduced industrial and manufactur-ing activity is too haunting to think about. This may lead to reduced exports to countries that

will be very vulnerable to such upheavals and depress the consumer markets to a wait and see. The permutation of potential destructive conse-quences of war can give everyone nightmares.

However, another point of view from Na-tional Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) paints a different perspective and a very inter-esting one as research data obtained on WW I described its impact on the US economy during that period.

NBER researcher Hugh Rockoff in his study “Until It’s Over, Over There: The U.S. Economy in World War I” concludes that the scope and speed of government expansion after WW I in the 1930s were likely greater because of the impact on the world view of new economic and political leaders, who in turn inspired future generations of reformers. “For America, to sum up,” writes Rockoff, “the most important long-run impact of the war may have been in the realm of ideas.”

Rockoff further writes, “When the war began, the U.S. economy was in recession. But a 44-month economic boom ensued from 1914 to 1918, first as Europeans began purchasing U.S. goods for the war and later as the United States itself joined the battle. “The long period of U.S. neutrality made the ultimate conversion of the economy to a wartime basis easier than it otherwise would have been. Real plant and equipment were added, and because they were added in response to demands from other coun-tries already at war, they were added precisely in those sectors where they would be needed once

see TORDILLO p. 10

Leyte’s geothermal plants, etc.

THE TonGonAn Geothermal complex straddled in the mountains of ormoc City and Kananga is non-sulfuric. All geothermal powered power generators worldwide, on the other hand, are highly sulfuric like the larg-est geothermal powered generator complex in Po Valley of Italy.

The geothermal power is extracted from the slopes of the active Vesuvius volcano. Hence, maintenance of the generators and complicated pipe systems are very expensive due to frequent replacements. Likewise with the geothermal powered generator in New Zealand, which then First Lady Imelda Marcos was able to observe during her official visit to the country. She recalled the popular Geothermal Hot Spring Resort in Ormoc City. Hence, she officially requested the New Zealand government for a team of geothermal drilling experts and sent them to Ormoc City to verify the possibilities of extracting geothermal power in the popular Tongonan Hot Spring Resort.

The resort was actually about 3 kilometers further than the Tongonan Lake and can be reached by feeder road from a junction of the National Highway about 3 kilometers before reaching Ormoc City proper. The feeder road was extended around Tongonan Lake where small cottages were built by hacienderos for their families who went swimming in the lake.

From this road around the lake was a foot-path or trail of another 3 kilometers for the poor families and curious out-of-town visitors to hold picnics in the picnic areas of the Tongonan Hot Springs, actually small volcanic holes or geysers of boiling water. The picnickers merely lower a whole dressed chicken and “puso” of rice grains into the boiling water and about an hour or less, the chicken and “puso” are pulled out and ready-to-eat by the picknickers. Using this method of cooking, when both are cooked, they are slightly salty but have none whatsoever of the sulfuric taste and smell as expected near

volcanoes. To understand the absence of sulfur in the

Tongonan hot springs, it needs additional back-ground. From what I know, the world has plenty of Continental cracks running from the North down to the South poles. One of them passes through Siberia, topped by active volcanoes. Then it cuts through the Islands of Hokkaido and Japan marked on top by the famous active vol-cano, Mt. Fuji, where on its slope is the City of Tokyo. Downwards, it passes through Taiwan.

It reaches our Archipelago cutting through Bicol in Luzon Island marked by the active Mayon Volcano. Then the continental crack cuts through Biliran Island which has an active underground volcano. Then it cuts through Leyte Island at the longitudinal center, uniquely marked on top by three extinct volcanoes. The craters of the three extinct volcanoes have be-come freshwater lakes: Lake Tongonan (now Danao) in Ormoc City, Lake Linao in the town of La Paz and Lake Cabalian in Southern Leyte. Then the crack exits out of Cabalian, ending in Surigao Deep of the Pacific Ocean off Surigao Province.

All three lakes, including nearby volcanic holes of boiling waters, are free of Sulfuric taste or smell. Hence, the lakes are good for swim-ming or bathing, even cooking.

So, when the New Zealand team arrived at Tongonan, they were surprised that the picnickers were cooking their whole chickens and “puso” of rice grains on the geysers or hot springs. They were more surprised that the cooked chicken and “puso” when cooked, were devoid of sulfuric taste or even just its smell. It would even have a slight salty taste, just exactly palatable for eating.

NZ geothermal experts then started conduct-

People, Places & Happenings6

would manifest to him when he was ravaged by the devil and of St. Francis of Assisi, whose piety he wanted to emulate.

Hence, a pilgrimage centered on Sto. Pio would not be complete without visiting two important sites just nearby San Giovanni Ro-tondo. They would be Monte Sant’ Angelo, just around 45 minutes away of San Giovanni Rotondo where the St. Michael’s Cave is found and the town of Assisi where St. Francis founded the Franciscan order and St. Clare founded the Poor Clares.

At Monte Sant ‘AngeloOn August 22, after hearing mass officiated

by our official pilgrimage chaplain Fr. Angelo Legal, a Benedictine priest assigned to the Sto. Pio Center in Quezon City, and visiting the Sto. Pio Shrine at San Giovanni Rotondo in the Province of Foggia, Italy, we had a quick lunch at an eatery nearby then rode the bus to Monte Sant’ Angelo.

I was bowled by my first sight of Mont Sant ‘Angelo.

Met with the sight of a 13th century impos-ing castle just like what we see in movies (think Game of Thrones) and narrow cobbled streets, I half expected the Pied Piper of Hamelin to come prancing by, followed by rats or the children.

The castle’s original structure dates back to the 9th century but was reconstructed to what it is now by Norman Emperor Prince Frederick II for his mistress Bianca Lancia and the lady is said to haunt it until now. Officially, it became a town only on the 11th century.

The whole town has been able to preserve its antiquity, so much that it was able to retain its fairy tale air. In fact, most souvenir shops in the town sold Pinocchio puppets, alongside figurines of fairies of all shapes, colors and sizes, adding to the magical air.

Mont Sant’ Angelo has also been declared a World Heritage Site. Any repairs or restorations to be done will have to be cleared with the World Heritage Commission and should be attuned to the general architecture. As such, the town’s

STO. PIO ... from P. 1

“old look” will be preserved for centuries more. St. Michael’s Cave

Just a short walk away is St. Michael’s Cave. It is an underground cave some 86 steps down. It is also an underground church. The underground sanctuary was built in the 13th century after a huntsman claimed he saw the angel appear at its mouth.

However, local folklore indicates that the Archangel has been appearing in the area since the 4th century, in the years 490, 492 and 493 to be exact.

The sanctuary has been the site of many important pilgrimages. The late Pope John Paul II, who is soon slated for sainthood, visited the sanctuary in 1987.

To preserve the holiness of the sanctuary, taking photos are strictly prohibited, except on some areas like the big confession area.

At the entrance of the sanctuary is a huge door made of steel. Etched into it is the story of the huntsman and how his bull got lost inside the cave and how St. Michael the Archangel appeared to him. It also details how the unbe-lieving bishop started to believe in him, after the bull re-appeared from the cave, still in the pink of health even if it was lost for months and without food.

In our various visits to old pilgrimage sites, doors with “comics” were aplenty. They were meant to tell in graphic details to the unschooled and unlearned, the story of our faith.

Before leaving St. Michael’s Cave, the group of Filipino pilgrims stopped by an almost faded painting of an angel just by the sanctu-ary’s door. According to our local tour guide, priests before did not hear confession. People confessed their sins by touching the painting of the angel, professing repentance. Only then do they enter the door.

Now, that’s something new that I learned about our faith. That there was a time when people confessed directly to God, and not to priests! (Next week: In Asissi)

Sto. Pio of Pietrilcina Exhibit Center in Ormoc City. Top left shows Mrs. Gloria T. Velasquez saying a short prayer while touching the image of Sto. Pio. Right, Fr. Dennis Soon as he blesses the center. Bottom left, some Sto. Pio memorabilia on display and right, Mrs. Velasquez and Dr. Gloria Pastor cut the inaugural ribbon.

from Wikipedia

Michael is an archangel in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic teachings. Roman Catholics, the Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, and Lutherans refer to him as “Saint Michael the Archangel” and also as “Saint Michael”. Orthodox Christians refer to him as the “Taxiarch Archangel Michael” or simply “Archangel Michael”.

In Hebrew, Michael means “who is like God?”. Michael is mentioned three times in the Book of Daniel, once as a “great prince who stands up for the children of your people”. The idea that Michael was the advocate of the Jews became so prevalent that in spite of the rabbinical prohibition against appealing to angels as intermediaries between God and his people, Michael came to occupy a certain place in the Jewish liturgy.

In the New Testament Michael leads God’s armies against Satan’s forces in the Book of Revelation, where during the war in heaven he defeats Satan. In the Epistle of Jude Michael is specifically referred to as an “archangel”. Christian sanctuaries to Michael appeared in the 4th century, when he was first seen as a healing angel, and then over time as a protector and the leader of the army of God against the forces of evil. By the 6th century, devotions to Archangel Michael were widespread both in the Eastern and Western Churches. Over time, teachings on Michael began to vary among Christian denominations.

Left, the Filipino pilgrims pose near the entrance. The painted angel can be seen at the back towards the right where one does a self-confession. Right, the guide points towards the door where the story of St. Michael’s apparition is told “comics” style.

Photo on top shows the confession room where Jesus on the Cross dwarfs the image of St. Michael, even if the sanctuary is his. Right, Mrs. Julie Torres poses against the backdrop of an 11th century town and left, the “Biancalancia” Castle built by Frederick II for his mistress.

People, Places & Happenings 7

Ina’s Household Tips

By Ina Larrazabal-Gimenez

Uses of Fabric Softeners

Fabric soFtener is not just for clothes, see here other uses for your fabric softener:

remove old wallpaperRemoving old wallpaper is a snap with fabric soft-

ener. Just stir 1 cap-full liquid softener into 1 quart (1 liter) water and sponge the solution onto the wallpaper. Let it soak in for 20 minutes, then scrape the paper from the wall. If the wallpaper has a water-resistant coating, score it with a wire-bristle brush before treating with the fabric softener solution.

abolish carpet shockTo eliminate static shock when you walk across

your carpet, spray the carpet with a fabric softener solution. Dilute 1 cup softener with 2 1/2 quarts (2.5 liters) water; fill a spray bottle and lightly spritz the carpet. Take care not to saturate it and damage the carpet backing. Spray in the evening and let the carpet dry overnight before walking on it. The effect should last for several weeks.

remove hair-spray residueDried-on overspray from hair spray can be tough to

remove from walls and vanities, but even a buildup of residue is no match for a solution of 1 part liquid fabric softener to 2 parts water. Stir to blend, pour into a spray bottle, spritz the surface, and polish it with a dry cloth.

clean now, not laterClean glass tables, shower doors, and other hard

surfaces, and repel dust with liquid fabric softener. Mix 1 part softener into 4 parts water and store in a squirt bottle, such as an empty dishwashing liquid bottle. Ap-ply a little solution to a clean cloth, wipe the surface, and then polish with a dry cloth.

