Over 120,000 students were reported to have gone back to their classrooms even as there was a noted lack of teachers and classrooms in certain areas. The onset of the rainy season has also sent some school campuses on an emergency repair for unnoticed leaks and holes in their rooftops. The Dep-Ed has somehow taken steps to solve the temporary inconvenience.
VOL. 39 No. 52
Dumaguete City,
Philippines
Sunday, JUNE 9, 2013
P12.00
Performance audit for Job Orders due BY CHOY GALLARDE
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s the 15th Congress ended over the weekend, second district Rep. George Arnaiz reported two major laws which he authored for the province of Negros Oriental and one for the whole country. This is aside from the local bills he also authored.
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The first, was the passage in the House and Senate the amendment of the NIPAS law which is the National Integrated Protected Area System. This would enable the local management of the 45 protected areas in the country to retain their millions in income instead of remitting the same to the national treasury.
Benefited in Negros Oriental are the Apo Island protected areas and the Lake Balinsasayaw development. In Apo Island, millions of collections in dive fees from tourists go directly to the national coffers. The local PAMBI management could not even use the money until one year later To page 17
Rep. George Arnaiz 2nd Dist. Neg.Or.
fter the midterm elections, and after many incumbents took advantage of hiring casuals and job orders to do odd jobs just to gain political leverage, it’s time to prune the stock and see who are fit to be retained and who should go.
Hundreds of Job order employees of the local governments in the towns and cities Dumaguete not excempted, will have to be evaluated. This covers regulars and casual plantilla employees who will shortly be
subjected to a performance audit to determine if they are still needed by the city government. For instance, in Dumaguete, City Mayor Manuel Sagarbarria issued the statement in response to qurries as to the To page 17
How much was spent by them in last polls? BY DEMS DEMECILLO
o the Comelec’s amusement, winners and losers in the last electoral contest filed ridiculously low figures of their expenditures in an election which was considered as having the most rampant cases of vote-buying. Some high end bets reported over a million in expenses while another spent only less than P20,000.
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Highway Patrol Group team leader Insp. Robelito Mariano signs the complaint at the prosecutor’s office as three of the suspects were presented. L-R: Rizaldo Sabejon, Albert Maghanoy and Jun Clint Sabejon, and their police escort.
Carnap suspects may get life terms BY CHOY GALLARDE
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hree major suspects in what the Highway Patrol Group, described as the biggest, elusive motorcycle-carnap syndicate in Negros Oriental, may get life imprisonment if the full force of the law will be imposed on them upon conviction.
This followed after Highway Patrol Group leader Insp. Robelito Mariano led In the busting of the syndicate’s main safe house in Sibulan last Thursday. This followed months of surveillance on the syndicate’s movement. Sixteen carnapped motorcylces
were recovered, l3 of which were already chopped into parts and pieces while three have yet to be dismantled. PInsp Mariano said his office has filed anti-carnapping and antifencing charges against the suspects before the prosecutor’s
office last Friday. Charged for alleged violation of the Anti Carnapping Act of 1972 RA 6539 were: Rizaldo Sabejon, aka Kimpang/ Dodong, 42 of Campaclan, Sibulan; Jun Clint Sabejon, aka Clint, 18, son To page 2
Believe it or not but one independent candidate pledged on his honor that he spent just P 2, 291.811 for his bid to capture the provincial governorship. Samuel Torres was the first among the four
gubernatorial bets, who beat the June 12 deadline for the submission of the Statement of Election Contribution and Expenses as required by law. Only Jerry Paras among the congressional bets have so far To page 3
It’s our RUBY year, thanks be to GOD ... n June 12, it will be our 40th year or our Ruby Anniversary as a community newspaper in Negros Oriental. It seems like only yesterday but as we look back, we are now three generations older. Our grandchildren are starting to do errands for the paper. And we have not missed a single issue in our 40 years of service to community journalism. (To page 4)
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“IT’S GOOD TO ASK QUESTIONS, BUT IT’S EVEN BETTER TO SEEK GOD’S ANSWERS.”
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