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8/6/2019 Gahum No15
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TACLOBAN CITY.Believing that Dr. Jose P. Rizal is
more than just the countrys national hero, Secretary Ivan
John Enrile-Uy, of the Commission on Information and
Communication (CICT), is on talks with internet giant
Google based in Singapore for the inclusion of our heros
various landmarks at the worlds widely-used computer
search engine.
To be included also are locations of Rizals monuments,
visited places, and other related pieces of information of
his whereabouts here and abroad on Google maps.
Sec. Uy said his plan is also inspired from his previous
visit at Japans Imperial Palace wherein a bust and a marker
of Dr. Rizal are being displayed on its vicinity.
Surprisingly however people cannot tell more of the
countrys national hero there, when he attempted to askinformation from them.
Rizals landmarks are literally everywhere because
July
4-102011
Vol. 2
No. 15
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by Inka Sanchez
Automated Weather stationsto be installed in ood-prone
areas o Eastern Visayas
CICT to partner with Google
for a Jose Rizal web search
CICT Sec. Ivan
John Enrile-Uy:
Technology to
every corner in
Philippines
by Aurora J. Casimpan
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PhotographsbyJREspejo
TACLOBAN CITY. Eastern Visayas has long been
identified as typhoon prone region where some areas
are susceptible to landslides and floods brought by
heavy rains.
The occurrence of typhoons in the region whileunpreventable can be monitored and precautionary
measures against its onslaught can be implemented.
Early detection of a typhoon will lessen damages to
lives and properties.
The national government through the Department
of Science and Technology (DOST) in the region
will install ten units of a utomatic weather stations in
identified areas in the region.
The automated weather stations each costing
P200,000.00 will achieve real-time monitoring of
weather disturbances as it will measure temperature,
volume of rainfall, pressure and win speed.
DOST regional director Edgardo Esperancilla
disclosed that the automated monitoring facilities
will aid the weather bureau in deciding when to issue
warning for possible evacuation of a specific area as
the unmanned weather station automatically sends
data on an hourly basis.Places in the region where two modern facilities
will be set up are Guiuan in Eas tern Samar; Catbalogan
City; Maasin City; Saint Ber nard, Southern Leyte, and
Tacloban City.
Director Esperancilla explained that the
automated weather stations are stand-alone devices
that measure weather-related factors and transmit
data on real-time basis.
The setting up of automated stations is DOSTs
contribution to the disaster and risk reduction
TACLOBAN CITY, Ley te. They
say that beauty is in the eye of the
beholder. But this June, beauty
reigned supreme to everyone and
anyone who beheld and attended
two of the most prestigious
pageants in the regionMiss
Tacloban and Miss Pintados with
its spin-off pageant, Miss Teen
Pintados.
Candidates from all around
the region competed for the
title, but these lovely ladies
proved themselves to have an
edge against the others. To the
winners of Miss Tacloban, Miss
Pintados and Miss Teen Pintados
2011congratulations!
BeautyQueensEmerge
PhotographcourtesyoftheSearchforM
issPintados2011&MissTeenPintados2011FacebookPag
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From the barangay homefront to the world www.gahumweekly.com
by Edwin umalad
he traveled many times and befriended a lot of people
overseas. Yet most people have failed to tell something
more about him.
Also, this kind of effort will elevate Rizals heroism
and his unique accomplishments as a human being into
the world stage. A man of g reat substance, I believe Rizal
is more than just our national hero. Hes a renaissance man.
He can be liken to Leonardo da Vinci of Italy with his
monumental feats from his birth until his death.
Also, said effort is one way of bringing Rizal more
closer to the youths of this present generation since they
are prone of using computers and internet.
Most of us only know Rizal as a national hero; yet
Rizal is more than that. By putting every location of Rizals
monument, landmarks or travel destinations on Google
maps, people will become more aware of him. This can
DILG Sec.
Robredo to
local execs:
Hold trainings
within LGU
territory
Ombudsman
sub-ofce in
Eastern Visayas:
Continue the
ght against
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CICT Chairman, Secretary Ivan John Enrile-Uy
Miss PINTADOS 2011Charmaine Lynn B. Tan
from Pastrana, Leyte
MissTACLOBAN
2011Shenna O.
Hernandezfrom Biliran
Island
Photographco
urtesyoftheSearchforMissTacloban2011FacebookPag
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Miss TEEN PINTADOS 2011Karen Keith S. Gofrom Tacloban City
COLORS OF EASTERN VISAYAS. The Sangyaw Festival (left) and Pintados Festival(above) were colorfulboth in the literal and gurative sense, as the latter was
wracked by petty politics, but both festivals were successful in their intended results.
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Supplemental eeding or 106,209EV day care pupils soon to start
MEETING THE CHAIRMAN AND CAMP BLOGGERS: Participants of this years Camp Blog -Visayas held at VSU Baybay, Leyteposed with the people behind the project (From L-R): Prof. Winston M. Tabada ,iSchools- Project Coordinator; Dr. Jose L.Bacusmo , President, VSU; CICT Chairman Ivan John Uy; an d Magdalene C. Unajan, Writer.
Visayas cluster 4Ps parent-leaders
envision renewed communities
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte. The
Department of Social Welfare and
Development (DSWD) in Region 8
informed that the day care pupils in
the 139 municipalities and 7 cities of
Eastern Visayas will soon benet from
the governments Supplemental Feeding
Program.
On June 28, the DSWD Region 8
conducted the bidding for the kitchen
utensils that will be provided to each of
the day care centers, Ms. Pauline Nayra,
Regional Nutritionist and Project Focal
Person disclosed.
Some 106,209 daycare pupils of
the 4,191 Day Care Centers in the
4,390 barangays of the Region are thebeneciaries of the Supplemental Feeding
Program of the Aquino government
which will be implemented by the DSWD,
Director Leticia Corillo said.
Currently ongoing is the preparation
of vouchers for transfer of funds to
the Local Government Units for the
foodstuff.
The DSWD and NFA in the Region
has met to make nal arrangements
for the delivery of NFA rice which
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte. Secretary
Ivan John Enrile-Uy, Chairman of
the Commission on Information and
Communication Technology (CICT) has
said their ofce is exerting more efforts
to bridge the digital divide in the
country today.
Sec. Uy said this being the guest
speaker during the recently concluded
2011 Camp Blog -Visayas at Visayas
State University (VSU), in Baybay, Leyte.
Camp Blog is an educational and
ICT-related gathering of student writers
and teachers in public high schools
whose goal is to transform traditional
publication into an online newspaper.
Said activity has been implementedsince 2009 thru iSchools Project, an
initiative of CICT which aims to provide
computer and internet access to all public
high schools in the country.
Reportedly, said project has delivered
internet-connected laboratories and
faculty trainings to 1,000 public high
schools all over the country.
We strongly feel that this is what
we are all about, providing training and
opportunities to our people to become
members of the global community. We
intend to bring this technology to every
corner in the Philippines. ICT literacy
gives us opportunities to open the
windows of the world, said Sec. Uy.
Let the rest of the world know.
Its amazing how talented Filipinos are.
Given enough tools and opportunities,
the possibilities are boundless, added
Sec. Uy, as he expressed his appreciation
to the various well-built online outputs
of the 24 participants from said camp.
Sec. Uy also reminded the students to
continue being content creators instead
of just being mere internet users.
