SWE June 4 - 10, 2013

VOL. 10, NO. 44

JUNE 4 - 10, 2013

Chronicling Events in Samar Island Since 2002

CATBALOGAN CITY

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Samar Weekly

EXPRESS The Exponent of Samar’s Progress

NAVAL RESERVE. The first lady mayor of Catbalogan City - Stephany Uy Tan (second from right, standing) is one of the guests during the 34th National Reservists Week, Regional Convention held recently at UP Visayas, Tacloban City.

Other prominent officials, civilians attended the regular event spearheaded by the Armed Forces.

Soldiers donate blood to Red Cross in Samar CATBALOGAN CITY – Thirty-two officers and enlisted personnel from the Army’s 8th Infantry Division recently donated a total of 14,400 cc of blood to the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC) who spearheaded the activity.

Capt Amado Gutierrez, chief of the 8th Infantry Division Public Affairs Office (PAO) said the bloodletting activity is part of the weeklong celebration of the Camp Vicente Lukban Hospital 24th Founding Anniversary. The hospital also known as the “army’s hospital” is located inside the 8ID compound in Barangay Maulong, this city.

Gutierrez said the activity with a theme “Give blood,

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Groups call for Samar forest protection

The majestic Balantak Falls in Basey, Samar (Ricky Bautista)

By AVHA HILARIO EBALDE

CATBALOGAN CITY -- Officials of the Samar Island National Protected Area (SINP) and the Regional Eagle Watch are urging Samar folks, especially those in upland communities, and LGUs to help protect Samar wildlife from hunting and trade.

The nation observes Phil“Let us help save our eaippine Eagles Week from June gles, protect our forest and se4 to 10. This year’s theme is cure our future,” SINP Super“Saving our eagles, protecting intendent Angelito Villanueva our forest and securing our said today in a text message. future.”

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DepEd team conducts ‘healthy kidney’ awareness campaign CATBALOGAN CITY --DepEd Samar Division health team is conducting kidney disease prevention awareness campaign this month of June in different schools in Samar.

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CATBALOGAN CITY – A member of the New People’s Army was killed in an encounter with the government troops in Barangay Poponton, Las Navas town, Northern Samar late Tuesday.

The military identified the slain rebel as certain Cado Empon, a resident of Barangay Capotoan, Las Navas town and reportedly an active member of the Front Committee 3 of the Eastern Visayas Regional Party Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines.

The troops belong to the 63rd Infantry (Innovator) Battalion also recovered two M16 rifles and empty ammunition shells from the site of the encounter. Bloodstains were also seen in the encounter site, the army said.

In a report, Captain Amado Gutierrez, spokesman of the 8th Infantry Division based here said the government security forces while conducting its routine Peace and Security operations when chanced upon the group of rebels also

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operating in said mountainous area of said town.

In another development, while another troops from 43rd Infantry (We Search) Battalion conducting same operations in Barangay Ligaya, Matuguinao town, in Samar, also clashed with at least 10 NPA rebels.

No one was hurt during the encounter which lasted for about 15 minutes.

Major Gen. Gerardo Layug, 8ID commander, said that soldiers in Eastern Visayas cannot afford to waste time even if after the conduct of securing the elections. He added that it is the mandate of the Philippine soldiers to secure the people and its sovereignty.

“Our mission and goal is to make the Island of Samar a manageable conflict and development-ready area just like Biliran, Bohol, Leyte and Southern Leyte. We are determined to do this to serve the people of Samar so we can attain a just and lasting peace,”

EVERYTHING is set for the Balyuan rites, a ritual of exchanging the images of Holy Child Jesus of Tacloban and of Buscada of Basey, Samar slated this 20th of the month at the Balyuan Park at Magsaysay Boulevard, this city.

Likewise, preliminary activities this June 18 that will usher the big activity are also in place, said Ruby Balayanto, city tourism officer and a member of the Balyuan Rites technical working group.

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DOST trains Samar teachers on disaster preparedness

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THE Department of Science and Technology (DoST) here in the region is making headway in training public school teachers in Samar on disaster preparedness.

Engr. Ramil Uy, DoST-8 senior science research specialist, said 37 elementary, high school and college teachers from various schools in Samar province were recently trained on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management

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Construction resumes on longdelayed Northern Samar bridge CALBAYOG CITY -- The provincial government of Northern Samar has resumed the longoverdue construction of Geratigan Bridge in Bayho Village, Lope de Vega town.

Outgoing Municipal Mayor Honorable Erlinda Cinco said the construction of the bridge project started in 2001 but was stopped due to unknown reasons.

Cinco, who is now on her final term as mayor after serving since 2004, has requested for the completion of the bridge construction.

The project has funding allocation from the P184 million intended for the province under the PAyapa at MAsaganang PamayaNAn (PAMANA) infrastructure projects for this year.

Some P84 million of which is now being utilized for the construction of the bridge and the opening of Silvino Lubos-Lope de Vega road measuring 12 kilometers.

PAMANA is a program and framework for peace and development undertaken by the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) implemented in areas affected by conflict.

Once the project is completed, seven barangays in Lope de Vega town will benefit from this namely San Miguel, Curry, Gebonawan, Paguite, Somoroy, Gen. Luna and Roxas.

According to Cinco, this project will not only help her constituents from these barangays gain access to market for their farm-products, but also,

Brigadier General Virgilio Espineli addresses the 144 Candidate Soldiers during the opening ceremony of their 4 months “warfare” training at 8ID, Catbalogan City. will bring great impact on the security aspect that will eventually provide greater opportunity for them to have an improved and better life.

Aside from the provincial government of Northern Samar, another PAMANA’s implementation partner for this project is the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).

