‘Katigbawan Festival’ at

76th Catigbian Fdn Days

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol (PIA)—Catigbian rises in jubilation this week as the town and its residents stir for the town’s 76th Foundation Celebration and 20th Katigbawan Festival.

Set in a week-long revelry, the foundation day activities feature governance, culture and history, investment, economy and tourism of the town, all embodied in the Katigbawan, the festival that has been institutionalized to be the omnibus carrier of the town’s vision.

“Catigbian is a prime agricultural and ecotourism hub with disaster resilient empowered and morally upright citizenry, driven by a responsive governance in an economically stable and green environment, and the local leadership has identified activities and projects that support the vision, and Katigbawan happens to be that embodiment,” explains Catigbian Information Officer Cleeford John Rulida, at the recent Kapihan sa PIA.

Katigbawan comes from coined words: katigbi, a grass that grew abundantly in town, kabawan or the animal auction market which the town is known for, tigbaw or the cave’s stalactites and stalagmites, as the town is also known for its cave systems, he shared.

Started in 2005, the Catigbian Foundation took on a different vibe when the Katigbawan became the anniversary highlight.

Since then mayor Roberto Salinas, Virgilio Lurot, Elizabeth Pace and incoming mayor Benjie Oliva have enhanced and improved on the idea of the festival that has since involved the participation of all the town barangays.

The biggest highlight since then have been the introduction of the streetdancing’s signature move: the carabao dance, which has become a mainstay in all dancing contingents during the Katigbawan

With this, this year’s festival offers sports tourism events in the Foundation Katigbawan Fun Run, Badminton Games, Carabao Parade, AgriFair and farmer’s Day as well as heritage and cultural events.

Among the first towns to establish an honest to goodness food bazaar that showcases town products and produce, Catigbian, which has enacted an ordinance on vegetable planting and fruit trees for all its school graduates, has since supplied public market days with locally grown vegetables.

For the food bazaar, Rulida said around 30 participants are joining the food market that stretches as the Katigbawan nightly events reel off.

Itself a proud venue for the already getting famous MCSA corner, the food bazaar here has also seen local delicacies offered during the night markets.

Rulida also said the institutionalization of the Food Bazaara nd the Tabo sa Katigbawan as an integral part of the foundations days, has organized local entrepreneurs who are now active in their participation in the foundations days.

And to bring the local produce to the mainstream, Tabo sa Katigbawan: an agrifair fills farmer’s booths on Farmers’ Day on Monday, as the celebration picks up the festivities with the famous early morning Carabao Parade.

“You will see carabaos dressed for the occasion, embellished according to the creativity of their owners,” Rulida added.

That same day, farmers are in for technodemo sessions, farm technology presentations and animal health clinics.

“Foundation Day, June 17, Catigbianons clustered into 6 groups take to the streets to the beat with the Katigbawan Streetdancing Festival competition, where Triple Union, Alegria and Bongbong defends their 2024 streetdancing crown,” Rulida went on.

With six high schools and a college in town, the competition is going to be close, as Poblacion cluster would also be vying to bring back the trophy to the town center.

Katigbawan night events also feature live bands and performances: June 14 (SK Night Party with Katigbi Roots and DJ REK), June 15 (Congressman Edgar Chatto Night with Murph J Band0, June 16 (BnWC Night with Cup Noodles Band), June 17 (LGU Night with Inun-onan Band), June 18 (DepED Night with DepEd band) and June 19 (Benjie Oliva Night with Brownbuds Band). (PIABohol)

KATIGBAWAN RUN. Another festival highlight is the Katigbawan Run, joined by government officials from the DILG with PD Jerome Gonzales. The race brought distance runners to the town’s new tourism destinations including the Inambacan Falls in Caimbang and the challenging trails of the town.

VISIT US AT KATIGBAWAN. With local officials, Catigbian information officer Cleeford John Rulida invites everyone to join Catigbian events in their 76th Foundation Anniversary and 20th Katigbawan Festival, June 13-19, with Nightly Events. (PIABohol)

Kath, caught in the red light

With an air of tentative confidence, she walked and hesitatingly sat on a low stool, crossed her legs as the occasional strobe of light illuminates a pretty be-dimpled young face, and a raisin-sized mole in her cheek.

Amidst the din, dim and pulsating music from a videoke, she introduced herself.

