COURT SUSPENDS TUGUEGARAO CITY COUNCILOR FOR 90 DAYS

THE Sandiganbayan’s Seventh Division ordered the preventive suspension of Councilor Danilo Baccay of Tuguegarao City, Cagayan for 90 days pending litigation of the case filed against him over his alleged failure to liquidate P400,000 cash advance in 2009 when he was vice mayor. Baccay has pleaded not guilty during his arraignment to the case filed against him by the Office of the Ombudsman in 2016 for violation of the Anti- Graft and Corrupt Practices Act. The anti- graft cour t ordered that a copy of the resolution be furnished the Secretary of the department of the Interior and Local Government to implementation the preventive suspension order.

BFAR TRAINS 405 FISH WARDENS TO ENFORCE FISHERY LAWS

TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan: The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources ( BFAR)– Region 2 trained 405 deputy fish wardens ( DFW) in 14 towns in the region improve the enforcement of fisher y laws, rules and regulations. Milagros Morales, BFAR Region 2 director, said the par ticipants in the training were mostly barangay ( village) officials, fisher folk leaders, local government unit employees and officials as well as members of the local police. Areas covered are the towns of Basco, Itbayat and Sabtang in Batanes; Aparri, Gattaran, Santa Ana and Abulug in Cagayan; Maconacon and Palanan in Isabela; Alfonso Castañeda, Bambang, Bayombong