DAR, PCA eye hub for coconut processing in NoCot

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Brig. General Allan Nobreza, BARMM police regional director, said the PNP is working closely with BARMM, the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and the local government units, to secure communities with high-security risks.

Adiong said the agriculture support package from BARMM funded by MP Diamla Musa could help prevent terrorism from thriving in Lanao at the same time enhance productivity and profits.

Amer Magarang station superintendent of the MAFAR-LDS Research Outreach, said MAFAR is committed to making agricultural lands more productive with more crops to harvest on the part of the farmers.

Vice Mayor Harounal-Rashid Disomimba Lucman, III welcomed the welcomed the development, saying the project will address the issue of inadequate power supply in Tamparan.

Ms. Tamano officially opened the program by highlighting the partnership forged by the Provincial Government, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Department of Energy (DOE). She recalled how the project was envisioned in 2018 with the late Engineer Pipalawan Naga on instruction of Governor Adiong, Jr. to implement renewable energy programs in the province as part of his Vision 2040.

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Farmers get “proof of land ownership” from DAR-12 group. "We are thankful to DAR for considering us as a potential recipient of the proposed coconut value chain boosting project," Bawik said.

A total 111 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in Sarangani province are now certified and legal owners of lands they have been tilling after the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) released on Monday their electronic land titles, officials said.

The BPCC is a recipient of the Village Level Farm-focused Enterprise Development (VLFED) project.

They also received VCO processing machines and equipment under the Climate Resilient Farm Productivity Support Project and is now in the process of registration with the Food and Drug Administration.

Aside from palay, Pigcawayan has vast coconut plantations and known for copra production and its by products. Edwin O. Fernandez

On Tuesday, Hadji Roldan Ali, Al-Haj, DARSoccsksargen assistant regional director, said the e-title distribution was in line with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s directive to DAR Secretary Conrado Estrella III, to improve the ARBs’ security of tenure.

He said the distribution of e-titles was part of the agency’s land parcelization activities to strengthen ARBs’ individual ownership of the lands they are actually tilling.

This undertaking is implemented under the Support to Parcelization of Land Through Individual Titling (SPLIT) Project, which aims to fast-track the subdivision of collective or co-owned Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CCLOA) into individual land parcels and issue individual titles. Anecito Hibanada, former Chairperson of Fleischer Estate Integrated Multi-purpose Cooperative (FEIMCO), said that although the previously issued CCLOA gave them rights to till their own lands, they experienced several contentions as there arose countless issues on management.

"In 1996, FEIIMCO was awarded with 214 hectares. We encountered ups and downs as an ARB cooperative involving land ownership,” Hibanada said.

“But now differences and contentions will surely be avoided through the SPLIT Project and with God’s grace we proudly say that we have fully paid our amortization," he added.

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Quiapo Church elevated as ‘Archdiocesan Shrine of the Black...from P6

the mercy, compassion, peace, and love of God for us,” he added.

The Quiapo Church is

Extrajudicial Settlement

Notice is hereby given that the late SANDIALE A. SAMBOLAWAN and BAI PAELA M. SAMBOLAWAN, who both died intestate, left real properties - parcels of land in Cotabato City, Lot 4, Block 3, Psd-62555, under TCT No. T-15596, with an area of 395 sq. mts. and Lot 3, Block 3, Psd-62555, under TCT No. T-22209, with an area of 400 sq. mts.; Lots in Sultan Sa Barongis, Lot 770, Pls-442, under OCT No. P-33056, with an area of 58,931 sq. mts., Lot No. 133, Pls-442, (Free patent No. 598640) under OCT No. P-04839, with an area of 102,843 sq. mts., Lot No. 1531 of Cadastral Survey of Dulawan, under TCT No. T-5860, with an area of 193,859 sq. mts.; Lots in Sampao Lambayong, Cotabato, Lot 765, Pls-442, under by OCT No. V-4530, with an area of 130,803 sq. mts., Lot 627, Pls-442, under TCT No. 4539, with an area of 22,129 sq. mts.; Lots in Datu Piang, Cotabato Lot 21, Pls-440-D, under TCT No. 6276, with an area of 49,585 sq. mts.; Lots 214 and 215, Pls-440-D, under TCT No. T-6277, with an area of 49,354 and 55,736 sq. mts, respectively; Lot 225, Pls 440-D, under TCT No. T-6278, with an area of 49, 834 sq. mts., more or less are subject of extrajudicial settlement of estate before Notary Public Felix B. Draper as per Doc. No. 27; Page No. 06; Book No. CLVIII; Series of 2018. MC: June 3, 10 & 17, 2023

