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The vehicle was identified by Bathan to be a hot car or believed to have been carnapped by the suspects. Among the firearms seized from the two were baby armalite rifles, two Caliber 45 pistols, and several other ammunitions. Bathan said that the two, who were subjected to a long surveillance by the HPG, tried to fight back when the police authorities were flagging them down. Police authorities immediately surrounded the vehicle which resulted for the eventual arrest of the two who are now detained at the Tacloban City Jail. Elecho and Quinsayas declined to answer questions from the media and appeared to be giving limited information to the investigators. The suspects are to be charged for illegal possession of firearms and for to page 2

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Matarinao Bay shellfish has red tide toxin - BFAR 8

Two alleged members of a carnapping syndicate were arrested by members of the Highway Patrol Group recently with several firearms seized from them. Superintendent Nolasco Bathan, HPG regional chief, identified the suspects as Marcelo Elecho, Jr. and Eric Quinsayas, residents of Barangay Cahagwayan, San Policarpo town in Eastern Samar. Bathan said that the two were on board of a sports utility vehicle Fortuner bearing plate number TID 256 and cruising along the Boy Scout Junction, Fatima Tacloban, city, at around 8:30 a.m. July 11, 2013.

Highway Patrol-Director Supt. Nicolas Bathan presents to the media the various firearms seized from alleged carnapping syndicate members who were arrestedin Tacloban City.

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) regional office 8 has announced that mussels taken from Matarinao Bay is not safe for human consumption due to red tide contamination. BFAR 8 Red Tide Monitoring Team Leader Linda C. Caas said the warning was released after a boy and his grandfather in Tarangnan, Samar, died after eating contaminated mussels. BFAR found out after a laboratory test that not only mussels of Tarangnan are contaminated with red tide but also those from the Matarinao Bay here. Matarinao Bay includes the bays of Hernani, Gen. McArthur, Salcedo and Quinapundan. Caas said red tide cells

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NEWS:
LGUs urged to support nutrition program to lessen malnutrition
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COMMENTARY
PECUNIARY DECENCY
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NEWS:
DENR to implement projects at rebel influence areas in the region

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Guvs scholarship program now open for application at ESSU

The Provincial Government of Eastern Samar through the Office of the Governor, Hon. Conrado B. Nicart, Jr. will open the Gov. Nicart Educational Assistance Program for the First Semester school year 2013-2014. The program is open to poor but deserving students who wish to enroll at the Eastern Samar State University (ESSU) Campuses. Applicants can apply starting Wednesday, July 10 - 31, 2013. Scholarship program applicants should have the following qualifications: 1. A Filipino citizen residing in the province of Eastern Samar. 2. A college student possesses passing grade. 3. Of good moral character. 4. Combined family income of P120,000.00 or less per year. 5. Must enroll in any Eastern Samar State University campuses. 6. Upon submission of all the documentary requirements, must pass the interview to be conducted by the Scholarship Committee. Applicants should bring fully accomplished applica-

tion form, barangay certificate, certified true copy of High School Report Card or Transcript of Records, certificate of Good Moral Character from School, copy of the latest Income Tax Return of all working immediate family members or any documents to prove income, and recommendation from two (2) prominent residents of the hometown excluding relatives of applicants to the third degree of consanguinity or affinity. According to Mr. Cirilo M. Quinsayas, Coordinator of Governors Scholarship Program, the province allocated some P 6-M in addition to the P5-M from the Office of Secretary Butch Abad of Department of Budget and Management (DBM). For this school year, Quinsayas said, they target more than 4,000 scholars as compared to last school years 4,000. Last school year, the students enrolled in different campuses: ESSU-Main Campus, Borongan - 1,289, Guiuan - 1,029, Salcedo - 981, Can-avid -428 and Maydolong - 278. The students enrolled in

ORAS, Eastern Samar In celebration of the National Nutrition Month this July, the National Nutrition Council-8 (NNC-8) organized a media caravan in Eastern Samar in cooperation with its media arm, the HIMSOG-8 or the Har-

