The Mindanao Cross | October 1, 2022

“The proposed budget will hopefully bring us to that point in the future, when connected from this point where we are now, will draw a line of sustained progress,” CM Ebrahim said in a statement Wednesday.

“This plan will hopefully transform the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region to become a better environment

By Edwin O. Fernandez

for our people who shall enjoy the benefits of a better economy,” he added.

Under the proposed budget, the biggest chunk was allotted for the social services sector, with a P36.9 billion budget.

Ebrahim also stressed that the Bangsamoro

As MILF ‘retiring resumes,’ Marcos lauded for peace pledge

THE chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panel praised President Marcos Jr for his sustained efforts to promote the welfare of the Moro people and advance the peace process.

After delays caused by the pandemic, the Philippine government has resumed assisting former combatants in their

transition to civilian life through financial aid, skills development training, and scholarship programs for their children, among others.

Mohaqher Iqbal, MILF peace panel chair and now education minister in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM),

Wayward truck driver charged, lady grateful to car for saving her, pal

KORONADAL CITY —

Police authorities in South Cotabato have filed multiple criminal charges against the driver of a wayward 10-wheeler truck involved in a freak highway accident in Tupi, South Cotabato on Friday.

DID YOU KNOW?

By Edwin O. Fernandez

The information sheet was submitted before the South Cotabato prosecutor’s office against the 26-year-old Albert Zambrano, driver of cargo truck that plowed 14 vehicles and pedestrians along the descending portion of Gen. Santos-Koronadal

highway.

In a statement, Brig. Jimili Macaraeg, police regional director for Region 12 (Soccsksargen region), said the unfortunate incident that occurred about 6 p.m. left a father and son dead and injured

4th Day of October is Kindness to Animals Day

By virtue of Proclamation No. 537 signed on 1958, by then President Carlos P. Garcia.

All citizens and residents of the Philippines, government officials and employees, public and private schools, churches and civic organizations, shall observe the same with appropriate programs and ceremonies to the end that all the people may develop attitude and habits of kindness to all living creatures.

THE retired Army officer who served for three years as Bansgamoro transportation and communication minister relinquished his post to a successor.

Minister Dickson Hermoso, who was at

Government prioritizes programs on social services, education, culture, and manpower development; subsidy to local government units (LGUs); social security, welfare and employment; and health.

More than P28 billion, the second highest, are for general public services sector and in ensuring

By John Felix Unson

the helm of the Ministry of Transportation and Communication, was replaced by a new appointee, the accountant-lawyer Paisalin Tago, who is also a member of the 80-seat 20222025 regional parliament.

Hermoso had started various programs that made agencies under the MOTC functionally efficient, officials of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao told reporters who

BARMM journalist receives PH patent for energy utility model

By Nash B. Maulana

THE Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has granted patent registration to a prototype of renewable energy conversion developed by a journalist based in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

Lawyer Lolibeth Medrano, IPOPHL patents director, wrote that a certificate of registration (COR) of patent has been

issued to Nash B. Maulana, one-year after he had applied for utility model (UM) patent of his Tri-Mode Power Generator (T-MPG) System, a set of self-charging battery-driven generator prototype.

BARMM Education Minister Mohaguer Iqbal lauded the project even prior to the grant of the patent, saying, “this is what we need: creativity in invention

NEW DWELLING PLACE. The AFP’s 549th Engineering Battalion, in partnership with National Housing Authority, put up this home village for members of Indigenous Peoples in Sitio Lemangga, Barangay Midtungok, Senator Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat Housing after their surrender.

CHIEF Minister Ahod Ebrahim “Kagi Murad” is hopeful the second Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) will pass soonest the proposed P85.3 billion budget of the region for fiscal year 2023.

Photo courtesy of 549th Engineer Battalion

HIDDEN WONDERS. A village in Columbio, Sultan Kudarat is hosting the scenic Pangadilan Falls that the local tourism office is developing to be one of the town’s many tourist attractions.

Photo courtesy of Isko Wanders

3 drug dealers in BARMM await prosecution

Col. Jibin Bongcayao, Lanao del Sur provincial police director, said probers have wrapped up the complaint sheets, for the prosecutor, against Amir Palantig and Abdul Khair Mundayaw from whom policemen seized P680,000 worth of shabu from them in an entrapment operation in Marantao, Lanao del Sur on Tuesday.

Bongcayao said both are now clamped down in a detention facility of the Marantao Municipal Police Station.

They were arrested after selling shabu, in separate packings, one weighing 75 grams and the other 25 grams, to non-uniformed members of the Lanao del Sur police force and agents from the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region and the Criminal

Investigation and Detection Group in a tradeoff at past 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 27, in Palao Ranao-Ranao area in Marantao.

Officials who led that police team involved in the entrapment operation placed at P680,000 the value of the shabu confiscated from Abdullah and Mundayaw.

They are to be charged with violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, according to Bongcayao.

Detained Sulu drug peddler sued Rogelito Daculla, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said Wednesday they have also filed a case against a woman, Siraina Ummal Ahajan, from whom PDEA agents confiscated P340,000 worth of shabu last

IN over two months, the US Peace Corps and the Philippine National Volunteer Service Coordinating Agency (PNVSCA) have trained leaders from 79 local government units (LGUs) across 12 provinces to strengthen volunteerism as a tool to meet local development priorities.

The series of trainings held from August to September equipped participants with knowledge and skills to mainstream volunteerism by adopting local laws and establishing provincial volunteerism councils, among other actions.

Some of the participating, including the Provincial Government of Pangasinan, are already in the final stages of passing a provincial volunteerism ordinance and establishing a volunteerism center of excellence.

The U.S. Embassy in Manila said the Australian Volunteers Program, Voluntary Service Overseas, France Volunteers, the Global Initiative for Exchange and Development, and the Korean International Cooperation Agency also joined the trainings alongside LGU representatives from Luzon and Visayas.

U.S. Peace Corps Country Director Jenner Edelman

weekend.

Daculla said she is to be prosecuted for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

Ahajan was entrapped in Sitio Campagayo in Barangay Masjid Pinjungan, Kalingalan Caluang at past 4:00 p.m. Saturday, September 24.

Ahajan was immediately arrested and detained after selling P340,000 of shabu to non-uniformed Sulu-based PDEA-BARMM agents.

Daculla said the operation that led to Ahajan’s arrest and confiscation from her of 50 grams of shabu in sealed sachets was assisted by the Sulu Provincial Police Office and personnel of the KalingalanCaluang Municipal Police Station. John Felix Unson

said, “Volunteerism is alive and well in the Philippines. With the leadership and know-how of LGUs, it can be a powerful tool for achieving community-level development.” He gave the remark during one of the workshops.

PNVSCA Executive Director Donald James Gawe said, “Volunteerism is a way of life, and it is the government’s role to create an enabling environment for volunteerism and institutionalize it as a development strategy for both provincial-level development and nation-building.” He added that the driving force behind the trainings and the agency’s strategic focus on strengthening national volunteerism.

The US Peace Corps is an American volunteer organization that has deployed more than 9,300 volunteers to requesting host communities in the country since 1961.

Peace Corps volunteers will be returning to the Philippines in January 2023 to support PNVSCA and LGU partners in mainstreaming volunteerism in Filipino communities, among other locally identified priorities. Nash B. Maulana

MILG Minister Atty. Naguib welcomes reappointment

MINISTER Naguib Sinarimbo of the Ministry of the Interior and Local Government of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao has welcomed his re-appointment by BARMM Chief Minister Ahod Ebrahim.

Chief Minister Ebrahim swore-in his 21 Cabinet officials on Friday last week.

He also welcomed Abunawas "Von Al Haq" Maslamama and Butch Malang as MILG deputy minister and BARMM Special Geographic Area (SGA) administrator, respectively.

Sources from the office of Chief Minister Ebrahim said the re-appointment of many cabinet officials came as unannounced and surprising even to the appointees themselves.

Aside from Sinarimbo, also reappointed among members of the BARMM Regional Cabinet are: Lawyer Sha Elijah B. Dumama Alba as Solicitor-General; Mohammad Asnin K. Pendatun, as Cabinet Secretary; Abdulraof A. Macacua, Senior Minister; Abdullah M. Cosain, as Assistant Senior Minister and Alvin Yasser K. Abdulgafar, as Chief of Staff.

Dr. Mohammad S. Yacob remained as MAFAR minister and Mohaqher Iqbal as education minister.

Also reappointed were Akmad Brahim (MENRE), Atty. Ubaida Pacasem (MFBMO), Hamid Aminnodin D. Barra (MHSD), Melanio Ulama (MIPA), Muslim Sema (MOLE),

Hussein P. Munoz (MPOS), Architect Eduard Uy Guerra (MPW), Engineer Aida M. Silongan (MOST), lawyer Raisah Jajurie (MSSD), lawyer Paisalin Tago CPA (MOTC), Abu Amri Taddik (MTIT), and Engineer Muhajirin Taddik as director-general of the Bangsamoro Planning and Development Authority (BPDA). Edwin O. Fernandez

Wayward truck driver charged, lady grateful to car...from P1

17 others.

Pinned to death were Diamaloden Makasahe, 28, and son Jannaiden, who both died on the spot. Makasaehe was driving a “top-down” tricycle with his son from Poblacion Tupi and was heading home to Tampakan, South Cotabato when hit from behind by the wayward truck.

Zambrano told police traffic investigators that the brake system of his Isuzu truck has malfunctioned and he lost control of the steering wheel.

LTO-12 Assistant Regional Director Robert Kiunisala said in a radio interview that the LTO is conducting parallel investigation to determine the liability of the truck driver.

If found negligent, LTO will recommend for the revocation of Zambrano’s driver’s license.

Kristine Mae Aban Badoraya, driver of red Suzuki Celerio), and her companion have miraculously survived with light injuries after her car was plowed by a wayward cargo truck for

more than 30 seconds.