Float away baked-on grimeForget scrubbing. Instead, soak burned-on foods

from casseroles with liquid fabric softener. Fill the cas-serole with water, add a squirt of liquid fabric softener, and soak for an hour, or until residue wipes easily away.

Keep paintbrushes pliableAfter using a paintbrush, clean the bristles thor-

oughly and rinse them in a coffee can full of water with a drop of liquid fabric softener mixed in. After rinsing, wipe the bristles dry and store the brush as usual.

remove hard-water stainsHard-water stains on windows can be difficult to

remove. To speed up the process, dab full-strength liquid fabric softener onto the stains and let it soak for 10 minutes. Then wipe the softener and stain off the glass with a damp cloth and rinse.

Make your own fabric softener sheetsFabric softener sheets are convenient to use, but

they’re no bargain when compared to the price of liquid softeners. You can make your own dryer sheets and save money. Just moisten an old wash-cloth with 1 teaspoon liquid softener and toss it into the dryer with your next load.

source: http://www.rd.comFor more tips, you can watch Ina’s Household Tips

at PRTV 12 Tacloban – “Bida ka Inay” every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday at 6pm or you can email me at inashouseholdtips@yahoo.com or add me on facebook.

will keep you guided that no amount of trials will put you off”, said Licup.

Then, TESDA Leyte Pro-vincial Director Loreta Banar-io, together with CNVS School Administrator III Ms. Daisy Lagaday and Mr. Licup dis-tributed certificates and medals Licup’s inspirational message. Meanwhile, Director Banario read the message of Regional Director Cleta Omega for the graduates. “It is not the end but graduation is just a beginning of a new world. This is the time to celebrate your achievements and enjoy the world full of pos-sibilities. ”, she said. Banario, on the other hand, congratu-

lated the graduates from being able to make it until the end in spite of the obstacles and trials they have encountered.

During her closing remarks, Ms. Lagaday thanked everyone who shared their time and resources in making the affair a success. She, together with the TESDA-CNVS family, also thanked the National Government through the Department of Social Welfare and Development, MSWDOs of the dif-ferent municipalities and focals of the Cash-for-Training project for their untiring efforts and support extended for the successful implementation of the project. Moreover, she assured that TESDA-CNVS will continue to provide high quality, relevant and competency-based training programs to develop competent and highly employable workforce.

Additionally, TESDA-CNVS also conducted skills competition among the TESDA-CNVS graduating students were also conducted last September 3. This includes competitions on consumer electronics servicing, shielded metal arc welding, automotive servicing, bread and pastry production, com-mercial cooking, housekeeping, bartending, food and beverage services and electrical installation and maintenance.

Furthermore, more than 300 job seekers participated in the mini job fair organized by TESDA – CNVS. The mini job fair aimed to help the graduates land a job right after their graduation. Among participating companies were Pisces International Manpower Corporation, SC Global Food Products, The Oriental Hotel and Motorstar Trading Corporation.

Calubian Mayor Doroteo Palconit

CALUBIAN ... from P. 3

little by little. He said that aside from a fervent belief that God would somehow provide for their needs, he established a reputation as somebody who deals with his partners fairly and squarely and one who pays his debts.

He emphasized that to be successful in any business, one must have a good credit standing. His second priority, he said, were his people. “Bahala na og way kwarta si Ernie basta unahon gyod ang sweldo sa mga tawo”, he said.

He would earn the loyalty of his people, most of who are still with him 40 years to the day he established his firm.

He added that except for his “business partners” that have shut down or closed through the years, his original dealer-ships have stayed with him like Goodyear Philippines, Inc.; Oriental and Motolite Marketing Corporation; Clorox Interna-tional Philippines, Inc; Gulf Oil Philip-pines, Inc.; Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company, Inc.; Sugeco Incorporated; Philippine Phosphate Fertilizer Corpora-tion; and Pilipinas Shell Inc.

To show his appreciation for them, he gave the company representatives plaques of ap-preciation. He also gave one each to China Banking Corpo-ration and PS Bank for taking care care of all his credit needs.

In turn, Goodyear Phils. represented by its President and Managing Director Ron Castro, presented him a plaque of appreciation, too. Castro, in his short speech, said he might have been only 10 years old when EBR Marketing was established, but he still was able to catch up with it because it is people like Ernie who has made Goodyear still the number 1 brand of tires in the Philippines.

The evening was capped with an awarding of the golf tourney winners of the EBR tournament held that day at the Leyte Golf and Country Club.

EBR ... from P. 3

Golf Class A Champion was Engr. Ferdie Sembrano. On the right, the other winners of the golf tourney.

ORMOC CITY - During the press conference called by the Couple for Christ (CFC) Ormoc chapter, it was learned that 1,100 seats at the Superdome are reserved for students for the showing of the Teen Saint Pedro Calungsod: The Musical on September 28, Saturday.

This musical, to be performed by the 29AD Musicionaries of CFC, was already played in some parts of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Also, it has been performed at Sydney and Melbourne in Australia. Here in Ormoc, it will be performed twice on the same day, at 4:30pm and 7:30pm. Makisig Morales is playing the role of San Pedro Calungsod.

Maria Lourdes Brazil, co-director of the show, said that Rudy Vil-lanueva wrote all the songs for the show.

Maricel Ngo, STI Ormoc Administrator, said she was pleased that this worldwide show would be played in the city, especially for the youth. Ms Ngo said that one of the problems she faces as school administrator is the negative feedback she gets from some company employers who hire their graduates. Although they perform well in their jobs, some of them need character building, she said. Hence, with this stage show about the life of St. Pedro Calungsod, she hopes students can learn something from it.

Jude Abenoja, CFC Provincial Head, said Western Leyte College and Eastern Visayas State University has already committed attendance of their students for the show. He hopes that more schools will commit to attend as this is intended especially for students. He added that students are given 50% discount for the P100 ticket.

In addition, Abenoja said that proceeds of the show will go to 10 to 20 Answering the Cry of the Poor (ANCOP) Scholars. A portion of it will also be used for the building of a shrine in Abuyog, Leyte. He added that the show is part of the 23rd anniversary celebration of CFC Ormoc. By Jessica Cordero

CFC Ormoc urges youth to watch stage play on San Pedro Calungsod’s life

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8 September 9-15, 2013NOTICES

Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT 8th Judicial Region

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT Branch 13

Carigara, Leyte CASE NO. RTC-2013-059-CV

FOR: JUDICIAL CONFIRMATION OF SALE ON LOT 1473

WILFREDO CO, Petitioner, -versus- HEIRS OF LUISITA VIL-LAUNA and REGISTRY OF DEEDS, Respondents,

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

Filed with the Court on July 5, 2013 by Wilfredo Co, of legal age, Filipino, married and resident of 615 Real St., San Miguel, Leyte, is a Verified Petition for Confirmation of Sale on Lot 1473 for the purpose of complying with the registration require-ment of the Deed of Sale in favor of the petitioner involving

OCT No. P-23622. Finding the Petition to be sufficient in form and substance, the same is hereby given due course. Accordingly, it is hereby ordered that said Petition be set for hearing on September 30, 2013 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning at the session hall of Regional Trial Court, Branch 13, Carigara, Leyte where all interested parties may appear in Court and show cause why

the Petition should not be granted. Let this Order be published at the expense of Petitioner in a local newspaper of general circulation in the Provinces of Leyte, Samar and Biliran once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks. Moreover, let this Order, together with the petition, be posted at the bulletin boards of this court, the Municipal Hal of San Miguel, Leyte and Barangay Hall of Brgy. Lukay, San Miguel, Leyte. The publication and posting should be done

at least thirty (30) days before the hearing. Furnish copy of this Order to the Land Registration Authority, East Avenue, Quezon City, the Solicitor General, 134 Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village, Makati City, Register of Deeds for the Province of Leyte, the Assistant Provincial Prosecutor, the

petitioner and his counsel. SO ORDERED.

DONE IN CHAMBERS this 15th day of August 2013 at the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Carigara, Leyte.

(Sgd.) EMELINDA R. MAQUILAN Presiding Judge

EV Mail Aug. 26- Sept. 1, 2-8, & 9-15, 2013

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

8th Judicial Region Branches 6,7,8,9, & 34

Bulwagan ng Katarungan Magsaysay Boulevard, Tacloban City

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT & EX-OFFICIO SHER-IFF LEYTE

EJF No. 3657 EXTRA JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE/

PERSONAL PROPERTY MORTGAGE UNDER ACT 3135 AS AMENDED BY ACT 4118 AND PD 385

PERPETUAL HELP CREDIT COOPERATIVE (PHCCI) rep. by its Manager CACARIAS M. MATE

Mortgagee –versus- MA. ADELIZA M. DIEGO, Mortgagor NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE

Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135, as amended, filed by PERPETUAL HELP CREDIT COOP-ERATIVE (PHCCI), a credit cooperative duly organized and existing under the banking laws of the Philippines with Office Address at Real St. Tacloban City, duly represented by ZACARIAS M. MATE of legal age, single, Filipino and a resident of Tacloban City, against MA. ADELIZA M. DIEGO, of legal ages, Filipino and resident of Brgy. 84 Manlurip, Tacloban City to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of July 22, 2013 amounts to ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SIX THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED SIXTY NINE PESOS & 77/100 (P126,269.77), Philippine Currency, excluding interest and penalties, charges until fully paid, expenses of collection, 10% of the total outstanding obligation as Attorney’s Fees, expenses of the Foreclosure, Sheriff’s Lawful fees, and Ex-penses for conducting the PUBLIC AUCTION SALE thereof, the UNDERSIGNED EXECUTING SHERIFF WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION on September 23, 2013, at 10:00 .A.M. or soon thereafter at Regional Trial Court, Bulwagan ng Katarun-gan, Magsaysay Blvd., Tacloban City, to the highest bidder for cash and in Philippine Currency, the following properties with all its improvements, if any to wit:

TCT NO. T-69023 A parcel of land designated as Lot 3522-E-2, Psd-08-

023508-D, being a portion of Lot 3522-E, Psd-08-0026290, situated in Barangay San Jose, City of Tacloban, Province of Leyte, Island of Leyte. Bounded on the:

NE., along line 1-2 by Lot 3522-E-4 (Pathwalk) of this subdivision; on the

SE., along line 2-3 by Lot 3522-E -1 of this subdivision; on the

SW., along line 3-4 by Lot 3522-F, Psd-08-006290; on the NW., along line 4-1 by Lot 3522-E-3 of this subdivision; Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SIX (106) sq.

m. more or less registered in the name of ADELINA S. MA-BANSAG, of legal age, Filipino, single.

