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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