mabuhay issue no. 947

MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE: Protesta’t panalangin sa Bulacan State University. — BASAHIN ANG ULAT NI DINO BALABO SA PAHINA 9

2 MabuhayLINGGUHANG PILIPINO MULA PA NOONG 1980 NOBYEMBRE 20 - 26, 2009

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EDITORYAL

KatarunganUMALIMPUYO ang galit ng mga Bulakenyo at ng iba’t ibang grupo sa bansaat ibayong dagat hinggil sa walang-awang pamamaslang sa 57 katao kabilangang 30 mamamahayag sa bayan ng Ampatuan sa lalawigan ng Maguindanaonoong Lunes, Nobyembre 23.

Walang kasing lupit ang pamamaslang na tinaguriang “MaguindanaoMassacre” dahil pawang ‘di armado ang mga biktima, kabilang ang 17 babae,dalawa sa kanila abogado, at dalawa ang iniulat na buntis.

Batay sa mga ulat, patungo sa kapitolyo sa Shariff Aguak ang mgabiktima upang isumite ang Cer tificate of Candidacy (COC) ni Vice MayorEsmael Mangudadatu ng bayan ng Buluan na kakandidatong gobernador,nang sila ay harangin ng may 100 armadong lalaki at parang mga hayop napinastulan sa isang kalapit na burol kung saan sila isa-isang pinagbabaril saulo, suso, ari at iba pang bahagi ng katawan, pagkatapos ay inihulog kasamaang ilang sasakyan sa inihandang libingan na hinukay gamit ang backhoe ngkapitolyo ng Maguindanao upang itago ang malagim nilang katapusan, ngunitdumating ang mga sundalo kaya’t nagpulasan ang mga berdugo.

Inilarawan ng iba’t-ibang grupo ng mamamahayag sa bansa at ibayongdagat ang paglipol sa 30 miyembro ng media, mga babae at iba pang sibilyanbilang isang malakas na dagok at pinakamadilim na araw sa demokrasya atpar tikular na sa naghihingalong kalagayan ng malayang pamamahayag saPilipinas. Ang Maguindanao Massacre ay isang malagim na pahiwatig sanagbabadyang mga karahasang pinangangambahang babalot sa paparatingna halalan sa susunod na taon—ang makasaysayan at kauna-unahang au-tomated elections sa bansa. Ang karumal-dumal na “mass murder” ay maaariring ituring na isang malaking insulto sa pamumuno ni Pangulong GloriaMacapagal Arroyo na buong siglang ipinagmamalaki na ang bansa ay isang“strong republic.”

Noong Martes, habang nakikidalamhati ang buong bansa sa mga biktimasa Maguindanao, muling dumalaw ang Pangulo sa Pampanga kung saan aysinasabing posible siyang kumandidato bilang Kongresista; pagkatapos ayidineklara niya ang state of emergency sa Maguindanao na tinutulan namanng Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) sa pangambangmagbunga iyon ng dagdag na karahasan at pag-abuso sa kapangyarihan.

Ang isa pang kakatwa sa kilos ng makapangyarihang Malakanyang ayang pagpapadala noong Mar tes kay Presidential Adviser for Mindanao Af-fairs Jesus Dureza sa tahanan ng mga Ampatuan na bukod sa kakampi ngadministrasyong Arroyo ay itinuturong suspek sa masaker. Ito ay kakatwakumpara sa karanasan ng mga mamamahayag na si Ted Failon na hinugotng mga pulis sa pagamutan habang nagbabantay sa noo’y naghihingalongasawa na kalaunan ay pumanaw rin.

“Katarungan”, ang sigaw ng marami mula sa mga lansangan,himpapawid at maging sa mga social networking sites tulad ng facebook.comsa internet. Ito ay bilang pagpapahayag ng magkakahalong pagdadalamhati,lungkot, pangamba at nagpupuyos na galit hindi lamang para sa MaguindanaoMassacre, kundi para na rin sa pamamaslang sa mahigit 80 mamamahayagna pinaslang sa panahon ng panunungkulan ni Arroyo.

Ngunit ano ang silbi ng katarungan kung walang mapaparusahan atwalang kapayapaan? Nakakapangamba ito dahil sa malaki ang posibilidadna pamarisan ang pamamaslang sa Maguindanao sa ibang lugar at bayan sabansa kung hindi maipatutupad ang batas at mapaparusahan ang mga salarin.

Nakikisa ang pahayagang Mabuhay sa panawagan sa gobyerno naibigay ang mabilis na katarungan sa biktima ng Maguindanao Massacre atiba pang mamamahayag na pinaslang sa mga nagdaang panahon.

Nakikiisa rin ang Mabuhay sa panawagan ng National Union of Jour-nalists (NUJP) Bulacan Chapter sa mga mamamayan na maging mapag-bantay, maging aktibo at makiisa sa pagsusulong ng isang makatarungan,mapayapa, makatao, maka-Diyos at makakalikasang pamayanan.

Ang Maguindanao Massacre at pamamaslang sa iba pang mama-mahayag sa nagdaang panahon ay dapat magpaalala sa atin ng pagkukulangng mga namumuno sa gobyerno na sumumpang tayo ay bibigyan ngproteksyon, kakalingain, bukod sa pagseserbisyuhan.

Sa diwang ito, napapanahon ang pagkakaisa ng bawat isa na magbibigayng lakas sa atin at magpupuno sa kakulangan ng mga namumuno ng pa-mahalaang ang nasa isip ay manatili sa kapangyarihan sa susunod na halalan.

Promdi DINO BALABO

Sabi ni Kuya, sabi ni AteNAGSIMULA na pagsusumite ofiling ng certificate of candidacy,at malapit na ring matapos ito (saDisyembre 1) ngunit hindi pamalinaw kung tutuloy sa pag-kandidato bilang kongresista ngikatlong distrito si Gob. Joselito“Kuya Jonjon” Mendoza.

Baka wala pang go signal siAte.

* * *Ilang beses ding sinabi ni

Kuya Jonjon na kakandidatosiyang kongresista sa ikatlongdistrito. Nagpatayo na nga siyang bahay sa San Miguel, Bulacan,at ipinalipat ang kanyang rehis-trasyon doon noong Marso.

Bakit biglang nag-alangan sakanyang plano si Kuya Jonjon?May pangamba ba siyang hindimananalo doon dahil tubongBocaue siya na nasasakop ngikalawang distrito?

* * *Sa kanyang ulat sa lalawigan

noong Nobyembre 9, kinum-pirma ni Kuya Jonjon na hindisiya kakandidatong gobernador,sa halip ay magbibigay daan sa

kanyang Ate Josie, ang datinggobernador ng lalawigan.

Magbabalik ba bilang kapitanng barangay si Kuya Jonjon? Peromalayo pa ang halalang pamba-rangay.

* * *Sabi naman ni Ate Josie,

umaasa siyang magbabago angisip ni Kuya Jonjon at kakan-didatong kongresista.

Ito ay dahil sa wala pa rawsilang kandidato sa ikatlongdistrito na itatapat kay MayorRicardo Silverio ng San Rafael,na naglingkod na kongresista ngdistrito mula 1992 hanggang2001.

* * *Pero, para sa mga tagamasid

sa pulitika sa Bulacan, nakiki-ramdam lamang daw ang mag-kapatid sa magiging kilos sapulitika ng mag-asawang BiseGob. Wilhemino Alvarado atKint. Marivic Alvarado ng unangdistrito.

Kung kapwa daw kakandidatoang mag-asawang Alvarado,malaki ang posibilidad na hindi

na kumandidato si Kuya Jonjonbilang kongresista.

* * *Ito ay upang makaiwas daw

ang magkapatid sa akusasyon nanais nilang magtayo ng politicaldynasty.

Makakabawas daw kasi ngboto ang makabitan ng bansag na“political dynasty.”

* * *Kung tuluyang hindi kakan-

didato si Kuya Jonjon, lumalabasna tunay ang kanyang pagma-mahal at paggalang sa nakata-tandang kapatid na si Ate Josie.

Dahil doble-doble ang kan-yang sakripisyo sa karera sapulitika ni Ate Josie. Una, hindina siya kakandidatong gober-nador kahit siya ang incumbent.Ikalawa, hindi na siya kakan-didato bilang Kongresista ngikatlong distrito sa kabila ngpagbubuhos niya ng mga pro-yekto sa mga barangay ng mgabayan sa nasabing distrito.

* * *Ang tanong, paggalang at

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Buntot Pagé PERFECTO V. RAYMUNDO

Kabayanihan at karangalanPARANG sakit na nakakahawaang karangalang nakamtan ngating Pambansang KamaoManny “Pacman” Pacquiao.

Noong nakaraang lingo la-mang, ika-15 ng Nobyembre aytinalo niya sa ika-labin dalawanground si Miguel Cotto at naban-sagang pinakamahusay na bok-singero sa ating panahon, dahilsa pagkakamit niya ng pitongkampeonato sa larangan ng bok-sing.

Nasundan ito ng pagkapanalong ating kababayang si RodelMayol nang talunin sa ikalawanground ang pambato ng Egypt nasi Edward Soza at makuha angWorld Boxing Council Light Fly-weight championship belt.

Sayang nga lamang at hindinadepensahan ng ating ringkababayan na si Marvin Sonsonaang pagiging kampeon sa Jr.-Ban-tamweight Division noong Ling-go, ika-22 ng Nobyembre.

Nauwi kasi sa tabla (draw)ang laban nila ni AlejandroHernandez ng Puerto Rico ga-

nunpaman, si Sonsona pa rin anghuling may hawak ng titulo.

Nito ring linggo ay tinanghalbilang Cable News Network(CNN) Hero of the Year sa KodakTheatre sa Hollywood, U.S.A. angisa pa ring Pinoy si EfrenPeñaflorida.

Sa pamamagitan ng kanyang“kariton classroom” na umiikotsa lalawigan ng Cavite ay natu-turuan niya ng leksiyon ang mgabatang lansangan katulong angkanyang mga kasama sa kanilanggrupong Dynamic Teen Company(DTC), at sa pitong linggongbotohan sa pamamagitan ng“internet” ay tinalo niya angiba’t-ibang lahing banyaga atnakuha ang parangal kalakip angisang daang libong dolyar($100,000) o kulang kulang salimang milyong piso (P5,000,000).

Nauna pa riyan ay nabigyandin ng international recognitionang pelikulang Pinoy na “AngPanggagahasa kay Fe” (The Rap-ture of Fe) sa direksiyon ni AlvinYapan.

Sa katatapos lamang na CairoInternational Film Festival aynagkamit ang naturang indepen-dent digital (Indie) Film ngGolden Award.

Kung nanaisin lang natin,kaya naman talaga nating mgaPinoy na makipagsabayan sabuong mundo. Tamang direk-siyon, disiplina at determinasyonlamang ang susi upang makam-tam ang pinakamimithing ta-gumpay.

Dagdag na lamang ang napa-kalaking konsuwelong kilalaninat mabigyan ng karangalan.

Rally ng mga Media sa BulacanKINONDENA ng mga mama-mahayag sa lalawigan ng Bulacanang naganap na pamamaslang samga mamamahayag sa probin-siya ng Maguindanao sa Min-danao sa isang rally sa bayan ngMalolos.

Ang rally ay dinaluhan ngiba’t ibang samahan ng mama-mahayag sa lalawigan ni Gat.Marcelo H. Del Pilar.

Kastigo BIENVENIDO A. RAMOS

Sindikato ng krimenLAHAT ng sindikato ng krimenay may magagaling na strategistat tactician. Sila ang gumagawang plano at project study kungpaano sasalakayin at loloobanang isang bangko, kung paanomalulusutan ang pulisya — mo-bile patrol o check-point. At kungmay mahuling miyembro ngsindikato ay lalong masusi angginagawang pagpaplano— kungpaano susuhulan ang imbes-tigador, ang piskal, at ang huwesna lilitis. Kung mahatulan ay iaa-pela, at patuloy na magususuholsa warden, sa mahistrado ngCourt of Appeals, o hanggang saKorte Suprema.

At dahil pinatay na ang paru-sang bitay, napakalaki ng pag-asaat pagkakataong makalaya omababaan ang sentensiya ngmiyembro ng sindikato.

Sindikato sa gobyernoANG pamahalaan, na itinatagupang magpairal ng kaayusan,magpatupad ng mga batas, atmaggawad ng pantay na hus-tisya, ay isa nang sindikatongayon ng kriminal, na hinati-

hati sa tatlong grupo—ang Ehe-kutibo, Lehislatura, at Hudika-tura. Kaya ang isang public offi-cial na naparatangan ng katiwa-lian (at ibang paglabag sa batas),kahit mahatulan ng mababanghukuman, o ng Sandiganbayan,ay napakarami pang paraan—para mapawalang-sala.

Kabilang sa mga taktika ayang pag-antala sa kaso, pagsuhol,pananakot sa mga testigo, mahis-trado, paggamit ng impluwensiya(kung malakas sa Malakanyang),pagpipilit na makapagpiyansa, atiba pang legal na paraang ipi-nagkakaloob ng Konstitusyon.

Pero sa obserbasyon ko, angpinakamabisa at subok nangtaktika ng isang public official onaging public official na na-demanda, nilitis, nahatulan samababang hukuman (o nakapag-piyansa), nanatiling nakabilang-go, pero nakaapela pa ang kaso—ay ang pagkandidato sa mataasna posisyon. Dahil kahit naha-tulan na ang kaso, nakapiit naang kinasuhan, pero nakaapelapa sa Korte ang kaso, ay puwedepang kumandidato, at posibleng

manalo (kahit nakapiit), tuladnina Romeo Jalosjos, ImeldaMarcos, Trillanes at ilan pa. Angpaglahok sa halalan, angkapansin-pansing TAKTIKA naginagamit ngayon ng mga publicofficial— para malusutan angkaso— karaniwan ay katiwalian.

