DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental

Archbishop John Du yesterday bade farewell to the Diocese of Dumaguete, and thanked the clergy, laity and the community for their support in making the Catholic Church stronger and sturdier.

Du is scheduled to leave for Palo, Leyte, tomorrow where he will be installed as the new archbishop, by Archbishop Giuseppe Pinto, Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines, on May 9.

In his regular Sunday morning mass, and again in the afternoon at the ordination of the two deacons, Du said the success of the programs and projects of the Diocese in almost 11 years of his leadership had been possible because of the support and cooperation of church members.

Santacruzan Fest starts
BY RENE GENOVE

The Dumaguete City Tourism Office kicked off the 2012 Santacruzan Festival with the theme “A Celebration of Virtues”, at the Kiwanis Club Stage in Quezon Park, Dumaguete City, Friday.

Tourism officer Woodrow Maquiling said his office and the City Tourism Council have prepared a series of events that will lure in tourists and visitors to be part of the celebration.

These activities will be synched with religious events of the Church, especially novena masses, that will be sponsored by city government offices. He said the festival is based on the sharing of creative ideas between the church and local government.

Suspect in slay-try of
councilor nabbed

Another suspect in the attempted murder of Councilor Victoriano Alabastro, of Bayawan City, Negros Oriental, was arrested by police intelligence operatives and agents of the National Bureau of Investigation Friday.

Police reports showed that Remy Diocares, 41, married, of Barangay Culipapa in Hinoba-an, Negros Occidental, and temporarily residing at Sitio Tab-ang, Brgy. Pagatban, Bayawan, was nabbed in Brgy. Agan-an, in Sibulan town, Negros Oriental, by virtue of a search warrant for qualified theft, issued by the Regional Trial Court Branch 42.

Diocares, who is now detained at the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office lockup cell, was tagged as a suspect in the slay-try on Alabastro, on June 24, 2011.

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