“Hello, I am Kath, this is my second night here,” she said, barely twenty, small frail woman whose years in life would place her at about much older age.

Born third among five siblings of a farming family in far-away Cagayan Valley, Kath, unconsciously peeled the mask that she disguised herself, while being forced by circumstances to work in the red light entertainment.

“I was a working student, Grade 12,” she haltingly recalls, “my parents could not afford sending me to school, with my younger siblings also in school.”

She was a Grade 12 completer as a working student, but the way her eyes told it, it forcibly undressed a dark past that she obviously did not want to share.

Coming from a poor family who can barely provide food on their table, Kath, or whoever her real name is, said, I dreamed of going to college and the only way to do that is to leave home, even if it is a life of uncertainty.

“I arrived in Manila after two days of travel by bus, and immediately looked for work that can get me a few spare money for college,” she said

Somewhere between jobs in Manila as sales clerk, merchandizer and other odd jobs to save for school, she met another girl who convinced her that there is work in the entertainment industry.

“I know a few songs, and I can dance, they seem to be the easiest way to a job here,” she admitted.

A girl who instinctively knows her notes and has the moves she developed in high school, she began a new chapter in her life. In the entertainment industry.

Midway into her fourth tequila, and after being all too cautious to reveal it all, she shared a story that befall several other women who are working students of her age.

“I do not know much, this is still my second night,” she said as a matter of fact, which nervously cracking her fingers.

But, few more shots, and she detailed the machinations of working in an adult club: from sitting with noble or drunk men, of getting invited as escort, and of going all out.

She also admitted high school did not elaborate on the risks of Human Immuno Virus (HIV) and the possibility of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

“No,” she said, when asked about any idea on HIV and AIDS.

When it can be treated as an intrusion to her personal life, she took the question like it was simply a grade 12 matter she missed.

Working in the industry in the day the whole country lights candles for AIDS victims, and without a decent idea of how HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases can ruin her life, is already an alarming situation.

There, we talked and she asked questions that even concerns most of us who know a little about HIV and AIDS even more.

“So, by using condom, I can get a protection from contagious and other sexually transmitted diseases?” She innocently asked.

In an industry that mandates escorts to always get protection, she confesses: “I do not like to work with condoms. “

In an hour, amidst the din of throbbing music, videoke, and tequila shots, she has changed her lines:” You can not find me in Facebook, if you look for Kath,” embarrassed that she now has a different name.

Now, asked what she would do with the new information she learned, she has these:

“I will not go out with men where I have no control of the situation, because not only I be in a risky situation, I can be killed.”

And then she said, with some luck, she will proceed to college and take up nursing.

“Next year,” she said, “next year.”

CARE FACILITIES

For people like Kath, who are now trapped by circumstance in their chosen industry, “a visit to the DOH recognized HIV and AIDS Treatment hub would bid well,” says Governor Celestino Gallares Memorial Medical Center (GCGMMC) Piskay Clinic HIV AIDS case manager Gerald Rento Camartin.

Piskay Clinic is GCGMMC HIV treatment hub now relocated at the back of hospital to provide more privacy to anyone who intends to access the facility’s services.

HIV is a virus that attacks the body's immune system and AIDS occurs at the most advanced stage of infection when the HIV targets the body's white blood cells, weakening the immune system, enough for other opportunistic infections to take over, Camartin explained.

HIV, which can be transmitted by unprotected penetrative sex, vertical transmission or mother to child upon birth and ingestion of infected mother’s milk and the sharing of contaminated needles, “has become alarming here in Bohol when from January to March this year, Bohol records 17 new HIV cases from male to male sexual intercourse alone,” shares medical technologist at the Provincial Health Office (PHO) Crisanta Estomago.

Both GCGMMC and the PHO run HIV programs which include HIV Awareness campaigns to schools communities and groups, free HIV Screening after pre and post-screening counseling and pre-exposure prophylaxis services.

Both also provide off-hours services for those who intend to know HIV and AIDS, counseling sessions and anti-retrovirals for those who test positive for HIV after confirmatory laboratory tests, adds GCGMMC medical technologist Ma. Alda Ligason.

While GCGMMC is the only treatment facility that performs confirmatory test results in the screening by facilities here, both also hand out protection commodities and anti-retroviral treatments.

Both also keep community-based networks of volunteers and advocates who can be contacted during the facility’s off hours.

