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MCAP to charge
P1M a day penalty
BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar Millennium
Challenge Account Philippines (MCAP) gave notice to dilly-dallying contractors of the on-going Secondary National Road Development Project (SNRDP) here.
MCAP Project Engineer Rudy Arias said this thru Radyo
ng Bayan DYES in the recently held press conference. He
said that contractors who will not be able to complete the
project as scheduled, will be charged of some One Million
Pesos (P1M) a day.
Arias particularly referred to the contractor of Contract
Package-2, covering Hinabangan (Samar) to San Julian (ESamar) stretch that involves some P2.5B, the biggest cost so far,
of the four Contract Packages.
Contracted by Qingjian Group Company Ltd., CP-2 has
so far achieved s 4.32% of its 13.52% target as of press time.
The contractor however informed of their problem on the
lack of equipment, manpower and construction materials.
MCAPhowever, enjoined, that they complete the project on
time in order to avoid more complicated problems.
CP-3 is no better, as public observe. It destroys portions

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BFAR reports of red tide

toxins at Samar waters
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
(BFAR) has enforced precautionary measures in
Samar coastal waters after
laboratory test results show
that red tide presence has
intensified in Irong-Irong
Bay.
The government strictly imposed shellfish ban in
Irong-Irong Bay in Catbalogan City, Samar last week
after both water and shellfish meat were tested positive of red tide toxins.
We are worried that
red tide toxins will spread
to nearby Cambatutay Bay,

Maqueda Bay, and Calbayog City waters. These

areas have histories of red
tide presence in the past,
said BFAR Regional Director Juan Albaladejo.
Irong-Irong Bay, one of
the collecting areas for mussel in Samar, drains its water
to Cambatutay, a bay hit by
red tide phenomenon last
year. Cambatutay, which
has been showing signs of
red tide recurrence, in turn,
drains to Calbayog Waters.
BFAR detected cyst formation in nearby Maqueda Bay, an area known for
commercial mussel pro-

duction. The presence of

cyst indicates that red tide
organisms may bloom anytime, Albaladejo added.
Theres a big possibility
that we will issue a shellfish
ban for Cambatutay Bay
this week. Since last week,
mussel traders in Maqueda
Bay have been asked to secure health certificate from
BFAR before shipping mussels to Davao and Mania as
a precautionary measure,
Albaladejo said.
Fishes caught in affected

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to children as part their Psychosocial Support Program held in Anibong and Rawis Tacloban City.
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MV-DA-BFAR unloads
thousands of fishing gears
BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar After some days of cruising the Manila - Visayas waters, MV-BFARs (Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources) Cargo Vessel
has finally docked yesterday at the Borongan
Seaport, bringing here, hundreds and thousands of fishing gears for typhoon Yolanda
survivors dubbed Ahon project.

In a phone interview, BFAR Provincial Officer, Jaime Salazar informed that

the vessel had been to the ports also of
Aurora province and Tacloban to unload
the same fishing paraphernalia.
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NEWS

POPCOM to roll out U4U in EV

Alarmed of the increasing incidence of teenage pregnancies in the Philippines, the Commission on Population
(POPCOM) in Eastern Visayas will launch through a road
show an educational caravan giving Filipino youth critical
information on how to delay sexual debut, prevent teen
pregnancy and avoid sexually transmitted infections (STI).
Called U4U Teen Trail, the program aims to deliver
critical information to Filipino teens aged 10-19 to prevent
teen pregnancy and reduce the prevalence of STI through
online and mobile platforms.
POPCOM-8 Regional Director Elnora R. Pulma said
the U4U will be part of the Department of Health (DOH)
on Wheels: Kalusugan Pangkalahatan or KP Road show
which aims to bring health care advocacies to every corner
of the country by 2016.
The KP Road show will be held on July 1 at the Schistosomiasis Research and Training Center in Palo, Leyte and
on July 2 at the Tacloban City Convention Center in Tacloban City.
Pulma added that the U4U was first launched in Albay
in January 2014, and following that successful event is to
bring the initiative to various parts of the country with the
hope to engage more young Filipinos to avail of adolescent-friendly services.
It will focus on promoting public health while providing services and information to women and children, adolescents, fathers, and senior citizens of every community,
Pulma said.

