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CLARK FREEPORT – Convenience of transacting with government and

decongestion of Metro Manila have been identifi ed by Finance Sec. Carlos Dominguez III as among the top benefi ts of the National Government Administrative Center (NGAC) now nearing completion at the New Clark City within this freeport in Capas, Tarlac.

Moving nat’l gov’t offi cesto NCC ‘makes lot of sense’

MM decongestion, ease of doing business cited

LUBAO – Speaker of the House Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Governor Lilia ‘Nanay’ Pine-da have appealed to the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) to return the

Gov. Pineda shows the Certifi cate of Ancestral Domain Title, which SGMA took care of in July 2009, to BCDA personnel. Also in the photo are Lubao Mayor and incoming 2nd District board member Mylyn Pineda-Cayabyab and board member Fritzie David-Dizon.

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SGMA, Gov to BCDA: Give back IP landancestral domain of the Indige-nous Peoples (IP) in Barangay In-araro, Porac town.

“Maging malambot naman kayo sa mga Katutubo natin. Magtulungan tayo para maayos

natin ito,” Gov. Pineda told Engr. Joshua Bingcang, BCDA Senior Vice President for Business De-velopment.

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GROUNDBREAKING. DPWH Sec. Mark Villar, Philippine Army commanding general Lt. Gen. Macairog S. Alberto, DPWH-3 regional director Roseller Tolentino, Bulacan 2nd DEO head Ramiro Cruz and 1st Scout Ranger Regiment commander Brig. Gen. William N. Gonzales lead yesterday’s groundbreaking ceremony at Camp Tecson. C!+"&23%"'4 . !"!

SAN MIGUEL, Bulacan - Numerous infrastruc-tures facilities will soon rise at Camp Tecson in San Miguel, Bulacan as DPWH Secretary Mark Villar led the ground-breaking ceremony for the multiple projects at the First Scout Rangers Regiment Headquarters in the said town earlier today.

Villar was assisted by Philippine Army Com-

Villar breaks ground for multiple facilities at Bulacan military camp

manding General Lt. Gen. Macairog S. Alber-to and 1st Scout Rang-er Regiment command-er Brig. Gen. William N. Gonzales in the laying of time capsule to offi cially signal the start of con-struction activities.

Villar said that the multi-facility project will include a Clubhouse, Multi-purpose building and a 20-door transient

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CLARK FREEPORT ZONE – The Bases Con-version and Develop-ment Authority (BCDA) has announced it will engage the services of driverless cars at the New Clark City (NCC)

NCC GOING HIGH-TECH

Driverless cars for SEA Games

in time for the coming South East Asian (SEA) Games in December.

BCDA president-CEO Vince Dizon said the BCDA will be signing a memorandum of agree-ment with an American company for the driver-

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TRIBUTE. PamCham, MACCII and CILA offi cials present the posthumous resolutions of recognition for PamCham chairman Levy P. Laus to the Laus family led by matriarch Tess Laus during PamCham’s 63rd GMM at the LausGroup Event Centre on Tuesday. C!+"&23%"'4 . !"!

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CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – Three major business groups in the region honored on Tues-day the late Levy P. Laus, for-mer chairman-CEO of the Laus Group of Companies who met his untimely death last April 25 in a chopper crash in Bulacan.

The Pampanga Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (PamCham), joined by the Metro Angeles Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (MACCII) and the Clark Inves-tors and Locators Association (CILA), gave Laus posthu-mous recognition for his role in rallying this capital city and the province of Pampanga toward the development and priming of Central Luzon’s countryside progress.

The honor was contained in three separate resolutions from the business groups as well as mementos, including a charcoal portrait by Maestro

Laus given posthumous recognitionRafael Maniago.

Laus widow Tess received the honor during PamCham’s 63rd general membership meeting at the LausGroup Event Center here.

The posthumous reso-lutions of recognition cited Laus’s visionary leadership and mentorship of PamCham that eff ectively led to fulfi lling its mission of priming country-side development.

“His sage leadership made it a privilege to be a member of the board. Every month, we were witness to his perceptive insights, acute sense of appro-priateness and keen discern-ment of the best way to push forward advocacies that will promote and protect the inter-ests and welfare of business,” the resolution said.

It can be recalled that 15 years ago, PamCham as-sumed the role of the provin-cial chamber with the mission to rebuild, rehabilitate and re-store Pampanga’s economy

from the ashes of an epic di-saster, PamCham chairman Jess Nicdao said.

“Priming countryside busi-ness became our dictum. And our direction was to unite the business communi-ty of Pampanga into a single voice, to advocate for a busi-ness-friendly local environ-ment and promote Pampanga as a viable investment desti-nation,” he added.

“As PamCham moves for-ward sans the vital presence of our beloved chairman emer-itus, all of us in the board of di-rectors commit to continuing the work he had so perspica-ciously laid out for us. We will be unwavering in this commit-ment and we are very confi -dent that we will be successful because he will still be with us in spirit,” he declared.

For his part, PamCham president Rene Romero said: “A decade and a half ago, I ap-proached him to consider the conversion of then San Fer-

nando Chamber into a provin-cial chamber. He accepted my proposal with the condition that I will be his vice president and I will help him put together and establish a credible business organization led by prominent and advocacy-driven busi-nessmen and businesswom-en in Pampanga. The past 15 years saw PamCham grow and evolve into the infl uential provincial chamber it is now, thanks to the wise guidance of our dear chairman emeritus.”

He added: “In his absence, PamCham is bereft of a pre-scient and charismatic lead-er. We will miss his quick-wit, perceptive wisdom and enter-prising intellect in the board. But we are confi dent that a de-cade and a half of his coun-sel as chairman of the board prepared us enough to stay the course and keep pursuing advocacies that will fulfi ll our sworn mission to promote de-velopment in the countryside and capacitate our homegrown

local MSMEs grow into global-ly competitive enterprises.”

