
Philippines News: Tuesday, J- OFW remittances hit $10.8B in Jan-April : MONEY sent home by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) reached $10.811 billion in the first four months of 2019, a 3.7-percent increase from $10.426 billion in the same period last year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported on Monday. It is this language that “Duch’narbaan” was told in. Note: Itbayat is a northern island of the Batanes, and people there speak a different dialect of Ivatan (called Itbayaten) from the Ivatans of Basco and Sabtang islands.

News of it also spread in the neighborhood. Now the parents were growing alarmed over the extraordinary strength of Bernardo. Next time, the mother deliberately gave her son an iron rod to play with. When she came home, she found the same in shambles. As soon as these parts of the house had been repaired, she again left Bernardo Carpio alone. When she came home to feed him, the mother was surprised that the walls and studs of their house were either broken or destroyed. So the baby was left in the house without any toy. This happened everyday until the mother could no longer give the baby anything to play with.

Upon coming home, she would find all the toys of the baby broken into small pieces. She would just give him some things to play with. Whenever the mother went out to work, she would lock up the baby in the house. Since this family led only a hand to mouth existence, both husband and wife had to work for a living. Once upon a time, there was a very poor couple who had only one son.