“Thank you God for giving us the second chance to live. It was the longest time in my life. Thank you sa lahat ng tumulong after the truck stopped. Hindi ako makapaniwalang makakatatayo pa pala kami after what happened,” she said in her Facebook posts.

“Good job Pogs (that’s how she called her car)! You protected us till the end. Ang ayos pa ng driver’s at passenger’s seat knowing how wrecked you are. Thank you Pogs!,” she added.

Cotabato City public, private schools get aid from MOST-BARMM

SIX public and private schools here have received laboratory apparatus package worth P600,000 from the Ministry of Science and Technology in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (MOSTBARMM) on Wednesday.

MOST Minister Engr. Aida Silongan identified the recipient schools as two Cotabato City National High School (CCNHS) campus – the Main Campus and Rojas-Site campus, Cotabato State UniversityLaboratory High School, Coland System Technology, Inc., Shariff Kabunsuan College, and Dr. P. Ocampo College.

In a report by Bangsamoro Information Office (BIO-BARMM), Silongan said the laboratory facilities grant was one of MOST’s flagship programs that is to assist students and teachers, including capacity building for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Program thru provision of laboratory apparatus to selected schools in BARMM.

“This endeavor is a continuous effort to support students and teachers, especially those in the remote areas, with less equipment and capacity,” Minister Silongan said.

“It is our way of

supporting the science education system, so we can produce numerous S & T human resources that would help in the socioeconomic development and a progressive Bangsamoro region," she added.

Aside from the six schools, Minister Silongan said, 24 other schools across the region are to receive the same assistance from MOST-BARMM this year.

“This year, we will be completing the turn-over of laboratory apparatus, amounting to Php3-million to 30 schools in the region,” the Minister said.

Ceclia Omar, CCNHS Rojas-Site principal, lauded the selection of her school as recipient of the MOST program.

“Indeed, BARMM’s generosity that reached us has added to our confidence in addressing the learning loss brought about by the 2-year health crisis,” Omar said.

“This gives us support for a good start which will surely inspire not only the learners but also the teachers in the achievement of quality education which we have been striving for," she stressed.

Silongan said schools in the BARMM Special Geographic Area in North Cotabato are set to receive the same assistance. Edwin O. Fernandez

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make use of the financial aid.

“We call this as reengagement activity where social welfare workers come and visit the decommissioned combatant and his or her family,” she said.

The decommissioning process of the former MILF is anchored under Executive Order No. 79, which requires government agencies and its instrumentalities for the implementation of normalization programs that cover the aspect of security, socio-economic development, sustainable livelihood and political participation within peaceful society.

Usec. Tanjusay also had a one-on-one conversation with one of the recipients of government’s financial package.

Tanjusay did not reveal details of the talk but he extended his appreciation for the ex-combatant for having himself back to the folds government after long years in the guerilla group.

Meanwhile, Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity Undersecretary David B. Diciano who chairs

the Peace Implementing Panel for GPH-MILF Peace Accord and Head, Joint Normalization Division, clarified that the P1 million package for every decommissioned MILF come in both cash and nonmonetary benefits.

Through the DSWD, each decommissioned fighter, gets P100,000 cash and the other benefits include livelihood assistance, scholarship for their children, housing, community infrastructure projects, among others.

“Only P100,000 cash and the rest will be nonmonetary benefits that include livelihood, training and other grants from the government,” Usec. Diciano said in an interview by Alerto Bangsamoro radio program of International Alert and Notre Dame University over DXMS Radyo Bida in Cotabato City.

Diciano issued the statement in response to reports that some decommissioned combatants are still awaiting the P900,000 worth of package.

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THREE detained shabu dealers - one in Sulu and two in Lanao del Sur - are now facing criminal charges, senior law-enforcement officials announced Thursday.

US Peace Corps, PNVSCA train LGU reps

TEACHING AID. These laboratory apparatus will help improve learning process for learners in the Bangsamoro Region in Muslim Mindanao. Photo courtesy of BIO-BARMM

PROUD PAPA. A proud dad in Koronadal, tricycle driver Juven Paneza, 47, offers free ride after his daughter, Jona Mae, passes the recent social work board exam.

Photo courtesy of Gen Bangoy and Jona Mae Paniza

public order and safety, including law enforcement, maintenance of public order, and political administration; and general administration such as general government, fiscal affairs, civil service, and lawmaking functions.

For economic services, CM Ebrahim proposed a total of P19.9 billion. According to him, this sector aims to fund interventions on communications, roads, and transportation facilities; agriculture, agrarian reform and natural resources; water resources development and flood control; trade and industry; power and energy; and tourism.

About P250 million was allotted for peace and stability sector. “As enablers of socioeconomic development, the Peace and Stability sector focuses its efforts on promoting peaceful and inclusive Bangsamoro society for sustainable development with access to justice and build effective and accountable institutions,” CM Ebrahim said.

He encouraged his colleagues in the Bangsamoro Parliament to work together to make sure that their plans are concretely expressed in the proposed budget.

“With your support, together we shall be able to unite to build a strong and dedicated Bangsamoro Government that will fulfill the promises of peace, development and meaningful selfgovernance for the betterment of lives of our people, In shaa Allah,” he said. Fund source

The BARMM’s main source of revenue is the block grant, which is automatically appropriated in the General Appropriations Act to the Bangsamoro (GAAB) and released immediately and comprehensively to the Bangsamoro government.

This is equivalent to five percent of the net national internal revenue tax collection of the Bureau of Internal

Revenue (BIR) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) in the third fiscal year preceding the current fiscal year.

The Special Development Fund, as stated in the Bangsamoro Organic Law, has become a source of funds for Bangsamoro development initiatives across the region.

In a report, the BTA Public Information, Publication, and Media Relations Division, said education, infrastructure, health, and social services are among the budgetary priorities of BARMM.

The proposal entered its first reading Wednesday, Sept. 28.

MBHTE Minister Mohagher Iqbal noted that the Bangsamoro youth remained to be the hope of the region.

"As such, we highly invest in the education of the youth," Education Minister Mohaqher Iqbal said, adding that the youth will be the future of the Bangsamoro.

Per ministry

Below are the proposed budget allocations:

Office of the Chief Minister - P5.9 billion

Bangsamoro Transition AuthorityP3.1 billion

MAFAR - P1.4 billion

MILG - P1.2 billion

MENRE - P663 million

MOTC – P545 million

MTIT - P470 million

MFBM – P358 million

MOLE - P287 million

MOST - P247 million

MHSD – P214 million

MPOS - P135 million

MIPA – P108 million

"Let us all work together to make sure our bright plans for the future are concretely expressed in the financial blueprint of our bureaucracy," Ebrahim said.

issued the statement during the public launch of the resumption of phase 3 of MILF decommissioning.

“We thank President Marcos Jr for his reaffirmation of support and commitment to the peace process which he earlier demonstrated by upholding the provisions of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro and the Bangsamoro Organic Law that the Bangsamoro Transition Authority shall be MILF-led,” Minister Iqbal said.

“Indeed not only is the peace process moving, the BARMM is also moving,” he added.

Sec. Carlito Galvez Jr, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU) and BARMM chief Minister Ahod Ebrahim witnessed the Phase 3 of the MILF decommissioning facilitated by the International Decommissioning Body (IDB) at the Old Maguindanao Provincial Capitol, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao.

This process is among the Security component of the Normalization Track of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), the peace agreement forged between the government and MILF in 2014, which aims to help former combatants make the successful transition to civilian life.

The IDB was created by the GPH and MILF negotiating panels as part of the Annex on Normalization of the CAB and composed of representatives from the Governments of Turkey, Norway, Kingdom of Brunei and local experts nominated

by the panels.

Darin Wee, OPAPRU’s Communications and Public Affairs Services director, said about 5,500 MILF combatants are to be decommissioned this year as part of the Bangsamoro peace process initiatives under the Marcos administration.

OPAPRU said 19,345 MILF combatants have been decommissioned since the implementation of the first phase decommissioning in 2015 and the second phase in 2019-2020.

Since the start of decommissioning in 2015, a total of 19,345 MILF combatants have successfully undergone decommissioning and 2,175 weapons were put beyond use.

The decommissioning process was delayed at the height of the pandemic that slowed down activities of the Mindanao peace process.

The Phase 3 decommissioning process has begun last year, Wee said, as part of the government’s goal to reform armed revolutionaries into “peaceful and productive citizens.”

Accompanying this process are provisions provision of financial assistance, social entrepreneurship projects, and skills development training, scholarship programs for combatants children, among others.

The decommissioning is part of the normalization tracks and the other is the political or the passage of BOL and creation of an expanded political entity now called BARMM.

IDB Chairman and Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Idem Akay assured the body's commitment in

the conduct of a smooth decommissioning process.

"The IDB ensures that the decommissioning process will be dealt with utmost professionalism, integrity and confidentiality. We have established necessary methodologies to ensure that our work will be done effectively and efficiently,” he said.

"We are working closely with the different normalization mechanisms to make this happen, and together, we hope that this will open the doors for transition and new life for combatants,” he added.

The first phase of decommissioning was held in 2015 wherein 145 members of MILFBangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF) and 75 of their weapons were decommissioned. The second phase was held in 2019 which saw the decommissioning of 12,000 MILF-BIAF members and 2,100 of their weapons.

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EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT

Notice is hereby given that the late DATU ULANGTUA SANGKI/ OLANTOWA SANGKI, died intestate on May 23, 2017 in Cotabato City, left parcels of land Lot No. 388, Pls. 544-D & Lot. No. 314-A, Pad (ARMM)-001407, containing an area of 203,115 sq. mts. and 57,320 sq. mts., more or less, located at Bo. Dicalungan and Bo. Kauran, Ampatuan, Maguindanao, covered by TCT Nos. T-11213 and T-18023, respectively are subject of deed of extrajudicial settlement of estate with waiver of rights before Notary Public Atty. Abbyr Ahmad Nul as per Doc. No. 210; Page No. 42; Book No. XXXVI; Series of 2022.

