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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Monday, March 13, 2006 |
Drug
peddler
gets life term
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE
Another drug suspect was meted a life sentence for selling shabu and another 14 years maximum for illegal possession yesterday by Regional Trial Court Branch 30 Judge Rafael Crescencio Tan Jr. at the Hall of Justice in Barangay Piapi, Dumaguete City.
Tan slapped the life term sentence on Johnny Ireņo, 34,
single, a resident of Sitio Canday-ong, Barangay Calindagan, Dumaguete
City. Ireņo was prosecuted under Sec. 5, Art. II of Republic Act No.
9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. He was also
fined a total of P800,000.
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LGUs
pursue A cluster of local government units comprising the Metro Dumaguete Area is continuing its efforts for the acquisition of a sanitary land fill located in Tunga-Tunga, Dauin town, Oriental Negros. After almost one-and-a-half years of planning and preparation, the German Development Service which is extending technical assistance to the cluster of LGUs with the provincial government, is pushing for the realization of the project. The province had initially allocated P500,000 for conducting the
study. |
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Pro-democracy
peace Nine upland barangays in Guihulngan and Vallehermoso towns in Oriental Negros classified by the military among the "infiltrated areas" of the Communist Party of the Philippines-News People's Army in central Negros, are now the focus of the "SOT" or the Special Operations Team campaign of the 11th Infantry Battalion, Army Lt. Col. Jess Manangquil said. As an offshoot of their intensified "Public Information Patrol"
on areas said to be influenced by the New People's Army, Manangquil
yesterday said the "enlightened" barangay residents will stage a
pro-democracy peace rally today in Vallehermoso. |
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