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THE ART OF HARVESTING SHRIMPS. A man show the proper way of throwing the net to harvest shrimps. These shrimp farmers harvest three to four times a year. Mr. Huang Che Ching Director of the Tacloban Filipino Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry is the owner of more or less 20 hectares of shrimp farms at Brgy. Kabalawan, Tacloban City, the largest supplier of shrimps in the region and produce 10 tons of export quality shrimps. (Photo by Melchor Caspe)
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KAWAYAN, Biliran. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has released some P2.86 billion for its rice subsidy program for 1.1 million poor farmers and fisher folk nationwide. GAHUM WEEKLY learned this from Vina Aquino, DSWD Information officer here in the region. In a press statement, it was learned that said rice subsidy is a short-term intervention to help farmers and fishermen and their families cope with
the effects of increasing prices of commodities and fuel and to tide them over during the lean months. The program started last May 2011, with its deadline last September. Meanwhile, Region 8 got around P 144 million for rice subsidy alone, this according to DSWD Regional Director Letecia C. Diokno. Under the program, the beneficiaries received cash assistance in exchange for undergoing four-day training and rendering community service. The four-day training focused on agricultural and food production, family and community
disaster preparedness, gender development orientation, planting methods for palay and corn, and banca making. After the training, the beneficiaries rendered community service under the cash-for-work scheme for seven days, such as tree planting, reforestation, coastal cleaning, dredging of waterways and canals, and repair of disaster-damaged community facilities. Diokno said the beneficiaries are paid cash upon completion of the activities based on the
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TACLOBAN City. Eastern Visayas has added yet another feather in its already heaping success hat as designer Daniel Guarino and his creation for the National Costume competition at the 22nd Philippine Travel Mart won 1st Runner Up. Jhuneva Marie Marmita Go (picture above wearing the wining entry) modeled the classic baro't saya with banig and shell theme and Seor Sto. details. The innate beauty and charm of Ms. Go and the intricate details of the gown wowed the judges at the competition. Indeed, Eastern Visayans are talented and truly enchanting. Congratulations to Daniel and Jhuneva, both of you made Eastern Visayas proud.
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NAVAL, Biliran. In far-flung barangays where the nearest botika ranges from to 3 to 5 kilometers away, looking for medicines in the dead of night is a trying experience. This is especially so in poorer households of this province, where one has to scrape the last centavo and hike to the town to buy something for an ailment that homemade concoctions failed to give relief. In what is considered a bold move to remedy the situation, Governor Gerry Boy Espina launched what he calls a Gamot sa Bawat Bahay programs, wherein every household, rich or poor, receives a pouch of over-the-counter medicines for most common ailments. continued on page
TACLOBAN CITY. The Philippine government continues to find solutions to maritime piracy victimizing Filipino seafarers. So says Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez, a top official of the countrys premier training center for seafarers said. The Jimenez made this statement being the OIC-Executive Director of the National Maritime Polytechnic (NMP)in the region. Atty. Jimenez was with other officials representing the different maritime-related government agencies in Eastern Visayas where they served as guests in the regular PIA media interaction, which centered on the National Maritime Week celebration on September 26 to 30, 2011 with the theme Piracy: Orchestrating the Response.
