VOL. 37
No. 7
Dumaguete City,
Philippines,
Sunday
AUGUST 1, 2010
P 12.00
To ban Sibulan minors in frats PAGE 02
Sex radio rumor was a dud !
91,783 rice bags stocked at NFA
PNP kills pusher resisting arrest
NOPH cannot be PAGE 02 named Macias (yet)
BY REA REAL here is enough stock of rice inside three major warehouses of the National Food Authority (NFA), projected to supply the province for the month of August, ——better yet if an additional surplus supply will be shipped to Dumaguete within the next month. This was the report of out-going OIC manager of NFA Grace Rodriguez who manned the NFA fort for 45 days when its manager Francisco Lorico was on study leave in Manila. Lorico resumes as NFA manager tomorrow August 2. CHRONICLE reporters and lensmen took fotos of the July 30 stocks of NFA (left) even as NFA management reported the following status of rice stocks for Negros Oriental. These are stocked in three major NFA ware houses in Pulangtubig, Siom-in Looc port zone and Guihulngan. As of July 30, the rice inventory listed 91,783 sacks of 50-kilo NFA rice in the three warehouses above. Some 3000 sacks are moved out DAILY to different outlets and retailers of the city and province. These are categorized as 1000 daily sacks for commercial variety and 2000 sacks daily for food for the schools feeding program. NFA’S MAIN WAREHOUSE stocks enough rice supply. ManOIC Rodiguez said, the daily agement denies any surplus, stocks enough for 30-days. Turn to page 17
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Ulysses “Butchoy” Camba’s body lay dead in a bushy area in Barangay Cantil-e after sustaining gun shot wounds when he allegedly resisted his arrest after a buy-bust operation. (SOCO foto)
e managed to elude arrest during the July 10 raid of his residence in Sitio Canday-ong, Calindagan Dumaguete City, but the police finally tracked him down Tuesday afternoon in Barangay Cantile while allegedly in the midst of selling illegal drugs to a police poseur buyer. City PNP Officer-in- cape anew and engaged the Charge Sr. Inspector Errol police in a shootout before Garchitorena claims suspect he was hit four times in the Ulysses Camba tried to esTurn to page 12
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VM Cordova urges: fire police addicts umaguete City Vicemayor Alan Gel Cordova, the chief policy maker of the city, declared it is inconsistent to launch an honest to goodness campaign against the illegal drugs trade if law enforcers themselves are perceived to be protecting it, or worse, hooked on illegal drugs. Cordova said it is necessary for the Philippine National Police to purge their ranks of drug addicts before it can effectively
Is it “four against the world” in Siaton? D BY DEMS REY DEMECILLO AND FLORENCE BAESA t’s seemingly four against the world in Siaton. The new-mayor, vice-mayor and two councilors will be up against the entire municipal council who are winning Lakas-Kampi-CMD veterans. Unless the political tug-of-war is defused sooner, the public is bound to suffer. Both camps cannot help but atMayor Albert Ator of the Liberal tempt to exert who is “stronger” amid Party went on a media offensive acrumors of certain failures to consti- cusing the councilors of neglecting tute quorums —but vigorous denials their duties by boycotting their reguof any boycott—— in the first four lar sessions. This was quickly denied VM YAP sessions of their first month in office. by the Turn to page 2 SIATON, NEGOR.
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VM CORDOVA DUMAGUETE CITY
“NO ONE HAS ANYTHING TO BOAST AT ALL, BECAUSE ALL THINGS COME FROM GOD.”