Vol. XX No. 997 • Dumaguete City, Philippines • July 21 - July 27, 2019 • P15.00


Falcon brings rains, damage


Monsoon rains spawned by Tropical Storm Falcon disrupted the lives of Negrenses and caused some damage last week.


Classes were suspended in many towns and cities even before the rains fell Wednesday. City Hall Information Officer Dems Rey Demecillo announced Mayor Felipe Remollo’s decision to suspend classes shortly before 7 a.m. upon the recommendation of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office.


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At least two students from the Camanjac National High School here were treated by emergency responders after they were hit by a falling banana plant while on their way to school before the suspension of classes was announced that morning. Classes were also suspended Canlaon City, Tanjay City, Siaton, La Libertad, and Ayungon, mostly in the grade school and high school levels. The Mabinay LGU, on the other hand, which suspended classes Tuesday, lifted the suspension Wednesday. Falling vegetation also caused a power interruption that lasted for as long as 12 hours in many parts of the province. Electric consumers vented their ire through social media after the Negros Oriental II Electric Cooperative could not immediately give information as to the cause of the power failure, as well as projections on when power would be back. (Judy F. Partlow/PNA)


Members of the Bayawan City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council deploy rubber boats to assist stranded travellers in barangay Kalumbuyan, after rains spawned by Tropical Storm Falcon rendered the bridge impassable. (Photo by Vice Gov. Mark Macias)


Bgy Capt. nabbed over cops’ murder


Police investigators have taken into custody the barangay captain of Mabato in the town of Ayungon, and another resident, as “persons of interest” over the “cold blooded murder” of four intelligence operatives of the Philippine National Police on Wednesday in sitio Yamot.


director of the Police Regional Office 7, told reporters in a press conference Friday that the


Police Brig. Gen. Debold Sinas,


barangay captain, Sunny Caldera, and a certain Victoriano Anadon both had prior knowledge of the operation of the four intelligence


operatives there.


Mabato is a barangay in the mountains of Ayungon, close to the boundary with Negros Occidental. The four police officers were earlier reported ambushed by suspected members of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army on Thursday afternoon in sitio Yamot, barangay Mabato in Ayungon. General Sinas identified the slain policemen as Police Cpl. Relebert Beronio; Pat. Raffy Callao; Pat. Roel Cabellon; and Pat. Marquino de Leon, all intelligence officers of the 704th Provincial Mobile Force Company of the Regional Public Safety Battalion 7 assigned in Negros Oriental.


Rep. Manuel Sagarbarria gamely dances along with Mabinay Mayor Joeterry Uy (center) and the barangay officials of Pantao Tuesday during the town’s weekly Civic Action Program. (Contributed photo)


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He said the four intelligence operatives were on their way to verify the alleged presence of an


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armed group, as well as looking at “possible supporters of the NPA there”.


The resident Anadon claimed he was made to tie the hands of the policemen behind their backs, and afterwards, left the crime scene.


is their agent or contact,” Sinas said. “If evidence warrants it, we will be filing appropriate charges against Anadon.”


least 20 households are believed to have ties with the NPA. An earlier report said that


Sinas also disclosed that at


the policemen, wearing civilian clothes and carrying service f i rearmes, were on board motorcycles at around 2:30 p.m., and were on their way to the residence of Anadon in sitio Yamot.


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