Accept change willingly because
it is a symbol of development in life.
Propagating this technology brings socio-
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Maydolong LGU hands out PantawidPasada assistance; irst in province
3July 4-10, 2011 July 4-10, 2011
Sec. Uy: echnology to everycorner in the Phil ippines
Robredo: Holdtrainings withinLGU territory
economic progress in every Filipino.
It was learned from Sec. Uy that same
efforts are also being initiated by their
ofce to various national government
agencies and to remote areas in the
country, like their e-community centers .
We know ICTWe are helping
other government agencies on their
efforts for an efcient and cost-benet
technology.
Meanwhile, Sec. Uy admitted that
their ofce is also facing limited budget
which inevitably hampered some of their
various ICT programs.
Our budget for operations can be
liken to a budget of a medium-sized
barangay in the country.
The Secretary however is hoping
that CICT will also become one of the
executive departments in the government
with its own sufcient resources.
Reportedly, CICT was created on
January 12, 2004, by virtue of Executive
Order No. 269, signed by then Pres.
Gloria Arroyos, as a transitory measure
to the creation of a Department of
Information and Communications
Technology (DICT)
Its attached agencies include
National Computer Center (NCC),
Telecommunications Office (TELOF),
National Telecommunications
Commission (NTC) and Philippine
Postal Corporation (PhilPost).
CICT serves as the primary policy,
planning, coordinating, implementing,
regulating, and administrative entity
of the executive branch of the
Philippine Government that will
promote, develop, and regulate
integrated and strategic information
and communication technology
(ICT) systems and reliable and cost-
efficient communication facilities and
services.
Its other responsibilities also
include the strengthening of anti cyber-
crime measures and the establishment
of Cyberservices corridors in the
country.
Under Pres. Noynoy Aquino
administration, CICT still remains a
commission to date.(Edn Benusa-Reyes
with reports from Inka Sanchez)
will be used in the Supplemental
Feeding Program, to the various local
government units in the region.
A series of orientation seminars have
been conducted in April in preparation
for the launching of the Supplemental
Feeding Program of the DSWD, part
of the mandate of the age ncy to answer
to the nutrition problem of children in
public day care centers.
Regional Nutritionist Pauline Nadera
of the DSWD Field Ofce said that the
feeding will be implemented nationwide,
for a period of 120 days. She emphasized
the role of mothers in handling the meal
preparation, adding that the food will
consists of indigenous items.Participants, who were Provincial/
Municipal/City Social Welfare and
Development Ofcers and Social
Welfare and Development Team
Leaders of the DSWD, were oriented
on the program guidelines, reporting
system and reporting forms, the
Memorandum of Agree ment, as well as
some administrative concerns.
Director Corillo revealed that
the most recent data from the 7th
METRO MANILA. Secretary Jesse M.
Robreo of the Department of the Interior
and Local Govenment (DILG) called on
all local chief executives (LCEs) to refrain
from conducting trainings and seminars
sourced from public funds outside of the
geographical island of their respective local
government units (LGUs).
Local execs and presiding ofcersof sanggunians are hereby strongly
discouraged to hold trainings and other
similar activities outside of their territorial
jurisdictions. Said Robredo in his directive
to provincial governors, city and municipal
mayors, punong barangays, sangguniang
presiding ofcers and ARMM regional
governor.
The DILG Secretary made the call as he
noted that some local government ofcials
and employees undertake training outside
of their ofcials stations or jurisdictions
funded out of public funds.
This practice impacts on the ability
of a local government to nance desirable
development programs or projects,
and delimits actions to bring about the
constitutional mandate to provide quality
of life for all, he said.
Earlier, the DILG chief ordered a
probe on the propriety of the seminar-
workshops held by the city governments of
Pasig, Mandaluyong and San Juan for their
village ofcials held in Boracay, Baguio and
Subic, respectively.
In February, the DILG issued a
directive that requires that seminars for
newly elected barangay ofcials should
be done strictly on site or within the
respective LGU.
It only allows the conduct of
orientation seminars outside the respective
LGU when there is no available facility.
In his directive, Robredo reminded
local execs of Commision on Audit (COA)
Circular No. 85-55-A which calls for theprevention of the incurrence of irregular,
unnecessary, extravagant expenditures or
uses of government funds and property.
Similarly, Administrative Order 103
was issued in 2003 which provides for the
maximization of the utilization of 20%
of their Internal Revenue Allotment for
development projects, he said.
Local execs should take full
cognizance of their principal responsibiliity
and accountability relative to the prudent
use of scarce nancial resources and strict
compliance wittth existiing budgeting,
accounting and auditing rulles and
regulations, he stressed.
Robredo, however, said that study
tours or similar activities anchored on
local governance may still be held outside,
the respective geographical island group
provided that the places to be visited are
included in the Galing Pook Founationss
list of LGUs or other institutions that are
recognized for observing best practices in
governance.
The ILG Secretary also directed
DILG regional directors and the ARMM
regional governor to monitor and report
the compliance/non-compliance of LGUs
within their areas to the directive. (DILG
Ofce of Public Affairs release)
BORONGAN, Eastern Samar. A
couple of months worth of waiting
finally paid off for 76 tricycle drivers
and operators in Maydolong, Eastern
Samar when they received the P150
Pantawid Pasada assistance on June
22, 2011.
The local government of
Maydolong is the first LGU in the
province to distribute the assistance
as, report says, others are still in the
process of organizing the distribution
ceremonies that will be done.
According to Department of
Interior and Local Governments
(DILG) Pantawid Pasada Transport
Assistance Program Manager Lito
Zacarias, out of 23 towns in Eastern
Samar, 19 have already signed a
memorandum of agreement with the
DILG for the release of the funds.
Zacarias confirmed that the LGUs
of Balangiga, Hernani, Maydolong,
Mercedes, Oras, Salcedo, San Julian,
Sulat and Taft already received the
checks for the program.
According to Mayor Henry
Afable, as soon as the funds for
the Pantawid Pasada Program were
released, his office sent notices to
the registered tricycle operators so
they could come to the distribution
venue with complete documents.
Salvacion Loste, operator of a
tricycle that plies the Maydolong-
Borongan route, said she received
the letter from the mayors office
days ahead.
Loste came to the Maydolong
Gym with her community tax
certificate, registration receipts and
license in time for the distribution.
P150 may not amount to much
gas but at least, it shows us the
government cares, Loste said.
On second thought, if the
government wants to give us some
more, we wouldnt really say no, the
tricycle operator said.
The Pantawid Pasada Program
implemented through the
Department of Energy aims to
provide a one-time assistance to
public utility operators and drivers;
for jeepneys fuel cards that can
be used to purchase P1050 worth
of gas, and P150 cash for tricycle
drivers and operators.
The assistance program was
conceived to serve as cushion for
drivers and operators bearing the
impact of incessant oil price hikes
since the first quarter of the year.
(Medora NB Quirante)
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte. The
Department of Social Welfare and
Development (DSWD) in Region 8 has
recently conducted a Pantawid Pamilyang
Pilipino Program (4Ps) Parent-Leaders
Forum for the Visayas cluster.
The two-day activity which was held
at the Ciriaco Hotel in Calbayog City on
the third week of June, has the theme,
Paglingon Sa Pinanggalingan, Pagharap
sa Kinabukasan: Isang Pagtatasa ng
Programang Pantawid Pamilya mula sa
mga Benepisyaryo.
