DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental

The Commission on Elections in Negros Oriental has deleted the names of around 100,000 registered voters, when they failed to vote in the last two elections, its provincial supervisor, Eddie Aba, said yesterday.

He said that from about 800,000 registered voters in the 2010 election, the list had gone down to 688,763. Also crossed out from the record were the names of voters who have died.

But Aba said he expects the number to go up after the October 31 registration deadline for new voters. He added that those, whose names were deleted for missing the 2007 and 2010 elections, should apply for reactivation in the COMELEC offices in their towns and cities.

Hospital, other properties eyed
for income-generation: Estacion
BY ROMY AMARADO

The provincial government is planning to privatize some of its facilities and turn the Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital into an economic enterprise.

Sangguniang Panlalawigan First District Board Member Liland Estacion, chair of the SP Committee on Ways and Means, said yesterday there is a plan to generate income from the rentals of facilities owned by the provincial government, like the sports, convention, hotel, and the aqua center, that houses the Olympic-sized swimming pool.

Estacion said her committee is studying the passage of an ordinance on the matter.

Typhoon victims told:
Wait for funds
BY ROMY AMARADO

Sibulan Mayor Marcela Grampon Bartoces of Negros Oriental said victims of tropical storm “Sendong” in the town will receive their financial assistance from the national government once the money is available.

Bartoces issued the assurance after some residents of Barangay Tubigon, whose houses were either damaged or destroyed, complained over a local radio that they were not given the assistance received by other victims.

The mayor explained that the funds released on July 24, 2012 came from the national government, through the Department of Social Welfare and Development. She said residents whose houses were destroyed received P10,000, and those with damaged properties got P5,000 per family.

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