NNC-8 spearheads media caravan to Eastern Samar

monizing Initiatives for the Spread of Good Nutrition (HIMSOG-8). One of the stops made during the three-day caravan was in this municipality, which is after Dolores town, followed by Jipapad town. Segundina Devota Dilao, NNC regional program coordinator who met with the mayor and members of the municipal nutrition council, said that she is pleased with the pronouncement of newly elected Oras Mayor Vivianne Alvarez that in her term she vowed to have a

zero malnutrition rate in her municipality. We want to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) in 2015 in eradicating hunger by promoting proper nutrition and giving our constituents live-

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Mayor Vivianne Alvarez (center) of Oras, Eastern Samar welcome NNC Regional Program Coordinator Segundina Devota Dilao and members of the HIMSOG-8 during their stop in said town as part of their campaign on proper nutrition program. (Photo by: VICKY C. ARNAIZ)

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LEGAL NOTICES
Republic of the Philippines City Civil Registry Province of Eastern Samar City of Borongan
Republic of the Philippines Regional Trial Court Eighth (8th) Judicial Region Branch 2 Borongan City, Eastern Samar PAG-IBIG FUND (HDMF) Tacloban Branch, Mortgagee, -versusMANUEL DORADO Mortgagor EJF No. 375-13 EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE UNDER ACT 3135, AS AMENDED BY ACT 4118 x- - - - - - - - -x SHERIFFS NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE SALE

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ern Samar. Bounded on the NE & E, & S, along line 1-2-3-4 by lot 1511-E3-d, PSD-08-021891-D on the W., along line 4-5 by lot 1510, Cad434-D and on the N along line 5-1 by lot 1511-E-3-B-1 of this subdivision plan. Beginning at a point marked `1 on plan being N 06 deg. 21 W, 1227.29 m. from BLLM No. 1, Cad-434-D Borongan Cadastre. thence S27 deg., 14E, 7.97 m. to point 2; thence S. 05 deg. 47 W. 3.18m. to point 3; thence N 88 deg. 18W., 31.71m to point 4; thence N. 08 deg. 26E., 9.87 m. to point 5; thence S. 89 deg. 00E., 26.96m. to point of beginning. Containing an area of THREE HUNDRED (300) SQUARE METERS, ALL points referred to are indicated on plan and marked on the ground as follows corners 15 are PS Cyl. Concrete monument 15X50 cm. and the rest are old PS Bearing Grid. The subdivision survey was executed by Geodetic Engineer RODELITO G. MOMAR on March 10, 2009. Approved by the OIC, Regional Technical Director, Land Management Service, DENR, Tacloban City on April 17, 2009. Prospective bidders and buyers may investigate for themselves the title and encumbrances herein above described real property of any there be. All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above stated time, date and place. In the event the public auction should not take place on said date, it shall be held on September 5, 2013, on the same place and time without further notice. Borongan City, Eastern Samar, June 20, 2013. FOR THE EX-OFFICIO PROVINCIAL SHERIFF

LGUs urged to support nutrition program to lessen malnutrition

By Alicia E. Nicart
The Department of Health (DOH) regional office has urged all local chief executives (LCEs) of the province to support their nutrition programs to avert the high malnutrition prevalence here. Emily OperarioGrande, regional dietician and nutritionist IV, made the call during a press briefing held recently in observance of the 36th Nutrition Month celebration with the theme Gutom at Malnutrisyon, Sama-Sama Nating Wakasan. She said the solution to the problem is not the task of only one agency, but primarily of the parents and of every government institution, including the private sector. A recent Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) survey shows Eastern Visayas region (Samar-Leyte) ranks second in malnutrition prevalence nationwide, with stunting pegged at 48.5 percent. In simple terms, about four of every 10 children in region 8 are slowly growing, which is alarming, Provincial Nutritionist Sally Jabinal explained. Grande said mayors and barangay chairmen can do a lot, citing a case in Limasawa, where a barangay chairman ordered to raid a gambling den where some mothers played cards instead of attending to the meals of their children. In Maasin City, the local government unit (LGU) purchased a refrigerated van where they store the vegetables and other farm products of their farmers. This way, farmers dont need to pay for transportation cost to get their harvest to the market. The LGU truck roams around up to the barangays on the hills to pick up the harvest. The LGU then provided a space for the agricultural crops where wholesalers, store owners and households can buy farm products. She added that the Maasin LGU also provides vegetables seeds for their farmers. For the local government of Eastern Samar, Jabinal said Governor Conrado Nicart Jr. has vowed to continue the vegetable production which has reaped a variety of vegetables in several cropping seasons. With a private lot the LGU borrowed, the personnel of the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPAS) helped in maintaining the demo-farm of the LGU that has produced several types of fruits and vegetables.