Hosted by the DSWD Field Ofce
of the Eastern Visayas Region, the event
was aimed at gathering and recording the
participants vision brought about by the
positive changes in their lives and their
families as well.
The forum also provided the venue for
noting the issues and concerns encountered
Chiz Escudero: No needto postpone ARMM Pollsto quash private armies
METRO MANILA. Elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim
Mindanao (ARMM) need not be postponed in order for the government to
carry out a campaign to dismantle private armed groups all over the country
especially in Mindanao.
The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) currently
counts at least forty (40) private armies present in Mindanao alone. Private
armies have been notoriously tagged as being used by political dynasties in
the country to maintain a grip on power.
Senator Chiz Escudero, chairman of the Senate committee on justice
and human rights said anti-private armies drive is already a matter of state
policy as specied by the Constitution and that there is no need to disrupt a
constitutional process like the scheduled election in ARMM.
Escudero said Section 2, Article XVIII of the Constitution says that
private armies and other private armed groups not recognized by duly
constituted authority shall be dismantled.
The DILG, as one of the main proponents of the poll postponement saiddeferment is needed because the government should focus on eliminating
private armies to eliminate controlled votes in the region.
Escudero however debunks this, saying dismantling of such private arme d
groups can always be done regardless of the political exercise.
Why wait for postponement of election before it be done? If refor ms
are needed in ARMM to strengthen its mandate, its implementation need not
be conned in suspended animation. Regardless of an election or none, the
DILG is well within its mandate to pursue this intent.
Escudero, who also vocally pushes for the dismantling of private armies
said authorities are, empowered enough to cite the Constitutional provision
in its drive against these groups.
In order to address the oversight of government to implement the
dismantling of private armed grou ps, Escudero led Senate Bill Number
2165 (SBN 2165) or the Anti-Private Army and Private Armed Groups Act
of 2010.
In the said bill, leadership and membership in any private armed group
and refusal to disband after notice from authority is prohibited. Likewise, any
abuse of various permits pertaining to rearms, utilization of paramilitary
forces as private armed groups and protection, nancing and supplying
private armed groups is punishable.
The bill penalizes leaders and members with imprisonment of not less
than six 960 years or a ne of not less than two hundred (200) thousand
pesos or both such ne and imprisonment.
Protector, nanciers or suppliers shall be treated and punished as leaders.
If the leader is a public ofcer, in addition to the penalties, perpetual absolute
disqualication from holding public ofce and be subjected to administrative
sanctions.
If we need to keep private ar mies in check and disable them to operate
beyond our Constitutional framework, what we need is to strengthen its
implementation and not disrupt any constitutional processes Escudero
explained. (PR)
National Nutrition Survey in 2008
conducted by the Food and Nutrition
Research Institute of the Department
of Science and Technology revealed
that the prevalence of unde r and over
nutrition still persists among Filipino
children, and has signicantly increased
compared to the last survey.
The Supplemental Feeding Program
is the provision of food in addition to
the regular meals to day care children.
Food supplementation will be in the
form of hot meals to be served during
morning snack and afternoon sessions
to children in day care centers.
The parents will manage the
feeding program based on a preparedmeal cycle using available indigenous
food materials. The children will be
weighed at the start of the feeding and
a monthly weighing thereafter, will be
done to determine improvement in
their nutritional status.
At the end of the feeding program,
the childrens height and weight will
be taken again to determine how the
feeding program has improved their
nutritional status. (PIA 8)
along with the implementation of the
program, as well as gathering suggestions
to help smoothen project management.
During the discussions, the programs
implementers and stakeholders also
agreed to come up with a project which
will underscore a progressive c ommunity,
and likewise identify tasks appropriate for
them as leaders among the beneciaries,
thereby ready and responsible enough
to face the challenges besetting their
communities.
Participants of the activity who were
randomly selected by the DSWD national
ofce came from regions 6, 7 and 8 that
comprise the Visayas cluster.
Identied program partners coming
from the Civil Society Organizations of
the same regions were also invited to take
part as facilitators and documenters during
the said event. (DSWD PR)
Ombudsman Visayas opensEastern Visayas sub-ofce
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte. The
Office of the Ombudsman for
the Visayas headed by Deputy
Ombudsman Pelagio S. Apostol, will
bring the Office closer to the people
when it opens its sub-Office in Region
8 on July 4, 2011.
The OMB Region 8 will be tentatively
housed at the Annex Building of the
Civil Service Commission Regional
Office 8 at Candahug, Palo, Leyte,
as the Coordination Office of the
Inter-Agency Anti-Graft Coordinating
Council Region 8, Atty. Marilyn Taldo,
Assistant Regional Director of CSC 8informed.
As a member of the IAAGCC
together with the Civil Service
Commission, the Commission on
Audit, Department of Justice and theNational Bureau of Investigation, the
establishment of the Office of the
Ombudsman for the Visayas in Region
8 is a welcome move that will enable
the fight against corruption in the area
cohesive and intensified, ARD Taldo
stressed.
Starting July 4, 2011, the new sub-
0ffice of the Ombudsman in Region
8, will accept requests for assistance,
complaints and applications for the
clearance from the Ombudsman.
For more details, interested parties
may call Mr. Elpidio S. Montecillo,
Graft Investigation Officer I and Chief
Administrative Officer Designate, at
the Office of the Ombudsman Visayasin Cebu City, at telephone number
(032) 416-5130. (PIA8-CSC8)
N. Samar Provincial Nutrition Councilrames nutrition month activities
CATARMAN, Northern Samar.
Month of July is a Nutrition Month
set forth under Presidential Decree
No. 491 known as Nutrition Act of
the Philippines. The Act created the
National Nutrition Council (NNC)
which coordinates the celebration
nationwide and formulates a theme
to be carried out throughout the
country.
For this years Nutrition Month,
celebration focuses on the theme
Isulong and BREASTFEEDING
Tama, Sapat, at Eksklusibo. The
core message ensures successful
breastfeeding practices and encourages
all sectors to promote, protect and
support correct breastfeeding habits.
Following this mandate, the
Northern Samar Provincial Nutrition
Council called for a meeting to frame
plans in observance to the Nutrition
Month celebration.
On the 4rth of July, the first
Monday of the month, the celebration
will take off with a motorcade along the
capital town of Catarman to Capitol
grounds for the flag raising ceremony.
This will be followed by a school on
the air and live radio guesting over
Philippine Information Agency (PIA)
radio program at station DYSM.
Culmination of the celebration
is slated on July 25 highlighting the
graduation of the School on the Air
participants, distribution of vegetable
seeds from the Department of
Agriculture (DA), distribution of
incentives for Barangay Nutrition
Scholars of the 3 nearby towns
(Catarman, Bobon and Mondragon)
by Governor Paul Daza and NutriQuiz
for mothers and elementary and high
school students.
Form part of the highlights is the
awarding of appreciation to agencies
which implemented, complied with and
instituted Civil Service Memorandum
Circular No. 30, s. 1994 which provides
for the checklist of reasonable working
conditions in public sector specifically
the provision of breastfeeding room
for nursing mothers and other laws
pertaining thereto.