PROSPECTIVE BIDDERS AND BUYERS MAY INVES-TIGATE FOR THEMSELVES THE TITLE AND ENCUM-BRANCES, HEREIN ABOVE- DESCRIBED REAL PROPER-TIES IS ANY THEREBE.

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 said date, it shall be held on September 27, 2013 on the same time and place without further notice

Magsaysay Boulevard, Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines. August 12, 2013. FOR THE CLERK OF COURT & EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF

(Sgd.) LEONARDO G. AGUILAR Sheriff IV

OCC-RTC- TaclobanCopy furnished: The Manager PHCCI, Real St. Tacloban City MA. ADELIZA M. DIEGO Brgy. 84 Manlurip Tacloban City EV Mail Aug. 26- Sept. 1, 2-8, & 9-15, 2013

Extra-judicial Settlement and Partition NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the properties of the late NARCISO O. YCOY re

parcels of land Lot 3061, situated in Barrio Magaswi, Ormoc City, containing an area of 3,583 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 15448; Lot No. 2197-C-1-B, situated in District Cogon, Ormoc City, containing an area of 458 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 12147; One (1) unit residential house erected on Lot No. 2197-C-1-B were settled and partitioned among his heirs per Doc. No. 328; Page No. 66; Book No. XXIV; Series of 2013 of Notary Public Ari G. Larrazabal. EV Mail Aug. 26- Sept. 1, 2-8, 9-15, 2013

Extrajudicial Settlement with Quitclaim and Waiver

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the proper-ties of the late WILFREDO BACAN FERNANDEZ re parcels of land Lot 1282-E situated in Barangay Poblacion, Ormoc City, containing an area of 61 sq. m. covered by TCT No. T-52089; Lot 6431-F, situated in Barrio Liloan, Ormoc City, containing an area of 5,604 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 14680; and Lot 2, situated in Barangay Aguiting, Kananga, Leyte, containing an area of 23,595 sq. m. were settled among his heirs per Doc. No. 431; Page No. 87; Book No. CLXX; Series 2013 of Notary Public Nepomuceno P. Aparis I. EV Mail Sept. 2-8, 9-15, 16-22, & 23-29, 2013

Deed of extrajudicial Settlement with Sale NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the property

of the late ARSENIO PADILLA re a parcel of land des-ignated as Lot No. 7101, Cad 519-D, situated at Brgy. Plaridel, Palompon, Leyte, with an area of 14,977 sq. m. was settled among their heirs and sold in favor of PEDRO B. TIRO, JR. per Doc. No. 351; Page No. 71; Book No. XXXVIII; Series of 2013 of Notary Public Donna Villa M. Gaspan-Cerna. EV Mail Sept. 2-8, 9-15, 16-22, 2013

Deed of Extrajudicial Settlement with confirmation of Sale

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the property of the late FEDERICO BREGAUDIT re a Suzuki Vehicle, Make and Typy: SUZUKI/JEEP; Series : SAMURAI; Motor No. : G13a-596257; Serial/Chassis No.: SJ51-920197; Year Model: 1992; Plate No.: TDY467; MV File No.: 1380-87155; CR No.: 12053248 was settled among his heirs and sold in favor of JAMES HOWARD COPE-LAND, JR. per Doc. No. 2615; Page No. 50; Book No. LXII; Series of 2013 of Notary Public Camilo P. Esmero. EV Mail Sept. 2-8, 9-15, & 16-22, 2013

Deed of Extrajudicial Settlement with Sale NOTICE IS HEREBY given that the property

of the late MARIANO BENTULAN re a parcel of land designated as Lot No. 2652 Cad. 638-D, located at San Vicente, Hindang, Leyte, covered by OCT No. P-33614 and covered by TD No. 05-15018-00149 R-13, with an area of 380.88 sq. m. was settled among their heirs and 55 sq. m. share of LUCENA BENTULAN-GUINALON sold in favor of ELMA ARCILLA-VISTO per Doc. No. 271; Page No. 55; Book No. IX; Series of 2011 of Notary Public Exzon B. Mendoza. EV Mail Sept. 2-8, 9-15, 16-22, 2013

Affidavit of Self Adjudication with Deed of Absolute Sale

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the property of the late AURORA TUDIO re a parcel of land TD No. 08-03-0005-00306, Survey No. 655, containing an area of 141 sq. m. was adjudicated unto himself by RUBEN T. CAGABHI-ON and 129 sq. m. sold in favor of SPS. SAMSON TUDIO PERALES and LUCENA F. PERALES per Doc. No. 466; Page No. 94; Book No. XVIII; Series of 2012 of Notary Public Ari G. Larrazabal. EV Mail Sept. 2-8, 9-15, 16-22, 2013

Deed of Extrajudicial Settlement NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the late JESUS M. MECAYDOR had left an Account with the METROBANK Naval Branch, Savings Account No. 3-493-22595-3 was settled among his heirs per Doc. No. 120; Page No. 24; Book No. 48; Series of 2013 of Notary Public Redentor C. Villordon. EV Mail Sept. 2-8, 9-15, & 16-22, 2013

Extrajudicial SettlementNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

properties of the late CESAR INTO SR., re parcels of land Lot 7489-C-1-C, situated in Brgy. Milagro, Ormoc City, containing an area of 1,319 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 48059; Lot 7489-C-8-E-6, an area of 3,032 covered by TCT No. 38261; Lot 7489-C-2 , an area of 1,715 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 33374; Lot 1231, situ-ated in Poblacion, Ormoc City, an area of 112 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 20954; Lot 620, an area of 34 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 20955; Lot 7489-C-8-G-1, situated in Brgy. Milagro, Ormoc City, an area of 4,954 sq. m., covered by TCT No. 38415; Lot 7489-C-8-D-2, an area of 1,404 sq. m.; covered by TCT No. 48061; Lot 7489-C-8-F, an area of 627 sq. m. , covered by TCT No. 36060; Lot 7489-C-8-D-1, an area of 714 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 48060; Lot 4 , an area of 7,461, covered by TCT No. Title No. 41561; Lot 2-B, an area of 500 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 42376; Lot 2-A, an area of 500 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 42375; Lot No. 7470, situated in Brgy. Dolores, Ormoc City, an area of 9,537 sq. m., covered by TCT No. 20957; Lot No. 7469-C, an area of 17,192 sq. m. , covered by TCT No. 29713; Lot No. 7469-D, an area of 9,885 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 29714; Lot No. 7469-B, an area of 20,615 sq. m. covered by 29712; Lot No. 7489-C-8-C-8, an area of 300 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 46441; Lot No. 7489-C-8-C-7, an area of 33 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 46440; Lot No. 7489-C-8-C-6, an area of 300 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 46439; Lot No. 7489-C-8-C-5, an area of 278 sq. m. , covered by TCT No. 46438; Lot No. 7489-C-8-C-4, an area of 300 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 46437; Lot No. 7489-C-8-C-3, an area of 300 sq. m.; covered by TCT No. 46436; Lot No. 7489-C-8-C-2, an area of 500 sq. m., covered by TCT No. 46435; Lot No. 7489-C-8-C-1, an area of 500 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 46434; Lot 8-C, situated in Brgy. Sto. Rosario, Matag-ob, Leyte , an area of 25,476 sq. m., covered by TCT No. TP-12629; Lot No. 7489-C-8-E-10-B, situated in Brgy. Milagro, Ormoc City, an area of 777 sq. m. , covered by TCT No. 39240; Lot 7489-C-8-F, containing an area of 627 sq. m. , covered by TCT No. 36060; Lot 7489-C-1-A, an area of 910 sq. m. covered by TCT No. 48057 ; and Lot 7489-C-8-G-6-A, an area of 268 sq. m. , covered by TCT No. 45147 were settled among his heirs per Doc. No. 455; Page No. 91; Book No. 35; Series of 2012 of Notary Public Jasper M. Lucero. EV Mail Sept. 2-8, 9-15, & 16-22, 2013

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

Eighth Judicial Region Branch 16

Naval, Biliran SP. PROC. NO. P-420

IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF THE MINOR NATHANIEL SUMAYANG

THE SPS. HERMAN D. DONATO and MA. CRISTINA M. DONATO, Petitioner.

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

A verified petition having been filed with the Court by petitioner thru counsel, praying that after notice, publication and hearing the minor NATHANIEL SUMAYANG be ad-judged as the adopted child of petitioners for all legal intents and purposes, that he shall be entitled to all rights and obliga-tions for a legitimate son of petitioners, including the use of their surname, so that his full name will now truly appear as Nathaniel Masiar Donato.

The petition being sufficient in form and substance, let the initial hearing be set on October 24, 2013 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning at which date and time all interested person may appear and show cause, if any they have, why this petition should not be granted.

Let copy of this Order published at the expense of the petitioner for once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation duly authorized by this Court and after a raffle had been conducted by the Branch Clerk of Court.

Furnish copy of this Order and the petition to the Solici-tor General, Makati City, the Provincial Prosecutors Office, Naval, Biliran Province, the petitioner and counsel, and the Provincial DSWD, Biliran Province who is hereby directed to conduct counseling sessions with the biological paternal parents on the matter of the adoption of the adoptee, prepare and submit Child and Home Study Report before the sched-uled date of hearing.

