IN LA LIBERTAD AMBUSH
Buenafe hits transfer
of witnesses to Cebu
BY MARICAR ARANAS

Oriental Negros police provincial director, Senior Supt. Melvin Ramon Buenafe, said he was saddened by the sudden transfer to Cebu City of witnesses in the ambush that killed a barangay captain and six others on March 9 in La Libertad town.

Buenafe said he was not informed of the transfer last Saturday by operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group. He tagged the move as "highly irregular" and may lead to suspicion. Reports said the witnesses, who were recuperating at the Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital, boarded an ambulance bound for Cebu.

The Task Force Manluminsag, a joint team of Philippine National Police provincial command, National Bureau of Investigation-Dumaguete headed by Dominador Cimafranca, and the CIDG, is investigating the incident.

NORECO II eyes 3
board seats in city

The Negros Oriental 2 Electric Cooperative is pushing for the redistricting of Dumaguete City for purposes of NORECO Board representation.

Dumaguete now has the biggest number of member-consumers at 18,370 and 27,895 electric connections. It is the biggest in load consumption, has the most number of barangays and revenues, but is represented only by one director. The member-consumers committee headed by Dr. Profiteza Lim passed a resolution to divide the city into three districts: North, South and West, which was approved by the board of directors.

Institutional Services Department head Leovigildo Elmaco said, the redistricting is in the agenda of the general annual assembly of the cooperative on Sunday, at the Lamberto Macias Sports Complex, in Dumaguete.

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