Notice home to the revered image of the Black Nazarene, which attracts millions during its

Extrajudicial Settlement

Notice is hereby given that the estate of the late VICENTE CELESTIAL, who died on September 10, 2005 at Midsayap, Cotabato, a parcel of land Lot 4424-C-8-A, Psd-12-001459, situated in Poblacion, Libungan, Cotabato, covered by TCT No. 78384, containing an area of 300 sq. mts., more or less is subject of extrajudicial settlement of estate with waiver of rights before Notary Public Noel A. Gretare, CPA as per Doc. No. 2,427; Page No. 76; Book No. C; Series of 2023.

MC: June 3, 10 & 17, 2023

Extrajudicial Settlement

Notice is hereby given that the estate of the late MIGUEL PALILEO, who died on September 8, 2001 at Cotabato City, a parcel of land Lot HV-41918A-4-D-3, Psd-(ARMM)000048, situated in Awang, Dinaig, Maguindanao, covered by TCT No. T-10612, containing an area of 5,000 sq. mts., more or less is subject of extrajudicial settlement of estate with simultaneous deed of sale before Notary Public Atty. Agnes R. De Castro-Jagunap as per Doc. No. 921; Page No. 9; Book No. XXIX; Series of 2023.

MC: June 3, 10 & 17, 2023 annual procession every January 9.

In 1987, St. John Paul II elevated the church as the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene because of its role in strengthening a deep popular devotion to Jesus Christ and its cultural contribution to the religiosity of the Filipinos.

Sescon earlier announced their plan to push for the elevation of Quiapo Church as a national shrine. CBCP News

Extrajudicial Settlement

Notice is hereby given that the estate of the late JOSE R. RABAGO, who died intestate on February 24, 2022 in Cotabato City, left certain properties: parcels of land Lot 14 Blk 1, PSD12-014942, under Title No. T-30212 with an area of 125 sq. mts.; A two (2) storey building on (Lot 14 Blk1, PSD12-014942) with an area of 172.15 sq. mts; Lot 3 Blk 1, PSD-12014942, under Title No. T-30211 with an area of 125 sq. mts., more or less and Bank accounts with Philippine National Bank (PNB)- Makakua Branch under Account Nos. 4051700001754 and 405160011381 are subject of extrajudicial settlement of estate before Notary Public Atty. Froebel Kan Balleque as per Doc. No. 263; Page No. 52; Book No. 45; Series of 2023.

MC: May 20 & 27 & June 3, 2023

SULTAN KUDARAT STATE UNIVERSITY ACCESS, EJC Montilla, Tacurong City

The Search Committee for the Private Sector Representatives (SCPSR) of the Board of Regents of Sultan Kudarat State University is now accepting applications/nominations for two (2) vacant slots for Private Sector Representatives.

The Following are the required minimum qualifications and documentary requirements: Applicants/Nominees must possess the following minimum qualifications:

1. Must be a Filipino citizen, and of legal age;

2. Be domiciled in or a resident of the Province of Sultan Kudarat (where the Sultan Kudarat State University is located) for at least 2 years;

3. Must be from an industry, business, or profession preferably related to the SKSU’s Charter or mandate;

4. Must have at least five (5) years of employment, business, or practice of profession in the private sector;

5. Not connected with the Sultan Kudarat State University or other government agencies and instrumentalities in any manner, for one (1) year immediately prior to his or her nomination to the PSR position;

6. Not currently employed or appointed to any position in the government (local, national, including government-owned and controlled corporations), be it full time or part time, at the time of nomination for the PSR position;

7. Not related to any member of the present Board or their duly-authorized representatives, within fourth civil degree of consanguinity or affinity; and

8. Not have been a candidate who lost in any national or local election, except for barangay elections, within one (1) year after such election.

