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 FIVE
MORE BRIDGES IN VARIOUS LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS HAVE BEEN PUT UP
IN NEGROS ORIENTAL last
year as a result of the President’s Bridge Program. According
to Engr. Pedro Tuble, chief of the DPWH maintenance division ,
the bridges are, namely: Amio Bridge (this foto above) and Inobongan
Bridge in Sta. Catalina; Tinago Bridge in Dumaguete City; Kalabnugan
Bridge in Sibulan; and Tabuc-tubig Bridge in Tanjay City. Tuble
said construction of Kalabnugan, Tabuc-Tubig and Tinago bridges
are still ongoing. The two bridges in Sta. Catalina have already
been completed. Two more bridges under the program are still to
start construction - the Balugo- Banwagi Bridge in Guihulngan
and Lacaon-Mahanlod Bridge in Jimalalud. Based on records from
the Provincial Engineer’s Office, the total provincial counterpart
for the said bridges is approximately P33.5 million. Two more
bridges under the program are still to start construction - the
Balugo-Banwagi Bridge in Guihulngan and Lacaon-Mahanlod Bridge
in Jimalalud.
Boticas to sell at half price no applicants here.
Why?
The Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) here are urging
drug store owners and pharma cists in Negros Oriental and Siquijor
provinces to sign up for the half-priced medicines program of
the government. Up to now , there are no takers, why? Poor information
dissemination by government maybe?
Dubbed as the Botika ng Bayan or Botika ng Barangay,
the five-year program aims to reduce the prices of medicines by
half. As of January 2006, a total of 1,016 Botika ng Bayan has
been established in addition to the 3,600 Botika ng Barangay across
the country.
However, since it was started in 2005, there are yet no applicants
for the program in the said provinces.
There are more than 100 drugstores operating in Negros Oriental
and around 12 in Siquijor. Local BFAD Officer Manon Iglesia said
the requirements for the program are same as when applying for
a retail drug store, such as a licensed pharmacist with the necessary
documents, DTI business permit, etc.
Accreditation fee is set at P5,000, says Iglesia. “Even owners
of existing drug stores may apply as Botika ng Bayan,” adds Iglesia.
Interested applicants must go to the Department of Health Provincial
Health Team Office on Mondays and Fridays only as Iglesia, who
is the lone BFAD officer in the province, is on field on Tuesdays
to Thursdays. The DOH office here is located at the Cimafranca
Subdivision (near Little Children of the Philippines), Daro, this
city. (RMN)
FU is searching for TOP alumni
The Foundation University Alumni Association has
once again launched its 2006 Search for Outstanding FU Alumni
to recognize the outstanding achievements of its alumni who have
excelled in their respective fields.
Any FU bonafide alumnus
is qualified to nominate
his fellow alumni in any of
the categories like: Accountancy,
Agriculture, Arts &
Culture, the Sciences, Corporate
Business Management/
Banking, Entrepreneurship,
Education, Law,
Community Service (like
Environmental Advocacy,
etc.), and Government/Public
Service.
Several educators, an outstanding
RTC executive
judge, CPA-lawyers, agriculturists,
entrepreneurs, and
heads of government corporations
were recipients of Foundation University’s
Outstanding Alumni Awards,
given out annually for the
last 42 years.
This year’s awarding ceremony
will be held on Tuesday,
July 4, 2006, during the
celebration of the
University’s 57th founding
anniversary.
Nomination forms can be downloaded from www.FoundationU.com or
may be secured from Donna Aguilar, FU Alumni Relations director,
at the Balay sa Alumni, FU North campus. Deadline for all nominations
is on Friday, June 2, 2006.
 PNP
to donate each others’ blood and to the poor
PNP policy is revived urging each soldier to be
blood-typed so that when the need arises, there is a ready list
of walking donors of various types of blood. It also covers all
PNP personnel in the cities and towns of Negros Oriental This
old policy was revived by PNP provincial director Sr Supt Omar
Buenafe. Foto shows policeman donating his blood. Inset is women’s
desk officer
Baby Abellon coordinating.
 CRITICAL
REPORTING
HOW MEDIA SEES
IT, AND NOT OTHERS
BY
ELY P. DEJARESCO (email:
elydejaresco@yahoo.com)
73 die in STAMPEDE
The show management denied it but persistent reports
say that somebody in the queue near the entrance of the ULTRA
shouted that there was a bomb which was about to explode at the
ULTRA. In short, it was a bomb scare. There was no bomb that exploded
at all.
More...
