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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Saturday, April 29, 2006 |
| Negros Oriental |
 Man
gets life term for peddling drugs4
pedicab groups in Dumaguete join protest rally vs. ordinance Sibulan
gets share of IRA Jealousy
eyed in slay of man
3
face illegal fishing raps |
Man
gets life term
for peddling drugs
DRAWS 14 YEARS FOR POSSESSION
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE AND RENE GENOVE
Another suspect was sentenced to life imprisonment for selling drugs and was meted another prison term of 14 years maximum for illegal possession of shabu, as well as to pay a fine of P500,000, at the Halls of Justice, in Dumaguete City yesterday.
Regional Trial Court Branch 30 presiding Judge Rafael Crescencio Tan Jr. meted the stiff prison term to Alfredo Gaitera, who had been caught by police poseur-buyer for selling one sachet of shabu weighing 0.18 grams.
He was also found guilty beyond reasonable doubt of illegal
possession of three plastic sachets containing shabu with a total weight
of 0.69 grams. 
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pedicab groups in Dumaguete Four of the 14 pedicab drivers associations joined the tricycle caravan and noise barrage in front of City Hall Thursday to press for the repeal of controversial City Ordinance No. 88, Ronald Ian Evidente, provincial coordinator of Kilusang Mayo Uno in Oriental Negros, yesterday said. The ordinance, authored by city councilor Samuel Dicen, raised the pedicab drivers' mayor's fee from P27 to P400 and the franchise fee from P460 to P860. Evidente said at least one of the bigger associations is composed
of more than 100 pedicab drivers. In a press conference Monday,
Evidente said at least seven of the 14 associations of pedicab drivers
and operators in Dumaguete City had joined the organized transport
group MOTOR-PISTON-KMU. |
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Sibulan
gets share of IRA Only one municipality in Oriental Negros has, so far collected its share of the P17.5 billion withheld portion of the Internal Revenue Allotment, while the rest are still trying to figure out the government financial entity that is willing to give a better option for the release of the funds. Mayor Antonio Renacia of Sibulan, a town about six kilometers
north of Dumaguete City, said his municipality recently got about
P2.5 million from the Land Bank of the Philippines, as its share
of the P17.5 billion being returned by the national government to
Local Government Units. |
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