The police chiefs in Cavite were ordered Tuesday to begin submitting reports, explaining any shooting incident occurring in their respective areas of responsibility (AORs). Superintendent Edgar B. Roquero, Cavite Police Provincial Office (PPO) deputy director for operations, said the move was in compliance to the strict enforcement of the gun ban for the October 25 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections. Senior Supt. Danilo L. Maligalig, PPO director, ordered an all-out drive against loose firearms with the enforcement of the 45-day firearm ban starting Friday midnight (September. 25) until November 10. Maligalig also ordered the installation of checkpoints and conduct of police operations in the province, particularly in barangays in two cities and seven towns that have been tagged as “election areas of concern.” (Anthony Giron)

U.S. DONATES TO ANGELES HOSPITAL

ANGELES CITY — Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan is back to the city hall after his two-week travel to the United States where he received a pledge for medical equipment donations from the World Medical Relief based in Detroit, Michigan. “I’m very happy to inform you that we acquired lots of hospital equipments that will be very useful in providing medical service to the people,” Pamintuan said during the flag-raising ceremony in Angeles city hall. The city mayor promised the Angelenos before his departure to U.S. that he will “bring home the bacon” and he has achieved this successfully. “Our dream of having dialysis machines in our own public hospital is now becoming a reality,” the city mayor added. (Franco G. Regala)

LIBRARIES SEEK BOOK DONATIONS

BONTOC, Mountain Province — Patrons of this province’s community libraries and research centers have been increasing, prompting officials to seek the help of philanthropists to fill up the bookshelves. Dr. Nieves A. Dacyon, president of the Mountain Province State Polytechnic College (MPSPC) and initiator of the establishment of community libraries and research centers provincewide, urged for book donations to help the literacy and awareness program for rural folk. The community libraries and research centers initially started in the barangays of Tadian where one of MPSPC’s campuses is situated and is now slowly expanding to the towns of Bauko, Sagada, Besao, Sabangan, Sadanga, Natonin, Paracelis and Barlig. These libraries have helped increase the literacy rate among the people of this province. (Dexter A. See)

SCHOOLS DOING PART VS DENGUE

DAGUPAN CITY – School officials in this city urged the public Tuesday to go easy on putting the blame on them for students coming down with dengue fever, saying that all is being done to keep campuses free from dengue-carrying mosquitoes. Daisy Garcia-Tello, school principal of the Creative Montessori in Lyceum Northwestern University here said that only one student in her school has been found positive for dengue. “Every place is a potential danger area for people to get dengue,” said Tello, adding that it is everybody’s duty, not just the school’s, to protect children from dengue-carrying mosquitoes. She said schools are taking precautionary measures such as fogging, cleaning and spraying insecticides. School teachers have also required high-knee socks and apply mosquito-repellant lotion. (Liezle Basa Iñigo)