BARANGAY TWO

      The origin of the barangay came about through the organization of youngsters during the liberation period (1946) called ‘timpuyog ti namnama’, which means ‘union or association of hope’, By way of this association, residents adopted a new system of bonding, kinship and friendship that was suppressed during World War II.  The organization was a clear expression of the sentiments of the residents on the ravages of war and a manifestation of their interest to move on as one community. 

        The main occupation of the people then was carpentry, though most are employed in government and private offices.  In early times, townfolks were also engaged in home-made ‘namuli-a-cacao’ (native tsokolate) and goldsmithing. The prominent residents then were the Parel, Organo, Gorospe, PIlar, Punio, Paz, Patao, Javier, Peredo, Perilla, Barroga, Pe Benito and Pablico clans.  Some are now into entrepreneurship while quite few have migrated abroad. Part of it located along the national highway is booming with business enterprises and commercial activities, being an expansion or a buffer zone of the Poblacion. It has a population close to a thousand, registered voters of 442 and with a 95% literacy rate.

        Since it is a former part of the whole Poblacion of Bantay, its boundaries were determined in consonance with the religious blocking system set up by the parish church. It then became a ’Barrio’ in accordance with the apportionment into districts for purposes of the elections by precinct pursuant to RA 3590 (1963, The Revised Barrio Charter, supra, at page 9).  Being an existing Barrio when PD 86 (1972, where citizen assemblies were created in barrios, supra, at page 10) was issued, it was constituted as one of the Citizen Assemblies, referred to as a ‘Zone’, to  broaden citizens participation and facilitate the conduct of referendum for the ratification of the 1973 Constitution. By virtue of PD 557 (1974, where the ‘barrio’ and citizen assemblies created under PD 86 became barangays, supra, at page 11) it was renamed and now called as Barangay II.