Vol. XIX, No. 36 | September 8 - 14, 2014 by Pahayagang BALIKAS

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TANAUAN CITY – A simple but purposeful initiative, this was the gist of Mayor Thony C. Halili’s speech as he led the grand launch of Tanauan City Ordinance No. 2014-17 otherwise known as “A Tree for Every Newborn Baby of 2014” at the Tanauan Gymnasium 2, this city, September 5.

Authored by City Councilor Joseph M. Castillo, this only of its kind ordinance in the country is the city’s answer to the call for national greening program institutionalized under Executive Order No. 26 which was signed by President Benigno S. Aquino III on February 24, 2011. >>>NEW LIFE...turn to P/2

............................................................................................... A TREE FOR NEW LIFE. Tanauan Mayor Thony Halili and Vice Mayor Jhoanna Corona lead city officials in a ceremony launching the implementation of a local ordinance requiring the planting of a tree for every newborn baby. With them were city councilors, Jose Elmer Bascos of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources; Gen. Ben Corona, City Administrator Junjun Trinidad.| JUN MOJARES

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ALFI-Batangas Chapter, nakalikom ng P1.6 milyon para sa kabataan NAGING matagumpay ang ika-42 edisyon ng Alay Lakad Foundation Walk for a Cause sa taong 2014 matapos makalikom ang mga ito ng P 1.6 Milyon pondo para sa kanilang adbokasiya para sa edukasyon ng mga iskolar na nasa pangangalaga ng ALFI-Batangas Chapter na ngayon ay pinamumunuan ni dating Bokala Lianda Bolilia. Sa pagsasama-sama ng iba’t ibang ahensya ng pamahalaan at mga socio-civic organizations, ipinakita ng mga ito ang

pagsuporta sa adbokasiya ng Alay Lakad Foundation sa pamamagitan ng samasamang paglalakad mula sa mga napiling lugar patungo sa kapitolyo kasama si Governor Vilma Santos Recto at mga pangunahing panauhin na sina Angel Locsin at Luis Manzano. May temang “Lakad Pagkakaisa, Kudos.. Kabataan at Mamayang Batangueño para sa taong ito, ipinakita ng mga mamamayang

PINANGUNAHAN nina Governor Vilma Santos-Recto, anak na si Luis Manzano, aktres na si Angel Locsin, V ice Gov. Mark Leviste, ALFI Batangas Chapter president Lianda Bolilia at Aboitiz Power Generation Group COO, Emmanuel >>>KABATAAN... sundan sa P/3 Rubio ang ika-42 Edisyon ng Alay Lakad sa Batangas.| L. HERNANDEZ

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Convert seized shipping vans into police outposts, homes for disaster victims - Recto WHAT to do with the container vans clogging the port of Manila? Convert some of them into police stations, classrooms, rice storage, mobile clinics, libraries and housing for disaster victims, Sen. Ralph Recto recently said. Recto said government should study the possibility of buying some of the shipping containers cramming the two ports in Manila and “repurpose” them into structures for public use or dwellings for the poor. “Or government can just simply seize the containers which have long been abandoned and turn them over to government agencies or local governments which already have an idea on what to do with them,” Recto said. One agency which has the manpower and equipment to modify the vans is the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), “with its army of student welders and metalcraft trainees,” the senator said. What TESDA and other agencies can do is follow the global trend in transforming the vans into offices or homes “and even hotels,” Recto said. Locally, the Metro Manila Development Authority has used converted vans as outposts of its traffic personnel and emergency response crews, the senator said. Some police outposts in Metro Manila are also housed in old vans, “a model the Philippine National Police can replicate, considering it lacks money in building police stations.” He said “vans-turned-neighborhood police outposts can be the frontline detachments in the war against crime.” “Kung wala ng lupa para pagtayuan ng istasyon ng police sa isang lugar kung saan naglipana ang riding-in-tandem gangs, van na lang na may kuryente at aircon ang pwedeng ilagay kahit sa sidewalk,” Recto explained. Recto said 40-foot vans can also be repurposed into day care centers or even a temporary classroom “and that is

JUST a few from a sea of used containers or vans that can be converted into usedful facilities as proposed by Senator Ralph G. Recto.| better than holding a class under a mango tree.” “The possibilities are endless. Vans can be used as libraries of which there is a national shortage. It can be used as mobile clinics,” he said. “Because we lose 14 percent of our palay harvest to lack of storage facilities, then maybe these vans can be donated to farmers so they can have a place to store their palay and other crops that is safe from the elements and pests like rats,” Recto said. But one area in which “even a fraction” of the estimated 75,000 vans cluttering the Port of Manila and the Manila International Container Port “can make a difference” is emergency housing for disaster victims, Recto said. If there are victims of the Zamboanga siege and typhoon Yolanda who still do not have shelter, then vans can be made into temporary houses, Recto said. “Di hamak na mas mabuti naman yan kesa trapal. And the vans, because they’re durable, can be sent to other disaster affected areas when the homes of those occupying it are already finished,” Recto said.

Container congestion at the two ports peaked in June this year when an estimated 90,000 unclaimed or overstaying vans were reported to be waiting in the yards to be processed. The number has reportedly gone down following the move by the Bureau of Customs and other agencies to expedite the release of containers and to ship them to the Subic and Batangas ports. Part of this was done by “sweepers” sent by international shipping companies to take their empty containers out of the two ports. Recto believes that the cost of converting vans would be a lot cheaper than building the same structure through conventional means. “Kung sa classroom nga under PPP, P1.7 million each ang total cost, at gumasta tayo, eh di hamak naman mas mura ang mga ito,” he said. “And, for the record, I am not saying nor am I hinting that we buy thousands of these vans. What I am saying is that we convert those already abandoned and seized, and study the possibility of purchasing more but at a heavily-discounted price,” Recto said.| BALIKAS

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Peace & Order Update Collated By JACK L. AQUINO

Lipeñong pulis, 2 iba pa, inihabla sa kaso ng kidnapping at pagpatay LIPA City – Tatlong magkakahiwalay na kaso ng Kidnapping with Murder, Robbery at Physical Injuries and Grave Threat ang isinampa kamakailan sa Tanggapan ng Panlunsod na Taga-usig sa lunsod na ito laban sa isang pulis at dalawa pa niyang kasamahan. Kaugnay ito ng panloloob sa isang bahay sa Barangay Sabang, lunsod na ito, at pagdukot sa isa sa mga biktima at tuluyang pagpatay rito noong Agosto 29 ng hatinggabi. Kinilala ni Police Superintendent Omega Jireh Fidel, Provincial Director, ang isinasakdal na suspek na si SPO1 Michael Lescano y Espiritu, a.k.a. “Bong”, 41, aktibong PNP member at nakatalaga sa Office of the Chief, PNP, Camp Crame, Quezon City, sa ilalim ng Task Force Tugis at kasalukuyang residente rin ng Brgy. Sabang, lunsod na ito. Positibo siyang kinilala ni Reynaldo Katigbak, isa sa anim (6) na biktima. Kinilala naman ni PSupt. Jacinto Rodriguez Malinao, Jr., hepe ng Lipa City PNP, ang mga magkakapatid na biktima na sina (1) Raff Ruffino Katigbak y Ranido, 31; (2) Rolando, 26; at (3) Reynaldo, 24, pawang mga binata; at si (4) Ruben Tolentino, 16, estudyante, pawang mga residente ng Manggahan St. Brgy. Sabang, lunsod na ito; at ang dalawa pang estudyanteng sina (5) Bertgil Torres, 18 at (6) Engelbert Fernes y Ramos, 17, kapwa residente ng Athenian Road, Sabang Subd., sa naturan ding barangay. Sa salaysay ng mga biktima, nabatid na magkakasamang nagkukwentuhan sila sa bahay ng mga Katigbak, bandang alas-10:30 ng gabi noong Biyernes nang dalawang lalaking naka-bonnet at nakasuot ng PNP athletic blue uniform at kapwa armado ng maiikling baril ang sumalampak sa kanilang pinto at pwersahang pumasok sa kanilang sala. Nang nasa loob na, nagpakilala umano ang mga suspek na sila’y mga tauhan ng Regional Special Operations Group (RSOG) sa Camp Vicente Lim, Canlubang, Laguna. [Ang RSOG ay isang yunit ng PNP na matagal nang nabuwag.] Pinadapa umano ang mga biktima at pinagkukuha ang kanilang mga telepono at tablet, saka sila pinagsisipa at pinagsusuntok sa iba’t ibang bahagi ng katawan. Ang isa pa sa mga biktima ay pwersahang pinalulon ng sabong pulbos. Pagkatapos nito, kaagad na pinusasan ng isa sa mga suspek ang biktimang si Raff Rufino Katigbak at pwersahang isinakay sa isang sasakyang may plakang NDT-539 at isa naman sa mga suspek ay nagpaputok ng baril sa lupa.

