Breakdown of dump trucks stalls
garbage collection, ENRO says
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

The delayed collection of garbage in Dumaguete City in the past days was due to the breakdown of dump trucks of the city, Rey Awayan Sr., head of the city’s Environment and Natural Resources Office, said.

Awayan said the problem was contained yesterday after he requested the City Engineer’s Office for a pay loader and two dump trucks to augment the other garbage trucks of the city.

He said the pay loader and the two dump trucks began hauling trash from the Quezon Park, where huge piles of garbage had accumulated since the city’s fiesta celebration in November through the holidays.

Cops corner ‘shabu,
marijuana peddler’

A  woman from  Sitio Canday-ong in Barangay Calindagan, Dumaguete City, was arrested yesterday with two kilos of suspected dried marijuana leaves, stalks and seeds, and several sachets of suspected shabu.

Police identified the suspect as Nora Timonan, of Purok Orchids, Canday-ong, and seized from her house were six bundles of dried marijuana leaves, and nine match boxes of dried marijuana leaves, stalks and seeds, all worth around P85,000, and big bultos of suspected shabu and five small plastic sachets containing suspected shabu granules, worth P100,000.

Also recovered were a weighing scale, empty plastic sachets, cellphones, several pairs of scissors and other illegal drugs paraphernalia.

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