National Nutrition Survey results
revealed only 36 out of 100 were
exclusively breastfed among infants
0-5 months, 37 of every 100 were
breastfed at the same time given a
complementary food and as many as
27 out of every 100 infants were given
other milk and other foods.
According to the World Health
Organization (WHO), breastfeeding
ranks among the most effective
interventions to improve childs
survival and this not only saves
babies from death, but provides
long-term benefits. Breastfed babies
do better in school, hence, there is a
positive association of breastfeeding
with educational attainment. (PIA-
Northern Samar)
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IlltratorJojo Noble
Contribting WriterEric G. Tupaz, Aurora J. Casimpan, John Sumayao,
Edwin Tumalad, Inka Sanchez,Medora NB Quirante, Valentina P. Mullet
ColmnitJenelyn Garcia, Bert Ada, Rolando O. Borrinaga
Atty. Djhoana Antoni-Clemencio, J. Colima Bajado
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SojournerSmuSingS
Beyond the rocks of dicules lies a golden spot of
success
This adage fittingly personifies my closest friend
who finds poverty and hardship her motivation to
strive for life.
Living in a small cogon-roofed bamboo house with her
parents, two sisters, and only brother, young Crisna did
not have the idea of going to high school or college. With
her fathers meager earning as a farmer and her mothers
housekeeping job, they could hardly have a decent living.
Being the eldest, she has to help her mother peddle
vegetables in the town market to make both ends meet.
During Saturdays, she had to deviate from housework
to farm work - pasturing the carabao, planng rice, and
weeding the root crops. In school, she was always one
of the topnotchers in class. There was not a year in her
elementary grades when she was not the rst or second
honors. The array of medals and ribbons were living
tesmonies of her diligence and hard work. Her mother
carefully placed these in a trunk as precious mementos of
her achievements. She was not conceited and took pride
of her only ornament - an old red hair band given by an
aunt as a Christmas present.
Aer graduaon from the elementary grade as rst
honors, she thought she would end up in the farm
but a kind family friend helped her apply as a working
student to pursue her secondary educaon. She has to
wake up at 4:30 every morning to clean up the comfort
room of the school where she was studying. Balancing
her me between work and studies was dicult for the
frail sickly freshman but she persevered. Most of the
me, she had no
allowance for snacks. There were instances during
snack me that she had to stay away from her voracious
classmates. The sight of food awakens the fangs of hunger
and she has no budget even for a pack of biscuits. She had
only one school uniform, a pair of shoes, and one
Sunday dress for aending mass. To avoid being
seen with the same dress, she aended mass during
the evening or early dawn. Oung and hanging out with
friends were out of her mind.
Her concentraon was on her school work. While her
friends were in discos, Tina was with her books.
Her college life was not a bed of roses. There was
much tribulaons and distress. But the struggle must go
on or else her dreams would fade away. She availed of
the study-now-pay-later program of the school. All her
tuion fees and miscellaneous expenses were loaned and
to be paid upon employment. She nished the Educaon
course with ying colors. Right aer graduaon, she was
employed as a regular permanent teacher in one of the
public schools here in our place. She was able to send her
three younger siblings to college.
Life is sll hard for Crisna but she is already a
seasoned ghter of oddies and dicules. Prayer,
determinaon, and hard work were the guiding spirit in
my struggle. I feel Gods guidance through my prayers
and perseverance, she quipped when I asked her how
she survived from those trying mes.
I nodded approvingly. She is indeed a portrait of
fortitude and endurance. Through her, I learned the
real essence of life that we are the artisans of our
own destinies.
Thank you for the lessons learned, my closest friend,
my beloved mother.
Mrs. Valenna P. Mullet, is a Principal 1 , at
Malapoc Sur Elementary School, Maasin City
Division, Southern Leyte.
Tis column is for Gahum readers thoughts on current events,issues or plain observations in Eastern Visayas.
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Thoe Trying YearValentina P. Mullet
Idle HandEditorial
Allegedly, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office
(PCSO) has two hands: one for charity, the other... for
something else.
The former is something we cannot debate. Our poor kababayans
regard the PCSO as an emancipator, a savior in their mes of
need especially when they cannot simply pay their steep medical
or hospitalizaon bills.
The laer however is something disturbing. Just recently,
President Benigno Aquino III inherited a Php4-billion debt
incurred by the PCSO during the last year of former President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyos term. This was due to issuing hund reds
of guarantee leers to hospitals and entering into million-peso
contracts with media groups without the certainty of funds. This
resulted to Php1 billion in payables to media groups and Php3
billion in obligaons to hospitals.
Also, according to Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Neri
Javier Colmenares huge amounts of funds, amounting to
approximately Php7.2 billion during from 2001 to 2010, were
surreptitiously spent on advertising and public relations. A
trivial expense since PCSO does not need additional advertising,
the lure of the multi-million peso jackpot is enough to get
people to bet.
Now news on PCSOs Php42 billion contract with Australian
company, TMA, is yet another pox on the said agency. This said
contract is a 50-year thermal paper contract by PCSO and TMA.But according to former PCSO Chairman Manoling Morato, the
contract was legal and was even approved by the NEDA due to the
benets the government will gain. The contract includes provisions
that the company TMA will build its thermal paper producon
Fieta today:(A)political Parade
There must be something wrong with us.
Tacloban, the Eastern Visayas capital, celebrated its esta
last week, June 30. When I heard that the Pintados-Kasadyaan
fesval parade was blocked by Taclobans TOMECO and other
city personnel, I was not surprised. In supercial, it is Sangyaw
versus Pintados-Kasadyaan fesvals. But straighorwardly, it is
a polically-driven agenda.
I am not apathec to the ongoing polical squabble
between the provincial government of Leyte and the HUC
government of Tacloban. But I will put that maer to one
side. My emphasis here will be the celebraon of esta.
Theorecally, esta is a religious endeavor, thus, apolical.
But in the case of Tacloban, it shows otherwise. There must
be really something wrong with us.
Fiesta is a thanksgiving celebraon in honor to the
patron saint of the town for all its intercessory marvels.
The celebraon of estas in Eastern Visayas can be tracedback to the introducon of Chrisanity by the Spanish
conquistadores in the 1500s.
The early Visayans unreservedly embraced this
celebration for this is not uncommon to their pag-anito
(offering) to their deities. This celebration is much
closely related to the type of pag-anitocalled pagtigma,
or literally means to congregate or to gather. The
person who summons the villagers to the pagtigma, by
shouting in top of tall trees, is called parayawyaw.
The celebration revolves on the thanksgiving and asking
favors to their gods. Regardless of its animistic nature, it
was purely religious.
At present, estas are more colorful with overture
acvies, such as the fesval of fesvals- the Kasadyaan in
the case of Leyte. In the Visayan capitals, Cebu is noted for
its Sinulog, Kalibo for A-Ahan, and Ilo-ilo for Dinagyang.
All these three fesvals are well established and rooted to
their respecve cultures.
What about the Pintados-Kasadyaan and Sangyaw
fesvals? Some of us are informed (but unfortunately many
of us are not) that Pintados fesval is based on the painted
men and women, as the Spaniards describe our naves. And
Kasadyaan, they say, is a Visayan term for merriment and
jollity. Furthermore, Sangyaw means to herald a news.
How are these fesvals rooted to our cultural history?
