Fighting the instinct to save someone without first protecting yourself is one of the hardest adjustments for Maui’s frontline health care workers a tight-knit group that thrives off community and sacrifice Before March — when the pandemic began to hit the Valley Isle — putting the patient as priority was a no-brainer for those in the emergency room of Maui’s main hospital “We are here to save lives,” said Jessica Rozet “Everyone wants to jump in and save the patient.” the tables turned quite quickly: the rescuer could now become the victim a lot of time you don’t even think of your safety because you just want to go in and save the patient,” said Julius Montehermoso “We have to remind people: In order to keep helping people you need to keep yourself safe and healthy If you just jump into any patient that needs help without protecting yourself next thing you know you are going to be a patient too.” The Emergency Department of Maui Memorial Medical Center has been the first line of defense against the coronavirus People with illnesses and injuries as diverse as each individual make their first stop there every patient must be assessed for COVID-19 and every staffer must suit up for a potential case “We depend on our staff to identify who is high risk,” Montehermoso said “They put themselves in the line of fire all the time we still don’t know who is bringing in what kind of disease.” frontline health care workers toil for hours in head cover double mask and other personal protective equipment Montehermoso said PPE feels like you’re “always swimming.” “It’s very hot,” he said No one had to pick straws for tough COVID-19 jobs “It’s the love of the job and the love of the community that keeps me here,” Rozet said We do everything to make it better and take care of everyone.” The community — in and out of the hospital — is also why Jolynn Constantino “We have such amazing nurses in this hospital,” she said “It’s just our culture here on Maui — everyone is so caring They really want to do what’s right by our community and our patients.” Constantino established the COVID unit back in March They worked lengthy hours to adapt to changing protocol Early testing machines had long turnaround times Patients would show negative results and would later produce positives “The scariest part in the beginning was just all the unknowns,” Constantino said She said the COVID unit is unique because of its different levels of care telemetry nurses and staff in various areas of the hospital collaborated to provide treatment “Everyone worked well together — from the respiratory therapist to housekeeping to maintenance,” Constantino said “It really took the entire hospital and all the disciplines to come together to make the unit work.” The team has been working double duty due to stringent sanitizing measures for COVID — on top of standard cleaning procedures the work is physical — stripping beds because the team knows it’s making a difference “The most rewarding piece is to see we are containing the infection,” she said And when we see our number of COVID patients go really We know everyone is getting better.” highlighted a noticeable shift since the onset of the pandemic there are 18 respiratory therapists who live and work on Maui Departments came together to work on procedures and soon businesses in the community reached out to provide PPE “Maui Plexiglass provided a lot of face shields and several other businesses provided masks,” she said nurses and administration continued to adapt and the community came out and showered us with support the mood started to change from frustration and fear to solidarity “I am extremely proud of how our hospital ohana pulled together during this difficult year.” * Kehaulani Cerizo can be reached at kcerizo@mauinews.com UH Mānoa's Department of English selected “resurgence” as the 2023 Word of the Year Copyright © 2025 Maui News Publishing Company LTD | https://www.mauinews.com | 100 Mahalani Street Privacy Policy | About Our Ads Maui High School’s Blue Thunder 1 robotics team finished as a tournament finalist and took home the Energy Award after competing last week in the 2024 Hawaiʻi Middle and High School VEX Robotics Regional Championships on Oʻahu seven of 44 Hawaiʻi teams advanced to the 2024 VEX Robotics World Championships in Dallas The Maui High team was not among those advancing Blue Thunder 1 team members who competed on Oʻahu were Norman Montehermoso Other team members who worked on the robot since August one of the team captains for the Sabers’ Blue Thunder team said standout members of the team were Montehermoso Montehermoso showed his dedication by serving as co-team captain “He has taken the field home multiple times to practice during winter break and on the longer weekends,” she said adding that he invited team members to practice at his house Domingo and Terawaki were the lead programmers for the robot and scored 56 Autonomous Points during qualifying matches making it the highest score at the state competition Domingo was part of the drive team and helped load tri-balls onto the robot during intense matches “His strategy for matches maximized their robots potential during qualification and elimination matches,” she said “Hummelke