The DILG is now closely monitoring its implementation to ensure that the multi-million funds for this project will not go to waste. (Aimee Querubin)

754 elderly to Info campaign, livelihood training highlight benefit DSWD National Reservist week celebration in EV TACLOBAN CITY -enhance the potential of repolitical influence. pilot test ‘door- An advocacy campaign and servists in order to make them During the whole-day livelihood training symporesponsive and capable. gathering were to-door’ service sium highlighted the gathering During peacetime, reserv- briefed onparticipants topics to include THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will kick off the pilot implementation of its doorto-door pay out scheme of social pension benefiting 754 elderly from 10 municipalities in Eastern Visayas on June 19.

Registration with the Philippine Postal Corporation (PhilPost), the partner government office that will handle the delivery to target recipients, started as early as third week of May, according to social welfare officer Rose Fe Valeriano.

Valeriano said that recipients are from the far-flung barangays of the towns of Limasawa in Southern Leyte; Jipapad of Eastern Samar; Tagapul-an, Almagro, San Jose de Buan all in Western Samar and Silvino Lobos, Lapinig, Gamay, Capul and San Vicente in Northern Samar.

Prior the door-to-door scheme, pensions of elderly from these areas were released through special disbursement officers (SDOs), she disclosed.

Qualified pensioners are entitled to P500 pension per month that is being released on a quarterly basis.

Those who are qualified to avail are senior citizens above 77 years old, are not receiving pensions from the Social Security System (SSS), Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and similar entities, and have no regular support from relatives.

of Army Reservists from all throughout Eastern Visayas in line with the 34th National Reservists Week celebration here at the Balyuan Convention Center on Friday.

Lt. Col. Arthur Balunes Jr., commanding officer of the 5th Air Reserve Center (Arcen), said the gathering is an annual activity to inform the reservists of the programs of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and encouraged more civilians to join its reserve force.

Likewise through the activity, the AFP sought to

ists who are mostly civilians have other careers outside the military. They are only called to active duty when necessary or when the state needs their services, usually in times of strife or war.

Balunes said the reservists are also a force multiplier of the AFP in communities and can be tapped to accomplish local projects.

He added that when needed the reservists would gladly take part in any sociocivic undertaking as when they donned their uniform, they swore to be free from any

To date there are already 17,737 elderly who are receiving social pension from the DSWD. Those who are not from the pilot areas still receive their pension through the SDOs or from local government units (LGUs) where funds are being transferred by the DSWD. (PNA)

his first term created a team that will look into this particular service.

The team is composed of the licensing division and offices of the city social welfare and development, health and legal to make sure that boarding houses are “not only sanitarily safe but morally safe” as well.

It was not immediately known how many dormitories and boarding houses are in the city.

Also part of the team are the city engineer’s office and the Bureau of Fire Protection in this city.

The licensing division makes sure that all these facilities are legally operating as evidenced by permits issued by the city government.

A partial inspection was conducted last April but was

ASIDE from securing the Eastern Visayas from all forms of security threats, 8th Infantry Division chief, Major Gen. Ricardo Layug, announced that they will conduct more community development missions in line with the military’s “Bayanihan” program.

The latter refers to the initiative where the military and the government aims to defeat insurgency through community development programs.

“The 8th Infantry will continue to support all endeavors initiated by our stakeholders in the spirit of “Bayanihan,” Layug stressed.

The 8th Infantry Division is based in Camp Lukban, Catbalogan City, Samar.

He also added that his unit has evolved from conducting purely military operations to performing non-military operations such as medical missions and humanitarian assistance.

“And we assure our people in this part of the country that we will continue to serve them and support our stakeholders to help alleviate their living conditions,” Layug added.

Earlier, troopers from the 8th Infantry Division participated in the Department of Education’s “Brigada Eskuwela” program which cleaned and repaired public schools for the June 3 opening of classes.

Soldiers from the latter unit participated in 124 “Brigada Eskuwela” activities all over Eastern Visayas where they conducted renovation and repainting of facilities, repair of fences, chairs and tables and cleanliness drive within school campuses and immediate vicinities.

Incoming officials reminded to submit election expenses

stopped temporarily and will resume in July when there are already occupants.

During the last inspection the city licensing office was able to visit 137 boarding houses and dormitories that operate here in Tacloban. (PNA)

TACLOBAN CIT Y -Winning candidates during the recently concluded mid-term elections are reminded to file their statement of campaign contributions and expenditures with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) before they assume office in July.

The reminder was made by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) in Eastern Visayas to avoid legal complications even as all provincial directors and other field officers in Eastern Visayas have been directed to advise newly elected and reelected local officials to comply with the provision of RA 7166, (Synchronized National Elections Act of 1991) and Comelec Resolution 9476 before the June 12 deadline.

Regional Director Pedro A. Noval Jr said that based on a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed between Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes and the late DILG Secretary Jesse M. Robredo, no proclaimed winner in the 2013 local election shall assume office until he/she has filed the required statement of contributions and expenditures with the Comelec office where he/

The Social Security System (SSS) here in Tacloban City is now ready to accept household employers and domestic workers locally called “kasambahay”, who will be trooping at its office this weekend and in the three consecutive Saturdays thereafter for registration.

Dr. Lilibeth A. Cajucom, branch manager of Tacloban SSS said they have already assigned personnel at their

membership assistance station to attend to their needs likewise open tellering facilities for possible payment upon registration.

Household workers shall be applying for their social security number while employers have to secure their employer identification number.

Cajucom said that applicants if they could not personally process their documents can just send their authorized

why one should join the reserve force and who are qualified to be part of the AFP Reserve Force and AFP Affiliated Reserve Unit (AFP ARU) Program.

The last part of the gathering was a livelihood training symposium, which discussed important activities that reservist can engage in outside of the service.

