The Negros Chronicle February 05, 2011 issue

VOL. 38 No. 35

PPA employees give P100,000 to Sendong victims (page 15)

Dumaguete City,

Philippines

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February 5, 2012

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BY DEMS DEMECILLO

umaguete City Mayor Manuel “Chiquiting” Sagarbarria dismissed criticisms over the controversial purchase of the P1.2 million backhoe equipment by the city government at the height of relief operations following the onslaught of Typhoon Sendong by asserting that it was his “judgment call” and he is ready to take responsibility for his action.

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BY JUANCHO RODRIGUEZ

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he provincial police directorate has confirmed the arrest and indictment of several members of what the PNP believes is a gun-for-hire group who are apparently being protected, if not financed, by certain politicians whose identities have already been reported to higher headquarters, according to PNP Director P/Sr Supt Eduardo Carranza. (To page 17)

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loodwater is turned to potable water.

Hundreds of worst-hit waterless communities in Valencia due to the last Typhoon Sendong have finally gotten an emergency potable water supply.

Thanks to the brand new distribution of 25,000 liters in water-treating L.M.S. facilities five pillow tanks with 20 liters of the Red Cross which is now allocation per person in Valenconverting flood water into po- cia. table water with its brand new This amazing water treatwater treatment unit, or the ment u nit is a Red Cross LMS, donated by the Geneva specialty for areas hit with Red Cross to flood stricken ar- disaster and lost all potable eas all over the world. water supply sources. This Teamleader Dennis Saneo unit then converts dirty water with Joseph Mindaros and Ms. at 100 NTUs to drinking waIvan Poja workout the daily ter. (See page 2)

BY DEMS DEMECILLO he House leadership invited him to join the panel that would prosecute impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona, but he politely turned it down. Lucky for him as it spared him the embarassment given the lackluster perfo rmance of the team still struggling in vain to convince the Impeachment Court of the gravity of their charges against Corona that would warrant the magistrate’s ouster from office with the public losing interest as the case crawls on.

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HIGH-POWERED HAUL. A combined PNP-NBI special operations group with a big haul of high-powered guns and ammunition in Malabugas, Bayawan City believed to be handled by guns-for-hire.

Team was led by P/Supt Alet Virtucio, deputy operations, and NBI head Atty. Dominador Cimafranca.

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he counsel for Board Member Arnie Teves’ case of frustrated murder confirmed that the lone witness against the legislator, one Herman Escora, who is now detained for illegal possession of explosives, has recanted his earlier confession saying he was made to “confess” under duress. He was allegedly mauled before made to sign a confession.

Counsel Atty. Vicente dela Plaza said he is confident his client will be exonerated.

Meanwhile, in the Pororoy Larena murder case, lead prosecutor Atty. Alex Villanueva reported that the couple-suspects, Jerry and Expedita Enocerta, in the murder conspiracy, pleaded “not guilty” when ar-

raigned last Friday before the prosecutor’s office. Trial sessions under the sala of RTC presiding judge Arlene Catherine Dato will start in the following weeks, said Atty. dela Plaza who is also joining as private prosecutor.

In his affidavit of recantation, Escora said:

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“INTELLIGENCE WITHOUT FAITH IS MERE KNOWLEDGE, BUT WITH FAITH, THAT’S WISDOM.”

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critical reporting HOW MEDIA SEES IT, AND NOT OTHERS

BY ELY P. DEJARESCO

Just recently arrived from Geneva is the Red Cross water treatment unit providing hundreds of Valencia typhoon victims with potable water (out of flood waters) for good health.

Red Cross team leaders from Cavite, LapuLapu and Bacolod (right foto) are conducting daily potable water distributions to the floodstricken barangay folks of Valencia. The choice of Valencia as having the worst-hit victims was made by the Red Cross National Headquarters according to Red Cross Administrator Louela Bael.

Cleaning the mess with clean hands

ore families claim to be hungry despite the continued enrollment of the “very poor” in the P antawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) with 1, 326 more compos ing the latest batch in Dumaguete City from 26 barangays.

The program allows each enrolled family to avail of the Conditional Cash Transfer offered as incentives in exchange of co mp lian ce to go vern ment’s requirements specifically in education and health.

However, reports abound regarding families that are not truly poor or with stable incomes being enrolled; cash incentives being used to sustain the vices of many parents; loan sharks have also made a killing among beneficiaries of the multi-billion dole-outs and the failure of the program to include all indigent families causing envy and conflicts in many communities.

Add to this is the latest Social Weather Station Survey taken from December 3-7,

2011 which reported that 22.5 percent or 4.5 million families RED CROSS TEAM led by Dennis Saneo (Cavite) team leader; center Joseph (up from 4.1 million in the last Mindaros of RC Leyte and Ms Ivan Poja of Baclolod are manning the LMS quarter) experienced involun- daily in flood stricken barangays. tary hunger at least once in the past three months.

However, Department of

BY DEMS REY DEMECILLO Social Welfare and Development Secretary Dinky Soliman still refused to concede that the incidence of hunger is rising nationwide attributing the negative figures to the disasters that struck the country.

The Roman Catho lic Church and activists, noting pposition aired by a certain association of that the Co ndit ional Cash residents in Barangay Looc and its allies to Transfer has been implemented the planned utilization of three breasting since the administration of dolphins in the newly reclaimed port area fo rmer President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, maintain is misplaced the Philippine Ports Authorthat dole-outs are unwise and ity declared. demanded that the Aquino adPPA officials, who de- of town at the time of the ministration present a more susclined to be identified due interview, maintain that tainable anti-poverty program.

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PPA to repair NOT expand old Pier 1

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Macias tops Council absentees list, but ... FBs in 6 haciendas to

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ourth Dumaguete City Councilor Erwin Michael Macias regis tered the most number of absences by skipping 13 of the 45 regular sessions of the Dumaguete City Council in 2011.

Macias, who is also an ex-officio Provincial Board Member being President of the Philippine Councilors League-Negros Or iental Chapter, justified 10 of his absences as being on Official Business; 2 as sick

leave and only 1 as an absence sans any notice. However, for actual absences that are neither on officials business or sick leave, Councilor Noel De Jesus and SK President Cyrine Lee Mapili are on

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eople say that if Pres NoyNoy Aquino wants to clean up the mess in government, he must do so with clean hands.

He can prove this by convincingly manifesting that he is not pressing for the impeachment of the chief justice so he can appoint a new chief justice who may reverse the case of hacienda Luisita, or, that his family can be paid P10billion instead of P5billion for the Hda Luisita to be given to 6000 farmer beneficiaries.

-o0oCan you imagine that his press spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said that Pres. Noy believes that Corona will be convicted. How sure is he unless he made sure? If they have to play politics, I suggest that they acquit Corona, but with the caveat that upon acquittal, Corona resigns. That will make them all happy except the TRUTH which is compromised, but that will not set them free.

-o0oPeople know that lead prosecutor Rep Niel Tupas, of the Corona impeachment trial, has been working as a lawyer of the Cojuangcos who own the Hda./Luisita., over the years….This means that the lead prosecutor is an employee of the owners of the Hda. Luisita. So you see, the dots are easy to connect!

-o0oIndeed political cleansing is most welcome by the people. The Truth Commission, for instance, is also good provided Pnoy allows it to investigate other past administrations. Let there be swift justice to those cases being heard by PNOY’s new ombudsman.

-o0oSecondly, let PNOY explain his own SALN which rose to over 300% in just one year, from P15Mnet worth, up to now findings say that PNOY’s networth is overP54M or an increase of 300% in just one year? In order to be credible, PNOY must create a task force to analyze and study all the SALNs of the three branches of government. If PNOY will look around, so many have un-explained wealth that it could take his whole term letting those concerned explain how they suddenly got wealthy.

-o0oIn fairness, PNOY sacked a big fish who is NBI chief Gatdula but he spared another big fish which is Sec. Llamas for the DVD pirating purchase issue. If PNOY remembers, the Guinness book of records entered the Marcos plunder as the biggest corruption of all time, Nobody has jailed the biggest plunderer of all time. not even any of his family members. In fact they are all back in government!

PNOY is the most powerful man in the country today. He has even more powers than Marcos.

But look again, he is not interested in even jailing the mastermind in the murder of his own father, even just for the sake of the Nation, History , and Justice itself. Looks like he might still have a personal unresolved anger against his father. He must let go now and be serious with the word Justice.

-o0oHow corrupt is our government? Just to refresh your memory, the government lost P1.4trillion which means, losing P100Million daily since the office of the Ombudsman begun in 1988. Erap Estrada himself confirmed that P24billion of the national budget or 20% was lost to corruption in one year of his watch.

-o0oOne study said that at least 30% of the national budget end up in kickbacks of politicians and government officials. Corruption starts from the top, not below, stupid. If the top is clean, nobody wants to make a mess down below, that is the nature of Filipinos: they follow leaders blindly.

If Pnoy ‘s ‘walang mahirap kung walang corrupt” is to come true, especially before his term ends, he must clean up the mess with CLEAN HANDS, please.! Opppss and he must stop smoking now!

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undreds of farmer beneficiaries (FBs) from six haciendas covered by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) in Negros Oriental are asking government to make good its promise of finally putting them in place to the lands covered by their Certificate of Land Ownership Awards (CLOAs).

Jaime R. Lado, Chairman of the Maples Agricultur al Cor po ration in Calasgaan, Bais City vowed

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Impeachment: not a criminal proceeding he Senate impeachment court is still debating on the quantumof evidence needed to to convict the chief justice Renato C. Corona. Some say what is needed is proof beyond reasonable doubt, like that of a criminal case. Some say clear and convincing evidence.

Other say substantial evidence.

To my mind, the impeachment is an administrative proceeding to determine whether the impeached official is fit to stay in office. I think substantial evidence should be the threshold in considering the culpability of the impeached official.

Substantial evidence is that amount of relevant evidence which a reasonable mind may accept to justify a conclusion.

One thing an impeachment is not, is that it is not a criminal case.

Therefore, the position of the defense lawyers of the chief justice, that proof beyond reasonable doubt is needed to justify a conclusion is not proper.

I think the defense is aware of this but they adopt this po sition for many a great benefits for their c lien t.

If you notice, at the beginning the lead defense counsel Serafin Cuevas told the impeachment court that his client is pleading “not guilty”.

He conveyed this to give a semblance of a criminal proceeding at hand. However, to treat the impeachment trial as a criminal proceeding would, I think, be violative of the constitution.

Article eleven Section 3 (7) of the constitution provides “Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than removal from office and disqualification to hold any office under the Republic of the Philippines, but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to prosecution, trial, and punishment, according to law.”

The constitution is clear that judgment in an impeachment trial merely results in removal from office. This means the proceeding is administrative in nature.

The constitution also states that the party convicted shall still be liable to prosecution, trial and punishment.

The last portion clearly shows that after a judgment in impeachment trial, the party convicted can still be subjected to a criminal proceeding as the wording uses “prosecution” and “punishment.”

The words “prosecution” and “punishment” clearly imply a subsequent criminal proceeding.

If the impeachment court requires proof beyond reasonable doubt as threshold, and the respondent is either acquitted or convicted in the impeachment trial, the respondent can claim double jeopardy in any the event of a subsequent criminal trial.

The respondent can claim he had already been subjected to a proceeding no different from a criminal case in the impeachment court, where proof beyond reasonable doubt was the evidentiary threshold, and therefore any further criminal trial would place him in jeopardy of being tried once again for the same “offense”.

For these reasons, I believe an impeachment trial does not require proof beyond reasonable doubt.

Therefore, it is submitted that an impeachment trial cannot be likened to a criminal proceeding.

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“Worse than life sentence”

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T HAS BEEN NINE (9) SESSION DAYS AT THE senate impeachment court and so far, the prosecution has not yet made any devastating blow on the beleaguered chief justice that would tend to convict him to a life of perpetual disqualification to hold any public office.

According to defense panel chief Justice Serafin Cuevas, the penalty of perpetual disqualification to hold any public office imposed upon those convicted by impeachment, much more upon a chief justice of the Supreme Court ---is “worse than life imprisonment” because it speaks about stripping off the careers of those convicted by impeachment.

Justice Cuevas therefore told the impeachment court that conviction if it must come, should be beyond reasonable doubt, and not just upon preponderance of evidence.

T he impeachment cour t has three choices of their standard of conviction based on evidence: first, upon preponderance of evidence; second, upon convincing evidence and third, is evidence beyond reasonable doubt. Senate Judge Miriam Santiago who will shortly sit as judge in the international court in Hague, suggested that the standard of conviction should be overwhelming preponderance of evidence.

