P1M brgy road inaugurated

The Negros Oriental provincial government inaugurated a P1 million barangay road in Cadawinonan, Dumaguete City, recently, a government press release said.

Gov. Roel Degamo said Dumaguete City received the biggest share in the province's 20 percent economic development fund because he saw the need to fund infrastructure and facilities in the city, that he also said, is the show window of Negros Oriental, being the capital of the province.

The provincial government also allotted funds for the implementation of development projects in the barangays across the province. Recently, it turned over a road cementing project, worth P3.5 million, to Brgy. Narra, Bayawan City.

Police arrest militant over
US hostage deaths

MANILA – Police yesterday arrested an Al-Qaeda-linked militant suspected of involvement in a 2001 kidnapping of a group of tourists that left two American hostages dead.

Abdula Alad, a local leader of the Abu Sayyaf group, was arrested in the southern island of Basilan, said an official statement that gave no other details about the police operation.

The Abu Sayyaf raided the Dos Palmas island beach resort in the western Philippines in 2001 and abducted 20 tourists and resort staff, including three Americans.

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