Meanwhile, MACCII and CILA highlighted Laus’s accom-plishment of setting standards of corporate social responsibil-ity through his exemplary civ-ic advocacies that benefi tted the business community; for fostering and enabling a busi-ness climate for foreign and lo-cal investments that harnessed Clark Freeport’s economic po-tential; and for demonstrating values that will forever inspire the community.

In response, Laus Group of Companies chair and CEO Lisette Laus-Velasco thanked the groups and all who have paid tribute to his late father.

“On behalf of the family, I would like to thank PamCham, MACCII and CILA and all those who have recognized my fa-ther. It’s been heartwarming to hear the stories and how our father has touched your lives. Maraming salamat po sa in-yong lahat,” she said.

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ALIAGA, Nueva Ecija - A Nue-va Ecija bishop urged the faith-ful to live the faith amid the seemingly foolish wearing of vines or dried banana leaves as townsfolk and tourists cel-ebrate “Pagsa-San Juan,” a festivity in the honor of St. John The Baptist in Barangay Bibiclat here Monday.

Bisjop Sofronio Bancud of the Diocese of Cabanatuan, who offi ciated the Mass, main-tained Pagsa-San Juan is be-yond cultural and tourist at-traction.

Bancud said that people practicing “Taong Putik” may be ridiculed by some non-dev-otees.

“Pero kung ikaw ay may pananampalatayang buhay na nakaugat sa pag-ibig ng Diy-os ikaw ay may kakayanang makatugon at pagtitiwala na sa Diyos lamang nagmumula ang ating lakas,” he said.

Like St. John, he said, the faithful should stand by humil-ity. He also urged devotees

RELIGIOSITY BEYOND REVELRY

Locals, tourists join ‘Pagsa-San Juan’to keep a warm relationship among family members as the faith teaches.

“Hangad natin ang kapa-yapaan, hangad natin na na may katarungan, may pagka-kaisa. Pero walang mangya-yari dito hanggat hindi sinisi-mulan sa tahanan,” the bishop stressed.

“Let us not wait for a ba-rangay kapitan, for the mayor, congressman, governor, sen-ators or the president, each on of us, bawat isa sa atin ay hinirang ng Diyos para sa pag-papalaganap ng kapayapaan. Simulan po natin,” he said.

Monday’s celebration marked the 75th year of Pag-sa-San Juan.

Incoming Vice Mayor Er-win Javaluyad, himself a dev-otee, said townsfolk take Pag-sa-San Juan too deeply. “Ka-kaiba ang Taong Putik da-hil nag-iisa lang yata ito sa buong mundo. Karamihan ay basaan,” he said.

He added this is also the way people thank God for all the blessings they receive.

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CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- For the fi rst time, the biggest book sale in the world is com-ing to this capital city in July.

A press conference at the Microtel Hotel at the Laus Center here on Wednesday announced the highly antic-ipated “Big Bad Wolf Book Sale” that will be held at the LausGroup Event Center from July 12 to 22.

The 24-hour book sale will be bringing best-seller ti-tles, young adult fi ction, ro-mance, science fi ction, crime thriller, business, self-help, architecture, design, cooking, children’s fi ction and activi-ty books or augmented reali-ty (AR) that will be on sale at 50 to 90 percent off on recom-mended retail prices.

Proceeds from the said ac-tivity will benefi t the Gawad Kalinga (GK), a poverty allevi-ation movement.

During the press confer-ence, Jacqueline Ng, found-er of the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale, explained that AR books will be more magical this time with reading selections linked by a smart phone, ipad or tab-let application that can make the book characters come to life like Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Old MacDonald, and the Wheels on The Bus.

The Big Bad Wolf Book Sale goes to PampangaNg said the AR books are

perfect for readers who wish to see their beloved children’s books come to life and tinker with their imagination and cre-ativity.

“Through an attractive book, parents will also be able to instill reading habits to young children, she said. This is what our Magic Books bring to their readers,” she added.

“As children work togeth-er with their favorite charac-ter to fi nish the story, they will become more immersed, and have a more fun experience reading,” she explained.

Through the Big Bad Wolf Books CSR arm Red Rea-derhood, Big Bad Wolf Books strengthens its partnership with GK.

In 2019, a total of 6,838 books had been donated to GK partner communities through the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale Manila 2019.

Book sale goers can also contribute directly by purchas-ing a book from the designat-ed Red Readerhood booth at the book sale.

“Through our partnership with Big Bad Wolf Books, we are able to inspire and empow-er members of the GK commu-nities by giving them an oppor-tunity to learn through the plat-form of the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale,” said Luis Oquiñena, GK

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executive director.“At the same time, the book

sale gives our communities a livelihood opportunity be-cause they also serve as on-the-ground book sale staff ,” he added.

“We are looking forward to expanding the reach of the book sale to more provinces in the Philippines so we can en-courage more people to read hence why we are organizing the book sale for the fi rst time at Pampanga,” Ng said.

“By making brand new af-fordable English books more accessible, especially to un-derserved communities, we will be able to cultivate a gen-eration of readers that can help drive the country forward,” she added.

Committed to a vision of changing the world one book at a time and promoting a cul-ture of reading, the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale led founders Andrew Yap and Ng to take it

one step further, by transform-ing it to become the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale and expand-ing across the world to reach book lovers in Sri Lanka, Tai-wan, Pakistan, Myanmar Indo-nesia, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, and the Philippines.

At the end of the press con-ference, members of the me-dia were given an opportuni-ty, dubbed VIP day, to choose their books for free from a va-riety of selections displayed on the table.

To get tickets to this exclu-sive book sale, visit the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale’s offi cial Facebook page at Big Bad Wolf Books and Instagram at @bbwbooksph for contests and special announcements.

COFFEE LOVERS have more reasons to indulge in a delicious cup anytime and anywhere as Great Taste White off ers its latest vari-ants to delight the craving of avid coff ee drinkers.

Whether it’s for start-ing the day right or for quick pick-me-ups in the middle of the day, the new Great Taste White Caramel and Great Taste White Crema are bound to satisfy the busy and always on-the-go Filipino.

