DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental

An additional 92 families, displaced by tropical storm “Sendong” on Dec. 17, 2011, have something to look forward to next year when the Catholic Church and the Dumaguete City government start the second phase of the joint project to provide them with low-cost shelter.

However, the city government may lose the financial assistance from the Church in case of delays in the procurement of land for the other “Sendong” victims, finance officer Cynthia Perez of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines-National Secretariat for Social Action, said.

The 92 housing units form part of the 150 emergency shelters promised by the CBCP-NASSA to the city government for typhoon victims if the latter paid for the lot as its counterpart as stipulated in the memorandum of agreement between them early this year.

Burglars cart away P1 million
in jewelry, foreign currencies

Burglars ransacked a house in Infante Subdivision, Barangay Bagacay, Dumaguete City, and carted away more than P1 million in cash and jewelry recently.

Victim Rosita Uy, 50, reported to the police that unknown persons destroyed the sliding door to gain entrance to her house and took away assorted items, from her room.

These included assorted jewelry worth P1,000,000 placed inside a jewelry box and an undetermined amount of foreign currencies, like US, Australian, Canadian and Taiwan dollars.

ICT drive intensified in Neg.Or
BY RENE GENOVE

The Information and Communications Technology Association of Dumaguete and Negros Oriental agreed recently to collaborate and participate in the national and local development to generate more jobs, revenues, investments and opportunities drive by the ICT and ICT-enabled sector.

The agreement was made during the 1st Visayas Information and Communications Technology Organization meeting, when the ICTA was organized to ensure that programs and projects are effectively implemented, and to develop a unified stand on issues affecting the ICT industry in the Visayas.

Lead convenor Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, chair of the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines, said the unanimous sentiment was to submit the manifesto to their regional development councils in regions 6, 7 and 8, and urged them to support it.

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