WINNERS. Mutya ng Negros Occidental Private Schools Sports, Cultural and Educational Association Erna Torreblanca of UNO-R (3rd from left) with 1st runner-up Miss NOPSSCEA Education Claudette Del Castillo - STI-WNU, 2nd runner-up Miss NOPSSCEA Culture Fercy Lyn Almaiz - USLS, and 3rd runner-up Miss NOPSSCEA Sports Joan Batayo – VMA (l-r), at the coronation rites at the University of St. La Salle gym last night*(Ronnie Baldonado photo)
Guv: I won’t allow
PCSO ‘Peryahan’
BY CARLA GOMEZ
Negros Occidental Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. said yesterday that he will not allow the operation of the Peryahan Games of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office in the province.
PCSO acting chairman and general manager, Jose Ferdinand Rojas II, said in a letter that his office wishes to conduct a one-year experimental test-run of the Peryahan Games, and has authorized Globaltech Mobile Online Corp. to be the provider, distributor and system supplier of the game.
In the conduct of the Peryahan Games in the province, Rojas said in his letter to the governor that the PCSO will provide shares from the gross sales of the games.
Negros males with
HIV/AIDs rising
BY CARLA GOMEZ
Twenty-eight of the 171 persons in Negros Occidental living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) have died.
This was disclosed yesterday by Dr. Aurabelle Libutan of the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital HIV-AIDS Core Team, as the province marked World AIDS Day.
She said that, of the 171 cases since 207 to the present, 153 were males and 18 were females.
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Guv explains collapse
of river control project
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE
Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo yesterday defended himself against criticisms over the collapse of the river control project in Ajong, Sibulan town, during typhoon Queenie last week, saying nobody can control destruction from nature’s attacks.
The project was constructed using the controversial calamity fund, and could not be completed because the Department of Budget and Management withdrew the other half of the funds for it.
Degamo said the project is only 75.34 percent complete because the second fund release was held in abeyance in spite of his pleadings before the DBM.