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BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar – Millennium Challenge Account Philippines (MCAP) gave notice to dil-ly-dallying contractors of the on-going Secondary Nation-al Road Development Project (SNRDP) here.

MCAP Project Engineer Rudy Arias said this thru Radyo ng Bayan DYES in the recently held press conference. He said that contractors who will not be able to complete the project as scheduled, will be charged of some One Million Pesos (P1M) a day.

Arias particularly referred to the contractor of Contract Package-2, covering Hinabangan (Samar) to San Julian (ESa-mar) stretch that involves some P2.5B, the biggest cost so far, of the four Contract Packages.

Contracted by Qingjian Group Company Ltd., CP-2 has so far achieved s 4.32% of its 13.52% target as of press time. The contractor however informed of their problem on the lack of equipment, manpower and construction materials. MCAPhowever, enjoined, that they complete the project on time in order to avoid more complicated problems.

CP-3 is no better, as public observe. It destroys portions

BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar – Af-ter some days of cruising the Manila - Vi-sayas waters, MV-BFAR’s (Bureau of Fish-eries and Aquatic Resources) Cargo Vessel has finally docked yesterday at the Borongan Seaport, bringing here, hundreds and thou-sands of fishing gears for typhoon “Yolanda” survivors dubbed “Ahon” project.

MCAP to charge P1M a day penalty

For unfinished road projects

The Bureau of Fisher-ies and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has enforced pre-cautionary measures in Samar coastal waters after laboratory test results show that red tide presence has intensified in Irong-Irong Bay.

The government strict-ly imposed shellfish ban in Irong-Irong Bay in Catba-logan City, Samar last week after both water and shell-fish meat were tested posi-tive of red tide toxins.

“We are worried that red tide toxins will spread to nearby Cambatutay Bay,

Maqueda Bay, and Cal-bayog City waters. These areas have histories of red tide presence in the past,” said BFAR Regional Direc-tor Juan Albaladejo.

Irong-Irong Bay, one of the collecting areas for mus-sel in Samar, drains its water to Cambatutay, a bay hit by red tide phenomenon last year. Cambatutay, which has been showing signs of red tide recurrence, in turn, drains to Calbayog Waters.

BFAR detected cyst for-mation in nearby Maque-da Bay, an area known for commercial mussel pro-

BFAR reports of red tide toxins at Samar waters

duction. “The presence of cyst indicates that red tide organisms may bloom any-time,” Albaladejo added.

“There’s a big possibility that we will issue a shellfish ban for Cambatutay Bay this week. Since last week, mussel traders in Maqueda Bay have been asked to se-cure health certificate from BFAR before shipping mus-sels to Davao and Mania as a precautionary measure,” Albaladejo said.

Fishes caught in affected

MV-DA-BFAR unloads thousands of fishing gears

Former Senator and present Philippine Red Cross Chairman leads the distribution of relief goods to children as part their Psychosocial Support Program held in Anibong and Rawis Tacloban City. Photo Courtesy

In a phone interview, BFAR Provin-cial Officer, Jaime Salazar informed that the vessel had been to the ports also of Aurora province and Tacloban to unload the same fishing paraphernalia.

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NEWS2 Easter Samar Bulletin

Alarmed of the increasing incidence of teenage preg-nancies in the Philippines, the Commission on Population (POPCOM) in Eastern Visayas will launch through a road show an educational caravan giving Filipino youth critical information on how to delay sexual debut, prevent teen pregnancy and avoid sexually transmitted infections (STI).

Called U4U Teen Trail, the program aims to deliver critical information to Filipino teens aged 10-19 to prevent teen pregnancy and reduce the prevalence of STI through online and mobile platforms.

POPCOM-8 Regional Director Elnora R. Pulma said the U4U will be part of the Department of Health (DOH) on Wheels: Kalusugan Pangkalahatan or KP Road show which aims to bring health care advocacies to every corner of the country by 2016.

The KP Road show will be held on July 1 at the Schisto-somiasis Research and Training Center in Palo, Leyte and on July 2 at the Tacloban City Convention Center in Taclo-ban City.

