Guindulungan celebrates 20th founding day, holds 1st “Linigil Festival”

By Analisa P. Espanola

GUINDULUNGAN, Maguindanao

del sur --- This local government successfully celebrated on Friday, May 05 its 20th foundation anniversary.

Mayor Midpantao

Midtimbang Jr. said in line with the celebration, the municipal government held its first-ever "Linigil Festival". "Linigil is a popular chicken dish from the Maguindanaon culture. The Talayanen, who are the people of Talayan, are said to be the best cook for Linigil. Today, it includes those with Talayanen roots from Guindulungan, Datu Anggal, Talitay and other nearby areas ," Mayor Midtimbang said. In making "linigil", chicken is cooked in fresh coconut milk with "palapa" as the key seasoning and turmeric, onions, lemon grass, ginger, and garlic. Palapa is made of grated coconut, sundried, fried with chillies, onions, garlic and other herbs then pounded. "Linigil is more likely being served during kanduli or thanksgiving ceremony of Talayanen people," Mayor Midtim - bang said. As part of the festival, the local chief executive said various Barangay local government units (BLGUs) also participated during demonstration of cooking "linigil". "The objective of this activity is to really showcase the different ways of cooking linigil," the mayor emphasized. Meanwhile, the Bangsamoro Ministry of Health (MOH) also gave vaccines to children against polio, rubella and "tigdas". Those who availed the vaccination were also provided with rice assistance from the BARMM Readi.

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from page 2 the remaining eight bills from the original priority list. If we could do that, we would have approved all the urgent measures identified by President Marcos in less than a year,” he said.

Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri, on the other hand, said among their priorities are bills on the proposed PHP150 daily wage hike, Virology Institute, E-Commerce, Salt Industry Development and Revitalization, Maharlika Fund and Medical Reserve Corps.

In a radio interview on Sunday, Zubiri said he expects to end all deliberations during the last week of May and ratification before the adjournment.

On the wage hike, Zubiri said majority of senators expressed support for the bill.

He said top companies can afford the hike while gradual increase may be implemented by micro, small and medium enterprises.

“Kumikita naman sila ng PHP500 million pataas bawat taon at may mga tax incentive na sila (They are earning at least PHP500 million and have tax incentives),” Zubiri said of top-tier corporations.

On the Maharlika Fund, Zubiri said it will be passed by the first week of June and assured amendments to safeguard the investments.

President’s agenda Romualdez said the proposed pieces of legislation support the President’s Agenda for Prosperity and his eight-point socioeconomic roadmap.

“They are intended to sustain our economic growth, hasten the country’s digital transformation and speed up the delivery of public services to our people, among other objectives,” he added.

The original eight remaining State of the Nation Address (SONA) - LEDAC priority measures the House is aiming to approve in the homestretch of the first regular session of the 19th Congress are the bills establishing regional specialty hospitals; enabling law for the natural gas industry; National Land Use Act; Department of Water Resources and Services and creation of Water Regulatory Commission; Budget Modernization Act; National Defense Act; amendments to the Electric Power Industry Reform Act; and the bill on a unified system of separation, retirement, and pension for uniformed personnel.

New laws

A total of 31 proposed laws have been originally listed by the President in his first SONA in July last year and later adopted by the LEDAC.

Two of the 31 are now laws -- the SIM (subscriber identity module) Registration Act and the postponement of the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections from Dec. 2022 to Oct. 30 this year.

The House also approved 20 on final reading.

Another bill, the proposed Agrarian Reform Debts Condonation of unpaid loans, interest, and penalties of thousands of agrarian reform beneficiaries, may soon become law.

Congress had ratified the conference committee report containing the condonation bill before the Holy Week adjournment in March. (PNA)

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"Will call center agents and factory workers soon be treated as dispensable after propping up our economy during a global health crisis?" she said.

Marcos, in her Senate Resolution No. 591, cited the study conducted by Oxford Economics and US-based digital technology company Cisco, that at least 1.1 million jobs in the Philippines will disappear in 2028.

Some 50 percent of worldwide organizations are seen adopting AI and automated machines this year, and investments in such technology are projected to increase in the next three years by 50 percent to 100 percent.

Amid these projections, Marcos said “upskilling and training of workers in special services that AI cannot easily replace must be asserted in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of every company.”

She also stressed the urgency of educating lawmakers about global developments in AI technology through Senate inquiry, and the need for both the legislative and executive branches of government to deal squarely with “an inevitable technological tsunami.”

Marcos added that Congress must formulate regulatory measures against severe unemployment and make the necessary amendments to the Intellectual Property Code, Revised Penal Code and Cybercrime Prevention Act. (With a report from Leonel Abasola/PNA)

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from page 2 to avail of the one-time tax relief coincided with the pandemic, prompting Congress to pass what would become RA 11569 which extended the amnesty period by two years or until June 14 this year.

By extending the window of opportunity again by two years, “families will save billions (of pesos) while the government will earn billions,” he said.

Recto said the extension is a “lifeline to a government scrounging for revenues and an act of kindness” to seniors whose vulnerability during the 30 months the pandemic raged prevented them from availing of the amnesty.

