DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental

Negros island is being used as training ground for future cadres and fighters of the New People’s Army in Bohol, Col. Francisco Patrimonio, 302nd Infantry Brigade commander, said yesterday.

Citing information from the two rebel surrenderees, Patrimonio said that NPA members recruited from militant sectoral groups were brought from Bohol to far-flung areas in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental, for field exposure and training.

Military records show that the two NPA members, who surrendered to the 302nd Infantry Brigade recently, are from Bohol, the area where the Brigade used to be assigned before its deployment to Negros Oriental.

Korean university partners with
Silliman on water treatment project

A university in Korea has linked up with Silliman University in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, to jointly develop a technology for mitigating bacterial contamination of drinking water in the Philippines, a press release from the school said.

SU president Ben Malayang III and Chonbuk National University president Geo-Suk Suh signed recently a memorandum of understanding to undertake the project called “Sustainable development and technical support for a physical water treatment technology to mitigate scaling and bacterial contamination of drinking water and piping systems in the Philippines”.

LGUs need disaster preparedness seal
to use 70% calamity funds, DILG says

CEBU CITY – Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo said yesterday he will issue a circular that will disallow local government units from using 70 percent of their calamity fund if they do not have the Seal of Disaster Preparedness.

“I will issue the circular in two weeks’ time,” he said at the forum over the weekend attended by Central Visayas mayors at the Cebu International Convention Center in Mandaue City.

To obtain a Seal of Disaster Preparedness, a local government unit must have a functioning local disaster risk reduction and management council, and an approved disaster preparedness plan.

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