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Dumaguete City, PhilippinesMonday, March 26, 2012
Negros Oriental
Button‘Town earning P220M could become a city’
ButtonGuv: Projects to continue in former NPA stronghold
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CARPers oppose school bldg
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Discard corrupt police system
ButtonDumaguete architects set strategies

House panel okays LGC amendment:
‘Town earning P220M could
become a city’

The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill that will allow a town to be converted into a component city if it has a locally-generated average annual income of at least P220-million, but exempting it from the population and land area requirements.

House Bill 5620, a substitution of HB 4990 of Reps. George Arnaiz (Neg. Or., 2nd District), Rufus Rodriguez (Cagayan de Oro, 2nd District), Roy Loyola (Cavite, 5th District), and Erineo Maliksi (Cavite, 3rd District), seeks to amend Republic Act 7160 or the Local Government Code of 1991, providing a mechanism for high income towns.

Guv: Projects to continue
in former NPA stronghold

Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo said there is still a need for the government to continue making its presence felt strongly in sitios Avocado and Kakha, once known as hotbeds of insurgency, in Sta. Catalina town.

“Kakha and Avocado are still priority areas by the Armed Force of the Philipines, and reports of continued sightings of New People’s Army need to be given serious attention and action,” Degamo said in a statement he issued.

While he supports the anti-insurgency campaign of the AFP, Degamo said the provincial government will also continue to provide interventions in the once insurgency-stricken areas, the statement added.

CARPers oppose school bldg
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

Farmer-beneficiaries of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program are asking that the construction of a two-classroom school extension building in Sta. Cruz Nuevo, Tanjay City, Negros Oriental be stopped, saying they own the land where it will be put up.

The beneficiaries went to the Don Placido Mapa Memorial School in Sta. Cruz Nuevo to ask school authorities to halt the construction of the extension building.

Rolando Quemada, a holder of the Certificate of Land Ownership Award from the Department of Agrarian Reform, said the site where the building is being constructed, is part of the land given him under the CARP.

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