Batay ito sa konseptong ang“tinig ng bayan ay tinig ngDiyos”—na waring sinasang-ayunan naman ng mataas nahukuman. Ibig sabihin, kahithinatulan na ng korte ng kama-tayan o habang buhay na pag-kabilanggo, ang public official napinapayagang kumandidato ka-hit nakapiit, kung manalo sahalalan— ay nangangahulugangpinawalang-saysay na ng bayanang kanyang kasalanan dahil sapagkakahalal sa kanya.

Pero sa palagay ko, hindi natotoo na ang “tinig ng bayan aytinig ng Diyos:” Bakit?

Sapagkat nabibili na ngayonang mamamayan, nasusuhulanna, o nadadaya na ngayon anghalalan. Paano papayagan ngDiyos na sabihing ang tinig ng

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NOBYEMBRE 20 - 26, 2009 MabuhayLINGGUHANG PILIPINO MULA PA NOONG 1980 3

Regarding Henry

HENRYLITO D. TACIO

Where are our mangroves?IF figures can tell a story, thenour mangroves are in such a badsituation. In 1981, there were anestimated 450,000 hectares ofmangrove areas in the Philip-pines. Since then, there has beena decreasing trend from 375,000hectares in 1950 to about 120,000hectares in 1995.

At that time, one environmen-talist wrote: “All over the coun-try, whatever coastal provinceyou visit, you see the same plight– desolate stretches of shorelinecompletely stripped of mangrovecover and now totally exposed tothe pounding of the ocean’swaves.”

The rate of mangrove exploi-tation in the mid-190s was high-est in the Visayas. Satellite im-ages analyses indicted thatMindanao had the most man-grove areas in the country (29percent of the country’s total)while Luzon and Mindoro hadthe least. Old-growth mangroveforests were mainly found inMindanao (4,582 hectares) andPalawan (5,317 hectares).

To prevent mangroves fromfurther destruction, the lawmak-ers have enacted Republic Act8550 otherwise known as Philip-pine Fisheries Code of 1988whose section 94 stated that theconversion of mangroves intofishponds or any other purposeis prohibited.

Although a World Bank reportreleased in 2005 stated that man-grove cover in the country is“now relatively stable” – particu-larly those around Bohol andSiquijor islands – Dr. Rafael D.Guerrero III said that mangrovesare still in peril.

“Notwithstanding, our man-groves are disappearing due tounabated deforestation in someparts of the country, poor man-agement practices and sea levelrise as a result of climatechange,” informs Dr. Guerrero,former director of the PhilippineCouncil for Aquatic and MarineResearch and Development.

Currently, the rate of man-grove deforestation ranges from2,000 to 3,000 hectares per year.

Mangroves are communitiesof trees in the tidal flats in coastalwaters, extending inland alongrivers where the water is tidal,saline, or brackish. “There are 25to 30 species of true mangrovetrees and an equal number of as-sociated species,” says Dr. MiguelD. Fortes, a marine science pro-fessor and technical consultant tovarious national and interna-tional institutions.

“Mangrove coverage is moreextensive on low-relief coastswhere tidal penetration preventscompetition from non-salt-toler-ant species,” Dr. Fortes says.“Mangroves are lusher in areaswhere rivers bring with themnutrients and freshwater, dilut-ing seawater to levels rangingfrom less than five to 10 parts perthousand.”

Shallow-rooted mangroves areoften found in sheltered environ-ments where they are protectedfrom waves and currents, and inareas with high terrestrial sedi-ment inputs that are importantsources of inorganic nutrients.

Mangroves offer a wide arrayof multifarious benefit. For one,they are important sources ofboth major and minor forestproducts, according to the La-guna-based Philippine Councilfor Agriculture, Forestry andNatural Resources Research andDevelopment.

The major forest products in-clude timber, firewood, charcoal,and pulp and paper, whereas theminor products derived are ex-tractives (tannin and dyes), nipasap and nipa shingles, oil, medi-cine, resin, tea, and livestocksupplements.

Because of their high woodstrength properties, mangrovesare used as construction materi-als and for furniture-making;mangrove trunks are utilized ashousehold and industrial fuel es-

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FROM God comes our intelli-gence, and from our intelligencecomes the technologies that aremeant to benefit mankind ingeneral, up until the concept ofprivate property came along. Atthat point, the concept of intel-lectual property rights (IPR) wasalso born, and so the technolo-gies that came out of human in-telligence entered the privatedomain, made available only tothose who could afford to buy theproducts derived from them.

I first entered the realm of sci-ence policy when I became a For-eign Service Officer (FSO), at thetime when Development Diplo-macy was considered an impor-tant thrust of the foreign rela-tions process. I started with Sci-ence & Technology (S&T) policy,but I eventually got involvedwith Information & Communica-tions Technology (ICT) policy,because at that time, ICT policywas still considered to be a sub-set of S&T policy.

In the practice of the Depart-ment of Foreign Affairs (DFA),officers assigned to do substan-tive work are not assigned ad-ministrative work, and viceversa. Due to another practicethat only officers could handlesensitive positions, duty pre-

Fair & Square

IKE SEÑERES

vailed upon me to head the com-munications and computer ser-vices unit of the DFA, an admin-istrative assignment that was ontop of my substantive work inS&T policy and ICT policy.

Given the nature of Develop-ment Diplomacy, my superiors atthe DFA trained me to alwayslook for technologies fromabroad that would serve the in-terests of our country. Every of-ficer of the DFA will tell you thatthe purpose of the Departmentis to pursue and protect the na-tional interest, and indeed, it wasin the best interest of the nationto acquire the technologies thatwould solve our national inter-ests.

My experience at the DFAprepared me for my later assign-ment as the Director General ofthe National Computer Center(NCC). The work of the NCC isboth substantive and adminis-trative in nature, a balancedblend of ICT policy work and ICTservice provider work. It was atNCC where I saw the need to de-mocratize technology, so thatmore people could take advan-tage of technologies, both therich and poor people alike.

Many years after my stint at continued on page 8

Cebu Calling FR. ROY CIMAGALA

Bubbles, cocoons and handicapped

Forward to Basics FR. FRANCIS B. ONGKINGCO

Vanity: Plus or minus ten“FATHER,” the middle-agedlady brushed some strands ofunruly hair from her face beforecontinuing. “I’ve been readingthe Gospels lately and I wasstruck with the passage aboutthe rich young fellow who leftour Lord because he couldn’t selleverything he had.”

“Why did that strike you?”the priest asked.

“Because I’m vain,” she re-plied.

“I don’t quite see the connec-tion,” the priest politely said.“Besides, everyone has to con-tend with a bit of vanity,” hesmiled.

“Well, I am particularly hyper-vain,” she insisted.

“But what exactly do youmean by being vain?”

“Don’t you think I’m vain be-cause I spend anywhere between30 to 40 minutes fixing myselfbefore the mirror every morn-

ing? Oh, during weekends it’susually about an hour.”

“That’s something I’m notgetting into,” the priest cau-tiously answered.

“Why not?” she asked.“Every person ought to be

able to gauge in his consciencehow much time is sufficient ornot to be presentable,” he real-ized too late that he had used thewrong word.

“Presentable?” her face re-vealed some irritation aswrinkles formed in her brow.“Father, I for one would want tobe beautiful, and not only pre-sentable.”

“So what do you propose?”the priest asked.

“I wish I had a talking mir-ror…,” she pondered.

“You mean like the one thewicked witch owned in the storyof Snow White?” he smiled.

“No! No! No! But one that

could simply say, ENOUGH!You’re beautiful beyond descrip-tion!”

“Wow! That would be great,”the priest said. “Imagine, howmuch money we could make onpeople’s vanity?”

“Father, you’re not answeringmy question,” she protested.

“Oh, I’m sorry, but it’s onething to be vain and anotherbeautiful,” the priest remarked.

The woman became pensiveand after hearing this said, “Soyou’re saying that I’m not vain,Father?”

“I didn’t say you are or thatyou aren’t. All I have said so faris that there is a distinction be-tween being vain and beautiful,”he clarified.

“What would that be?”“In very simple words, being

vain would be rooted in an inte-rior disposition. It is one’s desire

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Depthnews JUAN L. MERCADO

Mortality as sterilizer“THE vice-presidency is as use-ful as a cow’s fifth teat,” HarryTruman snorted when friendspressed him to seek the post.

Even comedians get into theact. “The vice-presidency is thebest job in the country,” WillRogers cracked. “All a vice-presi-dent does is to ask, after morn-ing coffee: ‘How’s the President’shealth today?’”

True — until something in-convenient steps in. Like death,for example, as Vice-PresidentTruman learned. While goofingoff in the Speaker’s lounge, theWhite House operator called:Come urgently to the President’sprivate quarters.

“Good God,” Truman blurted.A waiting Eleanor Roosevelt toldhim: “The President has justdied.” Hours later, Truman wassworn in as the 34th U.S. Presi-dent.

Only then was he briefed on thetop secret race to develop theatomic bomb. Three months later,Truman ordered nuclear oblitera-tion of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

“The angel of death has manyeyes,” the Hebrew proverb says.Street cleaner, mayor or Presi-dent must look into those eyesone day. That should drill, intoall, a sense of reality “The threatof mortality, which hangs over allof us, Albert Camus stressed,”sterilizes everything.”

Governance is a “7/24” job.Numero Dos can be thrust in thenumber one job. So, voters mustselect them with equal care, asthey do the top honcho. Officialsshould train those who’d stepinto their shoes. “The cemeteryis full of indispensable men,”Charles de Gaulle noted.

Barely 11 months as firstpresident of the Republic, Ma-nuel Roxas succumbed to a heartattack. Vice-president ElipidioQuirino took his oath of office twodays later.

In March 1957, Foreign Secre-tary Raul Manglapus cabled Vice-President Carlos Garcia, then inCanberra: President Ramon Mag-saysay’s plane crashed in Cebu,“Suggest you fly back immedi-ately.”

Thus, the current scramble byvice-presidential hopefuls istherefore critical. Mar Roxasleads the pack in the OctoberPulse Asia survey at 37 percent.Malacañang and rivals areganging up on Noynoy Aquinoand Roxas. That’s the team tobeat — for now.

Wedged into the constitutionalline-of-succession is Vice Presi-dent Noli de Castro. Whateverhappened to him?

He dodged endorsement byPresident Arroyo as a “kiss ofdeath”. Vice-presidential doors,meanwhile, slammed shut. He

polled a measly 4 percent as presi-dential candidate. His fantasy ofbeing Numero Uno crumbled.

Loren Legarda shimmied downfrom presidential aspirant to takea second crack at being NumeroDos for Manny Villar. She has 23percent support. But she couldn’tbring a dowry to the NacionalistaParty.

Her Nationalist People’s Coa-lition will throw it’s weight behindwhoever financier Danding Co-juangco picks. That bulletproofshis fortunes, including the coconutlevy.

Makati Mayor Jejomar Binaypolled 13 percent. His partner Jo-seph Estrada was supposed to givehim traction nationwide. Muster-ing only 11 percent, Erap is in-stead turning out a drag.

The slogan “Erap Para SaMahirap” doesn’t sell anymore.Voters wonder if the candidateBinay touts is Joseph Estrada orJose Velarde.

The vice presidency is like thelast cookie on the plate,” writerBill Vaughan once said. “Every-body insists he won’t take it. Butsomebody always does.”

So, vice-presidential hopefulEdu Manzano agreed to the small-est cookie on the plate: ex-secre-tary: Gilbert Teodoro. As the out-going Arroyo’s regime’s anointedTeodoro has nailed down only twopercent support so far.

Democratizing technology

GERMANY recently warned theU.S. that its current economicpolicies might be creating a mar-ket bubble. Germany reiteratedthe same warning issued earlierby China on the once powerfulAmerican country that seems tobe sinking in quicksand.

Of course, this is financialtalk, and I have long ago aban-doned that field. As priest, I talkabout something else, though Imust confess that with my eco-nomics background, I still followmarket developments around theworld. It’s my form of rest.

But I’m more interested intalking about “bubbles” as theyrelate to our spiritual and morallife. They are something to beavoided at all costs, and we al-ways have to be on guard sincethey can come to us in a mostsubtle and deceitful way givenour present conditions.

Bubbles are, of course, fantasyworlds that we create. They arean artificial, false reality that wespin in our head and that can af-flict many people and even soci-eties, because of our weaknessesplus, not to forget it, the tricks ofthe devil. He exists!

They are a very vicious phe-nomenon since they have thatuncanny quality of convincing usprecisely that with them we aremost tightly in touch with real-ity. That’s their specialty. But theobjective reality cannot be fooledfor long. Bubbles are meant toburst sooner than later.

They emerge as soon as wedisengage our mind, will andheart from their proper sourceand goal, none other than God’swill and providence. That’s theblunt truth about this whole af-fair, though people might want toquestion or discuss it further. We

don’t have space for that now.Suffice it to say that our mind,

will and heart, the most precioustreasures we have, did not justcome to exist spontaneously.They come from a source, and nomatter how we look at it, thatorigin can only be traced ulti-mately to God.

Coming from a source, God,they also are meant to have Godas their object. They need to bevitally connected to him for themto function properly. Our problemis that we get intoxicated with thepowers of these endowments andwe tend to use them as if we areour own Gods, our own sourceand goal.

