March

Year end- month of 2009 march

March 2 Palas-anon nga krus. Ini ang kalabanan nga reaksyun matapus gin aprobahan sang energy regulatory commission ang power sales contract sng central negros electric cooperative upod sa kepco spc poer corp para sa dugang nga supply sng kuryente umpisa 2011. Ang kontrata ang gin oponihan sang nag kala-in lain nga enrironmental groups kalakip na ang dioceses sang bacolod bangud sang environmental issues ukon concerns. March 2 Anum ka police Ilog ang gin relieved sa ila puesto matapus nadakpan naga inum sang maka hulubog nga ilimnun durante naka duty sadtong feb. 27. Gin recomendar man ni Pssupt Manuel Felix –provincial police director ang 15 diyas nga moral recovery seminar para sa anum . Gin kilala ang mga ini nga sanday SPO3 Ramon Macaya, PO3 Noel Joquino, PO2 Edward Gayuma, Police Officers 1 Joseph Caballero, Gecel de la Cruz and Jonjer Yap. March 3 Prelimenary injuction ang gin paboran sng regional trial court base sa gina pangayu sang bacolod real estate development corp ukon bredco batuk sa syudad sang bacolod para sa pag take-over sang operation kag management sang puerto. Si Bacolod rtc judge fernando elumba ang nag hulog sng cease and desist order sa pag patuman sang city ordinance 454 ukon takeover ordinance. Sa iya 11 ka pahina nga resolution katuyu-an sang desisyun amo nga ma min-tinar ang status quo para sa plaintiff para maka padayun sang iya reclamation project pending sang determination sa asunto.

March 5 kaso murder ukon pagpatay ang gin pasaka batuk sa mag asawa kag gina tudlo ila gin sugo pagpatay sa ang french national sa san carlos city negros occidental. Gin kilala ang napatay ng si Genevieve Sonia Mas 54 anyus nga gin luthang sa ledesma street brgy 5 sang gun man nga si Melchorito Alcala 31 anyus sang dano cebu city. Gin tudlo naman mastermined amo mismo ang bayaw sang biktima kag ang asawa sini. MARCH 5 City legal officer sang bacolod Atty Zamora nag supreher sng massive heart attach durante naga tambung sa hearing sa branch 62 bago city regional triacl court pasado las 10 sang aga. Ini ang gin deklarar nga napatay matapus gin tambangan sa bago city hospital . Si zamora ang nag tindug private prosecutor sa rape victim. Si Judge Frances Guanzon amo ang una nga naka kita kay Zamora nga nag uy-uy na sa bangko kag naga uyat sang iya dughan ( v.c. Judge )

Ang hitabu ang gin kakibot naman sang mga city officials kag nag puersa kay mayor bing leonardia nga wala nag dayun sang iya byahi padulong sa Pungsod Macao para mag tambung sa meeting sng mga katapu sang mga alkaldi sa negros occidental kag nagkabit daku nga kawad-an sa syudad ang pagtaliwan sang gina saligan nga legal officer. March 8 Police auxillary unit member nga yara sa idalum sng makahulubog nga ilimnun ang nag pangluthang sa iya mga kaupdanan. Gin kilala ang suspek kag sang ulihi mapatay sa followup operations sng Escalante PNP amo si Diolito Cabanyog 26 sang sitio libo brgy Alimango Escalante nga nag luthang kanday Rogelio Mapa, cyrus Escobillar kag Roy Arnesta. Si Mapa ang napatay on the sport samtang si Arnesta ang napatay durante gina bulong sa hospital

MARCH 10 , 2009

Provincial governemnt kalakip sa naga opponer sa imposisyun sang P1.14 per kilowatt hour increase sang national power corp. Ang syudad suno naman kay bacolod mayor bing leonardia ang nag palayag man sa pag pamalabag power rate increase . Ang sangguniang panlalawigan sng negros kag syudad ang pariho nag pasar sng resolution nga naga oponer sa pasaka sa pag pati nga wala sa naga kaigo nga tiempo ang nasambit nga increase kag wala nahatagan sang tion ang mga oppositors sa pag palayag angut sini.