Pulma added that the U4U was first launched in Albay in January 2014, and following that successful event is to bring the initiative to various parts of the country with the hope to engage more young Filipinos to avail of adoles-cent-friendly services.

“It will focus on promoting public health while provid-ing services and information to women and children, ado-lescents, fathers, and senior citizens of every community,” Pulma said.

POPCOM to roll out U4U in EVThe initiative comes as the country’s stakeholders work

double time to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5—the reduction of child mortality and the improve-ment of maternal health in the Philippines.

Supported by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and DOH, POPCOM plans to bring the U4U Teen Trail to as many schools and barangays as possible nationwide.

Pulma said the caravan features an interactive exhibit called #bakasBukas, managed by teen facilitators.

She added that participants can journey through the ex-hibit to learn about puberty, self-image, relationships, pre-venting pregnancy and gender-based violence, and youth advocacy.

Through structured learning exercises, participants also learned about myths and misconceptions on sex and sex-uality.

Conceptualized by POPCOM, the U4U Teen Trail car-avan also serves as a promotion vehicle to introduce teens to online and mobile tools. A dynamic website named u4u.ph was also designed. It also set up an interactive voice re-sponse system (IVRS), a mobile platform that provides au-tomated information to a mobile phone texter.

The U4U is the second major adolescent health and youth development advocacy campaign after the success of “Crossroads,” an adolescent youth and development film. (REYAN ARINTO,POPCOM-8 Information Management & Communications Unit)

TACLOBAN CITY - Nearly 90,000 individuals are now waiting for authenticated copies of civil registration docu-ments, as part of the massive reconstruction of identities for victims of super typhoon Yolanda in Eastern Visayas.

As of end of May, 87,448 applications have been sub-mitted to the local civil registrars (LCRs) by teams de-ployed by the Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through Alternative Legal Services (IDEALS) in 18 towns and two cities along Yolanda’s path.

The LCRs are expected to send the request to the Phil-ippine Statistics Authority - National Statistics Office, for processing and releasing of copies of birth, marriage, and death certificates.

“Of the total number of applications, 90% (78,651) were through the Mobile Civil Registration Project (MCRP) and only 10% (8,797) were from walk-in clients. That is expect-ed since community workers have been going to villages to assess the civil registration needs of typhoon victims,” said Thebazile Anthony Monserate, MCRP area coordinator.

Almost all survivors (92%) are asking for copies of birth certificates. A small fraction is requesting for mar-riage certificates (6%) and death certificates (2%).

At least 9,911 individuals have already received authen-ticated copies of civil registry documents as of end of last month.

IDEALS and partner government agencies and non-government organization launched MCRP on April 9 to help typhoon survivors reconstruct their civil identities after the monster storm destroyed vital records.

87,448 Yolanda survivors await copies of vital documents

“This project drumbeat our advocacy for free civil reg-istration. We want local government units to sustain the initiative by making civil registration free and simplify the process,” said IDEALS executive director Edgardo Ligon.

Recipients are typhoon-displaced residents of Tacloban City, Palo, Tanauan, and Tolosa in eastern part of Leyte; San Isidro, Isabel, Kananga, Palompon, Matag-ob, and Ormoc City in northwestern part of Leyte; Basey and Marabut in Samar; Lawaan, Balangiga, Quinapondan, Giporlos, Gui-uan, Salcedo, Mercedes, and Hernani in Eastern Samar.

The civil registration project is being implemented by Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through Al-ternative Legal Services, Inc. (IDEALS), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Philippine Statistics Authority – National Statistics Office, 20 local government units (LGUs) and local civil registrar’s (LCR) office.

The initiative is backed by the United Kingdom Aid (UK Aid), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), Unit-ed Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), International Organization for Mi-gration (IOM), Department of Social Welfare and Devel-opment (DSWD), Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), Office of the Civil of Defense (OCD), Oxfam, and Interchurch Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO).(BARBETTE JOANNE MAGALO-NA BADOCDOC/PR)

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will tie up with various non-government organizations (NGOs) to implement a P107 million livelihood seeding program which was designed to encourage small and medium en-terprises to reopen their businesses.

