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Committee on OFWs Firm to launch solarAffairs, ‘naagaw’ ni powered low-cost Briones kay Pacquiao housing projects >>>NEWS....P/2

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P70-m fishport ng Laurel, pinetisyon ng 4 na kagawad >>>NEWS....P/3

“TAPOS man o hindi, tinitiyak po natin na mapasisinayaan ang bagong munisipyo ng Bauan sa Disyembre o bago matapos ang taong 2015. Iyan po an g aming masisigurong magandang papasko sa aming mga kababayan.” Ito ang mariing pahayag ni Mayor Ryahn M. Dolor sa mga mamahayag bilang tugon sa mga katanungan ukol sa matagal na pagkabalam ng konstruksiyon ng municipal hall ng bayan ng Bauan. >>>POLITICAL WILL....sundan sa P/2

Political Will. Tapos na tapos man o hindi, tiyak na pasisinayaan

ng pamahalaang bayan ng Bauan ang bagong munisipyo nito sa buwan ng Disyembre 2015. ito ang tiniyak ni Mayor Ryahn M. Dolor sa pagdinig ng Comittee on Appropriation at Committee on Laws, Rules and Ordinances ng Sangguniang Panlalawigan kaugnay ng pagutang ng Bauan sa Development Bank of the Philippines ng kabuuang 187.3-milyon para sa konstruksiyon ng munisipyo at iba pang proyekto ng munisipyo.| JOENALD MEDINA RAYOS

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Chairmanship ng Committee on OFWs, ‘naagaw’ ni Briones kay Pacquiao BAGAMAN sariwa pa man ang pagkatalo ni Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao sa laban nito kay Floyd Mayweather Jr., muli na namang natalo ang pambansang kamao nitong nakalipas na linggo. Ito’y ang pagkabigo niyang makuha ang chairmanship ng Committee on Overseas Workers’ Affairs, isang mahalagang komite sa Mababang Kapulungan.

Noong kabilang linggo, sinabi ni Bayan Muna Partylist Rep. Neri Colmenares, na si Pacquiao ang naging de facto head ng Committee on Overseas Worker’s Affairs, na binitiwan ng dating chairman nito na si Akbayan Rep. Walden Bello noong Marso 11.

Ngunit nitong nakalipas na linggo, tuluyan ngang nabigo si Pacquiao na makuha ang chairmanship ng komite matapos itong masungkit ni Agricultural Alliance of the Philippines (AGAP) Party-List representative Nicanor Briones ang

naturang posisyon. Ayon sa liderato ng Kamara, mas pinaboran ang pagbibigay ng posisyon kay Briones dahil sa madalas na hindi pagdalo sa sesyon ni Pacquiao.

Sa pagtanggap ng chairmanship, sinabi ni Briones na handa siyang magtrabaho ng lubos para sa kapakanan ng mga kababayang OFWs at mapatunayan niyang karapat-dapat siya sa posisyong ipinagkatiwa sa kaniya ng liderato ng Kamara at ng mamamayang Pilipino.

Nauna rito, sinabi ni Colmenares, mula sa minorya, na ang status ni Pacquiao bilang pangunahing vice chairman ng komite ay awtomatikong nagtatalaga sa kanya bilang acting chairman hanggang sa makapili ang liderato ng Kongreso ng kapalit ni Bello.

“I am going to write a letter to Congressman Manny, as acting chair of the Committee na sana huwag na muna siyang magpahinga

Inter-Island News

By JOMAR PARAN

Biometrics ng mga botante ng Occ. Mindoro, kinukumpleto na

MAGKASAMANG humarap kamakailan sa mga mamamahayag sina AGAP representative Nikki Briones at anak na si PCL-Batangas president Kaye Biones.| BALIKAS PHOTO pagkatapos ng laban niya, i- Pacquiao kay Indonesian hear na lang sana niya ang President Joko Widodo resolution especially since upang isalba ang buhay ni wala na siyang gagawin after Veloso, 30, na ipinagpaliban this fight,” sinabi ni Colme- nitong Miyerkules ang itinaknares sa isang press con- dang pagsalang sa firing ference. squad. Hinatulan siya ng Tinukoy ng mambabatas kamatayan noong 2010 sa ang House Resolution (HR) pagpupuslit ng 2.6 kilo ng 2042, na humihimok sa heroin sa Yogyakarta. partikular na House panel na Samantala, pinaplano imbestigahan, in aid of umano ng Kamara na bumuo legislation, ang kaso ng ng isa pang Committee on nahatulan na Pinoy “drug Sports para pamunuan ni mule” na si Mary Jane Veloso. Pacuiao.| Noong Lunes, umapela si JOENALD MEDINA RAYOS

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Bagong munisipyo ng Bauan, pasisinayaan na sa Disyembre Ayon sa alkalde, hindi kaagad nairelease ang loan ng munisipyo sa DBP sapagkat nagkaroon ng bagong panuntunan ang DILG ukol sa pag-apruba ng mga loans o pagkakautang ng mga local government units (LGUs).

Nabatid na batay sa huling pamantayan ng DILG, kailangang bukod sa dating Seal of Good Housekeeping, kailangang mayroon ding Seal of Good Governance batay sa sound financial management ng isang LGU na batay naman sa full disclosure ng partikular na munisipyo.

22, 2015 ang Ordinansa Blg. 15-04-0070 na nabibigay otorisasyon kay Mayor Dolor na lumagda sa isang loan agreement sa DBP para sa isang loan package na may kabuuang halagang mahigit isandaan at walumput pitong milyong piso (P187,393,600.00) para pondohan ang mga pangunahing proyektong pang-imprastraktura ng munisipyo.

Noon namang Mayo 6, 2015, pinagtibay ng Sangguniang Bayan ng Bauan ang ordinansa Blg. 15-04-0071 upang ratipikahan ang Terms and

Preserved landmark. Hindi kasama sa ginibang lumang munisipyo ang facade nito upang mapanatili ang tatak ng kasaysayan ng pamahalaang bayan ng Bauan.| DHALENZ LANDICHO

Ani Mayor Dolor, aprubado na rin ng Development Bank of the Philippines ang naturang loan ngunit kailangan lamang makapagsumite ng mga bagong papeles muna sa munisipyo upang makuha ang go signal ng Monetary Board ng Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) parta sa maipalabas ng DBP ang naturang loan.

Nitong nakalipas na Lunes, humarap sa joint hearing ng Committeee on Apropriation at Committee on Laws, Rules and Ordinances ng Sangguniang Panlalawigan sina Mayor Dolor, Vice Mayor Bojie Casapao, mga kagawad at ilang department heads ng pamahalaang bayan ng Bauan kaugnay ng pinoprosesong loan package ng munisipyo sa DBP. Nauna rito, pinagtibay ng Sangguniang Bayan ng Bauan noong Abril

Conditions ng Loan Agreement ng munisipyo at ng DBP. Mula sa kabuuang P187,393,600 na uutangin sa DBP, P172,251,00 nito ay itutustos sa pagpapatuloy ng konstruksiyon ng municipal hall; P5-milyon ay para sa pagbili ng isang bagong fire truck; P5-milyon para sa furnitures and fixtures; samantalang ang nalalabing P5,142,00 ay laan sa site development ng munisipyo.

Binigyang-diin ni Mayor Dolor na batay sa ipinalabas na sertipikasyon ng DILG, pinapayagan ang pamahalaang bayan ng Bauan na umutang ng hanggang P286-milyon batay sa kakayahan nitong bayaran; ngunit umaabot lamang sa P187.393 milyon ang inuutang nito sa DBP. Tiniyak naman ng Office of the Provincial Planning and Development

Coordinator (OPPDC) na may kaukulang 2015 Annual Investment Plan na naisumite ang munisipyo kung saan nakapaloob ang mga proyektong popondohan ng loan package.

