LOCAL OFFICIALS SAY
Direct flights from Korea
a ‘tourism breakthrough’
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Local officials Saturday called the arrival of direct flights from Korea to Negros Occidental until March a major breakthrough in tourism, which they hope will pave the way for more international flights landing at the Bacolod-Silay Airport soon.

Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. hosted a dinner on Saturday night at the provincial Capitol for airline and Korean travel officials who arrived on board the maiden ZestAir direct flight from Korea to Bacolod Saturday with 120 tourists on board, most of whom came to play golf.

It was piloted by Sunny Chan, a St. John’s Institute Class ’91 graduate.

A teenage nanny who allegedly tried to kidnap the 16- month- old son of her employer in Brgy. Tangub, was apprehended by the police at about 10 p.m. Saturday on board a tricycle in Brgy. Bata, Bacolod City.

The suspect, 15, whose name is being withheld, is a resident of Brgy. Marcelo in Calatrava town, Negros Occidental, City Police Director Senior Supt. Ricardo de la Paz said yesterday

The boy’s mother, Niña Tolentino, of Gardenville Subdivision in Brgy. Tangub, Bacolod City told the police she and her two other children had gone to a mall but when they arrived home at about 6 p.m. Saturday the suspect and her son were nowhere to be found.

Persons or entities who wish to put up projects or improvements in the proposed Chinatown Center in Shopping Center, Bacolod City, will be entitled to a refund in the form of a Tax Credit Certificate, Bacolod Councilor Em Legaspi-Ang, said yesterday.

The Chinatown Ordinance authored by Ang and Councilor Dindo Ramos, was approved on the last week of December 2011 by the Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod.

Ang said that if an individual would like to put up a welcome arch in the Chinatown Center, 70 percent of the cost of the structure will be paid by the city in the form of Tax Credit Certificate which will be spread over a period of five years.