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Dumaguete City, PhilippinesThursday, October 8, 2009
Negros Oriental
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Rescue leader dies trying
to save elderly

BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

The team leader of the search and rescue group in Siaton, Negros Oriental, died yesterday while trying to save an elderly man from being swept away by rising flood waters of the Siaton River.

Gladit Kitane, 48, married, of Poblacion Brgy 3, Siaton  drowned when he tried to cross the river in Brgy. Datag to reach Abundio Quibo who was stranded on an “islet” in the middle of the river.

Initial reports say that Kitane and other rescuers responded to a distress call around 10 a.m. yesterday when Quibo could not cross the river.

Ambulant vendors
to get support

BY ROMY AMARADO

The Department of Labor and Employment will extend livelihood support to selected ambulant vendors in the cities of Dumaguete and Bayawan, under the Nego Kart, or Negosyo Kariton, program.

Vivencio Lagahid, assistant chief employment officer in Negros Oriental, told the DAILY STAR that 20 ambulant vendors in Dumaguete and 13 in Bayawan will avail of the program. He said more than P400,000 has been set aside for its initial implementation.

He said Nego Kart is a special program of the DOLE in line with the poverty alleviation effort of the government.

Mayor filing raps
vs. registrar
BY MARICAR ARANAS

Mabinay Mayor Inosario Baldoza is filing charges before the Office of the Ombudsman Visayas against Local Civil Registrar Officer Herminia Peras who was allegedly responsible for the theft of scrap materials from the bodega owned by the municipal government.

Baldoza said the National Bureau of Investigation has named Peras and a civilian identified as Brenda Alama.  The two suspects will be charged with theft, he said.

Baldoza said the investigation conducted by NBI claimed that no other employees were involved. But Baldoza said he will dig deeper and identify the possible accomplices who should also be held liable.

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