Ayon pa kay Mayor Dolor, maluwag na mababayaran ng munisipyo ang loan package sa loob ng 15 taon mula sa Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) ng munisipyo. Ngayong taong 2015, may P110-milyong IRA ang bayan ng Bauan, samantalang P126-milyon naman ang inaasahang tatanggapin nitong IRA sa taong 2016.

Lone oppositor Sa naturan ding pagdinig, sinabi ni Vice Mayor Casapao na tanging si Kagawad Yanille A. Dalangin lamang ang kaisa-isahang kagawad na hindi pumabor sa pakapagpasa ng ordinansang nagbigay-daan sa pagpapatuloy ng pag-utang sa DBP at pagpapagawa ng munisipyo ng Bauan sa paniwalang kayang maipasa gawa ang municipal hall kahit hindi umutang ang pamahalaang bayan, gayong hindi naman nabanggit kung saan maaaring kuhanin ang pondo para rito.

Sina Kagawad William Abrahan at Kagawad Herminio M. Dolor ang siyang umakda sa naturang ordinansa; samantalang buong sinuportahan naman nina Councilors Rommel Basilan, Ava Beatrice Jackqueline Talag, Kelvin Rex Gimeno at Ronald Cruzat na dumalo rin sa pagdinig ng Sangguniang Panlalawigan.

Taong 2011 nagsimula ang demolisyon ng lumang munisipyo ngunit itinira ang façade o mukha ng dating gusali upang mai-preserve ang historical aspect ng munisipyo.

“Dito po sa itinatayong bagong gusali, ay magkakaroon ng adjustment upang mai-connect yung lumang façade sa disenyo ng modernong new municipal hall,” saad ni Municipal Engineer Sebastian Catral, ang pinuno ng construction committee.

Hanggang sa sandaling sinusulat ang balitang ito, nasa 40% na ng municipal hall ang natatapos sa ngayon.

MAMBURAO, Occ. Mindoro – Patuloy ang isinasagawang satellite registration ng Commission on Elections (Comelec) sa mga barangay ng 11 bayan upang makumpleto ang biometrics ng mga botante sa lalawigang ito.

Ayon kay Allan Servando, Comelec Provincial Election Assistant, ang pagkuha ng biometrics ng mga rehistradong botante at magpaparehistro pa lamang ay base sa Republic Act (RA) 10367. “Sa biometrics, kinukuha natin ang finger print, digital signature at picture ng ating mga botante” ayon kay Servando.

Ipinaliwanag din ni Servando na ang mga botanteng wala o kulang ang biometrics ay aalisin sa listahan ng mga maaring bumoto sa May 2016 election.

Ang pagkukumpleto ng biometrics na sinimulan noong Mayo 2014 ay hanggang Oktubre 31 na lamang.

“Sa darating na Hulyo 27, inaatasan kami (Comelec) na magpadala ng liham sa mga kulang at walang biometrics upang ipaalam sa kanila na madideactivate ang kanilang pangalan sa listahan ng mga pwedeng bumoto” pahayag ni Servando.

Pagsapit ng Nobyembre 27 ay isasagawa ang election registration board kung saan didinggin ang mga kaso ng wala at kulang ang biometrics. “Lilinisin na ang listahan ng mga botante para sa 2016 election”, ayon pa kay Servando.

Ang pagkuha ng biometrics ay isang pamamamaraan ng Comelec bilang solusyon sa dating mga kaso ng pandaraya tuwing eleksyon gaya ng double registration. Dinadala na ng Comelec ang kanilang tanggapan sa mga liblib na barangay upang masegurong hindi maipagkakait sa mga mamamayan ang kanilang karapatan na pumili ng karapatdapat mamuno sa bayan.| VOLTAIRE DEQUINA .....................................................................................................

Alternative Learning System sa Or. Mindoro, nakalikom ng pondo CALAPAN, Or. Mindoro – Umabot sa P500 libo ang ipinagkaloob ng Emerging Power Inc. (EPI) sa Arnold Janssen Catholic Foundation Inc. (AJCFI) para sa programang Alternative Learning System (ALS)-Abot Alam Program kamakailan.

Kaugnay nito, isang Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) ang nilagdaan sa pagitan ng pamunuan ng EPI at AJCFI na pinangunahan nina EPI Project Manager Engr. Fidel S. Correa at AJCFI Executive Director Rev. Fr. Jerome Marquez.

Matatandaang tumutulong ang EPI sa pagtataguyod ng mga katulad na proyekto sa mga komunidad sa lalawigan. Ang AJCFI naman ay isang churchbased organization na matagal nang nagiging katuwang ng Department of Education (DepEd) sa pagtataguyod ng ALS program. Mayroon ngayong 98 ALS centers ang itinataguyod ng AJCFI sa mga lalawigan ng Cavite, Palawan at National Capital Region.

Layunin ng proyekto na matulungan ang mga out of school aged children, out of school youth at illiterate adults at ang mga katutubo na magkaroon ng pagkakataong makapagtapos ng kanilang pag-aaral sa pamamagitan ng ALS at Indigenous Learning System (ILS).

Samantala, binigyang-diin ni AJCFI Executive Director Rev. Father Marquez na nakabase ang proyektong ito sa konsepto ng Abot Alam Program kung saan hindi lamang natatapos ang pag-aaral sa elementarya at sekondarya, kundi ang oportunidad na matutunan ang iba pang kasanayan at tsansang makapagtrabaho.

Siniguro ng EPI na patuloy silang aagapay sa mga mamamayan lalo na sa suportang maaari nilang maipagkaloob sa pagtataguyod ng mga programang pang-edukasyon tulad ng ALS Abot Alam Program ng DepEd.|

Ang bagong gusali ay may tatlong (3) palapag na may dagdag pang roofdeck para sa multi-purpose use. Kasama rin sa itinatayong munisipyo ang pambayang himpilan ng pulisya, ngunit mananatili pa arin ang sub-station sa parke

sa sentro ng Poblacion.

Samantala ay nananatili namang normal ang transaksyon sa pansamantalang munisipyo sa Bauan Technical High School compound.| JOENALD MEDINA RAYOS at DHALENZ R. LANDICHO

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P70-m fishport ng Laurel, pinetisyon ng 4 na kagawad LAUREL, Batangas -- mga ito ang umano’y sa komite at pinagtibay pa rin Kasalukuyang dinidinig ng maanomalyang pakapagpasa ang ordinansa.

Hindi rin anila viable ang Sangguniang Panlalawigan ng isang ordinansang ng Batangas ang isang nagbigay otorisasyon kay magtayo ng ganoon kalaking petisyong inihain ng apat (4) Laurel mayor Randy James fishport sapagkat walang na kagawad ng Sangguniang Amo para makautang sa katiyakang masasambot nito Bayan ng Laurel ukol sa pag- Land Bank of the Philippines ang gagastusin sa kosntrukutang ng kanilang bayan ng P70-milyon para sa siyon sapagkat may fishport sa ilang kalapit bayan na upang tustusan ang pagpapatayo ng fishport. pagpapagawa ng isang Anang mga nagpetisyon, kung hindi man libre ay fishport dito. hindi dapat naipasa ang lubhang napakababa ng Sa 7-pahinang petisyong ordinansa sapagkat hindi singil.

Samantala, nabatid na si PINANGUNAHAN ni Goverinihain nina Councilors naman ito tuwirang nakaKagawad Endaya ay nagba- nor V ilma Santos Recto Vincent D. Endaya, Romulo pasa sa committee level dahil P. Macaraig, Marivic A. hindi pumabor ang mayoriya balak tumakbong alkalde sa ang Recognition Ceremony Mayuga at Marvin M. ng komite, ngunit sa kabila May 2016 elections.| ng mga scholar graduates, Vergara, kinukuwestyon ng nito ay pinalabas na nakapasa JOENALD MEDINA RAYOS sa ilalim ng Batangas ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................