DTI Regional Director Cynthia Nierras said 63 towns will be covered under the project- 43 in Leyte, nine in Eastern Samar, five in Biliran and three each in Samar and Southern Leyte.

Major NGO partners are the Philippine Disaster Recov-ery Foundation, Gawad Kalinga, Oxfam and other human-itarian relief organizations under the early recovery and livelihood cluster.

Oxfam has already committed P13 million for the proj-ect, while the PDRF promised to put up initial contribution of P2.5 million.

The major component of the project is the provision of starter kits, a package of fresh stock and provisional train-ings, a major intervention that would help SMEs recover from the damaging impact of super typhoon Yolanda last year.

“The DTI will provide two-day trainings for micro enterprises. First, there will be a stress debriefing to help them understand the discomfort they are going through. It will be followed by teaching them techniques to release the stress and trauma,” Nierras said.

“Also included is a business exercise that will put back their mind back into doing business. Assuming that it’s working, the following day they will be coached to come up with a simple business plan,” she added. (CARYL TO-MANDA, LNU Intern)

DTI extends financial assistance to SMEs affected by Yolanda

of main roads particularly in the main city routes, in alleged preparation for a rehabilitation work. But damaged portions which are actually the main routes in the city are left undone for long periods, leaving students and working public scam-per through lengthy detours.

The contractor however sought apology for the mistake committed when it destroyed ahead of schedule, lane-one of the Loom bridge approach (to the side of Amistoso resi-dence), Arias informed media. Still untouched today, it is ap-parently causing inconvenience both to motorists and nearby residents.

Qingjian and McBuilders are given until October 15, 2015 to complete the San Julian-Llorente Asphalt Overlay road project lest they pay the P1M a day penalty, the MCAP En-gineer jibed.

“But there’s good news”, Arias continued. “CP-4 which covers the Llorente to Guiuan stretches is ahead of schedule.

As of press time, it has accomplished 11.29% of its 8.8% target to rehabilitate the 77.51 kilometer road.”, he said.

One more thing to ponder today, is the completion of the concrete road (and not just Asphalt overlay) in the devastated Hernani area. Lane one of the long stretch from Garawon to barangay Poblacion is now completed with a matching sea-wall to protect the area from sudden rise of the sea level. The project costs MCAP some P2.2B.

Asked why some CPs are concrete while others are Asphalt overlays, Arias informed that in particular, CP-1 is a concrete road project. It’s because, he said, the Buray-Tenani 16.36km stretch is soft and watery which necessitated the use of con-crete materials instead of Asphalt.

CP-1 which was done by the only all- Filipino joint ven-ture, DM Consunji Inc. & CM Pancho Construction Inc. is now 100% complete and is referred to as the model project of the three others. Should the firms joined in the bidding for CP-3, it could have won the process, but it did not, Arias concluded.

SNRDP intends to rehabilitate the Wright-Taft-Boron-

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gan-Guiuan roads as financed by a grant from the U.S. gov-ernment’s Millennium Challenge Corporation with an allo-cation of $214.M. It mainly aims to “help improve the living conditions of the people of Samar. With more accessible and safer roads, people will have more socio-economic oppor-tunities because of reduced transport time and cost. Farm-ers will be able to transport their produce in less time to the urban markets. People from the rural areas will have more opportunity for employment and education in the urban cen-ter and people living in rural areas will have faster and better access to health care, especially in cases of emergency and the project”.

Further, the whole project package is expected to be com-pleted by 2016, and finished or not, will pull-out from the country, but so far, so good, as it has been providing local employment to both skilled and unskilled workers.(PIA-East-ern Samar/aen)

Bayan DYES, Salazar said some 70-units of Fishing Shelters, locally known as Payaw are to be distribut-ed to Fishermen’s Organi-zations of Arteche down to Guiuan towns while 5,225 of Tuna Hook-and-Lines(Kawil) are to be giv-en to fishermen-“Yolanda” victims from Maydolong to Guiuan.

