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)

TACLOBAN CITY-Leyte board member Ranulfo ‘Bob’ Abellanosa is seeking the chairmanship of the Provincial Board Members League of the Philippines (PBMLP) – Eastern Visayas chapter.
And Abellanosa, who is representing Leyte’s first district, appears to have clinched the post as he is running unopposed.
The region’s 73 provincial board members are to hold their election next month in Cebu City.
The current regional president of the PBMLP is Leyte board member Trinidad ‘Ebbie’ Apostol of the second district.
Apostol was named to the post as interim regional president after the regularly elected president, Edgar Igano of Biliran province, was earlier named as the national secretary-general.
The conduct of elections of the provincial board members is pursuant to memorandum circular issued by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) issued by Sec. Eduardo Año.
It was learned that among Abellanosa’s line up include Apostol, nominated as among the regional directors.
Abellanosa is now serving his third and last term as board member covering Leyte’s first district which covers the towns of Palo, Babatngon, Tanauan, San Miguel, Santa Fe, and Tolosa.
(JOEY A. GABIETA)

From foods to incinerators

PALO, Leyte-A South Korea-based company is introducing its various products to the Filipino market.
And these products ranges from food, beauty and skin care products to heavy products like LED lights and incinerators.
The Global Ocean Best Leader Associates Inc. (Global OBLA) manufactured products were showcased during the two-day 28th Visayas Area Business Conference held this town that concluded last Saturday (August 24).
Lawyer Baek Wang Kee, president OBL Associates (OBLA), said that they are happy to showcase their products which he describes not only of ‘very high quality’ but with ‘good prices.’
“(Our products) are of high quality and lasts long. We would like to supply all South Korean products (in the Philippines) with good prices…from small products to big products. We can handle them,” he said.
The Global OBLA was able to join the Business Area conference through the invitation of the Leyte Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was facilitated by Billy Roseño, South Korean investors’ coordinator.
Aside from Baek, top officials of the Global Obla joined in the roadshow: Song In Pyoung, president; and Hyojeong Kwon, general manager.
Baek said that Global OBLA, which established its trading company in 2015, is very excited in introducing their products to the Filipino market considering that they have products that of good quality but are also not harmful to the environment like the incinerator.
According to him, the incinerator that they have manufactured conform to the standard set by the Philippine government, thereby, making it safe to use.
It describes its incinerator as that completely incinerates all pollutants with a swirl flame.
Thus, no particle of pollutants reaches the environment, making it a ‘green incinerator.’
Baek said that they are encouraging their prospective clients to use their manufactured incinerator as it is pollution-free.
While the Philippines has banned the use of incinerators due to its adverse effects to the environment, the government still allows the use of certain types of incinerators.
Thus, Baek said that they are confident that their manufactured incinerator will passed to the standards of the Philippine.
In fact, he said, they will be working with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) so they could get the necessary permit to sell their products in the Philippines.
Meantime, Baek said that their company is also very keen in entering in the copra production, particularly in the production of coconut sugar which he said is getting attention from South Koreans.
He said that with the region teeming with coconut trees, it could address the high demand of coconut-derived products like copra sugar.
(JOEY A. GABIETA)