Republic of the Philippines Midsayap, Cotabato LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OFFICE

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 Joerie Aquiño Panes has filed with this office a petition for change of sex from Female to Male in the certificate of live birth of Joerie Aquiño Panes who was born on December 30, 1985 at Midsayap, Cotabato and whose parents are Edmundo L. Panes and Marilyn B. Aquiño.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this office of Municipal Civil Registrar, Midsayap, Cotabato.

(Sgd.) NORAH B. CABUGWASON

Municipal Civil Registrar

MC: Sept. 24 & Oct. 1, 2022

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 Myceyl Aquiño Panes has filed with this office a petition for change of sex from Female to Male in the certificate of live birth of Myceyl Aquiño Panes who was born on September 9, 1979 at Midsayap, Cotabato and whose parents are Edmundo L. Panes and Marilyn B. Aquiño.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this office of Municipal Civil Registrar, Midsayap, Cotabato.

(Sgd.) NORAH B. CABUGWASON Municipal Civil Registrar

MC: Sept. 24 & Oct. 1, 2022

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT

Notice is hereby given that the late JACINTO NOBLE, who died on November 25, 1977 in Pasay City, left a personal property situated in Lebak, Sultan Kudarat, 27 shares of the Capital Stock of Salaman Institute issued on June 30, 1963 and 13 shares of the Capital Stock of Salaman Institute issued on April 30, 1974 are subject of extrajudicial settlement of estate with waiver of rights before Notary Public Atty. Rene de Manuel, Jr. as per Doc. No. 188; Page No. 38; Book No. 66; Series of 2021.

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. 9048/10172, a notice is hereby served to the public that Charlie V. Escobal has filed with this Office a petition for change of sex from Male to Female in the birth certificate of Charlie Vicente Escobal who was born on April 3, 1999 at Barangay Sarmiento, Parang, Maguindanao and whose parents are Charlito Celis Escobal and Rosalie Montargo Vicente.

Any person adversely affected by the said petition may file his written opposition with this office not later than October 4, 2022.

(Sgd.) KARIM O. OMAR, MPA

Municipal Civil Registrar

MC: Sept. 24 & Oct. 1, 2022

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT

Notice is hereby given that the late QUIRIFONIA R. CALUMBA, who died intestate on December 28, 1993 in Cotabato City, left a parcel of land Lot 8178, Cad-107, situated at Midsayap, Cotabato (now Pob. Libungan, Cotabato), covered by TCT No. T-73879, containing an area of 30,017 sq, mts., more or less is subject of deed of extrajudicial settlement of estate with simultaneous sale before Notary Public Atty. Nisham Nazz Ala Biruar, CPA as per Doc. No 171; Page No. 35; Book No. XII; Series of 2021.

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION

In compliance with the publication requirement pursuant to Section 5 of R.A. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that Amelia B. Gunsi has filed with this office a migrant petition for change of first name from Amina to Amelia in the certificate of live birth bearing Registry No. 20214896 of Amelia Anton Buaya duly registered at the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao and whose parents are Melencio O. Buaya and Isah M. Anton.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this office not later than October 10, 2022.

(Sgd.) JEAN P. BACAS Municipal Civil Registrar MC: Oct. 1 & 8, 2022

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT

Notice is hereby given that the late HADJI OMAR S. ABUBAKAR, who died on January 7, 2003 in Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao, left a parcel of land Lot 1181-M-6, Psd-1201244, situated at Kitango, Datu Piang, Maguindanao, covered by TCT No. T-15151, containing an area of 7,071 sq, mts., more or less is subject of extrajudicial settlement of estate agreement among heirs before Notary Public Atty. Gapor G. Quitar as per Doc. No 228; Page No. 46; Book No. LXXI; Series of 2022.

MC: Oct. 1, 8 & 15, 2022

Notice is hereby given that the late LOPE QUIÑONES QUIAL, JR. and REMEDIOS TORRES QUIAL, died intestate on April 19, 2020 and October 6, 2018, respectively, both in Midsayap, Cotabato, left Real Properties (part of estate of Remedios): ¼ of Lot No. 28, Block No. 197, Psd-194841,TCT No. 39252 with an area of 249.2 sq. mts., more or less in Quezon City, Manila; Shares of Stocks: Five (5) shares in Quial Holdings, Inc. and 1/3 share in funds with LBP-Midsayap , Account No. 1001-0797-58; (part of estate of Lope): Lot 2, Cad No. 107, TCT No. 152-2020000789, area of 01556 ha and Lot 28-B, Psd12-033026, TCT No. T-100332, area of 6,385 sq. mts., more or less, both situated in Midsayap, Cotabato; parcels of land in Libungan Cotabato:1/8 of Lot 2440-A, Psd-11-001016, TCT No. 152-2020000794; 1/8 of Lot 2440-E-2, Psd-12-016266, TCT No. 152-2020000795; 1/8 of Lot 2440-B, Psd-11-001016, TCT No. 152-2020000801; Lot No. 2441-B-1-A, Psd-12-050730, TCT No. 152-2020000790; Lot No. 2441-B-1-B, Psd12-050730, TCT No. 1522020000791; Lot 2441-B-5, Psd-12-030339, TCT No. 152-2020000792; Lot 2441B-4, Psd-12-030339, TCT No. 152-2020000796; Lot 2440F, Psd-11-001016, TCT No. T-100331; Lot 2441-B-7-C, Psd-12-070358, TCT No. 152-2022001256; Lot No. 2441-B-7-B, Psd-12-070358, TCT No. 152-2022001255, with the total area of 138,488 sq. mts., more or less; 5 Shares of Stocks in Quial Holdings, Inc.; 1/3 share in funds with LBPMidsayap under Account No. 1001-0797-58 and ½ share of funds with LBP-Midsayap under Account No. 1001-1514-75 are subject of deed of extrajudicial settlement before Notary Public Reynald R. Suarez as per Doc. No. 22; Page No. 06; Book No. I; Series of 2022.

MC: Oct. 1, 8 & 15, 2022

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 Nur-Aida Tuan Andal has filed with this office a petition for change of first name from Aida to Nur-Aida in the certificate of live birth of Aida Tuan Andal who was born on December 1, 1995 at Linek DOS, Maguindanao and whose parents are Billy Anggao Andal and Soraida Tuan.

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

(Sgd.) PRINCESS ESNAIRA M. NUR Municipal Civil Registrar

MC: Sept. 24 & Oct. 1, 2022

Republic of the Philippines Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OFFICE

Republic of the Philippines Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Parang, Maguindanao OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR

Republic of the Philippines Midsayap, Cotabato LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OFFICE

As MILF ‘retiring resumes,’ Marcos...from P1

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Republic of the Philippines Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Upi, Maguindanao OFFICE OF THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR

CBCP releases 500YOC commemorative coins

The CBCP Secretariat said that issuing an official coin was a way “to fittingly commemorate” the milestone in the Church’s history.

The design at the obverse side features the country’s first Easter Mass on the island of Limasawa in Southern Leyte province.

On the other hand, the reverse side of the coins bears the 500YOC official logo featuring the first baptism in the Philippines and the theme of the celebration “Gifted

to Give”.

With diameter of 34mm, the limited edition Nordic gold commemorative coin has a frosted background with mirror-finished design.

The coins are available at the CBCP Secretariat located at Gen. Luna Street in Intramuros Manila.

For orders and inquiries, you may contact the CBCP Secretariat at mobile numbers +639171690122 or email cbcpsecretariat@gmail.com. CBCP News

Be a force for good,’ lay people told

A top Catholic official opened this year’s National Laity Week by encouraging the lay faithful to be ‘a force for the good’ in the country.

Cardinal Jose Advincula of Manila said that the laity have a far greater area of responsibility in marriage and family.

He said that the lay faithful have a huge role to play on issues related to politics, economy, justice and peace, and the integrity of creation.

“Let us be a force for the good in society,” Advincula said in his homily during Mass at the Lay Force Center of

San Carlos Seminary in Makati City on Saturday, Sept. 24.

“Let us strengthen our programs for the poor and our youth ministry,” he also said.

Among the concelebrants was Bishop Enrique Macaraeg of Tarlac, chairman of the CBCP Episcopal Commission on the Laity.

With the theme “Journeying Together and Reflecting Together on the Journey that has been made… Communion, Participation, and Mission”, the week of the laity will end on October 1. CBCP News

Pope Francis to visit Kingdom of Bahrain in November

ROME — The Vatican confirmed Wednesday that Pope Francis will travel to the Kingdom of Bahrain, a Muslim island nation in the Persian Gulf, from Nov. 3-6.

The possibility of a papal trip to the Islamic monarchy was mentioned on the pope’s return flight from Kazakhstan on Sept. 15.

The director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, confirmed on Sept. 28, that Pope Francis will visit Awali and the capital city of Manama for the “Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence.”

Further details and the full trip schedule will be published at a later date.

Bahrain, located to the east of Saudi Arabia and west of Qatar, has a population of 1.7 million people. The population is nearly 70% Muslim, with the majority belonging to the Shiite branch of Islam, the country’s state religion.

Christians, at around 210,000 people, make up 14% of the overall population, followed by Hindus at 10%.

There are an estimated 80,000 Catholics in Bahrain, many of whom are migrants from Asia, particularly the Philippines and India.

Awali, a small municipality about 12 miles south of Manama, is the location of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia, which was consecrated on Dec. 10, 2021.

The ark-shaped Catholic cathedral seats 2,300 people, and was built as part of a 95,000 square foot complex. The church was the idea of Bishop Camillo Ballin, the vicar apostolic of Northern Arabia, who died in 2020, shortly before he could see his project completed.