BPSP scholars na nagsipagtapos, kinilala

Batangas, unang binisita ng bagong talagang PRO 4A RD MATAPOS ng kanyang assumption of ang kanyang adhikaing mapalawig ang rehiyon. Ipinagmalaki rin ni Albano sa office noong ika-27 ng Abril ay agad kaayusan sa lalawigan at maging ang mga mamamahayag ang summary of nagkaroon ng command visit ang buong rehiyon sa pamamagitan ng accomplishment report na naglalaman bagong talagang regional director ng pagtutulungan ng Pamahalaang ng magandang rekord ng Batangas sa Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Panlalawigan, Batangas PNP at pagpapasatupad ng kanilang anticriminality campaigns gaya ng Oplan Rizal, Quezon) na si Police Chief kanyang tanggapan.

Superintendent Richard Albano sa Sinundan ito ng arrival honors sa Lambat Sibat, Oplan Checkmate, Oplan lalawigan ng Batangas.

Batangas Police Provincial Office Parade Bakal/Sita, Oplan Katok at service of Mula sa pagiging Quezon City Police Ground kung saan sinalubong si RD search warrants.

District director, nahirang si PCSUPT Albano ng Batangas PNP provincial Ayon pa sa report, kasalukuyang Albano na umupo sa pinamakataas na director na si PSSUPT Omega Jireh nasa pangangalaga nila ang 26 na confiscated firearms, 186.54 gramong posisyon sa Philippine National Police Deocares Fidel.

(PNP) Region IV-A bilang bahagi ng Isang maikling programa at cere- shabu, 1.35 gramong marijuana, 47 reshuffle sa nasabing ahensya. Ang monial awarding ang naganap matapos naarestadong tao na may kinalaman sa nangyaring revamp ay inaprubahan ng nito at doon ay pinarangalan ng medalya droga, 52 naarestong most wanted National Police Commission matapos at komendasyon ang 13 Police Com- persons at 528 na na-impound na matanggap ang rekomendasyon mula missioned Officers at Police Non-Com- motorsiklo.

Bago matapos ang araw ay nagdaos sa PNP Senior Officers Placement and missioned Officers na namumukodPromotion Board. tangi ang sebisyo sa bayan at naging din ng command conference para magAt sa pagbisita ni Albano sa daan upang matagumpay na mai-turn- bigay-daan sa peace and order briefing, Batangas, agad siyang nagtungo sa over ang mga nakumpiskang armas at open forum at guidance talk na dinaluKapitolyo para sa kanyang courtesy call droga mula sa operasyon sa Calaca. han hindi lamang nina Albano, Fidel at kay Governor Vilma Santos Recto na Sa isang press conference tinalakay mga hepe ng pulis kung hindi ng lahat agad naman pinaunlakan ang kanilang ang mga expectations sa magiging ng bumubuo sa BPPO.| KRISTINA MARIE JOY B. ANDAL unang pagkikita. Ipinabatid ni Albano pamumuno ni Albano sa kapulisan sa ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................

AIDS Candle Light Memorial Isinagawa sa Lalawigan BATANGAS City – Nagsagawa ang lalawigan ng Batangas ng Nationwide Candle Light Memorial para sa pagalaala at pakikiramay sa mga naging biktima ng AIDS sa buong bansa bilang pakikiisa sa direktibang inilabas ng Department of Health na nagtatakda sa ika-17 Mayo bilang memorial day para sa AIDS sa buong bansa.

Mismong si Batangas Governor Vilma Santos Recto ang namuno sa candle light memorial kaisa ang Sangguniang Panlalawigan na pinangunahan ni Vice Governor Mark Leviste, Department Heads at buong kawanihan ng pamahalaang panlalawigan sa sabay–sabay na pagsisindi ng kandila kasabay ang “AIDS ribbon

unfurling” na sama-samang itinaas at hinawakan ng mga kawani ng kapitolyo.

Pagpapakita ito ng pagdadalamhati at pag-alaala ng pamahalaang panlalawigan sa mga kababayang pumanaw na at gayun din sa mga indibidwal na kasalukuyang sumasailalim sa matinding pagsubok bunga ng HIV infection.

Ang candle memorial ay isang aktibidad na isinagawa ng DOH bilang parte ng kanilang adbokasiya sa pagpapalaganap ng AIDS awareness ganun na rin ang pagpapakita ng pagsuporta sa adhikain ng DOH na alisin ang stigma o ang masamang persepsyon sa pagsailalim ng isang indibidwal sa HIV testing.

Matatandaan na inilunsad ng DOH

ang National HIV Testing Week (NHTW) noong nakaraang Mayo 11-15 upang hikayatin ang mga indibidwal na sumailalim sa ganitong paraan ng pagsusuri upang agarang malaman, matugunan at matulungan ang isang indibdwal na makikitang positibo sa HIV. Ayon sa medical statistics ng DOH, mataas ang porsyento ng mga indibidwal na makuha ang HIV kung ang mga ito ay nagsasagawa o may partisipasyon sa mga sumusunod; males who have sex with males (MSM) o pakikipagtalik sa kapwa lalaki at ang pag gamit ng illegal drugs sa pamamagitan ng pagtuturok o people who injected drugs (PWID).| EDWIN V. ZABARTE

Province Scholarship Program (BPSP), na nagsipagtapos ngayong Academic Year 2014-2015.

Kasama ang mga kasapi ng Sangguniang Panlalawigan, sa pangunguna ni Vice Gov. Mark Leviste at Bokal Caloy Bolilia, binigyan ni Gov. Vi ng medal ang mga mag-aaral na nagkamit ng karangalan sa kanilang pagtatapos. Ang mga scholars ay nagmula sa iba’t ibang unibersidad at pamantasan sa lalawigan.

May 167 scholars ang

nakatapos sa kolehiyo, pito (7) dito ang nagkamit ng karangalang Magna Cum Laude at apatnapu’tapat (44) ang nagkamit ng karangalang Cum Laude.

Tampok din sa programa ang pagbibigay ng testimonials at pasasalamat ng mga nauna nang mga graduates na ngayon ay maayos at matagumpay nang nagtatrabaho, gayundin ang pasasalamat ng mga iskolar na nagsipagtapos ngayong taon at ng kanilang mga magulang.| ELFIE ILUSTRE

Ride towards peaceful and healthy community THE Batangas Police Provincial Office headed by Police Senior Superintendent Omega Jireh D. Fidel, Provincial Director, together with his Command and Staff, stakeholders and other bike enthusiasts bike together today, May 22, 2015.

The bike ride dubbed as “Batangueño: Padyak Para sa Serbisyong Totoo” started from Camp Gen. Miguel C Malvar at about 5:00 AM, with more or less 243 participants. The route takes the riders along the National Highway of Batangas City, Barangays Bolbok, Balagtas, Poblacion, and Tabangao.

Through biking, all participants showcased their concerted efforts in working together for peace.

After bicycling, participants planted seedlings of fruit-bearing and hard wood trees inside the Camp premises. Said activities promote the spirit of solidarity among bikers and at the same time, it aimed for a healthier and peaceful Batangas.|

PUNO para sa Kapayapaan, itinanim ng pulisBatangas.|

Cabalen Opens at SM City Lipa CABALEN restaurant recently opened its 16th branch in the Philippines and the second in the Calabarzon area at the second floor of the annex building of SM City Lipa. With an array of sumptuous authentic Filipino cuisine, patrons will be treated to a special fiesta-like atmosphere from appetizers, to main dishes and of course dessert.

For 28 years, the Cabalen chain of restaurants has been the standard for excellent Filipino cuisine. Combining the freshest ingredients and the most stringent quality control, Cabalen has kept its patrons coming back for more

through the consistency in taste and quality of its dishes served in the buffet.

Cabalen family started in 1974 in San Fernando, Pampanga as a small BahayPasalubong Restaurant selling specialty food dishes, then grew into a restaurant called “Ituro Mo, IlutoKo”.