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

In compliance with Section 5 of R.A. 9048, a notice is hereby served to the public that EMILITA MAY SANTOS BALANO has filed with this Office a petition for change of first name from EMILITA MAY EMELITA to in the Birth Certificate of EMELITA

AMOYAN SANTOS who was born on May 29, 1975 at Borongan, Eastern Samar and whose parents are AIDA BADANERO AMOYAN SANTOS. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his/her written opposition with this office not later than 24 July 2013. (Sgd.) MA. LUISA M. AZUL III City Civil Registrar ESB: July 9-15, 16-22, 2013 and EDGAR OPERARIO

Republic of the Philippines Local Civil Registry Office Province of Eastern Samar Municipality of Gen. MacArthur

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

CCE-0004-2013 R.A. 10172

Date: June 27, 2013

of Matarinao Bay.... redSymptoms tide poisoning

..from page 1 in the mussels are caused by tidal fluctuation, salinity of water, water temperature and pollution. Since mussels grow in inactive waters, they are susceptible to water pollutants. The public should understand that red tide remains stuck to the mussels even if they are washed many times under running water, Caas said.

include numbness in the face, a feeling of a thickening lips, heart palpitations, weakening nerves and vomiting. BFAR said mussels in Jiabong and Catbalogan, West Samar are safe as of press time. In the past, red tide was found in Matarinao Bay waters for four months. (PIA8-Eastern Samar)

In compliance with the publication requirements and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013 - 1, Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1, Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that SELDE CORRE EDLES has filed with this Office, a petition for correction of entry in sex from FEMALE to MALE in the Certificate of Live Birth of SELDE CORRE EDLES at General MacArthur, Eastern Samar and whose parents are DOLORES AUTOR CORRE and DANIEL ASPA EDLES. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than July 18, 2013. (Sgd.) LUCIA E. ALTAR Municipal Civil Registrar ESB: July 9-15, 16-22, 2013

Upon extra-Judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended by Act 4118 filed by HDMF Tacloban City, Eastern Samar to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of February 28, 2013 amounts to FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY ONE PESOS & 01/100 (Php430,751.01) PESOS including interest and penalty charges but excluding attorneys fee and expenses of foreclosure, the undersigned wil sell at public auction on August 30, 2013, at the main entrance of the Hall of Justice, Brgy. Alang-Alang, Borongan City, Eastern Samar to the highest bidder for CASH or managers check and in Philippine currency, the following property with all its improvements to wit: TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-1238 TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION LOT 1511-E-3-8-2 Psd-08024378-D A parcel of land situated at Brgy. Balud, Borongan City, East-

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leader was said to be a police officer. These carnapped cars ..from page 1 were eventually returned anti-carnapping. to their respective ownEarlier, several SUVs ers. (FRED PADERwere recovered by the NOS) HPG-8 from a carnapping syndicate whose

Republic of the Philippines Province of Eastern Samar City of Borongan OFFICE OF THE CITY CIVIL REGISTRAR

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

Date: June 19, 2013 CCE-0065-2013 RA 10172 In compliance with the publication requirements and pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013 - 1, Guidelines in the Implementation of the Administrative Order No. 1, Series of 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172). Notice is hereby served to the public that ELMA TRISTE PEDERSEN has filed with this Office, a petition for correction of entry in sex from MALE to FEMALE in the Birth Certificate of ELMA MOSCARE TRISTE who was born on Sept. 24, 1970 at Bato, Borongan, Eastern Samar and whose parents are FIDEL NOGAR TRISTE and EMMA CHICANO MOSCARE. Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposition with this Office not later than 26 July 2013. (Sgd.) MA. LUISA M. AZUL III City Civil Registrar ESB: July 9-15, 16-22, 2013