“Marami sa ating mga kababayang nasa ibang bansa na nais sanang ayusin ang namanang ari-arian ang hindi makauwi dahil sa matagal at mahigpit na lockdown (Many of our folks abroad wanted to process inherited properties but failed to return home because of extended and strict lockdown),” he said.

Recto hailed the House bill as an improved version of the estate tax amnesty law, as it covers deaths which occurred on or before Dec. 31, 2021, amending the cut off period of Dec. 31, 2017 in RA 11213.

As society opens and restrictions are lifted, people are now free to move around in completing the complex legal requirements in putting a deceased loved one’s estate in order so these can be used for productive purposes, he added.

Recto said if the government had extended “lifelines, bailouts in the billions” to distressed commercial firms during the pandemic, “then why should not the same compassion be extended to families, more so that it won’t cost the government anything?”

(PNA)

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Intensified support to rice, coconut industries

In support of the National Government’s thrust to boost palay production and ensure sufficient rice supply in the country, the Bank continues to ramp up its lending activities to rice farmers and other rice industry stakeholders.

As of end-March 2023, LANDBANK’s outstanding loans to the local rice industry has reached P9.7 billion to finance requirements for palay production and processing, such as farm inputs, machineries, equipment, and facilities, among others.

Apart from loans, the Bank has also distributed cash grants amounting to P1.5 billion to 291,241 farmer-beneficiaries nationwide under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund - Rice Farmers Financial Assistance (RCEF-RFFA) Program, in partnership with the Department of Agriculture (DA).

LANDBANK likewise continues to provide responsive credit assistance to the coconut sector with outstanding loans amounting to P643 million, benefitting coconut farmers and other stakeholders engaged in the production and processing of coconut-based products.

Earlier this year, LANDBANK launched its new Coconut Farmers and Industry Development (CFID) Lending Program, in support of the Coconut Farmers and Industry Development Plan (CFIDP) spearheaded by the DA and the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA).

Under the Program, eligible coconut farmers, cooperatives and associations can access financing for various projects, including the establishment of intercrops and poultry or livestock integration in coconut farms.

Individual coconut farmers can use the loan to increase production and working capital, to acquire machines and equipment, and establish necessary facilities. Coconut cooperatives and associations can also utilize the financing for relending and rediscounting to their members.

LANDBANK will provide short-term and longterm loans with a fixed affordable interest rate of 2% per annum.

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from page 4 age capital contribution of about P90,000. This is very categorically stated in the EC’s By-Laws under Sec. 1, Article 2, “the members are the joint owners of the Cooperative with their individual equity in its assets determined on the basis of their patronage.”

I was informed that the MCOs are not even notified of their respective patronage capital contribution which is contrary to the provision of the By-Laws under 2(b) Article VII, “. . . within a reasonable time after the close of the fiscal year notify each patron of the amount of capital so credited to his account.”

There are about 119 ECs in the country and in region 10 alone, we have about eight, namely: Fibeco, Buseco, Moresco 1 and 2, Camelco, Moelci 1 and 2, Moresco 1 and 2, and Laneco and all these years, these so-called ECs have not recognized the MCOs’ patronage capital contribution. Such is the height of social injustice. This is a contributing factor to why the people are still in the quagmire of poverty.

There are some 13 million Member-Consumer-Owners (MCOs) in the country who until now their capital contributions have not been recognized. In a family of 5, some 65 million Filipinos are deprived of their monthly patronage refund of about P3,000 to P5,000 per month per family. Indeed, these socalled Electric Cooperatives are cooperatives in name only as they are not practicing the essence and values of cooperativism. Such truism was glaringly stated in a landmark decision penned by the Supreme Court thru Justice Mariano del Castillo in 2003 that these so-called ECs are not genuine cooperatives and were mandated to follow the universally-accepted cooperative principles and values. Until now, the oligarchs-controlled cooperatives are masquerading as cooperatives. Such social wrong must be rectified. If you were the CDA Chairman and would follow the Supreme Court order, you will be harassed, even charged in court administratively and even criminally which happened to yours truly.

May I thank the Sandigan

Bayan for finding me NOT GUILTY criminally without civil liability.

In the past Mindanaowide Cooperative Congress, the participants have the following Declaration: “We have witnessed hunger and poverty in an island oozing with ecological wealth. We are well aware that the cause of economic deprivation if rooted in the powerlessness of the people to have access and control over their resources and over their utilities which are fast slipping through their fingers.

Even the millions of MCOs of electricity are being deprived to exercise their rights as owners because those running the affairs of the so called electric cooperatives (ECs), who through all these years have formed powerful cabal of vested interest, are stubbornly insisting that these ECs are cooperatives despite the fact that they do not adhere to time honored and universally-accepted cooperative principles and practices and not withstanding the fact that Supreme Court has ruled resoundingly on the EC’s non tax exemption for not being genuine cooperatives.