The initiative comes as the countrys stakeholders work

double time to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4
and 5the reduction of child mortality and the improvement of maternal health in the Philippines.
Supported by the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA) and DOH, POPCOM plans to bring the U4U
Teen Trail to as many schools and barangays as possible
nationwide.
Pulma said the caravan features an interactive exhibit
called #bakasBukas, managed by teen facilitators.
She added that participants can journey through the exhibit to learn about puberty, self-image, relationships, preventing pregnancy and gender-based violence, and youth
advocacy.
Through structured learning exercises, participants also
learned about myths and misconceptions on sex and sexuality.
Conceptualized by POPCOM, the U4U Teen Trail caravan also serves as a promotion vehicle to introduce teens
to online and mobile tools. A dynamic website named u4u.
ph was also designed. It also set up an interactive voice response system (IVRS), a mobile platform that provides automated information to a mobile phone texter.
The U4U is the second major adolescent health and
youth development advocacy campaign after the success of
Crossroads, an adolescent youth and development film.

MCAP...

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of main roads particularly in the main city routes, in alleged

preparation for a rehabilitation work. But damaged portions
which are actually the main routes in the city are left undone
for long periods, leaving students and working public scamper through lengthy detours.
The contractor however sought apology for the mistake
committed when it destroyed ahead of schedule, lane-one
of the Loom bridge approach (to the side of Amistoso residence), Arias informed media. Still untouched today, it is apparently causing inconvenience both to motorists and nearby
residents.
Qingjian and McBuilders are given until October 15, 2015
to complete the San Julian-Llorente Asphalt Overlay road
project lest they pay the P1M a day penalty, the MCAP Engineer jibed.
But theres good news, Arias continued. CP-4 which
covers the Llorente to Guiuan stretches is ahead of schedule.

DTI extends financial

assistance to SMEs
affected by Yolanda

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will tie

up with various non-government organizations (NGOs)
to implement a P107 million livelihood seeding program
which was designed to encourage small and medium enterprises to reopen their businesses.
DTI Regional Director Cynthia Nierras said 63 towns
will be covered under the project- 43 in Leyte, nine in
Eastern Samar, five in Biliran and three each in Samar and
Southern Leyte.
Major NGO partners are the Philippine Disaster Recovery Foundation, Gawad Kalinga, Oxfam and other humanitarian relief organizations under the early recovery and
livelihood cluster.
Oxfam has already committed P13 million for the project, while the PDRF promised to put up initial contribution
of P2.5 million.
The major component of the project is the provision of
starter kits, a package of fresh stock and provisional trainings, a major intervention that would help SMEs recover
from the damaging impact of super typhoon Yolanda last
year.
The DTI will provide two-day trainings for micro
enterprises. First, there will be a stress debriefing to help
(REYAN ARINTO,POPCOM-8 Information them understand the discomfort they are going through. It
Management & Communications Unit)
will be followed by teaching them techniques to release the
stress and trauma, Nierras said.
Also included is a business exercise that will put back
their mind back into doing business. Assuming that its
working, the following day they will be coached to come
up with a simple business plan, she added. (CARYL TOMANDA, LNU Intern)

