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Former Bacolod Rep. Monico Puentevella, representing the Rolling Hills Memorial Park Inc., pays the filing fee for its petition at the office of the Bacolod RTC clerk of court yesterday*

Negros Oriental

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Expired food packets disposed of, probe continues
Drug dealer nabbed
P4.2M housing units for flood victims
Foreign students visit Dumaguete

Star Business

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‘Fare hike not answer to rising fuel rates’
DAR chief vows efficiency
Bus firm is our member, group insists
Power outage set today

Sports

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Ilonggo batters win in softball, baseball

Azkals beat Tajikistan

SJI wins 3rd Aspirants title

Delay in filing of COCs for
2013 polls sought
SPECIAL ELECTIONS IN
CALATRAVA BRGY LOOMS
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Negros Occidental Provincial Elections Officer Jessie Suarez yesterday said he is asking the Commission on Elections commissioners to consider moving the filing of certificates of candidacy for the May 2013 elections from October 1 to 5 to November this year.

Suarez also disclosed that the COMELEC served a writ of execution Monday directing all of the barangay officials of Barangay Lipat-on, Calatrava to vacate their posts, and has directed its Legal Department to file perjury raps against the barangay captain of Tabun-ac, Toboso, before the Department of Justice.

Suarez said he is relaying his suggestion on the moving of the filing of CoCs from October to November to the COMELEC commissioners in a letter, but submits to their wisdom on the matter.

Bing says:
Too early for politics
BY ADRIAN NEMES III

“It is best that I concentrate on being a mayor now because this is my last term”.

This is what Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia said yesterday when asked if he is going to run for congressman in the 2013 l elections.

It is too early to talk about it yet, he added.

Leonardia said that he wants to focus his attention on the things that must do before his term as mayor ends, and thinking about the elections will just disrupt his work.

Monico files suit at RTC
to halt new revenue code
BY CARLA GOMEZ

A funeral firm yesterday filed a petition before the Bacolod Regional Trial Court seeking the declaration of the new Bacolod Revenue Code as illegal and of no force and effect, and for it to permanently prohibit the respondents from enforcing it.

The petition was filed by Rolling Hills Memorial Park Inc. through its stockholder, former Bacolod Rep. Monico Puentevella, against the City of Bacolod and his political rival, Evelio Leonardia, in his capacity as city mayor of Bacolod.

The petition was being filed in a timely manner after the prescribed administrative remedy had been exhausted, the document filed before the RTC said.