However, instead of registering with CDA, what the ECs did was to “unleash formidable arsenal of lies, deceit, fear-mongering and cashbacked lobbying to ensure the continued proliferation and hold of private interest over electric cooperatives. Member-consumers were enticed with bags of grocery items and other goodies to sway their mindset. Lies and deceits were employed to cast doubt on the economic viability of electric cooperative if it would be registered with CDA.”

Let us serve notice to one and all that the only countervailing force against social injustice which is legal and peaceful is COOPERATIVISM. This is well stated in the 1987 Constitution which is “to promote the viability and growth of cooperatives as instruments of equity, social justice and economic development.” Indeed, let justice be done till heavens fall.

To the so-called Electric Cooperatives, here’s a poem for you:

My name is Veritas, so simple is my language

Mankind runs after me because I am a precious possession,

But to the rule of the socalled electric cooperatives, I am a threat

So, I have to be imprisoned in the dungeon to silence me

But there will always be lovers of truth who will seek for me

Because they cannot live without my presence

Many have marched to their death because of me

These ECs do not know that in the silence of the dungeon I gain strength

One day I will burst out into the open and Liberate the oppressed to unfetter them from diabolic mindset.

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

That we:

1. CRISTETA G. BOLIVA of legal age, Filipino, widow and a resident of Barangay 3, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon;

2. TEODOR PHILIP G. BOLIVA, of legal age, Filipino, married and a resident of Sta. Cruz Ext., Sumpong, Malaybalay City Bukidnon;

3. NESTOR DOMINIC G. BOLIVA , of legal age, Filipino, married and a resident of Barangay 3, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon;

4. MARIVIC BOLIVA-LAZAR, of legal age, Filipino, married and a resident

5. JAIME G. BOLIVA JR. , of legal age, Filipino, married and a resident of 03-267, Fortich St., Barangay

3, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon; and

6. REX RAMON G. BOLIVA of legal age, Filipino, married and a resident of 03-267, Fortich St., Barangay

3, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon; WITNESSETH:

WHEREAS, late JAIME BOLIVA SR. , died intestate without living a Will or Testament on March 16, 2008 at Malaybalay City Bukidnon;

WHEREAS, at the time of the demise of the said late JAIME BOLIVA SR. , he left conjugal estate parcels of land described as follows:

“

A parcel of land identified as LOT 2, Pcs-10-002504, being a portion of Lot 1-C-15-G, (LRC) Pcd-80980 & Lot 3-A-8-H, (LRC) Psd-110686, situated in the Barrio of Poblacion, Malaybalay, Bukidnon. Containing an area of EIGHTY-TWO (82) square meters, more or less. Covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-84430 with Tax Declaration No. F-005374.”

“

A parcel of land identified as Lot 1, Pcs-10-002504, being a portion of Lot 1-C-15-G, (LRC) Psd-80980 & Lot 3-A-8-H, (LRC) Psd-110686 , situated in the Barrio of Poblacion, Malaybalay, Bukidnon. Containing an area of THREE HUNDRED NINETY (390) square meters, more or less. Covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-84429 with Tax Declaration No. F-005382 and Tax Declaration No. F-005383 for the improvements/ building.” “A parcel of land identified as Lot 3-A-8-I, LRC Psd-110686, being a portion of Lot 3-A-8, LRC Psd-42305, LRC Rec. No. Free Pat., situated in the Poblacion, Malaybalay, Bukidnon. Containing an are of THREE HUNDRED EIGHTEEN (318) square meters, more or less. Covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-85042 with Tax Declaration No. F-005388 and Tax Declaration No. F-005389 for the improvements/building.”

“An improvement/building situated at Fortich St., Barangay 3, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon, covered by Tax Declaration No. F-005381.”

WHEREAS, no known debt of deceased JAIME BOLIVA SR. have not been settled to date;

WHEREAS, no person have filed any claims, whether formal or informal, against the above described intestate estate;

WHEREAS, the above-named heirs are the sole and only heirs of deceased JAIME BOLIVA SR.;

NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to Sec 1, Rule 74 of the Revised Rules of Court of the Philippines, and the parties herein being all of age, they have agreed to divide as they do hereby divide and adjudicate the share of the late J AIME BOLIVA SR. in the real properties described-above, in EQUAL SHARE among the herein heirs;

That I, CRESTITA G. BOLIVA , as an act of liberality and generosity, I hereby voluntarily WAIVE, TRANSFER and RELINQUISH all my rights, shares and interest over the abovedescribed properties including all the improvements thereof, in favor to my children, namely TEODORO PHILIP G. BOLIVA, NESTOR DOMINIC G. BOLIVA, MARIVIC BOLIVA-LAZAR, JAIME G. BOLIVA JR. and REX RAMON G. BOLIVA, in EQAUL SHARE;

That the TRANSFEREES hereby accept and receive this waiver made in their favor, and they hereby express their appreciation and gratefulness for the kindness and generosity of the TRANSFEROR ;

That they hereby affirm that they have executed the foregoing instrument out of their own voluntary free will without force, intimidation or violence upon their person and have no claim or demand against each other;

Is the subject of EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS , under the Notarial Registry of ATTY.