NAVAL, Biliran-The chief of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Biliran province is encouraging the millennials who are not yet registered and wanted to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming May 11, 2020 Synchronized Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections to register through iRehistro, an online registration system of the Comelec.
“What you need to do is to visit the Comelec website (www.comelec.gov.ph) and click iRehistro to do the online registration,” said lawyer Karen C. Cajipo, provincial election supervisor during the Pulong-Pulong ng Bayan of PIA Biliran at Radyo Natin-Naval recently.
Cajipo said that once the online registration is done, printout in three copies has to be submitted to their office through the Comelec staff in-charge of the registration.
According to Cajipo, the online registration provides comfort and convenience not only to the new voter-registrants but also to those who will be applying for transfer, updating of records, and reactivation.
In its efforts also to bring services closer to the people of Biliran, the Comelec has scheduled satellite registration in barangays to accommodate more registrants especially for those who does not have enough time to visit the Comelec office, she said.
Aside from the ongoing campaign for registration, Cajipo also encouraged women to actively participate in the upcoming elections as part of the agency’s drive for a gender-responsive electoral process.
“The Comelec wanted more women to become community leaders,” Cajipo said.
Comelec has been conducting Women in Election Seminar (WES) to the women sector as a way of empowering them and to exercise their right of suffrage.
The Comelec has resumed its voter registration since August 1, 2019 and will run until September 30, 2019 inclusive of Saturdays and holidays.
(LDL/RSV/PIA-8, Biliran)

TACLOBAN CITY- City government employees and Health workers from the City Health Office (CHO) made the rounds of the city’s barangays on Saturday (August 24) for the search and destroy drive against dengue.
The “Binalaybalay nga Panlimpyo Kontra Dengue activity was organized by the city government through the leadership of Mayor Alfred S. Romualdez to abate the rise of dengue cases in the city which has now reached 1,785 with 10 deaths.
Earlier, Mayor Romualdez has ordered a city-wide cleanup drive as an answer to the spike of dengue cases in Tacloban.
More than a thousand employees and officials from 41 offices of the city government participated the simultaneous city-wide activity against the mosquito-causing ailment.
The simultaneous clean-up activity was held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in seven clustered areas around the city.
The activity was also intended to get the support of the community in cleaning up their surroundings highlighting the “4’o clock habit” to prevent the spread of the disease, particularly in the 60 barangays that were observed with clustering of dengue cases.
Among the barangays with a significant number of dengue cases are Barangays 83, 106, 91, 97, 105, 100, 94, 99, 68, 71 and 74.
City Health Officer Dr. Gloria Fabrigas encouraged all the households that are within the 60 barangays with clustering of dengue cases to participate in the search and clean-up operations to destroy the breeding places of ‘Aedes aegypti’ and remove the receptacles containing stagnant water such as used tires, vases, and bottles among others.
“Kada balay magkakaroon tayo ng paglilimpyo and we’ll participate in a 4’o clock habit. We need to know na ang lamok ay gusto sa moist area —yung parang naglulumot lumot, diyan dumadami ang kiti-kiti,” Dr. Fabrigas explained.
“Kaya paghuwad, dapat limpyuhan talaga iton para hindi mabuhay ang lamok,” she added.
(C. MERIN AND H.J.ROCA/CIO)