SO ORDERED. IN CHAMBERS this 14th day of August 2013 at Naval,

Biliran, Philippines. (Sgd.) BIENVENIDO M. MONTALLA

Executive Judge Copy furnished; Solicitor General Provincial DSWD Provincial Prosecutor Atty. Redentor C. Villordon Sps. Donato and Ma. Cristina Donato EV Mail Sept. 2-8, 9-15, & 16-22, 2013

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT BRANCH 7

8th Judicial Region Bulwagan Ng Katarungan

Magsaysay Boulevard, Tacloban City SP. PROC. NO. 2013-05-13

For: ADOPTION

IN RE: PETITION FOR THET ADOPTION OF MINOR PIA ORTIZ HUGO,

SPOUSES NEL JOE P. HUGO AND MARY LYN M. HUGO, Petitioners.

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

A verified petition for adoption of minor PIA ORTIZ HUGO, having been filed by Spouses Neljoe P. Hugo and Mary Lyn M. Hugo, thru Atty. Liza A. Ramirez, praying that after due notice and hearing, judgment be rendered adjudging, that PIA ORTIZ HUGO be freed from all and legal obligations of obedience and maintenance with respect to her natural parents, and that she be declared in all legal intents and pur-poses the child of the herein petitioners, and to issue a new Certificate of Live Birth stating herein the name of petitioners as the adopting parent.

Finding the petition to be sufficient in form and sub-stance, the same is hereby given due course.

WHEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the above-entitled case is set for hearing on December 9, 2013 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning before this Court sitting at the Bul-wagan ng Katarungan, Tacloban City. Any interested person may appear on said time and date, then and there file his/her opposition thereto and to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

Further, let the copy of this order be published in Eastern Visayas Mail a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Leyte and in the City of Tacloban once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioners.

Let copies of the petition and annexes be furnished the Office of the Solicitor General, the DSWD Region VIII, Tacloban City who is hereby directed to prepare and submit child and home study report, the Social Worker of this court, Norie Vil-lero to conduct counseling sessions with the biological parents on the matter of adoption of the adoptee and to submit said report before the date of hearing.

Furnish copies of this Order to the petitioners and their counsel, the Solicitor General, the Regional Director, DSWD, Region VIII, Tacloban City and to Ms. Norie Villero, Office of the Clerk of court, RTC, Tacloban City.

SO ORDERED. GIVEN this 13th day of August 2013 at Bulwagan Ng

Katarungan, Tacloban City. (Sgd.) YOLANDA U. DAGANDAN

Assisting Judge YUD:moc EV Mail Sept. 2-8, 9-15, 16-22, 2013

Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT Regional Trial Court Eight Judicial Region

Branch 17 Palompon, Leyte

SP. PROC. CASE NO. R- PAL-13-0393-SP IN RE: PETITION FOR CORRECTION OF ENTRY IN THE RECORDS OF BIRTH OF REBECCA FAJARDO DEJILLO

REBECCA FAJARDO DEJILLO, Petitioner ,

-versus- THE CIVIL REGISTRAR OF VILLABA, LEYTE,

Respondent. x------------x

ORDER A verified petition having been filed with this Court by

petitioner, through counsel, Atty. Ruben R. Capahi, praying that after publication, notice and hearing an Order be issued directing the Local Civil Registrar of Villaba, Leyte and the Civil Registrar General, National Statistics Office to correct the erroneous entries in the birth certificate of the petitioner, particularly: a.) the entry as to her date of birth, from August 30, 1954 to August 30, 1964; b.) the entry as to her middle name, from Pajardo to Fajardo; and c.) the entry as to full name of her father, from Palermo Velayo Dejillo to Palermo Pelayo Dejillo.

As the petition appears to be sufficient in form and sub-stance, the same is hereby set for initial hearing, pursuant to Section 4, Rule 108 of the Rules of Court on November 4, 2013 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning at the Hall of Justice, Regional Trial court, Branch 17, Palompon, Leyte at which date, time and place, any person may appear and show cause, if any why the petition should not be granted.

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

Furnish copies of this Order to the Office of the Solicitor General, the Local Civil Registrar of Villaba, Leyte, the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor of Leyte, Atty. Ruben R. Capahi, Office of the Civil Registrar General, National Statistics Office and the petitioner.

SO ORDERED. Given in Chambers, this 2nd day of September, 2013 at

the Hall of Justice, Palompon, Leyte. (Sgd.) MARIO O. QUINIT

Presiding Judge Copy furnished:

1. Atty. Ruben R. Capahi Rm. 207, 2nd Flr. Ormoc Super-dome, San Pedro St. Ormoc City 2. The Office of the Solicitor General- Manila 3. Pros. Lorna Pades – Palompon, Leyte 4. National Statistics Office- Manila 5. Rebecca F. Dejillo- Brgy. Alta Vista, Ormoc City 6. Local Civil Registrar of Villaba, Leyte 7. EV Mail Ormoc City EV Mail Sept. 2-8, 9-15, & 16-22, 2013

Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT Regional Trial Court Eight Judicial Region

Branch 17 Palompon, Leyte

SP. PROC. CASE NO. R-PAL-13-0392-SP IN THE MATTER OF CORRECTION OF ENTRIES IN THE

LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF TABANGO, LEYTE JULIANITA R. NGOHO, Petitioner, -versus- THE LOCAL

CIVIL REGISTRAR OF TABANGO, LEYTE Respondent.

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

A verified petition having been filed with this Court by petitioner, through counsel, Atty. Octavius L. Labtic, praying that after publication, notice and hearing an Order be issued directing the Local Civil Registrar of Tabango, Leyte and the Civil Registrar General, National Statistics Office to correct the erroneous entry on petitioner’s Certificate of Live Birth, specifically petitioner’s date of birth from September 1, 1959 to September 1, 1956.

As the petition appears to be sufficient in form and sub-stance, the same is hereby set for initial hearing, pursuant to Section 4, Rule 108 of the Rules of Court on November 4, 2013 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning at the Hall of Justice, Regional Trial Court, Branch 17, Palompon, Leyte at which date, time and place, any person may appear and show cause, if any why the petitioner should not be granted.

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

Furnish copies of this Order to the Office of the Solicitor General, the Local Civil Registrar of Tabango, Leyte, the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor of Leyte, Atty. Octavius L. Labtic, Office of the Civil Registrar General, National Statistics Office and the petitioner.

SO ORDERED. Given in Chambers, this 2nd day of September, 2013 at

the Hall of Justice, Palompon, Leyte. (Sgd.) MARIO O. QUINIT

Presiding Judge Copy furnished: 1. Atty. Octavius L. Labtic – Quezon St., San Isidro, Leyte 2. The Office of the Solicitor General – Manila 3. Pros. Lorna Pades – Palompon, Leyte 4. National Statistics Office – Manila 5. Julianita Ngoho – San Isidro, Biliran Biliran 6. Local Civil Registrar of Tabango, Leyte 7. EV Mail, Ormoc City EV Mail Sept. 2-8, 9-15, & 16-22, 2013

Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office

Province of Leyte Municipality of Hilongos

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION In compliance with Sec 5, R.A. No. 9048/R.A.10172, a notice is hereby served

to the public that AMALOU A. INTING, has filed with this office a Petition for Change of gender from MALE to FEMALE in the birth certificate of AMALOU A. INTING who was born on March 12, 1986 at Hilongos, Leyte and whose parents are EUTIQUIO C. INTING and FELICIANA M. ADARON

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this office not later than fifteen (15) days after publication.

(Sgd.) ERNESTO MA. FULACHE Municipal Civil Registrar

EV Mail Sept. 2-8, 9-15, 2013

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC CCE-0021-2013

September 02, 2013 In compliance with the publication

requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memo-randum 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 KIMBERLYN I. BACLOHAN has filed with this Office, a petition for correction of entry in the gender of the child from “MALE” to “FEMALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth of KIMBERLYN INSO BACLOHAN who was born on 27 January 1988 at Kananga, Leyte and whose parents are EULOGIO BACLOHAN and EDNA INSO.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this office not later than September 17, 2013.

(Sgd.) ENGR. NEWTON A. ISAAC Municipal Civil Registrar

Name of Newspaper: EV MailPlace of Publication: Ormoc City, LeyteDate of Publication: Sept. 2-8, 9-15, 2013

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC CCE-0022-2013

September 02, 2013In compliance with the publication

requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memo-randum 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 HEBAMAFIL B. LLENA has filed with this Office, a petition for correction of entry in the gender of the child from “FEMALE” to “MALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth of HEBAMAFIL BAUTISTA LLENA who was born on 22 September 1988 at Kananga, Leyte and whose parents are OSCAR TAN LLENA and BENILDA DONASCO BAUTISTA.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this office not later than September 17, 2013.

(Sgd.) ENGR. NEWTON A. ISAAC Municipal Civil Registrar

Name of Newspaper: EV MailPlace of Publication: Ormoc City, LeyteDate of Publication: Sept. 2-8, 9-15, 2013

9September 9-15, 2013 NOTICESMERCADO ... from P. 4

Republic of the Philippines LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY

Province: Leyte City/Municipality: Matag-ob

Petition No. CCE-024,2013/R.A. 10172 PETITION FOR CORRECTION OF CLERICAL ERROR

IN THE CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH I, GENILYN D. MINARDO, of legal age, Filipino and a resident of Mansalip, Matag-ob, Leyte after

having been duly sworn to in accordance with the law, hereby declare that: 1) I am petitioner seeking correction of the clerical error in: a) my Certificate of Live Birth 2) I was born on JANUARY7, 1993 at Mansalip, Matag-ob, Leyte, Philippines3.)The birth was record under registry number 93-444.) The clerical error)s) to be corrected is (are)ITEM NO. DESCRIPTION FROM TO 1.a Childs Gender/Sex MALE FEMALE5) The facts/reasons for filing this petition are the following: Since my childhood I usually used my Gender/Sex as “FEMALE” & not “MALE” as what appears

in my Birth Certificate. I therefore pray that my Gender/Sex be corrected to “FEMALE” & within the meaning of R.A. 10172.