Pintados entails to the taooed naves. Taooing is
actually not peculiar to our region. It is in fact pracced
all over the dierent regions of the country. Jesuit Father
Ignacio Alcina wrote in 1600s that almost every Bisayan
has a painted body as early as twenty years old, except
the women, who paint a poron of their hands only. Bur
generally, taooing is a presentaon of ones nobility,
achievements or heroic feats. But how do we see this in
the Pintados fesval of Tacloban? Does is coincide with the
cultural roots of our region? Pintados by the way is a Spanish
term. Pagpatikis a more appropriate word.
I cannot nd the word kasadyaan in any Waray
diconary, and probably from my ignorance, I thought this
word might be derived from the Tagalog sadya, or perhaps,
from a Sebuano lexicon. And from my imperfect mastery ofour language, I only know kalipayan and kamaribhong
as words that will suce the word merriment. While
sangyaw, as far as I know means to proclaim. Then, to
proclaim what?
More than that, we should couple these supposed
culture-rooted undertakings with a religious spirit, for
esta is primarily a church celebraon. This is a me for
prayer and thanksgiving for all the bounes we received.
This is not a me for pageantry of policians- our rst
problem. Secondly, we are all ignorant of our own culture,
much less of its essence. We all want to aend the paggma,
but everyone also wants to become the parayawyaw.
Namamarayaw!
Our culture is the strongest foundaon of our identy.
Why is it that Pintados, or Kasadyaan, or the Sangyaw
cannot compete with the prominence of Sinulog, A-ahan
and Dinagyang? Because of its shallow cultural foundaons,
plus, its shallow religious substance. Again, I will not be
surprised if in the future, another fesval will be birthed.
Another Pella or Romualdez fesval of fesvals.
For comments and queries, email at:
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J. Colima Bajado
trajectorieS
July 4-10, 2011 July 4-10, 2011
Bert Ada
gioS PagPauSwag
In page 2 of this papers June 20-26 issue, LTC Barotella ,
commanding ocer of 63 IB is quoted saying that, Ang
medical and dental mission na ito ay para sa mga kapus-palad
lalo na sa mga liblib na lugar na kung saan ito ay pangunahin
target ng mga bandidong grupo oBAHUBA upang linlangin
o himukin sa kanilang kilusan na walang ibang maidudulot
kundi ang kapahamakan ng mga mamamayan parcular na
dito sa Hila gang Samar(This medical and dental mission
is for the poor specially for those living in far- ung areas
which are the primary targets to be misled to join the cause
of bandit groups or NPAs eventually jeopardizing these
people parcularly here in N. Samar) .
Anybody who in his student days was adventurous
enough to participate in discussions on the National
Democratic Revolution (NDR) of which BAHUBA or NPA
is the armed component would know that a propaganda
movement (mass education campaign) is being made
among the masses, not only in far flung areas - although it
is freer or easier to do so there- whose message is this:
The most praccal soluon to our long term
massive poverty is genuine agrarian reform and naonal
industrializaon.
Likewise , it is being taught and learned that waging the
NDR- because it is against the entrenched interests of the
rich and the powerful people in society ( the big landlords,
foreign business and their local partners seeking to keep our
country as a supplier of raw materials and cheap labor and
buyer of nished products ,the super corrupt government
ocials, human rights violators) would not be easy. Not a
picnic. And , as in all genuine revoluons anywhere in the
world, it would entail a lot of sacrices including death.
No linlang, no misleading here. No double talk. No empty
promises as is usually done during elecon periods.
So why not just inform the public that the warring pares
have a dierent or even a fundamentally opposed set of
soluons to our poverty problem. That way the reason to
ght, to sacrice ones life is made transparent. That way we
would be nearer the truth. And to a soluon.
A beer level of nearness to truth is observable in the
posions taken by the belligerent pares in the peace
negoaon between the government of the Republic of
the Philippines (GPH) and the Naonal Democrac Front of
the Philippines (NDFP). Unfortunately the talks on the socio
economic reform agenda are temporarily suspended to give
me to GPH to fulll its promise to release JASIG (joint
agreement on safety and immunity guarantees)-protected
NDFP consultants held by GPH authories.
In the meanme, in de-basing operaons called peace
and development operaons under Oplan Bayanihan
PNOys internal security plan heavily inuenced by the US
counter-insurgency guide, statements such that of LTC
Barotella is rounely being made.
In a polico-military bale between forces of contending
soluons to the long term massive poverty in our society
, is LTC Barotella praccing polical neutrality? Does his
superiors -who allow him to do so- do? Does his statement
produce the best value for money spent supposedly for
winning the peace from the point of view not of the US
guides/interest but from the point of view of the people
desiring to be free from long term massive poverty?
Linlangin, a meareof or ditance to anegotiated peace
Meareof Pleare
Afriend of mine told me that on one of her mid-day
breaks during a route ride around her sales area, she
saw two boys raiding a large garbage can. She watched
them rummaged through the junk for things they could
sell. She heard them conversing where they had to go next
because they needed to gather more plastic bottles since
their price has increased from seven pesos to ten pesos
per kilo. The younger one said that with two kilos theycould already buy half a kilo of rice and surely their mother
would be very happy. The other said, I hope we could find
some steel because they are more expensive. She told me
she felt like she was clandestinely spying on businessmen
who were seriously strategizing the rise of their empire.
She was intrigued when their faces turned so bright with
delight and their voices quite animated. They found a red
toy car with missing front wheels. For several minutes she
was an unnoticed witness to their jocular mood as they
abandoned the garbage can and made motor sounds as
they played with car races in their young minds until the
older one said with reverberating bravado in his voice,
Lets go home and give this to Intoy.
Some say that no pleasure is sweeter than those we
cannot aord. The world though is abundant of pleasures
that are free or inexpensive. I nd measures of them in a
pedicab ride from our home to Robinsons and back during
our Sunday grocery rituals. With the wind on my face and
the steady rhythm of the turning wheels and sprockets I feel
the release of days of work from my shoulders. I also enjoy
great measures of them from the 15-minute conversaons
I make with drivers of tricycles I hire at a minimum of P50
and maximum of P70 on my way home during late hours.
The hedonisc value of talking to them, strangers that I
probably would not see or hire again because they are
hundreds in numbers in Tacloban City, is so accessible yet
so rare to those who fail to appreciate. I bask in measures
of them every morning while aboard a jeepney where I get
to glimpse the ancipaon and purposes of each of the
passengers as they look at their watches, dget with their
mobile phones, and somemes their conversaons. There
is someone I know who derives measures of pleasure from
the colors and designs of her ngernails. A friend is lled
with joy every me she listens to Sara Bareilles songs while
cleaning her bathroom. There is a food server at the green
walled carenderia where I eat my lunch who is always
pleased to see me because I say thank you to him.
Everything and everyone can be a source of measures
of pleasure. We are all vessels and seekers of pleasure.
The only thing that keeps us away from accessing these
measures of pleasure is the failure to exercise imaginaon.
With todays consumerist orientaon, most people prefer
canned pleasures. It is as if it should be branded with the
word pleasure before something becomes pleasurable. It
is as if it should be packaged pleasurable before something
becomes pleasurable. It is as if I pleasure has become pricey.
A lot of us have feared to embark within us and discover
that something could be a source of measures of pleasure
without the price, brand, and package. Some children have
already become unimaginave in their pursuit of pleasure.