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Tanauan City launches “A Tree for Every New Born Baby” With the aim of instilling into the consciousness of each and every Tanaueño family the importance of planting trees in order to sustain an environment-friendly community, the ordinance will require all parents registering their newborn child to plant a tree before a certificate of live birth can be issued by the local civil registrar. Citing the massive devastations to the city’s vegetation due to Typhoon Glenda and the coco-lisap pests, Mayor

Halili stressed “there’s need for a more serious and concerted effort to mitigate the ill effects of climate change like this notable program.” He also mentioned his administration’s other environmentfriendly initiatives, e.g. activation of the “Task Force Kalinisan” which will monitor and strictly enforce the city’s environmental regulations, establishment of a material recovery facility, implementation of “segregationat-source” of household wastes, the “20-

meter easement rule” along the Taal Lake shore, and the banning of fish cages within the city’s waters. The event, heralded by a treeplanting activity of city hall employees, was graced by Miss Philippines-Air titlist and Tanauan City native Diane Carmela T. Querrer and DENR Batangas Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer (PENRO) Mr. Jose Elmer Bascos.| GERARD LARESMA

JUDICIAL NOTICE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES FOURTH JUDICIAL REGION REGIONAL TRIAL COURT BRANCH 87 ROSARIO, BATANGAS RE: PETITION FOR CANCELLATION OF RECORD OFBIRTH OF MORRIS DOTIG Y GATPANDAN WITH LCR NO. 90-11146 DUE TO DOUBLE REGISTRATION OF THE FACT OF BIRTH HEREIN REPRESENTED BY HIS FATHER, MAURICIO C. DOTIG MAURICIO C. DOTIG, Petition, versus

SPEC. PROC. CASE NO. 2014-266

THE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF ROSARIO, BATANGAS, PHILIPPINE STATISTICS AUTHORITY (FORMERLY NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE ) AND ALL PERSONS WHO HAVE ANY INTEREST AND WOULD BE AFFECTED THEREBY, Respondent. x-----------------------------------------x ORDER A verified Petition has been filed by the petitioner through counsel praying the Court that after due notice, publication and

hearing, this petition be granted ordering the Local Civil Registrar of Rosario, Batangas to cancel the record of birth of petitionr with registry number 90-1446; after payment of the fees prescribed by law. NOW THEREFORE, finding the petition to be sufficient in form and substance, noice is hereby given that this case be set for hearing on October 20, 2014 at 1:30 o’clock in the afternoon before the session hall of this Court on which date, time and place, all interested persons may appear and show cause why the petition should not be Granted. Let copy of this Order be published at least once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Batangas, prior to the scheduled date of hearing at the expense of the petitioner. Likewise, let copy of the petition and this Order be furnished the Office of the Solicitor General, the Local Civil Registrar of Rosario, Batangas and the National Statistics Office for their Comment/Opposition thereto. SO ORDERED. Rosario, Batangas, July 9, 2014. (Sgd.) DORCAS P. FERRIOLS-PEREZ Assisting Judge Pahayagang Balikas | September 8, 15 & 21, 2014

ANG biktimang si Raff Ruffino Katigbak nang matagpuan sa iallim ng Sampalokan Bridge sa Brgy. STo. Toribio, Lunsod ng Lipa.| BPPO PHOTO

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Helper, huli sa droga sa checkpoint

BALETE, Batangas – Isang lalaking helper ang inaresto ng mgab tauhan ng Balete Police Station matapos makorner sa isang checkpoint sa Barangay Malabanan sa bayang ito bandang alas 7:45 ng gabi noong Martes. Kinilala ng otoridad ang inarestong si Jomel Magpantay y Damiano, 26 at residente ng nasabing lugar. Batay sa padalang ulat ng Balete MPS kay PSSupt. Omega Jireh D. Fidel, nagsasagawa ng checkpoint ang mga pulis-Balete nang inspeksyunin ang isang putting Isuzu FB na may plakang NQO 411. Napansin umano ng mga otoridad na kakaiba ang pagkagulat sa kanila ng suspek na noon ay nakaupo sa likurang bahagi ng sasakyan. Nang patayuin umano siya, biglang may nahulog na isang pirasong papel sa kaniyang hawak na tuwalya at nanabog mula rito ang apat (4) na plastic sachet na naglalaman ng hinihinalang shabu. Dahil dito, kagyat na inaresto ang suspek at idinitine sa Balete Municipal Detention Cell. Ipinadala na rin sa Regional Crime Laboratory ang mga nakumpiskang ebidenysa para sa kaukulang eksaminasyon samantalang inihanda na ang kaukulang kaso laban sa suspek.|

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Inter-Island News Collated By RONALINA L. ELARMO

Calapan City jumps rank on competitiveness THE City of Calapan has increased its rank so far in this year’s measure of competitiveness among the total 136 cities in the country. From being outside of the top 100 cities in last year’s Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index (CMCI) in the Philippines measure done by the National Competitiveness Council (NCC), the City of Calapan has taken a great stride in its competitiveness at the local government level in terms of economic dynamism, government efficiency and infrastructure indicators. Calapan is now 38th from 105th in 2013 among the 136 cities nationwide. This city also now ranks 73rd overall among the 535 local government units in the combined CMCI measurement. In the same CMCI measurement, which was launched and awarded by NCC to top performing LGUs during a regional competitive summit recently, the roster of the most competitive cities this year were led by Makati City and the cities of Cagayan de Oro (Misamis Oriental) and Naga (Camarines Sur). The CMCI is an annual ranking of Philippine cities and municipalities developed by the NCC through the Regional Competitiveness Committees (RCCs), with the assistance of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It was designed to encourage local governments to regularly track data and eventually benchmark performance against other cities in the ASEAN to better manage their regions.

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Criminology Board Exam, isasagawa na rin sa San Jose SAN JOSE, Occidental Mindoro – Umabot sa 160 aplikante para sa Criminology Board Exam ang naproseso ng Professional Regulation Commission Region IV (PRC Lucena) sa bayang ito kamakailan. Sa mga interesadong kumuha ng pagsusulit na naka-schedule na isagawa sa lalawigan sa Oktubre 19-21, maaari pa ring magpadala ng aplikasyon sa pamamagitan ng online filing. Para sa mga repeater examinees, ang deadline sa pagsumite ng online application ay sa Setyembre 22, samantalang para sa mga first-time examinees ay sa Setyembre 29. Para malaman ang kumpletong requirements sa online application, maaaring bisitahin ang website ng PRC sa www. prc.gov.ph/online/application. Maaari ring makipag-ugnayan sa PRC Lucena sa pamamagitan ng pagtawag sa Tel: (042) 3737316; Fax: (042) 3737305 at Email address: prc.lucena@gmail.com. Sa tulong ng Public Employment Service Office PESO, patuloy ang pagdating nga mga ahensya ng pamahalaan upang dalhin ang kanilang serbisyo sa lalawigan. Bukod sa PRC ay dumating na rin sa bayan ng San Jose ang National Statistics Office (NSO) na nagbigay ng serbisyo tulad ng Authentication of Birth, Marriage, Death, at Certificate of No Marriage o CENOMAR. Bumisita na rin ang National Bureau of Investigation at sa loob ng tatlong araw ay tumanggap ng mga aplikasyon para sa NBI Clearance. Ayon kay San Jose Mayor Romulo Festin, buo ang kanyang suporta sa mga programang pakikinabangan ng mga mamayan.| VOLTAIRE DEQUINA

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Pagsasanay para sa babuyang walang amoy, isinagawa sa Romblon ROMBLON, Romblon — Nagsagawa ng pagsasanay kamakailan ang Office of the Provincial Veterinarian sa mahigit 20 hog raisers kaugnay sa pag-aalaga ng mga baboy na walang amoy na ginanap sa ABC Building sa bayan ng Romblon. Ayon kay Anita R. Morales, Livestock Coordinator ng Office of the Municipal Agriculturist, nag-imbita sila ng eksperto sa paghahayupan, si Roger Villafuerte, Technical Officer ng FeedPro, upang maturuan ang mga magbababoy ng karagdagang kaalaman upang lumago ang kita at mga makabagong pamamaraan ng pag-aalaga ng baboy na hindi nakakapagdulot ng polusyon sa kapaligiran. Isa-isang tinalakay ni Villafuerte ang usapin kaugnay sa tamang disenyo at pagtatayo ng ng “babuyang walang amoy” para sa natural at wastong pag-aalaga ng baboy, mga gabay sa pagpapalaki o pagpapataba ng biik sa pamamagitan ng natural na pakain para ligtas at natural na karne, at wastong paraan ng pagpapakain na makatitipid pero mabisang pakain sa mga alagang baboy. Inaasahan ng organizer na maisasabuhay ng mga kalahok sa kani-kanilang babuyan ang mga natutunan sa seminar upang wala ng maperwisyong kapitbahay ng itatayong piggery ay wala ng amoy.| D. MANZO

SHARP SCISSORS. Congw. Eileen Ermita-Buhain and Mayor Emmanuel Fronda as they cut the ribbon in

Brgy. Sambat witnessed by District Engineer Julie Vergara (Red), Asst. District Engineer Ben Aguzar (White) and other Balayan LGU officials and residents. Inset: The constructed covered court in Brgy. Sambat. | CONTRIBUTED PHOTO .........................................................................................................................................................................