Fans of sweet and aro-matic coff ee can fi nd them-selves enjoying Great Taste White Caramel. It off ers the perfect mix of roasted cof-fee and cream with hints of luscious caramel, blending a sweet linamnam for every-day coff ee fi x.

For a more fl avorful and full-bodied coff ee experi-

Sip a cup of great coffee with Great Taste White’s new fl avors

ence, Great Taste White Cre-ma combines the real coff ee taste with rich vanilla cream for a creamy linamnam that is reminiscent of everyone’s fa-vorite latte.

These two new variants, and the original Great Taste White coff ee mix, come in a fresh and attractive new pack-aging.

Singer and actress, Janel-la Salvador, joins Great Taste (White) as its newest ambas-sador in bringing amazing ev-eryday experiences that start with great coff ee. She shares, “I am absolutely ecstatic to be a part of this big family. It feels good to endorse a prod-uct you enjoy and personally, I love Great Taste White Car-amel because it is sweet and creamy – just like how I prefer having my cup of coff ee!”

A trailblazer in the instant

coff ee industry, Great Taste continues to brew new ex-periences for Filipinos – from being the fi rst to introduce white coff ee mix, fi rst twin pack size, and fi rst re-seal-able pouch, among others.

Tikman ang sarap ng ta-mang timpla with Great Taste White Caramel and Great Taste White Crema. These two new exciting variants come in 30g and 50g sa-chets, for only 6.05 (SRP) and 9.70 (SRP) respective-ly. Grab these in sari-sari stores, groceries and super-markets nationwide.

Stay updated on Great Taste’s latest off erings by fol-lowing Great Taste Coff ee on Facebook (@GreatTasteCof-feePH) or visiting Universal Robina Corporation’s web-site at www.urc.com.ph.

–Press release

Great Taste White launches its new White Caramel variant with its new ambassador, actress and singer Janella Salvador.

OLONGAPO CITY – Five in the police’s drug watch were arrested by the city police in anti-drug operations at Purok 1, Mactan, Barangay West Ba-jac-Bajac here.

Police identifi ed the sus-pects as Bokari Pangandag, 50; Virgilio Meron, 36, and Christian Ramos, 25, all res-idents of Barangay Old Caba-lan.

The three were arrested in the act of selling sachets of shabu worth P1,000 to a po-lice poseur-buyer.

Reports said while the drug operation was on going, sus-pects Jobert Alonzo, 18, of Ba-rangay Old Cabalan, and Bien

Felarca, 50, of Subic town, ar-rived in the area to buy a sa-chet of shabu from the three suspects already arrested by the police.

Recovered from Pangand-ag were eight transparent plastic sachets of shabu with a street value of P85,000 and the marked money.

Felarca and Alonzo each yielded one transparent plastic sachet of shabu.

The suspects were all de-tained at Police Station 1 of the Olongapo City Police Of-fi ce (OCPO) facing charges for violation of Section 5 and 11, Article ll of RA 9165.

–Johnny Reblando

5 in drug watch list

nabbed

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TODAY IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY

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Opinion

Take care of ALL workers’ safety

IT IS unfortunate - but not surprising - that it has to take the loss of an icon to highlight the continuing lack of concern for the safety and welfare of workers in the media industry, both in news and entertainment.

Could the accident that felled Eddie Garcia have been prevented?

Perhaps, perhaps not.But what is beyond dispute is the

absence of emergency responders who could have applied fi rst aid and ensured that he was evacuated properly to a medical facility.

While improvements have been made in the provision of safety equipment to news staff , this has mainly been confi ned to those working for the major outfi ts, and even then, only to selected personalities. And it has largely remained to NGOs to provide badly needed safety training and peer support for media stress and trauma.

Likewise, hazard pay and insurance remains a pipe dream, not just for journalists but for many TV and fi lm workers who undertake dangerous tasks.

We can only wonder: If this could happen to such a revered actor as Eddie Garcia, how many more bit players, stuntmen and women, and other workers lower down the totem pole may have suff ered similar misfortunes?

We demand that the media industry to do right by the people whose labor ensures the profi ts it rakes in. This is the least you can do.

We call on media workers, whether in news or entertainment, to come together and begin the conversation on how we can join our eff orts to ensure our mutual safety and welfare.

(Statement of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines addressed to the media industry, June 25, 2019)

Negating theCapampangan race

WE ARE proud of our museum... come and see why!The next time you visit #Pampanga, step into the Clark Museum, the portal to

the province’s rich legacy.

Too enticing to pass, I readily submitted to that teaser of the Greater Clark Visitors Bureau in its Facebook page and excitedly hit the play button on the short video exactly titled as the teaser’s.

It was despicable!At 0:43 of the video -- “It tells of Pampanga

as home to indigenous people and traditional Tagalogs...”

No, this no instance of mere historical revisionism.

No, this is no case of naked fact-twisting.No, this cannot even be a simple matter

of semantics – “indigenous people” in the Philippine context having assumed the meaning of aboriginal.

This can only be an absolute negation of the Capampangan race.

A Pampanga unpeopled by the Capampangan themselves is defi nitively no Pampanga.

What brains could pass for those who conceptualized, scripted, and produced that video are certainly addled. The same applies to those who approved that video, those that are now promoting it as well. Yes, the Clark Development Corp. and the GCVB, foremost.

The Capampangans among you ought to hang… hang your heads in shame, at the least.

Come to think of it, this is not the fi rst time that antipathy to, indeed, abomination of the Capampangan crept out of the Clark Museum.

In January 2015, at the inauguration of the museum’s 4-D Theater, I shouted in protest over the denigration of the Capampangan in the video premiered for the event. Here’s my account of that incident:

NO GOOD! A crisp, if loud, ejaculation I spewed at the 18-minuter Rising from the Ashes screened at the Clark Freeport’s spanking new 4-D Theater inaugurated last Monday.

Truly, NO GOOD. For such high a cost as P13.85 million, the fi lm devalued, aye, denigrated, what it was purposely made for to celebrate – precisely the indomitable spirit of Clark – its people, the Capampangan foremost – to resurrect from the devastation of the Mount Pinatubo eruptions.

