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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
Striking workers agree
to release cargo at port
BY ALEX PAL
DUMAGUETE CITY - Striking port workers belonging to the Associated Labor Unions have agreed to allow cargoes to be shipped out of the Dumaguete port.
City Legal Officer Neil Ray Lagahit said this is the outcome of yesterday's meeting between the ALU, Prudential Customs and Brokerage Inc. and city officials at the PPA office, to find a solution to the present crisis.
The workers, who have declared a strike, have barricaded the entry and exit gates of the port, preventing cargo trucks and other vehicles from entering the port area to send or pick up cargoes and passengers.
| More BFAD personnel Vice Gov. Jose Baldado yesterday called on the solons of Negros Oriental to come up with measures to strengthen agencies tasked to monitor the kind of medicines sold in the market. The Bureau of Food and Drugs in the Negros Oriental presently has only one employee, who oversees Negros Oriental and Siquijor provinces. He stressed the BFAD should be given enough teeth, personnel and budget if the doctors’ concerns against the “only” provision of the cheaper medicines bill, have to be addressed. |
| IBP to probe The Integrated Bar of the Philippines -- Negros Oriental chapter is extending its cooperation in any investigation that concerns alleged violations of the Anti-Graft Law, its provincial president Samsodin Tahir said yesterday. Tahir said he welcomes the invitation of the city government for him to be a member of an investigative body looking into alleged anomalies at the city farmstead in Barangay Talay, Dumaguete. The committee will submit its recommendations to Mayor Agustin Perdices after reviewing the findings. At least two employees will be sacked for their involvement or participation in the anomalous transactions, reports said. |
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