According to him, the same vessel will bring the Payaws to the different beneficiary-areas and set-up the same with the heavy, concrete anchors, for the local fishers to just catch from inside the shelters.

Salazar cautioned the fishermen though, to take heed of BFAR’s warning not to use lighting equipment, Squid Ink(Toyum) nor “Li-kom” in catching the fishes around the Payaw, because either of these fishing tech-niques will harm or drive away the fishes inside the shelter.

“Only the hook-and-lines must be used”, he said.

It is also important he said that the fishermen, maintain the state of the fishing gears.

“That is only their coun-terpart”, Salazar stressed, “to see to it that the fishing gears are taken cared of. But their daily catch should also be recorded in a Logbook that they have to maintain”, he added. “This is so, be-cause BFAR likewise has to evaluate later the success and benefits of the project to the target beneficiaries”.

BFAR’s current project is one answer to the liveli-hood uproar of hundreds of “Yolanda” victims here. Other fishermen, particu-larly in Guiuan have already received fishing boats from international humanitari-an organizations and other agencies.

Meanwhile, the Pro-vincial Rehabilitation Plan which was submitted to the Office of the Presidential Assistance on Recovery and Rehabilitation(OPARR) in-dicated the need of some P 1 , 1 5 1 , 8 0 0 , 0 0 , 0 0 0 . 0 0 for livelihood assistance.(PIA-Eastern Samar/aen)

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JUNE 22-28, 2014

OPINION 3

COMMENTARY:By Fr Roy Cimagala

Email: roycimagala@gmail.com

EDITORIAL

Easter Samar Bulletin

Dalmacio C. GrafilPublisher

Romeo CebrerosOIC

EASTERN SAMAR

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Aljim Denver M. ArcuenoEditor-in-Chief

TIT’S a difficult animal to tame. I am referring to free-dom that all of us want to invoke to express what we really have inside our mind and heart. Unfortunately, very little attention is given to the fact that freedom is something we need to cultivate, and as such it requires all kinds of pro-cesses and procedures, and patience, and patience, and still more patience.

I remember when I graduated from high school, my father

made for me the valedictory that I had to deliver on behalf of my

class. It had an intriguing opening line, since my fa-ther, who was a

lawyer, had a flair for the dramatic in his orations.“Freedom is not free,” my speech began. “Either you

pay for it or it buys you out.” That was quite a mouthful for a 15-year-old to say, and I tried my best to show that I understood what I said and that I meant it. Those were the days of teen-age bravura. Now, of course, this memory makes me laugh

I somehow understood then that what my father meant was that freedom can either make or unmake a man. I’ve read that in some novels, and seen it in some movies and even in real-life third-person drama. But such understanding was more theoretical than experiential.

Still, I knew then that the seed of curiosity about free-dom was planted deeply in my heart. And as years passed, my understanding of it also grew. And what a tumultuous itinerary I had to pass through! Indeed, direct, first-per-son experience is quite a master teacher.

Our problem with freedom usually stems from the fact that we have a partial understanding of it which we tend to consider as already complete and full. We hardly real-ize that our idea of freedom would often be short-sighted, narrow-minded, biased and straight-jacketed according to our own subjective criteria.

That is why we often would have the sensation of highs and lows, exuberance and depression. A sense of stability and confidence is hardly felt. But life in general, no matter how much we twist it, cannot help but show us the real objective face of freedom through the many contradic-tions and humiliations we suffer along the way.

Yes, reality bites! It sooner or later, one way or another, will burst the bubbles that we unwittingly have been cre-ating for ourselves. Sometimes, we fall crashing down to earth after we managed to build a complex and sophisti-cated dream world, driven by a false idea of freedom and creativity.

Whether we like it or not, aware of it or not, reality will find a way to tell us that freedom is not something that we spontaneously generated. It’s not our own making. It is something given to us, with an objective law that governs it.