We need to do all to be in touchwith God always, strengtheningit along the way as we encounterall sorts of challenges and temp-tations that can weaken such

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Kakampi mo ang Batas ATTY. BATAS MAURICIO

Pagpapawalang-bisa ng kasalTANONG: Atty. Batas, ano po angmaganda naming gawin para ma-pawalang bisa ang kasal namin kasinag-asawa na po ng iba ang asawa ko.Salamat po. – 09184702328

Sagot: Sa ilalim ng Art. 36 ngFamily Code of the Philippines,maliwanag na maaaring ipawalang-bisa ang kasal ng mag-asawa kungmaipapakitang wala nang kakaya-hang gampanan ng isa sa mag-asawa(o kahit silang dalawa) ang kanyangmga tungkulin bilang asawa.

Ang tawag dito ay “psychologicalincapacity” to discharge “marital ob-ligations”, at mapapatunayan ito sapamamagitan ng testimonya ng isangdoktor na psychologist. Ang psycholo-gist ay kailangang magsagawa ngpag-aaral sa kalagayan at katayuanng mag-asawa, upang malaman kunghindi na nga nila magampanan angkanilang mga tungkulin.

Kabilang sa mga tungkuling itoang pagbibigay ng suporta sa isa’t isa,patuloy na pagiging tapat at nag-mamahal at gumagalang sa isa’t isa,at ang pagsasama sa iisang bubong.

Ipunin muna ang ebidensiyabago magsampa ng kaso

TANONG: Puwede po bang kasuhanang taong nagnakaw pero wala pa pokaming ebidensiya. Ano ang kaila-ngan gawin? – 0909292195838

Sagot: Sa ilalim ng Revised Pe-nal Code at Revised Rule on Crimi-nal Procedure and Rules of Evidence,kailangang may matibay na ebi-densiya ang isang nagrereklamo ngkanyang kapwa. Ang ebidensiyang itoay kailangan upang maumpisahanang imbestigasyon sa kaso sa antasng piskalya o prosecutor. Kungwalang ebidensiya na magpapatunayng akusasyon sa iba, magkakaroon ngpagkakataon ang naihabla na mag-kontra-demanda, kundi man salibelo, ay sa pagsasampa ng walangkatuturang kaso. Dahil diyan, akingipinapayo ang pagkalap muna ng mgakatibayan na magpapatunay ng mgaakusasyon o demandang ihahain sapiskalya o hukuman. Kung walangmakikitang katibayan huwag namunang magsasampa ng kaso upanghindi kayo mabalikan.

Buhay Pinoy

MANDY CENTENO

Jinkee tinabig dawkamao ni MannyMga Pilipino hilig ay bakbakanMayroon ding ilan gusto ay dakdakanTsismis na kumalat matapos ang labanItong si Manny daw ay mayroong “sideline”.

Habang sila Pacman ay nasa Las VegasAng naging bulungan, sigaw na malakasAy tungkol kay Krista na umalingasngasPambansang kabit daw wari’y nakiangkas.

Napokos sa TV umiyak si JinkeeWari’y tinabig daw kamao ni MannyAgad na yumakap itong si “Mommy D”‘Intriga daw naman, inggit lamang ine.”

Nang bumaba sila mula eroplanoLegs ala-labanos nakadispley itoInawit ni Manny ay itong “Born For You”Nag ‘nguso to nguso’ kinilig ang tao.

Sino ba si Krista, who na who totoo ?Si Krista ay anak, Mat “Kristo” RanilloAng pinagbidahan nitong SinakuloSa Cultural Center pinalabas ito.

Nakita sa TV ang tsokaran niyaHari ng jueteng si ANG na kasamaAng Pambansang Matso wari’y gumagayaBuwan na nagdaan silang naging bida.

Bading na reporter hangad bumanderaNa “below the belt “daw tesbon na si KristaSabat ni “Mommy D” iyon ay intrigaBalato kay Manny hinihintay nila.

May ilang taon na itong nakaraanUnang pelikula kanyang nakatambalBira-bARA papel kanyang ginampananMINAbuti yata ngunit tsismis lamang.

Habang mainit pa balot ng kamaoPampitong panalo dito’y ininterbyu“best friend forever” daw pakulo lang itoPanuorin na lang pelikula dito“WA PACMAN” titulo, kamao na matso.

Mga opisyal ng barangay wala nangkapangyarihang piliting humarapsa kanila ang isang inireklamo

TANONG: Puwede ba magsampa ngkaso ang isang barangay captaindahil hindi sumipot sa pagdinig ngkaso sa barangay ang inirereklamo?

– 09293793092Sagot: Sa ilalim ng batas, may

karapatang magsampa ng kasongcontempt ang barangay captain labansa isang ipinagsusumbong sa ba-rangay na hindi sumisipot sa patawagsa kanya ng barangay para sa kaso.Kaya lamang, kung magsasampa paang kapitan ng kaso, kakailanganinniyang gumastos sa abogado at sahukuman. Hindi ko ipinapayo angpagsasampa ng kasong contempt.

Sa ilalim ng Local GovernmentCode of 1991, talagang walang ka-rapatan ang sinuman sa barangay napumilit sa mga ipinagsusumbong nahumarap sa mga paglilitis ng ba-rangay. Inalis nang nasabing code angtanging sandata ng barangay labansa mga taong ayaw sumipot sa ba-rangay hearing.

Dati, sa ilalim ng Presidential De-cree 1508 ni Pangulong Marcos, kungang isang inihahabla sa barangay ayhindi sumisipot sa pagdinig o hinditumatalima sa patawag, inaalisansiya ng karapatang dumepensa parasa kanyang sarili kapag ang kaso aynaiakyat na sa hukuman. Sa hindimalamang kadahilanan, inalis na itong 1991 Local Government Code nainiakda ni Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr.

Walang karapatan sinuman gumawang krimen laban sa kapwa tao

TANONG: Good Day! Atty mayitatanong po ako, may kapatid po akosa probinsya na may anak na tatlo athiwalay siya sa asawa. Doon po siyanakatira sa bahay na aming ki-nalakihan. Ang itatanong ko pongayon kung puwede po ba idemandaang kapatid ko na lalaki sa dahilangbinugbog niya ang nakababatangkapatid namin na may anak. NoongMarch 11, 2008 lang po nangyari angnaging injury po ng kapatid ko aynamamaga ang mata at sumuka posiya ng dugo na buo buo. Nagkaharap

Napapanahon LINDA R. PACIS

Magandang balita ng Pag-ibig Fund (2)(Narito ng karugtong ng pagtalakaysa programa ng Pag-ibig Fund upangmakatulong sa mga biktima ng ba-hang hatid ng bagyong Ondoy —Patnugot)

Northville 5 sa BatiaANG Northville 5 ay nasa isang bahaging Barangay Batia at dito ay bumahadin sa may bandang Sta. Maria. Ayonkay Concepcion, hanggang tuhod langnaman ang tubig ngunit nawala na dinng huminto ang ulan.

Ang mga pamilyang nakatira saNorthville ay mga pamilyang inalis satabing riles ng tren ng bayan ngBocaue.

Sabi ni Nena Tabejo, galing sa Ba-rangay Igulot at residente ng North-ville: “Nagpapasalamat ako at inilipatkami sa Batia. Kung nasa Igulot pakami, lampas tao ang baha doon.”

Tuwang-tuwa din si Lita Badibali,isa pang taga Northville. Noongpalipatin sila, nagbigay ng P150,000ang sponsor ng proyekto para sa isangpamilya.

“P50,000 lang ang ibinibigay sabawat pamilya at yong P100,000 aypinagparti-partihan nila,” wika pa niAling Lita. “Saan napunta ang perangdapat ibinigay sa amin?”

Siyempre, walang nakakaalamkung kaninong mga bulsa napunta.Baka doon sa mga iboboto ninyo sasusunod na eleksiyon.

Ang Northville ay may populasyonna 2,001 pamilya (dating mga squat-ters sa riles ng Bocaue) at nadagdagang 938 pamilya mula sa Maynila kaya

2,939 pamilya na sila doon.Ang kanilang chairman ay si Te-

resita E. Buenza, 63 anyos, datingahente ng paputok at dating tagaMabalacat, Pampanga. Kasal siya kayFeben Buenza (58) taga Bocaue perolahing Bicol. May 6 na anak, sila aysina Alice, Pedro, Alipio, Gregorio,Elena at Feben Jr. Pagka Disyembre,nananahi siya ng mga ready made,nagtitinda ng pakwan sa high way atnoon siya ay mag-asawa sa edad na 24anyos, naglako siya ng isda at gulaysamantalang busy sa woodcraft angkanyang asawa. Nagtulong silangmag-asawa sa pagpapalaki sa mgaanak na lumaking disiplinado at dinagbigay ng problema.

Ayon kay Ka Tita (ang tawag ngmga taga roon sa kanya), maganda angpeace and order dahil malaki angtulong ng kapulisan sa pamumuno niSPO3 Ariel dela Cruz, Commander ngBatia outpost.

Malaki ang paghanga ni Ka Tita kamayor Eduardo “Jon-jon” Villanuevana napakabait sa mga taga Northville.

“Tuwing birthday niya ay nagbi-bigay siya ng mga grocery at bigas patigamot,” sabi ni Ka Tita. “Kung maypatay ay nagbibigay siya ng isangsakong bigas, lona at mga silya. Kungpasko naman ay nagbibigay siya nghamon, tasty bread at keso, bumotoman o hindi sa kanya. Wala siyangpinipiling bigyan. Hindi mapagtanim.

“Kung may reseta ang mga maysakit na walang ibibili,” dagdag ni KaTita, “bilin sa akin ni Mayor na akona ang magdala sa munisipyo para

hindi na mamasahi ang mga tao. Kungwalang pampalibing, ipinalilibing niya.Kahit saradong Katoliko kami, dinaninira ng relihiyon si Brother Eddie,tatay ni Mayor, kahit puno siya ng JIL(Jesus is Lord Fellowship).

“’Yong mga Senior Citizens aybinibigyan ni Mayor Jon-jon ng P200kada buwan o ginagawang miyembrong Philhealth,” patuloy pa ni Ka Tita.“Sa mga 3,000 bahay ditto, lahatbinigyan ni Mayor ng regalo. Kunghindi kay Mayor, di pa sila makaka-tikim ng hamon. Talaga siyang maka-mahirap.”

Walang masabi tuloy ang mga tagaNorthville kung hindi ganito: “kaysarap palang tumira dito!”

Naligtas ang Barangay Sta. BarbaraNALIGTAS sa baha na dala ng bag-yong Ondoy ang Barangay Sta. Bar-bara, Baliwag. Noong inuumpisahanang pagtatayo ng SM Baliwag, nagsi-mula din mag-quarry sa ilog angpangkat ni Konsehal Taruc. Nasaseminar noon si kapitan RommelTadeo ngunit ng umuwi siya aypinakiusapn niya si Kon Taruc natigilan ang pagku-quarry dahil bakamalagay sa panganib ang mga resi-dente na nangangamba sa mangyayarikung matibag ang tabing-ilog. Mabutina lamang at itinigil ni Taruc angpagku-quarry pagkatapos ng tatlongaraw. Bumaba na nga ang lupa nanakita ko mismo at malaki na angnabawas. Kung natuloy daw angpagku-quarry, siguradong lumubog sabaha ang barangay.

pagmamahal din ba kay Ate Josie ang dahilan ni KuyaJonjon kaya siya kumandidatong gobernador noong 2007?

Ano sa palagay ninyo?* * *

Handa na ang mga makakatambal nina Ate Josie atBise Gob. Alvarado sa kanilang tunggalian bilang mgakandidatong gobernador sa 2010 automated elections.

Si dating Senior Board Member Pacifico “Boy” Aniagng Malolos ang magiging bise-gobernador ni Ate Josie;samantalang si dating Senior Board Member DanielFernando ang sinasabing makakatambal ni Alvarado.

* * *Nag-abot sa Sangguniang Panglalawigan sina Aniag

at Fernando noong 2001-2004, at 2004-2007. Kapwa silakumandidatong bise gobernador noong 2007.

Si Aniag ay katambal ni Kuya Jonjon, samantalang siFernando ay katambal ni dating Bise Gob. Rely Plamenconoong 2007. Pero kapwa sila tinalo ni Alvarado.

* * *Si Aniag ay dating kapitan ng Barangay Atlag sa Malo-

los, samantalang si Fernando ay unang kumandidatongalkalde ng Guiguinto noong 1998, ngunit tinalo ni MayorAmbrosio Cruz na ngayon ay muling kakandidato bilangkongresista ng ikalawang distrito matapos talunin niKint. Pedo Pancho noong 2007. Sa pagitan nina Aniag atFernando, mas sikat ang huli dahil sa pagiging artista.Isa sa mga unang pelikulang ginampanan ni Fernandoay ang “Scorpio Nights 1” noong dekada ’80. Napanuodnamin ’yun ’nung high school kami.

* * *Marami ang nagtatanong sa Promdi matapos mabasa

sa pitak na ito noong nakaraang linggo kung sino ‘yungpoging negosyante sa Malolos na “umibig sa bading.”

May mga nagtanong pa kung totoo ba talaga ‘yungkuwentong iyon. Sabi naman ng Promdi, kung minsan,walang imposible kung ikaw ay nasa ilalim ng im-pluwensiya ng alak.

* * *May mga nagtanong din kung ang poging negos-

yanteng “umibig sa bading” sa Malolos ay ang ne-gosyanteng nagpaplanong kumandidato bilang konsehalng lungsod. Ano sa palagay ninyo? Puwede namangtingnan sa blotter ng pulisya ng Malolos kung sino angnegosyanteng binabanggit ng Promdi.

* * *Sabi pa ng isa, kung totoong kakandidatong konsehal

ng Malolos ang poging negosyanteng “umibig sa bading”malaki ang posibilidad na suportahan siya ng grupong“Ang Ladlad” na binubuo ng mga kasapi ng third sex.