What gall has the fi lm producer/writer/director then to impact in the narrative that Clark was “systematically looted by the hungry victims of the eruption”?

It is no mere public knowledge but gospel truth that the looting of Clark was perpetrated by elements of the Philippine Air Force stationed there. Indeed, it was a systematic pillage by

an organized army with sole authority over the place, rather than some spontaneous raid by a hunger-driven ash-speckled rabble off -base.

Forever enshrined in the Hall of Shame of our collective memory of Pinatubo is “General Hacot” – the Kapampangan “H” most pronounced where it does not exist – as the pillager of Clark.

The fi lmmakers did not know this? Or it just did not fi t into the movie already fi xed in their mind? Yeah, as it goes in some literary circles, why sacrifi ce the story for the facts?

As indeed, they seemingly did too at the opening scenes with a male Aeta shaman chanting forebodings of the forthcoming doom over their land. The culturally astute intrepid journalist Tonette Orejas was quick to slam the gender-insensitivity, if not outright perversion, committed by the fi lmmakers – the role of shaman or mag-aanito among the Aetas is exclusive to womenfolk.

So, the fi lm made some perfunctory references to Apo Namalyari, Mount Pinatubo’s deity whose displeasure caused the eruptions. But what displeased the Apo?

No, not the pale-faced imperialists that had already occupied the land and befriended the tribes for nearly a century before the vengeful blast.

Every Kapampangan journalist at the time knew the Aeta lore that Apo Namalyari was disturbed from his slumber when the unat (straight haired) desecrated his home, that is the Philippine National Oil Company exploring the slopes of the Zambales mountains for potential geothermal energy sources.

The Aeta tribesmen we interviewed claiming the steel pipes “melting like plastic” during the drilling as a sign of Apu Namalyari’s displeasure, aggravated by the subsequent – to them consequent – earthquake of 1990. And fi nding full, enormous expression in the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruptions.

No, the fi lmmakers had the least idea of these information. Or it could have been only too much non-essential bother to them. Else they could have easily referenced the Center for Kapampangan Studies and got precise, proper precis from Professor Robby Tantingco…

For what is supposed to be a drama-documentary, Rising from the Ashes runs short in facts and long, too long in romanticism. Alas, the medium consumed the message, with no more than bones left for substance…

AN INSULT to the Capampangan then, the utter denial of the Capampangan now.

What gives, CDC?

ON JUNE 27, 1974, Filipino Chess Master Eugene Torre became Asia’s fi rst grandmas-ter by drawing with American Grandmaster Robert Byrne at the 21st Chess Olympiad in Nice, France.

Born on November 4, 1951 in Iloilo City, Torre is consid-ered the best chess player the Philippines ever produced.

The former Business Ad-ministration undergraduate from Mapua Institute of Tech-nology also has the distinction of being the fi rst Asian player to earn the much-coveted title of International Grandmaster.

Torre shot to prominence

Filipino Chess Master Eugene Torre becomes Asia’s first Grandmaster

in 1976 as a possible future ti-tle challenger after winning a strong four-man tournament in Manila ahead of World Cham-pion Anatoly Karpov – thus be-coming the fi rst player to fi nish ahead of Karpov in a tourna-ment since the latter became world champion.

In the summer of 1976, three grandmasters traveled to Manila, Philippines to par-ticipate in the Marlboro-Loyola Kings Challenge chess tour-nament. They were (in order by Elo): World Champion Ana-toly Karpov (2695) from the Soviet Union, Ljubomir Ljubo-jević (2620) from Yugoslavia,

and Walter Browne (2585) from the United States. They were joined by grandmaster Eugenio Torre (2505) from the Philippines for a double-round robin event. The average rat-ing of the players qualifi ed the tournament as a category XV event.

The result was surprising and momentous due to the in-spired play of Torre. Not only did he defeat the world cham-pion in the second round, but he went on to fi nish clear fi rst ahead of Karpov, a feat no one had yet accomplished since the latter had become world champion.

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Halo-haloDing Cervantes

OpinionNapag-uusapanLangFelix M. Garcia

Pilan la ringkang Satanas?MISAN, ing Ginung Dios ampo y Satanas

Miagnan lang migpasyal king metung a Night Club,

Gagaligatsu lang sinaganang agad

Ding babaing disan dang teterak ubad.

Karakal ding ‘fans’ kung disan ta ken ngana

Ning Satanas kang Lord kabang mamilang ya;

Tara king pisamban nganing Ginu kaya,

Karin din kanaku ipakit ko’ keka.

Karas da sentru na nitang kabalenan

A nu’ ing munisipyu atiyu mu naman,

Sapak yang tau ing kilub ning pisamban

Karing sinimba at bisang mangumpisal.

Ating makasiklod kabang mangadi la,

Ating mipagkwentu oras na ning misa;

Ating matudtud a balamu puyat ya

Ating kabud mu ken mipapagsitsirya.

“Satanas” nganing Dios, “ngamu pa’ya karen

Karakal a taung disan ta’ ngeni ken?”

“Ding kaku” ngana ning kitnan, “ila pin den

A mipagkwentu mu lele na ning Birhen;

At deng manalangin tapat ilang keka,”

Ngana pang memuska king Ginung Dios keta;

“Kasi dakal la pin sana ring sisimba,

Pero ding aliwa e laus king lub da”.

Inya nung anti yan king mata ning Ginu

Ing malilyari king mabilug a yatu,

E la pin kaya mas mikarakal pihu,

Ding miras kang Satan karin king Impyernu?!

Ding Apulung UtusMADALAS, abe reng sisimba i Pisuk

Di Atsi na, ken king bisitas Tulauc;

Babasan na la ring makasulat kilub

Dane na ning ating makapaku king krus.

At king sarili nang bubut a pamisip

Kukutang na niti ing sangkan nung bakit

Dane wanan nang ‘Christ’ karin dala kebit

Ding makasulat a letrang makalukib.

