Holidays, polls to drive
sugar prices up - SRA
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Sugar Regulatory Administration chief Ma. Regina Bautista Martin yesterday said sugar prices in the domestic market rose to a high of P1,475.18 per Lkg last week from P1,330 previously, in probable anticipation of the upcoming holidays and the campaign period.

The prices may have gone up because market forces are seeking to stabilize at their own level, she said.

Also, traders are probably preparing for sugar needs for All Souls Day when buying becomes heavy, Martin said.

Policeman nabbed
at MassKara
BY ADRIAN NEMES III

A Bacolod policeman was apprehended by his colleagues at the city’s Public Plaza at about 4 a.m. Saturday for violation of the MassKara festival gun ban.

Police Officer 1 Roldan Villa, of Brgy. 16, Bacolod and assigned at the Community Police Precinct at the City’s Government Center is now in the custody of Police Station 1, and charges will be filed against him today, Station commander, Chief Insp. Adonis Rosales said.

Raymund Bayer, 30, of Brgy. Banago, Bacolod told the police that he and his four companions, whose names he did not disclose, were coming out from a urinal at the public plaza when an unidentified man hit him on his back.

A man armed with a .38 caliber revolver held up a financial services firm in broad day light Saturday at Araneta Street in Brgy. Singcang-Airport, Bacolod City, and took P14,000 in cash.

The two employees of M Lhuillier, whose identities are being withheld for security reasons, told the police that the suspect, who wore red jacket and a white cap, barged into their establishment at about 11 a.m. and declared a hold-up.

They added that the suspect pointed his gun at them, ordered them to give him the money and escaped on board a Racal black and red motorcycle going to the direction of Libertad Street.