“Sa wakas, magkakaroon din ng tagapagsulong nginteres ng mga kasapi ng third sex sa konseho ng Malolos,kung totoong umibig siya sa bading,”ani Father Pedringng Leighbytes computer center sa Malolos.

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–[email protected]: Maraming salamat po sa

e-mail na ito. Sa ilalim ng RevisedPenal Code of the Philippines, angsinumang magbubuhat ng kamay saibang tao, ke kamag-anak o hindi angpinagbuhatan ng kamay, ay nagka-karoon ng pananagutang sibil atkriminal. Sabi ng Art. 100 ng RevisedPenal Code, every person criminallyliable is also civilly liable. Ang ibigsabihin ng batas na ito, ang sinumangnakagawa ng krimen ay may pana-nagutang magbayad ng danyos per-huwisiyos ng taong nagawan niya ngkrimen, at mayroon din itong pana-nagutang kriminal na magiging daanupang siya ay makulong. Dahil diyan,ipapayo ko po sa kahit kanino nanagawan ng krimen na sampahan ngkaso ang mga taong nakagawa ngkrimen. Ito ay hindi na lamang upangmapaghigantihan ang gumawa ngkrimen, kundi upang mabigyan ngaral ang kriminal na hindi na siyadapat uulit pa sa kanyang ginawangkasalanan. Ito ang layunin ng mgabatas na umiiral, sapagkat maha-lagang napipigilan ang sinumanggumawa ng krimen laban sa kanilangkapwa o laban sa bayan, upangmaging maayos at matiwasay angpamamahala sa isang lugar. Sa totoolang, walang karapatan ang sinu-mang tao, ke kamag-anak o hindi, napagbuhatan ng kamay ang sinuman.

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EJF NO. B-261-2009

EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE PROPERTY/IES

UNDER ACT NO. 3135AS AMENDED BY ACT 4118

Republic Of The PhilippinesRegional Trial Court Of Bulacan

Third Judicial RegionOffice Of The Clerk of Court and Ex-officio Sheriff

Malolos City, Bulacan

BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.,

Mortgagee/Assignee,

-VERSUS-

SPS. EUSEBIO T. DY, JR.AND GRACE LEILA Y. DY,CARMELA SANTOS-UEDAAND CARMELITA T. SANTOS

Mortgagor/s,x------------------------x

NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended, filed byBALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC., with postal address at the 24th Floor, BPIBuendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, against SPS. EUSEBIO T. DY,JR AND GRACE LEILA Y. DY, with postal address at #1028 G. Masangkay St.,Binondo, Manila and CARMELA SANTOS-EUDA AND CARMELITA T. SANTOS,with postal address at 39 Iba Street, Sta. Mesa Heights, Quezon City, the mort-gagor/s, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of July 06, 2009 amountsTwo Hundred Ninety Eight Thousand Six Hundred Fifty Eight Pesos and 59/100(PHP. 298,658.59), Philippine Currency, including/excluding interest, penaltiesand charges thereon, including/excluding 25% of the total indebtedness by wayof Attorney’s fees, plus daily interest and expenses thereafter, also secured bysaid mortgage and such other amount which may become and payable to theaforementioned mortgagee. The Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan thru the under-signed Sheriff hereby gives notice to all interested parties and to the public ingeneral that on DECEMBER 21, 2009 at 10:00 A.M., or soon thereafter infront ofthe Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan located at the back of the Bulwaganng Katarungan, Provincial Capitol Compound, Malolos, Bulacan, will selI at pub-lic auction thru sealed bidding, to the highest bidder for CASH, Philippine Cur-rency, the real property/ies below together with all the improvements existingthereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-208723 (M)Registry of Deeds for Meycauayan Branch- Province of Bulacan

“A parcel of land (Lot 23, Blk. 404 of the cons. subd. plan Pcd-031411-064811,being a portion of lot 3, Pcs-031411-005417 LRC Rec. No.), situated in the Bo.of Bahay Pari, Mun. of Marilao, Prov. of Bul.xxx containing an area of NINETY SIX(96) SQ.METERS xxx”

This NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE will be posted for a period of twenty(20) days in three (3) of the most conspicuous public places in the municipalitywhere the subject property is located and at Malolos City of Bulacan where thesale shall take place, and likewise a copy will be published for the same period inthe Mabuhay a newspaper of general circulation in the province of Bulacan, oncea week for three (3) consecutive weeks before the date of auction sale.

All sealed bids with its accompanying transmittal letter addressed to thisoffice must be submitted to the undersigned on or before above stated date andhour at which time all sealed bids thus submitted shall be opened.

In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, itshall be held on December 28, 2009 without further notice.

Prospective bidders or buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for them-selves the title to the property and the encumbrances thereon if any there be.

Malolos City, Bulacan, November 18,2009.

EMMANUEL L. ORTEGAEx-Officio Sheriff

BY: RUFINO DJ SANTIAGO Sheriff IV

Copy furnished:SPS. EUSEBIO T. DY, JR AND GRACE LEILA Y. DYBalikatan Housing Finance, Inc.

Mabuhay: November 20, 27 & December 4, 2009

EJF NO. B-270-2009






BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.,

Mortgagee/Assignee,

-VERSUS-

SPS. ROMEO C. CORDOVAAND GINA M. CORDOVA

Mortgagor/s,

x------------------------xNOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE

Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended, filed byBALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC., with postal address at the 24th Floor, BPIBuendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, against SPS. ROMEO C.CORDOVA ANG GINA M. CORDOVA, with postal addresses at #440 10

th Av-

enue, Grace Park, Caloocan City and Lot 27, Blk. 50 Ph. II, Libra St., HeritageHomes, BO. Bahay Pare, Marilao, Bulacan, the mortgagor/s, to satisfy the mort-gage indebtedness which as of July 30, 2009 amounts Two Hundred NinetySeven Thousand Six Hundred Seventy Eight Pesos and 81/100 (PHP. 297,678.81),Philippine Currency, including/excluding interest, penalties and charges thereon,including/excluding 25% of the total indebtedness by way of Attorney’s fees,plus daily interest and expenses thereafter, also secured by said mortgage andsuch other amount which may become and payable to the aforementioned mort-gagee. The Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan thru the undersigned Sheriff hereby givesnotice to all interested parties and to the public in general that on DECEMBER 21,2009 at 10:00 A.M., or soon thereafter infront of the Office of the Ex-OfficioSheriff of Bulacan located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, ProvincialCapitol Compound, Malolos, Bulacan, will selI at public auction thru sealed bid-ding, to the highest bidder for CASH, Philippine Currency, the real property/iesbelow together with all the improvements existing thereon:


“A parcel of land (Lot 27, Blk. 50 of the cons. subd. plan Pcs- 03-003556, beinga portion of cons. lots 3817, 3821, 3822, & 3824, Lolomboy Est., LRC Rec.No.), situated in the Bo. of Bahay Pari, Mun. of Marilao, Prov. of Bul.xxx contain-ing an area of SIFTY (60) SQ.METERS xxx”






EMMANUEL L. ORTEGAEx-Officio SheriffBY: GLEN A. UMALI

Sheriff IVCopy furnished:– SPS. ROMEO C. CORDOVA ANG GINA M. CORDOVA– Balikatan Housing Finance, Inc.Mabuhay: November 20, 27 & December 4, 2009

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Opening a BDO Kaba-yan Savings Account onlyrequires a minimum initialdeposit of P50 and a validID. Clients can go to any ofBDO’s nearly 700 branchesnationwide. A peso accountcomes with a MastercardInternational ATM cardand a passbook for quickreference to their transac-tions. The dollar account,meanwhile, only requires aminimum initial deposit of$100 which also comes witha passbook. For seafarers,they may also open theirown BDO Kabayan Ship-ping Dollar Savings Ac-count with a minimum ini-tial deposit of $10, whichalso comes with a passbookfor easy reference.

Having a BDO KabayanSavings account will alsoencourage beneficiaries to

BANCO De Oro Unibank,Inc. (BDO) in partnershipwith Mastercard havelaunched the “Easy Asenso,Instant Panalo ... Hatid ngBDO sa Pamilyang OFW”promo, in which customersavailing of BDO’s specialremittance account foroverseas workers and theirbeneficiaries, have thechance to win P10,000worth of grocery items;P40,000 worth of home ap-pliance shopping; and abrand new Nissan Sentra1.3 GX M/T.

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For the grocery andhome appliance shoppingsprees, a total of eight win-ners will be drawn in Feb-ruary, March, August andNovember 2010, while onelucky account holder willbe drawn on November 14,

save money since there’s noneed to withdraw thewhole amount sent by theirloved ones from abroad.BDO ATMs are also foundin all SM malls, where theycan buy their householdneeds and withdraw remit-tance under the same roof.The BDO Mastercard In-ternational ATM card canalso be used as a debit cardin SM Department Storesand all establishments withExpress Payment System(EPS) terminals. Again, noneed to carry huge cashsince purchases are settledwith just one swipe.

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EXTRA-JUDICIAL SETTLEMENTOF ESTATE WITH WAIVER OF SHARE

Notice is hereby given that the estate of the late Victoria CabantingDoles who died intestate on January 10, 2007 in Sta. Maria, Ilocos Surleft real property with transfer certificate of title No. T-9921551 andcontaining an area of one hundred twenty (120) sq.m. more or lesswere extra-judicially settled and equally divided among legitimate heirs:Elena Doles Andress, Bernardo Cabanting Doles, HerminigildoCabanting Doles and Irene Cabanting Doles-Martin with waiver of rightsas per Doc. No. 189;page No. 38; Book No. I; Series of 2009 in theNotary Public of Atty. Randy P. Bareng.

Mabuhay: November 13, 20 & 26, 2009

E R R A T AE R R A T AE R R A T AE R R A T AE R R A T AOn the Notice of the Sheriff’s Sale filed by National Home Mor t-gage Finance Corp. published in the Mabuhay the TCT No. shouldread TCT NO, T-220653 (M) and not as published.

On the Notice of the Sheriff’s Sale filed by National Home Mor t-gage Finance Corporation versus Raul E. Tolentino published inthe Mabuhay dated Oct. 30, Nov. 6 & 13, 2009 the TCT No. shouldread “TCT No. 220653” and not as published.

Mabuhay: November 20, 2009

E.J.F. NO. 288-2009EXTRA-JUDICIAL FORELOSURE

OF REAL ESTATE PROPERTY/IESUNDER ACT 3135 AS AMMENDED

BY ACT 4118

Republic of the PhilippinesSUPREME COURT

Office of the Ex-Officio SheriffMalolos, Bulacan

THE REAL BANK(A THRIFT BANK), INC.,

Mortgagee

- versus -

MARIGOLD S. DE CASTROAND SPOUSES OFELIA DE S. CASTROAND GERONIMO A. DE CASTRO

Mortgagor/s,

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NOTICE OF THE SHERIFF’S SALEUPON extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amendedby Act 4118 filed by THE REAL BANK ( A THRIFT BANK) INC.,with principal office at 7F President Tower, #81 Timog AvenueQuezon City, the mor tgagee against MARIGOLD S. DE CASTROAND SPOUSES OFELIA S. DE CASTRO AND GERONIMO A. DECASTRO, with residence and postal address at #105 CamiasStreet, San Miguel Bulacan the mor tgagor/s, to satisfy the mor t-gage indebtedness which as of September 14, 2009 amounts toTWO MILLION TWO HUNDRED SIXTEEN THOUSAND PESOS AND43/100 (P2,000,216.43) Philippine Currency, including interestthereon, including 25% of the total indebtedness and as by wayof Attorney’s fees, plus daily interest and expenses thereafter,also secured by said mor tgage and such other amounts whichmay become due and payable to the aforementioned mor tgage.The Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan thru the undersigned Sheriffhereby gives notice to all interested par ties to the public in gen-eral that on December 4, 2009 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning orsoon thereafter, in front of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff ofBulacan, located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Pro-vincial Capitol Compound, Malolos City, Bulacan will sell at publicauction thru sealed bidding to the highest bidder in CASH and inPhilippine Currency, the real proper ty/ies below together with allthe improvements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF THE TITLE NO. RT-74262 (T-270478)

“A parcel of land (Lot No. 833 of the Cad. Survey of SanMiguel), situated in Mun. of San Miguel, Bounded on the NE., byLot No. 829; on the SE., by Lot No. 832 on the SW., by a road;and on the NW., by Lot No. 834. X X X containing an area of THREEHUNDRED SEVENTY THREE (373) SQ. M. more or less X X X

This Notice of the Sheriff Sale will be posted for a period oftwenty (20) days in three (3) conspicuous places in the munici-pality the subject proper ty is located and at Malolos, Bulacanwhere the sale shall take place, and likewise, a copy will be pub-lished for the same period in the Mabuhay a newspaper of gen-eral circulation in the province of Bulacan, once a week for three(3) consecutive weeks before the date of the auction sale.

All sealed bids with its accompanying transmittal letter ad-dressed to this office must be submitted to the undersigned on orbefore the above stated date and hour at which time all sealedbids thus submitted shall be opened.

In the event the public auction would not take place on thesaid date, December 4, 2009, it shall be held on December 28,2009 at 10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter without fur ther notice.

Prospective bidders or buyers are hereby enjoined to inves-tigate for themselves the title to the proper ty/ies and encumbrancethereon, if any there be.

Malolos City, Bulacan, November 4, 2009

EMMANUEL L. ORTEGA

Ex-Officio sheriffCopy furnished: All par ties concerned

Mabuhay: November 6, 13 & 20, 2009

bayan ay tinig Niya? Papayag ba ang Diyos sa isangmarumi, madugong halalan? Totoo bang kalooban ngbayan ang nakapangyari sa halalan?