They have learned to prefer the branded pleasure of PS3
and PS2 over the more free-owing hedonism of climbing
a tree and running under the torrenal rain shower. Some
of them choose Disney over an aernoon of hide and seek.
Among the teenagers, it is noceable that they would
spend hours going from one shop to another in Robinsons
during slack me and not bother at all with the wondrous
stars on any given clear night. My friends story about the
two boys has given me hope though because in it I heard
the hearts of those who sll know that pleasure emanates
from imaginaon. To those boys, a discarded baered
toy t for the garbage can could sll be a great source of
pleasure because they have imaginaon.
plant in Clark, Pampanga without cost from PCSO. And includes a
20% commission for the PCSO on every sale that the TMA will get
from abroad.
But we cant help it but queson their moves. From 2001 to
2010, PCSO has spent Php7.2 billion on adversing and public
relaons, while in 2010 alone, the agency incurred a debt of Php4
billion pesos. Even so, the PSCO entered into another spending
spree like this half-century contract. This is preposterous, even
if the projected results will purportedly be for the common
good. If the government will indeed benet from it, how sure
that this will benet our country and not just another milking
cow for idle hands?
Now, that PCSO has debt, they are giving the problem to Pres.
Aquino. What happened to the previous administraons? The
previous PSCO chairs? Are they unpercepve enough that they
consider the PCSO as a boomless pit of money or do they just
simply dont care?
Its infuriang to know, that this trend has been prolonged for
so many years. These amounts are ridiculously high. Government
agencies are throwing billions of pesos in anomalous contracts
and unnecessary expenses. At the rate things are going in our
government agencies, not only will our kababayansconnue to
wallow in poverty but also our government itself will be even
more neck-deep in debt.
Pres. Aquino promised us that hell cut off corruption inthe country. Lets just hope that he may be able to do that
soon, and start with the agency that should be helping our
kababayans, or he might just end up with nothing left but an
astronomical debt and a starving country.
Leon O. Ty TrustPbliher
Aaron J.P. AlmadroEditor-in-Chief& Art Director
Eden Benusa-ReyesManaging Editor
J. Colima BajadoWaray/Cltral Editor
Jon Facundo DeeBine Manager
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CAMP LUKBAN, Catbalogan, Samar. PAMANA or Payapa at MasaganangPamayanan program will continue to promotepeaceful and prosperous communities byreducing poverty and vulnerability, improvinggovernance, and strengthening capacities ofcommunities.
So said Ms. Maggs Barrios, a representativefrom Ofce of the Presidential Adviser on thePeace Process (OPAPP) during her recent visitat 8th Infantry Division.
With this program, peace can be achievedthrough a negotiable manner.
Meanwhile, Colonel Virgilio Espineli,Assistant Division Commander of 8ID assuredthe visitor that the division is very supportiveof this program in order to promote peace anddevelopment in the region.
Said program will be carried out in far-ung or remote communities.
It will be participated by the localgovernment units, PNP and AFP.
OPAPP: Peace can be achievedthrough a negotiable manner
J. Colima Bajado is the
Waray/Cultural Editor
of Gahum Weekly. He
had aended regional
and naonal wring
workshops and received
various awards for his
wrings. Mul Palanca
Award winning poet
Merlie Alunan says: [J.
Colima Bajado is] one of the most elegant users
of the [Waray] language in prose as well as in
poetry. This poem is one of his winning pieces
in the last years Chito S. Roo Literary Awards.
(Permission to reprint granted by Prof. Phil
Harold Lacaba Mercurio, CSRLA Coordinator)
Pitw
J.Colima Bajado
An kinabuhi, sugad hin uyas nga piw.
Waray talis nga matadong, puros kiriw.
Manhalaba pirme an ibaralbag,
Kan kinahanglanon, manhalipot an tarag.
Kay an kinabuhi,
Iba-iba an sukol-
an nanay ni Inay, nag siento otso ao,
an am pudo, trese la ka oras,
ha kaburut-on han Makagarahom,
kinuha na utro.
Pananglit ighuma ka pag uyas hin piw,
Hala, pagmulay, paki-angay,
Kay an kinabuhi,
Kus kaupay.
Diri importante an kahalaba han ibaralbag
o kahalipot han tarag,
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especially during typhoons and floods.
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Advanced Science and Technology Institute and
the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and
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CIC from p.1 ...
Siday
10 ka Sugo han Bata ngadto ha mga Kag-
anak
1. Gudtiay an akon mga kamot. Palihog ayaw
pag-ungara hin pagkatukib kun naghihimos
ako hin higdaan, nagdidibuho hin ladawan,
o naglalabay hin bola. Haglipot an akon mga
tiil. Palihog hinaya an iyo paglakat basin ako
makakalanat ha iyo.
2. An akon mga mata waray pa pakakita han
kalibutan sugad han iyo mga nakit-an. Palihog
tugoti ako nga makapag-usisa hin talwas. Ayaw
ako pudngi hin diri kinahanglanon.
3.An trabaho ha balay ada la ito kanunay. Gutiay
pa ako para hit sugad nga buruhaton. Palihog
paggahin hin oras basin kaburut-on nga igsayud
niyo ha akon an mga butang kabahin hini nga
makaruruyag nga kalibutan.
Keeping Waray-warayfrom p.8
July 4-10, 2011 July 4-10, 2011
NASECORE nanawagan ha SP han Leyte ngamag-interbener han plano nga proyekto han NGCP
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte. An National
Association of Electric Consumer for Reforms
(NASECORE) in naghangyo han pag interbener
han mga miyembro han Sangguniang Panlalawigan
han Leyte nga mag pasa hin resolusyon pagtipa
han plano pagtukod han Leyte-Mindanao Inter
Connection Project phase 1 han National Grid
Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP).
An panguna nga rason han patipa han
NASECORE amu an kahataas han pondo han
feasibility study nga kun diin an mag aabaga amu
an mga member consumer, sumala pa kan Mr.
Pete Ilagan, presidente han NASECORE.
Naghangyo gihapon hi Ilagan ha pamunuan
han Sangguniang Panlalawigan han Leyte nga
mag interbener ha ngaran han katawhan kay
mayda man katungod an SP mag cross examine
ha mga witnesses durante han pag dudumaraonnga public hearing yana nga hunyo 30 ha Leyte
Smed Center.
Ha pagbaton naman han mga magbabalaod
han probinsiya han Leyte, nagka urosa hira
nga igpadangat ini nga isyu ha komitiba han
Energy nga ginkakaptan ni Board Member Anlie
Apostol.
An committee hearing in gindumara didan
naglabay nga hunyo 14 nga gin atenderan han
mga opisyales han NASECORE, opisyales
han NGCP, general managers han electric
cooperatives nga nag ooperate ha Leyte ngan mga
lokal goverment unit chief executives han nasabi
nga probinsiya. Sumala hin usa nga opisyal han
NGCP, igintutugot dida hit balaod nga igpasa
ha mga miyembro tag konsumo han kompanya
an kagarastuhan nga gagamiton paghimo han
feasibility study, piro mahitungod waray man
nahipakita nga mga dokumento an grupo ngadto
ha mga magbabalaod han probinsiya, amu ngamagdudumara utro hin komite hearing dida hit
tiarabot nga Hulyo 12.