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Atty. Jimenez said that there were 286 piracyrelated incidents off the coast of Somalia in the past months alone. This translates to about 700 seafarers held hostage onboard 30 ships scattered at various
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TACLOBAN City. Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources regional office-8 informs that the shellfish toxicity level from Samar Bay has not gone down yet. Based on the latest laboratory results of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR-8), shellfishes and seawater samples collected along Matarinao Bay areas (Salcedo, Quinapondan, Gen. MacArthur and Hernani, Eastern Samar) were POSITIVE for Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) that is beyond the regulatory limit. In this thought, the public is advised to refrain from eating, gathering or harvesting,transporting and selling shellfish from Matarinao
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removed before cooking.( Meanwhile, coastal areas along Ormoc Bay (Ormoc City, Albuera and Merida, Leyte); Biliran Waters (Naval and Kawayan, Biliran); Camotes Sea (Palompon, Leyte); San Pedro Bay (Palo and Tanauan, Leyte); Villareal Bay (Villareal, Samar); Maqueda Bay (Jiabong and Catbalogan Samar); Irong-irong Bay (Tarangnan, Samar); Cancabato Bay (Tacloban City); Sogod Bay (Sogod, So. Leyte); Carigara Bay (Carigara, San Miguel, Barugo, and Capoocan, Leyte) and Calbayog Waters (Calbayog, Samar) are FREE from toxic Red Tide organisms according to BFAR. (Mel Caspe, with reports from PIA-8)
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MAASIN City. Five (5) major tourism investment projects were presented by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) during the Provincial Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Action Planning held at the Ampil Pensione here, last September 2011.
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A mixed feeling of awe and gratitude fills a mother in Brgy. Pulangbato, Almeria in this province as Governor Gerry Boy Espina (left) hands her a pouch of medicines for her familys use. The governor has visited from house to house distributing free over-the-counter medicines for common ailments under his Gamot sa Bawat Bahay Program.
prevailing regional wage rate in their respective areas. According to a report, the list of beneficiaries were identified through the DSWD National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) project based on their 2010 data of poor farmers and fisherfolks per city and municipality. (with reports from DSWD).
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points in the countrys extensive coastline. This has pushed the government to lay down preventive and curative measures to combat the situation, the NMP Executive Director added. Atty. Jimenez further said that part of the preventive measures undertaken by the Philippine government against maritime piracy is the development of an anti-piracy training program for seafarers, which NMP offered for a whole month in June, in line with the National Seafarers Day. Other preventive measures
espoused by the Philippine government, in coordination with other global maritime organizations, include the fair treatment of all ships passing through the Gulf of Aden and the waters off the Coast of Somalia; APEC economies to collaborate and cooperate closely on the maritime piracy issue and assist Somalia in restoring a working government, Atty. Jimenez explained. The Philippine government has so far donated US$ 20,000 to the UN Trust Fund to support security measures in the fight against maritime piracy, issued various flag
state advisories, held inter-agency consultations, created an Ad Hoc Committee on Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships, among others, as curative measures against the looming issue, Atty. Jimenez disclosed. He also assured that other government agencies like the Maritime Industry Authority, Philippine Coast Guard are also taking steps in finding solutions to maritime piracy. The NMP also made a proactive move by including courses about Maritime Piracy to prepare and equip the seafarers with the proper skills in meeting such situations..
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will runaway if my parents will not consent. He makes me happy, replied a young college girl when her friend asked her what her plans are. Maybe just maybe, some young people get so drowned in the here and now of their choices with such abandon that they miss to see what could lie ahead. The friend retorted, What you have with him is not as important as the completion of your education. If your parents will find out, they might let you stop from schooling and that would be you saying goodbye to a career that you want. Maybe just maybe, some young people live so much in the pursuit of the future that they fail to bask in the pleasures of here and now. In that single conversation overheard in a carenderia, I made a resolve to fill my life not only with now or tomorrow; I must strive to balance them and keep watching for signs of harmony and to work hard for discord not to be sown in me. I heard an old man saying to another, When youre old and poor, you do not have friends. You do not have a family; you do not have brothers, sisters, or even children. You do not even have self-respect because you pity yourself. Maybe just maybe, some people grow old and when they look back at their lives all they see is unhappiness and bitterness. He further said, It was a lot a better when I was younger and it was the 1950s. Food was cheaper then. The poor could still eat adobo nga manok; now, it is only the rich who could afford. Maybe just maybe, some people grow old stuck in certain moments of glory or comfort- recall all of its tiniest details and consider everything else that follows to be gray. In that single conversation overheard in a jeepney, I made a resolve that
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e, Filipinos, are a resilient race. Also, our innate culture of being relaxed and laid-back, whether from Luzon, Visayas or Mindanao, has its pros and cons. We are a happy race, problems seem to skim by, every day is a time for celebration, every day is a reason for happiness. But once faced with obstacles, we seem to shrug it off as well. But once stretched to the limits, we fight back. Patience and suffering has its limit, like the " Filipino quote, "Ang lahat ay may hangganan. This is not far from the truth that we, Warays, are innate fighters. This October, we celebrate the 67th Leyte Gulf Landings, which means that 67 years ago, we rejoiced that our American saviours returned, driven off and "saved" us from our Asian colonizers. This moment marked the end of a world wide war. We do not know what would have happened to our nation if these landings never happened. But the reality is this: on our lands we rediscovered independence, on our lands heroes have been borne, on our lands began hope for the world. Whether the Americans returned or not, one thing was inevitableour freedom. We salute the heroes, celebrated and unsung, who delivered us from one of the darkest moments in time.
