Guv seeking
ok of P.5B  budget
BY CARLA GOMEZ

The Sangguniang Panlalawigan is set to deliberate on a proposed P512.2 million supplemental budget for the Negros Occidental provincial government tomorrow, Acting Governor Genaro Alvarez Jr. said yesterday.

Governor Alfredo Marañon Jr., who is in Australia, had designated the vice governor acting governor until April 25.

Alvarez said Board Member Mae Javellana will preside over the SP session in his place tomorrow.

Three teenagers filed complaints for acts of lasciviousness before the Women and Children Complaints Desk of the Bacolod City police against a police inspector who they claimed molested them at a videoke bar in Brgy. Mansilingan on two separate occasions.

The complainants aged 17 and 18, whose real names are being withheld, and employees of the Karaoke bar, claimed Station 3 deputy chief, Insp. Asensio Ortizo molested them.

Contacted by the DAILY STAR, Ortizo denied the allegations, saying that his conscience is clear that he did not do anything wrong to the complainants.

No jai alai protection - Querol
BY ADRIAN NEMES III

Police Regional Office-6 Director, Chief Supt. Cepriano Querol, yesterday denied that he is protecting illegal operation of jai-alai in Bacolod City and Negros Occidental, contrary to the allegations circulating through text messages recently

“I don’t know what kind of protection they are referring to… I am a very friendly person and I always entertain people so they need to be specific”, Querol, who was in Bacolod City, said.

He stressed that under his leadership, policemen in Bacolod City and Negros Occidental and other parts of Western Visayas have not been lenient toward the operation of illegal gambling.

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