CHEd, NORSU to tackle
college closure in session
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE

The Board of Regents of the Negros Oriental State University will hold a special session with the Commission on Higher Education in Manila on the closure of its College of Maritime Education.

Dumaguete Sangguniang Panlungsod member Nilo Sayson, a member of the BoR, said that CHEd Commissioner Patricia Licuanan will preside over the special session although its date has not been set, he added.

The BoR initially requested for a reconsideration of the CHEd closure order, after it found out that the CME has all the structures, facilities and equipment required by law for a maritime school to operate, except for the masteral qualifications for members of the faculty.

Houses turned over
to ‘Ondoy’ victims
BY MARICAR ARANAS & JUDY F. PARTLOW

Victims of tropical storm “Ondoy”, whose houses were washed away by flashfloods in 2009, received their government-funded shelters Wednesday in Dumaguete City.

The 60 housing units were built through the Core Shelter Program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development with the city government of Dumaguete providing the lot in Barangay Bajumpandan.

Mayor Manuel Sagarbarria, Vice Mayor Alan Gel Cordova and other government officials witnessed the turnover of the houses, after the blessing and inauguration rites attended by Sheba Dabon of the DSWD 7 Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.

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