87,448 Yolanda survivors await

copies of vital documents
TACLOBAN CITY - Nearly 90,000 individuals are now
waiting for authenticated copies of civil registration documents, as part of the massive reconstruction of identities
for victims of super typhoon Yolanda in Eastern Visayas.
As of end of May, 87,448 applications have been submitted to the local civil registrars (LCRs) by teams deployed by the Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment
through Alternative Legal Services (IDEALS) in 18 towns
and two cities along Yolandas path.
The LCRs are expected to send the request to the Philippine Statistics Authority - National Statistics Office, for
processing and releasing of copies of birth, marriage, and
death certificates.
Of the total number of applications, 90% (78,651) were
through the Mobile Civil Registration Project (MCRP) and
only 10% (8,797) were from walk-in clients. That is expected since community workers have been going to villages to
assess the civil registration needs of typhoon victims, said
Thebazile Anthony Monserate, MCRP area coordinator.
Almost all survivors (92%) are asking for copies of
birth certificates. A small fraction is requesting for marriage certificates (6%) and death certificates (2%).
At least 9,911 individuals have already received authenticated copies of civil registry documents as of end of last
month.
IDEALS and partner government agencies and
non-government organization launched MCRP on April 9
to help typhoon survivors reconstruct their civil identities
after the monster storm destroyed vital records.

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This project drumbeat our advocacy for free civil registration. We want local government units to sustain the
initiative by making civil registration free and simplify the
process, said IDEALS executive director Edgardo Ligon.
Recipients are typhoon-displaced residents of Tacloban
City, Palo, Tanauan, and Tolosa in eastern part of Leyte; San
Isidro, Isabel, Kananga, Palompon, Matag-ob, and Ormoc
City in northwestern part of Leyte; Basey and Marabut in
Samar; Lawaan, Balangiga, Quinapondan, Giporlos, Guiuan, Salcedo, Mercedes, and Hernani in Eastern Samar.
The civil registration project is being implemented by
Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through Alternative Legal Services, Inc. (IDEALS), United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR), Department
of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Philippine
Statistics Authority National Statistics Office, 20 local
government units (LGUs) and local civil registrars (LCR)
office.
The initiative is backed by the United Kingdom Aid
(UK Aid), United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), United Nations Childrens Fund (Unicef), United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (UN OCHA), International Organization for Migration (IOM), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department of the Interior and Local
Government (DILG), Office of the Civil of Defense (OCD),
Oxfam, and Interchurch Organisation for Development
Cooperation (ICCO).(BARBETTE JOANNE MAGALONA BADOCDOC/PR)
As of press time, it has accomplished 11.29% of its 8.8% target
to rehabilitate the 77.51 kilometer road., he said.
One more thing to ponder today, is the completion of the
concrete road (and not just Asphalt overlay) in the devastated
Hernani area. Lane one of the long stretch from Garawon to
barangay Poblacion is now completed with a matching seawall to protect the area from sudden rise of the sea level. The
project costs MCAP some P2.2B.
Asked why some CPs are concrete while others are Asphalt
overlays, Arias informed that in particular, CP-1 is a concrete
road project. Its because, he said, the Buray-Tenani 16.36km
stretch is soft and watery which necessitated the use of concrete materials instead of Asphalt.
CP-1 which was done by the only all- Filipino joint venture, DM Consunji Inc. & CM Pancho Construction Inc. is
now 100% complete and is referred to as the model project
of the three others. Should the firms joined in the bidding
for CP-3, it could have won the process, but it did not, Arias
concluded.
SNRDP intends to rehabilitate the Wright-Taft-Boron-

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Bayan DYES, Salazar said

some 70-units of Fishing
Shelters, locally known as
Payaw are to be distributed to Fishermens Organizations of Arteche down
to Guiuan towns while
5,225 of Tuna Hook-andLines(Kawil) are to be given to fishermen-Yolanda
victims from Maydolong to
Guiuan.
According to him, the
same vessel will bring the
Payaws to the different
beneficiary-areas and setup the same with the heavy,
concrete anchors, for the
local fishers to just catch
from inside the shelters.
Salazar cautioned the
fishermen though, to take
heed of BFARs warning not
to use lighting equipment,
Squid Ink(Toyum) nor Likom in catching the fishes
around the Payaw, because
either of these fishing techniques will harm or drive
away the fishes inside the
shelter.
Only the hook-andlines must be used, he said.

