Poor kids get income from taking care of the dead

GUAGUA — The local public cemetery here provides an uncanny source of income for poor children seeking to earn a few pesos in a season business where the living earn from the dead.

It has been two weeks now that Michelle Sandico and Anton Camaya, out-of-school youths, have been cleaning tombs in the Guagua Old Public Cemetery in Barangay Sto. Cristo.

The two belong to marginalized families living beside the public cemetery just between the walls of the “apartment-type” tombs. They have been accustomed to living beside the dead.

“We have been used to living with the dead. At this time of the year they’re the ones that allow us to live,” said 17-year-old Sandico, whose house stands alongside the back wall of the tombs.

“We have become used to it, we are no longer afraid,” she added as she scrubs the marble plate

CLARK FREEPORT — The Clark International Airport (CRK) will be the airport of more than 22 million people residing in Central and Northern Luzon.

This was reiterated by Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC) President Alexander Cauguiran during the airport’s eight roadshow in Bulacan province recently.

Cauguiran said the CIA is targeting to become the “airport of choice” of the people living in the North Philippines by 2022.

Clark airport accommodates around 4 million passengers per annum at present.

“In view of the postponement of the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BKSE), there is a need to resume the conduct of registration of voters for the members of the Katipunan ng Kabataan (KK) who will reach 15 years old pursuant to Republic Act Number 10742 and regular voters for the Barangay in connection with the May 14, 2018 Synchronized BSKE,” the Comelec stated in the resolution.

“Applications for registration, reactivation, change/correction of entries and inclusion/ reinstatement of records in the list of voters shall be personally filed at the offices of the Election Officers of the city/ district/municipality where the applicant resides, during office hours, from 8 am to 5 pm, Mondays to Saturdays including holidays from November 6, 2017 (Monday) to November 30, 2017 (Thursday).”

The Comelec stated that election offices may conduct satellite or offsite registration of voters during the prescribed period.