2 barangays receive new covered courts BALAYAN, BATANGAS – Two new covered courts constructed by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Batangas 1st District Engineering Office in Barangays Taludtod and Sambat was inaugurated recently. The inauguration and blessing of the said structures were made possible due to the collaboration of the DPWH Batangas 1st DEO, Local Government Unit (LGU) of Balayan and Congresswoman Eileen Ermita-Buhain. A program was held in Brgy. Taludtod in the morning and another one was held in Brgy. Sambat in the afternoon. DPWH Batangas 1st District Engineer Julie Vergara reminded the barangay residents that proper use and maintenance of the covered

courts are now their responsibility and therefore they shall take good care of it. Ermita-Buhain stated that both barangays were very fortunate to have received projects from the national government, due to the fact that allocation of fund releases for such is difficult nowadays. Balayan Mayor Emmanuel Fronda and Punumbarangay Eulalio Marquez and Punumbarangay Bernardo Pantoja were very thankful and accepted the project and all the responsibilities tied to wholeheartedly. The Construction/Completion of Multi-Purpose Building Structure (Covered Court) in Barangay Sambat, Balayan, Batangas project cost Php 3-million. This project was constructed under the

contract with Vicmar Construction, Inc. and is equipped with electronic scoreboard and buzzers. The covered court on Barangay Taludtod Php 3.5 million and was constructed under the contract with Jomzki Construction and Supply. These projects were finished on June

10 and July 20, 2014, respectively. Both are funded under the CY 2014 Local Infrastructure Program. Both structures can be used as an assembly area for LGU officials, a venue for sporting events and student activities and as an evacuation center during calamities.|

THE constructed covered court in Brgy. Taludtod. |

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ALFI-Batangas Chapter, nakalikom ng P1.6 milyon para sa kabataan Batangueño ang pagkakaisa at pagtutulungan na maipagpatuloy ang simulain ng samahan na magbigay pagasa sa pamamagitan ng pagbibigay ng edukasyon. Binigyang pasasalamat ni Governor Vi ang mga lumahok at nakiisa sa layunin ng Alay Lakad Foundation Inc. - Batangas Chapter sa pamumuno ni Bolilia sa patuloy nitong pagganap bilang pangunahing kabalikat ng lalawigan sa pagbibigay ng bagong simula para sa mga out of school youths. Nagbigay din ng kanilang paghanga si Ms. Angel Locsin at G. Luis Manzano sa mga mamamayang Batangueño sa dedikasyon ng mga ito na magkaisa upang mabigyan ng importansiya ang edukasyon para sa mga kabataang kabilang sa mga kapus-palad

na pamilya. Kapwa nila inianunsyo ang pagbibigay ng tig-P50,000 na donasyon. Katulad ng mga nakaraang taon itinanghal na biggest contributor para sa 2014 edisyon ng Walk-for-a Cause ang Department of Education – Division of Batangas na nakalikom ng halagang P466,674 sinundan ito ng Provincial Government of Batangas na nakalikom ng P400,000 at P200,000 mula sa personal na pondo ni Governor Vilma Santos Recto at asawa nitong si Sen. Ralph G. Recto. Ang halagang nabangit ay nakasama sa kabuuang pondo na uamabot sa P1.6M kasama ang kontribusyon ng iba pang ahensya ng pamahalaan, NGO’s at mga indibidwal na naglaan ng kanilang kontribusyon para sa

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ALFI Batangas. V. Rubio, Chief Operating Ang Alay-Lakad Founda- Officer ng SN Aboitiz Power tion ay isa sa mga panguna- Generation Group. Lubos ang hing tumutulong sa mga paghanga ni Rubio sa kabataan partikular sa mga napaka-aktibong pagsuporta out of school youths at mga ng mga Batangueño sa kabilang sa mga mahihirap adbokasiya ng Alay Lakad, na kumunidad na magka- kumpara sa mga lalawigang roon ng pagkakataong maka- dinaluhan na niya. pasok sa iba’t ibang learning Samantala, nakiisa rin sa institutions sa pamamagitan gawaing ito ang buong ng scholarship at livelihood Sangguniang Panlalawigan, trainings na magagamit nila ilang mga alkalde at bise sa pagsisimula ng kanilang alkalde at si Congressman pagiging produktibong Raneo Abu ng Ikalwang miyembro ng pamayanan. Distrito ng Batangas.| Naging panauhing EDWIN ZABARTE at tagapagsalita si G. Emmanuel JOENALD M. RAYOS PRAYER TO ST. JUDE O St. Jude, Holy Apostle, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, you are honored and petitioned by the universal Church, as the patron of desperate, hopeless and impossible cases. Pray for me. I am so very helpless and I feel alone. Intercede for me that Almighty God may bring swift aid where it is needed most. Come to my assistance in my great time of need! Pray for me that I may be given the comfort and help of Jesus. Most importantly, I ask that you pray that I may one day join you and all of the saints in heaven to praise God in consolation, rest and joy for all eternity. I will remember your prayers, O Holy St. Jude. I will honor you as my patron as so many have before me because of the graces God deigns to give freely at your request. Amen.

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OPINION

September 8 - 14, 2014

NITONG nakaraang Biyernes, isinagawa ang taunang Alay Lakad para sa kabataang Batangueño sa pangunguna ng Alay Lakad Foundation, Inc. – Batangas Chapter. At syempre pa, dahil sa marami talagang delegates na nakiisa sa taunang gawaing ito, talagang matindi rin ang naging problema sa daloy ng trapiko ng umagang iyon. Sa kabila ng magandang layuning matulungan ang ating mga kabataan sa pamamagitan ng pagtataguyod ng mabuting edukasyon na tinutustusan ng mga pondong nalilikom, tila baga may mga indibidwal na hindi pa rin lubos na makuhang suportahan ito. Alam na may kaakibat na pagbigat ng daloy ng trapiko dahil sa mga naglalakad na delegado, may mga motoristang naghahari-harian pa rin sa mga kalsada at walang pakundangan kong manggipit sa kapwa motorista o maging sa pedestrians. Sa kabilang dako, hindi kaya ga pwedeng ang pagparada ay gawin kung araw na walang pasok, halimbawa ay Sabado ng umaga, upang huwag namang sobrang makaabala sa mga komyuter lalo na yung mga estudayante at mga trabahador a hindi naman kasama sa pagparada. Dahil taun-taon na naman itong ginagawa, alam na ng publiko ang kampanyang ito. Isa pa, kalimitan naman, ang mga kontribusyon at donasyon para sa Alay Lakad ay kinokolekta na sa mga paaralan at opisina ilang araw bago pa sumapit ang mismong araw ng paglalakad. Kaugnay pa rin ng nakaraang Alay Lakad, kapansin-pansin ang ilang pulitikong magaling maki-ride on ika nga sa mga artista. Iyong mga agaweksena. Trapong-trapo ang dating!  Nagka-biyahe rin sa wakas! Nabawasan na kalbaryo sa trapiko ng mga pasahero mula sa Brgy. Calicanto, Batangas City hanggang Diversion Road. Kung hindi nagmamatigas ang konseho ay hindi kikilos ang TDRO. Noong Miyerkules, nagpatawag ng Committee Hearing ang Committee on Transportation na pinamumunuan ni Kagawad Armando Lazarte. Nakapagtatakang hindi sumipot sa pagdinig ang TDRO. Ayon kay Ka Mando, personal niyang kinausap si TDRO chief Francisco Beredo noong Martes tungkol sa gagawing pagdinig, ngunit nagsabi umano si Beredo na may lalakarin daw siya sa Maynila kaya hiniling ni Ka Mando na magpadala ng kinatawan sa pagdinig. Aba nga naman, ni anino ng sinumang opisyal o kinatawan ng TDRO ay “No Show” sa Committee Hearing. Sabi ko nga, kung iyong patawag ng Committee on Transportation ay winalang-bahala ng TDRO, ay saan pang aspeto sila kikilos? Sila (TDRO) ang pangunahing ahensya ng pamahalaang lokal na dapat ay naroon o may kinatawan doon sa pagdinig, ay bakit tila binastos na ata nila ang konseho. Pero kinabukasan din ng umaga, September 4, sinimulang payagang makapasok ang biyaheng Lipa at makaikot sa Hilltop-Lawas-Diversion Road Route sa ilalim ng Odd-Even Scheme. Kapag ang Odd Group ay iikot sa Lawas, ang Even Group naman ay sa Grand Terminal ang derecho, kaya wala na rin ang dating pagpila ng mga ito sa Balagtas mula kalaghatian ng Hulyo 2014. Pero ang siste nito, ayon sa ilang drayber na aking nakausap, binabawalan naman silang magpasakay ng pasahero mula Balagtas hanggang Hilltop, at sinabihang sa Lawas lamang sila pwedeng magpasakay. Hindi ko makita ang logic o matinong rason sa usaping ito. Sa kabatiran ng TDRO, baka hindi pa nila alam, kaya nga may mga Loading at Unloading Zones ay para sa pagsasakay at pagbababa ng pasahero. Kung iyon ay istriktong ipatutupad, tiyak na maiiwasan ang pagsisikip sa mga kalsada. At bakit kailangang i-single out ang biyaheng Lipa na bawalang magsakay sa highway pababa sa Lawas? Ito ba ay dahil totoo ang mga alimuom na may pinoproteksyunan kayong partikular na biyahe, o may mga pampasaherong dyip na biyaheng Alangilan at Balagtas ang ilang tagaTDRO? Iyan ba ang tunay na serbisyo publiko? Ayaw mapuna, aba’y kilos! Maraming salamat po sa mga naging instrumento para kahit paano ay maibsan ang kalbaryo ng mga taga-Calicanto... sa mga kasapi ng Sangguniang Panlunsod, lalo na sa Committee on Transportation sa pangunguna ni Councilor Armando Lazarte , Vice Mayor Jun A. Berberabe, Councilors Julian Villena, Glenn Aldover, Claudette Ambida-Alday, Aileen ArriolaMontalbo, Kristine Balmes, Serge Atienza, at Alyssa Renee Cruz-Atienza.|

