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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Tuesday, November 3, 2009 |
| Negros Oriental | |
 City Lifts State of Calamity Police mulls amending charges against NPA Soldier wounded in clash Media to cover marathon as runners
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AFTER 9 MONTHS
City Lifts State of Calamity
BY ALEX AL
Residents of Dumaguete City may not have known about it, but they had been living under a state of calamity for the last nine months.
This is because this declaration by the Sangguniang Panlungsod after the February 7 flood was not lifted, after the city was able to tap into its calamity funds to repair the flood damage.
It was just an oversight, Councilor Manuel Sagarbarria said, as the calamity funds were not touched after the reparation efforts for the February 7 flood. Realizing this error, the Council lifted the state of calamity on Thursday, after nine months of being in effect. 
| Police mulls amending The police may amend existing charges or file a new one against the New People's Army, after the capture of a suspected rebel who claimed he had participated in the raid on the police station in La Libertad, Negros Oriental, last year. Police provincial director, Senior Supt. Augusto Marquez Jr., yesterday said the suspect, John Rey Cuevas, 19, of Moises Padilla town in Negros Occidental, admitted that he was wounded in that attack staged by NPA rebels at the height of the All Souls' Day celebration on Nov. 2, 2008. |
| Soldier wounded in clash An army soldier was wounded during an encounter Sunday with suspected New People's Army rebels in the hinterlands of Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental at the height of the weekend celebration of All Saints' Day. Private First Class Edwin Gardose of the 79th Infantry Battalion sustained a gunshot wound on his chest and was rushed to a hospital in Dumaguete City where he is now recuperating. Lt. Col. Erwin Bernard Neri, commanding officer of the 79th IB, said his men were on patrol operations at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday when they chanced upon a small band of suspected rebels in the vicinity of Sitio Halway in Barangay Nagbinlod, Sta. Catalina. |
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