But at the rate the senate impeachment court is going, what are being presented are

circumstantial evidence which needs to be overwhelmingly convincing so as to possibly merit a conviction. So far, from a layman’s point of view, how much more those among lawyers, there is still not enough evidence that will convict the chief justice. He could still be acquitted because of the lack of an overwhelming and convincing proof of guilt?

Senator Judge Gringo Honasan made an observation that there is more trial by publicity being undertaken outside the court, than in the real trial itself. That is why presiding justice Senator Enrile ordered that no evidence must be discussed outside the court, specially in the media, when such evidence is not yet accepted as such, and when it is still being offered.

Finally in the “spirit of liberality” as requested by elements of the prosecution, the impeachment court is now seen to be more lenient and less of a criminal court in the appreciation of evidence. What is important is that when the senate court shall have handed down its final verdict, its reasons and arguments must be presented to the people in a manner that is even understandable to the man in the street. In fact it should be translated into major dialects so that the public may know how the people of the Philippines thru their representatives are trying their best to clean up the obvious mess in the judiciary , and restore public confidence the men in black robes.

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Dateline Manila

by Bingo P. Dejaresco

arents ought to watch out for their kids when they are precocious, numbers- oriented and inclined to do business. They could have children-winners right there. And the state of their economic conditions is of no moment.

Many of the self-made men opportunities. He is a prime ex- would determine how many in a like Lucio Tan, John Gokongwei, ample for the youth in any na- number of twelve pastors would Zest Air chair Fred Yao and tionality. have a probability of having the Manny Pangilinan saw hardship As a kid – he was awk- same birthdays. in their youth but lived to conquer ward with girls, dressed slovHe seemed to have a phothe world of business. So with enly and drank nothing but tographic memory and would Senate president Juan Ponce Pepsi Cola. He was thin with mentally add a series of two Enrile-penniless in his youth- red hair and blue eyes. He digit numbers thrown by a who strove hard to be good in read the Bible four times but friend. He calculated moves both the executive and legisla- largely remained agnostic in made in poker games and tive branches of the government. his youth. even published odds making As shown in the impeachBut he was very good with of race horses at a young age. ment trial- with a little more ex- numbers.

The boy was a creature of posure- JPE could have made At six, his buddy would habit. At 10, he was visiting the a good judge- a Supreme throw him a name of a city in the stock exchange at Wall Street Court justice, even.

USA and he would announce its and by age 11, he was already Let us look at one other latest population count. He doing stock charts at home. At a such precocious young man who would predict probabilities of tender age, he was influenced by at an early age already devel- wins in baseball games and the work of his father who was oped a sharp nose for business horse racing and at church he To page 13

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Gov-PNP-NBI score vs. guns-for-hire

Electric tricycles, huh!

Well, let’s design it!

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JENNIFER CATAN-TILOS

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he Department of Energy calls on Negrenses to participate in the nationwide electric tricycle (e-Trike) design contest, specifically be cause Dumaguete City and Negros Oriental thrive on motorized tricycle as means of transport within the city and nearby areas.

The contest is open to all Filipinos aged 18 years old and above, whether individual or group, residing in the Philippines.

The design contest is an ch or ed on the theme “Bright Now! Do Right. Be Right. Go E-Trike!,” that aims to showcase modern tricycle innovations for a mor e en viro nmen tal friendly transport in the country.

The participants should feature a design that can accommodate a maximum of six passengers excluding the driver. It must also be a three-wheeled electric vehicle.

Contestant(s) must generate 2D and 3D computeraid ed d rawings usin g AutoCAD software of the best aesthetic and functional design for the future Philippine E-trike look.

Selection of winners will be based on aesthetics/ creativity (50%), originality/innovation (20%), safety and functionality (20%) and ergonomics or ease of passenger entry, space requirements, and total passenger comfort (10%).

Fin al jud ging o f shortlisted entries will be on February 24.

Top three winners will

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receive P200,000.00 each while seven participants will receive a consolation price of P50,000.00 each.

Deadline for the submission of entry that includes a CD and hardcopy (A3 size) enclosed in a sealed envelope will be on February 17, 2012.

Eligible participan ts may submit personally or send by courier the design entry accompanied by completely-filled Official Registration Form and duly notarized Oath of Ownership of the submitted design to Nationwide E-Trike Design Contest at Energy Utilization Management Bureau of DOE, Merritt Road, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City 1631.

For ms can be downloaded at the DOE and Philipp in e In fo rmatio n Agen cy (PIA) websites. (mbcn/jct/PIA-NegOr)

Gov. Roel Degamo and Lt. Col. Alet Vertucio reported the booking for illegal possession of explosives on Jasper Tanasan, also known as “Bobong,” and Pazzito Libron for illegal possession of firearms and explosives. Such are nonbailable criminal offenses.

Both were nabbed by the police in their safehouses in Malabugas, Bayawan last Sunday. (Photos by FLORENCE BAESA)

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practicality or human need.

In short, with respect to faith, we can end up being actors only, who restrict our relation with God in some performances, and not God’s children who see God in everyone and in everything. And worse, we may just be users of God and not lovers.

Some words of the Holy Father recently addressed to seminarians are relevant to this need to study our faith. He said that “the study of theology must always have an intense connection with the life of prayer.

“It is important that the seminarian well understands that the object that he applies himself to is in fact a “Subject” who calls to him, that Lord who spoke to him, inviting him to spend his life in service to God and to his brothers.”

We, of course, need to study philosophy and theology

to know God and love him better. In this regard, it is important that we continue to undertake catechesis and pursue a deeper knowledge of the doctrine of our faith, which is a living thing, not a dead word. This duty, for sure, never becomes obsolete.

We should be careful, however, not to be trapped in their intellectual aspect such that we fail to connect with God in spite of a seemingly growing knowledge of our faith. This ironic twist has happened many times before, and can continue to happen if we don’t take the necessary precautions.

Faith, of course, involves all our sciences, but it is also a lot more. There is mystery involved in it always, and it is also something to be lived all the time. That is to say, that our very ow n consciousness should be infused with faith, and not just driven by some intellectual, psychological or emotional movement. Faith should be life itself.

A life of faith is a life of truths and mysteries. It is a life that always engenders hope, since faith does not stop in the doctrine that is taught, studied and known, but wants us to live it. The definitiveness of faith does not take away its openness to the continuing promptings of the Holy Spirit.

A life of faith is also a life of love and charity. It cannot prosper in any other environment. That is why, any growth in the knowledge of our faith should also yield greater love for God and for others that is expressed in deeds and not only in words and intentions. If this does not happen, then that faith is not authentic. It may have the shell, but it does not have the living substance.

This Year of Faith will hopefully bring in another spring time in the Church and in the world. For this to happen, let’s hope and pray that everyone contributes to make this Year of Faith fruitful.

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“Peak” – What?

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Are we part of the problem or the solution?

uzz words sprout from controversies of the day. From the impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona, “Subpoena” and “Alpha Lists” spilled into chatter at barbershops to diplomatic receptions.

Emerging issues mint new buzz words. “Peak timber” is one of them.

“Tropical countries should consider implications of ‘peak timber,’ even as ”it has become common to speak of ‘peak oil,’ the journal Biological Conservation suggests. Today’s 30-40 years logging cycles do not provide sufficient time for forests to recover.

This rule of thumb stems from 1950s preliminary research in fertile Basilan Island with abundant rainfall. Other provinces are less favored. But Basilan’s 30-40 year yardsticks we re a ppli ed n atio nwid e.

They’re proving unsustainable.

“Peak timber” shoves against forest limits. The trajectory clones

the “Hubbert Curve” in tracking oil, noted Australian National University’s Phil Shearman and Jane Bryan with William Laurance, James Cook University Harvests first surge, petter out on a peak, then plunge into freefall.

“Been there, done that,” Filipinos would shrug. In 1595, forests blanketed 27.5 million hectares here. Today, 7.7 million hectares are left, official data claims. That’s probably an overestimate.

Factor in unrecorded killer logs unleashed by Typhoon Sendong mostly tumbled from “the m ountains of Lanao del Sur. Kaingin scarred slopes, converted into pastures or corn fields, have

m in favor of matuwid na daan if this means a thorough cleansing of the rotten Augean stables, a.k.a the government of the Philippines. But with one pre-condition, that P-Noy starts the process with clean hands.

He can start by manifesting right now that he will not interfere with the Luisita case now pending in the supreme court or cases involving the family, or his KKK (kabarkada, kabarilan and kamaganaks). This will remove the cloud of cynicism hovering over the Corona Impeachment.

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I am in favor of the Truth Commission provided it goes back to previous administrations as suggested by the High Court.

Yes, indeed, political cleansing is most welcome. Now that the impeachment process has started, which is really a slap on the wrist for “convicted” officials since they will not go to jail, let the graft court get going full steam ahead. With the new Ombudsman who is somewhat

A Journey Through Cancer

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artworks are not the usual personal expressions and views of the artist, but are actual documentations which have been properly researched and could be used as tools for learning local history.” Cleope further reiterated that the historical nature of the exhibit was so timely with the current thrust of promoting tourism through history and culture. He believes that every town has a story to tell, and a culture to share.

The old Dumaguete Port, which used to be a lonely strip of land stretching out to welcome visitors, is now a bustling pier of passenger and cargo ships. At night, the dancing reflections of shimmering lights coming from the Turn to page 16

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Year of Faith

JAMES “KOJAK” HUGHS U.S. Army, Cpt (ret)

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OPE Benedict XVI has declared a Year of Faith that will start on October 12 this year, the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, and will end on November 24 next year, the Solemnity of Christ the King.

This, to me, is a good initia- stood as a purely intellectual aftive, quite needed at this time fair, pursued simply through the when the world seems to be study of doctrine and an effort to dominated by purely temporal translate that knowledge more or concerns in economics and poli- less into some effect in life. Lost tics. There is also that techno- is the main element of faith as a logical surge that, like wine, first living experience with Christ who excites people’s minds and then is God made man. blunts and desensitizes them, If not that, then faith is especially to the spiritual and understood as one’s recourse supernatural realities. to God at the instance of his It’s worth noting that in a particular need at the modocument issued to explain ment—to give thanks for the plan, the Vatican said that some successful venture, or “this year will be a propitious to beg for help, to express occasion for the faithful to un- sorrow over something, etc. derstand more profoundly And so one’s relation with that the foundation of Chris- God would not be abiding. He tian faith is ‘the encounter goes to God only when he feels with an event, a person, which the need. Faith would then be gives life a new horizon and a pretty much reduced to a matter decisive direction.’” of rationality or feeling, and This is a timely clarificatory made to conform to our terms of Turn to page 5 note. Many times, faith is under-

er life was not going so good. She never would have won a beauty contest, but now things were even worse.

She had trusted the wrong person, now she was an unwed mother. Her son was a treasure; but it was not likely any man would marry a woman with a child. She also had no education or job skills so her chances of finding good employment were not very good either. Her family was very poor and her own future seemed equally bleak.

Suddenly, a chance meet- down and came to a crashing ing on the internet sparked a ro- halt. She was suddenly a mance. He was not handsome widow and her son again had and was many years older than no father. There was no her, but he loved and respected money for food or rent. She her. After they were married, he still had no job skills or edubegan the adoption of her son. cation.

He even bought some farmland, She was right back where so her family could start feeding she started, only now there was themselves and earn a modest a hole in her life where there living. God had finally forgiven once had been a loving husher mistakes and blessed her band. I know personally at least and her son. five women who have suffered It did not happen like it a similar life disaster. One womdoes in movies. He was just an’s loving Filipino husband went walking down the hall when to Cebu and was murdered. She suddenly he stiffened and fell was left destitute with a house forward. The heart attack full of children. killed him before he hit the Another woman’s young floor. Her life turned upside Turn to page 7

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like painting with a cup of coffee to perk me up. But coffee and art actually do mix literally.

A noted artist from Dumaguete city, Jutsze Pamate, opened a one-man show entitled “Colors and Coffee Stains,” a few years ago at the Foyer Gallery, Luce Auditorium, Silliman University. His latest pieces play around the art concept of the Painter as Historian.

Pamate said, “By using local landmarks of historical significance into painting, I try to capture the visual history of Dumaguete by incorporating them to my artmaking. In this exhibit, history can be elevated to the levels of fine arts when historical subjects are created to become artforms.”

Dr. Earl Jude Cleope of Silliman University, in his inspiring speech during the opening of the exhibit, said, “These

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credible, let her now file charges against those guilty of malfeasance, misfeasance in office, and what not.