Mrch 13, 2009 Police candoni rapist. Ini ang akusasyun sng 13 anyus batuk kay po1 Lambut. Sa interview sang rmn-bacolod suno sa biktima una ini gin himuslan sang suspetsado sadtong desyembre 2008 kag gin sundan sang pebrero 2009. Gilayun naman ng gin mandu ni Psupt Manuel Felix ang relieved ni Lambut sa Candoni PNP kag gin paidalum sa administrative investigation. Samtang pormal nga nag pasaka sang reklamo ang biktima sa bulig man sang gabriela negros batuk sa police.

Court denies bid to stop District 3 polls

The Regional Trial Court yesterday denied for lack of merit the petition filed by former Central Negros Electric Cooperative president Eddie Guillem for a temporary restraining order to stop the regularly scheduled election for members of the board of directors representing CENECO District III scheduled today. The petition was filed on March 4, 2009 and raffled to TRC Branch 48 on March 5. Guillem prayed for the issuance of a TRO against the CENECO District Election Committee, and the CENECO Board headed by its board president Vicente Sabornay, for the latter to cease and desist from holding the election for the position of director of CENECO District III (Bacolod Central), on the ground that he desires to participate directly as candidate for the position, although he has not filed his certificate of candidacy. He appealed his termination/dismissal by the National Electrification Administration to the Court of Appeals and his appeal is still pending resolution. The decision of the Court of Appeals will determine whether or not he is qualified from running as candidate of CENECO director for District III during the scheduled election. In his order dated March 12, 2009, RTC Judge Gorgonio Ybañez said Guillem filed for the issuance of a TRO stopping the conduct of the election in the hope that if the decision of the Court of Appeals on his appeal is in his favor, for then he will be qualified to run for CENECO director for District III. A TRO (with a 20-day life) will give enough time to enable him to qualify to run for the position under a rescheduled election date, he said. Ybañez said that after carefully considering and evaluating the matter, it appears that the petition is lacking in merit and has to be denied. He said the application for TRO has no leg to stand on as it is primarily founded and anchored only upon a mere expectation, a mere contingency, which, if granted by the Court, will only redound to undue damage and prejudice

MARCH 16, 2009

Montelibano, Malapitan, Lacson Ceneco winners

Businessman-sugar planter Roberto Montelibano was reelected director of the Central Negros Electric Cooperative, representing District VII covering Murcia and Don Salvador Benedicto, during the elections for three CENECO districts held on Saturday. Former Barangay Captain Pepito Malapitan of Alijis won overwhelmingly in District II-Bacolod South. Malapitan made 3,174 votes over engineer Joel Alama’s 1,277 votes. District II covers barangays Taculing, Felisa, Handumanan, Cabug, Pahanocoy, Sum-ag, Punta Taytay, Tangub, and Alijis. Brgy. 32 Captain Zenaida Lacson won the board seat for District III-Bacolod Central, with 816 votes, and triumphed over former barangay captains Rodolfo Salga of Brgy. 29, who got 585 votes, and Ellery Cadelina of Brgy. 40, with 10 votes. District III has 6,000 registered members in barangays 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 40, and 41. Montelibano, who garnered 1,325 votes, defeated former Murcia Councilor Jonel Bonifacio who got 593 votes. Bonifacio had sought Montelibano’s disqualification but his petition was dismissed by the CENECO Election Screening Committee, along with a similar petition also filed by transport leader Elizabeth Katalbas against Malapitan. The Screening Committee found no sufficient grounds to disqualify both candidates. Lacson said in a press release that she will lead the consumers in questioning the many defective policies of CENECO, including the power rate increase that should not be charged to consumers.*NLG

Sabornay ousted as president, suspended with coop manager BUT HE CALLS MOVE ILLEGAL