Inya makanyan nang aisip ikutang

Kang Atsi na, oneng e ne pakibatan,

Nu’ne ngana kaya “Ima’ing kekang kutnan

King ba’mong abalu tune kabaldugan.

E ne ne kitnan pang pasibayung Pisuk

I Atsi na uling madalas malaut

Ing pakibat niti a lulwal king asbuk,

Nung inya king Ima ya migmasikan lub.

“Nanu la pu reng ‘Ten Commandments’ awsan da?

“Anak, apulu lang utus ning Dios deta,

A sukat igalang at pamintwan” ngana

“Ban milisya tamu king pamikasala.

Ing Ginung Miglalang o Mayupayang Dios

Ing minye pin kareting ‘Apulung Utus’

Inya ren dapat lang mipamintwan lubus

Ban e ta’ manabu karin king Impyernus”.

“Nung makanyan Ima, mas mayupaya ka

Kesa king Dios” ngana, “uling mas dakal la

Ding keka, a kaku pane yutus keta

Manibat king abak, angga na pa pota!”

Something big afoot?THERE SEEMS something really, really big is afoot and there is an increasing number of signs this is so.

The late St. John Paul II, whose body has been found totally incorrupt, talked about it in many of his writings which essentially in the tone of preparing the Church for a change of an era and a new time. He referred to the latter as New Advent.

Last June 25, Our Lady of Medjugorje said that this time is fast approaching as she thanked those who have followed her admonitions in Medjugorje.

But fi rst, St. John Paul II when he was still Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Poland in his talk while visiting the US in 1976. He said as follows:

“We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the fi nal confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel.

“We must be prepared to undergo great trials in the not-too-distant future; trials that will require us to be ready to give up even our lives,

and a total gift of self to Christ and for Christ. Through your prayers and mine, it is possible to alleviate this tribulation, but it is no longer possible to avert it…How many times has the renewal of the Church been brought about in blood! It will not be diff erent this time.”

And then, only last June 25, Our Lady of Medjugorje said as follows:

“Dear children! I am thanking God for each of you. In a special way, little children, thank you for having responded to my call. I am preparing you for the new times that you may be fi rm in faith and persevering in prayer, so that the Holy Spirit may work through you and renew the face of the earth. I am praying with you for peace which is the most precious gift, even though Satan wants war and hatred. You, little children, be my extended hands and proudly go with God. Thank you for having responded to my call.”

Is the prophesied Warning to take place any time in the next three years to be followed by the other prophecies leading to the Chastisement that will renew the earth and pave the way for a new era?

We are doing our best – CIAC(Rejoinder of CIAC to Zona Libre column titled “CRK sucks”

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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINESDepartment of Transportation and

CommunicationsLAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING

AND REGULATORY BOARDRegional Offi ce No. III

City of San Fernando, Pampanga

Application for Extension of Validity of aCertifi cate of Public Convenience to operate a PUJ service.

R-EV-PJ-2019-f-99-01316CURTIS T. ALBANO /Applicant x-----------------------------------------------------------x

NOTICE OF HEARINGApplicant is a grantee of a Certifi cate of

Public Convenience to operate a PUJ Service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: CHECKPOINT-HOLY ANGEL UNIVERSITY and vice versa with the use of one (1) unit/s, which certifi cate is valid up to June 23, 2019. In the application fi led on June 3, 2019. Applicant request for the Extension of Validity of said Certifi cate with the use of the same number of unit authorized therein.

NOTICE is hereby given that this Application will be heard by this Board on July 8, 2019 at 9:00 A.M. at its Offi ce at the above address.

Applicant is hereby ordered to publish this Notice at least FIVE (5) days before the above date of hearing once in a newspaper of general circulation in REGION III.

Parties opposed to the granting of the Application must fi le their written oppositions supported by documentary evidence on or before the above date, copy of the same be furnished to the applicant, and may if they so desire appear on the said date and time.

This application will be acted upon by this Board on the basis of the records of this case submitted by the parties, unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documentary evidence for the judicious resolution of the same.

WITNESS the Honorable AHMED G. CUIZON, Regional Director this 4th day of June 2019 in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga.

JE-JESUS D. SISON Hearing Offi cer

PUNTO! Central Luzon: June 27, 2 019

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINESDepartment of Transportation and

CommunicationsLAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING

AND REGULATORY BOARDRegional Offi ce No. III

City of San Fernando, Pampanga

Application for Extension of Validity of aCertifi cate of Public Convenience to operate a PUJ service.

R-EV-PJ-2019-f-99-01320NARDO P. ZAMORA /Applicant x----------------------------------------------------------x

NOTICE OF HEARINGApplicant is a grantee of a Certifi cate of

Public Convenience to operate a PUJ Service for the transportation of passengers and freight on the route: CHECKPOINT-HOLY ANGEL UNIVERSITY and vice versa with the use of one (1) unit/s, which certifi cate is valid up to July 19, 2019. In the application fi led on June 3, 2019. Applicant request for the Extension of Validity of said Certifi cate with the use of the same number of unit authorized therein.

NOTICE is hereby given that this Application will be heard by this Board on July 8, 2019 at 9:00 A.M. at its Offi ce at the above address.

Applicant is hereby ordered to publish this Notice at least FIVE (5) days before the above date of hearing once in a newspaper of general circulation in REGION III.

Parties opposed to the granting of the Application must fi le their written oppositions supported by documentary evidence on or before the above date, copy of the same be furnished to the applicant, and may if they so desire appear on the said date and time.

This application will be acted upon by this Board on the basis of the records of this case submitted by the parties, unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documentary evidence for the judicious resolution of the same.

WITNESS the Honorable AHMED G. CUIZON, Regional Director this 4th day of June 2019 in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga.

JE-JESUS D. SISON Hearing Offi cer

PUNTO! Central Luzon: June 27, 2019

less cars and buses that will take athletes around the sports complex at NCC.