Let’s start by examining the Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Networth (SALN) of members of the Executive, the Legislative and the Judiciary. We might even look at their ITRs from bottom up. We have all the laws necessary – Turn to page 16

Love Notes and scrapbooks ne of the last things my mother gave me before she passed away was a looseleaf notebook bulging full of clippings, her handwritten notes about people and things she loved, and pages of “sayings” that she had gleaned from her friends and her reading. I treasure that notebook for its simplicity, its memories and love; whenever I open it, I can feel the love of Mom as I wander through its pages of wisdom.

One year long ago, I gave turned that scrapbook to me, tatmy Dad a scrapbook full of clip- tered and torn in places, with pings of cartoons and farming Dad’s smudged fingerprints on humor that I knew would make some of the pages. It remains him laugh. I spent many after- today as one of the only memennoons after school in our attic tos I have of my Dad. … a sign storeroom going through old of love given that returns with farm magazines looking for love to the giver. those items, cutting them out and When our children were in pasting them into a colorful their teens, one Christmas, we scrapbook. Dad treasured that received a bulky package in scrapbook, often taking it out the mail addressed to them. whenever he needed a laugh to Mom had put together for each brighten his day. Several years of our children their own personal after Dad had passed on, when scrapbook filled with pictures of I was visiting my Mom, she reTurn to page 9

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husband was murdered this year and she has five children.

Just this week, a nice lady lost her husband to cancer and was hard pressed just to pay for the funeral. I know of two incidents where the wife died leaving the husband with the burden of raising his family alone. I think I know, psychologically, why we do not prepare for these disasters. We want to keep the selfdelusion that we will live forever. The harsh truth is we will all die and death can come at any moment. If you love them, you must prepare and protect them NOW, not tomorrow.

All of you Everyday Heroes, instead of making those you love totally dependent on you, make them totally independent. Educate them and prepare them in case you are not there. Give them job skills and a career. Create an educational trust fund. Keep an emergency bank account to pay for unexpected medical expenses. Get health insurance. If you love them, be an Everyday Hero…. DO NOT WAIT; PROTECT THEM NOW!

AD PAWNSHOP No. 13 San Juan St., Dumaguete City All unredeemed pledges wh ose terms have expired will be auctioned on February 29, 2012 at our place of business.

Mayor Bartoces, along with Mrs. Jesusa Concepcion, Mun. Social Services and Development Officer, and Mr. Virgel Nario, LGU Cashier, extend assistance to the victims of Typhoon Sendong, those totally damaged with P5,000.00 and those partially damaged homes with P2,000.00.

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lmost a month after Mayor Bartoces signed the 2012 Annual Budget of Sibulan, the Local Chief Executive follows up the Honorable Sangguniang Bayan regarding their legislative action on the veto message on Appropriation Ordinance No. 48, series of 2011, “An Ordinance Authorizing the Executive Budget in the total amount of Ninety Three Million Nine Hundred Thirty Seven Thousand Five Hundred Fifty Three Pesos (P93,937,553.00) submitted to that august Body on January 9, 2012.

Mayor Bartoces said that the vetoed items, cited as ultra vires and are prejudicial to public welfare acts of the Sanggunian, are essential for public service, henceforth, she requested that Honorable Body to act on the matter for

be tter s ervice to the Sibulanons the soonest possible time.

Sibulan Information Officer Connie Rosales said that full implementation of the 2012 operating budget of the LGU is essential as Sibulan

just experienced a flood of tremendous impact.

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An easy yoke Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

– Matthew 11:29-30

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am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me, you can do nothing. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no

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longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name, the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other.

Seignior with two gold earrings rom his notes taken daily throughout the voyage, Pigafetta further revealed: Qiui (s)i troua gra(n) cantitade de coralli biancho et arbori grandi q(ue) fanno fructi pocho menori de La mandola et (s)onno Como li pignioli et ancho molte palme algune bonne et algune atre catiue We found a great quan- REV. FR. ROMAN C. tity of white coral there, and SAGUN, JR. large trees with fruit a trifle smaller than the almond and resembling pine seeds. There are also many palms, some of them good and others bad. in Que(s)to Locho (s)onno molte y(s)ole p(er) ilque Lo chiama(ss)emo larcipelago de s. lazaro de(s)courendo lo nella (s)ua dominicha il quale (s)ta in x gradi de latitudine aL polo articho et Cento e (s)esanta vno di longitudine della linea deLa repartitiõe.

There are many islands in that district, and therefore, we called them the archipelago of San Lazaro, as they were discovered on the Sabbath of St. Lazurus. They lie in x degrees of latitude toward the Arctic Pole, and in a longitude of one hundred and sixty-one degrees from the line of demarcation.

Vennere a 22 de marzo venirono in mezzo di q(ue)lli homini Secondo ne haueuano p(ro)me(ss)o in due barcque cõm cochi naran(s)I dolci vno va(s)o de vino de palma et vno galo p(er) dimo(s)trare que in que(s)te parte eranno galine se mo(s)trarono molto alegri ver(s)o de noi compra(sse)mo tute q(ue)lle (s)ue co(s)e At noon on Friday, March 22, those men came as they had promised us in two boats with cocoanuts, sweet oranges, a jar of palm-wine, and a cock, in order to show us that there were fowls in that district. They exhibited great signs of pleasure at seeing us. We purchased all those articles from them. iL (s)uo s(egnior) era vechio et pinto portaua due Schione de oro a le oreq(ui)e li altri molte maniglie de oro ali brazi cõ fazoli in torno Lo capo.

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xcerpt from the minutes of the Regular Meeting of the Diocesan Council of the Laity of the Diocese of Dumaguete held at 9:00 o’clock in the morning of June 11, 2011 at the Diocesan Pastoral Center, Cathedral Compound, Dumaguete City.

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RESOLUTION NO. 11-001 Series of 2011 A RESOLUTION URGING OUR POLITICAL LEADERS— HONORABLE GOVERNOR ROEL R. DEGAMO, HONORABLE VICE-GOVERNOR APOLINARIO ARNAIZ, JR., ALL PROVINCIAL BOARD MEMBERS, ALL CITY AND MUNICIPAL MAYORS, ALL SANGGUNIANG PANLUNGSOD/ BAYAN/PAMBARANGAY MEMBERS, AND ALL BARANGAY CAPTAINS IN NEGROS ORIENTAL – TO EXERCISE THEIR STRONG POLITICAL WILL TO BAN OR STOP THE OPERATION OF ‘SWERTRES’, BINGO MILYONARYO, AND ALL FORMS OF GAMBLING WITH AUDACITY AND TO EXECUTE THEM WITH MIGHT, WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR IN ALL CITIES, MUNICIPALITIES AND BARANGAYS IN THE PROVINCE OF NEGROS ORIENTAL. WHEREAS, the Diocesan Council of the Laity, a body of Catholic lay organizations composed of the different Parish Pastoral Councils and religious organizations of the Diocese of Dumaguete, is committed to seek the kingdom of God by engaging in the affairs of the world and directing them according to God’s will, pursuing total Christian liberation, living in God’s righteousness and holiness, and evangelizing families and communities for social transformation; WHEREAS, the tidal wave of gambling in our country and the province of Negros Oriental has left in its wake pain and destruction in the lives of countless people, especially the children, the poor and the elderly; To page 11

is yoke is easy because his yoke is my yearning. It gives me the very thing I’m made for—creative activity. When I surrender to him, it is the same surrender a wire, unattached and noncreative, makes when it surrenders to a dynamo: it throbs with light and power. The same surrender which paint makes when it surrenders to an artist: mere color becomes a living picture which ink makes when it surrenders to a writer; mere color becomes words that burn and bless and enlighten. When you surrender to Christ, you surrender to the most creative and dynamic Person on this or any other planet. You begin to be alive with his life, enlightened with his light, loving with his love. You have surrendered to creativity.

Therefore his yoke is easy, for you him in, and then the boat was “immediare made by the Creator for creation. ately at the land whither they were going.”

His yoke fits you.

You strive to get to the land of self-realiYou are made to belong, and when you belong to him, you know instinc- zation and can’t, and then you take Jesus in as Lord, surrender to him, and immeditively that this is the right belonging.

When Jesus came to the disciples ately you are at the land whither you were as they were distressed in rowing, going—the land of self-realization.

You have been striving to get to the bucking a heavy headwind and getting nowhere, they were frightened, think- land of total meaning and can’t get there. ing he was a ghost—something alien. You take Jesus in, and immediately, you But finally, after his assurance, “It is are at the land whither you were going— I,” they gladly took him into the boat; you’ve found the land of total meaning, and “immediately the boat was at the the Kingdom of God. You have arrived at land whither they were going.” They the land of fulfillment when you are in were going nowhere until they took him. You don’t have to travel—you’re here!

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GOSPEL Matthew 18:21-35

Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.” Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.

As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold was brought to him. Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children

and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.

“At this, the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’ The servant’s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.

“But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins.

He grabbed him and began to choke him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he demanded.

“His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.’

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Sunday Thoughts I BELIEVE IN LIFE EVERLASTING (Part 1) irst of all, we believe in life everlasting because we are able to affirm the truth of what we do not see with the naked eye.

St. Paul says that we Christians “fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is not seen. The DR. PROCESO UDARBE things we see are but temporal, but the things that we do not see are eternal.”

In other words, for us, to believe in eternal life is to affirm the reality of what we do not see. The unbelieving person will say: “Yes, you believe in heaven, but you do not see it.” In our Christian faith, the truth is the other way around: “To believe is to see.”

In one of the visits of a dignitary to our church when I was pastor, I was inspired by what the German Ambassador said.

While I was showing him the sanctuary and relating to him the history of our church, he took me aside and said: “Pastor, I tell my friends if you are 30 years old and above and you don’t have hope in eternal life, you are not off the hook.”

What did Abraham Lincoln say? He said something like this: Since God created man capable of responding to him and capable of spiritual thoughts, there can be no question the human being does have

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Of course, we know that eternal life is promised to, and reserved for, all who believe in Christ. Each of us carries the potential. As one line from a poem, we learned in our childhood, puts it about Adam, “Dust thou art, dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.”

Therefore, for us, a death, such as the death of our loved one, should remind us that visibility is a poor index in reality.

The death of our loved one appears to be an end, a kind of curtain falling down upon his life. But our belief is that death is but a landing on the stairway that leads to God II Another truth that we can affirm today that gives credence to our belief in eternal life is the consistency of the goodness of God. In other religions of the world, when they think of God, they think of him mainly in terms of power-- power that is absolute, unlimited, overarching- but for us, when we speak of God, we think of him any To page 16

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painted [i.e., tattooed]. He wore two gold earrings [schione] in his ears, and the others wore many gold armlets on their arms and kerchiefs about their heads.

Ste(s)emo quiui octo [giorni] neliqªlli eL n(ostr)o capº andaua ogni di in terra aui(s)itare ly infirmi et ogni matina li daua cõ le (s)ue mani acqua deL cocho q(ue) molto li confortaua.

We stayed there one week, and during that time, our captain went ashore daily to visit the sick, and every morning gave them cocoanut water from his own hand, which comforted them greatly.

Di dietro de que(s)ta y(s)ola (s)tanno homini q(ue) anno tanto grandi li picheti de Lorechie q(ue) portanno le braci ficati in loro Que(s)ti

popoli caphri cioe gentili.

There are people living near that island who have holes in their ears so large that they can pass their arms through them. Those people are caphri, that is to say, heathen.

Vanno nudi cõ tella de (s)cor(s)a darbore intorno le (s)ue vergonie se nõ alguni principali cõ telle de banbazo lauorate neli capi cõ (s)eda aguchia sonno oliua(s)ti gra(ss)I de pinti et (s)e ongeno cõ olio de cocho et de giongioli p(er) lo (s)olle et p(er) il vento.

They go naked, with a cloth from the bark of a tree about their privies, except some of the chiefs who wear cotton cloth embroidered with silk at the ends by means of a needle. They are dark, fat, and painted. They anoint themselves with cocoanut and with beneseed oil as a protection against sun and wind.

Republic of the Philippine REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF NEGROS ORIENTAL 7th Judicial Region Branch 63 Bayawan City SPEC. PROC. 394 IN THE MATTER OF CORRECTION OF ENTRIES AS TO SEX FROM MALE TO FEMALE, MIDDLE NAME FROM ANTONIA TO ALTANIA, DATE OF BIRTH FROM DECEMBER 6, 1978 TO DECEMBER 26, 1978 IN THE RECORDS OF BIRTH OF JOVEY ALTANIA BULAGAO aka JUVEY ALTONIA BULAGAO, Petitioner, -VersusTHE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF BAYAWAN CITY, NEGROS ORIENTAL., Respondent x———————————————————————/

Notebook ... A Filipino blessing for a model home (Catan)

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their childhood that I had taken as they were growing up and sent to her. She had lovingly pasted the pictures into the scrapbook, plus pictures clipped from magazines of things children like, and had written little love notes to them in the margins. Each of our children had their own scrapbook of memories.

