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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
NORECO employee
collared in drug raid
BY MARICAR ARNAS
An employee of the Negros Oriental Electric Cooperative 2 and a resident of Brgy. Looc, Dumaguete City were arrested in separate drug raids by the Task Force 24 yesterday and Friday.
NORECO 2 employee Arnel Flores, 30, was collared at his house in Barangay Daro, Dumaguete, for possessing a sachet of suspected shabu, and identification cards bearing the name of Rolando Garlito, of Barangay Magatas, Sibulan town, Negros Oriental.
Arrested Friday in Looc, Dumaguete was Alejandro Omo, 51, of Zone 2 in the barangay. Operatives conducted the operation by virtue of a search warrant issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Fe Lualhati Bustamante.
| COPS TOLD The Philippine National Police in Negros Oriental said no untoward or unusual incidents related to yesterday's celebration of the 22nd EDSA people power revolution were monitored in Dumaguete City and elsewhere in the province. Up to presstime, the PNP Provincial Office at Camp Fernandez, in Agan-an, Sibulan town, has not received any report of mass protests in the different towns and cities. Guihulngan City was among the top priorities among areas under strict monitoring but there was no report of mass actions by militant or other groups like those in Metro Manila and other larger and urban areas, the police said.\ |
| Be sober, media urged A call to media to exercise sobriety in their reportage, amid the various controversies that have rocked the Arroyo administration recently was made by the Publishers Association of the Philippines Inc. In a statement issued on Feb. 15, its president, Juan Dayang, said the media should not play into the hands of those who seek to destabilize the duly constituted government and erode the people’s sacred faith in our democracy. |
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