Born out of the need to protect the victims from stigma and discrimination, these volunteers, including the soon to open Bohol Sundown Clinic would be available from 5:00 PM to 8:00 AM, or when the standard HIV facilities are off business. (RAHC/PIA-7/BOHOL)

BARRED. Kath, or whoever her real name is, has been a victim of a cruel system that has kept her and many innocent young girls into the industry to escape from poverty, unknowingly feeding them to more serious complications. (PIABohol/IMB contributedphoto)

HIV-AIDS AWARENESS. Health care workers all agree that if a widespread education and awareness campaign about HIV and AIDS is incorporated in the high school curriculum, things could turn better. Bohol is now alarmed of the skyrocketing cases of HIV and AIDS, mostly from unprotected penetrative sex. (PIABohol)

84% prod’n sufficiency but rice net exporter?

Harmonization of

agri data, on -OPA

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol (PIA)—In the cropping year of 2024 when Bohol experienced a severe drought which started in December of 2023, records from the Office of the Provincial Agriculture (OPA) showed that the total harvest reached 817,000 metric tons.

At a conservative 60 to 65 percent milling recovery rate, Bohol should have at least 490,000 metric tons of milled rice.

And at a population of 1.4 million Boholanos, each eating 115 kilos of rice per year, the current demand is 161,000 metric tons, Bohol is currently producing over 300 percent than what Boholanos need.

In fact, Quirog also said that in 2023, which was a decidedly a better year for agriculture, the OPA tracked 4.5 million metric tons of rice harvest.

This could be the reason why Boholanos still heap up good rice stocks, enough to inspire market confidence and tame the provincial inflation rate.

“However, with only 84% rice sufficiency according to an official government data source, there is a need for data harmonization with the disparity,” remarks Provincial Agriculturist Liza Quirog, at the Kapihan sa PIA.

The fact that the data mismatch also affects the way people should plan, Quirog bared that there has already been three series of harmonization workshops with the Department of Agriculture.

The harmonization workshop involved municipal agriculturists, farm technicians and presidents or irrigation associations and people’s organizations to harmonize [planting] areas and the data and the preferred varieties, she reported.

By the next week, Quirog added that another harmonization workshop together with the Philippine Statistics Authority.

This is a good thing, so that we at the OPA under the Provincial Government of Bohol and the DA in region 7 would know the real figures in the percentage of our farmers have not been reached by the intervention from government and the non-government organizations who helped. .

As to how the data incongruence happened, Quirog said, “it is very possible that the data that the PSA gathered included in their sampling, farm areas that are not in our intervention beneficiaries for many reasons, like their non-registration in the Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture (RSBSA) for farmers and fisherfolks.”

If a farmer is not RSBSA registered, they are ineligible for the national government interventions.

The national government has set aside subsidies for hybrid rice seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and mechanization from land preparation to planting and harvesting to milling.

To farmers who are not in the RSBSA, the Provincial Government, seeing their situation, also set aside local interventions, for farmers for as long as the Office of their Municipal Agriculture can prove that they really have farms but have not been registered or updated their registration in the RSBSA for several reasons.

With possible farms and farmers not in the RSBSA but are still producing good harvest, they could have caused the skewed data which only harmonization by stakeholders can settle. (PIABohol)

MORE THAN SUFFICIENT. If the data could be harmonized, palay production in Bohol could already be hundreds of times sufficient, based on the current OPA data from MAOS and rice technicians who withdraw government interventions for the farms listed in the RSBSA, reports Provincial Agriculturist Liza Quirog. (PIABOhol)

Aris: SugBohol as regional showcase

of innovation, resilience, excellence

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, (PIA)—Exactly a year after Negros Oriental and Siquijor became part of the Negros Island Region, Regional Development Council 7 Chair and Bohol Governor Erico Aristotle Aumentado rallied the dynamic duo of Sugbohol to grow in tandem and demonstrate the power of collaboration grounded in shared values, mutual respect and complementary strengths.

Speaking for his State of the Region Address (SORA) before the members of the RDC in its second quarter Full Council Meeting, Aumentado shared his wish of Sugbohol becoming a national showcase.

Let me say this, let Sugbohol be a platform to demonstrate how two provinces, united in purpose, can become a powerhouse of innovation, economic dynamism and inclusive development,” Aumentado announces.