Why am I talking about notebooks and scrapbooks? February is known as the month of love.

These scrapbooks and notebooks from my Mom were her way of showing her love, especially since we lived so far from each other, exactly half way around the world. And it was her way of assuring us of her love each time we paged through those works of love.

I am not as diligent in keeping memories in scrapbooks, picture albums or notebooks as my Mom. In fact, it has only been recently that I have begun to realize the importance of leaving one’s legacy of love for others to treasure. Memories in the mind are fleeting, but memories on paper (hard copies, not virtual copies) are concrete signs of love that remain even in one’s absence. So I guess that means for me to be more persevering in creating concrete ways to show my love for my family, friends, and others. This then will be my way of celebrating this month of love – February 2012 – creating and preserving memories that can be treasured for many years to come.

ORDER Petitioner, in her verified petitioner, alleges that she was born on December 26, 1978 at Bayawan City, Negros Oriental and her fact of birth was duly registered before the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Bayawan City, Negros Oriental. However, in her records of birth that entries as to her sex, middle name and date of birth were erroneously entered as MALE instead of FEMALE, ALTONIA instead of ALTANIA and DECEMBER 6, 1978 instead of DECEMBER 26, 1978. Thus, this petition.

The petition being sufficient in form and substance, let the same be heard on April 26, 2012 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning at the Session Hall of this Court along Severino “Nene” Martinez Street, Bayawan City. Interested parties are hereby enjoined to appear on the aforesaid date, time and place and show cause why the petition should not be granted.

Let this order be published immediately, at the expense of the petitioner, for once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Negros Oriental and its five component cities.

Furnish copies ofthisorder to the Solicitor General, the Local Civil Registrar of Bayawan City, Negros Oriental, the Office of the City Prosecutor of Bayawan City, the petitioner and her counsel.

SO ORDERED. Given in Chamber this 10th day of January 2012 at Bayawan City, Negros Oriental, Philippines.

(Sgd). ANANSON E. JAYME The Negros Chronicle Executive Presiding Judge Jan. 22, 29, & Feb. 5,2012

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amella Dumaguete blessed the three model houses the traditional Filipino way. From the Catholic mass to the merienda with deli cious local delicacies of kutsinta, cassava cake and empanada, the ceremony bespoke of family bonds and faith.

The Camella te am, along with its family of agents, brokers and buye rs , ga thered for this event, which is a typical religious ritual started by ea rly Ca tholic is m intended to protect inhabitants from unforeseen occurrences.

Apart from its religios ity, the c ere mony is more of a social event, and touches of modern practices meant to usher in prosperity were inserted, like the throwing of coins that is basically a Chinese practice and the breaking of a wine bottle led by contractor/engineer Engr.

Na pole on Balag, Engr. Photo shows Rev. Fr.Roman C. Sagun, Jr. leading the blessKarlo Pac uribot, and ing ceremony.

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AFFIDAVIT OF SETTLEMENT AND ADJUDICATION Notice is hereby given that the sole heir of ANGELITA BOLTIADOR-FYRI named VIRGILIA BOLTIADOR SOSA has filed and executed an Affidavit of Settlement and Adjudication on standing deposit bearing account no. 1470-12192-6 at the Allied Banking Corporation, Carcar Branch, Carcar Cebu City, Philippines under Doc. No. 62; Page No. 14, Book No. II, of Notary Public ATTY. PETER PAUL F. RENACIA The Negros Chronicle Jan. 22, 29 & Feb. 5, 2012

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patchy vegetative cover. They can’t stem soil erosion nor do they hold rainfall runoff. They result in massive soil erosion dumped.

Thus, mud, rocks and logs cascaded from plantations on vulnerable hillsides in the Bukidnon towns of Manolo Fortich, Libona, Talakag and Baungon. In Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, people were smothered by waves of mud.

The first Asian country to liquidate its forest wealth after World War II, the Philippines, — slammed into “peak timber.” Early from less than 500 thousand cubic meters in the late 1950s, log exports crested at 11.1 m illion cubic m eters in 1974. Exports slumped to a mere 841 thousand cubic meters a decade later.

It still has to recover. Forest cover skid, meanwhile, to 18 percent, far below the 30 percent safety benchmark. Loss of habitats threaten 89 species of wildlife. Most are endemic to the Philippines. “A prima donna of log exporters in the 1970s, we became a wood pauper of the 1980s,” observed Viewpoint (PDI/10 Jan 2008).

“Leaks” are all over, notes form er U N forester Napoleon Vegara. Penury and hunger drive kaingineros to slash and burn trees for a harvest or two. Rapid population growth spurs upland migration. Confronting illicit loggers, who bankroll politicians, can be lethal.

“Green priest” Neri Satur was shotgunned to death in 1991 for confiscating truckloads of “hot logs” in Bukidnon. Catholic radio journalist Dr. Gerry Ortega campaigned to protect indigenous communities and Palawan forests. He was gunned down last January.

Botanist Leonard Co w as shot while doing research in Leyte, 2011. Co was “probably the last of classically trained botanists in plant taxonom y and system atics.” Lt. Gen. Jesse Dellosa, 43rd Arm ed Forces chief of staff, should resolve the glib claim Co had been “caught in a cross fire with communist guerrillas.”

“Peak timber” is spurred by a slow growth rate of commer-

cially viable species, the scientists note. “Logging in the tropics tends to focus on a small fraction of the trees.” Abandoned tree stumps symbolize extensive collateral damage.

The “second wave clearance” problem cited by Biological Conservation is a m ajor glitch in Mindanao, Vergara adds. Roads bulldozed by loggers open once rem ote areas to a flood of landhungry settlers, shifting cultivators — and yet more illegal loggers.

The impact of bulldozers and yarders, dragging logs thru fragile tropical soils, is severe.

“In retrospect, it would probably have been better from an environmental perspective to rely on the carabao power that smallscale “illegal loggers” depend upon.

Asia and the Pacific are starting to reverse forest loss, asserts the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization in it’s 2011: Forest Beneath the Grass. Asia gained 2.2 million. “Primary forests, nonetheless, continue to be chainsawed.”

The last “virgin” forests in Samar are being chopped down.

Government reforestation efforts have been erratic and tree survival rates are low. Under the Arroyo administration, over 72 centavos out of every peso went to salaries in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

“We’ve long gone over the peak,” says agro-forestry specialist Patrick Dugan and co-author of “Forest Faces.” We must “now focus on options for turning around the situation.”

To first step to climb back up the “peak” is to adopt — then enforce — “policies that create incentives for people to plant, harvest and sell trees. This would tamp down pressure to harvest from the natural forests.

Second is to addess the lack of tangible and of sustained support to help millions of small-scale farm ers living on steep slopes, apply improved land use methods.

Only then will they jettison the unsustainable but the only farming systems they have. That would crib “the prevailing attitude that any cutting of trees is ipso-facto a criminal act.”

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P.E.P. (People, Events, Places)

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he United Architects of the Philippines (UAP)-Dumaguete Chapter, led by its President, Architect Ned Carlos, its board of directors and officers, met last January 26, 2011 to set new grounds to toughen up the architectural practice in Negros Oriental.

“The profession, without delay, needs to modernize and firm up if we have any chance of surviving the next 10 years,” says Architect Ned. Architects are told to brace themselves because SILLIMAN UNVERSITY they are already facing A public service of the Sen. Jovito R. Salonga Center for competition from non-arLaw and Development chitect qualified players such as contractors, engiPARRICIDE neers, plan drawers, artists and even fashion houses.

1. What constitutes the crime of parricide?

Architects need, as a The following are the elements of parricide: matter of necessity, to be a. That the person is killed. able to sell their skills with b. That the deceased is killed by the accused. reference to cost if they are c. That the deceased is the father, mother or child, to be of use to a client. whether legitimate or illegitimate, or a legitimate eiThe architects, for the ther ascendant or other descendant, or the legitimate next 11 months, will focus spouse, of the accused. on marketing, Relationship of the offender with the victim is the sustainability, innovation, essential element of this crime. education, creativity, management and process2. Are parents and children included in the driven consultancy. term “ascendants” or “descendants”?

“In order to endure, the No. The ascendants and descendants referred to architect must design beexclude parents and children. The law should read “or any other ascendant or descendant.” yond buildings—and in turn, should be supported 3. Does the other ascendant or descendant need to do so by regulatory and to be legitimate? association bodies,” adds Yes. Thus for instance, he who kills an illegitiArchitect Ned Carlos.

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mate grandfather or an illegitimate grandson is not guilty of parricide, but of simple homicide or murder, as the case may be.

eventeen years of putting premium on books which are sources of knowledge through book fairs is a milestone. If we equate this with the fact that Silliman University is now all of 111 years old, certainly it is not yet that long that book fairs in the university have been held. Add to this the fact that the first book printed in the Philippines, the Doctrina Christiana – of which the Silliman Library has a facsimile copy – was printed in 1593, as well as the fact that the first book in the United States was not yet printed until after 1638, or exactly 45 years after the first book was printed in the Philippines. To top it all, Doctrina Christiana was printed just a little over a century after Johannes Gutenberg introduced printing with movable metal type in Europe in 1425.

Thus, for our young students, we learn to appreciate the beginnings of books in the light of our colonial past. Books and history, after all, have a longstanding relationship because it is through books that we learn about people, places, and events that came before us, in the process learning to have an appreciation of our present, as well as what the future may bring.

As the saying goes, we have, indeed, come a long way, not just in terms of the millions and millions of books that have been printed, but also in the people’s reading fare and the manner by which knowledge is relayed to the people today. There are just too many books to read, in fact, in our own university library, you will find yourselves lost in the myriad of information just waiting for you to uncover. But we are not complaining. Perhaps, the best way for us to describe the overwhelming feeling of being surrounded by books, books, and more books is the sense of frustration that we do not have the luxury of time to read all these books available for us.

On the other hand, this frustration would be coupled with an exhilirating feeling that, yes, it is possible to get lost in the maze

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attune itself to the demands of teaching and learning – or making learning fun and attractive.

Yes, the printed word has come a long way and it is not without challenges. The biggest threat would be the influx of technology, which without proper guidance from our teachers and elders, our youth may not be able to handle well.

We do not need to go to great lengths about the alarming number of school dropouts because of these students’ addiction to Dota and other computer games. The Internet, for all the convenience that it brings to many people, if not purposely used by students today, may even bring them more harm than good. The description of GIGO, or garbage in, garbage out, for the Internet has a truism, that is, if you do To page 16

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Parricide through reckless imprudence is punished by arresto mayor in its maximum period to prision correccional in its medium period. If committed through simple imprudence or negligence, the penalty is arresto mayor in its medium and maximum periods.

8. What is the liability of a stranger cooperating in parricide?

A stranger who cooperates and takes part in the commission of the crime parricide is not guilty of parricide but only homicide or murder as the case may be. (Ihra Faith C Magno, Contributor)

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6. What is the penalty for the crime of parricide?

Any person who shall be convicted with parricide shall be punished by the penalty of reclusion perpetua to death. (As amended by RA No 7659)

of a wonderland courtesy of reading books. Some people say that a perfect way to get rid of strangers trying to strike a conversation with you is to read a book – or, at least, pretend to be reading one and bury your face in its printed pages.

With the advent of the latest technological gadgets and other gizmos, are books threatened by extinction?

Will books lose their relevance in exchange of the fast-growing information technology? Will there come a time when books would be classified as among mankind’s endangered species?

On the contrary, books will never become obsolete because publishers today have made a concerted effort to adapt themselves to the changing needs of the times. Silliman University, through the initiative of the University Library Committee and the leadership of the Silliman Library, is in the forefront of making available what is now called as e-books or electronic books, thus, paving the way towards e-learning.

The Department of Education has established its own information technology system, and eventually, also embrace and

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DCL resolution ...