Who is the board president of the Central Negros Electric Cooperative now? Director Edward Gasambelo said yesterday lawyer Vicente Sabornay was ousted as president yesterday after majority of the directors slapped a 30-day preventive suspension order on him, and OIC general manager Erlo Sajo. Gasambelo said he was installed as president in a board meeting yesterday morning, and he, along with directors Roberto Montelibano and Luis Cuenca, voted to suspend Sabornay for supposedly committing an act of disloyalty. Gasambelo said he initiated a complaint against Sabornay who, he claimed, sided with former president Eddie Guillem during the hearing on the temporary restraining order filed by Guillem to stop the March 14 district election. However, Sabornay denied the accusation, saying that he was merely asked by the court to air his view. He said he shared the opinion that the Election Screening Committee needed more time to resolve the petitions filed against some candidates, and that he would not mind if the court will issue a TRO. The Regional Trial Court, however, eventually denied the Guillem petition for lack of merit. Gasambelo said CENECO legal officer Enrique Tabino, who said the actions of the new board still need the confirmation of the National Electrification Administration, was named caretaker after Sajo was suspended. He said that an investigating team will also be formed to probe Sabornay and Sajo. FARCE, ILLEGAL Sabornay said the meeting conducted by his three colleagues was a farce and even illegal, and accused them of working “in cahoots with their adviser who is the CENECO legal officer,” referring to Tabino. “We were no longer there after 11:30 a.m. They made it

Gov’t center to finally get power

The Central Negros Electric Cooperative accepted yesterday the payment of the Bacolod City government for the installation of a permanent electric meter at its new Government Center, City Administrator Roger Balo said yesterday. This means that the government center will already be energized, Balo said. He said the government center may be supplied electric power on Monday after CENECO installs the electric meter today. The electrical engineers of Hilmarc’s Construction Corp. are arriving on Monday since CENECO requested for their presence, he added. Mayor Evelio Leonardia said he was informed of this development by newly-elected CENECO director Pepito Malapitan. “I think this is a consequence of the CENECO election on March 14,” Leonardia said. Majority of the CENECO directors have literally seen the light, he said, and the City Hall employees received the news with jubilation since their work had been severely inconvenienced when the facility had to be powered by a generator. Leonardia also said the electrification of the new government center is long overdue. “I understand that even the National Electrification Administration was pushing for its electrification,” he said, adding that any sane and reasonable man would go for the electrification of the facility. This is another defeat for the forces that have been working against the government center with no other reason except jealousy and sabotage, he said. Leonardia recalled that the lighting of the government center was the battle cry in the last CENECO election, and that Malapitan, former Barangay Captain of Alijis, and Brgy. 32 Captain Zenaida Lacson campaigned on that issue.*CGS

MARCH 23, 2009

MARCH 25, 2009

Gov’t center finally lighted up Bacolod City officials led by Mayor Evelio Leonardia and Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson presided at the switch-on ceremony to supply electric power to the Bacolod City Government Center last night with some members of the board of the Central Negros Electric Cooperative and the business sector. The P394.9 million Government Center along the Circumferential Road in Barangay Villamonte was completed in August last year but it took eight months to have power connected because of political intervention and a clear attempt to sabotage the project, Leonardia said. Leonardia had invited all the members of the CENECO board to the ceremony and those who responded were Roberto Benedicto, Raul Alvarez, Pepito Malapitan and Zenaida Lacson. In his letter to the CENECO officials, Leonardia said it is “a momentous occasion” for the city government and the people of Bacolod that the new government center has finally gotten permanent electrical connection from the power firm after a long but patient wait. He said the news that the government center had finally gotten permanent CENECO power supply was met with jubilation by all city government employees and all Bacoleños who supported the cause of the new facility. CENECO installed the permanent electrical meter to energize the government center Saturday.