6) I submit the following documents to support this petition: a.) UTRA SOUNDb) BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF THE PETITIONER c) MEDICAL CERTIFICATE d) EARLIEST SCHOOL RECORD e) NBI 7) I have not filed any similar petition and that, to the best of my knowledge, no other similar petition

is pending with any LCRO, Court or Philippines Consulate. 8) I am filing this petition at the LCRO of Matag-ob, Leyte in accordance with R.A. No. 9048 and its

implementing rules and regulations. (Sgd.) GENILYN D. MINARDO

Petitioner VERIFICATION

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

(Sgd.) GENILYN D. MINARDO Petitioner

SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this 28th day of AUGUST, 2013 in the City/Municipality of Matag-ob, Leyte, petitioner exhibiting his Community Tax Certificate No. 11369216 issued at Matag-ob, Leyte on June 11, 2013

(Sgd.) ENGR. AGUSTIN D. PEDRANO, JR. Administering Officer

EV Mail Sept. 2-8, & 9-15, 2013

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Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office

Province of Leyte Municipality of Hilongos

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION In compliance with Sec. 5, R.A. No. 9048,

a notice is hereby served to the public that CARLOS M. BOSTON, has filed with this office a Petition for Change of First Name from CARLITO to CARLOS in the birth certificate of CARLOS M. BOSTON who was born on September 27, 1950 at Hilongos, Leyte and whose parents are ESTEBAN BOSTON and FELECISIMA MILANO.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this office not later than fifteen (15) days after publication.

(Sgd.) ERNESTO MA. FULACHEMunicipal Civil Registrar

EV Mail Sept. 9-15, & 16-22, 2013

nnnNOTICE TO THE PUBLIC CCE-005-2013 ra10172

Date: September 9, 2013In compliance with the publication require-

ment and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1 Guideline 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 RUCHEL VELASQUEZ BACALSO has filed with this office, correction of entry in sex from “FEMALE” to “MALE” in the certificate of live birth of RUCHEL VELASQUEZ BACALSO, at Merida, Leyte, Philip-pines and whose parents are NIEVES VELASQUEZ and TEOFILO BACALSO.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this office not later than September 30, 2013.

(Sgd.) NESTOR B. DELA PEÑAMunicipal Civil Registrar

Merida, Leyte Name of Newspaper: Eastern Visayas MailPlace of Publication: Ormoc CityDate of Publication: Sept. 9-15, & 16-22, 2013

nnnRepublic of the Philippines

Province of Samar Municipal of Sto. Niño

OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR Publication Notice

R.A. 10172 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Date: August 15, 2013 In compliance with Section 7 of R.A. No.

10172, notice is hereby serve to the public that RETCHIE AMASAN LOMUNTOD was filed with this Office a petition for correction of entry in SEX from “MALE” to “FEMALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth of RETCHIE AMASAN LOMUNTOD, who was born on December 9, 1988 at Brgy. Cabunga-an, Sto. Niño, Samar and whose parents are Gloria Sereño Amasan and Rodolfo Chiquito Lomuntod.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this Office not later than _____.

(Sgd.) SIMEON N. PARINGIT, JR.Municipal Civil Registrar

EV Mail Sept. 9-15, & 16-22, 2013 nnn

Republic of the Philippines Province of Western Samar

Municipality of Sto. Niño OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. Act

No. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that Manilyn Manombaga Villavicencio has filed with this Office a petition for change of first name from FE to ESTRELLA birth certificate of Estrella S. Manombaga who was born on September 11, 1966 at Takut, Sto. Niño, Samar and whose parents are Celedonio Manombaga and Lucia Suela.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than. ________.

(Sgd.) SIMEON N. PARINGIT, JR. Municipal Civil Registrar

EV Mail Sept. 9-15, & 16-22, 2013

nnnRepublic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office

Province of Leyte Municipality of Isabel

NOTICE TO THE PUBLICATION DATE: September 9, 2013

In compliance with section 5 of R.A. No. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that ARMI NUÑEZ SAQUIN has filed with this Office a petition for change of first name from “LERMA” To” ARMI” in the Certificate of Live Birth of ARMI SANCHEZ NUÑEZ who was born on May 15, 1953 at Matlang, Isabel, Leyte and whose parents are Vicente Nuñez and Margarita Sanchez.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than Sept. 24, 2013.

(Sgd.) VENUS B. TAN Municipal Civil Registrar

Name of Newspaper: Eastern Visayas MailPlace of Publication: Ormoc CityDate of Publication: Sept. 9-15, & 16-22, 2013

nnnRepublic of the Philippines

Province of Samar Municipal of Sto. Niño

OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR Publication Notice

R.A. 10172NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Date: August 15, 2013 In compliance with Section 7 of .R.A No.

10172, notice is hereby serve to the public that RICHIE MANAHON TUMBAGA was filed with this Office a petition for correction of entry is SEX from “MALE” to “FEMALE” in the Certificate of Live Birth of RICHIE MANAHON TUMBAGA, who was born on 09 February 1994 at Brgy. Buenavista, Sto. Niño and whose parents are EDITO TUMBAGA and WILMA MANAHON.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this Office not later than _____.

(Sgd.) SIMEON N. PARINGIT, JR. Municipal Civil Registrar

EV Mail Sept. 9-15, & 16-22, 2013

nnn Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office

Province of Leyte Municipality of Hindang

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION In compliance with Sec. 5, R.A. No. 9048, a

notice is hereby served to the public that GIOVANNI I. UA-O, has filed with this Office a Petition for Change of First Name from JUVANE to GIOVANNI in the birth of GIOVANNI I. UA-O who was born on MARCH 21, 1978 at HINDANG, LEYTE PHILIP-PINES and whose parents are JERSON UA-O and ANTONIA IGAÑA.

(Sgd.) DEXTER R. SARCONMunicipal Civil Registrar

EV Mail Sept 9-15, & 16-22, 2013

nnnRepublic of the Philippines Province of Western Samar

Municipality of Sto. Niño OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. Act.

No. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that Manilyn Manombaga Villavicencio has filed with this Office a petition for change of first name from PAQUITO to NOEL birth certificate of Noel Piadora Villavicencio who was born on May 21, 1963 at Buenavista, Sto, Niño, Samar and whose parents are Pablo Villavicencio and Amparo Piadora.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than______ .

(Sgd.) SIMEON N. PARINGIT, JR. Municipal Civil Registrar

EV Mail Sept. 9-15, & 16-22, 2013

Republic of the Philippines LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY

Province: Leyte City/Municipality: Matag-ob

Petition No. CCE-025, 2013/R.A. 10172 PETITION FOR CORRECTION OF CLERI-

CAL ERROR IN THE CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH

I, ELISA A. MADJUS, of legal age, Filipino and a resident of Isabel, Leyte, after having been duly sworn to in accordance with the law, hereby declare that:

1.) I am petitioner seeking correction of the clerical error in:

The Certificate of Live Birth of DENNIS CARILLAS MADJUS

2.) He was born on January 23, 1975 at San Guillermo, Matag-ob, Leyte, Philippines.

3) The birth was record under registry number 90-185ITEM NO. DESCRIPTION 1. a Childs Date & month of Birth FROM TO January 23, 1975 July 22, 1975 Name of Child DINNIS DENNIS

5) The facts/reasons for filing this peti-tion are the following:

Since my childhood I usually used my Date & month of birth as “January 25, 1975” & not “JULY 22, 1975” appears in my Birth Certificate. I therefore pray that my date and month to be corrected to “JANUARY 23, 1975 within the meaning of R.A. 10172.

6.) I submit the following documents to support this petition:

a) SSSb.) BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF THE

PETITIONERc) PASSPORT d.) JAYHAWK SECURITY INC. I.D. E.) NBI 7) I have not filed any similar petition

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

8) I am filing this petition at the LCRO of Matag-ob, Leyte in accordance with R.A. No. 9048 and its implementing rules and regulations.

(Sgd.) ELISA A. MADJUS Petitioner

VERIFICATION I, ELISA A. MADJUS, the petitioner,

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

(Sgd.) ELISA A. MADJUS Petitioner

SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this 5TH day of September, 2013 in the City/Municipality of Matag-ob, Leyte, Petitioner exhibiting his Community Tax Certificate No. 11369216 issued at Matag-ob, Leyte on June 11, 2013

(Sgd.) Engr. Agustin D. Pedrano Jr. Administering Officer

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Affidavit of Loss NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that REBECCA DOLORES B. ONG, Filipino, of legal age, mar-

ried, and a resident of Brgy. Central Poblacion, Hilongos, Leyte is one of legal heirs and administrator of the estate of the late Rebecca V. Barbusa, stockholder in the Rural Bank of Hindang, Leyte, Inc. that the following stock certificates were issued and received by her, to wit: Date issued Certificate No. No. of Shares Date Issued Cert. No. No. of Shares 01-27-2011 865 202 01-28-2004 403 2701-07-2010 796 224 01-28-2003 365 2404-28-2009 716 244 01-23-2002 319 2303-09-2009 660 80 01-17-2001 261 4303-10-2008 599 79 09-06-2000 216 16002-06-2007 560 120 10-29-1999 193 8901-28-2006 513 28 10-01-1996 165 8901-31-2005 451 27 08-14-1995 127 88 11-12-1979 021 1 Total 1,548

The said stock certificates were lost. She looked for the aforementioned, but her efforts remained futile and that this affidavit is executed for the purpose of reporting the loss of the same to the Rural Bank, ,affidavit was subscribed on 2nd day of September, 2013 per Doc. No. 142; Page No. 30; Book No. XXIV; Series of 2013 before Atty. Efren B. Mendoza. EV Mail Sept. 9-15, 16-22, & 23-29, 2013

Extrajudicial Settlement with Sale NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

property of the late VICENTE GATMAITAN re a parcel of land situated at Brgy. Tinambacan Sur, Tinambacan District, Calbayog City, Samar. Designated as Lot No. 7095, covered by TD No. 99-03002-00076, containing an area of 15, 106.28 sq. m. was settled among his heirs and sold in favor of SPS. ELISEO A. SANTOS JR. and BIATRIZ ANGELICA Y. SANTOS per Doc. No. 40; Page No. 8; Book No. XXI; Series 2012 of Notary Public Alex R. Gelerra. EV Mail Sept. 9-15, 16-22 & 23- 29, , 2013

Affidavit of Adjudication NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

late HELEN D. ALBARICO had left an Account with the Philippine National Bank, Baybay City Branch, with an Account No. 3345016000019 was adjudicated unto themselves by HER-MOGENES L. ALBARICO and TRINIDAD D. ALBARICO per Doc. No. 297; Page No. 60; Book No. XVIII; Series 2013 of Notary Public Florante A. Cayunda, Jr. EV Mail Sept. 9-15, 16-22, & 23-29, 2013