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WHEREAS, Lotto, “Swertres” and Bingo Milyonaryo are currently operating in Negros Oriental; WHEREAS, Bingo Milyonaryo, a numbers game, similar to lotto, operated via the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes (PCSO) after it was recently turned over the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), has been introduced in Negros Oriental purportedly to reduce the illegal numbers games “swertres” in the province; WHEREAS, making illegal legal is an open admission of government, the PNP and other law enforcement agencies that they are WEAK; WHEREAS, law enforcement agencies, such as the PNP, are being paid by taxpayers money to enforce the law; and not being able to eradicate “swertres” and other illegal gambling is just a waste of money from taxpayers who

are paying for their salaries and cost of operation; WHEREAS, local governments by tacit or expressed approval of the so-called benefits of gambling become a predator rather than a protector of its constituents; WHEREAS, the national and local government units must always respect the integrity of public morality and take into account both the common good and the dignity of individuals. The government cannot and should not sacrifice the morale of its citizens in the name of economic development; WHEREAS, government efforts be focused on more productive and moral means to attain economic growth. Those that destroy public morality should not be implemented. Gambling of any sort destroys public morality; therefore, it should not be permitted; WHEREAS, those who have been mandated to run public offices should make the people aware of the evil which gambling brings to each life;

Republic of the Philippines 7th Judicial Region REGIONAL TRIAL COURT Branch 64 City of Guihulngan, Negros Oriental FC SP. PROC. NO.11-08-G IN THE MATTER OF PETITION FOR DECLARATION OF MATERNITY OF MINOR SUNSHINE GANTALAO DECATORIA, Petitioner, FREDELYN G. DECATORIA, -VersusCITY CIVIL REGISTRAR OF CANLAON CITY. Respondent x—————————————————————————/ ORDER Petitioner, through counsel, Atty. Remegio Torres, filed a verified petition for declaration of maternity of minor Sunshine Gantalao Decatoria in the office of the City Civil Registrar of Canlaon City, Negros Oriental, praying that after due notice, publication and hearing, the civil registrar concerned be directed to render judgment as follows: 1. Declaring petitioner as the biological mother of the minor Sunshine Gantalao Decatoria and to declare as null and void the filiation of

Republic of the Philippines 7th Judicial Region REGIONAL TRIAL COURT Branch 64 City of Guihulngan, Negros Oriental SP. PROC.NO.11-24-C IN THE MATTER OF THE INTESTATE ESTATE OF NATIVIDAD V. BAUTISTA, BERNANDO V. BAUTISTA, Petitioner, FOR: LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION, SETTLEMENT AND PARTITION OF ESTATE, ETC. x————————————————————————/

ORDER Finding the verified petition dated September 5, 2011 filed by petitioner through counsel, Atty. Dax Malony P. Montealegre, which alleges, among other things: That petitioner is the legitimate son of the deceased, Natividad V. Bautista, who died intestate in Canlaon City sometime in October 10, 2010; the deceased, Natividad V. Bautista, during her lifetime, acquired real properties in the City of Canlaon, Municipality of Vallehermoso and the City of San Carlos which are yet to be inventoried. No one is currently managing and controlling the estate, thus, there is a

Republic of the Philippines 7th Judicial Region REGIONAL TRIAL COURT Branch 64 City of Guihulngan, Negros Oriental CAD. CASE. NO. 12-01- G RURAL BANK OF BACOLOD CITY, INC., Petitioner, -versusFOR: CANCELLATION OF ADVERSE CLAIM POLARIS MARKETING CORP., and OFFICE OF THE CITY ASSESOR OF GUIHULNGAN CITY, NEGROS ORIENTAL, Respondents. x—————————————————————————/

ORDER In a verified petition filed by the petitioner through counsel, Atty. Romeo Carlos M. Ting, Jr., praying to order the respondent, Office of the City Assessor of Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental, to cancel the annotation of Adverse Claim by respondent Polaris Marketing Corporation in the Tax Declaration No. 24-0290 under the name of the petitioner,

NOW THEREFORE, on mass motion, the Diocesan Council of the Laity RESOLVES, AS IT HEREBY RESOLVES, to urge our political leaders- Honorable Governor Roel R. Degamo, Honorable Vice-Governor Apolinario Arnaiz, Jr., all Provincial Board Members, all City and Municipal Mayors, all Sangguniang Panlungsod/ Bayan/Pambarangay Members, and all Barangay Captains in Negros Oriental to exercise their strong political will to ban or stop the operation of “S WER TRE S,” BI NG O MILYONARYO and all forms of gambling with audacity and to execute them with might, without fear or favor in all cities, municipalities and barangays in the province of Negros Oriental.

R E S O L V E D , FURTHER that copies of this resolution be furnished to all concerned.

UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED

petitioner’s parents of the minor; 2. Directing the Civil Registrar of Canlaon City and the National Statistics Office to: 2.1 Change the name of minor from Sunshine Gantalao Decatoria to Sunshine Decatoria; 2.2 Reflect petitioner as the mother of the minor; 2.3 Delete the entries pertaining to petitioner’s father and mother; and 2.4 Change the entry in the birth order from “Fourth’’ to” “First’’.

WHEREFORE, finding the petition to be sufficient in form and substance and in compliance with the jurisdictional requirement of publication, let this Order be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Negros Oriental once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks before the date of hearing, at the expense of the petitioner.

Any interested party is hereby directed to appear on 22 May, 2012 at 1; 00 o’clock in the afternoon at the Session Hall of this Court and show cause why the petition should not be granted.

SO ORDERED. January 13, 2012, City of Guihulngan, Negros Oriental, Philippines.

(Sgd).FE LUALHATI D. BUSTAMANTE Acting Presiding Judge The Negros Chronicle Jan. 29; Feb. 5, & 12, 2012 need to appoint an administrator by this Honorable Court, to preserve the property sought herein to be divided among her legal heirs in accordance with the law. That petitioner, Bernardo V. Bautista, wishes to serve as regular Administrator of the Estate. He possesses all qualifications and none of the disqualifications to serve as such Administrator and is willing to post bond in such amount as the Honorable Court deems proper, it is hereby ordered that the same be set for hearing on 27 March, 2012 at 1:00 o’clock in the afternoon before this Court.

WHEREFORE, finding the petition to be sufficient in form and substance, and in compliance with the jurisdictional requirement of publication, let this Order be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Negros Oriental and the cities of Dumaguete, Bais, Guihulngan and Canlaon at the expense of the petitioner, once a week for three (3) Consecutive weeks before the date of hearing, at the expense of the petitioner and copies thereof served upon any and/or all the known heirs and creditors of the decedent, and any other persons believed to have interests in his estate.

Any interested party, by filing a written opposition, contest the petition on valid ground and may appear on the date, hour and place set forth above in order that he may be heard.

SO ORDERED. November 28, 2011, City of Guihulngan, Negros Oriental, Philippines.

(Sgd). FE LUALHATI D. BUSTAMANTE Acting Presiding Judge The Negros Chronicle Jan. 29; Feb. 5, & 12, 2012

Rural Bank of Bacolod City, Inc. Finding the petition to be sufficient in form and substance, let this case be set for hearing on 8 May 2012 at 1:00 o’clock in the afternoon.

Any person(s) having or claiming interest under the entries sought to be cancelled, within fifteen (15) days from notice of this petition or from the last day of publication of the Order, file his opposition thereto.

At the expense of the petitioner, let this Order be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Negros Oriental and its component cities once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks.

Furnish the Register of Deeds of the Province of Negros Oriental and counsel for the petitioner.

SO ORDERED. Given this 13th day of January, 2012, at the Hall of Justice, City of Guihulngan, Negros Oriental, Philippines.

(Sgd). FE LUALHATI D. BUSTAMANTE Acting Presiding Judge The Negros Chronicle Jan. 29; Feb. 5, & 12, 2012

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BY: NEIL RIO DEMS DEMECILLO B LAS LIBATON

Police denies links with suertres gangs

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he Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office (NOPPO) has vehemently denied insinuations illegal gambling operations in the province thrive because police officers are in the payroll of certain operators.

PNP deputy provincial director for operations PSupt Alet Virtucio issued the statement after observatio ns sho wed “swertres” operations in the province has the blessings of unnamed officials in the police.

Virtucio reiterated a directive of PNP provincial command er PSr Su pt Edu ar d Carranza to run after all forms illegal gambling in the province, and would not hesitate to mete commensurate punishment for chiefs of police found protecting swertres operators.

He said if proven, these police officers will not only be relieved or thrown out of the province, but face administrative sanctions that will lead to possible dismissal from the service.

Gov. Roel Degamo made it clear no one is above the law,

Special Operations Group Personnel SOGP head of the PNP is given a rundown on the heavy firearms nabbed in that Malabugas, Bayawan arms raid. Suspect Pazzito Libron showed police his license, which is now being verified.

in directing law enforcers to perform what is expected of them and they can be assured of his all out support, no matter who gets hurt.

Mayor orders hotter pursuit of habal2x driver’s killer an Jose Mayor Melo Remollo has ordered for continued vigilance among residents of his town as the police continue its pursuit of a group of robbers, who allegedly robbed a municipal councilor and shot one habal-habal driver, who refused to transport them.

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MAYOR REMOLLO

The suspects, belonging to Garsula Robbery Group and reportedly members of Pulahan in Siaton town, held Councilor Roger Dasig and tried to flag down a habal-habal driver to escape. However, the driver refused to convey the three

suspects prompting them to fatally shoot him. Residents alerted the lawmen who engaged the fleeing robbers killing one. The two surviving suspects are still on the run but are believed to be still within the municipal territory.

Five alleged shabu peddlers are users too

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he five suspects recently arrested for illegal drugs peddling in the cities of Tanjay and Dumaguete tested positive of shabu use, confirmed Major Josephine Llena of the PNP Crime Laboratory.

However, the same samples will be subject to confirmatory tests employing a new instrument to ensure that the initial results would be consistent. The five suspects include the son of a former Bindoy town mayor and his lady companion, while the three others were arrested in Tanjay City.

Llena said that if the second test would confirm the initial result, then it is safe to conclude that the five suspects are also users, however, they will be prosecuted for selling illegal drugs as this is the more serious charge.

Nabbed during a buy-bust operation are Michael Manaay, resident of San Antonio Village, Sibulan, and Nessil “Bimbo” Ceriales, 36 years old, married

of Pulantubig this city.

Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) provincial director Rayford Yap said the buy-bust operation was an offshoot to an earlier buy-bust operation conducted jointly by the police, the Provincial AntiIllegal Drugs team, and PDEA in Tanjay City.

Confiscated from the two were one sachet which is the subject of the buy-bust operation, and another medium-sized sachet with a street value of P12,000 was recovered from their possession, including the weighing scale and other illegal drugs paraphernalia.

They will be charged with violating Section 5 which is non-bailable, Section 11 for To page 17

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“But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt.

31 When the other servants saw what had happened, they were o utraged and went and told their master everything that had happened.

“Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to.

Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’ In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.

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in the stock exchange.

Although his father became a known politician later, the family suffered poverty during the Depression and our hero vowed at the age of five never to be poor again and to become “very, very rich.” He was not obsessed with money but with the “thrill of making it and seeing it grow.” In that, he was passionate.

At a very young age, he gathered all the soda caps from a soda station everyday for a month in order to calculate which was selling best- coke, orange or root beer. He proved to be an early market survey advocate.

He frequented the golf course as a caddy and collected all discarded but still usable golf balls and resold them-second hand. On vacation with the family, he bought a six pack soda can at $25 then sold it at $5 each and making a nickel. He would raid his grandpa’s grocery for soft drinks and sold them house to house at a profit.

At 13, he was a newsboy carrier of Washington Post, and to maximize his travel, peddled (on subscription) the competitor named Herald, as well. Soon he was selling 500 newspapers a day and branched to magazine selling. Doing that gained him $125 a month- a wage earner’s monthly salary at that time.

At 12, he bought a pinball machine for $25, had it repaired and parked it at a barbershop for a fifty-fifty share with the barber-owner. In one day, the pinball gizmo had $14.

In less than a month, this boy from Omaha had pinball machines in three barbershops.

Before going to college, he sold the pinball operation to a retired war veteran for $1,200.

He then bought 40 acres of a productive Nebraska farm for $1,200 at the same age, becoming an absentee landlord with income.

His newspaper experience landed him a job as supervisor for paperboys distributing the Lincoln Journal for six counties while he was on his first year at the Wharton School of Finance in Pennsylvania.

Before that, the precocious boy read all business books he could lay his hands on (100 of them) that he quit Wharton since he seemed to know more than his professors, especially on the practical aspects of running a bu sine ss. Thou gh h e qu it Wharton – he was rejected at Harvard Business School as he was found as “too young at age 19”.

The “numbers boy” then egged a friend to buy an old Rolls Royce and they rode as “me n ab out town wit h a driver.”

But he loved stocks and his first entry was to buy Cities Service at $35 which plummeted at $27. He held his ground and sold at $40 a share. The stock then soared to $200 a share- his first lesson in patience in stock trading.