Meanwhile, city administrator Tecson John Lim represented Tacloban City Mayor Alfred S. Romualdez, who was invited as guest of honor for the celebration. (PNA)

Tacloban to inspect boarding houses, dormitories TACLOBAN CITY -- A full-blown inspection of boarding houses and dormitories by the city government here will be conducted in July in line with its efforts to make sure that quality service is provided to students who are studying in this highly urbanized city of Tacloban.

Atty. Tecson John S. Lim, city administrator, said that Mayor Alfred Romualdez even during

8th Infantry Division to perform more community development missions

she filed their candidacy.

Comelec Resolution 9476 issued last June 22, 2012 stated that “winning candidates shall be issued a certificate of submission immediately upon filing of their statements of contributions and expenditures, a copy of which they must submit upon assumption of office…”.

Meanwhile, the MOA declares among others, that “…before administering an oath of office to any winning candidate or allowing a winning candidate to assume into office, the DILG or any attached agency shall require him or her to present a certification from Comelec that he or she has satisfactorily complied with his or her obligation,”.

A candidate’s failure to file the report constitutes an administrative offense, which may open him or her to fines, and on second offense even perpetual disqualification from public office.

C omelec and DILG signed the MOA last year in a bid to regulate election spending and ensure disclosure of campaign finances.

(PNA)

SSS now ready to accept ‘kasambahay’ registrants representative provided their forms have been duly accomplished and complete with the required accompanying documents.

Cajucom said the move is really “good news” for household workers. She also expressed that their contributions could perk up the collection of SSS. Meanwhile,the employer will shoulder 70 percent of

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PPI to check, recognize journalism practice in the country

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WITH the theme “Watching the Watchdog: Re-examining Ourselves”, the Philippine Press Institute (PPI) will gather again its member-newspaper throughout the country on its 49th founding year and 17th National Press Forum (NPF) to re-examine the journalism practice in the country, June 13 and 14 at the New World Hotel in Makati City.

“We need to be critical of ourselves too,” says Malaya publisher and PPI chairman Amado ‘Jake’ Macasaet during the final meeting of the PPI Board first quarter of the year.

He said another goal of this annual event, which will be attended by top honchos of the country’s newspapers, is to assess how newspapers are surviving in the digital age.

Also invited to attend are members of the diplomatic community, journalism and communication students and educators, business groups, representatives from the civil society organizations, media executives and government officials.

“There are those who corrupt and those who are being corrupted,” Macasaet added saying that the theme goes beyond ethics but more importantly, touches on the survival of newspapers amidst the proliferation of online media and other competitors.

Media critic and PPI vice-chairman Vergel Santos who will do the introduction to set the tone of the conference, said that proficiency should also be the focus.

“Not only because the quality of professional practice in every aspect is poor, but also because technology has opened the practice to people altogether untrained

for it, not to mention clueless about it,” he said.

Both seasoned newspapermen and long-time PPI trustees agreed that professional values should be revisited and the quality of their observance as well the extent of their non-observance reassessed.

The PPI Board’s choice of speakers such as Dean Rolando Tolentino from the University of the Philippines’ College of Mass Communication (UPCMC), Ramon Tuazon from the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) foreign correspondent and popular journalist-blogger Raissa Robles, press freedom fighter Rowena Paraan from the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), Malou Mangahas from the Philippine Center on Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), and Marites Vitug from Rappler to name a few, are expected to provide a wide spectrum of insights and lessons from the shortcomings of the media from both practitioners and academic experts as the ‘third party’.

Meanwhile, aside from assessing their own practice, another highlight is the recognition of community newspapers that excelled in last years’ editing, photojournalism, editorial, business and economic reporting, science and environment reporting, culture and arts reporting, and climate change and biodiversity reporting, which is also this year’s exhibit theme.

Ariel Sebellino, PPI executive director said the 2012 Community Press Awards finalists are MABUHAY (Bulacan), METROPOST (Dumaguete City), THE MINDANAO CROSS (Cotabato City), BAGUIO MIDLAND COURIER (Baguio City), BOHOL CHRONICLE (Tagbiliran City), THE MINDANAO OBSERVER (Dipolog City),

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General Layug said.

In all Eastern Visayas provinces, only the province of Samar and Northern Samar remained to be the problem of government in terms of insurgency. An army official, however, vowed to make these provinces insurgency-free by year 2016.

Earlier, the government particularly the military, declared all Leyte provinces and Eastern Samar towns as insurgency-free, conflict-manageable and development-ready places. (RICKY BAUTISTA)

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saves life” was made possible through the joint efforts of the PNRC Leyte chapter headed by Dr Michieko Malou Modesto, Blood Bank Physician and Camp Lukban Station Hospital under the leadership of its commanding officer Major Reynaldo Cruz.

It is said that recipients of the blood collected are any civilians in the region who are in dire need of blood.

“It is really a big help especially to the patients who need blood directly” Dr. Modesto said.

He added because of the “genuine cooperation, collaborative efforts and commitment of different stakeholders in bringing (services) to our people,” the activity was made successful.

(RICKY BAUTISTA)

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EDITORIAL Filling the blanks Learners are back to school once more as classes started this week.

Parents are confronted with a lot of expenses that go with school opening, mainly the procurement of school supplies and school uniforms, while those in private schools have to bear the cost of tuition fees which are bound to increase this school year. Those in public schools have to bear all sorts of inconvenience as schools cannot provide facilities and learning tools that learners need considering that collection of money is prohibited.

There are a lot that learners need in school but could not be provided by government due to fund constraints. The schools could certainly do something to fill the felt need but could not do anything also due to fund constraints and the prohibition to collect anything from anyone, primarily parents and the children who enrolled in public schools.

Similar necessities in private schools are usually passed to the parents as students are required to procure the learning tools and equipment that students need.

