Prevent UNA breakup,
follow process: Lim-ao
BY CARLA GOMEZ

If the usual process for selecting the gubernatorial candidate of the United Negros Alliance is not followed, the party could break up, Negros Occidental Vice Governor Genaro “Lim-ao” Alvarez Jr. said yesterday.

But he stressed that, at the moment, there does not appear to be a split in the UNA.

Last week, Rep. Alfredo Abelardo Benitez (Neg. Occ., 3rd District) said that the mayors of Negros Occidental do not want to see the disintegration of UNA with a showdown between Alvarez and Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. for the gubernatorial post in 2013.

Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia said one of the major reasons why the city purchased the Arao property in Brgy. Vista Alegre, Bacolod City is that they wanted to relocate the people living in areas identified as danger zones.

However, Leonardia said, many of them are not receptive to being moved out and the city is trying to convince them to transfer to the relocation site it is providing.

“They must understand that flood cannot be predicted and the banks of the rivers are always the first to be affected,” he said.

Bacolod Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson said the city has been granted permission by the Gonzaga family to use the road behind the Bacolod City Government Center temporarily as an alternative route for private vehicles heading towards the east side of Bacolod, while road repairs are ongoing at the Circumferential Road.

Sayson said the road is a short-cut to the Villa Angela Subdivision. and the City Engineer’s Office has been asked to check its condition.

Sayson said Bacolod City Police Traffic Management Unit head, Chief Insp. Luisito Acebuche, had requested for a temporary rerouting scheme from the portion of the Circumferential Road that goes by the BCGC, that is under reconstruction by the Department of Public Works and Highway, to ease the traffic congestion in the area.