Application/Nomination Requirements:

Applicants/Nominees for the position of Private Sector Representative should provide four (4) sets of all pertinent details, as follows:

1. Duly notarized application or nomination (with the conforme of the Nominee)

2. Duly accomplished, computerized and notarized (Personal Data Sheet (CSC Form 212);

3. Certificate of Employment stating Nominee’s present position in the private sector related to the industry, business or profession related to the University’s charter or mandate;

4. Service Records of Nominees who have been employed in the government at any point;

5. NBI Clearance;

6. Certification of no connection with SKSU the applicant/nominee is applying or nominated to (Issued by the SKSU HRMO);

7. Signed Commitment and Availability of the Nominee to serve as PSR;

8. Signed Conforme to the Conditions of PSR as provided in Section 14; and,

9. Other documents as may be required by the SKSU GB.

Application/Nomination Process

Applications/Nominations and all supporting documents shall be addressed to:

REV. FR. JESSIE P. PASQUIN, DCC

Chair, Search Committee for the Private Sector Representatives

Sultan Kudarat State University and shall be submitted not later than July 7, 2023 at 5:00 in the afternoon to:

MS. LYNETTE G. PENIERO

Secretariat, Search Committee for Private Sector Representatives

Sultan Kudarat State University

ACCESS, E.J.C. Montilla, Tacurong City

Contact No.: 0935-783-7160

Note: The Search Committee shall only consider nominations with complete documents Nomination Form shall

Extrajudicial Settlement

Notice is hereby given that the estate of the late ANTONIO J. PACIOLES, who died on May 4, 2021 at Gumaga, Libungan, Cotabato, a parcel of land Lot 274-C-3-1-5, Psd12-002609, situated in Poblacion, Libungan, Cotabato, covered by TCT No. T-67131, containing an area of 400 sq. mts., more or less is subject of extrajudicial settlement of estate with simultaneous deed of absolute sale before Notary Public Noel A. Gretare, CPA as per Doc. No. 2099; Page No. 10; Book No. C; Series of 2023.

MC: June 3, 10 & 17, 2023

Republic of the Philippines Province of Cotabato Municipality of Aleosan

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. No. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that Luzminda S. Mendavia-Pineda has filed with this Office a petition for change of Sex from Male to Female in the birth certificate of Luzminda Sorongon Mendavia who was born on 8 January 1985 at Katalicanan, Aleosan, Cotabato and whose parents are Maximo Mendavia and Lucia Sorongon

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than 31 May 2023.

(Sgd.)MARILOU G. NANLABI Municipal Civil Registrar

MC: May 27 & June 3, 2023

Extrajudicial Settlement

Notice is hereby given that the estate of the late LEONARDO DE LOS SANTOS and JULITA DE VILA, who died on October 12, 2011 and December 09, 2016, respectively, at Carmen, Cotabato, a parcel of land Lot No. 1,993, Pls-217, situated in Poblacion, Carmen, Cotabato, covered by OCT No. P-59440, containing an area of 1,200 sq. mts., more or less is subject of extrajudicial settlement of estate before Notary Public Joseph N. Madriaga as per Doc. No. 494; Page No. 99; Book No.18; Series of 2023.

MC: June 3, 10 & 17, 2023

Republic of the Philippines Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao OFFICE OF THE CITY CIVIL REGISTRAR Cotabato City

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. Act No. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the Public that EVELYN G. LACAR has filed with this office a petition for Change of First Name from ALYSSA FARHANN to ALYSSA in the birth certificate of ALYSSA FARHANN UDAY AL SUHIEL who was born on June 26, 1997 and whose parents are Hamad G. Al Suhiel and Farhana G. Uday

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this office.

(Sgd.)EDRES A. SAMAMA

Asst. City Civil Registrar

OIC-City Civil Registrar

MC: May 27 & June 3, 2023

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

In compliance with the publication requirement and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-1 Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172). Notice is hereby served to the public that NIZMA PAJA BERNAN has filed with this Office, a correction of entry in sex/gender from Male to FEMALE in the certificate of live birth of NIZMA PAJA BERNAN who was born on September 18, 1994 at Cotabato City and whose parents are Arthur K. Bernan and Welina R. Paja.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this office

(Sgd.) EDRES A. SAMAMA Asst. City Civil Registrar OIC-City Civil Registrar MC: May 27 & June 3, 2023

Republic of the Philippines Bangsamoro Autonomus Region in Muslim Mindanao Talayan, Maguindanao del Sur OFFICE OF THE CIVIL REGISTRAR

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. No. 9048/10172, a notice is hereby served to the public that SARAH GUIOMLA KASAN has filed with this office a petition for Correction of Clerical Error in Sex from MALE to FEMALE in the birth certificate of SARAH GUIOMLA KASAN and whose parents are IBAD KASAN and BULON GUIOMLA.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this office not later than May 31, 2023

(Sgd.)JOHANADEE S. MIDTIMBANG Local Civil Registrar

MC: May 27 & June 3, 2023

TNT, Smart group lead mobile brands in PH with the most subscribers

TNT is the Philippines’ leading mobile brand, while Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) is the country’s leading mobile group when it comes to number of subscribers, according to a recent internal study conducted by Smart in partnership with market research firm NielsenIQ.