While public education is free, there are other necessities in the learning process that cannot be provided by government and could not be provided by parents as they are prohibited by the no collection policy.

It is the students who bear the difficulties as public schools have limited budget for school facilities. There is for instance the need for laboratory equipment and materials that are needed in experiments for students to absorb essential knowledge that such activities give more than what are found in textbooks.

Efforts to provide such learning tools and equipment are often addressed to by students’ organizations or parents’ associations. But the response to such needs come too late to satisfy the needs of the students who are in the process of learning while still in the process of looking for funds to procure the needed equipment and facilities as a delayed act of filling the blanks.

Hints and Traces

By Fr. Roy Cimagala Lets cultivate a penitential life WE need to be more aware of this particular aspect of our life. We need to live a life of penance for the simple reason that in spite of our best intentions and efforts, we will always be harassed by our own weaknesses, mistakes and sins, both big and small.

We need to say sorry to God and to everybody else, and to make some atonement and reparation for the unavoidable harm and damage our wounded nature can cause. We have to learn to do this with utmost naturalness, without making a big fuss about of it.

There is actually no vacation in this predicament of ours.

And while the Church highlights this aspect of our spiritual and Church life during Lent, we should understand that penance is not to be done only in Lent or Advent or on some special occasions.

Penance should be an integral part of our life. It has to be with us all the time, like the beating of heart or our very breathing.

It’s a clear manifestation that our love for God, and actually also for the others, is true and abiding, not just a put-on and sporadic.

Cultivating a penitential life can only spring from a realistic view of things. It’s not a product of some extraordinary gift or privilege such that only a few are supposed to be concerned about it. We all have to cultivate a penitential life.

At the moment, this topic remains largely taboo. It’s not talked about, and thus our understanding of it, not to mention, the skills we need to acquire to live it, remains in the primitive, anal stage. We have to overcome this problem.

Also, this penitential life should be understood as needed not only by us individually and personally, as if it is just a private affair, but by us all together as well, in the many expressions of our collective life, be it in the family, in the community, in our professional and even our political, social, economic and cultural life.

We have to understand that our life would not be complete, humanly and especially spiritually speaking, if this spirit of penance is not developed and nourished, if it is ignored and taken for granted, both in our individual, personal life as well as in our collective life.

And so, we need to realize that while we of course should create a wholesome, positive atmosphere wherever we are, we

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“Were our votes counted at all?”

LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “… But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death…” (Revelation 21:8, the Holy Bible).

-oooPOWERFUL GROUP WANTS A MANUAL COUNT OF BALLOTS: There’s a buzz going around the country now that local politicians who lost during the May 13, 2013 elections notwithstanding the fact that they were fully supported by a powerful organization whose endorsement usually meant sure victory in the past have been told to ask for a manual count of the votes in their localities.

I am told by my sources that leaders of the organization are itching for a manual count of the votes, to find out why the candidates it supported in some of the cities, towns and provinces of the country did not even get the number of votes that would equal the number of its members in those places.

Yes, my sources said, the leaders are willing to concede that some of their members may have strayed away and voted for candidates who were not officially endorsed by the organization, but not in the magnitude that the May 13, 2013 election appeared to suggest. The impression is that, something fishy happened in the counting and canvassing and reporting of the votes, resulting in the vote of the members of the organization not having been counted at all.

-ooo“WERE OUR VOTES COUNTED AT ALL?” I wonder how the top officials of the Commission on Elections, particularly Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. and his fellow commissioners, will react to this. Of course, Brillantes and his group can deny ought to be concerned about how to live this indispensable aspect of penance. Even in our parties and fun, this penitential aspect should somehow be present.

Truth is that cultivating a penitential life, far from darkening our lives or dampening our spirit or spoiling our enthusiasm, purifies us and puts us in a much better condition, removing the illusions and delusions that we many times succumb due to our weaknesses and sins.

The spirit of penance strengthens us. It makes us more mature. It unites us more closely to Christ whose passion and death constitutes the extreme of divine love for us, since it represents God in Christ assuming our sinfulness, and dying to it only to rise from death, liberating us in the process from our bondage to sin.

But we need to understand also that this redemptive work of Christ, while fully is own, is also ours. We are expected, we are called to join him. Christ himself said that if we want to follow him, we have to deny ourselves and to carry the cross.

The good thing about cultivating this penitential life is that it can be done anytime, anywhere. We have to disabuse ourselves from the idea that penance always involves painful, extraordinary efforts, like flagellating and crucifying ourselves as done in some places during Holy Week.

The penitential life can be developed in the normal daily routine of ours. It starts with our awareness of our sinfulness and the need to purify ourselves of it. Then we can take advantage of the usual flow of events that would ask us some sacrifice, some self-giving, some self-denial.

We can eat and drink a little less than usual, for example.

Or we can resolve to follow a schedule for the day when we tend to be carefree and simply to drift wherever the current takes us. Or we can justmaintain a better posture, control our wild imagination, etc.

Of course, the best way we can live and cultivate this penitential life is to go to confession regularly. There, contrition which is the core of penance, is best lived.

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outright that the votes for the candidates who were supported by the powerful organization were manipulated or tampered with, to make them lose.

Brillantes can say, as he had been repeatedly saying in the past, that there were no such manipulations or tampering in any part of the country, and that the election results as announced by the Comelec were all truthful and genuine, and reflected the true will of the electorate.

But then, sympathizers of the organization have a point: how come that the candidates it supported in some areas where its support traditionally and usually carried those candidates to victory because of the sheer number of its members therein inexplicably lost this time? It looked as if the organization’s political clout ---and its voting members---suddenly got lost in many areas, because of the way the results were proclaimed by the Comelec.