Dizon made the an-nouncement during the inspection of the NCC sports complex with Sen-ators Panfi lo “Ping” Lac-son and Gregorio “Grin-go” Honasan II last week.

Driverless cars for SEA GamesHonasan and Lac-

son earlier toured the 20,000-seater Athletics Stadium, the 2,000-seat-er Aquatics Center and the 1.4-kilometer River-park at the National Gov-ernment Administrative Center (NGAC) at the NCC.

Lacson lauded the progress of NCC tak-ing note that it is already

more than 80 percent complete.

Honasan, meanwhile, encouraged more sus-tainable developments.

The NGAC, which is part of President Dute-rte’s plan to decongest Metro Manila, is situated at the NCC, the country’s fi rst and only smart and green city to rise within the Clark Special Eco-

nomic Zone and BCDA’s most ambitious project to date in partnership with infrastructure developer MTD Philippines.

A 200-hectare mixed-used government cen-ter, meant to decentral-ize state offi ces from the capital, will primarily host offi ces of various gov-ernment agencies at the NCC.

Domain Title (CADT) for 16,000 hectares in the said town was taken care of by SGMA in July 2009, when she was in hospital arrest.

However, during the term of former President Corazon ‘Cory’ Aquino’s, 5,000 hectares of the 16,000 hectares, was given to BCDA without a title.

“Inayos ko iyan noong 2009 para sa mga katutubo. May title, pero hindi pa naka-rehistro. Pero nung kay President Cory, walang titulo,” the Former Pres. reiterated.

“Noong naayos ‘yan noon, wala pong naging gastos ang mga katutu-bo natin. Ni piso, wala po,” Atty. Eugenio Insig-ne added, who was then

SGMA, Gov to BCDA: Give back IP landF��� ���! 1 National Commission

on Indigenous People (NCIP) Chairperson.

The lady leaders sug-gested that if the 5,000 hectares would not be given back to the IPs, the BCDA, with Kalin-ga Congressman Allen Mangaoang who also attended the meeting, should re-survey the land to identify which area can be used or not.

“Mag-arkila tayo ng helicopter kapag nag-survey. Invite rin na-tin ang DENR, Bureau of Plant, dahil kabisado na nila yan at sila ang nakakaalam ng protect-ed land dyan,” the Gov. mentioned.

According to Man-gaoang, also Chairper-son of Indigenous Cul-tural Communities and Indigenous Peoples,

they are willing to inspect the place to resolve the issue as soon as possi-ble.

Meanwhile, if inves-tors would come for busi-ness in the land, or there is one already, the Aetas should also receive their income shares, the lady leaders said.

“Yung hindi niyo na magagamit, dahil bu-lubundukin naman tala-ga yon, bigay niyo na sa mga katutubo. Hayaan ninyo na lang sa kanila yon. Hindi ninyo naman mapapakinabangan, sila pwede pa nilang pag-tamnan,” Gov. Pineda added.

With that, Atty. Insig-ne said, the BCDA and the IPs could settle and sign a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA).

“Tulungan natin ang

maliliit, tulungan natin ang mahihirap, huwag natin silang labanan,” the lady Governor insisted.

Also in the meeting to support the IPs were Porac Mayor Condrali-to ‘Carling’ Dela Cruz, Lubao Mayor and in-coming Second District Board Member Mylyn Pi-neda-Cayabyab, Board Member Fritzie Da-vid-Dizon, Provincial So-cial Welfare and Devel-opment Offi cer Elizabeth Baybayan, Clark Devel-opment Corporation As-sistant Vice President for Administration Zoraida Camello, Land Registra-tion Authority personnel, and some members of Porac council.

The assembly is set to continue in July. – Leah Isidro De Fiesta/Pampanga PIO

quarters where Scout Rangers can reside and utilize during their re-spective duties and train-ings.

Moreover, the DPWH is also set to conduct as-phalt overlaying on the military base’s perimeter road as part of the proj-ect, Villar said.

“The construction of several infrastructures in Camp Tecson is part of

Villar breaks ground...F��� ���! 1 the government’s goal to

show support to Filipino soldiers by modernizing and providing more ca-pable facilities for their proper usage,” Villar said.

The First Scout Rang-er Regiment is a unit of the Philippine Army spe-cializing in anti-guerril-la jungle warfare, raids, ambushes, close quar-ters combat, urban war-fare and sabotage.

–Press release

Thus, the project “makes sense,” he said during a recent visit to the project site.

Visiting the NGAC re-cently, Dominguez said that the relocation of na-tional government of-fi ces in Metro Manila to the New Clark City here “makes a lot of sense” because of such bene-fi ts.

The NGAC as well as a sports complex to be used for the Southeast Asian Games this No-vember are under Phase

Moving nat’l gov’t offi ces to NCC ‘makes lot of sense’F��� ���! 1 1A of the New Clark City

project. Projects under this phase have been estimated to be over 80 percent fi nished. The sports facilities include a 20,000-seater Athletic Stadium, a 2,000-seater Aquatic Center, and an Athletes’ Village.

Patterned after Pu-trajaya in Malaysia, the NGAC project is part of the Duterte administra-tion’s plan to decongest Metro Manila.

“The government of-fi ces in Manila are scat-tered all over the city; and for the public, it’s

very diffi cult for them if they have to deal with several ministries to go from one place to anoth-er. This makes a lot of sense,” Dominguez said in an interview.

“We own the land, it’s available, it will be acces-sible through rail, train, highways, so it makes sense to really consider moving here,” he added.

New Clark City will be connected to the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway and the Clark Interna-tional Airport via access roads. A railway network stretching from Calamba

in Laguna to New Clark City will also be opera-tional by 2025.

BCDA and private partner, infrastructure developer MTD Phil-ippines, committed to fi nish Phase 1A in two months.

Dominguez noted that “we laid the ground-work in January of 2018. And in 18 months, this is what you have. This is the result of good plan-ning and excellent man-agement.”

Phase 1A of New Clark City also involves the construction of world-

class sports facilities to be used in this year’s hosting of the South East Asian Games.