Ginlalauman nga dida han nasabi nga petsa,
makaka atender na an mga opisyal han Energy
Regulatory Board nga amu an may katungod pag
desisyon han petisyon ngadto hin power rate hikes.
Ini nga Leyte-Mindanao Interconnection
Project in usa han pira nga mga proyekto han
Department of Energy nga gintutuohan nga usa
han mga long term solution ngadto han problema
ha power supply han aton nasod.
Naabot hin 18 bilyones pesos an magagastos
han mao nga proyekto nga magtitikang didto
ha Ormoc Converter Station ngan magtatapos
ha may Kirahon Converter Station ha Nor th
Central Mindanao via Southern Leyte ngan North
Eastern Mindanao.
Magamit hin 250-kilovolt high-voltage density
cable bipolar link nga mayda total transfer capacity
HIN 500 megawatts (MW), ngan 455-kilometeronga kahalaba hin overhead line, ngan 23 km
submarine cable. (Eric G. Tupaz)
58 nga proyektoha SiniranganBisayas, nagki-
kinahanglanhan coconet bio-
engineering TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte. Hi Region 8
Director Rolando Asis han Department of
Public Works and Highways an nagbuyagyag
nga an naabot 58 nga mga proyekto ha
Sinirangan Bisayas in nanginginahanglan han
tinatawag nga bio-engineering technology
nga mayda estimated area of application nga
208,205 square meters.
Sumala kan Director Asis, an proposed
P32.9 million budget nga gagamiton han nasabi
nga proyekto, kun diin kinahanglan an gamiton
amu an coco nets application nga disenyo agod
ma stabilize an slopes.
An mando ngadto ha mga district engineers
in amu an pag gamit han coco nets ha tanan
nga mga national roads nga nagkikinahanglan
pagsumat pa ni Director Asis.
Ginpahayag ni Asis nga ha 58 dida
hito nga proyekto, 16 in nahimumutang ha
Southern Leyte, 15 ha probinsiya han Leyte, 12
ha Northern Samar, 7 ha Eastern Samar, 6 ha
Samar ngan 2 ha Biliran.
An Southern Leyte ngan Leyte an mayda
pinakadamo nga proposed projects mahitungod
damo an diri stable an kabutanga n han tuna
nga amu nagigin rason hin mga landslide ilabi
na kun mauran uran an panahon.
An Coco nets amu an mabulig ha pag
stabilize han kondisyon han tuna basi malikayan
an soil erosion nga nag prebentar gihapon han
mga river bank.
Dida han usa nga pagyakan ni Sec retary
Rogelio Singson, imbes nga concrete creeksides
or e mbankments an gamiton lugod coco nets
nga tikang ha coconut husk an gamiton agod
mapug ngan na ini nga mga panhitabo hin
landslides.
An katuyuanan han mao nga proyekto
in diri la mawara an problema durante hin
mga kalamidad kundi mapa uru-upay pa an
panginabuhi han katawhan ha rural areas.
(John Sumayao)
also attract tourists.
Rizal, during his lifetime, was able to visit various
countries in the world, particularly those in Europe
and Asia. Historians and writers considered him asPride of the Malay Race, a Universal Genuis, and
a Towering Intellect, among others.
A multi-talented Filipino, he was an accomplished
ophthalmic surgeon, author, architect, engineer,
linguist (he spoke 22 languages), scientist, historian,
writer, poet, musician, agronomist, artist, nationalist,
businessman, sculptor, sociologist, cartoonist,
theologian, educator, economist, ethnologist, scientic
farmer, naturalist, propagandist, novelist, inventor,
psychologist and journalist, among others. Rizals
feats have never been duplicated in history.
Because of his writings, particularly the El
Filibusterismo and Noli Me Tangere, Filipinos were
roused for their independence against Spanish rule.
He was 35 years old when the Spaniards killed him by
musketry at Luneta (formerly Bagumbayan ) in Manila
on December 30, 1896.
FLASH UPDATE: As of Press time, President
Benigno Aquino III dissolved the Commission on
Information and Communications Technology
(CICT) through Executive Order (E047). EO47
reorganizes the agency into the Information and
Communications Technology Ofce (ICTO) and
transfers it to the Department of Science and
Technology (DOST). The new head will be an
executive director with the rank of undersecretary.
Sec. Ivan John Uy, who was CICT chairman, has
declined to issue a comment for now, saying: We
would have to study the executive order rst. (With
reports from GMA News Online)
Weather stationsfrom p.1 .. .
Maupay nga pamalak at ngan pagpasig-uli hankumpyansa han katawhan ha gobyerno, panigamnanhan siyahan nga tuig ni Aquino ha katungdanan
METRO MANILA. Maupay nga pamalakat
ngan pagpasig-uli han kumpyansa han
katawhan ha gobyerno amo na panguna nga
mga nahimo han administrasyon Aquino ha
pagtagmo han usa ka tuig hini ha katungdanan
yana nga adlaw Huebes, pahayag ni Presidential
Communication Operations Office Secretary
Herminio Coloma dida hin usa nga press
briefing ha Malacaang hadton Miyerkules.
Pagbabag-o amo an ungara ngan panawagan
han katawhan han igdeklarar han Pangulo an
iya kandidatura hadton 2009, sering ni Coloma
ngan nagpahayag nga ginparig-onan han
Pangulo an iya saad durante han selebrasyon
han EDSA pinaagi han tema nga Pilipino
Ako, Ako ang Lakas ng Pagbabago.
Segun kan Coloma, nagtitindog an
administrasyon Aquino hin bag-o nga
pamalakat hin pan-gobyernohan nga may-ada
integridad, tangkod, waray iginlilipod ngan
responsable.
Amo daw ini an magpapasig-uli han
kumpyansa han molupyo diri la ngada han
gobyerno kondi an kumpyansa nga puede man
ngay-an mag-ambisyon ngan puede man ngay-
an makab-ot an mga gin-uungara nga mga
pagbabag-o ha katilingban.
Nagsering hi Coloma nga inuswag na an
nasud tipakadto han direksyon nga igintala han
Pangulo, hin-o naglunsad hin mga reporma
agud magkaada hin tuptop nga gobyerno ngan
mapuypoy an korapsyon.
Tikang hin usa nga administrasyon nga
pipira-pirahay la an nakakagpulos ngadto hin
usa nga sosyedad kon diin nakakagpulos an
ngatanan nga molupyo, sering niya.
Ha paghatag hin atensyon ngada han iya
siyahan nga tuig ha katungdanan, iglulunsad
gihapon ni Pangulo Benigno Aquino III
an Pilipinas Natin nga programa ha Pasig
City kon diin usa ini nga kampanya para hin
pagbinuliganay ha butnga han gobyerno ngan
han katawhan Pilipino ha pagpapadukwag han
nasud.
Hiton una nga tuig han Pangulo ha
katungdanan, rerepasohon niya an iya gin-
uungara para han nasud ngan paririg-onan pa
an iya iginsaad ngada han katawhan Pilipino.
Patitikangan gihapon han administrasyon
en lima nga pre-state-of-the-nation (SONA)
nga mga presentasyon nga magpapasundayag
han kanan gobyerno mga programa tipakadto
hin kauswagan ngan pagkaurosa.