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Ang Mabuting Balita Gayon na lamang ang pagmamahal ng Diyos sa Tao “WALA pang sinumang umakyat sa langit kundi ang bumabâ mula sa langit, ang Anak ng Tao.” At kung paanong itinaas ni Moises ang tansong ahas doon sa ilang, gayundin naman, kailangang itaas ang Anak ng Tao, upang ang sinumang sumampalataya sa kanya ay magkaroon ng buhay na walang hanggan. Sapagkat gayon na lamang ang pag-ibig ng Diyos sa sangkatauhan, kaya't ibinigay niya ang kanyang kaisa-isang Anak, upang ang sinumang sumampalataya sa kanya ay hindi mapahamak, kundi magkaroon ng buhay na walang hanggan. Isinugo ng Diyos ang kanyang Anak, hindi upang hatulang maparusahan ang mga tao, kundi upang iligtas ang mga ito sa pamamagitan niya.”|

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The National Transformation Council THE launching of the National Transformation Council on August 27, 2014 at Lipa City is a milestone. Leading the signing of the Lipa Declaration, the Council called upon all Filipino Patriots to come forward and lead the urgent and necessary tasks of restoring our damaged political institutions to their original status and form and to prevent the total destruction our political system and rebuild and nourish its institutions back to health. The Declaration does not speak out of the means by which these tasks maybe done but it is emphatic in calling for the resignation of President Benigno Simeon Aquino III for becoming a danger to Philippine Democratic and Republican State and to the peace, freedom, security and moral and spiritual well-being of the Filipino people. The document is rich with reference to the sovereign power of the Filipino people, the abhorrence of violence, the duty of the Armed Forces to protect the people and the State, and the drawing of a new popular and dynamic Constitution after a comprehensive public consultation. The National Transformation Council believes that the main societal systems of the Philippines today are not promoting the common good. Its view on the present political system are summarized in the Lipa Declaration stating that the “life of the nation is in grave peril from the very political forces that are primarily ordained to protect, promote and advance its well-being, but which are aggressively undermining its moral, religious, social, cultural, constitutional and legal foundations. Unbridled and unpunished corruption and widespread misuse of political and economic power in all layers of society have not only destroyed our common conception of right and wrong, good and bad, just and unjust, legal and illegal, but also put our people, especially the poor, at the mercy of those who have the power to dictate the course and conduct of our development for their own selfish ends”. The Council asserts that the prevailing economic system is not sufficiently productive and its benefits mainly go to a small minority. The cultural system is

damaged by decline of reverence for God, honesty, and concern for the common good and is increasingly hypocritical and obsessed with wealth, pleasure, power and fame. The result is what we see today – massive and widespread poverty, unbridled and unpunished corruption, hypocritical abuse of power, increasing criminality, and intensifying social conflict and violence. It is the claim of the Council that since the societal systems – economic, political, and cultural – of the Philippines are harming the common good, there is a clear moral call for systems change to bring about national transformation. As programmatic response to the evils of the prevailing political, economic, and cultural systems, the Council is advancing an economic system that will produce enough to increase our national wealth and enable all the people to enjoy lives of austere and simple comfort. In the political field, the Council advocates a political system that will install meritocracy, reward honesty, competence, and diligence, reduce social conflict and put an end to extremist violence. In the cultural field, the cultural system will promote the ordering of our people's lives based on reverence and obedience to God and solidarity in pursuing the common good. Considering the matters its views on the present national situation and the prescription that it is offering to cure the ills of our society, the National Transformation Council can be characterized as an emergent revolutionary socio-political movement. The fact that its leadership is mostly drawn from religious and moral leaders of the Philippine society does not detract from its primary character as a movement rooted from the people, especially the poor and marginalized. And while the movement appears loosely organized its leadership and the people it is representing are compact. They are united by the national direction that animates the Council. Fast emerging as a strong socio-political movement, the National Transformation Council is institutionalizing itself as a dynamic force of change devoted to the transformation of the Philippine society.|

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OPINION

September 8 - 14, 2014

Kanayunan ang Solusyon sa Problema ng Kalunsuran SADYANG meron mga ironies sa lipunan. Halimbawa nito ay ang mga masalimuot na problema sa kalunsuran na masosolusyunan lamang ng kanayunan. Mukhang baligtad, o malayo sa katotohanan, di po ba?  ‘Yan po ang katotohanan. Katulad na lang ng pagsisikip sa syudad. Ang solusyon nito ay ang pagkakaroon ng mapagkakakitaan o hanapbuhay sa kanayunan. Dahil ito ay hindi sapat, nagsisipagpuntahan tuloy sa kalunsuran ang mga taganayon para maghanap ng ikabubuhay. Na alam naman natin kung ano ang palaging kinalalabasan. Kung hindi kalbaryo, personal, social problem ang kinalalabasan katulad ng problema ng mga iskwater. Nagiging masikip ang kalunsuran dahil kulang ang mga programa ng mga lokal na pamahalaang sa mga lalawigan na magpapaunlad sa kanayunan.  Isa sa mga dapat pansinin natin ay ang pagpapaunlad ng agrikultura sa kanayunan. Dapat ito ay bigyang-pansin para magkaroon ng masaganang kabuhayan ang mga kababayan natin sa kanayunan, at hindi na sila magsisiksik sa mga lunsod.  Anong suporta pa ba ang dapat ibigay ng lokal na gobyerno sa mga magsasaka. Una siguro ay lakihan ang pondo para sa agrikultura para madagdagan ang bilang ng mga extension workers na tutulong sa mga magsasaka na matutunan ang mga makabagong teknolohiya sa pagsasaka. Ito kasi ang hihila sa kanilang magtanim. Pangalawa, suportahan ang mga magsasaka ng mga binhi, abono at kasama na ang puhunan at traktura na makakatulong sa pagbubungkal. Pag

ito ang ginawa natin, tingin ko ay sisigla ang kanayunan at babalik ang ating mga kababayan sa kanayunan na walang matirhan dito sa magulong buhay sa kalunsuran.  Naniniwala ako na gaano man kalayo ang inabot ng industriyalisasyon, o computerization, mananatili pa rin tayong isang agricultural country. Agrikultura pa rin madali nating mapagkukunan ng pagkain at trabaho, hindi makina o computer. Nakabaon sa lupang kinagisnan ang ating hinaharap. Hindi natin puwedeng talikuran ito at dumiretso sa mas mataas na antas ng economic development dahil hindi talaga kaya ng gobyerno na pakainin tayong lahat kung kaya’t tayo na mismo ang magsimulang gumalaw para sa buhay natin.  Isang pagbati sa aking mga kapatid sa Alpha Phi Omega sa matagumpay na Back-to-Back Service na pinamunuan ng Sto Tomas Alpha Phi Omega Alumni Association (STAPOAA ) at ng Lambda Beta Chapter. Naging matagumpay ang Bloodletting Service at Dengue Fogging Service na ginanap noong nakaraang linggo sa PUP Sto.Tomas Campus. Maraming mag-aaral ang nakiisa sa nasabing services! Congrats mga Kapatid! Noong Linggo, Setyembre 7, 2014, ganap na alas-9:00 ng umaga ay nag-umpisa naman ang Free Vaccination & Castration, Anti- Rabies Campaign sa Brgy. Hall ng Darasa, na proyekto naman ng Alpha Phi OmegaTanauan Chapter.  Ipaabot nga pala namin ang aming pakikiramay sa aming kasamahan sa UP-UP Batangas na si Past President Ding Andal sa pagpanaw ng kanyang mahal na ina na si Maria Andal!|

