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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Monday, March 6, 2006 |
IN NEGOR
Leaders welcome lifting of PP1017
BY ALEX PAL
Leaders in Oriental Negros are optimistic that there will be political stability in the country following President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's lifting of her State of Emergency proclamation Friday.
Gov. George Arnaiz said the State of Emergency was meant to be a temporary setup. Its lifting could mean that the political situation is normalizing.
Dumaguete City Mayor Agustin Perdices said the President's
declaration was a sign that things are back to normal. "I hope they
don't do it again soon," he said, noting the adverse public reaction
in Manila. But Perdices also said that, for the entire duration of the
State of Emergency, there was nothing unusual in Dumaguete. "We would
even recommend that if ever a State of Emergency will be restored, it
should only be confined to Metro Manila," he said. 
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Thief
breaks into A thief broke into the home of Mayor Agustin Perdices at San Jose Street, Dumaguete City the other Friday night while the mayor and his son's family were fast asleep, a belated report reaching the DAILY STAR said. Perdices admitted that their house was broken into, and said that the thief entered the house and left unnoticed with his son's cellphone. "That was rather very strange because only the cellphone was taken,"
he said. "My son's watch was also there -- it was more expensive
than the cellphone but it was not stolen," Perdices said. |
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SK
prexy facing ouster The Sangguniang Kabataan Federation chairman in Dumaguete City is allegedly in trouble with her SK council in Barangay Batinguel where she is the elected chairman, and in her ex-oficio membership in the city council. Batinguel SK chairman Karissa Faye Tolentino had been chosen by her co-chairmen from 30 barangays to represent them in the city council. As such, she became an ex-oficio member of the city council and is receiving the same salary and other benefits as that of elected city councilors. Tolentino, however, reportedly seldom attends or had stopped performing
her functions as SK barangay chairman of Batinguel, prompting her
SK council and the Batinguel barangay council to raise questions
about her status. |
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