Bacolod gov’t buys 17 more dumptrucks

The Bacolod City government has purchased 17 additional dump trucks worth P9.5 million to further boost the waste collection efficiency of the Department of Public Services. Bacolod Councilor Greg Gasataya, Sangguniang Panlungsod chairman of the Committee on Environment and Ecology, said the new dump tucks will reinforce the city’s existing 24 fleets. They will be enough for the daily collection of garbage in the barangays, he added. Meanwhile, the city is ready to implement the “No segregation, no collection” policy starting April 1. Gasataya also said his committee will meet with the barangay officials, establishment owners and market occupants today and tomorrow for final assessment and information on the implementation of the “No segregation, No collection” policy by April 1. He said he also met with the barangay officials of the pilot barangays where the “No segregation, no collection” policy was recently implemented. Based on its pilot implementation in the nine the barangays under the parish of St. Fatima, the project is doable, he said. During the meeting with parish priest Father Ernie Larrida, it was discovered that many households have already been implementing the program, he said, but there are still some who do not. Gasataya said they have agreed that the people should take out their garbage between 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. so the city can easily identify those who do not comply the law. Meanwhile, Gasataya also said the city government is complying with safe closure and rehabilitation of the old dump site to give way for the construction of a sanitary land fill. He said Mayor Evelio Leonardia has written the Department of Environment and Natural Resources about the status of compliance with the rehabilitation and safe closure plan.*CGS

MARCH 29 2009 AT BACOLOD EARTH HOUR RITES

Support pledged for climate change

“And if everyone lit just a little candle, what a bright world this will be.” These were the lingering words the choir sang as Negrenses turned off their electric lights and joined the worldwide commemoration of the Earth Hour in Bacolod City, Saturday. Power consumption dropped by 1,585.10 kilowatts in Bacolod City from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. for Earth Hour, Central Negros Electric Cooperative reported. Yeb Sano, coordinator of World Wide Fund for Nature in the Philippines, said the Philippines had the most number of cities and towns participating in the event worldwide at 647. Ranked a distant second was Greece, with 484 cities and towns, followed by Australia with 309, Canada with 273 and the United States with 270, the WWF said. As electricity-powered lights were dimmed at the SM City – the center of the EH 2009 celebration in Negros Occidental – the Bacolod and Negros Occidental governments, educational and corporate institutions, pledged continued support for measures to avert climate change. Led by the provincial chorale, participants sang and held lighted candles seconds after Mayor Evelio Leonardia and Gov. Isidro Zayco turned off a ceremonial switch that marked the start of the one-hour lights off at 8:30 p.m. Zayco said that the province is “firmly committed to help make the earth more livable for people.” Lights at provincial facilities, including the Capitol and the Lagoon, were turned off Saturday and Zayco said that he has directed local governments around the province to do the same in some of their structures. Leonardia, who, in keeping with the spirit of the event, requested for spot lights to be turned off as he spoke onstage, said that Bacolod’s participation in the third global EH celebration was important because with it, the city showed that it “belonged with thousands of cities in the world.”

MARCH 30, 2009

Son of former mayor shoots brother dead

Another tragedy struck the family of former Mayor Jose Garcia Jr. yesterday in Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental More than 10 months after the former mayor died, Joemarie, his 36-year-old son, was allegedly shot by his younger brother, Mark, at their ancestral residence in Brgy. 1, Moises Padilla town at about 4:50 p.m. yesterday, police said Inspector Pabiolo Ortiz, Moises Padilla police chief, last night said that Joemarie was declared dead on arrival at the Isabela District Hospital . He succumbed to a gunshot in the stomach. Mark, 32, surrendered to the Moises Padilla police station, while his brother was being brought to a hospital in Isabela, Negros Occidental. Initial police investigations showed that the shooting incident was triggered by a family problem. Before the shooting incident, SPO1 Leo Laguna, Moises Padilla PNP chief investigator, said Joemarie went to the house of Mark, which is just across the street, and fired his gun four times, witnesses said. Laguna, however, said Mark was not at home at the time. Two empty shells of a .45 caliber pistol were recovered at the vicinity of Mark's house, and Joemarie was nowhere to be found when they arrived, Laguna told the DAILY STAR. Two hours after, Laguna said Joemarie was allegedly shot by Mark, at a distance of about 30 meters. An empty shell of a .45 caliber pistol was also recovered at the gate of the house of Mark, but no firearm was surrendered by the suspect to the Moises Padilla police station, police investigations also showed. The father of Joemarie and Mark, known to his friends and constituents as “Mayor Joegar” in Moises Padilla, also died in May 14 last year, after he reportedly committed suicide at their residence in Brgy. Villamonte,

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