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People’s Initiative: Is the new game in town worth the candle? - Last Part PI is more compelling as it BUT who’s gaming? operates on the principle of That line of reasoning direct democracy, i.e. the which sees the masses unfit for people making laws for the modern forms of governance people and not just fails to realize that the social representatives of the people field is not interpretable in a making laws for the people. The mode of analysis that merely uses scraps of psychology and applied linguistics to former empowers the citizenry to say, “Let’s make laws reinforce a crude theory of reception and a pseudo- that will be good for us.”The latter, as configured by ideology critique that reduces the persistence of a social representative democracy, entitles politicians to their order to only one factor: people’s insatiable appetite for undying claim: “We know what’s good for you.” The current call for a PI to abolish pork has been their own oppression. How can anything be more absurd than blaming the people when the real culprits continue launched in Cebu in August 23. But we hardly heard anything about it from the yellow media. Fortunately, to commit crimes against society with impunity? The corruptible character of “civil society” is rather on Facebook, a history professor from a public university symptomatic of an enduring crisis of a backward pre- describes the event: “I stood off from my seat, to go to the rest room at industrial economy whose political and cultural structures are controlled by foreign policies issued by the third floor of the mariner’s court and to be able to an imperialistic force that aims at economic and military distance a little and get a sociologist’s view on the whole movement at the floor. expansion on account of its own crisis. The people “The pork barrel system is still alive My hair stood on my skin as I saw the hall packedhave been forced to play a and well in government despite a up with all delegates from game in which the ruling class of imperialist US, in year of people’s incessant clamor for the different Islands and cahoots with the local its abolition; and the Supreme Court’s organizations all over the country. Saw everyone ruling elite represented by Mr. Aquino, are bound to decision on the unconstitutionality of was quite serious and focused… and the bring the populace to PDAF and DAP. One can only ceremony came chaos and general conclude that Mr. Noynoy Aquino opening with the Sinulog offering confusion. How so? It is has made a rubber stamp out of of the USC dance troupe. becoming clear, from all The speeches said it all. kinds of evidence, that Philippine Congress.” There is an these powerful forces want us to draw direct correlations between dictatorship and institutionalization of a Noynoy Aquino Dictatorship development. “In the hands of an Aquino, it shouldn’t now, especially with the move to change the charter to be so bad.” It is precisely in this manner that dictatorship, extend his term, its intention to cut the mandated powers reform, and economic development are knotted together of Supreme Court and the continuation of the PDAF to form an ideological loop evocative of fascism. As for and the DAP despite SC ruling. The same experience on the yellow cheapjacks, they will, of course, go on talking goose hairs with Ms. Stella Palomo was felt when the about reform-in- democracy in such a highly stylized marchers came and converged at the Plaza Independecia to sign the PI documents set at the grounds. It was manner of gibberish. Meanwhile, Aquino’s Matuwid na Daan ceases to quite an overwhelming event. The people, the church, be the only game in town. Of late, the clamor to abolish the social movements are all one against the government the pork barrel system has taken on a legal-democratic and its sustained stubbornness to hold on and justify shape in the People’s Initiative (PI). From a humanist its wickedness. All the speakers of the different perspective, a law passed through the R.A. 6735 persuasions were one in condemning Aquino’s supersedes any constitutional provision that it has culpability and arrogance…” The professor further provides concrete bases for declared inferior to its own constitutional claim. Relative to the any law passed through a such strong feelings for PI: constitutional commission or a constituent assembly, >>>RAYMUNDO.....turn to P/7

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Terrorists threat I HEARD today a newsbreaker that suspected bombers were caught with powerful explosives in Metro Manila by the NBI. Worrisome.  VS TERRORISTS --I read with keen interest the statement of Saudi Arabian King Abdullah warning the whole world that if we do not wipe out the islamic jihadists fast and quick, they will be knocking on our own doors in no time. I wonder if our Philippine authorities will now take his advice to heart. If the report is accurate that the BIFF and ASG have announced their alliance with the dreaded Islamic State (IS) group that is responsible for barbaric acts of slaughtering and beheading non-believers of islam, then it's time to do some real action on this.  CEASEFIRE --The problem however for government now is that we have a ceasefire agreement with the MILF and we are still nurturing the environment conducive to the peace process. An all out attack on the BIFF and ASG strongholds will surely inflict its collateral damage on the peace negotiations still pending.  EMBEDDED --- We know that extremists are tactically embedded in muslim communities and this is their effective protection from punitive military operations. A surgical attack, even though how carefully executed will definitely result to civilian casualties, including displacements. Of course, we know that some civilians provide them actual sanctuary and support.  LEAKED -- We even heard of instances of prior planned military ops being prematurely leaked and passed on to high value targets to avoid being cornered. I was told of one operation in Lanao to get bomberterrorist Marwan, an internationally- wanted Indonesian, but the raiders returned to base emptyhanded because the targets were tipped off ahead of time. Under the ceasefire agreement with the MILF, no military operations can be done unless prior coordination is done with the MILF. The result is obvious. Perhaps, when the time is ripe, it will put to a good test whether the MILF is capable of governing and policing the bangsamoro area and rid it with those dregs of the land.  DUPLICITY?-- On the other hand, there are doubters who suspect the duplicity of it all -- believing that the BIFF is an instrumentality of the MILF, although with deniability doing pressure tactic on government and at the same time becoming a "fallback position" for the MILF when things do not turn out as expected in the peace process with the government. Whether these doubts turn out to be false or true, wel will still have to see.  PINOY SOLDIERS --- We hope we are getting accurate and timely reports on what's happening to our UN peace-keeping Filipino soldiers out there in Syria and now, from the latest news, are under siege holding their ground and refusing to surrender their firearms to rebels. The initial reports make us mighty proud. Pray that this does not have a tragic end.  CANADIAN CHAMBER --- The topic discussed a few days ago during

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Walang karapatan sa mana TATLONG buwang gulang pa lang si Angelina nang iwanan siya ng kanyang inang si Linda sa pinsan nitong si Marta at asawa nitong si Jimmy. Walang anak ang mag-asawa kaya inampon ang bata. Matapos ang siyam na buwan, muling nag-ampon ang mag-asawa. Isang 15-araw na gulang na sanggol ang kanilang inampon at pinangalanang Jessica. Si Jessica ay anak naman ng isa pang pinsan ni Marta na si Cora. Noong 17-anyos si Angelina at si Jessica naman ay walong taong gulang, nagdesisyon ang mag-asawa na pormal na ampunin ang mga ito. Sila naman daw ang tumayong magulang ng mga bata at simula’t sapul ay hindi na nila nakagisnan ang tunay na magulang kahit pa anong paghahanap ang gawin ng mag-asawa sa mga ito. Sa paglilitis ng kaso ay may itinalagang “guardian ad litem” o tumatayong bantay ng mga bata na nag-bigay ng kanyang pirmadong permiso sa pag-ampon. Matapos ang paglilitis at naipasa na ang lahat ng ebidensiya, pinagbigyan ng korte ang petisyon ng mag-asawang Marta at Jimmy. Ipinag-utos ng korte na malaya na ang dalawang bata sa obligasyon nila sa tunay na magulang at ganap na silang anak nina Marta at Jimmy. Walong taon matapos ampunin ang mga bata ay namatay si Marta. Wala siyang naiwang testamento o kahit huling habilin pero marami siyang naiwang ari-arian. Nagsampa ng petisyon si Jimmy sa korte para pormal na paghatian nila nina Jessica at Angelina, bilang tanging tagapagmana, ang naiwanang ari-arian ni Marta. Ang kaso, matapos ang may 20 taong pananahimik, biglang sumulpot sina Linda at Cora bilang magulang ng dalawa at bilang pinsan ni Marta. Nakialam sila sa kaso at kumokontra sa petisyon ni Jimmy. Ayon sa kanila, sila lang ang tanging tagapagmana ni Marta dahil sila ang mga pinsangbuo ng babae. Hindi raw masasabi na pormal na inampon ni Marta sina Angelina at Jessica dahil hindi naman daw sila pumayag sa pag-ampon na nangyari. Ayon din sa kanila, hindi puwedeng maging tagapagmana si Jimmy dahil may nauna itong pinakasalan kaya walang bisa ang kasal nito kay Marta. May karapatan ba silang maghabol sa mana?

