Bais City resumes
canvassing of ERs
BY MARICAR ARANAS

The Bais City Board of Canvassers will resume the canvassing of the remaining election returns tomorrow, at the Commission on Election Oriental Negros office in Dumaguete City.

Acting provincial election supervisor Eddie Aba said his office received a resolution from the Commision on Elections Division last Friday to resume the canvass the election returns from Bais.

The resolution states that the protest is dismissed on the grounds that there was no appeal filed at the COMELEC first Division. The Bais BOC will therefore reconvene and proceed with the proclamation of winning candidates. The canvass of votes in Bais was stopped after mayoralty candidate Francisco Villanueva filed a protest against the support staff of the member of the BOC.

No drug
paraphernalia seized in raid

The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group clarified that no drug paraphernalia were confiscated in the raid conducted on an alleged numbers game "Pick 3" financier last Tuesday in Guihulngan, Oriental Negros.

The suspect was identified as Rowel Macalua of Mani-ac Road, Barangay Hilaitan in Guihulngan. Macalua eluded arrest by operatives of the CIDG during a raid in his house.

The CIDG agents were armed with a search warrant issued by Regional Trial Court, Branch 34 Judge Rosendo Bandal, Jr.

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