(PIA-Eastern Samar)
and crew are part of the package and could
be used regionwide. A masseur, manicurist,
hairdresser on call and cook upon request, a
valet/guide always available at the guardhouse
and a guitarist complete thepersonal ser vices
offered at this facility. For local travel a bicycle
with a side car is available.
We left nothing to chance and even
thought of including a copy of the local paper
Gahum Weekly and 8-Magazine, regional
quarterly travel and lifestyle magazine to give
you a chance to get acquainted with regional
news and mores. There are lots of serious
books and lifestyle/travel magazine on site
and to make your reading more pleasurable two
hammocks are included.
Salag han Haribon Guest Houses are also
located on the following islandsof Guiuan:
Candulum in Sulangan, Homonhon, Suluan
and Manicani, all of which are found right on
thethe edge of the warm Pacic/Leyte Gulf
waters and in secluded, rural settings. Salag han
Haribon on the mainland is located in the heart
of town, in the Kabitun-an (Starry) part of
old Guiuan, a little over a kilometer from the
Guiuan Airport and a fteen minute drive to the
Surng Camp in Calicoan Island on the Pacic
Ocean side.
Te Last Bargain from p.8.. .
4. An akon mga pamalatian linghod pa.
Palihog pagin-ma-inalagyamon ha akon
mga kinahanglan. Ayaw ako pag minugoha
ha bug-os nga adlaw (Diri man ngani kamo
gusto nga pagmuguhon tungod han iyo
pagka-mausisahon). Tagda ako sugad han
gusto niyo nga pagtatagad han iba.
5. Usa ako nga espesyal nga regalo tikang
ha Ginoo. Palihog mangno-i ako sugad han
katuyuan han Ginoo nga iyo bubuhaton
paghimo ha akon nga magbaraton han
akon mga buhat, paghatag ha akon hin mga
pagsurundan ha kinabuhi, ug pagpasayod ha
akon ha mahigugmaon nga paagi.
6. Nanginginahanglan ako hin pag-aghat
ug pagdayaw, pero diri an iyo pagsuson, ha
akon pagtubo. Palihog hinaya an pagsuson;
hinumdumi, makakasaway man kamo han
akon mga buhat hin waray dara nga suson.
7. Palihog hatagi ako hin kagawasan nga
makaghimo hin mga desisyon para ha
akon. Tugoti ako nga mahilisa basin makag-
aram ako tikang ha akon mga sayop. Ngan
unina, ha kabubuwason, makag-andam na ako
paghimo hin mga desisyon nga gin-uungara
han akon kinabuhi.
8. Palihog ayaw pagliwata iton akon mga nahimo
na. Kay baga hin nagpapa-abat la ito nga an
akon talinguha kulang han iyo ginpamulat.
Maaram ako nga makuri ini, pero palihog ayaw
ako igtandi ha akon bugto nga lalaki o bugto
nga babayi.
9. Palihog ayaw kahadlok pag-awan hin usa ka
katapusan hin semana (weekend). An mga bata
nanginginahanglan hin bakasyon tikang ha ira
mga kag-anak, sugad man nga an mga kag-anak
nanginginahanglan hin bakasyon tikang han ira
mga bata.
10. Palihog hiara-a ako pagdara ha simbahan,
paghatag hin maupay nga pananglitan nga akon
pagsundon. Nalilipay ako makag-aram bahin
han Ginoo.
sANGYAWFEsTIVAL 2011
PINTADOsFEsTIVAL 2011
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keeping the Waray-waraylangage alive
Better late than later.When Bert Ada visited me one earlymorning in December to inform me about the
existence of this newspaper and to invite me to join
its pool of writers, I immediately said Yes! The
decision came easy; a quick look at the Opinion
Pages and the staff box showed that the people
involved here are my friends or acquaintances.
The more sticky part was the writing. It was
difficult to write a column when Christmas was
in the air, and I had another writing job to attend
to, which contract said it had to be finished in
six weeks.
You see, I had been commissioned to
translate to Waray-waray the English language
contents of a 64-pag e Mother and Child Book
produced by the Japan International Cooperation
Agency (JICA). This booklet would be publi shed
and initially distributed as personal reference andrecord of mothers in the Waray-waray-speaking
areas of Leyte.
I accepted the offer because I was particularly
challenged by some debasing claims in the academic
community that Waray-waray is a dying language
because of the dearth or virtual absence of printed
literature in this language. I wanted to prove the
pessimists wrong with whatever output I could
come up.
I started the translation task starting the
third week of November, got stalled for two
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vintage view
weeks by Christmas-related distractions, and
completed the job with days to spare before the
January 15 deadline. For reference, I used two
ancient Bisaya-Spanish dictionaries, two modern
dictionaries with English translations, and an
English-Spanish dictionary.
Yes, our language was known as Bisaya
throughout the Spanish era. It was called Binisaya
by the founders of the Sanghiran san Binisaya
(Academy of the Bisayan Languages) early
last century. The late poet and writer EduardoMakabenta still insisted on this name in the
dictionary published by his heirs in 1979.
But such was the inuence of the movie
Waray-waray in the late 1950s that our language
and identity as a people suddenly took a new label
that is not exactly something to be very proud of.
Here is my effort at translating the page on
the Ten Commandments of the Child to the
Parents.
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Acompact green home using efcient lightbulbs, minimum toxic materials, energy starcertied appliances that can reduce environmental
impact. It is a rustic gateaway but on the cutting
edge of style using mostly repurposed and/or local
and recycled materials. A dream Eco House
without sacrice to either function and style, small
yet accommodating to as many as eight vacationers
and of course beautifu l. I wanted an inspiring
example of what is possible if we discard the notion
that bigger is always better. In a sense, building
Salag was a back to nature trip, that brought me
back to my boyhood years, back to the homes that
I grew up with.
Currently, I am using the 2nd level as
Gahumweekly.com ofce and the ground oor as
ofce of Jon, Mayo and Freddie, Boatbuilders anewly organized outt engaged in building boats
for the shing and leisure segments in Region VIII.
There is also an attempt here to keep alive a family
tradition of shing and boatbuilding .
Salags framing used mostly coco lumber except
the posts and some basic members which are
recycled, ooring is of bamboo slats on the upper
oor and simulated Spanish Mission tiles on the
ground oor. The masters bedroom on the upper
level has a bath tub with, hot and cold water. There
is a bed made of bamboo wide enough to sleep two.
An antiroom serves both as an ofce with internet
access and contains also the wet bar being next to
the library com living room that is opened on three
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sides and has access to the wrap around balcony.
There are bathroom facilities on the upper and
lower levels and a kitchen on the ground oor plus
a wet bar upstairs.
On the ground oor are two small rooms
with narrow bamboo beds that serve as massage
tables when needed. The living room has grass forooring and is virtually open as in an indoor garden
and is reached through a side entrance via a lanai.
What appears as the front door from the street
is actually a backdoor leading to the dining area.
Leaving no space to waste, the kitchen may seemed
Lilliputian but youd be surprised at what you can
cook in its airplane galley size dimensions.There is
ample sleeping area with enough foam mattresses
provided for sleeping on the cool bamboo oor in
the common areas uptairs to sleep a total of eight or
even ten family members or group of vacationers.
An eighteen sitter van, provided wi th a driver, a
boat sitting eight to ten adultsprovided with a pilot
by Jon F. Dee
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