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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Saturday, February 2, 2008 |
| Negros Oriental | |
 City PNP conducts random drug testing Ex-hubby hacks Belgian national Congress, CBCP to help farmers Iranian national failed to post bail, police say
Rice program launched |
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City PNP conducts
random drug testing
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE
Several police officers in Dumaguete City underwent random drug testing recently, City Police chief, Supt. Dionardo Carlos, said.
Carlos said a surprise random drug test was undertaken last week on selected police personnel, as part of the continuing program of the Philippine National Police to eliminate scalawags and misfits.
The results will be announced later, he said.
Carlos said he earlier received reports about policemen moonlighting in identified drug lairs in Dumaguete. He said this came as a surprise because there is no directive from him or from the provincial command for these policemen to frequent the area in Barangay Looc, an identified drugs den
| IN DAUIN A Belgian national was hacked by the husband of his girlfriend in Brgy. Maayong Tubig, Dauin, Negros Oriental, early this week, the police said yesterday. Jan Frederick Cornelis Winkelman, 64, married, and temporarily residing in Brgy. Maayong Tubig, sustained wounds in his waist inflicted by Joey Banagua, 27, of the same place. Initial police investigation revealed that the incident happened at about 9 p.m., when Banagua's estranged wife, Feliza, invited Winkelman to her house where she lives with her two children, after she and Joey separated. |
| Congress, The leaderships of both the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines and the House of Representatives have vowed to look into the complaints of farmers who are beneficiaries of the government's Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program and the Negros Farmers Council and Negros Farmlands, Inc., in Negros Oriental. Angel Tormon, media officer of the group said yesterday that they met with Bishop Cabillo, head of the National Social Action, an organic group under CBCP. Former Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Montemayor, who now serves as the president of the Federation of Free Farmers, also assisted the farmers. |
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