15 teachers, 2 others
injured in road mishap
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

Fifteen high school teachers and a minor suffered minor injuries when the vehicle they were riding collided with a dump truck in Silay City, Negros Occidental, at about 5 p.m. Monday, the police said yesterday.

They and the driver of the Fuzo Canter vehicle they were riding, identified as Carlos Delitina, 45, were brought to the Riverside Medical Center in Bacolod City. The driver sustained a fracture in his left leg.

Supt. Jerry Bartolome, Silay police chief, yesterday said majority of the victims sustained only minor injuries, and are already out of the hospital.

The Dacongcogon sugar mill in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, owes about 190 of its workers P1.5 million in wages, its manager Roberto de la Rosa said yesterday.

Management has not been able to pay their wages because the assets of mill investor, beleaguered Legacy owner Celso delos Angeles, have been frozen, de la Rosa said.

There is currently no work at the mill and its resumption of operations when the milling season starts will depend on whether the mill will have new investors, he added.

Forty-eight persons have been hit by Influenza A(H1NI) in the Western Visayas from May 18 to July 18,  a Department of Health 6 report said yesterday.

The ages of those hit by H1N1 ranged from 9 months to 89 years old, the majority of them belonging to the 10 to 19 year old age group, with 52 percent female, the report added.

Twenty-four of those affected had history of travel, with eight having gone to the   United States, China – 4, Japan – 3, United Kingdom – 3, Saudi Arabia – 2, and Australia, Panama, Singapore and Sweden – one each. The rest had close contact with H1N1 patients, it said.