New Clark City is en-visioned to be the coun-try’s fi rst smart, green, and resilient metropolis in the country.

“The vision of Pres-ident Duterte for New

Clark City is really to aff ord Filipinos with a better quality of life. The President wants to spread growth outside of the cities and Clark, in the very near future, will be the clear embodiment of this inclusive growth,” said BCDA President and CEO Vince Dizon.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Angeles City Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan looks at the Holy Rosary Parish Church as he pays a visit to Museo Ning Angeles to make a fi nal inspection of the museum’s renovation as local chief executive of this highly urbanized city. The repair and reconstruction of the former ‘old munisipyo’ has been approved by the National Historical Commission. The National Museum of the Philippines declared the museum as an important cultural property last June 12, 2012. P !"! $!%&"'() !* A+0'6'( CIO

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SpotlightArci Pineda

NOTICE OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNotice is hereby given that the heirs of FE O. DABUET who died intestate

on February 11, 2004 in Angeles City executed an Affi davit of Extrajudicial Settlement on her estate, more particularly described as a parcel of land (Lot 11, Block 9 of the subdivision plan (LRC) Psd-31390 Sheet 2, being a portion of Lot 647. Angeles Cadastre, LRC (GLRO) Cad. Record No. 124) with improvements existing thereon, situated in the Barrio of Malabanias, City of Angeles and covered by Transfer Certifi cate of Title No. 103867, before Notary Public Arnel D. Berato as per Doc No. 182, Page No. 38, Book No. II, Series of 2019.

Punto! Central Luzon: June 20, 27 & July 4, 2019

NOTICE OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNotice is hereby given that the heirs of RENE A. MOLINA who died

intestate on July 26, 2018 in Angeles City executed an Affi davit of Extrajudicial Settlement on his estate, more particularly described as parcels of land, to wit:

Property No. TCT No. Lot & Block Location

1 124471 Lot 1, Blk. 3 San Jose, Angeles City

2 186744 Lot 19, Blk. 36 Sapalibutad, Angeles City

3 103797 Lot 21, Blk. 139 Poblacion, Muntinlupa City

4 004-2017011526 Lot 6, Blk. 498 Brgy. Talayan, Quezon City

5 004-2017011527 Lot 4, Blk. 2 Brgy. Capitol Hills, Quezon City

6 168069 Lot 8, Blk. 498 Brgy. Talayan, Quezon City

before Notary Public Jerome T. Paras as per Doc No. 56, Page No. 9, Book No. XIII, Series of 2019.

Punto! Central Luzon: June 20, 27 & July 4, 2019

NOTICE OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNotice is hereby given that the heirs of EMELITA BATIO-AN RIVERA

who died intestate on February 4, 2019 in Mabalacat City, Pampanga executed an Affi davit of Extrajudicial Settlement on her estate, more particularly described as a parcel of land (1-E-1-A-2, Plan No. Psd-03-221668, portion of Lot 1-E-1-A, Psd-03-212215) located at Brgy. Camachiles, City of Mabalacat, Pampanga, Island of Luzon and covered by Transfer Certifi cate of Title No. 045-2017004172, before Notary Public Ponciano V. Dela Cruz Jr. as per Doc No. 327, Page No. 81, Book No. XIII, Series of 2019.

Punto! Central Luzon: June 20, 27 & July 4, 2019

NOTICE OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENTNotice is hereby given that the heirs of Spouses ROBERTO PANGILINAN

and NELIA BADILLA PANGILINAN who died intestate on April 1, 2013 in Mabalacat City and May 12, 2017 in Tarlac City, respectively, executed an Affi davit of Extrajudicial Settlement with Special Power of Attorney on their estate, more particularly described as a parcel of land (Lot 2, Blk. 7 of the cons. & subd. plan Pcs-03-000868, being a portion of cons. Lots 624-A & 624-B (LRC) Psd-60999 and Lot 228, Mabt. Cad. LRC Rec. No. ) situated in the Mun. of Mabt., Prov. of Pamp. and covered by Transfer Certifi cate of Title No. 569376-R, before Notary Public Roseller B. Rodriguez as per Doc No. 616, Page No. 124, Book No. 87, Series of 2019.

Punto! Central Luzon: June 20, 27 & July 4, 2019

NOTICE OF SELF-ADJUDICATIONNotice is hereby given that HONEYLYN NOVELA DAVID, of legal age,

Filipina, widow, resident of 4122 Jesus St., Pulungbulu, Angeles City and heir of REYNALDO S. DAVID who died intestate on April 16, 2019 in Angeles City executed an Affi davit of Self-Adjudication on his estate, more particularly described as Cash Savings with BDO, Clark Branch before Notary Public Virgilio S. Lansang as per Doc No. 38, Page No. 5, Book No. 25, Series of 2019.

Punto! Central Luzon: June 20, 27 & July 4, 2019

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINESREGIONAL TRIAL COURT

OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURTTHIRD JUDICIAL REGION

ANGELES CITY

HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FC CASE NO. 2019-2011FUND (Pag-IBIG Fund), Mortgagee, Extrajudicial Foreclosure

-versus- Proceedings of Mortgaged Property under Act No. 3135JAMES ALBERT T. FLORENDO, as Amended Act No. 4118 Mortgagor/s.

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

Upon extrajudicial petition for sale under Act 3135 as amended, fi led by the above-named Mortgagee against the Mortgagor JAMES ALBERT T. FLORENDO with residence and postal address at No. 2025 Hadrian St., Mt. View Subd., Balibago, Angeles City, to satisfy the mortgage debt which as of May 15, 2019 amounts to FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTY NINE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FORTY THREE PESOS AND 10/100 (Php479,143.10) the undersigned Sheriff IV will sell at public auction on July 25, 2019 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning or soon thereafter at the Offi ce of the Clerk of Court, Regional Trial Court, Hall of Justice, Pulung Maragul, Angeles City, to the highest bidder, for cash or manager’s check and in Philippine Currency, the following parcel of land with all the improvements existing thereon, to wit:

TCT NO. 045-2013001699“A PARCEL OF LAND (LOT 7-B-5-N-1 OF THE SUBDIVISION

PLAN PSD-03-097167, BEING A PORTION OF LOT 7-B-5-N (LRC) PSD-13387, LRC REC. NO. ) SITUATED IN THE BARRIO OF BALIBAGO, ANGELES CITY. X X X X CONTAINING AN AREA OF ONE HUNDRED FIFTY (150) SQUARE METERS X X X X.”