It is also important he
said that the fishermen,
maintain the state of the
fishing gears.
That is only their counterpart, Salazar stressed,
to see to it that the fishing
gears are taken cared of. But
their daily catch should also
be recorded in a Logbook
that they have to maintain,
he added. This is so, because BFAR likewise has to
evaluate later the success
and benefits of the project
to the target beneficiaries.
BFARs current project
is one answer to the livelihood uproar of hundreds
of Yolanda victims here.
Other fishermen, particularly in Guiuan have already
received fishing boats from
international humanitarian organizations and other
agencies.
Meanwhile, the Provincial Rehabilitation Plan
which was submitted to the
Office of the Presidential
Assistance on Recovery and
Rehabilitation(OPARR) indicated the need of some
P1,151,800,00,000.00
for livelihood assistance.
(PIA-Eastern Samar/aen)

gan-Guiuan roads as financed by a grant from the U.S. governments Millennium Challenge Corporation with an allocation of $214.M. It mainly aims to help improve the living
conditions of the people of Samar. With more accessible and
safer roads, people will have more socio-economic opportunities because of reduced transport time and cost. Farmers will be able to transport their produce in less time to the
urban markets. People from the rural areas will have more
opportunity for employment and education in the urban center and people living in rural areas will have faster and better
access to health care, especially in cases of emergency and the
project.
Further, the whole project package is expected to be completed by 2016, and finished or not, will pull-out from the
country, but so far, so good, as it has been providing local
employment to both skilled and unskilled workers.(PIA-Eastern Samar/aen)

JUNE 22-28, 2014

OPINION

COMMENTARY:
By Fr Roy Cimagala
Email: roycimagala@gmail.com

Cultivating freedom

ITS a difficult animal to tame. I am referring to freedom that all of us want to invoke to express what we really
have inside our mind and heart. Unfortunately, very little
attention is given to the fact that freedom is something we
need to cultivate, and as such it requires all kinds of processes and procedures, and patience, and patience, and
still more patience.
I remember when I graduated from high school, my
father
made for me the valedictory that I had to deliver on
behalf of my
class. It had an intriguing opening line, since my father, who was a
lawyer, had a flair for the dramatic in his orations.
Freedom is not free, my speech began. Either you
pay for it or it buys you out. That was quite a mouthful
for a 15-year-old to say, and I tried my best to show that
I understood what I said and that I meant it. Those were
the days of teen-age bravura. Now, of course, this memory
makes me laugh
I somehow understood then that what my father
meant was that freedom can either make or unmake a
man. Ive read that in some novels, and seen it in some
movies and even in real-life third-person drama. But such
understanding was more theoretical than experiential.
Still, I knew then that the seed of curiosity about freedom was planted deeply in my heart. And as years passed,
my understanding of it also grew. And what a tumultuous
itinerary I had to pass through! Indeed, direct, first-person experience is quite a master teacher.
Our problem with freedom usually stems from the fact
that we have a partial understanding of it which we tend
to consider as already complete and full. We hardly realize that our idea of freedom would often be short-sighted,
narrow-minded, biased and straight-jacketed according
to our own subjective criteria.
That is why we often would have the sensation of highs
and lows, exuberance and depression. A sense of stability
and confidence is hardly felt. But life in general, no matter
how much we twist it, cannot help but show us the real
objective face of freedom through the many contradictions and humiliations we suffer along the way.
Yes, reality bites! It sooner or later, one way or another,
will burst the bubbles that we unwittingly have been creating for ourselves. Sometimes, we fall crashing down to
earth after we managed to build a complex and sophisticated dream world, driven by a false idea of freedom and
creativity.
Whether we like it or not, aware of it or not, reality will
find a way to tell us that freedom is not something that we
spontaneously generated. Its not our own making. It is
something given to us, with an objective law that governs
it.
Its not our creation, to be used absolutely according to
our own personal and subjective terms. It comes together with the most fundamental truth that we are creatures
and that there is a Creator. Toward it, the proper attitude