worked efficiently and swiftly in between matches to ensure the robot would perform to its peak level of performance each match.” Longtime Maui High School robotics teacher Keith Imada is the team’s coach and adviser VEX Robotics is an educational robotics program that inspires students to excel in science engineering and math and pursue careers in those fields Building robots encourages students’ creativity the VEX program attracted 900 students on more than 250 registered teams statewide in Hawaiʻi The Hawaiʻi Space Grant Consortium oversees the VEX competitions in Hawaiʻi with funding from the University of Hawaiʻi Foundation Hawaiian Electric sponsored the competition at the 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Hawaiʻi Army National Guard headquarters in Kapolei Stailey; mother Lois Saylor; sister Brenda Melanson; brother Brian Stailey; step-daughters Rosemarie (Euclid) Alibin & Ederlyn (Julius) Montehermoso; step-sons Jerry (Krystal) Calipjo and Hilario (Justine) Calipjo; grandchildren Darren Alibin Junior Calipjo and Kiyan Calipjo; nephews Michael Kamaka & Nicholas Kamaka; nieces Shelby Melanson and Jaimee Melanson He is pre-deceased by his father Robert Cecil Stailey Sr He will be missed by his friends and family he was an artist and a United States Army Veteran His first job was an usher at the Vogue Theater He was the grandson of the famous painter and color-theorist Harold Ledyard Towle and his mother Natalie was the first female disc-jockey in Washington DC After being honorably discharged from the US Army at 21 he moved to the Big Island of Hawaiʻi and lived in a tree house He spent his last 20 plus years living in Naʻalehu He spent his life as an artist and was known as “The Treasure Maker.” He could often be found selling his artwork at the Ocean View Flea market and his work was also featured in galleries around the island Bruce was one of the illustrators for the book “Lemurian Scrolls” by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami 2021 at home with friends and family nearby to Mary Lou Clark and raised with her and his stepfather Don Flake Daniel and David; son Eric; and granddaughter Aislin Kabir came to Honolulu in the 1960s via the Navy and spent some time there as a police officer He fell deeply in love with the people and the great beauty of the islands The islands always held a central place in his heart he participated in the Church of the Crossroads in Honolulu during the days of the free speech and anti-war movements reflecting the progressive political views he advocated Throughout his life he enjoyed engaging in impassioned political discussions He also had a lifelong interest in personal development and spirituality which lead to his involvement with A Course in Miracles During the ’80s he lived in San Diego for some years and was trained in Rebirthing He took several trips to India to the ashram of Sri Sathya Sai Baba and made pilgrimages to many holy cities and places Within his knapsack was always a copy of “The Kabir Book,” with the poems of the mystic sufi-saint He regaled his friends with his recitations and his passionate delivery made the poetry accessible and real but his greatest art was his passion for life and love a confidant to whom one could turn and always find a willing he did not hesitate to ask hard questions in a loving way and for women he could be confided in like a best girlfriend and a builder/operator of the Dolphin Bay Hotel in Hilo A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date Alexander is survived by his son John Alexander of Hilo This year’s must-see shows range from a Nordic Pavilion exploring transgender spaces to a compelling Lebanese project confronting the realities of ecocide Frieze returns to The Shed in May with more than 65 of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries and the acclaimed Focus section led by Lumi Tan A day in my life: on the morning of a recent trip to Spain to visit ‘The Furious Gaze’ – a show considering ‘feminism as a source of knowledge that is vital for understanding the world we live in’ – I receive an invitation to a show in the UK that includes one woman out of 15 artists yet it’s not a show about masculinity: it’s about ‘play’ something the curators have obviously decided women artists know nothing about On the plane I read that the Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has received a mixed reaction to Spain’s first female-majority cabinet; I also read that the Office for National Statistics has announced that women in their 40s in Britain earn 20 percent less per hour than their male counterparts I pop into the Guggenheim to see ‘Art in the USA: Three Hundred Years of Innovation’ a survey of ‘the art of a nation struggling to define itself during the first centuries of its existence’ the most significant display of American art ever seen in Spain Although there are around 200 often brilliant works on display despite the fact that the show declares itself ‘a composite picture of the American experience – its myths Rarely have I witnessed such a breathtaking gulf between curatorial intention and actuality All of which is a lengthy way of explaining why I welcomed the premise of ‘The Furious Gaze’ Director of the Montehermoso Cultural Centre Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum in New York – see feminism ‘as an essential framework for investigating visual works that deal with situations of inequality experienced by women’ The show takes its title from a term coined by the Spanish philosopher Amelia Valcárcel In her text La Política de las mujeres (The Politics of Women 1996) she describes the situation of women who having reached their 30s assuming that discrimination against women is a thing of the past have their expectations shattered by the realization of a glass ceilings in the workplace To accompany ‘The Furious Gaze’ Arakistain also programmed the ‘Contraseñas/Passwords’ project inviting 12 Spanish and international curators and theorists to ‘document the many lines of criticism and artistic creation based on feminist viewpoints that have been developed in an audiovisual format since the 1960s’ ‘The Furious Gaze’ included work by 20 women artists from Afghanistan the UK and the USA who are around the age of those in Valcárcel’s study – that’s to say Although most of these artists use gender and sexuality as their starting-point Highlights included: Andrea Bowers’ installation of a video and posters (the latter made especially for this exhibition) which records 30 men and women reading letters sent to 1960s’ abortion rights activists; the Afghan artist Lida Abdul’s video of the artist washing an Afghan rug with an ice-block; Italian artist Lara Favaretto’s photograph of men holding up a donkey (Mondo alla Rovescia and her mysterious installation Prima (2005) which comprised five air canisters and childrens’ party whistles; and the Japanese artist Yurie Nagashima’s deadpan photograph of a heavily pregnant woman giving the viewer an adamant finger – an unambiguous response to Nobuyoshi Araki’s hugely popular photographs of Japanese women in bondage Humour bubbled near the surface of many of the works including the Australian artist Tracey Moffat’s hilarious video collage of moments from classic films exploring relationships between men and women and the US artist Kathe Burkhart’s super-camp series of paintings ‘Liz Taylor’ (2002) I kept returning to two slapstick videos by the Spanish artist Cristina Lucas: Rousseau y Sophie (2007) is her response to Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s theories about women as expounded in his book Emile: or in which the French philosopher wrote of men and women: ‘One ought to be active and strong the other passive and weak […] it follows that woman is made specially to please man.’ Lucas’ riposte mocking and thumbing their noses at Rousseau’s statue in a park in Madrid to the accompaniment of a brass band Opposite this video was Tú también puedes caminar (You Can Walk Too 2006) Lucas’ retort to the passage in Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own (1929) in which Woolf quotes the words of a prominent music critic: ‘Of Mlle Germaine Tailleferre one can only repeat Dr Johnson’s dictum […] “Sir a woman’s composing is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs but you are surprised to find it done at all.”’ Lucas’ film shows a series of remarkable dogs Arakistain has made it clear that while this is the first major show he has curated at this extraordinary space he intends feminism to continue to be integral to future exhibitions at the centre This is as it should be: women represented fairly not as the exception but as a matter of course Jennifer Higgie is a writer who lives in London Her book The Mirror and the Palette – Rebellion Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women’s Self-Portraits is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and she is currently working on another – about women A new play by Gillian Solvo highlights the lives of those who survived the devastating fire reaffirms the Malagasy artist as the star of the show With the spotlight at the Venice Biennale falling all-too-often on the 30 national pavilions in the Giardini writer Jennifer Higgie asks whether this 19th-century format still makes sense These are the top shows to see in January – from an extensive display of Indigenous Australian stories in Plymouth to a joint Renée Green retrospective in Berlin the paradigm-shifting show presents more than 300 paintings weavings and films in blazing celebration of the profoundly rich culture 19 artists mine local histories and draw out contradictions in the area’s development Jennifer Higgie visits Plymouth’s new museum to explore its rich collection spanning centuries The artist’s exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery shows how entangled and dependent our lives are upon one another the Lithuanian artist duo open their first UK institutional solo with a quasi-operating room featuring a giant mechanical doctor At her first institutional solo exhibition in Sweden at Moderna Museet the artist’s sculptures reference Marcel Duchamp and evocations of pleasure and knowledge This year’s edition focuses on historical relations of resistance and liberation which survive beyond the archive the artist’s readymade sculptures prompt a strange empathy between viewer and object A new book by Ian Penman grapples