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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 |
NegOr
dads seek Arroyo's help
on status of 38 OFWs in Saudi
BY ROMY AMARADO
The Oriental Negros Sanggunian is urging President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to direct the Department of Foreign Affairs and other government agencies, to look into the status of at least 38 Overseas Filipino Workers in a hospital in Saudi Arabia, who were reportedly barred from going home and whose salaries were withheld.
In a resolution authored by Board Member Melimore Saycon, the provincial council noted that the three-year contracts of the 35 nurses and three male maintenance workers with the King Fahed Central Hospital in Jizan, Saudi Arabia already expired on October 23, 2005, but they were not allowed to end their employment.
Five of the nurses and the three male maintenance workers
are from Oriental Negros and the rest are from different provinces of
the Visayas. 
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Cops
bust syndicate A criminal group engaged in altering and forging postal money order checks in Oriental Negros has been neutralized, the provincial police office said yesterday. PNP provincial director, Sr. Supt. Melvin Ramon Buenafe, said the Mabinay police, in coordination with representatives from the Philippine Postal Corporation in Manila, the regional postal officer, and the district postal inspector busted what could have been another attempt to encash altered money order checks in the mountain municipality of Mabinay, over the weekend. Philippine Postal Corporation representatives sought the help
of the Mabinay Police station about the existence of the group on
March 24 and immediately informed big stores. |
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Jail
warden wants more guns The Negros Oriental Detention and Rehabilitation Center needs additional firearms to augment its old Remington shotguns, some of which need repairs. Provincial jail warden Jeffrey Araula said he is requesting for 10 .45 caliber pistols worth P250,000 at P25,000 each, and are China-made. The short arms are needed in escorting detainees during court
hearings and during shipment of convicts to the national penitentiary
in Muntilupa, Metro Manila, he said. Araula said the jail has several
armalite rifles and 12-gauge shotguns. |
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