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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Saturday, June 27, 2009 |
| Negros Oriental | |
 Dads hesitant to rule on complaint vs. RDO Large-scale mining applicants reach 56 PNP tightens watch on drugs smuggling Septage facilty MOA inked |
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Dads hesitant to rule
on complaint vs. RDO
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE
The Sangguniang Panlungsod has refused to act on the request for support to the joint resolution of the business community in Dumaguete City against the Bureau of Internal revenue district officer, because of reservations from some council members.
In a privileged speech in last Thursday’s session, Vice Mayor Woodrow Maquiling, however, said he wanted to pass the resolution in support of the recommendation to prevent RDO Aldo Esmena from allegedly harassing taxpayers.
Businessmen have sought Esmena’s transfer for his alleged unfair, unjust, arbitrary and unconstitutional acts in the implementation of the BIR “Oplan Kandado” campaign.
| Large-scale mining The number of applicants for a permit to undertake large-scale mining operations in Negros Oriental had reached 56 as of last counting, provincial legal counsel Erwin Vergara said. Vergara on Monday said this can be seen in a Tenement Map of Region VII, prepared by the Mines and Geo-Sciences Bureau-7 of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, as of April 2009. Areas that have been applied for by different large-scale mining companies include those in Manjuyod, Bindoy, Jimalalud, Ayungon, Tayasan, Basay, Bayawan, La Libertad, Guihulngan, Amlan, Tanjay, Pamplona, Siaton, San Jose, Sibulan, Valencia, Sta. Catalina, Bacong, Dauin, and in the capital city of Dumaguete. |
| PNP tightens watch The Philippine National Police in Negros Oriental is strengthening its surveillance and monitoring of ports of entry to the province after the recent seizure of a big haul of suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride, or shabu, in a northern town. PNP provincial director, Senior Supt. Augusto Marquez Jr., said Negros Oriental is a trans-shipment point of illegal drugs being smuggled from Mindanao to Cebu and other parts of the country. He said travel costs to Cebu are a lot cheaper if shipments of illegal drugs are coursed through Negros Oriental rather than being delivered direct from Mindanao to Cebu. |
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