Anti-trafficking court
proposed in province
PIACAT TO PUT UP TRUST FUND, TOO
BY MARICAR ARANAS

The Provincial Inter-Agency Committee Against Trafficking passed a resolution, to request the Executive Judge in the Province to assign a specific court for the expeditious issuance of search warrants for cases involving trafficking in persons, approved the plan to form a Municipal Inter-Agency Committee Against Trafficking, and a trust fund for law enforcers handling cases involving trafficking in persons.

These were taken up during their first quarter meeting Wednesday at the Sangguniang Session Hall of Negros Oriental.

The PIACAT aired concerns over their difficulties in acquiring search warrants and in the handling of victims during the prosecution of cases.

Army commander
calls on school heads
BY MARICAR ARANAS

Colonel Cesar Yano, head of the newly arrived 302nd Infantry Brigade of the Philippine Army, yesterday called on the presidents of the four universities in Dumaguete City.

At Silliman University, Dr. Ben Malayang discussed his efforts to instill love of country among the students, and offered the military officers a negotiated arrangement for them to avail of master’s degree courses.

The Silliman ROTC cadets were the first to be integrated into the United States Armed Forces in the Far East or the USAFFE during the Second World War.

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