LAW enforcement agencies are not discounting the possibility that a syndicate is behind the kidnapping of a newborn baby from the government-run Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital (NOPH).

EDUCATION Secretary Jesli Lapus told Negros Oriental it will get at least 120 new teachers.

LAW enforcement authorities recovered before dawn Tuesday a newborn baby from the house of a nursing student suspected of taking him from the hospital where he was born.

EDUCATION Secretary Jesli Lapus renewed his warning against expensive graduation rites in public secondary and elementary schools.

DENGUE cases in Negros Oriental dropped by 12.6 percent this year compared to 2008, according to a top official of the Department of Health (DOH) in Dumaguete City.

MORE than 500 applicants from Negros Oriental will take the Philippine Army's Aptitude Test Battery to be conducted at the Sta. Catalina town's gymnasium Friday.

FORENSIC experts of National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Central Visayas exhumed Tuesday the two bodies of the farmers buried in Sitio Junob, Barangay Nagbinlod, Sta. Catalina town.

SENATOR Panfilo Lacson firmly believed that insurgency problem in the country will not be over by 2010.

THE Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) in Negros Oriental warned top officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and private contractors against any violation of the labor c

AT LEAST 70 automated counting machines are needed for Negros Oriental, said a top official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Dumaguete City.

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Negros Oriental has started accepting applications for registration during Saturdays and holidays.

THE Provincial Government of Negros Oriental will build additional four-storey building at the Negros Oriental Provincial (NOPH) compound.

THE Philippine National Police (PNP) in Dumaguete City has offered a P200,000 reward to anyone who would be able to identify the killers of a doctor two weeks ago.

THE Negros Oriental Provincial Government allotted P2 million for the scholarship grants of class valedictorians and salutatorians of all public high schools in the province.

MEMBERS of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Negros Oriental, including personnel of the Provincial Mobile Group (PMG) and Special Weapon and Tactics (Swat) underwent a random drug test Wednesda