Burgos mayor wants total ban on plastic bags
THE environmentalist mayor of Burgos has appealed to his fellow local chief executives and suggested that they adopt a similar anti-plastic ordinance in their respective towns.
Mayor Domingo Doctor Jr. said his town’s ordinance, prohibiting the use of any non-biodegradable plastic bag to pack goods sold to customers, helped mitigate flooding in his town.
He said he will formally propose the measure in the next national convention of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines.
He added that he will write to Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Satur Ocampo who was his co-panelist in a media forum, to file a bill in Congress calling for the ban of plastics by stores in response to the disastrous calamity caused by Storm Ondoy which evidently was aggravated by huge piles of plastic bags that clogged arteries and flood control facilities.
“Look what we saw at the height of the flooding-plastic bags and similar materials were seen hanging on the trees or telephone lines while canals were severely clogged by these,” he said.
For his part, Ocampo said he noted the lack of resources of the government to undertake the clean up and rehabilitation that will follow from this worst calamity ever in decades.
Dr. Salvador Duque, a noted civic leader here, who was also guest in the forum, batted for the passage of strong River Protection Law in the country due to indiscriminate dumping of wastes in the rivers that aggravate flooding.#
Police raid shabu tiangge in Dagupan
Two suspected drug traffickers were arrested Tuesday morning by joint elements of the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency after a raid of their houses yielded 82.7 grams of shabu .
The suspected shabu tiangge was in the Moro housing settlement in the city.
Police Supt. Mariano Luis Versoza, city chief of police, said the operatives, armed with a search warrant issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Emma Torio, raided the houses of Ali and Laila Mabuntal and Mamayo Macaisug where 22 grams and 10.2 grams of shabu respectively, were seized.
The biggest yield, 50.5 grams, was found in the house of Alexander Macaisug alias ‘Sky’.
Only the Mabuntal couple was arrested. The two other suspects fled shortly after they were tipped off of the police operations, Versoza said.
Money of various denominations and other drug paraphernalia were also confiscated from the suspects’ houses.
The police chief said yesterday’s campaign against prohibited drugs was the biggest haul so far in the city under Fernandez administration.
Versoza said the city police force has conducted 22 operations on illegal drugs and arrested 35 personalities and more than 150 grams of shabu confiscated since January this year. (PIA)
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