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technical and vocational courses from first year to fifth year; most of them are taking up Engineering, Education and Commerce. The scholars for this school year will continue to receive the same amount of P3,500.00 each, for matriculation and other school fees. This P 3,500.00 per scholar is renewable per semester upon compliance with the scholars obligation, Quinsayas said. The Scholars Obligation are: He/She 1. Must carry the regular academic load per semester required by the course. 2. Must not shift to any other course or transfer to another school without notice to the Scholarship Committee. 3. Must pass all subjects. 4. Must submit class cards, certification of grades or any valid proof of grades obtained in the previous semester per deadline set by the Scholarship Committee for qualification purposes. 5. Must finish the course within the prescribed curriculum period. 6. Must submit a copy

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of Diploma or Certificate of Graduation upon completion of course. 7. Must not engage in illegal or immoral activities detrimental to the goodness and reputation of the Governor Conrado B. Nicart, Jr. and to the whole Scholarship Committee, and 8. Must attend meetings set by the Scholarship Committee. He further said that in cases students grantee(s) decides not to continue with his/her studies, he/she shall inform the committee. Meanwhile, in an interview with a parent, who requested anonymity, she said that this program is a great help especially with the economic crisis the country faces. It lessens the burden, because what we will buy only is the school supplies, uniform and allowance, the parent said. The scholarship program is anchored on the governments commitment to provide educational assistance to poor but deserving students. (SDC/PIA-E. Samar)

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Theres always a happy ending

WE need to be reassured of this promise, given by no less than Christ himself. In the world you shall have distress. But have confidence, I have overcome the world. (Jn 16,32) These words should be indelible in our consciousness. We have to learn to look beyond the present trials and challenges with the accompanying ups and downs, so that we can go through them, not escape from them, without being swallowed up by their logic that would simply pass away anyway. What matters is what remains in the heart after going through these experiences. Are we still with God through them and after them? Is our faith strengthened? Our hope and charity as well? For as long as we are with God, our life will always have a happy ending regardless of what we may go through. Christ has more than amply warned us about what to expect in the world if we are to follow him faithfully. Behold I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves, he said, already giving us a vivid idea of the contrast between a Christian life consistently lived and the world environment that still needs to be redeemed. Lets remember that our freedom either can catapult us to the acme of goodness or plunge us into the depth of evil and malice. We should try to be ready to face the possible worst scenario even as we strive to achieve the best of what we can be. We should not make a big issue about the trials and challenges that will surely come our way in this life. Without denying their seriousness, of course, let us also realize more deeply that these trials and challenges cannot actually destroy our soul if we dont allow them. In fact, the proper attitude to have and to cultivate is that of fearlessness. Christ himself said so many times. Be not afraid, was a constant reassurance he told his disciples. Do not be afraid of those who kill

the body but cannot kill the soul, (Mt 10,28) he said once, practically telling us that we can always shield the soul from anything that can happen in our body, if we want to. And so, together with fearlessness, another trait we should try to develop is that of sportsmanship in the many and even formidable and complicated struggles we have to wage in our present life. And I would add, also a certain degree of elegance and poise, if we can still manage it especially when the going gets rough. Its faith and trust in God, its hope and a burning love for God that would enable us to do all this. Its these theological virtues that would enable us to transcend the limits of human endurance. If we would just rely on our common sense, our human cleverness and our sciences and arts without the support of faith, hope and charity, then for sure we would not go the distance. We would fail to share in the victory of Christ expressed in his very resurrection after a painful death of crucifixion. Of course, neither should we abandon our common sense and all the other human powers and faculties in living out our human condition in the world. Doing so would be tantamount to tempting God and to falling into mere fideism that can assume many forms such as superstition, quietism, idealism, etc. Christ told us very clearly that we need to be shrewd, clever and astute like serpents but simple, harmless and innocent like doves. Its quite a combination, possible only when one is truly with Christ. Otherwise, we open ourselves to the possibility of some psychological disorder. We should never be nave in the things of the world, but neither should we become cynical and skeptical, overly worried or too concerned. A certain sense of detachment