Prospective buyers may investigate for themselves the above-described property and encumbrances thereon, if there be any.

All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated time and date.

In the event the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be held on August 1, 2019 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning without further notice.

Angeles City, June 18, 2019.

JAMES B. CUMAGUN Sheriff IVCopy furnished:

HOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND (PAG-IBIG FUND)

LYDIA T. DE CASTROOIC-LMRDHOME DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND (Pag-IBIG Fund)Suburbia Complex, McArthur HighwayMaimpis, City of San Fernando, Pamp.

JAMES ALBERT T. FLORENDONo. 2025 Hadrian St., Mt. View Subd.,Balibago, Angeles City

PUNTO! Central Luzon: June 27, July 4 & 11, 2019

Jessy Mendiola professeslove for Luis Manzano!

JESSY MENDIOLA takes to Instagram to greet boyfriend Luis Manzano on their third anniversary as a couple. Jessy writes, “God knew I needed someone like you in my life.”

The kapamilya actress even recalled when she accepted Luis in her life.“I know in my heart you are the one for me.”“Time fl ies so fast. It seems like only yesterday when we were talking at your birthday party till 3am.“I wasn’t listening to whatever you were saying. I was just staring at your face thinking ‘why not? he seems

like a nice man.’“Fast forward to today and we are celebrating our 3rd year together.”“I thank God everyday for giving me a good man.“A man who will fi ght for me, take care of me and see me through the tough times.“God knew I needed someone like you in my life.“I fi nd it funny and sweet, that after all these years you still know how to make my heart jump and make

me smile.”“I know in my heart you are the one for me.“Who would’ve thought?“Happy anniversary my love.“I love you with all that I am.”At the comment section Luis replied back “I love you!” using their term of endearment “HowHow”

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GMA-7 actor Alden Richards sets foot in ABS-CBN compound, and gets a warm welcome from Kathryn Bernardo. He is also introduced to Star Cinema Managing Director Olivia M. Lamasan.

His visit had something to do with his promotional activities for the Star Cinema movie, Hello, Love, Goodbye, which also stars Kapamilya actress Kathryn Bernardo.

Kathryn personally welcomed and accompanied Alden during the latter’s brief tour of the ABS-CBN compound.

In an interview with ABS-CBN News, he said that it was not his fi rst time to visit the building.

He added, “Medyo surreal na nandito ako ngayon. Nandito kami ni Kath to shoot mga video plugs and yung mga digital shoot.”

Afterwards, the two had a photo op and intimate lunch with Star Cinema Managing Director Olivia M. Lamasan.

Star Cinema fi rst released the teaser for Alden and Kathryn’s movie on June 14.

Hello, Love, Goodbye director Cathy Garcia-Molina is currently in Thailand for the post production of the fi lm.

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RURU MADRID congratulates his sister, Rere Madrid, for earning a spot in StarStruck 7’s Final 14. Rere’s fi nal audition which was aired in, June 22.

She was able to impress the StarStruck Council—composed of Heart Evangelista, Jose Manalo, and Cherie Gil—with her acting skills, earning her a spot in the Final 14.

Ruru took to Instagram in, June 22, to express his support for Rere.

Ruru wrote, “Congrats on being part of Starstruck’s Top 14, @athenahmadrid! You deserve it! Prove the people who doubt you wrong. Show everyone what you can do and who you can be. Maraming Salamat po, Ama! Re, always know that kuya is always here for you no matter what. I love you.”

In another Instagram post, Rere thanked Ruru and her other family members for encouraging her to pursue showbiz.

She wrote on her caption, “Grabe hindi kopo alam saan ako mag sisimula pero maraming maraming salamat po sa lahat ng nagtitiwala, sumusuporta at nag mamahal saakin. lalo napo sa family ko kay dada @bhongmadrid kay mama @madrid_jackie kay ate @madridrara17at sa kuya ko @rurumadrid8 salamat kuya dahil isa ka sa inspirasyon ko para tupadin ko yung pangarap ko. Salamat sa pag tulong at pag bigay ng mga advice saakin. Mahal na mahal ko kayo. and syempre sobrang thankyou po sayo Ama sa lahat ng blessings na binibigay niyo po saakin pati nadin po sa family ko

“Sobrang malaking bagay na po saakin ang makasama sa top 14 kaya maraming salamat po ulit sa inyong lahat. sana supportahan niyo po ako hangang sa huli #starstruck.”

Aside from Rere, the other two fi nalists who made it to StarStruck 7’s Final 14 are Jeremy Sabido and Lexi Gonzales.

The fi rst seven members of StarStruck 7’s Final 14 are Pamela Prinster, Dani Porter, Angelic Guzman, Abdul Rahman, Karl Aquino, Kim de Leon, and Gelo Alagban.

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ANGELES UNIVER-SITY Foundation was named fourth top-per-forming school* in the June 2019 nurse licen-

AUF 4th in June 2019 nursing exams3 ANGELENEANS IN TOP 10

sure exams.The University posted

a 100% passing rate for its fi rst-time takers and an overall passing rate

of 97.72%.The national passing

rate rose to 52.20% from last year’s 43.82%. Jere-miah Paula Caceres led

the country’s latest batch of registered nurses, top-ping exams with a score of 87.40%.

Two Angeleneans

also secured spots in the top 10 with Marijioe An-geles notching the 7th

spot, and Angelica Au-drey Rosary Coronel se-curing the 10th spot.

*Data from PRC; With 45 or more examinees with at least 85% passing percentage category

Caceres

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