The title of Our Lady of Arabia was approved in 1948. A small chapel in Ahmadi, Kuwait, was dedicated in her honor on Dec. 8 that year.

In 1957, Pius XII issued a decree proclaiming Our Lady of Arabia the main patron saint of the territory and of the Apostolic Vicariate of Kuwait.

In 2011, the Vatican officially proclaimed Our Lady of Arabia the patron saint of the vicariates of Kuwait and Arabia.

Later that year, the Holy See reorganized the Vicariate of Kuwait, giving it the new name of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia, and including the territories of Qatar, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. Hannah Brockhaus/Catholic News Agency

In this Sunday’s holy gospel, the apostles entreated the Lord, “Increase our faith ” (Lk. 17:5). This was occasioned by some hard sayings of Jesus before that. The apostles found it hard to swallow Jesus’ teaching when He said, “If your brother sins against you and he asks for forgiveness, then forgive him. If he sins seven times against you during the day, still forgive him. There is no limit to forgiveness. This takes a lot of faith in the words of Jesus, that’s why they asked Him to increase their faith. Faith is first of all trusting a person and because of this relationship of trust, one trusts his words.

Faith

Reflections

if gathering grains of sand, the more truths we know the more faith we have. Faith is a matter of quality. It is a quality of the heart that grows through our perseverance in love. The more we love a person, the more we have faith in that person. In the human level, the response to our trust is increased trustworthiness and faithfulness. Sometimes our trust may be betrayed by persons. However, regarding relationship with God, He is always faithful. Even if we sometimes are unfaithful, God remains faithful to us because God cannot contradict Himself.

The Catholic Catechism defines faith as, “the theological virtue by which we believe in God and believe all that He has said and revealed to us and that the holy Church proposes for our belief.” It is by faith that a person commits his entire self to God. (CCC 1814). First of all, it is a virtue that pertains to our relationship with God. It is a habit whereby our daily activities are examined in the light of this relationship. How can this be when God is invisible to us? How does one cultivate a relationship with one who is beyond the visible and the palpable? That is what makes faith as faith. If God were visible we would not need faith. We will have ordinary knowledge mediated by our senses and our intellect.

In His goodness, God has revealed Himself in a visible way to us through Jesus His Son. It is through Jesus that we learn more about the invisible God – that God is Father, that God is love, that God has an invitation for us to join His family, that God is our destiny, that forgiveness of sins is possible. But then as the apostles found out, can they trust the words and message of Jesus? Can they have faith in what he was saying? They found themselves almost wavering and doubtful. Can they give their entire life based on the words of Jesus? And so they asked, “Increase our faith.”

Increasing our faith is not a matter of quantity as

Just as Jesus mediated God’s word to us, so the Church in a visible way becomes the communicator of Jesus’s message. The Church becomes the teacher of faith through the teaching authority of the Pope, the bishops, the priests, teachers, and catechists. The Church is both a human and divine institution. Since its head is Jesus Christ and it is guided by the Spirit, it is Divine. Since it is made up of men and women who are imperfect then it may become subject to human weakness. It is within this context of our weakness and need for God’s grace that we pray, “Lord increase our faith.” “Help my unbelief,” when the preaching I hear does not make sense. “Help my unbelief,” when the life of professed Christians are far from the ideal. “Lord, increase our faith,” when tragedies strike and we are caught up in sufferings we do not understand.

Faithfulness is tested in adversity and faith is challenged to grow when things seem meaningless. There are some things in the life of a disciple that are easy to understand, but there are also circumstances that are mysterious. Jesus’ faith was tested at the Garden of Gethsemani when He prayed, “Father, take this cup (of suffering) away from me, but your will, not my will be done.” Mary’s faith was shown at the foot of the cross. It is during times of testing such as these that we pray, “Lord increase our faith.”

Daily Scripture Readings

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Readings:

Habakkuk 1.2-3; 2.2-4; 2 Timothy 1.6-8, 13-14; Gospel: Luke 17.5-10

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

Readings: no. 461, p. 1652

1st Reading: Galatians 1.6-12

Gospel: Luke 10.25-37

Readings: no. 462, p. 1654 or no. 651, p. 1852

1st Reading: Galatians 1.13-24 Gospel: Luke 10.38-42

Readings: no. 463, p. 1656

1st Reading: Galatians 2.1-2, 7-14

Gospel: Luke 11.1-4

Readings: no. 464, p. 1658

1st Reading: Galatians 3.1-5

Gospel: Luke 11.5-13

Readings: no. 465, p. 1660 or no. 653, p. 1853

1st Reading: Galatians 3.6-14++

Gospel: Luke 11.15-26

Readings: no. 466, p. 1662

1st Reading: Galatians 3.22-29

Gospel: Luke 11.27-28

Rev. Fr. Antonio P. Pueyo, DCCtonypoy_dcc0@yahoo.com

THE Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, in collaboration with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, has released commemorative coins in celebration of the 500 years of Christianity in the country.

Photo courtesy of CBCP Secretariat

Cardinal Jose Advincula, archbishop of Manila, celebrates Mass for the opening of the 2022 National Laity Week at the Lay Force Center of San Carlos Seminary in Makati City on Saturday, Sept. 24.

Photo courtesy of CBCP News

October 1, 20224 THE MINDANAO CROSS Photo courtesy of Catholic News Agency

Focus on the Elderly

As we leave the hot month of September, we remember the cold weather of yesteryears seeping in. In temperate countries, the end of September signals the end of summer, and thus the start of the winter season. In our country, the nights are longer, and the days are shorter.

We make the comparison that a portion of our population, the elderly, are in the autumn of their lives. Improvements in medicine made this portion of the elderly much bigger than before. As many say, the new 40 (before considered the mid point of ones life), has been replace by 60.

At age 60, we expect the working class to be retiring. But take note, now you see 60 years old still strong and agile. This seem to be a glitz in our retirement program. Senior citizens make themselves available for temporary employment, or consultancy contracts. Of course, they can still do the work more efficiently than the younger ones, and brings in more experience and expertise.

But if we follow the trend of retiring at 70, the number of unemployed in the workforce will grow because they do not have people to replace. It is therefore important for government to come up with more innovative ideas to make use of the time that senior citizens or the elderly still holds in their hands.

The executive director of POPCOM, Juan Antonio Perez, explained that “as the number of young Filipinos is decreasing, the number of aging Filipinos 60 years old and above is increasing and will increase further in the next decade”.

Based on the Age and Sex Distribution Report for the 2020 Census by the Philippine Statistics Authority, the number of children under five years old has decreased to 10.2 percent, down from 10.8 percent in 2015 and 12.6 percent in 2000.

The percentage of the population under 15 also decreased from 37 percent in 2000 to 30.7 percent in 2020, while the number of Filipinos 60 years old and older rose to 8.5 percent of the population, or 9.2 million, in 2020, double the 4.5 million reported in 2000, or 5.9 percent of its population.

It is therefore an on going recommendation that in response to this trend, the government should come up with more programs for the elderly. They should be protected in terms of more secure lifestyle, increased recreational activities, and more stable finances. Although Filipinos have the values that are appreciative of their elders, the increasingly financial burden of a developing economy may change all these. We still lack “homes for the elderlies” or sanitariums to take care of those who get sick, not to mention the very small pension that are given to those who retire. Before we follow the way developed economies are treating their senior citizens, it would be better to be prepared so that we can have more protection for our elderlies. MC

Ina gathering last month in Seoul, South Korea, members of SIGNIS, the World Catholic Association for Communication, issued a call to media professionals worldwide to advocate for justice, work for human rights, and help in conflict resolutions.

“Media professionals … are enjoined not just to report events but to engage actively in supporting the victims of war and working towards conflict resolutions,” read the final statement of the SIGNIS World Congress 2022 in Seoul, as it called for “action to protect the human rights of civilians caught up in war and conflict zones.”

Pope Francis, in his message to the Congress, called on participants to counter toxicity in social media, and to engage in dialogue and education to help deal with lies and misinformation. The Pope noted that “Sometimes and in some places, media sites have become places of toxicity, hate speech and fake news.” He encouraged Catholic communicators to persevere in efforts to counter these, “paying particular attention to the need to assist people, especially young people, to develop a sound critical sense, learning to distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, good from evil, and to appreciate the importance of working for justice, social concord, and respect for our common home.”

These words hold particular importance to Catholic communicators in our country today as leaders of the Catholic Church in the Philippines have lately reiterated the Church’s position on issues affecting the nation. At the inaugural National Convention for Public Affairs Ministers in Manila on September 20, Bishop Reynaldo Evangelista, chairman of the CBCP Episcopal Commission on Public Affairs, said the Catholic bishops’ leadership has vowed “conscientious engagement” with the government but it can’t turn a blind eye on corruption and human rights abuses. The Church, according to him, will actively support the government “provided moral principles are not compromised,” and it will remain vigilant and critical to all forms of corruption, mishandling of public funds and violations of human rights.

Reacting to calls from a couple of national legislators to “move on” from martial law atrocities during the dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s father, Diocese of Kidapawan Bishop Jose Colin Bagaforo, who heads the Catholic Church’s social action arm, said

forgetting human rights abuses and massive corruption during that time is not an option. “There can be no moving on when there is no justice and accountability,” Bagaforo said, even as he criticized efforts to change martial law history. Caritas-Philippines is joining in the call “to never again let the powers that be control the narratives of the Filipino people,” Bagaforo said, as he called on the public to defend the truth, fight misinformation and disinformation by supporting legitimate sources of information. He also urged the people to continue to demand “accountability and transparency from government officials, especially those who hold greater positions of power.”