with the filmmaker’s gargantuan appetites impossible productivity and heartbreaking melancholy is stripped down to its bare bones to reveal the play’s central spirit © FRIEZE 2025 Cookie Settings | Do Not Sell My Personal Information Twenty-four Astera AX1 Pixel Tubes were utilised for one of 20 stunning site-specific lighting installations created by individual artists for the first UMBRA Light Festival in Vitoria-Gastiez vibrant and highly multicultural historical capital city and seat of government of the Basque Autonomous Community in Alava visitors and lighting enthusiasts from all over Spain Europe and much further afield a chance to redefine the city and see it in some new UMBRA was organised by ARGIA 3 Asociación Cultural and curated by a new collective comprising Rafael Gallego founding partner of AGi Architects and stage lighting designer and founder of Studio & Light Carlos Torrijos – three individuals They made the AX1’s available which were utilised by Carlos Torrijos for his own work at the festival “Buscando la Vida” was staged in the former water reservoir next to the Palacio Montehermoso a 16th century stately Renaissance building – one of two special underground spaces that became immersive light works during the event The Palacio was linked to the ancient Depósito de Aguas (Water tank) by an underground corridor added in 1885 Since 1991 Palacio Montehermoso has served as a cultural centre for the city and region and during UMBRA this extensive underground corridor with its imposing vaulted architecture was opened to the public allowing them to access the 1.365 m² large hall of the former water reservoir Carlos Torrijos’ light-and-sound piece was based on vertical LED lines soaring from the floor created with the AX1s stationed at strategic points around the vast area Their energy-conscious wireless battery powered operation was ideal These illuminated the massive structural arches which were a masterpiece of Renaissance engineering The movement of the light up and down the Astera tubes was inspired by the rise and fall of the water in the tank Reemphasising the relationship between lighting and physical space the work was also aimed at getting an emotional response from guests in terms of extracting the light everyone has within them from the ‘silence’ that is so often the norm The thought-provoking ambience created as people were bathed in light was intended to encourage the existential process of pulling positive energy from inner darkness searching the soul to find new meanings and ideas Emphasising the form and functionality of the room – a dark closed off space – with light also helped explain the history and relevance of the location Carlos chose to use the Pixel Tubes for the work because he wanted a clean and pure light in an expedient housing and something that was expediently packaged that would blend unobtrusively into this extraordinary environment The AX1 produced large amounts of light required but occupied minimal space It was the first time he had used an Astera product and was extremely impressed with the results reckoning that the AX1s are an “original and different” light source with “great possibilities” for light art installations like this and for more conventional entertainment based applications He’d like to use the Tubes again and experiment with having greater control over the effects and operation for the next work “I loved the reflection of the colours on the architecture and the dynamism of the actual light emanating from the Tubes” he commented EES themselves were delighted to be involved in the first of what will hopefully become an annual event Having recently added Astera to their product portfolio which features other premium brands they like Astera’s diversity and the many new possibilities their ingenious wireless technology brings for lighting projects The first UMBRA Light Festival was a massive success pulling many people into Vitorio- Gastiez and creating a real buzz of excitement and creativity and boosting an appreciation of the many unifying effects of lighting on social interaction www.astera-led.com/ We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user 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heritage as the center of attention the Fair should have a good turnout following the line of the gradual recovery of the country’s tourist activity that in January had an upturn despite the complexities that persists as pointed out in a message from the Gaviota Group this is the most representative company of the recreational activity in Cuba and therefore it is expected to have strong proposals and presence in the May event registered a record of more than 7,500 tourism industry professionals from 53 countries comparatively (in 2022 it took place again in Varadero) it is expected that this time it will attract an abundant representation of international tourism businessmen the fair gathered 6,000 participants from 54 countries 38 airlines and 254 tour operators and travel agencies one of the great urban treasures of the Caribbean Gaviota has been working for years to expand its reception capacities and reinforcement of a hotel product to honor the so-called Wonder City nearly a thousand