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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Monday, March 19, 2007 |
| Negros Oriental |
 Church
refutes NPA charge vs. ambushed village chief
DAR holds reform assessment confab 600
job order casuals unpaid BFAR
lifts shellfish ban
Murder
suspect nabbed |
Church
refutes NPA charge
vs. ambushed village chief
BY ALEX PAL
The people of Barangay Aya, La Libertad, turned out in full force Thursday for the funeral of their slain barangay captain Eladio "Lydio" Baylon, who, along with six others, was killed in an ambush March 9 in Sitio Manluminsag, Brgy. Mandapaton in the town.
Even La Libertad Mayor Josy Limkaichong was driven to tears as she paid her last respects. There was not a single dry eye in the highly emotional funeral. Baylon was not only Limkaichong's trusted political supporter, he was popular with the people.
It was this popularity with the masses that earned him
the ire of the New People's Army. Last week, pieces of paper with what
appeared to be the NPA letterhead and logo were circulated in the first
district of Negros Oriental signed by a certain Ka JB Regalado, spokesperson
of the NPA's Leonardo Panaligan Command-Larangan Gerilya 
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DAR holds reform A Provincial Agrarian Reform Assessment and Planning Workshop for the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program beyond 2008 was held by the Department of Agrarian Reform-Oriental Negros at the Maria Luisa Suites Inn, Dumaguete City, recently. The theme of the workshop was "Agrarian Reform for Broad-Based
Rural Growth: Sustaining and Enhancing CARP Gains Beyond 2008."
It implements the order of DAR Secretary Nasser Pangandaman to prepare
personnel and other stakeholders for advocacy regarding CARP beyond
2008, and develop or update the Provincial Agrarian Reform Development
Plan. |
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600
job order About 600 job order employees in Tanjay City, Oriental Negros, have denounced some local officials for what they call "insensitivity and lack of concern" for their welfare. For almost three months now, they claimed they have not received their salaries pending the approval of the 20 percent Development Plan to which their wages shall be charged. Because of this, Mayor Baltazar Salma said he had spent from his
own pocket to spare one or two meals for job order casuals and their
families, and to buy them rice and other provisions. On the other
hand, Vice Mayor Lawrence Teves said the payment of job order employees
was not included in the 20 percent development fund. |
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