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I would still be happy when I become old because I would have millions of memories to savor. With or without wealth, family, or friends I would still have enthusiasm because I would have the sun to wake up to; the stars and moon to accompany me in the night; the rain to cool my heart; and, the air to breathe. I remember Ate Helen who saved me from drowning in 2001. I asked her to let go because if she would die, her fourteen children would lose a mother. I told her that they would be losing their youngest too who at that time was still in her womb. She only said, I would not be at peace if you die and I live. In that single conversation with a very brave woman, I found peace of mind to be the key in appeasing restlessness and further resolved to keep that peace in all situations even when my survival would be at stake. No life no matter how insignificant it may seem to others is insignificant. The most challenging task of living is to know that it matters to be alive. Nobody else though could make us feel that it matters that we are alive; we have to do it. All we have to do is know our basic necessities- physiologically, intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally. We could look for them in our internal and external environments; or, create them if we must.
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architect, a UPian like her deserves better accolade than being an icon of feminine oppression. For despite of seemingly noble intents highlighted in advertisements, pageantries were meant only to feed the ravenous maw of organizers with millions of profits from media coverage and commercial sponsorships. But the most to gain are government officials who exploited the ensuing fanfare and festivities to divert the attention of the people and shield their inability to address the more pressing issues in the country. Media outlets, many of which are owned or financed by public officials, consistently downplays the worsening national crisis by giving more broadcast time or print space to insignificant political wrangling, showbiz intrigues and the occasional accomplishments of Filipinos, albeit very negligible, in international competitions. Ironically, seldom can we witness an in-depth discussion or a firm action that tries to resolve the daily predicament of our people: unabated corruption, syndicated exploitation, rising cost of basic commodities, massive
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e are already aware that the lives of our journalists are not of a haut monde. First and foremost (thats the clich), we get less. More than that, the word libel makes our world perilous. But libel is nil compare to the death-defying moments were involve in. It is nearly two years ago when the country was declared the worst place for the journalists, elsewhere in the world. It was after the killing of a significant number of journalists in Maguindanao, which the case until now, sad to accept, still unresolved. In the advent of a gratuitous upsurge of the prices of our staple needs, all of us are writhing. Juvenile criminals are becoming common today. To boot, a handful of Church ministers (when I speak of Church, I speak of all denominations) are challenged and doubted to be victimized by the virtue of consumerism. Last school semester, I attended a graduation ceremony in a theological school and the message of the Keynote Speaker was hearted in the challenge to the priesthood by the (mis)virtue of consumerism. It was a very inspiring speech that hit not only the graduates, but also the invitees of the said event. And in this challenge of consumerism, our journalists, just like anybody else, are of no excuse. Why? Because journalists are also human. We also mull over the welfare and comfort of our family. We also eat. We also purchase this and that. And in effect, some of us are also lured into the charms of money. In exchange of assassinating the character of a political foe, if one political figure or a person in authority would give us 30 thousand pesos per month, as it is in some reported