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BUSINESS

September 8 - 14, 2014

JUDICIAL NOTICE

AUCTION

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES REGIONAL TRIAL COURT FOURTH JUDICIAL REGION BRANCH 1 BULWAGAN NG KATARUNGAN PALLOCAN WEST, BATANGAS CITY

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF BATANGAS FOURTH JUDICIAL REGION LIPA CITY

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT & EXOFFICIO SHERIFF

IN RE: PETITION FOR ADOPTION OF MINOR DANICA SANTOS MADRIAGA

EJF CASE NO. 2014-0049 SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALE

SP. PROC. NO. 14-9761 ARMANDO B. ABLAZA EMILENE M. ABLAZA Petitioners. x---------------------------- x ORDER A verified petition was filed with the court by ARMANDO B. ABLAZA and EMILENE M. ABLAZA, both American Citizens, of legal age, residents of 1089 Roxas Road, Kumintang Ibaba, Batangas City, praying that after due noice, publication and hearing, the Honorable Court issue a DECREE OF ADOPTION declaring DANICA SANTOS MADRIAGA as the legitimate child of Petitioners, Armando B. Ablaza and Emilene M. Ablaza. It is likewise prayed for that the Honorable Court issues a decision declaring that: 1. Danica Santos Madriaga is free from all obligations of obedience and maintenance to her biological parents, and 2. The Pasig City Civil Registrar is ordered to record the Decree of Adoption to be issued and thereafter, to make the necessary annotations and amendments in the birth certificate of Danica Santos Madriaga. Finding the petition to be sufficient in form and substance, the court sets the petition for hearing on November 5, 2014 at 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon at the session hall of this Court. All persons interested in the petition may appear in Court on the aforesaid date, time and place to show cause if any why the petition should not be granted. The Branch Sheriff is hereby directed to post copies of this Order together with the petition and it’s annexes in the bulletin boards at the main entrance of the Batangas Provincial Capitol Building, the City Hall of Pasig, the Batangas City Hall, Market Place and at the Hall of Justice, Batangas City for at least three (3) weeks prior to date set for initial hearing. Let this Order be published at the expense of the petitioners once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Batangas including the City of Batangas. Said newspaper must be chosen by raffle to be undertaken by the Office of the Clerk of Court, Regional Trial Court, Batangas City. The Court Social Worker Josefina S. Perez is hereby directed to conduct counselling sessions with the biological parents, child and home study and to submit the corresponding reports thereon before the date set for initial hearing. Likewise, let the copy of this Order together with a copy of the petition be served to the Office of the Solicitor General, Makati City, Atty. Ferdinand L. Aguirre, Office of the City Prosecutor, and RTC-OCC, Batangas City. SO ORDERED. Batangas City, August 8, 2014.

Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135, as amended by Act 4118 filed by SUMMIT RURAL BANK OF LIPA CITY, INC., mortgagee, with office address at 50 B. Morada Avenue, Lipa City, against JOSEPH L. VILLALOBOS AND MA. CHRISTINA P. LINA as Attorney-in-Fact of Norma Llanes, mortgagor, with residence and postal address at Lot 28, Blk. 1, Gladiola St., City Park Subd., Sabang, Lipa City, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of July 31, 2014 amounts to PhP 276,642.22 including/excluding interest and other charges agreed thereon and other expenses in connection with this sale, secured by the mortgagee the undersigned Sheriff IV of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 85, Lipa City, will sell at public auction on October 21, 2014 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning or soon thereafter at the main entrance of the Hall of Justice, Marauoy, Lipa City to the highest bidder for CASH and in the Philippine Currency, the described real property and its improvements thereon to wit:

(Sgd.) GLENDA M. LACSAMANA-KING Branch Clerk of Court Pahayagang Balikas | September 1,8 & 15, 2014

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”

‘A parcel of land (Lot 1123-A of the subdivision plan (LRC) Psd-136114, being a portion of Lot 1123, Lipa cadastre, LRC Cad Record No. 1279), situated in the Barrio of Sabang, City of Lipa, Island of Luzon. Bounded on the SE., points 4 to 5 by Lot 1123-B of the subdivision plan; on the SW., points 5 to 1 by Lot 1122; on the SW, and NW., points 1 to 3 by Lot 1127; and on the NE., points 3 to 4 by Lot 1124, all of Lipa Cadastre. x x x x x x x containing an area of ONE HUNDRED NINETY-TWO (192) SQUARE METERS, more or less.” Prospective buyers and bidders are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the title herein above described and the encumbrances thereon, if any there be. In the event that the Auction Sale should not take place on said date it shall be held on October 28, 2014, same place and time without further notice and republication. “All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above stated time and place.” Lipa City, August 22, 2014. (Sgd.) ARSENIO D. LORZANO Sheriff IV DULY RAFFLED: HON. NOEL M. LINDOG Executive Judge ATTY. GERALD F. RABENA OIC-Clerk of Court & Ex-Officio

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TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-170695 ‘A parcel of Land (Lot 6178-B-5-B of the subdivision plan (LRA) Psd-394829, approved as non-subdivision project, being a portion of Lot 6178-B-5, Psd-04-007059, LRC Cad. Record No. 1271), situated in the Barrio of Bual and Tambo, Lipa City, Island of Luzon. Bounded on the NE., points 3 to 4 by Lot 6178-B-5-A of the subdivision plan; on the SE., points 4 to 5 by Lot 6178-Lipa Cad., on the SW., points 5 to 1 by Lot 6178-B-5-C and points 1 to 2 by Lot 6178-B-5-D; both of the subdivision plan and on the NW., points 2 to 3 by Lot 6178-B-7, Psd-04-007059 (Existing Road) x x x x x x x containing an area of TW O HUNDRED EIGHTY THREE (283) SQUARE METERS, more or less.” Prospective buyers and bidders are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the title herein above described and the encumbrances thereon, if any there be. In the event that the Auction Sale should not take place on said date it shall be held on October 6, 2014, same place and time without further notice and republication. “All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above stated time and place.” Lipa City, August 28, 2014. (Sgd.) REMER S. REYES Sheriff IV

Sheriff

DULY RAFFLED: HON. NOEL M. LINDOG Executive Judge ATTY. GERALD F. RABENA OIC-Clerk of Court & Ex-Officio

Award of publication hereof in the Pahayagang Balikas drawn by raffle in accordance with law. Copy furnished: PARTIES CONCERNED WARNING: It is absolutely prohibited to remove deface or destroy this Notice of Sale on or before the date of sale UNDER PENALTYOF LAW.

Sheriff Award of publication hereof in the Pahayagang Balikas drawn by raffle in accordance with law. Copy furnished: PARTIES CONCERNED

Pahayagang BALIKAS September 8, 15 & 21, 2013

MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES Company Registration Consulancy & Processing

Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135, as amended by Act 4118 filed by HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND (otherwise known as PAG-IBIG FUND), mortgagee, with office address at Petron Megaplaza Building, 358 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave, Makati City with branch office at Caedo Commercial Center, National Highway, Brgy. Calicanto, Batangas City, against ERNYLENE C. JIMENEZ married to JASON A JIMENEZ, mortgagor, with residence and postal address at St. Joseph SUbd., Brgy. Tambo, Lipa City, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of June 9, 2014 amounts to PhP 828,931.93 including/excluding interest and other charges agreed thereon and other expenses in connection with this sale, secured by the mortgagee the undersigned Sheriff IV of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 85, Lipa City, will sell at public auction on September 29, 2014 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning or soon thereafter at the main entrance of the Hall of Justice, Marauoy, Lipa City to the highest bidder for CASH and in the Philippine Currency, the described real property and its improvements thereon to wit:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-83701

(Sgd.) FLORENCIO S. ARELLANO Judge I hereby certify that copy of this Order have been sent by registered mail to the petitioner, Atty. Ferdiannd L. Aguirre, Biological Parents, Office of the Solicitor General, Makati City, and by personal delivery to the Office of the City Prosecutor, RTC-OCC, Batangas City and CSWO Josefina S. Perez.

SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALE EJF CASE NO. 2014-0054

WOMEN’S RURAL BANK, INC. Deposits | Loans | Financing Services Carandang St., Poblacion, Rosario, Batangas

WARNING: It is absolutely prohibited to remove deface or destroy this Notice of Sale on or before the date of sale UNDER PENALTY OF LAW. Pahayagang BALIKAS September 8, 15 & 21, 2013

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LIFE TIMES Virgo (Aug. 23 - Sept. 23) Ang munting problema ay maaaring lumaki sa paglipas ng mga araw kung hindi mahahanapan ng solusyon ngayon. Libra (Sept. 24 - Oct. 23) Maganda ang epekto ng pakikipagsundo sa matagal nang nakagalit. Dahil taglay ang mataas na antas ng karisma, madali kang mauunawaan at kabigha-bighaning makausap. Scorpio (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) Tama ang desisyon na tawanan ang problema at hanapan ng solusyon sa mahinahong paraan. Sagittarius (Nov. 23 - Dec. 21) Matutukso ka sa panlabas na anyo ng isang opposite sex subalit ang ugali naman ay taliwas sa iyong inaasahan. Capricorn (Dec. 22 - Jan. 20) Huwag patagalin ang gustong sabihin dahil magbibigay ng suliranin kung hahayaan. Maging tapat sa sarili. Aquarius (Jan. 21 - Feb. 19) Mag-relax upang gumaan ang isipan at kalooban. Huwag pansinin ang mang-aasar. Pisces (Feb. 20 - Mar. 20) Huwag mangutang ngayon

Gov't urged to take PNR funding challenge WHAT about the PNR? While its focus – and resources – seem to be concentrated on the breakdownprone Metro Rail Transit, Sen. Ralph Recto said government should also turn its attention to MRT’s poor cousin – the Philippine National Railways, “an aging workhorse which still ferries 20 million passengers yearly.” “Kahit konting pagtingin sana mabigyan ang PNR,” Recto said, citing the wide disparity in the proposed budgetary support between the two rail lines. While the MRT is slated to receive at least P6.7 billion in subsidy in 2015, the PNR will only get P546 million, based on the proposed 2015 national budget. Even in rehabilitation, something like P54 billion is being floated around as the amount needed to fix MRT’s problems, Recto said.