The study, which polled 1,175 Filipinos from all over the country, aged 18 to 60 years old who use and personally own any mobile SIM, asked respondents about their mobile service providers. The study ran from Jan 5 to April 3, 2023 and took into account both single and multiple SIMs users of mobile brands.

The study found that 46% claim to own and currently use a TNT mobile SIM, significantly higher vs competition. Moreover, 14% of respondents claimed to own and use Smart Prepaid, and 1% Sun Prepaid.

Smart is the leading mobile group with most number of claimed subscribers

Based on the same study, Smart is the Philippines’ leading mobile group in terms of number of subscribers, with a combined 59% of respondents claiming to use its brands, which include TNT, Smart Prepaid and Sun Prepaid, significantly higher vs competitors.

By region, TNT leads mobile brands in terms of claimed users across all surveyed areas except in Mindanao.

TNT leads in the Visayas with 60% of the surveyed respondents claiming to own and use a TNT mobile SIM; Balance Luzon with 46% and Mega Manila area (i.e., Metro Manila Area + Rizal + Palawan) with 39% claimed TNT SIM users. Meanwhile, TM leads in Mindanao with 54% claimed SIM users, followed by TNT with 41% claimed SIM users.

The survey had a sample size of 329 respondents in Mega Manila, 438 in Balance Luzon, 194 in Visayas and 214 in Mindanao.

Philippines’ Fastest and Best Mobile Network, according to Ookla

TNT is powered by Smart, which was recently recognized as the fastest mobile network in the country in Q1 2023 in a separate report by Ookla, the global leader in mobile and broadband network intelligence.

This adds to Smart’s back-to-back recognition as the Philippines’ Best Mobile Network for Q1-Q2 2022 and Q3-Q4 2022, also by Ookla. To clinch this rare citation, Smart won both the Fastest Mobile Network and Best Mobile Coverage awards within the same reporting periods of the firm - a first for a Filipino mobile operator

Kidapawan emerging sweet, delicious...from P1

THE event was part of the year round celebration of the city’s 25th charter anniversary.

Mayor Jose Paolo Evangelista said the city has set aside P200,000 for the purchase of P1,350 kilos of tilapia from city fisher folks who maintained cultured fresh water fish in their communities.

The participants from each of the 40 barangays of Kidapawan have participated in the festival that aimed to highlight that Kidapawan tilapia is sweeter, tastier and no smell of mud.

Grilling stations were put up with tables and chairs for the convenience of those who wanted to try grilled “Kidapawan tilapia.”

“Our tilapia has good taste, thick meat,” Evangelista said, adding that once tasted people would like to take another.

It has no “petrichor” scent (smell of mud) unlike most freshwater fish in the local market.

In propagating the tilapia, Evangelista said the city government, through the city agriculture office, provided free fingerlings to local fisher folks.

The city government buys the tilapia at regular market price to help local fisher folks improve income.

Kidapawan tilapia raisers produced at least one ton of fresh water fish per week, enough to supply the city’s needs.

These products are exclusive for Kidapaweños only. When production improves these can be sold to neighboring towns.

On June 27, 2021, several giant tilapia were fished out from a pond in the upland Barangay Balabag, Kidapawan City that weighed 5.2 kilos.

Pond workers, while harvesting, were surprised to see a huge tilapia, not one but four giant tilapia.

Officials are not admitting, even saying or entertaining it as of yet but some observers believe Kidapawan could be the next “Lake Sebu” in terms of tilapia production.

GRILLED TILAPIA FOR FREE. Kidapawan fisher folks grill tilapia and give it free to anyone who would like to taste the evolving delicious “Kidapawan tilapia” during the "Sugba sa plaza" on May 30.

BARMM speaker issues pro-clemency statement...from P1

the ARMM finance office under compelling circumstances and in pursuit of a “cause” of “rebellion” which made Candao eligible for a presidential pardon.

The Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) covers Presidential amnesty on members of the MILF who may have committed political offenses in pursuit of legitimate cause of rebellion. The Presidential power of amnesty restores the inherent rights and privileges of the pardoned person.

