TEN YEARS AGO

June 6, 1999—Out of the estimated 5000 city ordinances or more, since the local Code Commission made a cut-off startong 1950, some 4,367 city ordinances which are mostly appropriations and resolutions are bound to be archived and excluded in the forthcoming Code of City Ordinances.
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TWENTY YEARS AGO

June 4, 1989—Constabulary operatives, together with the Dumaguete Coast Guard Command, traced the whereabouts of fifteen heavily armed bandits who staged a highway robbery in Cambaloktot, San Jose.
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THIRTY YEARS AGO

June 10, 1979—Work at the geothermal wells have resumed full blast. As an answer to the oil price hike, technicians of the Philippine National Oil Commission (PNOC) hit a minor jackpot with the discovery of a geothermal steam capable of producing another eight-megawatt power.
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TEN YEARS AGO

May 30, 1999—Mayor Francisco Villanueva of Bais City has noted with dismay the rampant brownouts of the city which has caused a down trend in the influx of tourists in the area, and at the same time pushed a slowdown in the flow of business in this sugar city.
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TWENTY YEARS AGO

May 28, 1989—Combined elements of the 337th PC Company and the 2nd Special Action Force of the PC Constabulary captured two rebel hideouts in Kataliwad-an, Sitio Kalinawan, Barangay Enrique Villanueva, Sibulan.
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THIRTY YEARS AGO

June 3, 1979—Six public school teachers, five government workers and four private individuals signed the incorporation papers leading to the establishment of a rural bank specially catering to the needs of teachers in Negros Oriental. This is the first of its kind in the country.
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TEN YEARS AGO

May 23, 1999—There is an attempt by the Narcotics Command in Camp Crame to cover up the alleged P2 million payoff staged by eight of its agents sent here, ironically to help solve the mounting drug problems. This was learned from PNP sources.
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TWENTY YEARS AGO

May 21, 1989—A total of 25 defective and unsealed weighing scales which have been used by fraudulent market vendors were confiscated by a monitoring team from the city authorities and the private sector.
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THIRTY YEARS AGO

May 27, 1979—The two-day hunger strike conducted by over 200 inmates of the provincial jail ended when Governor Lorenzo Teves conducted a dialogue with the prisoners and granted them an increase of their daily meal allowances.
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THIRTY YEARS AGO

May 20, 1979—Major General Fidel V. Ramos, chief of the Philippine Constabulary, called on the Constabulary Offshore Anti-crime Battalion (COSAC) to intensify their campaign towards the conservation of marine resources especially those within the areas declared as conservation parks.
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TWENTY YEARS AGO

May 14, 1989—Management and the striking employees of the Philippine National Oil Company-Energy Development Corporation signed a memorandum of agreement calling for an amicable settlement of disputes concerning the regularization of the employees’ jobs.
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TEN YEARS AGO

May 16, 1999—The over 850 Regional Trial Court Judges all over the country, of which hundreds are handling drug cases and heinous crimes, are consistent with their complaints that they are being pressured and harassed directly or indirectly by drug lords and their cohorts prompting them to take this up with the Philippine Judges Association for action.
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By EDMUND B. SESTOSO

With the upcoming computerization program of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) , there is a fear of massive cheating in the upcoming 2010 local and national elections.

This was forecasted by Rep. Cynthia Villar, the wife of Senator Manny Villar in a press conference last Tuesday afternoon at the multipurpose hall of Silliman University.

Rep. Villar visited Dumaguete City as one of the guest speakers during the convention of the Association of Christian Schools throughout the country in which Silliman University is a member.

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THIRTY YEARS AGO

May 13, 1979—The Integrated Bar of the Philippines-Negros Oriental Chapter has launched a new program designed to speed up the administration of justice especially among indigent and detained litigants languishing in jail because of sheer poverty and their inability to post bail bonds for their temporary liberty.
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May 7, 1989—The provincial board, with the backing of majority of the business sector and port users of the Dumaguete port favor more passenger vessels to service the Dumaguete-Cebu and Dumaguete-Manila route.
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