In 1986, the first Cabalen Eat-allyou-Can, Eat-all-you-Want Restaurant was opened in West Avenue, Quezon City that ushered the expansion to more outlets. Gradually it became the most popular buffet restaurant in the Philippines.| ADVT.

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THIS is the challenge of Easter. Christ’s resurrection has reopened the gates of heaven and has given us a way to enter it. With his rising from the dead, we are given a new life. We are now a new creation, a new man because the eternal curse of sin and death was undone with Christ’s passion and death.

But it’s up to us to receive this ineffably tremendous divine offer or reject it. And if we receive it, to develop and care for it, because even if God has given us everything to be what he wants us to be, we always have to correspond to that offer with our freedom, whose proper language is love.

That’s why we have to understand that Easter challenges us to correspond to the new life Christ has given us. Are we ready for it? Are we willing to accept it and to assume the responsibilities inherently attached to it?

In this regard, St. Paul gave us a relevant piece of advice: “Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.” (1 Cor 5,7) These words certainly have reference to the Jewish feast of the Passover when the Israelites were delivered from bondage. It was a practice that involved purging the old leaven they had and offering a spotless lamb as sacrifice.

This Passover feast has become a precursor of Easter when we are supposed to cleanse ourselves from our old man to receive the new life offered to us by the risen Christ, the new paschal sacrifice that is most pleasing and acceptable to God. Easter or the resurrection of Christ, the fruit of the cross, replaces and perfects the old sacrifice. It has the power to forgive us of our sins, and not just to cleanse us externally, which was what the old sacrifice could only achieve. The spotless lamb is replaced by Christ, the “Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.”

We can take Easter as the occasion to be more aware of the need to purge ourselves of the old leaven. We have to be aware that through the year, whether intentionally or unintentionally, we acquire many kinds of the old and undesirable leaven.

We have the leaven of the world, for one, that may be represented by the new technologies and other new worldly things that can be very exciting, but can only feed, if we are not careful, our self-indulgence and selfcenteredness, instead of enhancing what is proper to us—our love for God and love for neighbor.

This leaven can so mesmerize our intelligence or our feelings and emotions and our entire bodily organism that it can become an addiction, desensitizing us to our need to be with God and with others always.

Nowadays, many people especially the young are hooked on drugs, sex, games, etc. Withdrawal from them has become almost impossible.

Our other worldly concerns and affairs, like our business and politics, can also produce such old leaven that can give us certain perks and advantages and convenience, but just the same can only swell our ego. This is actually a very formidable foe because this kind of mindset is the mainstream at present.

Of course, we have the usual leaven of the flesh that can lead us to a variety of anomalies like pride, vanity, greed, envy, lust, sloth and the like.

But what is important to realize is that our process of dying to ourselves, which is what purging the old leaven would mean, should simultaneously correspond to our need to rise with Christ, imitating him, identifying ourselves with him in all things.

We can only purge ourselves of the old leaven to the extent that we leaven ourselves with Christ, increasingly knowing, loving and serving him, that would always redound to knowing, loving and serving others, and everyone else.

We need to spread this good news around because many are still ignorant of it, or if not completely ignorant, are still at sea as to how we can purge ourselves of the old leaven and leaven ourselves with Christ.

Actually the leaven of Christ is presented to us as the unleavened bread of life, meaning purged of worldly and bodily leaven. And as Christ himself said, to get this leaven of his, which is unleavened of worldly things, we need to deny ourselves and carry the cross.

We need to love the cross to be able to have the new life offered to us by Christ.|

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Media and Elections; Expanding the Discourse Part 2 of 3-Part Series [Keynote Address during the 19th National Press Forum of the Philippine Press Institute held at the Diamond Hotel, May 15, 2016.]

THE next questions are: What is social justice? What is human development? Where have we failed? What do we need to do?

What is Social Justice?

Social justice in the 1987 Constitution builds on the concepts of the 1935 and 1973 constitutions that “[t]he State shall promote social justice in all phases of national development.” However, in contrast to previous constitutions, it elaborated the concept in a separate article (Article XIII), which defines “social justice” in Section 1, to wit — Section 1. The Congress shall give highest priority to the enactment of measures that protect and enhance the right of all the people to human dignity, reduce social, economic, and political inequalities, and remove cultural inequities by equitably diffusing wealth and political power for the common good.

To this end, the State shall regulate the acquisition, ownership, use and disposition of property and its increments.

Article XIII goes on to specify certain sectors to which Congress must give priority namely, labor, agrarian reform, urban land reform and housing, health system, protection of women, people’s organizations, and protection of human rights.

The controlling principle on the “means” , which is really an exercise of police power, is provided in the last sentence of Section 1, paragraph 1 — “by equitably diffusing wealth and political power for the common good.” In the furtherance of this mandate, the ‘scope” of social justice in the 1987 Constitution includes

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numerous, mostly new, provisions in other articles.

Clearly, social justice under the 1987 Constitution is more encompassing than in the 1935 and 1973 Constitutions.

Despite the clarity of the 1987 Constitution on the primacy of social justice, certain decisions of the Surpeme Court demonstrate confused thinking in applying it to specific cases such as in the La Bugal Case on mining and one of two Coco Levy cases that ruled in favor of Eduardo Cojuangco Jr. on the matter of the 20% ownership in San Miguel. It is a decision that defies logic and the law by granting Cojuangco about P50 billion that rightly belongs to the coconut farmers in a reverse re-distribution of wealth at its worst. It was roundly criticized in dissenting opinons by now Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes P.A. Serenco, now Ombudsman Conchito Carpio-Morales and Associate Justice Arturo D. Brion which all called for another review of the case. This has yet to happen.

When business talks about the efficiency of markets to promote their interests, they ignore the reality of markets – that competitive markets have no moral limits and are never perfect, but it can work, even imperfectly, provided that the starting positions of its participants are first adjusted. Adjusting starting positions is social justice.

To adjust starting positions is the reason for the social reform legislation and programs in the Philippine today. This adjustment was not necessary in the United States because, except for the native Indian population, its constituency were all immigrants who started from the same position. Hence, the absence of comparable provisions on social and economic rights in the United States Constitution that have a special place in the Philippine Constitution.

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The BBL enigma

WHAT is intended to promote unity and harmony in the country is precisely dividing the people in general. What is envisioned to bring about peace and progress in Mindanao is not exactly making people in Mindanao jump for joy, neither pacifying the fears nor resolving the reservations of the people in Luzon and in the Visayas. Thus stands the enigma of the BBL proudly promoted by the present administration and fervently affirmed by its well-rewarded supporters.

It is anything but a secret that in Mindanao itself, there are non-friendly groupings such as the well-known MNLF, the fearsome ASG, the dangerous BIFF, plus apparently other newly-emerging militant groupings— in addition to MILF that precisely pushed the MNLF aside with the support and patronage of the incumbent administration. The above-said major groupings may not be exactly warring factions among themselves whereas one apparently simply comes from another— as a mother gives birth to a child. One thing however is definitely certain: there is more than but one armed group in Mindanao other than the MILF that has come to fore recently although the MILF remains the centerpiece of the BBL. So arise some reasonable questions as the following: How come the ruling administration is trying to forge an agreement with but the MILF? Are other said gunowning and toting groups expected to but humbly submit to the BBL MILF in the event that the latter rule in Mindanao with the patronage of the reigning administration? Will there really be peace in Mindanao

when most of the people there are neither Muslims nor exactly MILF constituents or sympathizers? In other words and in the sphere of ground realities, is the BBL really the way to justice, peace and development in Mindanao?

It is a matter of record that the BBL envisioned blessed phenomenon was precisely accompanied by the SAF manslaughter that took place precisely with the deadly participation of some MILF and BIFF members.