In 1983, professional journalists from across the world gathered in Prague and Paris under the auspices of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and issued a statement embodying what is known as the International Principles of Professional Ethics in Journalism. Among the important principles it listed: the people’s right to true and accurate information and to express themselves freely through the various media of culture and communication; journalists have a social responsibility, and thus accountable not only to those controlling the media but ultimately to the public at large; the journalist is called upon to abstain from any justification, or incitement to, wars of aggression and the arms race, especially in nuclear weapons, and all other forms of violence, hatred or discrimination, specially racism and apartheid, oppression by tyrannical regimes, colonialism and neo-colonialism, as well as other great evils which afflict humanity, such as poverty, malnutrition and diseases.

IAPPRECIATE

much the institutional response of MP Dimila Jam Disimban-Ramos to my post about the national government’s grant of patent to my ECP (electricity conversion program) model.

As ever, MP Jam is very articulate in her advocacy for peace and her dedication to culture women’s rights— over and above her expressed support to renewable energy development (RED) efforts for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

Jam reaches out via friends-connect, and I have recommended to her the hosting in the Parliament of a forum of continuing engagement between the BARMM Legislature and Executive Offices on one side, and the vanishing sector of traditional technology on the other side, on issues around RED efforts in BARMM.

The forum has to be, and is envisaged to evolve into a sustainable venue of healthy exchanges between the two sectors, torn apart by decades of differing career and professional preferences—and the lack of options, as well.

To that course, four energetic young individuals, three of them engineers, have accepted the challenge of R&D on studies of an ECP design for RED (renewable energy development) efforts in BARMM.

Real outputs aimed for in their R&D works will include data and other informational materials for essential policy formulation and Parliamentary legislations on renewable energy development.

Their R&D journey to ECP design will take all three paths of models developed, so far: 1) The Sweden Experience of ECP presented in Portugal in the form of a conference paper from the prestigious Uppsala University in 2007; 2) The Taiwan Experience of ECP designed in 2005; and 3) An ECP utility model design developed in Bangsamoro in 2020, and has been patented from an abstract published worldwide on the e-Gazette of the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) in one-month period of opposition from May 20 to June 20, 2022. Publication of abstracts for invention, industrial design and utility models are regularly monitored by inventors, scientists and engineers all over the world.

I am not at liberty to disclose the identities of

these young men, for the time being, but I would hint that three of them are Bangsamoro, and a Christian brother, an academic from the Ateneo del Manila University. The other two are also a product of a Catholic university, and one from the University of the Philippine College of Engineering in Diliman, a registered chemical engineer.

I have always taken up in appropriate forums the need to narrow down the “territorial separation” between the experts in the academe and the lay thinkers of the workshop.

In the last year of the elective term of President Diosdado Macapagal, the Congress passed Republic Act 3850, creating the Philippine Inventors’ Commission (PIC) under the Department of Science and Technology (DoST).

Under the present set up, the PIC having been dissolved some years ago, has been replaced with the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD) under the DoST in the national level, and is operationally backed in the regions by the Consortia for Regional Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (CRIEERD) under DoST regional offices, and in which state universities in nonBARMM provinces and cities are members.

I understand that a BRCIEERD (Bangsamoro Regional Consortium of Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development), has been organized in the tutelage of the BARMM Ministry of Science and Technology under Minister and Bangsamoro Member of Parliament, Engineer Aida M. Silongan.

Are we ready to face and take on the challenge before us?

Face Value

Face-to-face

confrontation makes us realize who is true or false. However, be cautious, for as humans we are all prone to error that it pays to be humble and true. And the key is delicadeza, an antidote to shamefulness.

At the Palace, neutral observers quipped and wondered the difference between the role of an Executive Secretary and Presidential Chief of Staff? Lawyer Victor Rodriguez has to personally supply the answer with delicadeza.

The same predicament confronted then Health Secretary Francisco Duque at the height of COVID-19 regarding alleged anomalies. That instead of voluntarily tendering his resignation despite Presidential trust he opted not.

This one is mind-boggling, when at midweek Ombudsman Samuel Martires bared to file a case against a government security guard having a bank deposit of P290 million in his 21 years as guard. Similarly surprising that the guard’s wife have a P179 million in bank deposit for the past 8 years. He asked: How can we really stop corruption if we don’t divest ourselves with too much greed?

In life, we chart our course with God’s endowed freewill to decide that this week heaped havoc on RTC-19 Judge Marlo Magdoza-Malaga’s dismissal of a case filed in 2019 by the Department of Justice declaring the CPP-NPA as terrorist groups. The lady judge also dismissed last year two suspected activists due to alleged inconsistent police testimonies to prove illegal possession of firearms and explosives.

Anything we do matters and we are directly accountable here and the hereafter that we should be ready to face consequences. Even if the world is against us, damned if they don’t, provided it was done in good fate and for the glory of God.

More and more people are crying for justice and immediate assistance to alleviate their plight from natural and

manmade disasters. Typhoon “Karding” early this week left vast devastation to lives and properties that according to authorities need immediate funding aid. Initial DSWD report bares almost 200,000 residents in badly hit Luzon provinces are being attended while DepEd needs about P112-million to refurbish flood-damaged schools.

DPWH has yet to assess the estimated public infrastructures destroyed by “Karding” while weather analysts forecast presence of unexpected LPAs near the archipelago.

Mindanaoans in the South are lucky to have been spared by the successive calamity woes up North. But the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region is not complacent to be ready when it strikes with its proposed 2023 budget raised to P85.3 billion.

Indeed, the country needs thorough cleansing as it closed this week 175 offshore gambling firms and to deport about 40,000 Chinese workers. Lessonlearned from the just abolished online cockfight derby (sabong) that unearthed the mysterious disappearance of front scammers. We have become a nation of self-love and money-obsessed to be proud and arrogant as perilous times in the last days.

UNWAVERING FAITH

CHRIST, the Savior of the human race, said: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away” (Matthew 24:35). It is also written that the Word of God will not come back void because it has been liken to a doubleedged sword, piercing even to divide the soul and spirit, the joints and morrow, and is a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart (Hebrews 4:12).

Many dislike the Word of God, others simply ignore it to be so insignificant to spend their precious time.

What is the skeletal system?

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A reprint from the National Cancer Institute

spongy bone in the skull, ribs, sternum, clavicles, vertebrae and pelvis. Red marrow functions in the formation of red blood cells, white blood cells and blood platelets.

Structure of Bone Tissue

Humans

are vertebrates, animals having a vertabral column or backbone. They rely on a sturdy internal frame that is centered on a prominent spine. The human skeletal system consists of bones, cartilage, ligaments and tendons and accounts for about 20 percent of the body weight.

The living bones in our bodies use oxygen and give off waste products in metabolism. They contain active tissues that consume nutrients, require a blood supply and change shape or remodel in response to variations in mechanical stress.

Bones provide a rigid framework, known as the skeleton, that support and protect the soft organs of the body.

The skeleton supports the body against the pull of gravity. The large bones of the lower limbs support the trunk when standing.

The skeleton also protects the soft body parts. The fused bones of the cranium surround the brain to make it less vulnerable to injury. Vertebrae surround and protect the spinal cord and bones of the rib cage help protect the heart and lungs of the thorax.

Bones work together with muscles as simple mechanical lever systems to produce body movement.

Bones contain more calcium than any other organ. The intercellular matrix of bone contains large amounts of calcium salts, the most important being calcium phosphate.

When blood calcium levels decrease below normal, calcium is released from the bones so that there will be an adequate supply for metabolic needs. When blood calcium levels are increased, the excess calcium is stored in the bone matrix. The dynamic process of releasing and storing calcium goes on almost continuously.

There are two types of bone tissue: compact and spongy. The names imply that the two types differ in density, or how tightly the tissue is packed together. There are three types of cells that contribute to bone homeostasis. Osteoblasts are boneforming cell, osteoclasts resorb or break down bone, and osteocytes are mature bone cells. An equilibrium between osteoblasts and osteoclasts maintains bone tissue.

Compact Bone

Compact bone consists of closely packed osteons or haversian systems. The osteon consists of a central canal called the osteonic (haversian) canal, which is surrounded by concentric rings (lamellae) of matrix. Between the rings of matrix, the bone cells (osteocytes) are located in spaces called lacunae. Small channels (canaliculi) radiate from the lacunae to the osteonic (haversian) canal to provide passageways through the hard matrix. In compact bone, the haversian systems are packed tightly together to form what appears to be a solid mass. The osteonic canals contain blood vessels that are parallel to the long axis of the bone. These blood vessels interconnect, by way of perforating canals, with vessels on the surface of the bone.

Bone Development & Growth

The terms osteogenesis and ossification are often used synonymously to indicate the process of bone formation. Parts of the skeleton form during the first few weeks after conception. By the end of the eighth week after conception, the skeletal pattern is formed in cartilage and connective tissue membranes and ossification begins.

We have been forewarned by the prophets of old that: “Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. The stubborn will always go astray in their hearts, for they have not known My ways. I swore in My wrath says the LORD, they shall not enter My rest” (Hebrews 3:7-11). MC MC

Manawari

speeds at 155 miles per hour, an extremely dangerous and life threatening storm surge.

Hematopoiesis, the formation of blood cells, mostly takes place in the red marrow of the bones.

In infants, red marrow is found in the bone cavities. With age, it is largely replaced by yellow marrow for fat storage. In adults, red marrow is limited to the

Bone development continues throughout adulthood. Even after adult stature is attained, bone development continues for repair of fractures and for remodeling to meet changing lifestyles. Osteoblasts, osteocytes and osteoclasts are the three cell types involved in the development, growth and remodeling of bones. Osteoblasts are bone-forming cells, osteocytes are mature bone cells and osteoclasts break down and reabsorb bone.

Hiraya Manawari, is a Muslim greeting translated as: wishing for the fruit of one’s hopes, dreams and aspirations.

Jamina Packington, a fortune teller predicting the future using asparagus by tossing it on air and interpreting these as they land. She is the only “asparamancer” known, sees King Charles III abdicating the throne next year. This mystic vegie correctly predicted the return of PM Boris Johnson, Brexit, Prince Phillip’s death and that of Queen Elizabeth’s , and lately the HAVANA Syndrome.