-oooPOLITICAL CLOUT AND STRENGTH GONE? Viewed from this angle, I can very well appreciate the concern of the organization in asking the candidates it supported but who lost just the same to do everything they can to find out what really happened. A credible explanation must be found, in view of the far-reaching implications that the results of the May 13, 2013 elections tend to show.

The fact is that, if the truth about this issue is not credibly established, it could undermine the organization in many areas, since the elections of May 13, 2013 would seem to suggest that its endorsement could no longer materially affect future poll exercises in this country.

Now, the question is, why would anyone be interested in undermining the organization and projecting an impression that its usual political clout and strength could no longer be depended upon, and that some other person (or persons) or entity (or entities) has (have) taken over that clout and strength among the people?

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the monthly contribution and the remaining 30 percent will be paid by the worker.

Monthly contribution of household workers with a salary of P3,000 shall be P312 and an additional P10 payment for employees compensation (EC). The employer has to pay P212 while the worker shares P100.

For an income of P2,000 the contribution is P218; P151.30 for the employer and P66.70 for the worker.

Further, the employer shall shoulder P116 while the worker pays P50 for the P166 monthly contribution of the household worker whose income is P1,500.

Cajucom added that as long as household workers have salaries it is a must that they register with SSS. Republic Act 10361 or the Kasambahay Law that was signed

by President Benigno S. Aquino III on January 19, 2013 mandates that the monthly minimum wage for domestic workers shall not be less than P2,500 for those employed at the National Capital Region (NCR); P2,000 for those employed in cities and municipalities and 1,500 for those working in other municipalities. (PNA)

LEYTE from page 8 ... compared with their performance in the Palarong Pambansa. The athletes failed to perform better during April’s Palarong Pambansa because they were affected by a diarrhea outbreak in Dumaguete.

“We are preparing now for the 2014 Palaro to have better performance and result,” said Tamayo.

“Aside from the present individual sports which we offer for athletes to choose, we might also open archery, weightlifting and tae kwon do this year,” Tamayo added.

Individual sports is the concentration of LSA as compared with groups sports because they give better chance of getting more medals.

The LSA was created by former Leyte Governor and now Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla in 2010, just a year after Leyte province hosted the Palarong Pambansa 2009.

Petilla explained that converting a part of the Leyte Sports Development Complex into a sports academy would ensure that facilities will not go to waste. Instead, it will serve as a training ground for prospective young athletes from various towns of Leyte. (Roel Amazona)

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(DRR) to enhance their capability to communicate knowledge to students on how to cope with disasters.

“The teachers underwent intensive training to enhance their knowledge about disasters like typhoons, earthquakes, tsunami and volcanic eruptions and how to effectively implement disaster management plan,” Engr. Uy said.

“Because students spend longer hours at school than at home, it is fitting for teachers to understand the important scientific concepts about disasters and climate change so they can effectively and accurately transfer this information to students,” Uy added.

During the training, teachers were provided with a manual on disaster risk reduction and management that contains instructions and will serve as reference in teaching and conducting DRR-related activities in their respective schools and communities.

“The knowledge and training gained by our teacher may be effectively tapped in times of calamities, whether in school, home, or the community in order to minimize, if not eliminate destruction to lives and properties,” Uy said.

Aside from teaching students, the trained teachers will be able to help during evacuation plan management when displaced or homeless people are houses in schools during disasters.

Uy emphasized that the concept of disaster risk reduction and management is very important, and should be an on-going process even at times of relative normality.

“Various sectors of the government should converge and divide particular assignments for the different operations and plan actions accordingly to prevent needless loss of lives and properties,” he said.

The training of teachers was conducted by DoST- Science Education Institute in cooperation with the Department of Education (DepEd) and Samar State University in Catbalogan City.

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PhilHealth Circular No. 0010-s2013 said the program’s expansion is in support of the government’s health agenda, Kalusugan Pangkalahatan, to provide universal health care to all Filipinos.

PCB1, the new PhilHealth outpatient benefit, initially for sponsored and organized members, was expanded to the employed sector.

The circular said that as a pilot test, the corporation aims to expand the provision of this package to the personnel of DepEd. The PCB1 covers services like visual inspection with acetic acid, digital rectal examination, body measurements, periodic clinical breast examination, regular blood pressure measurement, and counseling for lifestyle modification.

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LEGAL NOTICES Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 8th Judicial Region BRANCH 40 Tarangnan, Samar IN THE MATTER OF THE CANCELLATION OF THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE w/ REGISTRY NO. 2002-056 & CORRECTION OF THE DATE OF BIRTH IN BIRTH CERTIFICATE w/ LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY NO. 9200081 FROM NOV. 10, 1956 TO OCTOBER 6, 1953, ROSITA R. INFANTE, Petitioner -versusTHE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF TARANGNAN, SAMAR, THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF PAGSANGHAN, SAMAR, AND THE NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE, QUEZON CITY, Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 8th Judicial Region BRANCH 40 Tarangnan, Samar IN THE MATTER OF THE CANCELLATION OF THE SECOND CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH OF ERLINDA LAGASA REBATO-DEQUITO, AND FOR CORRECTION OF HER DATE OF BIRTH FROM O4 JUNE 1956 TO 04 JUNE 1954 AS APPEARING IN HER FIRST OR ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE OF BIRTH IN THE RECORDS OF BIRTH OF THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OF TARANGNAN, SAMAR AND THE NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE, MANILA ERLINDA LAGASA REBATO-DEQUITO Petitioner, VersusTHE OFFICE OF THE LOCAL CIVIL REGIS-

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A verified petition was filed

by ROSITA R. INFANTE thru counsel seeking the cancellation and correction of the erroneous entry in her Birth Certificate.