This is interesting – if not actually disgusting: Talking about peace here with killings going on at the same time somewhere. No wonder then that although the administration tries to lord it over, the legislators however are markedly divided on the pro and contra of the BBL – while the justices are on the watch about its constitutionality they will certainly be asked to pronounce upon in due time. Meantime, Mindanao is anything but in peace long since and up to now.

There is another nagging question—after the 2016 elections. If and when the BBL were eventually approved by all the branches of the Philippine government, if and when the coveted Peace Prize is eventually obtained by someone at all costs, what happens next? Will the incoming administration continue to support and promote the BBL? Will there be true and lasting peace in Mindanao? Will this region be an example of social harmony, plus its accompanying socio-economic development? Interesting!|

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Ordinary people stand up for their rights 

CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO

SEVENTY-TWO persons are dead. Sadly, their cadavers are hardly recognizable even by closest kin. The fire that gutted the slippers factory in Valenzuela opened the portal of hell and ate up 72 bodies in less than an hour. Sixty-nine of these 72 workers were trapped in the second floor of the building. They met their death while trying to scamper away from the fire which made its entry on the door of the floor where they were working.

Celia and Cesar Veloso are admirable parents who wouldn’t give up the fight to bring their daughter, condemned overseas Filipino worker Mary Jane, back to the Philippines – alive, safe and free — against seemingly insurmountable odds.

They were up against an international drug syndicate, recruiting poor and desperate men and women on the promise of good-paying jobs abroad, who end up as unwitting drug mules and when caught, languish on death row, in countries that impose capital punishment for drug trafficking. They only knew about the syndicate through Mary Jane’s illegal recruiter, Ma. Cristina Sergio, and her live-in partner, Julius Lacanilao, who warned them from the beginning to keep quiet about their daughter’s plight and not to seek help either from the government or mass media on pain of being “dealt with” by the drug syndicate and worsening Mary Jane’s situation.

When the Velosos summoned the courage to seek help from government agencies they were met by indifference, even disdain. Government functionaries were unmoved by their pleas for help for their daughter when she was arrested and was being tried in an Indonesian court. Concerned government agencies, foremost of which are the DFA and PDEA, continued to drag their feet and failed to take decisive action even when she was already convicted and handed down the death penalty. They finally scrambled to take legal and diplomatic last-ditch efforts when Mary Jane faced imminent death by firing squad at which time local and international mass media had already trained the spotlight on her case.

The Velosos are what would be called “masa”. They are from poor peasant stock, trying to make ends meet by resorting to odd jobs and the proverbial attempts to land jobs overseas to break the cycle of poverty, lack of education and joblessness. Mary Jane was easy prey to illegal recruiters and since she didn’t even have the money to pay for the necessary papers and an airplane ticket to work abroad, to being hoodwinked to carry illegal drugs across national borders. When she run afoul of Indonesian law, she was helpless, not having the resources, the connections and the faculties to navigate the legal labyrinth in a foreign country much less defend herself and prove her innocence or victimization.

But Celia and Cesar did what they could with whatever resources they could muster. They kept their wits about them, communicated with Mary Jane and approached the PDEA and local government authorities to run after Sergio and Lacanilao. They asked Mary Jane to send even just a handwritten account of what happened to her because they were told by authorities that they could not act without it. Mary Jane did so twice but for some reason her letters were pilfered and her account was missing.

The Velosos were eventually able to visit Mary Jane together with her two children. Jail wardens who had become Mary Jane’s friends put up the money to bring her family to Indonesia. When the Velosos approached the DFA for help in obtaining passports, they were met with mocking disbelief that they could “afford” to travel.

They were also advised, incorrectly, that they could only visit their daughter if they were given explicit permission to do so by Indonesian authorities. But they persisted and refused to be intimidated or misled by the government bureaucrats who dealt with them. They were able to talk to Mary Jane and get her version of what happened.

Things started moving fast when the Velosos learned that Mary Jane’s execution was already scheduled for April 28. Only an international meeting to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first largescale Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia on April 19 to 24 had provided a temporary respite since the Indonesian government did not want to hold the executions during this time. Local mass media put the Velosos in touch with the OFW advocates’ group Migrante International. The latter contacted the National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) and by April 7, the pro bono legal services of its lawyers were engaged by the Veloso family.

This is the train of events from the time Migrante and NUPL got involved: On April 8, upon the advice of NUPL, Sergio’s picture was made public by Migrante; the latter called for government to immediately take Sergio into custody. On April 16 and 17, the NUPL wrote PDEA, NBI and the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) with attached sworn statements of Mary Jane’s family and the transcript of her own handwritten account (the original copy of which was lodged in the Philippine embassy in Jakarta but is still nowhere to be found up to now) asking that the appropriate investigation be conducted against Sergio.

On April 22, immediately after conferring with Indonesian lawyers in Jakarta, NUPL asked IACAT for certification of status of any investigation against Sergio.

Meanwhile Migrante, Gabriela, the Promotion of Church People’s Response (PCPR) and many other support groups stepped up protest actions at the DFA and the Indonesian Embassy and mass petition signing to “Save Mary Jane”. Chapters of Migrante in other

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Colliding with China THE Philippines is now on a collision course with China over disputed territories that can be an international flashpoint.

A few days ago, a US spy plane making a “fly-by” over disputed territories in the “Spratly’s” was “challenged” over radio by Chinese military and told to "go away". Another commercial airplane flying overhead was similarly challenged. Earlier, Philippine vessels supplying provisions to Filipino soldiers stationed in the area were blockaded. Filipino fishermen were harassed, shooed away and fired upon with water cannons from Chinese vessels. Massive reclamation and building construction by the Chinese is on going with China now telling the world that all territories in the South China Sea, irrespective of whether they are within the “exclusive economic zones” (EEZs) of different countries, are considered Chinese territory.

No doubt, we are now on a “collision course” with China due to territorial disputes in the South China Sea. I have a few basic information that may help for a better understanding of what this is all about.

A few days ago, I sat in a forum in Manila with fifteen (15) foreign journalists who were Jefferson Fellows under the auspices of Honolulu-based EastWest Center. They were on a study tour principally to listen to some briefings and get information on our territorial dispute with China. With the Philippine Press Institute assisting in the visit, it was a good chance for me to take a good close look at what this territorial dispute is all about. The "claim” with giant China can be a flashpoint of a global crisis, given that other countries like our ally, the United States of America can be drawn into this due to geopolitical implications.  “NINE DASH LINE” --- The conflicting claims amongst several neighboring countries over shoals, reefs or just rocks protruding from the sea during high tides had been in the “backburners” for some time now. It was there as a thorny issue but no one was really giving it special attention.

Not until China unilaterally released recently a map with lines expanding its territorial borders. It is now what is famously known as "NINE DASH LINE". It draws an imaginary line with a bigger swathe, in effect proclaiming that it exercises sovereignty over a wider area in almost the whole of South China Sea by reason of history. It simply served notice to the whole world that territories found west of the Philippines, even though near other countries all belong to China. To counter this, we started calling it the "West Philippine Sea" instead and filed a case before the United Nations declaring that the new China map is not valid.  TWO AREAS -- According to University of the Philippines PROF. CHITO STA. ROMANA, a former Beijing-based Filipino journalist and an expert on the issue, there are two disputed areas: first, the "Scarborough or Panatag Shoals" in Zambales province. Second, the area down south off Palawan called the "Spratlys or Kalayaan Island Group" where the claim involves other countries like Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Taiwan.  “SCARBOROUGH” -- “Scarborough or Panatag Shoals” in Zambales province is only a rock jutting out of the sea. During low tide, some seabed will appear. This was a favorite fishing grounds of local fishermen and named “Bajo de Masinloc”, being part of Masinloc municipality. The shoal also served as a place for refuge from giant waves for those caught during typhoons at sea. However, recently the local fisher folks were shooed away from the area by Chinese vessels using water cannons. During the time of the US bases in the 1990s it was used as a target practice area by the American forces during war drills, being close to the former US bases in Subic and Clark.