Ang halalan ngayon, sa pagsusuri, ay hindi na angproseso ng demokrasya, na ang kapangyarihan ay nasataong-bayan—kapangyarihang malaya at maayos namakapamili ng karapat-dapat umugit sa gobyerno. Anghalalan, sa pagtutuos, ang taktika ng sindikato sagobyerno upang mapawalangsaysay ang mga kasongkarumal-dumal na hinatulan na ng mababang hukuman,pero parang pinawalang-sala na rin ng taumbayangnaghalal sa kanya.

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Kastigo mula sa pahina 2



Third Judicial RegionOffice Of The Ex-officio Sheriff


BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.,Mortgagee/Assignee,

-VERSUS-

DOLORES M. ALMARIO,Mortgagor/s,

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NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended by Act 4118,filed by BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC., with postal address at the 24thFloor, BPI Buendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, against DOLORESM. ALAMARIO, with postal addresses at canalate, Malolos, Bulacan and Lot2-B, Road Lot, Bo. Canalate, Malolos, Bulacan, the mortgagor/s to satisfy themortgage indebtedness which as of MARCH 20, 2009 amounts to THREEHUNDRED NINETY FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED NINETEEN PESOS & 18/100 (PHP.395,219.18), PHILIPPINE CURRENCY, including/excluding interest,penalties and charges thereon, including/excluding 25% of the total indebted-ness by way of Attorney’s fees, plus daily interest and expenses thereafter,also secured by said mortgage and such other amount which may becomeand payable to the aforementioned mortgagee. The Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacanthru the undersigned Sheriff hereby gives notice to all interested parties and tothe public in general that on December 21, 2009 at 10:00 A.M. or soon there-after infront of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan located at theback of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Provincial Capitol Compound, Malolos,Bulacan, will selI at public auction thru sealed bidding, to the highest bidder inCASH, Philippine Currency, the real property/ies below together with all theimprovements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-39267Registry of Deeds for Meycauayan Branch - Province of Bulacan

A parcel of land (Lot 2-B of the subd. plan, Psd-031410-057543, being aportion of Lot 2, Blk. 1, Psd-03-032014 LRC Rec.No.), situated in the Bo. ofCanalate, Mun. of Malolos, Prov. of Bul. xxx containing an area of ONE HUN-DRED TWENTY (120) SQ.M. xxx”

This NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE will be posted for a period of twenty (20)days in three (3) of the most conspicuous public places in the municipalitywhere the subject property is located and at Malolos City of Bulacan where thesale shall take place, and likewise a copy will be published for the same periodin the MABUHAY a newspaper of general circulation in the province of Bulacan,once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks before the date of auction sale.

ALL SEALED BIDS with its accompanying transmittal letter addressed tothis office must be submitted to the undersigned on or before above stateddate and hour at which time all sealed bids thus submitted shall be opened.



Malolos City, Bulacan, November 18, 2009


BY: NELSON R. PERONA Sheriff IV

Copy furnished:– DOLORES M. ALMARIO– BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.,






-VERSUS-MYRNA L. CARANGUIAN,

Mortgagor/s,

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NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended by Act 4118,filed by BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC., with postal address at the 24thFloor, BPI Buendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, against MYRNACARANGUIAN, with postal addresses at 736 Quezon Avenue, Quezon City andLot 39 Blk. 21 Ph. 2-B, Nazareth, Carissa Homes North II, Sto. Cristo, SanJose del Monte, Bulacan, the mortgagor/s, to satisfy the mortgage indebted-ness which as of March 20, 2009 amounts to ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY TWOTHOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY (PHP. 172,750.00), PHILIPPINECURRENCY,including/excluding interest, penalties and charges thereon, includ-ing/excluding 25% of the total indebtedness by way of Attorney’s fees, plusdaily interest and expenses thereafter, also secured by said mortgage andsuch other amount which may become and payable to the aforementionedmortgagee. The Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan thru the undersigned Sheriff herebygives notice to all interested parties and to the public in general that onDecember21, 2009 at 10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter infront of the Office of the Ex-OfficioSheriff of Bulacan located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Provin-cial Capitol Compound, Malolos, Bulacan, will selI at public auction thru sealedbidding, to the highest bidder in Cash and in Philippine Currency, the describedreal property/ies below together with all the improvements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-201092 (M)Registry of Deeds for Province of Bulacan- Meycauayan Branch

“A parcel of land (Lot 39, Blk. 12 of the subd. plan Pcd-031420-057744 beinga portion of lot 1 (LRC) Psd-39675, LRC Rec. No.), situated in the Sto. Cristo,Mun. of San Jose del Monte, Prov. of Bulacan. xxx containing an area of THIRTYFIVE (35) SQUARE METERS. xxx”





Malolos City, Bulacan, November 18, 2009.


BY: FELIXBERTO R. SAMONTE Sheriff IV

Copy furnished:– MYRNA L. CARANGUIAN– BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.


EJF NO. B-293-2009







-VERSUS-SPS. IRENE P. LOFAMIA ANDPAUL ROMER B. LOFAMIA,

Mortgagor/s,

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NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended by Act 4118,filed by BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC., with postal address at the 24thFloor, BPI Buendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, against SPS.IRENE P. LOFAMIA and PAUL ROMER B. LOFAMIA, with postal address at Lot15, Blk. 1, Ph IV, Psalms St., Palmera Homes-Northwinds City Bo. Santo Cristo,San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan,the mortgagor/s to satisfy the mortgageindebtedness which as of October 2, 2009 amounts to TWENTY THREE THOU-SAND NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY SIX PESOS & 80/100 (PHP. 23,976.80), Phil-ippine Currency, including/excluding interest, penalties and charges thereon,including/excluding 25% of the total indebtedness by way of Attorney’s fees,plus daily interest and expenses thereafter, also secured by said mortgage andsuch other amount which may become and payable to the aforementionedmortgagee. The Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan thru the undersigned Sheriff herebygives notice to all interested parties and to the public in general that on De-cember 21, 2009 at 10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter infront of the Office of theEx-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan,Provincial Capitol Compound, Malolos, Bulacan, will selI at public auction thrusealed bidding, to the highest bidder in Cash, Philippine Currency, the realproperty/ies below together with all the improvements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-204036(M)Registry of Deeds for Meycauayan Branch (Province of Bulacan)

“A parcel of land (Lot 15, Blk. 1 of the subd. plan Pcs-031420-061468, beinga portion of blk. 10, Pcs-031420-004622 LRC Rec. No. ), situated in the Bo.of Sto. Cristo, Mun. of San Jose del Monte, Prov. of Bul. xxx containing an areaof SEVENTY SEVEN (77) SQ. M. xxx”



In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, itshall be held on december 28, 2009 without further notice.




BY: RAFAEL P. REYES Sheriff IV

Copy furnished:– SPS. IRENE P. LOFAMIA AND PAUL ROMER B. LOFAMIA– BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.,


EJF NO. B-309-2009



EJF NO. B-249-2009



EJF NO. B-290-2009







-VERSUS-

NELSON V. GARCIA,Mortgagor/s,

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NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended by Act 4118,filed by BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC., with postal address at the 24thFloor, BPI Buendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, against NELSONV. GARCIA, with postal address at 136-K 1st St., Kamuning Rd., Quezon Cityand/ Lot 32, Blk. 7, Ph. II-B, Apple St., Palmera Homes Northwinds City II, Sto.Cristo, San Jose del Monte, Bulacan, the mortgagor/s to satisfy the mortgageindebtedness which as of August 25, 2009 amounts to TWO HUNDRED THIRTYTHREE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED (PHP. 233,100.00), Philippine Currency,including/excluding interest, penalties and charges thereon, including/exclud-ing 25% of the total indebtedness by way of Attorney’s fees, plus daily interestand expenses thereafter, also secured by said mortgage and such other amountwhich may become and payable to the aforementioned mortgagee. The Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan thru the undersigned Sheriff hereby gives notice toall interested parties and to the public in general that ondecember 21, 2009 at10:00 A.M., or soon thereafter infront of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff ofBulacan located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Provincial CapitolCompound, Malolos, Bulacan, will selI at public auction thru sealed bidding,to the highest bidder in Cash, Philippine Currency, the real property/ies belowtogether with all the improvements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-186952 (M)Registry of Deeds for Meycauayan Branch (Province of Bulacan)

“A parcel of land ( Lot 32, Blk.7 of the cons. subd. plan. Pcs- 031420-004998being a portion of cons. lots lots 1-43 Blk.2, Lots 1-38 Blk. 3, Lots 1-30 Blk 4.4, Lots 1-42 Blk. 5, Lots 1-25 Blk. 6; lots 1-21 Blk. 7, lots 1-16 Blk. 8, Lots 1-35 Blk. 9, Lots 1-25 Blk. 10, Blk 11 (open space) Lots 1-55 Blk. 12; Blk. 12-A, Lots 1-6 Blk. 13, lots 1-8 Blk. 14, Lots 1-15 blk. 15, lots 1-18, Blk. 16, Lots1-32 Blk. 17, Rd. lot 1-13 Alley 1-5 & lot & lot 1 NPC (R.O.W.) all of Pcs-031420-004377, LRC Rec. No.), situated in the Bo. of sto Cristo, Mun. of SanJose del Monte, Prov. of Bulacan. xxx conyaining an area of FIFTY (50) SQ. M.xxx”



In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, itshall be held on december 28, 2009 without further notice.




BY: NORMAN S. IPAPO Sheriff IV

Copy furnished:– Nelson V. Garcia– BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.Mabuhay: November 20, 27 & December 4, 2009

EJF NO. B-283-2009







-VERSUS-HERMINIA G. RAMOS

Mortgagor/s,

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NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended, filed byBALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC., with postal address at the 24th Floor,BPI Buendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, against HERMINIA G.RAMOS with postal addresses at 128 LUGAM, MALOLOS, BULACAN and LOT2, BLK. 51, PH 2A, WRIGHT ST. CORNER ROAD LOT 3, CARISSA HOMESNORTH II, BO. SANTO CRISTO, SAN JOSE DEL MONTE CITY, BULACAN, themortgagor/s, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of June 29, 2009amounts toTWO HUNDRED TWENTY THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FIFTYNINE PESOS AND 64/100 (PHP. 223,559.64), Philippine Currency, including/excluding interest, penalties and charges thereon, including/excluding 25% ofthe total indebtedness by way of Attorney’s fees, plus daily interest and ex-penses thereafter, also secured by said mortgage and such other amount whichmay become and payable to the aforementioned mortgagee. The Ex-OfficioSheriff of Bulacan thru the undersigned Sheriff hereby gives notice to all inter-ested parties and to the public in general that on DECEMBER 21, 2009 at10:00 A.M., or soon thereafter infront of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff ofBulacan located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Provincial CapitolCompound, Malolos, Bulacan, will selI at public auction thru sealed bidding,to the highest bidder for CASH, Philippine Currency, the real property/ies be-low together with all the improvements existing thereon:


“A parcel of land (Lot 2, Blk.51 of the cons. subd. plan Pcs-031420-004906being a portion of consolidated lots 1-36 blk 1; lots 1-19, blk. 2; blk. 20A; lots1-31 Blk. 3; lots 1-69 blk. 4; lots 1-33 blk. 5; lots 1-40 blk. 6; lots 1-49 blk. 7;lots 1-46 blk. 8; lots 1-16, blk 9; lots 1-57 blk. 10; lots 1-28 blk. 11; lots 1-31blk 12; lots 1-35 blk. 13; lots 1-49 blk. 14; lots 1-52 blk. 15; lots 1-90 blk. 16;blk. 16-A; lots 1-42 blk. 17; lots 1-34 blk. 18; lots 1-32 blk. 19 lots 1-40 blk20; lots 1-48 blk. 21; lots 1-43 blk. 22; lots 21, 24 to 27 blk. 23; alleys 1-18;road lots 1 to 21 all Psd-031420-054124 LRC Rec. No.), situated in the Bo. ofSto. Cristo, Mun. of San Jose del Monte, prov. of Bul.xxx containing an area ofFIFTY THREE POINT FIFTY (53.50) SQ.M. xxx”




Prospective bidders or buyers are hereby enjoined to investigatefor themselves the title to the property and the encumbrances thereonif any there be.



BY: GLENN A. UMALI Sheriff IV

Copy furnished:– HERMINIA G. RAMOS– BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.


EJF NO. B-274-2009







-VERSUS-

SPS. ROBERTO N. SIBULAND ZENAIDA O. SIBUL

Mortgagor/s,

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NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended, filed byBALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC., with postal address at the 24th Floor, BPIBuendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, against SPS. ROBERTO S.SIBUL AND ZENAIDA O. SIBUL, with postal addresses at Lot 30, Blk 1, HilcrestSt., Cubao, Quezon City and Lot 2 Blk. 33, PH. I, Generosity St., Heritage Homes,BO. Bahay Pare, MArilao, Bulacan, the mortgagor/s, to satisfy the mortgage in-debtedness which as of June 23, 2009 amounts Four Hundred Nineteen Thou-sand Six Hundred Fifty Five Pesos and 24/100 (PHP. 419,655.24), PhilippineCurrency, including/excluding interest, penalties and charges thereon, including/excluding 25% of the total indebtedness by way of Attorney’s fees, plus dailyinterest and expenses thereafter, also secured by said mortgage and such otheramount which may become and payable to the aforementioned mortgagee. TheEx-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan thru the undersigned Sheriff hereby gives notice toall interested parties and to the public in general that on DECEMBER 21, 2009 at10:00 A.M., or soon thereafter infront of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff ofBulacan located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Provincial CapitolCompound, Malolos, Bulacan, will selI at public auction thru sealed bidding, tothe highest bidder for CASH, Philippine Currency, the real property/ies belowtogether with all the improvements existing thereon:


“A parcel of land (Lot 2, Blk. 33 of the cons. subd. plan Pcs-03-003556, being aportion of the cons. lots 3817, 3821, 3822 & 3824, Lolomboy Est., LRC Rec.No.), situated in the Bo. of Bahay Pari, Mun. of Marilao, Prov. of Bul.xxx contain-ing an area of NINETY-FOUR (94) SQ.METERS xxx”


ALL SEALED BIDS with its accompanying transmittal letter addressed tothis office must be submitted to the undersigned on or before above stated dateand hour at which time all sealed bids thus submitted shall be opened.





