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Vol. XX No. 1008 • Dumaguete City, Philippines • October 6 - October 12, 2019 • P15.00


Buglasan Festival set


Buglasan Festival, Negros Oriental’s premier showcase of its history, culture and heritage, talents, skills, and tourist attractions. The festivities will officially open on Oct.


These would include competitions on sports, music, dance, marching band, and live band, among others.


Ironman Endurocross Rally V, Gandang Negorense Pageant, Miss Negros Oriental and the Outstanding Negros Oriental awardees.


The much-awaited events each year, however, are the usual Buglasan Festival of Festivals street dancing and grand showdown competition and the local government unit (LGU) booth competition. During a press conference on Tuesday,


Buglasan director Governor Roel Degamo and co-director Dr. Nick Elman said some PHP11.5 million has been allocated for the


TO PAGE 2 Abellana said there will also be the All is set for this year’s staging of Empowering people through information


14 and will run through Oct. 27 with several activities lined up all throughout, provincial tourism officer Myla Mae Bromo Abellana said on Wednesday.


DENR halts reclamation


The Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Region 7 (DENR-7) has ordered the local government here to cease and desist from further undertaking ongoing rehabilitation works at this city’s Rizal Boulevard.


The agency also suspended the Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) it had issued earlier for the project. The order, dated Sept. 2, 2019 and


signed by EMB-7 regional director William P. Cuñado, was received at the City Hall on Tuesday, which prompted Mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo to order the stoppage of “civil works of the rehabilitation and shoreline protection of the Rizal Boulevard” the following day, City Public Information Officer Dems Rey Demecillo said on Thursday.


had issued the ECC to the Dumaguete local government unit (LGU) last June 18, 2019, one of the requirements was for the proponent to first secure a Notice to Proceed from their office before the actual project implementation.


NBI agents from Manila (left) arrest garbage collectors and drivers of the City of Dumaguete Thursday for unloading trash in the City’s only dumpsite which had been ordered closed, putting Dumaguetnons at a quandry on what to do with their 40 tons of daily garbage production. The City Council, in a special session Friday, said it is eying charges against the NBI. (Photo by Neil Rio)


The EMB-7 order noted that while it


and conditions of the ECC should be strictly and faithfully observed, or the consequence would be costly,” the order read. As a result of this violation, the EMB-7


ordered, pursuant to Sec. 9 of Presidential Decree No. 1586, that apart from the ECC suspension and the cease and desist order, the Dumaguete LGU to pay a fine of PHP50,000.


However, it was further noted that the Dumaguete LGU had already started the rehabilitation project even in the absence of the Notice to Proceed, the order stated. “Clearly, such act is a blatant violation of the terms and conditions of its ECC, and should be accordingly penalized to serve as a deterrence to others similarly situated that compliance to the terms


the requirement to secure a Notice to Proceed, Demecillo said. Earlier, in a Facebook post, Mayor Remollo was quoted as saying that the order “is one of the several suspensions of Environmental Compliance Certificates or ECC issued to different quarry operations throughout the province of Negros Oriental”. The mayor “laments that the boulevard project has been singled out, considering that there are reclamation projects, both ongoing and completed, elsewhere in the city and the province undertaken by the Department of Public Works and Highways without ECCs but were spared by the selective EMB order.”


TO PAGE 2 The city government will comply with


BEST SHOTS. These photos taken by Mark Anthony Caballeda for the Festival Dancer category (left) and by Angel Baldapan Jr. for the Street Dance Contingent category (right) are the champions in this year’s Sandurot Festival Photo Contest coordinated by Urich Calumpang. The board of judges were Luigi Borromeo, Hersley Casero, and Charlie Sindiong.


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