It’s not our creation, to be used absolutely according to our own personal and subjective terms. It comes togeth-er with the most fundamental truth that we are creatures and that there is a Creator. Toward it, the proper attitude

Cultivating freedom

to have to is to respect it and its law. And this requires a lot of humility.

The law that governs freedom is, of course, nothing oth-er than God himself, in whose image and likeness we are. That’s why Christ, the fullness of the revelation of God to us, said: “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

It is Christ who is the truth that will make us free. And Christ himself lived by this truth. His sense of freedom was bound up with his obedience to his Father’s will, no matter how painful that will was.

Saints have understood this character of freedom very well. Many of them have gone to the extent of explicitly saying that freedom is none other than obeying the will of God. That, in its distilled form, is the essence of freedom.

Freedom and obedience therefore go together. One cannot be without the other, in contradiction to the under-standing of many of us who often put freedom and obedi-ence as antithetical to each other.

That’s why we need to deepen our humility to be able to see this vital connection between freedom and obedience. And again, this humility has to be understood not only theoretically, but also practically. In fact, it should not only be understood. It has to be lived always through the events and circumstances of our daily life.

To cultivate true freedom is to cultivate a growing obe-dience to God’s will. Outside of that orbit, we can only have false freedom.

JUNE 22-28, 2014

he President is the top or highest public official of the land who is chosen by majority of Filipino voters in an election that is conducted once every six years. The incumbent who has served for 6 year steps down and turns over the reigns of leadership to the proclaimed winner in that election.

The Filipino people who elect a President lay their hopes and aspirations of a better life under his leadership. They know fully well that their choice for the highest position of

The President of the Republic of the Philippines

the land possesses the strong will and determination to make a difference to realize his dream for the Filipino nation.

In the early years a prospective president is a dreamer. As he dreams he prepares for it via formal and informal trainings, so that when the time comes to run for the office he ably and with confidence articulate his views clearly for people to know and understand what awaits them under his leadership.

No one runs for President to simply use the people as a prop of support against a plunder case filed against him. We are referring to Senator Bong Revilla who threatens our establishment that he will run for President to rally people behind him to extract him away from imprisonment.

NGO reports P26.64M worth of legal aid for storm survivors

Yolanda survivors in Leyte have accessed P26.64 mil-lion worth of benefits through legal assistance provided by the Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through Al-ternative Legal Services (IDEALS).

Lawyer Enrico Asis, area coordinator of the Access to Benefits and Claims after Disaster (ABCD), a major un-dertaking of IDEALS, said that thousands of families have been provided legal documents which are prerequisite to avail services.

“For those people who have been enjoying their rights to education, jobs and housing, we cannot quantify the val-ue of benefits to them,” Asis said in a press briefing.

Among the benefits availed by storm survivors were claims from the Government Service Insurance System

and insurance firms, loans from the Department of Trade and Industry and Social Security System, shelter assistance from donors, notarization, affidavits and deeds of con-tracts.

Primarily, the NGO has provided legal representation to 140 displaced workers of a luxury hotel, workers of a furniture shop and a farmer’s group.

Since December 2013, IDEALS and other international humanitarian organizations have been supporting lawyers in Leyte to carry out the legal mission project in villages where all legal documents were either blown away or swept away by Yolanda’s fierce winds and storm surges.

“It all started with a single text I sent to my friends in November asking for office supplies for us to serve their le-gal needs. That text reached IDEALS and they have started

supporting us,” said lawyer Ronan Christian Reposar, who has been practicing environmental law for a decade, before joining the legal aid advocate.

He recalled that after the typhoon struck, almost all the people lost their identification cards, bank cards, certificate of ownership, civil registry documents and other papers that would establish their identity.

“The need for legal services was enormous, yet some lawyers left the province and many law offices were bad-ly damaged. We used all available resources left to provide legal assistance, even using pens and papers to produce af-fidavits,” Reposar recalled.

Reposar and Asis are just two of the 10 lawyers hired by IDEALS to implement the ABCD project in badly-hit areas in Leyte and Samar. They are backed by 27 paralegals, tasked to draft affidavits, contracts and other documents.