First Lawn Chess Championship open
Engr. Jason Bandal over came erstwhile tour-nament
leaders Tanjay City’s handicapped chess star Jeffrey Alcantara
in the fifth and final round purging a fourway tie of the championship
crown in the recently concluded First Open Lawn Chess Championship
held at
the Oriental Negros Lawn Chess Park. In the final end, after all
tie-breakers were exhausted,
Jeffrey Alcantara emerged as the Firt Open Lawn Champion, followed
by Al Dumalag in
the second place, Engr.
Bandal in the third place, and Municipality of Valencia’s
pride Jhorwin Viente in the 4th place.
The said winners were awarded with trophies from the Honorable
Governor George P. Arnaiz and equally divided the total cash purse
of P5,00.00 good for the top four placers coming from the sponsoring
club patron and cofounder Romeo G. Capilitan now in Sydney Australia.
Provincial board junks play-for-loyalty ordi
BY EDWARD LOPEZ
The Sangguniang Panglalawigan outrightly junked
an ordinance of the Bayawan City
Council prohibiting any former team members of any sports team
who are presently employed
with the local government to play against the Bayawan team in
any sports competition.
More...
 Ramon
Ponce de Leon, 70
Former President of the Rotary Club of Dumaguete
and former chairman of the Silliman University Church Council
and Board of Elders, Ramon Ponce de Leon, 70, was interred yesterday
afternoon at the Dumaguete Memorial Park.This followed after a
funeral service at the Silliman University Church of which he
was an active leader and elder. De Leon, also an active civic
leader succumbed to a lingering ailment last February 1 . Aside
from his church positions, he was also former delegate to the
Negros District Conference of the Silliman University Church.
He is survived by his wife Catherine Kho Ponce de Leon; children
Ma Farah P. de Asis and Ramonette de Asis; Ma Carmen P. Golez
and Gerard Golez; and Ma Theresa P. Villegas and Angelico Villegas;
and grandchildren Tyra and Lyca Villegas.
 Media
artist stabbed; Suspect at large
Popular media and commercial graphics artist Edwin
Katada was stabbed in the abdomen by a neighbor believed to be
under the influence of drugs.
More...
TOP OF
THE WEEK
BY EDWARD LOPEZ
Metro
Dumaguete Landfill Plan
The Dumaguete City government together with the other
four townS under the still-on-paper concept of
Metro Dumaguete are expected within this year to ink a
me- morandum of agreement delineating their respective
functions and res- ponsibilities towards establishing
and managing the ambitious sani- tary landfill.
The province of Negros Oriental will also be a partner
for such agree- ment as it will give a sizable finan-
cial amount to kick off the project.
Those that will be involved in the expected signing of
the memo- randum of agreement are Duma- guete City Mayor
Agustin Perdices, Dauin Mayor Rodrigo Alanano, Bacong
Mayor Rodolfo Yee, Valencia Mayor Rodolfo Gonzales, Sibulan
Mayor Antonio Renacia and San Jose Mayor Nelson Ruiz and
Governor George Arnaiz.
CAPITOL TO BUY RICE ON CREDIT
Governor George Arnaiz has renewed his official
linakage with the local office of the National Food Authority
(NFA to purchase rice on credit in the event of
emergencies and calamities.
The linkage is known as Rice Loan Agreement.
The NFA’s linkage with local government units is
aimed at helping local executives provide basic social
services to the populace, thus they came up with a purchase
rice on credit program.
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BINDOY’S
MICRO WATERSHED VISION
Bindoy Mayor Valente Yap has pushed for a unique environmental
program for his town called the Micro Watershed Rehabilitation
Program.
The project involves the internal greening of the town
as well as taking into considerations the recovery of
for ested areas which has
become bald due to illegal
logging.
Mayor Yap said that a
project proposal has been
presented by his administration
to the Department of Energy
last year but since funds
intended for the purposes
was depleted on that year, the
same is now pushed for inclusion
in this year’s priority
list.
LINKING AYUNGON
AND KABANKALAN
Strengthening the bondage
of the two peoples of
Negros Island, a composite
P4.5M-bridge is now in offing
connecting a river of this
town with that of
Kabankalan, the nearest
town in Negros Occidental.
The project will kick off
after local executives had ink
a pact to cooperate each
other in the realization of
what some residents call her
as “friendly ties” bridge.
Aside from Governor
George Arnaiz and his counterpart
in Negros Occidental,
Governor Joseph Maranon,
the other local executives
that will be involved includes
the mayors Ayungon and
Kabankalan in Occidental
side.
Negros Oriental government committed a counterpart of
not less than P2 million pesos.
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