“In contrast, nobody it seems is officially lobbying for more funds for the PNR. One gets the feeling that while one is on its way to modernization, the other is bound for the scrap yard,” Recto lamented. But Recto warned that “to ignore PNR is to forfeit on its potentials.” He explained that just doubling the number of its trains plying the 44-kilometer Tutuban, Manila- Sta. Rosa, Laguna line could raise its daily ridership to 110,000. “This is one-fourth the number of passengers taking the MRT everyday. Adding more PNR trips will relieve the pressure on MRT and give many commuters an alternative,” Recto said. Recto said next year’s subsidy for PNR of P546 million won’t allow it to rehabilitate more trains.| BALIKAS NEWS TEAM

dahil mahihirapan sa pagbabayad. Maganda ang pakiramdam at walang problema ang kalusugan. Aries (Mar. 21 - April 20) Produktibo ang araw kung gugustuhin. Kalimutan ang mga kapalpakan at isipin na isang aral sa pagtuwid ng pagkakamali. Taurus (Apr. 21 - May 21) Huwag mangutang at mahihirapan lamang sa pagbabayad. Sundin ang idinidikta ng kalooban dahil malakas ang ESP na magbibigay ng magandang resulta. Gemini (May 22 - June 21) Ang taglay na talino ay pagkakakitaan ng husto kaysa kasalukuyang trabaho. Lakas ng loob ang landas ng tagumpay. Cancer (June 22 - July 22) Upang manatili ang mataas na antas ng respeto at pagkatao, ipakita ang kabutihan at respeto sa kapwa. Magiging taliwas sa inaasahan ang magaganap. Leo (July 23 - Aug. 22) Tutuwirin nila ang kanilang pagkakamali sa oras na malamang tama ka. Matutupad at maibibigay ang napangako.|

<<<PEACE & ORDER.... mula sa P/2

Lipeñong pulis, 2 iba pa, inihabla ng kasong kidnaping at pagpatay Pagkailang sandali pa ay pumasok muli ang mga suspek sa loob saka ikinulong sa banyo ang natitirang mga biktima at pilit tinatanong kung nasa kanila ang isang Mio, ngunit nang hindi sila makasagot ay pawang binuhusang ng malamig na tubig saka pinukpok ng tabo sa ulo. Saka naman tuluyang tumalilis ang mga suspek kasama ang biktimang si Raff Rufino. Kinabukasan, natagpuan ni Annabelle Ramos y Facundo ang bangkay ng isang lalaki sa ilalim ng Sampalokan Bridge sa Brgy. Sto. Toribio, sakop pa rin ng Lunsod ng Lipa. Kaagad niya itong ipinabatid kay Punumbarangay Eddie Lacorte na siya namang tumawag sa himpilan ng pulisya. Sa paunang imbestigasyon, bukod sa posas ay nakapiring din ng duct tape ang biktima

at tadtad ng tama ng baril sa iba’t ibang bahagi ng katawan. Walong basiyo ng kalibre .22 ang narekober ng SOCO Team malapit sa biktima na siya namang ikukumpara sa basiyong narekober malapit sa bahay ng mga biktima. Positibong kinilala ni Richard ang bangkay ng kaniyang kuya. Aniya pa, ang kaniyang kuya ay dati nang nakasuhan ng paglabag sa PD 1866 as amended by RA 8294 o Anti-Dangerous Drug Act noong taong 2000. Iniugnay rin siya sa mga kaso ng droga sa Lumban, Laguna at may mga bali-balita rin umano siya na konektado ang kapatid sa paggamit at pagtutulak ng iligal na droga. Samantala, patuloy naman ang follow-up operation ng pulisya sa agarang ikadarakip ng dalawang iba pang mga suspek.| BALIKAS NEWS TEAM

................................................................................................................................ <<<RAYMUNDO....from P/5

People’s Initiative: Is the new game in town worth the candle? “It seems like Aquino’s paradigm of authoritarian rule is another variant from that of the Marcos dictatorship. Everything that we fought against during the time of the dictator is repeatedly done by Noynoy Aquino. We know that the moment they will tinker on the charter it will surely bleed us to hell. This is bad especially that he [Noynoy Aquino] plans to destroy the Supreme Court. A pattern shows that he maintains a motley crew of advisers or defenders from yellow academics, some lawyers, some economists, military mutineers and other professionals from the ranks of yellow partylist AKABAYAN. He asserts his positionality through the use of his tears… And then he lashes his tongue openly against the supreme court. I am afraid that Noynoy will be paying the Senate again to oust the Supreme Court judges soon. He uses “voices” that he heard in his crooked brain to justify an extension of term. He sustains that the poor need him most more than anything else. This new variant of a dictatorship is like governance from a schizophrenic dictator. Noynoy Aquino feels he is the MESSIAH who must circumvent the constitution to sustain his office so that the poor can stand their difficulties… This president forgot about his criminal liability to the Yolanda victims. There is something wrong with him.” (Phoebe Zoe Maria) Today, on the anniversary of the

Million People March against the pork barrel scam, the people will stand up and sign up against all forms of pork. They will do so through the PI or the “Abolish the Pork Barrel System Bill.” The bill needs the support/signature of 3% of voting citizens from all legislative districts in the country. That is roughly 5-6 million signatures against pork. Signing up continues for the rest of the year. It should not be difficult as the CBCP has endorsed it; LGUs have expressed their support; and different organizations have began to mobilize their forces in all parts of the archipelago. Just how powerful is the PI? No law created through PI or RA 6735 can be repealed by any other enactment of a law except through another people’s initiative. This particular PI for the abolition of the pork barrel system criminalizes all practices and all parties guilty of perpetuating and sustaining any form of lump sums or discretionary pork barrel in the national budget. But what makes the PI really compelling is its grip on the construction of a democracy. Who will replace Aquino is a nagging question thrown at his critics and political opponents. Some even engage in disempowered talk such as the so-called impeachment and people power fatigue. Clearly, politicians who have betrayed public trust and violated the constitution benefit from such expressions of

tiredness. But are the people really tired? What on the basis of the social sciences can be said about the human condition? To say that they are tired of laying claim to democracy amidst the glut exhibited by their leaders is irrelevant to a question decisively crafted for empowerment. One of the pitfalls of national consciousness is the general tendency to embrace the national agenda crafted exclusively by the political elite as the people’s agenda. A radical approach to Philippine history reveals what the Spanish and American occupation of the Philippines meant for our heroes: they must give their lives for sovereignty and dignity. Yet the course of neo-colonial history has also made us understand that it is not only a foreign occupying power that can threaten people’s sovereignty and dignity. The local bureaucratic elite can stop accumulating economic and political power from public office when the conditions for profit-making in government are eliminated. The PI for the abolition of the pork barrel system will make it harder for the ruling elite to perpetuate themselves through massive looting of public funds. With the success of the people’s initiative against pork, a new crop of leaders uninterested and even opposed to bureaucrat capitalism will emerge to truly serve the people. This way, our political choices don’t always have to be between the devil and the deep blue sea.|

September 8 - 14, 2014

PA L A IS IPA N 1

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40 PAHALANG 1 Nakalalasing 4 Kutob 8 Los Angeles Lakers 9 Pamalong bola 12 Pagsususlit sa abogasya 13 Philippine Military Academy 14 Matatagpuan sa Lambak ng Cagayan 16 Advanced power management 17 Yari 18 Batis-batisan 20 Paminggalan 23 Guhit sa papel 25 Sapo 26 Salaping pang-suhol 28 Pagligid ng tandang sa inahing manok 30 Tanaw 32 Termino sa golf 33 Bayan sa Bulacan 36 Alas: Ingles 37 Tatay 38 Maalwan

39 41 39 Local Area Network 40 Walo 41 Lunan sa France PABABA 1 Nakahulagpos 2 Ilawang de gas 3 Abrigo 5 Kaibigan (Kapampangan) 6 David sa PBA 7 Asada 9 Salungat sa small 10 Kustombre 11 Batong natural 15 Away 19 Sagot sa hindi gusto 21 Agad-agad 23 Tropikal na pulo sa Panay 24 Katulong 26 Kalahati ng bao ng niyog na ginagamit pansalok 27 Dating PBA player Co 29 Anak ni Marcos 31 Hintay sa pangako 34 Amount: daglat 35 Pantukoy Kastila

