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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Monday, December 11, 2006 |
| Negros Oriental |
Port project hit by delays again21-gun
salute for Temprosa Housing
loan interest rates reduced anew Barangay
council for children eyed
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Port project hit by delays again
BY ROMY AMARADO
After getting stalled for about four years, the planned multi-million peso passenger port terminal here continues to hit a snag and Dumaguete City Mayor Agustin Perdices has expressed concern that the project may not be completed, at all.
If the bidding of the project will not push through before
the end of the year, the more than P100 million funding for the facility
will be reverted back to the national government, since under the law,
funding for a project that was not completed will be returned to the
general fund of the government at the end of the year, Perdices said
Friday.
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21-gun
salute for Temprosa Senior Insp. Winnie Temprosa was given full military honors including a 21-gun salute during his burial at the Dumaguete Memorial Park in Dumaguete City Saturday. Temprosa was killed Nov. 29 when irate police doctor, Renato Posclabo, ran amuck during the 13th anniversary of the PNP health service at the multi-purpose center inside Camp Crame. Temprosa covered the grenade dropped by Posclabo with his body
and was killed when it detonated. Five others, including Temprosa's
superior, Supt. Federico Damatac, head of PNP health services, were
injured during the incident. "He (Temprosa) died a hero. At least,
it's my only consolation," Temprosa's wife, Paz, said yesterday.
"He sacrificed his own life so that his colleagues would be saved."
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Housing
loan interest The Home Development Mutual Fund or PAG-IBIG Fund has cut interest rates on its housing loans packages to as low as six percent to low-income members for the second time this year. However, the PAG-IBIG office in Oriental Negros has yet to receive the go-signal for the implementation of the cut-down rates. "We are still adapting the same rates and guidelines at present,"
Julio Carmel Alfarero, Pag-IBIG Fund Provincial Officer-in-Charge,
said. Alfarero said that they have learned of the new housing loans
but they still have to get the official communication for the set
of guidelines He added that their office may receive the policies
by next week. |
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