amo nga salamat han banggiitan nga singer, composer, recording artist nga bulontaryo nag komposo hin kanta nga tugma gud para han akon programa nga Johnny Pusong kada aga alas 3:50- 4:45 a.m. na yana lunes ngadto ha sabado ha DYBR Apple Radio 711 ha iyo mga radyo-an estasyon nga kaugop mo. Diri la kay haromamay iton pag hihimo hin osa nga kanta - kay siyahan haimo pag surat han lyrics hini, magbibiling ka gud han naangay nga mga pulong para mahimo an osa nga kanta- ngan kahuman hini magbibiling kana liwat tama nga tono ngan tiempo- pa praktison makadamo ka beses - ngan kun tuhay na masunod na an final recording. Kahuman han recording masunod an mixing- o pagtempla han tukar ngan han boses han kanta para mabalanse- upod na an editing san- o an final copy- ready for airing kun ha mga radyo o TV. Siguro mas masayon ini buhaton hin osa nga gin regalohan han diyos hin maupay nga mga mata nga nakakakita han kaanyag han kalibutan. Pero dinhi hini nga kanta nga akon gin hihisgotan, ginhimo ini hin osa nga buta-nga kun ano kamasirom an iya paniplatan sugad man kamalamrag an kanta nga iya ginhimo para gudla han akon programa nga Johnny Pusong- personalized pa gud kay dida han kanta igin upod pag kanta an akon ngaran. Ini nga aton yana bida nga boluntaryo naghimo han kanta hin waray bisan sentimo nga kabalyo. Komo pag saludo han talento hini nga tawo ha larangan han musika, upod an mga Ka-Pusong ha bug-os nga Rehiyon 8 in nasaludo gud ha imo. Ano kuno an title han kanta Doktor?....... kudos mandaw dodo bayi otoy- bisan hi ako nahingalimot nala pag pakiana han title paka bati kun han kanta ha ha ha Mga ka- Pusong ini nga aton bida nga banggiitan nga musikero in waray iba kundi hi. Tat tat tat tat tat ART RAMASASA.. palakpakan mga Ka-Pusong. ------------------PATAY HALAS: Johnny: Maring, para anAy kita ha kay mapatay anay halas. Maring: Okay sige.. (Kahuman makalima pag para para ira motorsiklo kay sige patay halas (ihi) nangalas hi Maring) Johnny: Maring anay la ha mapa patay halas naliwat ako Maring: Hesus2x ginoo ko sige la nga para - sige la nga para, naduro kita ka langan. Johnny: Kay patay halas pa.. ikaw gud. Maring: Halas? Saba daw Johnny! kahahambugan! WATI manla ngani iton!. ------------------SALBAHIS NGA PIKOY: ( Johnny nalabay hin balay nga may ada pikoy nga mayawit) PIKOY: piroko pikoy2x Johnny Piyos!2x Johnny: Baa nga pikoy ka kasalbahis mo.. upaya la malabad ka.. (umagi otro) PIKOY: piriko pikoy2x.. Johnny2x. PIYOS! PIYOS!.. piroko pikoy Johnny: Nga anitan kadaw nga Pikoy ka umagi ngani ako niyan nga mag siring kapa nga PIYOS.. pagrarabutan ko ikaw ngan igsusugba ko ikaw.. upaya la ha (umagi naliwat) PIKOY: piriko PIKOY2x Johnny Johnny Johnny: ANO NALIWAT!? to page 7 PIKOY: ALAMS NA.
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Dear Atty. Djho, Dear Atty. Djho, Ano it akon pwede himuon? Nagbulag na kami hit akon asawa kay mayda niya naanakan. Pero danay la gihap hiya nauli ha balay. Ini in nakakalipong ha akon. Pwede ko ba hiya dire pasudlon ha balay? Ngan pwede ko ba hiya ireklamo hin adultery tungod na mayda na nira anak han iya babaye? Buligi unta ako niyo, J. (Reworded for convenience) Yours, Mrs. L.