Deed of Extrajudicial Settlement NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

properties of the late REBECCA V. BARBUSA re parcels of land Lot 11879, Case 36, Cad. 566-D under OCT No. P-29982, containing an area of 27,469 sq. m.; Lot 4, Psd-08-020094-D, situated in Brgy. Central Poblacion, Hilongos, Leyte cov-ered by TCT No. T-37219, containing an area of 296 sq. m.; Lot 7, Psd-08020094-D, covered by TCT No. T-37218, containing an area of 140 sq. m.; Lot 5, Lot 6, Lot 8, Lot 9, with an area of 436.00 sq. m. covered by TD No. 14001-01321 R 13 ; Lot 13530 , with an area of 79.07 sq. m. covered by TD No. 14001-00687; Lot 13649, covered by TD No. 14001-00572, with an area of 25.25 sq. m. ; Lot 13637, with an area of 172.47 sq. m. , covered by TD No. 14002-00598 R13; Lot 13636, with an area of 19.62 sq. m., covered by TD No. 14001 00597 R13; Lot 425, Located at Brgy. San Juan, Hilongos, Leyte, with an area of 6,762.81 sq. m. covered by TD. No. 14036 00036 R13; Lot 6148, Located at Brgy. Marangog, Hilongos, Leyte, with an area of 21,120.99 sq. m. covered by TD No. 14026 0012 R 13; Lot 14416 located at Brgy. Eastern Poblacion, Hilongos, Leyte, with an area of 26.40 sq. m. covered by TD No. 14002-00425 R13 were settled among her heirs per Doc. No. 118; Page No. 25; Book No. XXIV; Series of 2013 of Notary Public Efren B. Mendoza. EV Mail Sept. 9-15, 16-22, & 23-29, 2013

Extrajudicial Settlement with Sale NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

properties of the late PERFECTO T. BUENO co-owned as part of the conjugal parcels of land Lot 5342-D-6 , situated in Brgy. Bagong Buhay, Ormoc City, containing an area of 200 sq. m. under TCT No. 20829; parcel of land situated in Kananga, Leyte, containing an area of 126,751 sq. m. described in TCT No. T-1439

were settled among his heirs and 200 sq. m. sold in favor of SPS. ALLEN GOFORTH and AVELINA MACION per Doc. No. 161; Page No. 32; Book No. XXI; Series of 2011 of Notary Public Maria Samuel P. Aviles. EV Mail Sept. 9-15, 16-22, & 23-29, 2013Amended deed of Extrajudicial Settlement

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the properties of the late PEDRO V. CAING re parcels of ½ undivided portion of Lot 948 with area of 1,1228 hectares located at Brgy. Mag-nangoy, Hilongos, Leyte, covered by OCT No. P-28393; ½ undivided portion of Lot 11658 with area of .6889 hectare located at Brgy. Campina, Hilongos, Leyte, covered by OCT No. P-29113; ½ undivided portion of Lot 4850 with area of 2.9032 hectares located at Brgy. Concepcion, Hilongos, Leyte, covered by OCT No. P-29112; and ½ undivided portion of Commercial Building erected on Lot 13771were settled among his heirs per Doc. No. 156; Page No. 33; Book No. XXIV; Series of 2013 of Notary Public EFREN B. MENDOZA. EV Mail Sept. 9-15, 16-22, & 23-29, 2013

Extrajudicial Settlement and Partition NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

property of the late ARMANDO S. JACER re a ½ share of a residential land Lot 5448-C-5-H, situated in Brgy. Libertad, Ormoc City, contain-ing an area of 200 sq. m. covered under by TCT No. 51543 was settled and partitioned among his heirs per Doc. No. 448; Page No. 90; Book No. CCCLIII; Series 2013 of Notary Public Nicolas S. Maglasang. EV Mail Sept. 9-15, 16-22, & 23-29, 2013

Extrajudicial Settlement NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the properties of the late SPS. GAUDENCIO LABANA and ANTIPAZ JACA re parcels of land Lot No. 7299, situated in Baybay, Leyte, containing an area of 5,366 sq. m., covered by TCT No. T-15394; Lot No.7267, containing an area of 3,735 sq. m., covered by TD No. 07077-094-R12; Lot No. 7324, , containing an area of 10,418, covered by TD No. 1364, Land situated at Pangasugan, Baybay, Leyte, containing an area of 3,375 sq. m. covered by TD No. 24328-R8 were settled among their heirs per Doc. No. 226; Page NO. 46; Book No. VIII; Series of 2010 of Notary Public Ari G. Larrazabal. EV Mail Sept. 9-15, 16-22, & 23-29, 2013

Extrajudicial Settlement and Partition NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the property of the late NESTOR C. YUHICO co-owned re parcels of land Lot No. 6245-B, situated in Barangay Margen and Lao, Ormoc City, containing an area of 142,096 sq. m. under TCT No. 30921; Lot No. 1008-A , situ-ated in Ormoc City, containing an area of 510 sq. m. under TCT No. 12841 were settled and partitioned among his heirs per Doc. No. 304; Page No. 61; Book No. XIV; Series 2011 of Notary Public Ari Larrazabal. EV Mail Sept. 9-15, 16-22, & 23-29, 2013

bananas, banking to real estate.On April 25 last year, now Chief Justice Lourdes

Sereno wrote the decision that affrmed an earlier San-diganbayan decision that ordered: $3,369,975 of assets in Arelema S.A, formed by Marcos Sr,. be forefeited in favor of government

Imee’s notebook was among incriminating docu-ments” left behind in Malacanang after Chinook heli-copters scooped the Marcoses and cronies like Eduardo Cojuangco ahead of furious crowds racing in Edsa

Those documents led investigators to, among other discoveries, secret Swiss bank deposits totalling US$356 million and four buildings in Manhattan, New York, Raissa Robles wrote in the SCMP feature.

. ”PCGG commissioner Maita Gonzaga now occupies Imee’s old office. She showed me a curious design feature: a secret door disguised as a wall panel that leads to a fire escape. It is a metaphor, perhaps, for the intricate web of offshore accounts, foundations, fake identities and dummy companies that has kept much of the Marcos money well hidden”.

The Washington-based International Con-sortium of Investigative Journalists reported that Imee, now Ilocos Norte governor, has a secret account stashed in the Virgin Islands. “Imee formed a company overseas called Sintra Trust, in 2002, which was used to open offshore accounts in Singapore.

“The problem here is that as a sitting provincial governor, she never disclosed the accounts in her statements of assets, liabilities and net worth. Under the country’s 1987 constitution, every public official is required to do”. Imee refuses to comment.

Man however does not live by pork alone. We ig-nore structures at the risk of embedding further greed.

And that precisely is the main issue that the 2013 lPhilippine Human Development Report raises: Pork barrel items, play into the claws of politicians, because they chop up, robot like, the tax peso across the board. It turns a blind eye to varying needs of particular areas.

The needs of local government units are set by its geography, University of the Philippines’ Econom-

ics professors Emmanuel de Dios and Toby Melissa Monsod say. The physical space that a province, town or city occupies determines the health, livelihood and economic chances of its inhabitants.

Failure to tailor socioeconomic services to the lo-cal geography court disaster. Health underscores this reality. The diseases that afflict people are set by where they live. If a tropical country, like the Philippines, fails to prioriti tropical diseases, it would rack up huge human development losses..

Malaria is the ninth leading cause of morbidity here. It festers in 58 out of 80 provinces that are “forested, swampy, hilly and mountainous.” PHDR estimates that a person afflicted with malaria could lose one to five working days per malaria episode. About 14 million Filipinos are at risk of this disease. Simple arithmetic spells out an unacceptable cost

Other “neglected tropical diseases” endemic to the Philippines, pinpointed by PHDR include: : schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis or elephantiasis, soil-transmitted helminth infections or STH, foodborne trematode (FBT) and leprosy, Lala Ordenes of Vera Files notes..

“STH, or intestinal worms, affect two out of three preschool children and school-age children and two in five of the general population in a province,”

Eeconomic benefits of a peso spent on de-worming can be stunning. : “Among school- age children, this translates to 25 percent reduction in the number of days a child is absent from school.” That adds up “to an additional year of education”.

Those notebooks by kept by Imee and Janet record human pain and degradation.

MARCOS ... from P. 4of fatalities and the razing down of the city. For this violent attack, Misuari was charged for armed rebel-lion and was detained for several years, though not in an ordinary prison cell but in a house inside a military camp, just like former Pres. Joseph Estrada. He was however released later from detention after striking another deal with gov’t, though an armed rebellion charge is an unbailable crime.

Now this peace deal being forged by gov’t with the MILF is causing disenchantment not only with Misuari’s MNLF but also with another rebel faction from MILF headed by Commander Umbra Kato who formed the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters. Umbra Kato was tagged by the MILF leaders as a renegade MILF commander to discredit him. Now, is there no end to this formation of rebel armed groups in Mindanao that the gov’t has to deal with each one of them for their own satisfaction, thus making the road to peace a confusing and fruitless endeavor? Perhaps, aside from forging a peace deal with one armed rebel group, a top summit of all stakeholders in Mindanao should be called and organized by gov’t, including not only the Muslim rebel groups but also other organized groups of other religious affiliation and influential residents of Mindanao to end all this squabble and frustration in reaching a peace accord satisfactory to all factions so that Mindanao can proceed to become an economic dynamo and realize its potential. Ignoring residents of Mindanao with different religious beliefs is not only being blind to present realities in the island but is a risk to any independent peace deal to be forged with just one group, opening up the peace deal to a judicial petition and block, like the ancient domain proviso that was struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional.

FR. ROY ... from P. 4lawyer’s job is to help the client defend himself along the technicalities of a legal trial.

He told me the lawyers, like everybody else, should not tamper with the truth, but neither is the accused client obliged to incriminate himself. The burden of proof lies on the accuser. The accused is always pre-sumed innocent unless proven otherwise. This is a legal process, my father said, not the Last Judgment before God where absolutely everything would be in the open.

And so the accused client may not have to say ev-erything that he knows, and when asked directly about something that might incriminate him, he can remain silent, which should not be automatically interpreted as incriminating him.

I must confess that it took me time before I could feel at ease with this explanation. Even up to now I feel a little discomfort. But I can see the validity of the lawyer’s job to defend his client, however guilty he may be or not.