“This project changed the impression of poor families about the lawyer profession. They thought their services are very expensive, but the project provided it for free. Ba-sically, we helped in pump priming the profession. It takes a lot of sacrifice for a lawyer to waive service fees,” said Ed-gardo Ligon, IDEALS executive director.

Pamela Palma of Oxfam, one of the humanitarian orga-nizations supporting ABCD, has seen the value for money of their P4 million assistance to the project.

“P26 million is just an amount of money. We don’t know exactly the value of assistance and long term benefits to a child entering a classroom and family owning a new house,” Palma added. (PR)

4 NEWSEaster Samar Bulletin

Republic of the Philip-pines

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

8th Judicial RegionBranch 3

Guiuan, Eastern SamarIN THE MATTER OF

THE CANCELLATION OF THE CERTIFICATE

OF LIVE BIRTH OF ANA LIZA SONGA-

HID y CARANYAGAN WITH CORRECTION

OF ENTRIES,ANA LIZA SONGAHID

y CARANYAGAN,Petitioner-versus-

THE LOCAL CIV-IL REGISTRAR OF

GUIUAN, EASTERN SAMAR, and LOCAL

CIVIL REGISTRAR OF ORMOC CITY, LEYTE

RespondentsSpec. Proc. No. 1382x- - - - - - - - - - - - x

ORDERBefore this Court is a ver-

ified amended Petition filed by ANA LIZA SONGAHID y CA-

RANYAGAN, through coun-sel, praying of this Honorable Court that, after due notice, publication and hearing, an ORDER be issued directing The Local Civil Registrar of Guiuan, Eastern Samar to correct the entries in the Certificate of Live Birth of Petitioner, with Regis-try No. 88-2418, particularly the following:

A. Declaring that the per-son registered as ANA LIZA CARANYAGAN SONGAHID appearing in her Certificate of Live Birth born on 05 June 1988 at Brgy. San Isidro, Ormoc City, Leyte and the person registered by the name ANALIZA CARA-NYAGAN appearing in another Certificate of Live Birth to have been born on 05 June 1988 at Brgy. Bagua, Guiuan, Eastern Samar refer to one and the same person, herein petitioner;

B. Ordering the correction of the petitioner’s surname as appearing in her Certificate of Live Birth, from “SONGAHI” to “SONGAHID”, which is her true and correct surname.

C. Ordering the Local Civil Registrar of Guiuan, Eastern Sa-mar to cancel Petitioner’s Cer-tificate of Live Birth registered on 16 July 2001.

It appearing that the Pe-tition is sufficient in form and substance, let the initial hearing

of the petition be set on July 3, 2014 at 8:30 in the morning in the Session Hall of this Court, Regional Trial Court, Branch 3, Guiuan, Eastern Samar. Let a copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of general cir-culation in Region VIII and the Province of Eastern Samar at the expense of the petitioner, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks prior to the date of hearing to afford person or persons who may have opposition to file the same, stating among others the grounds why said Petition should not be granted, and attend on said hearing at the date, time and place as above-stated.

Let a copy thereof be fur-nished to the Solicitor Gener-al, Office of the Civil Registrar, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, and the Assistant Provincial Prosecutor, for information and appropriate action.

SO ORDERED in chambers.

June 5, 2014 in the af-ternoon.

Guiuan, Eastern Sa-mar.(Sgd.) ROLANDO M.

LACDO-OPresiding Judge

ESB: June 8-14, 15-21, 22-28, 2014

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

EIGHT (8TH) JUDI-CIAL REGION

CITY OF BORONGAN, EASTERN SAMAR

BRANCH 2IN THE MATTER OF JUDICIAL DECLARA-TION AS L.C. LASSIT-ER AND NOT JIMMY L.C. LASSITER THE REAL AND COM-

PLETE NAME OF THE PUTATIVE FATHER

OF THE HEREIN PETI-TIONER AND DECLA-RATION THAT JAIME

C. LASSITER AND JIMMY C. LASSITER IS ONE AND THE SAME

PERSONJAIME C. LASSITER,

Petitioner,SP. PROC. CASE NO.