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here are two questions that need to be answered in this letter and these are: (1) Can a wife prohibit her husband from entering and visiting the conjugal dwelling? And (2) Can a wife sue her husband for adultery by reason of his having a child with another woman? For the purpose of answering these questions, let us make the following assumptions and conclusions: (1) J and her husband (whom from then on, we will refer to as K) are legally married; (2) K had a child with another woman; (3) For which reason, J and K separated; (4) J was left in the conjugal dwelling; and (5) J and K are not legally separated as contemplated in Articles 55 to 67 of the Family Code (FC) or annulled or their marriage declared null and void as envisaged in Articles 35 to 54 of the same Code. By reason of limited space, let us answer and discuss the first
ccording to Ibon Foundation, a private research institution, from 2001 to 2009, the recorded net income of the top 1,000 corporations in the Philippines had ballooned more than five times (552-percent), from P116-billion ($2.65b) in 2001 to P756-billion ($17.27b) in 2009. But the average daily wages and salaries increased only 31-percent over the same period, from P222 ($5.1) in 2001 to P291 ($6.6) in 2009. What did the honorable representatives of the sovereign people in both houses of congress do uplift the plight of Philippine labor ? The record speaks for itself. Democracy worth defending? Or a democracy in real need of being changed? The good news is that at last there is a growing support for legislated wage hike. xxx In the National Capital Region, Ibon computed the family living wage at P999 ($22.82) as of Aug this year, but the minimum wage is pegged in the National Capital Region (NCR), where it is highest, at P426 ($9.73). The gap between minimum wages and family living wage is wider outside of NCR . Ibon also told the legislators that a P125 ($2.86) across-the-board wage increase nationwide will
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only mean a 15-percent cut in profits of companies operating in the country. It will still not bring the minimum wages close to the needed living wages, which the Philippine constitution has explicitly guaranteed its citizens. xxx Taxes collected by the government in the last decade have more than doubled (from P600-billion [$13.71b] in 2001 to P1,250-billion [$28.6b] in 2010), but the wages of public sector workers in the same period, have increased by only less than half (49-percent), and a big part of it was accounted for by bigger leaps in salaries of executives in government agencies, rather than in salaries of subprofessional and professional levels according Ferdinand Gaite, national president of the Confederation for Unity, Recognition and
Advancement of Government Employees (Courage) at a forum with Philippine legislators. To finance the P6,000 ($137) wage hike for government employees, Courage proposes to realign some 7.9-percent of the government budget for servicing debts. The group said the government can also consider slashing its budget for military spending, noting that the government is spending at least P297,231 ($6,790) per civilian employee, and P402,400 ($9192.50) per military personnel per year. Xxx Vencer Crisostomo, Anakbayan chairman, said to have funds for State Universities and Colleges (SUCs),Congress should rechannel the intelligence and confidential lump-sum funds amounting to P789.3 million (US$183,488.837) mostly from the Office of the President and the DND. These funds are unaudited and are lump sum funds which have been earlier found to be sources of corruption. Crisostomo also targeted the conditional cash transfers and PAMANA dole-outs worth P15.2 billion (US$348,837) saying that the schemes are also corruption-prone . artificial, ineffective and
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voice was drowned out by the negative comments and severe censures of fellow jeepney commuters, with one professional-looking guy even hoping that the police should apprehend these people for disturbing the peace. I silently shed some tears as I feel the pain due to the indifference of society to sympathize, at least in saying kind words, to these few but brave and concerned young people, most of which are U.P. students, the finest among the rest. In that instance, I knew that Im just one in million who could find voices for freedom a soothing melody within the raging tempest of social apathy and degradation. But then again, along with other