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Kuaresma with crucifixion, flogging
By
Agence France Presse
FILIPINO zealots marked
Good Friday with a bloody
display of religious frenzy
by having themselves nailed
to crosses and whipping
their backs raw in Asia’s
bastion of Catholicism.
Though
frowned
upon by the Church, the
gruesome re-enactments of
Christ’s final moments draw
thousands of believers —
and tourists — in a carnival-
like atmosphere that is big
business for locals.

In a collection of
towns north of Manila, eight
people had eight-centimetre
(three-inch) spikes driven
through their palms and feet
in hot, dry fields meant to
echo the site where Christ
was crucified some 2,000
years ago.
Among an otherwise male
field of penitents was
39-year-old Mary Jane
Sazon, who made her
seventh trip up onto the
cross.

“Fulfilling my vow
is important to me because
ever since I started this the
Lord answers my prayers,”
Sazon told reporters as she
pushed her dark hair back
with freshly bandaged
hands.

She would not be
drawn on being the only
woman crucified on Friday,
saying: “I don’t care what
other people might say.”

While the ordeal
is undeniably painful, the
penitents’ weight rests on a
wooden step and they spend
only a few moments nailed
to the cross before being
carried to the medical tent
for treatment.
Selfie crowd

At the same time,
scores of bare-chested men,
some of whose faces were
concealed by hoods, lashed
their backs bloody as they
walked through the streets
Sundan sa pahina 6
Coca-Cola workers demand
regularization, call for public support
Many workers at the Sta.
Rosa plant have been
considered
contractual
despite
eighteen
18
years of service. The
Department of Labor and
Employment
(DOLE)
has already released a
final and executory order
to regularize all 675
contractual workers but
the CCFPI has repeatedly
refused to carry out the
order.
By RUTH LUMIBAO
STA. ROSA, LAGUNA
— In time for the Lenten
Season,
Coca-Cola
Femsa Philippines, Inc.
(CCFPI) workers at the
Sta. Rosa, Laguna plant
staged a picket to reiterate
their call for an end to
contractualization.

For ten months, both
regular and contractual
workers of CCFPI have
joined the strike. On
March 21, the workers
successfully closed all the
gates of the Sta. Rosa plant
and stopped the production
for at least eight hours.
According
to
Raffy Baylosis, president
of Liga na Pinalakas ng
Manggagawa sa Coca-
Cola FEMSA Philippines
Sta. Rosa Plant (LIGA),
CCFPI lost an estimated
amount of P44 million
when the workers closed
the gates.

Many workers at the
Sta. Rosa plant have been
considered
contractual
despite
eighteen
18
years of service. The
Department of Labor and
Employment
(DOLE)
has already released a
final and executory order
to regularize all 675
contractual workers but
the CCFPI has repeatedly
refused to carry out the
order.
Baylosis
also
explained
how
the
subcontracting agencies
have begun to close
down. Before the strike,
however, subcontracting
agencies refused to claim
CRUCIFIED.Ruben Enaje, 57, a Christian devotee is lowered after being nailed to a cross during a reenactment of the
crucifixion of Jesus Christ during Good Friday celebrations ahead of Easter in the village of Cutud near San Fernando,
north of Manila on March 30, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS
Vice presidential poll recount starts

He said there include 60 employees
Monday
were 5,418 clustered of
the
tribunal,
By
Philippine
Agency
News
THE Supreme Court
(SC), sitting as the
Presidential Electoral
Tribunal (PET), will
start on Monday the
recount of votes for
the electoral protest
filed by former senator
Ferdinand “Bongbong”
Marcos Jr. against Vice
President Maria Leonor
“Leni” Robredo.

The place for the
revision of votes for
the
Marcos-Robredo
electoral protest will
be at the gymnasium
at the 5th Floor of the
SC-Court of Appeals
(CA) Building in Padre
Faura, Manila.

The recount will
be
conducted
until
Friday, from 8:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m., with two
15-minute breaks and a
one-hour lunch break.
Lawyer
Jose
Lemuel Arenas, a PET ad
hoc committee member,
said the revision is the
process of verifying the
ballots, to recount the
votes of the parties, and
to record the objections
or claims of the parties.
precincts that cover the
three pilot provinces of
Camarines Sur, Iloilo
and Negros Oriental,
which
were
chosen
by Marcos as the
best provinces where
he could prove the
irregularities he cited in
his poll protest.
Arenas
said
for each table, there
will be three revisors
– the head revisor
(employee of PET), the
protestant’s revisor and
the protestee’s revisor.
The
revisors
will not be allowed to
bring in their personal
belongings,
including
their mobile phones,
inside the venue. The
PET
has
provided
a locker for their
belongings.

He noted that the
time limit per ballot
box with less than 300
votes will be 5.5 hours
while for 300-700 votes
will be 8.25 hours and
for more than 700 votes
will be 11 hours.

The tribunal is
expecting some 213
personnel
to
come
in per day during
the
recount.
These
psychometricians,
lawyers
and
representatives of both
parties, and the revisors.

The revisors are
part of the tribunal’s
committee tasked to
examine the contested
ballots.

Arenas, said that
the PET is currently
housing some 1,400
ballot
boxes
from
Camarines Sur.
Arenas said that other
ballot boxes are currently
with the Commission on
Elections, due to storage
issues.

Once the recount
on the first 1,400 ballot
boxes is done, the PET
will receive the other
ballot
boxes
from
Camarines Sur, Iloilo
and Negros Oriental.

Members of the
Philippine
National
Police, the Philippine
Coast Guard, the Police
Security
Protection
Group and PET guards
will secure the recount
venue round-the-clock.

CCTVs were also
installed on all four
corners of the recount
venue and the storage
area.