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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Monday, July 2, 2007 |
Comelec en banc
disqualifies Josy
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE
The Commission on Elections en banc on Friday denied the motion for reconsideration filed by Jocelyn Limkaichong to its joint resolution promulgated May 17, 2007, disqualifying her as candidate for representative of the first district of Oriental Negros, on citizenship grounds.
Four election commissioners signed the earlier resolution,
and the COMELEC en banc resolution dated June 29, 2007, came a day before
Limkaichong took her oath of office before Finance Secretary Margarito
"Gary" Teves, along with other provincial officials at the Negros Oriental
Convention Center, in Dumaguete City. The en banc resolution was signed
by COMELEC Chairman Benjamin Abalos, and Commissioners Florentino Tuason
Jr., Rene Sarmiento and Nicodemo Ferrer. Two commissioners, Romeo Brawner
and Resurreccion Borra, had issued dissenting opinions on the matter.
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Arnaiz
seeking amendments Rep. George Arnaiz (Oriental Negros, 2nd District) said he will make the amendment of Republic Act 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of 1991, as one of his legislative priorities. Having served the local government for the past 18 years Arnaiz said, "My first love is local governance and local government." Before his election as representative, Arnaiz had served for three
consecutive terms as provincial governor. He had also served as
member of the provincial board and as vice governor. |
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IN REGION 7 The Oriental Negros Philippine National Police Command was recently named as the number one PNP provincial office for year 2006 in Central Visayas or Region 7. The award from the Internal Affairs Service of the PNP was announced during the command conference at the regional office recently. Police provincial director S/Supt. Melvin Buenafe said this was for their exemplary performance in operation and administration. It was also in recognition of their successful effort in the campaign against criminality and maintaining a peaceful environment in the province, he said. The police had declared that Oriental Negros was generally peaceful
during the May 14 elections. It also recorded the least number of
cases filed against police officers compared to other provinces
in the region. |
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