institutional ills in society, the low quality of educational system and the absence of governmental support to it is just one of the perennial problems that we have to contend with everyday. For a lot of Filipinos, the only way to ease the anguish or maintain sanity out of the recurring difficulties in life is to engage in some diversions, and we readily get it from dim-witted soap operas, showbiz intrigues or the friendly neighborhood gossips, along with regular drinking sprees and gambling sessions. For ordinary folks, we rest our hope of deliverance out of this hellish state from religious sermons which glorifies the virtue of suffering and being oppressed, while the enterprising ones vied to change their luck by winning in a lottery or, for quite a number of girls, marrying a foreigner. We are a nation in a self-devised paradox: the only Christian country in Asia but one of the most corrupt in the world; our People Power Revolution became a democratic paradigm but the people continue to suffer from government neglect and oppression; we are rich in natural resources but millions of Filipinos live in poverty; we have a very high literacy rate but a lot in the populace are ignorant, nave and could easily be exploited. Precisely, we became engrossed with the petty accomplishments of Manny, Charice and Shamcey because we really have nothing else to show off. So that as our defense mechanism just to survive, we tried to lighten our burden by taking the entire crisis in the world as it comes. Along the way, we helped ourselves with mediocre and frivolous pleasuresirrelevant pursuitsfor at least, it anaesthetized our bodies from the daily afflictions and mortifications at the same time numbing our minds due to constant infamy that we went through from the evil hands of fellow Filipinos. Tawa na la bisan... hababaw man gud it aton kalipayan!
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DepEd budget deceiving The budget of the Department of Education (DepEd), was increased by 15.2 percent or P31.5 billion ($750 million). But Kabataan Partylist Rep. Palatino described the increase as deceiving . Palatino said of the total 152,569 classrooms needed, the Aquino government only targets to build 41,381 for 2012; hire 13,000 new teachers out of the 103,599 shortage; procure 2.47 million chairs out of the 13.2 million shortage; get 45.5 million textbooks out of the 95.6 million shortage. Xxx For the DepEd budget, ACT Partylist Rep Tinio proposed the following amendments: additional P650 million (US$ 151,162.79) for the augmentation of cash allowances (widely known as chalk allowance) for teachers; the creation of 38,593 additional permanent teacher items to address the teacher shortage; the deletion of the provision for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) School Building Projects; the regularization of 68,593 kindergarten and locally funded teachers; and the inclusion of funds for the construction of 6,250 additional classrooms. Tinio argued against PPPs in social infrastructure, citing reports proving they are costlier for taxpayers. If approved, the additional funding requirements for the proposed amendments in the
DepEd budget shall be taken from the funds of the Pamana program, the Conditional Cash TransfersPantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program (4Ps), and the PPP scheme. For SUCs, Tinio recommended a provision prioritizing the regularization of 14,425 precariously employed part-time faculty and the creation of 8,000 new teaching items to effectively address the lack of qualified regular faculty in the SUCs. Xxx The criticisms and counterproposals on the proposed budget by representatives of progressive organizations prove that their organizations are not just creating troubles as a high official of the Aquino government described their actions protesting the oil price hike and the government policy expressed in the oil deregulation law during the last transport strike organized by PISTON. People use the effective means available to them. If the representatives coming from workers, farmers, professionals and small business are the majority in the house of congress , they will use their political clout to enact the laws that serves their interests and that of the broader society. IN the meantime they plead for their causes in dialogues, fora, rallies, strikes and other means. All within the context of struggling for a more effective democracy so they can end their hunger and poverty through peaceful means if possible. If not, they will likely use other effective means.