irst day of Supreme Court hearing of the RH Law accommodating the petition of anti-RH Law advocates is providing us a suspicion it will take time before the Supreme Court can justifiably decide on the merits of the petitioners desire to have it outlawed. On the first topic/ issue of when life really begins anti RH Law, lawyer Concepcion Noche says that conception begins in fertilization not when fertilized egg has already embedded itself in the uterus of a mother. Some justices however have expressed sceptical thoughts on the competence of the court to rule on the constitutionality of the law, based on some arguments that will be forwarded later by those who support and agree that the law does not violate any provisions of the Constitution. The Supreme Court certainly will not undergo the same process of deep and detailed scrutiny because such exercise was already deliberated in detail when this bill was introduced in both houses with ample time spent before it became a law. The anti-

EDITORIAL Lift suspension on RH Law

RH bill legislators had all the days given for their arguments during the sessions conducted. We therefoare say let the law be effected. It is pro-decent life not just pro-life. It is needless for the piece to say in detail the sufferings of large families which parents can hardly afford support to live to justify its passage. The anti-RH law which is strongly advocated by the Roman Catholic Church can still perform their roles in what they say regarding the evils of this law. They have all the power and the chance to speak against it, commanding their faithful not to avail of the program. Comparing Catholics to other religious denominations, the Roman Catholic Church say masses several times in a day and days of holy obligations with hundreds of church-goers attending. They have a big captured audience who listen to their well-crafted homilies. Here they can pack their homilies with all the evils they see in the law. However, allow the law to run its course and be operational especially to those people who feel they need it.

PECUNIARY DECENCY
Ferdinand Marcos coconut levy robbed impoverished farmers blind long after the dictatorship collapsed in 1986. The Supreme Court, last week, shredded crony Eduardo Cojuangcoos claim for sequestered 700 million San Miguel Corporation shares. Should we cheer? President Benigno Aquino froze tapping into the SMC kitty, until the high court handed a final decision. That came Tuesday. In a unanimous resolution, the Court declared Cojunagco shares in United Coconut Planters Bank as government-owned. It affirmed the July 2003 Sandiganbayan decision that his UCPB shares were swiped coco levies.The SC upheld shredded with finality a May 1975 Philippine Coconut Administration decision:. Compensate Cojuangco with 10 percent from the 72 percent First United Bank (now UCPB) stocks. Farmers hail court ruling in UCPB case, an Inquirer banner read. Government will sell P14.4 billion worth of the stocks, Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. president Valentin Araneta said.. Thatd go into a trust fund for coconut farmers. Under martial law, Marcos signed Presidential Decree 276. It directed that coco levies be clamped in 68 provinces. These would be owned by cronies in their private capacities. Taxes became individual loot. If PD 276 is not scrubbed as unconstitutional, Marcos found a legal and valid way to steal, wrote then columnist Antonio Carpio. As Supreme Court justice today, Carpio finds himself vindicated, Cojuangco was martial law coconut czar , until People Power drove him into Haiwaiian exile with the

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dictator. In between, levies bankrolled a hydra of coco mills, a bank, even a producers federation that never mustered names of supposed one million members. Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, in August 1998, presented to President Joseph Estrada a Catholic Bishops-Businessmens Conference memo.. Abuse of state power wrung those monies from impoverished coconut farmers ,it said.. They should be returned.. But just before People Power II, Erap signed Executive Orders 313 and 315. These delivered the levy estimated at over P100 billion then to cronies, It was grand larceny that

needed ever-larger doses of hypocrisy. Today, Manila Mayor Estrada pledges honest government. Led by Chief Justice Hilario Davide, the Supreme Court ruled the levy were public funds. IA furious Cojuangco unleashed, in November 2003, a Brat Pack of Nationalist Peoples Coalition congressmen to impeach Davide .Is this a coalition of cretins?, snapped Rep. Teodoro Locsin Jr.. The conundrum of the House is: how to climb, out of the shit hole in which a third of its members descended with such stealth The House