EDITORIAL

The President of the Republic

of the Philippines

he President is the top or highest public official of the land

who is chosen by majority of Filipino voters in an election
that is conducted once every six years. The incumbent who
has served for 6 year steps down and turns over the reigns
of leadership to the proclaimed winner in that election.
The Filipino people who elect a President lay their hopes
and aspirations of a better life under his leadership. They
know fully well that their choice for the highest position of
the land possesses the strong will and determination to make a difference to
realize his dream for the Filipino nation.
In the early years a prospective president is a dreamer. As he dreams he
prepares for it via formal and informal trainings, so that when the time comes
to run for the office he ably and with confidence articulate his views clearly for
people to know and understand what awaits them under his leadership.
No one runs for President to simply use the people as a prop of support
against a plunder case filed against him. We are referring to Senator Bong
Revilla who threatens our establishment that he will run for President to rally
people behind him to extract him away from imprisonment.
to have to is to respect it and its law. And this requires a lot
of humility.
The law that governs freedom is, of course, nothing other than God himself, in whose image and likeness we are.
Thats why Christ, the fullness of the revelation of God to
us, said: I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes
to the Father except through me.
It is Christ who is the truth that will make us free. And
Christ himself lived by this truth. His sense of freedom was
bound up with his obedience to his Fathers will, no matter
how painful that will was.
Saints have understood this character of freedom very
well. Many of them have gone to the extent of explicitly
saying that freedom is none other than obeying the will of
God. That, in its distilled form, is the essence of freedom.
Freedom and obedience therefore go together. One
cannot be without the other, in contradiction to the understanding of many of us who often put freedom and obedience as antithetical to each other.
Thats why we need to deepen our humility to be able to
see this vital connection between freedom and obedience.
And again, this humility has to be understood not only
theoretically, but also practically. In fact, it should not only
be understood. It has to be lived always through the events
and circumstances of our daily life.
To cultivate true freedom is to cultivate a growing obedience to Gods will. Outside of that orbit, we can only have
false freedom.

NGO reports P26.64M worth of

legal aid for storm survivors

Yolanda survivors in Leyte have accessed P26.64 million worth of benefits through legal assistance provided by
the Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through Alternative Legal Services (IDEALS).
Lawyer Enrico Asis, area coordinator of the Access to
Benefits and Claims after Disaster (ABCD), a major undertaking of IDEALS, said that thousands of families have
been provided legal documents which are prerequisite to
avail services.
For those people who have been enjoying their rights
to education, jobs and housing, we cannot quantify the value of benefits to them, Asis said in a press briefing.
Among the benefits availed by storm survivors were
claims from the Government Service Insurance System

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and insurance firms, loans from the Department of Trade

and Industry and Social Security System, shelter assistance
from donors, notarization, affidavits and deeds of contracts.
Primarily, the NGO has provided legal representation
to 140 displaced workers of a luxury hotel, workers of a
furniture shop and a farmers group.
Since December 2013, IDEALS and other international
humanitarian organizations have been supporting lawyers
in Leyte to carry out the legal mission project in villages
where all legal documents were either blown away or swept
away by Yolandas fierce winds and storm surges.
It all started with a single text I sent to my friends in
November asking for office supplies for us to serve their legal needs. That text reached IDEALS and they have started

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supporting us, said lawyer Ronan Christian Reposar, who

has been practicing environmental law for a decade, before
joining the legal aid advocate.
He recalled that after the typhoon struck, almost all the
people lost their identification cards, bank cards, certificate
of ownership, civil registry documents and other papers
that would establish their identity.
The need for legal services was enormous, yet some
lawyers left the province and many law offices were badly damaged. We used all available resources left to provide
legal assistance, even using pens and papers to produce affidavits, Reposar recalled.
Reposar and Asis are just two of the 10 lawyers hired
by IDEALS to implement the ABCD project in badly-hit
areas in Leyte and Samar. They are backed by 27 paralegals,
tasked to draft affidavits, contracts and other documents.
This project changed the impression of poor families
about the lawyer profession. They thought their services
are very expensive, but the project provided it for free. Basically, we helped in pump priming the profession. It takes
a lot of sacrifice for a lawyer to waive service fees, said Edgardo Ligon, IDEALS executive director.
Pamela Palma of Oxfam, one of the humanitarian organizations supporting ABCD, has seen the value for money
of their P4 million assistance to the project.
P26 million is just an amount of money. We dont
know exactly the value of assistance and long term benefits
to a child entering a classroom and family owning a new
house, Palma added. (PR)

NEWS

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BFAR....