Zambales Governor Hermogenes “Jun” Ebdane, a former colleague in the Arroyo cabinet, has recently installed a hi-tech surveillance system with the help of a Canadian company to monitor Chinese intrusions to protect his fisher folks who had been deprived of livelihood.  “SPRATLY’S” --- Further down south in Palawan are located the Spratly’s group of islands scattered with around 50 islands or reefs or areas that appear above water only during low tide. Several Asian countries are “claimants”. It was said that in 1947, Filipino Thomas Cloma, an owner of a maritime academy in Manila (thus earning the moniker “Admiral”) “discovered” these uninhabited islands and named the island cluster FREEDOMLAND which later became known as “Kalayaan Islands”. A cement bust of discoverer Cloma still stands in the area. He “turned over” his rights to the Philippine government in 1974, making them part of Palawan province, being only about 100 miles away from Palawan shores and well within the internationally recognized 200-mile “exclusive economic zone” (EEZ). About 20 years later or in 1995, China started constructing fisherman's structures for Chinese fishermen. Today, China is building what looks like a military installation.  CLAIMANTS --The Philippines' territorial claims include five (5) islets, two (2) cays (small islands) and two reefs or a total of nine (9) features or areas. China is claiming seven (7) areas while Vietnam has twenty-two (22). Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Taiwan also have their own claimed islets or areas near their own borders. The different countries' basis for their respective claims is that although these areas are beyond their 12mile territorial limits, these territories are within their 200 -mile exclusive economic zones (EEZ) from their continental shelf, as recognized by international protocols called United Nations Convention of the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS). Mainland china is geographically far from these areas.

But with China’s recent officially- issued 'NINE DASH LINE" map, all these territories claimed by these countries were unilaterally declared as Chinese territory which the Philippines refused to recognize. - To be continued -

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BUSINESS Firm to launch solar-powered low-cost housing projects ENFINITY Imperial Solar executive officer of IHC. Imperial said the off-grid Homes Inc., a joint venture between Belgian solar solar panel system will come developer Enfinity and local with a rechargeable battery mass housing developer unit which can also source Imperial Homes Corp. (IHC) electricity from the grid will launch solar- powered during times that the stored low-cost housing units in its power is not enough to project areas in Batangas and supply the house’s demand.

The company will Bicol.

“The house and lot incorporate the said solar packages include a 1,000- power system on 3,000 watt solution that can homes in its projects in Iriga produce 4 kilowatt-hour (of City and another 1,000 power) per day providing the homes in Legazpi City. electricity for the homebuyer Enfinity Imperial said day and night,” said Emma the 24-hour solar power Imperial, president and chief solution will cost an .......................................................................................................

LED (light emitting diode) lights, a washing machine and a rice cooker.

Early this year, IHC launched a project in Sto. Tomas, Batangas called Via Verde, the first 1,000 solarpowered mass housing units in the Philippines equipped with 500 watts solar panels intended for daytime use.

Enfinity Imperial said owners of the 500 watts solar panels can also choose to upgrade their units with the newer 24 hour solar power solution.

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JUDICIAL NOTICE

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Media and Elections; Expanding the Discourse The Philippines, unlike the United States, has a long history of oppression and neglect of the poor under two colonial regimes and a domestic ruling class that exists to this day. Why some of our legal scholars, including justices of the Supreme Court invoke American jurisprudence on civil and political rights in our cases is difficult to understand.

In the Philippines, the distribution measures to adjust starting positions consist of (1) income reform programs such as in the near and medium term such as the conditional cash transfer program and, over the longterm, the access of the poor to quality education and quality health services and (2) asset reform programs that are all underperforming according to the Report Card on the programs by former NEDA Director-General Ciel Habito in 2008 for lack of government support services and political will.

The asset reform programs consist principally of four laws, namely, Agrarian Reform (R.A. 6657 of 1988 and RA 9700 of 2009), Urban Land Reform and

installation fee of between P150,000 and P 165,000 which homeowners can pay through cash or loan from the Home Development Mutual Fund or Pag-IBIG. It will also come with 25 years of performance warranty and 10 years equipment warranty.

Imperial said the 24-hour solar power solution can provide a fixed P13 per kilowatt hour savings on an average of 15 years.

Enfinity Imperial said the solution can power a refrigerator, two electric fans, a television, two laptops, three

Housing (R.A. 7279 of 1992), The Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (R.A. 8371 of 1997), and Fisheries Code (R.A. 8550 of 1998).

Every administration since EDSA has not done justice to the poor given the underperformance of these income and asset reform programs.

In the matter of jurisprudence, the winds of change that first moved the Court in 1968 and again in 1979 to expand the concept of social justice beyond “equal justice” (where the Court wrongly said that the rich are also entitled to social justice which is a contradiction in words), to the Magsaysay slogan that “those who have less in life must have more in law” towards the highest standard of social justice - “demand of human dignity”, which precedes and supercedes constitutions. is a source of hope of more changes to come. But the Judiciary must be willing to promulgate at every opportunity the compelling principles of the broader concept of social justice in the 1987 Constitution, even if it means revisiting landmark decisions. - To be continued

LEGAL NOTICE EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE OF DECEASED EDWIN B. AGDON WITH DEED OF ABSOLUTE SALE NOTICE is hereby given that the estate of the late EDWIN B. AGDON who died intestate on July 28, 2012 at Soro-Soro Ilaya, Batangas City, consisting of a parcel of land situated at Barrio Bayuin, Municipality of Pinamalayan now Socorro, province of Oriental Mindoro, Island of Mindoro covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-14928, with an area of 30,000 Square Meters, was extrajudicially settled by and among his heirs with Deed of Absolute Sale as per Doc. No. 397; Page No. 80; Book No. XVII; Series of 2015 of ATTY. BENJOHN A. MARALIT, Notary Public.

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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES REGIONAL TRIAL COURT FOURTH JUDICIAL REGION BRANCH 84 BATANGAS CITY IN THE MATTER OF THE CANCELLATION OF THE RECORD OF BIRTH OF LOREDANA CARLA ROBLES CASTRO IN BATANGAS CITY CIVIL REGISTRAR’S OFFICE UNDER LCR NO. 92-2515 SP. PROC. NO. 15-9899 LOREDANA CARLA ROBLES-CASTRO, Petitioner, -versusJOSEPHINE P. MARANAN, in her capacity as the CITY CIVIL REGISTRAR OF BATANGAS CITY AND CIVIL REGISTRAR GENERAL, NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE, Respondents. x————————————————x ORDER A verified Petition was filed by petitioner, praying that after due notice, publication and hearing, an order be issued directing the City Civil Registrar of Batangas City and the Civil Registrar General to cancel petitioner’s Certificate of Live Birth with LCR No. 92-2515.

WHEREFORE, finding the petition to be sufficient in form and substance, NOTICE is hereby given that this Petition will be heard on June 11, 2015 at 8:30 in the morning before the Regional Trial Court, Branch 84, Hall of Justice, Batangas City, at which time, place and date, any person who has interest or opposing the instant Petition may appear or file an opposition.

Let a copy of this Order be published at the expense of the petitioner once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Batangas, including the Cities of Lipa and Batangas, prior to the scheduled date of hearing.

The Branch Clerk of Court is hereby directed to furnish the Office of the Clerk of Court, RTC Batangas City a copy of this Order for raffle among the publishers of the publication.

AUCTION REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES OFFICE OF THE NOTARY PUBLIC RM. 201 DELA CRUZ BLDG. II, HILLTOP, BATANGAS CITY UTILITY BANK – A RURAL BANK Represented by its manager, VIRGINIA B. RODELAS, Mortgagee, SPS. ALBERTO P. ANDAL and DOMINGA M. ANDAL, Mortgagors.

