04/02/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly transpired, which may have rendered the case herein moot and academic. The petitioners reiterated that the relief they are after is their individual titles to the areas they are currently occupying in the Calauit Island. And, in their Compliance[55] the petitioners averred further that the issuance of the CADT "in favor of the Tagbanua Indigenous Cultural Community amounts to an affirmation and recognition of the property rights of their ancestors from whom [they] traced their present individual claims." Thus, the petitioners claim that there is factual and legal bases for this Court to proceed and confirm their right of ownership over the subject properties in the Calauit Island. On the other hand, the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) for the respondent Republic of the Philippines manifested that per Memorandum dated March 5, 2012 by the Regional Executive Director, DENR-IV MIMAROPA, the following are the updates on the ground: 3. Verification made by this office on the status of occupation of the Balik Calauit Movement (BCM) as stated in Civil Case No. 2262 particularly the forty-seven (47) defendants (Aurellano Agnes, et al.) and as confirmed by Bgy. Chairman Gabarda of Bgy. Buluang Busuanga, Palawan wherein Calauit Island is a Sitio of said Barangay, disclosed that forty (40) are at present in the Calauit Island and seven (7) are outside Calauit Island. The latter are Eufricina Bello, Cherry Demesa, Eduardo Demesa, Jovita Gabarda, Manuel Gabarda, Sr., Ismael Tradio and Rafaella Tradio who settled to adjacent and other Barangay[s] of Busuanga, Palawan. Further, of the forty-seven (47) BCM members, nine (9) of them were already dead (Juana Apuen, Javier Austria, Conchita Barcebal, Aurora Eco, Lydia Equia, Fausto Lledo, Matemo Loquib, George Macanas and Juan Talorda) and one (1) was put in jail (Bonifacio Equia) at the Provincial Jail in Puerto Princesa City x x x. 4. During the resettlement of BCM, Barangay[s] Halsey and Burabod in Culion, Palawan are the barangay[s] which were identified as resettlement sites. With this, some BCM members have applied and awarded with titles. They are Eduardo Agnes, Espiritu Agnes, Pantaleon Agnes, Filatea Apuen, Juana Apuen, Moises Apuen, Alfredo Aunang, Javier Austria, Aurelio Bernal, Pablito Bogante, Alfredo Canete, Bartolome Darol, Melecia Garcia, Modesto Manlebten, Roberto Novero, Perlita Pabia, Pampilo Sabroso, Rodrigo Sabroso, Ismael Tradio, Regalado Tradio, and Tirso Ustares, Jr. aside from other land areas they have acquired in Busuanga, Palawan x x x. 5. Recent documents acquired from National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP)-Provincial Office, Puerto Princesa City particularly the photocopied technical descriptions of the awarded Ancestral Domain showed that the Island of Calauit as plotted by this Office was covered by Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT) R04-BUS-0308-062 bearing CADT-Lot No. 1-Ade-0403005-Gni covering 3,572.9731 hectares, more or less aside from other islets included known as Lot No. 2-Maltanobong Islandelibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/61037 11/19