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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Sunday, May 4, 2008 |
IN GUIHULNGAN
Farmers group collecting
rebel taxes, military says
BY GILBERT BAYORAN
The military reported yesterday that it has uncovered a modus operandi of the New People’s Army that involves using a farmer’s group to collect revolutionary taxes from residents in the upland barangays of Guihulngan, Negros Oriental.
Lt. Col. Franco Nemesio Gacal, 11th Infantry Battalion commander, yesterday identified the farmers group as the Pagkahiusa sa Mangunguma sa Brgy. Linantuyan or PAMABALI, an affiliate organization of the Kilusang Magbubukid sa Pilipinas.
Gacal said PAMABALI members Abodio Sildora, Lordna Villarin, Jimmy Labinoy, Dolsisimo Malalay, Ricky Legaspi, Irish Baloy, Rinio Esteban and Bernabe Bahinting to Lt. Joseph Buencamino, have confessed to having been tasked to collect P5, two gantas of rice and 150 pieces of corn cobs from residents of three sitios in Brgy. Linantuyan, Guihulngan, while serving as members of the defense group of the Barangay Revolutionary Committee in the barangay.
| Raps filed vs. 2 rob suspects Two of four suspects in the broad daylight robbery of a junkshop in Dumaguete last week remain at large, while the other two have been charged Friday with robbery and intimidation before the Dumaguete City Prosecutors Office. VRT Junkshop, Michel Angelo Tam, was disembarking from his car in front of his store in Calindagan, when he was robbed of P110,000 and a licensed .45 caliber pistol. The money and the gun were snatched while in the hands of his companion , Ruben Cinco, by the suspects. |
| Airline told to explain A local airline company will be asked to explain why it should not be held liable for violating existing provisions on the issuance of receipts. Via the electronic ticketing system, an airline passenger was told by the teller there is no need for a receipt. It was learned that the complainant was asking for an official receipt for the plane ticket she bought in Dumaguete because she wanted to participate in the BIR’s “premyo sa resibo” program. The complainant identified as Parcela Baluyot, of Dumaguete City had referred her concerns with the City Legal Office and the Bureau of Internal Revenue. |
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