It was in June 11 of 2024 when the Negros Island Region emerged an administrative region covering both the islands of Negros and Siquijor and is composed of Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental, and Siquijor, which is the country’s 18th region.

This left Cebu and Bohol in Region 7 or Central Visayas.

“2024 was not just a productive year-it was s defining year for Central Visayas,” the Bohol governor and RDC chair pointed out.

The past year had the RDC pursuing strategic policies and transformative projects that laid foundations for a amore resilient, inclusive and future-ready region.

“We began with unwavering resolve-to deliver the priority policies and strategies we committed as a Council with one clear goal in mind: to drive inclusive growth that elevates the lives of every Central Visayan,” the governor reminded members.

Focusing on the fundamentals, the RDC strengthened the region’s economic performance with a Regional Domestic Product surging to P1.276 trillion pushing a strong 7.3 percent growth rate.

The RDC also positively managed the inflation at 3.2 percent which was well within the target range of 2.56 and 3.2 percent in 2024.

In the year, the region also approved P27.96 billion in investments comprising 22 projects with 17 billion from local investors, and improving the regional employment rate to 97.1 percent.

The RDC chair however still acknowledged the 8.6 percent underemployment rate as a remaining challenge.

With these efforts, poverty incidence among families dropped from 22 percent in 2021 to 12.3 percent in 2023-the second biggest reduction nationwide.

“This is not just statistics, this is 138,380 families now living better lives and given renewed hopes,” the RDC7 chair remarked.

In 2025, as Aumentado proposed Sugbohol as a national showcase of collaboration starting with sealing a sisterhood agreement, he urged, “Let us stay united, let us continue to raise the banner of Central Visayas and bring it to the next level of growth and sustainability.” (PIABohol)

NO ONE LEFT BEHIND. RDC Chair and Bohol Governor Erico Aristotle Aumentado has rallied Region 7, now that Negros Oriental and Siquijor are now to Region 18, to make the run as a dynamic duo forming a national showcase of the Visayas in innovation, resilience and excellence. (PIABohol)

RDC pushes solar-satellite

internet for DOE funding

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol (PIA)— Bohol Governor Erico Aristotle Aumentado had led the Regional Development Council (RDC-7) to endorsed Bohol’s project on a solar powered satellite-based internet in province-owned hospitals, selected provincial government offices and even island barangays, for Department of Energy (DOE) funding.

As RDC chair, Aumentado took the opportunity of getting funding its innovative project so that it can save its scant resources for other development priorities, seeing that the DOE has a facility that gives direct benefits to local government units and their communities that hosts the energy resource or energy-generating facility.

“The DOE promulgated Energy Regulation (ER) No. 1-94, which provides financial grants to LGUS and regions hosting the operations of energy generating facilities, and under the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001, the DOE directs these generation facilities and to provide financial benefits to hosts which the RDC identifies as beneficiaries of ER 1-94,” explains RDC Vice Chair Kenneth Cobonpue, during the second quarter full council RDC meeting in Bohol.

The funding can be used for Development and Livelihood (DLF) and Reforestation, Watershed Management, Health and or Environment Enhancement Funds (RWMHEEF).

As the RDC opened the portals for LGUS to submit project proposals, Bohol submitted on May 13, 2025, a duly accomplished project profile of the proposal, to which the RDC Infrastructure Development Committee (IDC) found to be compliant with the five core criteria for project evaluation.

Bohol submitted “Resilient Inter-connectivity through Non-fixed Broadband (Satellite-based Internet) Communication Powered with Green Technology (Solar Power) for a Seamless Enhanced Lifeline Support Operation within PGBh’s Virtual Private Network among Selected PGBh Offices and Owned Hospitals” for funding under DOE ER No. 1-94. Cobonpue read.

The RDC IDC also noted the project to be aligned with Chapter 17 of the Regional Development Plan 2023-2028 of accelerating climate change action and strengthening disaster resilience.

“The IDC evaluates proposals based on responsiveness; implementation feasibility; funding requirement; environmental acceptability; and social acceptability,” internationally recognized designer Cobonpue added.

As the IDC pushed Resolution No. 8 (s. 2025), recommending the RDC approval of the proposed project for funding, RDC sectoral representative Aurelio Salgados Jr., further proposed the inclusion of island barangays in the project.

“This could provide island residents the communication facility to direct disaster response operations,” Salgados said.

