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CONFED national president Aurelio “Bodie” Valderrama*The Confederation of Sugar Producers Association Inc. (Confed), the largest planters federation in the country, announced Tuesday, November 29, that it has two new member-planters associations this Crop Year 2022-2023.The two new associations that affiliated with Confed are the Planter’s Association of Southern Negros Inc. (PASON) headed by its chairman emeritus Franklin G. Fuentebella, Robert Bernard M. Tan - chairman and Luis T. Garingalao - president, and the United Cadiz Sugarcane Planters Association Inc. (UCSPA) headed by Clarita Lilia “Claire” E. Lacson, a press release from Confed said.“We warmly welcome the two new members which joined Confed at the start of my term as federation president,” said Confed president Aurelio...

The injured policemen beside the vehicle that overturned on Monday.*Candoni PNP photoEleven policemen were injured after they figured in an accident in Barangay Caningay, Candoni , Negros Occidental, 11 a.m. Monday, November 28.The injured policemen of the 604th Company of the Regional Mobile Force Battalion 6 (RMFB-6) are patrolmen Jerome Tolentino, Joey Bana-ag, Eric Abela, Bryan Ambaja, Emam James and Jared King Dadivas, and corporals Mark Jel Salazar, John Arevalo, Reggie Tacdoro, Noriel Vergara and Kenneth Valiao.The policemen were conducting a road patrol when the brakes of their vehicle malfunctioned as it was going down a curvy road, a police report said.This caused the police driver to lose control of the vehicle, which hit a barrier on the side of the road and ove...

The illegal structures at the North Capitol Road in Bacolod City that were removed on Monday.*CPG photoThe Bacolod City government has resumed demolishing illegal structures on sidewalks and roads, which are obstructing traffic.Nineteen illegal structures on the North Capitol Road sidewalk across from Ayala Malls Capitol Central were removed on Monday, November 28, by an enforcement team of the Bacolod City Legal Office (CLO), which was assisted by the Negros Occidental provincial government Safety and Security Division personnel.Some of the owners of the sidewalk eateries voluntarily removed their structures that were adjacent to provincial government owned property.Rey Demisana, head of the CLO enforcement team, said the motorcycles and tricycles illegally parked on one l...

Two persons were injured in this computer shop in Bacolod City, Monday.*BCPO photoTwo persons were injured in a gun attack at a computer shop at Purok Sigay, Barangay 2, Bacolod City, early Monday, November 28.Injured were Ramy Araiz and Michael Yasas.The victims were playing computer games when the unidentified suspect fired at them, a police report said.Araiz sustained a lone gunshot wound in his armpit while Yasas was hit in the leg.Both victims were rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City, while the suspect fled after the incident.Police are still investigating the shooting.*

A tricycle driver died in an accident in Valladolid town on Sunday.*Valladolid PNP photoA 47-year-old tricycle driver died after hitting another tricycle Sunday, November 27, at the highway in Brgy. Sagua Banwa, Valladolid town, Negros Occidental.Killed was Sunday Villar.Police said Villar’s tricycle went to the opposite lane when he passed a curved part of the road, hitting the oncoming tricycle.The other driver and his three passengers, including one and five year old children, were rushed to Valladolid District Hospital.Meanwhile, a 54-year-old man who was allegedly suffering from a disability died after being hit by a jeep on the highway in Barangay Bagumbayan in Valladolid on Saturday, November 26.The victim was hit by a jeepney when he suddenly crossed the str...

The city government is evaluating if it can pay some of the 1,500 volunteer job order workers in Bacolod, City Administrator Pacifico Maghari III said on Monday, October 28.The 1,500 Bacolod City government JO workers without any official appointments are considered volunteers and will not be paid, Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez said on November 18.Only about 3,500 JO’s officially appointed from October to December will be paid, he said.“We cannot accommodate all because of the restrictions in the amount of budget that we have left for this year,” Benitez had said.However, Magahari said they are now reviewing what is left of city government’s budget that can be used to pay the volunteers who actually worked and are expecting a resolution this week.The masterlist...

Manokan Country tenants face closure again on Wednesday, November 30, for reneging on their October agreement with the Bacolod City government that set a schedule for the payment of their rent arrears, Councilor Celia Flor said Monday, November 28.Flor said while many of the Manokan Country vendors have not honored their agreement with the city, most vendors at the three major public markets in Bacolod have been compliant.In fact there has been a big improvement in the collection of rent at the three markets from January to October this year compared to the same period last year, she said.The increase in payments at the Bacolod Central Market has been more than P1 million this year, Flor said.Meanwhile, many of the Manokan Country tenants who agreed to pay P25,000 a month f...

The encounter site in Sitio Upper Binataan in Barangay Quintin Remo, Moises Padilla.*62IB photoTwo alleged New People’s Amy rebels were killed in an encounter with government soldiers at Sitio Upper Binataan in Barangay Quintin Remo, Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental, 7 a.m. Monday, November 28, Brig. Gen. Inocencio Pasaporte, 303rd Infantry Brigade commander, said.Killed were Johnhilll Sarsa, alias Mark, and Dalmacio Dela Torre, alias Delmar, of Guilhulngan City, Negros Oriental, the Army’s 62nd Infantry Unifier Battalion reported.Sarsa was a political officer and Dela Torre was a member of the Sandatahang Yunit Pampropaganda Platoon Lenovo of the New People’s Army Central Negros Front 1, Komiteng Rehiyon – Negros Cebu, Bohol, Siquijor, the report said.Other rebels were be...