<<<SISON....mula sa P/5

Walang karapatan sa mana WALA. Sa ilalim ng batas, hindi kailangan ang pagpayag ng mga magulang sa pag-ampon sa kanilang anak. Lalo at kung inabandona ng tunay na magulang ang bata. Sapat na ang pagpayag ng itinalagang “guardian ad litem”. Sa kasong ito, ilang taon na sina Angelina at Jessica na nakatira kina Marta at Jimmy. Si Angelina ay halos tatlong buwang gulang pa lang nang ipamigay ng ina samantalang si Jessica ay 15 araw lang ang edad. Mula nang ipamigay ang mga bata ay walang naging balita ang mag-asawa tungkol sa kanila. Sapat na ang mga sirkumstansiyang nabanggit para mapatunayan na inabandona ang dalawang bata. Ang pag-abandona na ginawa nina Linda at Cora ay matibay na ebidensiya ng hangarin ng isang tao na talikuran

ang obligasyones at responsibilidad niya sa anak. Malinaw na kapabayaan at tuwirang pagtanggi ito na ibigay sa bata ang dapat ay pagmamahal at pag-aarugang nararapat sa isang anak. Tama lang na ideklarang legal at may bisa ang ginawang pag-ampon kina Angelina at Jessica. Sa Articles 973 at 1003 ng Civil Code, walang karapatan ang mga pinsangbuo na maghabol ng mana kung mayroong legal na ampon ang namatay. Tungkol naman kay Jimmy, ipagpalagay man natin na totoong hindi sila tunay na kasal ni Marta, wala pa ring magbabago dahil wala pa ring karapatan sina Cora at Linda na maghabol ng mana at makialam sa kaso (Santos v. Aranzanso, 16 SCRA 344).|

.................................................................................... <<<DUREZA.....from P/5

The terrorists threat the Canadian Chamber of served. Look around your Commerce in its Davao luncheon meeting ( Aboitiz executive Bobby Orig, as Davao chief)framed the reasons why we need to open up our constitution. ACCRA Law Senior Partner Eusebio Tan, the resource speaker walked through some laws to illustrate.  RESTRICTIVE -- For instance, the retail trade law that is supposed to protect Pinoy small businessmen, is more breached than ob-

favorite Chinatown areas. Even the practice of professions that are reserved only for Filipinos needs review in the light of globalization.This is ancient. The 60 % rule on Filipino ownership of corporations is also subject to review. This is not only restrictive, we see this also being “layered” to circumvent it. Including those businesses 100% reserved for Filipinos.|  Send your comments to jessdureza@gmail .com

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......................................................................... >>>FESTIVALS & FEASTS..., EVENTS..., SHOWBIZ & SPORTS...TRAVEL & TRENDS<<< September 8 - 14, 2014

Brilliante Mendoza FIlm Festival sa SM City Batangas “M na parehong tumabo ng awards lalo an sa international competitions. Nitong nakaraang Martes, muling ipinalabas sa mga sinehan ng SM City Batangas ang dalawang pelikulang ito na sabi nga ay very educational. Hindi nasasayang ang hinihinging baon ng ating mga anak kung ipanonood ito ng sine na katulad ng Thy Womb at Captive dahil may magandang aral na ibinibigay ang mga pelikulang ito. Nakakatuwa rin naman na walang kasawa-sawang sinusuportahan ito ng SM City Batangas. At Syempre pa, gaya ng dati, personal na dumalo sa nasabing D ha l end z L a ndi c ho launching presscon si Ms. Mellie Dizon, Vice President for Marketing ng SM Malls. Si Direk Brilliante ang nasa likod ng mga Naroon din sina Secretary to the City Mayor, pamosong pelikulang Thy Womb at Captive, Atty. RD Dimacuha, at City Tourism Officer ANANATILI pa rin po tayong magsusulong nga mga de kalidad at educational films para sa ating mga bataan at para sa bansa.” Ito ang buod ng pahayag ni Direktor Brilliante Mendoza sa press confrerence ng paglulunsad muli ng BMFF sa SM City Batangas noong Lunes, September 1.

Lite Talk

BMFF Shots. Joining Director Brilliante Mendoza in this photo are City Tourism Officer Ed Borbon, SM City Batangas mall manager Lyn Gabriel, SM Malls Vice President for Marketing Ms. Mellie Dizon, and Secretary to the City Mayor, Atty. RD Dimacuha.| BALIKAS FOTOBANK | JOENALD MEDINA RAYOS

THE DIRECTOR AND THE PRESS. Joining Director Brilliante Mendoza here are yours truly, Dhalendz Landicho of Balikas, Jojo Ceniza of Spirit-FM’s Balitang J, Norbert Maligaya of Balisong, Rona Endaya of City PIO, our publisher, Joenald Medina Rayos and Dhess Aclan of Headlines.|

Synopsis | ‘CAPTIVE’ THE story of Captive is adapted from the Dos Palmas kidnapping of two US missionaries by the Abu Sayyaf Group in 2001. On 27 May 2001, members of the Abu Sayyaf Group abduct 20 local and foreign tourists from the Dos Palmas resort in Palawan and transport them via a fishing boat across the Sulu Sea to the island of Basilan. On the boat, the ASG demand ransom from the hostages. One of the hostages arranges an easy transfer of the ransom to a bank in Zamboanga, the reason why the group makes a stopover in a Lamitan City hospital en route to their hideout in the mountains. A bullet mistakenly shot by one of the ASG leaders at a passing military truck triggers a military assault on the hospital that lasts the whole day the next day. Amid the firing, three hostages are freed after what is implied as payment of ransom. Four more hostages are taken from the hospital staff when the group leaves, even if the kidnappers release three others with orders to arrange ransom for their loved ones whom the kidnappers are taking with them in the mountains. The first natural casualty of the kidnapping is an old Filipina social worker, who dies during the journey. Her companion, Therese Bourgoine, a French social worker, wins a score over the kidnappers when she succeeds in giving Soledad a Christian burial. On the eve of Philippine Independence Day, the kidnappers behead one of the foreign hostages, a result of a failed negotiation with the government. During the next month, three more hostages are freed, while the rest are forced to trek with the kidnappers as they travel aimlessly in the jungle, waiting to be freed and suffering the indignatin of being held captive—starvation, conflicts in belief, romance, sabaya (forced marriage), dissent

among the kidnappers, escape by some hostages, and even rape. Military attacks only fuel the unyielding kidnappers to fight back. News of the September 11 crash of the Twin Towers in New York, staged by Muslim terrorists, plus a secret visit to the camp by two Arab nationals who bring arms, seem only to further the kidnappers cause of regaining their lost homeland. The visit of a journalist to interview the remaining hostages promises salvation for the hostages, but it does nothing to free them. In a final attempt to arrange negotiations, the kidnappers release the women hostages, holding back four: Therese Bourgoine, the couple of British missionaries, and the head nurse at the hospital. But recklessness and hot-headedness on the part of the kidnappers get in the way. Finally, on 07 June 2002, the military manages to stage a daring rescue. Only Therese Bourgoine and the missionary Sophie Bernstein are saved alive from the clutches of the Abu Sayyaf Group.|

‘THY WOMB’

A STORY of unconditional love about a Bajao midwife coping with the irony of her own infertility amid the deprivations of her gypsy community in Tawi-Tawi. A saga of island life stuck between the devil of passion and the deep blue sea of tradition. A barren woman helps to find a new wife for her husband to fulfill their dream of having child. Shot in Mindanao, in a Badjao Village, the movie is excellently directed and shows Muslim traditions (weddings, worship and child birth) R-13 given for thematic reasons which includes cultural diversity, mild sex, violence and very graphic scenes of childbirth.|

Ed Borbon. Silang dalawang ang bumasa ng synopsis ng dalawang pelikulang kabilang sa BMFF. [Ang Synopsis ay narito rin sa isyung ito ng Pahayagang BALIKAS.]  Nito namang nagdaang Biyernes, naging abala na naman tayo sa isinagawang Alaty Lakad 2014. Maaga pa’y naroon na kami sa Capitolio, kasama ang ilang mga kasamahan sa pamamahayag. Hindi magkamayaw ang mga tao, lalo na ang mga estudyante nang Makita nila si Miss Angel Locsin na kasama ng kaniyang boyfriend na si Luis Manzano na kapwa naglakad din mula sa Batangas Police Provincial Office (BPPO) hanggang Provincial Capitol, kasama nina Alay Lakad Foundation, Inc. - Batangas Chapter president Ex-BM Llianda Bolilia, si Mr. Emmanuel V. Rubio, COO ng SN Aboitiz Power Generation Group, na siyang tumayong Guest Speaker, at syempre pa, ang Star and Governor for All Seasons, Governor Vilma Santos-Recto at iba pang mga provincial government officials. Kaya nga lamang, ano baga’t tila yata hindi naging maayos ang preparasyon ng Committee na in-charge para

sa programa sa capitol grounds. Kapansin-pansin ang kawang-kaayusan sa pwesto ng mga camera man at ng mga manonood. Ang mga delegasyon sa bandang unahan ay wala ng nakita sa kabuuan ng programa dahil naharangan na ng mga tagahanga ng mga artistang nasa entablado. Sa lugar na kinauupuan namin ng ilang

kasamahan sa media ay kapansin-pansin ang mga empleyado ng kapitolyo na siyang mga nakaharang sa unahan kaya wala ng nakita ang mga delegasyon sa lugar na kinauupuan naming sa baba ng entablad o. Sana naman sa susunod ay huwag maging ganoon uli takbo ng mga pangyayari. Di ba Jojo Ceniza?|

SPOTTED. Joining movie star Angel Locsin in this photo is Lipa City’s third termer councilor Maria Concepcion Hernandez-Beloso. The lady councilor, also a lawyer, is well-fitted for vice mayoralty in 2016 given her experience and track record. Locsin’s boyfriend Luis Manzano is rumored to be preparing for mayoralty.|