Province to auction properties of
delinquent taxpayers

The Treasurer's Office of the Oriental Negros government based in Dumaguete City is preparing for the auction of properties owned by delinquent taxpayers in the province, in a bid to collect about P105 million in unpaid real estate taxes.

Danilo Mendez, provincial treasurer, said it would be the first massive auction to be conducted by the province.

More than 90 percent of the properties subject to auction involve land and all the delinquent taxpayers are individuals.

Brothers nabbed for
peddling 'shabu'

Two brothers, one of them released from jail after posting a P200,000 bail last year, were separately arrested by a joint police drug enforcement team near noon Monday at Zone 4, Brgy. Looc, Dumaguete City, for alleged possession of shabu.

Arrested by virtue of separate warrants of arrest issued by Executive Judge Rosendo Bandal Jr. of the Regional Trial Court of Oriental Negros were Ricardo Tolentino, 47, and his brother Edgar, 38, both married and residing in Looc.

The team headed by Inspector Teddy Faburada confiscated from Ricardo five small plastic sachets containing what is believed to be shabu and P13,140 believed to be proceeds of the illegal trade.

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