Noting the relevance and usefulness of the project in disaster communications, digitalization and the use of renewable sources, the RDC recommended for the project for DOE funding. (PIABohol)

SUFFICIENT. RDC-7 Co Chair Kenneth Cobonpue shared that the RDC IDC has endorsed for the council an endorsement of Bohol’s satellite internet project for funding by the DOE. Bohol qualifies as it hosts a sufficient supply of renewable energy generation facilities. (PIABohol)

Bohol elects 18 new mayors

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, June 10 (PIA)—Some had it the easy way but the journey to the mayoralty seat of 18 newly elected mayors in Bohol is not as smooth as they wished it would be.

While two of these mayors cruised their ways to victory in uncontested seats, it would be blood, sweat and tears for the 16 who had to mount campaign sorties, mobilize campaign teams and

Cortes town mayor-elect Rodrigo Dennis B. Uy may have slipped through the electoral gauntlet by the skin of his teeth, winning over a popular youth leader, Ira Lois P. Lim, councillor and daughter of a former mayor by the slimmest of margins in the town in the 2025 national and local elections: 7 votes.

Vote-rich Loon town also had a head-to-head contest between former mayor Cesar Tomas R. Lopez and an opposition candidate, Liezl Go.

Lopez has just retired as the Provincial Health Officer, and his brother sat as former mayor, slipped through the fine mesh with 339 votes

On the other hand, political neophyte Dexter M. Angcla knew it was an uphill battle against longest reigning political dynasties in vote-rich Inabanga, and much more against the joint forces of incumbent mayor Jose Jono C. Jumamoy and his mother vice mayor Josephine Socorro C. Jumamoy.

But after weeks of vicious campaigning, boosted by his relative’s near-wins in the past plus the help of a son who sits as Bohol’s Sangguniang Kabataan youth sector representative, Angcla capped 3,999 votes against a young incumbent and bringing along his entire slate sweeping all the seats in the town’s legislative seat too.

The plurality of candidates in Maribojoc town significantly improved the chances of Jojo Roxas, a full term councilor, who was battling against an incumbent in Romeo Manuta and retired police offier and number 1 councilor Jose Abraw Arocha.

In the count, Roxas emerged with 504 votes more than the top councillor who also beat the incumbent mayor running for re-election.

In the second district, Bien Unido Councilor John Felix Garcia, whose parents and grandparents stood as foundations of the town, pitted himself against an incumbent mayor Rene Borenaga, but with 586 votes on the count, Garcia has set to build on the foundations his elders dug for the town.

In nearby President Carlos P Garcia island town, a heated fight ensued between Punong Barangay Kenneth Estavilla, elder brother of former mayor Fernado Eping Estavilla, as well as contractor and accomplished professional Engr. Vicente Cutamora over the seat vacated by Board member-elect Fernando Eping Estavilla.

Estavilla won by 858 votes.

In the third District, former mayor Sofronio Apat made a rather stealthy comeback when he beat incumbent and doctor Herminio Relampagos with 949 votes in a political duel in Dagohoy town.

In Alicia town, four candidates aiming for the chief executive’s seat also helped Marciano “Junjun” Ayuban Jr., son of former mayor Marnilou, who was challenging incumbent Victoriano Torres III (Dong T), Vice Mayor Cesyl Balahay and a recently retired police general Chito Bersaluna.

Ayuban however took 1,087 votes over closest contender in Bersaluna, who edged past Vice Mayor Balahay and incumbent Torres III.

In Jagna town, for the seat vacated by mayor Joseph Ranola who decided to go back to private life, had vice mayor Jose Pagar Jr., hassling with Can-upao Barangay chairman Mark Louie Monungolh for the empty post as local chief executive.

At 1,109 voted for him over vice mayor Pagar, Monunggolh won for Jagna.

In Catigbian’s top seat vacated by mayor Elizabeth M. Pace, former National Youth Commissioner Benjie Oliva fought it out with businessman Jesus J. Jaum. Oliva prevailed by 1,908 votes in the man-to-man fight.

Batuan’s mayoralty seat left by three term mayor Antonino Jumawid had vice mayor, former social welfare worker Zing Bulalaque against businessman and lawyer Manuel Tumanda. The lawyer won by 2,049 votes.