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areas are safe for human consumption provided that they

are fresh, washed and cooked thoroughly, the BFAR regional director said.
From 1,120 cells per liter of toxins in water last week,
the reading in Irong-Irong Bay rose to up to 2,074 cells per
liter, way high than the 10 cells per liter of toxins in a normal situation.
Red tide was found in 117 micro grams of every 100
grams of shellfish meat, or nearly double than the 60 micro
grams per 100 grams in normal level.
This is very alarming because when two persons in
Cambatutay Bay died of toxins last year, the reading was
only 20 micro grams per 100 grams of meat, the BFAR official recalled.
Authorities test coastal waters in Samar twice a week to
monitor the possible presence of red tide.
The prolong sunny weather since May followed by

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heavy downpour in the past

few days may trigger red
tide bloom due to discharge
of waste water from mountains and residential areas,
he added.
Red tide is a term used
to describe all phenomena
which the water is discolored by high algal biomass
or concentration of algae.
The discoloration may not
necessarily be red in color,
but it may also appear yellow, brown, green, blue or
milky, depending on the organisms involved.
(SARWELL
Q.MENIANO)
Republic of the Philippine
REGIONAL TRIAL
COURT
8th Judicial Region
Branch 3
Guiuan, Eastern Samar
IN RE: PETITION FOR
APPOINTMENT AS
NOTARY PUBLIC FOR
and IN THE PROVINCE
OF EASTERN SAMAR
ATTY. RAMON JAMER
DADULLA, JR.
x- - - - - - - - - - - - -x
ORDER

Notice is hereby given that

a Summary Hearing on the Petition for Appointment as Notary Public for and in the Province of Eastern Samar of ATTY.

Republic of the Philippines

REGIONAL TRIAL
COURT
8th Judicial Region
Branch 3
Guiuan, Eastern Samar
IN THE MATTER OF
THE CANCELLATION
OF THE CERTIFICATE
OF LIVE BIRTH OF
ANA LIZA SONGAHID y CARANYAGAN
WITH CORRECTION
OF ENTRIES,
ANA LIZA SONGAHID
y CARANYAGAN,
Petitioner
-versusTHE LOCAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OF
GUIUAN, EASTERN
SAMAR, and LOCAL
CIVIL REGISTRAR OF
ORMOC CITY, LEYTE
Respondents
Spec. Proc. No. 1382
x- - - - - - - - - - - - x
ORDER

Before this Court is a verified amended Petition filed by

ANA LIZA SONGAHID y CA-

RANYAGAN, through counsel, praying of this Honorable

Court that, after due notice,
publication and hearing, an
ORDER be issued directing The
Local Civil Registrar of Guiuan,
Eastern Samar to correct the
entries in the Certificate of Live
Birth of Petitioner, with Registry No. 88-2418, particularly
the following:
A. Declaring that the person registered as ANA LIZA
CARANYAGAN SONGAHID
appearing in her Certificate of
Live Birth born on 05 June 1988
at Brgy. San Isidro, Ormoc City,
Leyte and the person registered
by the name ANALIZA CARANYAGAN appearing in another
Certificate of Live Birth to have
been born on 05 June 1988 at
Brgy. Bagua, Guiuan, Eastern
Samar refer to one and the same
person, herein petitioner;
B. Ordering the correction
of the petitioners surname as
appearing in her Certificate of
Live Birth, from SONGAHI
to SONGAHID, which is her
true and correct surname.
C. Ordering the Local Civil
Registrar of Guiuan, Eastern Samar to cancel Petitioners Certificate of Live Birth registered
on 16 July 2001.
It appearing that the Petition is sufficient in form and
substance, let the initial hearing

of the petition be set on July 3,

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

SO ORDERED in
chambers.
June 5, 2014 in the afternoon.
Guiuan, Eastern Samar.
(Sgd.) ROLANDO M.
LACDO-O
Presiding Judge
ESB: June 8-14, 15-21, 22-28,
2014

