DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental

Public pressure is growing for the release of four green sea turtles being held in captivity in a park in Zamboanguita, Negros Oriental, after photographs posted on Facebook, recently, showed their dismal condition.

The green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas), varying in size, are all held in a medium-sized rectangular concrete tank at the Oceanarium in Zamboanguita town, a neglected but once popular facility.

Steve de Neef, an environmentalist and a professional photographer/videographer who works with international advocacy groups, who visited the Oceanarium recently, said he discovered that the turtles are not being properly fed or taken care of.

Refloating of cargo vessel
delayed due to leaks: PCG
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

Salvage operations on the half-sunken cargo ship M/V Ever Transport III off the coast of Dumaguete City, in Negros Oriental, were stalled when a leak was discovered in its compartment.

Lt. Commander Agapito Bibat, chief of the Coast Guard station in Dumaguete, said the Steel Ray Salvaging Services Inc. has already deployed divers to search for and plug the hole or holes that the other salvaging company might have missed in previous oil and fuel retrieval operations.

Steel Ray also started pumping out water from the cargo vessel to refloat it, before towing it to a shipyard in Cebu, Bibat added..

Death of trisikad
driver baffles cops
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

The Guihulngan City Police Office is looking for more clues to identify the suspect and the motive behind the death of a man, whose body was found dumped in a ditch in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental, at about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The body of trisikad driver Jesus Mahusay, single, with no permanent address, was found by residents in a canal at the national highway in Sitio Looc, Barangay Poblacion, Guihulngan.

Residents told police that the victim, with a hack wound on his forehead, was slumped face down on the ground, when they found him, police records show.

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