BY: NORMAN S. IPAPO Sheriff IV

Copy furnished:– SPS. ROBERTO N. SIBUL AND ZENAIDA O. SIBUL– BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.,Mabuhay: November 20, 27 & December 4, 2009


EJF NO. B-263-2009







-VERSUS-

SPS. ALIPIO/ALPIO S. SALVIOAND GODIESA S. SALVIO

Mortgagor/s,

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NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended, filed byBALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC., with postal address at the 24th Floor, BPIBuendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, against SPS. ALIPIO/ALPIOS. SALVIO AND GODIESA S. SALVIO, with postal addresses at #128 Saog II,Marilao, Bulacan and lot 8, Blk. 3, Ph. II-B, Atis St., Palmera Homes NorthwindsCity II, BO. Santo Cristo, San Jose Del Monte City, Bulacan, the mortgagor/s, tosatisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of July 20, 2009 amounts TwoHundred Thirty Three thousand One Hundred Pesos (PHP. 233,100.00), Philip-pine Currency, including/excluding interest, penalties and charges thereon, in-cluding/excluding 25% of the total indebtedness by way of Attorney’s fees, plusdaily interest and expenses thereafter, also secured by said mortgage and suchother amount which may become and payable to the aforementioned mortgagee.The Ex-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan thru the undersigned Sheriff hereby gives noticeto all interested parties and to the public in general that on DECEMBER 21, 2009at 10:00 A.M., or soon thereafter infront of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff ofBulacan located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Provincial CapitolCompound, Malolos, Bulacan, will selI at public auction thru sealed bidding, tothe highest bidder for CASH, Philippine Currency, the real property/ies belowtogether with all the improvements existing thereon:


“A parcel of land (Lot 8, Blk. 5 of the cons. subd. plan Pcs-031420-004998being a portion of cons. lots 1-41, blk. 1, blk. 2, lots 1-38,blk. 3, lots 1-30, blk.4, lots 1-42, blk. 5, lots 1-25, blk. 6, lots 1-21, blk 7, lots 1-16, blk. 8, lots 1-35,blk. 9, lots 1-25, blk 10, blk. 11 (open space) lots 1-55, blk. 12, blk. 12-A, lots 1-6, blk. 13, lots 1-8, blk. 14, lots 1-15, blk. 15, lots 1-18, blk. 16, lots 1-32, blk.17, rd. lots 1-13, alley 1-5, & lot 1 NPC (ROW) all of Pcs-031420-004377 LRCRec. No.), situated in the Bo. of Sto. Cristo, Mun. of San Jose del Monte, Prov. ofBul.xxx containing an area of FIFTY (50) SQ.METERS xxx”





Malolos City, Bulacan, November 18,2009.EMMANUEL L. ORTEGA

Ex-Officio SheriffBY: RUFINO D.J. SANTIAGO

Sheriff IVCopy furnished:

– SPS. ALIPIO/ALPIO S. SALVIO AND GODIESA S. SALVIO

– BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.,






-VERSUS-MERCEDES E. ORLINA,

Mortgagor/s,

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NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALEUpon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended by Act 4118,filed by BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC., with postal address at the 24thFloor, BPI Buendia Center, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, against MERCEDESE. ORLINA , the mortgagor/s, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as ofMarch 20, 2009 amounts to ONE HUNDRED NINETY FOUR THOUSAND SIXHUNDRED SIXTY ONE PESOS AND 49/100 (PHP. 194,661.49), PHILIPPINECURRENCY,including/excluding interest, penalties and charges thereon, includ-ing/excluding 25% of the total indebtedness by way of Attorney’s fees, plus dailyinterest and expenses thereafter, also secured by said mortgage and such otheramount which may become and payable to the aforementioned mortgagee. TheEx-Officio Sheriff of Bulacan thru the undersigned Sheriff hereby gives notice toall interested parties and to the public in general that onDecember 21, 2009 at10:00 A.M. or soon thereafter infront of the Office of the Ex-Officio Sheriff ofBulacan located at the back of the Bulwagan ng Katarungan, Provincial CapitolCompound, Malolos, Bulacan, will selI at public auction thru sealed bidding, tothe highest bidder in Cash and in Philippine Currency, the described real prop-erty/ies below together with all the improvements existing thereon:

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-184322(M)Registry of Deeds for Province of Bulacan- Meycauayan Branch

“A parcel of land (Lot 15, Blk. 5 of the subd. plan Psd-031423-051905 beinga portion of Pcn-03-000147 LRC Rec. No.), situated in the Bo. of san Jose,Mun. of Sta. Maria Prov. of Bulacan. xxx containing an area of SIXTY (60)SQUARE METERS. xxx”







BY: GODOFREDO C. VILLARENTE Sheriff IV

Copy furnished:– MERCEDES E. ORLINA,– BALIKATAN HOUSING FINANCE, INC.,


EJF NO. B-256-2009



KOALISYON NG L.P. AT PARTIDO DEL PILAR — Pina-ngunahan ni dating Gob. Josie dela Cruz (itaas, kaliwa)ang panunumpa ng mga kasapi ng Partido Der Pilar, nangmakipagkoalisyon sila sa Liberal Party. Nasa larawan sa

ibaba sina dating Sen. Frank Drilon (kanan) at datingMayor Ambrosio “Boy” Cruz ng Guiguinto. Si Cruz aykakandidatong kinatawan ng Ikalawang Distrito ngBulacan sa ilalim ng bandila ng L.P. at Del Pilar. — DB

Jon-jon: Matataposko ang aking termino

Josie sumanib na kina Mar at NoynoyNI DINO BALABO

MALOLOS — Tuluyannang tinalikuran ni datingGob. Josefina “Josie” M.Dela Cruz ang partido ngkanyang gurong si Pangu-long Gloria Macapagal Ar-royo nang pormal na maki-pagkoalisyon ang PartidoDel Pilar (Del Pilar) sa Lib-eral Party (L.P.) noongNobyembre 23.

Ang pagsasanib ay si-naksihan ng mga panguna-hing opisyal ng dalawangpartido tulad ng magka-patid na Gob. Joselito “Jon-jon” Mendoza at ang kan-yang Ate Josie; at ninaSenador Mar Roxas at Be-nigno “Noynoy” Aquino IIIat dating Sen. FranklinDrilon.

Ito ay isinagawa sa Ca-pitol Gymnasium sa lung-

sod na ito noong Lunes nghapon na kaugnay ng pang-kalahatang pagtitipon ngmga kasapi ng Del Pilar nadinaluhan ng may 2,000katao kabilang ang may250 kandidato ng partidopara sa mga lokal na halalna posisyon.

Si Gob. Jon-jon ang ta-gapangulo at si Josie angpresidente ng Del Pilar,isang lokal na partidongitinatag sa Bulacan noong2003. Samantalang sinaRoxas at Drilon ay angpresidente at tagapangulong L.P. ayon sa pagkaka-sunod.

Si Roxas ay ang datingkandidato ng L.P. bilangPangulo ng bansa na nagbi-gay daan kay Aquino nangayon ay siyang presiden-tial standard bearer ngpartido, samantalang si

Roxas ay kakandidato bi-lang Bise-Presidente ngbansa.

“Makasaysayan ang pag-sasamang ito dahil mara-rangal ang magsasama-sama,” ani Drilon sa kan-yang talumpati patungkolsa koalisyon ng L.P. at DelPilar.

Binigyang diin niya naang L.P. ay ang tunay napartido ng oposisyon atsinuman sa mga kandidatonito ay ‘di nasangkot saanumang anomalya.

Inilarawan naman niyaang Del Pilar bilang par-tido ng mahuhusay na lokalna opisyal tulad ni datingGob. Dela Cruz na siyangnamuno sa Bulacan nangito ay tumanggap ng su-nod-sunod na prestiyosongparangal tulad ng GawadGaling Pook award.

Ipinaliwanag naman niMendoza sa kanyang ta-lumpati na ang programang L.P. sa pamamahala aynakakatulad ng programang Del Pilar kaya sila na-

kipagkoalisyon sa L.P.Ilan sa magkatulad na

prinsipyo ng L.P. at ng DelPilar, ayon kay Mendoza,ay ang paninindigan ngkapwa partido sa paglabansa kahirapan; pagkilala sapapel ng kabataan sa pag-papatibay ng mga pamaya-nan at bansa; pagkilala sapananagutan ng pamaha-laan at namumuno; at pa-giging malaya na makapag-desisyon at tukuyin angtamang direksyon para sahinaharap.

Sinabi naman ni DelaCruz na “wala sa lapianang ating lakas, sa halip aynasa ating patuloy napagsasama-sama.”

Nagpahayag naman ngpaghanga at kagalakansina Aquino at Roxas sa DelPilar at bumubuo dito

Una rito, sinabi ni DelaCruz na sa Enero pa nilaihahayag kung sinongkandidato sa pagkapanguloat bise presidente angkanilang sususportahan sadarating na halalan.

MALOLOS — Tiwala siGob. Joselito “Jon-jon”Mendoza na matataposniya ang tatlong taongtermino sa kabila ng pinalna pagbasura ng KorteSuprema sa kanyang mos-yon na pigilan ang Com-mission ang Elections(Comelec) na ipagpatuloyang proseso ng pagdinig saisinampang election pro-test ni dating Gob. Roberto“Obet” Pagdanganan no-ong 2007.

Ito ay dahil sa halosanim na buwan na lamangang natitira sa termino niMendoza at halos limangbuwan na lamang ay mulina namang mag-e-elek-syon.

“Matagal pa iyan, ’di pamagkakaroon ng desis-yon,” ani Mendoza sa isang“ambush interview” ngMabuhay noong Nobyem-bre 19. Iginiit niya na ma-tatapos niya ang kanyangtatlong taong termino dahilsa matatagalan pa angComelec sa paglalabas ngdesisyon.

Hinggil naman sa mgakumakalat na balita namauupo na si dating Gob.Pagdanganan, sinabi niMendoza na “matagal naniyang sinasabi iyan.”

Muli niyang iginiit naipagpapatuloy lamang niyaang kanyang trabaho bi-lang gobernador.

Matatandaan na tinaloni Mendoza si Pagdanga-nan noong 2007. Si Jon-jonay isang dating kapitan ng

barangay at nakababatangkapatid ni dating Gob.Josefina “Josie” M. DelaCruz na pumalit kay Pag-danganan noong 1998.

Mahigpit ang labanannina Mendoza at Pagda-nganan dahil mahigit la-mang 15,000 ang inila-mang ng dating kapitan sadating gobernador na na-nungkulan din sa iba’t-ibang mataas na posisyonsa gobyerno tulad ng pagi-ging Kalihim ng Depart-ment of Agrarian Reformat Department of Tourism.

Sa panahon ng canvass-ing of votes ng provincialboard of canvassers(PBOC) sa Malolos noong2007 sa Hiyas ng BulacanConvention Center(HBCC), naramdaman dinng mga mamamahayag salalawigan ang tensyon da-hil sa pagharang ng mgadumptruck sa mga kalsadasa loob ng bakuran ngkapitolyo na patungo saHBCC.

Nadagdagan pa ito ngpagkasunog ng accountingoffice ng kapitolyo na ayonsa Kapitolyo ay isang ak-sidente.

Matapos namang map-roklama si Mendoza bilanggobernador, naghain siPagdanganan ng protestasa punong tanggapan ngComelec sa Maynila na angbinanggit niyang dahilanay ang pagbabawas sa bi-lang ng kanyang boto sa2007 elections.

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pecially in bakeries due to their highheating quality and the little smokethey give off.

Mangroves are very important tomarine life, Dr. Guerrero points out.They serve as sanctuaries and feed-ing grounds for fish that nibble ondetritus (fallen and decaying leaves)trapped in the vegetation, and on thebark and leaves of living trees.

“(Mangroves) are important feed-ing sites for many commercially im-portant fish species (mullet, tilapia,eel, and especially milkfish), shrimps,prawns, mollusks, crabs, and sea cu-cumbers,” the World Bank reportadds. “Fry that gather in mangroveareas are very important for aquac-ulture.”

Those living in the coastal areasturn to mangrove for cures for vari-ous ailments, including prematurefalling of hair, boils, snake bites, smallpox ulcerations, sore eyes, tumors,tonsillitis, hemorrhoids, skin erup-tions, burns, diarrhea, and intestinalbleeding.

Mangroves also provide protectionfrom storm surges and high windsassociated with tropical typhoons.“This is very important in a countrythat is hit by an average of 20 ty-phoons a year,” says Dr. Fortes.

Mangrove forests also serve asprotection against soil erosion. Otherimportant benefits from mangrovesinclude: land builder through soil ac-cretion; coastal pollutants trapper;and wildlife sanctuary. They also of-

fer aesthetic and educational and sci-entific values.

Despite the economic and ecologi-cal benefits they provide, mangrovesare on the verge of disappearance.“Mangrove forests have been con-verted to aquaculture, salt produc-tion, and human settlement,” theWorld Bank report notes.