My gratitude to FICTAP, the Cable TV led by Neng Juliano, for re-electing me as Executive Committee member, representing the Academe Sector for Mindanao of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. This will be my second term of 3 years each. Our work had been abbreviated by the pandemic , while meetings were held by zoom, including an electronic nationwide elections. New experiences, new friends, and awareness of the richness of our culture, search and development of talents, skills of our people and showcasing the works of artists both in dance, song and other forms of art.

FICTAP is for Federation of International Cable TV and Telecommunication Association of the Philippines, the flagship server of Cable and TV organized by Estrellita Neng Juliano 25 years ago. It is a reputable organization renoqn for bringing entertainment to all Filipinos from Batanes to Tawi-tawi. It is the largest non-profit organization with 1000 strong membership of small and medium cable enterprises

As I write this, I am multi -tasking (not a good practice, I learned, multitasking makes the brain too distracted and shall be detrimental to it in the long run.) There is a Category 5 storm being watched in Tampa, Florida, with wind

Over the weekend, here, specifically up north, PAGASA warned of the forthcoming strong storm warning families and government officials to evacuate and prepare for the landfall. The strength of the typhoon, as explained by PAGASA did not turn out as threatening as expected due to two factors. One is that, it left the area quickly and by God’s grace, the Sierra Madre Mountain range, the longest mountain range in the Philippines ‘shielded or blocked typhoon Karding. Meanwhile, BBM followers thanked Apo Lakay ( Pres. Marcos Sr.) for building the Sierra madre Mountain Range. BBM forever, daw.

After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, the agency’s first attempt to move as asteroid in space.

As a part of NASA’s overall planetary defense strategy, DART’s impact with the asteroid demonstrate the visible mitigation technique for protecting the planet earth-bound asteroid or comet, if one was discovered.

Today, we honor the three Archangels, St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Rafael, September 29. Saint Michael, is not actually a saint as we know it. He is the leader of angels and of the army of God. From scriptures, Saint Michael’s responsibility is to combat Satan; to escort the faithful to heaven at the hour of death; is the champion of all Christians and the church itself; and to call men from life on earth to their heavenly judgement.

St. Gabriel “declared unto Mary” that she was chosen to be the mother of Jesus Christ. He is known to be the angel - messenger. While St. Rafael is the patron saint of medical men in reference to healing Tobit of his blindness. There are numerous angels in various categories.

My mother taught me this guardian angel prayer which I handed down to the next generation. It goes: Angel of God my guardian dear, to whom His love, entrust me here, ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide, Amen.

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Surviving the Current Economic

The primary instrument of countries to arrest escalating prices is to lower the amount of money in circulation by encouraging people and institutions to refrain from spending and placing their money in banks and other interst-bearing investment instruments such as bonds and Treasury Bills.

– Robert Kiyosaki

“To overcome poverty and flaws of economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you do not imagine, it will never happen.”

– Muhammad Yunus

After COVID-19 has brought the world economy almost to a halt, the continuing war between Russia and Ukraine seems to extinguish the expectations (and hope) of many people for a healthy rebound of business activities.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has somehow eased up its adverse impacts with most countries relaxing rules on the movement of goods and people, the negative effects of the Russian invasion of its neighboring country are persisting, if not, worsening. The curtailment of oil exports of Russia to Western Europe and other NATOmember countries have resulted in very elevated petroleum prices. Difficulties in bringing out the major export products of Ukraine, particularly wheat, led to price hikes in products using wheat as raw material such as bread and other baked products.

Since oil products make up a significant part of the prices of manufactured and even agricultural commodities, the disruption in the supply of oil has caused high inflation in many counties. Inflation has not spared the most developed nations as the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, among others experienced new record highs.

The very aggressive stance of the Federal Reserve of the United States have resulted to a strong Dollar as investors look at the US as a safe haven and its currency as a good hedge for inflation. Rapid appreciation of the US Dollar has caused the Euro and the Pound Sterling of the United Kingdom to fall significantly in value against the US currency. Other currencies are also severely affected, including the Philippine Peso that has fallen by around 15% (as it now trades at US$ 1 = P59) from US 1 = P50.95 at the end of 2021.

Our country is facing several challenges: increase in foreign debt (due to borrowing and the depreciation of the Peso), inflation that continues to remain above 6%, and the depreciation of the Peso.

To address the problem of inflation, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas had been continually hiking the interest rate it charges but with almost no effect so far on the prices of commodities.

Businessmen are facing the challenges of high cost of input, difficulty in increasing their sales, and the higher cost of servicing their borrowings from banks.

Investors are losing money at the stock market as foreign players seek to liquidate their portfolio and move to the US and other safer haven

Individuals and families are confronted with ever-increasing cost of commodities and services. Travel to foreign destinations had also increased in cost, a $80 hotel room would now make you poorer by P4,480 when it cost only P4,080 at the end of last year.

Each would need to be wide and creative to survive these challenges we are facing.

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istory reminds us that dictators and despots arise during time of severe economic crisis.”

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covered his turnover of the ministry to Tago, who hails from Lanao del Sur.

In a brief message, he then announced that he is confident that Tago can manage the MOTC efficiently.

“The employees of the MOTC have assured to support you the way

they supported me in the past three years,” Hermoso told Tago before they each affixed their signatures to a document detailing the transfer of control of the ministry from him to his successor.

The MOTC has field personnel in the BARMM provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur,

Basilan, Sulu and Taw-Tawi. Tago is no neophyte to public service.

He was budget director of the now defunct Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao during the time of ARMM Gov. Lininding Pangandaman whose tenure spanned through 1993 to 1996.

BARMM journalist receives PH patent for...from P1 or innovation.”

The region’s Interior and Local Governments Minister Naguib Sinarimbo said his office can host a forum where the patent may be presented, and the model explained and discussed.

Maulana said the T-MPG UM can be upgraded to full-scale of his original design. The model is a downscaled version including a direct current (DC) source composed of car batteries in the prototype, instead of costly industrial batteries.

He said T-MPG as a marine electricity source conversion model for renewable energy “can be expanded” with a gearbox mechanism designed for a hydropower turbine or a wind turbine system, as established in a Research and Development (R&D) program on marine electricity conversion for renewable energy developed in Europe.

Maulana, however, added that any R&D efforts should “not extend” the design to external community looping distribution, just as yet, so as not to create early “conflict” with power utilities on issues like “islanding.”

Engineer Chamlette Garcia, chief of the IPOPHL Utility Model Examination Division (UMED), said the Philippine patent regulatory agency is strict as ever

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT

Notice is hereby given that the late PRUDENCIO NOBLE, who died on March 26, 2016 at Lebak, Sultan Kudarat, left a parcel of land Lot No. 1583-Pls-504, located at Tibpuan, Lebak, Sultan Kudarat, containing an area of 14,732 sq. mts., more or less, covered by TCT No. (T-34938) T-5226 is subject of extrajudicial settlement of estate with deed of donation before Notary Public Atty. Gibbon G. Heyres as per Doc. No. 426; Page No. 86; Book No. 454; Series of 2022.

MC: Sept. 17, 24 & Oct. 1, 2022

on granting patent COR including those for utility models (UMs), under which the T-MPG is patented.

“The whole world, including U.S. (inventors) will get to see it (T-MPG) when it’s published on the IPOPHL e-Gazette,” Garcia explained. The abstract of Maulana’s utility model had been published in a monthlong “period of opposition,” May 20—June 20, 2022. There was no opposition.

Where it started

Asked how he came up with the idea, Maulana said the T-MPG System has been conceptualized in decades of “formation of thoughts” on “transferring the marine electricity for conversion (to renewable energy) which would take the diesel prime-mover off the system, to a stationary land utilization to develop a source of renewable energy.”

Instead of a diesel prime mover, Maulana uses heavy duty customized brushless DC motor which he had ordered from China. The prototype driving motor is mechanically enhanced in terms of torque (to overcome friction) in driving a transmission, which is running a set of mechanical loads composed of one marine dynamo-type generator and another device, each turning on a technically required speed.

Maulana said he

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT

Notice is hereby given that the late Spouses CENON ANTICRISTO and AMADA CARDOZA, died on March 18, 1985 and May 4, 1975, both at Abaga, Libungan, Cotabato, left parcel of land Lot 2463-B-4, (LRC) PSD49866, containing an area of 5,000 sq. mts., more or less, situated in Bo. Abaga, Libungan, Cotabato, covered by TCT No. T15349 is subject of deed of extrajudicial settlement of estate with simultaneous deed of absolute sale of a portion before Notary Public Noel A. Gretare, CPA as per Doc. No. 627; Page No. 22; Book No. XCIII; Series of 2022.

MC: Sept. 24, Oct. 1 & 8, 2022

was keen in childhood on observing his father’s machines in water transport vessels in which were utilized some of the components used in his current project. He was also friendly to his father’s workers, even then as a child.

He said in support to the education aspect of the Peace Process’ Normalization Track (on education and community reintegration), the T-MPG model can be an “instrument of change in the landscape of social preference in war-torn areas of the Bangsamoro region.”

Maulana added that among the Filipinos,

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT

Notice is hereby given that the late PRUDENCIO NOBLE, who died on March 26, 2016 at Lebak, Sultan Kudarat, left a parcel of land Lot No. 1, Psd-12-000198, located at Pasandalan, Sultan Kudarat, containing an area of 15,000 sq. mts., more or less, covered by TCT No. (T-52947) T-12164 is subject of extrajudicial settlement of estate with deed of donation before Notary Public Atty. Gibbon G. Heyres as per Doc. No. 421; Page No. 85; Book No. 454; Series of 2022.