of them in the Historic Center where the Habaguanex Hotels are concentrated the Hotel Marqués de Cárdenas de Montehermoso FitCuba 2023 will focus precisely on the island’s enormous heritage in an additional effort to promote and diversify the destination (https://www.plenglish.com/news/2023/04/06/cubas-next-tourism-fair-draws-the-attention-of-markets/) Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Welcome to our complete News Portal about Central American and Caribbean events Take your time and immerse yourself in this amazing experience Newsinamerica is a website of American Email: info@newsinamerica.com © Copyright 2015 - Propiedad de MRInternacional S.A Pukalani Elementary and Lokelani Intermediate VEXIQ robots cross the field to score points on opposite sides in the 2019 Valley Isle VEX IQ League championships The competition took place at Pukalani Elementary on Dec Shown (from left) are Pukalani drivers Israel Enriquez and Jeffrey Ho and Lokelani drivers Kainoa Caminos and Norman Montehermoso Pukalani Elementary STEM Imagineers Team 10704A and the Lokelani Intermediate Kolohe Kids Team 5777K captured the 2019 Valley Isle VEX IQ League title following the league championship on Dec which garnered a final score of 119 points in their alliance match secured spots in the 2020 Hawaiian Electric Cos There will be an elementary school state championship Feb 14 and 15 at Kamehameha Schools Kapalama Kekuhaupi`o Gym on Oahu and a middle school state championship Feb Maui Waena Robotics Team 10698A and Lihikai School Surferbots 11510A won the Excellence Awards for the middle and elementary School levels at the Maui league championship and also qualified for the state championships Teams of elementary students and middle-schoolers created robots to compete in this year’s game titled “Squared Away.” The objective was to place cubes in colored goals on the field to score points Teams also could score by placing balls in or on top of the cubes The VEX IQ match consists of a 1-minute time interval where drivers must hand their controller to their partners after 30 seconds and they work to score as many points as possible There are no defenders as in other robotics competitions The league held four qualification sessions at Lokelani Intermediate School Anthony Schools Maui and Lihikai Elementary School Cumulative scores at each session were used to calculate the final rankings and is run by Maui High School Robotics team members All Maui County pools on the Valley Isle will close May 14 for staff training Maui County will host a job fair with 20 different departments from police .. WITH ESPORTS MAKING waves in the Philippines alongside the National Youth Commission has decided to introduce an esports version of the renowned student-athlete sporting event in the Philippines which follows a similar approach to its traditional sporting counterpart On their official Facebook page the league asked the community on what games they wish to be featured with Riot Games' League of Legends topping the charts (though they later published their statement regarding the polls) Perhaps this project could help further expound the local esports scene which is dominated by Mobile Legends: Bang Bang told Spin.ph that the project serves a bigger purpose Montehermoso realized that the vast majority of opportunities in esports mostly stem from Luzon and this could be highlighted by the numerous big time events that took place in Manila "Why not create a platform to provide more opportunities to esports athletes outside NCR?" he started "One pain point I have as an esports enthusiast in the Philippines is that most opportunities are emphasized in Luzon although there are a lot of esports initiatives in Visayas and Mindanao there are few activities or events where we can show our talents." Then he looked back and realized that players from Visayas are forced to look for opportunities by traversing to Luzon "Most of the brands or most of the organizing bodies are found in Luzon or have more resources that they can provide in these highly populated areas...And if I were correct we have some Ilonggo players who migrated to Luzon for them to be able to join teams He added: "Hopefully through E-Palarong Pambansa our esports athletes can get the support they need in the local level." But the project doesn't just aim to expound on the local esports scene as it likewise aims to build a more sustainable grassroots system through the aid of the local government With E-Palarong Pambansa going online, perhaps more opportunities could be provided not only to aspiring pro players, but also to organizers and other parties. So far, Montehermoso has been busy developing the scene in Iloilo and he hopes to further reach other cities why not have other cities and municipalities emulate what we did?" reflected Montehermoso He added: "And for them to be able to access the government support here have more legitimacy on what they do and for these organizations to have more sustainable and stable esports ecosystems for them to be able to really create career opportunities for esports enthusiasts and to those who wish to continue their career paths in the esports scene in the PH." where esports orgs are formed