REPUBLIC OF THE
PHILIPPINES
REGIONAL TRIAL
COURT
EIGHT (8TH) JUDICIAL REGION
CITY OF BORONGAN,
EASTERN SAMAR
BRANCH 2
IN THE MATTER OF
JUDICIAL DECLARATION AS L.C. LASSITER AND NOT JIMMY
L.C. LASSITER THE
REAL AND COMPLETE NAME OF THE
PUTATIVE FATHER
OF THE HEREIN PETITIONER AND DECLARATION THAT JAIME
C. LASSITER AND
JIMMY C. LASSITER IS
ONE AND THE SAME
PERSON
JAIME C. LASSITER,
Petitioner,
SP. PROC. CASE NO.
165-14
x- - - - - - - - - - - ORDER

This is a verified petition

REPUBLIC OF THE
PHILIPPINES
REGIONAL TRIAL
COURT
EIGHTH (8TH) JUDICIAL REGION
CITY OF BORONGAN,
EASTERN SAMAR
BRANCH 2
IN THE MATTER
OF CORRECTION
OF ENTRIES IN THE
CERTIFICATE OF LIVE
BIRTH OF JOEY A.
ORTIGUESA,
JOEY A. ORTIGUESA,
Petitioner,
-versusTHE CITY CIVIL REGISTRAR OF BORONGAN CITY, EASTERN
SAMAR
Respondent,
SP. PROC. CASE NO.
164-14
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ORDER

for judicial declaration as L.C.

Lassiter and not Jimmy L.C.
Lassiter the real and complete
name of the putative father of
the herein petitioner and declaration that Jaime C. Lassiter and
Jimmy C. Lassiter is one and the
same person; filed by petitioner
Jaime C. Lassiter through counsel. The petition alleged, among
others, that sometime in 2004,
the herein petitioner filed an
Special Proceeding case for Judicial Declaration as Acknowledged Natural Child, docketed
as SPL. Proc. Case No. 3887;
that the petitioner made a mistake in alleging in the petition
that his putative father was Jimmy L.C. Lassiter since the real
name of his putative father was
actually L.C. Lassiter as indicated in the Death Certificate of
L.C. Lassiter (Annex A) and
Enlisted Record and Report of
Separation (Annex B); that a
decision dated November 12,
2004 was issued by then Presiding Judge Arnulfo O. Bugtas
favorably granting the petition
filed by the petitioner; that said
decision does not accurately
and completely pronounce the
complete name of the putative
father of the petitioner since

This is a verified amended

petition for correction of entries in the record of birth filed
by petitioner Joey A. Ortiguesa,
through counsel. The petitioner alleged, among others, that
there are several errors in the
Certificate of live birth of the
petitioner. His date of birth
found in entry no. 3 is written
as 30th May 1977 instead of
30th May 1975. In entry no.
6, the space allotted to mothers maiden name, the entry is
Pedro T. Ortiguesa instead of
Filomena Rivera Agravante.
Likewise in entry no. 9, the
space allotted for the name of
father, the entry is Filomena
R. Agravante instead of Pedro
Tomenio Ortiguesa; in entry
no. 14, space for informant, the
name in print is Filomena R.
Agravante instead of Filomena
R. Agravante-Ortiguesa; and
the date of marriage of petitioners parents was entered as
September 9, 1971 instead of
September 11, 1971. The petitioner, therefore, prayed that

