DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental

The Dumaguete City police have not yet identified the suspects in the fatal shooting of two suspected alleged drug personalities in the city Friday, Chief Insp. Eddie Oira said yesterday.

He had earlier identified the fatalities as Rolando Sanchez, 30, and Kent Palen, “alias Jack Pajunar”, of Purok Santan, Barangay Taclobo, Dumaguete. The two were on board a motorcycle in the Pulantubig-Motong area of the city at about 2:15 a.m. Friday, when two suspects on another motorcycle fired at them, and fled.

Sanchez and Palen died on the spot, while their companion, Marga Tolin, 20, who is believed to be the girlfriend of Palen, is now recuperating at the Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital from a gunshot wound in her jaw, Oira, the officer-in-charge of the Dumaguete PNP, added.

‘4Ps apolitical’
BY ROMY AMARADO

The Department of Social Welfare and Development has assured a Negrense solon that the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program of the national government is apolitical.

The DSWD national office has an existing memorandum directing all personnel tasked to implement the 4Ps or the conditional cash transfer program, and the Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services, to ensure that they are politically-neutral, Rep. Pryde Henry Teves (Neg. Or., 3rd District) said.

He said that he was assured by DSWD Secretary Dinky Soliman during a recent department’s budget hearing at the House of Representatives that a beneficiary cannot be removed from the program for not supporting a certain candidate.

Bonnet-wearing motorists
not welcome in Tanjay

Tanjay City, Negros Oriental, has intensified the implementation of its ordinance banning drivers from wearing bonnets or other face-covering garb, a government press release said.

Mayor Lawrence Teves directed the Philippine National Police and the Tanjay City Integrated Traffic Operations Management to ban motorists, as well as pedestrians, who conceal or cover their faces to deter crimes and other untoward incidents.

Ordinance 3 prohibits the use of bonnets, bandannas or other materials of similar nature that cover the face or hide the identity of a person within Tanjay. Violators will be fined P200 to P1,000 or imprisonment of not more than five days, the press release also said.

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