165-14x- - - - - - - - - - - -

ORDERThis is a verified petition

for judicial declaration as L.C. Lassiter and not Jimmy L.C. Lassiter the real and complete name of the putative father of the herein petitioner and decla-ration that Jaime C. Lassiter and Jimmy C. Lassiter is one and the same person; filed by petitioner Jaime C. Lassiter through coun-sel. The petition alleged, among others, that sometime in 2004, the herein petitioner filed an Special Proceeding case for Ju-dicial Declaration as Acknowl-edged Natural Child, docketed as SPL. Proc. Case No. 3887; that the petitioner made a mis-take in alleging in the petition that his putative father was Jim-my L.C. Lassiter since the real name of his putative father was actually L.C. Lassiter as indicat-ed in the Death Certificate of L.C. Lassiter (Annex “A”) and Enlisted Record and Report of Separation (Annex “B”); that a decision dated November 12, 2004 was issued by then Pre-siding Judge Arnulfo O. Bugtas favorably granting the petition filed by the petitioner; that said decision does not accurately and completely pronounce the complete name of the putative father of the petitioner since

the complete name of the for-mer is only L.C. Lassiter and not Jimmy L.C. Lassiter; that this inaccuracy has proved difficulty on the part of the petitioner to prove the name of his father be-fore American Embassy and in connecting his filial relationship to L.C. Lassiter, the petitioner’s putative father; that further, it is likewise prayed and requested that it be established and indi-cated in the decision, to avoid confusion and doubt that JAI-ME CATALO LASSITER and JIMMY CATALO LASSITER is one and the same person. The petitioner, therefore, prayed that, after due proceedings, an order be issued judicially estab-lishing as fact that the putative father of the herein petitioner is L.C. LASSITER and further be it established as a fact that JAIME CATALO LASSITER and JIM-MY CATALO LASSITER is one and the same person.

Finding the petition to be in due form and substance, set this case for hearing on October 9, 2014 at 9:00 o’clock in the morn-ing, at the Session Hall of this Court. Any person having or claiming any interest under the corrections/modifications being

sought may, within fifteen (15) days from notice of the petition or from the last date of publica-tion of this Order, file his/her opposition thereto.

Let a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circu-lation and duly accredited to publish judicial or legal notices in the province of Eastern Sa-mar at the expense of the peti-tioner.

Send a copy of this Order, together with a copy of the pe-tition, to the Office of the So-licitor General, 134 Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village, Makati City and to the City Civil Registrar of Manila, the Civil Registrar General, National Statistics Of-fice, Manila and to the petition-er and his counsel,

SO ORDERED, In Chambers.

Borongan City, East-ern Samar,

13 June 2014.(Sgd.) NATHANIEL E.

BALDONOPresiding Judge

ESB: June 15-21, 22-28, June 29- July 05, 2014

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

EIGHTH (8TH) JUDI-CIAL REGION

CITY OF BORONGAN, EASTERN SAMAR

BRANCH 2IN THE MATTER OF CORRECTION

OF ENTRIES IN THE CERTIFICATE OF LIVE

BIRTH OF JOEY A. ORTIGUESA,

JOEY A. ORTIGUESA,Petitioner,-versus-

THE CITY CIVIL REG-ISTRAR OF BORON-GAN CITY, EASTERN

SAMARRespondent,

SP. PROC. CASE NO. 164-14

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This is a verified amended petition for correction of en-tries in the record of birth filed by petitioner Joey A. Ortiguesa, through counsel. The petition-er alleged, among others, that there are several errors in the Certificate of live birth of the petitioner. His date of birth found in entry no. 3 is written as 30th May 1977 instead of 30th May 1975. In entry no. 6, the space allotted to moth-er’s maiden name, the entry is Pedro T. Ortiguesa instead of Filomena Rivera Agravante. Likewise in entry no. 9, the space allotted for the name of father, the entry is Filomena R. Agravante instead of Pedro Tomenio Ortiguesa; in entry no. 14, space for informant, the name in print is Filomena R. Agravante instead of Filomena R. Agravante-Ortiguesa; and the date of marriage of peti-tioner’s parents was entered as September 9, 1971 instead of September 11, 1971. The peti-tioner, therefore, prayed that