He studied stock market – oido-- and became a man of great independence of mind and took the advice of an investment banker on certain stocks the same way he looked at a barber’s answer when queried whether he needed a haircut. The talented man saw motivations as clear as day.

He became an expert in finance that during parties he would hold a show among a group of interested soul mates in business and talk with a passion that seemed to show he knows his subject like the palm of his hand. He would take a stock and finance issue to the core and discuss it in layman’s terms like a “grocery clerk expounding on the day’s weather.”

In his field, the man became like no other and soon became a hotshot. His essence was a combination of patience, discipline and rationality. He was a conservative investor – not thrown to panic

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and acts of greed that are natural to short-term traders.

He was the investment guru who held an annual show for practitioners in his Omaha home- modest by all standards and continued to live on the street where his office was. He “derived little pleasure in displaying his fabulous wealth.” There were no art collections, no snazzy cars and “never left his taste for hamburgers”.

His only luxury is a private jet that allowed him great mobility for consultancy work and speech making on finance and the stock market.

As a finance practitioner, he was part preacher, part showman.

Often he is called the “Great American Capitalist” who rediscovered the vi. He was the ultimate conservative investor who bought stocks and properties “on the basis of its intrinsic value, independent of its market price.”

In so d oing , fr om t he 1950s to the 1990s, four decades in all, his stock portfolio grew 29% per year, beating the American stock market’s average of 11% growth per annum.

In 1995, his networth was already US$ 19B but he kept his winning ways. By 2011, Forbes named him one of the richest men in the world behind Mexican magnate Carlos (US$71B) and Microsoft CEO Bill Gate with a net worth of US$59B. His 2011 networth was rated by Forbes at US$50B-more than double in a period of just 16 years –from 1995.

Both Gates and he have turned philanthropists, spending more time disposing of their riches than earning them.

His name is Warren Buffett, the world’s third richest man.

Any young Warrens in the house?

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF NEGROS ORIENTAL 7th Judicial Region Branch 63 Bayawan City SPEC. PROC. 409 (Former Spec. Proc. No. 410) IN THE MATTER OF CORRECTION OF ENTRY AS TO SEX FROM FEMALE TO MALE IN THE RECORDS OF BIRTH OF EDCEL HERNANE CAÑAMO, ANECITA H. CAÑAMO, Petitioner, - Versus THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF SANTA CATALINA, NEGROS ORIENTAL, Respondent. x—————————————————————————————/

Petitioner, in her verified petition, alleges that her son, EDCEL HERNANE CAÑAMO, was born on JULY 7, 1999 at Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental and his fact of birth was duly registered before the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental.

However, in his records of birth, the entry as to his sex was erroneously entered as FEMALE instead of MALE. Thus, this petition.

The petition being sufficient in form and substance, let the same be heard on June 05, 2012 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning at the Session Hall of this Court along Soverino “Nene” Martinez Street, Bayawan City. Interested parties are hereby enjoined to appear on the aforesaid date, time and place and show cause why the petition should not be granted.

Let this order be published immediately, at the expense of the petitioner, for once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Negros Oriental, the petitioner and her counsel.

SO ORDERED. Given in Chamber this 18th day of January 2012 at Bayawan City, Negros Oriental, Philippines.

(Sgd.) ANANSON E. JAYME Executive/Presiding Judge The Negros Chronicle Feb 5, 12 & 19, 2012

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SPEC.PROC.NO.2011-5038 IN RE: PETITION TO MAKE OR EFFECT CANCELLATION AMENDMENTS AND/OR CORRECTIONS OF LIVE BIRTH OF MICHELLE SENCHICO BANIGA, MICHELLE SENCHICO BANIGA, Petitioner,

ORDER

Dr. Seeress Mae R. Heniel General Dentistry and Orthodontics Clinic Address: No. 53 Pinili St., 2 nd Flr., Cornelio Bldg., Dumaguete City 6200 Negros Oriental, Philippines

Republic of the Philippines REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF NEGROS ORIENTAL 7th Judicial Region Branch 44 Dumaguete City

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THE HONORABLE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF DAUIN, PROVINCE OF NEGROS ORIENTAL, AND THE NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE, THRU THE HONORABLE ADMINISTRATOR AND CIVIL REGISTRAR GENERAL OF THE NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE, MANILA, Public Respondents. x————————————————————————————/

ORDER In her 29 November 2011 verified Petition, petitioner Michelle Sechico Baniga prays for the issuance by this Court of an Order directing the Civil Registrar General, Manila and the Local Civil Registrar of Dauin, Negros Oriental to correct the erroneous entries in her record of birth pertaining to: her name from Michael Sechico Baniga to MICHELLE SECHICO BANIGA; her gender from male to FEMALE; and her parent’s date of marriage from April 5, 1978 to APRIL 1,1978.

The petitioner alleges that the fact sought to be entered are the true and correct ones, hence, the instant petition.

Being sufficient in form and substance, set the hearing of the Petition on 21 May, 2012, at 8:30 o’clock in the morning, before the sala of this Court, at which time and place, all interested persons may appear and show cause why this Petition should not be granted.

The petitioner is hereby directed to publish this Order once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Negros Oriental and its component cities, dully chosen by raffle, at the main entrance of this Court, and on the bulletin board, Office of the Clerk of Court, Hall of Justice, Dumaguete City.

SO ORDERED 9 January 2012 (Sgd.) NECIFORO C. ENOT Judge The Negros Chronicle Feb. 5,12 & 18, 2012

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Arnaiz backs ...

the CIVIC circle From page 16

HEALTH IS WEALTH

BY LELE MARTINEZ (Civic clubs and organizations are welcome to submit their articles and pictures about their services and activities. It is free of charge. Deadline for submission is Wednesday. You may send by email to: dejaresco_ely@yahoo.com – EDITOR)

Psychosomatic illness

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“Emotionally unstable persons are prone to suffer imagined illness resulting from too much worries.”

- Anonymous

Women leaders – present and future On my honor, I will do my duty to God and my country; to help other people at all times; and to live by the Girl Scout Law. - Scout Promise

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he Girl Scout movement has been in the Philippines since 1940 as it was chartered on May 26, 1940 under the Philippine Commonwealth with the mission to help girls and young women to achieve their full potentials as individuals and responsible citizens of their local, national and international communities.

This is one movement where young girls are taught individual responsibilities and discipline and love of country, traits that will prepare them to be responsible citizens of their community.

Just recent ly, the Girl Scouts of the Philippines Negros OrientalSiquijor Council held their Council Convention and election of officers (R-L) President Dr. Profetiza who will serve during the Lim and Incoming President coming year. The gath- Mariant Villegas ering of the ladies in green included the young Girl Scouts leaders of cently joined the Council redifferent age levels who will be counted to me her Girl Scout the future leaders of their gen- years and how the movement eration. had helped her develop selfIt is heartening to see reliance and independence duryoung girls who wear their Girl ing the encampments where Scout uniforms and badges they learn to cook, live simply with pride; the movement has in tents, do chores in the camp

Retired Executive Director Ms. Rosario “Oz” Rosales and current Executive Director Razzil “Raz” Nocete The names of members of the council is actually a list of the empowered women in our community today, from current President Dr. Profetiza Lim to incoming President Mariant E. Villegas, Past President Atty.

Members of the GSP Negros Oriental-Siquijor Council with Visayas Regional Executive Director Aida Saromines instilled discipline and self confidence in them, along with the values and ideals of the Girl Scout movement.

A banker friend who re-

and learn to make friends with fellow girl scouts. Girl Scouts start as early as 4 years old as Twinklers up to 21 years old as Cadet Girl Scouts.

Luisa Villegas and many others who are women leaders in the community.

The Filipina has come a long way, leading their Asian sisters in breaking the glass ceiling to stand beside the successful men in the community and country.

The Girl Scout of the Philippines Negros Ori entalSiquijor Council is in the forefront of developing, training and leading the next generation of women in our province and country.

any of our people must have heard about “psychosomatic illness” but do not really fully understand it. Many have already spent so much money consulting doctors who usually treat the symptoms. However, the illness still recurs most especially when they meet a nagging stressful problem in their life.

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Authorities report that 50% of all the patients going to the doctors are victims of psychosomatic illness. People of any age from all walks of life can suffer from it. The pain one gets is often just as severe as the pain one gets from a real physical disease like a gallbladder colic. Psychosomatic illness is not a real disease. It is taken from the Greek word: “Psycho” – mind and “soma” – body.

Psychosomatic illness is generally produced by the unpleasant circumstances of daily living. This particular illness is commonly triggered by unre-

headache, cancer, dysmenorrhea, etc.

The well-known psychologist, William James, explains the role of emotion as the primary cause of psychosomatic illness. “This is a state of mind that manifests itself by a perceptible change in the body in a series of correlated nerve impulses that centers in the brain.”

The most effective approach of treatment of all psychosomatic illnesses is basically – psychotherapy plus relaxation; meditation; massage and the judicious use of minor tranquilizers.

PhilSouth Properties and Development Corporation greets Valentine’s Day through an unforgettable romantic evening dubbed “Terra Di Amore” on February 14 at 7 p.m. at The Clubhouse of Tierra Alta along Palinpinon Road, Valencia, Negros Oriental.

A gourmet cuisine awaits guests who will be serenaded with romantic selections by a live band. Fabulous raffle prizes await lucky couples, including complimentary t ickets for Zipline Rush.

Dinner tickets are sold on a first come-first served basis.

Early buyers will get a 10% discount, while club members will enjoy a 20% discount.

Moreover, for t he lovestruck who may wish to propose marriage right on Valentine’s Day at Tierra Alta, specifically on Antonio’s Peak, just coordinate with the PhilSouth

team for details.

The occasion will likewise be highlighted by the guests’ first glimpse of the newest addition to the club amenities, which is the grandiose and breathtaking swimming pool, easily the largest residential re-

sort swimming pool in the province.

Reservations can be made by simply calling Philsouth Properties and Development Corporation at (035) 422-PHIL (7445) or (035) 422-2730.

Look for Chedette or Sasha.

DEED OF ADJUDICATION

BY SOLE HEIR WITH SALE Notice is hereby given that the sole heir of the late JOSE ROTEA, Sr. and JUDITH J. ROTEA has filed and Executed A DEED OF ADJUDICATION BY SOLE HEIR WITH SALE on lot No. 195 located at Bais containing and area of 69 square meters per Certificate of Title No.-5577 as Notarized

by Atty. Adrian C. Borromeo Per Doc. No. 140 Page No. 23 Book No. 44 Series of 2012 The Negros Chronicle Feb. 5, 12 & 19, 2012

DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT, WAIVER AND PARTITION

Notice is hereby given that the heirs of the Late Leonila Balbuena Vilos; heirs of Damian Balbuena; heirs of Julian Balbuena and Clarita Balbuena-Fonollera;heirs of Adela Balbuena-Zamora; heirs of Emiliano Balbuena; heirs of Rommel Balbuena; heirs of Toribio Balbuena have filed and executed A Deed of Extrajudicial Settlement, Waiver and Partition of Lot No. 4603 per OCT No. 2784-A situated in the Municipality of Dumaguete containing and area of 1,172 sq. m. more or less Per Doc. 431; Page No. 87, Book No. 11 Series of 2010 notarized by Atty. Cynthia M. Sulit-Portugaleza.

Notice is hereby given that the heirs of Agustin Tinagan; heirs of Leonila Balbuena- Vilos; heirs of Damian Balbuena;heirs of Clarita Balbuena-Fonollera; heirs of Adela Balbuena-Zamora; heirs of Emilio Balbuena; heirs of Rommel Balbuena; and heirs of Toribio Balbuena have filed and executed a Deed of Extrajudicial Settlement, Waiver and Partition on Lot No. 3734 per OCT No. 1662A situated in the Municipality of Dumaguete containing and area of 9,368 sq.m. more or less unde Doc. No. 430, Page No. 86, Book No.11 Series of 2010,notarized by Atty.

Cynthia M. Sulit-Portugaleza.

Notice is hereby given that the heirs of the Leonila Balbuena Vilos; heirs of Damian Balbuena; heirs of Julian Balbuena and Clarita Balbuena-Fonollera;heirs of Adela Balbuena-Zamora; heirs of Emiliano Balbuena; heirs of Rommel Balbuena; heirs of Toribio Balbuena have filed and executed A Deed of Extrajudicial Settlement, Waiver and Partition of Lot No. 5880 per OCT No. 2155-A situated in the Municipality of Dumaguete containing and area of 5,944 sq. m. per Doc. 429; Page No. 86, Book No. 11 Series of 2010 notarized by Atty.

Cynthia M. Sulit-Portugaleza.

