Sikatuna Village Bliss Blues

Where we live, we are bounded by squatters left and right. The government housing that provided our houses have not done anything to improve the security and safety of the residents of Sikatuna Village Bliss Phase I and Phase II. From the longest time in my memory anything that is exposed or can be plucked from the outside is easily lost. Robbed. Burgled.

The squatter colonies raid the residents' houses and automobiles and take valuables with them. They take liberties with space and use them for their own parking lots and private personal spaces. The Sikatuna Village Bliss belongs to the Barangay UP Campus that has done nothing to help in the robbing and harassing of Bliss residents by the slum colonies surrounding it. If you catch a thief from the squatters and turn them over to the law, in many cases, they are protected by the local police instead of being made to rot in jail and face punishment for their crimes.

This has reached the point that each group of Bliss Building residents purchased metallic gates to ward off the squatters from further conducting forays into their houses and building corridors. However in our building, Bldg. IV, in Phase I, a resident calling herself Mrs. Elsie Bermido and her daughter Jenny Bermido, despite the resolve of the Bldg. IV residents to be safe, exposes all the residents once more to the thieves, robbers, burglars by constantly leaving the building gates open up to the wee hours of the morning. The mother and daughter invite elements from the squatter colony to come and go into and out of the building. Who is going to discipline this Bermido mother and daughter? When the Barangay UP Campus is overly "friendly" and easily comes to the aid of the Bermidos? The mother and daughter Bermidos in action:

On this day mother and daughter were very much alive and awake at 12:31 after midnight. Their nocturnal activities continue up to mid morning. Damn these people!

A humble word to the Barangay UP people:

A number of individuals have lost their lives due to the unsecure position of the Sikatuna Village Bliss.

We urge you to please help us correct this situation and close the fences of Bliss to outsiders and allow us to leave our lives peacefully.

Take a note of this comment from one of the Bliss residents:

"Why don't we let the Barangay UP officials experience the violence and harsh, notorious acts of the squatters and let's see how they will take the same pain we are suffering?"

Are you up to it Barangay UP officers and staff?