Some 289,000 hectares of man-grove areas had been converted tofishponds. “The conversion of man-groves into fishponds normally re-sults in an overall loss of coastal pro-ductivity and fisheries yield,” says theWorld Bank report.

Not only that. “Fishponds pollutemangrove swamps with organic andinorganic fertilizers, chemical toxins,and antibiotics. The use of seawaterfor fishponds also causes the saliniza-tion of the ground water and adjacentlands, including agricultural lands,”the World Bank report states.

On the brighter side, the WorldBank report says that loss of man-groves to fishponds has declined dur-ing the past decade or so, “in part asa result of an improved implementa-tion of national policies for mangroveconservation.”

The construction of tourism infra-structures like hotels and restaurantshas also contributed to the destruc-tion of mangroves. Equally destruc-tive are the saltpond operations andmining activities.

Pollution has also taken its toll.The mangrove areas have been used

as disposal for solid and liquid domes-tic wastes, oil, garbage, and pesti-cides.

The destruction of mangroves isdetrimental to those living near thecoastal areas. “Research in some ar-eas of the world, as well as in thiscountry, show that where mangroveshave been protected, yields of fishhave been high; where they havebeen destroyed, yields have beenlow,” reminds Dr. Angel C. Alcala,former head of the Department ofEnvironment and Natural Re-sources.

“Some mangroves bring in moreincome to communities when keptintact than when converted tobangus fishponds, giving evidencethat adherence to sound ecologymakes for good economics,” says Dr.Alcala, who was once a recipient ofthe Ramon Magsaysay Award.

There are good news, though. InTinambac, Camarines Sur, it hasbeen reported that mangrove refor-estation has improved the local fishcatch. The new mangrove forestbrought back red snapper fish spe-cies that had previously disappeareddue to lack of habitat.

In Pangangan Island off Calape,Bohol, people have found in man-groves a natural ally to protect theirisland’s only road link to the main-land from typhoon damage. The fourkilometer long causeway is protectedby mangroves planted in recent de-cades by local school children.

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to project or hide what he or she isn’t. This would beskin-deep beauty. Thus, one tends to either put on toomuch only to catch other people’s attention for atten-tion’ sake. The opposite would be only to distract othersto one physical trait that is considered an attractive as-set, and thus the person sometimes ends up revealinghimself physically to the point of immodesty,” he ex-plained.

“Then what would be beautiful?” she asked.“I recall reading some witty passages of Pope John

Paul I in his work Illustrissimi, dealing with beauty andmodesty. He skillfully illustrates it in the person of MariaTheresa of Austria (1717-1780), who happens to be themother of the ill-fated Marie Antoinette.”

“The one famous for saying, give them cakes?” thelady added.

“Yes, but perhaps we will understand a little morewhy she only had cakes in her head,” the priest laughed.“Well, when her mother saw a portrait of her daughterwearing an enormous headdress made of fruit, flowersand feathers and some ten meters of fabric, she wrote toher saying, ‘I do not feel that a great sovereign shoulddress like that. Fashion should be followed, but not ex-aggerated. A lovely Queen needs no such nonsense onher head.’”

“But Father, I’m not like Marie Antionette,” she re-torted.

“True, but we all have something of her vain non-sense in us: desiring to be the center of everything andforgetting that God ought to be our center. John Paul Iwisely continues saying: ‘A woman needs very little inorder to please others. All you need to know is whichpeople you want to please, and what your object is indoing so. Do you want to please everyone? This is notbad in itself, but it may be bad to want to please in thatparticular way. I think a woman should try to please herparents, her brothers and sisters, and above all, herhusband, the man who will choose her as a wife and willbe the father of her children. Now, all these people wanta woman to be smart and attractive, but in a context ofmodesty that makes her even more attractive, as well asmorally delightful.’ (Illustrissimi, p. 37)”

“Then what do you suggest I do, Father?” she asked.“You said that you spent forty minutes in front of the

mirror?” the priest asked.“Yes, Father,” her voice trembled a little waiting for

what he was about to say.“Well, why don’t you try spending ten minutes less

in front of the mirror on some days?” he smiled.“And…?” she was a bit confused.“At least on that day, you can pray, ‘Thank you Lord,

today, I’m ten minutes less vain! I’m sure God will makeup for the ten minutes you offered up by adding some-thing beautiful in your soul.”

Henceforth GIL H.A. SANTOS

Who must succeed PGMA?We must, as sovereign citizens whowill elect (in May next year), the suc-cessor to the outgoing President, nowask ourselves this question. Indeed,WHO? Now we must ask for theircompetence instead!

Traditionally, our political exer-cises lean heavily on personality poli-tics. The average Filipino votes for acandidate because of personal rela-tions with the candidate. Or becausea friend knows—or he relates to—thecandidate. Precisely because of thisculture, we have steadily but unin-tentionally pushed our government—over the past 63 years— to a state ofcorruption and incompetence we nowall want REFORM or CHANGE.

However, we will not be able toachieve the changes unless we changeour mindset first!

Ask for the QUALIFICATIONS ofthe candidates, instead of consider-ing his family background (name re-call or winnability), popularity,money or campaign funds whichtranslates to party machinery, andpenchant to be “helpful to the poor.”In Tagalog, we want the candidate tobe: madaling lapitan (approachableor inclined to “help”), maka-diyos(spiritual or believer in God),makatulungin (helpful), and maka-tao (who does not snob the poor).These are secondary qualifications.

We must now think: the candi-dates for any elective office from thePresidency down to the lowlykagawad barangay (barangay coun-cil member) are APPLYING FORJOBS in every election. We, the citi-

zen voters, are the stakeholders whomust qualify them for the position.And we must scrutinize them for theircompetence. We are the supreme au-thority in the election because we pickwho we want to work for US.

These candiates OWE us votersthe favor of being chosen for the jobs.We do not owe them a favor. The can-didates convince us we owe them afavor by giving us some cash on elec-tion day for our food or transportfares to and from the polling places.

Bear in mind: without our votesthese politicians will not be elected.Do not sell your right to vote for theofficials you deserve.

We must now ask: what is thetrack record or experience—perfor-mance— and competence of the can-didate to deserve our votes? What hashis statements been on specific issuesrelevant to development and nationalsocio-economic-environmental andpolitical progress? Is he qualified tooccupy the position he seeks?

The next president and vice presi-dent must work with the Congress(Senate and House of Representa-tives) and the Courts of law to gov-ern us. By the way, our population willbreak the 100 milllion mark in 2013,or earlier.

That means the next set of lead-ers—specially the President and VicePresident—must be able to solve theproblem of our national indebtednessof more than P4 trillion and managethe cash flow that suffers from a rev-enue shortfall that we NEED to bor-row more from the local and foreign

capital markets.We will have both problems in

food security and energy or powersufficiency as the demands of the bur-geoning population gallops on!

In addition, there is the peace andorder problem in Mindanao, inter-laced with separatism and Commu-nist rebellion that is slowly deterio-rating to plain banditry. Then thereis the socio-economic inequities bredby the old Spanish colonial period. Itwas nurtured by the lack of vision byour earlier political leaders early inthe last century, and the Americancolonial period.

Unless we can attain an economicgrowth of seven (7) percent consis-tently for a least a decade, we will al-ways be a poor or a developing coun-try by the world standard. We canprogress, even with our own God-given indigenous human talents andnatural resources.

This is the time we must examinethe candidates’ real program of gov-ernment. WHAT DO THEY HAVE?What is their geopolitical program inthis globalization age? Is it workable?Vote with your brains! That is howwe can move forward as a nation.

—Gil H. A. Santos teaches journalismand international relations in

Lyceum of the Philippines Universityand English in the International Academy

of Management and Economics.He is also President of the private,

non-stock, non-profit Futuristics Center.For comment or reaction, send it to

[email protected].

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the NCC, I am still challenged by thecause of democratizing technology.This is the challenge that inspiredme to write about soliciting and re-formatting old computers for distri-bution to the barangay level, an ideathat gave birth to the organizationof Our Barangay, Inc. OBI is now avery active advocacy group led by myfriend Ms. Elsa Bayani, aiming toconnect all the 42,008 barangayunits to the internet.

Thanks to another friend Dr.Benji Teodosio, I had the opportunityto meet several leaders from the in-digenous tribes and from the ruralsettlements of former armed rebels.To my pleasant surprise, all of themhad a longing to gain access to tech-nologies that could possibly improvethe quality of life of their communi-ties, by way of improving their live-lihood on one hand, and their pro-ductivity on the other hand.

While most of us are fascinated bythe new high tech gadgets that comeour way through a steady stream ofadvertising and promotions, theseleaders only needed a means of be-ing able to communicate with eachother using any affordable means,and to be able to reach out to the restof the world to sell their products,using these same means.

As agreed with these leaders, I amnow going to introduce them to OBI,so that they could get their share ofthe reformatted computers for theirtrading offices and cooperativestores. On top of that, I am going tobuild a system for them that wouldenable them to submit productiondata to a central server, using ordi-nary cell phones as data input de-vices.

As they told me about their needfor farm-to-market roads, I sug-gested to them the idea of using as-

phalt that is produced as a by-prod-uct of the process of recycling usedengine oils. Using their own localcommunity labor, they would now beable to build their own roads with-out relying on anyone else. As anadded advantage, they could alsomake asphalt shingles for roofing.

We discussed many other tech-nologies that they could use, but Ihave no more space to write aboutit. The point is, we were able to proveto each other that there is always atechnological solution to each eco-nomic problem, and the use of thesesolutions would make life better forthem.

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grounding proper to us. And these challenges and temp-tations are many.

We need to pray always, rectify our intentions, deepenour knowledge of things by going beyond what our sensesand reason show us and plunging deeper into the worldof faith, the spiritual and the supernatural, and all thetime doing all this with a lot of naturalness, never losingour basic humanity.

At the same, while trying to avoid creating bubblesand given some bad elements in our environments, weneed to find some refuge, a kind of cocoon where we canbe protected and can pursue the process of growth andtransformation, much like the worm into the butterfly.

This cocoon can be in the form of a strongly estab-lished and clearly defined plan of life, consisting of prac-tices of piety and other elements that remind us and en-courage us to develop virtues in an abiding way.

Different schools of spirituality offer such plans of life.All we need to do is to choose the one that suits us bestand start to live it.

Linking with God, the source and goal of our reality,is not easy. But all the effort we need to make is all worthit. Let’s just remember the wonderful stories of somehandicapped people who managed to overcome their dif-ficulty to blend with the world beautifully and contrib-ute a lot to it.

We have Hellen Keller, deaf and blind, who with thehelp of her teacher Anne Sullivan, found a way to knowthe outside world and to offer her wonderful contribu-tions to it.

We also have the blind Louis Braille, responsible forgiving the blind a way to read and to get connected withthe rest of us. Then there’s that Irish Christy Brown,sick with cerebral palsy who hardly moved. He discov-ered that his left foot can still move, and with it he learnedto write and paint and other things.

It’s all worth it. God is around. He never abandonsus, though he may want to play with us, sometimes easy,sometimes tough. — roycimagala @gamial.com

mula sa pahina 7Nitong Oktubre 15, ibinasura ng Korte Suprema ang

mosyon ni Mendoza na nagnanais na pigilan ang Comelecsa pagpapatuloy ng pagsasagawa ng proseso hinggil saelection protest.

Muling nagsampa ng mosyon si Mendoza at noongOktubre 17 ay pinal na itong ibinasura.

Nanatili namang tahimik ang kampo ni Pagdangananhinggil sa isyu. Ngunit ilan sa kanyang mga kaalyado aynagsabing “malapit nang maupo si Obet.”

Ngunit para sa mga kaalyado ni Mendoza, imposiblepa rin na makabalik sa posisyon si Pagdanganan.

“Hintayin na lang natin kung magkakatotoo ang pag-upo ni Obet,” ani ng isang kaalyado ni Mendoza natumangging ipabanggit ang pangalan.

Sinabi niya na anim na buwan na lamang ang natitirasa termino ni Mendoza at limang buwan na lang aymaghahalalan na naman.

Matatapos ko ang aking termino


PAGKAKAISA — Sama-samang nagpahayag ng pagkondena sa Maguindanao Mas-sacre ang may 75 mamamahayag, mag-aaral, guro, at mga historyador sa Bulacansa isang indignation at prayer rally na isinagawa sa Heroes Park ng Bulacan StateUniversity sa Malolos noong Nobyembre 25. Ang mga lumahok ay karaniwangnakasuot ng itim na damit bilang tanda ng dalamhati, at nagsindi ng kandila atnagdasal para sa kapayapaan samantalang nasa kanilang kalagitnaan ang isangkabaong na may mga dyaryo na sumisimbolo sa panganib sa malayangpamamahayag. — DINO BALABO

PANALANGIN — Pinangunahan ni Maria Bundoc-Ocampo ng pahayagang Punlaang panalangin ng pakikiramay sa mga biktima ng Maguindanao Massacre. Bukodsa panalangin, nagsipagsindi rin ng kandila ang mga mamamahayag sa Bulacan(ibaba) habang nagbibigay ng maikling mensahe si Isagani Giron, dating pangulong Samahaang Pangkasaysayan ng Bulacan (Sampaka) . — DINO BALABO

Massacre: Umalimpuyo ang galit ng mga BulakenyoNI DINO BALABO

LUNGSOD NG MALOLOS — Umalim-puyo ang galit ng mga Bulakenyo sa bru-tal na pamamaslang sa may 57 kataokabilang ang 30 mamamahayag sa bayanng Ampatuan sa lalawigan ng Maguinda-nao sa Mindanao noong Nobyembre 23.

