DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental

The Diocese of Dumaguete, in cooperation with the city government, will present the first batch of housing units Friday to families displaced by tropical storm “Sendong”.

Fr. Burton Villarmente, coordinator of the Social Action Center of the Diocese of Dumaguete, said the first 12 houses will be completed Friday and handed over to a pre-screened batch of typhoon victims, who had complied with the requirements of the program.

Constructed on the 5,000-hectare lot in Barangay Bajumpandan donated by the city, the structures are part of the original 115 that the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, through the National Secretariat for Social Action, agreed to subsidize.

Holy Child Hospital labor
dispute settled
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE

The Holy Child Hospital management and the employees’ labor union Associated Labor Union-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, have come to an amicable settlement.

The agreement, mediated by Hacel Cuares of the National Conciliation and Mediation Board-Cebu, prevented a deadlock that would have led to a strike.

ALU-TUCP district officer Felizardo Calimpong said the employees have yielded to the position of management that the dues for non-union members or agency-paid employees will be held in trust while the issue on disaffiliation is pending before arbiter Jose Ogang of the Department of Labor Region 7.

‘Rapist’ fears for life
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE & JUDY F. PARTLOW

The 32-year-old resident of Barangay Bagacay, Dumaguete City, who was accused of raping his 14-year-old niece Sunday, said yesterday that he fears for his life.

The suspect admitted to the DAILY STAR that he raped his niece at his residence while everybody was out celebrating the Feast of St. John the Baptist.

He said he had been drinking coconut wine, locally known as “tuba”, and had smoked a stick of marijuana cigarette and was not in his proper senses when he committed the crime.

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