after due notice and hearing, a decision be rendered declar-ing that: (1) The petitioner was born on May 30, 1975; (2) the maiden name of petitioner’s mother is Filomena Rivera Agravante; (3) The complete name of petitioner’s father is Pedro Tomenio Ortiguesa; (4) The date of marriage of the parents of the petitioner is September 11, 1971; and (5) in item no. 14, the name in print of the informant is Filomena R. Agravante-Ortiguesa.

Finding the petition to be in due form and substance, set this case for hearing on October 8, 2014 at 9:00 in the morning, at the Session Hall of this Court. Any person having or claiming any interest under the entries in the record of birth the corrections of which are being sought may, within fifteen (15) days from notice of the petition or from the last date of publication of this Order, file his/her opposition thereto.

Let a copy of this Order

be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circu-lation and duly accredited to publish judicial or legal notic-es in the province of Eastern Samar at the expense of the petitioners.

Send a copy of this Or-der, together with a copy of the petition, to the Office of the Solicitor General, 134 Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village, Makati City and to the Local Civil Registrar of Borongan City, Eastern Samar, the Civil Registrar General, National Statistic Office, Manila and to the petitioner and his counsel.

SO ORDERED, In Chambers.

Borongan City, East-ern Samar

11 June 2014.(Sgd.) NATHANIEL E.

BALDONOPresiding Judge

ESB: June 15-21, 22-28, June 29- July 05, 2014

Republic of the Philip-pine

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

8th Judicial RegionBranch 3

Guiuan, Eastern SamarIN RE: PETITION FOR

APPOINTMENT AS NOTARY PUBLIC FOR and IN THE PROVINCE OF EASTERN SAMAR

ATTY. RAMON JAMER DADULLA, JR.

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Notice is hereby given that a Summary Hearing on the Pe-tition for Appointment as No-tary Public for and in the Prov-ince of Eastern Samar of ATTY.

RAMON JAMER DADULLA, JR., is scheduled on July 17, 2014 at the Session Hall of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 3, Guiuan, Eastern Samar at 8:30 in the morning.

Any person who has any cause or reason to object to the grant of the petition may file a verified written opposition thereto, received by the under-signed before the date of the summary hearing.

SO ORDERED in Chambers.

June 19, 2014Guiuan, Eastern Samar,

Philippines.(Sgd.) HON. ROLANDO

M. LACDO-OExecutive / Presiding JudgeESB: June 22-28, June 29- July 05, 6-12, 2014

JUNE 22-28, 2014

areas are safe for human consumption provided that they are fresh, washed and cooked thoroughly, the BFAR re-gional director said.

From 1,120 cells per liter of toxins in water last week, the reading in Irong-Irong Bay rose to up to 2,074 cells per liter, way high than the 10 cells per liter of toxins in a nor-mal situation.

Red tide was found in 117 micro grams of every 100 grams of shellfish meat, or nearly double than the 60 micro grams per 100 grams in normal level.

“This is very alarming because when two persons in Cambatutay Bay died of toxins last year, the reading was only 20 micro grams per 100 grams of meat,” the BFAR of-ficial recalled.

Authorities test coastal waters in Samar twice a week to monitor the possible presence of red tide.

“The prolong sunny weather since May followed by

heavy downpour in the past few days may trigger red tide bloom due to discharge of waste water from moun-tains and residential areas,” he added.

Red tide is a term used to describe all phenomena which the water is discol-ored by high algal biomass or concentration of algae. The discoloration may not necessarily be red in color, but it may also appear yel-low, brown, green, blue or milky, depending on the or-ganisms involved. ( S A R W E L L Q.MENIANO)

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