MC: Sept. 17, 24 & Oct. 1, 2022

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT

Notice is hereby given that the late JUSTINIANO MORIDO, who died on March 10, 1997 at Cainta, Rizal, left a parcel of land Lot 8, Psd-12010508, containing an area of 6,308 sq. mts., more or less, situated in Sinawingan, Midsayap (now Libungan), Cotabato, covered by TCT No. T-75683 is subject of extrajudicial settlement of estate with simultaneous deed of absolute sale before Notary Public Noel A. Gretare, CPA as per Doc. No. 885; Page No. 73; Book No. XCIII; Series of 2022B.

MC: Sept. 17, 24 & Oct. 1, 2022

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION

I n compliance with Section 5 of R.A. 10172, a notice is hereby served to the public that Sherryll Alix Ampatuan has filed with this office, a petition for correction of entries on the month from 08 (August) to September in the certificate of live birth of Sherryll Alix Ampatuan who was born on September 11, 1977 at Shariff Aguak (Maganoy), Maguindanao and whose parents are Violeta G. Alix and Cashmir D. Ampatuan.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this office not later than last day of the publication.

(Sgd.) AMAHNODDIN M. ACAD Municipal Civil Registrar

Tago had also served as speaker of the erstwhile 21-member Regional Assembly of ARMM.

“I am thankful to BARMM Chief Minister Ahod Ebrahim for giving me the chance to help lay down the foundations of the regional government from 2019 to 2022,” Hermoso said.

“influence” from workinterest remains the top conveyor of knowledgetransfer in both the traditional and emerging technologies.

Garcia said the details of formality being essential part of the technical requirements is particularly provided in the IRR (Implementing Rules and Regulations) of RA 8293, known as the “The Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines.”

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT

Notice is hereby given that the late EMILIO N. PADUA and FILOMENA E. PADUA, died intestate on April 8, 2000 at Nuro, Upi, Maguindanao, left parcels of land Lot C-1-H (LRC), Psd-125751 and Lot No. 107, Pls-730, covered by TCT Nos. 34734 and T-7537, containing an area of 2,745 sq. mts. and 78,672 sq. mts., more or less, situated at Poblacion, Nuro Upi, and Bo. Timanan, South Upi, all in Maguindanao, respectively are subject of deed of extrajudicial settlement of estate with partition before Notary Public Atty. Rolando L. Chew as per Doc. No. 3884; Page No. 389; Book No. 23; Series of 2022, Atty. Leonardo A. Sarmiento III as per Doc. No. 302; Page No. 61; Book No. XCIV; Series of 2022 and Vice Consul Kevin Mark R. Gomez as per Service No. 16961A; Doc. No. 013943; Book No. 024.

MC: Sept. 24, Oct. 1 & 8, 2022

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT

Notice is hereby given that the late ANGELINA CALOBERAN PAULO who died on July 28, 2017at Binoligan, Kidapawan City, Cotabato, left a parcel of land Lot 36-A, Psd-12030961, containing an area of 38,685 sq.mts., more or less, situated in Amas, Kidapawan (now Kidapawan City), Cotabato, covered by TCT No. T-102692 is subject of extrajudicial settlement of estate before Notary Public Atty. Enrico Vicente E. Remitio as per Doc. No. 205; Page No. 41; Book No. 108; Series of 2022.

MC: Sept. 17, 24 & Oct. 1, 2022

Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT 5th Shari’a Judicial District 2ND SHARI’A CIRCUIT COURT Datu Odin Sinsuat Municipality, (Official Station) Province of Maguindanao-9601

“PETITION FOR DIVORCE BY FASKH WITH PRAYER FOR CUSTODY OF MINOR AND SUPPORT”

Civil Case No. 2022-68

JENNIFER ONGYAO KILAYON DELOS REYES, Petitioner, -versus-

ALSABRE HASSAN DELOS REYES, Civil Registrar of Taguig City and Philippine Statistics Office, Respondents.

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SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

In compliance with the Order of this Court, dated August 16, 2022, allowing herein petitioner to serve summons by publication on respondent, ALSABRE HASSAN DELOS REYES, in accordance with Rule 14, Sec. 14, of the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure, SUMMONS IS HEREBY DIRECTED TO RESPONDENT, ALSABRE HASSAN DELOS REYES, whose present address is unknown but whose last known address is in Mahaboula, Door 15, 15th Floor, Bldg. 108, Street 221, Block 2, State of Kuwait 4025.

Said respondent is hereby required to enter his appearance in the aboveentitled case and answer the petition, a copy of which can be secured from this Court within sixty (60) days from publication of this summons in a newspaper of general circulation in the Philippines once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks. Failure on the part of the said respondent to appear within the time aforesaid, this Court will motu proprio hear the case exparte, upon which judgement may be rendered.

WITNESS THE HONORABLE CASIM S. BAILAN, SR., AL-HADJ, Acting Presiding Judge of this Court, this 17th day of August, 2022 at Datu Odin Sinsuat Municipality, Maguindanao Province, Philippines.

(Sgd.) NASHRAIDA DILANGALEN-GUIAPAR Clerk of Court II

Republic of the Philippines Supreme Court 5th SHARI’A DISTRICT COURT Cotabato City SDC SPL. PROC. CASE NO 2020497

PETITION FOR JUDICIAL PARTITION AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE INTESTATE ESTATE OF AMPONG MORO.

HEIRS OF SAKIAN AMPONG, namely: ROSITA AMPONGANDRES: HEIRS OF ISMAEL C. AMPONG, represented by JIMMY L. AMPONG; GEROLA C. AMPONG, HEIRS OF ISAAC C. AMPONG represented by AMINA T. AMPONG; CESAR C. AMPONG; HEIRS OF ANTONIO C. AMPONG represented by SUE HANNA O. AMPONG; ADING C. AMPONG RANAIN; SAMLEA AMPONG PONDING represented by JUNALEAH PONDING; HELEN C AMPONG-RASAY; and HEIRS OF ISMAIL C. AMPONG represented by GEMMA CASINTO-AMPONG, Petitioners, -versus-

JAHAR LUMAYON, ONISITA LETADA, SALLY BUNGAD, and CAMAR ALIMAN, Respondents.

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ORDER

Filed with this Court is a petition for judicial Partition and Distribution of the intestate estate of Ampong Moro. The petitioners, heirs of Sakian Ampong, Rosita Ampong-Andres, et al. alleged among others: That the petitioners are residents of Manaklay, Pindasa, Mabini, Devao De Oro while respondents, Jahar Lumayon, Onisita Letada, Sally Bungad and Camar Aliman are residents of Manklay, Pindasan, Mabini, Davao De Oro; That the parties are the grandchildren of among Moro; That sometime in 1990, after the death of Tamasina Moro, Ampong Moro together with his second wife Padot Mansaka acquired a parcel of land at Manaklay, Pindasan, Pantukan, Davao containing an area of 14 hectares which was inherited by the heirs of Ampong Moro upon his death on December 25, 1925 and covered by OCT No. (P-3199) P-809; That sometime in 1947 prior to the issuance of said title, the respondents with some of their cousins as grandchildren of Ampong Moro caused the subdivision of said land at two (2) hectares for each child of Ampong Moro by his first wife to which Sakian Ampong objected since he believed that the share of his mother Padot Mansaka who was the conjugal owner of the land was not considered by the respondents in the distribution; That since the land was acquired at the time when Ampong Moro was married to the second wife Padot Mansaka, said land should have been inherited by the children of the second wife namely: Murad and Sakian Ampong; and that the petitioners wish to have the said land distributed to the legal heirs in accordance with Islamic Law on Inheritance.

The Court, after reading the petition, finds it sufficient in form and substance.

WHEREFORE, premises considered, the petition is set for hearing on November 22, 2022 at 8:30 in the morning. The petitioners are directed to cause the publication of this Order in a newspaper of general circulation once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks. Anybody who maybe prejudiced by this petition may submit his/her written opposition thereto or may appear on said hearing and show cause why this petition should not be granted.

SO ORDERED.

Cotabato City, Philippines, September 5, 2022

(Sgd.) HON, RASAD S. LAGUINDAB Acting Presiding Judge

MC: Oct. 1, 8 & 15, 2022

MC: Sept. 17, 24 & Oct. 1, 2022

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. 10172, a notice is hereby served to the public that Isnaira Magayan Datukali has filed with this office, a petition for correction of birth month of her son Abohanif Magayan Datukali from 20 December 2013 to 20 January 2013 in his certificate of live birth under Registry No. 2014-61, and whose parents are Kusain Ito Datukali and Isnaira Tomas Magayan.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this office not later than October 10, 2022.

(Sgd.) Sh.C. ZAHIRA D. DIMALEN, MPA, JD

Municipal Civil Registrar

MC: Oct. 1 & 8, 2022

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. 9048/10172, a notice is hereby served to the public that Famen D. Abdul has filed with this office a petition for change of sex from Female to Male in the birth certificate of Famen Dimao Abdul who was born on March 4, 2004 at Pob 1, Parang, Maguindanao and whose parents are Many M. Abdul and Maira L. Dimao.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this office not later than October 14, 2022.

(Sgd.) KARIM O. OMAR, MPA

Municipal Civil Registrar

MC: Oct. 1 & 8, 2022

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that Victor Dela Peña Ubas has filed with this office a petition for change of first name from Victor Benedicto to Victor in the birth certificate of Victor Benedicto Dela Peña Ubas who was born on September 8, 1974 at Parang, Maguindanao and whose parents are Alejandro L. Ubas and Adelina A. Dela Peña.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this office not later than October 12, 2022.

(Sgd.) KARIM O. OMAR, MPA Municipal Civil Registrar

MC: Oct. 1 & 8, 2022

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

In compliance with the publication requirement pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular 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 Norsali Tiolo Maluag, filed a petition for correction of sex from Male to Female in her certificate of live birth with Registry No. 2010-456, registered in this office on 21 April 2010.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this office not later than October 11, 2022.