Given this predicament, the ideal lawyer should be no less than a saint, otherwise, the temptation to play around with the truth would just be irresistible. Email: roycimagala@gmail.com

ing seismic soundings to locate the largest area of geothermal energy. They located the largest pocket further up the picnic area.

The NZ Team were further impressed that the first 5 holes they drilled, two were productive. In their drilling experiences, I recall them reporting that in other areas, they were lucky to find two “productive” wells out of 20, each more than 3-km. deep!

Hence, the first gov-ernment-owned geother-mal plant in the country was established. In the power crisis of the mid-90’s, foreign investors vied to build more plants on a Build- Operate-Transfer (BOT) scheme. Hence, no national fund-ing, usually tainted with our endemic “graft and corruption” practices, were used up and the projects successfully im-plemented.

The BOT plants now supplies not only Leyte and Samar but also Cebu and also augments the Luzon Grid through un-derwater power cables. Through interconnec-tion, power from Leyte’s geothermal plants also reach the Islands of Bo-hol, Negros and Panay. Hence it is easy to imag-ine the millions, NAY, billions of pesos gross or net income the Foreign Investors earned. Hence, they started drilling for geothermal power at the foot of Cabalian Volcano. (The project has since been put on hold after the geothermal plants were privatized. It was not part of the “package” sold to the Lopezes- Editor) The Cabalian drillings were meant to augment the power in Mindanao, whose source is the Maria Cristina Falls. Unfor-tunately, its headwaters which is from Lake Dan-salan or Lanao, is fast diminishing in size and depth. There are eight mu-nicipalities located along its shores including the Capital City of Dansalan!

Due to natural in-crease of population, the cultivation of farmlands in the watershed areas of the lake is reducing its water volume. Hence, all concrete and wooden wharves or piers along the lake’s shorelines are now left high and dry. The wharves are now used as “floating carinderias”.

The way things are, there is no chance for the Maria Cristina Falls pow-ered generator- complex to produce sufficient pow-er to the Mindanao Grid with its ever-increasing demand.

Unfortunately, the Geothermal Powered Generator Complex in Cabalian, Southern Leyte has been shelved indefi-nitely. Sorry for Mind-anao which is dubbed as the Land of Promise but will remain the Land of the Twilight Zone for years to come.

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the U.S. entered the war. Entry into the war in 1917 unleashed massive U.S. federal spending which shifted national production from civilian to war goods. Between 1914 and 1918, some 3 mil-lion people were added to the military and half a million to the government. Overall, unemployment declined from 7.9 percent to 1.4 percent in this period, in part because workers were drawn in to new manufacturing jobs and because the military draft removed from many young men from the civilian labor force”.

Rockoff estimates the total cost of World War I to the United States at approximately $32 billion, or 52 percent of gross national product at the time. He breaks down the financing of the U.S. war effort as follows: 22 percent in taxes, 58 percent through borrowings from the public, and 20 percent in money creation. The War Revenue Act of 1917 taxed “excess profits” -- profits exceeding an amount determined by the rate of return on capital in a base period -- by some 20 to 60 percent, and the tax rate on income starting at $50,000 rose from 1.5 percent in 1913-15 to more than 18 percent in 1918.

The US nominal GDP ballooned in 2012 to $16.62 trillion. By comparison a 52% percent of GDP cost of waging war today would amount to $8.6 trillion which is a huge amount to ensure success of a military campaign abroad.

Finally, Rockoff assesses the legacies of World War I for the U.S. economy. When the war began, the United States was a net debtor in international capital markets, but following the war the United States began investing large amounts internationally, particularly Latin America, thus “taking on the role traditionally played by Britain and other European capital exporters.” With Britain weakened after the war, New York emerged “as London’s equal if not her superior in the contest to be the world’s leading financial center.” Thus America evolved to become the new center of capitalism in the west after WW I.

The effects of WW II to the economy did show some paral-lelism to that of WW I. An article written by Christopher Tas-sava of the American Economic History Association mentions that nominal GDP from 1940 increased from $101.4 billion to $173.52 billion in 1945 for an astonishing 71% improvement or 11.83% average yearly growth. The key word for manufacturing companies during the era was “conversion”. Car assembly plants converted to aircraft manufacturing hubs. Others converted to assembly lines for tanks, jeeps, troop carriers, munitions and weapons. Shipyards built ships in record number majority of which were destined for the military. Federal spending from 1940 to 1945 rose from $9.47 billion to $72.11 billion of which

89% in 1945 alone went to defense. Unemployment as percent of the labor force dropped from 9.9% to 1.9% in 1940 and 1945 respectively.

World War II cost the American government $304 billion per David Kennedy in his book, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945.Taxes provided $139 billion of the total war cost and the rest came from war bonds. By the time the war bond sales ended in 1946, some 85 million Americans had purchased $185 billion of the paper IOUs that bore 2.9% annual interest after a 10-year maturity.

At a macroeconomic scale, World War II not only decisively ended the Great Depression, but created the conditions for pro-ductive postwar collaboration between the federal government, private enterprise, and organized labor, the parties whose tripar-tite collaboration helped engender continued economic growth after the war, points out Tassava.

“The U.S. emerged from the war not physically unscathed, but economically strengthened by wartime industrial expansion, which placed the United States at absolute and relative advantage over both its allies and its enemies”, concludes Tassava.

The Philippines, as a US ally, will expect to lose heavily if Syria is attacked and the conflict spills over the rest of the Middle East - source of majority of the crude oil that is refined in Bataan’s oil refinery. If Iran makes good of its promise to defend Syria in case of a US strike, the war can end up with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz resulting in the choking of the passageway for 20% of the world’s oil. This will cause the increase of crude prices around the globe due to reduced supply. Countries with a hoard of petroleum reserves can temporarily withstand this price shock. Since the Philippines does not have a strategic petroleum reserve, it will be forced to buy crude at higher market prices to keep its economy running. The alternative is to shut down its factories and idle buses, airlines and ships which it cannot afford to do. It is a bitter pill to take but there is very little flexibility now for the country.

President P-Noy can possibly make contingency plans in the short term and draw up measures to fill up the huge storage tanks at the former US Naval Base in Subic, Zambales with crude oil and acquire additional crude storage space in Limay, Bataan; Pandacan, Manila; San Pascual and Tabangao in Batangas from private companies using his presidential powers then buy crude in the spot market.

Mr. Tordillo can be reached through his e-mail address: jackman132001@yahoo.com for comments. September 6, 2013

TORDILLO ... from P. 5

administrator, could make a difference. She was able to put some order into the rowdy traffic situa-

tion, cleared up the illegal vendors and relocated them, and had allegations of graft and unremitted terminal/market collections investigated (which she fearlessly announced before the chamber meeting were true), among the other good things she was already doing for Ormoc.

Yes, she may have displeased the affected vendors, even tricycle drivers, but she was harvesting the admiration of the “silent majority”.

Maybe, she was just too good for Ormoc that she had to take the most convenient way out in a huff. I heard she stepped on too many powerful toes that Papa Bear had to give her a dressing down. Uh-huh, so much for redeeming the lost glory and honor.

Now, the watch on who would step on her shoes is on. Funny, but some people are saying it could be “The Wife”. Weh? Now, that would be REALLY, REALLY interesting. Abangan and susunod na kabanata….

VIEW FROM ORMOC ... from P. 4

were relocated, and “ghost employees” were given the boot. Employees who were fond of loitering at the city hall lobby were put in their proper places.

However, in less than 100 days, the usual “hon-eymoon period” with a new administration, the resurrected confidence on the new mayor’s leadership is on crisis. The much-admired OIC city adminis-trator is now out of Ormoc City.

When the EV Mail tried to reach her, Atty. Resur-reccion said much as she would like to grant an inter-

view about her resignation, she was already on her way to Manila. That was on the evening of September 11, a Wednesday.

However, on Friday afternoon, a radio reporter claimed that Ms Adelaida Biaculo, human resources department officer, report-edly denied her resignation.

In a text message, Atty. Resurreccion negated Bia-culo. “Resigned na po ako”, she said, adding she already took her oath as national state prosecutor (see screen shot).

Now, the watch on who is her replacement is on.

RESIGNED ... from P. 1

and accountable forms and obtain a tax clearance in the process.

The COA report, which can be downloaded from the government agency’s website www.coa.gov.ph said that “verification of “selected transactions” for 2009-2011, revealed that the City had procured drugs and medicines totaling to P 26 ++ million from “non reputable and not well-known suppliers”.

Among those names in the COA report under finding number 4, pages 40 to 44, were LAM Traders based in Ormoc City; N & M Medical Supply in Cebu; PhotoMed Marketing, Dia-mond Head and Advinz Pharma, all in Tacloban City.

LAM Traders, the COA found out in their business address as stated in their bid forms, “was in fact a residential addess with an office and a storeroom”. Ocular inspection, the COA added, “disclosed that there was no pharmacy/store or display center. Moreover, the Official Receipt and Charge Invoice showed a different business address which, upon verification, revealed that it was a radio station owned by the same proprietor.”

All purchases from LAM, noted COA, was done “through Single Calculated and Responsive Bid” which defeated the purpose of the Government Procurement Act. “Transparency and competitiveness were not achieved”, COA said.

Lam, on the other hand, explained that the address as noted in the COA report was their house at Doña Feliza Mejia Subdivision, which is LAM Trader ’s current address. He said that before their DTI permit expired in 2011, the address of LAM Traders was that of their radio station because they felt people and cus-tomers could easily find it. However, when their DTI business name registration expired on 2011 and after being told they cannot use the same address for two businesses, they transferred it to Dona Feliza Mejia Sub-division.

Maybe, he said, the au-dit was done when they had already physically trans-ferred their business opera-tions to their residence but their receipts had not run out yet, hence the address shown on the said OR’s and CI’s was yet that of their radio station’s.

At Dona Feliza Mejia, Lam said, “We have a small display room. We don’t stock up many medicines because they might expire.” Lam added he was not even doing business with the City anymore. Still, he continues his drugs supply business because “I have private clients and some still from government”.

As for running a busi-ness in their home address, he pointed out many people are running businesses from their residences. “Some-how, we want to save up on costs”, he said. He em-phasized once more that their business is legitimate, with all the proper permits, hence all the rights to do business with government offices.

Meanwhile, the three suppliers in Tacloban, COA noted, “only maintained a small office” leading them to believe that “the drugs and medicines were pur-chased elsewhere and sold for a commission.”