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DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT, WAIVER AND PARTITION

Fellow, Phil. Psychiatric Association

‘Terra Di Amore’ set on Valentine’s at Tierra Alta

DEED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT, WAIVER AND PARTITION Young Girl Scouts Hana Mae Alejado, Amira Therese Bontia, Hanah Tesado and Karla Hope T. Cabatingan wear their Girl Scout uniform and badges with pride.

solved conflicts, cares and difficulties which piled up that one cannot cope up with the miserable stressor any longer.

If the conflict remains unresolved despite repeated consultations with symptomatic treatment by the medical doctor, then, the victim becomes psychologically invalid for life.

The common examples of typical mind-caused body illnesses are: coronary artery disease (angina), high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, stomach ulcer, allergy, diabetes mellitus, migraine, arthritis, impotence, obesity, tension,

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Sunday ...

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circumstance, in any situation in life.

The Scriptures put it plain.

The Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations.

John Greenleaf Whittier summed it all up in his beautiful lines: Yet in the madding maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood; To one fixed trust my spirit clings, I know what that God is good.

Against this radiant background, my friends, even the darkest of objects in the foreground take on borrowed light, even suffering, even tears, even loneliness and pain. All of these lose their power in the radiant light of the goodness of God. Because God is so good, he has planted in our hearts a restless yearning to be with him forever. Because God is so good, our Christian faith cannot think of him permitting us to be snuffed out like a brief burning

17th SU ...

(Genove) From page 10 not know how to use it for your advantage.

Be that as it may, reading books – or books and reading – will never go out of fashion, but instead, will be here to stay for a long, long time. As long as there are institutions of higher learning and people whose quest for knowledge have yet to be met or whose yearning to learn has not yet been saturated, then, it is safe to say that books, whether through the old and reliable printed text or presented electronically, are here to stay.

For the bookworm, there is no great joy than holding and feeling the texture of a good book. candle. And so, we have intimations of immortality. We believe that we go on from his life to more life. For to us, heaven, which opens up beyond the doors of death, is of one piece with our life on this side of life.

So, “wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he will strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.”

JOSE VIDAL, 85 Jose Vidal, Sr., 85, a prominent retired public school teacher in Pamplona, has succumbed due to old age. He is survived by his wife, Urbana, and six children. His remains were interred in his hometown.

He is survived by six professional children, namely, Jose II, an engineer; Jose III, a medtech; Josephine, a nurse; Jose IV, BSCommerce; Jose V, a nurse; and Jose VI, an engineer and lawyer.

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Art and ...

(Muffet) From page 6 sea vessels are part of the main attraction at the Rizal Boulevard.

Pamate’s works evoke nostalgic memories to the viewer.

Looking at these works, I feel like being transported to another place and time.

In his painting of the old Dumaguete scene from the shorelines that he had meticulously researched from the church records, one can see the old Silliman Hall at the background. The foreground is still the vast expanse of sand, with “tartanilla” and some nipa huts in the background, which is now occupied by concrete buildings, restaurants catering to international guests, as well as the local residents.

Jutsze Pamate has made 55 exhibitions and five individual shows. He finished his Bachelor of Arts major in Political Science in Silliman University in 1995 and completed his Masters Degree in the graduate studies Department of Silliman University in the year 2000.

In his book, Pamate covered a thesis on local art history. His passion on art and history materialized as he made a study of the life and paintings of Jose Laspinas from 19131986.

Pamate has been active in the art scene since early nineties.

His art evolved from figurative paintings focusing on social issues, to peaceful, magical sceneries of the past.

He became the regional coordinator for the fourth Visayan Islands Visual Arts Exhib itio n/Co nfer ence (VI VA EXCON) held in Iloilo city in 1997 and has been a consistent exhibitor for the VIVA exhibition module. Pamate also participates in various art workshops as an instructor; helping adults and children alike develop their interests in their respective medium and their appreciation for the arts.

He became the acting curator for the Spanish Heritage Art Center ca. 2002-03 and the Museum Vicente, Foundation University ca. 2007. Aside from his consultative work, he also helped organize group shows in the city,

On corruption ...

(Romero) From page 6

unexplained wealth through the networth approach, etc.

Our problem is that we have a tendency to sweep everything under the carpet. We have never jailed the plunderers.

While it is true that former President Estrada was convicted and GMA is now facing charges of corruption – no big fish in the private sector has ever been caught.

In the late 1980s, this country, in the Guinness Book of Records, have entered the Marcos plunder as the biggest corruption of all time, even as the both with local art scenes and other NCCA-sponsored activities in the past years.

Among his other accomplishments and recognitions were: he was the recipient of So vere ign Art Awa rds in Hongkong in 2006, Certificate of Recognition as Most Outstanding Resident Brother for great leadership and academic excellence, APO International 2002, a certificate of Appreciation for the Public Mural Art Project, a joint project with the city government of Dumaguete City thr ough May or Agust in Perdices in 1998; Certificate of Se rvic e, Rota ry Club of Dumaguete North in 1996; and a Certificate of Appreciation Dumaguete Child and Family Program in 1996.

He is versatile in using different med ium from acr ylic s, watercolor to oils, and his latest, which he is concentrating with great passion, is using the ancient coffee beans stains as his medium to bring back the past in his captivating landscapes.

The coffee stains become the time machine which does not only promote the ancient feeling of the theme, but it becomes the color that spells magical memories to the young and the old.

Pamate has found the perfect medium for his subjects. This quiet, softspoken, humble and hardworking artist is an example to his students who are discovering the world of art and the artist himself.

late Ninoy Aquino described the Marcos rule as a kleptocracy. In 1988, Cardinal Sin described corruption in the country as the biggest problem of them all.

In the face of all this, what has been the reaction of governance? The PCGG and the Sandiganbayan, who are supposed to have run after the corruptors, have not much to show after decades even as these continue to collect salaries and emoluments with impunity. Worse still, the people they were running after are now reincarnated as top politicians and business titans who continue to strut their wares as if nothing really happened.

Just a bad trip is probably how they described their brush with the law.

How big is the business of graft in the country? The Ombudsman’s office claimed that the government lost P1.4 trillion while losing P100 million daily since the office began its job in 1988.

Former President Estrada, on the other hand, reported that P24 billion of the national budget, or twenty percent, was lost to graft in one year of his tenure. Another study reported that no less than 30% of the national budgets end up in the pockets of politicians and government officials.

Since the EDSA revolution, there has been a spate of legislation and executive initiatives to combat graft. Indeed, we are not lacking in the tools to fight this national disgrace.

But we do have one big handi-

cap – that culture of corruption that starts with bribing traffic enforcers, evading taxes, nepotism and votebuying and “gift-giving.” Indeed, we cannot do away with graft in this country if we do not want to do so. Unless the beneficiaries of the pork barrel system – the constituents and contractors --give up their “cuts” or “bukol” and voters stop from selling their votes, the vicious cycle of corruption in this country will never stop. But it all starts from the top. P-Noy must exercise political will and become a role model.

Alright, jail GMA and impeach CJ Corona if found guilty, but let’s start with those found negligent in the Luneta hijacking, the officious official who raided the LTO office and the political adviser who violated the international patent law. After this, let us pick on the most notorious agencies, the customs, and the police. We must ferret out the “hoodlums in robes’” as Erap once described the judiciary. In Congress, let us ferret out the rascals who are suffering from high cholesterol from too much pork and the local government officials who are living off the illicit earnings of jueteng lords and other vices.

In the private sector, let us jail the tax evaders and the bribe givers. Finally, let us look at ourselves in the mirror and sincerely ask the question –am I part of the problem or the solution?

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GOLD NUGGETS IN Catipon, Siaton?

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IATON — Gold dust and small nuggets are reported to be extracted by people in Catipon, Siaton prompting Gov Degamo to suspend all quarrying in the area, to avoid mad rush of people and avert any violence should chaos ensue.

Some people who be- what could be primitively lieve that there are gold extracted are unrefined nuggets in Catipon could gold which could be embe doing free-for-all gold bedded in rocks. Gold is a panning. mineral which could find its But geologists s ay, way in flowing rivers but not gold panning for nuggets in commercial quantity./// and dust is not lucrative as gg.

FBs in 6 haciendas ...

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Keeping the issue in public. Lado (right) leads farmer beneficiaries, who continue to camp outside the offices of the Department of Agrarian Reform to keep their demands seen and heard. spective farms.

FBs from at least six land holdings in Tanjay and Bais Cities are again holding a “Kampo ng Bayan” in front of the provincial office of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Bantayan, Dumaguete City starting Monday with placards urging DAR Undersecretary Narciso Nieto to make good his promise to install them eight months ago.

The FBs that were assisted by the Negros Oriental Center for People Empowerment and Development (NOCPED) thru Praxedes Ocay, were then holding a peaceful picket outside the provincial DAR office from June 30 to July 19, 2011, when Usec Nieto intervened, personally came here and assured them that their demands will be met two to three weeks after they pull out of the area.

The FBs are CARP beneficiaries of the most controversial Polo Plantation in Tanjay which is owned by ex-Senator Rene Espina; Ruben Carballo landholdings in San Miguel Tanjay; Don Gaspar Vicente Inc. i n Arapil es, Novallas, Tanjay; Del Prado Ledesma Inc in Sta. Cruz Viejo, Tanjay;

Mendieta Inunciaga Agricultural Corp in Novallas, Tanjay and Maples Agricultural Corp in Calasgaan, Bais City .

Elias Ramos and Silando Gomez of Pol o Plantation maintained they are against attempts to swap the lands intended for them with other properties that are yet to be identified and without titles.

They said this will take another long and tedious process to the prejudice of the farmers, compared to just install them being CLOA holders already for a long time. The Polo Plantation involves 160 FBs in 410 hectares of land.

The CARP beneficiaries cannot understand why cant DAR install them when they were the ones who issued them CLOAs and with issues already resolved before the Supreme Court.

Lado, president of FBs at the Maples Agricultural Corporation in Calasgaan, Bais City also questioned the endorsement of another petition when it is prohibited under the new CARPER law.

Lado further claimed the petitioners are already CLOA holders themselves.jg

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peddled by their critics, there is no plan expansion of Pier 1 but mere rehabilitation to protect the integrity of the facility and assure the safety of the passengers.

Pier 1 has not seen major repairs even after it sustained major damage last July 8, 2009 and is in immediate danger of possible collapse that would expose the port management to bigger liabilities.

In fact, the PPA is so determined to carry out the multi-million rehabilitation that should the Looc Fishermen, whom they suspected to be “aided by some sectors within the Silliman University community long vociferously opposed to any development of the city port,” succeed in blocking the temporary use of the three breasting dolphins in the reclaimed area of the port, the management is willing to shut down Pier 1 to implement the repairs expected to last several months thereby depriving cargo ships and Superferry of any berthing space.

Breasting d olphins are needed to keep large ships stable while lying anchor since they can no longer be accommodated in Pier 1. The city port has three piers but only Pier 2, servicing smaller vessels like Delta fast ferry and motorized bancas, is in

possession, and Section 12 for the illegal drug paraphernalia.

Criminal Investigation and Detection (CIDG) Dumaguete City head PSInspt Ricky Neron was on hand to arrest the suspect during the joint operation with NBI. In Tanjay City, nabbed during a buy-bust operation at 4:30 in the morning are Roxanne Macasilhig, 18 years old of Bar anga y Azagra ; Ryan Banogon y Calumpang, 24 years old of Palanas, and Mendelson Ma naba n, 32 ye ars old of Ilawod, all of Tanjay city.

They were accused of selling shabu to a police-poseur buyer in Bara ngay Ilaw od, Tanjay City. fine condition as Pier 3 is also due for rehabilitation.

Nevertheless, the port management will await the undersea study expected to be completed in the second week of February to determine if utilizing the breasting dolphins would damage marine life, if there exists at all, or to the seaweeds farm managed by Looc residents before making a final decision on the matter after due consultation with all stakeholders.

(By Dems Demecillo)

Arnaiz ...

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George P. Arnaiz cited his closeness to former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and the long hiatus of his trial practice as the two main reasons for his decision to decline the offer to be part of the panel whose head, Ilo-ilo Congressman Neil Tupas has been repeatedly scolded or lectured by the Senator-judges for being unprepared.

“It will not look good if a known ally of former President Arroyo like myself will prosecute an official who was impeached fo r hi s su pposed clo seness with her,” said Arnaiz.

He added that aside from him, the House leadership also tried to get the services of Congressmen Rufus Rodriguez (Cagayan De Oro), Rodante Marcoleta (Alagad Party-list )and Edcel Lagman of Albay who are known to be good lawyers but retreated when the three opposed the articles of impeachment versus Corona.