per city where they receive an overwhelming level of support from the government and investors "The plan is...once these esports organizations in the cities and municipalities are created we will provide them the resources for them to be able to ask the support from local businesses and government units and once they’ve established themselves they can look for local sponsors in the area." we believe that it will be more sustainable and more stable for them since it’s easier for them to pitch that organization they’re in because they’re representing their hometowns at the National level." "It’s also a great way for them to look for local partners and have more ‘bragging rights’ per se in terms that they’re not really competing at the local level but they’re the ones championing their hometowns in the bigger leagues and hopefully through this they’ll get the continuous support/funding they need." And for this vision to reach its fullest potential the project taps into the National Youth Commission's influence "We want to see more engagements with the local youth that’s why we partnered with the National Youth Commission and I’m glad they created an advice for you to supervise the SKs and the cities for them to support the esports initiatives and create an esports coordinator who will be our contact person for this event," revealed Montehermoso Get more of the latest sports news & updates on SPIN.ph Spin.ph has been granted the NPC Seal of Registration in recognition of the successful registration of its DPO and DPS We use cookies to ensure you get the best experience on Spin.ph. By continued use, you agree to our privacy policy and accept our use of such cookies. Find out more here MMMC team members pictured left to right: Donald Halsey The Maui Memorial Medical Center is the recipient of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines–Target: Stroke Honor Roll-Elite Quality Achievement Award The award was presented at the association’s International Stroke Conference 2015 and recognizes the hospital’s commitment and success in ensuring that stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized MMMC is one of 559 hospitals to be recognized on the Target: Stroke Honor Roll among the nearly 1,000 hospitals given quality achievement awards at the conference To receive the Target: Stroke Honor Roll-Elite award hospitals must meet quality measures developed to reduce the time between the patient’s arrival at the hospital and treatment with the clot-buster tissue plasminogen activator the only drug approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat ischemic stroke If given intravenously in the first three hours after the start of stroke symptoms hospital representatives say tPA has been shown to significantly reduce the effects of stroke and lessen the chance of permanent disability at least 75% of the hospital’s ischemic stroke patients have received tPA within 60 minutes of arriving at the hospital and this award demonstrates our commitment to ensuring patients receive care based on nationally-respected clinical guidelines,” said Carol Clark of MMMC Communications in a press release “MMMC is dedicated to improving the quality of stroke care and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines Stroke helps us achieve that goal,” she said MMMC has also met specific scientific guidelines as a Primary Stroke Center featuring a comprehensive system for rapid diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients admitted to the emergency department “We are pleased to recognize Maui Memorial Medical Center for their commitment to stroke care,” said Deepak L national chairman of the Get With The Guidelines steering committee and Executive Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Programs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School “Studies have shown that hospitals that consistently follow Get With The Guidelines quality improvement measures can reduce length of stay and 30-day readmission rates and reduce disparities in care.” Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism MANILA, Philippines – The Lakas-Magdalo alliance in Cavite is set to file a string of complaints against Senior Superintendent Glen Dumlao over alleged acts of harrassment against its members and supporters was implicated in the 2001 Dacer-Corbito double murder case He resurfaced from under the Aquino administration and has been named head of the Regional Public Safety Battalion of the Calabarzon police He is a known protegé of Sen Panfilo Lacson whose son Jay is running for vice governor under the Liberal Partyy (LP) against Jolo Revilla of Lakas-Magdalo has submitted a letter of complaint to PNP Police Director-General Alan Purisima due to Dumlao’s involvement in the following incidents: a group of men in fatigues went to his house and introduced themselves as members of PNP The men accused him of organizing an armed group a group of armed men in civilian clothes went looking for Romeo Montehermoso Jr. but the men insisted to enter the compound prompting a caretaker to call the wife of Montehermoso The men was told to address their concerns to the barangay hall the armed men also went looking for Montehermoso’s brother Nelson’s