A lawyer consulted by this reporter for this story, said the “ball is now in the Office of the Presidential Legal Adviser,” the 94-year old former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile.

It was not clear, however, whether any

SQUASH are given for free to commuters, and to anyone, in a remote village in Alamada, North Cotabato as farmers opted to leave it to rot due to low buying price.

Netizens posted on social media several squash left to rot beside the provincial road in the upland village of Campo Dyes after owners have decided to five to the public “since nobody is buying them.”

“Just beside the road, kalabasa for free and anyone can take as may as he can,” netizen Kimay Alvares said in the vernacular.

Earlier, former Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol, on his FB page, also posted that farmers in Alamada gave away tons of kalabasa as price drops to P2 per kilo.

He said from a high of P30 per kilo early this year, the buying price of Kalabasa has dropped to only P2/kg.

“With that very low buying price, the farmer has to pay the harvesters and haul these to the main highway where 10-wheeler wing vans are waiting to bring the squash to other places where the prices are a bit higher,” Piñ0ol said.

Some of the farmers opted to give away the Kalabasa while others opted to just leave these lawyer has already represented a clemency petition before the Office of the Presidential Legal Adviser.

Balindong, a lawyer like Candao, said the obtaining circumstances then were that the officials of the now defunct ARMM finance were under compulsion by some men passing off as members of a revolutionary group.

He said as a high official Candao was in a quandary in contrast then to a prior professional commitment as a counsel for the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) at the Tripoli Agreement in December 1976, and later for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in 1977.

At one point, Candao resigned as governor of Maguindanao in preference in the field to rot or for anybody to take home.

"Lugi (loss). P10,000 bili ko ng binhi hindi ko mabawi," Piñol quoted Iranun farmer Mitra Butig when the former agriculture official visited his Butig’s farm in Campo 11, Rangayen, Alamada.

“Butig opted to have his remaining kalabasa field to be plowed by our tractors so he could try planting Sorghum and Soybeans,” Piñol, who is propagating Sorghum and soybeans, said.

“The sad story of farmers like Mitra will be replayed every harvest season for as long as government does not come up with a National Food Supply and Demand Map and no processing facilities are established,” Piñol said of the sad situation of farmers in the provinces.

Edmundo Guleng, Alamada Municipal Agriculture Officer (MAO), said the situation of squash farmers now in Barangay Campo Dyes was a result of oversupply.

“The law of economics apply here,” he said in the vernacular.

Guleng said during planting season early this year, the buying price of squash (genus Cucurbita) went to as high as P24 per kilo. Traders from Davao City, Cagayan de Oro of his professional commitment as a lawyer working as counsel for the MILF, Balindong said.

Under that situation, Balindong said, Candao must acquiesce to any covert revolutionary demand particularly that the offenses with which he had been charged happened in 1993 when the antisubversion law (RA 1700) had already been repealed.

Balindong said like him, Candao apparently did not want to incur the ire of an emerging new revolutionary group that was the MILF.

The two of them were eventually recruited by the top revolutionary leadership to be legal counsels for the MILF, particularly in preparation for peace

City and even Cebu went to buy squash in Alamada.

“That tempted farmers to shift to planting squash and eventually resulted to oversupply,” Guleng said, adding that the local market could no longer absorb huge volume of agricultural products. When too much supply of squash, the municipal agriculture office is eyeing to produce noodles out of squash negotiations, MILF insiders have disclosed. with the help of government agencies.

Lawyer Jose Dalisay III had signified willingness to represent the case, having known Candao when Dalisay was editor of the Catholic-run weekly The Mindanao Cross in the 1990’s. Atty. Dalisay relayed the information to a former media colleague who is close to the Candaos.

Pocket Separatists in other countries, too Balindong recalled the overall situation then was that some countries were in the “mode of recognizing” the existence and at some point, even the legitimacy, of pocket separatist groups, including the Chechens and the other Muslim enclaves in the former Yugoslavia like Bosnia Herzegovina.

“As of now we are still coordinating with other agencies that have the expertise and equipment in making noodles,” Guleng said, adding that easily these can be made for livestock feeds.

He admitted though that farmers experiences losses because of unplanned farming. Guleng urged farmers not to easily join the bandwagon because the law of supply and demand always apply.

Guleng also urged farmers to venture into other agricultural crops that do not easily rot. Squash easily rot or spoil easily because of damages caused by mircroorganisms.

As of Monday noon, hundreds of kalabasa remained beside the highway in Barangay Campo Dyes waiting to rot.