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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
FOR ILLEGAL DRUGS
2 draw life jail terms;
another gets 14 years
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE
Three personalities in the illegal drug trade were slapped with maximum prison terms of life yesterday by Regional Trial Court Branch 30 presiding Judge Rafael Crescencio Tan, Jr. at the Hall of Justice, Barangay Piapi, Dumaguete City.
Meted life imprisonment for selling 0.56 grams of shabu to a poseur-buyer in violation of Sec. 5 of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 was Ted Lawrence Tolosa, who was also meted another 22 years maximum prison term for possession of dangerous drugs under section 11, and fined him a total of P900,000.
Tan also sentenced to life imprisonment Roland Verano
alias "Lando" for selling 0.15 grams shabu to a poseur-buyer on February
5,2004 in a buy-bust operation. He was also fined P500,000. 
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Dad
hits state of Proclamation 1017 continues to dominate discussions among local chief executives and lawmakers in Dumaguete City. While local government units and law enforcement agencies are rallying behind the action of President Gloria Arroyo who made the proclamation, militant organizations and some lawmakers have expressed reservations over its repercussions. A former street parliamentarian and now a member of the Sangguniang
Panlungsod of Dumaguete, lawyer Saleto Erames, said Arroyo does
not have to declare a state of emergency. |
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Laborers
win lawsuit Former laborers of the China Road and Bridge Corporation based in Nagbagang, Sta. Catalina town, Oriental Negros, won their case before the National Labor Relations Commission in Region 7 and are now awaiting the release of their wage differentials. More than 20 laborers filed a complaint with the NLRC for alleged underpayment of wages, claiming that some of them are paid salaries ranging from only P90 to P150 a day, way below the minimum wage set by the government. Some of them said they have been rendering service for more than
a year without any service incentive leave. |
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