the complete name of the former is only L.C. Lassiter and not
Jimmy L.C. Lassiter; that this
inaccuracy has proved difficulty
on the part of the petitioner to
prove the name of his father before American Embassy and in
connecting his filial relationship
to L.C. Lassiter, the petitioners
putative father; that further, it
is likewise prayed and requested
that it be established and indicated in the decision, to avoid
confusion and doubt that JAIME CATALO LASSITER and
JIMMY CATALO LASSITER is
one and the same person. The
petitioner, therefore, prayed
that, after due proceedings, an
order be issued judicially establishing as fact that the putative
father of the herein petitioner is
L.C. LASSITER and further be it
established as a fact that JAIME
CATALO LASSITER and JIMMY CATALO LASSITER is one
and the same person.
Finding the petition to be in
due form and substance, set this
case for hearing on October 9,
2014 at 9:00 oclock in the morning, at the Session Hall of this
Court. Any person having or
claiming any interest under the
corrections/modifications being

after due notice and hearing,

a decision be rendered declaring that: (1) The petitioner was
born on May 30, 1975; (2) the
maiden name of petitioners
mother is Filomena Rivera
Agravante; (3) The complete
name of petitioners father is
Pedro Tomenio Ortiguesa; (4)
The date of marriage of the
parents of the petitioner is
September 11, 1971; and (5) in
item no. 14, the name in print
of the informant is Filomena R.
Agravante-Ortiguesa.
Finding the petition to
be in due form and substance,
set this case for hearing on
October 8, 2014 at 9:00 in the
morning, at the Session Hall of
this Court. Any person having
or claiming any interest under
the entries in the record of
birth the corrections of which
are being sought may, within
fifteen (15) days from notice
of the petition or from the
last date of publication of this
Order, file his/her opposition
thereto.
Let a copy of this Order

RAMON JAMER DADULLA,

JR., is scheduled on July 17,
2014 at the Session Hall of the
Regional Trial Court, Branch 3,
Guiuan, Eastern Samar at 8:30
in the morning.
Any person who has any
cause or reason to object to the
grant of the petition may file
a verified written opposition
thereto, received by the undersigned before the date of the
summary hearing.

SO ORDERED in
Chambers.
June 19, 2014
Guiuan, Eastern Samar,
Philippines.
(Sgd.) HON. ROLANDO
M. LACDO-O
Executive / Presiding Judge
ESB: June 22-28, June 29- July
05, 6-12, 2014

sought may, within fifteen (15)

days from notice of the petition
or from the last date of publication of this Order, file his/her
opposition thereto.
Let a copy of this Order
be published once a week for
three (3) consecutive weeks in
a newspaper of general circulation and duly accredited to
publish judicial or legal notices
in the province of Eastern Samar at the expense of the petitioner.
Send a copy of this Order,
together with a copy of the petition, to the Office of the Solicitor General, 134 Amorsolo
St., Legaspi Village, Makati City
and to the City Civil Registrar
of Manila, the Civil Registrar
General, National Statistics Office, Manila and to the petitioner and his counsel,

SO ORDERED, In
Chambers.
Borongan City, Eastern Samar,
13 June 2014.
(Sgd.) NATHANIEL E.
BALDONO
Presiding Judge
ESB: June 15-21, 22-28, June
29- July 05, 2014

be published once a week for

three (3) consecutive weeks in
a newspaper of general circulation and duly accredited to
publish judicial or legal notices in the province of Eastern
Samar at the expense of the
petitioners.
Send a copy of this Order, together with a copy of
the petition, to the Office of
the Solicitor General, 134
Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village,
Makati City and to the Local
Civil Registrar of Borongan
City, Eastern Samar, the Civil
Registrar General, National
Statistic Office, Manila and to
the petitioner and his counsel.

SO ORDERED, In
Chambers.
Borongan City, Eastern Samar
11 June 2014.
(Sgd.) NATHANIEL E.
BALDONO
Presiding Judge
ESB: June 15-21, 22-28, June
29- July 05, 2014