DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental

The strike staged by employees of the Holy Child Hospital in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, yesterday morning was lifted in the afternoon, after the union and management agreed to wait for the decision of the DOLE Bureau of Labor Relations on the disaffiliation petition that the employees filed.

Noreen Nuico, president of the Holy Child Hospital Employees Union-Associated Labor Union-Trade Union Congress of the Philippine, said that after more than four hours of emergency conference initiated by the Tripartite Industrial Peace Council and the National Conciliation Board, both parties agreed to a status quo.

This means that protesting workers will be back to work at 7 a.m. today, after the management and union agreed to wait for the decision of the BLR.

1 dies, 1 survives electrocution
BY MARICAR ARANAS

A government employee of Tanjay City, Negros Oriental died, and another was injured, when they were electrocuted while trying to connect electricity to their booth during preparations for a Girl Scout of the Philippines activity in Camp Lily Gamo, in Brgy. San Antonio, Sibulan, Thursday.

NOPPO deputy director, Supt. Alet Virtucio identified the victims as Jeric Luba, of legal age, and Engineer Rando Reyes Duran, 38. The two were preparing for the opening rite of the GSP camping activity when the incident happened at about noon Thursday.

The victims were rushed to the Silliman University Medical Center, but Luba was declared dead on arrival, while Duran was still recuperating, the police said.

NegOr police get tourist shirts
BY MARICAR ARANAS

Department of Tourism 7 director Rowena Lu Montecillo turned over 122 tourist police uniforms to the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office during a courtesy call Thursday at the NOPPO headquarters in Agan-an, Sibulan.

Deputy provincial director, Supt. Alet Virtucio, accepted the uniforms for the 61 police personnel earlier trained as tourist cops by the DOT.

He said the uniforms will boost the morale of the police while assisting tourists and visitors, as it is important for them to look clean and neat.

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