wife refused to let the armed men enter The men also went to the house of Alvin Mojica executive assistant of re-electionist Gov Jonvic Remulla Panelo said a group of armed men led by Sr Supt Glen Dumlao and Romeo Baleros stormed the house of Raymond Equillos chief of staff of Mayor Jun Sagun of Trece Martires City but Dumlao’s men “sprayed the house with gunfire,” which injured 2 people He also added that valuables like mobile phones and wrist watches went missing after the raid Equillos and 5 others were arrested for illegal possession of firearms but were eventually released for “lack of probable cause,” Panelo said the rogues in uniform are in cahoots with certain political groupings or personalities in implementing a political program designed to destroy the chances of the Lakas-Magdalo political party candidates from winning the elections,” the lawyer said Remulla and Revilla will be facing off Liberal Party bets 3rd district Cavite Rep Erineo “Ayong” Maliksi and his running mate “Kasi kung magiging parehas at tahimik lang ang eleksyon sa Cavite tiyak na wala nang talo sina Jonvic Remulla at Jolo Revilla (If the polls in Cavite would be fair and peaceful Jonvic Remulla and Jolo Revilla will certainly win the elections) Panelo said they will also file grave coercion and even sexual harassment charges against the cops Masks are not only for Carnival nor are bicycles only for the summer which is west of Madrid and bordering with neighboring Portugal there are unique celebrations that wander around the use of masks: the “Jarramplas” the “Negritos de San Blas” that revive every year in Piornal All are traditional festivals that also welcome the new year because they are celebrated in January and February One of the common denominators of all three is the use of masks disguises or painted faces with heavy make-up They also combine ancestral rites that make them an essential visit for any curious traveler The calendar of the celebrations with masks in Extremadura begins in the highest town of the region a strong Captain raises the flag and people sing at dawn a character dressed in a costume full of multicolored flowing ribbons and covered with a conical mask He receives a shower of turnips when the neighbors spot him because it is said that is he represents a cattle thief But the truth is that this is a Fiesta of National Tourist Interest and is the pride of the whole town People have formed a long waiting list that grows every year  This is a genuine ritual of the Valley of the Jerte that attracts visitors from all over the country and has represented Extremadura in the “Festival de Mascaras Ibéricas” (Festival of Iberian Masks) shared by Spain and Portugal At this multinational festival the “Carantoñas de Acehúche” also represents us who have their Festivity on the 20th of January Acehúche is a small town in the Province of Cáceres It is fills with characters with heads covered with monstrous masks with or with out animal skins; and can be decorated with teeth animal ears or peppers but what they do no lack is a dry branch of wild olive tree in each hand It is said that this represent the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian when it comes past them in a procession between songs Before the appearance of the “Carantoñas” the maidens have already decorated the streets they are dressed in traditional costumes and are called “Reagoras” their responsibility is to water the rosemary that is used during the procession of the Saint a huge Carantoña with an immense cowbell on its neck All the other Carantoñas flee scared and participants go to the house of the butler for refreshments of wine and sweets This is a festival of Touristic interest in Extremadura those who come to the scene are the “Negritos de San Blas” who do not wear masks but go around the town with their faces tinted in black They dance to the rhythm of tambourines and at the directions of the “Palotero” who looks like the buffoon of the celebration because of his unusual clothing which contrast greatly with the other participants who are dressed with the typical attire of Montehermoso The festivity starts on the night of the candles with washed faces and it considered the big day when they perform the ritual of the “Tiznado” or making up of faces The legend says that these characters belonged to a family that came to beg and decided to hide their faces Now it is a Festival of Tourist Interest for this town in Extremadura and a sign of identity for “Montehermoso” that in itself represents the essence of the spirit of Extremadura planVE, la guía de ocio de Extremadura Original article by Merche R Descubre las fiestas de máscaras de Extremadura Tu dirección de correo electrónico no será publicada Los campos obligatorios están marcados con * correo electrónico y web en este navegador para la próxima vez que comente Y no te pierdas ningúnevento que ocurraen tu ciudad Ahora ya estarásal día de todos loseventos culturalesde tu ciudad El que os podréis reservar para disfrutarlo y no para perderlo buscando aquí y allá qué hacer en vuestras horas libres Bastará con consultar nuestra guía de ocio online para estar al día de la oferta de ocio tiempo libre y turismo que atesora Extremadura.