The Ilocos Times

By Dominic B. dela Cruz Staff reporter LAOag City —J/Insp. Herminigildo Rivera clarified that they have not given special treatment to any inmate detained at the Laoag City jail. Mr. Rivera, the Laoag City jail warden, made the clarification following the aborted transfer of two detainees to the New Bilibid Prison in Metro Manila. One of the detainees, Atty. Jaime Agtang, was supposed to be transferred to the national jail but due to health reasons, this was aborted. Mr. Agtang, former legal officer of the Ilocos Norte provincial government, was diagnosed with benign prostatic hypertrophy . Aside from this, he is also suffering from upper gastrointestinal bleeding and colon problems. Benign prostatic hypertrophy is an enlarged   prostate   gland. The   prostate gland surrounds the urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the body. As the   prostate   gets bigger, it may squeeze or partly block the urethra. This often causes problems with urina

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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES REGIONAL TRIAL COURT FIRST JUDICIAL REGION BRANCH 19 Bangui, Ilocos Norte REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES Represented by DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (DOE), Plaintiff, -versus- THE UNKNOWN HEIR OF BENITO CURAMMENG, and the MUNICIPAL ASSESSOR OF PASUQUIN, ILOCOS NORTE, ET.AL., Defendants, CIVIL CASE NO. 2820-19 X - - - - - - - - - - - - - - X COMPLAINT (With Urgent Prayer for the Issuance of a Writ of Possession) (Summons by Publication)           PLAINTIFF, by counsel, respectfully states: 1.        Plaintiff Republic of the Philippines, represented by the Department of Energy (DOE), is a sovereign political entity with the inherent power to expropriate private property for public use upon payment of just compensation. It may be served with court processes through its statutory counsel, the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG), at 134 Amorsolo Street, Legaspi Village, Makati City. 2.      Private defendant is the unk

By Cherry Joy D. Garma  PIA-Ilocos Norte LAOAG CITY– The transmission of election returns in Ilocos Norte has been delayed indefinitely due to system malfunction of the Consolidation and Canvassing System (CCS). “The CCS which is contained in the SD (Storing Device) card used to receive consolidated election result from every precinct cannot be opened,” said Julius Balbas, Laoag City Election Officer. However, Mr. Balbas said that the failure of the system will not affect the election result since the SD card is not the main source of the vote casts. “The system is the only problem here since automated election is very technical, not the votes or the result, it will not affect the results at all,” he said. Provincial election supervisor Atty. Marino Salas meanwhile said, there are three towns in this province that have yet to transmit their election results to the Provincial Board of Canvassers (PBOC). “The town of Marcos is about to transmit today, while the

THIS was expressly articulated in the Book of Revelation. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” (22,13) If God is where we come from and where we belong to, and if as his creature we have been made in his image and likeness, we can reasonably conclude that everything in our life—from our thoughts, words to our deeds and big projects—should also start with him and end with him. This can be considered the basic pattern of our life and everything in it. That could be the reason many of our prayers express that sentiment: “May every prayer and work of ours begin from You, and by You be duly ended.” A similar sentiment is expressed in St. Paul’s Letter to the Colossians: “Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus…” (3,17) We need to train ourselves to acquire this attitude and the relevant skills and virtues to make this truth a living reality in our life. It definitely is a lifetime project, but we shou