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until 2014. (The) DENR seeks to help the government meet its objective of reducing poverty and vulnerability in conflict affected areas through sustainable rural development, community infrastructure and focused delivery of social services, Daloos said. Pamana is the governments peace and development program framework that seeks to build peaceful and resilient communities by improving their lives and ensuring that the people benefit from better delivery of basic services. In the region, Samar Island is one of the seven zones covered by the program that is being implemented by the Office of the Presidential Adviser
worth P10,000, Alvarez added. As the whole nation celebrates the Nutrition Month pursuant to Section 7 of Presidential Decree 491, known as the Nutrition Act of the Philippines, Dilao said the celebration is a call to action to address hunger and for all government agencies to work together for hunger reduction and for Filipinos to have easy access to nutritious and safe food. Dilao also call on all local government executives to increase budget allocation for nutrition and promotingthat having a good nutrition program indicates good governance. Dilao added

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DENR to implement projects at rebel influence areas in the region

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) here in the region is looking at implementing projects that will benefit conflict-affected areas in Samar under the Pamana (Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan) program. DENR-8 regional information officer Purificacion Daloos said the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) in Catbalogan City has recently joined the convergence of government agencies in consultation with stakeholders in Motiong, Samar for the possible implementation of Pamana project in line with the departments National Greening Program (NGP). Under the Pamana program, the DENR currently implements the 600 hectares plantation of forest trees and fruit trees in San Jose de Buan, Samar with a project cost of P6 million. Another project is a 200- hectare rattan plantation and a 180- hectare agro-forestry project in San Isidro, Northern Samar. Both projects cost about P10 million. Daloos said that their office hopes to implement more similar projects in Samar on the Peace Process (OPAPP) and supported by partner concerned government line agencies, local government units (LGUs) and civil society groups. Pamana follows a convergence strategy to close the gaps in development and bring progress to areas, particularly conflictaffected ones, where they are needed the most. The three provinces of Samar are considered the most vulnerable to the Communist Party of the Philippines-New Peoples Army (CPP-NPA). Insurgency has been going on in the area for a very long time and this program is aimed at addressing its root causes. (REYAN L. ARINTO)
by 2015, they aim to bring down half the number of underweight-for-age-under-five from 27.3 percent in 1990 to 13.7 percent as our commitment to the MDG. Aside from the three towns, the media caravan went to Taft, Maydolong and Borongan City. By the middle of this month, there is another media caravan in the towns of Leyte to assess the nutrition programs of the local government units. The Nutrition Month celebration culminates with the 2nd Regional Biennial Barangay Nutrition Scholars congress and the regional nutrition awarding ceremony. (VICKY C. ARNAIZ)

Pecuniary.....
spurned Cojuangcos hitmen. On the coco levy, the Corona Supreme Court flipflopped four times It somersaulted also four times on the bill that turned 16 unqualified towns into cities. Flight attendants, won final judgement on their case, were stunned to learn it had been reversed --- by a final judgement The Corona Court issued March 2011, an entry of judgment: Cojuangcos P56.3-billion SMC shares are now final. SMC stock certificates in blank, found in a Malacaang vault when the Marcoses scrammed for Hawaii , legally belong to Cojuangco. The joke of the century, snapped then Justice Conchita Carpio Morales. Cojuangco used for his personal benefit the very same funds entrusted to him, Morales dissenting opinion states. [These] were released to him through illegal and improper machination of loan transactions. [His] contravention of corporation laws indicates a clear violation of fiduciary duty Before Tuesdays decision, Budget Secretary Florencio Abad suggested in an Inquirer interview: Go through the fine print of proposed conversion of SMC shares, It had a curiously stitched-in qualification: Should the government sell its shares, San Miguel Corp. shall have (a) exclusive option to buy said shares and (b) at P75 per share. Wait! Isnt that a Courtsanctioned fire sale for a cozy monopoly? A share

