leads on Guihulngan shooting


Police trace


looking into several angles into Thursday’s fatal shooting of Hinakpan Barangay Capt. Leudigario Gargoles Binera of Guihulngan, and the wounding of his two companions.


Acting Provincial Police Director Sr. Supt. Henry Biñas told the MetroPost he has asked the new Police Chief of Guihulngan to check the background of Binera for his alleged affiliation to the Communist New People’s Army. Hinakpan is a village close


Who wanted him dead? Police investigators are


to Magsaysay, where suspected Communist terrorists ambushed and killed on July 21 the Guihulngan Police Chief and five other policemen, and wounded three other police personnel and a civilian. Also, the Provincial Police


Director has asked police investigators to do a trace of the victim’s prior activities and whether he had some arguments or personal enemies. Another angle to be considered


Paddlers from around the Region pass by the 116-year- old Silliman Hall along Dumaguete’s Rizal Boulevard on their dragon boats in this file photo of the Negros Oriental Sports Development Program (NOSDEP) which is organizing the Buglasan Dragonboat Festival on Oct. 20-22. (Photo by Joel Balajadia)


in the investigation is the possible link between the ambush-slay of the Guihulngan policemen and Binera’s murder because of the geographical location of Hinakpan, Biñas said. These barangays are “infiltrated with the NPA” and without being explicit, the Provincial Police Director


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Officials of Negros Oriental and Negros Occidental are keeping close watch over the entry of poultry products from Luzon to prevent the entry of the ‘bird flu’.


from ‘bird flu’ Negros safe


The first shipment to be seized consisted of 6,000 pieces of fertilized duck eggs or balut which arrived Monday at the Dumaguete port. The 22 crates of balut came from


Candaba in Pampanga where bird flu has been reported by Agriculture Sec. Manny Pinol.


This three-meter python caused a 23-minute brownout in Noreco II’s feeder 1 area on Monday night, when it climbed an electric post and hit a primary line at Locsin Village in Bolocboloc, Sibulan (Allen Lloyd Tabio photo)


Pahayay, said she was told they are safe for human consumption as they were properly cooked, and that they tested negative of the virus through blood samples taken before the shipment. She said the 6,600 pieces of baluts had a market value of P120,000.


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The consignee of the eggs, Roxanne


Pahayay supplies balut to vendors in Dumaguete, Siaton, and Sta. Catalina in Negros Oriental, and in the nearby island of Siquijor. But Veterinary Quarantine Officer Dr. Alfonzo Tundag convinced Pahayay on Tuesday afternoon to have the balut buried. Dumaguete City Agriculturist William Ablong said that San Miguel Corp., one of the City’s biggest suppliers of dressed chicken, has voluntarily stopped sending over poultry products from Luzon.


Dumaguete’s other suppliers of poultry products are based in Bacolod,


Cebu, and Mindanao.


“Bird flu”, also known as avian influenza, was first reported in Pampanga farms on the last week of April, initially affecting a quail farm. The Department of Agriculture


confirmed the avian influenza outbreak only on Aug. 11 after a total of 116,000 birds in farms were identified to have caught the virus, and that 37,000 birds had died by then due to the disease. Secretary Pinol also confirmed two


new cases of bird flu last Thursday in the towns of Jaen and San Isidro in Nueva Ecija. (Judy Flores Partlow and Juancho Gallarde)


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