Petitioner alleged that she is married, Filipino and a resident of 0421 Area-B Parola, Binondo Manila. She was born on October 6, 1953 in Pagsanghan, Samar, which was formerly a barangay or part of Tarangnan, to spouses Antonio Gal Repol and Maura Rebucas Balbuena. The fact of her birth was duly reported and recorded in the records of birth in the Office of the Local Civil Registrar, Tarangnan, Samar.

According to her, she availed the process of late registration, upon being advised by the NSO Quezon City, when she tried to secure a copy of her birth certificate and was informed that the records of birth in

TRAR OF TARANGNAN, SAMAR AND THE NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE, QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA, Respondents, x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -x ORDER

A verified petition was filed

by Erlinda R. Dequito thru counsel seeking cancellation of her second Certificate of Live Birth and correction of the erroneous entry in her original Birth Certificate.

Petitioner alleged that she is married, Filipino and with residence at No. 226 A. Santos Extension, Balibago Angeles City. She was born on June 4, 1954 in Brgy. Libucan, Tarangnan, Samar to spouses Juanito Dacles Rebato and Violeta Villaber Lacaba. The fact of her birth was duly reported and recorded in the records of birth in the Office of the Local Civil Registrar, Tarangnan, Samar thru the process of late registration on September 18, 2000 under Registry No. 2000-446.

However, the date of birth indicated therein is June 4, 1956 instead of her true and correct date of birth as reflected in her Certificate of Baptism which is June 4, 1954. Despite having

the Local Civil Registrar of Tarangnan for the years 1953, 1956, 1959 and 1962 were partially destroyed. The fact of her birth was duly recorded by late registration on February 14, 2002 under Registry No. 2002-056. Sometime in June of 2006, she secured a copy of her Certificate of Live Birth before the Civil Registrar of Caloocan and was issued the same under Registry No. 9200081. However, the date of birth indicated therein is November 10, 1956 instead of her true and correct date of birth as reflected in her Certificate of Baptism which is October 6, 1953. In order to avoid confusion, petitioner prays that after due notice, publication and hearing, an order be issued directing the Local Civil Registrar of Pagsanghan and the National Statistics Office to make the necessary cancellation and correction in her birth records.

WHEREFORE, finding the petition to be sufficient in form and substance, the same is set for hearing on July 26, 2013 at 8:30 in the morning at the Session Hall of this Court.

The Local Civil Registrar of Tarangnan, Samar, The Local

Civil Registrar of Pagsanghan, the National Statistics Office, Q.C., and any person having or claiming any interest under the entry whose correction is sought may, within thirty (30) days from notice of the instant petition, or from the last date of publication of such notice, file their opposition thereto.

Let copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in any newspaper of general circulation in the Philippines or in the province of Samar duly accredited by the Court.

Likewise, let copies of this Order be furnished the petitioner and counsel, the Local Civil Registrar of Pagsanghan and Tarangnan, the National Statistics Office, the Office of the Solicitor General, and the Office ofthe Provincial Prosecutor of Samar.

SO ORDERED. IN CHAMBER, Tarangnan, Samar, Philippines, April 10, 2013.

been previously registered by late registration, petitioner’s husband in good faith, belatedly registered her birth on June 12, 2012 with the same registry under Registry No. 2012-537 with identical entries thereon, except as to petitioner’s year of birth which was indicated as 1954 and not 1956. In order to avoid confusion, petitioner prays that after due notice, publication and hearing, an order be issued directing the Local Civil Registrar of Tarangnan and the National Statistics Office to make the necessary cancellation and correction in her birth records.

WHEREFORE, finding the petition to be sufficient in form and substance, the same is set for hearing on July 26, 2013 at 8:30 in the morning at the Session Hall of this Court.

The Local Civil Registrar of Tarangnan, the National Statistics Office, Q.C., and any person having or claiming any interest under the entry whose correction is sought may, within a period of thirty (30) days from notice of the instant petition, or from the last date of publication of such notice, file their opposition thereto.

Let copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks

in any newspaper of general circulation in the Philippines or in the Province of Samar duly accredited by the Court.

Likewise, let copies of this Order be furnished the petitioner and counsel, the Local Civil Registrar of Tarangnan, the National Statistics Office, the Office of the Solicitor General and the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor of Samar.

SO ORDERED. IN CHAMBER, Tarangnan, Samar, Philippines, April 10, 2013.

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LEGAL NOTICES Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 8th Judicial Region BRANCH 41 Gandara, Samar WENEFREDA VENCIO CABRALES, Petitioner, -versusTHE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF GANDARA, SAMAR, Respondent SPL. PROC. NO. 13-50 FOR: CANCELLATION OF CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH (Under Rule 108 of the Rules of Court) x- - - - - - - - - - - - -x ORDER

counsel, on May 27, 2013, praying that after due hearing, an order be issued by the Honorable Court directing the Local Civil Registry Office of Gandara, Samar to CANCELL Certificate of Live Birth of Arlene Vencio Cabrales, marked Annex “C” and Sub-markings, hereof, from its records.

Finding the Petition to be sufficient in form and in substance, notice is hereby given that this case be set for hearing on July 10, 2013 at 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon before this Court, at which date, time and place, all persons who have an objection thereto may file any opposition and show cause why the same should not be granted.

Let copies of this Order be published at the expense of the Petitioner once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks prior the

above-setting in a newspaper of general circulation in the province of Samar and in Calbayog City.

Let copies of this Order be furnished the Local Civil Registrar of Gandara, Samar, National Census and Statistics Office, Quezon City, the Solicitor General, Makati City, the Provincial Prosecutor, the petitioner and his counsel.

SO ORDERED. GIVEN this 29th day of May, 2013, Calbayog City for Gandara, Samar, Philippines.

