Armed with acetylene cutters and cylinder tanks, some 15 persons swooped down in three separate occasions on a compound of heavy equipment in barangays Bulilis and Hambabauran all in Ubay town and carted away P20 million worth of cut up metal parts.

The metal parts were cannibalized from the SCP Construction motorpool in the two Ubay barangays and sold as scrap to undetermined number of scrap iron buyers in Cebu. The construction company maintained two equipment yards in Ubay after it won a sub-contract from Hanjin Construction Company to undertake the lateral canals construction of the Bayongan Dam.
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Putting square pegs in erstwhile round holes into square holes. That is for the overhauling of Capitol's workforce in an effort to improve government service which would then be result-oriented.

With the organizational assessment and design proposed by its Human Resource Management Office (HRMDO), the provincial government is set to formulate a re-engineering plan and change management strategy for a better Capitol manpower.
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The regional office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) inaugurated another KALAHI-CIDSS project worth P1.103 million here. This time, it's the upgrading and expansion of the barangay's Level II waterworks system of barangay Tugas, in the municipality of Getafe.

It is a community sub-project of the Kalahi-CIDSS: KKB project or the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive Delivery of Social Services: Kapangyarihan at Kaunlaran sa Barangay that targets to directly benefit 164 households. Indirectly, it will also benefit residents in the island barangays, Pandanon and Nasingin.
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EDITORIAL
Sounding the call

NO DOUBT, THE BLAST RIGHT THAT KILLED REP. Wahab Akbar and there others has delivered a message that is too real to disregard.

This is not to divert from the fact that the police have zeroed in on the Abu Sayyaf, the usual suspect, and in fact reported several breaks including the identities and neutralization of two of them.
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