EJF CASE NO. 2015-272 RE: Petition for Extrajudicial Foreclosure under Act 3135, As Amended by Act 4118 x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x- x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x NOTICE OF AUCTION SALE Upon Extrajudicial Petition for Foreclosure under Act 3135, as amended, filed by UTILITY BANK – A RURAL BANK, a banking institution duly organized and existing under Philippine laws, with principal office at J. P. Rizal St., Bauan, Batangas, and a branch at J. Pastor St., Poblacion, Ibaan, Batangas, as the MORTGAGEE, against SPS. ALBERTO P. ANDAL and DOMINGA M. ANDAL as the MORTGAGORS, who are residents of Quilo, Ibaan, Batangas, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which amounts to SIXTY SIX THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTY TWO PESOS and 16/ 100 (P65,472.16), Philippine Currency, representing outstanding balance as of February 15, 2015, including interest, penalty and other charges payable to the MORTGAGEE, all secured by said mortgage, the undersigned Notary Public , hereby gives notice to all interested parties that on JUNE 15, 2015 (Monday), at 10:00 a.m. in the main entrance of the Hall of Justice Bldg. Of Rosario, Batangas, the undersigned Notary Public will sell at PUBLIC AUCTION for cash to the highest bidder in Philippine Currency, the hereunder described real property, to wit: TAX DECLARATION NO. 00069 “A parcel of land, Rsidential, and all the improvements existing thereon. Situated at Brgy.

Quilo, Municipality of Ibaan, Province of Batangas, Island of Luzon. Bounded on the North by ALN017; on the East by ALN 020; on the South by ALN 022; and on the West by ALN 053, CONTAINING ANAREAOF FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTYTWO (572) SQUARE METERS, MORE OR LESS. This Notice of Sale by Notary Public shall be posted for not less than twenty (20) days prior to the date of the Auction Sale in at least three (3) public places in QUilo, Ibaan, Batangas where the property is located, in the main entrance of the Hall of Justice Bldg. Of Rosario, Batangas, where the auction sale shall take place, and in the Municipal Hall Bldg. of Ibaan, Batangas. Likewise a copy of this Notice shall be published once a week for at least Three (30 consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in Ibaan, Batangas. The first publication shall take place at least twenty (20) days before the date of the Auction Sale Prospective buyers or bidders are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the above- described property together with the encumbrances thereon covered by Tax Declaration No. 00069 on file with the Registry of Deeds of the Province of Batangas.

Batangas City April 15, 2015.

SO ORDERED. Batangas City, April 16, 2015.

(Sgd.) DORCAS P. FERRIOLS-PEREZ Presiding Judge I hereby certify that copies of this Order were personally sent to the Office of the City prosecutor, OCC-RTC, Batangas City and by registered mail to the Office of the Solicitor General, the City Civil Registrar of Batangas City, Civil Registrar general, NSO, and the Petitioner, this 21st day of April 2015.

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(Sgd.) ELISEO G. LONTOK Notary Public Until December 31, 2015-05-22 PTR No. 2336748 Issued at batangas City Issued on January 5, 2015-05-22 MCLE Compliance No. V-0001169 January 9, 2014 Copy furnished: SPS. ALBERTO P. ANDAL and DOMINGA M. ANDAL Quilo, Ibaan, Batangas Pahayagang BALIKAS | May 25, June 1 & 8, 2015

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7 Recto : No benefit in replacing all motor vehicle plates F.E.S.T.

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SENATE President Pro Tempore Ralph motorcycles charging P450 and P120 mapupunta lahat sa manufacturing company ng plaka na kwestyunable pa Recto today questioned the decision of respectively per set of plates.

Land Transportation Office (LTO) to Recto has in fact warned the LTO ang bidding,” Recto said.

He said both the DOTC and the replace the license plates of all motor last year of this problem created by vehicles without clear benefits for the forcing all vehicle owners to change manufacturer of the new plates will be making a killing by creating a captive paying vehicle owners. plates.

In today’s joint public hearing of the Recto said he sees no problem if the market for a product, in so far as existing Blue Ribbon and Public Services com- government will allow motor vehicles to cars are concerned, that is not needed.

“In the first place, the new plate will mittees on the alleged bidding irregu- keep their license plates and limit the larities by the Department of Trans- installation of new car plates to brand still include the old numbers, so why subject the car owner to all the hassles portation and Communications (DOTC) new vehicles up for registration. regarding the procurement of motor Recto said there is no logic to the of queuing in an LTO office just to have vehicles plate, Recto asked if the plan of the Department of Transpor- his car plate replaced with a new mandated new license plates on both new tation and Communications (DOTC) to design?” he said.

“Why order the mass cancellation and old vehicles would help ease the replace all existing car license plates with of 16 million motor vehicle plates just daily traffic woes and lessen the a new design. carnapping incidents.

“Ok lang kung mga bagong sasakyan because a new version will be intro“Kung wala namang problema sa na irerehistro ang lalagyan nyo ng duced?” Recto said.

Under the DOTC plan, car owners kasalukuyang plaka ng mga sasakyan, bagong plaka. Pero ginawa nyong sapibakit kinakailangan palitan at pagba- litan para sa lahat ng sasakyan, pati sa will cough up P450 for a pair of new yarin ang vehicle owners sa bagong mga plakang maayos at wala namang plates. Of this amount, P380 will be the manufacturer’s share while P70 will be plaka? Ano ang kapalit sa ibabayad ng problema,” he said. taongbayan?”

“No matter how I look at it, walang the DOTC’s “administration fee.”

Recto said the “general problem” The LTO has started the issuance of pakinabang dito kundi dagdag na gastos new plates for motor vehicles and lang sa taongbayan. At ang kikitain ay with car plates is not their design but ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................

That must be a scam. Senator Ralph G. Recto pointed out that old plates need not be replaced.| Recto was the first their short supply and nonlegislator to call for a Senate availability.

“So the solution is to inquiry on the reported make them readily available delays in the release of license and not to make their plates and stickers when he installation mandatory to all filed Senate Resolution 31 almost two years ago.| vehicles,” he said.

SM Foundation brings quality health services to Batangas Mayor Jose Jecerell SM Foundation inaugurates another LGU-run Health Cerrado & Dr. Perla Adrias, Center, this time in Tuy, Municipal Health Center Batangas and formally turns were on hand to officially over the newly renovated & receive the donation from refurbished Tuy Main Health SMFI’s Exec. Director for Center to the residents of 22 Health & Medical Programs, barangays with a total Connie Angeles. Also on hand population of 43,780 who to witness the turn-over was avail of services of the Center. former Councilor of QC, .......................................................................................................

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Ordinary people stand up for their rights countries swung into action and also organized mass actions at Indonesian embassies. NUPL coordinated with the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) in mobilizing human rights activists and international institutions and democratic personalities to call for a stop to Mary Jane’s execution.

Perhaps most critically, Indonesian migrant labor, human rights and specially women’s rights activists, took up the cudgels for Mary Jane and zealously undertook actions, from mass lobbying to dialogues with high government officials including President Widodo, to draw parallels between Mary Jane’s case and those of hundreds of Indonesians also facing severe punishment, if not execution, abroad but who are in fact victims of human trafficking and miscarriage of justice.

It must be underscored that prior to the filing of the first motion for judicial review of Mary Jane’s conviction on 19 January 2015, her Indonesian lawyers had already asked the Philippine embassy to ask concerned government agencies in the country to investigate Sergio. PDEA reportedly visited Mary Jane around March 29 but the PDEA report was translated into Bahasa by the Philippine embassy and submitted to her Indonesian lawyers only on

April 23.

The first judicial review was rejected and a second motion for judicial review was filed by Indonesian lawyers on April 24, four days before her scheduled execution but this was also rejected. Sergio reportedly surrendered to Philippine police the morning of April 28. Indonesian President Widodo ordered the stay of execution close to midnight of April 28.

On May 5, Sergio and partner were arrested and their inquest took place. The Justice Secretary herself stated there was formidable evidence that Mary Jane had been tricked into bringing illegal drugs into Indonesia by a syndicate that had been, in the first place, engaged in large-scale human trafficking.

