DANAO, CEBU CITY MAYOR FACES CASE
THE Office of the Ombudsman filed a case before the Sandiganbayan against Mayor Ramonito Durano 3rd of Danao City, Cebu for allegedly failure to implement a Civil Service Commission (CSC) order to reinstate and to pay the back wages and other benefits former city employees in 2015. The Ombudsman accused Durano, a second cousin of President Rodrigo Duterte, of violating the Administrative Code of 1987 in relation to the Revised Rules on Administrative Cases in the Civil Service. It alleged that Durano .. “refuse[ d] or neglect[ ed] to implement the 14 August 2014 Decision No. 14- 0068 and the 28 October 2014 Resolution No. 14- 00607” of the CSC Regional Office 7 “despite it being final and and executory.” The CSC decision ordered “the reinstatement of certain [ then-] employees of the City of Danao to their former positions and the payment of their back wages, leave credits and other benefits.” The case was designated by raffle to the Sandiganbayan’s Fifth Division.
ENGINEER KILLED IN CEBU AMBUSH
AN engineer on his way to a project construction site was shot dead by unidentified assailants riding two motorcycles in Mandaue City, Cebu at about 9: 30 a. m. on Monday. Roel Perales, 57, a mechanical engineer of Compostela town, Cebu was found riddled with bullets inside his silver Nissan Navarra pick- up in Barangay Paknaan, Mandaue City. Chief Insp. Michael Angelo Beltran, chief of Basak Police Station 3 in Mandaue, said the gunman was back riding in one motorcycle and the other suspects who served as back- up were in another motorcycle. Witnesses told police that the assailants were wearing bonnets and their black motorcycles have no plate numbers.
DOST ALLOCATES P4.75M TO SIQUIJOR ENTREPRENEURS
THE Department of Science and Technology ( DOST)- Siquijor allocated P4.75 million worth of technological assistance to the new batch of micro, small and medium enterprises ( MSMEs) identified through the Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program ( Setup). The assistance will be given to 11 beneficiaries – six food processors, two firms under the metals and engineering sector and one furniture shop. Last year, 10 MSMEs also received grants from Setup. Of the total amount, DOST Siquijor PSTC has allotted over 50 percent or P2.76 million to food processors; P1,776,500 for metals and engineering firms and P204,887 to the furniture sector. The assistance to the MSMEs will be used to procure
TWIN EXPLOSIONS ROCK ROAD NEAR ARMY TRAINING CAMP
SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao: Police bomb experts are checking on the blast site in Barangay Semba where unidentified armed men set off explosives near the headquarters of the 6th Infantry Division ( ID) in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao. Capt. Arvin Encinas, spokesman of the 6thID, said the first explosion took place at about 6: 35 a. m., on Friday followed by another blast about 10 minutes later. Encinas said the explosions took place near the training school of the 6th ID but no one was wounded. The bomb attacks came in the wake of the military’s continued campaign against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters ( BIFF) in Maguindanao. While the military had not pinpointed the culprits on the latest bomb attacks, similar incidents attributed to the BIFF happened in the province in recent days. These include the January 9 roadside bombing in Datu Unsay town, which killed a soldier. The Datu Unsay roadside bomb attack took place two hours after the BIFF also set off a roadside bomb along the national highway in Barangay Labo- Labo in Datu Hoffer town that wounded two passersby.