City officials were like-wise reminded of COA Circular No. 85-55-A dated September 9, 1985 that “pro-vides one of the situational cases of “irregular” expen-ditures or uses of govern-ment funds and property, to wit: Purchase of items from jobbers or middlemen in violation of a government policy to acquire the same directly from reputable manufacturers or their duly licensed distributors”.

COA also warned that the questionable transac-tions “is without prejudice to the issuance of Notice of Suspension and/or Notice of Disallowance on the par-ticular transactions, if war-ranted”. City officials were also warned to only deal with reputable suppliers.

For their part, “man-agement” reasoned that the biddings were in ac-cordance with the law. By Lalaine M. Jimenea

MEDICINES ... from P. 1

Teacher: Kung naa koy 1 ka piraso nga karne ug tungaon nako, pila na ka piraso?Kevin: 2 mam!Teacher: at kung tungaon pa nako pareho?Joel: 4 na mam!Teacher: tungaon pa jud nako?boyet: 8 na mam!Teacher: 2ngaon pa jud nako?Recoy: 16 mam!Teacher: 2ngaon pa jud?Algie: 32 mam!Teacher: Kung 2ngaon pa jud?Gerald: 64!Teacher: ug 1ngaon pa jud ug kaduha?Gerald: (suko na) kaulit oi! Ipagaling nalang na mam!

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Why do dwarfs laugh while running thru the forest?Its because… “giluk ilang lubot ky maabot

man sa sagbot” Hahaha! rrr

Atty. Unday, pwede mo bang idiskrayb dito sa korte ang nangreype sa’yo?Inday: Hmmmm (umiiyak) Atty: Sino ang nag-rape sa iyo iha?Inday: Maitim, panot, tag-yawatin, pango ang ilong, at bungal. Atty: Anu pa iha?Suspek: Sige!.Mang-asar ka pa!!! Akala mo maganda ka, buti nga ni-rape pa kita!

rrrBuhay Estudyante Hindi ka matatawag na es-tudyante kapag hindi mo nararamdaman ang lungkot ng bumagsak sa exam at ang saya kapag nalaman mong hindi ka nag-iisa. Bwaha-hahaha

Unemployed doctors, nurses and healthcare

providers can join BPO’sTACLobAn CITY - business process outsourcing, one of the leading sources of employment opportunities on specific fields of endeavor, is gaining momentum that could change this city and nearby municipalities into a more viable center of Information Technology.

Jeanette S. Carillo, Executive Director of Healthcare Infor-mation Management Outsourcing Association of the Philippines (HIMOAP), said that Tacloban City and other nearby municipali-ties are their “next wave cities” for the Information and Com-munication Technology (ICT) sector.

Carillo said that the healthcare sector in the business process outsourcing is among those in the pipeline, and could provide jobs to healthcare providers who remain unemployed after gradu-ation. They might consider the option to become a call center agent, she pointed out.

Carillo encourages even doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers to become medical transcriptionists which do mostly medical reports, discharge summaries, operative reports, therapy/rehabilitation notes, chart notes and hospital and clinic reports using software and equipment .

In 2003, there were only nine companies registered doing medical transcription in the Philippines. In 2008, it grew to 43.

The business process outsourcing industry in the Philip-pines has grown 46% annually since 2006. In 2012, IT-BPO in the Philippines generated more than $13 billion in revenues, an increase of $2 billion from the $11 billion in 2011. The Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) now projects that revenues from the IT-BPO industry will hit $16 billion in 2013 and have 926,000 full-time employees.

To achieve and sustain this growth, the Philippine govern-ment offered fiscal and non-fiscal incentives to attract foreign direct investment in these industries as part of its 2007 Investment Priorities Plan (IPP). The Board of Investments (BOI), as the lead agency in promoting investments, prepared the IPP which focused on the sectors identified in the Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP).

The majority of the BPO facilities are located in “first-tier” cities of Metro Manila and Metro Cebu. Second and third-tier sites are in regional economic zones such as Bacolod City, Ba-guio City, Cagayan de Oro, Clark, Angeles City, Dagupa City, Davao City, Tacloban City, Dumaguete City, Lipa City, Iloilo City, Legazpi City, Iligan City, Olongapo City and Urdaneta City.

Now, Tacloban City is among those identified as the “new wave” cities, she said. PIA/Jonnie H. Buenaventura

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12 September 9-15, 2013NEWS

EV Booth awarded 2nd place in PHILTOA ExpoPASAY CITY - To promote tourism in Eastern Visayas, the Department of Tourism in the region once again joined the 24th Philippine Travel Mart of PHILToA on Sept. 6-8, 2013 at the SMx Convention Center Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City and was awarded the 2nd Place in the best booth - Pro-vincial Category.

A plaque of recognition was given to the EV contingent by the Philippine Tour Opera-tors Association (PHILTOA), the biggest association of tour operators and agencies that exclusively promote domestic and inbound tourism and the main proponent behind the Philippine Travel Mart (PTM), the exposition that has been running for 24 years now. A good number of travelers flooded the event, including students.

For EV, the Provinces of Biliran, Leyte and Northern Samar participated in the event and presented their province’s exciting tourist destinations and packages.

The Province of Leyte was represented by its Tourism & Investment Promotion Center Unit Head Ms. Jescyn Kate N. Ramos, Tourism Point Person Ms. May Cornista and Tourism Staff Ms. Ariel C. Dolor.

Mr. Raoul Bacalla, Mu-nicipal Environment and Natu-ral Resources Officer and Palompon Tourism Council CEO Mr. Rene Camposano spearheaded the promotion of Palompon’s best destinations such as Kalanggaman Island, Tabuk Marine Park, fish and bird sanctuary and Lawig Fes-tival which is held every 2nd of December.

For Ormoc City, Cholo Franco of Fran-con Viaje Inter-national Travel and Consu l -tancy Services led in promot-ing Ormoc City featuring Lake Danao and its G e o t h e r m a l P r o d u c t i o n Fields. Baybay City Tourism Officer Ms. Jo-sefina Granada also led in pro-mot ing Bay-bay’s touris t destinations.

Among the p a r t i c i p a n t s were the Ori-en ta l Hote l s chain, which has a hotel at Palo, Leyte just near the historic MacArthur Me-morial Park.

B i l i r a n ’ s P r o v i n c i a l Tour ism and I n f o r m a t i o n Officer Mr. Di-onisio B. Oliva Jr. highlighted their province as an alterna-tive to Boracay,

Photo on top shows the Leyte tourism officers. Middle, Madame Imelda R. Marcos herself dropped by the booth and right, DOT regional director Karen Tiopes poses with her native inspired gowns with the colorful mannequins of the EV Booth.

THE RAMon Aboitiz Foundation (RAFI) is now accept-ing nominations for the 6th RAFI Triennial Awards for the Ramon Aboitiz Award for Exemplary Individual and the Eduardo Aboitiz Award for outstanding Institution.

The RAFI Triennial Awards is conferred every three years to honor men, women, and organizations, who, through their efforts and selfless commitment, bring about change in the lives of the less privileged in various groups and communities in the Philippines.

The Ramon Aboitiz Award for Exemplary Individual is open to every Filipino, natural born or naturalized citizen, at least 30 years old, and of good moral character whose dedication to their profession has made significant contributions to the advancement of the well-being of fellow Filipinos.

The Eduardo Aboitiz Award for Outstanding Institution is open to all institutions or organizations. They may be government organizations, non-government organizations, civic organiza-tions, or people’s organizations, which have been established for at least three years, with functional programs and work with other groups in bringing about comprehensive and responsible development.

The nominees should exhibit unending commitment and dedication to uplift the socio-economic condition of the poor and the marginalized sectors.

Nominees for each category will undergo an extensive screening process. The selection process starts when individuals and institutions are nominated for the RAFI Triennial Awards.

The RAFI Triennial Awards was launched in Dec. 6, 1996 during the 39th anniversary of the foundation to commemorate the philanthropic, humanitarian, and holistic ideals of RAFI founders Don Ramon Aboitiz and his son Don Eduardo Aboitiz.

Winners of each award category will be given a trophy, cash prize of not less than Php 400,000, and the opportunity to travel in the Visayas and Mindanao to share their expertise and experi-ence to various groups.

Nominations are also accepted from government agencies, non-government organizations, people’s organizations, civil society, academe, and the business sector. Self-nomination is discouraged.

Nomination forms should be submitted to: RAFI Triennial Awards Secretariat, 35 Lopez Jaena Street, Cebu City, 6000. Online nomination forms can also be accessed through RAFI’s website at www.rafi.org.ph/event/nomination-form. Or you can text nominee’s full name, contact detials, and name of the person nominating to 0933-5144005 (Sun), 0949-7643525 (Smart), and 0927-5768055 (Globe).

Deadline of nominations is on December 15, 2013. PR

Call to nominations for RAFI Triennial Awards on

MEETING THE GOVERNOR. Mr. Ed Pecson (right), Executive Director of the Amateur Association of Boxing Alliance in the Philippines, recently made a courtesy call to Leyte governor Leopoldo Dominico “Mic” L. Petilla in his office at Leyte Provincial Capitol. By Gina Gerez

Tacloban’s City Council Committee on Finance Chair Councilor Cristina G. Romualdez spearheaded a 2-day Public Hearing on Socialized Housing Tax, the Comprehensive Traffic Management Code, Ad Valorem Tax on Idle lands, permits and regulatory fees for the operation of cell sites or other communication facilities and an ordinance adopting policies & guidelines in the implementation of pre-marriage counseling in the city on September 9-10, 2013 at Balyuan Convention Center. Present were fellow councilors Eden Pineda, Willy Domingo, Vangie Esperas, Fredirick Chua, Jam Bagulaya and Neil Glova. They were joined by City Treasurer Susan Cordano and Exec. Asst. Mariya Lagman. Photos by Timothy Canes/Gay B. Gaspay-TISAT

featuring the Sambawan Island near Maripipi, with its sandy white beach and rich marine life and coral gardens. He said that it is just a one hour and 30 minutes motorized boat ride from Naval and during high

tide, Sambawan transforms into three beautiful islets.

Meanwhile, anchor Mr. Bobby Yan of Kabuhayang Swak na Swak, an entrepre-neurial and informative show, dropped by the EV Booth and

posed with the Biliran Team. Another VIP who dropped by was former FL Madame Imelda Marcos. By Emma Lago