Leyte Pintados Kasadyaan tradition to go on, gov says

By Provincial Media Relations Center
July 2, 2009

TACLOBAN CITY  –  Leyte Governor Carlos Jericho Petilla said the province is all the more determined to continue in the coming years what has already become a tradition that is the Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival of Festivals.

This was disclosed by the governor as the 23rd Pintados Festival and the 14th Kasadyaan Festival of Festivals successfully concluded Saturday at the Leyte Sports Development Center.

The governor stated this determination after this year’s festival street parade was marred by some minor incidents that forced the parade and its contingents to traverse a different course from its yearly traditional route and this even in the middle of a temporary restraining order issued by the court two days before the slated street dancing by the joined Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival.

In similar events they hope to stage the next time, the governor said the province can only “expect the worst and hope for the best.’

“This festival has already become a breeding ground of festival champions with our contingents winning big in major national festival competitions so I do not see any reason why we should end this,” Gov. Petilla said during the grand festival presentation at the Leyte Grandstand.

He added that with the thousands who trooped to the Leyte Sports Development Center Saturday and packed the bleachers to the brim some hours before the grand presentation only shows that this event “has already been ingrained in the hearts of the people who would yearly look forward to this cultural affair.”

“An ira siguro pagsamok gud la hini. Buwaon na ako yana kon masiring nga adto nga mga lakat diri adto mga panamok. Ha kada aksiyon namimiling gud ako hin maupay nga rason kon kay-ano nasusugad hito pero adto, waray na gud ako nabibilngan nga rason kondi panamok la adto,” Gov. Petilla said.

The governor was referring to the supposedly rally against water supply in the city and pedicab-race held the same route and the same time the Pintados-Kasadyaan parade was going on.

“In the end bisan ano nga panamok it’s the people who decide. Hira man gihapon namalhin hin puesto para la makit-an an parade.  It aton biling man gud la hini karisyuhan, ngan it nabenepisyo hini it tawo man la liwat,” the governor said.

The Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival of Festivals was held Saturday cloaked with a temporary restraining order issued two days before the event after the city refused to issue the organizers a special permit.

With the rally and pedicab-race incident that marred Saturday’s street dancing, the governor said, is a development that the legal experts can look into if it would hold further merit in the organizers’ case for Certiorari and Mandamus with Prayer for Issuance of Preliminary Mandatory Injunction filed before the Regional Trial Court here.