The Supreme Court has fined a Negros Occidental judge after finding him guilty of gross misconduct.

The SC Second Division, in a decision promulgated January 19, fined Judge Manuel Limsiaco Jr., former presiding judge of the Fourth Municipal Circuit Trial Court of Valladolid-San Enrique-Pulupandan, Negros Occidental, P25,000 and directed the  Office of the Court Administrator to  deduct it from his retirement benefits.

The administrative case against Limsiaco stemmed from a complaint filed by Florenda Tobias against the judge  for allegedly offering “package deals” to litigants who plan to file cases in his court.

Phil Younghusband scored two goals, while Ricardo Bisete and team captain Aly Borromeo had one mark each for the Azkals, all in the first half, but the Negros Selection managed to even the score for a four-goal draw in yesterday’s friendly game between the RP men’s football team and the locals at the Panaad Sports and Park Stadium.

Fielding its Team A in the first 45-minute of the game, the Azkals easily dominated the locals with Phil breaking the ice in the 10th minute, while Bicete made it 2-0 four minutes after.

Three persons were killed while 11 others, one of them a policeman, were injured in vehicular accidents in Silay, Cadiz and Bacolod cities Sunday and Saturday.

Police records yesterday identified the fatalities as Bonnie Lamberto, 39, and his nephew Winston Bacabac, 21, both of Hacienda Daniel, Brgy. E. Lopez in Silay City, and Remar dela Rosa, 33, of Sitio Mansilang, Brgy.  Cadiz Viejo in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental.

Lamberto and Bacabac were on board a motorcycle heading north of the highway of Hacienda Bagroy in Brgy. Lantad when Lamberto lost control of the vehicle causing it to swerve in the opposite lane occupied by the approaching Isuzu truck with plate number FCC-612 owned by JL Agro-Industrial Corp. in Sagay City at about 5:30 a.m. Sunday, traffic investigator Police Officer 3 Melvin Gustilo said.