Army: 'Kingfisher' to
hit rebels at their doorsteps
BUT NPA OFFENSIVES
SET TO0, CPP SCORES IGGY
BY CARLA GOMEZ

The Communist Party of the Philippines-Negros urged its forces to launch tactical offensives to amass more weapons and ammunition, and to step up recruitment and training of its fighters in its battle against the Arroyo administration, in a statement to mark the 37th anniversary of the New People's Army yesterday.

The statement came as the 303rd Infantry Brigade launched "Operation Kingfisher" in Negros Island Tuesday to hit the rebels at their doorsteps through raids on their lairs and sanctuaries, its commander, Col. Jerry Jalandoni, said yesterday.

The police yesterday was also on red alert against rebel attacks.

Agonizing wait finally over
as WNC nurses take oaths
BY DONALYN GUERRERO

"The long agony is over."

That was how West Negros College nursing graduate Nelia Gonzales described the Board of Nursing's finally allowing her and her classmates to take their oaths yesterday after oral assessments conducted this week.

There were 181 in Iloilo and 163 in Bacolod who took their oaths yesterday.

And as of 12:30 a.m. today, about 130 more WNC nursing examinees were set to take their oaths at the Business Inn in Bacolod City.

Cops nab fake doc
BY DONALYN GUERRERO

A man claiming to be an obstetrician-gynecologist was arrested in an entrapment for dispensing alleged fertility pills to women jail guards in front of the Bacolod District Jail at about 10:30 a.m. yesterday.

Audie Tizon Libo-on, 30, of Brgy. Pahilanga, Hinigaran town, Negros Occidental, who also identified himself as "Dr. Francis Balzomo", officer-in-charge of the Bacolod City Health Office, was collared by Bacolod Intelligence and Investigation operatives after he handed assorted tablets to a woman jail officer who acted a poseur-buyer in exchange for P1,500 in marked money, police reports said.

SPO1 Joeven Lavilla, an IIB operative, yesterday told the DAILY STAR, Senior Jail Officer 1 Ma. Lorelie Dimaculangan and JO1 Renee Christy Ledesma sought their help after they doubted the identity of Libo-on, who claimed he is selling "fertility pills".