Arnaiz was joined by Congressmen Pryde Henry Teves (3 rd District ) and Jocel yn Limkaichong (1st District) in signing the articles of impeachment against t he Supreme Court Chief Justice. However, all three insist that signing is not synonymous to declaring Corona guilty but simply to indicate that based on the evidences presented “there is probable cause that Corona did commit impeachable offenses as alleged and nothing more.”

(By Dems Demecillo)

charged to the “quick response fund” when its nature falls under “preparations and mitigation for disaster.”

Mayor Sagar barr ia e xplained to the CHRONICLE thr ough Finance Committee Chair JV Imbo that it was a judgment call at that very moment of emergency need, the old city backhoe was under repair and the city needed to uproot and remove major debris blocking str eets and canals in Dumaguete.

This backhoe mayor explained was intended for Basay by supplier BigFoot. But the city prevailed upon supplier to sell it first to Dumaguete who needed it the most.

The city government has P12-M in quick response fund including accumulated QRFs in 2010-2011. It has P22.9M for preparedness and risk mitigation funds for the purchase of preparatory matters before a disaster occurs.

The LGU is allowed to accumulate un-used quick response fund QRF for the next five years, hence, the surplus.

The calamity fund is 5% of the P 450 million annual budget of the city. Out of that 5%, seventy percent of that goes to preparation and mitigation while the thirty percent of the calamity fund goes to QRF. City Accountant Doreen Cordova said that administration used P 5, 580, 000 of the P 6 million 2010 QRF while the city utilized nearly P 3.6 million from the 2011 P 6 million QRF for rehabilitation and improvement of affected government infrastructure; relief operations and services leaving a P 4 million balance.

Meanwhile, the city also received P 6.1 million in cash assistance from various donor agencies, Local Government Units and politicians, the latest of whom being Senator Teofisto Guingona extending P 1 million aid from his office. Administration officials assure that the monetary aid is intact and is deposited in trust. Some city Councilors lament that while Dumaguete has funds at its disposal there remains a glaring absence of a sound and practicable anti-disaster management plan.

Witness ...

From page 1 among others that : His confession of Dec 2, 2011 was not translated to him in the dialect and that such was prepared by another person “meticulously tailored to implicate several persons majority of whom I do not know;” His life was endanger at that time if he did not sign th 9-page confession; That he does not know Mauricio Soco, nor Bobong Tanasan, and only knows BM Arnie Teves by name and not personally; that he denies any participation in the shooting of Bayawan cit y co unci lor Victoriano Cheng Alabastro nor has he any knowledge on the plan to kill Alabastro; In the information sheet, charged fo r the murder of Larena , lead prosecutor Atty Alex Villanueva said that the pre trial will start within two weeks and the trial proper will follow.

10M reloc ...

From page 7 erties, jobs and income. The vetoed items are held in abeyance pending res olution of the Honorable Sanggunian on the veto message of the Local Chief Executive.

Rosales said that among the important items that the mayor is also very much concerned with is the deletion of the Environment and Natural Resources Admin/ Operation and Management Program, in the proposed Executive Budget, a very important Program responsible for environment preservation and protection at these times of climate change. Without the Program, which has a proposed budget of P200,000.00, the LGU’s environmental preservation and protection activities shall come to a halt.

Mayor Bartoces thus, is resolute that her proposed Executive Budget be approved in full.

Macias tops...

From page 2 top with 4 each.

In contrast, Councilor Nilo Duran Sayson recorded the highest attendance by being actually present in 43. He was on Official Business in the 2 sessions that he was physically absent from the deliberations. The following are the councilors with their respective record of attendance: Joe Kenneth Arbas and Manuel Arbon were present in 42 of the 45 sessions; Franklin Esmena present in 41 sessions; Vice-Mayor Alan Gel Cordova, Jo se Victo r Imbo, Esperidion Catan and Danilo Teves Leon present in 40 sessions; ex-officio Councilors ABC President Albert Aquino and SK Federation P resid ent C yrine Lee Mapili present in 39 sessions; De Jesus, 38; and Antonio Remollo, 37 of 45 sessions.

Arbas, a practicing lawyer, appears to be tardiest among the councilors for being late in 22 of the 45 sessions. Remollo and De Jesus were late in 11 sessions. The most punctual of the 13-member Council are Catan and Cordova with no rec orded tardiness throughout the year.

Of the 17 special session called by the City Council to tackle issues that require urgent response Teves-Leon registered a perfect attendance followed by Cordova with 16 and Aquino, Sayson, Catan who attended 15 special sessions. SK President Mapili, a student, attended only 6 of the 17 special sessions.

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Police arrest ... From page 1

The PNP local chief said his marching orders fro m Pres.

NoyNoyAquino and DILG Sec. Jessie Robredo is to arrest, indict, and cause the conviction of those responsible in the series of extrajudicial killings in Negros Oriental. He also intimated that those against the order, are batting for his transfer.

So far, a total of five suspected gun-for-hire personalities in Negros Oriental have been neutralized with the arrest of two more last Sunday following a search in their respec tive res idences in Malabugas, Bayawan City over the weekend.

Booked for illegal possession of explosives is Jasper Tanasan, also known as “Bobong” and Pazzito Libron for illegal possession of firearms and explosives.

Recovered from Tanasan”s residence was a hand grenade and two firearms, a Cal. 357 revolver and Cal. 45 pistol. He was however, able to present a gun license for the two firearms.

On the other hand, recovered from Libron’s residence were an M-16 rifle with 7 magazines containing 181 rounds of ammunition, a barrel for cal. 45 pistol, a rifle grenade, empty magazine for shotgun, a licensed 9 MM pistol with 26 live ammunition, spent shells, among others.

Both Tanasan and Libron are co-accused in the Alabastro frustrated murder case together with Herman Esco ra and Antho ny Luterio, now under custody, and two others who are still at large.

The three others, namely.

Herman Escora, Anthony Luterio, are detained at the PNP headquarters in Agan-an, Sibulan while Rio Siason was detained at the Basay municipal jail for murder.

Escora, Luterio, Tanasan and Libron are reunited but placed in two separate cells at the police headquarters.

RAIDING TEAM : PNP provincial director PSrSupt Eduard Carrranza said the joint raiding team was led by his deputy for operations PSupt Alet

PAZZITO LIBRON, one of the arrested suspects appears to have a license for his firearm which is now being verified if authentic at all, per records of the PNP master files.

Virtucio and composed of the Special Operations Group, Provincial Intelligence Branch, Provincial Public Safety Company and the National Bureau of Investigatin.

According to Virtucio, the team recovered the bolt carrier assembly of the M-16 from the exhaust pipe leading to the septic tank.

He said the bolt carrier assembly is so important in prosecuting the case of frustrated murder against the suspects, filed by Bayawan City councilor Atty Victoriano Alabastro.

Virtucio said the police will be requesting the courts for a cross matching and ballistics examination of the recovered bolt carrier assembly.

The case against them are pending before the provincial prosecutors office due to failure to reach them by subpoena. Now that they are arrested, the police is requesting the fiscal’s office that they will be the one to serve the subpoena.

JOB WELL DONE Gov. Roel Degamo lauded the efforts of the police in addressing the peace and order concerns of the province, especially with the arrest of two suspected gun-forhires.

He reiterated his all out support to the police in saying their arrest proves that this is not a drama, as earlier branded by other quarters.

Degamo has also directed the police to monitor and investigate the alleged presence of new faces in the first district. He, however, said these new faces could be businessmen who want to establish business in the province.

Republic of the Philippines Province of Negros Oriental Municipality of Dauin BIDS AND AWARDS COMMITTE

INVITATION TO APPLY FOR ELIGIBILITY AND TO BID FOR SUPPLY/ DELIVERY OF MATERIALS ON THE FOLLOWING PROJECT 1. Improvement & Rehabilitation of Municipal Amphi Theater, Tennis Court & Basketball Court 2. Improvement of waterworks system (Construction of 2 units CHB tank with finishing &Fittings) at Bulak, Dauin, Neg. Or. 3. Construction of Water Tank ( Bunga, Dauin, Neg. Or) 4. Sports Development Program (Purchase & Installation of Tempered Laminated Glass) 5. Dauin Integrated Waterwork System (Performance Challenge Fund) 6. Purchase of Scuba Gears & Equipments 7. Purchase of One (1) unit Service Vehicle (Brgy. Lipayo, Dauin, Neg. Or)

20% EDF

P281,870.00

20% EDF 20% EDF

P224,000.00 P273,900.00

PDAF

P 99,900.00

PCF DILG MDRRMF

P999,766.00 P192,716.38 P190,000.00

The Municipal Government of Dauin, Negros Oriental, through the General Fund (GF),20% EDF,PCF(DILG) &MDRRMF intends to apply the sum listed above being the Approved Budget of the contract (ABC) to payments for the delivery of materials of the above listed projects. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at Bid opening.

The Government of Dauin, Negros Oriental now invites sealed Bids from eligible bidders for the delivery of materials/unit for the above projects. Delivery of the same is required by the winning bidder/bidders. The qualification of an eligible Bidder is contained in Section II of the Bidding Documents, ITB. Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedure using nondiscretionary pass/fail criteria as specified in the Implementing Rules & Regulations PART A (IRR-A) of Republic Act. No. 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known as the Government Procurement Reform Act and is restricted to organizations with at least sixty percent (60%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines, as specified in Republic Act 5183 (RA 5183). Only Bids from Bidders who pass the eligibility check will be opened.

The process for the eligibility check is described in Section II of the Bidding documents ITB. The bidder with the Lowest Calculated Bid (LBC) shall advance to the post-qualification stage in order to finally determine his responsiveness to the technical and financial requirements of the project. The contract shall then be awarded to the Lowest Calculated and Responsive Bidder (LCRB) determined during the post-qualification procedure.

Interested bidders may obtain further information from the Municipal Government of Dauin, Negros Oriental and inspect the Bidding Document at the address given below during office hours from 9:00 in the morning up to 5:00 in the afternoon.

A complete set of Bidding Documents will be purchased by interested Bidders from office of the Municipal Treasurer of a non-refundable amount of P500 per project cost and P1,000.oo on the Dauin Integrated Waterwork System Project(PCF). The method of payment will be in cash. The prospective Bidder or his authorized representative shall receive the Bidding Documents personally on February 09-13, 2012 during office hours.

Bids and eligibility requirements must be delivered to the address below on or before February 15, 2012. All bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security in the form of cash or a security bond. Late Bids shall not be accepted.

Bid opening shall be on February 15, 2012 at 2:00 in the afternoon at the Municipal Conference Hall, Dauin, Negros Oriental. Bids will be opened in the presence of the Bidders’ representative.

The Municipal Government of Dauin, Negros Oriental reserves the right to reject any bid, and to annul the bidding process at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected Bidder or Bidders.

MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF DAUIN, NEGROS ORIENTAL BIDS AND AWARDS COMMITTEE ROMER A. DELFINO BAC Chairman Municipal Government of Dauin, Negros Oriental Tel. no L 035 400-5272/09173005887;e-mail @lgudauin@yahoo.com

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February 5, 2012

Son of ex-mayor in drug buy-bust

By Juancho Rodriguez son of an ex-mayor in the municipality of Bindoy, Negros Oriental is in hot wa ter following an anti-drug operation early this morning in front of a food chain in Dumaguete.

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Nabbed during a buybust operation are Michael Manaay, resident of San Antonio Village, Sibulan, and Nessil “Bimbo ” Ceriales, 36 years old, married of Pulantubig this city.

Philipine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) provincial director Rayford Yap said the buy-bust operation was an offshoot to an earlier buy-bust operation conducted jointly by the police, the Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs team, and PDEA in Tanjay City .

Confiscated from the two were one sachet which is the subject of the buy-bust operation, and another medium-size sachet with a street value of P12,000 was recovered from their possession including the weighing scale and other illegal drug paraphernalia.

They will be charged with violating Section 5 which is non-bailable, Section 11 for possession, and Section 12 for the illegal drug paraphernalia. Criminal Investigation and Detection ( CIDG) Dumaguete City head PSInspt Ricky Neron was on hand to arrest the suspect during the joint operation with NBI. In Tanjay City, nabbed during a buy-bust operation at 4:30 in the morning were Roxanne Macasilhig, 18 year s old of b ar an gay Azagra; Ryan Banogon y Calumpang, 24 years old of Palanas; an d Mendelson Manaban, 32 years old of Ilawod, all of Tanjay city.

They were accused of selling shabu to a police-poseur b uyer in Barangay Ilawod, Tanjay city.jg