Ikinagimbal, ikinagalit at ikinalungkotdin ng buong bansa’t mundo ang insiden-teng tinaguriang “Maguindanao Massa-cre”, samantalang nagpakita naman ngpagiging kampante ang Malakanyang saunang mga araw matapos ang pamamas-lang, at sa halip na mga pulis ang magpun-ta sa pamilya ng mga Ampatuan — angitinuturong may pakana ng massacre —ay si Kalihim Jesus Dureza, PresidentialAdviser on Mindanao Affairs ang nagpun-ta kinabukasan.

Mula noong gabi ng “MaguindanaoMassacre”, sunod-sunod na pahayag ngpagkondena ang ginawa ng mga mama-mahayag sa bansa, na sinundan pa ng mgarally sa iba’t-ibang lugar kabilang anglungsod na ito. Nagkatipon ang mgamamamahayag mula sa iba’t ibang sama-han at mga campus journalists sa kauna-unang pagkakataon sa Bulacan State Uni-versity (BulSu) dito sa Malolos.

Agad ding nagpadala ng fact-findingmission sa Maguindanao ang mga grupong mamamahayag sa bansa sa pangu-nguna ng Freedom Fund for Filipino Jour-nalists (FFFJ), National Union of Journal-ists of the Philippines (NUJP), PhilippineCenter for Investigative Journalism(PCIJ), Center for Media Freedom andResponsibility (CMFR), Philippine PressInstitute (PPI) at South East Asian PressAlliance (SEAPA).

Maging sa mga social networking sitessa internet, kabilang ang Facebook.com aybumaha rin ng mga pahayag ng pakiki-ramay, galit at panawagan sa mabilisangpagresolba sa kaso habang patuloy angpagtaas ng bilang ng mga nakuhangbangkay at mga sasakyan na inilibing ngmga salarin upang itago ang walangkapantay na krimen sa kasaysayan ngpamamahayag at demokrasya sa bansamula noong 1986.

“That’s outrageous. Everybody should

be outraged,” ani Konsehal Allan Aguilarng Marilao nang siya ay tanungin ngMabuhay kung ano ang kanyang masa-sabi at naramdaman matapos mabalitaanang Maguindanao Massacre.

Ganito rin ang nadama at nagingpahayag nina Alfredo Lunes at EmelitoVillanueva ng Hagonoy.

“Galit na galit ako, hindi na sila naawasa mga tao,” ani Lunes, samantalangsinabi ni Villanueva “nagimbal ako,masyadong brutal at ‘di makadiyos angnangyari.”

Iginiit ni Villanueva na ang galit nakanyang nadama ay dahil sa “hindimakatarungan ang ginawa nila, patiwalang malay na tao, idinamay nila. ‘Diba masakit sa pamilya iyon, wala silangkarapatang pumatay.”

Bukod sa galit, pagkagimbal ay naka-dama rin ng pagkalungkot at takot angibang Bulakenyong nakapanayam ngMabuhay tulad nina Wendell Tamayo ngMalolos, mag-asawang Claire at EdmundoJose Buencamino na dating alkalde ng SanMiguel; Arnold Mendoza ng Hagonoy,Felicisima Benabon ng Lungsod ng SanJose Del Monte (SJDM), Beverly Cruz ngBaliuag, Lorie Baltao ng San Miguel,Aimee Mangua ng San Rafael, at AtoyDionisio ng Malolos.

Idinagdag pa ni Benabon na kayanangyari ang Maguindanao Massacre aydahil sa “bulok na gobyerno kaya ‘dimaayos ang gulo.”

Nagpahayag din ng pangamba si Cruznang sabihin niya na “di pa nagsisimulaang campaign sa 2010 elections nagsimulana ang barbaric violence.”

Binigyang diin naman ni Baltao nanalungkot siya para sa mga biktima atpamilya nito, at galit naman ang nadamasa mga pumaslang.

“They are not animals, they are devils,’yung mastermind, Satanas siya,” giit pani Baltao bilang pagpapakita ng nagpu-puyos na galit sa mga nasa likod ngpamamaslang.

Halos wala namang maapuhap na salitasi Dionisio upang ipahayag ang kanyanggalit nang sabihin niya na “kung may masgrabe pang salita, doblehin mo pa ‘yun.”

Ang mga pahayag ng mga umaalim-

puyong galit sa mga nasa likod ng pama-maslang ay ipinahayag din ng iba’t ibanggrupo ng abogado, kababaihan, mgamamamahayag sa bansa at iba pang panigng mundo ilang oras matapos pumutokang balita.

Kapansin-panin naman ang pagigingkampante ni Pangulong Gloria MacapagalArroyo hinggil sa Maguindanao Massacredahil nagawa pa niyang bumisita saPampanga sa ika-46 na beses sa taong itonoong Martes, kinabukasan ng massacre.

Napansin din ng mga mamamahayagat iba pang grupo na sa halip na mga pulisat militar ang magtungo sa bahay ngpamilya Ampatuan ay si Presidential Ad-viser on Mindanao Affairs Dureza angnagtungo.

Sa mga larawang ipinamahagi atlumabas sa telebisyon, ipinakita nanakangiting nakaupo si Dureza kasamaang pamillya Amaptuan na itinuturo ngpamilya Mangudadatu na mga suspek.

Ang larawang ito ay taliwas sa mgalarawan ng paghihinagpis ng mga pamilyang biktima na ipinakita rin sa telebisyon,at mga larawan at pahayag ng mgamamamahayag sa bansa at iba pang panigng mundo na kumondena sa MaguindanaoMassacre.

Isa sa mga unang nagpahayag ngpagkondena sa mga salarin, at nag-alay ngpanalangin para sa mga biktima atnagsindi ng kandila para sa kapayapaanay ang mga mamamahayag sa Bulacan.

Sa kauna-unahang pagkakataon aynagtipon ang mga mamamahayag salalawigan kasama ang mga kabataangmamamahayag sa isinagawang indigna-tion and prayer rally sa Heroes’ Park ngBulacan State University sa Malolos noongMiyerkoles ng tanghali, Nobyembre 25.

Nagpalabas din ng nagkakaisang paha-yag ang mga mamamahayag kung saan aybinigyang diin nila na ang kanilang sama-samang pagkilos at pagpapakita ngpagkakaisa at babala upang hindi pama-risan ang Maguindanao Massacre.

Ayon naman kay Jose Pavia, angtagapangulo ng FFFJ na siya ring execu-tive director ng PPI, at publisher/editorng Mabuhay, agad silang nagbuo ng factfinding team at ipinadala sa Maguindanao

upang matukoy kung ilan ang mga mama-mahayag na pinaslang at kung paanonangyari ang karumal-dumal na krimen.

Batay sa huling ulat ng fact-findingteam, 30 na ang nakilala sa mga nakasa-mang mamamahayag na pinaslang.

Narito ang talaan ng mga biktima sakarumal-dumal na krimen.

Mga mamahayag: 1) Ian Subang (Soc-sargen Today), 2) Leah Dalmacio (Soc-sargen Today), 3) Gina dela Cruz (SaksiNews ng General Santos City), 4) MaritessCabiltas (Mindanao Focus), 5) BartMaravilla (Bombo Radyo-Koronadal), 6)Joy Duhay (Southern Chronicle), 7) HenryAraneta (DZRH), 8) Randy "Andy" Teo-doro (Central Mindanao Inquirer), 9)Marife "Neneng" Montaño (Saksi News),10) Alejandro “Bong” Reblando (ManilaBulletin), 11) Victor Nuñez (UnTV), 12)Macmac Arriola (UnTV cameraman), 13)Jimmy Cabillo (Midland Review), 14) ReyMerisco (Periodico Ini), 15) RonniePerante (Gold Star Daily), 16) Bienvenido"Jun" Legarta (Midland Review), 17) ValCachuela (Punto News), 18) Reynaldo“Bebot” Momay (Punto News), 19) JoelParcon (Prontiera News), 20) Noel Decena(Periodico Ini), 21) John Canibal (SK Ga-zette), 22) Art Belia (Periodico Ini), 23)Ranie Razon (Periodico Ini), 24) RobilloBataluna (Goldstar Daily), 25) JulidoEbardo (UNTV Driver), 26) NapoleonSalaysay (Mindanao Gazette), 27) RosellMorales (Mindanao Focus), 28) JunGatchalian (News Focus), 29) LindoLupogan at 30) Daniel Tiamson.

Kabilang sa mga biktimang nakilala naay ang dalawang abogado na sina CynthiaOquendo-Ayon at Ma. Concepcion Bri-zuela.

Kabilang din sa mga pinaslang ay angtatlong miyembro ng pamilya ni Buluan,Maguindanao Vice Mayor Esmael Mangu-dadatu na sina Eden Mangudadatu, BaiFarina Mangudadatu at Eden Mangu-dadatu. Gayundin ang tatlong motoristana sina Anthony Ridao, Jephon Cadag-dagon at Benjie Adolfo.

Ang pagpapahayag ng pagkondena sabrutal na pamamaslang ay lumaganap dinsa internet partikular na sa mga socialnetworking sites tulad ng Facebook.com.


Rosemoor: Handa kami para magka-alam-alam na sa P3-M suholNI DINO BALABO

MARILAO, Bulacan—Pai-imbestigahan ni Gob. Jo-selito “Jon-jon” Mendozaang alegasyon ng Rose-moor Mining and Develop-ment Corporation (Rose-moor) na isa niyang kaal-

yadong Bokal ang tumang-gap ng P3-milyon suholmula sa kumpanya upangmakapagbiyahe ng mama-haling marmol mula saBiak-na-Bato mineral res-ervation area.

Subalit ito, aniya, aynakadepende kung magsu-

sumite ng pormal na rek-lamo ang Rosemoor.

Sinabi naman ng Rose-moor na nakahanda silangmagsumite ng reklamoupang patunayan ang ka-nilang alegasyon na tina-nggap ng isang bokal nakaalyado ni Gob. Mendoza

ang halagang P3-m bilanggarantiya na hindi haha-rangin ang pagbibiyahe ngmamahaling tea rose mar-ble na minimina sa Bika-na-Bato.

“Nakahanda akong pa-imbestigahan iyan,” aniMendoza sa Mabuhay

nang siya ay makapana-yam sa bayang ito noongNobyembre 6 kung kailanisinagawa ang malawa-kang paglilinis sa MarilaoRiver, at ang pampubli-kong konsultasyon sa cli-mate change na pinangu-nahan ni Sen. Loren

Legarda.Ngunit sinabi rin Men-

doza na kailangan munangmagsumite ng pormal nareklamo ang Rosemoor.

“Puro kasi kuwentoang ginagawa nila, dapatnilang gawing pormal,” aning punong lalawigan.

Ayon sa isang text mes-sage sa Mabuhay ni LizaFernando ng Rosemoor,handa silang magsumiteng reklamo.

“Kung gusto niya ngpormal na reklamo, naka-handa kami para magka-alam-alam na,” babala niFernando.

Una rito, sinabi ng Ro-semoor sa Mabuhay no-ong Oktubre 17 na pinayu-han sila ng bokal na kaal-yado ni Mendoza na sa li-kod ng Biak-na-Bato natio-nal park idaan ang mgabloke ng marmol na kani-lang minina sa mineralreservation area ng Biak-na-Bato.

Ang daan sa likod ngBiak-na-Bato ay bumabag-tas sa mga barangay ngKalawakan, Talbak at Ca-machin sa bulubundukingbayan ng Donya RemediosTrinidad (DRT), at ang la-bas ay sa lansangan mulasa Barangay Akle hang-gang Pinaod ng bayan ngSan Ildefonso bago maka-rating sa Daang Mahar-lika.

Ang dating dinadaan ngmga trak na humahakotng bloke ng marmol ngRosemoor ay ang mga ba-rangay ng Sibul hanggangCamias sa bayan ng SanMiguel. Ang daang ito aynasa harap ng kabundu-kan ng Biak-na-Bato, atdoon din hinarang ng mgaresidente ng Sibul at mgatauhan ni Mendoza angmga trak noong Setyembre2008 at Marso 2009, ayonsa pagkakasunod.

Ayon sa Rosemoor, na-ka-ugnayan nila ang nasa-bing bokal nang minsankumain sila sa FortuneRestaurant sa Lungsod ngMalolos kasama ang isapang bokal na kaalyado rinni Mendoza.

Sa ‘di inaasahang pag-kakataon, dumating dinang gobernador sa nasa-bing restoran kasama angbokal.

Sa nasabing pagta-tagpo, tinangka ng Rose-moor na kausapin si Men-doza, ngunit sinabi umanong gobernador na ang ka-samang bokal na lamangang kausapin.

Sa pakikipag-ugnayanng Rosemoor sa nasabingbokal, sinabi umano nitona sa likod na lamang ngBiak-na-Bato idaan angmga trak ng marmol, athuwag sa Barangay Sibulsa San Miguel.

Ayon kay Zeny Pascual,isang opisyal ng Rosemoor,P3-m ang ibinigay nila sabokal.

Ikinalungkot naman niRicardo Medina, hepe ngEnvironment and NaturalResources Office (ENRO)ng Kapitolyo, ang nasabingbalita. “Kung totoo ‘yan,nakakalungkot iyan dahillumalabas na hindi magka-kaugnay ang aming pagki-los sa Kapitolyo,” ani Me-dina.

Siya ay nakapanayamng Mabuhay noong Oktu-bre 18 sa bayan ng SanIldefonso.

Sa panayam ng Mabu-hay kay Mendoza noongNobyembre 9, mataposang kanyang State of theProvince Address (SOPA),sinabi ng gobernador nawala siyang natanggap nasalapi.

“Wala akong natanggapat hinding-hindi ako ta-tanggap ng pera mula sailegal,” ani Mendoza.

mabuhay issue no. 947

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