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT 8th Judicial Region BRANCH 27 (Family Court) Bulwagan ng Katarungan Catbalogan City, Samar IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF THE MINOR, SOPHIA ISABELLE CABONIOS VILBAR,

BY SPOUSES ELMER RAGADIO SORIA AND EMELITA TEVES SORIA SPS. ELMER RAGADIO SORIA AND EMELITA TEVES SORIA Petitioners, SP. PROC. NO. 8226-320-13 x- - - - - - - - - - - -x ORDER

biological parents Lea Bacsal Cabonios and Fernando Baladjay Cabonios.

Petitioners pray that after due notice, publication and hearing, a judgment be rendered to the effect that thenceforth, the minor child SOPHIA ISABELLE CABONIOS VILBAR be freed from all legal obligations of obedience and maintenance with respect to her natural parent, and be in all legal intents and purposes, the child of the petitioners; that she be allowed to use the surname of the adopters; and that her surname be changed to SORIA which is the surname of petitioners.

The petition being sufficient in form and in substance is hereby set for hearing on July 22, 2013 at 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon, at the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Catbalogan City.

The Regional Director of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Regional Office No. VIII, Tacloban City, through its Social Welfare Officer, is hereby directed to prepare and submit its Child Study report on the adoptee as well as her biological parents and Home Study Report on the prospective adoptive parents and indicate a recommendation on or before the date of hearing.

The court Social Welfare Officer II Ms. Annie Llauderes

is likewise hereby directed to prepare her own Child and Home Study reports and recommendation to the Court on or before the date of hearing.

Let this Order be published at the expense of the petitioner once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a duly accredited newspaper of general circulation published in the Province of Samar to be selected by raffle under the supervision of the Executive Judge of this Court.

Let a copy of this Order and the Petitioner be furnished to the Solicitor General of the Philippines, Provincial Prosecutor of Samar, Regional Director of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Regional Office No. VIII, Tacloban City, and Ms. Annie Llauderes, Court Social Welfare Officer II as well as the petitioners and their counsel.

SO ORDERED. Catbalogan City, Samar.

June 3, 2013.

A verified Petition has been field by the Petitioner through

Filed with the Court is a verified Petition by Spouses Elmer Ragadio Soria and Emelita Teves Soria through counsel Atty. Gerardo C. Teves, for the adoption of the minor Sophia Isabelle Cabonios Vilbar. Said adoptee was born on October 11, 2009 in Brgy. Bagongon, Catbalogan City, Samar to her

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Villanueva said that in March this year, a birdwatcher named Ruth Francisco with a local guide sighted the Philippine Eagle perched on a tree in the thick forests of Samar which is also considered the Philippine Eagle Sanctuary.

It has been a while since the elusive bird was seen in the area.

The official said that the presence of the Philippine Eagle in its natural habitat is a sign that we are still living in an ecologically balanced environment.

“I hope that people will value the remaining forest cover that they will think very well before the ravage the forest” he said.

Reports of widespread charcoal making from the forest woods and bird trade have reached DENR officials.

“If this trade continues, we will just wake up one day with all the forest and prime bird species gone because of the activities of men,” he added.

Although the transport of charcoal has been banned, still Samarnons do the trade with poverty as an excuse.

“While we recognize that there are poor people, we do not recommend that they ravage our forests to fill their need. The sighting of the eagle is a challenge to the people of Samar to help protect the remaining forests of Samar,” Villanueva said. (Avha Hilario)

The image of the Holy Child Jesus of Tacloban will be sent to Buscada in Basey in June 18 through a land procession joined by parishioners and officials of Tacloban City.

It will be followed by a motorcade around the town of Basey and capped by a mass at the chapel of Buscada.

A ritual of exchange of food after the mass will also be done by both representatives of Basey and Tacloban City, added Balayanto.

“The only changes that we have this year for the pre-Balyuan rites is the conduct of the land procession rather than doing the fluvial precession because we want to have more participants in sending the image of the Holy Child Jesus to

Rodriguez said that in general, urinary tract infections are harmless, easily treatable conditions.

However, untreated urinary tract infections often turn into pyelonephritis, an inflammation of the kidney.

The doctor added that most people are not aware that kidney disease can be a silent killer. They may not show any symptoms for a long time till the situation becomes critical.

The doctor recommends to have regular check up and always drink adequate volume of water and fruit juices, eat a balance diet; not salty, not too sweet and for female, observe good hygiene to prevent renal disease.

The Department of Health (DOH) data reveal that one Filipino dies of kidney disease every hour. Kidney disease is ranked number nine among the top ten killer diseases in the country.

One kidney failure patient Marissa Cabanesas, 51, said that she had UTI when she was in her 40s which was untreated, this led into kidney infection that ultimately weakened her kidneys.

Cabanesas shared how she suffered from her disease and gave some advice, “Makuri han akon kahimtang, mahal an bulong amo nga danay diri ako nakapa-dialysis,( It is unbearable, the medicines are expensive so I’d sometime skip dialysis.)” she said in the dialect.

She advised that women should avoid junk food, salty ones and too much soft drinks. (Avha Hilario)

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Buscada,” Balayanto explained.

Meanwhile, a fluvial procession participated by devotees of Sto. Niño carrying the El-Tiniente image of Sto.Niño in a flotilla will follow after a mass that will be held at Basey’s Saint Michael the Archangel Parish in June 20.

The flotilla upon its arrival at the Cancabato Bay will be welcomed

by Taclobanons through dancing and showering of flowers and will be followed by a program at the Balyuan grounds.

The arrival of the image of Santo Niño de Tacloban at Balyuan is the signal for the start of nine-day novena masses for the Tacloban City fiesta in June 30.

Originally, Balyuan rites is held every 29th

day of June, but the former parish priest of Tacloban the late Monsignor Benjamin Baciera, decided to change the date of the rites from the 29th to 20th of June.

The story of Balyuan rites is woven in a legend.

