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Dumaguete City, PhilippinesSaturday, August 25, 2012
Negros Oriental
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Mt. Kanla-on Volcano risk assessment held
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NORSU prexy investiture set on August 30

2 NegOr top cops relieved
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE

Two high-ranking police officials in Negros Oriental have been relieved from their posts effective August 23, pending investigation of the reported violation of operational procedures in the arrest of a suspected drug personality in San Jose Extension, Dumaguete City, on Wednesday.

The relief orders for Supt. Crisaleo Tolentino, chief of the Dumaguete City Police Office, and Insp. Janelito Marquez, head of the Provincial Anti Illegal Drugs-Special Operations Task Group, were signed by Senior Supt. Edward Carranza, director of the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office.

Carranza said the orders are to ensure that the investigation on the arrest of a suspect, who turned out to be a Dumaguete PNP informant, will not be influenced.

845 aspirants to take
PMA entrance exams
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

About 845 aspirants will take the Philippine Military Academy entrance examinations tomorrow in Bacolod, Iloilo, Kalibo and Dumaguete cities, the military said yesterday.

Maj. Enrico Gil Ileto, spokesman of the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, said the increase in the number of PMA cadetship aspirants by about 100 percent is attributed to the lowering of height requirements for male and female applicants.

He said the number does not include the “walk-in” applicants, who will be accommodated at the West Negros University for those from Bacolod, Iloilo National High School, Northwestern Visayan Colleges for Kalibo, Aklan, and Siliman University for applicants from Oriental Negros..

Mt. Kanla-on Volcano risk
assessment held

An assessment meeting on the “Mitigate and Assess Risk from Volcanic Impact on Terrain and human Activities” project, attended by representatives from four barangays of Negros island, was held in Bacolod City Thursday, a government press release said.

The MIAVITA project of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, in collaboration with the European Union scientific and disaster management organizations, aims to develop and implement integrated tools and cost-effective methodologies to mitigate risks from active volcanoes, the press release also said.

In Negros, barangays Yubo in La Carlota City and Biak-na-Bato in La Castellana town, both in Negros Occidental, and Masulog and Pula of Canlaon City, Oriental Negros, have been identified as pilot sites as they are part of the hazard-prone communities around the Mt. Kanla-on Volcano, that separates the two provinces.

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