It was also a duel for former mayors: Dr. Jose Junie Yu and Julius Ceasar F. Herrera in a hotly contested race that saw Yu winning by 2,228 votes over Herrera.

In nearby Tubigon, it was also the same battle of giants: former mayor Marlo Amila and vice Mayor Rene Villaber whom incumbent mayor William Jao personally endorsed.

Amila won by 3,630 votes over Villaber.

The seat left by mayor Pureza V Chatto in Balilihan had her daughter Esther Patricia Chatto and former vice mayor Roy Adonis Olalo contesting by election.

In the end, Chatto prevailed by 4,382 votes over Olalo, in a notable election that shook the Chatto dynasty.

The same plurality of candidates in Ubay bid well for former councillor Violeta Reyes, wife of three term mayor Constantino Reyes, as the son of former mayor Eutiquio Boyles Sr., Eutiquio Borly Jr., vice mayor Victor Bonghanoy, JB Mendez, Arnie Arnsbac Bacolod and Marita Tabaniag all threw their hats for the seat.

Reyes won by 7,111 against closest rival Boyles and Bonghanoy.

Also considered among the most lopsided victories by challengers in the mayoralty race happened in vote-rich Dauis town when mayor Roman Bullen found an opposition in vice mayor Marietta T. Sumaylo. Sumaylo took an overwhelming plurality of 15,191 votes against the incumbent.

The rest of the mayors won in a spectacular fashion: Danao’s Celeste Cepedoza-Lerion run for the uncontested seat of mayor Jose Cepedoza and got 5,559 votes, while in Sevilla, Emmanuel Caberte also run solo for the seat vacated by mayor Juliet Dano and took 6,140 votes. (PIABohol)

Women take 28 of 111

higher elective seats

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol (PIA)—Women occupy 25 percent of the of the entire 111 higher political positions opened in Bohol during the recent National and Local Elections (NLE) 2025, when in the exercise of the solemn right to vote, the Boholano picked them to lead in various capacities.

Getting 28 of the 111 positions (House Representatives, Governor, Vice governor, Board Members, Mayors and Vice Mayors) opened during the NLE, Boholano women, many of them elected to executive and legislative positions improve the chances of bringing equality and gender issues into the conversations.

Leading these women wielding power are key legislative perches in lady representatives Maria Vanessa Cadorna Aumentado of Bohol’s Second Congressional District and Kristine Alexie B. Tutor of Bohol’s Third District.

Also elected as legislators in the provincial board are Lucille Y. Lagunay, Dr. Mutya Kismet Tirol-Macuno for Bohol’s first district, Jiselle Rae Villamor for Bohol’s second district and Tita Baja, for Bohol’s third district.

In the mayoralty seats, lady mayors took 11 of the 48 seats, starting off with City Mayor Jane Censoria C. Yap for Tagbilaran City and 4 newly elected chief executives.

These are Esther Patricia V. Chatto of Balilihan (Bohol D1), Merriam T. Sumaylo of Dauis (Bohol D1), Celeste Lerion of Danao (Bohol D2) and Violeta Reyes of Ubay (Bohol D2) town.

Also getting new mandates after getting re-elected are Janette Ellorimo of Sikatuna (Bohol D1), Janet Garcia of Talibon (Bohol D2), Angelina Simacio of Anda (Bohol D3), Thamar Olaivare of Candijay (Bohol D3), Conchita T. delos Reyes of Carmen (Bohol D3) and Bernales-Lim Grace Ongie of Mabini (Bohol D3).

In the town’s key legislative seats, twelve women are wielding the gavel: four are newly elected to preside local sanggunians.

These include Maria Cecilia R. Solomon of Antequera (Bohol D1), Daisy Delambaca of Panglao (Bohol D1), Delia Lasco of Tubigon (Bohol D1), Joan Robie Cajes-Imboy of Trinidad (Bohol D2) and Juliet Dano of Sevilla (Bohol D3).

Getting fresh mandates are Elsa Tirol of Buenavista (Bohol D2), Wilma Dusal of President Carlos P. Garcia (Bohol D2), Siony Ybanez of Sagbayan (Bohol D2), Ruby Porter of Anda (Bohol D3), Antonia Ladaga of Garcia Hernandez (Bohol D3), Regina Salazar of Lila (Bohol D3), Helen Alaba of Loboc (Bohol D3), and Myra Colis of Mabini (Bohol D3).