It tells that “Kankabatok” (now Tacloban) was a prosperous barrio of Basey whose people had its titular head and protector the Sr. Sto. Niño whom they venerated through a small, but notso-well sculptured statue.

In Buscada, the people worshiped the same patron whom they praise through a newer, bigger and better-sculptured image donated by a Tagalog businessman whose business prospered in the area.

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compared to Buscada, the parish priest of Basey deemed it wise to arrange an exchange of images.

Kankabatok received the bigger and more beautiful image while Buscada had the smaller image from Kankabatok. This exchange of images is celebrated as the Balyu-an Rites. (Reyan Arinto)

OWWA spearheads Migrant Workers Day TACLOBAN CITY- The Overseas Welfare Workers Administration (OWWA) here in the region celebrated their annual Migrant Worker’s Day yesterday at the Leyte Provincial Gym, Tacloban City.

The event commenced with a zumba dance workout, followed by a Eucharistic celebration along with the bloodletting of Philippine National Red Cross, a pre-employment seminar from Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) and a series of raffles and games.

More than 500 overseas workers and their respective families coming from the this city, Abuyog, Baybay, Babatngon, Burauen, Calubian, Ormoc City, Sogod, Tacloban and Tanauan, all in Leyte; Basey, Villareal and Calbayog City, all in Samar and Llorente and Lawa-an, both in Eastern Samar.

The president of an association of OFWs in Baybay City, Vilma Nibla, expressed her happiness and gratitude to the organizers of the event.

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NBA Finals: Filipino basketball fans, most knowledgeable in the sport MANILA -- Filipino basketball fans are considered one of the most knowledgeable, if not the most knowledgeable, in the sport in the entire universe borne out by the fact that the shoot-and-dribble discipline is the game they most love.

But in the on-going NBA championship playoff between the defending champion Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs, Filipinos are batting for Lebron and his teammates to win, not only on the strength of their edge over the Tim Duncan-led former champs but on one significant reason – Miami coach Erik Spoelstra is a Filipino-American they consider their own.

Spoelstra, who will turn 43 on November 1, is the son of an Irish-American jon Spoelstra and Filipina mother Elisa Celino of San Pablo City in Laguna.

Of the 15 sports leaders and sportsmen who responded to a survey conducted by PNA, 14 said they want the Heat to successfully retain the title they won last year, five of them, including businessman Manny V. Pangilinan, president of the Samahang Basketbol Ng Pilipinas, chess Grandmaster Eugene Torre and PBA champion coach Norman Black, because of Spoelstra.

Jimbo Saret, the only respondent to the poll who picked Spurs to win did so only because he said he is a supporter of the “underdogs.”

“Miami Heat for me, siyempre para sa Pinoy coach,” Pangilinan, MVP to business and sports sectors, said in a statement concurred in by Torre, who said, “May dugong Pinoy ang coach. Magaling at mabait.”

“I’m for Miami because I want to see coach Erik win,” Black, a long-time resident here, for his part, said.

This same sentiment was expressed by Philippine team manager Butch Antonio and one-time PBA MVP Kenneth Duremdes.

Others, like four-time MVP Alvin Patrimonio, former Purefoods buddy Jerry Codinera, current pros Arwind Santos and Beau Belga, on the other hand, picked Spoeltra’s charges to prevail on the merit of their talents, age and team strength.

Besides the presence of Spoelstra, Patrimonio believes the Heat’s deeper bench as led by LBJ, who, he said, is the best multipleposition player nowadays.

Winning a back-to-back crown would be the biggest reason for Miami to bring home the bacon anew this year, according to Santos, MVP in the recent PBA All-Star weekend. “In spite of their loss to the Spurs in Game 1 of the current finals, the Heat can recover as they did many times before.” high school.

“The Heat are younger, Currently, it has 67 scholstronger than the aging Spurs, ars for athletics, swimming Philippine Sports Commission and boxing. chair Richie Garcia, Philippine Majority of these scholars Olympic committee first vice are in athletics that had been president Joey Romasanta and ripping medals in local and Ramon Avena, son of Far Eastnational competitions since ern Games great Vicente Avena, LSA was created in 2010. chorused.

Recently, LSA athletes “With the way Miami surwere able to gather 11 gold, vived the Indiana Pacers in nine silver and one bronze medals for athletics and box- seven games of their Eastern ing in the Philippine National Conference finals where they played with precision with Games (PNG) held last May LBJ, Dwayne Wade and Chris 28 to June 2.

This is positive perfor- Bosh leading the way, the Spurs will be no match,” Avena said. mance according to Tamayo as (PNA)

Leyte Sports Academy recruitment for athlete scholars until June 30 TACLOBAN CITY -- Recruitment is still ongoing until end of June for students who would like to become athletescholars of the Leyte Sports Academy (LSA), the country’s first sports academy.

LSA OIC executive director Ruben Tamayo said that they have been visiting schools in the province of Leyte to ask prospect athletes to join the try-out.

“But even we have not visited schools yet, we already have lots of students who wanted to try-out because their parents sent them here,” said Tamayo.

Students of the academy used specialized modules designed by the Department of Education (DepEd) when they enroll for the secondary level.

They are also provided with their basic training and personal needs, to include uniforms.

At present, the academy partners with giant telecommunication company, Smart Communications, which provides financial assistance aside from the aid provided by the provincial government.

For this year, LSA aims to have a total of 100 athlete scholars from elementary to

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Writers and Fotogs Wanted!

If you a photo enthusiasts, a blogger and has passion in writing and willing to be trained in various fields of journalism, you might just be the person we’re looking for and this might be your opportunity to become a promising journalist.

Come and submit yourself to us, bring your credentials at SWE Office located at Rizal Avenue, this city or 251-2341 look for Cathy or email your intention to trexpelunker@yahoo.com.

Hurry, this might be your big break in life!