So far, Celia and Cesar Veloso have been vindicated in their dogged efforts to prove Mary Jane’s innocence.

Their unwavering call for accountability of government agencies and personnel responsible, by their criminal negligence, for Mary Jane’s conviction and death sentence cannot remain unheeded. _____________ Carol Pagaduan-Araullo is a medical doctor by training, social activist by choice, columnist by accident, happy partner to a liberated spouse and proud mother of two. carol_araullo@yahoo.com Business World

dental consultation, minor surgical procedures, family planning, pre-marriage counselling, maternal, neonatal, child health care & nutrition, TB Dots, X-ray & laboratory services.

According to Angeles, the Center has now a pending application with PHILHEALTH for accreditation although PCB1 Or Primary Care benefit is already accredited. Because of the renovation & refurbishing of the Birthing Unit, PHILHEALTH & SMFI are working hand in hand to finalize the accreditation of this unit, she said..|

Alberto Galarpe who was instrumental in recommending the Center to SMFI’s Connie Angeles.

According to Mayor Cerrado, the renovated Center is a most welcome donation to the residents citing that the nearest hospital, Don Manuel Lopez Memorial Hospital in Balayan is 9 kilometers away. He further said that emergency measures can be given to patients in the Center before they can be transferred to Balayan. Otherwise, minor ailments can be treated in the hospital.

Medical services offered in the Center are medical &

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Tugis Arkong kawayan Pamamapak ng kanin Rolyo Notang musikal Wala (Ilokano) Kumpare Wari Pandikit Sunggab Kasuotang panloob ng babae Ginang: ikli Padyak Puri Konsortehan Korte Pagsusulit sa abogasya Dahilan Kaisang dibdib King Dating DILG Secretary mula Laguna Ingay ng butiki

Gemini (Mayo 21-Hun. 21) - Huwag piliting magawa ang lahat ng bagay na sarili lamang ang inaasahan. Ngayon mo kailangan ang tulong ng iba. Lucky numbers at color ay 2, 12, 24, 32 at avocado green.

Cancer (Hun. 22-Hul. 22) - Talasan ang pandinig at ibuka ang mga mata dahil ang hinahanap ay nasa harap o sa tabi lamang. Maging mahinahon at tiyak may magandang solusyon na maiisip. Lucky numbers at color ay 7, 14, 21, 28 at maroon.

Leo (Hul. 23-Ago. 22) - Bagaman maganda ang samahan sa trabaho, huwag magtiwala dahil may nagmamanman sa iyo. Ayusin ang pagganap sa tungkulin.

Lucky numbers at color ay 3, 11, 34, 39 at lavander.

Virgo (Ago 23-Set. 23) - Ilang gawain ang matatapos nang hindi gaanong mapapagod. Kailangan ang disiplina sa sarili para lalong maging produktibo.

Lucky numbers at color ay 15, 28, 35, 43 at neon green.

Libra (Set. 24-Okt. 23) - Magmasid, pag-aralang mabuti ang mga pangyayari bago magbigay ng opinyon kung kailangan. Hangga’t maaari, huwag makialam sa iba. Lucky numbers at color ay 3, 7, 12, 15 at sky blue.

Scorpio (Okt. 24-Nob. 22) - W alang katapusan ang problema kung hindi haharapin at hahanapan ng solusyon.

Maging matatag at matapang. Lucky numbers at color ay 10, 20, 30, 40 at sapphire blue.

Sagittarius (Nob. 23-Dis. 21) - Maghanda dahil ang hindi inaasahan ay mangyayari. Malamang may surpresa o balitang matatanggap. Lucky numbers at color ay 18, 26, 30, 37 at yellow.

Capricorn (Dis. 22-Ene. 19) - Anuman ang mangyari, manatiling matatag at hindi basta sumusuko sa problema. Lucky numbers at color ay 2, 10, 24, 32 at purple.

Aquarius (Ene. 20 - Peb. 18) - Huwag simulang gumawa ng panibagong gawain kung hindi pa tapos ang unang nasimulan. Ihanda ang sarili sa anumang suliranin na maaaring dumating. Lucky numbers at color ay 5, 9, 18, 23 at red.

Pisces (Peb. 19 - Mar. 20) - Ang matagal nang hinahanap ay maaaring nasa paligid o nasa harapan na. Huwag nang lumayo ng tingin sa paghahanap. Lucky numbers at color ay 12, 28, 37, 45 at peach.

Aries (Mar. 21 - Abril 19) - Mahihirapan ka sa paggawa ng desisyon. Payo ng higit na nakakaalam ang kailangan. Lucky numbers at color ay 7, 26, 31, 39 at baby pink.

Taurus (Abril 20-Mayo 20) - Magpakatatag dahil may susubok ng iyong pagtitimpi. Pasensiya ang pairalin para malayo sa gulo. Lucky numbers at color ay 21, 34, 40, 44 at brown.|

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SM Foundation brings quality health services to Batangas S

M Foundation inaugurates another LGU-run Health Center, this time in Tuy, Batangas and formally turns over the newly renovated & refurbished Tuy Main Health Center the residents barangays with a total population of 43,780 whotoavail of servicesofof22the Center.

Mayor Jose Jecerell Cerrado & Dr. Perla Adrias, Municipal Health Center were on hand to officially receive the donation from SMFI’s Exec. Director for Health & Medical Programs, Connie Angeles. Also on hand to witness the turn-over was former Councilor of QC, Alberto Galarpe who was instrumental in recommending the Center to SMFI’s Connie Angeles.

According to Mayor Cerrado, the renovated Center is a most welcome donation to the residents citing that the nearest hospital, Don Manuel Lopez Memorial Hospital in Balayan is 9 kilometers away. He further said that emergency measures can be given to patients in the Center before they can be transferred to Balayan. Otherwise, minor ailments can be treated in the hospital.

Medical services offered in the Center are medical & dental consultation, minor surgical procedures, family planning, pre-marriage counselling, maternal, neo-natal, child health care & nutrition, TB Dots, X-ray & laboratory services.

According to Angeles, the Center has now a pending application with PHILHEALTH for accreditation although PCB1 Or Primary Care benefit is already accredited. Because of the renovation & refurbishing of the Birthing Unit, PHILHEALTH & SMFI are working hand in hand to finalize the accreditation of this unit, she said..| ALVIN M. REMO

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Lay Bare opens shop in Lipa City El Gamma Penumbra is Asia Got Talent Grand Winner

EL GAMMA PENUMBRA, the Filipino shadow performing group that was the grand winner in the first season of “Asia’s Got Talent” was treated to a huge welcome by their fans and supporters when they return to Manila from Singapore.

A motorcade took them from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport to Malacañang Palace where they will be personally greeted by President NoyNoy Aquino. The motorcade passed through main thoroughfares in Makati where ticker tapes and confetti were showered from the city’s tall buiildings.

A grand welcome was also unfurled in Tanauan City where the group has a motorcade around the city’s main thoroughfares followed by a short program and a press conference.

Mayor Thony Halili welcomed the group and pledged his continued support to the causes espoused by El

Gamma Penumbra and other similarly talented Tanaueños.

Last Friday, the group was reportedly framed to be personally met at the airport’s VIP lounge by Bureau of Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares who will have a tax receipt booklet in hand as she collects up to 30% of the group’s $100,000 (4.4 Million pesos) prize money.

Henares is known to be a tough tax woman, always ready to collect the government’s share of international prize winnings by Filipino celebrities, not the least of whom is Manny Pacquiao.

Pacquiao’s prize money from his May 2nd fight with Floyd Mayweather is estimated at $150 Million. That’s a whopping 6.6 BILLION pesos.

It is therefore not suprising that President Aquino is claiming that the Philippines is no longer the “sick man” of Asia, thanks to all that tax revenue.|