journalist, with the frills and colors of art if you are a creative writer. Second, emphasize the obvious, particularly in the context of what we are. And finally, and the most important rule is for (us) to stay alive. What is meant by stay alive is, we should write about danger but protect (ourselves) from it. And also by staying alive is by making our writings lively. Some of our writers are deadly boring; some, simply bad. And yes in addition, as journalists we should not be irate of criticisms. It is from criticism that we start discerning our faults, and find solutions to our weaknesses. Rather than taking criticism as a loss, we should profit from it. Sometimes we are miffed with the fact that very few of our people today are reading us. Worst, we might gasp and eventually lose breaths if we see our faces together with our articles
being crushed when the newspaper is used in packaging bulad. This is one of our shared plights to our people: read us! Time has honored the truth that writers life is difficult, for writers make a little. But to underscore, let us be minded again that writing is a vocation that seeks truth, truth, and nothing but the truth. People who slander just because they are paid and allow themselves to be captives of perjury, has no place in journalism. They must be gunned down in line with their co-felons and co-ignoramuses, guarantors of imprudence! Yes, writers life is not easy. That is why we are considered as people who invites and enjoys misery- masochists, so to speak. But I would rather be a masochist, than a bloody liar.
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part of the absolute community or the conjugal partnership property of the spouses since there has been no legal separation of the husband and wife or judicial separation of property. The husband continues to be an owner of the property as much as the wife and has every right to enter, visit and even live again in the said home. Articles 100 and 127 of the FC state that the separation in fact between husband and wife shall not affect the regime of absolute community or conjugal partnership. But if there are additional circumstances that may not have been mentioned by the sender, the answer may also be yes. Such that the wife may forbid her husband from entering and visiting the home if the said property has already been granted to her via a petition for legal separation or petition for judicial separation of property. She may also forbid him if there are additional circumstances that may have the case covered by the Anti-Violence against Women and Children Act or RA 9262 that would warrant a grant of a protection order such as physical, sexual,
psychological, or economic abuse committed by the husband against the wife. A protection order under RA 9262 may be issued by the barangay chairman, or a barangay councilor, in the absence of the former; or by any of the Regional Trial Courts or Municipal Trial Courts, or by the Family Court when there is one within the territorial jurisdiction of the place of residence of the petitioner. One of the reliefs that may be included in a protection order is the removal and exclusion of the respondent from the residence of the petitioner, regardless of ownership of the residence; and any of the reliefs provided by a protection order may be granted even in the absence of a decree of legal separation, or annulment or declaration of nullity of marriage. As to the second question, let us treat the same in the next issue.!
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ith the flourishing of visual arts in the region today, equally budding is an artist- 18 year old Chevin Villaflor. Starting from pencil sketches and crayon drawings in gradeschool, he once garnered the first place for editorial cartooning in a Regional Schools Press Conference in high school. Chevin, now a Business Administration student in Samar College, is striving to use other medium of painting. Most people (say) that I have the gift of art. I guess that's the major (motivation), he said. Surely, his vivid imagination would invigorate his membership to the growing pool of artists in the region.
Chevins Muses: Kataw and Kakanog
When asked why the subjects of a collection of his artwork, tagged by him as My Muses, were mostly women, he answered, My themes usually are women(because) I view them more sublime than men. Chevin added that most (of my) themes are (inspired by) folklore, mythology (and) history (because I) am a big fan of culture and tradition and I guess, that shows
in my art. Sometimes, I (do) abstract concepts like my watercolor piece entitled "Pagbaribad han Kalag". I am not an abstract artist though; I always strive to provide readily comprehensible images. Ornate but understated. As a student of art at the same time a proud Waraynon, Chevin endeavors to capture the Waray culture which is prevalent in his works Kataw and Kakanog, which furtherly belongs to the My Muses collection. Kataw, the half fish-half human image, though a fictional element of our culture, was believed to be existent in our folk tradition as attested by the Jesuit scholar Francisco Ignacio Alzina in his monumental work, Historia de las Islas e indios de Bisayas, published in 1668. While the Kakanog, a mothbutterfly, is a prehispanic Waraynon simile used to describe a woman who wears an outfit of varied colors which becomes her with elegance. However, Kakanog is believed to be a bearer of evil omens.
