Starting this year, the Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) throughout the province will get a 100-peso increase in their monthly honorarium from the provincial government.
DA hands over livestock to Negor for dispersal
One of the priorities of the provincial government as contained in its program of government, dubbed as the Sa Probinsiya—MagDEGAMOI Ta!, is to create job and livelihood opportunities.
‘Cease-and-desist order on despite dismantling of plant’
The cease-and-desist order issued by Gov. Roel Degamo against Sino-Italy Construction Philippines Inc. to refrain from conducting dredging operations in Tanjay City, Negros Oriental, remains in effect.
MGB requires barangay resolution against mineral processing plant
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Region 7 is asking for a barangay council resolution, and a signature campaign by residents of Tambacan in Tanjay City, Negros Oriental, expressing their opposition to a mineral processing plant erected in the barangay.
2 more rebels yield
Two more self-confessed members of the New People’s Army surrendered to Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo at the Capitol in Dumaguete City Thursday.
New NegOr police director to focus on spate of shootings, illegal drugs
The new OIC director of the Negros Oriental Police Provincial Office, Senior Supt. Mariano Natuel Jr., yesterday said he will give his best efforts in addressing criminality in the province, especially on illegal drugs that is his number one priority.
IN TANJAY: Win-win solution to dredging impasse eyed
Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo will meet with government offices and agencies and other stakeholders tomorrow to seek a win-win solution in the ongoing dredging controversy in Barangay Tambacan, Poblacion 4 in Tanjay City.
43 former rebel supporters get aid
Gov. Roel Degamo yesterday gave P129,000 as cash assistance to 43 former supporters of the New People’s Army at the headquarters of the 79thInfantry Battalion of the Philippine Army in Siaton, Negros Oriental.
DOST conducts flood forecasting, mitigation conference in NegOr
DUMAGUETE CITY, February 14 (PIA) — The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and PAGASA recently held a Local Flood Early Warning Systems (LFEWS) consultative conference for around 50 City/Municipal Planning Officers and Disaster Risk Reduction Officers from the different local government units (LGUs) in Negros Oriental.
Degamo slams NOPPO for failure to update crime reports in NegOr
An apparently irked Gov. Roel Degamo yesterday ordered the Negros Oriental Police Provincial Office to submit a full and updated report on the crime situation in the province.