(Sgd.) SAHARA M. DEROGONGAN Municipal Civil Registrar MC: Oct. 1 & 8, 2022

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that Anita Asejo Cabang has filed with this office a petition for change of first name from Amorcia to Anita in the certificate of live birth of Amorcia Sarcon Asejo who was born on December 7, 1957 at Midsayap, Cotabato and whose parents are Francisco A. Asejo and Visitacion M. Sarcon.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this office of Municipal Civil Registrar, Midsayap, Cotabato.

(Sgd.) NORAH B. CABUGWASON Municipal Civil Registrar

Hermoso steps down as MOTC head with feats...from P1

Republic of the Philippines Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Buldon, Maguindanao LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OFFICE

Republic of the Philippines Province of Cotabato Municipality of Midsayap LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OFFICE

Republic of the Philippines Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRY OFFICE

Republic of the Philippines Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Matanog, Maguindanao OFFICE OF THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR

Republic of the Philippines Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Parang, Maguindanao OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR

Republic of the Philippines Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Parang, Maguindanao OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR

23 BIFF surrenders real, officials say

LOCAL officials in Maguindanao refuted this week assertions by the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters that its 23 members who surrendered last weekend are not real BIFF members.

The 23 BIFF members surrendered to the Army’s 601st Infantry Brigade last weekend.

A seemingly self-proclaimed BIFF spokesperson spoke on radio stations this week, insinuating that the surrenderees were men picked at random from local communities in Maguindanao.

Local officials in five towns from where the 23 men have come from, Sultan sa Barongis, Shariff Saydona Mustapha, Shariff Aguak, Mamasapano and Talayan, all in Maguindanao province, were quick to disprove the assertion, saying they know the people in their barangays under them and are aware who are real enemies of state and who are not.

Mayor Allandatu Angas, Sr. of

Sultan sa Barongis, even provided reporters with a photo of him receiving a firearm from a surrenderee, in the presence of senior and Army police officials.

A number of Facebook accounts, obviously being operated by netizens in the BIFF's fold, also assailed the veracity of the identities of the 23 BIFF members who have decided to reform for good.

The 23 members of the outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters surrendered through the efforts of the 601st Infantry Brigade and local government units in the five towns in Maguindanao province

The group yielded rifles and M79 grenade launchers during a simple rite Saturday.

The event was held at the

headquarters of the Army’s 601st Infantry Brigade in Datu Abdullah Sangki, Maguindanao.

The group returned to the fold of law through the efforts of Col. Oriel Pangcog, 601st Infantry Brigade commander, 33rd IB commander Lt. Col. Benjamin Cadiente and 2nd Mechanized Infantry Battalion commander.

Major Gen. Roy Galido, 6th Infantry Division commander, said credit for the surrender has to go partly to the mayors of the five towns where they operated with impunity.

More than 300 members of the BIFF and its ally, the Dawlah Islamiya, have surrendered in batches in the past three years to units of 6th ID in different provinces in central Mindanao. John Felix Unson

Mt. Apo reopens for trekking, mountaineering

DAVAO CITY – Closed to the public in the past three months, the Mount Apo Natural Park (MANP) resumed trekking and mountaineering on the country’s highest peak, an official said Tuesday.

Julius Paner, Sta. Cruz town tourism officer, said MANP immediately welcomed trekkers from the United States, Germany, Singapore, Australia, Thailand, New Zealand, and South Africa when it resumed operations on Sept. 1.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Davao Region (DENR-11) said the annual off-season gives way to its rehabilitation and allows fauna species in the natural park to breed without disturbance. Che Palicte/PNA

2 dead in SoCot gun attack

TWO workers in a livestock feed mill were killed while on their way to work in a daring gun attack Tuesday in Polomolok town in South Cotabato.

In a statement Thursday, the Police Regional Office-12, said the duo, Moad Daloro and Saharudin Malinao, died on the spot from multiple gunshot wounds.

Daloro, 25, and a coworker, the 22-year-old Malinao, were together in a private tricycle, en

route to their workplace in a barangay far from the town proper of Polomolok, when men on a motorcycle trailing behind shot them with pistols as they got close.

Daloro and Malinao both died on the spot from multiple bullet wounds.

Probers from the Polomolok Municipal Police Station are still trying to identify the culprits with the help of witnesses and barangay officials. John Felix Unson

Drug peddler leaves P680K shabu in Maguindanao sting

POLICE confiscated P680,000 worth of shabu, packed in two huge sachets, from a peddler who had escaped amid a sting on Wednesday afternoon in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao.

A man known only as “Sammy” from Kabuntalan town had escaped when he sensed he was dealing with non-uniformed policemen, led by Major Esmael Madin of the Regional Drug Enforcement Unit of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region.

Sammy had jumped into a river from the bridge in Barangay Taviran, Datu Odin Sinsuat, where the sting was laid and swam away towards a marsh that connects to the Liguasan Delta.

Brig. Gen. John Guyguyon, director of PROBAR, said Thursday the operation of their RDEU in Barangay Taviran was assisted by the Datu Odin Sinsuat Municipal Police Station and members of the Maguindanao provincial police force.

He said he has instructed investigators to secure the full, correct name of Sammy for the filing of a corresponding criminal case against him. John Felix Unson

DSWD grants cash package to decommissioned MILF

PERSONNEL of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) have been providing the financial package of the decommissioning process for Moro rebels as part of the Mindanao peace process.

Usec. Alan Tanjusay, DSWD Undersecretary for Inclusive and Sustainable Peace, and DSWD Assistant Secretary for Mindanao Affairs Arnel Buison Gracia led the distribution of cash aid for former combatants through the Bangsamoro Transitory Family Support Package (BTFSP).

“Each decommissioned combatant gets PHP80,000 BTFSP and another PHP20,000 as Livelihood Settlement Grants,” Usec. Tanjusay said at the start of the pubic launch of phase 3 MILF decommissioning at old Maguindanao provincial capitol in Barangay Simuay, Sultan Kudarat,

Maguindanao Tuesday.

About 5,500 decommissioned MILF are to receive the cash aid during the final phase of the decommissioning expected to end in November.

DSWS 12 Regional Director Loreto Cabaya Jr said about 200 former combatants daily are expected to receive the financial package daily from Sept 27 until the process is over in November.

Norhata Benito, DSWD-12 normalization program head, said included in this activity is the after-care program to be implemented by social workers.

She said social workers will monitor every decommissioned guerilla to determine if their lives improve after the program and to determine how they

Practice 5Ps core principles, Lt. Gen. Rosario tells soldiers

THE commander of one of two major commands in Mindanao has urged soldiers stationed in the coastal communities of Sultan Kudarat to observe his core principles as he bid goodbye to dedicated and committed infantry women and men of the Army’s 603rd Infantry Brigade, the Army today said.

In his “talk to the troops” of the 603rd Infantry “Persuader” Brigade at is headquarters in Barangay Milbuk, Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat, Lt. Gen. Alfredo V Rosario Jr, commander

of Western Mindanao command (Westmincom) every trooper to practice the core principles he has been pushing forward for all Army units.

Lt. Gen. Rosario was referring to 5Ps that means “Plan, Prepare, Perform, Play and Pray.”

“I urged every Persuaders trooper to embody those principles in order to be the best soldier and to have the best family,” he told the troops.

Lt. Gen. Rosario has been visiting various Army units under Westmincom

ahead of his retirement next month.

He was welcomed to the 603rd headquarters by brigade commander Colonel Michael Santos together with the Brigade Staff Officers, Battalion Commanders of its line units and Mayor Joenime Kapina of Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat.

He also awarded plaques to deserving infantry women and men of the 37th Infantry (Conqueror) Battalion for dismantling the East and West Daguma

Fronts, and PFC Janice Candelario, the battalion's photographer, was given a prize for winning the first place in the Civil Military Operations Category of the WESTMINCOM Photo Contest in connection of its 16th Founding Anniversary.

Lt. Gen. Rosario Jr is set to retire early this October after 34 years of fruitful and successful military career. He belongs to the Philippine Military Academy’s “MARINGAL” Class of 1988. Edwin O. Fernandez

Suspect in ambush of Marines face raps

IT was the relatives of one of three suspects in the ambush of Marines Sunday in Picong, Lanao del Sur who gave him away.

Brig. Gen. John Guyguyon, director of the Police Regional OfficeBangsamoro Autonomous Region, told reporters via Viber Wednesday that suspect Jamal Balindong Pumbaya was traced in a hideout Tuesday with the help of tipsters related to him by blood.

He was one of three men who shot with assault rifles a vehicle carrying members of the 2nd Marine Battalion in a daring attack past 6:00 p.m. Sunday, September 25, in Barangay Punong.

Guyguyon said investigators from the Picong Municipal Police Station have filed a frustrated murder complaint and seriour physical injuries against Pumbaya at the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office.

Col. Jibin Bongcayao,

Lanao del Sur police director, said Pumbaya was cornered Tuesday by pursuing policemen and Marines in a secluded barangay in Picong.

Witnesses have positively identified Pumbaya as one of three men who shot with assault rifles the vehicle carrying patrolling Marines while at a stretch of the Lanao del Sur-Pagadian Highway.

Three Marines, Privates 1st Class Stephen Saragal and Elijah Taccas, and Pvt. Romy Torallo Jr., were wounded in the attack.

The victims are now recuperating from gunshot wounds in a hospital.

Major Gen. Roy Galido, commander of the Army’s 6th Infatry Division, said he was elated with the arrest of Pumbaya by personnel of the Picong PNP and members of the Philippine Navy's 2nd Marine Battalion. John Felix Unson

DEACTIVATED. These firearms, including mortar launchers, sniper’s rifles, rocket propelled grenade launchers, will be put to rest as decommissioning of MILF combatants and their rifles resume in Maguindanao on Sept. 27, 2022.

Photo courtesy of OPAPRU