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Chevin shared that he has been asked not a few times whether he
is related to the celebrated Waray visual artist, Leo Villaflor. I've heard his name numerous times, but I am not, in any way related to him, the young boy explains. All art lover in the region identify the late Leovigildo Leo Villaflor as the Grand Daddy of Visual Arts in Eastern Visayas. When he died February this year, Dulz Cuna, herself an artist, remarked that (losing) him is a poignant thing (for the artists in the region) , considering his innovative and pioneering contribution in the scene of visual arts, the tuba painting. While Maestro Leo Villaflor popularized the tuba painting, Chevin integrates Waray taste in his artworks, as much as possible.
Though not related by consanguinity, Chevin is flattered to know that he bears the same family name of a true visual artist. Truly, Chevin's parents Gemma and Arnold are not only flattered but also proud to see the first step of their son towards a greater part of artistry.
Future of Visual Arts in EV
Recently concluded Arangay Exhibit 2 which showcased different works of our visual artists from all over the region is a living testament of the growth of visual arts in Eastern Visayas. Works of notable
artists like Dante Enage, Ed Rompal, Noel Sagayap, Aris Ventures, Jaime Sagayap and Dulz Cuna to name a few, were exhibited at the UPVTC Humanities Lab and Hall, inside the UP Tacloban campus. Another exhibit, tentatively named as Waray Tupong , is set this November. Chevin, an artist in the making, true as it may seem, needs to spill more paints in order to assume a name in visual arts. But with a mix of colored imaginations and strokes of determination and discipline, no doubt, he will become part of our pool of artists, sooner or later.
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Nemesio Totoy Baldesco, 56, works as a pedicab driver and a farmer. He had received various awards for his Siday from local to national competitions. His most recent is the Dr. Jimmy Balacuit Sr. Memorial Literary Award for Poetry. He had attended the Iligan National Wtiters Workshop last year, as a Fellow for Poetry. His Prinsipyo is also published in the INWW Proceeding titled, The Poetry of Place, edited by Dr. Christine Godinez-Ortega. He was hailed as Poet Laureate of Calbayog by the Ibabao Arts Council of Calbayog in 2006.
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Cousins Jimjim Yaokasin, Executive Vice President of TFCCCI and Tacloban City Councilor Sambo Yaokasin pose with their auntie Betty and uncle Daniel Dionisio, Sr. donors of the two classrooms school building in Marasbaras Elementary School, Brgy. Marasbaras, Tacloban City. (Photo By Melchor Caspe)
Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. in Cooperation with Tacloban Filipino-Chines Chamber of Commerce, Inc. School for the Barrio Project Unveiling of Marker and Turn over Ceremonies of Classrooms School Buildings in Marasbaras Elementary School, Brgy. Marasbaras, Tacloban City ,Northern Tacloban City National High school Brgy. 101 New Kawayan, Tacloban City, Paglaum National High School, Brgy. Paglaum Tacloban City, Cahumayhumayan Elementary School., Brgy. Cahumayhumayan,, Tanauan, Leyte, and San Isidro Elementary School, Brgy. San Isidro, Sta. Fe, Leyte. (In Photos) Guests from Federation of Filipino Chines Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc.: Mr. Antonio Cosing, Vice Chairman of Welfare Committe, Mr. Julian Tan Yao Ching, Director of welfare Committe, Mr. Anson Go Tan, Director of welfare Committe. Project Coordinators: Mr. Carlos Legaspi, Mr. Jemar Pascual. Guest From Tacloban Fil-chines Chamber of Commerce Inc.(TFCCI) Mr. Go Tic Ching (Jack Uy), Mr. JimJim Yaokasin, Executive Vice President, Mr. Reynaldo Go, Treasurer, Mr. Andrew Ching, Director. Other Guests in Photo: City Counclor Cristina G. Romualdez, Vice Governor Mimiette Bagulaya, Board Member Roque Tiu. Donor, Representative from TFCCI, Mayors, Brgy. Captain, Principal and Other Guests (Photo By Melchor Caspe)
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