NNC-8 spearheads....
lihood programs, by continuing the program started by our previous mayor, my husband Mayor Neil Alvarez, Mayor Alvarez said. A nurse by profession and a former population officer of the municipality, Mayor Alvarez said, its not only having food, but the proper way of teaching and monitoring the right food to eat. In 2009 when Oras was declared as #2 in malnutrition prevalence all over the country, all the sectors in the municipality pitched in, on how we can address the problem. One third of our population are beneficiaries of the PantawidngPamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), one of the conditions of the program is planting vegetables by each benefi..from page 1 ciary. We coordinated with the Department of Social Welfare and Development that everyone must have a vegetable garden in its proper size and monitored regularly by the staff of Department of Agriculture before the P500 cash pay-out will be given to 4Ps beneficiaries, Alvarez said. Right now, not only the 4Ps beneficiaries are having vegetable gardens, the rest are now planting vegetables. For those who lack spaces, they plant in coconut shells like in Barangay Sabang. Our very successful livelihood programs are 3-piglets dispersal and sari-sari stores

..from page 3 commanded P114 at the stock exchange at that time,,Coconut Industry Investment Fund chair Wigberto Taada said. In a free market, government would probably earn P87 billion for the small farmers.But this booby-trapped provision would shackle the government into settling for only P57 billion. Whod pocket the P30 billion diff this time around?. Farmers would be suckered again ---That joke of the century 2. But. Tuesdays decision scrubs that rewind .This greed plays out in a country where the richest 10 per cent, in mansions, with four-wheel drives and bodyguards, consume 31 centavos out of every peso,. In contrast, the poorest 10 per cent, huddled in slums, make do with three centavos. When a crisis hits, the poor pare that down to two centavos. The rich rearrange their menus. . Here, net worth equals self-worth, a banker explained,. Bank balances and car models set the pecking order,. You cornered the coconut levy? You get first places at table, plus a Supreme Court justice or two as bonus. Some call that pecuniary decency. And poverty becomes the original sin. Transporting gold to the grave is the end-all and beall. Official position evolves into a tool for conserving perks of the elite. What does it profit a man if he grabs all the levy but in the end have the poor piss on his grave?

New local officials to attend budgeting workshop

New local officials here are set to attend a training workshop by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) regional office 8 on July 24-26, at Leyte Park Hotel, Tacloban City. The workshop will be conducted in coordination with the Region Eight Association of Local Budget Officers (REALBO) and will tackle the Annual Investment Program (AIP) and budget preparation. The workshop will focus on harmonizing local plans with budgets as provided in DBM-NEDADILG-DOF Joint Memorandum Circular 1 series of 2007 on the harmonization of local planning, investment programming, budgeting, revenue administration and expenditure management. It will also highlight the essential characteristics of a plan budget linkage, the inclusion of a policy-driven budget, the introduction of a program/project/activity (PPA), structure and corresponding major final output (MFO) and performance indicators (PI). Eleanor D. Lombendencio, supervising administrative officer of the Provincial Budget Office (PBO), said the workshop will focus on the procedures in connecting development planning to budgeting. The budget should be within the AIP, otherwise, the LGUs (local government units) concerned will make supplemental budget which will be submitted to the Provincial Development Council for approval, Lombendencio said. She added that the workshop is in response to the need for capability enhancement of the new set of local officials who assumed office last July 1. Invited to attend are members of the Local Finance Committee which is chaired by the local chief executive. Its members are: the municipal budget officer, municipal treasurer and municipal planning and development officer, chairman committee on appropriations of the Sanggunian and provincial government department heads and technical staff. (SDC/PIA-E. Samar)

Theres always a happy.....

and abandonment is always healthy. Gods providence never fails. In the story of Joseph and his brothers, we can learn how the evil intended by Josephs brothers resulted in some good in the sense that Joseph came out saving his brothers and the whole clan from hunger. Much more than that, the evil inflicted on him occasioned many virtues like forgiveness and magnanimity.

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Joseph finally brought about reconciliation and unity in the whole family, making his father, Jacob, who was grieving for so long after the loss of Joseph, extremely happy at the end of his life. Theres always hope no matter how ugly things may appear now. Theres always a happy ending, if not now, then later.